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Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1972. ONE OF 130 COPIES. 364 x 255 mm. (14 3/8 x 10"). 74 pp.Designed, printed, and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Original green cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered strip of black paper bearing the title, edges untrimmed. Housed in the original olive-green cloth slipcase, back with black paper label and gilt lettering (case with a couple of scuff marks and a little fraying, otherwise excellent). With three color etchings by Michèle Forgeois, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST in pencil, with original tissue guards. Title printed in orange, olive, and black, text printed in black with orange, blue, olive, and blue-green highlights. Allen Press Bibliography 38. ◆Negligible yellow spot on one page, otherwise in pristine condition. This is a beautifully printed and presented version of Euripides' greatest tragedy, an edition which, in the modest words of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, is "a good example of our attempts to wed typography and materials with the…
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THE BACCHAE: DIONYSUS, THE GOD
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BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL
by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON). BACON, SIR FRANCIS
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London and New York: [Printed by Cambridge University Press for] Macmillan and Co, 1891. From the "Golden Treasury" series. 210 x 133 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4"). xxiii, [1], 388 pp.Edited with notes and glossarial index by W. Aldis Wright, M. A., Trinity College, Cambridge. HANDSOME NAVY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE AND SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with border composed of five plain rules and incorporating a scalloped corner configuration containing a pentagonal element, raised bands, spine intricately gilt in compartments outlined by plain and stippled rules enclosing an inner frame repeating the cover design, and, at the center, an elaborate fleuron emanating from a floral tool and punctuated by many tiny dots, turn-ins densely gilt, maroon glazed endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece in three states and the title page with the same image in a fourth, tissue guard before title page. A Large Paper Copy. ◆Spine just slightly and uniformly sunned toward…
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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE AND OTHER POEMS OF THE XVIIITH CENTURY
by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON). DOBSON, AUSTIN
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London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co, 1892. No. 10 OF 450 LARGE PAPER COPIES (250 for England and 200 for America), SIGNED by the author on the limitations page. 253 x 178 mm. (10 x 7"). xiii, [3], 83, [9] pp. ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY TAN MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front pastedown "Bound by Riviere & Son for L. Samuel Montagu, 1893"), covers with gilt rule and bead-and-star roll border, intricate dentelle frame, Pegasus ornament at center, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron enclosed by a lozenge of star tools, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original ivory cloth binding bound in. With 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson, 25 of these plates printed on Japanese vellum. Signed on title page by the artist. ◆AN IMMACULATE COPY. This collection of 18th century-style ballads by a poet of the Aesthete School comes in a refined binding that captures the elegance of that time.…
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BALLADS OF THE FLEET
by (BINDINGS - WOOD). (DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS). RODD, SIR RENNELL
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London: Edward Arnold, 1916. Third ("Popular") Edition. 189 x 125 mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). x, 11-128 pp. SUPERB DEEP BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO, INLAID AND PAINTED TO A NAUTICAL DESIGN BY HENRY WOOD (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper cover with gilt fillet border, interlacing rope frame of inlaid brown morocco entwined with inlaid green morocco foliage bearing gilt berries, central oval of cerulean blue morocco inlaid with an Elizabethan ship in full sail, the wooden ship done in brown, tan, and black morocco, the billowing white sails and flag bearing the red cross of St. George, the blue background morocco textured and painted to depict the waves of the sea, with inlaid white morocco foam where the ship cleaves its path through the ocean, lower cover with simple inlaid brown morocco rope frame, raised bands, spine compartments framed with brown morocco "rope" and inlaid with either foliage or an anchor, gilt lettering, turn-ins tooled with gilt rope frame, ivory watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. In…
