MAZZELLA, Scipione.
Sito, et antichita della citta di Pozzuolo, e del suo amenissimo distretto ...
Naples, Tarquinio Longo for Giorgio Varisco (part 1) and Bartholomeo Carampello (part 2), 1606. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 3 title-pages, a large folding woodcut map with letterpress title and text (the woodcut itself 17 x 24.5 cm) showing Pozzolo and the surrounding area (omitted in some copies), 15 woodcut illustrations (plus 4 repeats) in text. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 284, [4], 103, [1 blank] pp.
€ 5,000
Third edition, with extensive additions, of a detailed Italian account of archaeological discoveries in and around the city of Pozzuolo in central Italy, between Rome and Florence, with a large folding map and numerous woodcut illustrations of the archaeological sites, buildings, objects excavated, etc., and transcriptions of inscriptions, by the Naples historian Scipione Mazzella, famous for his Descrizione dello Regno di Napoli (1586). EDIT 16 does not note the map in earlier editions and it seems likely to have been omitted in many copies of the present edition.
With a 1617 purchase(?) inscription at the foot of the title-page, and a 20th-century armorial bookplate of George Weare Tracy on the paste-down. In good condition, with the border of 1 woodcut very slightly shaved. ICCU SBLE013841, RMLE045729, PARE006043; for the map: cf. BMC Printed Maps 11, p. 692; Tooley 460; not in IKAR.
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