Lotti (Lotto) Rimedi per la Sonn da Liezr alla Banzola. Dialoghi del Dottor Lotto Lotti nel suo Idioma naturale Bolognese, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, charming engraved plate by Giacomo Maria Giovannini of women sitting around a table carrying out various chores by candlelight, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century red morocco, by Delaunay of Paris (stamp to front endpaper), spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, rubbed at extremities, lightly marked, g.e., [Cat. Marz, 544], small 4to, Milan, Carlo Frederico Gagliardi, 1703.

⁂ First edition with a good provenance of these six dialogues in a Bolognese dialect, which shed much light on the contemporary theatrical and musical scene, being based on the experiences of the author as a librettist.

Provenance: Count Guglielmo Libri-Carrucci della Sommaia (his sale Silvestre & Jannet, Paris, 28th June, 1847); sale by Duquesne of a private library, Ghent, 28th November, 1857; Angelo Mazorati, sold by him Bologna, 1932; Marino Parenti (bookplate); M. & L. Sordelli (bookplate and red ink stamp).