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1713013629Cambridge: Cantabrigiae typis Academicis: Impensis Gulielmi Innys 1713 Book. Good. Hardcover. 34 297 7 pages. Here bound without the half title page. In old full leather spine very worn and damaged. Binding a bit loose. Some light browning and soiling to pages edges throughout. Ink stain to the upper outer corner of the text block which just affects the edges of pages 97 to the end but all well clear of any text. Baldassarre Castiglione. Cantabrigiae typis Academicis: Impensis Gulielmi Innys, hardcover
175922370Bergamo: appresso Pietro Lancellotti 1759. In-8 mm. 235x180 cartoncino rustico mod. titolo manoscritto al dorso pp. 4XII2202 con ritratto di S. Carto disegnato ed inc. in rame da Mercorus; ornato da grandi capilettera e con una testata alle armi di Monsignor Cristoforo De' Migazzi Arcivescovo di Vienna cui è dedicata l'opera in xilografia. Interessante raccolta di disposizioni prese dall'Arcivescovo di Milano fra il 1565 e il 1584 per impedire spettacoli religiosi e profani persino in collegi. "Edizione originale" rara.Frontesp. con angolo infer. mancante non di testo piccole fori di tarlo nelle ultime carte altrimenti fresco esemplare con barbe ben conservato. appresso Pietro Lancellotti, unknown
17331231I074Padova Padua: Giuseppe Comino 1733. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 4to. 32 xxxii 436. Very Good. 7x 9.25 inches 18 x 23.5 cm. Full speckled calf leather binding. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration leather title label. Blind border to boards. Red speckled page edges. Some worming to boards worm holes to spine text is unaffected. Engraved portrait frontis engraved vignette to title page engraved headpiece and initial to first page of Del Cortegiano. Numerous woodcut headpieces tail pieces and initials. An excellent solid example with no cracking to joints and very clean text throughout. Inked name to title page and 18th century bookplate to front pastedown endpaper with owner's stamp below C.E.D. with horizontal crescent moon and three stars. Text in Latin and Italian. Includes the full text of The Book of the Courtier in Italian. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £26.00; Rest of World £26.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7x 9.25 inches 18 x 23.5 cm. Giuseppe Comino hardcover
173717028London : Olive Payne, 1737. 2. Edition ; (60 unnum. S.) 508 S. : Mit 1 Frontispiz und Kapitelvignetten ; teilw. im zweispaltigen Druck; 26x21 cm , brauner Org.-Leder mit 5 Bünden und rötlichem Vollschnitt / Orig.-Leather, coloured edges, five raised bands [2 Warenabbildungen]
177791097n. l.: s. n. 1777. Fine. s. n. n. l. Lu à la Royal Society de Londres 1777 18.1 x 22.9 cm Relié An intriguing first edition complete with its engraved frontispiece of the author by Giovanni Volpato after Domenico Corvi and its introductory poem by the Abbé Luigi Godard. A copy unrecorded in non-European libraries according to WorldCat. Contemporary binding of fawn mottled calf smooth spine divided into five gilt compartments by gilt rolls brown morocco lettering-piece triple gilt fillet framing the boards double gilt fillet on the board edges blue speckled edges and shell-pattern marbled pastedowns and endpapers. The lower cap lacking some surface wear to the spine and corners the upper joint slightly split for several centimetres a few discreet wormholes and small areas of loss to the leather on the boards light rubbing to the edges; the interior in very good condition. A marginal tear to p. 51 very slightly affecting the text and a marginal stain to p. 47. The spirit of the Enlightenment is vividly reflected in this essay on the achievements of the human mind by an enlightened princethe last descendant of the cadet branch of the Gonzaga dynastywho sold his lands in exchange for an annual life annuity; an eloquent writer and admirer of English and French philosophers notably Montesquieu whom he cites repeatedly in this volume; and very much a libertine of his age the lover of the poet Maria Maddalena Morelli. s. n. hardcover
17691231I006Padova Padua: Presso Giuseppe Comino 1769-1771. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 4to. xiv 222 2; xii 384. Very Good. 7 x 9.5 inches 18 x 24 cm. Complete two volume set. Contemporary full vellum bindings. Volume I has wear to head of spine and top edge of front board. Red mottled page edges. Foxing to endpapers browning to some pages. A few pencilled notes to margins text is otherwise clean throughout. Scribbled out contemporary ownership inscription to the blank facing title page in both volumes. Vignette to both title pages. Several woodcut initials headpieces and tailpieces within the text. Italian language. Provenance: From the library of John Lambton 1st Earl of Durham with Durham's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. Volume I also has a label for the library at Lambton Castle the ancestral seat of the Earls of Durham. Pencilled notes of front pastedown endpaper in Volume I states that this set was sold at the Lambton Castle book auction 19-22 April 1932 lot 634. Also states that the notes within the books are by E.R.Vincent 1894-1978 Chair of Italian at Cambridge University. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 7 x 9.5 inches 18 x 24 cm. Presso Giuseppe Comino hardcover
