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Libretto for an opera performed at Turin in 1699 on Endymion and Selene View picture(s) 41 [OPERA]. Endimione. Favola per Musica. Da recitarsi nel Reggio Teatro di Torino. Alla presenza della loro A.A. R.R. Turin, Gio.Battista Fontana, 1699. Small 8vo. Contemporary red and gilt brocade wrappers. With woodcut coat-of-arms on title. 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Literature  Poetry  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare souvenir of the first amusement park in Amsterdam View picture(s) 42 [PASSE THE YOUNGER, Crispijn de & Jan VOS]. Verklaringe van Verscheyden Kunst-rijcke Wercken en hare Beweginghe, door orlogie-werck ghedreven,… Alles te sien in 't Oude Doolhof tot Amsterdam, op de hoeck van de Loyers-gracht. Amsterdam, Tymen Houthaeck, 1648. Small 4to. Modern marbled wrappers. With engraved title-page vignette with labyrinth, 1 folding engraved plate with David & Goliath outside text, 1 full-page engraved plate by P. Holsteyn after A. Vinckenbrinck and 3 engravings in text. [8] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Verses, anecdotes and wordplays of which Potier was not the author View picture(s) 43 [POTIER, Charles]. Potieriana, recueil complet des calembourgs, jeux de mots, naïvétés, couplets, pointus, rebus, niaiseries, monologues, bêtises, etc, etc. Paris, for the author, Dentu, Delaroque, 1814. 16mo. Contemporary boards, with title in ink on spine. Folding handcoloured engraved plate with boxing match. VII, 5-212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Games & Pastimes  Poetry  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of the first edition of a comedy by the most famous French playwright after Molière View picture(s) 44 [REGNARD, Jean-François]. Les folies amoureuses, comedie. Par M. R ***. Paris, Pierre Ribou, MDCXCCIV (= 1704). 12mo. Finely bound in 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments with the title lettered in gold, triple gold line along the edges of both covers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (by HARDY). (8), 1-72, 69-92 (= 96) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  France  Literary History  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The theatre of the Dutch Golden Age View picture(s) 45 [RHETORICIANS - REDERIJKERS - HAARLEM]. Const-thoonende iuweel by de loflijcke stadt Haerlem, ten versoecke van trou moet blijcken, in't licht gebracht. Waer inne duydelick verclaert ende verthoont wordt alles wat den mensche mach wecken om  den armen te troosten, ende zijnen naesten by te staen. In twaelf spelen van sinne, so veel intreden, refreynen ende liedekens ghestelt in redenrijck naer de volgende voorgegevene caerte van 't speel-korenken. Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1607. 4to. Contemp. vellum, with brown morocco title-label on spine, red painted edges. With large emblematic device with coat-of-arms of Haarlem on title, 2 full-page engravings of raised platform-stages, 13 full-page engraved blasons of the Rhetorician Chambers, 13 pages with musical scores, and 13 large folding oblong plates on 2 or more sheets depicting the festive entree of each group of actors from the competing Rhetorician Chambers. (266) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Haarlem  Songbook, Religious  Songbooks  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The earliest printed account known of a 'Rederijkers' festival View picture(s) 46 [RHETORICS - REDERIJKERS - ROTTERDAM]. Spelen van sinne vol schoone allegatien, loflijcke leeringhen ende schriftuerlijcke onderwijsinghen. Op de vraghe: wie den meesten troost oyt quam te baten, die schenen te sijn van Godt verlaten. Ghespeelt ende verthoont met octroy der Conincklijcker Ma. binnen  die stede van Rotterdam bijde neghen Cameren van Rhetorijcken die hem daer ghepresenteert hebben den  XX. dach in Julio Anno 1561. Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1564. Sm.8vo. 19th century half red morocco with gilt title on spine. With small woodcut vignette on title and 10 full-page woodcut emblematic blasons of the competing chambers of rhetoricians. 159, (1 blank) ff. [Collation: A-V8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Festival Books  Low Countries  Splendid Ceremonies  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enlarged second edition of a thorough course on theatre acting View picture(s) 47 [SERVANDONI dit D'HANNETAIRE, Jean Nicolas]. Observations sur l'art du comédien, et sur d'autres objets concernant cette profession en général. Avec quelques extraits de différens auteurs & des remarques analogues au même sujet: ouvrage destiné a de jeunes acteurs et actrices. Seconde édition, corrigée, & augmentée. (Paris), Aux dépens d'une Société Typographique, 1774. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, red edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title and several charming woodcut vignettes in text. XVI, 348, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Games & Pastimes  Teaching  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A prize winning play styled after Pestalozzi View picture(s) 48 [SWART, Nicolaas]. Pieter Schijn en zijne dorpgenooten. Een volksleesboek. Uitgegeven door de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen. Beantwoording der prijsstoffe; eene verdichte geschiedenis, in den smaak van de Lienhard en Gertrud, van Pestalozzi. Amsterdam, Corn. de Vries, Hendr. van Munster & Son, Johannes van der Wey, 1819. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. Woodcut vignette on title. VIII, 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Over 200 hand-coloured plates with theatre costumes, rebuses and caricatures View picture(s) 49 [THEATRE]. BÄUERLE, Adolf (ed.). Wiener allgemeine Theaterzeitung. Originalblatt für Kunst, Literatur, Musik, Mode, und geselliges Leben. Herausggegeben von Adolf Bäuerle. Vier-, Fünf, Sechs und dreißigster Jahrgang. Vienna, Bureau der allgemeinen Theaterzeitung, 1841-1843, [1847-1848?]. 4to. Contemporary buckram with title on front cover and spine. Hand-coloured wood-engraved title, 208 hand-coloured mostly engraved plates (incl. some titles), mainly by A. Geiger after Cajetan. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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