Introduzzione alla scienza delle antichita romane, estratta in parte da un operetta di Cristoforo Cellario, ed in parte da ottimi autori antichi e moderni, da Luigi Vaslet. Opera tradotta dal Francese ed accresciuta di alcune annotazioni.
Venezia: Appresso Cristoforo Zane, 1738.
Price: $500.00
About the item
Second edition (first printed by Zane in 1732). Collation: A-P8 (P8 blank, present). Pp. [xxii], 215, [3, blank]. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Rubbed but sound (losses to covers, lower flyleaf removed). Some internal soiling and marginal flaws. Ownership signatures of Annibali Josephi, 1830. Very good. OCLC: 955949547 (Rome), 51426355 (USC).
Item #312003
Italian edition of Vaslet’s Introduction à la connoissance des antiquitez romaines (1723), an early guide to the systematic study of Classical Rome, covering laws and administration, military and naval matters, with a calendar of festivals and discussions of money and coinage.
OCLC records only one copy of this edition in North America; the edition of 1732 is equally scarce, with copies only at Harvard and the Smithsonian.
