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Frankfurt edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses with 178 woodcuts by Virgil Solis View picture(s) 141 OVID. Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Jacobi Micylli recognitione. Frankfurt an Main, Christophorus Corvinus for Johannes Feyerabend, 1582. 8vo. Beautiful contemporary full pigskin binding blind-tooled with floral rolls and cornerpieces. Later on, probably in 1627, those cornerpieces are gilt and the central panels filled with gilt oval centre-pieces: one with floral motives on the back and one with a coat of arms on the front cover; in the compartment above this central panel the gilt initials 'I.W.E.A.P.' are stamped, almost certainly the owner of the book in 1627 and of the coat of arms; in the compartment below '1627' also in gilt. With printer's device on the title and the 178 beautiful woodcuts (ca. 60x80mm.) by Virgil Solis. (16), 573, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Spanish edition of Ovid's transformations bound for the famous Spanish collector Salvá View picture(s) 142 OVIDIUS. Las transformaciones. Traduzidas del verso Latino, en tercetos, y octavas rimas, por el liceciado viana. En legua vulgar Castellana. Con el comento, y explicacion de las fabulas: reduziendolas a philosophia natural, y moral, y astrologia, e historia.- SANCHEZ DE VIANA, Pedro. Anotaciones sobre los quinze libros de las Trasformaciones de Ovidio. Con la mithologia de las fabulas, y otras cosas. Vallodolid, Diego Fernandez de Cordova, 1589. Woodcut vignette on title. 314, (4) leaves. Vallodolid, Diego Fernandez de Cordona, impressor del rey nuestro señor, 1589. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. 19th-century red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt lettering and gilt ornaments, double fillet outer border and triple fillet inner border around central vignette of the Biblioteca de Salvá, depicting 2 shaking hands surrounded by the letters V, S and P, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Many woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (1), (19), (1), 179 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Greek & Latin  Literary History  Literature  Poetry  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six comedies important for the history of 18th century drama and stage-craft in Amsterdam View picture(s) 143 PALAPRAT, Jean. Het ontdekte geheim; Kluchtspel. Het Fransche van den heere Palaprat gevolgd. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje, 1707. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, pine with titles lettered in ink, sprinkled edges. With large engraved allegorical vignette on title: a manor house in front of which is a bench with a plane, surrounded with the symbols of music and drama and the motto 'Labore et Constantia'. 52 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Amsterdam  Dutch  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare original edition of a seventeenth-century Italian poet View picture(s) 144 PARTICO, Essione (Pseudon. for Gioacomo NASI?). Endecasyllabi di Essione Partico callifilio archiludimagistro. Viterbo, no pr., 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with gilt title on spine, blue painted edges with title written on top edge. Woodcut vignette on title. 117, (1) pp. and last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Italy  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Roman comedies View picture(s) 145 PLAUTUS. Comediae viginti. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, Franciscus I Raphelengius. 1593. 16mo. Old calf, spine with 3 raised bands. (2), 719, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare first editions of the neo-latin poetry and emblems of Cornelis Plemp, the friend of Vondel and Hooft View picture(s) 146 PLEMP, Cornelis Gijsbertsz. Amsterodamum monogrammon.- IDEM. Quisquiliae, seu Elegiarum liber unus.- IDEM. Emblemata quinquaginta. Amsterdam, Joannes Walschart (Hans Walschaert), 1616. 4to. 19th century boards. Ad 1. Woodcut vignette of the coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam on title; ad 3: 51 emblems, each consisting of a round woodcut with a diameter of ca. 73 mm and a poem underneath of 4 - 32 lines. 36; 37-104, 104-113; 117-191. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Emblem Books  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an interesting blind tooled pigskin binding View picture(s) 147 PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti. Panegyricus Traiano Caesari dictus. Et is ad vetustissimum exemplar emendatus. De viris illustribus rei militaris & administrandae reipub.Acesserunt argumento non admodum abhorrentia. Suetonii Tranquilli liber de claris grammaticis & rhetoribus. Item. Julii Obsequentis, Prodigiorum liber. Latina interpretatio dictionum ac sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Indices duo ... Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus, 1542. 