Fastos magistratuum et triumphorum romanorum ab urbe condita ad Augustii obitum ex antiquis tam numismatum quam marmorum monumentis restitutos.

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Folio (309 x 225 mm., 12-1/8 x 8-78 in.): [24], 288, [44] pages, including allegorical title page showing the figure of Rome dominating the enslaved peoples around it; 234 wood and copper-engravings of numismatic and epigraphic subjects (light marginal dampstains sometimes on all the length of the margin, some pages slightly browned, and wormhole in the lower margin at the end of the volume). Bound in modern brown calf, ribbed spine (light scratches, spine slightly rubbed). PROVENANCE: 19th century armorial bookplate (two crowned eagles resting on two unicorns) of M. de Bérenger, an unidentified member of the noble de Bérenger family of Normandy, France, with "René Moreau 1871" written in ink over it. COMPLETE, ATTRACTIVE COPY OF FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this work on the history of ancient Rome, from its origins until the death of Emperor Augustus. It contains 72 wood-cut and 162 copper-engravings (234 total) chronologically depicting the history of Rome through its coins, medals and inscriptions. Hubert Goltzius (or Goltz) was a Renaissance painter, engraver, and printer from the Southern Netherlands. Goltzius studied under Lambert Lombard (ca. 1505-1566) and spent 12 years in Antwerp working on a book of engravings of antiquities called Medaglien oft tronien der Roomsche Keysers (i.e., Medallions or busts of Roman emperors). He operated his own printshop in Bruges, where he published Caius Julius Caesar, or a History of Roman Emperors in Medals (1563) and The Life of Julius Caesar (1566). In 1566 he also issued the present work, Fastos, for which he was made an honorary Roman citizen by the Rome council. He published his final book in 1576 on the emperors of Greece as depicted in medallions. REFERENCES: Adams G-833; BB III-247/248; Funck 323; Hubertus Goltzius en Brugge [exhibition catalog] (Brugge, 1983), p. 50 and no. 40; USTC 401258. N° de ref. del artículo 72JFP082

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