BREVE TRATTATO COSMOGRAFICO PER PASSARE CON FACILITÀ ALLO STUDIO DELLA GEOGRAFIA 1729 DIEGO VANNI

BREVE TRATTATO COSMOGRAFICO PER PASSARE CON FACILITÀ ALLO STUDIO DELLA GEOGRAFIA 1729 DIEGO VANNI

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[VANNI, DIEGO]. Breve trattato cosmografico per passare con facilita allo studio della geografia. Palermo: Antonino Epiro, M.DCC.XXIX. [1729].

First edition; leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (17cm x 11cm x 2.5cm); pp. [8], 93. Italian text in Roman letter; bound in contemporary full speckled calf gilt; patterned endpapers; initial and terminal blanks present; decorative capitals; head- and tail-pieces; illustrated with 10 tipped-in folding plates. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact, the covers with light rubbing to extremities. Contents complete with some trivial scattered foxing, some old inking to one plate and title-page, old biblioteca bookplate to front pastedown and three old stamps throughout. Scarce.

Notes: A wonderful and rare first edition in Italian dealing with the study of cosmology. Beautifully illustrated with 10 plates - the first plate showing figs.1-8; the second plate is unnumbered and shows an armillary sphere; the third plate with fig.9 shows a Wind Rose; the fourth plate with fig.10 depicting the Ptolemaic System; the fifth plate, fig.11 with Plato's System; sixth plate, fig.12 with the System of the Egyptians; seventh plate, fig.13 with Ticone Braha's System; eighth plate, fig.14 with the Copernican System; ninth plate, fig.15 with Our Natural System; finally plate 10 mistakenly numbered fig.17.