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Bartoli (Pietro Santi). Colonna Traiana, eretta dal Senato, e Popolo Romano all'Imperatore Traiano Augusto nell suo Foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'Historie della Guerra Dacica la prima e la seconda espeditione, e vittoria contro il Re Decebalo. Nuovamente disegnata, et intagliata da Pietro Santi Bartoli. Con l'espositione latina d'Alfonso Ciaccone, compendiata nella vulgare lingua sotto ciascuna immagine, accresciuta di medaglie, inscrittioni, e trofei, da Gio. Pietro Bellori, 1st edition, Rome: Gio[vanni] Giacomo de Rossi, [1673], title-page, dedication leaf, 2 pp. text ('Al lettori'; verso blank), 126 etched plates (7 unnumbered, the remainder numbered 1-119), 14 + [2] pp. text, marginal spotting, first 4 leaves creased, brocade endpapers, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, all edges gilt, near-contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, top compartment with red morocco label containing gilt device of elephant statant with upturned trunk (see note), similar label to second compartment, elaborate gilt panels to sides incorporating drawer-handle motifs, joints cracked (held by cords), rubbed and worn, oblong folio (36.5 x 47.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), English art collector, grand tourist, and successor of Isaac Newton as warden of the Royal Mint (armorial binding). 2) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Berlin Katalog 3622; Cicognara 3603. A good, wide-margined copy of this striking depiction of 'the great column which is the sole intact monument of Trajan's Forum (ruined by earthquakes in the 9th century)' (Royal Academy, online).