ARIOSTO, Lodovico. Orlando furioso. Tomo Primo ( - Quarto). Paris, Plassan 1796 (vol. 1) / 1795 (vols. 2-4).
4°. LXXIX pp., (1) p. (blank), 360 pp. + 25 unnumb. lvs.; 452 pp. + 22 unnumb. lvs.; 448 ss. + 24 unnumb. lvs; 452 pp. + 22 unnumb. lvs. With frontispiece and 92 plates, all engraved. Contemporary leather (joints, edges and corners rubbed, 2 spines with small tears, boards rubbed), spine gilt, 2 spine labels. A rare edition. The frontispiece and 46 illustrations are from the Baskerville-edition in 1773 and they are engraved after Cochin, Monnet, Cipriani, Eisen, Moreau jr. More 46 engravings (after Cochin as well) are from the edition Brunet 1775-83 (with French text). Particularly the first 2 vols. contain numerous unlettered proofs. Exl-libris. Slightly browned (vol. 2 and some lvs. more intensively), in places minor stained. A fine copy. Agnelli / R. S. 211 (only with 47 plates); PCCBI 6. 4474; NUC 20, 495 (4 copies), Graesse I, 200; not with Ray, Cohen / Ricci, Fürstenberg, Lewine and Sander.
Euro2500
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