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A theatrical highlight from the Renaissance in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 121 TASSO, Torquato. Aminta Favola Boschereccia. Ora per la prima volta alla sua vera lezione redotta. Crisopoli, Impresso co' caratteri Bodoniani, 1789 (=1792). Large 4to. Modern citron morocco, spine in 6 compartments, each containing one gilt letter of the title within four gilt  fillet borders, four gilt fillet borders on sides and  inner panel, with a gilt flaming torch in centre on front  side, with the gilt name of the author and title. With engraved portrait of the author on title, and engraved headpiece by J. Lucatelli with coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Anna Malaspina della Bastia above the introduction. (12), 14, (2), 142, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bodoni  Italy  Literature  Renaissance  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In a The Hague prize-binding from the "Eerste stadhouderlijke binderij" View picture(s) 122 TERENTIUS. Comoedia Sex, Cum interpretatione Donati et Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo. Cur. A.H. Westerhovius. The Hague, I. vander Kloot, 1732. Vellum, spine gilt-lined with small gilt ornaments with 3 acorns in the compartments, with gilt double-fillet borders on sides with small ornaments with 3 acorns at the four corners and large gilt central figure of Minerva with a standing shield bearing the coat-of-arms of The Hague, and the legend underneath "Hagae Comitis" on both sides, red mottled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and engraved vignette on title. (6), 1322, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Prize Binding  Schoolbooks  The Hague  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Dutch poetry in Batavia View picture(s) 123 TERKAMP, Hermanus Theodorus. Proeve van minne-dichten, in rymlooze vaarsen. In navolging der Latynsche en Grieksche voetmaaten. Als een geschenk voor zyne vrienden. Batavia, Lodewyk Dominicus, 1778. 8vo. Original wrappers. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Great and important edition of the Greek bucolic poets in beautiful contemporary red morocco binding View picture(s) 124 THEOCRITUS et al. Theocriti, Moschi, Bionis, Simmii quae extant: cum Graecis in Theocritum scholiis & indice copioso: omnia studio & opera Danielis Heisii. Accedunt Iosephi Scaliger, Isaaci Casauboni, & eiusdem Danielis Heinsii notae & lectiones. [Heidelberg], Heirs of Hieronymus Commelin, 1604. 4to. 18th-century red morocco, also the insides of the covers, triple gilt fillets along the edges with tiny gilt flower in the four corners, spine gilt in compartments, lettering in gold: 'Theocrit/ Heinsii/ Gr. Lat.', gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With printer's device on title-page and on p. 285, 4 engravings of medals, and some woodcut initials. Title and columns ruled in faint red ink, text in Greek and Latin. [28], 432 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice contemporary Italian binding View picture(s) 125 THUCYDIDES. Delle guerre fatte tra popoli della Morea, et gli Atheniesi, nuovamente dal Greco idioma, nella lingua Thoscana, con ogni diligenza tradotto, per Francesco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino. L'annotatione, & dichiaratione di tutti i luoghi difficili, con la tavola copiosissima di tutte le guerre, le paci, gli accordi, le triegue, le leghe, le battaglie navali, le giornate, le citta prese, i por tenti accaduti, i pronostiche fatti, i luoghi spianati, arsi, & distrutti, che nell'historia si contengono: posti tutti per ordine dell'alphabeto. Venice, segno di Laocoonte, 1550. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt double fillet and dentelle borders on spine, around the word "Thucydide" in gilt letters, two frames of double fillet and gilt borders on sides, with gilt fleurons in the four corners of the inner frame. Woodcut vignette on title and on verso last leaf on a larger block, both used as devices, depicting Laocoon and his children being suffocated by the snake, historiated initials, printed in italics with marginalia in small roman. (12), 440 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Prize book from the Latin School at Haarlem - one of the best editions of Tibullus View picture(s) 126 TIBULLUS, Albius. Carmina libri tres, cum libro quarto sulpiciae et aliorum.Novis curis castigavit Chr. G. Heyne. Leipzig, Ex officina Dürria for Joannes Gottlob Feindius, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, both sides with gilt lines and floral borders around a gilt centre piece: Minerva sitting under a tree, and holding a book with her left hand and leaning with her right arm on the coat of arms of the city of Haarlem with the motto 'Vicit vim virtus' underneath (=Spoelder, Haarlem, nr. 3); spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, incl. the original ties (exactly