Best.-Nr. 326NY: Boni & Liveright 1925. Limited edition of 2000 numbered copies signed by the publisher. 4to. 2 volumes bound in black cloth. Limited edition of 2000 numbered copies signed by the publisher. Illustrated by Clara Tice. Front hinge of volume one starting else in fine condition. NY: Boni & Liveright 1925. hardcover
1971Best.-Nr. 128192Beverly Hills CA: Produzioni Europee Associati PEA / United Artists 1971. Vintage photograph from the 1971 film by still photographer Mario Tursi with his stamp at the verso including his name address and phone number in Rome. The first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of life followed by "Canterbury Tales" 1972 and "Arabian Nights" 1974 a light and sumptuous adaptation of Boccaccio's work "The Decameron" replete with nudity sex and both slapstick and scatological humor. With a score by Ennio Morricone. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 631. Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA] / United Artists unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 128190Beverly Hills CA: Produzioni Europee Associati PEA / United Artists 1971. Collection of 17 vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film all issued by the film's first distributor United Artists. Includes 6 black-and-white stills from the Japanese release between 1971-1973 though the actual date is not listed in IMDB 7 black-and-white stills from the US release December 1971 and 4 color stills from the US release. The first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of life followed by "Canterbury Tales" 1972 and "Arabian Nights" 1974 a light and sumptuous adaptation of Boccaccio's work "The Decameron" replete with nudity sex and both slapstick and scatological humor. With a score by Ennio Morricone. The three films will be released as a set by the Criterion Collection in winter 2012. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine condition with minor use. Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA] / United Artists unknown
2000Best.-Nr. SONG9626342099Naxos AudioBooks 2000-12-01. Abridged edition. audioCD. Used: Good. 5.75x1.00x5.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Naxos AudioBooks unknown
Best.-Nr. SONG0884360490Brand: Emc Pub 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good. 0.25x4.75x7.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Emc Pub paperback
1976Best.-Nr. 017267New York & London: Garland Publishing 1976. Book measures 26x18.5.cm. Unpaginated illustrated. Bound in original publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth very lightly marked outer page edges have fox spotting. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages very clean. A nice copy. . Cloth. Very Good. Quarto. Garland Publishing Hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 21260791927. New York: Golden Hind Press for the subscribers of the Biblion Society. 1927. 4to. Publisher's black cloth spine label printed in red; pp. 47 1 advertisements in the rare printed dust-jacket; title-page and first page of text printed in pale blue and pink; slight soiling and a few marks to dust-jacket spine ends and extremities lightly worn; a near-fine copy in a good jacket.First edition of these spurious translations of Boccaccio involving accidental mother-son incest and friendship between Catholics and Protestants despite the fact that Boccaccio died a century before Luther's birth falsely claiming to be illustrated with 'new sketches' by Beardsley this copy in the rare dust-jacket.This edition was distributed by the Golden Hind Press for subscribers of the Biblion Society both operated by notorious publisher Samuel Roth. He would later be the plaintiff in the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case Roth vs United States which redefined what constituted obscene material unprotected by First Amendment rights. In 1930 he spent two months in prison for selling obscene material including Joyce's Ulysses which he had published in serialised bowdlerised form without Joyce's permission two years earlier.The present edition claims to present several hitherto unpublished illustrations by Beardsley each captioned 'New Sketch'. All in fact had been previously published: they comprise 'The Mirror of Love' four illustrations from Le Morte D'Arthur and 'Lysistrata Haranguing the Athenian Woman' from the 1896 edition of Lysistrata.The phallic vignettes between paragraphs are the work of Hungarian illustrator Walter Pogany. Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti attribute this pseudo-translation to Romanian-born writer of Yiddish pulp fiction David Moses Hermalin 1865-1921 who had produced Yiddish adaptations of Shakespeare Tolstoy Conan Doyle and at the start of the twentieth century Boccaccio publishing Paskarela through B. Rabinovits and Madam Babeta through the Hebrew Publishing Company in New York City. 'Paskarela and Madam Babeta are longer versions of those same stories that Roth printed in English twenty-seven years later. Unless some proto-version of these two stories surfaces the most likely explanation seems to be that the tales were composed by Hermalin as pseudotranslations of Boccaccio and that Roth or someone close to him translated these stories and passed them off once more as authentic lost stories by Boccaccio.'By birth a Galician Jew Roth knew Yiddish and used Yiddish sources to produce translations of Heinrich Heine since he had no German. He was also an inveterate publisher of phony translations . He had the means the motivation and the sheer brazenness necessary to take a pair of Yiddish fakes translate them into English and pass them off as genuine discoveries to an unsuspecting literary public' Lubin and Lazzarotti online.Library Hub finds three copies in the UK BL CUL Goldsmiths.Not in Samuels Lasner; Healey 4907 note 'one assumes that both stories and drawings are pastiches and fakes'. See Lubin and Lazarotti 'Pseudo-Boccaccio Yiddish Pulp Fiction and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce' in The Public Domain Review 17 April 2024. hardcover