8vo. Extraordinary well preserved contemporary blind tooled pigskin binding; rolls with square and oval portraits and panels with passion scenes and saints on both covers; floral motives are stamped in the central spaces of the covers and in the four compartments of the spine; in the middle of the front cover, between two paragraph signs, the initials 'E' and 'K' are stamped and decorated with black ink. Some woodcut initials. 3 fly-leaves, 494, (40) pp. and 3 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Dutch translation of the 'lives' of Plutarch View picture(s) 148 PLUTARCH. T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen, tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal, Scipio den Africaen, uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het leven van Epaminondas, Philippus van Macedonien, Dionysius den ouden, Augustus Caesar, Plutarchus ende Seneca: ende noch het leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten, beschreven door Aemilius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven: leeringen op de kant, chronijck ende leer-registers: alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by S.G.S. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht, door A.V.Z.V.N.. ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder. Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren & Felix van Sambrix, 1644. Folio. Contemporary calf with large gilt centre-piece on both sides, spine in compartments, with gilt red morocco label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, dated 1644 with Romulus and Theseus - the subjects of the first two 'lives' presented as a pair - holding a cloth with the engraved title and an oval portrait of Plutarch at the top. Printer's device on the title with the motto 'Durate'. (6), 548, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Classical Antiquity  History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 149 PLUTARCHUS. Tleven ende vrome daden vande doorluchtige Grieksche ende Romeynsche mannen, met haar figuren. Ende nu int corte begrepen, ende in Latijn gestelt, door Darius Tibertus. Hier by is gevoecht tleven vande excellente Veltheeren, door Aemilius Probus beschreven, ende van andere mannen, die in de naestvolgende sijde gestelt  zijn: met sommige nieuwe vergelijkingen, die nu eerst in tlicht zijn wtgecomen. In onse Neerduytsche sprake overgeset, door M. Everart. Hier is bygevoecht de tafel van de treffelickste ende voornaemste saken, in dit boeck begrepen. Leyden, Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1601. Sm. 8vo. 19th century boards, with orange title-label on spine. With medaillon portrait of Plutarchus on title, and  56 woodcut medaillon portraits in text. (16), 834, (13, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Numismatics  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine" View picture(s) 150 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. 17th/18th century polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat-of-arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. (452) lvs.Collation: a-p4, q-r5, s-t4, A-I4, K2, L-P4, Q-R5, S4, T5, V3, X-Y5, Z4, &5, iterum2a-iterum2b4, 2a5, 2b-2h8, 2i3, 2k5. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Italy  Literary History  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A world- famous Spanish satire translated into Dutch View picture(s) 151 QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, Francisco Gomez de. Groote Spaensche droomer, ofte de VII. wonderlijke gesichten, in welcke alle de gebreken deser eeuwe, onder alle staten van menschen, vermakelijck en oock stichtelijck werden bestraft, en als in een schilderye naecktelick verthoont. Utrecht, Juriaen van Poolsum, 1687. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum. With woodcut illustration on title, and 7 half-page woodcuts in text, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 332, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literature  Satire  Utrecht  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An entertaining and adventurous way of teaching all aspects of life in Classical Antiquity View picture(s) 152 RAMSAY, (A.). De Gevallen van Cyrus. Nevens eene Redevoeringe over de Verdichtzelkunde. In 't Nederduitsch vertaelt. 's-Grav., Robertus Viejou, 1728. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemp. vellum. With engraved vignette by D. Coster on 2 titles, titles  printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces by C. Duflos, and 8 fine engraved mythological or grotesque engraved headpieces. (6), 272; 154 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Scotland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rare first edition View picture(s) 153 REVIUS, J. Over-Ysselsche Sangen en Dichten. Deventer, Sebastiaen Wermbouts, 1630. 4to. Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine, red painted edges. With woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Deventer on title. (2), 328, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literature  Poetry  Renaissance  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Horror stories from all over Europe View picture(s) 154 REYNOLDS, Johan. Tonneel der wereldtse rampsaligheden, vertoonende Godts wraake, over de roepende en verfoeyelijke zonde der moedtwillige en voor-bedachte moordery. Welkers wonderlijke  ontdekkingen en gestrenge straffe beschreven worden  in XXX. bezondere jammerlijke Historien: vervattende  veel droevige en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen: historische,  zedelijke en goddelijke lessen. Amsterdam, Tymon Houthaak for Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1667. