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Beschreibung:

circa 33,5 x 22,8 cm., Frontispiece, 9 ff., 178 pp., 6 Bll., 57 num and 4 unnumbered plates. Contemporary vellum with gilded and blue labels to spine Cicognara 3671; Brunet II,2; Ebert 4243. Self-contained second part of this monograph on ancient Roman mosaics which depicts the mosaics and paintings of Christian institutions up until the 9th century. Printed posthumously 9 years after the first part which was published by another printer (Komarek, in 1690) and which had been dedicated to the architecture and decoration of early Christian churches. - Ciampini (1633-1698) was an eminent historian and archaeologist who also collected books, coins and art. In 1679 he founded an academy of the sciences under the patronage of his friend, Queen Christina of Sweden. The present work is of great historical importance as it documents many mosaics that are now in much worse condition than at his time, some have been destroyed and llost since. - Plates: there is the frontispiece and then the engraved plates numbered 1-55 with 24 and 25 on one folding leaf. Then 2 folding typographical (not engraved) plates number 57 and 58. A plate 56 does not exist. Four further plates are not numbered and might be part of nr. 27 which would appear bound in five plates instead of one large folding. The volume is complete as it should be.

Bemerkung:

- Nice, just a little dusty, white endpaper with small marginal cutout, front hinge with small tear but solid, many plates have been printed from obviously dirty copper plates and have some printing stains, otherwise clean.