Principe Don Luigi GONZAGA DI CASTIGLIONE, Luigi GODARD
Saggio analitico dell' elogio da farsi dello spirito umano nelle sue capitali scoperte di sua altezza il signor principe don Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione. Letto alla Società Reale di Londra, l'anno 1777 [précédé de] L’ombra di Pope poemetto dell’ abate Luigi Godard fra gli arcadi Cimante Micenio. In cui si lodano gli studi filosofici di sua altezza il sig. Principe D. Luigi Gonzaga Di Castiglione [Analytical Essay on the Eulogy to Be Made of the Human Spirit in Its Principal Discoveries, by His Highness Prince Don Luigi Gonzaga of Castiglione, Read before the Royal Society of London in the Year 1777; The Shade of Pope, a Poem by the Abbé Luigi Godard among the Arcadians under the name Cimante Micenio, in Which Are Praised the Philosophical Studies of His Highness Prince Don Luigi Gonzaga of Castiglione.]
s. n.|n. l. [Lu à la Royal Society de Londres, 1777]|18.1 x 22.9 cm|Relié
An intriguing first edition, complete with its engraved frontispiece of the author by Giovanni Volpato after Domenico Corvi, and its introductory poem by the Abbé Luigi Godard. A copy unrecorded in non-European libraries according to WorldCat.
Contemporary binding of fawn mottled calf, smooth spine divided into five gilt compartments by gilt rolls, brown morocco lettering-piece, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the board edges, blue speckled edges, and shell-pattern marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
The lower cap lacking, some surface...
€450