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1725164132Londra: Tommaso Edlin 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean one stain to one sheet both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments showing wear all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s with signed binder Estes and Lauriat Boston.Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page ten10 sheets including Prefazione then 284 numbered 12 49 pp. ozzervazioni. Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment a lovely copy. Tommaso Edlin hardcover books
1802270391Livorno: Tomasso Masi 1802. hardcover. very good. 217 pages Vita di Dante Alighieri in 80 pages Testamento in 8 pages Lettere di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in 50 pages. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Livorno: Thomas Masi 1802. Very good .<br/><br/> Tomasso Masi unknown books
1954103993Lexington Kentucky: Gravesend Press 1954. quarter paper-covered boards with decorated paper-covered covers. Gravesend Press. 12mo. quarter paper-covered boards with decorated paper-covered covers. vi 48 2 pages. First edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. With woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. A "story of roguery" from the fourteenth century. A wonderful association item as this copy bears the following presentation at the top of the free endpaper "For John DePol with friendly greetings from Joe Graves Oct. 21st 1955" and has John DePol's bookplate on front pastedown. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Gravesend Press unknown books
1765226188Venice: Tomasso abettinelli 1765. hardcover. very good. E corredato con Note riguardanti al buon indirizzo di chi desidera scrivere con purita e proprieta Toscana a norma dell'uso presente: Si aggiungono col medesimo divisamento la Lettere dell'istesso Autore. Per Alessandro M. Bandiera. 2 volumes thick 12mo contemporary vellum brown leather spine label rubbed. Venezia: Tommaso Bettinelli 1765. Very good .<br/><br/> A heavily annotated edition with a collection of Boccaccio's letters a glossary and index.<br/><br/> Tomasso abettinelli unknown books
1702040048Cologne: Jacques Gaillard 1702. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Romain de Hooge. 2 volumes in contemporary full leather heavily worn at edges hinges split but boards still attached. A few ink marks to titles minor dampstaining and wear to endpapers and last few pages otherwise clean. With the lovely Hooge illustrations throughout. Volume 1 with a frontis and the title in red and black. 366pp plus table 427 plus table. Styled the Second Edition but really the third after 1697 and 1699. Graesse: "tres recherchée a cause des gravures."les éditions posterieures apres 1697 1699 et 1702 ne sont ni rare ni estimées". Brunet 142 Size: duodecimo 12mo. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Romain de Hooge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 040048. <br/><br/> Jacques Gaillard hardcover books
1571289674Venetias.: Giorgio Angeliieri. 1571. Contemporary plain parchment. Good text detached from covers “Boccaccio†inked out on title page old ownership stamp to title page some mostly marginal dampstains old ink notes to pastedowns. . 12 mo. 13x8 cm. . Italian text. An uncommon edition of this prose romance. weight: 0.2 lb. Woodcut initials. Giorgio Angeliieri. unknown books
1900292400New York: Grolier Club 1900. Limited. hardcover. very good. Large folding view of Florence frontispiece portrait of Dante. With an Introduction and a Note on the Portraits of Dante by G. R. Carpenter title in red and black decorations and rubricated initials throughout. 186 pages. 8vo original orange vellum with ornate peacock design embossed in white. New York: Grolier Club 1900. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Limited Edition one of 300 copies on Italian hand-made paper.<br/><br/> Grolier Club unknown books
194039576New York: The Heritage Press 1940. 1st edition thus i.e. the 1st version published by Heritage Press with Kredel's woodcut illustrations ca 1948 Cf. Sandglass No. 11L. Full tan sheepskin binding gilt stamped lettering and raised bands to spine. TEG. Brown paper slipcase gilt printing to one side. Light wear to binding spine slightly sunned and has some small stains to the lower spine. Box rubbed and sunned gilt fading. A VG copy in a Good slipcase. xxii 536 2 pp. Renaissance-style woodcuts by Kredel throughout. 10-1/2" x 7-3/4" <br/><br/>"The typography has been planned by George Macy." - Colophon The Heritage Press hardcover books
