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Christmas Special / Antique Books, Autographs and Prints

Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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General Theory of the Earth exhibited at the Volscian Academy of Velletri, 1782

Estimate

€ 80 - 120

Sold

€ 103

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Information

Rome, Paolo Giunchi, 1782. In 8°. Allegorical frontispiece engraved in copper by Giuseppe Machiavelli based on a design by Felice Giani, thin woodcut frame on the title page, woodcut headers and friezes, with errata paper, damp stains and light browning, wormholes in the white margin of the LN quires, contemporary woodcut paper binding, spine covered in modern paper, with some tears. § Giulio Cordara. On the advantages of the Italian clock over the one from beyond the Alps. Alessandria, Ignazio Vimercati, 1783. In 8°. Thin woodcut frame on the title page, light foxing, contemporary woodcut paper binding.

Specialist Notes

First work: Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, I 100-101: "It is a more erudite than scientific work, and, leaving aside what concerns terrestrial physics, it deals with the opinions of the ancients and moderns on the shape and size of the earth."

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