[Rarebooks] FS: Fine 2 vol. set of Croce's "Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile" NY: 1932

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Croce, Benedetto. THE PENTAMERONE OF GIAMBATTISTA BASILE. Translated from the Italian... Now Edited with a Preface, Notes and Appendices by N. M. Penzer. With a Portrait Frontispiece, Twelve Reproductions of Title-Pages and Other Illustrations, Together with a Contemporary Plan of the City of Naples. In Two Volumes. London and New York: John Lane and E. P. Dutton. 1932. Lg. 8vo. 2 volumes. lxxv,(1),309,(1);vi,(2),333,(1)pp. Index. Profusely illustrated. Orig. brown cloth in dust jackets. A fine set of the American issue, the spine and dust jackets stamped "Dutton."    $150.00 (trade discount allowed)

With an extensive bibliography of this 17th. century Italian classic in Volume 2, pp. 165-272.

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