Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Description

Main Author

Smith, Joseph, 1674-1770

Related Names

Zanetti, Girolamo Francesco, 1713-1782
Agostini, Giovanni degli, 1701-1755.
Pasquali, Giovanni Battista, compiler.
British Museum. King's Library.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Venetiis : Typis J. Baptistae Pasquali, 1755.

Subjects

Smith, Joseph, > Smith, Joseph, / 1682-1770 > Smith, Joseph, / 1682-1770 / Library > Smith, Joseph, / 1682-1770 / Library / Catalogs.
British Museum. > British Museum. / King's Library > British Museum. / King's Library / Catalogs.
Rare books.
Incunabula.
Incunabula > Incunabula / Catalogs.
Rare books > Rare books / Catalogs.
Catalogs.

Note

The collection was made by Smith while consul at Venice; purchased by George IV in 1765 for £10,000 and now forms part of the King's Library at the British Museum.
The critical notes are by Giovanni degli Agostini and Girolamo Zanetti. cf. Pref.
"Præfationes et epistolæ, voluminibus editis appositæ, ab incunabulis typographiæ ante annum MCCCCC."
Compiled by Giovanni Battista Pasquali.
Title vignette; head and tail pieces.
Numbers CCCIII-CCCVI repeated in the final group of paging.

Physical Description

4 preliminary leaves, xliii, dxix, [1], cccxlviii (i.e. 352), [3] pages ; 25 cm

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