1886Best.-Nr. 257886London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation 1886. Limted Edition this being copy No. 460. xii 334; xii 350; xii 354 2 pp. 3 vols. 8vo 7-5/8 x 5-3/4 inches. Bound in full publisher's vellum t.e.g. rest uncut. Some rubbing very good. Limted Edition this being copy No. 460. xii 334; xii 350; xii 354 2 pp. 3 vols. 8vo 7-5/8 x 5-3/4 inches. Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation hardcover
Best.-Nr. 87875-67Leather Bound. New. hardcover
1886Best.-Nr. 21209391886. London Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation Only 1886. Three volumes small 4to. Original art vellum lettered and ornamented in gilt top edges gilt the others uncut; pp. xii 334; xii 350; xii 354 2; bindings a little darkened one spine with tiny hole apart from very minor spots here and there a very good set.First edition of this translation number 27 of an undisclosed limited edition beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Translated by the founder of the exclusice publishing house The Bodley Head who most likely are bhind this publication. John Lane had translated the poete maudit Francois Villon as well. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 121101Moscow Kushnerev 1891-92. . 2 vols 8vo 24.8 x 17 cm; contemporary Russian bookseller's label to upper pastedown of Vol. I; profusely illustrated exceptionally fresh; contemporary burgundy morocco-backed cloth spines gilt in compartments a fine set. First edition of the first complete Russian translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. Translated by Veselovsky a leading literary theorist and expert on Medieval Italian literature. In a handsome contemporary binding from the library of Albert McGill a wealthy industrialist and part of the influential British community in 19th century Russia. The first McGills in Moscow were most-likely Albert's grandfather Robert McGill and his brother David who emigrated from Paisley in the 1840s. The family is credited with starting the first mechanical and foundry works in Russia as well playing an important role in the country's cotton mill industry. Just like any other British Family living in the 19th century Moscow the McGill family was related by marriage to several other British families and Albert was no exception. His wife Eleonora McGill née Gibson was the daughter of Charles John Gibson or Karl Yakovlevich Gibson as he was known was director of the Nevsky Stearin Factory in Moscow which produced soap. The McGills donated the largest sum towards the construction of St Andrew's Anglican Church in Moscow which was completed in 1884. Moscow, Kushnerev, 1891-92. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 146548Sixteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Latin work on the downfalls of powerful or famous historical and biblical figures. Duodecimo written in Italian bound in full vellum woodcut chapter decorations. Translated and expanded by Giuseppe Betussi of Bassano. In very good condition with light toning and soiling. Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer poet correspondent of Petrarch and an important Renaissance humanist. Often referred to as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature along with Dante Alighieri and Petrarch Boccaccio is responsible for the creation of classic works of imaginative literature such as 'The Decameron' and setting the stage of Renaissance Humanism in Italy. hardcover
1538Best.-Nr. 4518Venice: Venice: Bernardino Bindoni 1538. Very good. 8vo 157 x 98 mm. Woodcut printer's device at end. Contemporary Parisian morocco by Wotton's Binder C: interlaced design some open tools painted gray others with pointille tooling central armorial device of Paolo Giordano Orsini with his arms impaling the Medici arms of his future wife motto Isabella and his motto "Pavl Iordan Vrs D. Aragon" spine in six compartments with floral design gilt and gauffered edges sympathetic restorations to spine ends and board edges. ONE OF A VERY SMALL GROUP OF ELABORATE RENAISSANCE BINDINGS EXECUTED IN PARIS FOR PAOLO GIORDANO I ORSINI BY THE THIRD OF WOTTON'S BINDERS "WOTTON BINDER C" AN ESTEEMED CRAFTSMAN WHOSE CLIENTELE INCLUDED MANY IMPORTANT BIBLIOPHILES SUCH AS JEAN GROLIER FRANCOIS I CARDINAL GRANVELLE CHARLES DE LORRAINE MARCUS FUGGER THE "GERMAN GROLIER" AND THOMAS WOTTON THE "ENGLISH GROLIER" AFTER WHOM THE WORKSHOP IS NAMED. It is almost certain that Orsini's bindings were made for him during his only known visit to France in 1556 when he was just fifteen. His was a diplomatic engagement accompanying the apostolic legate Cardinal Carafa to secure an alliance with Henri II against the Spanish. Only thirty of Orsini's Parisian bindings have so far come to light plus two remboite all bound by Wotton Binder C. The books are all printed before 1555 and with two exceptions are in Italian. The bindings either have a bold architectural strapwork decoration as here perhaps based on contemporary French patterns or a "center-and-corner" design. Concerning the armorial device: Orsini impaled his own arms with those of the Medici despite the fact that his marriage to Isabella de' Medici was not celebrated until 1558! This is