Estimate € 100 - 150
Sold € 280
Auction: 25 January 2022 at 15:00
[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