[Rarebooks] FS: Life of Cagliostro. 1st ed. (?). Rome: 1791

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Cagliostro, Alessandro. COMPENDIO DELLA VITA, E DELLE GESTA DI GIUSEPPE 
BALSAMO DENOMINATO IL CONTE CAGLIOSTRO Che Si E Estratto dal Processo Contre di Lui 
Formato in Roma l’Anno 1790... Rome: Nella Stamperia della Rev. Camera apost. 
1791. First edition (?). 12mo. 190pp. Complete. 20th c. brown buckram, 
leather spine label.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
One of 2 possible first editions that were printed in 1791 with different 
paginations. A second edition (so stated) was also printed in that year. This 
work on Count Cagliostro (1743-1795), a notorious con man and alchemist, has been 
attributed to Giovanni Barberi.

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