Istoria diplomatica che serve d'introduzione all'arte critica in tal materia [...]. Appresso per motivi nati dall'istessa opera siegue ragionamento sopra gl'Itali primitivi in cui si scuopre l'origine degli Etrusci, e de' Latini. Per appendice l'epistola a Cesario illustrata, e altri monumenti [...].

4to: xxii-338 pp.; 6 pl. (foxing on first ff. and some scattered through the vol.).

Contemp. calf gilt decorated (incl. some armorial tools), coat of arms on covers, spine with raised bands, red edges.

First edition of this work on diplomatics and codicology illustrated with 5 plates of which 4 folding (Arch of August (Susa), text transcriptions, coins), 1 woodcut in the text, the portrait of Vittorio Amadeo di Savoia and with 1 figure on title representing an allegory of Italy with the Colosseum on her head. Text decorated with tail- and headpieces (one copper-engraved). Followed with an appendix on the origins of Italic peoples, especially the Etruscan and a letter of Saint John of Chrysostom to Cesario d'Arles on transubstantiation.
Prov. Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751), French magistrate (supralibros). - [Geoges Petit].