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1847491596.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0882950665New. Brand new and still unused unknown
1968224593Grosset & Dunlap 1968. Paperback. Small ink signture and date tiny chip to bottom of spine else very good clean and sound condition. 521pp. Grosset & Dunlap paperback
180824106London:: Printed for J. Miller 1808. A new edition. original linen-backed boards with printed paper label on spine. Some rubbng and chipping to the fragile original boards: very attractive original condition. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Printed for J. Miller, hardcover
196595901N.P.: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega 1965. quarter leather dust jacket slipcase. Limited Editions Club. 4to. quarter leather dust jacket slipcase. xix 369 3 pages. In the Original Italian Together with English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated with Drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by both Giovanni Mardersteig and Salvadori LEC 375. Spine of jacket toned slipcase with a small worn spot along the bottom edge else a near fine copy. Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega unknown
28461PETRARCH. Sonnets of Petrarch in the Original Italian Together with English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated with Drawings by Aldo Salvadori. 4to. Orig. leather-backed boards dust-jacket in publisher's slipcase. Verona: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega 1965. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the printer Giovanni Marderstieg and the artist Aldo Salvadori. Fine copy in a soiled slipcase. unknown
2010SKU0594098Hackett Publishing Company Inc 2010-11-15. paperback. Good. 6x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Hackett Publishing Company, Inc paperback
2010SKU0641605Hackett Publishing Company Inc 2010-11-15. paperback. New. 6x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Hackett Publishing Company, Inc paperback
2010mon0004147651Hackett Publishing Company Inc. 2010-11-15. Paperback. Very Good. 0.6299 9.0551 5.9843. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. paperback
1603842896.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1907000012980London: George Bell and Sons 1907. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 5 iv-cxl 1 2-416 1 2-24 8 pages of publisher's advertisements pp. Green cloth with the publisher's device in blind on the front board gold lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with sixteen plates one of which is a frontispiece all steel engravings. Translated into English verse by various hands. With a life of the poet by Thomas Campbell. Part of the publisher's series "Bohn's Illustrated Library". With a contemporary bookplate and signature of G. Peabody Gardner noted in pencil as a Harvard student. A pleasing copy of Petrarch's literary oeuvre a highlight of medieval literature and poetry. Two cracks to the gutter in different spots of the textblock the binding remains tight and secure. Light foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns. The cloth is quite sharp and the copy's exterior presents beautifully. George Bell and Sons hardcover
1777011889London: T. Davies 1777. 1st Thus . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket as issued. 12 Cms x 18.5 Cms. end-paperhalf-titlet.p.xxiii1055 'Table' i.e. Index blank leafrear end-paper facing Italian and English text throughout; unmarked bar faint early small ink.sig. to fr. pastedown end-papers and pastedowns marginally tanned faint tanning to edges of half-title t.p. and hints elsewhere but of little significance front end-gutter slightly opened but tight close examination shows front end-paper has been refixed to front pastedown with white tape but this largely obscured by gutter fold to end-paper. Early full leather covers clean edges and spine darkened all corners a little rubbed as might be expected spine panels have small gilt urn-like motif title panel has good red label and gilt 'Plutarch's Odes &c' joints firm but front one narrowly cracked remains firm. A very acceptable copy of this scarce work. Translator not stated. <br/> <br/> T. Davies hardcover
1965022333Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine and a Near Fine slipcase. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
1512197750.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1965019471Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Moderately foxed heaviest mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good lacking the dustwrapper but in a Near Fine slipcase with sunning. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
BOOKS042862INew York: Hurst & Co. Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth. nd. Later prt. hardcover. 8vo 349 pp. Bound in brown cloth with stampings in black & gold; all edges gilt; hinges tight "First completely translated into English verse by various hands"; not dated but ca. 1880 . Hurst & Co. hardcover
1965015902Verona: Limited Editions Club 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper and about Fine slipcase with sunned backstrip. Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo 8-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
1579384London: Richard Watkyns 1579. First Edition. Very Good. Small 4to; 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. 190 x142 mm; pp. 4 xiv 1-152 First Booke Physicke for Fortune: 153-343 Second Booke Phisicke against Fortune vi table of contents 2. Each book with Epistolary preface by Franucis Petrarche. Translated into English from Latin by Thomas Twyne whose introduction dedicates the work to "Richard Bertie Esquier." Title within woodcut decorative border woodcut decorative initials set in gothic and latin type lacking sig.B and final blank lower corner of title torn and repaired with loss supplied first gathering lower corners repaired some dampstaining and toning throughout but sheets supple and intact. 19th century calf gilt panels from early English blind-stamped binding laid down on covers corners worn rubbed. Front pastedown with small engraved bookplate with initials "I N"<br /> <br /> Title page reads: «Physicke against Fortune as well prosperous as adverse contained in two Bookes<br /> Whereby men are instructed with lyke in differencie to remedie theyr affections aswell in tyme of the bright shyniyng sunne of prosperities as also of the foule lowiyng stonnes of adversities. Expedient for all men but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremities. Written in Latine by Francis Petrarch a most famous Poet and Oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.»