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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. Antoine de ARENA, ca. 1500-ca. 1544.

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

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

Price: $15,000.00

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

Price: $5,800.00

Il Decamerone. Edited by Nicolò Delfino. Giovanni BOCCACCIO.

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

[Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher, Philomusus, in collaboration with Brant. Sebastian BRANT.

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

La grand nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin version by Jakob Locher (1471-1528). Sebastian BRANT.

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

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

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

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

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Talpa literaria operi utili vacans et ter mille chronographicos exstruens, et exaltans a cervos in pratis, et in horto Parnassi. CHRONOGRAMS –, Jan Rudolf SPORCK.

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

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

Price: $8,500.00

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

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De Lipsii latinitate (ut ipsimet antiquarii antiquarium Lipsii stylum indigitant) Palaestra I, Henr. Stephani, Parisiensis: nec Lipsiomimi, nec Lipsiomomi, nec Lipsiocolacis: multóque minus Lipsiomastigis. Henri II ESTIENNE.

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

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Kalendarium humanæ vitæ. The Kalender of mans life. Robert FARLEY.

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

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Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

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

Le Jardin de contemplation. Jean HENRY, d. 1484.

[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

Odysseia (Greek): Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq(ue) eius opuscula, seu catalecta. Edited by Hubert van Giffen. HOMER.

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

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. Robert INCUNABLE BINDING WASTE – BURTON.

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

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. Guillaume de LA PERRIÈRE.

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

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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

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

[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

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De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]. Edited by Simon Goulart; translated by Théodore Gautier. Jean de L’ESPINE.

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

Price: $2,500.00

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

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

Price: $2,800.00

[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

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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

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Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Marcus Tullius PETRARCA-MEISTER – CICERO.

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

Bound with: JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Des hochberümptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini warhafftige Hystorien die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]... Translated into German by Hieronymus Boner. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19 August 1531.[And with:] HERODIANUS. Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus. Trans. by H. Boner from Poliziano’s Latin version. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19... More

Price: $22,000.00

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