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1520WRCAM17720Augsburg 1520. 4pp. Small quarto. Later plain paper boards. Marginal tears and old fold marks with slight discoloration else very good. "After the death of Ferdinand II Charles V succeeded to the Kingdom of Spain. In 1517 he proceeded to Spain which he left in 1520. At his departure he was very unpopular; he made this speech when he left and said 'That he did not see the happy faces with which he had been received.' He also mentions America in the following words: 'He might have been satisfied with the Spanish Empire the Balearic Islands and Sardinia the Kingdom of Sicily Italy and a large part of Germany and Gaul AND THAT OTHER GOLD-BEARING WORLD'" - Maggs. <br> <br> EUROPEAN AMERICANA locates only two copies at The New York Public Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale. There is also a Rome edition of which a copy is located at Harvard. The present copy appears to be the only one offered for sale in this century. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 520/17. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA I:33 this copy. PALAU 44419. ROTHSCHILD 3137. hardcover books
198412801<b>Signed & Inscribed First Edition First State copy a presentation copy by the internationally famed director to noted Polish writer/director Jerzy Skolimowski writer of Polanski's breakthrough film KNIFE IN THE WATER. Much better than very good copy slightly foxed to topedge leaves in like dust jacket showing light wear and a modicum of stain to spine & back panel not affecting the author portrait. This copy is a rarity indeed: it bears a full-page inscription by Polanski in Polish to Skolimowski translation provided by him on a laid-in sheet. In blue ink: "Romek. So you see what is happening / I am signing my biography to you / And it is in English / You could not have foreseen this / during those hot evenings / on Narutowicra Street / when you were served / fruit juices by Kuba / Love/ R." Signature a rarity today highly sought after; an inscription by him particularly one with this degree of meaning & history in such an association on a presentation copy is an extraordinary uniquity.</b> Morrow hardcover books
200822827Portland and Various 2008-2018 and counting. The collection is in generally fine condition. Complete with all inserts booklets ephemera etc. Lacking only perishables which were eaten by your cataloguer and occasional assorted Powell's swag mugs totes and like which were also appropriated by your cataloguer. More than 125 columes in total a complete inventory is available. <br/><br/>For more than ten years and over seventy installments Powell's Books Portland has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSIBLE series a subscription-only selection of specially-produced typically limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature Claire Messud George Saunders Michael Chabon Annie Proulx Donna Tartt J.M. Coetzee Jeffrey Eugenides Jonathan Franzen Siri Hustvedt and publishing MsSweeney's Graywolf Algonquin. Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release as well as one of more promotional titles usually ARCs or like but sometimes advance excerpts. We've been subscribers since volume one and over the ensuing decade this collection has come to represent one of the most diverse and vibrant portraits of contemporary letters and modern bookselling around — a tribute to both independent publishing and independent bookselling. With limitations for the initial installments were in the low hundreds not an easy collection to recreate esp. with all included ephemera and inserts — most of which include interviews with the featured writers not published elsewhere. A biographically and bibliographically significant collection. Price is as of current volume #76. Subscription will be maintained until sold. Price therefore subject to change. unknown books
15731669261573. ROMAN EMPERORS. Imagines XXIIII Caesarum a Iulio ad Alexandrum Severum usque ab antiquis marmoribus excerptae nuper impressae. Edited and engraved by Donato Bertelli. Engraved title-page and 24 full-page engraved portraits numbered I-XXIV of Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Severus Alexander. 