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Treatise on colour View picture(s) 1 DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo. Nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Gio. Battista & Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1565. Modern half vellum. Woodcut vignette on title, 2 woodcut initials in text 87, (1) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Humanists  Italy  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erasmus on the Latin language: two basic texts in a very attractive contemporary binding View picture(s) 2 ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commenratii duo. Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521. 8vo. Contemporary full blind tooled calf with ornamental rolls with four different 'heads-in-medaillions' within fillet frames on both covers; the centre of both, the front and back cover tooled with different separate stamps with floral motives. Titles in ink written on the spine (upside down in the third and fourth compartment); later paper label with written title pasted to the second compartment; holes for the ties; title also written on fore-edge. Title printed in woodcut border with Schoeffer's printer's device in the lower part; six beautiful woodcut initials (7-11 lines). (16), 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Education  Erasmus  Humanism  Humanists  Philology  Philosophy  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first collected edition of the poetical works of the famous Dutch humanist, diplomat and lawyer View picture(s) 3 GROTIUS, Hugo. Poemata, Collecta & magnam partem nunc primum edita à fratre Guilielmo Grotio. Lugdunum Batavorum, Andr. Clouquius, 1617. Small 8vo. Contempoarary vellum, spine in compartments with gilt stamped ornament, gilt rolled ornamental borders on sides, with gilt ornaments in the corners and large oval gilt ornament in center, with the intital "W" gilt stamped on top on both sides. With title within richly engraved architectural border. (24), 548 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Forbidden Books  Hugo Grotius  Humanism  Humanists  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Superb Humanist 'Sammelband' View picture(s) 4 HORACE. [Opera] cum quattor commentarijs. Venice, printed by Philippus Pincius for Benedictus Fontana, 1495-1496, 16 February. With large woodcut printer's device on last leaf, and numerous woodcut initials. [264] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Humanists  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the development of French poetry in the 16th century and the promotion of the use of the vernacular languages View picture(s) 5 SPERONI DEGLI ALGAROTTI, [Sperone]. Dialoghi del sig. Speron Speroni nobile Padovano, di nuovo ricorretti; a quali sono aggiunti molti altri non più stampati. E. di più l'Apologia de i primi. Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1596. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, spine with gilt rulling, covers with gilt fillets and gilt oval central piece decorated with floral ornaments, 4 gilt floral cornerpieces. Woodcut printer's device on title. (8), 596 (=604), (2 errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Ethics  Humanism  Humanists  Italy  Linguistics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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