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LA GIERUSALEMME LIBERATA DI TORQUATO TASSO Con le Figure di Bernado CASTELLO; E le Annotaioni di Scipio Gentili ...
by Tasso, Torquado 06b
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book. 20 full page engravings, numerous head & tail pieces.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Genova: Bartoli. VG book. 20 full page engravings, numerous head & tail pieces.. 1590. 1st illus ed.. Hardcover. VG book. BOUND WITH tp and all 20 engravings from a 1628 edition. Strong dark impressions of both sets of 20 engravings. . PLEASE CALL FOR MORE INFO. Full morocco. 2017 reback, retaining the boards from a c1900 rebind. The 1900 rebind had trimmed, just a bit, the leaves down to 24X17cm. (2),3-11,(12-1),2-255,blank, 71,(72),(1), 2-40.(8)pp. Engraved title pages, head & tail pieces, initials & 40 plates. Light tide marks on pages 9 & 11. Plates of both sets with very strong and dark impress ions. Each of the additional 20 plates from the 1628 edition are tipped in next to this edition's appropriate plates. 1628 tp is pasted to the 1590 tp verso. The 1590 plates faced its text pages. But now the 1628 plates are placed in between plate and text. In the attached pictures left is from 1590, right from 1628. The 1628 tp has GERUSALEMME spelled without the "i". An owner's note, in old Italian, at bottom of last page states the book was bought in 1660. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001221
- Title
- LA GIERUSALEMME LIBERATA DI TORQUATO TASSO Con le Figure di Bernado CASTELLO; E le Annotaioni di Scipio Gentili ...
- Author
- Tasso, Torquado 06b
- Illustrator
- 20 plates, plus 20 extra.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. 20 full page engravings, numerous head & tail pieces.
- Edition
- 1st illus ed.
- Publisher
- Bartoli
- Place of Publication
- Genova
- Date Published
- 1590
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VG book. BOUND WITH tp and all 20 engravings from a 1628 edition., Strong dark impressions of both sets of 20 engravings., Castillo, Franco, Carracci, Bartoli, Gentili, Guastavini
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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