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Giovanni Ambrogio MARINI
Les desesperés histoire héroïque
à Paris: Chez Pierre Prault 1732. Fine. Chez Pierre Prault à Paris 1732 9.50 x 17 cm 2 tomes reliés en un volume French first edition translated and arranged by Jean Serré de Rieux; illustrated with 9 figures including a frontispiece by Humblot engraved by Baquoy. Not in Cohen Livres à gravures du XVIIIe. Contemporary full calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Head of spine weakened. Lacks at each joint at head and tail. Rubbing and scuffing to lower board particularly with lack at the joint of the fourth compartment. One tear p.97 in lower margin with lack. Corners slightly bumped. Marini is a 17th century writer who belongs to the last wave of Italian chivalric romances. The novel features the prince of Babylon knight of death and the princess of Babylon Zélinde his sister with whom he is passionately in love. Unable to possess her he swears to kill anyone who might possess her. The narrative is written in a hyperbolic and poetic style inspired by 16th century models but decidedly more narrative and more direct and tightened in its plot which may perhaps be due to the translator's intervention. Chez Pierre Prault hardcover
Référence libraire : 35322
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Giovanni Battista CINI
Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser. Sig. Cosimo de Medici Gran Duca de Toscana
In Fiorenza Florence Florence: Giunta 1574. Fine. Giunta In Fiorenza Florence Florence 1574 15 x 22 cm relié The rare first edition. Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf. Renaissance frame engraved for the title page with a title vignette representing the city of Florence. A medallion portrait of Cosimo de' Medici on the verso of the title page and a historiated initial on the first page of text. Printed in italics. The work is neither paginated nor foliated. 19th-century rigid full vellum Bradel binding signed E. Jarrigean with beveled edges. Smooth spine with title in pen and ink calligraphy in red and black. Title page 1 cm shorter in bottom margin. Yellow dampstain from gathering B to gathering e from bottom to middle of leaves. Handsome copy. Having died in 1574 Cosimo de' Medici was Duke of Florence and the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. He restored the Medici dynasty after the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici who had no direct descendant. He was responsible for Florence's expansion and control of Tuscany as well as patronage very beneficial to the arts. The governmental structures he established endured even under Austro-Hungarian domination. The work constructs praise of the great figure and recounts his funeral. It was this political figure of primary importance in the 16th century who served as the model for Machiavelli's Prince. Bookplate DF. 1902. Giunta hardcover
Référence libraire : 54290
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Giovanni Battista MASCOLO - Johann Wolfgang BAUMGARTNER
Encomia Coelituum Digesta Per Singulos Anni Dies Una Cum Veterum Fastis Recensibitus Victorias Triumphos Sacrificia Ceterasque Res Insignes
Viennae Vienna 1753. Fine. Viennae Vienna 1753-1755 11 x 17.50 cm 4 volumes reliés Very rare first Viennese edition illustrated with 366 figures by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner. Remarkable baroque iconography. Only one copy located in electronic library catalogues at Strasbourg one copy at Cambridge and another at Oxford. Contemporary half brown sheep bindings spines with raised bands decorated with fillets green sheep title and volume labels. Skilful restorations to joints and headcaps. Rubbing to speckled paper boards. Although pagination is continuous across the four volumes and collation appears complete we note the absence of a title page to the third part binder's oversight. Engraved bookplate Froissart second manuscript bookplate Augustin Sotteau. Encomia Coelituum translates literally as Celestial Bouillon. More precisely it is a calendrical collection of all the saints. It was written in the 17th century by a Neapolitan Jesuit and professor of philosophy. The work contains portraits or biographies in verse. The iconography is exceptional the 366 figures represent animated scenes with a distinctly baroque character in a mannerist style. Specialized in the rococo genre Baumgartner uses the perimeter of each figure to create a stylized frame that interweaves with the composition using motifs of foliage architecture trees grottos. Though more famous as a painter the author presents here one of his principal illustrated books a true picture book. hardcover
Référence libraire : 64594
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Giovanni Battista GIRALDI CINZIO
Euphimia
in Venetia Venice: Apresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini 1583. Fine. Apresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini in Venetia Venice 1583 9 x 13.50 cm relié Rare and unique first edition posthumous of this play which was composed around 1560. At the colophon a different address: Apresso Paulo Zanfretti. Printed in italics. A portrait of the author in medallion on the verso of the first leaf within a rich frame. Dedication to Dom Césare d'Este. Printer's device on title page. Brunet II 1607. Full glazed blonde calf binding of the 18th century. Smooth spine decorated with 5 small fleurons. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Rubbing. Spine browned. Tragedy in verse in 5 acts written on the classical model with chorus. Euphimia daughter of the King of Corinth marries Acharisto her father's servant while she is loved by Philone King of the Peloponnese. Her husband will sacrifice her to his quest for power. 19th-century engraved bookplate with a lawyer's cap and the motto: Nemini servias sed legi. G. F. Apresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini hardcover
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Giovanni Battista Filippo GHIRARDELLI
Il Costantino tragedia con la difesa della medesima
