Dante Alighieri compl works ded/ Russian Empress 1st ed Start Price USD 3,500.00 Current Price USD 3,500.00 Time Left 21 days 9 hours 54 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 24, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Location Capital Federal, Buenos Aires See more about 'Dante Alighieri compl works ded/ Russian Empress 1st ed' Description Untitled Document FREE DHL worldwide shipping : 2/4 days to North America, 3/5 days to Europe. Please check our feedback and see how quickly we ship.     We are professional bookdealers, established since 30 years, members of ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association, London) and ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).   Don't forget to visit our eBay store, this is one of the best stores of rare books on eBay.   Author : . Dante Alighieri Title : . Dante Alighieri's complete works (first ever edition of his complete works) - Opere di Dante Alighieri (This rare edition was published in honor of the Russian Empress Elisabetta Petrowna / Yelizaveta (Elisabeth) Petrovna with her engraved portrait right after the frontispice) Date and publisher : . 1757-1758, FIRST edition, Antonio Zatta, Venezia / Venice, Italia / Italy Binding : . full leather Size : . 4to   Description : . This book being worth a lengthy description, please find precise details for each of the volumes, including condition, and many pictures.   Volume I - Binding is full calf & tight, covers used, spine showing an old restoration (?) with defects. - two ex-libris : a crowned one (Lucini Passalaqua : likely to be the one of Count Giovanni Lucini Passalaqua) around 1880 and a second ex-libris FM with the motto "mutando immutabilis" (Frida Mond 1847-1923). - before the title page, have been added by Frida Mond (previous owner) two manuscript leaves, and an unidentified etching (canto XVII / infierno ?).   - engravings for vol I (total of 41 full page engravings, or 42 if we consider the etching before the title) : . Embassy of Dante in Venice . Portrait of the Empress Elizabeth of Russia . 4 medals . Dante's portrait . Dante's sepulcher . Hell's measure . Infierno : Cantos I to XXVII, then Canto XXVII again (on the same watermarked paper as for the text, but with no mention of sculp or fecit. Therefore there are two engravings for Canto XXVII), then XXVIII to XXXIV. . Condition for the engravings : except for the second Canto XXVII (same paper as for the text), they all are printed on a strong paper. They are richly inked and show good contrasts. Some of them with no foxing at all, a few of them with foxing in the margins. Engraving facing the title (embassy of Dante) with brown spot bottom right.   - text for vol I : . Preface : 12 pages (unnumbered) . Dante's life : 48 pages I-XLVIII . Infierno (tiny hole on title page) : 404 pages I-CCCCIV (last 6 pages with stronger foxing). . Condition for the text : foxing along margins throughout and stronger foxing on 4 pages of the preface + the last 6 pages of Infierno. Missing the 4 pages catalogo degli associati (that is found at the end of volume I in some other copies).   Volume II - engravings for vol II (total of 33 full page engravings) : . Purgatory : Cantos I to XXXIII. . Condition for the engravings : light foxing along edges, canto I with light foxing in margins + image.   - text for vol II : . Purgatorio : 413 pages I-CCCCXIII. . Condition for the text : foxing along margins throughout and stronger foxing on the first 4 pages + cut (restored) along top edge of page 385. Missing the catalogo at the end ?     Volume III - engravings for vol III (total of 38 full page engravings) : . Paradiso : Cantos I to II, then a second engraving for Canto II, then Cantos III to XVII, then a second engraving for Canto XVII, then Cantos XXVIII to XXXIII. . Illustrazioni alla commedia di Dante : one full page engraving facing the title, one for osservazioni sopra l'infierno, one for osservazioni sopra il paradiso. . Della dottrina teologica : one engraving facing the title . . Condition for the engravings : light foxing along edges, canto I with light foxing in margins + image. stronger foxing on engraving Canto XXXIII.   - text for vol III : . Paradiso : 452 pages I-CCCCLII. . Illustrazioni alla commedia di Dante + Della dotrina teologica + : 2 unnumbered pages +103 numbered pages 1-103 . . Condition for the text : foxing along margins throughout. small tear (outside the text) of 1x0.5 inch along bottom edge of page XXXVII. Long tear outside the text, parallel to the bottom margin of page CXCV (tear is 3 x 0.5 inches). Lacking the impression of the half title for Canto XVIII (it's blank where the half title should appear but the text beneath is present : mistake as issued originally. on this same page two tiny holes in the sheet). Bottom right corner of page CCXLVII with a small tear (outside the text). Small tear along bottom edge of page CCLXI (outside text : 0.5 x 0.3 inch). Upright corner of page CCCI with a tear (outside text : 1.1 x 0.8 inch). Stronger foxing on pages CCCCXXXX and the 2 following ones), on pages 59-66, on pages 99-103.   Volume IV - text for vol IV : . Prose e rime liriche : prefazione : 12 pages i-xii . Vita nuova di Dante : 438 pages numbered. . Condition for the text : foxing along margins throughout and stronger foxing on the first 4 pages + pages 85-88 + pages 78-82 + pages 159-163 + pages 167-170 (tiny cut in margin of page 167) + pages 242-247 + pages 281-285 + pages 294-299 + pages 328-332 + pages 383-396 and very strong foxing on the last 4 pages. Pages mistakenly numbered (text complete & in order but page numbers mistyped) : page numbered 52 should read 82, and pages numbered 56 to the end should be numbered 86 to the end (hence a difference of 30 : book ends on page number 408 which is in fact page 438).   Volume V - text for vol V : . Prose e rime liriche : all' inclita societa colombaria : 2 pages unnumbered . Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante : 264 pages numbered 1-264 (including a large engraving showing the genealogical tree of Dante). . Monarchia : . . Condition for the text : foxing along margins throughout and stronger foxing on the first 6 pages (incl. title) + pages 23-26 + pages 104-105 + pages 204-205 + last 8 pages. Long cut (outside text, 1.5 inch long) affecting bottom right corner of page 163. Small hole affecting upright corner of page 165. cut (affecting one word, 1 inch) near upright corner of page 211.     internal reference : E4D162/A0607   Place a Bid!