Dedication by Manoel de Azevedo Port. by Giovanni Battista Sintes of John V, King of Portugal, to whom work is dedicated. Plates at end depicting St. Peter's Basilica with decorations are numbered I-XXXII at upper right, partly in the plate and partly by hand stamping. They are also stamped 11-42 at lower right to reflect the 9 leaves of ill. that precede (one bearing 2 plates). Many plates are signed by Sintes as etcher (2 by Antonio Gramignani), some after drawings by Antonio Rinaldi, some with Luigi Vanvitelli credited as architect. Includes two plates that depict the procession and reception of the Chinea Signatures: pi² a-c A-4D 4E chi1 4F-4K Includes index Getty c. 2 consists of the 42 plates only, together with letterpress section title: Imagines et delineamenta exterioris interiorisque ornatus Vaticanae Basilicae in solemni canonizatione Sanctorum Fidelis a Sigmaringa, Camilli de Lellis, Petri Regalati, Josephi a Leonissa et Catharinae de Ricciis Binding, c. 1: vellum. Title in gilt on spine: BENEDICTI PP. XIV. ACTA CANONIZAT. Edges mottled red & tan. Property stamps of Rev. Jos. A. Tieken and of Bibliotheca Sancti Gerardi, Lima, Ohio. Signature on t.p. of J. Schoenhoeft Binding, c. 2: limp vellum. Title written on spine: Canon. 1746