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Christmas Special / Antique Books, Autographs and Prints

Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Ruscelli, Girolamo

On the way of composing verse in the Italian language, 1741

Estimate

€ 40 - 100

Sold

€ 52

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, heirs of M. Sessa, 1587. In 8°. On the title page: printer's device, figured initials, headers, tailpieces, and woodcut decorations; halos, burns, and stains affect several leaves; the upper margin features heavily trimmed leaves, some with loss of text; contemporary parchment binding; on the spine: handwritten titles; cuts to the front cover and faded handwritten notes; very browned back cover; stains and gaps. Ownership notes on the title page, inside covers, and recto of the front flyleaf. § Girolamo Tagliazucchi, Raccolta di poesie. Turin, Nova Stamperia Regia, 1741. In 8°. Decorated initials, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and friezes, handwritten accounting operations contemporary with the verso of the front pastedown, widespread foxing and halos affecting several leaves, first quire incomplete, A6 sheet glued to the next quire, contemporary parchment binding with widespread gaps.

Specialist Notes

Volume 2: Works by Boccaccio, Monsignor della Casa, Bembo, etc. collected by Girolamo Tagliazucchi, professor of eloquence at the Royal University of Turin, with the aim of providing textbooks for his students.

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