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[Mathematics] Forestani, Lorenzo. Practica d’aritmetica e geometria. Siena: Stampara del Pubblico, 1682. Full limp vellum, original hand-titled spine. Printer’s device on title page, large vignette on verso of last leaf of Romulus and Remus suckling on a she-wolf surrounded by a strapwork design with cherubs at the corners. Profusely illustrated with woodcut initials, mathematical tables, geometrical equations, and examples of angle measurements of various castle turrets. 8vo. [x], 551, [1]. Few small holes to vellum along spine, chipping along lower edge, scattered staining to cover, light worming to last leaf. [Together with:] an identical edition of Practica d’aritmetica e geometria printed the same year and bound in a contemporary vellum; printed with a separate device on the title page.