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Costumi della Corte Pontifica. Rome: A. Depoletti, [c. 1850].
2° (331 x 232mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, engraved dedication with hand-coloured portrait of Pius IX, and 62 hand-coloured plates by and after S. Marroni, C. Liberali, F. Maggi, L. Diofeli and A. Moneta. (Title, dedication and several plates lightly soiled, light browning to one plate, occasional light spotting.) Old roan-backed boards, recovered in later marbled-paper.
FINE RENDERINGS OF VATICAN COSTUMES, including the vestments of Armenian, Syrian and Greek bishops. The dress uniforms of 9 Vatican guards, 5 of them Swiss guards, are included at the end and attractively heightened in gold. The dedication is signed by Felipp Ducrò. Not in Lipperheide or Colas.
2° (331 x 232mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, engraved dedication with hand-coloured portrait of Pius IX, and 62 hand-coloured plates by and after S. Marroni, C. Liberali, F. Maggi, L. Diofeli and A. Moneta. (Title, dedication and several plates lightly soiled, light browning to one plate, occasional light spotting.) Old roan-backed boards, recovered in later marbled-paper.
FINE RENDERINGS OF VATICAN COSTUMES, including the vestments of Armenian, Syrian and Greek bishops. The dress uniforms of 9 Vatican guards, 5 of them Swiss guards, are included at the end and attractively heightened in gold. The dedication is signed by Felipp Ducrò. Not in Lipperheide or Colas.
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