the same binding as described by Coppens for his nr. 63). With elegant engraved title vignette and engraved vignettes for each of the 4 books. XCII, 222, (2), 343 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Haarlem  Literature  Prize Binding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important Plantin/Pighius edition of the famous 'Nine Books' of Valerius Maximus View picture(s) 127 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX. Infinitis mendis ex veterum exemplarium fide repurgati, atque in meliorem ordinem restituti per Stephanum Pighium Campensem. Accedunt in fine eiusdem annotationes in loca plusquam DCCC. Item hac altera recognitione fragmentum de praenominibus antiquum incerti auctoris, quod decimi libri locum in multis exemplaribus occupat. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 12 June 1574. Modern marbled boards. With woodcut printer's device (nr. 20) on title. 392, 99, (13-, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil translated by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele View picture(s) 128 VIRGIL. De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos: In Duytsche talen door Cornelis van Ghistele Rhetorijckelijc overghezet: plaisant ende weerdich om lesen. Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut portrait of Virgil on title and 12 woodcut illustrations in text, one to each book. 264, (3, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition by Daniel Heinsius of Virgil's works View picture(s) 129 VIRGIL. Opera; nunc emendatiora. Leyden, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1636. 12mo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with richly gilt and blindstamped borders on sides and gilt fillet inner panel with gilt fan-ornaments at the four corners, gilt decorated inner borders, g.e. (P. GREFFIER). With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, woodcut of two sides of a medal with the portrait of Virgil, 2 pages printed in red, and double-page folding engraved map of Aeneas' sea-voyage from Troy to Italy. (40), 411, (43) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Blaeu edition View picture(s) 130 VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh. By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. (Blaeu), 1614. 16mo. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut emblem on title, 2 engraved emblems with jesters  titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''. 220, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Magnificently bound View picture(s) 131 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet De. La pucelle d'Orléans, poëme en vingt-un chants. Paris, Didot le jeune, L’An Troisième (=1795). 2 parts in one vol. Large 4to (26 x 34cm). Ninetheenth century red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with title lettered in gold, gilt fillets on sides, inner filet borders (F. BEDFORD), marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces of which one with portrait of Jeanne d'Arc by Gaucher and 20 full-page  engraved plates after drawings by C.S. Gaucher , N. Monsieau, C. Monnet, Le Barbier and Marillier and engraved by a.o. C. Ponce, C.L.  Lingée,  Bacquoy, Choffard, Delignon, Delvaux, Duhamel, Dupréel, Lemire, Malbeste, Patas, Pauquet, and Romanet. 211; 212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Erotica  France  Illustrated Books  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With an etching after Rembrandt; from the library of Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius View picture(s) 132 VONDEL, Joost van den. Werken. (Amsterdam, Amersfoort, etc.), 1645-1781. 16 vols. 4to. Half calf, gilt and decorated spine with green title-label. With the ex-libris of Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius pasted on inside of front cover in most vols. with his motto 'Dulcia non meruit, qui non gustavit amara' (Who did not taste the bitterness, does not deserve the sweet). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Engravings  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated Dutch adaptation of Don Quichot View picture(s) 133 WEYERMAN, Jacob Campo. De voornaamste gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot, door den beroemden Picart den Romein, en andere voornaame meesters, in XXXI kunstplaaten, na de uitmuntende schilderyen van Coypel in 't koper gebragt. Beschreeven op een'vryen en vrolyken trant. En ... met gedichten ter verklaaring van iedere kunstprint, en het Leeven van M. de Cervantes Saavedra verrykt. Alles volgens het oirspronklyk Spaans. The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1746. