Giovanni BoccaccioBiblio.com
3 114 résultats
1921réf. 29631The Decameron one of the most important literary works of the Italian Renaissance was written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century and translated into English by J.M. Rigg in this striking de luxe edition privately printed in London circa 1921. This edition is limited to 1000 copies and presented across two large quarto volumes. Boccaccio's frame narrative set during the Black Death features ten young Florentines recounting tales of love wit and survival capturing a vivid cross-section of medieval society. This English rendering is noted for its elegance and historical faithfulness and this particular printing includes full-page engravings that illustrate and punctuate the text. A cornerstone of early humanist literature The Decameron remains a pivotal cultural artifact bridging medieval narrative with modern sensibilities. Good. Text blocks are secure with minor pulling boards show wear and staining with notable loss to hinges. Hardcover volumes remain structurally intact and internally complete. Format: Quarto 4to two volume set. Collation: Vol I 332 pp; Vol II 404 pp. Illustrations: Full-page engravings throughout. Edition: Limited "de luxe" edition privately printed c. 1921. References: #29631. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Privately Printed hardcover
1592réf. 52248Venice: Bonfadino. Good. 1592. Softcover. Contemporary rustic paper binding. Partial bookplate. Some loss of paper to spine. No front or terminal blanks no frontis. Pp 144 10 1blank 70 Dialogo D'Amore misnumbered but all pages present. Occasional underlining in the text. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall . Bonfadino paperback
1916réf. H39369New Castle PA: C. B. Randall 1916. Hardcover. Fair. Letter "T" of 26 lettered copies. Translated and illustrated by Josef Pierre Nuyttens. 4 of 5 volumes lacking the last volume folio 15.25 x 11.25 inches bound in full brown pigskin with watered silk endpapers and printed on very thick handmade paper. The first volume is in fair condition at best with front board detached and much rubbing and wear including a long jagged scar to cover. The other volumes are in very good condition with light wear to edges and joints contents very good: a few of the plates have some faint rusty foxing to margins. Illustrated with 7 fine pen drawings hand colored by Nuyttens and the publisher C. B. Randall has illustrated the volukmes with several smaller vignettes in ink watercolor and gouache and occasional hand-colored and illuminated letters all initialed C. B. R. It will be clear to anyone that Randall is without much talent skill or sense of draughtsmanship but he sure liked to make fancy books. He is also noted for publishing a lavish edition of the works of James Whitcomb Riley. Nuyttens 1885-1960 was a Belgian-American artist now mostly known for his illustrations for four non-Oz novels by L. Frank Baum. He died in a house fire that destroyed a good deal of his art. C. B. Randall hardcover
1725réf. 164132Londra: Tommaso Edlin 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean one stain to one sheet both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments showing wear all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s with signed binder Estes and Lauriat Boston.Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page ten10 sheets including Prefazione then 284 numbered 12 49 pp. ozzervazioni. Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment a lovely copy. Tommaso Edlin hardcover
1915réf. 218503Florence: Fratelli Alinari 1915. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Original printed tan wrappers. Very fine in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Fratelli Alinari unknown
1597réf. 798Amsterdam: Cornille Claesz 1597. Early French edition. A rare late-16th century French edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron one of the foundational works of Western literature and a cornerstone of Renaissance humanist storytelling. First written in the 14th century the Decameron comprises one hundred novellas told by ten young Florentines sheltering outside the city during the Black Death. The tales range from romantic and tragic to humorous erotic moral and political forming one of the most influential narrative sequences in European literary history. This 1597 Amsterdam printing uses the celebrated French translation of Antoine Le Maçon court favorite of Francis I and is a corrected and illustrated edition compared to earlier printings making it an important early Continental witness to the French reception of Boccaccio. This volume would be an exceptional addition for collectors of Renaissance literature early printing French editions of classics plague-era narratives and works pivotal in shaping Chaucer Shakespeare Molière Balzac and countless authors thereafter. Internally the text remains highly readable with its original period typeface early pagination woodcut ornaments and decorative printer’s devices at title and colophon. The closing leaf states FIN with an ornamental tailpiece consistent with 16th-century printing conventions. Includes the full cycle of tales including stories of love cleverness vice clergy satire virtue rewarded and the social wit that earned Boccaccio both admiration and censorship for centuries. Condition & Binding: Period full leather binding with raised bands and gilt spine ornamentation well-worn with rubbing and losses spine cracking and some leather deterioration see photos. Both boards present but detached/separated. Overall- poor. Cornille Claesz unknown
1802réf. 270391Livorno: Tomasso Masi 1802. hardcover. very good. 217 pages Vita di Dante Alighieri in 80 pages Testamento in 8 pages Lettere di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in 50 pages. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Livorno: Thomas Masi 1802. Very good . Tomasso Masi unknown
