Rossi, Giovanni Vittorio. Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium doctrinae. Wolfenbüttel, Meissner, 1729. In 8° (172 x 95 mm);[12], 845, [5] pages. Engraved vignette on title page, portrait of author on antiport (browning). Contemporary vellum binding with gold title within cartouche on spine. Collection of about 240 lives first published in 1643-48. Also in the lotTheatrumfatisive notitia scriptorum de providentia, fortuna et fato by Peter Friedrich Arpe of 1716 andDecharlataneriaeruditorumdeclamationes duae, cum notis variorum by Johann Burkhard Mencken of 1726 in whichhe critiques the pseudo-literates and scientists of the time. (3)

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