Relazione delle diligenze usate con felice successo nell'anno MDCCXVI per distruggere le cavallette: le quali avevano stranamente ingombrato una gran parte delle maremme di Pisa, di Siena, di Volterra, e tutte le campagne di Piombino, Scarlino, e Suvvereto.

[bound with:] Relazione delle devozioni ed opere di pieta che si son fatte nell'Anno 1716. Per ottenere da Dio la grazia di discacciare le cavallette che infestavano le maremme di Pisa, di Siena, e di Volterra. Florence, Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi, 1717.

Two works in one volume, 8vo (212x152 mm.). XI, [1], 48 pp., [2] full-page engraved plates, 55, [1] pp. Woodcut ornaments on the title pages, many woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Slightly browned throughout, worm track to the utter margin of the first about 20 ll. not affecting the text. Contemporary cardboards with manuscript title on the spine (minor losses to the spine, panels slightly foxes, bookblock a bit loose), uncut copy.

First edition. Lastri, 108: “He speaks of various remedies, among which the main one is to attract the Grasshoppers to white curtains, and then destroy them”. In the first work there are two very rare and curious copper-engraved plates, depicting locusts and their eggs, in their natural size. Giuseppe Del Papa was a Tuscan physician, lecturer in Pisa and the first physician to the Grand Duke. He was the author of numerous treatises including: De praecipuis humoribus qui in humano corpore reperiuntur (Florence, 1733), Consulta medica (Rome, 1733), Trattati varij, (Florence, 1734) and many others.

Cf. Melzi, vol. II, 423-24 pp.; Moreni, vol. II, 155 p.

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