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Early humanist edition, printed by Plantin

AESCHYLOS and Gulielmus CANTERUS (editor). Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium, ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1580. 16mo. With a small woodcut printer's device on the title page, 9 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 8 woodcut tailpieces, further with printed manicules in the margins throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], 355, [1 blank], [7], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Music, Theatre & Dance Plantin Press School & Textbooks
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Satirical poetry by a Medici opponent who fled Florence for France

ALAMANNI, Luigi. Opere toscane.
Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (colophons: printed by Peter Schoeffer the younger), 1542. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut Giunta device, and a full-page woodcut showing a larger version of the same device on the last printed page of vol. 2. Set in an Aldine-style italic. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. [16], 431, [1 blank]; 295, [7] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Aldine Press Caricature & Satire Early Printing - 16th century Italian Literature Italy Literature
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Illustrated by Bernard Salomon, and bound by Marcelin Lortic for the library of the Prince d'Essling

ALCIATI, Andrea. Emblematum libri duo.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes et Guillaume Gazeau, 1547. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a variant woodcut printer's device on the verso of the last leaf, and 113 half-page woodcut emblems by Bernard Salomon. 19th-century gold-tooled orange morocco by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris, with the author, title, and imprint lettered in gold on the spine, the gilt armorial supralibros of the Prince d'Essling in the centre on both sides, and his initials "VM" on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers. 143, [1] pp. Full description
€ 11,500
Aldine Press Armorial Bindings Bindings Early Printing - 16th century Emblems Greek & Roman Classics
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First Spanish edition of the first emblem book, expanding the earlier editions to the nearly definitive form,
with 200 woodcut emblems

ALCIATO, Andrea. Los emblemas ... traducidos en rhimas Españolas. ...
Lyon, Guillaume Rouille [printed by Macé Bonhomme], 1549. 8vo (18.5 x 12.5 cm). With an elaborate woodcut architectural frame; 210 emblems (200 with woodcuts); nearly every page in one of about 34 different richly decorated woodcut frames. Early 18th-century (Spanish?) sheepskin parchment. 256, [6] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Early Printing - 16th century Emblems
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Rare edition of a popular classical rhetoric handbook

APHTHONIUS of Antioch; Rodolphus AGRICOLA and Giovanni Maria CATANEO (translators). Aphthonii sophistae progymnasmata. Partim à Rodolpho Agricola, partim à Ioanne Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata. Cum luculentis & vtilibus in eadem Scholiis Reinhardi Lorichii Hadamarii. Nunc verò omnia multò quàm antea & emendatiora & meliori artificio disposita.
Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1580. 16mo in 8s. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 3 woodcut headpieces in the beginning of the work, and 9 decorated woodcut initials throughout. 17th-century limp vellum. [12], 259, [3 blank] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Language & Linguistics Literature
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First Aldine edition of Pedanius's commentaries on Cicero's orations

ASCONIUS PEDANIUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII orationes M.T. Cic. contra C. Verrem [&c.]
(colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1522. 8vo. With Aldos woodcut anchor and dolphin device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the last otherwise blank leaf (each with letterpress "AL ... DVS" flanking the device), with spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials, not filled in. Set in Aldos famous italic (with upright capitals), the worlds first italic printing type, first used in 1501 (showing the alphabet a-z and A-N in the register of quires above the colophon). Dark purple sheepskin (ca. 1880?). [12], 283, [1] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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Early edition of the first real children's book

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem.
Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 April) 1541. Small 8vo (ca. 16.5 x 10.5 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine, red sprinkled edges. 68, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Children's Books Classical Antiquity Costumes & Uniforms Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy French Literature
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Important illustrated study of emblems, with a lengthy treatment of women's emblems

BARGAGLI, Scipione. Dell' imprese die Scipion Bargagli ... Alla prima parte, la seconda, e la terza nucoamente aggiunte.
Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1594. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With oval engraved device on title-page, full-page engraved portrait of Rudolf II, full-page engraved dedicatory emblem, and 138 engraved oval emblems in text. 19th-century half sheepskin parchment. [24], “573” [=604], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Emblems Italy Women History
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The definitive edition of an anthology of classical and Humanist anecdotes

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Jocorum veterum ac recentium libris tres ... Primae aeditioni nunc adjecti sunt libri duo.
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten for (colophon:) Gregorius de Bonte, 1529. 8vo. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, and several woodcut initials throughout. 18th-century mottled calf. [64] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Caricature & Satire Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Greek & Roman Classics Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism
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