THE STATUTES AND PRIVILEGES OF THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER, WRITTEN BY THE FIRST HISTORIAN OF THE ORDER, 1589 FIRST ITALIAN EDITION
(MALTA, Sovereign Military Order of) BOSIO, Giacomo. Gli Statuti della Sacra Religione. Roma, 1589, 1592.
The first Italian edition of an important work concerning the privileges and investiture ceremony of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta, written by the first historian of the Order, with woodcut arms of Cardinal Hugues Loubens de Verdalle, Grand Master of the Order, on the title page. This copy bound with an eight-page Papal bull "Ad futuram rei memoriam" reconfirming the privileges of the order under Pope Clement VIII, with the imprint of the Papal printer Paolo Blado and several coats of arms on its title page. $12,500.
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