Translation of the author's: La gerarchia ecclesiastica considerata nelle veste sagri, e civili usate da quelli, li quelli la compongono, espresse, e spiegate con le Imagini di ciascun grado della medesima, first printed Rome, 1720

Virgules replaced by commas in title transcription

Signatures: )(⁴ (-)(4) )()(⁴ A-U⁴

Illustrations engraved by Christoph Weigel

Woodcut head and tail pieces

Engraved frontispiece is unnumbered; plates 1-141 are portraits with Latin captions, plates 142-164, are numbered on recto and verso and contain emblems. Plates no. 140 and 141 are illustrations of a Peuvian and Floridian Indian, respectively

Cf. Backer-Somervogel, II: col. 379: no. 2

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: closely cropped at foot of text block of the preliminary 14 pages, affecting signature signings and catchwords; many leaves torn and mutilated at foot of page or foredge, slightly affecting text

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund

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