The Sphere of the World

The gold lettering on the spine is extremely faded and blurred, making most of the original title or author information illegible.

This image shows the front cover and spine of a bound volume from the Magliabechiana collection A significant collection of books and manuscripts named after the scholar Antonio Magliabechi (1633–1714) at the National Library original: Nazionale in Florence original: Firenze. The shelfmark A unique code indicating a book's location on a library shelf is Magl. L.6.9.

The book features a quarter-leather binding with a reddish-brown spine. The front cover is decorated with marbled paper in an organic, large-patterned design consisting of tan or ochre "stones" or cells separated by dark green outlines and interspersed with small veins of red.

A white paper library label is affixed to the lower part of the spine, containing the following printed and handwritten text:
MAGLI. Abbreviation for the Magliabechiano collection
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National original: "Nazionale"
Florence original: "Firenze"

Faint gold-tooled lettering is stamped onto the leather spine:
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L. 6. 9