1725réf. 164132Londra: Tommaso Edlin 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean one stain to one sheet both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments showing wear all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s with signed binder Estes and Lauriat Boston.Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page ten10 sheets including Prefazione then 284 numbered 12 49 pp. ozzervazioni. Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment a lovely copy. Tommaso Edlin hardcover books
1915réf. 218503Florence: Fratelli Alinari 1915. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Original printed tan wrappers. Very fine in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Fratelli Alinari unknown books
1802réf. 270391Livorno: Tomasso Masi 1802. hardcover. very good. 217 pages Vita di Dante Alighieri in 80 pages Testamento in 8 pages Lettere di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in 50 pages. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Livorno: Thomas Masi 1802. Very good . Tomasso Masi unknown books
1629réf. 287278A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois au mont sainct Hylaire 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature containing 100 tales by numerous narrators set in the time of Florentine’s affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials. Previous owners’ names on the front endpaper. Loss to the bottom of pp. 319/320 not affecting the text. Japanese tissue patches to the spine by a conservator. Incision to the leather binding of the rear cover. General shelfwear and minor soiling to the binding. ‘Bocace’ written in ink on the top edge of the textblock. Full vellum. Very Good. 1060 pp. Very Good binding. Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire unknown
1629réf. 287278A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois au mont sainct Hylaire 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature containing 100 tales by numerous narrators set in the time of Florentine’s affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials. Previous owners’ names on the front endpaper. Loss to the bottom of pp. 319/320 not affecting the text. Japanese tissue patches to the spine by a conservator. Incision to the leather binding of the rear cover. General shelfwear and minor soiling to the binding. ‘Bocace’ written in ink on the top edge of the textblock. Full vellum. Very Good. 1060 pp. Very Good binding. Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire unknown books
réf. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
1952réf. AQ24646Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni 1952. Limited edition of 225 copies on hand-made Fabriano paper of which this is copy number 160. xi 1 127pp 3. With 23 woodcuts and a facsimile of the title page of the 1597 English edition. Original publisher's vellum-backed patterned paper boards lettered in gilt T.E.G. others uncut. Lightly rubbed corners bumped. Internally immaculate. A remarkably handsome edition of Boccaccio's greatest poem and unquestionably the best of his minor works. This edition unites the Elizabethan English translation with the woodcuts created for a lost fifteenth-century Italian edition . Quarto. Editiones Officinae Bodoni hardcover
1574réf. 17322AB1574. Fiorenza Giunti 1574. 20 : 145 cm. 20 leaves 142 pages 8 leaves with 2 woddcut portraits and two woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum First edition rare. - From the library of M. Landau with his Exlibris. - The first pages at the edges a bit rubbed occasionally some foxing the last pages with some waterstains at the edges not affecting the text; binding a bit wrinkled edgas a bit damaged. hardcover
réf. 193689René Kieffer Paris 1925 In-8 ( 250 X 170 mm ) de 170 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée en couleurs rempliée. Illustrations en couleurs dans et hors-texte de Alfred LE PETIT. Très bel exemplaire numéroté sur vélin de cuve.
1976réf. 71513Nice, Joseph Pardo. Édition d' Art Sefer à l' Enseigne Du Chant Des Sphères, 1976-1978, 263, 236, 177, 222, 216 pages.
2007réf. 48835Folio Society 2007. 4to. First Edition thus with 20 aquatints; full red morocco sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and green to geometric designed by Jeff Clements gilt top ribbon marker a near fine copy housed in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES. With separate booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by Dryden Coleridge Hazlitt Shelley and Leight Hunt. Folio Society, unknown
réf. 23562Londra (Londres) 1757 in 8 (20,5x13) 3 volumes reliures plein veau porphyre de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de caissons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de cuir marron, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, roulette dorée intérieure, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches dorées. Exemplaire sur vergé fort à grandes marges. Giovanni Boccacio, écrivain italien et latin du 14e siècle. Tomes 1, 3 et 5 seuls, illustrés par Gravelot, Cochin, Boucher, Eisen, dont nombreux hors-texte, vignettes et culs-de-lampe gravés. Etiquette de la collection de M. Roy. Ensemble incomplet, mais très bien relié ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1875Cm. 27, pp. xiv, 736. Con un fac-simile d'autografo ripiegato f.t. all'antiporta. Solida ed elegantre legatura recente d'amatore in mezza pelle con punte, dorso liscio con titoli e fregi a secco. Esemplare genuino, marginoso ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Esemplare stampato su carta distinta nella rara tiratura in carta grande. Edizione originale ed unica di questa pubblicazione che presenta la nona novella della giornata prima del Decamerone voltata in un numero incredibile di dialetti italiani (oltre 500!). Le versioni dialettali sono tutte composte e firmate da autori spesso assai celebri nelle zone da cui proviene il dialetto utilizzato.
