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Socini, Antonio: The siege of Valenza del Po in the year 1656, described and already printed without date by the doctor Pier Antonio Socini, a secular priest. Reprinted in Turin by Bartolomeo Zauatta, 1657
In-4°, mm. 200x150, pp. (4), 110, (8). Last c. blank. Contemporary hardback with handwritten titles on the spine. Edges of the leaves in blue. Light stain with small tear on the upper corner of the title page. Rare and complete work describing Valenza, an isolated, desperate city, in a food crisis, which will have to capitulate to the French, Savoy and Modena troops.
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