Das Hoffest zu Ferrara, in den Saelen des Koeniglichen Schlosses zu Berlin.

£4,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Lange's rare work on Ferrara. 'The plates herein represent fancy-dress costumes for this 1843 recreation of a celebration at the Court of Ferrara, bedecked in Renaissance splendour.' (Bobins). First edition; folio, 42 hand-coloured lithograph plates, heightened with gum arabic, some trimmed a little short, some lightly foxed, contemporary half roan, neat repairs to extremities,, upper cover lightly stained, a good copy. Bobins 585; Colas 1758; Lipperheide 2545.

• Binding: Hardcover

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