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Poesie
1964Introduzione e traduzione di Carlo Bo. 2 volumi . 8vo. pp. 550-500. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Seconda edizione riveduta(2nd revisited Edition). .
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1942214p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Booksellers's label. OCC 1
196664p. Small 8vo. Original printed wraps. An Indiana Poetry Paperback. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1991128p. Numerous photo illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. Nice copy. WHISKEY 1
1966Facsimile of the rare London: 1759 first edition. pp. 455; 387. Small 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition. Venegas was a learned Jesuit missionary in Mexico and California. While in California he gathered much information from personal observation and from the archives of the various missions. These volumes contain valuable geographical, historical, and ethnological material rel ating to the name, situation, and extent of California, the aborigines and their ancient religions, early voyages along the California coast, and the labors of the Jesuits. These facsimiles are the mo st affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. NW29. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1726Three volumes. Engraved frontis and other engraved plates, two of them folding. Inconsequential marginal worming in one volume. 16mo. Worn leather backed boards binding. Spines should be replaced. XLib. [French Art Alliance, New York]. An important satire which parodies the assembly of the Etats Generaux held in 1593 (with the object of electing a Catholic King). It expresses the views in favor of the claims of Henri IV while opposing the Ligue [Spanish League and its supporters]. The satires greatly influenced the outcome of the assembly, and Henry IV was elected. The work is divided into three parts. It begins with a burlesque description of the opening procession of the assembly and this is followed in the second part by a catalogue of the chief Ligueurs and imaginary speeches by real persons. Finally, there are miscellaneous satires and epigrams. Written at the moment of the defeat of the Ligue, it was an immediate 'best-seller'. Authorship is usually ascribed to Jean Leroy, a canon of Rouen, with the collaboration of Jean Passerat, Pierre Pithou, Nicolas Rapim and others. This is the standard eighteenth century edition. The title of the lampoon derives from Saturae Menippeae, lost work of Varro based on satires by the Greek cynic Menippus. Brunet V-145; Cohen-De Rici 939. FR2
1932pp. ix, 408 + Plus portrait frontis and folding table of recorded cases of suture of the heart. Illustrated. Light foxing on endpapers. Edges dust spotted. Tall 8vo. Original full gold stamped blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket, very soiled and with loss. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 9
1942pp. xix, 325 + Plus color frontis and full page plates. Two hundred and five reproductions and diagrams, some in color. Pennsylvania Dutch Folklorist - Pumpernickle Bill's copy. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn with some chips. ART 4
1959pp. xx, 155. Illustrated with hand-colored line-and-wash drawings by Roger Duvoisin; designed by Saul and Lillian Marks; set in monotype Bembo on Curtis rag paper. 4to. 7 1/4 x 11 inches. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in quarter black buckram, gold stamped, patterned silk-finish cloth sides. Original slip case. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist, Roger Duvoisin (1904-1980) - a Swiss born artist, who is most famous for his children's books. Very fine copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W97
1979682 + Plus color portrait frontis and full page drawings by Edy Legrand. Pale orange silk moire endpapers. All edges gold. Original bright yellow page ribbon. Original bookplate from the Easton Press, not filled in. 4to. Original full crushed morocco binding decorated with embossed gold figure of Don Quixote with his lance and horse, on both boards. Gilt sun burst designs on spine. Raised bands. Hardbound. Very beautiful, crisp copy. This Collector's Edition is published in advance for the subscribers of the Easton Press collection of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PRESS/W75
1965pp. lvi, 143. Facsimile reprint of Smail's 1938 edition. 12mo. Paper back edition. PALOC 73
1841pp. (260) + (8) [A Catalogue dated 1841 of Mr. Murray's Recent Publications, printed in lavender!] With numerous finely printed illustrations after David Roberts, William Harvey; William Hallen, William Simson, Henry Warren, C. E. Aubrey and others. Printed with decorative borders, ornamental initials, and illuminations in various colors throughout (red, blue, gold, etc.);PLUS four chromolithographed illuminated title-pages - all being the work of Owen Jones. 4to. 260 mm. Original full cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold, after a design by Owen Jones; spine mostly gone. Rear board and last signature detached. This is the First Edition of what is often considered the first illuminated Victorian gift book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W144 R
