Search Results: Titles starting with C from Liber Antiquus

Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530. TWO SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of both works and some underscoring in the Tibullus. The three most famous Roman elegiac poets together with the great Roman satirist.

NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates. Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758.By the time this book was published, the design of the European sector had become standardized. Compare this design, for example, with that in the fourth edition of the works of Ozanam seventeen years earlier (L'usage du compas de proportion, 1736). The physical design of Pagnini's instrument is better (with pegs and decorative tenons to hold the two legs in alignment), but the scales are essentially identical. The work is well illustrated with engravings showing exactly how a pair of dividers should be used to take the various lateral and transverse measurements.Pagnini provides eight tables that detail the exact markings for each scale. He also provides other material for reference use, e.g., he includes… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1631. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. quarter morocco and marbled papers over boards (rubbing to joints and extremities), spine tooled in gold. Contents in good condition, cut close with shaving to a number of headlines and some signature marks but not affecting the text itself. Faint dampstain to t.p. and second leaf, and again in gathering E, verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Woodcut headpieces on leaves A3 and A4; attractive casket woodcut at head of leaf B1. Provenance: ex libris John Clawson, John Scott, Robert Lowry van Dyke, and Kenneth Rapoport, with bookplates. First edition of George Chapman's examination of Julius Caesar, one of history's most complex and influential figures, through a re-telling of the events of the Roman Civil War. The extensive stage directions were likely written by Chapman, making "Caesar and Pompey" the only one of his plays with authorial stage… Read More

Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the lower corner of the opening leaves (and a few other leaves further on in the book), a few instances of light marginal spotting, a stray smudge or two. There are some clean tears or splits (without loss) at some folds of the massive folding plate. The Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt, the boards with elaborate rococo borders, tooled with flowers, scrolling foliage, and ornate shell ornaments. The binding is in excellent condition with very minor wear. For an identical binding, see The Frank H. Kessner Collection of Books on Rome, Christie, Manson & Woods, (4-5 Oct. 1990, Lot 447, p. 206-7). For a set… Read More

Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer], 1469. SECOND IMPRESSION (of three) of the original edition, using the two-line printing slugs created by Gutenberg for the first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Collation: [1-610, 74]: grammar, 1r incipit (P)rosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur. Partes siquidem grammatice sunt quattuor (contractions resolved); [8-1910 204(4+1)]: dictionary A-H, 8/1r incipit (I)am divina potencia auxiliante supra determinavimus de quatuor particulis principalibus huius operis. Nunc restat ut de quinta parte, 20/4+1r incipit manus cum suis derivativis, verso blank; [21-3810 394]: dictionary I-Z, 21/1r incipit (I) est imperativus de eo is it, 39/3r colophon Altissimi presidio cuius nutu infantium lingue fiunt diserte... Hic liber egregius, catholicon, dominice incarnacionis annis M cccc 1x Alma in urbe maguntina nacionis inclite germanice ... Non calami, stili, aut penne suffragio, sed mira patronarum formarum que concordia proporcione et modulo, impressus atque confectus est (followed by… Read More

Venice: [apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium], 1558. SECOND EDITION WITH MURET'S COMMENTARY (1st 1554). Hardcover. Fine. With three divisional title pages, all featuring the Aldine dolphin and anchor device. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small hole in pigskin at head of spine, wear at extremities), signed "A.S.K." and dated 1562 on the upper board. Title page lightly soiled, intermittent mild foxing, light marginal staining in places. A few manuscript notes and underscores. The binding: decorated with blind-stamped images of Apollo (with harp)and the Muses: Caliope (with zither), Thalia (with lute), Euterpe (with horn), Terpsichore (with viola). The Euterpe stamp is signed "S.N.", that of Terpsichore is dated "1549". The binding is probably the work of the Wittenberg binder Conrad Neidel (active 1542-15602), see Haebler, Vol. I, p. 308. This edition marks the second appearance of the celebrated commentary of Marc Antoine Muret, "the most important… Read More

