Lettera apologetica dell'Esercitato accademico della Crusca
Subtitle: 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
Publisher: [s.n.
Published: 1751
Place of publication: In Napoli MDCCL
Language: ita
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Quipu; Indian linguistics; Quechua language
Notes: Privileges at end dated January and February 1751.

Following p. 116, there are 4 leaves numbered: 117, *117, 118, *118; pagination continues with p. 119.

Signatures: a (-a6) b² A-O P (-P8) Q-2R 2S*² (-2S*2) 2S

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.

A defense of Françoise de Grafigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne.

Quechua on two of the folding plates.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:932.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 750/279.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 136863.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.