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RARE JESUIT RELATION FROM C16TH JAPANFROES, Luis. Lettera annua del Giappone dell'anno M.D.XCVIPadua, Appresso Francesco Bolzetta, 1599.FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 124. Woodcut printer's device on -p, initials. Early ms. initials on t-p. Clean and bright throughout, only sporadic worm tracks to the blank margins. C17th limp vellum. An excellent copy.This rare letter of Portuguese Jesuit missionary Froes, dated at Nagasaki December 13, 1596, is addressed to Padre Claudio Acquaviva, General of the Society. It was translated into Italian by another Jesuit, Francesco Mercati. The relation gives a detailed regional description of affairs in Japan in the 1590s, by which time the predominantly Jesuit Christian mission in Japan had made considerable progress. However, the position was one of great uncertainty, for by the mid 1590s, Franciscans had arrived from the Philippines and the Japanese felt that they were preparing the way for the conquest of Japan. Torn between their desire for trade and their distaste of… Leer más

THREE RARE EDITIONES PRINCIPES, INCLUDING AESCHYLUS' COMPLETE PLAYS, PUBLISHED BY ESTIENNE AND BOUND IN A MAGNIFICENT RENAISSANCE BLIND-TOOLED CALF BINDING.The volume contains three very important Estienne imprints. It is bound in very well-preserved contemporary full blind-tooled calf, showing elaborate concentric borders on the covers and a contemporaneous, or nearly contemporaneous addition, on the central panel, of blind-stamped fleurons, floral centrepiece and two monograms (initials "A.M." - as yet unidentified) topped by a crown within ovals. The spine was skilfully restored in some points. There are metal pieces for protection nailed along the fore-edge of the board's corners and towards the hinges. The works contained in the volume are:POLÉMON, Marcus Antonius. Polemonis, Himerii, & Aliorum quorundam declamationes, nunc primùm edita.[Geneva], Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1567.EDITIO PRINCEPS. 4to, pp. [4], 91, [1] ("Henrici Stephani annotatiunculae in eos declamationum Polemonis & Himeriilcos… Leer más

A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE GREAT BIBLIOPHILE HORACE DE LANDAU.
PROUST, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les jours. Illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire. Preface d'Anatole France. Quatre pieces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn.
Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896.
FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [2], X, 271 pp., [2]; with 14 plates out of the text and several illustrations in the text. Landau's bookplate. Beautiful dedication on the initial blank by Proust to Baron Landau: "A Monsieur Horace de Landau, comme un hommage de ma respecteuse, admirative et reconnaisante amitié Marcel Proust". Contemporary binding in half purple morocco, publisher's printed wrappers preserved. Pasteboard slipcase. Fine copy.
Horace de Landau was an important 19th century banker and a great collector and bibliophile. Part of his famous library was donated to the city of Florence, the other was auctioned by Hoepli in 1945.
The work is a collection of poems and prose on the world of the Parisian salons and cultural… Leer más

THE FINEST COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK ON THE ARABIC MSS AT THE ESCORIAL.CASIRI, Miguel. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatioMadrid, Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat, 1760-1770.FIRST EDITION. Folio, 2 vols: pp. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352 and 107 leaves of index and final errata. With text in Latin and Arabic. Woodcut vignette on both t-ps, head and tailpieces. A bright, crisp and clean copy excellently bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorations to spine and gilt borders on covers. All edges red. Silk ribbon bookmarks. Original marbled endpapers. Fine copy.A real publishing enterprise by the Maronite scholar Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to… Leer más

"DEUS SIVE NATURA"B.d.S. [Benedict de SPINOZA]. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur.[Amsterdam], 1677, [Jan Rieuwertsz].FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8]. Without the engraved frontispiece portrait, found in only a very small number of copies and probably not originally issued with this edition. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Woodcut vignette on title, decorative woodcut tail-piece and initials. Negligible withdrawal stamp of German university library on t-p and verso. Early C20th binding in half calf and decorated paper. Light soiling to t-p. Internally crisp, fresh and clean. A good copy.First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which "have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name" (PMM). It includes his influential Ethica, more geometrico demonstrata, the work which established Spinoza's reputation as a rationalist and "atheist." It is considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism… Leer más

"EPPUR SI MUOVE": A LOVELY COPY OF GALILEO'S CELEBRATED "DIALOGO" IN THE SECOND EDITION.
GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Supremo (…) Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano (…)
Florence [i.e. Naples], Tartini e Franchi, 1710.
4to, 2 parts in 1 volume; ff. [6], pp. 458, ff. [15]; ff. [1], pp. 84; with numerous illustrations in the text. Both parts with individual t-p, being the first title printed in red and black. the second part opens with a letter to the Gran Duchess of Tuscany. Contemporary full stiff vellum, ms. title to spine. Sporadic marginal spotting, short tear along rear hinge at the head of the spine. All edges sprinkled in blue. Original endpapers. An excellent copy.
Second Italian edition of "Dialogo sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo", which first appeared in 1632 in Florence.
The work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence... it is a… Leer más

DALÍ, Salvador, and Tristan CORBIÈRE. Les Amours Jaunes.
Paris, Éditions Pierre Belfond, 1974.

