Filippo Buonanni:

Numismata Pontificum Romanorum. 1-2.

Romae 1699. Folio. 35 x 23,5 cms. [10] + XXXVI + 456; + [2] + 457-870 pp. + engraved frontispiece + 94 engraved plates (11 folding). Engraved vignettes in text.

Two volumes, 18th-century full calf, worn, some slight damage to spines and joints and worming to endleaves, contents partly browned and finger-soiled, a few short tears, repair of paper flaw in volume 1 (pp. 159/60). The large folding plan of Civitavecchia, "Delineatio urbis ac portus Centum Cellarum" by Girolamo Frezza and Cinthio Florio, with tear along central fold at foot, into image. Bookplate, signature and round stamp of Prince Alexander Erba Odescalchi. The medals of his relative, Pope Innocentius XI, are published in volume 2, pp. 737 ff.

Extensive documentation of papal medals 1417-1699 by the Italian Jesuit Filippo Buonanni (1638-1725). The plates with views of Rome and hundreds of medals.

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