Small collection of five books from the 18th and 19th century printed on blue, light blue, pink and light walnut color paper

1) ARIOSTO, Ludovico (1474-1533). L'Orlando furioso di messer Lodovico Ariosto. Edizione formata sopra quella del 1532. Volume primo [-terzo]. Milano, Giovanni Silvestri, 1819.

Three volumes, 16mo (180x114 mm). Vol. I (30 November 1819): engraved Ariosto's portrait as frontispiece (Luigi Rados inc.), XXXVI, 372, [4] pp.; Vol. II (9 December 1819): 481, [3] pp.; Vol. III (10 March 1820): 502, [2] pp. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt spine with four raised bands (slightly worn). Bookplate Alighiero Azzini. From the series “Biblioteca scelta di opere italiane antiche e moderne”. The only copy printed on light brown paper according to the editor's note at the end of each volume, which says that of this edition were printed two copies on light blue paper, one on yellow paper, and one on light walnut color paper (“color noce-chiaro”).

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\FERE\001763; Agnelli-Ravegnani, I, p. 220.

2) BATTARELLI, Antonio (fl. 1^st half of the 19^th cent.). Annibale tragedia di Antonio Battarelli romano. Firenze, Giovanni Magheri, 1826.

16mo (170x100 mm). 80 pp. Nicely bound in red morocco gilt (slightly rubbed). Printed on pink paper, the endleaves are also pink. A good copy.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\CFIE\034312.

3) REINA, Francesco (1766-1825). Vita di Lodovico Antonio Muratori scritta da Francesco Reina. Milano, Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1819.

8vo (225x140 mm). LXXIV, [2 blank] pp. Contemporary marbled boards (slightly worn). Printed on dark blue paper. A good copy.

First edition. Reina also edited the 1818-1821 Milan reprint of Muratori's Annali d'Italia.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\RMLE\067298.

4) DE ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo (1754-1827). Favole di Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi. Roma, nella stamperia Pagliarini, 1788.

8vo (190x130 mm). VIII (including the half title and the engraved title page), [2], 180 pp. Nicely bound in contemporary gilt red morocco, violet paper flyleaves, inside gilt dentelles, paper embroidered border on the pastedown. Engraved bookplate “Compte D. Boutourdin”. Printed on light blue paper.

First edition of De Rossi's Favole, a set of seventy verse fables, often written in dialogic form following the model of La Fontaine, that had a huge success and were reprinted several times well into the first half of the 19^th century.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\LO1E\015099.

5) FAGNANI TESINI, Girolamo, ed. (b. 1746). Le costellazioni del polo artico. Componimenti poetici per le nozze del nobil'uomo Sig. Conte Bernardino Antonelli castellano di Senigallia con la nobile donna Sig. Baronessa Caterina Ancajani. Roma, per il Casaletti, 1779.

8vo (195x132 mm). 66, [2 blank] pp. Engraved vignette on p. 3. Contemporary mottled calf, panel within a gilt frame, red edges, marbled pastedowns (rubbed and worn). Book block loose. Printed on light blue paper.

Collection of poems by different authors written on the occasion of the wedding of Count Bernardino Antonelli with Baroness Caterina Ancajani.

Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\UM1E\019228.

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