Tasso, Torquato - Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme... Lot 379
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Tasso, Torquato - Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
Paris, Augustine Delalain, Peter Durand, Gio Claudio Molini, 1771. In 4° large, 285 x 220 mm. 2 vols. EXEMPLARY IN GRAN PAPIER.The true first edition, with the portraits in Italian instead of French. Superbly illustrated with 20 finely engraved full-page plates, frontispiece with Tasso's portrait by Gravelot, engraved frontispieces in each volume, copiously adorned with beautiful engravings including 9 full-page culs-de-lame, 20 headpieces and 14 cul-de-lampe drawn by Gravelot and copper-engraved by Baquoy, Duclos, Henriquez, Leveau, Le Roy, Massard and others, splendid coeval binding in red morocco with double gold fillet border, six-compartment spine with gold decorations and friezes, title on green gilt-lettered gusset, gilt cuts. Ex libris on the counterplate bearing motto: "Deo Patriae Amicis."
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