[Accademia Granellesca]. Four very elegant rustic eglogues. Venice, Paolo Colombani, 1760. In 4° (232 x 165 mm);70, [2] pages.Intaglio vignette on title page, intaglio initials and speaking endpapers, 4 engraved plates including three by Antonio Baratti from designs by Pietro Antonio Novelli and one by Francesco Bartolozzi (small defects.) Coeval binding in mute hardback. Fresh copy with beards. Also in the lot is the first edition The Seasons with Other Poems by Canon Don Gaetano Guttierez del Hoyo from 1760, and Olympiad dramma per musica da rappresentarsi in Firenze nel Teatro di via della Pergola nell'autunno dell'anno 1767 by Pietro Metastasio with allegorical copper-engraved frontispiece. (3)

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