Questio florulenta ac perutilis de duobus elementis aquae & terrae tractans nuper reperta que olim Mantuae auspicata. Veronae uero disputata & decisa ac manu propria scripta a Dante Florentino poeta clarissimo...

4° (207x150 mm). Collation: A-C⁴. [12] leaves. Woodcuts showing the Earth (fols. Bir, B1v, B3v). Bound in antique vellum. Nineteenth-century red morocco slipcase, gilt-tooled. A few contemporary marginalia.

The first, and rare edition of this work, generally ascribed to Dante. The Latin text was edited by the Agostinian monk, theologician and astronomer Giovanni Benedetto Moncetti (d. ca. 1547), and dedicated by him to the cardinal Ippolito d'Este.