[Italy. Rome] Le vestigia, e raritá di Roma antica
Francesco de' Ficoroni. Rome, G. Mainardi, 1744, 2 parts in 1 vol., (12),195,(1); (8),77 p., richly illustrated w. the following engravings: title vignette, 40 plates (of which 2 (large) fold.), 27 ills., several initials, contemp. vellum, gilt-lettered title in cartouche on spine, 4to.
One plate loosening. Fine copy, with old owner's entry of Elisabeth Gascoyne Nightingale on the title page, probably the daughter of Joseph Gascoyne Nightingale (1695-1752), of Enfield, Middlesex, a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.