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe's "Martyrs", shows six reformers being burned at the stake. An important collection of writings by English Protestants, many of whom had been martyred, compiled and with a preface by Miles Coverdale. There are letters by Lady Jane Gray (1536/7-1554) (a letter written "to her syster the Ladye Katheryne, immediately before she suffered"), John Bradford (1510?-1555) (including a partial reprint of "An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse", STC 3480.5), John Careless (as well as a ballad, about which see below), Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) (including a partial reprint of "The copy of certain lettres sent to the Quene,… Read More

London: Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1577. THIRD, EXPANDED, EDITION. (1st ed. 1574). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in early 17th c. English black morocco, tooled in gold in compartments with floral stamps and repeating decorative roll borders (light wear at extremities and hinges, corners lightly bumped, gilding a little faded in places.) The text is in very good condition with scattered light soiling and some cosmetic faults as follows: the title is soiled and a bit grubby, lightly creased and a little frayed at the fore-margin and leading corners; the next few leaves are soiled along the outer margin and also lightly creased. Upper corner of final two leaves chipped at upper corner; margins of last few leaves and verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Front endpaper torn and missing upper quarter of the leaf. All edges gilt. Provenance: Two early ownership inscriptions, on the front free endpaper verso "Mary S[mall her] Boock given her by her mother 1679" (on the same leaf there is an… Read More

Venice: Giovann' Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546. SECOND EDITION (1st 1527, also by the Sabio brothers.) For this second edition, some explanatory notes have been added to the political sonnet "Europa mia, quando fia mai che l'una", from which offending verses had been omitted in the first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light foxing). On the title page (and repeated on ll. D1r and M1r) is the woodcut emblem of the author with the initials M.L.T.F. ("Merlino Limerno Teofilo Folengo"), the initials FE for Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, and GO, which stand for Francesco Grifalcone, a friend of the author, and for Camillo Orsini, captain of the Republic of Venice and Folengo's patron. The book is dedicated to all… Read More

Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667. FIRST MEURSIUS EDITION (a counterfeit of the Jannson-Weyerstraet edition of the same year). Hardcover. Fine. Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some drawn by the artist Willem van der Laegh. This is a fine copy, bound in contemporary stiff vellum (lightly soiled.) The text and plates are crisp and mostly bright, with some light foxing or browning to scattered leaves, and a few clean tears, without loss (lvs. K2, L4, S1); natural paper irregularities to the margins of 2 plates (at p. 113 and p. 155), not affecting the image. This copy features a variant of the engraved title that states that this edition was printed at Amsterdam in 1667 "Vidua Elizei Weyerstraet", that is, by Sara Weyerstraet, widow of one of the original… Read More

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page. A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin Louis, son of King Louis XV of France (1715-1774) and his royal consort María Leszczyńska (1703-1768). The Rococo painter Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1750), charged with staging the events, had the piazza "restored" to its ancient glory as the stadium of Domitian, the foundations of which are buried beneath the piazza and give the modern space its distinctive, oblong shape. The spectacle was captured by the Roman painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691-1765), who produced a painting of the Piazza in its glory, of which two copies exist. One is in the Louvre, the other in the… Read More

Paris: Masset & Renaudière, an IX de la République, i.e., 1801. Sole edition traced. No other copies traced. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in original pink wrapper, (worn, esp. along the spine, and a bit wrinkled.) The contents are untrimmed, with curling to the deckled edges. Light staining to a few leaves. The folding table is in fine condition, with a few tiny splits at the folds. Published in 1801, early in the French Republic, the book includes contains prognostic tables for future use, naturally (1802-1809.) The table, printed on both sides, is to be used for interpreting dreams and visions to forecast future events... and predicting the results of lotteries. The first section contains a set of divination techniques -using information from dreams and visions in combination with the name and birth date of the inquirer. The results our found using the folding plate and the manual's tables. The second section of the manual is entirely dedicated to the lottery. It describes systems for predicting… Read More

