Lot n° 519
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Giulio Cesare CROCE - Histoire de Bertholde, contenant ses avantures, sentences, bons-mots, réparties ingénieuses, ses tours d'esprit, l'histoire de sa fortune, et son testament; traduite et paraphrasée de l'italien [...].
La Haye [i.e. Paris], aux dépens de l' éditeur, se vend chez Pierre Gosse [i.e. Jean-François Mérigot], 1750, in-8, mastic paper boards, title-piece (rubbed, title-piece missing).
vii, [1], 201, [5] pp. title in red and black.
ORIGINAL TRANSLATION EDITION (the Italian original had appeared in 1606) illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the dwarf Bertoldo. Bertoldo, a sort of Rabelaisian character, deformed, cunning, with a lively intelligence and a certain charisma, became the adviser and jester of King Alboïn, the Lombard king in the middle of the 6th century. A working copy (first endpaper missing, bookplate torn off, small tear and stain to frontispiece, foxing).
ORIGINAL TRANSLATION EDITION (the Italian original had appeared in 1606) illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the dwarf Bertoldo. Bertoldo, a sort of Rabelaisian character, deformed, cunning, with a lively intelligence and a certain charisma, became the adviser and jester of King Alboïn, the Lombard king in the middle of the 6th century. A working copy (first endpaper missing, bookplate torn off, small tear and stain to frontispiece, foxing).
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