GAMBA IN LARGE PAPER
GAMBA, Bartolommeo. Serie de' testi di lingua, Bassano, dalla tipografia Remondiniana, 1805
8vo. 128ff. Crusca device on title- and penultimate pages, light waterstaining in the first 2 quires, in original cartone alla rustica, spine a little damaged, front cover waterstained, partly uncut.
FIRST EDITION ON LARGE PAPER of what was to become, by its fourth appearance in 1839, one of the greatest, and still unsurpassed, general reference works for Italian literature. Bookplate of an anonymous cardinal archbishop.
£300
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