La Nuova Pinacoteca

Hardcover. Three-quarter red morocco & marbled boards, ruled in gilt; raised bands; gilt spine lettering ruled in gilt; marbled endpapers. 42 pp. 15 plates, hors du texte, of b/w photographs, inlcuding forntispiece portrait bust of Leo X and one floor plan. Printed in an edition of 500. Bookplate on front pastedown; spine and upper border of rear board slightly sunned; minor rubbing to corners, and some light foxing to fore-edge only. Commemorates the opening of the Vatican’s Nuova Pinacoteca by Leo X on 28 March 1909. Text in Italian.