Lot 08018

Tasso Torquato, “Jerusalem Delivree, poeme du Tasse“, Geneve, 1777. Tome premier. 16mo, pp.256. Including the Frontispiece. Contemporary full leather, gilt edges. External worn along edges and joints, still firm. Interior with light foxing. Translation in French of Tasso Torquato poem Gerusalemme liberata (first published in 1591), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.