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Pappafava , Giacomo

Religious Perfection: Cantos IX for the Solemn Investiture [...] of the Noble Ladies Countesses Orsola and Cecilia Santonini Sisters, 1763

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€ 150 - 250

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€ 2.193

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Padua, Conzatti, 1763. In 2°. Large plate on frontispiece, copper engraved frontispiece, 1 plate with portrait of the dedicatee of the work, Elena de' Lazara Santonini, 1 allegorical plate with portraits of Orsola and Cecilia, 9 copper engraved plates, headers, illustrated drop caps, finials and colophon chalcographics, portrait of Ferdinand of Bourbon Parma missing,  Coeval binding in calfskin, flat flueron within a gold border, pomegranate iron on the internal corners, spine with 5 raised bands, the same iron with pomegranate, gilt edges, some peeling.

Specialist Notes

Elegant publication with splendid plates by Francesco Zanoni, Gaspare Dizioni, Antonio Vicentini, engraved by Giulano Zuliani, Antonio Baratti and Carlo Calcinato.