Renaissance And Early Modern Humanism from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1512. First edition. About fine.. Octavo (17cm); [80] pages. Italic type. In 18th-century polished red morocco, both boards double-ruled in gold with triple-ruled panel mitered at corners with fleurons. Gold-tooled spine in six panels, title stamped in gold. Gold edges and turn ins. Decorated "carta dorata" endleaves. References: EDIT 16,CNCE 1881; Camerini,… Read more about this item

Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1620. Very Good. Octavo (163 x 105 mm). Two parts in one volume, each with separate title page (second title reads: "Fragmenti di alcune scritture..." ). [24], 268, [4 blank]; 180, [4 blank] pages. Printer's device on title pages. Large woodcut initials. Bound in 18th century in plain leather… Read more about this item

Venice: Giovanni Battista e Marchio Sessa, 1562. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (14 cm); [4], 119, [1] leaves, signed A-P\8. Printer's Pegasus device framed by breasty lions, grotesques, fruits, etc. on title page. Woodcut initials, and 23 woodcuts throughout text of mnemonic diagrams and charts, musical notation, and illustrations, which include a head labelled to show… Read more about this item

Argenatori [i.e., Strasbourg]: Matthias Schürer, 1508. Very Good. Small folio (29 cm); [128] pages. Round roman type. In later (20th-century?) half vellum over marbled boards. Ochre-dyed edges. Minor shelf wear. Marginal ink annotations in contemporary hand, especially in the third book (allegorical reading of Aeneid). Adams L-125 … Read more about this item

Venice: Gli eredi di Lucantonio Giunta, 1541. First edition thus. Fine. Quarto (25 cm); 262 leaves. Title page in red and black. Text in italic type in two columns. In 19th-century polished white vellum, border in gilt with small "chain-link" tool. Spine elaborately gold-tooled in scallop pattern, with blue-dyed title compartment and year. … Read more about this item

Venice: Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1550. Very Good. Quarto (22 cm); [16], 197 leaves, lacking final blank. Woodcut portrait in profile, ostensibly of the author crowned with laurel (but bearing little resemblance to the weak-chinned profile of Pulci in Fra Lippo Lippi's fresco in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence--in fact, the printer… Read more about this item

Venice: Gli heredi di Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1580. Very Good. Large quarto (27 cm); [16], 654, [32] pages. Final blank present. Title within elaborate architectural border, with caryatids, putti, caduceus,grotesques, and portrait of Ariosto within an oval between allegorical figures, 51 full-page woodcuts at the opening of each Canto, probably by Dosso Dossi, woodcut initials and headpieces. Printer's… Read more about this item

Paris: Didot, Anno VIII (1800). Acceptable. 12mo (14 cm); 100 pages. In full polished calf with gilt-tooled border, spine decorated in gilt, with red leather title label. Bright pink pastepaper endleaves! Edges and corners worn, upper board a little scuffed, but in all a very pleasant little book. Reference: Bergamo, Raccolta Tassiana, #1239. Tasso's… Read more about this item

Venice: Girolamo Porro, 1589. First printing of some material. Very Good. Quarto (21 cm); [140] pages, including 34 allegorical copperplate engravings with facing-page explanations. Text within typographical borders; in Latin and Italian. Woodcut decorated initials and tail-pieces. Manuscript marginalia in very neat and readable contemporary hand. Bound in plain vellum, titled in ink on spine… Read more about this item

Crispoli [i.e. , Parma]: Impresso co' carratteri Bodoniani, 1793. Fine. Large folio (45 cm); xxxv, 117, [2 blank] pages. Engraved head-piece by Lucatelli. Richly bound in recent polished brown half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, borders double ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments ruled and titled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore edge and… Read more about this item

Venice: Giunta, 1587. Third edition. Fine. Quarto (25 cm); [12], 308, [28] pages, last two blank, including 21 full-page woodcut figures. In late 19th-century full red crushed morocco triple-ruled in gilt, with gilt-tooled spine in six compartments and gilt turn-ins over marbled endleaves by Belz-Niedrer. All edges gilt, fore-edge with hidden marbling (á la fore-edge… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Ioannes Grapheus, 1528. Second Printing. Very Good. Octavo (16 cm) [64] leaves, signed a-h in 8s. Full-page "Charity" printer's device (thought to have been designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst) on last page. Italic type. Title page elaborated at an early date in ink with image of a chalice or urn. Several… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the author, etc., 1783. First edition of this translation.. Good. Octavo (23 cm). Five volumes. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, after Angelica Kauffman, Thomas Stothard (engraved by William Blake), Gertrud Metz, and William Hamilton. Engraved portraits of Hoole and Ariosto in volume 1. Illustration of Ariosto's chair and… Read more about this item

Bologna?, XIV century. Good. Manuscript leaf on vellum, 287 x 462 mm. 43 lines in two columns round gothic recto and verso, surrounded by the "glossa ordinaria," the standard commentary on the text. There are several additional glosses in in the margins in cursive script of a later date, possibly as late as the early XV… Read more about this item

Venice: Bernardino de Vitali, 1533. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (21 cm); [90] leaves, including final blank. In modern polished calf, titled in gilt on spine. Gilt dentelles. Some very light dampmarks through latter half of text. Reference: BM Italian, p. 631; Haym, III, p. 44; Hoepli, Cento Libri Piacevoli, 1936, n.… Read more about this item

Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1516. First edition. Very Good. Folio (31 cm); [40], 862, [6] pages. Title page printed in red. Aldine anchor-and-dolphin device in red on title page, and again in black on verso of final leaf. In contemporary full vellum, titled in manuscript on spine with flourishes. Raised bands… Read more about this item

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari; Francesco Marcolini, 1550-1551. First editions. Very Good. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo (14 cm); 70, [2] leaves, last blank; 112, [7] leaves, (lacking blank K/12?). Giolito devices on first title page and on verso of F/12; Marcolini devices on tp of second title and on verso of K/11. Woodcut initials… Read more about this item

Padova (Padua): Editrice Antenore, 1972. First edition. Very Good. 22 cm; 283 pages. Very good in plain printed wraps. Partially unopened. Essays by the eminent former chair of Medieval and Latin literature at the University of Pisa on Pontano, Marullo, Sannazaro, du Bellay, and the Dies Irae.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Original edition. Very Good. 27 cm; 898 pages, and 8 plates. Cloth, no dust jacket. Unblemished.

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1548-49. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (17cm); 161 [3] leaves (including final blank). Printer's device on title page and on verso of last leaf. Woodcut initial H on f.2 populated with racquetball players, and woodcut initial D on f.3 by the figure of a woman petting a boar. Italic and… Read more about this item