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Venice: Appresso Giacomo Ferretti, 1685. 12mo. 550,(2)pp. Copper engraved frontispiece which includes the arms of the book’s dedicatee, Aurelio Gervasoni (very minor worming, mostly in the blank fore-margin). Woodcut device on title. Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine, back cover with minor worming, and a small (1/2″) split at bottom of front hinge. Minor worming of final 2 leaves, text unaffected.. The miseries of vice and the rewards of virtue. Scarce Venice edition. An earlier edition was published in Bologna in 1680.

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