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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

Price: $2,600.00

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

Price: $15,000.00

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

Price: $5,200.00

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone. Edited by Nicolò Delfino. Venice: Gregorio de Gregori, May 1516.

4to (230 x 159 mm). large-paper. [2], 352, [9] leaves (a few misfoliated), final blank leaf removed. Colophon on fol. 352v, followed by 3 pp. errata, 1 blank page and 14 pp. table of contents. Italic type, spaces for initials with guide letters. Paper watermarked with crossbow in circle surmounted... More

Price: $45,000.00

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le plaisant livre de noble Jehan Boccace, poète florentin, auquel il traite des faits et gestes des illustres célèbres dames. Paris: Philippe Le Noir [and Guillaume Le Bret], 4 March 1538 [1539 N.S.].

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

Price: $6,000.00

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

Price: $20,000.00

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

Price: $40,000.00

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

Price: $14,000.00

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

Price: $975.00

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

Price: $3,900.00

[COQUELET, Louis]. Eloge des paysans. Aux paysans. Paris: [Antoine de Heuqueville for] Pierre Morisset, 1731.

12mo (141 x 75 mm). [12], 81, [1] pp. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces by Vincent Le Sueur (signed Vi L S) and initials. 18th-century calf, smooth spine gold-tooled, red morocco lettering-piece, edges red-stained (wear to extremities, covers rubbed). ***First Edition of a social satire of the privileged classes. The preface... More

Price: $1,600.00

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

Price: $7,800.00

[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

Price: $1,750.00

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

Price: $9,500.00

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

Price: $22,000.00

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

Price: $5,500.00

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

Price: $400.00

FARLEY, Robert. Kalendarium humanæ vitæ. The Kalender of mans life. London: for William Hope, 1638.

8vo (142 x 91 mm). [152] pp. (plus 2 extra leaves). Final blank removed. Engraved title by George Glover, 16 full-page emblematic woodcuts, the oval emblems set within repeating ornamental cartouches (using 3 series of blocks), with inset letterpress Latin and English captions; typographical ornaments, woodcut factotum initials. This copy... More

Price: $6,500.00

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

Price: $60,000.00

[HENRY, Jean (d. 1484)]. Le Jardin de contemplation. (colophon:) Paris: Jean Petit, 25 October 1516.

8vo (134 x 90 mm). Collation: a-z8 et8 A-D8. [224] leaves, including final blank. Batarde types, 27 lines. Publisher’s woodcut device on title (not in Renouard), 8- and 4-line metalcut initials. Colophon printed in a cruciform X-shape. Title and last leaf stained, occasional small stains elsewhere, minor worming in lower... More

Price: $10,000.00

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

Price: $3,200.00

INCUNABLE BINDING WASTE – BURTON, Robert (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it.… by Democritus Junior…. The Sixt[h] Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Oxford: (Printed by R. W.) for Henry Cripps (and are to be sold by Andrew Crook in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd in Popes-head Ally), 1651.

Folio (285 x 187 mm). [4] leaves, 78, [6], 217, “454” [= p. 218], [4], “216” 220-723, [1 blank] pp., [5] leaves, plus engraved allegorical title by Christof Le Blon (Johnson 35:1). Table at end in two columns. Woodcut head-pieces, some flanked or surrounded by type ornaments, woodcut initials. Ink... More

Price: $9,500.00

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

Price: $6,500.00

[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

Price: $1,500.00

[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

Price: $1,250.00

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