1809pp. 389, (4). Name clipped from title page, without loss of text. 8vo. 219 mm. Foxed. Early manuscript ownerships and notes. Original full leather binding, cracked at joints. Don Francisco G. Feraud, was apparently a teacher of Spanish in London; and later a professor of English in the Spanish schools of Bilbao. Extremely scarce. OCLC apparently does not record any copies in the U.S. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W153 Rear
1987Boxed portfolio containing 5 of 6 parts illustrating Spanish Modern architecture by important architects. Includes: Kain 1. Juan Daniel Fullaondo, Maria Jesus Munoz Pardo, Arquitectos; Kain 2. Juan Daniel Fullaondo, Jose Luis Arana, Arquitectos; Kain 4. Juan Daniel Fullaondo, Fernando Perez Segura, Juan Luis Candela, Arquitectos; Kain 5. Plaza Picasso; Kain 6. Un Tranvia Llamado Carmelo (I). A 7th part on the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Bilbao was issued a year later. Some of the illustrations are in color; most are photographs. Folio. 457 mm. Each part is considered a complete work in itself. Very good condition. Very scarce. OVERSIZE 1
1836192 p. Foxed. Lacks fly leaves. Top of title page clipped. Includes notes and index. 125 mm. Original full leather binding. Original spine label. Head of spine repaired. Small loss at tail. Leather binding scuffed and worn. Front board fragile. [S&S/AI 39037 x 4] Hardbound. AI BX 1
1849Two works in one. pp. viii, 276; 145 [Cours de themes Espagnols. Choix de versions. et d' un Traite de versification Espagnole par I. Aubouin et F. Orrit]. 12mo. 180mm. Uncut and partially unopened. Disbound. Autograph ownership of N(athaniel) Burt (1770-1850), a Scotch-Irish businessman. He came to America in 1801 and engaged extensively in the Indian trade. Later he opened a prosperous dry goods store in Philadelphia. This book probably was used by his son of the same name (born in 1822) who in 1844 established a large estate called 'Waterloo' in Salisbury Twp. Lancaster County, PA. Nathaniel II was also the Colonel of the 142nd Regiment PA Vols. in the Civil War. FR 3
1899Oblong folio. Ca. 110p. Great photographs and and local advertisements. Original full blue cloth binding. Soiled. Mildly XLib. No fly leaves. First Edition. Founded in 1866, the G.A.R - Grand Army of the Republic - was the first intergrated national veterans organization. At its peak (in 1890) it had almost 500,000 members. There were 640 G.A.R. Posts in Pennsylvania. Post 97 was founded in 1880, and named for Col. John Butler Conyngham (1827-1871). One of the scarcest and most interesting pictorial histories of the Spanish American War. This is a piece that collectors in a variety of fields would find very interesting. PA34
1715pp. 140, (4)[Publisher's advertisements]. 24 mo. 170 mm. 20th century full dark tan buckram binding. Manuscript ownership of: E. Jackson, 1776. Decorative mid-19th century stamped ownership of Peter F. Hunn. Peter F. Hunn (1794-1847) was an eminent attorney in New Jersey and New York. Hardbound. Very good. Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Santibanez Villegas (1580-1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician, satirist, poet, and writer of the Baroque era. Residing almost constantly at court (Philip III), he exercised a kind of political and literary jurisdiction which had no end of biting and potent wit. General politics, social economy, war, finance, literary and religious questions, all come under his disecting knife. He had a disertation, a pamphlet, or a song for everything. He was at his most brilliant and bitterly satiric in his "Visions of Hell". Loosely based on Dante and Lucan. Describing the inhabitants of hell Quevedo attacks all of his favorite targets, without regard to type or class. 'As a sartirist and humorist Quevedo stands in the first rank of Spanish writers. after Cervantes he is the greatest Spanish prose writer of the 17th century.' - James Fitzmaurice-Kelly. This translation of into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) is considered a remarkable work in it's own right. W151
1818pp. (6) [Index of Abbreviations is bound out of place], (vii)-x, (2), (13)-322, (4) [Publisher's catalogue]. Title age stained. 12mo. 180 mm. Boards detached. Virtually disbound. Text block tight. Title continues: "Taken From The Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, And Italian Languages: Translated Into English, With Illustrations, Historical And Idiomatic". S&S/AI 44649. Third American edition. PAIMP 10
1831pp. 350, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Marbled edges. Foxed. Some signatures very browned. XLib stamp of Lancaster Mechanics' Society on title page and elsewhere. Last few leaves loose. 8vo. 210 mm. Original full leather binding; boards detached; spine worn. Hardbound. Text Good. Based on Navarrete's research in the collection of Obadiah Rich. BAL 10133; Sabin 35205; S&S/AI 7690. PAIMP 22
