[ROME] Piacenti, Antonio Raimondo: Brief lives of one hundred renowned and celebrated people illustrated with as many erudite notes on the history and rites of the ancient Romans starting from Romulus to Charles VI. Benedetto Gessari Naples, 1756.

3 volumes. Format in-8°, mm. 170x115, pp. (8), 351, (1) / (8), 366, (2) / (8), 407. Complete. Contemporary half-leather binding with gold titles on leather inserts on the spine. Marbled paper boards, sprayed edges on the pages. Copy with water stain on the lower part of all the leaves, and with slight foxing. Missing and defects on the spines. Old ink erasures on the title pages.


Roman history (customs, rites, biographies) from Romulus to Charles VI of Habsburg (1685-1740), text for didactic use edited by Antonio Raimondo Piacenti. Old eighteenth-century edition printed between 1757 and 1758 for Benedetto Gessari, complete in 3 volumes. Printer's mark in woodcut on the front. Initials and endpieces nt