MAZZEI AND SCALETTA, 2 VOLUMES ON GAUGING IN ITALIAN

i. Mazzei, Francesco. Tavole geometriche e breve dichiarazione circa l'uso di quelle per misurare la capacità e scemo di qualsivoglia botte, tino, tinaccio, o altra corpo di figura cilindrica, per regolare vino, olio, grano, ed altro. E dietro di dette tavola il 3., 5., e 8 per cento, con i prezzi di qualsivoglia valuta, e il modo per regolare per tutto questo regno, e fuori. Lecce: Mazzei, 1724, small 8vo, 14, 11-14, 12, 66, 70-75, 73-113, [16], 10-14, 7-16pp., later patterned boards, (bought from Mediolanum, Milan, 2001), [T&W M72], some leaves slightly shorter, minor worming at end (blank repaired), scattered spotting, front hinge starting, last leaf becoming detached, slightly rubbedii. Scaletta, Carlo Cesare. Uso e fabbrica di alcune tavole celometriche con le quali senza fatica di lungo calcolo facilmente si misurano i concavi, e spezialmente tutte le sorta di vasi vinarj trattato geometrico. Utile e necessario misuratore, economico, fattore, agente, e a chi sia persona. Faenza: Stamperia dell' Archi, 1733, 8vo, 64, 69, [1]pp., woodcut initials and diagrams, carta rustica, modern folding cloth box, ("Ad uso de Giuseppe Savini, 1807", ink inscription on front flyleaf; bought from Bennett Gilbert, Los Angeles, 1989), [T&W S22; Riccardi i, 428], some leaves slightly shorter, minor spotting, binding slightly stained and rebacked, small tears to extremities

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