Metallotheca Opus Posthumum Auctoritate Munificentia Clementis Undecimi Pontificis Maximi E

by Michele Museums Minerals Fossils Mercati

$20,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

SOLE EDITION. Second issue, with the 1719 cancel title page to the first part to coordinate with the date of the 1719 supplement with which this copy is bound. With added engraved plates: Part I: Portrait of Mercati, folding view of the museum, Cabinet I, folding view of the mines of Pozzuoli, a coral at p. 101 . Part II: portrait of Lancisi. The engraved frontis. with portrait of Pope Clement XI, the engraved t.p., and the other armaria are

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