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METASTASE (Pierre). Works of the Reverend Pietro Metastasio.
See original version (French)
121
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METASTASE (Pierre). Works of the Reverend Pietro Metastasio.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
METASTASE (Pierre). Works of the Reverend Pietro Metastasio. With Dissertations and Observations.
Nice, Société typographique, 1785, 22 volumes in-12. Bound in 12 volumes in aubergine half-basane, smooth spines, horizontal gilt fillets, tail-end frieze, marbled edges. (Early 19th-century bindings).
Copy printed on bluish paper. The interior of the volumes is generally in good condition; however, there is some browning at the corners or along the lower margin of half a dozen leaves, and a faded blue tinge on the last few leaves of volume 3; the spines of the bindings have faded to a fawn colour and bear a mark left by a label; some hinges are fragile.
Engraved portrait as a frontispiece to Volume 1. Text in Italian. Volume 1 begins with a biography of Metastasio by Carlo Cristini. The first fifteen volumes contain the works, the following five volumes contain the letters, and the last two are devoted to ‘Osservazioni di vari letterari sopra i drami...’. Pagination errors in volume 11.
See original version (French)
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About the sale
ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
Auction location
Auction time
10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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