[Rarebooks] FS: Fialetti's "De Gli Habiti Delle Religioni..." Entirerly Engraved. Venice: 1626

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Fialetti, Odoardo. DE GLI HABITI DELLE RELIGIONI con le Armi e Beve  Descrittion Loro, Libro Primo [-Terza]... Venice: Marco Sadeler. 1626. Sm. 4to. ff.(1),27,(1),28-51,(1),52-74 (= ff.78). Complete with the 3 engraved title pages for each part, 74 numbered etchings, and 1 internal blank. Entirely engraved throughout, including the descriptive text on the verso of the pates. Cont. brown sprinkled vellum. One leaf with a spot of candle wax, but a very nice copy.                  $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This copy was compared against the HathiTrust Digital Library copy, which only differed in the placement of the internal blank leaf. In their copy it is found after f.26, in this copy after f.27. A beautiful early 17th century etched book, illustrating the habits of religious orders and their coats-of-arms, with a brief history of each order. The artist, Fialetti, worked with Tintoretto in Venice. Cicognara 1649; Colas 1060; Lipperheid 1855 (with a plate).

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