1896768327534 vols. 1st edition of this extensively illustrated translation into English with an engraved title pages and 100 plates one for each tale. This is the deluxe issue number 32 of only 50 copies printed on Japan vellum and bound in publisher's full vellum. Vellum dusty else a very good set. Scarce. The regular issue on paper is always available this deluxe issue is not. Gibbings books
1816040435Italia Pisa: Co'Caratteri di F. Didot 1816. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 4 folio volumes in decorative paste paper boards. Wear and some bumping at corners and spines ends spines gently sunned and darkened occasional browning and discoloration internally light foxing a few worm holes in upper margin of a few pages at rear of final volume light foxing. A very attractively printed wide margined edition of the Decameron F.A. Ebert 203 "A splendid edition" Brunet I 1003. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 040435. <br/><br/> Co'Caratteri di F. Didot hardcover books
172928931Florence: Philippo di Guntia 1729. Large 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 7 284 ff. Contemporary vellum spine lettered direct in gilt covers a bit soiled and bowed<br/> <br/>The classic masterpiece of early Italian prose.<br/> <br/>This series of one hundred novellas set against the background of a plague-ridden Florence would have a profound influence on Renaissance literature throughout Europe. Although dated 1527 on the title this edition edited by Stefano Orlandinin and printed at the cost of Salvatore Ferrari was in fact printed in Venice in 1729 as a facsimile of the Giunta 1527 edition. It is sometimes referred to as the Consul Smith edition after Joseph Smith 1682-1770 the British consul at Venice and noted book collector who was involved in its production.<br/> <br/>Adams B 2147; Brunet I 999; Graesse I 440. Philippo di Guntia unknown books
19301022371930. BOCCACCIO Giovanni. The Decameron. Two volumes. xiii 199; 200-382 4 pp. 4to. bound in recent half maroon morocco matching red silk over boards black morocco spine labels gilt. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1930. One of the earliest publications of the Limited Editions Club and one of the most elegant. The books were designed by T.M. Cleland and printed by A. Colish. The chapter headings are beautifully printed in different colours. One of an edition of 1500 copies signed by Cleland. hardcover books
19528592Verona. Editiones Officinae Bodoni. 1952. Bound in half gilt ruled Vellum and paper covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. t.e.g. 4to. 7.5" x 11.5 This Edition has been pinted in Griffo type on the hand-press in 225 numbered copies on hand-made Fabrino paper of which this is number 93. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Bartolommeo Di Giovanni for a lost Quattrocentro Edition which were used to illustrate various later texts and now been reesembled and recut by Fritz Kredel. Very mild usual foxing to fore-edge. Very slight foxing to front and rear pastedowns. A Very Fine crisp copy. Editiones Officinae Bodoni. hardcover books
1934307366London: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell 1934. #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to. This copy is one of an unspecified but small number of copies bound in full blue morocco t.e.g. on the rough rest uncut Colin Franklin notes the standard binding as "half bound in morocco on linen". #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
1590D6205Venice: appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni 1590. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x154mm. 8 544pp 92 index epithets glossary by Ruscelli. Collation: ast. 4; A-2M 8; 2N 2; 2O-2R 8; 2S 4. Woodcut printers device to title. Oval woodcut portrait of Luigi Groto Cieco dAdria 1541-1585 facing first text page 10 woodcut illustrations numerous woodcut initials most historiated with griffins putti other figures or foliage and decorative chapter head- and tailpieces. Text in italic type; headlines chapter headings and marginalia in Roman. Printed marginalia. Early vellum; title with upper margin stained cancelled inscription and small tear some wear mostly on preliminaries; joints starting. Collection inscription in abbreviated Italian on front pastedown dated 1841 possibly from a Jesuit Society. Early booksellers stamp C. Simms of Manchester. <br/><br/>Good large quarto copy of Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron redacted by Luigi Groto 