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Tasso, Torquato: Jerusalem Delivered... adorned with beautiful figures on each corner. In Venice, one sees the sign of Wisdom, 1673

Format in-4ยฐ, mm. , pp. (16), 244. Engraving title page. Complete. Later binding (19th century) in half leather with gold titles on a leather tag on the spine. Edges of the leaves in blue (faded). An excellent copy, with sporadic foxing and light stains, small tears in the edges of some plates with a small loss on the plate of the thirteenth canto. Significant tear on the R3 leaf (text), without loss of text.

Splendid edition of Gerusalemme liberata by the famous Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), with 20 full-page chalcographic plates at the introduction of each canto of the poem. Woodcut headpieces, initials and endpieces. Large woodcut typographic device on the colophon.

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