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PETRARCA.
Lauweringsrede. Vertaald en toegelicht door Chris Tazelaar.
Baarn, Ambo, 1995.
Riferimento per il libraio : 157710
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PETRARCA. - BALDELLI, Giovanni Batista (1766-1831):
Del Petrarca e delle sue opere libri quatro. Edizione seconda, con postume correzzioni ed aggiunte dell'autore, ora per la prima volta pubblicate. 2 parti en un volume.
Fiesole (Firenze), Poligrafia Fiesolana, 1837, gr. in-8°, XXIV + 320 p., quelques taches et rousseurs, quelques soulignés au crayon, ex libris ms. ancien ‘C.F. Trachsel - Lausanne 1899’, sobre reliure en demi-percaline bordeaux à coins, titre doré, tranches jaspées, assez bon exemplaire.
Riferimento per il libraio : 15697aaf
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PETRARCA.-
Petrarca. (Themanummer Hermeneus).
Hermeneus 46,2 (1974/75).
Riferimento per il libraio : 159588
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PETRARCA.- HAAR,L.G.J. TER.
Petrarca's 'Africa' boek I en II. Een commentaar.
N.pl., 1999.
Riferimento per il libraio : 157680
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PETRARCA.- STURM-MADDOX,S.
Petrach's laurels.
University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Riferimento per il libraio : 153307
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PETRARCA.- STURM-MADDOX,S.
Petrach's Metamorphoses. Text and subtext in the rime sparse.
Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1985.
Riferimento per il libraio : 153305
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PETRARCA.- TWEE UIT HET LATIJN VERTAALDE MIDDELNEDERLANDSE NOVELLEN.
1. Pseudo-Petrarca, Teghen die strael der minnen. 2. Petrarca, Hystorie van Griseldis. Uitgeg. door R. PENNINK.
Zwolle, Tj. Willink, 1965.
Riferimento per il libraio : 99609
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Petrarch
1841 The Life of Petrarch Fine Leather Binding First Edition Rare 184 Years Old
London: Henry Colburn 1841. THIS COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL POLISHED CALF WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD MARBLED END PAPERS PASTE DOWNS AND END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MEASURE 8.75"x5.75". FIRST EDITION 184 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING SET IN GREAT CONDITION. Henry Colburn unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 577
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Petrarch
Bucolicum Carmen
New Haven: Yale University Press 1974. First Yale University Press edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. 8 ix-xvii 2 2-252 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. With a few full-page illustrations by Deane Keller. Translated and annotated in English by Thomas G. Bergin. Just a touch of sunning to the spine panel of the jacket. Yale University Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 000012778
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PETRARCH
Di Nuovo Ristampato et Diligentemente Corretto
Venice: Beuilacqua 1565. hardcover. very good. 367 pages 13 page index text in Italian several copperplate engravings and initials a small bit of spotting and 1 page cancelled with early inking. Thick 32mo full mottled calf. no text on binding. Small book plate on inside front cover with a design and a crown. Venetia: Nicolo Beuilacqua 1565 a very good copy. Scarce.<br/> <br/> Beuilacqua unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 336295
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PETRARCH
Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch
1903. PETRARCH. Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch. Selected and Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Original vellum-backed boards. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1903. One of 430 numbered copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Printed at the Riverside Press. Grolier 100. Warde 40. Small bookplate else near fine. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 70964
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Petrarch
Four Dialogues for Scholars
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 0829500626.G ISBN : 0829500626 9780829500622
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PETRARCH
Il Petrarca: Nuovamente Ristampato e Diligentemente Coretto. <br />
Venice: Nicolo Misserini 1624. Hardcover. Good. In Venetia: Appresso Nicolo Miserini 1624. Engraved title. 24mo. A few woodcuts. Old leather quite worn a.e.g. With 4 manuscript sonnets at the end on blank leaves. Old gift inscription and small old book label of Emmanuel Martin. A worn but charming little book. <br/><br/> Nicolo Misserini hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : D19140
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PETRARCH
Il Petrarcha col commento di M. Sebastiano Fausto da Longiano con rimario et epiteti in ordine d'alphabeto nuovamente stampado
Vinegia 1532. hardcover. very good. 303 pages with text in Italian. Thick 16mo old vellum-backed boards. Venegia: A san Moyse al segno dell'Angelo Raphael per Francsco di Alessandro Bindoni e Mapheo Pasini 1532. Some pages with old marginal repairs still a very good clean copy.<br/> <br/> unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 324740
