tallon peter translator (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Illustrated (illustratore). First English Edition. Tan cloth binding with gold print on spine. Endpapers are red and blue wallpaper type design. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise tight, sound, and unmarked. 125 pages. Dust jacket is white with drawing on front panel and black and grey print on front panel and spine. DJ has light brown stain at top of spine and at top foredge corner on the rear panel. Front panel has some some light impression marks from someone using the book as a writing surface . DJ is in mylar and no price is listed on flap. Minatures are from a 15th century manuscript in the Bibliotecca Nationale Marciana, Venice.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Reprint. Reproduces the extraordinary miniatures--most published here for the first time--of the illuminated manuscript of Dante's "Divine Comedy'' that is held in the Marciana National Library in Venice, Italy, deemed "the finest edition" of this work in the world. Commentaries are offered by renowned Dante scholar Sergio Samek-Ludovici, along with a "faithful narrative by Nino Ravenna that details Dante's progress through the Underworld. Lavishly illustrated, in 125 pages. Translated from the original Italian, this is the First Printing of the American reprint from Crown of the First English-language Edition published in 1979. With tan cloth-covered boards & gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover book is in Near Fine condition: virtually flawless save for a slight musty odor--please do NOT order if sensitive! Else, completely clean, binding tight & square, pages white, with extremely mild tanning & a few light foxed spots around most page edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is also Near Fine, with light foxing & a spot or two of light soil on back cover; beautifully protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: expedited domestic or international shipping require preapproval of extra postage (at least double) per USPS rates.