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BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS
by (BINDINGS - GRABAU). TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD
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London: C. Kegan Paul and Co, 1880. FIRST EDITION. 168 x 108 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/4"). vi, 184 pp., [2] leaves (ads). VERY ATTRACTIVE RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY GRABAU (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with delicately tooled dentelle frame, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt frame and heart cornerpieces, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins with acanthus leaf cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original green cloth spine bound in at rear. Front pastedown with bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker; title page with embossed stamp of New England Conservatory of Music. Thomson LXXIX; Wise I, 239. ◆Title page with small, faint smudge, but a very fine copy in a sparkling binding.This is a happy combination of the first appearance of a significant poetic publication and a binding of animation and taste. John F. Grabau (1878-1948), a binder whose work is less well known than it should be, was a prominent member of the German-American community in Buffalo. Grabau apprenticed…
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BARNABAE ITINERARIUM, OR BARNABEE'S JOURNAL
by (BINDINGS - THOMAS GOSDEN). [BRATHWAITE, RICHARD]
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London: Printed for J. Harding by R. and A. Taylor, 1818. Seventh Edition (stated), Eighth Edition (according to Wither to Prior). 175 x 102 mm. (6 7/8 x 4"). 143, [1], 204 pp. Handsome contemporary straight-grain green morocco attributed to Thomas Gosden, covers ruled in gilt and with lacy blind-rolled border, central panel with overlaid rectangle and diamond shapes ruled in gilt, raised bands, compartments densely gilt with acorns and oak leaves on a stippled ground, gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Housed in a green cloth drop-back box, gilt lettering on spine (a little fraying along back, but in very good condition), With frontispiece and seven engraved plates. Front pastedown with bookplate of T. Gosden. With three old catalogue descriptions laid in. Wither to Prior 85. For the binder: Hobson, "English Bindings in the Library of J. R. Abbey," 107-108; Nixon, "Five Centuries," 88; Ramsden, p. 73; Howe, p. 41. ◆Frontispiece a little foxed, minor offsetting from plates, but these…
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THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE. A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, CHIEFLY BY COMMODORE PERRY: INCLUDING THE COURT-MARTIAL OF COMMANDER BARCLAY & THE COURT OF ENQUIRY ON CAPTAIN ELLIOTT
by (ROWFANT CLUB). (AMERICAN NAVAL HISTORY). PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD
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Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, October, 1918. No. 35 OF 150 COPIES. 240 x 165 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). 222 pp.Edited, with Introduction, Annotations, Bibliography, & Analytical Index by Charles Oscar Paullin. Publisher's blue paper boards backed with linen, flat spine with printed paper label, edges untrimmed, a couple of quires unopened. In matching (moderately worn) blue paper slipcase. With frontispiece portrait of Commodore Hazard Perry, color map of the battle, three black & white photogravure facsimiles, and two sepia-toned portraits, of Major General William Henry Harrison and Commander Robert Barclay. Addition printed paper title label attached to rear pastedown. Slipcase with "Lamprecht" written in pencil on front cover. ◆A very fine copy: clean, fresh, and bright internally, and protected by its case from shelfwear and soiling. This handsomely printed, limited edition contains 19 documents associated with the Battle of Lake Erie, a naval conflict between British and American troops fought…
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THE BAYTE [AND] SNARE OF FORTUNE. WHERIN MAY BE SEEN THAT MONEY IS NOT THE ONLY CAUSE OF MISCHEFE AND VNFORTUNAT ENDES: BUT A NECESSARY MEAN TO MAYNTAYNE A VERTUOUS QUIET LYFE. TREATED IN A DIALOGE BETWENE MAN AND MONEY
by BIESTON, ROGER
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London: Imprinted at London by Iohn Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne ouer against the Conduite in Fletestrete, [1556?]. FIRST EDITION, with "Baite" in headline on A2 recto. 335 x 222 mm. (13 1/8 x 8 3/4"). [10] leaves. Period-style 19th century limp vellum by Maltby's of Oxford, flat spine with ink lettering, remnants of leather ties. Title page with ornate woodcut architectural frame (McKerrow and Ferguson 76). Printed in black letter type. Front free endpaper with ex-libris of Kenneth Rapoport. STC 3055.5; ESTC S91099. ◆Vellum faintly soiled, one corner creased, covers tending to splay, but the binding entirely sound and inoffensive; text with a score or so small, round wormholes to the (spacious) fore margin, trivial stains or smudges at edges, but a very pleasing copy--quite fresh and generally clean. Derived from the French translation of an anonymous Italian poem, "Contrasto del denaro e dell' uomo," Bieston's dialogue between Man and Money examines the power cash has over humans. It is…
