Malvasia (Carlo Cesare) Aelia Laelia Crispis non nata resurgens in expositione legali, half-title, engraved plate, woodcut illustrations in text, occasional spotting and finger-marking, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, narrow split at foot of spine, extremities little worn, rubbed, a wide-margined copy, Bologna, Domenico Barbieri, 1683 § Wesselingius (Petrus, editor) Vetera Romanorum itineraria, sive Antonini Augusti Itinerarium, cum integris Jos. Simleri, Hieron. Suritae, et And. Schotti notis. Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum, et Hieroclis Grammatici Synecdemus, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black and with engraved device, occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, spine darkened, little soiled, Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, G. Smith,1735; and a defective 17th century work on the Sibylline Oracles, v.s. (3)

⁂ The first mentioned, which is dedicated to the French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, concerns a curious sixteenth century Bolognese tombstone, which purports to have hermetic inscriptions. It has been the subject of much conjecture over the centuries by the likes of Jung, Walter Scott and Gérard de Nerval.