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271 - [ITALIAN FICTION]. A collection of 7 works in Italian or tra…
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[ITALIAN FICTION]. A collection of 7 works in Italian or translated from Italian. 10 volumes in total. 1) BONARELLI (Guid'Ubaldo). Opere. Rome, Grignani, 1640. 2 parts in one in-12 volume, blue morocco, gilt thread, gilt edges (Duru). A fine copy. From the Jules Marsan library. 2) BONARELLI. La Philis de Scire. A pastoral poem translated from Italian into French verse. Paris, Ribou, 1669. 12mo, contemporary brown calfskin. First edition of the translation by the Abbé de Torche. Frontispiece and 5 lovely engravings as separate plates. 3) GUARINI. *Le Berger fidèle*, translated from Italian into French verse. Brussels, Jean de Smedt, 1705. 12mo, contemporary vellum. Frontispiece and 5 separate-block illustrations. 4) [PALLAVICINO (Ferrante)]. *Le Courrier dévalisé*, published by Ginifaccio Spironcini… translated from the Italian. Villefranche, Jean Guibaud, 1644. 12mo, contemporary calfskin. Translation of Pallavicino’s *Il Corriero svaligiato*, published in the year Pallavicino was beheaded in Avignon. 5) ASSARINO (Luca). *Stratonica*. *Libri Tre*. Genoa, Pietro Auberto, 1647. 12mo, 18th-century calf. New edition of the *Stratonica macerata* published in 1636. Wormholes on several quires. 6) GELLI (Giovanni Battista). *La Circe*… Newly revised by its translator, the Lord of Parc Champenois. Lyon, Guill. Rouillé, 1569. 16mo, brown morocco, covers and spine decorated with arabesques (17th-century binding). New edition of Denis Sauvage’s translation. Baudrier IX, 325. From the A. Renaud library, with bookplate. 7) MARINO (Giambattista). *L’Adone*. *Poema heroico*... Amsterdam, Elsevier for Th. Jolly of Paris, 1678. 4 volumes in-16, long-grained red morocco, framed with a gilt lace border, gilt edges (Thouvenin). A fine Elzevirian edition of *Adone*, a major work by Cavalier Marino. 12 engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc. Exquisitely bound by Thouvenin. Worm-eaten at the hinge of the first volume.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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