in Roma. Apresse di Gregorio Rome: e Giovanni Andreoli 1660. Fine. e Giovanni Andreoli in Roma. Apresse di Gregorio Rome 1660 14 x 7.50 cm deux parties en un volume relié Second edition. The first seems to have also appeared in Rome in 1653 but without the announced second part in first edition which bears its own title page La difesa by Ippolito Shiribandelo. Not found in French catalogs present at the British library and at Oxford. Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine with black handwritten title. Numerous wormholes on the spine. The upper part of the book has lost one stitch of the 3 present and has become detached from the binding. Missing an endpaper and half-title to the first part as well as the first leaf of the author's stage directions on his play which follows the presentation of the characters of the tragedy. Guirardelli 1623-1653 wrote this five-act tragedy in prose. This is followed by a defense composed of a dialogue between the accuser and the author and provides valuable information on theater and its rules in Italy in the 17th century. e Giovanni Andreoli hardcover
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Giovanni Battista GUARINI
Le berger fidelle
à Cologne: Chez Pierre du Marteau 1671. Fine. Chez Pierre du Marteau à Cologne 1671 7.50 x 13.20 cm relié Bilingual edition in Italian with the French text en regard and illustrated with a frontispiece and five Dutch plates signed Bloote particularly fine and beautiful certainly executed by Abraham Blooteling famous Dutch draftsman and engraver. Title page with sphere device. Full black morocco binding ca. 1860. Spine with raised bands in Jansenist style with blind-ruled frame. Triple blind fillet frame on boards. Rich interior border. Gilt edges. Very handsome copy perfectly executed in an unsigned master binding. Guarini was a diplomat and writer his most famous work being this play published under the original title Il Pastor fido a tragi-comic pastoral written in parallel with the work of his friend Tasso's Aminta. It made him very famous and was performed on all the stages of Europe outlasting Tasso's play which was more sentimental and lyrical. Several of his poems also met with great success and were set to music during his lifetime in the form of madrigals. Handel made an opera from Pastor fido and Rameau a cantata such was the renown of this play published in 1589 still great in the first half of the 18thth century. One can still see at the château d'Ancy le Franc a trace of this fame in the cycle of paintings illustrating the drama that adorns an entire salon. The action takes place in Arcadia threatened by plague. An oracle announces that the evil striking the country will end through the devotion of a faithful shepherd. Several rather complex intrigues finally accomplish the prophecies of the oracle. The author wished to blend various genres including that of tragedy with that of pastoral resulting in rather diffuse action but the great richness of imagination the antique chorus then accompanied by instruments felicitous well-conducted passages measured affectation clearly struck contemporary minds and those of the following century. Chez Pierre du Marteau hardcover
Référence libraire : 49940
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Giovanni Battista MANZINI
Les harangues academiques
à Paris: Chez Augustin Courbé 1640. Fine. Chez Augustin Courbé à Paris 1640 11 x 17.40 cm relié Rare first edition. Printer's device on title page. Translation by George de Scuderi from delle dissertazioni accademiche. Translator's preface. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Unlettered smooth spine. The author himself calls his Harangues ""the fury of youth"" expressing thereby that they break free from rules. The work contains 22 harangues many on subjects from Greek mythology. The harangues are speeches pieces of eloquence addressed to an audience; at the end of each harangue the effect on the assembly is given; each harangue being preceded by an Argument a prologue allowing the stakes of the discourse to be situated. A fitting example is that of Agamemnon having killed a sacred deer and whose Diana demands in compensation the sacrifice of a young virgin namely Iphigenia his own daughter; the hero addresses the army to express his fault and his paternal feelings. These Harangues are reminiscent of the poetry contests that the Greeks organized on legends known to all. Chez Augustin Courbé hardcover
Référence libraire : 44729
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Giovanni BOTERO
Relationi universali
in Venetia Venice: Perli Bertani 1671. Fine. Perli Bertani in Venetia Venice 1671 16 x 22.80 cm relié New edition after the original published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps by Gioseppe Rosatio Europe Asia America and Africa on grayed background. The work had numerous reprints in the 17th century. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Spine with raised bands Jansenist style. Title in black ink. Botero's universal geography is a means of evaluating the real power of all states. Botero wrote his Relazioni following his great political work ""De la raison d'état"" and cannot be understood except in its wake. While the work is a classic universal geography with a description of all regions of the world then known in the first part the other parts describe the world from a political and religious point of view emphasizing the place of Catholic evangelism in the world. The book was originally commissioned by Cardinal Borromeo on the state of Christian religion in the world. The Relazioni are therefore the transmission of a geopolitical vision of the world but placed from the angle of the Counter-Reformation. Botero attempts to join geographical space and political space providing Catholicism and the Counter-Reformation with its future expansion. Many modern geographers made this work the birth charter of modern geography through the use of methods employed by Botero even though the book offers a triple vision of the world geographical political and religious and not unilaterally geographical. Perli Bertani hardcover
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Giovanni Lodovico VIVALDI
Aureum opus de veritate contrionis in quo mirifica documenta aeterna aperientur