the device that figures on our binding and all the other surviving examples. Paolo Giordano I Orsini 1541-1585 Duke of Bracciano infamous member of the famous Roman family and one of the most powerful men in Rome was affianced in 1553 to Isabella de'Medici daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo of Tuscany. After they married in 1558 Orsini already immensely wealthy became even richer with grand palaces in Rome Florence and Bracciano. He spent lavishly on paintings sculptures antiquities tapestries and furniture. Orsini is suspected of strangling Isabella in 1571 in reprisal for her infidelity apparently in broad daylight and in the presence of named servants. He is also suspected of ordering in 1581 the murder of Francesco Peretti wife of Vittoria Accoramboni with whom Orsini was himself having an affair. Unfortunately for Orsini Peretti was the nephew of the future Pope Sixtus V and soon found himself wanted not only by the Papal police but the Tuscan police. He took refuge in Venice and then in Abano and Salo with his mistress whom he married in 1585. He died in Salo later that year. Orsini's bindings are greatly prized but are very rare in private ownership indeed the great bibliophile Michael Wittock was unable to acquire one. In 2005 when the present binding came up for auction at Christie's New York we immediately recognized it as being from the Parisian workshop of Wotton Binder C despite the fact that Christie's described it as being "Italian." Happily we were able to secure it at the sale and it passed into the collection of one of our favorite clients; now after twenty years we are pleased to offer the present binding again. Despite the fact that books from Orisini's library almost never come on the open market T. Kimball Brooker was able to secure of them both of which commanded very high prices in the Brookeriana sales : 1. Sotheby's New York 10/11/23 lot 13. Bible in Italian. Venice 1547 Macchi no. 22. Est. $30000 - $40000 unsold. Offered again at Sotheby's Paris 12/17/25 lot 45. Sold for EUR 40640. 2. Sotheby's London 7/11/2025 lot 1709. Paolo Giovio Vita de Leon X Florence 1549 Macchi no. 24. Sold for GBP 25400 now in the Morgan Library. The first penetrating study of Orsini's bindings was made by G.D. Hobson 1931 who correctly assigned them to France not Italy. His work was continued by no less authorities than Tammaro de Marinis 1940 Anthony Hobson French and Italian Collectors 1953 Miriam Foot Henry Davis Gift I pp.152-154 and Appendix V: Bindings by Wotton's Binder III for Other Collectors Federico & Livio Macchi who compiled a list of 24 bindings for which see below. Robin Halwas's amazing self-published article on Orsini's bindings is essential reading "Parisian bindings for Paolo Giordano Orsini 1541-1585". Whereas the compilers of the Brookeriana sale catalogues state that only twenty-six such examples are known Halwas shows that there are thirty plus two remboitage. Our binding which had remained untraced after 2005 is listed his no. 9 and he gives a characteristically impressive provenance history and to him we are much obliged: 1. Paolo Giordano Orsini duca di Bracciano 1541-1585 armorial supralibros lettered "Pavl Iordan Vrs D. Aragon"; 2. Librairie Damascène Morgand Paris; 4. Charles Fairfax Murray 1849-1919; 5. Sotheby's London 17-20 July 1922 lot 132; 6. Leo S. Olschki Florence; 7. Christie's New York 15 December 2005 lot 337 binding described as "contemporary Italian morocco"; 8. Purchased by Michael Laird Rare Books 9. Private Collector USA; 10. Michael Laird Rare Books. THE BINDER: Thomas Wotton 1521-1587 wealthy English squire landowner and sheriff of Kent traveled to Paris with some frequency and there he patronized the leading binders of the day. Indeed on Wotton the posthumous title "the English Grolier" has been bestowed owing to his early adoption of Grolier's "Et Amicorum" formula on the covers of his books. About 140 bindings from Wotton's library have been identified. From the anonymous workshop known as "Wotton Binder C" which was active in the 1540s and 1550s and which was responsible for the present binding from Orsini's library Thomas Wotton commissioned as many as thirty bindings; most recognizable are those that bear the date "1552." § Adams B-2170. Macchi Federico & Livio Macchi "Le legature francesi di Paolo Giordano Orsini d'Aragona: Storia di un personaggio e di una legatura" in: Misinta 45 June 2016 pp.143-149 our binding is listed on p.147 as no. 21. Venice: Bernardino Bindoni unknown
Best.-Nr. 1496511813: Vitarelli Venezia. Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt ribbons bound in illustrated with engravings engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio to Vol. I folding plate to Vols. I II and III. In very good condition. Ownership inscription to each volume. A very elegant set. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Decameron composed between 1348 and 1353 in the shadow of the Black Death stands as a seminal work in the development of European prose fiction and a pivotal text in the emergence of Renaissance humanism. Structured around a frame narrative in which ten young Florentines—seven women and three men—withdraw from plague-stricken Florence to a secluded villa in the countryside the work offers one hundred tales that traverse the full spectrum of human experience. In both form and content Il Decameron marks a decisive departure from the didacticism of medieval literature privileging instead a literary ethos grounded in observation wit and psychological nuance. Boccaccio’s elevation of the vernacular Tuscan dialect helped to standardize Italian as a literary language aligning his prose with the aspirations of civic humanism and placing him in dialogue with figures such as Dante and Petrarch. Vitarelli unknown
