[Savoie][Piémont] PINGON (Emmanuel-Philibert). Philiberti Pingonii sabaudi cusiacen. Baronis Sindon Evangelica. Turin, Honorat de Rubeis, 1777. One volume in-4, full marbled basane, double gilt fillet framing the boards, arms in the centre of the first board, smooth spine decorated. XVI, 73 pp. Binding rubbed, spotting and leather gaps, paper slightly yellowed. Rare and elegant eighteenth-century printing of this work on the Sindon, the shroud in which the body of Christ was wrapped (to be distinguished from the shroud, which is merely the handkerchief that covered his face). The original appeared in 1581. Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon, born in Chambéry in 1525 (died in Turin in 1582), studied in Paris and then in Padua, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1550. He was soon appointed State Councillor and won the favour of Duke Charles-Emmanuel, who sent him to Saxony to study the origins of his family. He left several books on the history of Savoy. This reprint is dedicated by the publisher H. de Rubeis to Gaspard de Pingon de Prangin (1718 - 1796), a descendant of the author. It is decorated with a representation of 6 medals, including one on the title, 5 in the text and one bearing the effigy of the author, struck in 1582, outside the text. Bound in the coat of arms of the author's descendant Gaspard de Pingon de Prangin, vicar-general in Vienne then first chaplain and adviser to the King of Sardinia in 1779. He fled to Savoy in 1790. Engraved armorial libris of the Marquis d'Aligre (1770-1847).