1818pp. (6), (vii)-x, (2), (13)-322, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Very foxed. Early manuscript ownership of James Booth on title page and first fly leaf. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Lacks spine labels. Title continues: 'Taken From The Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, And Italian Languages: Translated Into English, With Illustrations, Historical And Idiomatic'. S&S/AI 44649. Third American edition. Hardbound. Good. PAIMP 22
1890Two decorated wooden panels, painted in polychrome tempera, gold gilt, and gesso, with a leather spine. 330 x 250 mm. Elaborately decorated on one board with four armorial shields, surrounded by incised stamps on gilt fields and gilt floral sprays on a blue field. The text below the shields reads: "INVENTARIO DELLE COSE DEL LA SAGRESTIA DEL DUOMO EDE LALTRE COSE MOBILI DELU OPARA RIFATTO LASICO DA VOLTA AL TENPO DEL UENE RABILE UOMO FRANCESCHO DI PAOLO TADDEI ANNO D. 1475." [Roughly translated: Inventory of the things in the sacristy of the Duomo Ede. Taken from the last by the incomparable Frances Taddei in the year 1475. The front board has a lovely Rennaisance Madonna and Child, with "Samis de Petris" below. This de may have been an attempt to attribute the painting to the artist Sano di Pietro. Beveled edges. Brass bosses at each corner. Very good. RARE. A contemporary of the famed "Spanish Forger", Icilio Federico Joni (1866-1946) was born in Siena. As a young man he worked in the shop of a gilder and art restorer. He began, as a sideline, to produce imitations of fifteenth century Sienese painted wooden panel book covers. He based these tempera painted wooden panels on the Tavolette in the Archivio di Stato, which he probably never saw in person. It is quite clear from his autobiography (1932) that he was proud of his skill and his brilliant imitations of the ancient art of Siena. He considered them original art rather than 'forgeries'. There are probably no more than twenty examples of his work extant today. From the Bridwell Library, SMU: "A skilled producer of imitation "Gothic" altarpieces, he received a commission c. 1890 to create a book cover in imitation of those found on Siena's Tavole di Biccherna, the elaborately gilt and painted fourteenth-century tax registers. Without ever seeing a real Biccherna, he established a lucrative business of faking Biccherna covers. Joni later boasted of incidents in which the local police were alerted to books purportedly stolen from Siena Cathedral or the state archives, only to discover that they were by Joni. A number of book collectors were deceived by Joni's creations, and several of his works were published as Gothic originals. Today, Joni's forgeries are highly valued in their own right. In his autobiography Joni discussed his methods for antiquing the covers by mixing soot, turmeric, chrome yellow, and gilding gesso with gum arabic to produce the patina on the gold. The bosses were bathed in ammonia and the clasp plates were dipped in iodine, "which rusted them in just the right way." Note that Joni's boards are simply glued onto a rough leather spine; he apparently did not know how to replicate a fifteenth-century sewing structure." Research in America has clarified Joni's role as a restorer in such works as Piermatteo d'Amelia's Annunciation (Gardner Museum) and the half-length figures in Fra Angelico's Annunciation (Mrs E. Ford Collection). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Front Case 1/R
1964Introduzione e traduzione di Carlo Bo. 2 volumi . 8vo. pp. 550-500. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Seconda edizione riveduta(2nd revisited Edition). .
1959Con testo a fronte. Traduzione e prefazione di Carlo Bo. VI edizione, accresciuta e riveduta Sopracoperta illustrata da Carlo Corritore. 8vo. pp. 438. . Molto buono (Very Good). Ex libris impresso a secco in calce al frontespizio, firma di appart al front.. Sesta edizione acresciuta e riveduta (6th revisited and augmented Edition). .
Traduzione e prefazione di Carlo Bo. Testo originale a fronte. . 8vo. pp. 256. . Buono (Good). Note a penna al piatto anteriore (Pen underlining and margin notes on a few pages). Terza edizione rivista (3rd Revised Edition). .
1634In -4°, pp. (22), 289 (i.e. 379), (9); frontespizio inciso (al fr. la data è 1633) e un ritratto calcografico dell’autore che precede il testo. Carta Yy con prova di penna, con testo ancora leggibile. Saavedra, nato e vissuto a Cordoba fra il XVI e il XVII secolo fu un poeta spagnolo, lontano parente di Cervantes. Fumagalli 428. Il volume è rilegato con la raccolta poetica del figlio di Saavedra, “Ocios de Aganipe divididos en differentes poesias” - pp. (6), 260, frontespizio inciso -, pubblicato anch’esso a Trani nello stesso anno. Due rarissime opere spagnole appartenenti al Siglo de oro. In -4 °, pp. (22), 289 (i.e. 379), (9); engraved title page (the title page date is 1633) and a chalchographic portrait of the author preceding the text. Yy leaf with spoiled with ink, yet the text is still readable. Saavedra, was born and lived in Cordoba between the 16th and 17th centuries, was a Spanish poet, distant relative of Cervantes. Fumagalli 428. The volume is bound with the poetic collection of Saavedra’s son, “Ocios de Aganipe divididos en differentes poesias” - pp. (6), 260, engraved title page -, also published in Trani in the same year. Two very rare Spanish works belonging to the Siglo de oro.
