Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua, Venice, 1839, nineteenth-century calf gilt

4to (244 x 144 mm). Roman and italic type in two columns. collation: a-b⁴ c⁶ 1-99⁴ 100²: 412 leaves (final verso blank). Woodcut portrait preceding title, woodcut printer's device on title-page, errata leaf affixed to lower pastedown. (Some slight browning, dampstaining to head of portrait leaf, first 2 quires and upper endleaves detached.)

binding: Contemporary calf (252 x 170 mm), double gilt fillet frame, flat spine with elaborate gilt decoration and 5-line title, marbled edges and endpapers. (Binding slightly scraped and soiled, corners and edges rubbed, joints cracking.)

provenance: Jan Baptist Vervliet (1855-1942), bibliophile and banker, ex-libris to upper pastedown.