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Petrarch
Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesvaldo. Nvovamente ristampato e con somma diligenza corretto et ornato di figvre; con doi taucle una de' sonetti e canzoni & l'altra di tutte le cose degne di memoria che in essa espositione si contengono
Venitia.: Alessandro Griffio. 1581. 18th century full brown leather gilt floral borders raised bands gilt spine decorations speckled edges ribbon marker. Very good a few worm holes to cover old repair to top edge of title page scattered foxing. 8vo. 21x15 cm. Italian text. Set in a small attractive and very readable italic type. Leaf 415 erroneously numbered 413. Tightly bound in a handsome binding. weight: 2.1 lb. Engraved title page with decorated border and printer’s device historiated initials. Alessandro Griffio. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 289574
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Petrarch
Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo
Venegia Italy: Ioan. Antonio di Nicolini & i Fratelli da Sabbio 1541. 8vo 24 ccclxxxiiii 4 leaves; late 19th-century three quarter vellum over marbled boards maroon morocco gilt spine labels all edges red marbled endpapers; spine quite darkened lacking b3-6 from La Vita del Petrarcha quires G and V supplied; very good and sound. See Adams 807 and BM STC Italian p. 204 for the 4to edition. Ioan. Antonio di Nicolini & i Fratelli da Sabbio] unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 44614
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Petrarch
Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo
Venegia: Ioan. Antonio di Nicolini & i Fratelli da Sabbio 1541. 8vo 24 ccclxxxiiii 4 leaves; late 19th-century three quarter vellum over marbled boards maroon morocco gilt spine labels all edges red marbled endpapers; spine quite darkened lacking b3-6 from La Vita del Petrarcha quires G and V supplied; very good and sound. See Adams 807 and BM STC Italian p. 204 for the 4to edition. <br/><br/> Ioan. Antonio di Nicolini & i Fratelli da Sabbio] hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 44614
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Petrarch
Le Rime del Petrarca.per Lodovico Castelvetro.
Venice: Antonio Zatta 1766. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Beautiful wide-margained copies. Early ownership signature of Vincentii Marcarelli. <br/><br/> Antonio Zatta hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : D19895
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PETRARCH
Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca
Londra. Dai Torchj di Guglielmo Bulmer e Co. 1811. First edition thus. 12mo. Three volumes: pp viii 505; ii 380; iv 379. Period binding of raised bands with raised bands decoration in gilt and blind marbled endpapers. The third volume has a separate title-page: ''Dizzertazione Istorica e Critica sulla Vita di Francesco Petrarca e su quella di Madonna Laura contro una Ipotesi Istorica dell'Abate de Sade''. Engraved frontispieces in first and third volumes. On each front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of John Pulteney. Italian text.Head of spine of first volume chipped away. Covers a bit rubbed at edges and joints. Staining from ribbon marker at pages 234-5 of third volume. A very good set. Londra. Dai Torchj di Guglielmo Bulmer e Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : PETRARCH004500
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Petrarch
LOVE RIMES OF PETRARCH
Ithaca: The Dragon Press 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Morris Bishop and Decorated by Alison Mason Kingsbury. First edition thus limited to 500 copies. A colorful version of Petrarch's immortal lyrics. Original buff cloth binding with printed paper title labels. Small ink signature to the title page. Some mild edgewear to the boards; otherwise a crisp very good copy. The Dragon Press hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 51235
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Petrarch
Secretum Oneworld Classics
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1847491596.G ISBN : 1847491596 9781847491596
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Petrarch
Selected Sonnets Odes and Letters Crofts Classics
New. Brand new and still unused unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 0882950665 ISBN : 0882950665 9780882950662
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Petrarch
Sonnets & Songs Italian-English Edition; Translated by Anna Maria Armi with an Introduction by Theodor E. Mommsen
Grosset & Dunlap 1968. Paperback. Small ink signture and date tiny chip to bottom of spine else very good clean and sound condition. 521pp. Grosset & Dunlap paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 224593
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PETRARCH
Sonnets and Odes Translated from the Italian of Petrarch; with the original text and some account of his life.
