Baldassare Odescalchi:

Memorie istorico critiche dell' Accademia de' Lincei e del Principe Federico Cesi secondo duca d'Acquasparta fondatore e principe della medesima.

Roma, Luigi Perego Salvioni, 1806. 4to. 27 x 21,5 cms. [2] + VI + 318 pp. + engraved title + engraved plate (medals) + full-page printed errata leaf loosely laid in regarding page 270. Woodcut illustration on p. 90.

Uncut in limp marbled boards, spine worn with later hand-written label. Old ownership inscription on title of Pietro Odescalchi, round stamp on half-title of Prince Alexander Erba Odescalchi (1914-2008).

Rare. Carli-Favaro, Bibliografia Galileiana, 647: ”Vi sono lettere del Cesi a Galileo”. An important history of the origins and events of the first Accademia dei Lincei in the early 1600s, focusing on the figure of its illustrious founder, Federico Cesi.

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