Accademia degli Incogniti--[Brusoni, Girolamo]

4to (229 x 166mm.), [12], 432pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece, engraved plate containing arms of the Incogniti, engraved portraits, woodcut initials and headpieces, binding: contemporary calf gilt, arms of Hennequin gilt on covers and in spine compartments, upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed

Hennequin of Champagne, arms on binding; Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, armorial bookplate

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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first edition. Brusoni's account of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice contains a portrait and bibliography of each member, together with a list of their published writings. The society was founded in 1630 by Giovan Francesco Loredan and included foreign members such as Gronovius and Bartholinus.