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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 60029, member: 25&quot;]Possibly the most interesting thing about it is that it is a British book, a fairly early product of the Oxford University Press as the Clarendon Press, Edited by Joseph Brown, a fellow of Kings College Oxford. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is&nbsp; a fairly late example of the latinisation of everything, appropriate for a volume in Latin but it used to be that the common language of universities was Latin and books on all topics would circulate in Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The half calf binding with marbled boards looks to me to be considerably later than 1730, Possibly 19th C.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main curiosity is that Masseo Barberini was the Pope (as Urban VIII) who persecuted Galileo and was famous for&nbsp; his nepotism and corruption, the Sepp Blatter of his day.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may be rare but so would be buyers, the binding is not remarkably fine and the subject matter is not all that interesting. I&#039;d not put any great price on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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