Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora per la Prima Volta Date in Luce: con Annotazioni Storiche illustrate dall Abate Pierantonio Serassi (Complete 2 Volume Set)

Baldassar (Baldassare) Castiglione / Pierantonio (Pier Antonio) Serassi (Ed.)

Verlag: Presso Giuseppe Comino 1769-1771, Padova (Padua), 1769

Beschreibung

Complete two volume set. Contemporary full vellum bindings. Volume I has wear to head of spine and top edge of front board. Red mottled page edges. Foxing to endpapers, browning to some pages. A few pencilled notes to margins, text is otherwise clean throughout. Scribbled out contemporary ownership inscription to the blank facing title page in both volumes. Vignette to both title pages. Several woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces within the text. Italian language. Provenance: From the library of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, with Durham's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. Volume I also has a label for the library at Lambton Castle, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Durham. Pencilled notes of front pastedown endpaper in Volume I states that this set was sold at the Lambton Castle book auction 19-22 April 1932 (lot 634). Also states that the notes within the books are by E.R.Vincent (1894-1978, Chair of Italian at Cambridge University). Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 4to. xiv, 222, (2); xii, 384. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1231I006

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora ...

Verlag: Presso Giuseppe Comino 1769-1771, Padova (Padua)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1769

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition.