PAOLI P. Antonio.

DELLA RELIGIONE DE' GENTILI per riguardo ad alcuni animali e specialmente a' topi. Dissertazione indirizzata ad illustrare un'antica statua ed a servire per la migliore intelligenza di alcuni passi della storia profana e della corrispondenza loro colla storia sacra.

Napoli, Simoni, 1771 in-4, pp. 224, bella leg. coeva t. perg. e tass. al d., tagli spruzzati. Front. a due col. con gr. vignetta in rame. Con una tav. in rame raff. divinità in bronzo dis. da A. Dominici e inc. da C. Pignatari. Con indice degli autori citati al fine. Piccoli fori di tarlo su alcune pp. perfettamente restaurate. Belliss. esempl. in carta forte. [333]

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Book number: LOC13-022

Catalogue: STORIA LOCALE - CAMPANIA - PAESTUM

[PAOLI (Giovanni Antonio de)]:

Sommario delle Vite de Gl'Imperadori Romani, Cavato dall'Historie Antiche, et Moderne, con le Loro Effigie, Ritratte Dalla Medaglie, Et anco in nomi de' Pontefici, che a quei tempi furono.

In Siena, Appresso gli Heredi de Matteor Florini, 1616. Small 4to, 206 x 140 mms., 40 leaves with the wood-engraved images of 155 Roman emperors, in double columns, engraved vignette on title-page, fore-margin and lower margin of last leaf slightly defective with loss of four letters, but a very good copy, bound in full hard-grain brown morocco by The Club Bindery circa 1900, with gilt dentelles, gilt spine, and the small rectangular red morocco bookplate of Robert Hoe III (1839 - 1909), noted collector and first president of The Grolier Club. Paoli's dates are given in some sources as 1599 - 1630, and the earliest edition of this book that I have traced was published in 1606, which would make him rather precocious. The work was frequently reprinted and was translated into English in 1636, probably by Robert Basset, though the translation is also attributed to Richard Braithwait.

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Book number: 7694

Catalogue: Biography

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