A CONTEMPORARY CATALOGUE INCLUDING PRINTS AND SEPARATELY-ISSUED VIEWS OF ROME; NO COPY IN AUCTION RECORDS OF THE LAST 50 YEARS. Tall 12mo. [15.3 x 8.8 cm]. 105 pp, (3). Bound in 18th century cartonnato. A neat, fresh copy; small section clipped from anterior cartonnato (an old shelfmark?); otherwise excellent. Rare, early edition of this charming catalogue, an invaluable source for the serially and separately-issued engraved views of Rome by the Rossi family. Anna Grelle Iusco (Indice delle Stampe de' Rossi: Contributo alla Storia di una Stamperia Romana, 1996) was among the first to point out the significance of Rossi’s catalogue, and it is today a frequently-cited reference in positively dating the engraver’s prints. Among the sections we find all of Rossi’s ‘Antichità di Roma’ as found across some 35 different books; his ‘Roma Moderna’ in 27 books; and a particularly valuable catalogue of his separately-issued prints on the same subjects: 46 of Ancient Rome and a remarkable 73 views of Modern Rome. Needless to say, not all of these foglie volanti have survived to this day; here, each is priced and some are recorded as being several sheets in size. The first Rossi catalogue appeared in 1677, and the last one more than a century later (1797), long after the stock had been purchased by the Calcografia Romana. All editions are rare in census, and the earlier ones particularly so. OCLC records just 6 copies of the present work worldwide (Rijksmuseum, Göttingen, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Biblioteca Herziana, BnF, and Harvard). By the time the next catalogue was published in 1729, the stock had fallen into the hands of yet another heir, Lorenzo Filippo de' Rossi (1683-1738). However, that 1729 edition is the earliest that we have been able to trace in auction records of the last 50 years, making £840 at Bonhams in 2009; the Feltrinelli copy of the same made $1,100 back in 1998. No copy of the present Domenico Rossi catalogue, or any earlier, has been offered at auction since 1971.