Lugduni Leiden: Apud Iacobum Giunta 1547. Fine. Apud Iacobum Giunta Lugduni Leiden 1547 11 x 16 cm relié New edition after the editio princeps of 1503. Title page in red and black. Gothic typeface. Editions from 1517 are found at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with faded handwritten title. Joints cracked at foot. Foot headcap with 1 cm tear. Text block detached from binding. Last leaf loose. Lacking endpapers at end of volume and probably the index. Theological and moral work on contrition by the Dominican Vivaldi from Mantua professor of theology and advisor to the Marquis of Saluzzo. It was reprinted several times from 1503. Apud Iacobum Giunta hardcover
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Giovanni MATALONI
Lithographie originale en couleurs : ""Società anonima per la incandescenza a gas"" - Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - planche 72
Paris: Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - imprimerie Chaix 1897. Fine. Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - imprimerie Chaix Paris 1897 29 x 39.90 cm une affiche lithographiée sur vélin fin Original chromolithograph gummed and printed on fine laid paper. Printer's embossed stamp at bottom right of the plate. Superb French monthly publication Maîtres de l'Affiche appeared between 1895 and 1900 at the initiative of Jules Chéret. Each issue of the magazine includes four posters reproduced in bell format and in chromolithography each presenting an embossed authentication stamp. Very handsome copy despite a small pinhole in the upper margin of the poster. This poster was created by Giovanni Mataloni one of the precursors of stile Liberty Italian Art Nouveau. Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - imprimerie Chaix unknown
Référence libraire : 73226
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Giovanni PASCOLI
Hymno a Roma
Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa national 1933. Fine. Imprensa national Rio de Janeiro 1933 25 x 32 cm broché First edition of the Portuguese translation established by Aloysio de Castro one of 187 numbered copies on Astor paper ours specially printed for Robert Garric the only deluxe copies after 68 on parchment. Autograph inscription signed by Aloysio de Castro below the justification page. Light worming to covers a small tear at foot of one flap of the rear cover otherwise a handsome copy. Imprensa national unknown
Référence libraire : 52061
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Giovanni Poggi
Il Duomo di Firenze I u. II
Firenze: 2 Baende 1988. Gebunden. 2 Baende unknown
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Giovanni-Paolo MARANA
L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens
à Cologne: Chez Erasme Kinkius 1739. Fine. Chez Erasme Kinkius à Cologne 1739 10 x 17 cm 6 volumes reliés New edition. This edition was successively expanded and 1684 is given as the date of the original certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 attractive figures of which 5 are folding portrait of Mehmet; a view of Constantinople of Perpignan portraits of Richelieu of the Knights of Malta; figures of Chinese Tartars Arabs. Plates on Morocco inhabitants of the Antilles etc. Title pages in red and black. One often observes a significantly different number of plates from one edition to another and according to dates. Contemporary full brown speckled and glazed sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands richly ornamented and finely decorated. Red morocco title labels and volume labels. Red edges. Headcap of volume I worn and heads of volumes II III and IV with lacks. A lack at foot of volume I and volume V. A crack at the first raised band of volume VI. About ten corners slightly bumped. A dampstain at end of volume I. Despite some defects handsome set very appealing. The Turkish Spy is the first work whose particular form would have prestigious followers of which Montesquieu with the Persian Letters is undoubtedly the most illustrious but one could also cite Boyer d'Argens and his Jewish Letters Chinese Letters. A foreign observer sent by his country bears witness to the European world and history. The fact that here it concerns a Turk foreign to European customs makes the shift of his perspective even more pertinent. Very many things will be discussed in this book beyond European history and its events; for the narrator in his multiple letters establishes an account of everything he encounters of what happens in England in Germany in the colonies in Africa. and even in the sciences notably discussing Descartes's world entertainments and Belles-Lettres and the great figures of the time. According to Brunet Marana would only be responsible for the first four volumes Cotolondi would be one of his followers. Prestigious provenance: bookplate of the Château de Rosny ""La Solitude"" being the library of the Duchess of Berry then Lebaudy Library. Chez Erasme Kinkius hardcover
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Gippert Stefan Britta Laursen & Hartmut RAAhn
Studienbibliographie zur älteren Skandinavistik
Leverkusen: Literaturverlag Norden 1991. First edition; slim 8vo pp. 112; original grey wrappers printed in blue and black; spine and edges a bit toned interior fine. Inscribed by Hartmut Röhn. Volume 1 of the series "Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik" <br/><br/> Literaturverlag Norden unknown books
Référence libraire : 38381
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Giradoux, Jean
La Folle de Chaillot. Piece en deux actes
Paris: Bernard Grasset. Fair. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. B000IWJOIO . 1946 signed 1st. Fragile wraps illus by Christian Berard with 2 additional color plates by Berard. presentation copy signed by Suzanne Jean Giradoux in 1949 5 years after the author's death First several leaves shaken all present. Heavy tanning throughout except for the illustrations which are VG.; 7 1/4" tall; 185 pages . Bernard Grasset paperback
Référence libraire : 5136F7
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GIRARD - BERTHAULT (sculpsit) - BOUTELOU (sculpsit)
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Ile d'Eléphantine. Plan élévation coupe et détails d'un nilomètre. ANTIQUITES volume I planche 33