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BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS OFFICIUM
by (ENGRAVED BOOKS - PIAZZETTA, GIAMBATTISTA). PRAYER BOOK IN ITALIAN
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Venetiis [Venice]: Giambattista Pasquali, 1740. FIRST EDITION. 132 x 90 mm. (5 1/4 x 3 1/2"). 20 p.l., 427, [5] pp. FINE CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN RED MOROCCO, GILT, covers with border of repeating botanical tools, raised bands flanked by decorative gilt rolls, green silk pastedowns, all edges gilt and gauffered. HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL PULL-OFF MARBLED CALF CASE, the book and its case within a brown cloth chemise and matching slipcase. ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT, with numerous floral initials, 20 charming tailpieces, frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations by M. Pitteri all designed by Giambattista Piazzetta. Front flyleaves with book labels of John Saks, Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, and David R. Godine. See: Boorsch, "Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo," p. 20 and no. 98; Selby, Carol E., "A Small Masterpiece from the Eighteenth Century Publishing World." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 43, no. 3/4, 1964, pp. 60-63. ◆A hint of rubbing to extremities, one tiny abrasion to…
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THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS
by (WOMEN - TRAVEL WRITING). PARDOE, MISS [JULIA]. BARTLETT, WILLIAM H., Illustrator
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London: Published for the proprietors, by George Virtue, 1838. FIRST EDITION. 298 x 220 mm. (11 1/4 x 8 3/4"). [iv], 164 pp. Contemporary half calf over rose-colored cloth by John Gray of Edinburgh (with his ticket on front pastedown), raised bands, spine gilt in compartments. With frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title, and 79 plates after William H. Bartlett, including one map of the area. Front free endpaper with tipped-in letter signed by the author; with two-page biography of the author and transcription of the letter loosely laid in. Ross, pp. 43-44; Blackmer Catalogue 888; Hunnisett, p. 114. ◆Spine and top edge of covers just slightly faded, silk with a little minor spotting, contents with scattered light foxing (mostly confined to margins and versos of plates), persistent light marginal stain in upper gutter, but these issues all quite minor, and on the whole a clean, solid, attractive copy with no major defects. This is a notable item for at least three reasons: it was one…
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLISH POESY: SELECTED BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH
by (BINDINGS - STIKEMAN). GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, Editor
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London: Printed for William Griffin, 1767. FIRST EDITION, First State (volume I with pp. 265-69 misnumbered pp. 165-169, p. 145 with catchword "Thoug"). 175 x 105 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/4"). Two volumes.. PRETTY RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers framed by gilt fillets, oblique lancet tools at corners, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with lancet centerpiece and leafy curls at corners, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Samuel F. Barger. ESTC T146028. ◆Gutter open at final leaf of volume I, one opening with marginal printer's smudge, other trivial imperfections, but still a fine, attractive set, the text fresh and clean, and the appealing bindings with almost no signs of use. This well-known work on English poetry was written by one of the major literary figures of the 18th century and attractively covered by a leading American binder somewhere around the turn of the…
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A BEAUTIFULLY CALLIGRAPHED CARTA EXECUTORIA ON VELLUM.
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A BEAUTIFULLY CALLIGRAPHED CARTA EXECUTORIA. 1793 Spain 1793 306 x 205 mm. (12 x 8"). 37 leaves of text, single column, 18 lines, in a fine, italic hand. Original red morocco, covers with intricate gilt frame of crenellations, garlands, and floral tools, smooth spine divided into panels with decorative rolls, panels with urn centerpieces, marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In a contemporary marbled calf pull-off case. WITH CHARMING ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND HEADPIECES, TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND A FOLDING FAMILY TREE. With signatures and three official seals. A little light soiling to binding, a breath of rubbing to extremities, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, VIRTUALLY PRISTINE INTERNALLY. This is a beautifully executed example of a Spanish carta executoria with all the luxurious detailing one would expect from a document meant to verify one's nobility. Such a document, obtained only by those with the considerable means to do so (and, consequently, something purchased as much as bestowed),…
