Rome.- Gardens.- Falda (Giovanni Battista) Li Giardini di Roma con le loro Piante Alzate e Vedute...

Rome.- Gardens.- Falda (Giovanni Battista) Li Giardini di Roma con le loro Piante Alzate e Vedute in Prospettiva, engraved throughout, title and 20 plates (numbered 1-21), with allegorical dedication leaf (often lacking) to Livio Odescalchi engraved by Arnold van Westerhout, 14 views by Falda and 5 by Simone Felice, all well-inked with little sign of wear within the plates, title with fleur-de-lys watermark, a few minor marks to title and neat repair to inner margin, plates 2-17 with small instance of worming to blank fore-edge margin very neatly repaired, some very light marginal damp-staining, overall very good, modern calf-backed boards, [Berlin Katalog 3492; Weinreb & Breman ltd, catalogue 23 Palaces and Villas of Italy, no.17], oblong folio, Roma, all'Insegna di Parigi, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, [probably c.1700]*** Splendid set of views in bird's-eye and perspective of Roman palace gardens, several no longer extant, by influential engraver Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678). Although the plates were probably first issued in the 1670s, publication in this form is generally first dated to 1683, when Livio Odescalchi (dedicatee) was created Duca di Ceri, and the fleur-de-lys watermark associated with later impressions.