17th Sep, 2024 10:00

The September Auctions 2024

 
Lot 11
 

11

Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata

Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata ... con la vita di lui e con gli Argomenti dell' opera de cav Guido Casoni, Venice: Sarzina, 1625, 8vo, 18th century mottled calf, gilt tooled spine and title label, marbled endpapers, inscribed to one front endpaper 'La Comtesse d'alegre' (?); pictorial title page, 20 plates with several by engravers Francesco and Iacomo [Giacomo] Valegio and one plate with monogram TO, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials

Provenance:

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

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Sold for £250


 

Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata ... con la vita di lui e con gli Argomenti dell' opera de cav Guido Casoni, Venice: Sarzina, 1625, 8vo, 18th century mottled calf, gilt tooled spine and title label, marbled endpapers, inscribed to one front endpaper 'La Comtesse d'alegre' (?); pictorial title page, 20 plates with several by engravers Francesco and Iacomo [Giacomo] Valegio and one plate with monogram TO, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire


THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

READ THE STORY

binding scuffed and extremities worn and corners bumped and with loss to leather, sealwax mark to front cover, joints cracked, chipped leather title label to spine and gilding a little rubbed and worn, occasional spotting and light staining, inside marbled endpaper missing front and back, pencilled shelf mark and ink inscriptions to endpapers, cut out loss to upper title page without loss to plate and text, text with light spotting and toning with light staining on some pages, plates occasionally imprinted on opposing pages, not collated

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Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024

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