GASTALDI, Hieronymus (Cardinal Archbishop of Benevento, d. 1685). Tractatus de avertenda et profliganda peste politico-legalis eo lucubratus tempore, quo ipse [auctor] Loemocomiorum primo, mox Sanitatis Commissarius Genealis fuit, peste urbem [Romam] invadente anno MDCLVI et LVII, Bologna: Typographia Manolessiana, 1684, 2°, 47 engraved plates, woodcut decorations and initials (half title and title detached and frayed at margins, block broken in several places, middle quires wormed at inner margin, index leaves browned and wormed with some loss, final leaves detached), stitched. [Krivatsy 4580 (imperfect); Wellcome III, p. 93: "Deals chiefly with plague measures in Rome"] Provenance: Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection (gift label)