GIUSTINIANI, Bernardo. - Historie cronologiche dell'origine degl'ordini militari e di tutte le religioni cavalleresche infino - 1692

Allegorical Antiporta engraved on copper, signed by Giovanni Antonio Lazzari and Joseph Juster, title in red and black. 35 large copper engravings at three quarters of pag. N. T. with depications of knights and representatives of the various military and chivalric orders; 139 vignettes engraved in wood N. T. by Isabella Piccini with figures of religious and noble coats of arms, signed "S. Isabella Pi M. A in S. C. di V. F. " Capilettera Historiati. Dedicates to press to Louis XIV. Second edition, greatly enlarged both in the text and in the iconography compared to the first of 1672, this magnificent illustration of all the military and chivalric orders existing in the world up to the date of printing the volume. Graesse, III p. 90. Vinciana, 266 (edition of 1672) : "On Pag. 79 We talk about the company of the Sock called the Sempiterni which lasted from the beginning of the ESA. XV until the end of the SEC. XVI under various denominations and was instituted to give and oversee to feasts, shows, functions, etc. in Venice given to his fellow nobles and the Princes Forastieri. " Stork, pp. 215 and 229. Infelise, 48. Spreti, 1818. Michel-Michel, IV, 63. Coeval ligature in parchment with five nerves back and leather gusset with gold bonds.