Italy. Papal. Serafini, C. Le monete e le bolle plumbee pontificie del medagliere Vaticano. Volume primo: Adeodate (615–618) - Pio V (1566–1572). Volume secondo: Gregorio XIII (1572–1585) – Innocenzo XII (1691–1700). Volume terzo: Clemente XI (1700–1721) – Pio X (1903). Volume quarto: Aggiunte ed appendice, onorio I (625–638) - Pio XI (1922). Milano; Ulrico Hoepli, 1910, 1912, 1913 & 1928. Complete in four volumes. Folio, pp. xci, 348; (6), 392; (8), 470; ix, (3), 466, (2); 227 plates. All four volumes uniformly bound in later maroon morocco and cloth boards, raised bands to spines, lettered in gilt, top edges yellow. The boards rubbed with some wear at the joints and extremities, the binding shaken, particularly to the fourth volume, a few pages loose but complete and mostly clean throughout. From the library of Joseph Pariani with his library stamp on the title page of the first volume. The classic work, very good overall. (4)
Camillo Serafini’s master work, still much used even a century after its publication. Serafini (1864–1952) was director of the Vatican Numismatic Cabinet, and from 1929–1952, served as the first, and only, Governor of Vatican City. Ciferri p. 444. Clain-Stefanelli 10375*. Grierson p. 167, “Catalogue de la collection la plus importante.”