[AEROSTATICA] - Componimenti poetici pel solenne ingresso di monsignor reverendissimo D. Giovanni D.r Piccardi alunno della Chiesa Parocchiale, e Coleggiata di Santa Margarita e protonotario apostolico alla dignità di arciprete nella veneranda Congregazione di San Paolo. Venice: Silvestro e fratelli Gatti, 1789.   A good copy of this curious work with the memory of a flying ship engraved on title published for the first time in c. 1670 by Lana de Terzi and republished here when the balloons had already started flying 6 years before.   4to (283 x 210mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title with a flying ship, engraved headpieces. Contemporary decorated paper (a lightly faded).

Estimate € 100 - 150

Sold € 280