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Broelmann (Stephan). Epideigma, sive specimen historiae vet[eris] omnis et purae, florentis. atq. amplae civitatis ubiorvm, et eorum ad Rhenum Agrippinensis oppidi, quod post Colonia Clavdia Avg. Agrippinensis, 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, Cologne: Gerard Grevenbruch for the Author, 1608, 36 unnumbered leaves including 2 frontispieces, 5 double-page maps including the Middle East with Cyprus and Crete, 4 double-page bird's-eye plans, 3 plates (2 double-page) of Roman antiquities, all with contemporary hand colour, errata leaf at rear present but lacks blanks before I1 & O1, title-page on thicker paper and with contemporary Latin presentation inscription at foot for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, following frontispiece and dedication leaves browned, some lighter, mostly marginal, browning throughout, bound with an additional 3 leaves of contemporary manuscript index (browned, some paper thinning with loss to outer margins of final leaf) and a hand-coloured double-page bird's-eye plan of Cologne from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum (c.1620), blank verso, 34 x 49 cm, contemporary limp vellum with small oval arabesque blind stamp and double rules to both covers, the upper cover inscribed neatly in brown ink, 'Ubiorum civitas et antiquitatum quaedam copia Scipioni Card[inali] Burghesio dicata 1813’ [the city of Cologne and its antiquities; a copy dedicated to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, 1813], with the initials 'A.D.R.' upper left, soiled, spine cracked and chipped with some loss, vertical crease-mark to upper cover, folio (30.5 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Scipioni Borghese (1577-1633), Italian cardinal, art collector and eminent patron of the arts (contemporary presentation inscription to title: ‘Ill[ustrissi]mo et R[everendissi]mo D[omi]no D[omino] Scipioni Bürghesio Cardinali’. The umlaut on Burghesio suggests that the inscription might have been written in Cologne, possibly by the author or the printer. 2) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. Meurer, Atlantes Colonienses, pp. 90 ff. A very rare hand-coloured presentation copy of the only edition of this work, and one of only a few copies with the errata leaf. Stephan Broelmann (1551-1622) wrote a detailed four-volume history of the city of Cologne, the only part published being this part containing the history of the city until the end of the Roman period. The manuscript index is not called for or found in other printed copies, the hand appearing to be the same author as that for the presentation inscription on the title-page (see note above).