Decorazioni a trasparenti nella Facciata del R. Palazzo di Finanza per festeggiare l'arrivo della Eccelsa Coppia Imperiale nel Febbrajo 1857
by MODENA FESTIVAL PROGRAM
(Modena: Tipografia della Regia-Ducal Camera), 1857. Small oblong folio (binding size 220 x 317 mm). Title printed in blue and gold within floral and foliate lithographic border in blue, with red wreaths and gold arrows at each corner; lithographic plate showing the grand facade of the Palazzo di Finanza within ornate floral and arabesque border with a putto at each lower corner, printed in red, green, and yellow, by the Litografia Goldoni in Modena; [4] pages text within ornamental... Read More
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Hortorum libri IV, et cultura hortensis. Hortorum historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier
by RAPIN, René; BROTIER, Gabriel, editor
Paris: J. Barbou, 1780. 12mo (149 x 82 mm.). [2] ff., xxxvi, 319, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece of a gardener in classical setting, by Benoît Louis Prévost, Barbou’s woodcut device on title, woodcut, typographic and engraved head- & tailpieces. Publisher’s list of other works from the Collection d’Auteurs Latins on last page. Printed on pale blue paper (papier bleuté). Fine. Contemporary French gold-tooled red morocco, covers tooled to a dentelle design, smooth spine gilt with flower tools, edges gilt,... Read More
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![Amélie, roman de Mr Fiedling [sic, corrected in titles of parts 2 and 3], Traduit de l’Anglois Par Mdme Riccoboni](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/690/756/546756690.0.l.1.jpg)
Amélie, roman de Mr Fiedling [sic, corrected in titles of parts 2 and 3], Traduit de l’Anglois Par Mdme Riccoboni
by RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières (1713-1792) – Henry FIELDING
Paris: Brocas & Humblot, 1762. 3 vols. in one, 12mo (162 x 97 mm). [2] ll., 176 pp.; [2] ll., 208 pp.; [2] ll., 271 pp. Fine. Contemporary French mottled calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece, edges stained red (foot of spine slightly chipped).*** First Edition of Mme. Riccoboni’s free adaptation of Fielding’s novel. Riccoboni was among the pioneering 18th-century female novelists who earned a living from their writing. Published the same year as a... Read More
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Serie di LXXXV. disegni in varie grandezze composti dal celebre pittore Salvator Rosa publicati ed incisi da Carlo Antonini
by ROSA, Salvator (1615-1673)
Rome: nella Stamperia dei Casaletti, 1780. Large folio (498 x 364 mm). 5, [1 blank] pages, engraved arms of the dedicatee Stanislas Potocki, engraved initial and tail-piece; 85 etchings printed in sanguine, by Carlo Antonini after Salvator Rosa, on 36 leaves, of which the last four full-sheet and folding, text and plates printed on thick paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys in a double circle above initial B (Heawood 1600). An excellent copy, the etchings in deep, clear impressions (small... Read More
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Tabulae physiognomicae
by ROSSI, Domenico de (fl. 1639)
Venice: Gaspare Corradiccio, 1639. 8vo (153 x 104 mm). [8] leaves, the last blank, 144 pp. Half-title. Double column tables throughout, woodcut and typographical ornaments. (Minor wormholes in last leaf.) Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards, manuscript title on lower edge (Tabule fisegnomicae [sic]).*** Only Edition of a series of detailed classification tables for the pernicious pseudoscience of physiognomy. 28 body parts or personal physical manifestations are tabulated. Starting from the top and moving outward, different characteristics of... Read More
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Figure del Vecchio Testamento, con versi Toscani
by SALOMON, Bernard (artist); MARAFFI, Damiano
Lyon: Giovanni di [Jean I de] Tournes, 1554. 8vo (151 x 102 mm). Printer’s woodcut device on title (Cartier 5), woodcut author portrait on title verso, 228 half-page woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. (Upper margins cut close, touching an occasional headline, title soiled and with repair to lower blank corner, small wormhole through woodcuts of 30 leaves [fols. A1-D6], larger wormhole in 7 leaves [fols. L3-M1], P5 with a small hole in cut, B5 with small burnhole affecting two words.)... Read More
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Glossae
by SALOMO III, Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gall (890-919), attributed to
[Augsburg: Monastery of Saints Ulrich and Afra, 1474. Royal folio (404 x 283 mm). Collation: [112 2-1410 158 16-2810 298]. [288] leaves, complete (1/1 blank, 1/2r preface, 1/2r-24/9r part I, 24/9v blank, 25/10r-29/8v part II). Fol. 2/5 is a cancel as always (stubs of 2/5 and 2/6 preserved, that of 2/5 bearing remnants of printed letters [see below]). 55 lines, double column. Type: 1:105R. Forty-four twelve-line woodcut white-vine capitals, printed from 23 blocks; numerous spaces for 2-line initials, the... Read More
