Saggi de' novellieri Italiani d' ogni secolo…

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: Presso Gray e Bowen, 1832. First edition of Longfellow's edition of Italian short stories, designed as a text book for students of the language, published while he was a professor of modern languages and literature at Bowdoin; slim 8vo, pp. vi, 2 , 168; orig. red muslin quite faded and spotted and with spine largely perished, light occasional foxing, binding firm. In 1830 Longfellow published a translation of Lhomond's French grammar, his first book,

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