Riccioli (Giovanni Battista)

Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae reformatae libri duodecim, FIRST EDITION, woodcut Jesuit device to xx4 and printer’s device to colophon, double column, ornaments and diagrams in text, lacking engraved frontispiece with dedicatee's arms bearing Latin motto "Medium Servasse Iuvabit", occasional spotting, light age yellowing, early bibliography note to front pastedown, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, sprinkled edges, rubbed, folio, Heirs of Vittorio Benacci, Bologna, 1661.