BUONANNI (Filippo). - Lot 12

BUONANNI (Filippo). Ordinum religiosorum in ecclesia militanti catalogus eorumque indumenta in iconibus expressa et oblata Clementi XI. [Followed by]: Ordinum equestrium et militarium catalogus in imaginibus expositus et cum brevi narratione oblatus Clement XI. Nuremberg: Widow of Christoph Weigel, 1732. - 2 works in 2 volumes in-4, 207 x 161: frontispiece, (5 ff.), 139 pp., 141 plates; frontispiece, (3 ff.), 96 pp., 108 plates; (6 ff.), 70 plates (of 75); frontispiece, (3 ff.), 112 pp., 131 plates (of 141). Basane jaspée, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled edges (period binding). Colas, 370 and 372 (for first editions). Reprint of these two important works on costume by the Italian Jesuit Filippo Buonanni (1638-1725). The first, first published between 1706 and 1710, is devoted to the various religious orders within the Catholic Church. It is divided into 3 parts and includes 2 black frontispieces and 319 color costume plates (out of 324). The first two parts are complete, but the third is missing 5 engravings (plates 19, 29, 33, 49 and 66). The second work, first published in 1711, deals with equestrian and military orders. It includes a frontispiece and 131 of the 141 color plates required. Engravings 8, 17, 71, 94, 102, 107, 130 and 139 are missing. Plates 66, 85, 103, 120 and 131 are unbound and have shorter margins. Spines rubbed and cracked, headpieces missing, corners slightly dulled, cuts rubbed. Restoration to the lower margin of plate 132, without damage to the engraving, of the first part, and to plate 25 of the third part with damage to the frame. Galleries of worms in the first volume, sometimes affecting the text, but not the engravings, apart from a few times the edges of certain bowls.