GRAZIANI, Antonio Maria. De bello Cyprio libri quinque, Rome: Alessandro Zanetti, 1624. 4°, architectural title incorporating Barberini arms engraved by Claudio Mellan after Antonio Pomeranci, mounted on thicker paper, printed throughout within rule-borders, errata leaf with large woodcut printer's device on verso (some spotting and browning mostly to margins), contemporary vellum-backed boards (slight rubbed).

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GRAZIANI, Antonio Maria. De bello Cyprio libri quinque, Rome: Alessandro Zanetti, 1624. 4°, architectural title incorporating Barberini arms engraved by Claudio Mellan after Antonio Pomeranci, mounted on thicker paper, printed throughout within rule-borders, errata leaf with large woodcut printer's device on verso (some spotting and browning mostly to margins), contemporary vellum-backed boards (slight rubbed).

FIRST EDITION. The work was edited and published posthumously by Carlo Graziani, nephew of the author, who dedicated it to Francesco Barberini. A French translation appeared in 1685, and an English edition in 1678. Blackmer 726.
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