TASSO, LA GERUSALEMME, GENOA, 1604, RED MOROCCO GILT WITH ARMS OF LOMÉNIE DE BRIENNE

12mo (134 x 69mm.), engraved title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, engraved illustrations by Bernardo Castello, woodcut printer's device at end, without final blank leaf, later seventeenth-century red morocco gilt with the arms of Loménie de Brienne [Olivier 1077], spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light staining, a few engravings shaved, some offsetting from engravings, extremities very slightly rubbed

Loménie de Brienne, arms on binding, probably Louis-Henri de Loménie (1636-1698), whose library was sold in London on 28 April 1724

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