Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
FERRERI, DOMENICO. Il Curioso Discreto. Tessitura di Vari Discorsi, Scolastici, Istorici, e Morali. [16], 634, [4] pages. 8vo, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), spine painted gray, with title lettered in ink; paper fault on 2M5 repaired with slight text loss. Early Regensburg Discalced Carmelite bookplate and ownership inscriptions. (Cremona: Marc'Antonio Belpiero, 1648)

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Compilation of anecdotes and information on a bewildering array of topics in the arts, sciences, history, geography, theology, angelology, demonology, etc., including an early reference to operatic castrati on page 143, and an account of notably peculiar inmates of the insane asylum of San Vicenzo in Milan on pages 432-47.<