THE BIBELOT. A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known. Vol. XIX. Complete.
PERIODICAL. MOSHER, Thomas B. (editor). [Vernon Lee, James Ashcroft Noble, Arthur Adams, Thomas Browne]. Complete year; 12 issues, each in original wraps; front wrap to January detached, but generally in excellent condition. Housed in a custom boxed slipcase.- $100
- $100
The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down
Sullivan, Frank Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [8], 248. Signed by Frank Sullivan on the FFEP. Spine and edges of boards somewhat darkened (most significantly along front joint); spine tips and corners a little frayed; joints darkened (likely due to the adhesive for the paste-downs). Dust jacket heavily chipped and scuffed along the edges; price in blue marker at top corner of front panel; not price-clipped, now in mylar.- $30
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes; Seldes, Gilbert (ed., intro.); Picasso, Pablo (illus.) Full red leather, gilt-stamped illustration on boards, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine, all edges gilt, moire endpapers. With illustrations by Picasso throughout. A touch of sunning along spine, and extending just beyond the front joint -- else fine.- $45
- $45
Cultivated Landscapes: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Marie-Helene and Guy Weill
Hearn, Maxwell K. Maroon cloth over boards with silver lettering stamped direct on upper board and spine; illustrated dust jacket; pp. 204, richly illustrated in full-color and b/w throughout. Book is without flaw, appearing unread. A few faint scuffs and scratches on front panel of dust jacket, else fine. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brings together landscape paintings "by some of the most preeminent artists of Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Qing dynasty (1644-1911), and modern periods. In his in-depth discussion, Hearn (curator of Asian art at the Met) introduces, comments on, and analyzes the artists and works represented" (from the publisher).- $60
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The Golden Snare
Curwood, James Oliver Cloth; full-color illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [2], 257, [3], plus 5 b/w plates (scenes from the Photoplay by David M. Hartford). Boards and spine lightly rubbed and dust-smudged; some light fraying at spine tips and corners; color coating somewhat rubbed along joints, with little peeks of exposed mull. Dust jacket a bit scuffed and chipped along the edges; a few faint water-spots on spine; lightly soiled on rear panel; VG in mylar, presents nicely.- $25
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Illusions
Lanners, Edi (ed.); Norden, Heinz (trans.) Wraps; 4to; pp. 159, [17] (illustrations TR1-4, printed on semi-transparent paper on the verso only, and A1-4), illustrated throughout in b/w, with highlights in color. An odd kind of dos-a-dos, with portions of the text bound in upside-down. Covers rubbed and age-toned; corners just a little dog-eared.- $30
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Richard Doyle
Engen, Rodney Green cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; illustrated dust jacket. With illustrations in b/w and color throughout. Aside from some light rubbing at spine tips, book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed, lightly chipped at spine tips and corners. From The Artist and The Critic Series.- $30
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Gli Asolani di M. Pietro Bembo, di nuovo ristampati e con ogni diligenza reuisti corrette. Con gli argomenti a ciascun libro, & con le postille in margine, che dichiarano I vocaboli piu difficili. Fatte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Aretino.
