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#Roma, apud Jo: Mariam Salvioni, Joachinum, et Jo. Josephum Filios, Typographos Pontificios Vaticanos, 1745, (con) Superiorum Facultate. format in-folio ( 418 x 280 mm). Engraved frontispice ( ex typographia Vaticana) + (4)nn pp (typograpical title; index, engraved plate) + 176 pp. With 16 full page engravings; 21 engraved vignets; 3 engraved pictural borders and 16 engraved initials, many pages with music scores (6 staves per page). Entirely printed in red & black and in two comums within a double typographical border. The canon plate is an engraving by Aloysius Gomier after a design of Hannibale Caracci. Binding: Bound in contemporary full red morocco. Front and back cover with a rich gilt decoration: a broad (2 cm) floral border; a central supra libro within a quadrangle consisting of a similar broad floral border.All edges gilt. Double fillets on the board edges. Decorated spine with green leather title label. Most probably a Fren,ch binding. We could not identify the owner. Description of the supra libro (in French) ''Chevron d'or chargé d'une étoile en chef et accompagné de trois coquilles, l'écu sommé de la mitre et posé sur deux crosses passées en sautoir, dimension 83 x 64 mm. (shield of a bishop or abbott). Binding is in good order but shows some scratches and minimal wear at the extremities (no loss of leather). The interior comes with some scattered small stains; the first 50 pp. have (mainly marginal) faint foxing spots. On the whole still a fine/good copy. Rare liturgical book for the Roman Catholic rite, destined for its highplaced clergy, as explicitly mentioned in the title. The quality of the typography, illustration and binding emphazise the book's importance.