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Cibrario, Luigi

Historical description of the religious orders, 1845

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€ 50 - 100

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€ 116

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Information

Turin, Fontana printing plant, 1845. In 4th. Only the vol. first. With only 65 hand-coloured lithographic plates engraved by Duverger, depicting characters with the characteristic costumes of the order they belong to. § Historical description of the orders of chivalry. Turin, Fontana printing plant, 1846. Only the first volume. With only 22 hand-coloured lithographic plates depicting medals, honours, coats of arms and decorations, watermarks, blooms and reddening, same full parchment binding of the time, leather inserts of different colors on the spine, author and title embossed in gold , defects.   

Specialist Notes

Luigi Cibrario (Turin 1802-1870), historian and statesman, foreign minister, senator and member of the Academy of Turin, wrote a large number of historical-literary works on the house of Savoy which earned him friendship and the sympathies of Carlo Alberto. Colas 622; Lipperheide II,1930. 

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