MUSEUM ODESCALCUM
SIVE THESAURUS ANTIQUARUM GEMMARUM
QUAE A SERENISSIMA CHRISTINA SVECORUM REGINA COLLECTAE IN MUSEO ODESCALCO ADSERVANTUR
ET A PETRO SANCTE BARTOLO QUOMNDAM INISAE NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM PROFERUNTUR
ROMAE MDCCXLVII
PROSTANT APUD VENANTIUM MONALDINI BIBLIPOLAM IN VIA CURSUS
SUPERIORUM FACULTATE
Very scarce work of 1747 about the collection of ancient jems of the Queen Cristina di Svezia (1626-1689) in the museum Odescalchi by Bartoli Pietro Santi.
Cristina di Svezia abdicated the throne in 1655 and during eyars collected a rich collections of treasures, statues and numismatics.
After his death and that of his heir the Cardinal Decio Azzolino, the collection was sold to Odescalchi family.
The work is amde up of two tomes bound togetheer and it is complete.
The volume is amde up of 104 plates reproducing the drawings in the jems of the collection of the Queen (with didascalia with the name of the jem), some marble and metal statues.
Index with description of plates.
Engraving in the frontspice engraved by G. Ab Amling in 1702.
In good conditions.
Full parchment coeval cover with handwritten title in the spine and embossed decorations in the plates in good general conditions lightly worn in the extremities. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with occasional foxing. Light dump stains in the extremities with mould stains in the second tome. In folio. Dim. 35x24,5 cm. Pp. (4)+(54)+(2)+(50). Weight Kg. 1,320