Aedes Barberinae Ad Quirinalem
Added t.p. engraved by Camillo Cungi after Guido Ubaldo Abattini. Full-page port. of Urban VIII Barberini by J.F. Greuter after Andrea Camassei. Engravings after Pietro da Cortona's ceiling painting by Cungi and Cornelis Bloemaert. Engraving of Andrea Sacchi's fresco of Divine Wisdom by Michel Natalis. Engravings of classical sculpture by Cungi and Bloemaert after Salvi Castellucci. Engraved t.p. vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials Signatures: pi A(-A2) B-2B [2C-2D] a-c². A3 signed A2, 4-5 omitted in paging Includes index Binding: 19th-century vellum, lapped foredges, author & title on spine label in gilt, page edges sprinkled blue Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S. Two copies of armorial bookplate of Elia
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