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Antiquae Statuae Urbis Romae.

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The original arrangement of the plates cannot be recovered, as they
were not numbered until 1621.1
2. The second edition formed the parte terza (these words having
been added on the title-page above the date, which remained unchanged)
of a collection in which the third edition of Du Perac’s Vestigi dell’
Antichita di Roma formed the parte prima, and the Ornamenti di fabbriche


Fig. 8.—A Specimen Pair of Plates from Vaccaria, Edition II. 2 (Table 3, Nos. 27, 76).
(Size of originals 222 x 132 mm.)

antiche et moderni the parte seconda 2 (Fig. 7). Here the plates are printed
two on a page (Fig. 8), but, except for the fact that obvious pairs of
1 In the copies of which I have knowledge, the order seems to vary greatly, and
there is no attempt at any system. For convenience I have therefore used the numbering
of the 1621 edition even in speaking of those which preceded it.
1 have examined a copy belonging to the bookseller Sig. Castagnari of Rome, contain-
ing sixty-two plates besides the title-page : none of the later plates were present, and
Plates 27, 28, 46 were without the later indications of locality (Nos. 35, 75 were missing).
2 See my article ‘ Le diverse edizioni dei Vestigi dell’Antichita di Roma di Stefano Du
Perac ' in Bibliofilia xvi. (1915), 416. The hypothesis that this edition was published
for the jubilee of 1600 is due to Michaelis (Rom. Mitt. xiii. (1898), 265, n. 83) and has been
followed by others, including Hiibner and Hiilsen. I have a copy of the three parts in
my own collection, and Hiilsen (Gott. gel. Anz., cit. p: 275) mentions another, which like
my own, is in an old binding, in the Kupferstichkabinett at Dresden (B, 819, 2), and there
 
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