London:: Printed for J. Miller 1808. A new edition. original linen-backed boards with printed paper label on spine. Some rubbng and chipping to the fragile original boards: very attractive original condition. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Printed for J. Miller, hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 24106
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Petrarch
SONNETS OF PETRARCH.THE
N.P.: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega 1965. quarter leather dust jacket slipcase. Limited Editions Club. 4to. quarter leather dust jacket slipcase. xix 369 3 pages. In the Original Italian Together with English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated with Drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by both Giovanni Mardersteig and Salvadori LEC 375. Spine of jacket toned slipcase with a small worn spot along the bottom edge else a near fine copy. Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 95901
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PETRARCH
Sonnets of Petrarch in the Original Italian Together with
PETRARCH. Sonnets of Petrarch in the Original Italian Together with English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated with Drawings by Aldo Salvadori. 4to. Orig. leather-backed boards dust-jacket in publisher's slipcase. Verona: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega 1965. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the printer Giovanni Marderstieg and the artist Aldo Salvadori. Fine copy in a soiled slipcase. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 28461
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PETRARCH
Sonnets of Petrarch
NY:: Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1966. Hardcover. In the original Italian together with English translations selected and edited with an introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. A reprint edition. Slightly age toned along the spine else near fine in a near fine slipcase. . Heritage Press, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 61812
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Petrarch
The Essential Petrarch Hackett Classics
Hackett Publishing Company Inc 2010-11-15. paperback. Good. 6x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Hackett Publishing Company, Inc paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : SKU0594098 ISBN : 1603842888 9781603842884
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Petrarch
The Essential Petrarch Hackett Classics
Hackett Publishing Company Inc 2010-11-15. paperback. New. 6x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Hackett Publishing Company, Inc paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : SKU0641605 ISBN : 1603842888 9781603842884
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Petrarch
The Essential Petrarch Hackett Classics
Hackett Publishing Company Inc. 2010-11-15. Paperback. Very Good. 0.6299 9.0551 5.9843. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : mon0004147651 ISBN : 1603842888 9781603842884
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Petrarch
The Essential Petrarch Hackett Classics
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1603842896.G ISBN : 1603842896 9781603842891
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Petrarch
The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarch
London: George Bell and Sons 1907. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 5 iv-cxl 1 2-416 1 2-24 8 pages of publisher's advertisements pp. Green cloth with the publisher's device in blind on the front board gold lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with sixteen plates one of which is a frontispiece all steel engravings. Translated into English verse by various hands. With a life of the poet by Thomas Campbell. Part of the publisher's series "Bohn's Illustrated Library". With a contemporary bookplate and signature of G. Peabody Gardner noted in pencil as a Harvard student. A pleasing copy of Petrarch's literary oeuvre a highlight of medieval literature and poetry. Two cracks to the gutter in different spots of the textblock the binding remains tight and secure. Light foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns. The cloth is quite sharp and the copy's exterior presents beautifully. George Bell and Sons hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 000012980
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PETRARCH
THE SONNETS AND ODES OF PETRARCH Translated from the Italian with the Original Text and Some Account of his Life
London: T. Davies 1777. 1st Thus . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket as issued. 12 Cms x 18.5 Cms. end-paperhalf-titlet.p.xxiii1055 'Table' i.e. Index blank leafrear end-paper facing Italian and English text throughout; unmarked bar faint early small ink.sig. to fr. pastedown end-papers and pastedowns marginally tanned faint tanning to edges of half-title t.p. and hints elsewhere but of little significance front end-gutter slightly opened but tight close examination shows front end-paper has been refixed to front pastedown with white tape but this largely obscured by gutter fold to end-paper. Early full leather covers clean edges and spine darkened all corners a little rubbed as might be expected spine panels have small gilt urn-like motif title panel has good red label and gilt 'Plutarch's Odes &c' joints firm but front one narrowly cracked remains firm. A very acceptable copy of this scarce work. Translator not stated. <br/> <br/> T. Davies hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 011889
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PETRARCH
THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH
Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine and a Near Fine slipcase. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022333
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Petrarch
The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems Perfect Library
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 1512197750.G ISBN : 1512197750 9781512197754
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PETRARCH
THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH
Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Moderately foxed heaviest mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good lacking the dustwrapper but in a Near Fine slipcase with sunning. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 019471
