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[FIREPROOF MAN] FOLLINI, Giorgio. OSSERVAZIONI FISICHE DELL’ ABATE GIORGIO FOLLINI … SUL PRETESO VERO UOMO INCOMBUSTIBLE, SIGNOR GIUSEPPE LIONNET. Tornio: Dalla Stamperia Di Bernardino Barbberis, 1808. Rebound in marbled boards over smooth calf spine lettered in gilt (“Lionnet. Incombustible Man. 1808.”) 48pp. Includes bibliographic footnotes. Marginal repair to final leaf, else near fine. An analytical look at the preparations taken by Lionnet to resist the burning hot bars run over his skin, the molten lead poured into his mouth, and the other miraculous feats of heat resistance he presented at the beginning of the nineteenth century throughout Europe.