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Lot 132

Sale 5890 - Books and Manuscripts
Jun 25, 2024 11:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Dante Alighieri: Group of 9 Works

1. [Dante Alighieri]. La Commedia di Dante Alighieri… Florence: Luigi Bastianelli, 1771-74. In six volumes. 8vo. Full contemporary tan calf, morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt; edges stained red.

2. [Dante Alighieri]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Roveta: Negli occhi santi di bice, 1820. In three volumes. Tall 8vo. Quarter vellum over printed paper-covered boards, morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt; original wrappers bound in. 

3. [Dante Alighieri]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Roma: Facolta, 1837. 12mo. xviii, (ii), 702 pp. Full contemporary vellum, stamped in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. 

4. [Dante Alighieri]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Florence: G. Barbera, 1896. 32mo. (ii), 604 pp. Full contemporary red morocco, stamped in gilt; all edges gilt. 

5. [Dante Alighieri]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Florence: G. Barbera, 1907. 32 mo. (ii), 604 pp. Full contemporary vellum. 

6. [Dante Alighieri]. La Vita Nuova di Dante. Turin/Rome: Roux e Viarengo, 1902. 8vo. 168 pp. Full red goatskin, stamped in gilt; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; original wrappers bound in.

7. [Dante Alighieri]. La Vita Nuova di Dante… Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1911. 4to. 388 pp. Original vellum over boards, stamped in red and in black; all edges trimmed.

8. [Dante Alighieri]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Florence: G. Barbera, (1922). 8vo. (ii), 454 pp. Full contemporary vellum, yapp edges, front board elaborately illuminated in red, blue, green, black, and gilt; all edges trimmed; patterned endpapers. 

9. [Dante Alighieri]. The Brescia Dante. (Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Press, 1975). First and limited edition, #88/250 copies. Folio. 59 pp. Publisher's quarter pictorial red cloth over beige cloth, stamped in black, red, and in gilt. 

Condition varies, generally very good to near-fine. Sold with all faults. 

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