Prague, Typis Viduae Elsenwanger, factore Antonio Petzold, 1797.
Historico-philosophica descriptio picturae novae bibliothecae fornici in Canonia Strahoviensi Canonicorum Praemonstratensium Pragae in Monte Sion ab Antonio Maulbertsch, academiae atrium, Vindobonensis et Berolinensis sodali.
First edition of an unusual (and exceedingly comprehensive) iconographical guide to the complex ceiling fresco at the monastic library of Strahov near Prague, a painting entitled The Triumph of Divine Wisdom (1793-94) by the accomplished Enlightenment painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-96), an emulator of the rococo style of Giovanni Battista..... More