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1809. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale Paris 1809-1829 71 x 54 cm une feuille Original unshaved full-page etching from the Imperial edition of the Description de l'Égypte or Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great'.Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828 1000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image otherwise in very fresh fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799 the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates of which 72 colored as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The Egyptian campaign' militarily a disaster demonstrates through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte Egyptian Institute who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge the chemist Berthollet the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists engineers architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants.This edition the so-called Imperial edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats two of which were specially created for it and christened Moyen-Egypte and Grand-Egypte. A special press was built to print it the process extending over 20 years from 1809 to 1829. The Imperial edition proved so popular that a second edition this time in black and white and without the Egypte ancienne et moderne watermark known as the Royal Edition was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke Paris.The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon illustrator diplomat collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon the Louvre. His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte.Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51 reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté author of Roses the mineralogist Dolomiue and the draughtsman Joly Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When however he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798 he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed a country that is apart from its name entirely unknown to Europeans and therefore everything was worth describing Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes de Imprimerie Impériale unknown
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GIRARD - FEVRE (delineavit) - Gratien LE PERE
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Isthme de Soueys. Bubaste. Tanis. Thmuis. Fragments persépolitains Mouqfâr Groupe d'Aboukeycheyd Antiquités de Bubaste Antiquités de Tanis Monolithe de Thmuis. ANTIQUITES volume V planche 29
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1809. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale Paris 1809-1829 53.50 x 71 cm une feuille Original unshaved full-page etching from the Imperial edition of the Description de l'Égypte or Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great'.Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828 1000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image otherwise in very fresh fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799 the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates of which 72 colored as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The Egyptian campaign' militarily a disaster demonstrates through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte Egyptian Institute who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge the chemist Berthollet the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists engineers architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants.This edition the so-called Imperial edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats two of which were specially created for it and christened Moyen-Egypte and Grand-Egypte. A special press was built to print it the process extending over 20 years from 1809 to 1829. The Imperial edition proved so popular that a second edition this time in black and white and without the Egypte ancienne et moderne watermark known as the Royal Edition was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke Paris.The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon illustrator diplomat collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon the Louvre. His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte.Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51 reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté author of Roses the mineralogist Dolomiue and the draughtsman Joly Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When however he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798 he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed a country that is apart from its name entirely unknown to Europeans and therefore everything was worth describing Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes Imprimerie Impériale unknown
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Girardin J
Le Oncle placide
ouvrage: Paris Hachette 1877. Gebunden mit goldfarbenen Vorderdeckel. Paris Hachette unknown
Référence libraire : 6926
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GIRAUD-PHILIP
Charivari épistolaire
Paris: Chamerot 1845. Fine. Chamerot Paris 1845 18 x 26 cm broché First edition published in a small number of copies. Worming affecting mainly the first and last leaves a small marginal lack to the rear board otherwise a rare and handsome copy. Chamerot unknown
Référence libraire : 7439
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Giraudoux, Jean
Combat avec l'Ange: Roman
Paris: Bernard Grasset 1934. Paperback. Very Good. 332 4 p.; 19 cm. Buff wrappers printed in orange and black. Publisher's advertisement for other books by Jean Giraudoux on page facing title page. The first title in the fifth cycle of the publisher's series Pour Mon Plaisir as indicated on the spine and front wrapper. This is number CCXXIV 224 out of 350 copies numbered with Roman numerals. A limited number of copies was printed in several different numbered series. Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944 was a French novelist and playwright. In Very Good Condition: minor loss of wrapper at head of spine; small stain at tail of spine; front wrapper lightly wrinkled; otherwise clean and tight. Bernard Grasset paperback
