Search Results: Titles starting with F from Liber Antiquus

London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633. FIRST EXTANT EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale. "Although written about 1589 and entered in the Stationers' Registers in 1594, no earlier edition than the present is known. The fact that the 1594 entry (Arber II 650) entitles the play, 'The famous tragedie' seems to indicate some relation with the present for which Vavasour made an original entry in 1632. However, the text here printed has been edited and revised by Heywood at a date which does not admit of this being a reprint of a 1594 edition while the use of the world 'famous' in the title of this edition may be from the tradition of the play-bills, as was the case in Cooke's… Read More

[Geneva:]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, [for Ulrich Fugger], 1566. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in seventeenth-century limp vellum. A fine copy, profusely annotated, with scattered instances of damp-staining in the lower margin, and a small piece of the blank margin of leaf y2 snipped away; leaves z7 & 8 with a small marginal paper flaws. Printed in Claude Garamond's Greek type ('grecs du roi'). The extensive translations and annotations are in two different hands, one sixteenth- and the other eighteenth-century. The earlier ones were made by a certain "P (?) Robertus"; the later ones by the poet Johannes Nicolaus Goetzius (1721-1781). On the pastedown is the name of a third owner, Th. Fritzsche (dated 1872), who later added quotations from a study on the Greek Anthology by Georg Finster, published 1876. THE TRANSLATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS: 1. The first annotator identifies himself on the title-page: "Verus huius libri possessor P(?) Robertus" and "Emptus genevae 16 calendas Augusti: Anno a Christo nato.… Read More

Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503. FIRST ALDINE EDITION (the first ed. of the text was published in 1494). Also includes the EDITIO PRINCEPS of the 6th-century Byzantine poem "In Thermas Pythias et aquarum miracula"(on the warm baths of Pythia in Bithynia) attributed to Paulos Silentiarius. Hardcover. Fine. Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very good condition with scattered ink stains (mostly light) and minor marks, dampstain at head of some gatherings and in a few gutters; half of leaf L2 supplied from another copy, text-block slightly rounded at corners, minor marginal worm in a few gatherings, not affecting the text. Woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf. With scattered contemporary annotations, additions, and corrections, longer ones on C6, E6v, E8r, I8v, GG4r, and HH3r (those on C6 with added verses of Theocritus(?) concerning Aphrodite ("he… Read More

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665. SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION (The third edition overall) of this classic of teratology. Hardcover. Fine. The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters -deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius' "Appendix of new and rare monstrosities". This new section includes fifteen engravings; among these are images of conjoined twins, the "horned woman", the famous engravings of Lazarus and his "parasitic twin" Johannes Baptista Colloredo, and the equally famous image of an Orangutan (the "Satyr Indica".) Bound in contemporary speckled calf, corners worn, hinges mended and small repairs to spine, some scuffing. The contents are in very fine condition, with just a small ink spot to the margin of the engraved tp., just entering the image, and a light stain on leaf Gg1.… Read More

London: Printed [by Ruth Raworth and Thomas Walkley] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1646. FIRST EDITION, first state of the title, with first line of title all in uppercase, period after "Churchyard" in the imprint, and rule under the date; Leaf A3v line 16 reads "allowred.". Hardcover. Fine. A very fine, crisp copy in contemporary blind-ruled calf with minor wear to the head of the spine and the very bottom of the hinge. The engraved frontispiece portrait (A1v) is signed: "W. Marshall fecit." With separate title pages for "Poems &c.", "Letters to Divers Eminent Personages" and "An Account of Religion" with continuous register and pagination. Separate dated title pages with continuous register and pagination for "Aglaura. Presented ... in Black-Fryers" and "Aglaura. Represented at the Court". The two remaining works, "The Goblins, A Comedy" and "Brennoralt, A Tragedy" with separate dated title pages, register, and… Read More