La Cortona convertita.
Amsterdam, Ernesto Fraymann, 1790.
8vo. Title engraving, VIII, 350 pp. With engraved portrait of the author. Contemporary boards with ms. title to spine.
€ 300.00
Eight satirical poems by Moneti (1635-1712) in the Cortona dialect. Bookplates of the writer Conte Francesco Maria Riccardi de Vernaccia (*1794), the lawyer Gustavo Camillo Galletti, 1805-68), and Baron Horace von Landau (1824-1903), one of the most famous private collectors of the late 19th century (cf. H. P. Kraus, A rare book saga. NY 1978, p. 339).