Gamba, Bartolommeo.

Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX.

1839. Venezia: Co'tipi del Gondoliere, 1839.

4to, xxv, [2], 794, [1] pp. Green cloth. Manuscript notes on verso of front free endpaper.

§ Gamba's own copy with his (unpublished) corrections throughout. Fourth edition, "riveduta, emendata e notabilmente accresciuta", still unsurpassed as a general reference work. This is the Breslauer copy (lot 988), sold for £1340 in 2005. Many copies for sale in Italy but none in the US as of 2021. Tumarkin 1, 525: "Last and best edition of the foremost bibliography of Italian literature." Besterman 3214. Petzholdt 356. Item #123828

Price: $3,750.00