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Cataloghi di libri - Consul Joseph Smith (Isolani, Giulio Cesare)
Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, 1755
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Venice, Jo. Baptistae Pasquali, 1755. In 4°. Title page in red and black with Smith's bookplate engraved in copper and repeated in the beautiful engraved headpiece on fol. A1r, published with Addenda, & corrigenda in superior catalogo bibliothecæ Josephi Smith, woodcut decorations, light foxing, contemporary parchment binding, gold title on the spine, minor defects. § Porcelli, Giuseppe Maria, Catalogo de' libri italiani, latini e greci cui si aggiunto un catalogo de' libri francesi, ed Inglese, Naples, (Giuseppe Maria Porcelli), 1787. Restoration on the title page, light foxing, light water stain, later binding in half parchment and cardboard, manuscript title on the spine.
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Work I: Third edition, but the first complete, of the famous catalog of the library of British Consul Joseph Smith (c. 1682–1770), a refined collector, patron of Canaletto, and financier of the Pasquali printing house in Venice. The work formed the foundation of the King's Library at the British Museum, now housed in the British Library. Of particular value is the extensive appendix, which reproduces the prefaces to all the incunabula in the collection.
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