1761Best.-Nr. 146436Lucca: Giovanni Ghiara 1761. Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Quarto bound in full flexible red calf with gilt titles to the spine floral endpapers frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio illustrated with woodcuts and a folding family tree. In very good condition. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio 1313–1375. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348 and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit practical jokes and life lessons 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 classical early Italian prose. Giovanni Ghiara unknown
1703Best.-Nr. 146400Amsterdam: Giovanni Ghiara 1703. Early eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Duodecimo original full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine marbled endpapers all edges speckled blue illustrated with engraved headpieces and initials. In very good condition contemporary ownership signatures to the front and rear flyleaves. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio 1313–1375. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348 and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit practical jokes and life lessons 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 classical early Italian prose. Giovanni Ghiara unknown
1904Best.-Nr. 146440Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. First edition of the first formal biography of the father of the Italian language. Small folio original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles to the spine. One of two hundred and sixty-five copies printed for Houghton Mifflin and Company and stated on the colophon this is number 18. In very good condition bookplate to the front pastedown. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet writer and philosopher who wrote what is widely considered the most important work of Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature 'Divine Comedy.' His implementation of language and vernacular in literature was instrumental in establishing modern-day standardized Italian and in bringing Italian to the forefront of literary language in western Europe for several centuries. The Riverside Press hardcover
1769Best.-Nr. 146403Padua: Giuseppe Comino 1769. Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's twenty-eighth novella from his 'Decameron.' Octavo original full vellum engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio. In very good condition with light toning to the front and rear panel rubbing to the spine. Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer poet correspondent of Petrarch and an important Renaissance humanist. Often referred to as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature along with Dante Alighieri and Petrarch Boccaccio is responsible for the creation of classic works of imaginative literature such as 'The Decameron' and setting the stage of Renaissance Humanism in Italy. Giuseppe Comino hardcover
1569Best.-Nr. 146435Paris: Federigo Morello 1569. Rare sixteenth century edition of this literary work in the original Italian. Duodecimo original full vellum. In near fine condition with light splitting to the front interior hinge. Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer poet correspondent of Petrarch and an important Renaissance humanist. Often referred to as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature along with Dante Alighieri and Petrarch Boccaccio is responsible for the creation of classic works of imaginative literature such as 'The Decameron' and setting the stage of Renaissance Humanism in Italy. Federigo Morello hardcover
Best.-Nr. 68725-73Hardcover. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. CBS 9789535117100US Edition. New. Brand New! Fast Delivery This is an International Edition and ship within 24-48 hours. Deliver by FedEx and Dhl & Aramex UPS & USPS and we do accept APO and PO BOX Addresses. Order can be delivered worldwide within 6-10 days and we do have flat rate for up to 2LB. Extra shipping charges will be requested if the Book weight is more than 5 LB. This Item May be shipped from India United states & United Kingdom. Depending on your location and availability. unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 34293Paris 1971 1992. unbound. Bueno. Paris 1971. Guaflex con dorados. 21x14. Tres volumenes. 342 309 y 292 pp. Muy ilustrado. Frances. Paris 1971 unknown
Best.-Nr. 109867London The Mandrake Press 1929. . Limited edition number 33 of 550 copies; 4to 28.8 x 22 cm; 30 colour plates and decorations by M. Leone minor age-toning mild spotting to endpapers; publisher's green dyed paper vellum with yapp edges gilt device to upper cover gilt lettering to spine all edges gilt spine faded slight spotting and creasing to covers housed in original card slipcase worn. A beautifully illustrated edition of Boccaccio's novel reprinted from the original English translation of Bartholomew Young 1587. Limited to just 550 copies of which this is number 33. London, The Mandrake Press, 1929. hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9780674975590_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry. It is both the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early R hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. SONG1774378493Royal Classics 2020-11-15. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.00x1.56x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Royal Classics hardcover