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Carcer d'Amore
by [SAN PEDRO, Diego de (ca. 1437- ca. 1498)]
Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni, 1537. 8vo (145 x 94 mm). 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames, 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks, most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters (unrubricated). 19th-century green straight-grained morocco, sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina, his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners, gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina, 1st... Read More
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Catéchisme des courtisans ou les Questions de la cour et autres galanteries
by COURT SATIRE
“Cologne,”, 1680. Small 12mo (121 x 70 mm). 48 pp. Woodcut title ornament. Small stain to lower fore-edge of title-leaf. 19th-century jansenist green morocco, turn-ins gilt, gilt edges (by Duru, binder’s stamp erased from front flyleaf), extremities scuffed, spotting to binder’s flyleaves. Provenance: Armand Bertin (1801-1854), sale, Paris, Techener, 4 May 1854, lot 575; Félix Solar (1811-1870), sale, Paris, Techener, part 1, 19 Nov. 1860, lot 2039). *** Rare expanded edition of a Mazarinade, probably printed in Holland,... Read More
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Doubte Sceptique. Si l’estude des Belles Lettres est preferable à toute autre occupation
by SCEPTICISM — [LA MOTHE LE VAYER, François de (1588-1672)]
Paris: chez Louis Billaine, 1667. 12mo (128 x 77 mm). [18], 194, [1] pp. Title with woodcut device of Thomas Jolly (who shared the edition), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; printed shoulder-notes. (Occasional slight marginal discoloration.) Contemporary French gold-tooled red morocco, sides with two concentric triple fillet panels, fleurons at corners of the inner panel, spine gold-tooled and lettered in six compartments, board edges gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (in the style of Guilleminot-Chrétien no. 22, produced ca.... Read More
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A pair of embroidered silk fire screens
by FIRE SCREENS
[France, 1830. Two matching embroidered pole fire screens, oblong octagonals (202 x 290 mm.), sides of silk over thin boards or scaleboards, the decorated side of beige satin silk with a large central flowerpot containing sprigs and a large pink bow within ornate floral border between two white braided thread borders, outermost gilt ribbon border with tiny loops; the designs composed of metallic thread, pink flat sequins, molded white or silvery sequins, and couched gilt leaves: embossed leaves on... Read More
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![Al Ven[erabile] Clero, ed Amatissimo Popolo della Città, e Diocesi salute nel Signore, e spirito di Cristiana esultazione](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/574/670/1291670574.0.l.0.jpg)
Al Ven[erabile] Clero, ed Amatissimo Popolo della Città, e Diocesi salute nel Signore, e spirito di Cristiana esultazione
by SILK BINDING — SAPPA DE MILANESI, Carlo Giuseppe, (1788-1834), Bishop of Acqui
Acqui: Carolo Oddicini, 1821. 4to (binding size 253 x 207 mm). 8 pages, printed on yellow paper. Drop-title, large woodcut arms of the Bishop of Acqui. Case binding of white velvet over pasteboards, decorated with metallic thread and gilt and silver-gilt appliqués, both covers with outer border of a gilt and gauffred textile or paper strip, inner border of couched silver thread in a wavy line imitating a vine with “leaves” of purl and silver sequins, at center a... Read More
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Dissertações philosophico-politicas sobre o trato das sedas na comarca de Moncorvo
by SILK INDUSTRY, PORTUGAL — SÁ, José Antonio de
Lisbon: press of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1787. Narrow 4to (209 x 118 mm). [8], xiii, [3], 175 pages. Title-leaf (fol. [*2]) present in duplicate. Folding engraved plate of a mechanical silk loom; titles with woodcut arms of the Portuguese Royal Academy of Sciences, woodcut and typographic headpieces (occasional slight discoloration, small wormtrack in the folding plate). Contemporary cat’s-paw polished sheep, covers with gilt border, spine in six gold-tooled compartments, the second gilt lettered, edges gilt and gauffered... Read More
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La Metoposcopia overo Commensuratione delle linee della fronte ... Aggiuntovi una breve, e nuova Fisonomia, un Trattato dei Nei, & un’altro dell'Indole della persona, con molte curiosità
by SPONTONE, Ciro (ca. 1555-1612), attributed to
Venice & Verona: Andrea Rossi, 1672. 12mo (142 x 75 mm). Collation: A-F12 G4 (G4 blank). 150 pages. Forty-six woodcuts, of which one full-page, woodcut title ornament and initials. Wormtrack in gutter of last few leaves, affecting few letters on pp. 144-145, else a fine, fresh copy, untrimmed, in its original carta rustica binding.*** Rare pocket edition of a popular early manual of physiognomy, with crude woodcuts of male heads, all looking slightly concerned, as their simplistically lined... Read More