London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1647. FIRST EDITION of BOTH WORKS (See below). Hardcover. Fine. With the full-paged portrait of Fletcher by Marshall bound before the title page. Bound in 18th c. blind-ruled mottled calf, very nicely re-backed with the original label preserved; corners bumped, minor scrapes and light wear to boards. Complete with the engraved portrait (first state, with "vates duplex" with v and d in lower case, and with "J. Berkenhead" engraved in smaller letters than those in the first state.) Title page printed in red and black. A fine copy of the first edition of the plays, bound with a very good copy of the 1652 single play. Marginal dampstain in lower margin of gatherings Bb, Ii, Aaa, Ddd, Bbbb, and Ffff, and a few other scattered leaves. Very small wormtrail in the gutter of some gatherings, occ. affecting a letter or touching the printed rule. Leaf 6K1 with light ink smear,… Read More

Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial marks, else very clean and attractive. Woodcut initials at the beginning of each play. Full-page woodcut scene on title page. Woodcut sun device on final leaf. Leaf Liiii with some Greek text. The 1510 Parma edition of Plautus' comedies, important for the beautiful full-page woodcut frontispiece -the first printed illustrations of Plautus' plays. The architectural structure, with mullioned window, frames two episodes from the comedies: on the left, there are two young men, one of whom carries a lantern; to the right, two men embracing surrounded by a crowd of bystanders. The first image illustrates a scene from the play "Amphitruo", in which Mercury,… Read More

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated "IPN 1556". The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf E5, no loss). With a historiated woodcut title border to the "Apologia". Woodcut coat-of-arms to verso of final leaf of the "Confessio", and fine woodcut initials in the Saxon Confession. Text of second work in Latin and German. With 16th c. notes on the f.f.e.p. This is the authorized text of the Augsburg Confession (1st ed. 1531), approved by Luther, edited by and with the "Apologia" of Philip Melanchthon. It was printed by Georg Rhau, who also printed the first editions (both in Latin and German) of the "Confessio" and "Apologia". The "Apologia" of this 1556 edition is dated 1542 (see VD 16, ZV 31340). This edition was printed in the wake… Read More

[Breslau]: [Adam Dion], 1521. Hardcover. Fine. Modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled and spotted, inky fingers (possibly those of a careless pressman) have left minor smears in the blank margins. One of fourteen printings recorded in the Benzing of this German-language edition. VD16 attributes the printing to Adam Dion of Silesia in Breslau while Benzing lists Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg as the possible printer. The first Latin edition of the missive was published in 1521 by Thomas Anshelm in Hagenau. This letter was written by Luther on April 28th, three days after he left the Diet of Worms. A Latin edition, published in 1521 by Thomas Anshelm in Hagenau (Benzing 1027) was addressed to the Emperor Charles V. This German edition (translated by Spalatin?) is addressed to the electors, estates, and princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Luther was granted 21 days (April 25 to May 15) of safe travel back to Wittenberg, providing he did not preach, write, or disturb the peace in any way. Luther was… Read More

[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. green Morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs. A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by the King when he was only 23 years of age. The letter is a rare piece of printed diplomatic correspondence from the last decades of England as a Catholic monarchy. It is one of the earliest of Henry's letters to be printed. (A letter to Maximillian I, Holy Roman Emperor, "Epl[istol]a invictissimi Regis Anglie Francie ad Cesaream Maiestatee[m]", written in answer to one soliciting aid against the Turks from Maximilian, was printed in 1512.) Extremely rare. 3 copies located in North America (Harvard, NYPL, Yale). 1 copy in Switzerland, 1 in Germany, 1 in France, and 3 in Britain (2 in the British Library and 1 in the Bodleian). EDIT16 locates only a single copy in Italy (Marciana, Venice). The letter concerns… Read More

London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words on recto, made good in pen, a few discreet paper repairs, occ. rust spots, causing small holes in lvs. Nn3 and Oo1. Complete with the additional engraved title ("Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled [sic] up") by William Hole, 4 engraved plates, engraved text illustrations by Hole, full-page woodcut arms of the Prince of Wales, woodcut headpieces, and decorative initials. Clock plate trimmed to plate mark. Internally very fine. Provenance: George Steevens (1736-1800, commentator on Shakespeare, friend of Samuel Johnson, with whom he collaborated on the 10-volume edition of Shakespeare's works (1773), ink stamp… Read More