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BIBLE. [with] EAUX-FORTES POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE No. 33/34 [and] DESSINS POUR LA BIBLE. in VERVE No. 37/38
by CHAGALL, MARC, Illustrator. (BINDINGS - RENÉE HAAS)
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Paris: Tériade, 1956-60. NO. 21 OF 275 COPIES of the Bible on Papier Montval, SIGNED BY CHAGALL. Bible and lithograph volumes: 448 x 348 mm. (17 5/8 x 13 1/2"); "VERVE" text volume: 358 x 270 mm. (14 1/8 x 10 3/4"). Three works in four volumes. Text from the French Geneva translation of 1638. BIBLE BOUND IN DRAMATIC BLACK MOSAIC MOROCCO DESIGNED BY RENÉE HAAS (stamp-signed on front turn-in, dated 1972 on rear turn-in), covers with onlaid "flames" in shades of plum, marigold yellow, cherry red, and olive green, the design invoking a stained-glass window of the biblical Burning Bush, smooth spine with "BIBLE" in very large gilt lettering, burgundy suede endleaves, all edges gilt; original paper wrappers and WITH HAND-PAINTED BINDING DESIGNS BOUND IN at rear. Housed in chemises of black half morocco with woodgrain covers, the chemise spines with large gilt lettering matching their enclosed volumes, the whole in matching slipcases. The Eaux-Fortes and Designs for the Bible bound in black half morocco…
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BIBLIA, AD VETUSTISSIMA EXEMPLARIA NUNC RECENS CASTIGATA
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Venetiis [Venice]: Hieronymus Polus, 1587. 213 x 146 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 5/8"). 12 p.l., 1126 pp. ESPECIALLY PLEASING CONTEMPORARY CALF, covers with gilt French fillet frame and oval wreath of olive branches, the center of the wreath in the shape of a cross, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. Title page with elaborate wood-engraved frame, text profusely illustrated WITH 600 WOOD ENGRAVINGS depicting scenes from scripture, after Holbein, Bernard Salomon (le Petit Bernard), and others (a handful of these a bit indistinct). Front pastedown with ex-libris of Leonis S. Olschki. Adams B-1093; STC Italian 93. Not in Darlow & Moule. ◆A little wear to joints and extremities, spine a bit crackled, separation at hinges (but no looseness), occasional minor browning or foxing, otherwise in remarkably fine condition, the text clean and crisp, and in a still-lustrous, entirely solid, unsophisticated original binding. This is a very well-preserved, handsomely bound, and lavishly illustrated edition, with…
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BIBLIA. DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT, ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS. VERDEUTSCHT VON . . . MARTIN LUTHER
by (BINDINGS, INLAID - J. H. STAFFEHL). BIBLE IN GERMAN. "KURFÜRSTENBIBEL" [WEIMAR ELECTORS' BIBLE]
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Nuremberg: J. A. Endter, 1768. 454 x 282 mm. (17 7/8 x 11 1/4"). 18 p.l., 11, [51] leaves, 3-8 pp., [4], 9-190, [4], 191-740, [6], 512, 480 pp., [8] leaves. Three parts bound in one volume.. SUPERB 1822 CALF, GILT AND INLAID IN THE ENTRELAC STYLE, BY J. H. STAFFEHL, covers with inlaid frame of green calf with gilt grapevine roll, center panel with intricate interlacing strapwork of inlaid green calf, five of the compartments formed by the straps with gilt sprays of wheat emerging from urns, raised bands, spine with inlaid green calf dividers, compartments gilt with large lozenge centerpiece of floral tools, floral vine cornerpieces, green calf labels, wide turn-ins framed by three decorative gilt rolls, inlaid green cornerpieces with sunburst, endpapers marbled to resemble tree calf, reinforced hinges, all edges gilt (older repairs to ends of joints). With 47 engraved plates, comprised of: copperplate portraits of Luther and 11 Electors; 11 section titles, each with 11 vignettes; nine full-page…
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BIBLIA DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT. DEUDSCH. D. MARTIN LUTHER. [THE GERMAN BIBLE IN LUTHER'S TRANSLATION]
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Munich: Bremer Presse, 1926-28. ONE OF 365 COPIES. 360 x 250 mm. (14 1/4 x 10"). Five volumes. Edited by Carl von Kraus. VERY FINE TAN MOROCCO BY WERNER G. KIEßIG (stamp-signed with his "K" mark at foot of lower cover), upper covers lettered in blind, lower cover with small round book stamp of former owner Martin Wandersleb, smooth spines divided into panels by blind rules, blind-stamped titling, marbled endpapers, leather hinges, top edges black, other edges untrimmed. In the original brown dust jackets with paper title labels to spines. Housed in the original (slightly worn) matching marbled paper slipcases. With titles and initials drawn by Anna Simons. Front pastedown with bookplate of Martin Wandersleb. Eyssen 88; Ransom, p. 257. ◆One or two faint spots of foxing, one small marginal smudge, but A CHOICE COPY, with no signs of use inside or out. This is a superb copy of the signal achievement of the Bremer Presse, in a restrained but impressive binding produced by Berlin master bookbinder…
