Author: SASSI, GIUSEPPE-ANTONIO
Title: Archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium. Series historica-chronologica ad criticae leges et veterum monumentorum fidem illustrata Joseph Antonii Saxii... Opus posthumum. Accedit clariss. scriptoris vita auctore Balthasar Oltrocchi... Tomus I-III.
Description: Mediolani, in Regia Curia ex aedibus Palatinis, 1755. 3 volumes. Vol. I: (2, french title), (2, title-page), (22, 2 dedicatory prefaces by Carolus Casanova and an engraved portrait frontispiece by Jac. Mercorus of cardinal Mesmer to whom the book is dedicated), 78 (Oltrocchi's life of Sassi with engraved portrait of the latter also by Mercorus), (1, blank), cxxxix (Sassi's article on the apostle Barnabas as founder of the Milanese apostolical tradition with index and Sassi's short history of the milanese archbishopric), 49 (chronological tables of archibishops), 256p.; Vol. II: (6), 257-821, (1 blank) pp.; Vol. III: (4, index), 825-1211, (1, blank), (138, thematical index and errata] pp. 4to. 26x21 cm. Title-page of volume I printed in red & black with printer's mark. With head- and tail-ornaments and text in typographical border. Contemporary vellum over boards with gilt titles on spine. Edges coloured. Despite the wormholes in the spines a nice set, internally clean with wide margins. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. G.A. Sassi (1675-1751), director of the Collegium Ambrosianum and librarian of the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Milan, famous Milanese historiographer and literary erudite. Standard work on the lives and deeds of all archbishops of Milan upto the 18th century, published posthumously. Small library stamp on (free) first endpapers. Two small tears in back cover of volume III; wormholes in spines only of all three volumes, leaving no traces elsewhere; bookblock of volume I loosening

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