Giovanni Battista GUARINI
Le berger fidelle
Chez Pierre du Marteau|à Cologne 1671|7.50 x 13.20 cm|relié
Bilingual edition in Italian with the French text en regard, and illustrated with a frontispiece and five Dutch plates signed Bloote (particularly fine and beautiful), certainly executed by Abraham Blooteling, famous Dutch draftsman and engraver. Title page with sphere device.
Full black morocco binding ca. 1860. Spine with raised bands in Jansenist style with blind-ruled frame. Triple blind fillet frame on boards. Rich interior border. Gilt edges. Very handsome copy, perfectly executed in an unsigned master binding.
Guarini was a diplomat and writer, his most famous work being this play published under the original title Il Pastor fido, a tragi-comic pastoral written in p
Full black morocco binding ca. 1860. Spine with raised bands in Jansenist style with blind-ruled frame. Triple blind fillet frame on boards. Rich interior border. Gilt edges. Very handsome copy, perfectly executed in an unsigned master binding.
Guarini was a diplomat and writer, his most famous work being this play published under the original title Il Pastor fido, a tragi-comic pastoral written in p
€1,000