Folio. 398 x 300 x 24mm. (15 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 1in.); Plates 298 x 212mm. (11 3/4 x 8 3/8in.).
Sheets 380 x 280mm. (15 x 11in.). 10 etchings and drypoint with extensive additions in
gold paint contained in red linen covered clam-shaped portfolio with gilt letters. The
complete set of ten drypoint etchings with gilding, hors-texte, on Arches wove paper, with
the title page and justification, numbered 275 on the justification in pencil, each drypoint
signed and numbered 275/300 in pencil (there was also an edition of 200 in Roman
numerals on Japan); the full sheets, loose (as issued), without the text, together with a
certificate from the publisher, contained within a red fabric slipcase, with gold lettering
on the front cover. Glassine guards. Excellent condition.
Les Amours Jaunes is the only collection of poems by Tristan Corbière (1845-1875), an
author who died young and unknown. He was rediscovered by… Leer más

COMPLETE WITH O5-8 AND IN C18TH NICELY DECORATED VELLUMFIRST ALDINE EDITION. 8vo (15,7x9,5CM). A-Z8 2A-2C8, ff. 205, [3]. Italic letter, very little Roman. Printer's device on t-p and on verso of final blank leaf, large historiated woodcut initial at beginning of text. 2 leaves of errata; register and repeated imprint at colophon. Faded ms. ex libris on t-p: "Di Gennaro Giannelli" (fl. C17th-C18th, Roman bibliophile, physician and man of letters). Occasional marginal early annotations throughout; old ink note on centre of upper pastedown stating that the five songs which were removed from almost all copies are present in this copy. They were inserted later. Indeed the original 4-leave quire O was entirely substituted with a complete 8vo gathering, probably taken from another copy, since it shows skilful restorations to the foot of each leaf, and sometimes the outer margin, in order to adjust the quire to the present copy. Masterly repair to the t-p's outer margin with paper integration most likely due… Leer más

"CETTE EDITION EST FORT BELLE" (BEUCHOT). THE RARE FIRST DRESDEN EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S WORKS IN A FINE BINDING WITH TWO PRESTIGIOUS PROVENANCES.
Large 8vo. 9 vols, 8 printed in 1748 and 1 in 1750 (A 10th supplementary volume was issued four years later, in 1754 – here not present and very rarely found to complete the series). First volume with frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Jean-Joseph Balechou after Maurice Quentin de La Tour's painting; 20 full-page plates (11 to the 1st, 5 to the 4th and 4 to the 5th volume) by Johann Martin Bernigeroth, some of which, according to Bengesco, were engraved after the illustrations of La Henriade (1728, 4to) and others after those of the collected and separate editions of Voltaire's Théâtre. 17 folding plates at the end of the 6th volume illustrating Voltaire's scientific works. 38 plates in total. Half-titles, titles in red and black, engraved vignettes on title-pages, numerous head- and tail-pieces. Bound in strictly contemporary sumptuous fauve… Leer más

AN EXCELLENT COPY OF AMMAN'S BIBLE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 16TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIBLEFIRST EDITION OF THE VULGATE WITH AMMAN'S STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS. Folio. ff. [8], 602, [63]. Roman and Italic letters, some Greek and Hebrew. Imprint on last leaf. Register at colophon, double-column text, printed side notes, different large printer's devices on title and verso of final leaf, historiated and floriated initials, 128 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page. 18th-century calf with blind-ruled borders on covers, richly gilt-tooled spine, skilfully refurbished, divided in five compartments decorated with starry sky patterns. Marbled pastedowns, all edges sprinkled in red and blue. Occasional minimal damp stains at margins, sporadic light foxing and age toning. An excellent copy.Edited by Johann Hentenius, who also curated the earlier editions of the Vulgate published in Louvain (1547) and Antwerp (1559), this splendid bible was illustrated by Swiss Jost Amman (1539-1591). The latter was a prolific… Leer más

