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Le Rimes, Petrarca, Venice, 1800

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Le Rimes, Petrarca, Venice, 1800
An Association copy of Petrarch, having belonged to Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), an American author, historian, and Unitarian Minister: PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. Le Rime di Mess. Francesco Petrarca. Riscontrate con l'Edizione Cominiana dell' Anno 1732. Venice: Presso Franceso Andreola Con Sovrana Approvazione, 1800. 16mo (6 1/4" x 3 5/8"). Half leather and marbled paper boards, red leather label and gilt to spine. All edges speckled red. Signed Edward E. Hale, October 1909, on free endpaper. Includes a loose manuscript page of notes (or part of a letter) in German and English, presumably Hale's, but not certain. Good; edgewear, spine and corners worn; toning, foxing.