La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Tomo I-II.

Two volumes, 12° (137 x 76 mm). 432 pages. In the first volume frontispiece with portrait of Dante designed and engraved by Littret in 1767; title-page engraved by F. Godefroy after J.M. Moreau in the first and second volumes; a map of Hell according to the model of Antonio Manetti. Contemporary bindings in mottled calf. Covers framed within border of gilt fillets. Smooth spine, richly gilt-tooled with floral motifs, title and numbering of the volume gilt lettered on double morocco lettering-piece. Pastedowns and flyleaves in blue paper, inside dentelles, gilt edges. A fine copy, browned in places.

Provenance: a small unidentified morocco ex-libris on the front pastedown of each volume; Livio Ambrogio collection.

First edition of this fine Parisian edition, which appeared in an editorial seried dedicated to the most important Italian poets and novelists, besides Dante Petrarca Bocacccio, Ariosto, Tasso and Machiavelli.