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198020133Munchen: Galerie-Verein 1980. First edition. Paperback. Fine/fine. Paperbound quarto in cardboard slipcase. 157 pp. Illustrated in color. A significant overview of Palermo's work covering the period 1964 to 1976. Brief texts in German by Laszlo Glozer and Fred Jahn. A gorgeous fine copy in bound wrappers in fine red paper dustwrapper. Book comes with a matching printed slipcase. Tiny wear to edge of one seam otherwise the fragile slipcase is in fine condition. Recommended work for fans of this artist. Galerie-Verein paperback books
185480565Firenze: Dall'I. e R. Biblioteca Palatina 1854. original quarter leather gilt with paper-covered boards. small 4to. original quarter leather gilt with paper-covered boards. v cxiv iii 388 pages. This book presents the classification system Palermo devised for Florence's Biblioteca Palatina royal palace library. In 1861 the Biblioteca Palatina was merged with Florence's Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale where the collection is now housed. The comprehensive system was designed to encompass all of human knowledge in 22 general categories: Religion Language and Literature Philosophy Mathematics Physical Sciences Natural Sciences Geography Antiquity History Education and Morality Social Sciences Political Sciences and Government Semiotics and Cognition Fine Arts Architecture Military Sciences Performing Arts Health Sciences Applied Physics Mining and Farming Industrial Arts and Tuscany. Petzholdt p.61 lists the categories in Italian as published. The book includes an index and table of contents. A 15-page offprint from Archivio Storico Italiano Nuova Serie T. VIII 1858 of a detailed review of this work by E. Basevi is loosely inserted. The covers of this copy are worn especially at the edges. The spine is damaged cracked at the folds. The edges of the text block are moderately soiled. A modest early library stamp appears on the titlepage and a bookplate is on the front pastedown. The interior is clean except for some minor foxing. Dall'I. e R. Biblioteca Palatina unknown books
1984178251New York: Sperone Westwater 1984. Hardcover. VG- fading to boards light shelfwear to boards text and illustrations are clean. Tan boards with red lettering gray cloth spine and corners 55 pp profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text in Italian and French. Catalog includes prose writings of the artists translated by Suzanne Palermo. Sperone Westwater hardcover books
19783160Palermo: Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani 1978. First Edition. Fine. Large 8vo. 263 4 pp. Original wrappers edges almost entirely uncut. Illustrated with 18 full-page photographic plates of high quality. NOT ex-library! Scarce catalogue of fifteenth century books in the Municipal Library of Palermo a formidable collection of 1038 incunables plus three in the Appendix for which see below. Ours appears to be the only copy currently on the market. Admirably compiled by Giuseppina Li Calsi 1917-2001 the work contains 18 useful images of genuinely rare incunables; in other words this is a catalogue for serious scholars. <br/><br/>The collection contains at least three "unica":<br/><br/>1. Andreas de Escobar "Modus confitendi" Rome: Printer of 'Mercuriales Quaestiones' Theobaldus Schencbecher about 1473 -- Li Calsi's Appendice I & Tav. VIa-b;<br/>2. Indulgentiae ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romae Rome: Printer of 'Mercuriales Quaestiones' Theobaldus Schencbecher about 1473 -- Li Calsi's Appendice II;<br/>3. Virgil Opera Milan: Antonius Zarotus for Johannes de Legnano 25 Feb. 1485 -- Li Calsi's no. 1015 & Tav. Va-b.<br/><br/>This work appeared as Volume 4 Supplement of the Bollettino of the Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani. It is not to be confused with her colleague Anna Maria Dotto's "Catalogo degli incunabuli della Biblioteca nazionale di Palermo" 1971. <br/><br/>¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255. Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani unknown books
2007141314New York: Rain Mountain Press 2007. Softcover. VG. Tan & color illus. wraps 64 pp. no illus. "A stunning story half historical fiction half fever dream in which the noted naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717 travels from Holland to Surinam in South America." back cover. Rain Mountain Press unknown books
