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ON GAMBLING
8vo (205x 127 mm). VIII, 232, [4] pp. The first leaf, a blank, is included in the pagination. The name of the printer can be found in the printing license at the end of the volume. Typographic ornament on the title page. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, marbled boards, sprinkled edges (some minor restoration to spine and corners). On the title page manuscript initials "N.C.". Contemporary manuscript note at p. 39. Some scattered foxing due to the quality of the paper, all in all a good, genuine copy.
Rare first edition, dedicated by the author to John Acton (1736-1811), commander of the navy of the Kingdom of Naples, of this work dealing with gambling from every possible angle: mathematical, statistical, ethical, economical, legal, psychological, and social.
In 1790, at the age of twenty-five, Francesco Bernardino Cicala published in Naples the Saggio filosofico e critico sulli giuochi di azzardo, echoing in its title another work on… Read More

8vo (223x134 mm); nicely bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt centerpiece on the panels within elaborated concentric frames in gilt, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and gilt title on blue morocco label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small worm holes at the bottom of the spine); [8], 139, [1 blank] pp. Old stamp of a noble family on the title-page. Shellmark "L4" on the front flyleaf. A fine copy printed on thick paper.
RARE FIRST EDITION, dedicated to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the first book exclusively devoted to the history of the famous fresco called the "Cenacolo", painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between 1495 and 1498.
The author, the Dominican Domenico Pino, was the prior of the monastery at the time he wrote the book, and had access to the documents of the conventual archive, which later with the arrival in Milan of Napoleon's troops went dispersed.
Pino was charged by a Milanese printer who was… Read More