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1949rif. 45753Garden City: Garden City Publishing 1949. limited edition. Hardcover. Very good . 7 x 10 in. Maroon buckram boards. Limited edition of 1500 copies this is 530 signed by Rockwell Kent on the limitation pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers extremely clean with minimal wear to spine ends. Spines a bit sunned. Bindings tight and text spotless. Slipcase is very clean and bright with wear to edges and chips to the paper at edges. RK. RGR. Garden City Publishing hardcover
1886rif. 1170817.15London: Printed for the Villon society by private subscription and for private circulation only 1886. Limited edition: No. 23. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover no dj's. 3 volume set bound in full vellum w/ outer gilt decoration & title lettering top edges gilt. Vg condition. Small 1-inch prev. owner's name-ticket inside cover of each volume w/ darkened offset outline image of same on the opposite page. Mild foxing to endpapers only; Interiors quite bright & clean no markings no "thumbing" to pages; some page edges still unseparated therefore unread; binding & hinges solid. Mild exterior browning chiefly to spines gilt spine lettering dulled but fully legible. 334 & 350 & 354 pp. London: Printed for the Villon society by private subscription and for private circulation only hardcover
1812rif. 991217.33Stamperia Blanchon Parma. 1812 - 1813. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 6 volumes bound as 3. Hardcover black qtr leather & corners w/ marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers all edges gilt. All vols. prev. owner's bookplate exteriors moderately rubbed w/ leather edges showing through to underlying brown as expected papered edges w/ small nicks at bottom edge; light foxing to flyleaves & very occasionally faintly within; Volume I/II pale 1-inch brown stain to inner margin of 2 pgs. not affecting text. Volume V/VI has 1/4-inch nick to rear board. Overall solid vg condition for their age bindings & hinges quite tight contents clean gilt edges bright. 242 & 335 pp.; 299 & 248 pp.; 244 & 346 pp. Incl's historical introductions and a biography of Boccaccio by Girolamo Tiraboschi. Stamperia Blanchon, Parma. hardcover
1924rif. 68857Berlin:: Verlag Neufeld & Henius. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Text is in German - translated from the Italian. Illustrated with color plates by Lucian Zabel. First edition thus. Small folios half bound in light brown leather with gilt lettering and elaborate design along the spines blue decorated paper covered boards all edges red marbled endpapers. Both volumes have a previous owner's name on page 13 moderate edge wear else very good. . Verlag Neufeld & Henius, hardcover
1925rif. 17670Munchen und Leipzig: Georg Muller und Hans Von Weber c 1925. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 Volumes each 5 1/4 x 8 inches. Second edition with the plates of the 1767 edition 1st was 1913 these not dated but circa 1925. Text in German. Condition is Very Good; Rubbing and soiling to the spines text and illustrations are perfect with no toning foxing stains markings etc. bindings are tight. STK Georg Muller und Hans Von Weber hardcover
rif. 514534London: Privately Printed Hardcover in very good condition no dust jacket. Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Half-leather binding by Baynton of Bath. Illustrated introduction and sixteen hand-coloured illustrations from original drawings by Louis Chalon. Minor scoring to front board and faint marks to page block foot. Clean and unmarked throughout. Images available upon request. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Chalon Louis. Used. Privately Printed Hardcover
1887rif. 422052London 1887. Hardcover. No jacket. Limited edition of 250 copies. Leading corners edges and spine are worn. Page edges are rough; page block is tanned. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small chip on upper edge of page 75. Several light marks in the volume. Hinge is visible on front pastedown. Binding is intact contents are clear. AM. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Hardcover
1974rif. 159069Johns Hopkins University Press 1974. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight without dust jacket. 665pp. 7-1/8" X 10-3/8" In Italian. Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
1930rif. 014781New York: Garden City Publishing 1930. Cloth. Very Good/Fair/Good. Type: Book This book is an excellent work that deals with the plague otherwise known as the Black Death in Renaissance Italy. The pages are clean and tight with no markings in the book. Garden City Publishing hardcover
1927rif. 031203London: Peter Davies 1927. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited Edition of 520 bound in green paper boards with light wear. Jacket shows some slight rubbing at the corners with a few very small tears. Some slight discoloration to jacket with some darkening of the light cream colored jacket in places. Otherwise jacket in very good condition for its age. Binding is tight and text is clean and unmarked. Front and Rear free endpapers have dark discoloration marks similar to foxing but ina larger area. The original owner and subscriber's purchase and delivery slip are present and laid into the rear of the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Modern First Editions; Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 031203. Peter Davies unknown