<br /> <br /> STC 19809; ESTC S114602. This is the first edition in English of "De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae" "Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul" written in Latin by the Humanist Francesco Petrarca 1304-1374 commonly known as Petrarch a collection of 254 dialogues mostly drawn from classical sources which seeks to instruct on moral philosophy and show how thought and deed can generate happiness on the one hand or sorrow and disillusionment on the other. It touches on a number of diverse subjects including dancing ball games gambling wrestling hunting and hawking alchemy libraries schoolmasters spectacles toothache lechery gout blindness and deafness. In a recurring theme throughout the dialogues Petrarch advises humility in prosperity and fortitude in adversity. It remained a popular book in Europe over the ages and was translated into English by the Elizabethan physician Thomas Twyne 1543-1613.<br /> <br /> "Latin work by Petrarch begun in 1354 but completed between 1360 and 1366 on how to deal with both good and bad fortune. The first of its two parts contains 122 dialogues between Ratio Gaudium and Spes and deals with how one should behave at times of good fortune; the second contains 131 dialogues between Ratio Dolor and Timor and deals with the behaviour appropriate to adverse fortune. It is a practical manual of moral philosophy and was widely read until the 17th c." Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Richard Watkyns unknown
194638508New York: Pantheon 1946. AN ASSOCIATION COPY of this scarce collection. XLIII 521 pp. WITH THE CALLIGRAPHIC OWNERSHIP INITIALS OF JULIAN GREEN 1900-1998 better known by his French pen-name "Julien Green" ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER DATED 1949. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. <br/><br/> Pantheon hardcover
1967OB332<p>Milano Carlo Chiesa MCMLXVII 1967. Hard Cover. 35 pages 1 leaf; 25 cm. In Italian and English. "The letter published here is the eighteenth of Book III of the Lettere Familiare and is addressed to Giovanni Anchiseo a Dominican friar and perhaps a relative of Petrarch. It was written about 1346 at Valchiusa." In this letter Petrarch asks the friar for help in finding manuscript texts of classical authors. "La versione Italiana si deve a Vittorio Enzo Alfieri quella Inglese a Betty Radice." "Dalla Stamperia Valdonega di Verona." Privately printed in a limited edition number not stated. No copy in WorldCat. Fine copy in slipcase. Stock#OB332.</p> [Carlo Chiesa] MCMLXVII hardcover
194687999New York: Pantheon Books Inc 1946. First Italian-English Edition. Octavo 20.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and decoration stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; xliv12-5213pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Bookshop sticker to front pastedown and pencilled price to upper front endpaper. Light shelf-wear with occasional upper marginal creases; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 spine-faded with modest shelf-wear soil and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Good. Collection of the Italian Renaissance poet's verse with the table of contents presenting first lines and each work including its English translation. 87999. Pantheon Books, Inc unknown
1898024084London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1898. Small Octavo. unopened. 2271 pp. Italian text on the left English text on the right of the pages. This work offers a deep dive into the Italian Renaissance poet. Petrarch's passionate conflicted love for his muse Laura exploring themes of divine beauty earthly desire spiritual struggle and the fleeting nature of life all framed in the iconic Petrarchan sonnet form octave and sestet. It's a journey through worshipful adoration torment and eventual penitence for worldly passions revealing the birth of modern lyric poetry. A very nice copy bound by Riviere in 3/4 brown morocco over maroon cloth raised bands with lettering and rules in gilt top edge gilt. from the library of H.L. Tevis at Alma. Dr. Harry L. Tevis a wealthy art collector and botany enthusiast who owned a large estate near Alma California south of Los Gatos in the early 20th century. His property later became home to Alma College. Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co unknown
19311241731931. Longmans Green & Co. 1931. <br /> <br /> 8vo xiii 336 pp. Original green cloth printed paper labels on backstrip and upper cover. Backstrip faded hinges cracked pages clean a good copy inscribed by the author.<br /> <br /> § First edition reverently inscribed by the author to Celia Clark a member of one of San Francisco's founding families wife of Charles Clark son of the Copper King and thus sister-in-law of the library founder William Andrews Clark Jr. The inscription reads "For Celia Clark this my own personal copy is inscribed with affection and humility by her devoted Joseph Auslander." Joseph Auslander 1897-1965 American poet was the Poet Laureate Consultant in English Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1941. Celia Clark's sister Agnes Tobin was also a respected translator of Petrarch. unknown
19948458Petrarch Press 1994. Calligraphic text drawn by Laura Davis who also redrew the illustrations originally designed by Franklin’s grandson. One of a small limited edition of which 60 were special copies signed by the artist. Printed on all-rag Arches and Fabriano Ingres. Pp. 16. 8vo. original yellow sewn French-fold wrappers text and silhouette printed in brown to upper cover. A very good copy.Written as an undated letter by Benjamin Franklin during his stay in France in the late 1780s. Petrarch Press unknown
1965122670Limited Editions Club 1965-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Aldo Salvadore. Signed by Illustrator. #1028 of 1500 signed by the illustrator Aldo Salvadori and printer Giovanni Mardersteig. Quarter leather over cloth tiny chip to the head of the spine of the dust jacket in very lightly shelf worn slip case. oversized and overweight. C17 Please email for photos. Limited Editions Club hardcover
