![[SANGRO, Raimondo di]. Lettera apologetica dell'esercitato accademico della Crusca contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una Peruana per rispetto alla supposizione de'Quipu. Napels: con licenza de' superiori, 1750. 4° (271 x 194mm). Title printed in red and green with an engraved title-vignette printed in red by Ant. Baldi, 3 folding hand-coloured engraved plates, good margins (light smear mark on title, some mainly light spotting, a few leaves lightly browned). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt decoration in compartments, red lettering piece (spine wormed at head and foot, sides with some scuff marks, rubbed). Provenance: Franco Lercari, Florence 1775 (ownership inscription on pastedown).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CSK/2007_CSK_05139_0178_000(023945).jpg?w=1)
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[SANGRO, Raimondo di]. Lettera apologetica dell'esercitato accademico della Crusca contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una Peruana per rispetto alla supposizione de'Quipu. Napels: con licenza de' superiori, 1750. 4° (271 x 194mm). Title printed in red and green with an engraved title-vignette printed in red by Ant. Baldi, 3 folding hand-coloured engraved plates, good margins (light smear mark on title, some mainly light spotting, a few leaves lightly browned). Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt decoration in compartments, red lettering piece (spine wormed at head and foot, sides with some scuff marks, rubbed). Provenance: Franco Lercari, Florence 1775 (ownership inscription on pastedown).
'This letter from a learned academician of the Della Crusca, contains a defense of Madame Grafigny, 'Letters from a Peruvian Princess', published in 1747, wherein the author speaks of the extensive use of the quipus by the Peruvians', Sabin 40560.
'This letter from a learned academician of the Della Crusca, contains a defense of Madame Grafigny, 'Letters from a Peruvian Princess', published in 1747, wherein the author speaks of the extensive use of the quipus by the Peruvians', Sabin 40560.
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