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NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory

Monday 29 September 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Sanfelice, Antonio

Campania notos illustrata cura et studio Antonii Sanfelicii junioris, 1726

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€ 250 - 300

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€ 374

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Information

Naples, Giovanni Francesco Paci, 1726. In 4°. On the frontispiece, a full-page copper-engraved portrait of the author, a frontispiece printed in red and black, an illustrated initial, and other ornamentation, a large copper-engraved and folded geographical map entitled Campaniae Antiquae Descriptio , 320 x 380 mm., scattered browning, a small tear in the upper margin of the plate without loss of the engraved part, a contemporary full parchment binding, a brown tag on the smooth spine.
The lot also includes the translation of the work into the vernacular by Girolamo Aquino Capuano , La Campania di F.Antonio Sanfelice , Naples, V. Orsini, 1796. In 8°. Portrait of the author on the frontispiece and a folded plate, widespread browning.

Specialist Notes

Work published by Antonio Sanfelice senior (1515-1570), and not by his great-nephew Antonio Sanfelice, bishop of Nardò. It was, however, published by the latter's younger brother, Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748), a famous architect. The first edition was published in Latin in 1562 ( De Origine et situ Campaniae ).

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