One highlight of a February 20 sale held in Italy was the handsome, armorially bound 1694 first edition of the Swiss born architect Carlo Fontana’s Templum Vaticanum… shown right.
Illustrated with 70 plates, 10 double-page or folding, this historical description of the Vatican buildings, which included Fontana’s project for completing St Peter’s, was written at the order of Pope Innocent XI.