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Paris: A. Lotrian, 1530. Late 19th-century Jansenist blue morocco (Capé, rubbed), gilt-lettered title and turn-ins, all edges gilt, silk marker. In this illustrated chapbook romance of chivalry "the heroine escapes the destiny imposed by tradition and authority" (Crécy & Brown-Grant, tr.). Characterization, not the marvelous, drives the narrative, which was an immediate success, particularly among women. This is THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF THIS PRINTING. Set in southeastern France and the Middle East in 1271, this tells of the knight Paris and the princess Vienne, whose attempt to marry across different social ranks forces her into prison and him into exile. In lieu of romances' customary magical devices, the protagonists' cunning and trickery shapes the tale. "One of the most natural and charming of the pre-Renaissance heroines" (Bennett), Vienne dodges suitors through dissimulation. Paris travels in disguise to Alexandria, Babylon, Jerusalem, the Sultan's court and the land of Prester John. As…
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Paris et Vienne nouvellement a Paris. viij
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Petri Bembi Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. Nomine Scriptarum Libri XVI
by Bembo, Pietro
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Lyon: D. de Harsy for S. Vincent, 1538. Contemporary limp vellum (stained, spine damaged), overlapping edges, contemporary gothic lettered manuscript title in a cartouche on the front panel with the owner's initials and arms on the sides and below, manuscript spine title, evidence of four ties. Second Edition. Employing Bembo to draft and send these five hundred eighty-one chronologically arranged letters, Pope Leo X addressed Raphael, Lucrezia Borgia (with whom Bembo had a notorious affair), rulers from England to Hungary to Venice and dozens of Italian city states, friends' daughters, prelates, humanists, merchants, intimates and artists. Bembo's poem on Lago di Garda and five of his private letters to Longolius, Budé and Erasmus conclude the volume - an early reader censored Erasmus' name from the title and text. Nice copy (spot on one leaf), a couple of uncut edges, early signature of Do. Sofronio ?Parri, bookplate of Guelfo-Sitta. ¶Erdmann, Ars epistolica 65.
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Piano Delle Congregazioni Municipali Della Lombardia Austriaca
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?Milan: s.n., 1786. Original printed wrappers (spine slightly defective), uncut. These thirty-three articles propose municipal administrative reforms in Austrian Lombardy - Milan, Mantua, Cremona, Pavia, Lodi, Como, Gallarate and Bozzolo. This covers zoning, street and building maintenance, quartering of troops, price caps, police, sanitation, fire companies, victuals, investigatory powers.... Penalties are set for various transgressions. The folding tables (with printed paste-over corrections) are to be completed by the person in charge of transportation. A folio edition appeared the same year. I have located one example of either outside Italy (Regensburg). ¶Bibliografia delle edizioni giuridiche antiche in lingua italiana II(3): 1024; Bertarelli, Inventario I: 170.
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Poemata
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Rome: F.M. Calvo, 1524. CONTEMPORARY BLIND- AND GILT-DECORATED ROMAN BINDING of brown morocco over paper boards, panels with straight and curved frames, branches, flames, daisies and a ropework central medallion (some gilding lost, corners and tips slightly defective), vellum pastedowns and their stubs (see below), evidence of eight green fabric ties, all edges gilt. First Edition of the color theorist, classical scholar and playwright's first book of verse. In late 1523, Telesio (1482-1534) was called from Milan to Rome, where he immediately praised the newly elected Pope Clement VII in print, joined the humanist circles of Giovio and the future Pope Paul IV and secured the patronage of Gian Matteo Giberti, this book's dedicatee. The present collection includes two pieces that herald themes in Telesio's 1527 stage play. Other poems describe a bronze lamp given by a nobleman named Lampius (nomen omen), the 1521 explosion of a gunpowder depot in the Castello Sforzesco and the…
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Poemata Ad Consalvvm Pyretivm
