(3) titles, (4) volumes, to include:

AMINTA FAVOLA BOSCARECCIA DI TORQUATO TASSO CON LE ANNOTAZIONI D'EGIDIO MENAGIO ACCADEMICO DELLA CRUSCA. Venice: Presso Gio: Battista Pasquali, 1736. Full period vellum, ink manuscript title on spine, speckled edges. 8vo; XLII, [2], 387, [1 errata]pp. Text in Italian. (Vellum with scuffs and stains, sticker on tail of spine, light wear at head and tail; ink and pencil manuscript on paste-downs, cracking and glue at front hinge, half-title with small loss at inner margin, minor ink mark on title page; pages lightly toned with scattered foxing.)

Percival Stockdale, trans. THE AMYNTAS OF TASSO. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1770. Full leather, morocco label with gilt and raised bands on spine. 8vo; xviii, [6], 170pp. Text in English. (Scuffing and staining to leather, with edgewear, loss to leather at one corner and head of spine, spine with creasing, label chipped, darkening at tail, joints rubbed and cracked with leather separating; lacking paste-downs, several leaves with staining from binder's glue, cracking at hinges, damp staining at tail of hinge and inner corners, previous owner's name on free endpaper, lacking (2) free endpapers; pages with light toning and occasional light grime, foxing mostly at endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked.)

Agostino Isola. THE GERUSALEMME LIBERATA OF TASSO: WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE SYNTAX IN OBSCURE PASSAGES, AND REFERENCES TO THE AUTHOR'S IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT CLASSICS. 2vols. (complete). Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University; J. & J. Merrill, J. Deighton, J. Robson, 1786. Quarter bound over marbled paper boards, with gilt on spine, all edges marbled. 8vo; xiv, 331; 337pp. Title page and preliminary pages in English, main text in Italian. (Boards scuffed with light edgewear, corners rubbed; paste-downs with bookplate, endpapers with minor offsetting and staining from binder's glue; light toning, occasional foxing and light grime throughout; vol. I with light cracking at front hinge and title page with small ink mark, mild staining, (2) closed tears, and area of thinned paper; very good condition.)

Largest 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.