Carlo Nardi - De' Titoli del Re delle Due Sicilie colle spiegazioni di D. Carlo Nardi al Re - 1747

NARDI Carlo, De’ Titoli del Re delle Due Sicilie colle spiegazioni, Napoli, 1747, Prima Edizione, Tavole Genealogiche Fuori Testo.

famous jurisprudential and historical treatise focused on the sovereign titles of Charles of Bourbon; the work, published in Naples by Giovanni Riccio in 1747, represents the first rare edition edited by D. Carlo Nardi; the volume presents with a solid and reinforced binding in half rigid parchment with corners, a spine decorated in relief with ribs and a gold-impressed escutcheon bearing the author and title, boards covered in marbled paper; the inner leaves appear intact, well preserved, fresh and well inked; the work is enriched by the presence of genealogical plates folded outside the text that illustrate the descendants and noble branches linked to the royal houses of Europe and Sicily; the frontispiece with an allegorical woodcut ornament, the license of the Superiors, a rich “Table of the most notable things” at the end and Latin poetic compositions inserted in the body of the text are present; a work of great heraldic, genealogical and institutional historical value for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

In 8° piccolo, pp. 136 + 149. two plates folded several times