Josephi Alexandri Furietti ...A Secretis de Musivis ad SS Patrem Benedictum XIV Pontificem Maximum. (Rome, Apud Jo. Mariam Salvioni Typographum, 1752).

29 x 20 cms. xvi, 130 pages, 1 leaf (Errata), vignettes and decorated initials to text pages, 6 plates, 4 folding. Text in Latin. First edition.

Good, foxing throughout, heavy in places, in plain vellum binding, respined with new spine and endpapers, repairs to rear board.

Furietti who died in 1764 was a Cardinal and antiquarian, notable for his excavations at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, which was where the famous mosaic of the 4 doves drinking was discovered, which is illustrated on the first folding plate of this book.