[ROME] Porzio, Giorgio: Specchio or Compendium of the antiquities of Rome. Divided into two parts. The first deals with sacred antiquities; the second with profane ones. In Rome, Zannetti, 1625

Format in-12°, mm. 135x80, pp. (12), 176. Complete, T6, A-G12, H4. Back binding in full old parchment with handwritten titles on the spine. Edges of the leaves in red. Restoration on the frontispiece with old paper reapplied to the back. Scratch and halo of half the page on the first leaves. Tear in the text of c. B8. Sporadic foxing.

Old original edition of 1625, printed in Rome by the Heir of Zannetti. Woodcut frieze on the front. Woodcut capital letters. nt History of the churches and sacred places of Rome, work of the historian and theologian P. Giorgio Porzio, pseudonym of Cesare Alucci (b. 1568).