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TETIUS, Hieronymous. Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinalem... descriptae. Rome: Vitale Mascardi for Filipo Rossi, 1647.
2° (405 x 260mm.). Engraved title, title vignette, portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, 41 plates (7 double-page, 7 folding), illustrations (including portraits), initials, head- and tailpieces, 3 leaves with letterpress inscriptions within engraved frames, 2 pp. engraved text, section title printed in red. Contemporary mottled calf gilt. Provenance: Sir Frederick Evelyn (armorial bookplate, Evelyn library sale Christie's 12 July 1978 lot 1463 sold (450 to Parikian).
A FINE COPY of the second enlarged edition of the first description of the Barberini collection in Rome, now the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte. Schudt 1086.
2° (405 x 260mm.). Engraved title, title vignette, portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, 41 plates (7 double-page, 7 folding), illustrations (including portraits), initials, head- and tailpieces, 3 leaves with letterpress inscriptions within engraved frames, 2 pp. engraved text, section title printed in red. Contemporary mottled calf gilt. Provenance: Sir Frederick Evelyn (armorial bookplate, Evelyn library sale Christie's 12 July 1978 lot 1463 sold (450 to Parikian).
A FINE COPY of the second enlarged edition of the first description of the Barberini collection in Rome, now the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte. Schudt 1086.