Bianchini (Francesco), La Istoria Universale Provata con Monumenti e Figurata con Simboli degli Antichi, second edition, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red and black and with engraved printer's device, engraved portrait, folding map and 7 plates (1 folding), 5 folding tables, wood-engraved illustration in text, binder's f. at end, some spotting and finger-marking, a few stains to sig.Y, contemporary vellum, spine gilt, foot of spine chipped, corners little worn, spotted and rubbed, 4to, Rome, Antonio de Rossi, 1747.

⁂ Bianchini's ambitious work charting the history of humanity through archaeological evidence. It includes much on the oriental and American nations and Greek history. Bianchini was a friend of Leibniz and later became librarian of the Biblioteca Ottoboniana, which had rich holdings that he employed in his research for the present work.