rif. BB13096Publisher: Easton Date of Publication: 1980 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the only stated Easton Edition from 1980.Both the cover and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips tears markings etc.---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum .Acceptable hardcover
rif. DEMO015465IPhiladelphia: Gebbie and Barrie no date. Flameng edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Leopold Flameng's 11 plates. 12mo xviii 493 pages 11 leaves of plates red pebbled cloth paper label on spine. Revised translation by Walter K. Kelly. With portrait and ten illustrations drawn and engraved by Leopold Flameng. "Every page almost every line has undergone considerable modifications: large omissions have been supplied; and brief critical and historical notices have been appended to most of the novels - Preface." Gebbie and Barrie hardcover
rif. 018913New York: Carlton House. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Type: Book This book a classic of literature needs no introduction. If you are interested in the Black Death of the Middle Ages then this work by Boccaccio is a must read. This order contains two seperate volumes. The boards are red with gold and black decorations. The owner's last name is on the front inside board of each volume. The book set is clean with No Marks No Underlining No Writing in the reading text. Carlton House hardcover
1574rif. D11148Venice: Giovanni Antonio Bertano 1574. Paperback. Very Good. 4to 204 x 148mm. 1 16 263pp. 2 leaves including final blank. Signatures: A-KK 8. Front flyleaf with likely 18th-century half-title added in manuscript calligraphic script over undulating ownership inscription on ribbon De Me Giovanni Agostino Panater and palm or quill on island in sea with ship signature repeated on title. Woodcut printers device of Bertano of young stork bring food to decrepid parent in the nest and motto on filial piety Pietas Homini Tutissima Virtus Compassion is the safest power. Few woodcut initials throughout. Italian translation by Giovanni Betussi. Dedicated to Count Collaltino di Collalto. Contemporary limp vellum ms. title to spine; spine darkened head cap chipped with loss text block loose in binding; intermittent browning title with old owners signatures cancelled minor marginal worming added half-title with ink oxidation. The whimsical added title complements this monumental Italian humanist work; a defense of poetry and a synthesis of ancient mythological sources which justified the study of pagan literature within a Christian context. Betussis Italian translation of Boccaccios medieval work on progeny in classical times a veritable mythological encyclopedia that aimed to solve questions about lines of succession. Boccaccios Genealogia sought to preserve the past from oblivion by creating an almanac of inter-related families including the competing noble houses in order to organize lines of descent. With the Genealogia Boccaccio aimed to solve contradictory accounts of hereditary matters by assuming the existence of pagan gods and organizing their progeny - Jupiter I and Jupiter II for instance. Perhaps most contentious was Boccaccios identification of Demogorgon as the ultimate progenitor of all pagan divinities description starting on page 5 who was also associated with Satans netherworld conspirators. The Genealogia reputedly had been copied and transmitted before its completion apparently without the consent of Boccaccio. The earliest Latin editions all follow the first of 1472. This is a later edition of Giuseppe Betussis Italian translation of the Genealogia; Betussis first was printed in Venice by Comino da Trino di Monferrato in 1547. Nearly a dozen subsequent editions follow this date well into the seventeenth century. Betussi was a prominent man of letters in Paduas Accademia and was at the avant-garde of those promoting the substitution of Italian for Latin as the language of scholarly literature. To his edition Betussi added a ten-page biography of Boccaccio and alphabetical indices corresponding to page numbers not book or chapter. The Genealogia became a standard reference works for readers who wished to disentangle the complexities of Greco-Roman mythology. The work was enormous in scope covering approximately 950 individuals groups and beasts both named and unnamed in fifteen books and 723 chapters with over a thousand citations from Greek Roman medieval and Trecento authors. Near the end of the sixteenth century the Genealogia while mostly out of the public eye still provided source material for numerous authors including Edmund Spenser and his work on Christianized paganism. This edition rare OCLC lists one other in Toulouse. Giovanni Antonio Bertano paperback
