XIMENES, LEONARDO, S.J. Piano di Operazioni Idrauliche per ottenere la Massima Depressione del Lago di Sesto, o sia di Bientina. 5 folding engraved plates. [2], x, 347 pages, including engraved title. 4to, contemporary vellum; scattered foxing. (Lucca: Francesco Bonsignori, 1782
first edition of a work describing the author's unrealized proposal for draining the stagnant and malarial Lake Bientina near Lucca, together with responses by Roger Joseph Boscovich and Eugenio Zanotti. Riccardi II, 267.
