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First collected edition of the edifying poetry by a famous Dutch poet View picture(s) 1 ALPHEN, Hieronymus van & Pieter Leonard VAN DE KASTEELE. Stigtelijke mengelpoëzij. Utrecht, Widow of Jan van Terveen & Son, 1782. 8vo. Contemp. boards. (2), 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Apuleius edition printed by the Officina Plantiniana in Leiden View picture(s) 2 APULEIUS, Lucius. Opera omnia quae exstant. E quibus, post ultimam P. Colvii editionem, Philosophici libri ope vetustiss. Cod. Ms. innumeris mendis expurgati; quam plurimis locis aucti, per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1594. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device and initials. (16), 80, 383 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nil volentibus arduum View picture(s) 3 ARENTS, Thomas. Mengel poëzy. Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1724. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. With engraved frontispiece. (48), 344, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Literary History  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Neo-Latin poetry in a rare first edition View picture(s) 4 BARLAEUS, Caspar. Poemata. Periochen librorum post Praefationem vide. Leyden, Ex Off. Godefridus Basson, 1628. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 196; 256 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Literary History  Neo-Latin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful large paper copy of the famous 4to edition, admired by Dibdin View picture(s) 5 BODONI.- ANACREON. Odaria praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lectionibus. Additis var. lectionibus. Parma, Ex Regio Typographeio, (1784-5). Large 4to. Contemporary citron morocco with blind-tooled ornamental border on both covers, gilt spine, gilt inside dentelles, inside covers and endpapers lined with blue silk, g.e. (PADELOUP), preserved in cloth slipcase. Engraved vignette of Anacreon on title, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication page of D.D. Nicolaus De Azara. (4), XCIV, 100, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Comprehensive compilation of Roman legal terminology by a famous French jurist and philologist View picture(s) 6 BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII: Omnibus politioris litteraturae, cumprimis iurisprudentiae studiosis utiles & necessarii, In quibus varii bonorum auctorum loci emendantur, supplentur, notantur, illustrantur. Opus magno labore ab auctore congestum; nunc vero diligenter recognitum & a prioribus mendis purgatum. Adiecti sunt Rerum & verborum indices locupletissimi. Frankfurt a/Main, Ioannes Wechel & Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed & gilt, blue edges. Title in red & black, woodcut head- & tail pieces & initials. (8), 750 (= 760), (84) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Linguistics  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed description of many now destroyed Egyptian monuments View picture(s) 7 CAILLIAUD, Frédéric. Voyage a Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, par M. Frédéric Cailliaud, de Nantes, associé correspondant de la société académique de Marseille, membre de celle de la Loire-inférieure, et de la société de géographie. Accompagné de cartes géographiques, de planches représentant les monumens de ces contrées, avec des détails relatifs à l'état moderne et à l'histoire naturelle. Dédié au roi. Paris, Debure, Tillard & Treuttel et Wurtz, 1826. 4 text volumes in 8vo and 2 parts in 1 atlas volume in folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and blind-tooled, marbled edges. With woodcut vignette on titles and 12 full-page engravings, all coloured by hand, depicting costumes of different people, 4 in vol. 1, 4 in vol. 2, and 4 in vol. 3, 3 facsimile, 2 in vol. 3 and 1 in vol. 4, and 150 full-page lithographs with beautiful plates, maps, views, costumes, inscriptions and figures in the atlas volume, 75 in each part, made after drawings by the author. [4], XV, [1], 429 pp; [4], 442 pp; [4], 431, [1] pp; [4], 416 pp; [32], [150], [20], [150] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Egypt  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With autograph letter by the author View picture(s) 8 CARROLL, Lewis. Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles. Traduit de l'Anglais par Henri Bué. London, Macmillan and Co., 1869. Sm.8vo. Contemp. full-grained dark blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides with gilt medallion portrait of the White Rabbit in centre on front cover, and of the Cheshire Cat on back cover, richly gilt inner borders, g.e. (NOULHAC), and with the orig. publisher's gilt blue cloth preserved, incl. the spine. With 42 wood-engraved plates and illustrations by John Tenniel. (12), 196 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Autographs, Letters & Documents  Children's Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Portuguese shipwreck turned into literature View picture(s) 9 CORTE REAL, Jeronimo. Naufragio, e lastimoso successo da perdiçaõ de Manoel de Sousa de sepulveda, e dona lianor de sá, sua mulher, e filhos, vindo da India para este reyno Náo chamada o Galiaõ grande S. João, que se perdeo no cabo de Boa-Esperança, na terra do natal; E a peregrinaçaõ, que tiveraõrodeando terras de Cafres, mais de 300 legoas, té sua morte. Lisboa, Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1783. 8vo. Modern marbled calf with richly gilt spine. XIV, (1, 1 blank), 351 (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literary History  Literature  Portugal  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Mad scholars for sale' View picture(s) 10 CUNAEUS, Petrus. Sardi venales. Satyra Menippa. In huius seculi homines plerosque ineptè eruditos. In fine seorsim addita est ex eiusdem interpretatione D. Juliani Imperatoris Satyra in principes Romanos. Leiden, Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1612. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, rests of ties. