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1738 · Best.-Nr. 98727 — Venezia: Presso Niccolo Pezzana MDCCXXXVIII 1738. 1738. Very good. - Quarto 9 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Hardcovers two volumes uniformly bound in full cream vellum with the title embossed in gilt within gilt decorated bronze panels on the spines. The cream covers are slightly stained. There is a spot of rubbing to the bottom of the first volume's front hinge with damage to the vellum of the rear cover of that volume. The title page of the first volume is printed in red and black with the collation as follows volume 1: half title title with printer's mark pages i-lxxxiii 1 pages 1-217 220-221 220-221 224-225 224-630 & 1-34. Pages 218-219 and 222-223 are skipped in the numbering without any loss of text; pages 220-221 and 224-225 are repeated in the numbering. The second volume's collation is as follow: title with printer's mark pages iii-xxv 1 pages 1-192 1-4 193-609 & 1-31. Each volume is illustrated with an engraved headpiece by Carlo Orsolini c.1703-c.1780. In volume 1 the Creation is pictured and in volume 2 the Annunciation. Each volume is further enhanced with pictorial initials and tailpieces. There is a tear to the inner edge of the folding plan not affecting the image. The first volume's text block is cracked opposite the title page with a tiny tear to the bottom of the inner edge of that volume's slightly pulled title signature. There are remnants of an early brown paper stamp to the verso of the first volume's title page resulting in a tiny hole to that page. There is offsetting to the first three leaves of the second volume from a paper stamp which once adhered to the verso of that volume's title page. There is occasional staining and minor foxing throughout. Very good. The work was first published in French in 1718. It is here translated into Italian by the Venetian Carmelite Arcangelo Agostini 1660-1746 writing under his pseudonym Selvaggio Canturani. It is a history of the Old and New Testaments up to the destruction of Jerusalem. The folding plan of Herod's Temple is accompanied by 4 pages describing its numbered sites. The volumes also contain detailed chronological tables. Venezia: Presso Niccolo Pezzana, MDCCXXXVIII (1738). hardcover