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NAPOLI 2500: History of a city and its territory

Monday 29 September 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Tasso, Torquato

Jerusalem Delivered, by Mr. Torquato Tasso; drawn from the original, with additions of what is missing in other editions, and with the allegory of the same author., 1582

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€ 400 - 600

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€ 1.290

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Information

Naples, Gio. Battista Cappelli, 1582. In 4°. Large noble coat of arms on the dedicatee's title page, woodcut friezes and decorated initials, missing and restored title page, missing 6 initial pages and two final pages (of the Allegory); the body of the 208 pp. text is complete, refined 19th-century blue morocco binding, stains on the covers.

Specialist Notes

EXTREMELY RARE TASSIAN EDITION, based on Vittorio Baldini's 1581 edition, with the first and last fascicles replaced. Only two copies in Edit16 are known.

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