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GIRDNER, John H (ca 1857-1933)
Typed Letter Signed
This prominent New York physician a close friend of William Jennings Bryan was brought in as a consultant after the assassination attempt on President Garfield and was the last survivor of the four physicians brought in to attend the president; he took part in Alexander Graham Bell's disastrous attempt to use metal detection to pinpoint and extract the bullet causing a fatal infection; later he developed the Girdner telephonic bullet probe supposedly plagiarizing the concept from Bell; in 1869 he was the first physician to use cadaver skin to cover a burn wound on a 10-year-old child. TLS 1p 8½" X 11" New York NY 1912 March 22. Addressed to Charles White of the New York Hall of Records later a noted Abraham Lincoln scholar. Very good. Moderately age toned. Chatty note to the tax commissioner on his medical office letterhead reading in part: "I regret as much as you can that we do not see more of each other but I have got an endless job on my hands which requires all my time sleeping and waking." Of his profession Girdner remarks: "You remember I used to want to reform other people and things: well one day I looked myself over and I have been a busy man ever since and the end of the job is not in sight. You call me a 'rich physician' and so I am but my wealth is not of the kind your office recognises as taxable fortunately for me. I think you do yourself an injustice when you speak of having 'slipped back'. You know the old Methodist doctrine that one 'cannot fall from grace' and I am certain that when I knew you you were so well grounded in the faith that not even the temptations etc. of your present occupation and environment can drag you down." Bold full signature. Most unusual. unknown
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Girolamo RUSCELLI
Le imprese illustri : con espositioni et discorsi del S.or Ieronimo Ruscelli
Venezia Venice: Comin da Trino di Monteferrato 1572. Fine. Comin da Trino di Monteferrato Venezia Venice 1572 16.50 x 22.50 cm 3 parties reliées en un volume Le Imprese Illustri : con Espositioni et Discorsi del S.or Ieronimo Ruscelli Comin da Trino di Monteferrato Venezia 1572 in-4 165 x 225 cm 8 191 pp. 20 193-288 pp. 3 parts bound in one volume later full parchment Second edition the first one was published in Venice in 1566. The work is illustrated with a portrait of the author and 128 engravings of which 17 plates engraved by Nicolò Nelli et Gaspare Oselli in addition to a double page engraving by Domenico Zenoi representing the battle of Mühlberg. Each of the three parts contents an engraved title page representing a sophisticated structure the first bearing the coat of arms of Philip II of Spain. Later binding in full parchment gilt title in a triple gilt frame a little label from the library pasted on the top left-hand side of the first board sprinkled edges. The leaf HH2 was mistakenly numbered HH3. Scattered foxing. The book is a foundation in the research of heraldry Le Imprese Illustri represents an exceptional encounter between an uncommon field of study impresa heraldic badge and the amour lifted by a boom of printing techniques of illustrated books. Divided in several books the work opens with a theoretical approach for the study of impresa with the aim of demarcating this form of heraldry very close to emblem which is characterized by the combination of figure the body and motto the soul. Ruscelli here refines his work in Le Discours which he had written in 1556 upon the new edition of the first work which traits exclusively the impresa la Ragionamento di Mons. Paolo Giovio sopra I motti e I disegni d'arme e amore che comunemente chiamiamo Impresse Guide by the intrinsic visual dimension of the subject of study the author nevertheless distinguishes himself from his predecessor by an abundance of illustrations notably of plates engravings. They are exceptional for their quality which support the analytic approach of his study. The central double page featuring the battle of Mühlberg is a work by Domenico Zenoni then one of the most active engravers in Venice who was particularly known for his representation of contemporary events. Through the impresa of the princes of whom a majority were still alive at the time of the composition of the work Ruscelli's book draws up a real political map of Europe in the middle of 16th century. Moreover the representations of the two most powerful royal families of the time the Habsburg and the Valois the remarkable presence of the impresa of the ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent reflects the influence of the princes and the capacity of the impresa to overcome borders. The first author to highlight this connection Ruscelli gives an important place to feminine imprese revealing the influence women leaders acquired in the second half of the 16th century like Catherine de' Medici. An art situated between literature and pictorial work l'impresa is according to Ruscelli a know how in which women excel shown by their status and their engagement in the literary activities of the period si vede che tuttavia le Donne vengono facendo cosi gloriasa concorrenza a gli uomini che per quasi commune consentimento di loro stessi esse se ne trovino di gran lunga superiori. Each impresa being the mirror of its prince they become the demonstration of the inseparable link between the social rank and the intellectual culture during the Renaissance. They highlight the qualities and the noble values which the prince wishes to show to the world the present becoming the future. In the same way Ruscelli places his volume in posterity with dedicated epistle so that he lives eternally in the eyes the ears on the lips in the soul and the memoirs of all the men and women of high spirit and true nobles whether they be wise or ignorant but above all the princes. The work pioneered b Comin da Trino di Monteferrato unknown
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Girolamo VITALI
Lexicon Mathematicum Astronomicum Geometricum Hoc Est Rerum Omnium Ad Utramque Immo & Ad Omnem Fere Mathesim Quomodocumque Spectantium Collectio & Explicatio. Adjecta Breui Nouorum Theorematum Expensione Verborumque Exoticorum Dilucidatione Vt.
