BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Oratio Dominica in CLV. linguas versa et exoticis characteribus plerumque expressa. Parma: Typis Bodonianis, 1806. 2° (417 x 275mm). Text in border. (Title and last leaf remargined, wormhole affecting white margin of all pages and occasionally touching borders, occasional soiling.) 19th-century half calf (extremities rubbed).

BODONI, Giovanni Battista (1740-1813). Oratio Dominica in CLV. linguas versa et exoticis characteribus plerumque expressa. Parma: Typis Bodonianis, 1806. 2° (417 x 275mm). Text in border. (Title and last leaf remargined, wormhole affecting white margin of all pages and occasionally touching borders, occasional soiling.) 19th-century half calf (extremities rubbed).

FIRST EDITION. The preliminaries and dedication are in Latin, Italian and French. The Lord's Prayer is in 150 languages, presented in 97 exotic alphabets, all designed by Bodoni. Brooks 1003.