Mediolanenses antiquitates ex urbis paroecijs collectae, ichnographicis ispsarum tabulis, recentibus rerum memorijs, varijs ecclesiasticis ritibus auctę et illustratę

Mediolani: apud Ioan. Bapt. Bidell, 1625. First edition, small 4to, pp. [44], 288, [22]; temoine on leaf C4; engraved title page with an elaborate engraved border by Io. P. Blancus, with coats-of-arms and the figures of saints Vincent, Quirinus, Nicomedes, and Abbondio, copper-engraved folding topographic map of the San Vittore and Porta Ticinese areas, full-page copperplate in the text with the plan of the Vincentian Basilica; plus other copper and wood engravings in the text illustrating medals, archaeological finds, inscriptions, etc.; 18th-century calf-backed pastepaper-covered boards, old morocco label on spine; very good and sound. Casteliono was a Milan priest who died during the plague of 1630. He was a careful researcher of the ancient ecclesiastical monuments of his homeland and his work represents images and monuments seen by him in various churches in Milan on which he layers many points of ecclesiastical erudition. (Inventory #: 67240)