ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM Brevis Notitia Ritus Ecclesiasticos a Singulis Institutos Praecipue Declarans Accedit Onomasticon Vocum Obscuriorum, quoe in Missali, Breviario, Martyrologio Romano, & hac Notitia Continentur
Rome: Pagliarini, 1763. Full Leather. 532p. Contains two volumes bound together as one book. Full 18th century calf leather with marbled endpapers. A small brown full-leatherbound hardcover book in good condition. The panels are rubbed, although the spine text is still fully visible. Corner of p. 203 is torn off (text is just barely unaffected). Thin strip, about 1.5": long, torn off edge of a blank rear free endpaper. Pencil notes on another rear free endpaper and on a front free endpaper. Otherwise, pages are mildly foxed, but clean, and the binding is tight. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Item #142618
Written entirely in Latin. Author is William Burio. Marbled endpapers and gilt spine text. Measures approx. 6.5" x 4". A popular history of the popes, first published in 1675.
Price: $125.00