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FOSCARINI, Marco (1696–1763). Eight Books on Venetian Litera…
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FOSCARINI, Marco (1696–1763). Eight Books on Venetian Litera…
See original version (Italian)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
FOSCARINI, Marco (1696–1763). Eight Books on Venetian Literature. Padua: Stamperia del Seminario, 1752.
First edition, in fresh condition with wide margins, of this compendium of Venetian literature written by Marco Foscarini. The work was intended as a comprehensive survey of the literary tradition of Venice but remained unfinished due to the author’s death.
Folio (379 × 258 mm). Half-title; title page with printer’s mark, engraved initials and typographic ornaments. A fresh, wide-margined copy (lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece). Eighteenth-century full vellum binding; speckled edges; title on a paper label on the spine; transparent protective dust jacket; preserved in a modern cardboard slipcase (minor wear to the binding). Provenance: noble armorial bookplate on the front endpaper. (1)
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