Giovan Battista Guarini - Il Pastor Fido/Le berger fidele -
LE BERGER FIDELE traduit de l'italien de Guarini en vers françois. Pages: (); cm,. 13,5 x 8,5 Bilingual edition: Italian text with French translation by the Jesuit Antoine de Torches. A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, . S. B. N. points out “Luogo di stampa falso e nome di editore fittizio. Edizione probabilmente stampata a Leida da Petrus e Cornelius Hackius, cfr. A. Willems, Les Elzevier...Bruxelles-PAris-La HAye, , p. 499 n. ”. Very rare edition: S.B.N. himself reports a single copy in Venice, at the Biblioteca Casa di Goldoni.In good condition: mild natural signs of wear. Full leather binding with some abrasions; spine with raised bands and gold-decorated tags. Morocco leather label-title applied on the spine. Five beautiful copperplate illustrations engraved by Abraham Bloteling and fine first title page - frontispiece, also copperplate, drawn by Zacharias Webber. Read More