4to. 228 x 168 mm bound in later Italian quarter vellum over boards edges speckled red. Venice: apud Donatum Bertellum ad signum divi Marci 1573. These 24 expressive portrait plates "extracted from antique marbles" show 23 of the 27 emperors who ruled during the Julio-Claudian Flavian and Nervan-Antonian dynasties in profile or three-quarter perspective plus a profile of Lucius Aelius AD 101-138 "L. Helius Verus Imp. XX" the adopted son of Hadrian who never ascended the throne. The group excludes Lucius Verus AD 130-169 co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius; Didius Julianus d. AD 193; Geta AD 189-211; and Macrinus who ruled temporarily with his son Diadumenian both executed in AD 218 according with the other known copies of this book which have 23-25 plates. The engraver and printer of this series Donato Bertelli fl. 1565-1574 is most famous for his cartographic publications notably Le vere imagini et descriptioni delle più belle città del mondo 1569 dedicated to J. J. Fugger von Kirchberg. Sparse annotations in contemporary ink. The plates are mounted on laid paper and bound out of order. Very rare. No known copies in the U.S. and no records at auction in ABPC. OCLC locates just one copy in Freiburg Germany and the Italian census EDIT 16 adds one more Biblioteca Ambrosiana Milan: CNCE 68584. DBI online Bertelli. Le Blanc Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes I p. 307. Not in Cicognara. hardcover books
15335435Lyons: François Juste 1533. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 14 x 6.3 cm. 1 f. 80 ff. woodcut architectural title border incorporating printer's initials 29 small woodcuts flanked by columns black-on-white woodcut initials. Bound in 19th-century red morocco gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet gold-tooled green morocco doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt in a pale blue chemise with green morocco spine label. Binding pristine with the fine ex libris of its previous owners affixed to the front flyleaf. A 1-cm paper flaw at f. 38 affecting a few letters very faint uniform browning. Only recorded copy of a very early illustrated edition 3rd of this anonymous collection of 'nouvelles' a literary genre presenting brief prose narratives taken from bourgeois life. The Parangon des nouvelles honnestes utiles et delectables following the famous Les cent nouvelles nouvelles c. 1460 collected vernacular tales purporting to be both true and current i.e. relating to recent events hence 'nouvelle' and so eschewed more established prose forms which relied on classical mythology historical exempla chivalric fantasy and animal fable in favor of reports on greedy merchants drunken millers lascivious housewives and the like. Largely derived from the Decameron of Boccaccio Lorenzo Valla's Apologues Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae and the anonymous Germanic Ulenspiegel the Parangon packaged together old and new for popular consumption resulting in what one scholar has called "a magma ready for every kind of metamorphosis" Pérouse 1977 p. 7 that is to say the unformed raw material that soon would cool into the more recognizable and longstanding genres of the novel and short story. These "issues of novelty fictional accreditation historical veracity and the chivalric narrative past . were also played out in a variety of other critical settings encompassing works both of shorter and longer fiction" most famously in François Rabelais' proto-novels Pantagruel 1532 and Gargantua 1534 exact contemporaries of the Parangon G. Norton p. 306. Often bawdy and salacious the nouvelle was initially overlooked by scholars of early-modern literature but today its status as a "non-mimetic self-conscious intertextual ironic perhaps even skeptical mode of writing" has cemented it as a pivotal precursor to a modern literary sensibility LaGuardia p. 16. In short the nouvelle frustrates and delights scholars today much as it did its contemporaries and its importance springs from the uneasy active reading it requires from its readers. The present volume's tall and slender 'agenda' format - a shape associated with easy portability and personal use - is very rare in this period occurring when it does almost exclusively in French Books of Hours a genre which blends private devotion prayer with a need for constant practical reference liturgical hours calendars see the Heures printed by Antoine Chappiel 1504 Pierre le Dru 1505-6 Gillet Hardouin 1509 and 1515 T. Kerver 1514 and Germain Hardouin 1534 and 1526; a notable secular exception is the Manuale Vergilianum Strasbourg Johann Grüninger 1507-10. It is intriguing that the impious casual tales of the Parangon should have been printed in a physical format with such pious overtones: does its unusual form merely result from a desire for easy practical use or does it carry some surplus of ironic meaning Even the book's program of illustration participates in an oddly modern mixing of material: its numerous woodcuts are quite clearly borrowed from other still untraced sources: figures seated at dinner a scholar with his amanuensis women spinning yarn a statue of Mars a monk preaching in his pulpit lovers embracing a man drunk on wine a mourner bent over a shrouded corpse a Janus-faced figure a sword duel - these all invite readers to puzzle out how such images might relate to each other and to the texts they supposedly elucidate. <br/> <br/> François Juste hardcover books
