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Alexandri Donati e Societate Jesu Roma vetus ac recens:
utriusque Ædificiis illustrata : in multis locis aucta, castigatior reddita, indice locupletissimo & figuris aeneis illustrata
Description:
Colophon: Campis, Typis Caspari Cotii, typographi & bibliopolae, 1695
T.p. printed in red and black
Engraved illustrated half title
Includes 4 double leaves of plates …
Year:
1695
Contributor:
Donati, Alessandro, 1584-1640 (creator)
Janssonius van Waesberghe, Gillis, active 1675-1706 (bookseller)
Wolters, Joannes, active 1687-1714 (bookseller)
Cotius, Casparus (printer)
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books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Early works to 1800
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Local ID:
uncataloged
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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The Amazon and Madeira rivers:
sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer
Description:
by Franz Keller, engineer.
Year:
1875
Contributor:
Keller, Franz, 1835-1890 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Indians of South America > Brazil
Mojo Indians
Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia)
Amazon River
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Antiquités Romaines expliquées dans les memoires de comte de B***:
Contenant/ses avantures, /Un grand nombre d'HISTOIRES & ANECDOTES/ du Tems très-curieuses, ses recherches & ses décou- /vertes sur les Antiquités de la Ville de Rome/ & autres curiosités de l'Italie. /Divisés en trois parties,/ et Enrichis de plus de cent belles Planches en Taille-douce
Description:
An anonymous work, supposedly derived from the spurious Mémoires du comte de Boneval, later known as Kumbaracıbaşı Ahmet Paşa.
T.p. printed in red and black. …
Year:
1750
Contributor:
Ahmet Paşa, 1675-1747 (attributed name)
Néaulme, Jean, 1694-1780 (printer)
Genre:
books
Subject:
e-it--
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities > Early works to 1800
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Netherlands > Hague
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Antiqvae vrbis splendor, hoc est praecipva eivsdem templa, amphitheatra, theatra, circi, navmachiae, arcvs trivmphales, mavsolea aliaqve svmptvosiora aedificia, pompae item trivmphalis et colossaearvm imaginvm descriptio; opera & industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in aes incisa atque in lucem edita. Addita est breuis quaedam et succincta imaginum explicatio in qua regum consulum imperatoruq; res gestae et rei romanae origo progressus incrementum, ac finis cu almae vrbis antiquor. ac modernor. uestigior. additione utcunq; hoc insequenti anno 1630 reperiutur, et ex ueteru ac recentior. historiar. monumentis clare ostenditur
Description:
Introduction (1 leaf) in Italian by Giovanni Alto, Svizzero da Lucerna, dated 1637.
Engr. title-pages; title-pages of parts 2-4 included in number of plates.
Letterpress …
Year:
1612
Contributor:
Lauro, Giacomo, 1584-1637 (creator)
Alto, Giovanni Ridolfo (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Architecture > Italy > Rome
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Rome (Italy) > History
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities
Local ID:
1-SIZE NA1120 .L3 1637
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna:
dedicate alla sacra Real Maestè di Carlo, infante di Spagne rè delle Due Sicilie
Libro Primo
Description:
Vol. 1 of 10 v. set published in 4 v.
From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66)
Year:
1747
Contributor:
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna:
dedicato all' altezza reale eminentissima di Errico Benedetto Duca di Yorck
Libro sesto
Description:
Vol. 6 of 10 v. set published in 4 volumes.
From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66)
Year:
1751
Contributor:
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna:
dedicate alla Santitè di nostro signore Papa Benedetto XIV
Libro terzo
Description:
Vol. 3 of 10 v. set published in 4 vols.
From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66).
Year:
1753
Contributor:
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderne:
dedicato all' eminentissimo, e reverendissimo principe D. Girolamo Colonna
Libro ottavo
Description:
Vol. 8 of 10 vol. set in 4 vols.
From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66).
