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Firenze, Giuseppe Molini, MDCCCXXIV [1824]. Hard Cover. viii, 489 pages; 15 cm. "The most perfect of pastoral plays" (Wilkins), written and first performed in 1573. This copy is bound in the original paper-covered boards; leather spine, gold tooled. stock#OB104 (dr). VG.
1526 IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM LIBELLUS HOLY ROMAN & GERMAN EMPERORS JOHANN HUTTICH 187 ILLUS. COINS CAESAR HISTORY FULL LEATHER by Johannes Huttichius - 1526
by Johannes Huttichius
1526 IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM LIBELLUS HOLY ROMAN & GERMAN EMPERORS JOHANN HUTTICH 187 ILLUS. COINS CAESAR HISTORY FULL LEATHER
by Johannes Huttichius
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IMPERATORUM ROMANORUM LIBELLUS
1526; Johannes Huttichius; 2nd Edition; Post Incunable; Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel; Illustrated by Hans Weiditz; Full 18th or 19th Century Rebound Leather; 14/178/4 Pages +2 blank leaves at front and back; w3.8"xh5.7"; Latin Text; Extremely Rare!
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•Brilliant full Olive Morrocco leather cover design, Ornate gold floral boards and binding, •Gold gilding to cover edges, Marble page edges, A gorgeous illustrated title page, •Publisher's crest and with border illustrations of a Bacchus nature, •187 woodcut medallion portraits throughout, 76 roundels left blank, •Large woodcut device on last page, And a Great History Read; •With Life of the Author!
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•Second edition of this important collection of portraits of Roman and Holy German emperors, based on representation of early coins.
CONDITION:
•Condition is Good+/Very Good. Some wear to edges, dulled gold to edges/spine, few lighten spots/marks to back board, little wear to hinges, hinges a bit tight when opening, would handle with care, but holding very well, old bookplate Van Damme, title page slightly trimmed at side, slight age toning, but for age pages are very good, text block is very good!
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- Publisher Wolfgang Köpfel
- Place of Publication Strasbourg
- Date Published 1526
- Keywords ROMAN EMPIRE, EMPEROR, GERMANY, ITALY, MEDIEVAL, INCUNABLE, WAR, HISTORY, COIN, ILLUSTRATED, LEATHER, MANUSCRIPT, MILITARY, BATTLE, EUROPE, ROYALTY, 1ST EDITION, FIRST EDITION, germany, italy, europe, military,
Aminta. Favola Boschereccia. Si Aggiungono le Poesie Scelte
by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
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The Shepheardes Calender. Latin and English. Calendarium Pastorale, Sive Aegolgae Duodecim, Totidem Anni Mesibus accommo...
by Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
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London: Printed by Will Bowyer, MDCCXXXI [1731]. Hard Cover. 8vo; xiv, [4], 240, 245-254 pages, 12 engraved plates, portrait front. (A-Q8, R5). Translated by Theodore Bathurst (d. 1651); published by John Ball. Added title-page in English: The Shepherd's Calendar. English and Latin texts on facing pages. ESTC T135116; Alston III.67; NUC 561: 495. Spenser's English work was first published in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney; this Latin translation was first published in 1663. Bound in contemporary full calf; spine worn, hinges tender; interior VG. Stock#OB122.
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Opere di Niccolò Machiavelli cittadino e segretario Fiorentino. Volume Ottavo. Mandragola; Clizia...
by Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Baldelli Boni, Giovanni Battista, editor
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Milano, Dalla Società de Classici Italiani, 1805 de Classici Italiani, 1805. Hard Cover. Octavo; 419, [1] pages; 22.5 cm. Also includes: L'Andria di Terrenzio; Commedia in Versi; Rime. These are Machiavelli's Italian plays, important for Renaissance literature and still funny. Very good copy, bound in half leather with marbled paper boards by Dragonfly. Bertelli, Machiavelli Bibliography, Secolo XIX: 8.8. Stock#OB323.
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Révolutions De Paris, Dédiées A La Nation et au District des Petits-Augustins¦ No. 105
by Prudhomme, Louis Marie, 1752-1830
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Paris, De l'imprimerie des Révolutions de Paris, rue des Marais, 1791. Soft Cover. 1 leaf, 52 p., frontis.; 19.5 cm. "Ce 16 juillet, 1791" at end. This is a much more formally printed account of Louis XIV's flight to Varennes, with an engraved frontispiece showing his carriages halted by a mass of soldiers. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1042-14. Very Good in marbled paper wrappers.
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company. Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned, tattered, waterstained and soiled, endpapers and boards foxed.. 1958. Facsimile. Hardcover. A facsimile reprint of the William Morris magnum opus, the Kelmscott Chaucer, with the 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Glossary for the modern reader. Off-white embossed cloth. The Kelmscott Chaucer was originally published in 1896, in a limited edition. This facsimile reproduces all the original illustrations, text, borders, and decorations in a slightly smaller size. xx, 554pp. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .
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HONEST ABE A Study in Integrity
by Alonzo Rotchschild
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A biography of Abraham Lincoln early life and his politics.
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The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Contantinople 1554-1562.
by Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de; Edward Seymour Forste
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Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition 1927 as "newly translated from the Latin of the Elzevir edition of 1633" by Edward Seymour Forster. -- Includes 3 plates (one is title-page of the Elzevir edition) and one folding map (illustrating Busbecq's travels). -- Hardcover, ownership is pencil dated 1927. Condition: very good minus (cloth over thin boards is bumped at corners, some wear spine crown; spine slanted). -- Pages are bright and clean, overall a nice copy of this SCARCE and significant book.
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A Middle English Translation of Macer Floridus de Viribus Herbarum
by Frisk, Gosta (editor) [Macer] [Odo de Meung / Odo Magdunensis]
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Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1949. Large octavo, pp 338, a very occasional light and discrete pencil note in a margin, otherwise incredibly clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition. RARE - a fine copy. [Macer Floridus is the alleged pseudonym of Odo de Meung, a French cleric and physician who lived during the 11th century and was the presumed author of the herbal poem De Viribus Herbarum (On the properties of plants). The use of "Macer" alludes to the Roman poet, Aemilius Macer (16 B.C.), who authored a poem on remedies for those afflicted with wounds from poisonous serpents. The herbal, commonly referred to as the Macer Floridus, was written in Latin hexameter verse and presented the medicinal uses of plants. The rhyming verse aided doctors and apothecaries in memorizing medicinal recipes and treatments, which made the herbal popular among those who practiced medicine during the Middle Ages. The Macer Floridus is recognized as a signal of revival in botanical…
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Les Contes de Boccace Decameron Les Cinq Dernières Journées
by Boccace, Boccacio, Antoine Le Maçon
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Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.
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Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, etc, in England, for Six Hundred Years last past: To which is added, An Historical Account of Coins, Illustrated
by Bishop William Fleetwood
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Binding in full leather with five raised bands on the spine. Cover edges and corners are worn. The hinges are broken but the cords are holding the covers well. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "William Charles De Meudon Earl Fitzwilliam." Also, inked letters at top left of pastedown: B: 5: 51 (marked through) E. VI. 5. No title on spine. Gently effaced library ownershp stamps on bottom title page and first text page. Paper clean and unfoxed. 147 pages followed by a 2-page index, and an appendix of 30 pages plus 12 plates illustrating gold coins of the kings of England.
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