Lot 81
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ALLACCI, Leone (1586-1669). Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus, qui ab anno MDCXXX. per totum MDCXXXII Romae abfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt. Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1633. 8° (176 x 115mm). Large engraved device on title. (Waterstaining throughout, some leaves browned, last leaf of index with tear in lower blank margin.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY given by the author to Jacobo Philippo [?] (inscription at foot of title).

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ALLACCI, Leone (1586-1669). Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus, qui ab anno MDCXXX. per totum MDCXXXII Romae abfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt. Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1633. 8° (176 x 115mm). Large engraved device on title. (Waterstaining throughout, some leaves browned, last leaf of index with tear in lower blank margin.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY given by the author to Jacobo Philippo [?] (inscription at foot of title).

FIRST EDITION of the first book to contain a bibliographical reference to Galileo (pp.118-119). Carli and Favaro 134.
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