Book Details
| Author: | Metastasio, Pietro: |
| Title: | Poesie del Signor Abbate Pietro Metastasio - Poeta e Bibliolecario Cesareo. |
| Published: | Parigi: Pietro Durand, 1773. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | 6 volumes. In Italian. Tomo I - xxiii, 456pp. Tavola del Tomo Primo - Artaserse, Adriano, Dwmetrio, Olimpiade, Issipile, Ezio, Il Sogno di Scipione. Frontispiece - engraved portrait of Metastasio. Tomo II - 478 pp. Tavola del Tomo Secondo - Didone Abbandonata, La Clemenza di Tito, Siroe, Catone in Utica, Demofoonte, Alessandro Nell'Indie, Il Natal di Giove. Tomo III - 455 pp. Tavola - Achille in Sciro, Ciro Riconosciuto, Temistocle, Zenobia, Ipermestra, Antigono, Semiramide. Tomo IV - 479 pp. Tavola - L'Isola Disabitata, Il Re Pastore, L'Eroe Cinese, Attilio Regolo, Nitteti, Alcide al Bivio, Il Trionfo di Clelia, Romolo ed Ersilia, Partenope, Ruggiero, La Morte di Catone. Tomo V - 455 pp. Tomo VI - 456 pp. Tavola delle Arie & Tavola Generale. All volumes with engraved title page. Previous owner's bookplate on all feps. Marbled eps. Marbled edges. All volumes very clean throughout. Bound in full tan leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Gilt rule and small gilt crest on boards. Vol I & II - Tops and bottoms of spines chipped and edges of spines rubbed. Vol II & V - slight insect damage rear edge and to bottom of spine. Surface of boards rubbed in a few places on most vols. Corners rubbed. Binding very sound. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #7401 |
| Price: | € 380.00 |
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