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Storia - Muratori, Ludovico

Annals of Italy, 1744

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€ 200 - 300

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€ 640

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Milan [Venice], Giambattista Pasquali, 1744. In 4th. 12 vols. One-eye, frontispieces in red and black ink with letterpress mark, woodcut ends, rare and slight stains, woodworm work in the inner white margin of the last issue of the first volume, halo at the top margin from the first page to Q4 of the second volume last white paper of tome VII, some halos on the first papers of the last tome, contemporary parchment binding with author, title and manuscript tome on the spine and paper piece, cuts mottled in red, slight defects. Handwritten notes in the eyes.


Specialist Notes

First edition of this monumental work, the most important of the historian and man of letters of Modenese origins who compiled the history of Italy year by year from Julius Caesar until 1749.