1541-1582 from the edition edited by Girolamo Ruscelli 1500s-1556 and first published two years previously. Groto a minor Venetian writer reworked Boccaccios famous tale; retaining parts of the original parable but also creating his own tangents. Groto for instance created a predicament concerning a young man who finds himself confronted by three different ladies he has been secretly courting. When his deceit is discovered he must answer as to which of them is his true love. The lengthy narration of the amoroso imbroglio is Grotos own literary stamp and he hoped with these revisions he would gain literary fame stating I will give life and light to Boccaccio and he will do likewise for me . I will rescue him from darkness and burial and he in turn will rescue me from obscurity Ironically Grotos retelling of the Decameron remains known for it deformations of the tale rather than its celebration. Each of the ten sections are preceded by an overview written by Ruscelli the well-known editor of Ptolemys Geographia of 1754 and a large woodcut illustration depicting narrative scenes of the Decameron tale. Brunet I 1002; STC Italy I: p.256. appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni hardcover books
1574D11148Venice: Giovanni Antonio Bertano 1574. Paperback. Very Good. 4to 204 x 148mm. 1 16 263pp. 2 leaves including final blank. Signatures: A-KK 8. Front flyleaf with likely 18th-century half-title added in manuscript calligraphic script over undulating ownership inscription on ribbon De Me Giovanni Agostino Panater and palm or quill on island in sea with ship signature repeated on title. Woodcut printers device of Bertano of young stork bring food to decrepid parent in the nest and motto on filial piety Pietas Homini Tutissima Virtus Compassion is the safest power. Few woodcut initials throughout. Italian translation by Giovanni Betussi. Dedicated to Count Collaltino di Collalto. Contemporary limp vellum ms. title to spine; spine darkened head cap chipped with loss text block loose in binding; intermittent browning title with old owners signatures cancelled minor marginal worming added half-title with ink oxidation. The whimsical added title complements this monumental Italian humanist work; a defense of poetry and a synthesis of ancient mythological sources which justified the study of pagan literature within a Christian context. <br/><br/>Betussis Italian translation of Boccaccios medieval work on progeny in classical times a veritable mythological encyclopedia that aimed to solve questions about lines of succession. Boccaccios Genealogia sought to preserve the past from oblivion by creating an almanac of inter-related families including the competing noble houses in order to organize lines of descent. With the Genealogia Boccaccio aimed to solve contradictory accounts of hereditary matters by assuming the existence of pagan gods and organizing their progeny - Jupiter I and Jupiter II for instance. Perhaps most contentious was Boccaccios identification of Demogorgon as the ultimate progenitor of all pagan divinities description starting on page 5 who was also associated with Satans netherworld conspirators. The Genealogia reputedly had been copied and transmitted before its completion apparently without the consent of Boccaccio. The earliest Latin editions all follow the first of 1472. This is a later edition of Giuseppe Betussis Italian translation of the Genealogia; Betussis first was printed in Venice by Comino da Trino di Monferrato in 1547. Nearly a dozen subsequent editions follow this date well into the seventeenth century. Betussi was a prominent man of letters in Paduas Accademia and was at the avant-garde of those promoting the substitution of Italian for Latin as the language of scholarly literature. To his edition Betussi added a ten-page biography of Boccaccio and alphabetical indices corresponding to page numbers not book or chapter. The Genealogia became a standard reference works for readers who wished to disentangle the complexities of Greco-Roman mythology. The work was enormous in scope covering approximately 950 individuals groups and beasts both named and unnamed in fifteen books and 723 chapters with over a thousand citations from Greek Roman medieval and Trecento authors. Near the end of the sixteenth century the Genealogia while mostly out of the public eye still provided source material for numerous authors including Edmund Spenser and his work on Christianized paganism. This edition rare OCLC lists one other in Toulouse. Giovanni Antonio Bertano paperback books