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Petrarch
The Sonnets Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarch With a Life of the Poet
New York: Hurst & Co. Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth. nd. Later prt. hardcover. 8vo 349 pp. Bound in brown cloth with stampings in black & gold; all edges gilt; hinges tight "First completely translated into English verse by various hands"; not dated but ca. 1880 . Hurst & Co. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : BOOKS042862I
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PETRARCH
THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH
Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper and about Fine slipcase with sunned backstrip. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 015902
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Petrarch
The Sonnets of Petrarch
Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. #610 of 1500cc signed by the printer Giovanni Mardsteig and the illustrator Aldo Salvadori. Some foxing to prelims else very good in publisher's blue Morocco backed boards and tan dustjacket. Spine of jacket darkened with some loss at the head light damage to label on slipcase else very good overall. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 45950
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Petrarch
The Sonnets Of Petrarch
Verona: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. -; Fine in Fine dust jacket. In fine slipcase. Bookplate. . Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 38195
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PETRARCH
The Sonnets.; In the original Italian. together with English translations selected and edited with an introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated by Aldo Salvadori
Verona Italy: Limited Editions Club Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega 1965. First edition with the Salvadori illustrations 1/1500 copies this #192 signed by the illustrator and the printer Giovanni Mardersteig. 4to. xiii 1 369 1 pp. Black-and-white illustrations from line drawings. With the LEC Monthly Letter tipped to a rear endpaper. Bookplate on the front pastedown else very good. Green quarter-leather and decorated tan cloth gilt spine title top edge yellow dust jacket spine sunned a little wear at spine ends publisher's blue board slipcase with paper spine label. 11055. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club (Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega) hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 65100
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PETRARCH Francesco
Le Rime di Messer Francesco Petrarca
Parigi: Presso Lefevre 1820. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. 192; 192; 240 pages with 2 small engraved portraits in the first volume. 32mo full contemporary mottled calf; gilt-stamped spines with black leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges. Parigi: Presso Lefevre 1820. Some light wear at joints and extremities still a very good set with light scattered foxing.<br/><br/> Tomos IV - VI de 'Biblioteca Poetica Italiana' Scelta e Publicata of A. Buttura.<br/><br/> Presso Lefevre unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 277730
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Petrarch Francesco Henry Boyd translator
The Triumphs of Petrarch: Translated into English Verse with an Introduction and Notes
London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1807. First edition. lxviii 216 2 pp. 12mo. Contemporary green morocco covers gilt with single rule border flat spine divided into six compartments lettered in one the rest richly gilt edges marbled. Slight wear to tips. Early ownership signature K.M.M. to flyleaf bookplate of Clara H. Gould. First edition. lxviii 216 2 pp. 12mo. First edition of Henry Boyd's translation of Petrarch's Trionfi here titled The Triumphs of Petrarch. Boyd 1748/9-1832 was born into a farming family in Dromore Co. Antrim and later educated at Trinity College Dublin. His translation of the entire Divine Comedy the first complete rendering into English was published in 1802 and was instrumental in the rediscovery of Dante in the 19th century. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 307338
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PETRARCH Francesco & LEOPARDI Giacomo
Rime di Messer Francesco Petrarca con l'interpretazione di Giacomo Leopardi; migliorata in varj luoghi le lezione del testo e aggiuntovi nuove osservazioni per cura dell'editore
Florence: Felice le Monnier 1847. Second. hardcover. very good. Introduction by Leopardi. xx 473 pages with text in Italian. Short 8vo contemporary brown ribbed cloth edgeworn and lightly faded on spine and cover; some foxing throughout; marbled endpapers. Firenze: Felice le Monnier 1847. Second edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Felice le Monnier unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 277733
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Petrarch Francesco 1304 1374
Le RIME Del PETRARCA. From Pickering's Diamond Classic series
Londra London: G. Pickering 1822. 1st edition thus Keynes p. 84. Red cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. Some wear & soiling to binding. Paper title label chipped at top. "George's" bookseller label to front paste-down. Prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a VG copy. 237 13 pp. 9 page index at rear plus a one page advert. Frontis portrait by R. Grave. Engraved title. Heraldic device to printed t.p. 3-9/16" x 2-1/8" <br/><br/>Billed as a "typographical tour de force" the Diamond Classic series was Pickering's first strong push in the publishing business. Initially only the classic in the sense of Greek/Roman authors were issued; this later expanded to include Shakespeare Milton etc. This series also has the distinction of being one of the first publications to use binder's cloth. This title an early one from the series which began in 1820 and continued through 1831. G. Pickering hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 11427.4
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Petrarch Francis
Songs and Sonnets from Laura's Lifetime.