1771C0584<br />4 books in 2 volumes: 8xvi255 pages with frontispiece; 205 pages with index and errata. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4 bound in stiff wrappers with labels to spines and deckle edges. This edition not in <i>Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana</i>; however there are a number of listings for this title in the bibliography 4315 through 4330 listing 16 editions of various dates and publishers. First published in 1528.<br /><br />Baldassare Castiglione count of Novilara was an Italian courtier diplomat soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. He was born into an illustrious Lombard family at Casatico near Mantua. In 1494 at the age of sixteen Castiglione began his humanist studies in Milan which would eventually form his future writings. However in 1499 after the death of his father Castiglione left his studies and Milan to succeed his father as the head of their noble family. Soon his duties seem to have included representative offices for the Gonzaga court. For the Gonzaga he traveled quite often; during one of his missions to Rome he met Guidobaldo da Montefeltro duke of Urbino. Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among Italian courts a meeting point of culture ably directed and managed by duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga and her sister-in-law Maria Emilia Pia. The most constant guests included: Pietro Bembo Giuliano de' Medici Cardinal Bibbiena Ottaviano and Federigo Fregoso and Cesare Gonzaga a cousin of both Castiglione and the duke. The hosts and guests organized intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting stimulating cultural life producing brilliant literary activity. Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy though in a literary form. In 1516 Castiglione was back in Mantua where he married Ippolita Torelli descendant of another ancient noble family; two passionate letters he wrote to her expressing deep sentiment have survived but she unfortunately died only four years later. At that time Castiglione was in Rome again as an ambassador this time for the Duke of Mantua. In 1521 Pope Leo X conceded to him the tonsura first sacerdotal ceremony and thereupon began Castiglione's second ecclesiastical career.<br /><br />In 1528 the year before his death the book by which he is most famous <i>The Book of the Courtier Il Libro del Cortegiano</i> was published in Venice by the Aldine Press run by Andrea d'Asolo father-in-law of Aldus Manutius. The book is based on a nostalgic recreation of Castiglione's experience at the court of Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino at the turn of the sixteenth century. It describes the ideal court and courtier going into great detail about the philosophical and cultured and lively conversations that occurred at Urbino presided over by Elisabetta Gonzaga. Castiglione himself does not contribute to the discussion the book is his tribute to his friendship with the participants of the discussion all of whom went on to have important positions. <i>The Book of the Courtier</i> caught the "spirit of the times" and was soon translated into Spanish German French and English. One hundred and eight editions were published between 1528 and 1616 alone. Pietro Aretino's La cortigiana is a parody of this famous work. Castiglione's depiction of how the ideal gentleman should be educated and behave remained for better or for worse the touchstone for all the upper classes of Europe for next five centuries. <b>The work on chess is in the second volume of this work</b>.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Old stamps to title of volume two and first un-numbered page of volume one Spine ends chipped with loss to heal corners bumped wrappers rubbed else a good copy of scarce title. Vendramini Mosca hardcover
1766BB1797Padova Padua: Appresso Giusseppe Comino 1766. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528 discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to 23 x 16 cm xxiv 352pp with portrait frontispiece of Castiglione after Raphael illuminated initials and head and tail pieces throughput. Modern vellum and marbled boards spine titled in gilt. Included is the "best and fullest biography of Castiglione which was written by Abate Pietro Serassi who had access to the family papers brought to Rome by Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga secretary to Pope Benedict XIV." Cartwright A very scarce wide-margined survival tightly bound contents clean with only light occasional foxing. PMM 59. Razzollini p. 99. Gamba 296 for Comino's complete edition of Castiglione's works from 1733 upon which this edition is based. Cartwright v. 2 pp. 445-447. First printed in Venice by Aldine Press in 1528 then reprinted innumerable times since in every major European language. The Courtier is the most celebrated instruction manual on the courtly manners of the Italian High Renaissance "a veritable compendium of Renaissance culture." Literary Encyclopedia In 1590 Pope Sixtus V placed it on the Church's List of Prohibited Books but exempted the expurgated edition prepared by Antonio Ciccarelli which was the only edition that remained in circulation for more than 100 years. Finally in 1733 Volpi issued an edition of Castiglione's collected works that disregarded Ciccarelli's corruptions and reverted to the original Aldine edition. Our edition is a reprint here of Volpi's text of The Courtier and it exists in two states unmutilated and mutilated. According to Razzollini more than a thousand copies originally were printed but only one hundred were issued and only after the text primarily Book IV was extensively revised to incorporate Ciccarelli's changes and elisions reducing the original text to 303 pages vs. 352 pages in unmutilated copies. Our is one of the rare unmutilated copies beautifully preserved. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Appresso Giusseppe Comino unknown