Year:
1758
Contributor:
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
Full Record
Diverse maniere d'adornare cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura egizia, etrusca, greca, e romana:
presentate a Monsig. D. Giovambatista Rezzonico nipote e maggiorduoo della Santità de N.S. PP Clemente XIII e Gran Priore in Roma della sac religione Gerosolimita na dal Cav. Giovambatista Piranesi suo architetto
Description:
Designs for fireplaces
From the personal collection of Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown '66)
Year:
1769
Contributor:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (etcher)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Early works to 1800
Chimneys > Design and construction
Local ID:
uncataloged
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
Full Record
Geographical memoir upon upper California:
in illustration of his map of Oregon and California
Description:
Addressed to the Senate of the United States
Folded map in pocket
Year:
1848
Contributor:
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
California > Description and travel
California > Surveys
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration
West (U.S.) > Historical geography
n-us---
Collection:
Brown University Library
Haitian Studies Resources
Full Record
Novum Italiae theatrum, sive accurata descriptio ipsius urbium, palatiorum, sacrarum aedium, &c. ...:
Juxta delineationes defuncti D. Joannis Blaeu ... Atque omnia juxta ichnographiam ibidem exhibitam, cum tabulis, quarum aliquae, dum viveret, ejus curâ effictae, plurimae vero accuratioris delineationis ergo, Romae exaratae sunt. Quibus accesserunt multae urbes, portus, aedis sacrae, & alia aedificia juxta archetypa Romae descripta, &c. Omnia in ordinem digesta
Description:
HAY STAR copy: v. 1 lacks p. 5-8; v. 2 lacks plates 14, 57-60; lacks v. 3-4.
Title in red and black
Added t.p. engr.
Year:
1724
Contributor:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 (creator)
Mortier, Pierre (creator)
Alberts, Rutger Christoffel, 1714-1728 (publisher)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Cities and towns > Italy
Rome > Description and travel > Portraits
Local ID:
3-SIZE Gfa B57 v.1-2 in 1 v.
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Peruri Teitoku Nihon enseiki
Description:
Suzuki Shūsaku shōyaku
Japanese translation of Japan expedition, 1852-1854
Contributor:
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 (creator)
Suzuki, Shūsaku (translator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Japan > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Perry in Japan: a visual history
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Roma antica di Alo Giovannoli da Civita Castellana. Libro Primo [-Terzo].
Description:
2nd edition, 1619 (first edition 1616: Giovannoli, Alo.: Vedute degli antichi vestigj di Roma di Alo Giovannoli divise in due parti la prima contiene mausolei, …
Year:
1619
Contributor:
Giovannoli, Aloisio, ca. 1550-1618 (author)
Mascardi, Giacomo, 1567-1634 (publisher)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Description and travel
Early works to 1800
Rome early works to 1800
Buildings, structures, etc.
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
Full Record
Un an à Rome et dans ses environs:
recueil de desins lithographiés, représentant les costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains et généralement tout ce qu'on y voit de remarquable pendant le cours d'une année
Description:
dessiné et publié par Thomas.
Engr. t.p.
Year:
1823
Contributor:
Thomas, Antoine Jean-Baptiste, 1791-1834 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Costume > Italy > Rome
Costume > History > 19th century.
Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
The Theater that was Rome
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Voyage au Brésil, dans les années 1815, 1816 et 1817
Description:
par S.A.S. Maximilien, prince de Wied-Neuwied; traduit de l'allemand par J.B.B. Eyriès.
Original title: Reise nach Brasilien.
Year:
1821
Contributor:
Wied, Maximillian, 1782-1867 (creator)
Eyriès, J. B. B. (Jean Baptiste Benoît), 1767-1846 (translator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Indians of South America > Brazil
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
Full Record
Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
Description:
Caption title.
Originally published in 20 "livraisons."
Year:
1835
Contributor:
Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Ethnology > Brazil
Indians of South America > Brazil
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
Full Record
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