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547) MDLXXXVI (1586). 12mo (133 x 74mm). 271pp. Signatures: +(12), A-L(12), M(4). Title and rear register with woodcut engraved printers device of the Goddess of Abundance in ovalcartouche frame. Text in Italian in italic with printed marginalia. Modern vellum and morocco lettering label titled in gilt "BEMBO GLI ASOLANI," endpapers renewed; (title worn and remargined on the Gli Asolani, edges lightly browned or some dampstaining throughout,otherwise good compact volume and complete). This is the edition issued by Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585), "newly revised and corrected," of Pietro Bembos famous love dialogue Gli Asolani ("The People of Asolo"). Tommaso Porcacchi (of Castiglione) was a Tuscan author, bibliophile, and cartographer. His edition of Bembos work was first published in Venice with Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari in 1571; then again in 1575. Another Porcacchi edition of Gli Asolani was printed with the brothers Fabio and Agostin Zoppini in 1584. By 1586, Poracchi had commissioned Pietro Marinelli to continue to print his edits to the Gli Asolani. Entirely, this work encapsulates a theme the golden age of Venetian letters and printing one for revision, collaboration, and active exchange. Pietro Bembo was a native Venetian, born into old nobility in 1470. In the decades directly after Bembos life, there was an extreme interest in planning new editions for his works among them Gli Asolani. The Venetian-based Porcacchi circulated his revisions to some of the key sixteenth century printers operating in the magnificent City of Bridges. The Porcacchi editions are classic, not only for examining the editorial attention given to a popular vernacular text in Renaissance Italy, but for showing the growth of an important printing industry and a new method for working.- $375
- $375
Delle rime di M. Pietro Bembo, di nuouo ristampate & con ogni diligenza corrette
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547) MDLXXXVI (1586). 12mo (133 x 74mm). 79pp. [ie. 69]. Signatures: A-F(12) (lacking final blank). Title and rear register with woodcut engraved printers device of the Goddess of Abundance in oval cartouche frame. Text in Italian in italic with printed marginalia. Modern vellum and morocco lettering label titled in gilt "BEMBO RIME," endpapers renewed; (edges lightly browned or some dampstaining throughout, otherwise good compact volume and complete). Although not named on the title, this is the "newly corrected" edition by Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585) of Pietro Bembos Delle Rime. Tommaso Porcacchi (of Castiglione) was a Tuscan author, bibliophile, and cartographer. Porcacchis edition of Bembos work was first published in Venice with Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari in 1564. By 1586, Porcacchi had commissioned Pietro Marinelli to continue to print his edits to the Della Rime; Porcacchi was considered a well-known authority on literary matters. Earlier editions of Delle Rime - by deFerrari or those predating the copyedited versions of Porcacchi - remain more common. Entirely, this work encapsulates a theme the golden age of Venetian letters and printing - one for revision, collaboration, and active exchange. Pietro Bembo was a native Venetian, born into old nobility in 1470. In the decades directly after Bembos life, there was an extreme interest in planning new editions for his works among them Delle Rime. The Venetian-based Porcacchi circulated his revisions to some of the key sixteenth-century printers operating in the magnificent City of Bridges. The Porcacchi editions are classic, not only for examining the editorial attention given to a popular vernacular text in Renaissance Italy, but for showing the growth of an important printing industry and a new method for working.- $500
- $500
Analisi ed esame ragionato dell’arte della fortificazione e difesa delle piazze dell’Ab. Carlo Borgo alla Sacra Reale Maestà di Federico II. Re di Prussia Margravio ed elettore di Brandeburgo &c. &c. &c.
Borgo, Carlo 4to. Engraved vignette, head and tail-pieces, 20 engraved folding plates. Handsomely bound in full contemporary calf, spine ornately stamped in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Herbert Jekyll. Text clean, with wide margins.- $1,500
- $1,500
La Fortification Demonstree
Bar-Le-Duc, Errard Considered the first independent French work on fortification, this is the second edition. Engraved title and 47 engravings in text (most three-quarter page) of diagrams for fortification, harbor defense and lines of fire, floral and historiated woodcut and metal-cut initials and factotums, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Folio, contemporary vellum, soiled, title laid down, I2 torn (repaired), minor repairs and light staining in the margins of a few leaves, the engraving on Cc2vcropped. Errard was the principal military engineer under Henri IV, to whom the work is dedicated. Rare.- $3,000
- $3,000
Difesa et offesa delle piazze. Opera non solo utile, e necessaria à Capitani e Governatori di Fortezze, ma anco di sommo profitto à studiosi dell’Historie militari, così antiche, come moderne. Seconda impressione.
Floriani, Pietro Paolo Folio, engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 216pp. 44 engraved plates (1 folding). Complete. Old vellum. Text block pulling away from binding, first two leaves loose. Otherwise a solid copy of this enlarged second edition (first published in 1630).- $850
- $850