1834réf. s00012267Firenze / Florence: Per Il Magheri 1834. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this collected works 17 volumes in 9 books plus a 10th book the Vita di . Boccacci 1806 labeled vol. 18 on the spine. 10 volumes total. Florence 1827-1834 the Vita Firenze 1806 uniformly bound: half vellum marbled boards leather spine labels in dark and light brown. Books are very good with light soil to vellum spine labels intact but cracked and slightly chipped contents very good and bright unmarked. The Vita has three plates printed in sepia plus a frontispiece portrait. RARE on the market. Per Il Magheri hardcover
1820réf. 32052AB1820. Firenze Si Trova In Avignone Presso Fr. Seguin stampatore e librajo 1820. Duodecimo 8.5 cm wide x 13.5 cm high. 157 pages. Original Hardcover / Original 19th century boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. hardcover
réf. 42229Londra i.e. Leghorn Si vende in Livorno Presso Tommaso Masi e Comp. 1789-1790. 18cm pp. 4 xxi 1 317; 2 442; 1-304 289-304 305-356; 322. Signatures: A-T8 V4 X3; A- 2D8 2E5; A-T8 T8-Y8 Z2; A-V8 X1 in contemporary tree calf lightly rubbed spines gilt-tooled in compartments gilt morocco labels gilt dentelle edges frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio in volume one printed mostly on carta turchina occasional light foxing some hinges starting previous owners bookplate an attractive set. cgc. Includes the Tavola and Indice dell voci antiche in volume four and Filippo Villani's Vita di Giovanni Boccaccio in volume one. ESTC T102336; ICCU; Brunet I 1003; Graesse I 452; Passano Giambattista. 11 novellieri Italiani in prosa. Torino 1878 I 93-94. Giovanni Boccaccio was educated in Florence and Naples where he studied law and had a great interest in literature. He was particularly inspired by the works of Dante and Petrarch to begin writing his own poetry and romantic prose. Boccaccio composed The Decameron which includes a first-hand account of the ravages of the Black Death in 1348 after the plague gravely affected his own family. In The Decameron seven women and three men escape Florence for a villa in the country to avoid coming in contact with the deadly disease. Over a period of ten days they take turns telling ten stories each. Although the stories themselves were not original Boccaccio 's poetic language enriches the narrative making it one of the best-known works of Italian literature. The first printed edition of The Decameron was published in 1470 in Venice and the work has been translated into almost every language since. B. W. Home taught mathematics at St. John's College Cambridge in the 19th century. Londra [i.e. Leghorn], Si vende in Livorno, Presso Tommaso Masi, e Comp., 1789-1790 unknown
réf. 12181Paris H. Launette 1890. . Wagrez Jacques. Relie demi-maroquin rouge dos plats marbreplats orne de fil. dore dos orne de fil. dore et de piece de titre dore page de garde marbre 23x32cm 303pp319pp274pp illustre n/b. Illustrations de Jacques Wagrez. Traduction et notes de Francisque Reynard. Paris, H. Launette, 1890.** unknown
1903réf. 444London: A. H. Bullen 1903. Limited edition. Contemporary fine morocco. Very Good. Louis Chalon. Sumptuously finely bound extra-illustrated full morocco limited edition of Boccaccio's classic The Decameron. Overall Condition: VG SET INFO Published in 1903 by A. H. Bullen in London. Limited edition that has been extra-illustrated with plates from the scarce supplemental volume of illustrations. Translated into English by J.M. Rigg. Illustrated by Louis Chalon. Bound in fine Edwardian full green morocco: Gilt paneled boards with geometric decoration and tooling in gilt including corner and central fleur-de-lis devices. Spine with five gilt rolled raised bands separating compartments ruled in gilt with either gilt tooling or lettering. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Lovely very wide-margined paper. Leather turn-ins ruled with gilt fillets marbled endpapers. Royal octavos about 10" x 7". Collated and complete including half-titles: xxi 1 332 pp. 10 plates 8 plates 2 supplemental; xiii 3 404 pp. 10 plates 4 plates 6 supplemental. The original plates are tissue-guarded. ABOUT THE WORK The Decameron subtitled Prince Galehaut is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio 1313-1375. It is sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia The Human Comedy as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy 'Divine'. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death which was afflicting the city. The epidemic is likely what Boccaccio used for the basis of the book which was thought to be written between 1348 and 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit practical jokes and life lessons also contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language it is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose. Boccaccio was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars including Vittore Branca define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres making them converge in original works thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR Louis Chalon 1862 -1915 was a French painter illustrator goldsmith and silversmith and sculptor. Chalon studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Boulanger. He showed his classically inspired paintings at the salons of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris from 1880 to 1911 where he received numerous awards. CONDITION REPORT VG Binding and exterior: Firm hinges and joints tight pages. Spines sunned to brown. Top edge gilt a bit dusty. Light rubbing to extremities and boards. Colorful supple leather. Gilt work in excellent shape. A handsome set with great shelf appeal. Interiors: Generally clean lightly toned pages with slight darkening along top margin edge. Mostly light to sporadic foxing heaviest along plate margins tissue guards and near plates. Latter half of Volume II foxing a bit heavier. Several leaves uncut by the printer. Light signs of handling like a few smudges. All in all a lovely collectible extra-illustrated limited-edition set of the Decameron in gorgeous fine morocco. A. H. Bullen unknown
