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Geneva: Samuelem de Tournes, 1696
A critique on the most celebrated authors, concerning whom the various opinions of the most learned scholars are given. Nearly 600 authors are listed. ( Bacone, Barclay, Bellarmino, Bembo, Boccaccio, Boccalini, Calvino, Campanella, Cardano, Chaucer, Copernico, Dante, Ermete Trismegisto, Esiodo, Galileo, Gesner, Grotius, Guicciardini, Hobbes, Lipsius, Lullus, Paolo Manuzio, Omero, Pico della Mirandola, Thomas More, Paracelso, Petrarca, Rabelais, Sannazaro, Savonarola, Scaligero, Selden, Tasso, Valla, Vesalio, etc)
"An erudite work, much esteemed by the curious." (Lowndes).
(8) + 1062 + (7) pp
Fully bound in dark-brown leather with marbled papers, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt-stamped on spine, black morocco title label on spine, small sections of title page cut out.
Size 9 x 7 1/4 in.
Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (12 September 1649 – 27 January 1697) was an English baronet.
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