Vie de Joseph Balsamo, connu sous le nom de comte Cagliostro
Subtitle: extraite de la procédure instruite contre lui à Rome en 1790
By: traduite d'après l'original italien, imprimé à la Chambre Apostolique; ; enrichie de notes curieuses, et ornée de son portrait
Edition: Seconde édition.
Publisher: Chez Onfroy, libraire, rue Saint-Victor, no. 11; Chez Jean-George Treuttel, libraire
Published: 1791
Place of publication: A Paris; Et a Strasbourg
Language: fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: History; Impostors and imposture; Biography; Early works to 1800; Freemasonry; Freemasons
Work titles: Compendio della vita e delle gesta di Giuseppe Balsamo denominato il conte Cagliostro
Notes: Translation of Compendio della vita e delle gesta di Giuseppe Balsamo, denominato il conte Cagliostro.

Passano attributes this work to "mons. Barbéri." Lattanzi attributes it to "Barbèri, Francesco Mons." Haven attributes it to "P. Marcello jésuite." It is now generally attributed to Giovanni Barberi, 1748-1821.

Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ A-P⁸.

Cf. Passano, G.B. Anonime e pseudonime (1887 ed.), p. 77.

Access to portions of this material may be restricted.

Lattanzi, A. Bib. della massoneria italiana e di Cagliostro. Bib. Cagliostrana, 128ff

Caillet, I.C. Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, 1894

Haven, M. Maitre inconnu Cagliostro. Bib., 45

Wolfsteig, A. Bib. der Freimaurerischen literatur, 14376

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

First in a volume of five works bound together, titled on spine "Vie de Balsano".

Bound in contemporary tree calf; spine stamped in gilt; red morocco title label on spine; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers.