BUONANNI E COLONNA (Giacomo) - MIRABELLA E ALAGONA (Vincenzo - Lot 39

BUONANNI E COLONNA (Giacomo) - MIRABELLA E ALAGONA (Vincenzo) Delle Antiche Siracuse volume primo che contiene I due Libri della Siracusa illustrata da D. Giacomo Bonanni, e Colonna, duca di Montalbano... -Delle antiche Siracuse. Volume secondo, che contiene gli scrittore anteriori al Bonanni, Civè Le Dichiarazioni della Pianta dell'Antiche Siracuse, e d'alcune scelte Medaglie di esse, e de' Principi, che quelle possedettero... Palermo: Battista Aiccardo, 1717. - 2 small volumes in-folio, half-black basane, spine with faux nerfs (19th century binding). Second enlarged edition, dedicated to Queen Anne-Marie d'Orléans (1669-1728) for the first volume, and to Philip III for the second, of this work on the antiquities of Syracuse first published in 1624 by Giacomo Buonanni e Colonna (15..-1636), Duke of Montalbano, and republished here by Francesco Buonanni (16..-17..). The second volume includes a section on coins, followed by Philipp Clüver's "Siracusa antica", Claudio Mario Arezzo's "De Urbe Syracusis" (1500?-1575?), "De urbe Syracusarum" by Tommaso Fazello (1498-1570) and "Marmora, seu tabulæ Syracusanæ cum animadversionibus" by Giorgio Gualtieri, illustrated with a portrait of Giacomo Buonanni e Colonna engraved by Francesco Cichè, 2 fold-out maps in the first volume, 7 plates (4 of which are medals) and 10 fold-out maps in the second volume. The first 9 maps in the second volume, drawn and engraved by Francesco Cichè, can be laid end to end to form a large, beautiful panoramic view of Syracuse and its surroundings, over one meter long. Copy from the library of Belgian archaeologist and numismatist Jean De Witte (1808-1889), member of the Académie royale de Belgique, elected on May 6, 1851, and member of the Institut, académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, in 1886. Rubbing and wear to spines. Tear at bottom edge of pages 91 to 108 in second volume. Lower or upper edge of some plates slightly cut. Provenance: Jean de Witte, with armorial bookplate.