Congetture del Mse. Giacomo Sardini, Senator Lucchese sopra un’Antica Stampa, trasmesse ultimamente dal medesimo in tre lettere, al molta R.P. Antonmaria Amorett. ed ora pubblicate dal proposto Ferdinarndo Fossi. .
Firenze: Presso Giuseppe Molini, 1793. Item #1124 4to. 242 x 180 mm., (9 ½ x 7 inches). Illustrated with one engraving one final leaf. Contemporary decorated paper paste paper wrappers; some soiling and minor foxing to the text. Only edition of this rare bibliographical study, which poses that printing began in Lucca in the year 1468 and offers evidence that Lucca follows Subiaco and Rome as the birthplaces of printing in Italy. His Congetture is a challenge to Ferdinardo Fossi’s, bibliography, Catalogus codicum Saeculo XV (3 volumes, 1793-95), which give Florence precedence over the city of Lucca. Count Giacomo Sardini was from a noble family in Lucca, a collector of Lucchese history, whose archive was incorporated in the State Archive of Lucca at its formation in 1804. According to OCLC there are copies at Yale, Newberry, Morgan, Grolier Club and Columbia.
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