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Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017 5:00AM ET
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(Bindings) Dante Al...


(Bindings) Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia. Pisa: Dalla Tipografia della Societa Litteraria, 1804.

3 vols. of 4 (wanting i.e. Vita di Dante Alighieri and Indices). Folio, contemporary full gilt paneled and foliate tan calf, gilt spine compartments, turn ins with gilt geometrical foliage corners, goffered gilt edges; joints and extremities rubbed, other scattered wear to bindings, front covers of vols. 1 and 3 detached (but present). Frontispiece portraits (2), including portrait of Dante engraved by Raphael Morghen. Scattered light foxing. With the armorial book plates of [Lord] Leigh (of Stoneliegh Abbey) on pastedowns.

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