(Map.) Nuova Pianta di Roma [.]

FIRST EDITION, wholly engraved and complete in 36 numbered plates (on stubs) plus the Avviso and title page (bound non-consecutively); lightly toned and with a little foxing to the margins, but internally clean, ff. [2], 36, folio, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, rather scuffed with some abrasion to the leather, particularly at the foot of the upper board; armorial bookplate of Anglo-Irish landowner Edward Southwell (1705-55), very good. A complete copy of Nolli's magnificent engraved map of Rome, in contemporary boards. Giovanni Battista Nolli (1701-56) and his team were granted unique access to Rome's cloistered spaces, allowing for exceptionally precise measurements of the city's ecclesiastical landscape. Unprecedented in its accuracy, the map is equally celebrated for embellishments by Stefano Pozzi, which include a superb montage of classical landmarks and an allegorical representation of the Church. Presented to Benedict XIV in 1748, the map was immediately recognised as a landmark of cartography. With the bookplate of Anglo-Irish landowner Edward Southwell (1705-55), MP for Bristol and Member of Irish Parliament for Downpatrick, who had travelled in Rome in the 1720s. (Frutaz CLXIXa).…