450 - Tasso, T. La Gerusalemme Liberata. 2 vols. Paris, Delalain, Durand & Molini, 1771. 331; 340 pages. With 2 engraved title pages with vignettes, 2 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved dedication, 43 engraved vignettes, and 20 copperplate engravings by Baquoy, Duclos, Henriquez, and others after Gravelot. Contemporary red, smooth leather bindings with gilt spine, gilt-tooled cover fillets, and gilt edges (slightly rubbed).

Tasso, T. La Gerusalemme Liberata. 2 vols. Paris, Delalain, Durand & Molini, 1771. 331; 340 pages. With 2 engraved title pages with vignettes, 2 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved dedication, 43 engraved vignettes, and 20 copperplate engravings by Baquoy, Duclos, Henriquez, and others after Gravelot. Contemporary red, smooth leather bindings with gilt spine, gilt-tooled cover fillets, and gilt edges (slightly rubbed). Cohen/Ricci 974f; Fürstenberg 80 ('one of Gravelot's major works'). - First edition with Gravelot's illustrations, in the early printing variant favored by Cohen/Ricci, with the names of the persons depicted in the 20 portrait vignettes in Italian. - Parisian deluxe edition of Tasso's epic poem about the conquest and liberation of Jerusalem. - On heavy paper. - Bookplate for 'F. Carbonara' and small stamp from the 'Farmacia Pietro Isnardi Oneglia' collection on the endpaper.