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Statuti Capitoli et Constitutioni del Ordine de' Cavalieri di Santo Stephano
by ORDER OF SAINT STEPHEN
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1566. Folio (310 x 203 mm). Collation: 1) a4 A-L4 Aa6 M4. [8] 86, [2], [20] pages. Italic types. Title within elaborate woodcut allegorical border, several sets of historiated woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device (the Medici arms) on verso of errata leaf (Aa6); quire Aa, the table, bound before quire M (the papal privilege). First and last quires foxed, occasional light foxing elsewhere, internal tear to fol. H3 with loss to woodcut initial on verso, small... Read More
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![[Broadside:] De tous les objets de Police & de surveillance confiés aux soins de l’administration, celui de la mendicité a dû le plus particulièrement fixer l’attention & exciter la sollicitude du Magistrat dans les circonstances présentes. Ce fléau semble s’accroître chaque jour dans notre ville..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/639/1693639836.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside:] De tous les objets de Police & de surveillance confiés aux soins de l’administration, celui de la mendicité a dû le plus particulièrement fixer l’attention & exciter la sollicitude du Magistrat dans les circonstances présentes. Ce fléau semble s’accroître chaque jour dans notre ville..
by POVERTY — HOMELESSNESS — STRASBOURG
Strasbourg: [Jean François Le Roux], 1789. Folio broadsheet (525 x 432 mm). Double column, French text on top and German text below, divided into four quadrilaterals by a horizontal thick and thin rule and a vertical woodcut of an ivy-entwined pole, woodcut arms of Strasbourg at top. The texts signed “Albert, Ex Commission.” Deckle edges, formerly folded, tiny tear at fold juncture, folds slightly browned, and darkened on verso. *** A broadside invitation to the citizens of Strasbourg... Read More
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La Creazione, e Le quattro stagioni Poste in musica dal Celebre J. Haydn. Manuscript libretto
by [SWIETEN, Gottfried Bernhard van] - HAYDN, Franz Joseph
[Turin?, 1835. Manuscript on paper. 4to (binding size 264 x 197 mm). [26] pp. Contents: Fol. 1r title, verso blank, f. 2r-5v text, La Creazione, incipit: "Raffaele / Creò dapprima Iddio il ciel, la terra; / Ma giaceva la terra informe e vuota," f. 6r half-title for Le quattro Stagioni, 6v-13v text, Le quattro Stagioni, incipit: "Coro di Contadini, e Contadine. / Vieni deh Flora, vieni / Prezioso don del Ciel." Written in brown ink in an elegant Italian... Read More
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Jérémie, Poëme en quatre chants. Avec sa priere, et sa lettre aux captifs, prêts a partir pour Babylone; dedié à Madame
by TORCHON-DESMARAIS, François (1736-1808)
Paris: G. Desprez, 1771. 8vo (200 x 130 mm). 126, [2] pp. Additional engraved title, 6 etched and engraved plates after Pierre Thomas Le Clerc by various engravers; woodcut headpiece by Caron, woodcut tailpieces, six different type-ornament headpieces. Printed on thick laid paper. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, covers with gold-blocked arms of Pope Clement XIX, fleurons at corners, smooth spine panelled with fleurons, stars, and other small tools, gilt edges (joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance: early price note on... Read More
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Quadrivio, il quale contiene un trattato della strada che si ha da tenere in scrivere Istoria. Un Modo, che insegna à scriver epistole latine, & volgari ... Alcune avvertenze del tesser dialoghi. Et alcuni artificii delle Ode di Oratio Flacco
by TOSCANELLA, Orazio (1520-1579)
Venice: Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. Small 8vo (151 x 103 mm). [8], 83 [recte 82], [1] leaves. Text in italics, dedication and headings in roman. Woodcut printer’s device on title (Prudentia gazing into a mirror held in her right hand, with motto on a banner "Prudentia negotia non fortuna ducat"), repeated on final verso, five woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp parchment, two thong sewing supports laced through joints, traces of two fore-edge ties, Toscanella in contemporary ink on spine, Quadrivio... Read More
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![This Indenture Witnesseth, That [Robert Shaw Son of Robert Shaw of the City of Lichfield Book Seller with his father’s consent .... ] doth put h[im]self Apprentice [to Richard Robinson of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Toymaker]..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/381/758/1744758381.0.l.jpg)
This Indenture Witnesseth, That [Robert Shaw Son of Robert Shaw of the City of Lichfield Book Seller with his father’s consent .... ] doth put h[im]self Apprentice [to Richard Robinson of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Toymaker]..
