Indicazione Antiquaria Del Pontificio Museo Pio Clementino In Vaticano Stesa Da Pasquale Mass

by Pope Clement Xiv Pope Pius Vi Reg

$8,400 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION. Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of visitors by the keeper of the museum, Pasquale Massi of Cesena. Rare. The Museo Pio-Clementino was the first major curatorial

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