Parisiis Paris Paris: Ex officina Ludovic Billaine 1668. Fine. Ex officina Ludovic Billaine Parisiis Paris Paris 1668 11.7 x 18.7 cm relié First edition. A second text with separate pagination but without a specific title page follows entitled: Digressio physio-theologica ad verbum sympathia. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and title vignette. Edition in minuscule type. Contemporary full parchment binding with flaps. Manuscript title. Head torn away. Tail trimmed. Blind-ruled border on boards. This is one of the first scientific dictionaries. It contains numerous articles relating notably to alchemy. The second text is a study on healing through 'powder of sympathy' and magnetism. Ex officina Ludovic Billaine hardcover
Référence libraire : 21068
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Gisbert CUPER
Harpocrates sive Explicatio imaguncula argentae perantiquae quae in figuram Har pocratis formata representat solem ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita. Accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris
Trajecti ad. Rhenum Utrecht Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma 1687. Fine. Apud Franciscum Halma Trajecti ad. Rhenum Utrecht Utrecht 1687 16 x 21 cm relié Second edition illustrated with 6 folding plates and 43 in-text vignettes; a frontispiece-title signed and dated within the plate: Joh. van der Avele inven et fecit. Title page in red and black. This edition is expanded with a letter by Etienne Le Moyne; this text has a half-title as does the second text: Monumenta Antiqua. Well-printed edition on good paper decorated with head- and tailpieces. Printer's mark on the title page with the motto Vivitur Ingenio. Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink elegantly handwritten and library number 5870. Handsome copy. The first text is a study of Harpocrates God of silence in Greek mythology inherited from the God Horus of Egyptian mythology who appears in Roman mythology as a divinity of a mystery cult. Cuper studies and interprets his iconology. In the second text the author studies various inscriptions while conducting his reflection on different cults of Hercules Diana. Gisbert Cuper was a Dutch politician mayor of Deventer whose passion for archaeology made him a scholar and his sure taste as well as his research make him a precursor to art history and Winckelmann. Numerous Greek and Hebrew quotations in the texts. Apud Franciscum Halma hardcover
Référence libraire : 33618
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Gisborne Esq MP, T M P
ON THE PRESENT CRISIS! AN ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH DERBYSHIRE
London: Lames Ridway & Sons Piccadily; Thomas Woodhead and T. Ford Cherterfield 1834. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. 8vo. 18pp. No inscriptions wear or marks. Very good copy of a scarce political tract. 21.5cms. Thomas Gisborne 1794-1852. Printed title-page. Dis-bound from a nonce volume <br/> <br/> Lames, Ridway & Sons, Piccadily; Thomas Woodhead and T. Ford, Cherterfield unknown
Référence libraire : Pa653
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Gisele FOURNIER
Non-dits
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 2000. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 2000 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 32 numbered copies on Vizille laid paper the only deluxe copies. A very handsome copy. Les Editions de Minuit unknown
Référence libraire : 72692
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Gisele FREUND
Gespräche mit Rauda Jamis Conversations with Rauda Jamis
München Munich & Paris & London: Schirmer - Mosel 1993. Fine. Schirmer - Mosel München Munich & Paris & London 1993 12 x 20.50 cm broché First edition. Spine slightly sunned without consequence. Work illustrated with photographs by Gisèle Freund. Dated and signed autograph inscription from Gisèle Freund to Ulrike Bergweiler who was Antoine Gallimard's secretary. Schirmer - Mosel unknown
Référence libraire : 78872
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Gisele FREUND
Gisèle Freund
Berlin: Museumspädagogischer Dienst 1988. Fine. Museumspädagogischer Dienst Berlin 1988 18.50 x 29.50 cm broché First edition of this exhibition catalog. Text in German. Nice copy. Rich iconography. Autograph dedication dated and signed by Gisèle Freund to a friend named Elisabeth. Museumspädagogischer Dienst unknown
Référence libraire : 68697
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Gisele FREUND
Itinéraires
Paris: Albin Michel 1985. Fine. Albin Michel Paris 1985 23.50 x 29.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition. Handsome copy. Publisher's full black cloth binding smooth spine with the illustrated dust jacket. Rich iconography. Precious autograph inscription signed by Gisèle Freund to Jack Lang. Albin Michel hardcover
Référence libraire : 67268
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Gisele FREUND
Le Monde et ma Caméra The World in My Camera
Paris: DenoëlGonthier 1970. Fine. Denoël Gonthier Paris 1970 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition illustrated with photographs by Gisèle Freund. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed by Gisèle Freund to Palmyre Robert. DenoëlGonthier unknown
Référence libraire : 77037
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Gisele FREUND
Photographien Photographs
München Munich & Paris & London: Schirmer - Mosel 1993. Fine. Schirmer - Mosel München Munich & Paris & London 1993 23 x 29 cm broché First edition. Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned handsome copy. Foreword by Christian Caujolle. Work illustrated with photographs by Gisèle Freund. Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Gisèle Freund: ""Für Enrike sic mit einem grossen Dank für ihre Hilfe bei des Überarbeitung Übersetzung meiner ""Erinnerungen"" und ihre neue Übersetzung die nun lesereich geworben ist. In Freundschaft Gisèle F."" ""For Enrike sic with great thanks for her help with the revision translation of my ""Memories"" and her new translation which has now become widely read. In friendship Gisèle F."" adorned with three stylized seagulls. Provenance: library of Ulrike Bergweiler. Schirmer - Mosel hardcover
Référence libraire : 79051
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Gisele FREUND
Portrait. Entretiens avec Rauda Jamis
Paris: Antoinette Fouque 1991. Fine. Antoinette Fouque Paris 1991 17 x 24 cm broché First edition. Nice copy. Rich iconography. Autograph signed by Gisèle Freund to a friend named Elisabeth. Antoinette Fouque unknown
Référence libraire : 68696
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Gisele OLLINGER-ZINQUE - Frederik LEEN
Rene Magritte 1898-1967 : catalogue du centenaire.
