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Letteratura cavalleresca - Ariosto, Ludovico

Orlando Furioso by M. Lodovico Ariosto, all recurring, and adorned with new figures, 1565

Estimate

€ 300 - 500

Sold

€ 486

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, near Vincenzo Valgris, 1565. In 4 °. each song, initials and woodcut friezes, frontispiece with lacks, reinforcements, stain on the inner margin that runs for most of the specimen, woodworm hole on a few papers, water gore and browning, slight tears, missing the last card with the letterpress, binding of the century. XII in brown calfskin, back with 5 nerves with the authors compartments and decorations embossed in gold, polychrome spray cuts, defects.

Specialist Notes

Reprint of the famous Valgrisi edition published for the first time in 1556, with the same 51 illustrations, which were the first full-page illustrations of Orlando Furioso.