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Ad suos compagnones studiantes, qui sunt de persona friantes, bassas Dansas & Branlos...

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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Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Joseph BARROIS

BARROIS, Joseph (ca. 1785-1855). Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.

Large 4to (308 x 230 mm). [8], 360; 35 pp. Large-paper issue on heavy wove paper (papier vélin). Includes Greek printing. 61 plates of pen-and-ink lithographs with text, lithographed by Lalanne, printed by Lemercier, including one double-page plate and two chromolithographs with gold-printed captions. Occasional light foxing. presentation binding commissioned... More about Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments

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Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole. Ercole BENTIVOGLIO

BENTIVOGLIO, Ercole (1507-1573). Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1546.

Bound with: MORATO, Fulvio Pellegrino (d. 1549). Rimario de tvtte le cadentie di Dante, e Petrarca, raccolte per Pellegrino moretto Mantouano. Nouamente con la gionta ristampato. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, 1546 (colophon 1547). 2 vols. in one, 8vo (155 x 96 mm). BENTIVOGLIO: [1], 2-27 ff. Woodcut printer’s... More about Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole

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Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz &...

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz & gestes des illustres & celebres dames. Paris: [Jean Réal for] Philippe Le Noir, [Guillaume Le Bret, and others], 1538.

8vo (144 x 85 mm). [8], 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black. Bâtarde type. Small typographic pointing hands used in text throughout. Half-page woodcut opening text of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary, with reserved space for letterpress name, here “Jehan bocasse”; a variety of... More about Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz &...

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Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa. Antoine de BOURGOGNE, 1593/

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (1593/4-1657). Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa. Antwerp: widow Cnobbaert, 1652.

Small oblong 16mo (74 x 97 mm). Collation: a8 b4 A-M8. 2 parts, continuously paginated. [12] leaves, 191, [1 bl.] pp. Half-title, etched title, 93 full-page etchings. This copy includes the cancelled leaf A8, blank except for pagination and headline on the verso. Nineteenth-century red morocco with triple gilt fillet... More about Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa

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Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher,...

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). [Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher, Philomusus, in collaboration with Brant. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June 1497.

4to (195 x 135 mm). Collation: A-B6 C-H4.6 I4 K-X4.6 y6. 112 leaves, foliated with errors 1-”116”. 35-38 lines (variable) and headline. Types: gothic type 17:145 (title and headlines), roman type 22:89 (text). A few spaces for initials, unrubricated. 118 woodcut illustrations printed from 78 blocks. Title stained and soiled... More about Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher,...

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La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin...

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin version by Jakob Locher (1471-1528). Lyon: François Juste, 1530 (colophon: 29 June 1529).

4to (212 x 154 mm). 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank). Gothic types. Title printed in red and black within nine-part woodcut & metalcut title border, woodcut printer’s device in red and black. Red underlining to title. 119 woodcut illustrations printed from 108 blocks. Cuts on e6r and f2r... More about La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin...

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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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La destruttione di Gierusalemme del Sig. Conte Ridolfo Campeggi, e la prigiona del Santo Sepolcro...

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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Talpa literaria operi utili vacans et ter mille chronographicos exstruens, et exaltans a cervos...

CHRONOGRAMS – [SPORCK, Jan Rudolf]. Talpa literaria operi utili vacans et ter mille chronographicos exstruens, et exaltans a cervos in pratis, et in horto Parnassi. Prague: Franciscus Carolus Hladky, Archi-Episcopalis Typographus, [1752].

4to (207 x 167 mm). 326 pp. Title woodcut of Chronos, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, the tailpiece on p. 66 with the author’s name in intertwined letters, final tailpiece showing Mercury, the head-pieces with the imperial double-headed eagle. Occasional light browning. Contemporary Brokatpapier (Dutch-gilt paper)- covered boards, decorated with figures... More about Talpa literaria operi utili vacans et ter mille chronographicos exstruens, et exaltans a cervos...

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Les Oeuvres. Guillaume COQUILLART

COQUILLART, Guillaume (1452-1510). Les Oeuvres. Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1579.

16mo (118 x 72 mm). 256 pp. Roman type. Title woodcut of a convivial feast, woodcut initial. Tiny rust-hole in fol. E3, trifling foxing to title and second leaf. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides panelled with triple fillet border and central gold-stamped arms of the Marquis de Coislin, spine gold-tooled... More about Les Oeuvres

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Question royalle et sa décision. Jean DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, abbé de Saint-Cyran

[DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Jean, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581-1643)]. Question royalle et sa décision. “Paris: chez Toussainct Du Bray, 1609” [i.e., mid-18th century].

12mo (161 x 99 mm). [1], 56 (recte 65) ff. Woodcut title vignette (harvesting scene with lion at top), woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher’s binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges (joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded).***Counterfeit... More about Question royalle et sa décision

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Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam...

EGELANTIER – Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlijck ghespeelt, Anno 1591. Amsterdam: Herman Jansz. Muller, 1591.

8vo (143 x 95 mm). Collation: A-T8 (T8 blank). [302] pp. Text in gothic types, stage directions and lists of actors in italic. Title woodcut of a family meal, six text woodcuts of which 5 half-page and one smaller. Wormtrack in gutter of first few leaves, dampstaining to foremargins and... More about Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam...

