Bartoli, Pietro Santi. Colonna Traiana eretta dal senato, e popolo romano all'imperatore Traiano Augusto nel suo foro in Roma. Con l'espositione latina d'Alfonso Ciacone, compendata nella vulgare lingua da G. P. Bellori. I Bl., 14 pp., 1 Bl. With copper title, engraved dedication sheet, 7 nn. and 119 num. Copper plates. 36 x 48,5 cm. Calf leather d. C. (stronger rubbed, joints bursted, capitals inflated, with bluntly painted scrap marks) with gold-plated gold and gold-embossed RSchild. Rome, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, (c. 1670). Ornament stitch collection 3622. Borroni I, 8040. Kissner 35 (without text). Cicognara 3603: "Bellissimo intaglio." – First edition of the engraving with the complete illustration of the Trajan column on the Foro Traiano in Rome. – Copper title with a thicker patch, the stung dedication sheet and text sheet to the reader with a closed crack. Initially with middle crease, the numbered copper with the representation of the column however not affected. At first slightly stronger, the board part overall less patchy.