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[ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de]. Scherzi poetici e pittorici.
(Colophon: Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1795). 8vo (22 x 14 cm). With engraved title-page and 40 engraved plates (plate size: ca. 7 x 11 cm). Richly gold-tooled red morocco by Rémy Petit (active 1855-1900), spine with 5 raised bands resulting in 6 compartments, one with black title-label and the other five gold-tooled with black oval inlays; the sides with gilt triple fillet borders, corner ornaments with same oval inlays and a central oval ornament (gold on green); further with gilt fillets on board edges and richly gold-tooled turn-ins with a floral motive, gilt edges. [52] ll. Full description

[BODONI]. SOPHOCLES and Giambatista GIUSTI (editor). Edipo Coloneo ... recata in versi Italiani dal Cavaliere Giambatista Giusti.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: GIUSTI, Giambatista. All'Amica. Odi ... Terza edizione riveduta e corretta dall'autore.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. Contemporary orange boards. [4], LI, [1 blank], 170, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

TEBALDEO, Antonio. L'opere d'amore, con le sue stanze nuovamente aggiunte, reviste, e con ogni diligenz a corette & ristampate.
Venice, Nicolo dAristotile di Ferrara detto Zoppino (& per Marco Guazzo ... corretto), 1533/1534. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, set within an allegorical woodcut border and publishers device (50 x 47 mm) showing a mitred St. Nicholas sitting on a episcopal chair; at the left a kneeling young woman receiving a book with three golden balls on top. Printed in neat italic. 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [136] ll. Full description