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BARONIO, Caesar (1538-1607, Cardinal). Tractatus de Monarchiae Siciliae. Paris: Adrian Beys, 1609. 8° (172 x 110mm.). Title with wood-engraved vignette. (Light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum with oval gilt ownership stamp on covers (ties lacking, small tear to lower cover). Provenance: Paris, Franciscan Minims (binding, ink inscription). First published in 1605 in volume XI of Baronio's Annales Ecclesiastici; this is the first separate edition of the work. -- Modesto RASTRELLI. Viaggi degli Imperatori in Italia da Carlo Magno fino al presente. Florence: Stamperia Bonducciana, 1791. 8° (177 x 110mm.). 2 engraved frontispiece portraits of Maria Luisa Amalia and Ferdinando III, Archduke of Austria. (Some light spotting.) Patterned paper wrappers. Provenance: unidentified armorial ownership stamp. -- Descrizione degli Spettacoli, e Feste Datesi in Venezia per occasione della venuta del... Gran Duca, e Gran Duchessa di Moscovia. Venice: Vincenzio Formaleoni, 1782. 8° (213 x 140mm.). 2 engraved frontispiece portraits of Maria Feodorovna and the Grand Duke Paul Petrovich of Russia. (Small section from lower blank margin of A2 lacking.) Later marbled boards. (3)