La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri - Volume Primo. L'Inferno. [+] Volume Secundo. Il Purgatorio. [Two volumes]
by Dante Alighieri; edited by G. A. Scartazzini
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1874-1875. Hardcover. Some rubbing to boards. Vellum joints split on Volume Two (vellum is split along 90% of front joint, and 50% of rear joint.) Moderate foxing. Minor dampstains to upper margins of leaves. Tidy pencil marginalia in English throughout. ; Two volumes only, containing "L'Inferno" and "Il Purgatorio". Volume One: "L'Inferno": (iii)-x, [2], 444 pages (lacking half-title leaf). Volume Two, "Il Purgatorio": xxii, 817, [1] pages. Half-vellum and marbled papered boards. Gilt decorations at ends of spines. Red leather lettering pieces on spines. Page dimensions: 181 x 116mm. Text and extensive footnotes in Italian. "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / Chè la diritta via era smarrita." .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17588
- Title
- La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri - Volume Primo. L'Inferno. [+] Volume Secundo. Il Purgatorio. [Two volumes]
- Author
- Dante Alighieri; edited by G. A. Scartazzini
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- F. A. Brockhaus
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1874-1875
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...