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MANNI, Domenico Maria (1690-1788). Degli occhiali da naso inventati da Salvino Armati. Florence: Anton-Maria Albizzini, 1738.
4° (227 x 178mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved title-vignette b V. Franceschini after G.D. Ferretti, historiated initials. (Lacking half-title, lightly spotted.) Contemporary boards, uncut (front cover lightly waterstained). Provenance: shelf-mark (pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. ‘The first book on the history of spectacles. Manni gave credit for the invention to the Florentine Armati’ (Garrison and Morton). NLM/Blake 286; Garrison and Morton 5991.9.
4° (227 x 178mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved title-vignette b V. Franceschini after G.D. Ferretti, historiated initials. (Lacking half-title, lightly spotted.) Contemporary boards, uncut (front cover lightly waterstained). Provenance: shelf-mark (pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. ‘The first book on the history of spectacles. Manni gave credit for the invention to the Florentine Armati’ (Garrison and Morton). NLM/Blake 286; Garrison and Morton 5991.9.
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