[Rarebooks] FS: Varchi's work on the Italian dialects of Tuscany. Florence: 1570

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Varchi, Benedetto. L'HERCOLANO: DIALOGO DI MESSER BENEDETTO VARCHI, Nel Qual Si Ragiona Generalmente delle Lingue, & in Particolare della Toscana, e della Fiorentina... Florence: Nella Stamperia di Filippo Giunti, e Fratelli. 1570. First edition. Sm. 4to. (12),339,(25)pp. Index. Woodcut printer's devices on title and colophon. Historiated woodcut initials. Late 18th c. gilt decorated calf over speckled boards. Occasional light foxing. Bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg on a preliminary blank.     $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
First edition (printed posthumously) of Varchi's (1503-1565) work on the Italian language and the dialects of Tuscany. A second edition was printed in the same year in Venice. BM STC Italian p. 711.

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