[EARTHQUAKES] – Horrible & espouventable tremblement de terre, aduenu en la ville de Ferrare. Rouen: Martin le Mesgissier, [c. 1570]. 8°. Small woodcut device on title, full-page woodcut of the Resurrection on last page. Modern limp boards. Provenance: Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate; sale Christie’s South Kensington, 2 June 1998, lot 1488 [part]).
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[EARTHQUAKES] – Horrible & espouventable tremblement de terre, aduenu en la ville de Ferrare. Rouen: Martin le Mesgissier, [c. 1570]. 8°. Small woodcut device on title, full-page woodcut of the Resurrection on last page. Modern limp boards. Provenance: Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate; sale Christie’s South Kensington, 2 June 1998, lot 1488 [part]).

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[EARTHQUAKES] – Horrible & espouventable tremblement de terre, aduenu en la ville de Ferrare. Rouen: Martin le Mesgissier, [c. 1570]. 8°. Small woodcut device on title, full-page woodcut of the Resurrection on last page. Modern limp boards. Provenance: Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate; sale Christie’s South Kensington, 2 June 1998, lot 1488 [part]).

VERY RARE: Worldcat only records the BnF copy. Sold with: Vera, e distinta relatione Dell'Horrible, e Spauentoso terremoto. Naples: 1688. Small 4°, 8pp. (dampstained). Modern wrappers. [And:] ABBATI, Bartolomeo. Epitome metheorologica de' tremoti. Rome: L.A. Chracas, 1703. 4°, Small 12pp. Modern wrappers housed within modern card jacket. Chronology of earthquakes since the beginning of the world. [And:] GIUNTINI, Girolamo. Lettera scientifica intorno alla cagione de' terremoti. Florence: Paperini, 1729. Small 4°, 40pp., half-title. Modern wrappers. And with five others on the same subject.
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