Lot 198
  • 198

Italy

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 43 volumes, Italian literature and history in Italian, including:
  • paper
HORACE. L'Opere... Comentate da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine in lingua vulgare Toscana. Venice: heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1573, 4to, ruled in red, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun copy with signature on title, seventeenth-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges

GIRALDI CINTHIO, G.B. Hecatommithi, overo cento novelle. Venice: Enea de Alaris, 1574, 2 volumes in one, 4to, nineteenth-century blind-stamped calf, small ink stain at foot of title, first and last leaves slightly soiled 



TASSO, T. Di Gerusalemme conquistata. Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1595, 12mo, 2 title-pages, woodcut device on last leaf, nineteenth-century straight-grained tan morocco gilt, first title page soiled



MACHIAVELLI, N. Opere. The Hague, 1726, 3 volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait and one folding plate, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, spines slightly rubbed



BOCCACCIO, G. Decamerone. London: W. Pickering, 1825, 3 volumes, 8vo, large paper copy, engraved plates after Stothard, nineteenth-century red half morocco, plates slightly spotted



ALFIERI, V. Tragedie. Florence: Ciardetti, 1824, 8vo, volumes 2-6, contemporary vellum, spines gilt
ALFIERI, V. Vita. Florence: Ciardetti, 1822, 2 volumes, 8vo, calf
BOCCACCIO, G. Il Decameron. Florence: Molini, 1827, 12mo, vellum
BOTTA. Storia d'Italia. "Italia", 1824, volumes 3-4 in one volume, 8vo, vellum, gilt spine
DANTE. La vita nuova e il Canzoniere. Florence: Barbera, 1895, 16mo, half straight grained green morocco
GRAZZINI. La prima e la seconda cena, novelle. Milan, 1810, 8vo, red morocco gilt by Riviere, bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan
MACHIAVELLI, N. Opere. Florence: Conti, 1818-1821, 10 volumes, 8vo, calf rebacked
NOTA. Commedie [11th edition]. Florence: Stamperia Granducale, 1827-1828, 7 volumes, 8vo, vellum gilt
TASSO, T. Aminta. Paris: Prault, 1745, 12mo, calf gilt
TASSO, T. La Gerusalemme liberata tomo I. Paris: Prault, 1768, 12mo, calf gilt (uniform with Aminta)
TASSO, T. La Gerusalemme liberata. Florence: Magheri, 1823, 2 volumes, 16mo, diced red calf
TASSO, T. La Gerusalemme liberata. Florence: Le Monnier, 1844, 8vo, vellum
VILLANI, F. Historie fiorentine. (Venice: Bevilacqua, 1559), 4to, modern buckram, lacking title-page



together 43 volumes

Provenance

William O’Brien, bequest booklabels dated 1899; some library stamps

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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