Coelestes et inferi
Publisher: typis C. Palese
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 82
Notes: Engraved t.-p., with vignette (baron's coronet).

Frontispiece by P.A. Novelli; the numbered illustrative head-pieces & tail-pieces were originally engr. for Raccolta di paesetti intagliati in rame ... per uso de'professori e dilettanti di pittura (Venice, 1750). One is engr. by Giovanni Cattini after G.B. Piazzetta (p.[53]), to whom the whole series is also wrongly ascribed. The number of plates (two of them inlaid) is given as in this copy; presentation copies are also known without plates.

In verse.

With ms. corrections in Books i, ℓ.138; ii, ℓ.43, 74; iii, ℓ.18, 214; iv, ℓ54, 135; v, ℓ.4, 87(?), 110, 116, 144,; vi, ℓ.116, 120; vii, ℓ.41, 230.

Contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked in modern brown morocco; edges gilt; silk doublures. Inserted at front is an A.L.s. from the author; to William Petty, earl of Shelburne; Venice, 2 June 1771; 2s. (2ℓ.); presenting the volume.