Plan of Ancient Rome with the Fourteen Augustan Regions, 1818

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An original copper engraved town plan, uncolored, of ancient rome. The tiber crosses the plan from north to south, with … Read more An original copper engraved town plan, uncolored, of ancient rome. The tiber crosses the plan from north to south, with the vatican and janiculum on the west bank and the insula tiberina in the river. The hills are lettered, among them the capitolinus, palatinus, aventinus, coelius, esquilinus, viminalis and quirinalis. The campus martius, the pantheon, the theater of pompeii, the circus flaminius, the forum romanum, the circus maximus and the flavian amphitheater are marked within the walls, together with the baths of titus, diocletian and caracalla. The circuit of servius tullius and the later wall of aurelian are both drawn and named, with their gates, and the via appia leaves the city on the lower right. The heading reads plan of ancient rome dressed for the intelligence of roman history by rollin, on the researches of pirro-ligorio alessandro-donati, and famiano-nardini; the whole assujetti to an exact plan of the city of rome, published by domenico de rossi, under the pontificate of innocent xii, by d'anville, geographer ord. We do roi. Two key panels list the fourteen regions, regions or districts according to the augustan distribution, i to xiv, each numbered on the plan. The plate is numbered pl. 15. Under echelles are three scale bars for the ancient roman mile of 700 toises, the modern roman mile of 764 toises and a third of a french league. The plate comes from the atlas of ancient geography, published in paris in 1818 by ledoux et tenré and printed by didot the younger to accompany the works of charles rollin (1661 to 1741), the french historian. Its maps are engraved after the originals of jean-baptiste bourguignon d'anville (1697-1782). In the foreword, signed by ambrose tardieu, geographer-engraver, tardieu writes that the maps were copied with religious fidelity and that, charged with reviewing the proofs, he corrected only negligence and faults of execution. The plan serves rollin's roman history, showing the city as divided into fourteen regions under augustus. Condition: light uneven toning, browning towards the edges. Marked handling soiling along bottom, left and top edges. Foxing over much of the margin. Complete sheet, all four corners present. Several larger brown marks. A pale brown tide line runs along the lower margin. This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration purposes only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed. See less