Null Tasso, Torquato - Aminta Fable Boscareccia

London, 1780 [but Livorno, Gio.…

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Tasso, Torquato - Aminta Fable Boscareccia London, 1780 [but Livorno, Gio. Tom. Masi]. 12°. Finely engraved intaglio frontispiece, 5 plates in text at opening of each Act engraved by Lapi, slight reddening, modern half vellum binding.

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Tasso, Torquato - Aminta Fable Boscareccia London, 1780 [but Livorno, Gio. Tom. Masi]. 12°. Finely engraved intaglio frontispiece, 5 plates in text at opening of each Act engraved by Lapi, slight reddening, modern half vellum binding.

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