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ARENA, Antoine de (ca. 1500-ca. 1544). Ad suos compagnones studiantes, qui sunt de persona friantes, bassas Dansas & Branlos practicantes, nouvellos quamplurimos mandat. [With:] [BOLLA, Bartolomeo]. Nova Novorum Novissima, Sive Poemata Stylo Macaronico. [Paris?]: “Stampatus in Stampatura Stampatorum,”, 1670.

12mo (142 x 80 mm). 191 pp. Two parts, separately titled but continuously paginated. Woodcut peacock device on title. A pretty copy; occasional light foxing to upper margins. Eighteenth-century French red morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet, smooth spine gold-tooled with green morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt over marbling, marbled endpapers... More about Ad suos compagnones studiantes, qui sunt de persona friantes, bassas Dansas & Branlos...

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Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe. Sebastian BRANT

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe. Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May 1498.

4to (203 x 145 mm). Collation: A-C8 D-I8.4 K4; a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-m8 n4. 148 leaves, unfoliated. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Roman types 1:109 (title and Latin text), 3:77 (marginalia), gothic types 4:220 (title and headings) and 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcut illustrations printed from 6 blocks, including... More about Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe

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CAMPEGGI, Ridolfo, Count; TORTOLETTI, Girolamo. La destruttione di Gierusalemme del Sig. Conte Ridolfo Campeggi, e la prigiona del Santo Sepolcro di Christo, Del Signor Girolamo Tortoletti. Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1628.

Small 8vo (141 x 96 mm). Collation: A-D8. 64 pp. (last page misnumbered “94”). Small crucifixion woodcut on title. Slight browning. 18th-century pattern paper wrappers, blue-stained edges. ***Only Edition. Campeggi's posthumously published verses in 114 stanzas in ottava rima relate in heart-rending images the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by... More about La destruttione di Gierusalemme del Sig. Conte Ridolfo Campeggi, e la prigiona del Santo Sepolcro...

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LA PERRIÈRE, Guillaume de (1499-1565?). Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible : comprinses en quatre Centuries de quatrains, Contenans la Cresme de Divine & humaine Philosophie. Lyon: Macé Bonhomme [for Jean Mounier and Jean Perrin at Toulouse], 1552.

8vo (167 x 106 mm). [236] pages (of 240, last 2 blank leaves removed). Printer’s woodcut device on title (Baudrier no. 2), full-page portrait of the author, eight different sets of four-part woodcut page borders of grotesques, including a lion’s head, fruits and scrollwork, typographic tail-piece ornaments, woodcut historiated initials... More about Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible...

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Areostiade, ossia il mongolfiero. Poema di V.L.C. Vincenzo LANCETTI, 1767?-1851

[LANCETTI, Vincenzo (1767?-1851)]. Areostiade, ossia il mongolfiero. Poema di V.L.C. Milan: presso Agnello Nobile, 1803.

2 vols. in one, 12mo (157 x 97 mm.) xi, [1], 296; [4], 383, [1] pp. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with red and dark green morocco lettering pieces, small gilt Montgolfier balloon tool at top and bottom, yellow red-sprinkled edges. ***First complete edition of an epic poem on ballooning... More about Areostiade, ossia il mongolfiero. Poema di V.L.C

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Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette. Marie-Madeleine de...

[LUBERT, Marie-Madeleine (”Marguerite”) de (1702-1785)?]. Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette. “A Gringuenaude [i.e., Paris?]: chez Vincent d’Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant, rue du Gros Visage, a l’Enseigne du Privé Conseil, attenant l’Hôtellerie de la Fleur,”, [ca. 1740-1780].

12mo (129 x 76 mm.). viii, 64 pp. Half-title. Expressive woodcut vignette on title (a chamber pot and its contents). Occasional light spotting. 19th-century citron morocco, sides gilt panelled, spine gilt lettered longitudinally, turn-ins gilt, gilt edges, pair of vellum flyleaves, by Koehler, with his signature on verso of front... More about Histoire secrette du Prince Croque’Etron et de la Princesse Foirette

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MALFILÂTRE, Jacques Charles Louis (1733-1767). Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants. Paris: chez Chaignieau aîné, 1797.

18mo (150 x 85 mm). 205, [1 blank], [2] pp. Half-titles, two engraved titles, after Charles Eisen (Narcisse) and Moreau (Jugement), and 8 engraved plates, four in part 1 after Gabriel Jacques de St. Aubin, and four in part 2 after Moreau, most engraved by L. Duval. 2-page publisher’s catalogue... More about Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le...

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Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Marcus Tullius...

PETRARCA-MEISTER – CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 7 [i.e., 17] December 1531.

Bound with: JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Des hochberümptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini warhafftige Hystorien die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]. [And with:] HERODIANUS. Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus. [Both:] Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19 i.e., [29] August 1531.Three vols. in one, folio (303 x 203 mm). Cicero: [8], 91 ff. Title woodcut... More about Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber

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POPE, Alexander. Versuch an dem Menschen, In Vier Sitten-Briefen an Henrich St. Jean, Grafen von Bolingbroke, über Die Natur und den Zustand des Menschen. Frankfurt: Franz Varrentrapp, 1741.

8vo (193 x 121 mm). [46], 191, [1] pp. Title in red and black with engraved publisher’s device, text in French and German on facing pages in roman and gothic types, eight engraved illustrations, each printed twice, by Martin Tyroff after G. A. Koch, woodcut tail-pieces and passe-partout initial borders... More about Versuch an dem Menschen, In Vier Sitten-Briefen an Henrich St. Jean, Grafen von Bolingbroke,...

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PROVERBS – NUCERIN [Jean GILLES de Noyers]. Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos. Paris: Pierre Ménier II, [ca. 1605].

16mo (108 x 75 mm). [64] ff. Type ornament title border, printer’s woodcut device, woodcut initial and headpiece. Discreet marginal paper repairs to first half dozen leaves, causing loss to portions of title border, supplied in neat facsimile, a few other small marginal repairs. 19th-century green morocco, central gold-stamped arms... More about Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos

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