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BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT, ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, VERTEUTSCHET DURCH D. MARTIN LUTHER. [with] DIE AUGSBURGISCHE CONFESSION
by (BINDINGS - ERNST RÜCKERT ). BIBLE IN GERMAN. LUTHER, MARTIN with WELLERI, JACOBI VORREDE
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Luneburg: Sternischen Buchdruderen, 1750. 380 x 240 mm. (15 x 9 1/2"). 6 p.l., 266, 185, 130, [25] leaves. IMPOSING 20TH CENTURY MODELLED AND INCISED CALF over bevelled wooden boards BY ERNST RÜCKERT (signed with his monogram), upper cover with floral frame surrounding a naïvely rendered scene of a hunter on horseback blowing a horn, a shield with the binder's initials in the foreground, and brass corner guards; lower cover with brass central boss and corner guards, raised bands, blind-tooled titling, two brass clasps, handmade endpapers. In a sturdy yellow drop-front archival box. With copper-engraved allegorical illustrated title page and 145 woodcuts in the text after designs by Jakob Mores. Not in Darlow & Moule. ◆Text washed and pressed, evenly (and inoffensively) browned throughout, isolated trivial imperfections, but a clean and pleasing copy in a binding that looks brand new. The last of six editions of the Lutheran Bible produced between 1711 and 1750 by Luneburg publisher Cornelius…
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BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFT, ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS VERTEUTSCHT VON HERRN DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER
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Nuremberg: J. A. Endter, 1720. 433 x 278mm. (17 x 11"). 68 p.l. (first blank), 1-664, [1]-904 pp., [8] leaves. ONCE SPECTACULAR AND STILL REMARKABLY IMPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CALF, ELABORATELY GILT WITH A PAINTED BROWN STRAPWORK DESIGN OVER REVERSE BEVELLED WOODEN BOARDS, two cartouches on each cover with four- or five-line quotations from the Bible, initials "J A B" and "D B" and the date "1726" on upper cover, the strapwork forming geometric compartments filled with gilt foliate and floral sprays accented with small putti, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with central strapwork lozenge containing gilt flower surrounded by foliage, two brass and (probably later) leather clasps, dramatic endpapers of green and gilt decorated paper, edges gilt and gauffered in ornate lily pattern, some expert restoration at spine ends and at top and bottom of joints. With woodcut initials and tailpieces, additional engraved title page, 11 engraved portraits of the Dukes of Saxony, engraved portrait of…
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BIBLIA LATINA CUM POSTILLIS NICOLAI DE LYRA. LEAVES FROM PSALMS, SONG OF SONGS, ECCLESIASTICUS, PROVERBS, WISDOM, ESTHER, EZRA, AND NEHEMIAH
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Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1489. 362 x 254 mm. (14 1/4 x 10"). Double column gothic type, surrounded by 77 lines of commentary in a smaller gothic face. Paragraph marks and some three-line (and a few larger) initials in red, blue, or both colors. Goff B-616; BMC V, 437. ◆Very thin, faint dampstain at head, one or two small wormholes, otherwise large, very attractively rubricated leaves in fine condition, especially fresh and clean. Text available from Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, Song of Songs, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah..
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Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1479. 318 x 229 mm. (12 1/2 x 9"). Double column, 51 lines of text plus headline, gothic type. Each leaf with two to four very attractive four-line illuminated initials in blue, green, magenta, orange, and burnished gold, some with gold bezant extensions. Occasional marginalia in a contemporary hand. Goff B-563; BMC V, 180. ◆Some trivial light foxing or faint dampstaining, but IN FINE CONDITION, the paper very fresh, and the illumination sparkling. These are beautifully illuminated leaves from the renowned Venetian printer Nicolaus Jenson. Born a Frenchman near Troyes, Jenson (1420-80) is known to have set up shop in Venice in 1470, and during a decade of labor, he probably issued in excess of 100 works. In addition to printing some of the most attractive books of the period, Jenson also had close working relationships with leading illuminators, who would enhance special copies of his works, as here, with glittering embellishments to appeal to a discriminating and wealthy…
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