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Dura (Gaetano) Souvenir de la Tarantella Napolitaine, dirigée par Louis Puccinelli Maître de Danse, first edition, lithographed throughout with calligraphic title, sheet of music and 18 hand-coloured plates (one forming frontispiece), conjoined and folding concertina style, c.3620 x 135mm., frontispiece very lightly browned, modern Mountgarret bookplate, folding into contemporary half roan folder, spine gilt, a little rubbed and faded, a few minor stains, [Bobins 1597; cf. Colas 921, title in Italian & dated 1854], oblong 8vo, Naples, Gatti & Dura, [c.1840].

⁂ Scarce panorama depicting the Southern Italian dance. WorldCat records only 3 copies, all in America.

Description

Dura (Gaetano) Souvenir de la Tarantella Napolitaine, dirigée par Louis Puccinelli Maître de Danse, first edition, lithographed throughout with calligraphic title, sheet of music and 18 hand-coloured plates (one forming frontispiece), conjoined and folding concertina style, c.3620 x 135mm., frontispiece very lightly browned, modern Mountgarret bookplate, folding into contemporary half roan folder, spine gilt, a little rubbed and faded, a few minor stains, [Bobins 1597; cf. Colas 921, title in Italian & dated 1854], oblong 8vo, Naples, Gatti & Dura, [c.1840].

⁂ Scarce panorama depicting the Southern Italian dance. WorldCat records only 3 copies, all in America.

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