Pedrusi, P. P. I Cesari in oro/I Cesari in argento da Giulio Cesare sino a Trajano/I Cesari in argento da Adriano fino a Caracalla, e Geta/Raccolti nel Farnese Museo, e pubblicati colle loro congrue interpretazioni. Tomo Primo, Tomo Secondo & Tomo Terzo. Parma; Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1694, 1701 & 1703. Folio, pp. xii, 431, (1), 28 fine folding plates; xix, (1), 529, (3); (8), 419, (3). Finely engraved frontispieces to each volume, the title pages with engraved vignettes, further engraved initials, headpieces and tailpieces throughout. All three volumes bound in contemporary full vellum, the spines labelled and lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers. A little dusty and worn at the extremities, particularly to the heads of the spines. A few light blemishes internally the contents otherwise clean and bright throughout. A fine set of these magnificent works. Seldom offered. (3)
Paulo Pedrusi’s (1644–1720) monumental catalogue of the collection of Roman Imperial coins formed by the Farnese family of Parma, and housed, at the time, in the museum of the same name. As Bassoli writes, this catalogue was one of a number of similar projects undertaken at the close of the seventeenth century which represented, “decades of intellectual, artistic and editorial input”. Pedrusi’s ambitious work took over three decades and stretched to ten volumes, with the final two published posthumously by Pietro Piovene in 1727. Bassoli pp. 31–32. Babelon p. 111, “One of the most important publications of this time.” Dekesel P77. Lipsius 309.