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  • Venezia [Venice]: Nella Stamperia Baglioni, 1775
By Giovanni [i.e. Jean] Croiset; Selvaggio Canturani [trans.]
Venezia [Venice]: Nella Stamperia Baglioni, 1775. Very Good. Venezia [Venice]: Nella Stamperia Baglioni, 1775. 12mo; full contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled calf with green oval inlays, gilt spine in five compartments, green silk pastedowns; xxiii,[1],633,[3]pp.; six full-paged copper engravings in text (collated complete). Light rubbing to leather margins, later (1860s) ownership signature of Ricardo with his brief scribbles to endpapers, else a Very Good, clean and sound example.

Uncommon edition of a common work by the late French Jesuit priest Jean Croiset (1656-1738) bound in a lovely contemporary Venetian binding.

Not in OCLC, Library Hub, or KVK as of March, 2025.

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