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Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora per la Prima Volta Date in Luce: con Annotazioni Storiche illustrate dall Abate Pierantonio Serassi (Complete 2 Volume Set)
by Baldassar (Baldassare) Castiglione / Pierantonio (Pier Antonio) Serassi (Ed.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Padova (Padua): Presso Giuseppe Comino, 1769-1771. 1st Edition . Very Good. 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm). Complete two volume set. Contemporary full vellum bindings. Volume I has wear to head of spine and top edge of front board. Red mottled page edges. Foxing to endpapers, browning to some pages. A few pencilled notes to margins, text is otherwise clean throughout. Scribbled out contemporary ownership inscription to the blank facing title page in both volumes. Vignette to both title pages. Several woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces within the text. Italian language. Provenance: From the library of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, with Durham's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. Volume I also has a label for the library at Lambton Castle, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Durham. Pencilled notes of front pastedown endpaper in Volume I states that this set was sold at the Lambton Castle book auction 19-22 April 1932 (lot 634). Also states that the notes within the books are by E.R.Vincent (1894-1978, Chair of Italian at Cambridge University). Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 4to. xiv, 222, (2); xii, 384
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- Tarrington Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1231I006
- Title
- Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora per la Prima Volta Date in Luce: con Annotazioni Storiche illustrate dall Abate Pierantonio Serassi (Complete 2 Volume Set)
- Author
- Baldassar (Baldassare) Castiglione / Pierantonio (Pier Antonio) Serassi (Ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Presso Giuseppe Comino
- Place of Publication
- Padova (Padua)
- Date Published
- 1769-1771
- Size
- 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm)
- Keywords
- Italy, Italian History, Italian Language, The Book of the Courtier, Essays_Letters_Tracts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Essays, Letters & Tracts;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
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Tarrington Books
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Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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