Venuti, Ridolfino
Large quarto (28x21 cm), 2 parts in 1 volume, pp 96 leaves of plates plus one large folding plate - all etchings. The large foling plate is a map of Rome, showing the location of each of the sites described in the text. Both volumes - referred to as parts - are full of magnificent head and tail pieces. Artists include Giovanni Piranesi (19 signed plates), but also present are Duflos, Bellicard, Legeay an Bernabo and Lazzarini. The etchigs are exquisite, and there is text describing each site as well. Paper and illustrations are very clean, in fine condition. Numerous copies in libraries noted on OCLC, but no copes listed at auction.Book has been rebound at some point, but it looks like the original binding was retained: full calf, spine with raised bands with diapered leather panels; hinges repaired. The book is quite sturdy now. Very good copy.
Anonymous; Posada, Jose Guadalupe (illus)
16 pp, small pamphlet, 5.25 x 3.5 in. Contains recipes. Subtitle reads: "Recetas utiles para curar las enfermedades mas comunes, recopilads de las mejores obras de medecina." The title is a bit ambiguous, as this is only the first booklet in a series of three, which all told apparently would contain 300 "recipes." Probably each pamphlet contained 100 recipes each. This has about 100. Fine condition, stapled wraps, colored front wrapper possibly by Jose Guadalupe Posada (as noted by OCLC and UT San Antonio, Posada being the principle illustrator for Vanegas Arroyo). Extremely rare, as OCLC locates only one copy of each of the three pamphlets.
Large 8vo size, 10 x 7 in, pp pp xiii, 197, with numerous b/w photo reproductions of the original text. Translation ad study of this 13th century poem, in Spanish and Aragonese, of th elegends surround the l=ife, particularly the infancy narratives, of Jesus. Fine condition, in thinck wrappers, with fench fold.
2 vols., 8vo, pp. [xiv], 303 + folding plates; [xiii], 336 + catalog of Dover publications. Very good reprint of this classic, including all of the original Catherwood ilustrations, 254 in toto. Catherwood's drawings are well reproduced, in some cases folding out into multi-panelled views, as in the original. Maps, groundplans, all included. Bound in stiff colored wrappers. Fone condition.
Octavo siz, paperback, pp 531, + (2) index. The first full-scale biography of Sor Juana (1648 - 1695) since Octavio Paz' Las Trampas de la Fe, which, though beautifully written and important for the resurrection of interrest in Sor Juana, is biased in many respects and simply false in others. Soriano Valles corrects these in great detail and based on the most exhaustive research. Sor Juana is gnerally considered the greatest literary figure of colonial Mexico and an integral member of the Golden Age of Spanish literature, which included Cervantes, Calderon, Lope et al. All of the historical fragments which have come to light recently associated with Sor Juana confirm Soriano Valles' reading of the crucial period toward the end of her life when she gave up her books and devoted herself to her religious practices, finally dying while attending her sister nuns sickened from a contagious disease which ultimately infected her. Fine condition - as new.