Item details: A Plan of Rome containing the Several Additions from the time of Servius Tullius to that of being taken by the Gauls.
£ 75.00
Basire, James:
A Plan of Rome containing the Several Additions from the time of Servius Tullius to that of being taken by the Gauls.
Imprint: London, c. 1780
Copper engraving, 18.5 x 31 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso.
Servius Tullius was the sixth legendary king of ancient Rome, the second of the Etruscan dynasty, who traditionally reigned 578-535 BC, and who was supposedly responsible for the Servian Wall prominent on this map. The Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC.