[Casanova de Seingalt, Giacomo Girolamo]

Di aneddoti viniziani militari, ed amorosi del secolo decimoquarto sotto i dogadi di Giovanni Gradenigo e di Giovanni Dolfin. Venice: Modesto Fenzo, 1782

8vo (6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 108 mm). Woodcut title vignette, printed on thick paper; a few light marginal spots, two small clean marginal tears on leaf I1. Contemporary flexible boards, pink paper backstrip with ms. title on spine; soiled, a few stains.

Pollio, pp. 88-91; Childs, Casanoviana, XXVII

a few light marginal spots, two small clean marginal tears on leaf I1. Contemporary flexible boards, pink paper backstrip with ms. title on spine; soiled, a few stains.
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First edition of this rare adaptation of Madame Tencin's romance La siège de Calais (1739), which Casanova admitted he wrote only for money, simply changing the characters and scene, for Calais becomes Nona and the protagonists France and England become Venice and Hungary. Casanova signs the preface in type on page x.

OCLC notes 5 copies of which 3 are in the United States.