Paris: Flammarion 1998. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1998 24 x 30.50 cm broché First edition. One angular crease to the front cover otherwise a handsome copy. Flammarion unknown
Référence libraire : 30641
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Gisele PRASSINOS
La lutte double
Paris: H. Parisot 1938. Fine. H. Parisot Paris 1938 12 x 17.50 cm broché First edition printed in 100 copies on Le Roy paper tinted Berry. Rare and handsome copy. H. Parisot unknown
Référence libraire : 64532
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Gisele PRASSINOS
Le grand repas
Paris: Grasset 1966. Fine. Grasset Paris 1966 12.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 24 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Grasset unknown
Référence libraire : 58011
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Gisele PRASSINOS - Jean COULON
Petits quotidiens
Paris: Editions Commune Mesure 1974. Fine. Editions Commune Mesure Paris 1974 17.50 x 13.50 cm en feuilles first edition printed 100 numbered copies on Holland paper. Our copy is complete frontispiece engraving by Jean Coulon it signed and justified. Rare copy and pleasant. Editions Commune Mesure unknown
Référence libraire : 58009
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Gisele PRASSINOS
Sondue
Paris: GLM 1939. Fine. GLM Paris 1939 11.50 x 16.50 cm broché First edition one of 300 numbered copies on laid paper the only issue after 15 Japan copies. Handsome copy. GLM unknown
Référence libraire : 84372
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GISH, Lillian (1896-1993)
Inscribed Photograph Signed
The First Lady of the Silent Screen" whose films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" 1915 to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" 1987. IPS 8" X 11" n.p. n.d. Near fine. Minor wrinkling near top edge only. Book photograph other images/text on verso a flat-finish black-and-white romantic scene from the 1926 silent drama "La Bohéme" showing a reclining young Gish and John Gilbert picnicking on a blanket nicely inscribed and signed by her in black ballpoint in light area at bottom center: "To Terry -- Best wishes / always -- Love / Lillian Gish." Superb scene from early in her career inscribed later in life. unknown
Référence libraire : 15614
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GISH, Lillian (1896-1993)
Typed Letter Signed
The First Lady of the Silent Screen" whose films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" 1915 to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" 1987. TLS 1p 8" X 11" n.p. 1990 April 17. Addressed to Al Silk. Very good. Among various topics discusses her career: "It has been my privilege to work in films and the theater for many years during which I have received personal honors and recognition from my peers and fans that I value highly. Always I have maintained the importance of film is overwhelming and that all in the industry must maintain integrity and assume personal responsibility for their work and what they show on the screen. unknown
Référence libraire : 15615
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GISH, Lillian (1896-1993)
Typed Note Signed / Inscribed Photograph Signed
The First Lady of the Silent Screen" whose films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" 1915 to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" 1987. TNS 1p 5" X 7" n.p. 1984 November 28. Addressed to Terry Kocsett. Near fine. On colorful red and green candy cane and evergreen bough holiday stationery Gish sends Christmas greetings: "Thank you for your warm Christmas greetings and I extend mine to you and your loved ones." Boldly signed in black fineline. Also comes with an IPS 4" X 6" n.p. n.d. Fine. Lovely flat finish modern print of an early head-and-shoulders closeup inscribed near the bottom in black fineline: "Happy Birthday / Dear Terry / And fond wishes always / Lillian Gish. unknown
Référence libraire : 15616
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Gisler, A, L Suter Hans von Matt u a:
Schweizerische Rundschau. Jahrgänge 123456789101112133233
Hans von Matt & Co. Verlagsbuchhandlung Stans. Paulus-Akademie. Benziger Einsiedeln. 1900. Hardcover mit Leinenrücken und -ecken Jahrgänge 123456789101112133233 gebunden zusätzlich Einzelhefte Jahrgänge 274 341-7 9 10 44 1-3 45 4-9 12 48 2 8/9 51 11/12 66 3 7/8 10/11 12 673 6 7/8 9 681 3/4 7/8 711-6 721-6 731-6 741-6. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen mit Kennungen einer Klosterbibliothek Rückenschild Eingangsstempel. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Hans von Matt & Co. Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stans. Paulus-Akademie. Benziger, Einsiedeln., hardcover
Référence libraire : 257952
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Gita BRYS-SCHATAN
Roger Somville
Bruxelles Brussels: Atelier Vokaer 1988. Fine. Atelier Vokaer Bruxelles Brussels 1988 31 x 34 cm reliure de l'éditeur sous étui First edition. Publisher's full grey cloth smooth spine complete with its illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. Work illustrated with reproductions of works by Roger Somville. Handsome copy. Very fine full-page autograph inscription signed by Roger Somville to the poet Charles Dobzynski and his wife Eliane which reads like a manifesto of Roger Somville's painting: ""To Charles Dobzynski to Eliane to a true artist to a poet to a man sensitive to the things of real life. this book. ""a whole life"" of battles for the realist attitude for a public art for assumed convictions for a cultural ""politics"" of confrontation and not exclusion. and admiration for Géricault Caravaggio Siqueiros. and all the others. the love of painting / painting. and of a meaning which is that for which we have fought since our youth. with friendship to you both. Roger Somville March 1988."" Atelier Vokaer hardcover
Référence libraire : 77556
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Giulio Carlo ARGAN - Jean FAUTRIER
Fautrier ""matière et mémoire""