by Minturno, Antonio Sebastiano
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Venice: G.A. Valvassori, 1564. Contemporary limp vellum wrappers. Bound with: MINTURNO, Antonio Sebastiano. Bp. of Crotone. c. 1497-1574. Poemata, Ad...M. Antonivm Colvmnam. Venice, G.A. Valvassori 1564. 8vo. 38, [1], [1 blank] leaves. Bound with: MINTURNO, Antonio Sebastiano. Bp. of Crotone. c. 1497-1574. Epigrammata, Et Elegiae. Venice, G.A. Valvassori 1564. 8vo. 15, [1 blank] leaves. Ad I-III: Only Editions, elegant Neo-Latin verse. Almost the whole of the first work celebrates Emperor Charles V and his rule in Italy. The second work has nine pieces, each on a theme and each with its own dedicatee - Paolo Giovio ("History"), Pope Clement VII ("Pallas"), Pope Paul III ("Rome"). The third volume mixes contemporary, classical and intimate subjects. Minturno's book on the art of Latin poetry was a staple. Original condition (minor worming in some upper inner corners). ¶Ad I-III: Oberlé, Amoenitates poeticae latinae modernae 159. Ad I: Ellinger,…
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Poësies Francoises. [And:] Poesie Toscane. Poesias Castellanas....Carmina Latina
by Regnier-Desmarais, François Séraphin, abbé
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Paris: C. Cellier, 1707. Contemporary gilt red morocco (rubbed, minor neat repairs), spine with dotted blooms and sprays, gilt-lettered title, all edges gilt over marbling. In French, Italian, Spanish and Latin, this collection explores seventeen verse forms and a variety of genres. The author finds inspiration in Cervantes, Petrarch, Lope de Vega, Horace, the Bible and Amadís de Gaula. He also translates excerpts of Anacreon and the Iliad into both French and Italian. He riffs on, i.a., courtesans, a maritime 1677 conflagration at Tobago and the death of a dog. Already a member of the Académie française, he "discovered", i.e., forged a petrarch canzone to enter the Accademia della Crusca. No set in U.S. libraries. In very good condition (two quires slightly browned), bottom edge of two leaves still conjugate, signatures of André marquis de Bourbon de Monte, armorial bookplate (1920) of Mégret de Devise, unidentified stamped cipher. Cioranescu 58647 & 58655.
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Principes Abrégés De Peinture
by Dutens, Michel François
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Tours: A. Vauquer, 1779. Contemporary gilt-ruled green morocco (slightly worn), flat spine gilt, saffron endleaves, all edges gilt, blue silk marker. First Edition, for those wishing to take up painting on their annual country holiday, an articulated mannequin and prints to hand. A goldsmith and painting restorer, Dutens lays out the basics of human anatomy, osteology and myology. He discusses drawing children, adults, clothing, landscapes, perspective and light and shadow, the placement and arrangement of figures, facial expression, miniatures on vellum and ivory, pastels on paper, oil on canvas and devotes a long section to color and color harmony. He describes the preparation and application of ground, the layering of paint and, briefly, intaglio color printing. In good condition. ¶Massing, "Painting Materials and Techniques" in Die Kunst und ihre Erhaltung, Rolf E. Straub zum 70. Geburstag gewidmet (1990) 52; not in Faber Birren.
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Promptuaire des Loix municipales & Coustumes...de France
by Brèché, Jean
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Tours: J. Rousset for G. Bourgeat, 1553. Mid-19th-century gilt red morocco, wide border of small partly pointillé tools, gilt spine and title, all edges gilt, green silk marker. Only Edition. Brèché adopts the order, article by article, of the statutes of his native Touraine for the Promptuaire, at once commentary on and concordance to the competing, complementary and conflicting customary laws of a dozen major jurisdictions across France. He points out differences among them and closes with the Tours coutumes. The work was not superseded until the 1780s. A nice copy, a couple of lower margins uncut, manuscript notes on a half dozen leaves, early signatures of JM Gerard Const-, Jacques Gerard, G. Parrie?t, D. leblant and armorial stamp in red of Giuerzic s[eigneu]r de Gerard. ¶Gouron & Terrin, Bibliographie des coutumes 2074; Camus, Bibliothèque...des livres de droit 116; Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIe siècle VII: 28,9.
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