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Stultifera navis; Qua omnium mortalium narratur Stultitia. The modern ship of fools. Aere perennius
de [IRELAND, William Henry]
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Printed for William Miller, 1807. xxiv, 295pp, [9]. With half-title, a folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece by John Augustus Atkinson in imitation of Rowlandson, and four terminal advertisement leaves. Modern cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. The anonymous anecdotes and satirical verse of, notorious forger of Shakespearean documents, William Henry Ireland (1775-1835). The book, a homage to German humanist Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools (Basel, 1494), savagely attacks the types of people and objects the author disdains most, including Foolish Unprofitable Books. . First edition. 8vo.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- AQ28385
- Título
- Stultifera navis; Qua omnium mortalium narratur Stultitia. The modern ship of fools. Aere perennius
- Autor
- [IRELAND, William Henry]
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Printed for William Miller
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1807
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- Poetry, Satire
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Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Sobre el vendedor
Antiquates Ltd
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Wareham, Dorset
Sobre Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Crisp
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