Buonarruoti, Filippo. Osservazioni sopra alcuni frammenti di vasi antichi di vetro ornati di figure trovati ne' cimiteri di Roma. 4 Bl., XXVII pp., 1 w. Bl., 324 p. With 35 (3 folded) copper plates, text copper and some woodcuts. 27.5 x 19 cm. Parchment d. Z. (geringly stained and rubbed) with gold-embossed RSchild. Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1716. Graeese I, 573 (31 tablets only). Ebert 3151. Brunet I, 1395. Duncan 2005. Gamba 1548. Not with Cicognara. – First edition of the ancient writing of the Florentine Antiquarian, numismatist and court official Filippo Buonarroti (1661-1733), a great-granddaughter of Michelangelo, who was one of the first scholars to study Etruscan culture. Detailed treatise on fragments of ancient, mostly early Christian glass vases as grave offerings at the cemeteries of Rome. "Opera tenuto in grandissima pregio" (Gamba).