EL SIGLO DE ORO: VEGA CARPIO, AMESCUA AND THEIR COLLEAGUES."TODAS [EDICIONES] SON RARAS Y JAMÁS LAS HEMOS VISTO EN VENTA" (PALAU). PALAU PROVIDES NO COLLATION SINCE HE NEVER CAME ACROSS A COPY OF THE WORK.ÁVILA, Francisco de (Ed.), Lope de VEGA CARPIO, Antonio MIRA DE AMESCUA et AL. Flor de las comedias de España de diferentes autores. Quinta parte.Barcelona, en casa Sebastian de Cormellas al Call, 1616.4to, ff. [2], 334. Double-column text. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and headpieces. Small chip at outer margin of leaf C3 with loss of a letter. Contemporary limp vellum, early calligraphic title to spine. Very fresh and clean throughout. An excellent copy of this rare work.The extremely rare fifth part of El Fénix de Los Ingenios's comedies; even though, in fact, the book contains a collection of comedies by a number of important Spanish authors and only one by Vega Carpio. El Fénix's comedies were printed in more than twenty parts throughout the first three decades of the 17th-century, from… Leer más

ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL THAT WON THE FIRST MEXICAN NATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE HONOURABLE MENTION AT THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN PRIZE NOVEL CONTEST IN NEW YORK (1940-41).Large 4to. Initial blank, title leaf, 197 ff., final blank. Occasional pen annotations in dark blue ink throughout the text by the author. Elegant presentation binding in brown soft faux leather with gilt letterings stamped on front cover and spine. Brown synthetic cloth endpapers with light reflective effect creating wavy lines. Typed on high-quality paper (handmade?), thin and very crisp, showing pattern of half rising suns as watermark. Trimmed edges styled unevenly, rough irregular surface. A few marks, chipping and rubbing to binding, mostly along board extremities and spine. We did not manage to locate duplicates nor other similar typescripts in public libraries. Excellent condition. An exceptional item through which the final steps of the novel's genesis can be studied. Thanks to the… Leer más

FASCINATING AND RARE ILLUSTRATED RENAISSANCE MILITARY BOOKSFIRST EDITIONS. 4to, 2 works in 1 volume, ff. [6], 65, [1] and [4], 68, [2]. Roman letter, some Italic. Printer's devices on both t-ps, repeated on final leaf of first work, which bears register and second imprint at colophon. Numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, mostly throughout the first work, which includes also a portrait of the author on the verso of the title leaf and a vignette headpiece on dedicatory letter showing the coat of arms of Duke of Parma Ottavio Farnese. Large historiated initials. Contemporary limp vellum, early title handwritten to spine, remains of ties, original endpapers. Sporadic minimal age toning, little vellum loss at corner of front cover. An attractive volume, crisp and clean, containing two rare illustrated first editions.
Cicogna was a soldier and man of letters from Verona. Little is known about his life. His innovative work contains numerous woodcut illustrations of military strategy and battle… Leer más

"LIBER RARISSIMUS": THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT PRINTED BOOK OF SECRETS... EXCEEDINGLY RARE!FIRST EDITION. 4to, 6 books in 1 volume, pp. (1-24), 25-229 [i.e. 237], [1], lacking final blank. Roman letter, a little Italic. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut decorated initials, small ornamental woodcut on the first page of the text, placed between the printed letters "G." and "R." (perhaps a reference to the initials of the real name of the author? No bibliography mentions this detail). The printer's prefatory letter and the "table of all the secrets" precede the text. A list of "uncommon vocabularies" and the register follows the text at the colophon. Slightly soiled t-p, occasional light damp stains and foxing at margins. Bound in late C19th/early 20th decorated paper over pasteboard, gilt title to spine. Some scuffing along covers' extremities, little loss of paper at spine caps and corners. Pencil purchase note, dated 1930, and reference to Brunet, I, 159 (Ediz. Orig.") on upper pastedown. Overall, a… Leer más

NOT ONLY ARCHITECTURE, BUT ALSO PURE ENGINEERINGFIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [8], 366, final blank. Roman letter, some Italic. Woodcut initials, profusely illustrated with beautiful woodcuts in the text, of different sizes. 2 folding plates. 1st title within fretwork border followed by dedicatory leaf and second title within architectural border. Full-page woodcut portrait of the author within oval to verso of 4th leaf from beginning. Each of the 5 books introduced by individual engraved t-ps showing magnificent architectural frames. Occasional light browning, small repairs to outer margin of initial leaf, rebacked, front endpaper renewed. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled fore-edges, title handwritten to spine. A very good, complete, and unsophisticated copy of this marvellous illustrated book."Capra does not consider architecture as the art of building but as a science with a strong engineering aspect. In his work he provides the embryonic theoretical distinction between architecture and building. The… Leer más

