[REZZONICO, Giovanni Baptista (1740-1783), Cardinal]. Apologia in difesa de Padri ch'hanno supposto essere stato San Pietro il cesa ripreso pubblicamente da San Paolo. Venice: Caroboli, 1768.

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[REZZONICO, Giovanni Baptista (1740-1783), Cardinal]. Apologia in difesa de Padri ch'hanno supposto essere stato San Pietro il cesa ripreso pubblicamente da San Paolo. Venice: Caroboli, 1768.

4o (218 x 158 mm). Contemporary Italian reddish-brown morocco gilt, the cardinal's arms (incorporating the Rezzonico arms) tooled at the center of each cover, surrounded by a profusion of rococo foliage within a roll-tool border, spine in six compartments, with five raised bands, edges gilt (a few small wormholes).

DEDICATION COPY bound for Cardinal Giovanni Baptista Rezzonico, relative of Pope Clement XIII and Cardinal Carlo Rezzinoco.

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