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Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
PUBLISHED 1719 A.D.
7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (208 grams, 18.8 x 13.2 cm).
Oliva, Giovanni, In Marmor Isiacum, Romae Nuper Effossum, Exercitationes ad Reverendiss. P. Magistrum F. Antoninum Cloche Totius Dominicanæ Familiæ Generalem, Rome, 1719; first edition, original vellum with spine label and 19th century shelf label '770'; xvi pp + 112 pp; Latin text with Greek and Hebrew quotations; fold-out engraving showing four faces of the Roman altar with scale in palmi Romani; title page with text set in both red and black. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
FOOTNOTES:
Giovanni Oliva was an antiquarian and bibliographer who wrote extensively about Greek and Roman archaeology as understood in the early 18th century. In this book he describes a newly discovered monument found during the excavations near the Library of Minerva in Rome, which Oliva tried to show was originally a votive altar for the cult of Isis, popular in Rome in the 2nd century A.D.
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