Rocca, Thesaurus pontificiarum sacrarumque antiquitatum necnon rituum, Rome, 1745, eighteenth-century half red calf

ROCCA, ANGELO. Thesaurus Pontificiarum sacrarumque antiquitatum necnon rituum, praxium ac caeromoniarum additis pluribus questionibus supra dubia nonnulla insigniora ex sacra scriptura desumpta... atque notis inscriptionibus usque ad praesens Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Editio secunda Romana. Rome: Giovanni Battista Bernabò & Giuseppe Lazzarini for Fausto Amidei, 1745

AN IMPORTANT HISTORY OF THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND ITS TREASURES, by the Italian humanist and historian Angelo Rocca (1545-1620), an Augustinian who founded the first public library in Rome, the eponymously named Biblioteca Angelica. The present work is the second edition of Rocca’s Opera omnia, first published at Rome in 1719 in two folio volumes. Tiraboschi reports that the original sheets were reissued in 1745, changing only the title, preface and dedicatory letter (Storia della letteratura italiana, 1824, VIII/1, p. 104). The work includes a history of the origins of printing, and the section on campanology contains four beautifully engraved plates depicting carillons and carillonneurs from Venice, Liège and Antwerp.