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A dialogue on painting between Pietro Aretino and John Francis Fabrini. View picture(s) 1 DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. 8vo. Vellum. Woodcut vignette on title. 60 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aesthetics  Art  Italy  Painting & Drawing  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on colour View picture(s) 2 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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Rare edition of Dürer's letters and diary (1520-1521) in English View picture(s) 3 DÜRER, Albrecht. Records of journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer. Edited by Roger Fry. Boston, The Merrymount Press, 1913. 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, gilt title on spine with raised bands, both covers blind tooled,  bound by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Chicago. Title printed in red & black, marginalia and initials printed in red. XXVI, 117, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art  Bindings  Dürer  Germany  Painting & Drawing  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound for the Dutch statesman Johannes Mepschius, later in Jan Six's library View picture(s) 4 OVID. Ars Amatoria.- Metamorphoseon libri XV.- Fastorum Lib. VI. Tristium Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1547. 3 vols. 16mo. Contemporary Lyonese red morocco bindings in Italian style, spines richly gilt in compartments, with 3 raised bands, sides with double lined gilt border and central panel: quadrilobe cartouche, with four small gilt flower tools, on the front covers with the abbreviated titles and on the rear covers with the name of the original owner Joannes Mepschius in gilt lettering, gilt and gauffered edges. Printer's device on the three titles; many woodcut initials in text. 421; 453; 431 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Rembrandt  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rare first edition View picture(s) 5 REVIUS, Jacob. 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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A theatrical highlight from the Renaissance in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 6 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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Heroic poem on the first crusade. One of the most famous poems of Italian literature View picture(s) 7 TASSO, Torquato. Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme Liberata, Poema Heroico del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Nel quale sono state aggiunte molte stanze levate, con le varie lettioni & postivi gli argomenti e allegorie a ciascun canto d'incerto auttore.  Con aggiunta de' cinque canti del signor Camillo Camilli, & i loro argumenti del signor Francesco Melchior opitergino. Venice, Giacomo Vincenti, 1611. 2 parts in one. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, title in ink on spine. Title within elaborately engraved architectural borders, 19 engravings in first part engraved by Gasparo Grispoldi, 2 woodcut illustrations in second part, woodcut  printer's device on second title, woodcut headpieces and initials, text printed in two columns. (8), 117, (1 blank) lvs.; 63 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Holy Land  Italy  Poetry  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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