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MAFFEI, Scipione Agnello, Bishop of Casale. Descrittione della solennita' dell' incoronatione della Beatissma. Vergine, fatta d' ordine della Serenissima Signora Duchessa di Mantova, e di Monferrato. Mantua: Aurelio Osanna, 1640.
4° (205 x 140mm). 7 engraved plates, 2 folding. Woodcut arms to title and ornamental initials. (The folding plates affected by small holes or clean tears and laid down, slight staining and tearing to inner margin of plates and final text leaves, F3-G1 with small burn mark at upper margin, some soiling and staining throughout.) 18th-century brown and white floral floral wrappers. Provenance: armorial bookplate with monogram "FR SF".
The Bishop of Casale also wrote Gli annali di Mantova, published in Tortona, 1675.
4° (205 x 140mm). 7 engraved plates, 2 folding. Woodcut arms to title and ornamental initials. (The folding plates affected by small holes or clean tears and laid down, slight staining and tearing to inner margin of plates and final text leaves, F
The Bishop of Casale also wrote Gli annali di Mantova, published in Tortona, 1675.