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Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta...

EMBLEMS FOR THE DEAF — ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanni Battista (1753-1829). Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta Ottavio Assarotti, delle scuole Pie. Genoa, 1824.

Manuscript on laid paper, 4to (236 x 176 mm). 126 leaves, foliated [3], 1-3, [1], 4-42, [1], 43-51 [1] 52-61 [1] 62-103 [1] 104-118 (apparently complete). The numbered leaves containing one hundred and eighteen highly finished emblematic drawings, all full-page, explanations written on versos, the unnumbered leaves containing the title... More about Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta...

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De Lipsii latinitate (ut ipsimet antiquarii antiquarium Lipsii stylum indigitant) Palaestra I,...

ESTIENNE, Henri II (1531-1598). De Lipsii latinitate (ut ipsimet antiquarii antiquarium Lipsii stylum indigitant) Palaestra I, Henr. Stephani, Parisiensis: nec Lipsiomimi, nec Lipsiomomi, nec Lipsiocolacis: multóque minus Lipsiomastigis. Frankfurt am Main: [s.n.], 1595.

8vo (155 x 93 mm). [30] pp., [1 blank leaf], 560 pp. Woodcut title ornament, woodcut initials. Fresh, clean copy (single wormhole in text). Contemporary vellum tooled in silver-gilt, edges gauffered and gilt'; lacking fore-edge ties, slightly rubbed, small tear to front pastedown at gutter. PROVENANCE: ownership inscription on title... More about De Lipsii latinitate (ut ipsimet antiquarii antiquarium Lipsii stylum indigitant) Palaestra I,...

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Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita. Simon FÁBA,...

FÁBA, Simon (István) (1731-1801). Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita. Posonius [Bratislava]: Georg Aloysius Belnay, 1804.

8vo (193 x 118 mm). 160 pp. Two engraved plates: portraits of the author and of Franciscus Barkóczy, by Sebastian Mansfeld of Vienna. Contemporary marbled sheep, smoooth spine gold-tooled in six compartments, the second with beige calf gilt lettering-piece, floral Kattunpapier endpapers (covers a bit scratched, dent in front cover)... More about Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita

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Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus...

GREEK ANTHOLOGY. Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: Lorenzo (son of Francesco) di Alopa, 11 August 1494.

Median 4to (226 x 162 mm).Collation: [Greek type:] A-O AA-KK8; [LL]8 (A1r blank, A1v Greek alphabet and diphthongs, title and table of contents, A2r-KK8v text; [LL]1r Lascaris' verse epilogue in Greek, [LL]v-7v editor's dedicatory letter to Piero de' Medici in Latin, [LL]7v Latin colophon, [LL]8 blank). 280 leaves. Types: 5a..... More about Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus...

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Odysseia (Greek): Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq(ue) eius opuscula, seu...

HOMER. Odysseia (Greek): Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq(ue) eius opuscula, seu catalecta. Edited by Hubert van Giffen. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihel, [ca. 1572].

8vo (183 x 115 mm). Collation: *8 A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Fff8 Ggg10 hhh8 iii10 (inner bifolium of sheet Ggg misbound between iiii5 and iii6). [8 leaves], 837, [1] pp., [25] leaves. Rihel’s woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Editor’s dedication to Count Ludwig von Oettingen (*2r-A1v). Text in Greek on versos... More about Odysseia (Greek): Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq(ue) eius opuscula, seu...

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Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible :...

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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De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by...

L’ESPINE, Jean de (ca. 1505-1597). De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by Théodore Gautier. [Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1591.

8vo (173 x 110 mm). [24], 761, [15] pp. Roman and italic types, shoulder notes, woodcut printer’s device on title (Silvestre 1002), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed skin, edges stained green (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Jesuits of Amberg (Bavaria), 18th-century inscription on title, later paper... More about De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by...

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Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le...

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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Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio. Marco MARINI

MARINI, Marco (1541-1594). [Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio. Venice: Giovanni De Gara, 1585.

8vo (168 x 110 mm). [2], 102 ff. Hebrew, roman and italic types. Folding letterpress table (a syllabary). Title within type ornament border, printer’s device of three small woodcut crowns. Contemporary limp vellum, ms. title on upper edges (restored patch on lower cover, a few other small restorations). Provenance: Domenicus... More about Hebrew: Gan’ Eden]. Hortvs Eden. Grammatica lingvae sanctae.... Secunda aeditio

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Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis. MOREAU le jeune, Barthélemy IMBERT

MOREAU le jeune, illustrator. IMBERT, Barthélemy (1747-1790). Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis. Paris: (François Ambroise Didot for) Brunet, 1776.

8vo (162 x 109 mm). 16 pp. Half-title. Etched & engraved title and 4 plates by N. de Launay after Moreau le jeune. Woodcut headpiece by Beugnet, woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides with triple fillet panel, spine gold-tooled, turn-ins richly gold-tooled, g.e., by Chambolle-Duru. Provenance: Georges Danyau, bookplate.***First... More about Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou Les quatres reves accomplis

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