Description:
Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) La Gerusalemme Liberata. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617. Small folio, illustrated with two engraved illustrated titles and twenty additional full-page plates by Camillo Cungio after Bernardo Castello; [bound with] the engraved title of the Genoa: Giulio Guastavini, 1590 edition of the same title, and a suite of twenty full-page plates after Bernardo Castello by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci, some slight damp staining, bound in full modern leather, ownership cipher stamp with initial B on versos of some plates in the first work, or on text pages facing versos of plates, 11 1/2 x 8 in.
[two engraved titles], †2, ††4, A-Q8, A-D8, E4, A-B8, C4.
Estimate $600-800
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