TASSO, Torquato (1544-95).  Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme Liberata, Poema Heroico. Venice: Appresso Nicolò Misserini, 1627. 84 x 44mm. Wood-engraved printer's device on title (some ink-staining to title). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated with foliate and floral tools, gauffered edges, clasps with metal catches (extremities rubbed, one clasp defective). Provenance: "Adi Primo Maggio 1642. Compraro da me Constantino Bo[n]vicino in Venettia" (inscription on front free endpaper). Welsh 6603.
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TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme Liberata, Poema Heroico. Venice: Appresso Nicolò Misserini, 1627. 84 x 44mm. Wood-engraved printer's device on title (some ink-staining to title). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated with foliate and floral tools, gauffered edges, clasps with metal catches (extremities rubbed, one clasp defective). Provenance: "Adi Primo Maggio 1642. Compraro da me Constantino Bo[n]vicino in Venettia" (inscription on front free endpaper). Welsh 6603.

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TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme Liberata, Poema Heroico. Venice: Appresso Nicolò Misserini, 1627. 84 x 44mm. Wood-engraved printer's device on title (some ink-staining to title). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated with foliate and floral tools, gauffered edges, clasps with metal catches (extremities rubbed, one clasp defective). Provenance: "Adi Primo Maggio 1642. Compraro da me Constantino Bo[n]vicino in Venettia" (inscription on front free endpaper). Welsh 6603.

With another miniature edition (William Pickering, 1822) of the same work in 2 volumes bound in contemporary calf gilt. (3)
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