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1509045603Paris: de Marnef 1509. Hardcover rebound in leather. Near Fine Condition. Rebound in full red morocco with a black morocco label to the front board new endpapers. No printer listed but the printer's mark of de Marnef on the title page. A few minor stains bright and clean overall. 35 leaves.<br /> <br /> A lovely Parisian edition of Francesco Ottavio's 1447-1490 neo-latin poetry edited by the great editor and printer Josse Badius and the poet critic and friend of Erasmus Andrelini. Just one copy of the 1509 edition in OCLC. First printed with Petit in 1503 in a different edition. Also appeared with the printer's mark of Poncet le Preux in 1509 according to reproductions in the BN in a 35 leaf edition.<br /> Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045603. de Marnef hardcover
15546336Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta 1554. First edition. Very Good. Quarto 22 cm; 45 3 pages last leaf blank. Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki Choix de livres anciens VI 5817 <br /><br />This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia or Atlantis men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter and that in Assyria husbands were bound by law to obey their wives. The text concludes with a long series of Q&A "quesiti" concerning marriage ceremonies in which we find out why the Boetians crowned brides with asparagus why Persian couples wait until spring to "consummate" any marriage and why it is customary to grease the newlyweds' doorway with pig fat or wolf fat. The book is also notable for its lovely large woodcut initials including a letter T showing a satyr and a man at table together a P with a bare-breasted woman driving a triumphal chariot and an N with a lion-headed man astride a swimming horse. Plinio Pietrasanta hardcover
1542B5989Rome / Romae: Francesco Priscianese c.1542. Slight browning to some pages; in very good condition . Binding: Contemporary vellum. Spine with five 5 raised bands and ink title on two; trace of old label on spine. All edges speckled red. Notes: The seven books of Advensus gentes Edited by Franciscus Priscianensis and Hieronymus Ferrarius. Dedication to Franois I of France dated a2v “Calen. Septembris 1543.†Colophon R7r dated 1542. The first edition of a defense of the Christian faith and an attack on paganism with ample descriptions of idolatrous rites and beliefs. Printed from an imperfect manuscript found in Paris it required extensive text editing. This is an unusally tall copy clean and beautifully printed. According to Jerome's chronicle Arnobius of Sicca c. 330 early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian 284–305 was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician prior to his conversion in Sicca Veneria El Kef Tunisia a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa. Jerome stated that to help the local bishop overcome his doubts as to the earnestness of his Christian belief he wrote c. 303 from evidence in IV:36 an apologetic work in seven books called ‘Adversus Gentes’ entitled ‘Adversus Nationes’ in the only 9th-century manuscript that survived. Size: Folio 305x208mm Provenance: Title and dedication leaves watermarked with an anchor design. References: Graesse I 225 NUC 22.74-75. Ind. Aur. 108.890; Brunet I: 491; BM STC Italian: 56; Adams A1994. Ascarelli: 12. Pages: Pp. 107 leaves. Category: Book Religious Christianity; Book Europe Italy; Book Early Printed 1500; Francesco Priscianese, hardcover
