[Rome] Casalio, John the Baptist: De antiquis Romanorum ritibus. Author Ioanne Baptista Casalio Romano. Rome, ex typographia Andreae Phaei, 1644

Format in-4°, mm. 225170, pp. (10), 96-261, (19), 5 cc. of plates + 6 cc. of folding plates. Only Volume 2 (of 3). Elegant half-leather binding with gold titles on the spine. Cloth boards. With slight peeling on the spine. Slight foxing and browning on the leaves.

First edition printed in Rome in 1644 by Andrea Phaei, second volume of De profanis, et sacris veteribus ritibus (3 vols., 1644-1645), mainly concerning Roman antiquities and rites. Work of the Italian scholar Giovanni Battista Casali (1578-1648). With 5 chalcographic plates, 6 folding plates and some woodcut figures in the text (medals, portraits, epigraphs, tools). Calcographic coat of arms of the cardinal of the dedicatee Alessandro Bichio on the frontispiece.