1627177918Venice: Per il Valentini 1627. Hardcover. Poor sewing coming undone foxing and staining of vellum present marks on pastedown endpapers missing otherwise complete. Bound in vellum on board with 3 raised bands. Woodblock capitals and incidental designs. 20 leaves 247 leaves. "Of the geneology of the gods." Binding copy. Fifteen books dealing with "all the gods of the gentiles" along with the life of Giovanni Boccaccio. Per il Valentini hardcover books
1803270497Milan: Societa Tipografica 1803. hardcover. very good. 4 volumes. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Milan: Societa Tipographica 1803. Very good .<br/><br/> Societa Tipografica unknown books
1609006287Paris: Matthieu Guillemot 1609. "Reueue Corrigee & mise en meilleur ordre en ceste nouuelle Edition A Paris Chez Matthieu Guillemot au Palais en la gallerie des prisonniers." RARE early French edition with Italian and French texts on facing pages. Rectos French only are numbered. 458 pp. Very Good bound in full calf gilt title at spine faded yet legible 5 raised bands with gilt rules red title label edges of boards rubbed prior owner name front end page dated 1823 light toning to end pages contents clean and remarkably free of toning or foxing. Written by Boccaccio in the years 1343-1345 "La Fiammette" "has been called the first psychological novel in a modern language". First Edition Thus. Full Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Matthieu Guillemot Hardcover books
182025277Firenze: presso Gius. Molini e comp. all'insegna di Dante 1820. Edition limited to 110 copies this one of 100 on regular paper; tall and very narrow 4to 348 x 75mm. pp. vii 1 307 1; wood-engraved vignette on title page and colophon on which it is recorded that this is the first book printed in the "papiriforme" i.e. column-like style; wood-engraved ornaments; original black morocco rebacked in matching green straight-grain morocco original label lettered and decorated in gilt preserved black coated endpapers a.e.g. long ribbon bookmark detached; some relatively minor waterstaining insect loss to the fore-margins of the last 5 leaves never touching letterpress else generally very good and sound. Each full page contains 118 lines of text plus headlines while each line is generally less than 10 words; the book is nearly 5 times as tall as it is wide. I'm willing to state this is the most unusual edition of The Decameron ever published though far from the rarest: OCLC finds 7 copies 5 in the U.S. <br/><br/> [presso Gius. Molini e comp.] all'insegna di Dante unknown books
1935313189Oxford: Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. No. 132 of 325 copies. The text for this edition is from Isaac Jaggard's English translation of 1620. The illustrations are from a 1492 edition published in Venice by the De Gregorii brothers. 4to. Three quarters blue morocco and cloth sides t.e.g. rest uncut. Minor fading to spine else fine. No. 132 of 325 copies. The text for this edition is from Isaac Jaggard's English translation of 1620. The illustrations are from a 1492 edition published in Venice by the De Gregorii brothers. 4to. A handsomely bound copy of this modern fine press edition of the Decameron. Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
195013962Paris: Verve 1950. This issue of <i>Verve</i> features two sets of illustrations for Boccaccio's <i>Decameron</i> one set the so-called Duke of Burgundy version consists of twenty six miniatures reproduced in full color photogravure. The publisher of <i>Verve</i> Tériade found these black and white washes in Chagall's studio in 1948 and immediately wanted to use them in conjunction with the Duke of Burgundy miniatures. For the most part the selections from the miniatures were driven by linking them to the appropriate Chagall drawing so only about a quarter of the full set of 100 miniatures were used in this issue of <i>Verve</i>. These washes were a new development for Chagall making use of different techniques both brushes and pens as well as a wide range of shades of grey and black. The juxtapositon of the two media made for a memorable issue of Verve. The book opens with a poem by Jacques Prevert and an introduction by Frantz Calot then the curator of the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal home of the Duke of Burgundy miniatures.This copy is inscribed from Chagall to a Monsieur Abeel Venice 1957. Laid in is a typed signed note from Chagall's wife Valentina along with the typed envelope addressed to M. Abeel at a hotel in Venice postmarked 1960. The note is regarding an invitation to dinner with the Chagalls.Very good condition overall with some of the usual problems with the exterior--paper of the corners chipped several smallish pieces missing from the spine one closed tear and one tear with a triangular piece missing. Most of the pieces of the cover are still present if folded. Held in place by the clear plastic cover. Signatures are securely sewn. Interior is near fine. Please see accompanying photographs. Anthonioz <i>Verve</i> page 213. Verve hardcover books
