N. P. Giannettasio. - Universalis geographiae elementa - 1692

Elements of universal geography, laid out and demonstrated by noblemen at the Neapolitan College of the Society of Jesus under the presidency of Nic. Parthenio Giannettasio, and issued for the use of the same school. Naples, 1692, from the printing office of Jacobi Raillard. Pages (14), 512, (4); size 14 x 9 cm. Contemporary binding in full parchment with small losses at the upper spine; manuscript title. Pages intact, genuine, though not always clear, but sometimes shaded. Rare, utterly unobtainable first edition by the Neapolitan scholarly Jesuit Nicola Partenio Giannettasio (1648–1715). Composed almost like a school exercise book, it treats general geography, specific geography, nations, continents, etc. etc. Maps are missing.