Lot 120 | [1.]: HUNTING IN PAPAL STATESAPPARENTLY THE ONLY KNOWN COPY[2.]: WOLF HUNTING...

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[1.]: HUNTING IN PAPAL STATESAPPARENTLY THE ONLY KNOWN COPY[2.]: WOLF HUNTING...

[1.]: HUNTING IN PAPAL STATES
APPARENTLY THE ONLY KNOWN COPY


[2.]: WOLF HUNTING IN PAPAL STATES
ONLY TWO KNOWN COPIES


[1.]: Papal States - Ministry Council - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Editto. Pier Francesco per la misericordia di Dio vescovo di Albano, Card. Galleffi, della S.R.C. camerlengo. Roma: presso Vincenzo Poggioli stampatore camerale, 1826.
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[2.]: Apostolic Chamber - cardinal Galleffi (Camerlengo). Notificazione intorno ai premj per la uccisione dei lupi pubblicata dall'Emo e Rmo Signor card. Galleffi camerlengo di S.R. Chiesa li 16. settembre 1828. Roma: nella stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apost., 1828.

[1.]: A poster (580x450 mm), two column text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[2.]: 4to (290x205 mm), unbound; pp. 5, (3, b.); text in Italian; xylographic coat of arms of Pope Leo XII, amidst Roman Church's and cardinal Galleffi's arms.

[2.]: Notification regarding the awards for wolf hunting in Papal States.

[1.]: Edict on a new general regulamentation of hunting in Papal States, decided by Pope Leo XII.


The text begins with the words: La conservazione della specie de' quadrupedi e volatili utili, oramai per comun lamento diminuita di molto a cagione degli arbitrarj e distruttivi modi di cacciare [...]. Signer and date at bottom ([Roma] dato in Camera Apostolica li 10. Luglio 1826.).

Pietro Francesco Galleffi (Galeffi) (1770–1837) was an Italian Cardinal. During the Napoleonic period, in 1798, he was expelled from Rome. He was created Cardinal in 1803. Then he was archbishop of Damasco in 1819, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica from 1820, Bishop of Albano in 1820, Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina in 1830, Camerlengo from 1824 to 1837.

Pope Leo XII (1760–1829), born Annibale Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 28 September 1823 to his death in 1829.

References: [1.]: The document is not in ICCU, which quotes a book on this edict, published on the same day (ICCU\RMSE\092438, available in the Biblioteca consorziale di Viterbo); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently the only extant copy worldwide.
[2.]: ICCU\RMSE\092569 (an only copy registered in the Biblioteca consorziale di Viterbo); not in OCLC: no other copy worldwide. Apparently one of the only two extant copies worldwide.