SCARCE EARLY-C19TH ENGLISH BRASSFOUNDER'S CATALOGUESmall oblong folio (ca. 20.5x32.5 cm). No title-page. 92 copperplates, some folding, showing several hundreds of hardware designs with their sizes in inches. Plates numbering: 20 n.n. (not numbered), 42-3, 2 n.n., 44-5, 47, 46, 33, 48-9, 1 n.n., 21-2, 20, 24, 23, 2 n.n., 25-6, 1 n.n., 29, 3 n.n., 30, 27, 32, 1 n.n., 41, 1 n.n., 106, 2 n.n., 108-9, 1 n.n., 110, 116-7, 114, 70-5, 2 n.n., 78-80, 1 n.n., 88, 1 n.n., 85, 2 n.n., 65, 127, 125, 126, 133-4, 2 n.n. Some pen annotations by some items throughout (prices?). Most plates are numbered and bound in mixed order. As usual, the catalogue includes both new items in production at the unidentified brass foundry and older standard hardwares already in production, thus the mixed plates and their not-always sequential numbering. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over pasteboards, corners stiffened with vellum. A mark pencilled on the upper pastedown reports the catalogue number and the initials… Leer más

Large folio. 2 parts in 1 vol.: 1) engraved t-p with portrait of Vignola within beautiful architectural border and 36 full-page copperplate engravings; 2) engraved t-p and 17 full-page copperplate engravings, 2 of which are folding, bound at end and showing with bird's-eye view and plan of the Caprarola Palace. 55 plate in total including the t-ps. Very light dampstaining to blank lower corner of second work. minimal wear to spine caps. Plates clean, with very good impression on strong paper. Overall an excellent copy bound in contemporary stiff vellum.The work is dedicated to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, later Pope Paul III, who acquired the estate at Caprarola in 1504. First printed in 1562, Regola, or Rule, is one of the most influential and famous architectural treatises of the 16th century; surely one of the foremost Renaissance works on classical architecture. It remained a standard textbook on the five architectural orders for the following centuries. Most likely, this work was originally… Leer más

EDITIONES PRINCIPES OF EUSEBIUS' EVANGELICAL PREPARATION AND DEMONSTRATIONEDITIO PRINCEPS. Folio, pp. 498, [2]; 138 [i.e. 338], [2]. Greek letter, very sporadic Roman. Estienne's device on both t-ps (serpent wound around the spear/olive tree branch) and in the classic large variant at end of the second work (the tree of knowledge), imprint repeated at colophon (dated 1546). Fine large woodcut initials and headpieces. Early provenance stamp on first t-p: "Biblioteca Se. Me. Novelle". Wide-margined copy, crisp and clean, bound in C19th rustic pasteboard wrappers, spine backed with marbled paper, handwritten title to paper label. Excellent copies. Evangelical preparation was the first work issued by Estienne as the official Printer in Greek to Francois I and was the first appearance of a full text in the first font of the 'grecs du roi' commissioned by the king through the printer. The font was designed by the Cretan scribe Angelos Vergikios and cut by Claude Garamont."Editiones principes of these two… Leer más

THE EARLIEST PRIVATE-LIBRARY CATALOGUE ARRANGED BY SUBJECTSFIRST EDITION. 8vo (ca. 19,5x15,5 cm), [20], 542 pp., Roman and Italic letter. Woodcut initials, large printers device on t-p and Cordes's full-page engraved portrait to verso of a2. Generally, a very pleasant copy, clean and crisp. Very occasional mild waterstaining at blank margins, stronger damp stains to the final 50 leaves. Upper blank corners of the 3 last leaves restored. Bound in contemporary semi-limp vellum, early ms. title to spine. A near-fine, wide-margined and complete copy of an extremely rare and iconic work, preserved in its original binding.The present work "did much to establish the use of catalogues of private libraries as reference works" (Taylor, p. 109; see also p. 238). The Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus is perhaps one the earliest major library catalogues to appear in print and surely the first printed catalogue of a French private library arranged by subject. For such reason, it is of greatest relevance for the… Leer más

MODERN ART - A FAMOUS ARTIST'S BOOK - MAIL ART - POSTCARDS BY 48 INTERNATIONAL LEADING ARTISTS. NANNUCCI, Maurizio (ed.) et ALII. Mèla post card book : a collection of artists' postcards : una raccolta di cartoline d'artista. Firenze, Biancoenero Edizione d'Arte, 1979. FIRST and ONLY LIMITED EDITION. Photomechanical prints published by Maurizio Nannucci and printed in an edition of 1000 copies by Biancoenero, Florence, in original folded card sleeve. Sporadic very light flaws to the sleeve. Excellent condition. The conceptual/performance artist Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and editions. Also involved with Concrete Poetry. Lives and works in Florence and South Baden, Germany. A complete set of 48 artist postcards by various international leading modern and contemporary artists: Eric Anderson, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Berd & Hilla Becker, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Alighiero Boetti, Chris… Leer más