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Creator
Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
2 volumes, 26 cm; 2 volumes, 26 cm
Preferred Citation
Poema tartaro [manuscript copy], Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Location
Pforz MS
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A fair copy, in an unidentified hand, of Casti's verse satire à clef on the court of Catherine the Great, set in the Mongolian Empire under the rule of Genghis Khan. Volumes in contemporary boards with manuscript spine labels. Pages unnumbered, with the watermarks of Dutch papermakers J. Honig Zoonen; text within a double-ruled border.

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Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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