Francesco Clodoveo Maria Pentolini Pentolini, Francesco Clodoveo Maria - The Illustrious Women Livorno, Gio. Vincenzo Falorni, 1776. 8°. Two tomes in one volume each with its own frontispiece. Woodcut frieze to frontispieces, wood-engraved headpieces, some light flowering, small woodworm holes to lower outer corner of last fascicles, 2 small holes to paper A1 of tome II, coeval binding in half leather and marbled paper, author in gold within gusset to spine, upper part of spine partially detached, slight defects.

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