Catalogo generale dei libri Italiani. Vendibili da Gio. Silvestri
Milano: Dalla Tipografia Silvestri, 1837. Item #57
8vo. 190 x 110 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), [iv], 524 pp. Decorated printed wrappers; some light soiling to upper wrapper and expert paper repair to spine.
Very good copy of the Silvestri catalogue for 1827. Includes thousands of titles in Italian, French, German, and Latin covering all fields of human endeavor, including science, history, art, literature and travel. The numbers of books on science and medicine are impressive and provide a window into the fields of study that were collected in the first third of the 19th century. .
Price: $300.00