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device. (24), 144, 154, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Literary History  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of the collected poetry of Jeremias de Decker illustrated with 14 engravings by Jacques de Gheyn View picture(s) 11 DECKER, Jeremias de. Gedichten, versamelt en uytgegeven door J. K. Amsterdam, Jacob Colom, 1656. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'. (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literary History  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the praise of money View picture(s) 12 DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht, ofte vervolg der rijm-oeffeningen. Verdeelt in twee boecken. Behelsende gedichten van verscheydene stoffe. Amsterdam, Widow of Marten Jansz. Brandt, Abraham vanden Burgh, 1667. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (16), 128, (4), 108 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erasmus  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Edifying poems set to music: from the literary circles in Haarlem View picture(s) 13 ELSLAND, Jan van. Dankbaare naagedachten en geboorte gezangen; op de blyde en heilryke verschyninge, van 't licht der genaade, Jezus Christus: of de geboorte van onzen heiland en zaligmaker tot Bethlehem. Begreepen in twintig zangstukken. Met zangkunst verrykt door C. Kauwenberg, en W. Vermooten. Haarlem, Heirs of Van Hulkenroy, 1764. 4to. Contemporary half sheepskin. Frontispiece of the Adoration of the shepherds, musical scores, title printed in red and black with printer's device of a printing press with the portrait of Laurens Jansz. Coster in a roundel. (4), 69 pp.; (8), 50, (2); (16), 60 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Haarlem  Literary History  Religion  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catalogue of the bibliophile, music professor and flautist Aristide Farrenc (1794-1865) View picture(s) 14 FARRENC, Aristide. Catalogue des livres rares et curieux Français et Italiens composant la bibliothèque de M.A. Farrenc ancien professeur et éditeur de musique, ou l'on remarque principalement: une belle et riche collection d'ouvrages Italiens des XVe et XVIe siècles, dans les éditions du temps (poètes de divers genres, poésies en patois, pièces de théatre, romans et nouvelles), écrits sur l'histoire d'Italie et de ses différents états et villes sur les beaux-arts, l'histoire littéraire, etc. Paris, L. Potier, Libraire, 1866. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 159 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Habsburg  Italy  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Signed by the author. Copy from the founder of the Smithsonian Institution's First Ladies Collection View picture(s) 15 GARCIA MÉROU, Martin. Recuerdos literarios. Buenos Aires, Felix Lajouane, 1891. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine, sides gilt with black & floral cornerpieces, gilt ruling & inner dentelles (PAGNANT). 447 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Americana  Argentina  Bindings  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous Rococo poem by the most successful and typical representative of a literary Rococo movement - a highlight of early colour-printing View picture(s) 16 GESSNER, Salomon. Mort d'Abel, Poëme. Traduit par Hubert. Paris, Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793. Large 4to. Contemporary scored calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title-label, lettered in gold, ornamental gilt borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, g.e., marbled endpapers. With stipple-engraved colour-printed frontispiece, and 5 stipple-engraved colour printed plates by Colibert, Casenave and Clément after the designs of Nicolas Moniau. 161, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colour Printing  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Printed by Joh. Enschede & Sons, Haarlem, on handmade paper View picture(s) 17 GOETHE , Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Eine Tragoedie. I & II. München, Hans von Weber, 1912. 2 parts in one. 4to. Contemporary calf, blindtooled spine with gilt title, blindstamped covers. 198; 273, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a classic Dutch poem View picture(s) 18 GORTER, Herman. Mei. Een gedicht. Amsterdam, W. Versluys, 1889. Contemp. decorated cloth. 194 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare issue of this 'Mirror for princes and sovereigns' View picture(s) 19 GUEVARA, Anthonio de. Den vorstelijcken lust-hof ende morgen-wecker, in welcken de koninghen, vorsten, heeren ende allerly potentaten, zoo wel ooc die van adel, officieren ende ampt-mannen treffelijc onderricht zijn: mitsgaders ooc de vrouwen van state ende jongvrouwen, met tzamen alle menschen, haer daer in door veel schoone leeringen vermaken ende verlustighen konnen. In drye deelen begrepen. ... Nu uyt den Hoogh-duytsche inde Neder-duytsche sprake grondelijc ende trouwelijc over-ghezet: door D.W.C. Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1618. (=Schiedam & Rotterdam, Jan Wolffertsz Vleys 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Half title with half-page engraved plate of a lion with sword in the 'Garden of Holland'; full page engraved portrait of Prince Maurits Orange- Nassau opposite his engraved coat-of-arms). (5), 94, (2); (1), 97, (2); (1), 113, (2) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  House of Orange  Literary History  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare early 18th century bibliography of rare Italian books View picture(s) 20 HAYM, [Nicola Francesco]. Notizia de'libri rari nella lingua Italiani divisa in quattro parti principali; cioè, istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze. Anessovi tutto il libro della eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini, con il suo ragionamento intorno la detta materia. Con Tavole copiosissime, e necessarie. London, Jacob Tonson & John Watts, 1726. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine, title in ink on spine. (36), 302, (47) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  England  Italy  Libraries & Collections  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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