Contes et Nouvelles de Bocace Florentin. Two Volumes

by Giovanni. Romeyn de Hooghe BOCCACCIO, printmaker

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First edition

Hardcover. Mixed two-volume set uniformly bound in near contemporary straight-grained light brown morocco, with decorative blind stamping and gold tooled borders on the covers, gilt spines also stamped in blind, plain dark brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Vol. 1 is the first edition, printed in Amsterdam by George Gallet in 1697; Vol. 2 is the second edition, printed in Cologne by Jacques Gaillard in 1712. 12mos. Both volumes are in French. Vol. 1: 14 title page

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