Lettera apologetica dell'Esercitato accademico della Crusca :
contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una peruana per rispetto alla supposizione de'quipu scritta alla duchessa di S**** e dalla medesima fatta pubblicare.

Description

Main Author

Sansevero, Raimondo di Sangro, principe di, 1710-1771.

Related Names

Baldi, Antonio, 1692-ca. 1778, engraver.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Napoli : [s.n.] ; MDCCL [1750 i.e. 1751]

Subjects

Grafigny, > Grafigny, / Mme de > Grafigny, / Mme de / (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), > Grafigny, / Mme de / (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), / 1695-1758. > Grafigny, / Mme de / (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), / 1695-1758. / Lettres d'une Péruvienne.
Quipu.
Engravings > Engravings / Italy > Engravings / Italy / 18th century.

Note

Quechua on two of the folding plates.
A defense of Françoise de Grafigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne.
Title-page printed in four colors, probably on Sansevero's private press; title vignette (device of Accademia della Crusca) and head-piece by Antonio Baldi.
Signatures: a⁶ (-a6) b² A-O⁴ P⁸ (-P8) Q-2R⁴ 2S*² (-2S*2) 2S⁶.
Following p. 116, there are 4 leaves numbered: 117, *117, 118, *118; pagination continues with p. 119.
Privileges at end dated January and February 1751.

Physical Description

[14], 320 [i.e. 326], [14] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)

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