Lot 982
982
STRAPAROLE, (G.F.). Les facecieuses nuicts. (Par., Guérin), 1726. 2 vols. xviii; 426, (5); viii, 451, 8 pp. Sm-8°. Fine cont. mor. w. inside dentelles & all edges gilt. (Extremities slightly dam., inner blank margin vol. 2 a bit wormholed in places).
French edition of La Piaceuoli Notti ("The Most Delectable Nights") by the 16th century Italian novelist Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1485?-1558). It is a series of seventy-four stories in the style of the Decameron, and includes some of the first known printed versions of fairy tales in Europe, as they are known today. - Barbier II, 418; Brunet V, 560.€ 100
result € 110
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