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BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio (1693–18th-century). Trattenimenti scientifici su la sfera . Rome, 1754.
BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio (1693–18th-century). Trattenimenti scientifici su la sfera . Rome, 1754. 4° (235 x 176mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, endpieces and initials. (Lacking X1 with a half-title introducing the following parts, title relaid with minor losses, small marginal repairs in first gathering and a2 starting to detach, occasional light spotting and staining, small paperflaw to T3 and small stain to Y3 affecting a few letters.) Contemporary half vellum over decorative boards, manuscript title on spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance : early annotations — Fraseara (bookplate). RARE FIRST EDITION of a treatise on the sphere, meteorites and astronomy by the Italian mathematician Francesco Saverio Brunetti. Only 3 copies recorded in ABPC/AE (the last sold in 1982 for £550).