Quarto. xxiv, 480pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece (of the dedicatee Vincenzo Gaifami) and a further 12 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, lettered in gilt to spine, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed and discoloured. Internally clean and crisp.

The first Italian edition of Discalced Carmelite and historian Honoré de Sainte- Marie's (1651-1729) survey of ancient and contemporary chivalry, first published at Paris in 1718, containing an invaluable alphabetical and historical table of all religious and military orders with their names, founders, year and place of founding.