[Orations]. Poetic compositions of various authors in the wedding of the most excellent gentlemen D. Taddeo Barberini and D. Anna Colonna. Rome, Stampa Camerale, 1629. In 8° (158 x 105 mm); [8], 185, [1] pages. Copper-engraved figured frontispiece. Modern sponged leather binding, gold title to spine. Also in the lot among othersDe tribus magis oratio ad auditores collegij Braydensis by Horace Archinto of 1628 with beautiful figured antiporta,Praefatio de ratione studiorum by Aonius Palearius of 1555, and the Oratio in laurea doctorali nobili D. Antonio De Lomeno of 1747. (6)

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