first edition
1621 · Venetiis
by Liceti, Fortunio
Venetiis: Euangelistam Deuch, 1621. First edition, small 4to, pp. [68], 415; title with woodcut printer's device, 1 folding woodcut showing an ancient oil lamp, 1 full-page illustration (showing another printer's device?) plus 15 woodcut illustrations of ancient lamps in text, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials, and printed marginal notes throughout; 19th-century drab paper-covered boards, paper labels titled and numbered in manuscript on spine, dampstaining and scattered spotting to spine and boards, with moderate wear to extremities, but the text remarkably clean. A good or better copy of the rare first edition of a classic study on ancient lamps and the ritual use of fire in religious and other ceremonies.
(Inventory #: 26593)