1552184537Venetia: V. Valgrisio 1552. Leather bound. Fair heavy wear to leather boards with sections worn off. Expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise clear and binding is fairly tight. Bound in brown leather boards; five raised bands and gilt tooling on spine; all edge red tinted; red and blue marble illustrated end papers; bw illustrated title page; 10 487 10 pp. The rear of the book contains a separate section titled "Vocabolario Generale di Tutte le Voci Vsate dal Boccaccio." which is 67 pp. Text in Italian. "La vita di m. Giovan Boccaccio descritta da m. Francesco Sansovino": p. 1-6. V. Valgrisio unknown books
15382986Paris: Jean Réal for Philippe Le Noir Guillaume Le Bret and others 1538. 8vo 144 x 85 mm. 8 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black bâtarde type small typographic manicules pointing hands used throughout. Half-page woodcut of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary with reserved space for letterpress name here "Jehan bocasse"; a variety of metalcut floriated initials final verso with woodcut device of Guillaume Le Bret Renouard 588. Title with old repair at top slightly affecting 2 letters a couple of tiny holes worming in or near gutters catching a few letters in quires R-T skillful discreet repairs in ff. CC3-6 small stain in quire M. Nineteenth-century French blue straight-grained morocco ca. 1820 covers with gilt rule border enclosing blind roll-tooled neoclassical frame and central blind-stamped lozenge spine gold-tooled and lettered board edges gold-tooled gilt edges green patterned pastepaper endleaves corners very lightly bumped else fine. A few old effaced inscriptions.An attractive copy of the second edition of De mulieribus claris in French using the text of Antoine Vérard's edition of 1493. Although Vérard had tried to pass the translation off as his own it was in fact a slightly revised version of an anonymous French translation made ca. 1401. Vérard's editions of Boccaccio in French had made the writer more accessible to a French public but it was not until the sixteenth century that his works became more widely known and frequently imitated. This was the "golden age" for Boccaccio in France which would draw to a close with the restrictions placed by the Church on the racier passages of the Decameron.On Famous Women was the first biographical survey devoted exclusively to women in Western literature. But in spite of the plethora of surviving Latin manuscripts of the text Boccaccio's survey of 106 women of distinction some for their vices drawn from the Bible mythology history and from amongst Boccaccio's contemporaries was of less interest to sixteenth-century French readers than Griseldis Fiametta or indeed the Decameron. Forty-five years had passed since the appearance of the first printed edition in French before a group of Paris publisher-booksellers decided to publish the work anew. In order either to blanket the market to obviate pirate editions or to spread the risk no fewer than thirteen booksellers shared this pocket-sized edition. The first and last quires containing the titles colophons and publishers' devices appear to have been reset for the various issues cf. Hortis's transcriptions. The present copy bears the imprint of Philippe Le Noir and the woodcut device of Guillaume Le Bret. The printer was recently identified as Jean Réal whose metalcut capital initials are used at the head of each chapter. This was the first book from his press. The typographic manicules in the text were added by the printer as a finding aid to signal the Latin articulating phrases left in by the translator the Latin phrases appear also in Vérard's edition but without any specific typographic mark highlighting them.Two US copies located at Princeton and Smith College. Moreau V 742; BM / STC p. 71; Brunet I 990-91; Bechtel B-224; Hortis Studi sulle Opere Latine del Boccaccio 1879 pp. 798-800. Cf. BnF Boccace en France 1975 123. [Jean Réal for] Philippe Le Noir, [Guillaume Le Bret, and others] unknown books
