Gucci (Gaetano)

Iconografia storica degli ordini religiosi e cavallereschi, FIRST EDITION, 9 vol., woodcut device on titles, 431 costume engraved plates by Nicola Moneta, after drawings by Consoni e Silvagni (plates numbered to 430 with additional plate 11a), some spotting throughout, library stamps and bookplates, gilt vellum boards, contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, red and black leather spine labels, slightly rubbed, spine head of vol. 7 damaged, soiled, [Colas, 1256 (with precise iconographic collation of the individual volumes); Lipperheide, I, 457; Spreti, 1802; Vinet, 2149], folio, Rome, 1836-47 (9)

*** Monumental work on religious and chivalric orders, with the first 5 volumes dedicated to chivalric orders, and the other to monastic and religious orders.