[Rarebooks] Ciampini's 2 vol. work on early Church construction. Rome: 1690-99

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(ARCHITECTURE) Ciampini, Giovanni Guistino. VETERA MONIMENTA, In Quibus 
Praecipue Musiva Opera Sacarum, Profanarumque Aedium Structura, Ac Nonnulli Antiqui 
Ritus, Dissertationibus, Iconibusque Illustrantur... Rome: Ex Typographia 
Joannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi, apud S. Angelum Custodem. 1690-1699. Folio. First 
edition, 2 vols. (22),276,(22);(18),178,(12)pp. Indices. Double column text. 
Illustrated with 2 engraved allegorical folding frontispieces, and 134 engraved 
plates (57 folding), complete (2 separately numbered plates are on the same 
folding leaf), plus 2 folding tables. Cont. vellum, some soiling, hand lettered 
spines with small paper library labels. Text with a few minor ex-library 
markings.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Ciampini (1633-1698) was an ecclesiastical archaeologist. In 1671 he founded 
a society for ecclesiastical history, and in 1679, under the patronage of 
Queen Christina of Sweden, an academy of the sciences. This work is a valuable 
historical source since many of the illustrated edifices have since deteriorated 
or been destroyed.

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