Mascarades monastiques et religieuses de toutes les nations du globe
Subtitle: représentées par des figures coloriées dans la plus exacte vérité, avec l'abrégé historique, chronologique et critique de chaque ordre, enrichi de notes sur l'origine de toutes ces pieuses folies
By: par Giacomo Carlo Rabelli [i.e. J.C. Bar]
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; History; Habit; Church vestments; Early works to 1800; Pictorial works
Description: Description and history of various Christian religious orders, followed by color illustrations of their typical dress.
Notes: Date of imprint in roman numerals on title page: M.DCC.VIIC.

Plates are signed, some dated 1792: Rabelli fecit.

Includes bibliographical references.

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Bookplate: Docteur Jean Maronneaud.

Imperfect: Frontispiece wanting.

Mottled calf; gold tooling; title with repeating gold sunburst design in gold on spine; lower spine cover chipped.