BATTELLI, Jean-Christophe - Lot 46

BATTELLI, Jean-Christophe De Sarcophago marmoreo probi anicii, et probae faltoniae in templo vaticano Rome, Cajetani de Zenobiis, 1715 DESCRIPTION OF THE SEPULCRAL URNS OF PROBUS ANICIUS AND PROBA FALTONIA PRESERVED IN THE BASILICA OF SAINT PIERRE IN ROME In-8 (203 x 130 mm). Woodcut initials and bands COLLATION: 9 ff. n. o.c., 168 pp. 1 bl. f., 4 ff. n. o.c. ILLUSTRATION: 3 copper-engraved folding plates ANNOTATION: numerous passages underlined in brown ink by a contemporary hand CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Ivory vellum, spine ribbed with title in ink, speckled edges. PROVENANCE: violet oval wet stamp "IHS Étude Bibliothèque" -- école Sainte-Geneviève B.D.J. (red wet stamp) -- library label on flyleaf "P 109" Small marginal cut at top of title page, no damage to text Italian antiquarian Jean-Christophe Battelli (1658-1725), protégé and secretary to Cardinal Carlo Barberini, was esteemed enough by Clement XI (Albani) to become his cameraman and librarian. He later became canon of the Liberian basilica, secretary of the Briefs to the Princes (1711) and Archbishop of Amasia (1716).