[Eyeglasses]MANNI, Domenico Maria. Degli Occhiali da Naso inventati da Salvino Armati Gentilhuomo Fiorentino. Trattato Istorico. Firenze, Albizzini, 1738

4to, mm. 230x170; Imitation eighteenth century binding , half vellum, marbled covers, title and golden rules on the spine; pp. XXIV, including Titlepage, 1 leaf nn. with halftitle after p. VIII, pp. 84; Titlepage in red and black ink with depicting an allegory of Florence, illustrated Initials, woodcut Headpieces and Finals.

Rare first edition. This is the edition with the addition of a small halftitle, which is entitled "Treaty ... with the addition made MDCCXLI year" and pages XXI to XXIV with the text of the addition. In this scholarly dissertation Manni doubts that the ancients knew the use of glasses, and he attributes the invention to the Florentine Armed Salvino, who died in 1317, as it alleges shows, with other witnesses, an epitaph preserved in St. Mary Novella. Of particular interest is the description of the various styles of glasses nose and optical instruments of the ancients. Pages here added the author responds to the objections that had been made to his thesis. Leg: "Operetta very valuable and uncommon."

Moreni, II, p. 22; Albert, Norton & Hurtes, Source Book of Ophtalmology, n. 1445; Gamba, n. 2336.

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