THE ADVENTURES OF SIGR. GAUDENTIO DI LUCCA. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE FATHERS OF THE INQUISITION AT BOLOGNA IN ITALY; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY IN THE MIDST OF THE DESERTS OF AFRICA, THE ORIGINE AND ANTIQUITY OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR RELIGION, CUSTOMS, POLITY, AND LAWS. COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN ST. MARK'S LIBRARY, AT VENICE. WITH CRITICAL NOTES OF THE LEARNED SIGNOR RHEDI, SOMETIME KEEPER OF THE SAID LIBRARY. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A LETTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INQUISITION, SHEWING THE REASONS OF SIGNOR GAUDENTIO'S BEING APPREHENDED, AND THE MANNER OF IT. The Second Edition. Faithfully Translated from the Italian.
London: Printed for W. Innys in Pater-noster Row, and R. Manby and H. S. Cox on Ludgate-Hill, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster Row, 1748. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-xii 1-291 [292: blank], early nineteenth-century three-quarter leather and marbled boards, light brown coated endpapers, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Second edition. (#90114)
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