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1800046679Venice: Palese 1800. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Light soiling to vellum light scattered foxing. 8102 2pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 046679. Palese hardcover books
16585692Venice: Niccolo Pezzana 1658. Very Good/First Pezzana edition of the popular 16th-century "forest of many stories" by Spain's Pedro Mexia. Nicolò Pezzana purchased the famous Giunti press in 1657 making this one of the first titles issued under his name. The book is a Spanish Renaissance entry into the genre named "Silvae" by Statius but this text falls more into the tradition of Xenophon's Symposium Athenaeus Macrobius and Aulus Gellius that is expansive shapeless episodic with masses of detail and a stupefying variety of topics and narratives. It was incredibly popular in the 16th and 17th centuries reprinted in something like 106 editions in every European language. It was a rich treasure chest for later Renaissance authors such as Miguel Cervantes whose Quixote is also a forest of many tales several of them lifted from Mexia and Christopher Marlowe who pulled his Tamburlaine from its pages. It is now thoroughly obscure. . Quarto 23 cm; 50 of 52 788 8 152 pages. Lacks half-title. Four title pages each with Pezzana's woodcut device showing Jove Juno Vulcan and Neptune. Occasional woodcut initials and ornaments. Shoulder notes. Bound in marbled paper with leather backstrip; backstrip decorated and titled in gilt. Binding quite worn with joints tender and boards scuffed edges exposed. Text generally quite good with occasional worm trails the most severe of them in the margins. Pages evenly toned. References: Michel V 161. Niccolo Pezzana hardcover books
1835216879Florence: Dante 1835. Second. hardcover. very good-. 6 copperplate engravings of portraits. 290 pages index. 8vo 3/4 calf marbled boards rebacked in linen. Florence: Dante 1835. Second Edition. Internally a nice clean copy. Very Good-.<br/><br/> Dante unknown books
18106342Venice: Nella tipografia Picotti 1810. Only edition. Very Good/The notable bibliographer Bartolommeo Gamba curated this collection of poems by his neighbor in the town of Bassano del Grappa Giuseppe Bombardini. Bombardini's day job was in local government rising finally to the rank of "podestà" the equivalent of the mayoralty. Among the poems written to commemorate weddings and funerals we find Romantic sonnets dedicated to the summer night to the Brenta to two roses to the month of May. Octavo 24 cm; 2 61 1 pages. Bound in woodblock-printed polychrome wraps with the poet's name written in ink along the spine. Only slight abrasions at the head else about fine. Nella tipografia Picotti paperback books
182436381Milano: Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani 1824. Hardbound. VG Ex archival library copy with letters at base of spine. A beautiful copy with a hint of foxing at front end papers. Green library buckram. 142 pp. 27 engravings printed on recto only. Tissue guards over plates. A superb example of this rare title. The book measures 11" x 15". Beautiful collection of the main painters in Cremona during the Renaissance as well study of some of their works and their relevant illustrations: Bonifacio and Gianfrancesco Bembo Cristoforo Moretto Boccaccio and Camillo Boccaccino Altobello Melone Bernardino Gatti Tommaso Alessi the "Campi Brothers" Galeazzo Giulio Antonio Vincenzo Bernardino Sofonisba Angussola Giambattista Trotti et al. Text in Italian in lovely large font on soft rag paper. Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani hardcover books
15679576Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1567. Vellum. good . 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum. Front & rear free-endpapers lacking. Modern ink ownership inscription on blank portions around the imprint on title. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. P. Perna suis & H. Petri hardcover books
1566160Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1566. 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum. Front & rear free-endpapers lacking. Modern ink ownership inscription on blank portions around the imprint on title. Note: the colophon is dated 1567. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. Adams F207 under "Fazio". VD16 #F545. (P. Perna suis & H. Petri) hardcover books
