5 résultats
158330836Venice: Appresso Fabio & Agostin Zopini fratelli 1583. 8vo 14.6 cm 5.75". 8 206 1 ff. lacking original final blank. <br><br>Later edition of collected satires by famous Italian authors edited by one of them Francesco Sansovino 152186.<br>Â Â Â Â Sansovino dedicates this collection to the historian Camillo Portio Porzio 1526 ca. 1580 and introduces it with an essay on the material of satire which he breaks down as "pure simplicity with severe acerbity sometimes mixed with a bit of salt or with some feature that is tasty and acute." Prior to this Sansovino also worked on the satires of Ariosto 14741533 separately published.<br>Â Â Â Â The text is divided into sections by author each of whom the editor introduces with a brief biography. A short abstract printed in roman precedes each poem printed in italic. Fine woodcut head- and tailpieces and a variety of initials in historiated patterned and factotum designs decorate the text; and the title-page features the woodcut printers' device of Truth personified flanked by an eagle a lion a bull and an angel representing the Four Evangelists.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership inscription on front fly-leaf of Luigi Pagani Cesa possibly the Italian jurist born at Belluno in 1855 who served as a member of Parliament for 190413; and the words "penso che" "I think that . . ." written above in an earlier hand <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adams A1691; CNCE 2806. Later glazed cream-colored boards title and date inked on upper spine small paper label on lower spine marbled red edges; boards soiled and front joint opening. One spot of worming on front pastedown and on colophon leaf; traces of former mounting on colophon leaf verso. Title-page with one letter added in manuscript o in Bentivoglio. Trimmed close at margins almost grazing headline on a few leaves. Very minor stains on a few leaves generally bright and crisp. Appresso Fabio, & Agostin Zopini fratelli hardcover books
1556044543Lyon: Guglielmo Rouillio 1556. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary overlapping vellum darkened spine perished binding a little loose light wear to last few pages early underlining in a few discrete spots light scattered foxing otherwise clean internally. A charming little edition with woodcuts throughout. Rare. Adams 1667 Graesse A198. Size: 16mo . One volume of the 2-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044543. <br/><br/> Guglielmo Rouillio hardcover books
1556001310Lyons: Bastiano di Bartholomeo Honorati 1556. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 511 40 pp. 8vo 17 by 11 cm 6.5 by 4 inches. With woodcut illustrations for each canto above the "Argomento". 52 woodcuts in text plus title illustration plus a few header/footers and ornamented letter at beginning of each canto. Also Exposition by Ludovico Dolce and useful table or index. Brunet I 433. Light dampstaining to early pages hardly distinguishable from general age toning which is moderate in this copy. Small inkstain on title page corner and some occasional minor spotting elsewhere. Some wear to calf boards with minor chipping along edges. Rebacked sympathetically. Attractive modern marbled endpapers. Tight copy. <br/><br/> Bastiano di Bartholomeo Honorati unknown books
1542173105Venetia: Appresso Gabriel Iolito di Ferrari 1542. Leather bound. Good front hinge weaker than rear hinge wear tpo extremities text block and pages clean and tight. Full red leather with elaborate gilt embossed design front and back reeded gilt edges to covers five raised bands with gilt devices in compartments and applied leather label. All edges gilt with impressed cross design on all three text block edges. Ancient marbled endpapers with bookplate of Olin Lane Merriam on inside front pastedown. 260 xx leaves collated complete title page within engraved architectural border text with 46 woodcut engravings and engraved initial at beginning of each canto in text wood-engraved oval bust portrait of Ariosto on verso of leaf 260; unpaginated 20-leaf commentary by Lodovico Dolce has its own title page with wood-engraved vignette of phoenix rising at center of title page and verso of last leaf. This is the first complete printing with the "Espositione di tutti i vocaboli et luoghi difficili . con vna brieue dimostratione di molte comparationi & sentenze dall' Ariosto in diuersi autori imitate / raccolte da M. Lodovico Dolce" 20 leaves at end has special t.p." at rear after portrait. A lovely example in an exceptional binding. Appresso Gabriel Iolito di Ferrari hardcover books
15915552London: Richard Field 1591. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to in sixes 26.8 x 18.6 cm. 9 ff. 423 pp. 1 p. 5 ff. with 1 full-page engraved frontispiece and XLVI full-page engravings woodcut headpieces tailpieces and initials woodcut printer's device on colophon ruled in red ink throughout. Bound in 17th-century paneled calf rebacked with original spine laid down raised bands spine gilt in six compartments old paper label in top panel gold-tooled borders gold-tooled cornerpieces and board edges marbled pastedowns marbled edges. Some rubbing and wear to spine and boards corners neatly repaired. Preserved in a custom quarter red morocco box some damage to spine of box. Marginal finger-soiling and occasional other minor old staining some offsetting a few edge mends at title final prelim. leaf and pp. 59 81 103 109 290 295 small corner loss at p. 237 inconsequential rub to plate IX the occasional contemporary manuscript correction. Provenance: contemporary signature erased from title 'Montagu' signature 'Marie M.' in the margin of p. 343 "E. G. C." or "G. E. C." gilt initials on spine Hopetoun House presentation label from Martin dated 1822 Hopetoun bookplate W. A. White ownership signature dated 4 June 1890; Arthur Amory Houghton book label. Generally very good. Rare first edition of Orlando Furioso translated by the Elizabethan courtier and poet Sir John Harington 1560-1612 - the first English version of Ludovico Ariosto's 1454-1553 famous epic poem - here with its 47 full-page engravings enriched with exceptionally fine contemporary hand-coloring complete with extensive silver and gold accents and giving every appearance of being a presentation copy. Hand-coloring of this quality is outstandingly rare in any English work of this period and such an extensive suite of illustrations is very unusual for purely literary works. Containing "the best known engraved illustrations in an English book before 1700" Hodnett p. 46 Harington's Orlando Furioso represents a landmark in engraving in England an achievement that Harington himself highlighted in his prefatory comments on the "vse of the Pictures" in the book noting that its images "are all cut in brasse and most of them by the best workemen of that kinde" and that he had "not seene anie made in England better nor in deed any of this kinde in any booke." He further states that although England had produced some impressive illustrated volumes "all their figures are cut in wood & none in metall and in that respect inferior to these" fol. Ar. In these remarks "Harington gives us the first critical comment on book illustrating by an Englishman" Hodnett p. 46 and by citing the fine English woodcut books of "Liuy Gesner Alciats emblemes a booke de Spectris in Latin & in our tong the Chronicles the booke of Martyrs the book of hauking and hunting and M. Whitneys excellent Emblems" he announces his intention to produce an illustrated volume comparable to the best yet produced in England. In a further extraordinary step Harington had a handful of copies decorated by the best illuminators available thus elevating these select examples beyond even the most excellent English woodcut books and thereby creating a place for purely literary works in the pantheon of early English book illustration. for full description visit our website at www.martayanlan.com <br/> <br/> Richard Field hardcover books
