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Baruffaldi, Girolamo.
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700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description
- De' Bacchanali... seconda edizione ampliata, e corretta. Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1758
3 volumes, 8vo (178 x 114mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved head- and tailpieces, contemporary calf, triple gilt fillet border, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, extremities very slightly rubbed
Provenance
Wilmot, Viscount Lisburne, armorial bookplate; from the library of Ricardo A. Caminos, stamp on a2 of each volume
Catalogue Note
These satirical verses by the Ferrarese poet, Baruffaldi (1675-1755), were first published separately and this is the first complete edition. The most well-known of them is "La tabaccheide", written in 1712, in which the praises of tobacco are sung.