Doni, Anton Francesco CELESTIAL, TERRESTRIAL AND INFERNAL WORLDS. OF THE PILGRIM ACADEMICS. EXPURGATED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE SUPERIORS, AND FROM WHATEVER THE READER COULD OFFEND THEM. Venice, 1606, Gio. Battista Bertoni.

Rare “post-Tridentine” edition of the famous work by the polygraph AF Doni (1513-1574), specially censored. With 1 woodcut portrait of the author on the title page; initials, headers and woodcut decorations in the text. Includes, with its own frontispiece: BOOK SECOND OF THE WORLDS OF DONI CALLED THE SEVEN HELLS, of the Academic Pilgrims sent to Pluto, Cerberus, Charon, Minos, Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, and Proserpina (same typographical data). Copy with slight signs of aging, slightly trimmed on the last leaves, 1 c. of indexes postponed; 3 blank leaves precede the text.