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SCALETTI, Carlo Cesare. Scuola Mecanico-Speculativo-Pratica. Bologna: Constantino Pisarri, 1711.
2° (293 x 198mm.). Half-title, etched frontispiece and 12 plates by G.M. after Scaletti. (Light worming to lower margin of first seven leaves and upper margin of final leaf.) Contemporary half vellum (slight damage to head and foot of spine). Provenance: Leo S. Olschki (bookplate).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION dedicated to Cardinal Antonio Gualterio by the author, a mechanical engineer from Faenza. Riccardi II, 427.
2° (293 x 198mm.). Half-title, etched frontispiece and 12 plates by G.M. after Scaletti. (Light worming to lower margin of first seven leaves and upper margin of final leaf.) Contemporary half vellum (slight damage to head and foot of spine). Provenance: Leo S. Olschki (bookplate).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION dedicated to Cardinal Antonio Gualterio by the author, a mechanical engineer from Faenza. Riccardi II, 427.