1590rif. D6205Venice: appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni 1590. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x154mm. 8 544pp 92 index epithets glossary by Ruscelli. Collation: ast. 4; A-2M 8; 2N 2; 2O-2R 8; 2S 4. Woodcut printers device to title. Oval woodcut portrait of Luigi Groto Cieco dAdria 1541-1585 facing first text page 10 woodcut illustrations numerous woodcut initials most historiated with griffins putti other figures or foliage and decorative chapter head- and tailpieces. Text in italic type; headlines chapter headings and marginalia in Roman. Printed marginalia. Early vellum; title with upper margin stained cancelled inscription and small tear some wear mostly on preliminaries; joints starting. Collection inscription in abbreviated Italian on front pastedown dated 1841 possibly from a Jesuit Society. Early booksellers stamp C. Simms of Manchester. Good large quarto copy of Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron redacted by Luigi Groto 1541-1582 from the edition edited by Girolamo Ruscelli 1500s-1556 and first published two years previously. Groto a minor Venetian writer reworked Boccaccios famous tale; retaining parts of the original parable but also creating his own tangents. Groto for instance created a predicament concerning a young man who finds himself confronted by three different ladies he has been secretly courting. When his deceit is discovered he must answer as to which of them is his true love. The lengthy narration of the amoroso imbroglio is Grotos own literary stamp and he hoped with these revisions he would gain literary fame stating I will give life and light to Boccaccio and he will do likewise for me . I will rescue him from darkness and burial and he in turn will rescue me from obscurity Ironically Grotos retelling of the Decameron remains known for it deformations of the tale rather than its celebration. Each of the ten sections are preceded by an overview written by Ruscelli the well-known editor of Ptolemys Geographia of 1754 and a large woodcut illustration depicting narrative scenes of the Decameron tale. Brunet I 1002; STC Italy I: p.256. appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni hardcover
1912rif. 045015Leipzig: Im Insel 1912. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in full acid calf hinges a little rubbed spines slightly dry but an attractive and sound trio overall. Light marks from bookplate removal to the endpapers otherwise very clean internally. Size: duodecimo 12mo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 045015. Im Insel hardcover
1968rif. 10338DESCH 1968. 1. softcover. Decamerone DESCH paperback
1770rif. 046665Livorno: Nella Stamperia di Via Grande 1770. Softcover. Good Condition. Original drab wrappers worn spine torn notes to endpaper scattered foxing generally bright and very good internally. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046665. Nella Stamperia di Via Grande unknown
1906rif. 329025London: Gibbings & Co. Limited 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Volume four only. Three quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Extremities lightly worn else near fine. Gibbings & Co. Limited hardcover
rif. 152804London: Navarre Society no date. Hardcover set 332 404pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 2 volumes. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Color illustrated frontispiece black and white and color illustrations. "Son of a merchant Boccaccio di Chellino di Buonaiuto of Certaido in Val d'Elsa a little town about midway between Empoli and Siena but within the Florentine 'contado' Giovanni Boccaccio was born most probably at Paris in the year 1313" - from the Introduction. Book about Plague. Time Period Black Plague. Illustrations by Louis Chalon. Translated by J.M. Rigg. Fiction Storytelling. Navarre Society Hardcover
rif. 115067London: Navarre Society no date. Hardcover set Very good no dust jackets. 332 404pp. 2 volumes. Illustrations. Front endpapers missing. Illustrations by Louis Chalon. Translated by J.M. Rigg. Fiction. Navarre Society Hardcover
1812rif. 27699London: Cadell and Davies 1812. odd volume in original paper-covered boards quite worn at spine ends spine label surprisingly intact all text block edges in original untrimmed condition occasional foxing mainly confined to text block edges 248 pages apparently quite scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Cadell and Davies Hardcover
1904rif. D14606Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page red woodcut printers device. Small folio bound in publisher's quarter vellum over brown paper boards title gilt on spine uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17 1905. The Riverside Press hardcover
1750rif. 009984Torino: Stamperia Reale 1750. Un volume 8x145 cm ad uso principalmente de' modesti giovani e studiosi della Toscana favella. Di 24-339-1 pagine; qualche goretta ai margini qualche brunitura. Legatura coeva in tutta pergamena sporca con macchie ed erosione ai margini. Quindi un libro molto studiato ed usato come la sua destinazione prevedeva. Questa edizione torinese al contrario delle altre pubblicate in varie città fino ai primi dell'800 sembra essere piuttosto rara: una sola edizione settecentesca e una sola copia censita nelle biblioteche Sbn. Nella prefazione Anton-Federico Seghezzi autore della antologia ringrazia in particolare gli editori-bibliofili Volpi per la revisione del testo e l'aggiunta sulla descrizione della peste. Stamperia Reale unknown
1952rif. 698244 xii128 pages 23 woodcuts 1 facsimile title page limited edition no.188 of 225 copies handmade paper tipped in bookplate for John Ryder Published by Editones Officinae Bodoni hardcover