15679512Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1567. Vellum. Very good. 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum hand lettered spine. Small portion of top edge of front cover 1/4" x 2" chipped. Tipped in ahead of the title are 3 pages of a previous early owner's manuscript biographical notes on Facius. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. (P. Perna suis & H. Petri) hardcover books
18391238284to. Venezia: Co'tipi del Gondoliere 1839. 4to xxv 2 794 1 pp. Green cloth. Manuscript notes on verso of front free endpaper. § Gamba's own copy with his unpublished corrections throughout. Fourth edition "riveduta emendata e notabilmente accresciuta" still unsurpassed as a general reference work. This is the Breslauer copy lot 988 sold for £1340 in 2005. Many copies for sale in Italy but none in the US as of 2021. Tumarkin 1 525: "Last and best edition of the foremost bibliography of Italian literature." Besterman 3214. Petzholdt 356. Co'tipi del Gondoliere hardcover books
18051238278vo. Bassano: Tipografia Remondiniana 1805. 8vo xxix 2 226 pp. Crusca woodcut device on title and at the end. Contemporary Italian printed paper wrappers. § Large-paper copy possibly proof sheets. Gamba's own copy of the first edition with numerous autograph corrections and additions for the second edition. Gamba's classic bibliography of Italian literature whose fourth edition of 1839 is still unsurpassed as a general reference work see below. See Breslauer Sale lot 987 £1600. See Besterman 3214. Petzholdt 356. Tipografia Remondiniana unknown books
1536459431536. <p>Adamantius fl. 5th century CE. Physiognomicon id est de naturae indiciis cognoscendis libri duo per Ianum Cornarium medicum physicum latine constripti. 8vo. 203 5pp. Basel: Robert Winter 1544. With: Cocles Bartolommeo della Rocca 1467-1504. Physiognomiae et chiromantiae compendium. 8vo. 214pp. Numerous text woodcuts of chiromancy. Strasbourg: Apud Ioannem Albertum 1536. With: George of Trebizond 1396-1486. Georgii Trapezuntii in Claudius Ptolemaei centum aphorismos commentarius . . . item ab eodem cur astrologorum iudicia plerumque fallant . . . Additus est dialogus Ioannis Pontani in quo doctissime disputatur quatenus credendum sit astrologiae. 8vo. 208pp. Cologne: Ioan. Gymnicus 1544. Together 3 books in 1 volume. Blindstamped pigskin a few wormholes lower portion of spine repaired original leather ties lacking. Dimensions needed. Occasional spotting light toning but very good. Library stamp removed from title verso. Very good to fine copies. Old woodcut bookplate; 20th-century owner's stamp on the front pastedown.</p> <p> First Edition of Cornarius's Latin translation of Adamantius; later editions of Cocles's and George of Trebizond's treatises. Adamantius a fifth-century Graeco-Jewish physician was a native of Alexandria; he converted to Christianity after the patriarch of the city expelled the Jews in 415. His Physiognomicon is essentially an abridgement of Antonius Polemon's treatise on physiognomy from the second century CE a work that survives today only in a 14th-century Arabic translation. This Latin translation by the German humanist Janus Cornarius ca. 1500 - 1558 includes Adamantius's original Greek text as well as Cornarius's De utriusque alimenti receptaculis dissertatio contra quam sentit Plutarchus.</p> <p> Bartolommeo della Rocca also known as Cocles was a Bolognese scholar of chiromancy physiognomy and astrology; he was assassinated in 1504 by Bolognese nobleman Ermes Bentivoglio for predicting that Ermes would die in battle. Cocles's treatise on physiognomy and chiromancy palm-reading his main work was originally published in 1504 under the title Chyromantiae ac physiognomiae anastasis; the work first appeared under the present title in 1533. It consists of a preface by Cocles an anonymous handbook of physiognomy and Andrea Corvo's 15th-century treatise on chiromancy the latter two illustrated with numerous woodcuts.</p> <p> The final work in this volume is a later edition of George of Trebizond's commentary on pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium a medieval collection of one hundred aphorisms about astrology and astrological rules. This edition includes a brief work on astrology by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano 1426-1503. </p> . unknown books