by BOOKSELLER’S INDENTURE INTO A MORE PROFITABLE TRADE
[Lichfield, England], 1736. Oblong document on vellum, upper edge scallopped (143 x 214 mm.), recto with letterpress form accomplished in manuscript, in brown ink (slightly faded but legible, one passage erased), large woodcut armorial initial and 2 pence duty mark, strip of three blue sixpence stamps, red wax seal, paper stamp on verso. (Slight soiling to corners and part of top edge.)*** A bookseller joins the toy trade: Robert Shaw, son of the Lichfield bookseller of the same... Read More
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![[Timaeus]. De universitate sive de origine mundi libellus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/135/542/1665542135.0.l.jpg)
[Timaeus]. De universitate sive de origine mundi libellus
by [PLATO]; CICERO (translator)
(Cologne: Quentel heirs, 1520. 4to (194 x 140 mm). Collation: A-B4. [15] pages. Woodcut initial on title, the latter in two sizes of large gothic types, text in small gothic types, leaded, epigram on title and text heading in roman. (Small stain in top of gutter margins, small inkstain on A1v, f. B3 corner clipped.) Bound in early 18th-century South German pasteboards completely overpainted in imitation of a Renaissance binding: both covers painted in watercolor and gouache on a... Read More
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A painted and lacquered letter case, with maritime decoration
by LETTER TUBE
[France, late 18th or early 19th century]. Two-part cylindrical case (125 mm. long, diameter 21 mm.), in a light, lacquered wood, the central compartment lined with a tortoiseshell tube which is inserted into upper compartment, flattish ends, both compartments relined with cork, incised gilt metal bands at each juncture; the cases painted with sailboats on a windy sea viewed from the shore with trees, on a bright emerald green ground, small roses painted on each end. Fine condition (a... Read More
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Prolyta Victorius Emmanuel Stellardi Taurinensis aulae regiae clericus ad Theologiae Lauream..
by TURIN, UNIVERSITY
Turin: s.n., 1836. 4to (binding size 257 x 203 mm). 20 pp. Case binding of ivory watered silk over pasteboards, covers richly embroidered with a variety of gilt metallic appliqués, both covers with outer border of braided or needle-looped silver thread, enclosing a frame of scrolling hatched gilt onlays, ornamented with laurel sprigs, tiny stars and concave gilt roundels creating a jewel-like effect, at each corner a pair of laurel branches built up from individual gilt leaf appliqués mounted... Read More
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Tooneel van de Mannelicke Achtbaerheyt, aen-gewesen in de Voor-sprake, teghen-sprake, ende uyt-sprake, gedaen over de weygheringhe van de Koninginne Vasthi
by VAN DE VENNE, Adriaen, artist; CATS, Jacob (1577-1660)
Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne, 1622. 4to (233 x 176 mm). [16], 60, [19], [1 blank] pp. Large emblematic publisher’s mark on title-page, four half-page engraved illustrations, by Pieter de Jode (2), Pieter Serwouters, and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Short marginal tear to title, light dampstaining to first and last leaves. Later parchment over pasteboards, ms. spine title. Provenance: Samuel Ashton Thompson... Read More
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Ardore di Amore. In cui si contiene Serenate, Capitoli e Stanze da Giovani innamorati. Con aggiunta d'Alcune Villanelle alla Napolitana e Sonetti dilettevoli
by [VERINI, Giovanni Battista]
Lucca: Salvatore & Giandomenico Marescandoli e Compagni, 1782. 18mo? (145 x 101 mm). Collation: A24 (vertical chainlines). 48 pp. Crude title woodcut of a musician serenading a woman at her window, archaic woodcut headpiece and two initials. Mostly light dampstaining (heavier at end), short marginal tear to title. Contemporary carta rustica wrappers.*** Apparently unrecorded chapbook edition of a collection of popular love poems, serenades, and other rhythmic verses, to be set to music, most if not all by... Read More
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