Search Results: Titles starting with O from Liber Antiquus

Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652 -, 1655. SOLE EDITION. The Culmination of Kircher's Egyptian Studies. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in eighteenth-century calf (rebacked seamlessly in the nineteenth-century, light wear to hinges, boards with light marks. The boards are framed by a triple gold filet, board edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gold. Spines richly tooled in gold, with red and green Morocco spine labels. All edges red. The majority of the text is in very fine condition, with occ. toning or spotting in 3 of the volumes, though the text in T. II, pt. 2 is variably browned, as often. The map at T. I p. 9 has some small repaired tears (with one small flaw), the mystical plate in T. II, pt. 1, p. 289 is slightly shaved at the outer edge; one plate in T. III (Obelisk of Antinous. p. 371) has a slight separation at one fold. There are a few marginal tears, a few small paper flaws, the opening and index lvs. in T. III have small repairs (to repair scattered wormholes), a few other minor… Read More

Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book. OCLC cites only 1 copy in North America (Columbia University) and 5 other institutional copies outside of Italy (two in Denmark, two in France, one in Switzerland). Vagnetti described the book without having seen a copy. Riccardi described an incomplete copy. First (and only) edition of this wide-ranging work on selected problems in perspective and its underlying geometry, largely organized around what the author considers to be commonly found theoretical or practical errors. Diano proves himself to be well read in the contemporary literature of optics and perspective, citing Kepler, Maurolico, Aguilon, and others. The final two chapters describe… Read More

Venice: Lorenzo Basilio, 1728. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary carta rustica. Untrimmed, with deckled edges preserved throughout. Fine condition with just a few leaves spotted. Extremely rare. OCLC and KVK locate 4 copies outside of Italy, only 1 of which is in North America (Harvard Law Library). The work has been attributed to Bartolommeo Mlechiori, who also authored a book on criminal law, "Miscellanea di materie criminali, volgari e latine, composta secondo le leggi civili e venete" (Venezia, 1741). The author's name appears only once in the book, on the final leaf of text as "Bart. Melchi."Problems addressed in Part I include: examination, by the court, of murder victims (with a special section on identifying victims of poisoning); identifying a murderer via cruentation (the common belief that the body of the victim would spontaneously bleed in the presence of the murderer); where to try murder by decapitation when the head is found in one jurisdiction and the body in… Read More

Lyon: Jacobus Saçon for Ciriacus Hochperg, 1517. FIRST LYON BADIUS EDITION. The third edition with the original woodcuts. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine, complete copy, bound in 17th century French blind-ruled calfskin, the spine ruled and tooled in gold with attractive floral ornaments; red morocco label in second compartment, board edges also tooled in gold. With discreet repairs at the head and foot of spine, some signs of wear to the extremities and boards, corners bumped. Two parts in one volume with titles printed in red and black within fine architectural woodcut borders. Illustrated with 207 large woodcut illustrations (64 in the first part and 143 in the second part.) A full-page woodcut of Virgil with the muse Calliope appears on the recto of †1. Fore-edge of title discreetly strengthened on verso. Owner's stamp (Emmanuel Michel.) at foot of title, a second stamp on the blank margin of the following leaf., 17th c. inscription on title. The woodut illustrations were made for Grüninger's… Read More

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from text in Vol. I, and another in Vol. II (in "Il Saggiatore"); light stains to margins of four lvs. (F2, Q2, T2 and V2) in the "Mechanica"; a few instances of light foxing; a few ink spots to one leaf; occ. minor blemishes. Complete with the requisite number of parts, half-titles and the one added plate. With an engraved frontispiece by Stefano della Bella and an engraved portrait of Galileo by Francesco Villamena. The text is illustrated with astronomical and mathematical woodcuts; those in the "Sidereus Nuncius" showing the moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo and his iconic images of the moon as… Read More

Florence: [Gianstephano di Carlo da Pavia], 23 October, 1508. THIRD EDITION, mimicking the layout and using the same woodcuts as the edition published at Florence by Bartolommeo di Libri, 24 Oct. 1495. Another Florentine edition, undated, was printed by Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, ca. 1495-1496. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 20th c. brown morocco. A fine copy. Savonarola's name has been censored on the title. With a fine woodcut scene on the title page showing Savonarola conversing with the Abbess and sisters of the Monastero delle Murate. On the final leaf is a Crucifixion scene with the Virgin, St. John, and Mary Magdalene. These woodcuts were used in Bartolommeo di Libri's 1495 first edition. Printer from BM STC Italian; place and date of printing from colophon. Sander, who attributes the printing to De Libri, regards the 1508 date of this third edition as erroneous, and assigns it to 1498, perhaps because of the use of the same woodcuts. Very rare. 5 copies traced in North America: UCLA,… Read More

Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 15 May, 1500. SECOND EDITION (1st 1499) of the Capella, FIRST HERWAGEN EDITION of the Hyginus. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 16th c. limp vellum. Fine, broad-margined copies on thick paper with just some occasional light soiling and a few instances of foxing in the Hyginus and a dampstain to the upper, inner corner of opening leaves. Bound with: Hyginus, C. Julius (1st century A.D.); Aratus, of Soli. (c. 315-c. 245 B.C.); Proclus Diadochus (ca. 410-484) Fabularum Liber, Ad Omnium Poetarum Lectionem Mire necessarius, & nunc denuo excusus: Eiusdem Poeticon Astronomicon Libri quatuor. Quibus accesserunt similis argumenti, Palaephati de fabulosis narrationibus, Liber I. F. Fulgentii Placiadis episcopi Carthaginensis Mythologiarum Libri III. Eiusdem de vocum antiquarum interpretatione, Liber I. Phurnuti De natura deorum, sive poeticarum fabularum allegorijs, speculatio. Albrici philosophi de Deorum imaginibs Liber. Arati Phainomenon fragmentum, Germanico Caesare interprete.… Read More

Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.
Price: $2,600.00
Quarto: 25.7 x 19.5 cm. Engraved portrait, [2] lvs, III-XLIII p., 2 folding plates.
SOLE EDITION.
Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo after a drawing by Pietro Giaconia. The 2 foldings plates (see below) were also etched by Garofalo.
An unusual funeral book of the late Sicilian Baroque, commemorating funeral rites for the prosperous Sicilian lawyer Giuseppe Maria Jurato (d. 10 October 1712), judge of the Grand Civil Court of Palermo and Prosecutor of the Royal Court. Jurato's funeral was held in the Baroque-Mannerist Chiesa di Santa Ninfa dei Crociferi, where he was also entombed.Jurato's desire to have a funeral monument erected to… Read More

London: Printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1640. SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION (1st 1632) of Sandys' landmark translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, worn at the corners and extremities, re-backed. In addition to the engraved title, there is a full-paged engraving (with a medallion portrait) of Ovid, and fifteen full-page engravings by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after drawings by Francis Clein (1582-1658). This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the complete suite of 59 plates from Michel de Marolles' "Tableaux du Temple des Muses" (Paris 1655), comprising a portrait of Marolles and 58 plates of emblematic engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (with two after Pierre Brébiette). A number of the engravings depict scenes from Ovid. A very good copy, engraved portrait frontispiece engraved title-page lightly soiled and with light marginal staining, title with short marginal tears;… Read More