Jac. Philippi Tomasini De Tesseris Hospitalitatis, Liber singularis, In quo jus hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur [Bound with: Episcopi Aemoniensis Titus Livius Patavinus]

  • Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius], 1670
By Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius], 1670. Very Good. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius], 1670. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo; full contemporary blind-embossed parchment, faint manuscript spine titling; [12],227,[25]; 125,[17]pp. (both volumes collated complete); added engraved half title page to first volume, two folding plates, steel engravings throughout text. Parchment uniformly dust-soiled, brief ink dash across upper cover, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.

Posthumous editions of two works by the Italian Catholic Bishop and historian brought out by the Dutch publisher Andreas Frisius, known for issuing such stylishly-illustrated Latin works in the 1660s and '70s.

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