1984160478Birmingham Alabama: Summa Publications 1984. Octavo pp. 1-6 i-iii iv v vi-vii viii ix x xi xii xiii-xiv 1 2-164 165-168: blank illustrations cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Litvack on the front free endpaper. "This study deals with over thirty literary treatments of the droit du seigneur in the drama & fiction of France England Germany Italy & America. Before going into a detailed analysis of how different authors in various countries employed this theme an attempt is made to study the origin & etymology of the term & the many slang versions of the droit which appear in different cultures are given. A great controversy flourished regarding the authenticity of the droit & many conflicts accounts of it appear in the writings of historians anthropologists & sociologists. An attempt is made to summarize the conclusions drawn from the leading scholars of this subject and an account is given of how the use of the droit in literature deviates from its historical and sociological interpretations. The droit du seigneur to our knowledge first surfaced as a literary theme in the seventeenth century in a play by Fletcher and Massinger. This play engendered many offspring for subsequent English authors not only use the theme but openly acknowledge their debt to Fletcher and Massinger." - author's preface. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #160478 Summa Publications unknown books
186975821Firenze: Biblioteca Palatina 1869. modern cloth binding leather spine labels uncut edges. 4to. modern cloth binding leather spine labels uncut edges. xx 7411; xii 904 with four pages of plates and facsimiles; xxiv 716 2 42 pages. 3 volumes. First edition. An annotated catalogue of the manuscripts included in the Biblioteca Palatina in Florence the catalogue includes excerpts and entries on works of philosophy religion and literature from the collection of manuscripts assembled by Ferdinand III of Lorrain. In 1861 the Biblioteca Palatina was merged with the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze where the Palatino collection is now housed and which is one of the libraries most important antiquarian collections. Of special note is the section on Dante Alighieri which begins with an engraving of the author. Light foxing throughout. Bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this book came from the reference library and stock of H. P. Kraus. A commemorative booklabel which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus and purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale is loosely inserted. Biblioteca Palatina unknown books
57307Second half of the 18th C. 12-1/2 x 17 inches. Bordered in green paper. Edges rubbed with a few small tears not affecting images some browning along edges else Very Good. 12-1/2 x 17 inches. unknown books
17996043Napoli 1799. No earlier editions known. Very Good/Popular ballad in Italian verse in which Mary Joseph and the baby Jesus encounter a poor fortune-teller who in spite of her poverty hosts the family and tends to its needs during the flight into Egypt. The fortune-teller recognizes the baby as divine and after praising him and his parents and in exchange for salvation she foretells the Passion. The Italian text is a contemporary translation of a chapbook with no date in Sicilian dialect "Zingaredda Induvina" attributed to one Fra Pietro da Palermo. Surviving copies of any edition are extremely unusual. A few 19th-century copies are extant an 1880 printing is even scanned online. As far as we know this is earliest dated copy and the exemplar for all later printings. The figure of the "Gypsy" Rom fortune teller who succors the family during the flight into Egypt is a local Neapolitan addition to the events accounted in the Gospels. Even today the figure of the fortune-teller appears in Neapolitan and Southern Italian creches "presepe" and Christmas plays where she is represented as holding a nail or sometimes a basket of nails because she foretells the Passion in the canzonetta offered here. 15 cm; 8 pages. Woodcut illustration on title page. Title within decorated border. Untrimmed. Unbound. Preserved in custom portfolio with cutout to display title page. Red ribbon tie. Owner's inscription in margin of title page possibly that of Michele Tafuri Neapolitan literary scholar and collector of manuscripts who flourished in the first half of the 19th century. Reference: S. Salmone-Marino "Le storie popolari in poesia siciliana messe a stampa." in Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari 1897 p 112 f.; "La Fuga in Egitto: variazioni sul tema e divinazione" on the Gypsypedia web site; Domenica Borriello "Stampatori del sacro a Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento" Etnoantropologia V:2 2017. unknown books
