[Shells] Index Testarum Conchyliorum

Quae adservantur in museo Nicolai Gualtieri Philisophi et medici collegiati Florentini. Regiae botanices Florentinae Academiae Socii in Pisano athenaeo medicinae professoris emeriti et methodice distributae exhibentur tabulis CX, Florentiae, Caietani Albizzini, 1742.

Folio, leather, red and gilt-stamped title on spine, portrait of the author by M.M. Gozzi and P.A. Pazzi, frontispeice by J.D. Campiglia and P.A. Pazzi, title in red and black with ill. vignette by J. Menaboni, XXIII pp. 110 numbered plates in full-page copper engraving, 18 unnumbered plates, both in-text and outside, and 16 engraved vignettes at the section titles in red and black. Plates mostly by Menabuoni and Pazzi. First edition of one of the most beautiful shell books, incl. the usually missing portrait of the author. Annot. in pencil next to the plates. Binding with signs of use, overall very good copy.