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Jean BOCCACE (1313 - 1375) News Free translation by Mirabeau A.EGRON in Paris 1803 8 volumes Full binding Foxing, wear to binding, used condition

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Jean BOCCACE (1313 - 1375) News Free translation by Mirabeau A.EGRON in Paris 1803 8 volumes Full binding Foxing, wear to binding, used condition

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POE (Edgar): Extraordinary stories. Translation by Charles BAUDELAIRE. Paris, Michel Levy, 1856. Bound with POE (Edgar): Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires. Translation by Charles BAUDELAIRE. Second edition. Paris, Michel Levy, 1859. Two works bound in one volume. 10.5 by 17 cm. XXXI-331; XXIV-288 pages. Contemporary red half-chagrin, 4 ribbed spine, decorated spine. Very good condition. Minor foxing on just a few pages. First edition of BAUDELAIRE's translation and preface for the Histoires extraordinaires, 2nd edition for the Nouvelles histoires.

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BOCCACCIO (1313-1375). Il Decamerone. Florence: Giunta 1527 (but Venice: Pasinello, 1729). Elegant counterfeit of the 1527 edition of Boccaccio's Decameron printed in only 300 copies and published at the request of the English consul Joseph Smith, reproducing the typeface and printer's device of the original version but correcting pagination errors. 4to, (230 x 165mm). Printer's device to title and colophon (fleur-de-lis supported by two putti), wide margins (some staining otherwise a very good copy). Contemporary full vellum binding with blue speckled edges. (1)

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BOCCACCIO (1313-1375). Il Decameron. Venice: Angelieri, 1594. A richly annotated copy of Boccaccio's Decameron in a contemporary hand, featuring philological observations and variations on the printed edition edited by Leonardo Salviati. Salviati made numerous changes to the text to avoid the censorship of the papal government, which had placed the Decameron on the index. 4to, (203 x 143mm). Printer's device to title page, engraved initials (restoration to title page, some spotting and light browning). Bound in twentieth-century vellum. Provenance: numerous marginal and interlinear annotations correcting the printed version, manuscript letter 'alle gentili e valorose donne' by Nicolo Delfino to title-page verso; Ex bibliotheca Balthassaris de Carratis, ex libris (Baldassarre Carrati, 1735-1812); Felix Schuster Bart (1854-1936), ex libris (both transferred from earlier binding). (1)

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