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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CATHOLIC LITURGY.) Missale Romanum. 2 engraved plates and one full-page illustration. xxxi, [1], 428, cxii pages. Text and letterpress music printed in red and black throughout. Folio, 387x264 mm, contemporary red velvet over boards, covers embroidered with silver and vari-colored thread to design of oval centerpiece depicting Christ and floral cornerpieces; occasional browning and foxing, scattered tape residue, blank upper inner corner torn off plate facing page 95 and repaired with tissue. Naples: Typographia Simoniana, 1802
Laid in is a contemporary(?) collage of engraving and flattened plant frond cuttings mounted on paper depicting the Capuchin nun and mystic St. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727). Approximately 200x162 mm; fragile, with stains.