Milano Milan: Edizioni Apollinaire 1960. Fine. Edizioni Apollinaire Milano Milan 1960 24 x 34 cm reliure de l'éditeur Quadrilingual first edition one of 1000 numbered copies. Publisher's binding in full blue cloth mute smooth back. Illustrated book of reproductions of works of Jean Fautrier. A small stain at the bottom of the last two pages of the table of contents complete copy of his illustrated jacket that has a small tear in the back and a slight lack in mind. Nice copy. Precious autograph dated and signed by Jean Fautrier to his friend André Malraux. Edizioni Apollinaire hardcover
Référence libraire : 62827
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Giulio Cesare CROCE
Bertoldino et Cacasenno
Venezia Venice Venise Venice: Pietro Pinolato 1782. Fine. Pietro Pinolato Venezia Venice Venise Venice 1782 18.50 x 10.50 cm relié First edition. The original dates from 1606. Fine printing on quality paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a popular and rustic style a medallion portrait and a frontispiece copperplate. Half navy glazed calf binding late 19th century spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. The copy of perfect whiteness appears to have been washed. Giulio Cesare Croce 1550-1609 born in the province of Bologna came from a poor family he studied medicine then launched into a literary career then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters of Italy they have become types Bertoldino is a cunning and crafty character who contrasts with the simplicity and rusticity of Cacasenno. The two companions have thus like Don Quixote become more famous than the book from which they come. An opera was made of it at the end of the 18th century with a libretto by Goldoni. Pietro Pinolato hardcover
Référence libraire : 12109
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Giulio Cesare CROCE
Bertoldo con Bertoldino et Cacasenno
In Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe 1736. Fine. Lelio dalla Volpe In Bologna 1736 21.50 x 29.50 cm relié First edition. The original text dates from 1606. The illustration comprises a frontispiece a title vignette Bologna behind a she-wolf and 20 figures as well as 16 vignettes placed at the end of certain cantos depicting the countryside around Bologna all by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. A folding plate in the annotations. Fine printing. Portrait of Croce at the end of the preliminary pages. One of the major publications of Bologna in the 18th century. Full vellum binding from the 19th century ca1880. Spine with raised bands decorated with grotesque compartments. 2 black sheep title labels. Gilt fillet frame on boards and corner fleurons. Gilt edges. Slight crack to upper joint at head over 0.5cm. Stains and soiling. Fresh overall some leaves frayed at lower margin. Handsome copy. Giulio Cesare Croce 1550-1609 born in the province of Bologna came from a poor family studied medicine then launched into a literary career then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters of Italy they have become types Bertoldino is a cunning and crafty character who opposes the simplicity and rusticity of Cacasenno; Bertoldino and Cacaseno being the sons of a cunning peasant Bertoldo who would become advisor to the king. The two companions thus like Don Quixote became more famous than the book from which they came. Croce's burlesque poem is composed of 20 cantos themselves divided into stanzas of 8 verses. An opera was made from it at the end of the 18th century with a libretto by Goldoni. The second part of the work consists of commentaries and notes by G. A. Barotti. Giuseppe Maria Crespi was one of the principal Bolognese painters of the early 18th century. The MOMA in New York has original red chalk drawings of the engravings from the work. Lelio dalla Volpe hardcover
Référence libraire : 70170
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Giuseppe Antonio BORGESE
Rubé
Paris: Plon 1928. Fine. Plon Paris 1928 14 x 22 cm broché First French edition one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper deluxe issue. A handsome full-margined copy. Plon unknown
Référence libraire : 31974
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Giuseppe BOFFA
Les Etapes de la Révolution russe
Paris: François Maspero 1962. Fine. François Maspero Paris 1962 11.50 x 19 cm broché First edition in French of which there were no deluxe copies one of 250 numbered copies reserved for subscribers. Light worming to first endpaper. François Maspero unknown
Référence libraire : 77229
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Giuseppe DEL BO
La Commune di Parigi
Milano Milan: Feltrinelli editore 1957. Fine. Feltrinelli editore Milano Milan 1957 17.50 x 25 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition of this interesting bibliography. Publisher's full soft sand cardboard Bradel binding smooth spine. Handsome copy. Feltrinelli editore unknown
Référence libraire : 23444
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Giuseppe GARIBALDI
Les mille The Thousand
Paris: Charles Silvain 1875. Fine. Forza Italia Charles Silvain Paris 1875 13.50 x 22 cm relié First edition of the French translation. Bound in red half heart with corners back with four nerves adorned with nets and golden dots a small snag on a nerve and two tiny holes in the head and foot of the back name of the owner stamped in gold foot boards of marbled paper gilded nets in corner frames guards and contreplats of handmade paper Contemporary binding. Scattered foxing. Rare autograph dedication signed by Giuseppe Garibaldi: ""To my dear Perrot"". Precious copy binding time established for the dedicatee. Charles Silvain hardcover
Référence libraire : 61169
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Giuseppe TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
Le guépard true The Leopard
Paris: Seuil 1959. Fine. Seuil Paris 1959 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition in French one of 150 numbered copies on vélin neige paper reserved for bibliophiles of Sélections Lardanchet the only deluxe copies. A small area of sunning at head of spine extending slightly onto the back board. Rare and handsome copy of this masterpiece magnificently adapted for cinema by Luchino Visconti Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1963 with Claudia Cardinale Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon as the principal actors. Rare and fine copy. Seuil unknown
Référence libraire : 86664
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