Londra, Pietro Rolandi, 1842-43. 1842. 4 vols., 8vo, with 10 engraved plates: two portraits of Dante, portrait of Foscolo, engraved view of the church at Ravenna with Dante's tomb, of the inside of the tomb, and of Foscolo's grave at Chiswick, plans of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a facsimile of Foscolo's sonnet on his own portrait. Each bears a bookplate form the library of Theodore Roosevelt and C.A. Hanbury as well as bookseller's sticker of P. Rolandi. Full leather with gilt tooled boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt and tooled compartments, gilt leather inserts for volume and title in compartments. Marbled edges and and interior boards.
800/1,200 Sold $258.75
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