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CIAMPINI, GIOVANNI GIUSTINO. De sacris aedificiis a Constantino Magno constructis. Engraved frontispiece and 35 plates, some folding. [16], 217, [3] pages, including final leaf listing publications by the author. Folio, 345x235 mm, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, covers discolored and warped; title toned, scattered light marginal foxing, frontispiece frayed along fore edge, clean tear in plates 3 and 34, repaired clean tear across I3, free endpapers lacking; uncut. Lindsay Galbreath armorial bookplate. Rome: Joannes Jacobus Komarek, 1693
first edition of a study of churches constructed in Campagna, Constantinople, and Palestine during the reign of Constantine the Great, including St. Peter's and St. John Lateran in Rome, and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
