Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
VITA, GIOVANNI DE, Bishop of Rieti. Thesaurus antiquitatum Beneventanarum. 2 folding engraved plates (the first with clean tear). xii, 350; [4], lxxxii, [2] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. Folio, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, binding heavily soiled; minor dampstaining along top edges in middle of volume. Rome: Nicolaus & Marcus Palearinus for Typographia Palladis, 1754

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first edition of a study of the antiquities and epigraphy of the Roman settlement of Beneventum near Naples. A continuation on medieval Benevento was published in 1764.