San Francisco: Northpoint Press 1981. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/fine. Translated by Nicholas Kilmer. <br/><br/> Northpoint Press hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 9022937 ISBN : 0865470278 9780865470279
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PETRARCH Francis.
Songs and Sonnets from Laura’s Lifetime.
San Francisco: North Point 1981. First edition. 122 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Original Italian poems with facing translations by Nicholas Kilmer. Collects 42 sonnets and longer songs from the first half of Petrarch’s RIME. San Francisco: North Point, unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 45482
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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). Thomas Twyne, translator
Phisicke against Fortune as well prosperous as adverse contained in two Bookes History of Gain and Fortune
London: Richard Watkyns 1579. First Edition. Very Good. Small 4to; 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. 190 x142 mm; pp. 4 xiv 1-152 First Booke Physicke for Fortune: 153-343 Second Booke Phisicke against Fortune vi table of contents 2. Each book with Epistolary preface by Franucis Petrarche. Translated into English from Latin by Thomas Twyne whose introduction dedicates the work to "Richard Bertie Esquier." Title within woodcut decorative border woodcut decorative initials set in gothic and latin type lacking sig.B and final blank lower corner of title torn and repaired with loss supplied first gathering lower corners repaired some dampstaining and toning throughout but sheets supple and intact. 19th century calf gilt panels from early English blind-stamped binding laid down on covers corners worn rubbed. Front pastedown with small engraved bookplate with initials "I N"<br /> <br /> Title page reads: «Physicke against Fortune as well prosperous as adverse contained in two Bookes<br /> Whereby men are instructed with lyke in differencie to remedie theyr affections aswell in tyme of the bright shyniyng sunne of prosperities as also of the foule lowiyng stonnes of adversities. Expedient for all men but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremities. Written in Latine by Francis Petrarch a most famous Poet and Oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.»<br /> <br /> STC 19809; ESTC S114602. This is the first edition in English of "De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae" "Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul" written in Latin by the Humanist Francesco Petrarca 1304-1374 commonly known as Petrarch a collection of 254 dialogues mostly drawn from classical sources which seeks to instruct on moral philosophy and show how thought and deed can generate happiness on the one hand or sorrow and disillusionment on the other. It touches on a number of diverse subjects including dancing ball games gambling wrestling hunting and hawking alchemy libraries schoolmasters spectacles toothache lechery gout blindness and deafness. In a recurring theme throughout the dialogues Petrarch advises humility in prosperity and fortitude in adversity. It remained a popular book in Europe over the ages and was translated into English by the Elizabethan physician Thomas Twyne 1543-1613.<br /> <br /> "Latin work by Petrarch begun in 1354 but completed between 1360 and 1366 on how to deal with both good and bad fortune. The first of its two parts contains 122 dialogues between Ratio Gaudium and Spes and deals with how one should behave at times of good fortune; the second contains 131 dialogues between Ratio Dolor and Timor and deals with the behaviour appropriate to adverse fortune. It is a practical manual of moral philosophy and was widely read until the 17th c." Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Richard Watkyns unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 384
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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (Theodor Mommsen, introduction) (Julien Green association copy)
Songs & Sonnets Julien Green association copy
New York: Pantheon 1946. AN ASSOCIATION COPY of this scarce collection. XLIII 521 pp. WITH THE CALLIGRAPHIC OWNERSHIP INITIALS OF JULIAN GREEN 1900-1998 better known by his French pen-name "Julien Green" ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER DATED 1949. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. <br/><br/> Pantheon hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 38508
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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (Theodor Mommsen, introduction) (Julien Green association copy)
Songs & Sonnets (Julien Green association copy)
AN ASSOCIATION COPY of this scarce collection. XLIII, 521 pp. WITH THE CALLIGRAPHIC OWNERSHIP INITIALS OF JULIAN GREEN (1900-1998, better known by his French pen-name, "Julien Green") ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, DATED 1949. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.
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