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The First Work on Cistophori

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The First Work on Cistophori
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Panel, Alexandre Xavier. ALEXANDRI XAVERII PANELII, È SOCIETATE JESU PRESBYTERI, DE CISTOPHORIS. Lugduni: Sumptibus Fratrum Deville & Ludov. Chalmette, 1734. Small folio [26 by 20.5 cm], original limp vellum; spine lettered by hand. (1), 117, (1) pages; errata leaf; fine engraving of both sides of a cistophorus on the title and first page of text; additional fine engravings of cistophori in the text. Entire text beginning with signature B is present in duplicate, due to a collation and binding error. Binding a bit worn, with remnants of ties, but overall a rather handsome original example. While a number of the assertions of the Jesuit Father Panel (1699-1777) were subsequently disproven by Eckhel and others, De Cistophoris remains a landmark work, the first on the topic. Rarely offered. Dekesel P22. Hirsch 99. Lipsius 304. Ex RBW Library.