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Lot 472
Sale 2687 - The Collection of Amb. & Mrs. Alexander Weddell - The Virginia House Museum
Apr 10, 2019
6:00AM ET
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[ART] TASSO, TORQUATO [G.B. PIAZZETTA, ILLUSTRATOR] la gerusalemme liberata
Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1745. Folio. Illustrated with frontispiece and portrait, 21 engraved plates, head and tail pieces, and decorated initials. Title-page printed in red and black, complete with half-title, dedication to Queen Maria Teresa, Catalogo degli Assocciati, with an ink ownership on half-title, dated 1755. Original vellum over boards, green morocco spine label, green speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Occasional spotting to vellum, spine label chipped at edges; cracks and small paper losses to marbled paste-downs, some occasional marginal foxing, but internally almost entirely clean and bright. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on title-page.