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Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso

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Ludovico Ariosto Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso G.Baskerville for P.Molini, 1773. In 8. 4 vols. Antiporta with author's portrait and 46 engraved plates, usual browning for this edition, burgundy colored binding, on plates double gilt frame, spine with gilt decoration and title on gusset.

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Ludovico Ariosto Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso G.Baskerville for P.Molini, 1773. In 8. 4 vols. Antiporta with author's portrait and 46 engraved plates, usual browning for this edition, burgundy colored binding, on plates double gilt frame, spine with gilt decoration and title on gusset.

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Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

ARIOSTO. Orlando furioso. 2 Parts in a folio volume. 227x155 mm. Full tan leather binding, rules frames on the covers with gilt fleurons at the corners, ribbed spine with gilt fleurons in the sections. Leaves 264, [30]. Elaborate historiated woodcut title border incorporating Giolito's phoenix device, section-title for second part with woodcut imprint frame and woodcut medallion portrait of Ariosto on verso, 46 woodcuts (one at the head of each canto), historiated woodcut initials, woodcut variant of Giolito's phoenix device at the end. Italic and Roman types. Good condition. Rare and important illustrated edition, by Lodovico Dolce. The illustrations in this edition of Orlando Furioso are printed from woodblocks protected by a privilege obtained by Giolito from the Venetian Senate in 1541. L. Dolce's Exhibition has its own Titlepage, with Printer's device. The work is dedicated by the printer to Henri de Valois, dauphin of France, who married Catherine de' Medici in 1533. The original dedication by the publisher to Henri de Valois, dauphin of France, who had married Catherine de' Medici in 1533, is reprinted.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

ARIOSTO - DORÈ. Orlando Furioso illustrato da Gustavo Dorè; con prefazione di Giosuè Carducci. 15 booklets in large folio. 440x320 mm. Pp. XX, 642. 81 plates. Contemporary publisher's binding. Carducci's preface is inserted in the fifteenth and last booklet. Good copy. Beautiful work with the plates illustrated by Dorè, rare to be found divided into booklets in their contemporary publisher's binding.

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Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

TOMMASI LUDOVICO (1866 - 1941) Attributed to. Seascape. oil on pressed cardboard. 30x44.50 cm. Signed at lower right. Frame present

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