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Vita del Celebre Medico Mantovano Marcello Donati: Conte di Ponzano, Segretario, e Consiglier e di Vincenzo Primo, Duca di Mantova, e Commendatore di S. Stefano
by Castellani, Luigi Francesco
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Mantova [Mantua, Italy]: Per l'Erede di Alberto Pazzoni, 1788. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine -. 140 p.: frontispiece portrait; 21 cm. Contemporary full vellum; gilt-tooled leather spine label reading "Castell." All page edges red. Small slip of paper with "20" written on it tipped in to page 3 next to the gutter. An attractive biography of Italian physician Marcello Donati (1538-1602). In Near Fine- Condition: vellum is slightly soiled; tail of spine rubbed; pages are clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001927
- Title
- Vita del Celebre Medico Mantovano Marcello Donati: Conte di Ponzano, Segretario, e Consiglier e di Vincenzo Primo, Duca di Mantova, e Commendatore di S. Stefano
- Author
- Castellani, Luigi Francesco
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Per l'Erede di Alberto Pazzoni
- Place of Publication
- Mantova [Mantua, Italy]
- Date Published
- 1788
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Medicine & Psychology;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Vellum
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- Tail
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- Gutter
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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