[Rarebooks] FS: Impressive folio on the Churches of Constantine. Rome: 1693

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(ARCHITECTURE) Ciampini, Giovanni Guistino. DE SACRIS AEDIFICUS A CONSTANTINO 
MAGNO CONSTRUCTIS. Synopsis Historica... Rome: Joannem Jacobum Komarek 
Bohemum Typographum, & Characterum Fusorem apud S. Angelum Custodem. 1693. Folio. 
First edition. (16),218pp. Index. Plus 1 leaf of publisher’s ads. Double column 
text. Illustrated with 35 engraved plates (28 folding), an allegorical 
engraved frontispiece (about 1/4” trimmed from fore-margin), and a woodcut 
ecclesiastical device on the title-page. Large woodcut capitals. Cont. vellum, a bit 
soiled, red morocco spine label. Minor ex-library blind stamp on title-page. 3 
plates with old paper tape repairs to versos.     $1,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
A work of facts and illustrations regarding churches either built by 
Constantine or attributed to him.

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