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With engraved frontispiece, engraved printer's device with turtle on title, and 30 full-page engravings, each with 8 separate illustrations, depicting 240 scenes from the many stories. (6), 888 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sidney's 'Defense of poetry' in dutch View picture(s) 155 RODENBURGH, Th. Eglentiers poëtens borst-weringh. Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteyn for Ian Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1619. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut by Chr. van Sichem on title, repeated in text, and with several fine woodcut initials. (32), 440 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Emblem Books  English  Literary History  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Love poetry in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 156 ROSSI, G.G. De. Scherzi poetici e pittorici. Rome, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with black morocco title-label and 5 with gilt ornaments on oval inlaid black morocco pieces, sides with triple fillet borders and gilt corner ornaments with same inlaid oval black morocco pieces as on spine, central oval ornament executed in gilt green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (R. PETIT). 41 engravings, incl. frontispiece (ca. 70x112mm). 52 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Engravings  Erotica  Literature  Poetry  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With autograph dedication by the creator of the 'French Cantate' View picture(s) 157 ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste. Odes sacrées. Détachées du corps de ses ouvrages. Brussels. Gilles Stryckwant, 1738. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, gilt binding edges, red marbled edges. With woodcut coat of arms of Marie Elisabeth of Austria on title. (6), 109, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Literature  Music  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amsterdam edition of the collected works of a pioneer of the Enlightenment View picture(s) 158 SAINT-EVREMONT, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de. Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond publiées sur ses manuscrits avec la vie de l'auteur par Mr. des Maizeaux. Cinqiéme édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Enrichie de figures gravées par B. Picart le Romain. Amsterdam, Arkstee & Merkus, libraires à Leipzig, 1739. 5 vols. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, with blind stamped titles on spines, as well as labels lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. With 5 engraved frontispieces (3 different frontispieces: 2 allegorical and one by J. v. Schley, dated 1738), engraved printer's devices on titles (3 different vignettes, one by B. Picard (1725), one by J. v. Schley (1738) and one with the portrait of Saint-Evremont), half-page engraved coat of arms of the Earls of Macclesfield ('Sapere aude'), by B. Picard, dated 1725, 4 full-page engraved plates, engraved head-pieces by B. Picard, dated 1725. (2), XXVIII, 367, 5, 169, (19); (2), 460, (12); (2), 443, (17); (6), 490, (17); (10), 418, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  France  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The world in 100 emblems after Caspar & Jan Luyken View picture(s) 159 SANCTA CLARA, Abraham à. Huy! und Pfuy! der Welt. Huy, oder Anfrischung zu allen schönen Tugenden. Pfuy oder Abschreckung von allen schändlichen Lastern. Durch unterschiedliche sittliche Concept, Historien, und Fabeln vorgestellt. Worinnen der Poet, Prediger, und waserley Standes-Personen für ihren Kram etwas finden können. Würzburg; Nuremberg, Martin Frantz Hertzen (& Christoph Weigel), 1707. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved allegorical title page, title printed in red & black, and 100 engraved emblems in text. (10), 200, (4) pp. text and 100 leaves with each an emblem and a German and Latin poem. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Emblem Books  Engravings  German  Germany  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the author of the first pastorale View picture(s) 160 SANNAZZARO, JACOPO. Cinque Egloghe Pescatorie ed altri Poemetti Latini. Recati in versi Italiane per Domenico Scipioni. Acc. Intrepido, e Conc. Cogli Argomenti, e con brevi Annotazioni sopra de' luoghi piu importanti. Padova, Guiseppe Comino, 1768. Half vellum, with 2 red morocco title-labels on spine. 89, (1 blank) pp. parallel text in Latin and Italian. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Italy  Linguistics  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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