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red title label, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers. Title in red & black with engraved vignette by J. van S(chley), and 31 full-page engraved plates by Bernard Picart ('den Romein') (12), J. van Schley (13), S. Fokke (1), and P. Tanjé (5) after Charles Coypel (25), N. Cochin (2), Tremolières (2), J.P. le Bas (1) and the famous French painter F. Boucher (1). XXVI, 420 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Literature  Popular Books  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sent to prison for his opinion View picture(s) 134 WEYERMAN, Jacob Campo. Den persiaansche zydewever, demokriets en herakliets, Brabandsche voyagie, de Hollandsche zinlykheyt, den Antwerpsche courantier, en de gehoornde broeders, benevens eenige uyt het Grieks vertaalde gezangen van Anakreon, voorzien met de sleutel van het geheele werk. (No pl., for the author, ca. 1725). 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown title label. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by 'A.V.L.B.' after Cornelis Troost; title printed in red and black. (20), 140; (8), 108; 100; (2), 96; 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector View picture(s) 135 WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche, en van daar door Zwitserland en langs de Rhijn, terug naar Holland. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with orange title-labels. With large stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author by Velyn after a painting by W. Hendriks on engraved general title, 3 separate titles, and 13 full-page engraved views and costume-plates by J. P. Visscher Bender after H. Gotta, J. Grandjean, etc., incl. several after his own designs, all versos blank. VIII, 269, (1); IV, 292; VIII, 322; VIII (=6), 405, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dutch  Germany  Italy  Literature  Popular Books  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Influenced by the Dutch Tachtigers and the French Symbolists View picture(s) 136 WOESTIJNE, Karel van de. Christophorus. Antwerpen, De Sikkel, 1926. 4to. Original purple cloth, with gilt title on black title-label on spine and front cover. With 6 full-page woodcuts and 2 initials by Jozef Cantré. 93, (3, last 2 pages blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Belgicana  Bibliophily  Fine Printing  Literature  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By a once famous French-Japanese society girl View picture(s) 137 YAMATA, Kikou. Shizouka. Princesse Tranquille. Portrait de l'auteur par Foujita et dessins Japonais anciens. Paris, 1929. 8vo. Orig. wrappers. Illustrated, a.o. with the author's portrait by Foujita. 101, (5) pp.- (La galerie des grandes courtisanes).- Limited edition.- Good uncut copy. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Art Nouveau  Drawings  France  French  Japan  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nightly thoughts on life, death and immortality in Dutch View picture(s) 138 YOUNG, Eduard. Nachtgedachten, uit het Engelsch vertaald en met aanmerkingen opgehelderd door Joannes Lublink den Jongen. Tweede uitgaave, verbeterd en vermeerderd. Amsterdam, heirs P. Meijer & G. Warnars, 1785. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemp. half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red and green title labels. With engraved portrait on title, 9 full-page engraved plates. LXX, 205; 367; 345; 310, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amadis first translated into German View picture(s) 139 [AMADIS DE GAULE]. Das sechtzehende Buch der Historien vom Amadis aus Franckreich. Tractierend von der Ehrlichen keuschen Lieb, hohen Ritterlichen, unnd Mannhafften thaten, der Durchleuchtigsten, Tugentreichen Printzen, Spheramondis, und Amadis vom Gestirn, auch anderer darinn benanter tapfferer Fürsten, unnd unverzagten berümbten Rittern, selbiger Zeit. Allen Ehrliebenden vom Adel, züchtigen frawen und Jungfrawen, zu Ehrn, und nutzlicher Kurzweiliger zeitvertreibung. Auss Frantzösischer in die Teutsche sprach vertiert, Durch J.R.V.S. Franckfort, Sigmund Feyrabend, 1591. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With title printed in red and black. (12, 4 blank), 1521, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  German  Literature  Popular Books  Romances of Chivalry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Books 5 and 6 of the octavo edition View picture(s) 140 [AMADIS DE GAULE]. Le cinquiesme - sixiesme livre d'Amadis de Gaule, mis en Francoys par le seigneur des Essars Nicolas de Herberay. Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1560. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. Contemp. overlapping vellum, spine with 6 split bands, with small gilt ornaments in the compartments and gilt central ornament on both sides, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on 2 titles, 17 woodcuts in Book 5, and full-page woodcut frontispiece, verso blank, 3 large woodcuts, and 11 woodcuts in Book 6. (6), 194; (8), 208 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Literature  Popular Books  Romances of Chivalry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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