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| JOHN OGILBY Esq. |
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THE WORKS OF PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO, TRANSLATED, ADORNED WITH SCULPTURE, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH ANNOTATIONS |
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| a very good copy - 1668, in elephant folio (17 by 10.5 inches), (6) 528 pp. contemporary covers with spine recently rebacked and new end papers, with 100 original plates of well kown artists: quite unusual, the book starts with a double plate (before title page) with the engraved portrait of Ogilby by William Faithorne after Peter Lely and an engraving by Pierre Lombart after Francis Cleyn. The title page is printed in red and black lettering. This volume is illustrated with 100 full-page engravings, including the portrait and title page, and engraved initials and head-and-tail pieces. Featured is a two-page map and one engraving with hand-colored tinting. the following are the srtist whose engravings comprise this book: 29 plate signed by Lombart, 42 plate signed by Hollar, 3 plate signed by Ludwig Richer, one Faithorne and one William Carter. 19 plates have no text of the back page. One leaf (pages 233/234) has been replaced with a facsimilia from the original book currenlty at Huntington Library on ancient paper and one etching folowing page 28 has been profesionally restored (about 3 by 3 inches from the engraving was missing). Complete set. Neat signature on the title page dated 1679 and below "WORKS" another siganature which was crossed out. Overall, an extremelly attractive book in VG conditions with some tears but most have been profesionally repaired. NOTE: the facsimilia page has been restored such as for a non-connoisseur of books, it would be difficult to see the difference. |
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| GELLIUS, AULUS |
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AULI GELLII, NOCTIUM ATTICARIUM LIBRI UNDEVIGINTI |
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| Post Incunabule rare Books - FIRST EDITION / FIRST STATE of Auli Gellii Noctium, Atticarum Libri Undeviginti [Attic Nights, Noctes Atticae] Gellies, Aulus / Egnazio, Giovanni Battista / Engstrom, Alfred G. 1515 the first aldine, first state edition, with 'duerniorem' on leaf V4r includes indices, Latin and Greek on opposite pages, printed in clear Italic type. . Published Septembri 1515. Rebacked in full leather maybe late 18th crntury, early 19th century. Handwritten notes by previous owner on back of the boards addressing the state of the book and the pagination, dated 1971. Complete but for the DD8 blank leaf.Printer's device on on the title page and verso of last leaf. Edited by Ioannes Baptista Egnatius. Aside missing one blank leaf and 3 leaves with one spot of about 1cm. diamater at the bottom of the page not impacting text. I would rate this a FINE COPY. There is nothing else to be critiqued when describing the book. Errors in foliation: leaf 222, 226, 228, 230, 232, 233, 235, 237, and 239 - misnumbered as 122, 126, 128, 130, 132, 133, 135, 137 and 139. [32 leaves], 289 leaves, [51 leaves] quite normal for these times. This is the author's only and last book book focusing before passing away in 1515. The tile, "The Attic Nights" is his way of describing the nights spent in Attica while focusing at the nature of the society during his lifetime. |
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| GULIELMUS DURANDUS |
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RATIONALE DIVINORU[M] OFFICIORUM |
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| A BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED 1503 POST-INCUNABLE FIRST EDITION, ADORNED WITH HUNDREDS OF WOODCUT INITIALS AND WITH A FINE RED AND BLACK TITLE PAGE DISPLAYING A HUGUETAN'S WOODCUT PRINTER'S MARK, OF DURANDUS’ ‘RATIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIORUM,’ THE MOST COMPELTE MEDIEVAL TREATISE CONCERNING THE RITUAL OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The full title reads as follows: “Rationale Divinoru[m] Officiorum. / Venundatur Lugduni ab Jacobo buguetano eiusem civitatis bibliopola invico mercuriali: ad angiportum qui in ararim ducit. Et parrbisiis in vico scti Jacobi sub diva virgie ppe setm bndictu. It It was written in 1286. Its eight books contain a detailed account of the laws ceremonies, customs, andmystical interpretation of the Roman Rite. The volume is complete in all respects and is foliated [3], 223. The book block measures 23 cm by 16.5 cm by 3 cm. New brown calf leather covers and marbbled end papers with design on front and back cover. The leaves are in very good to excellent condition, with generally clean pages, clear print and ample margins throughout. Double columns The woodcut printer’s device is an excellent impression, as are all of the woodcuts through the volume’s leaves. The opening leaves show minor toning, there is an early inscription on the title and scattered early marginalia, and the final leaves show small wormholes that touch a few letters but do not impair legibility. Its eight books contain a detailed account of the laws ceremonies, customs, andmystical interpretation of the Roman Rite. Book I treats of the church, altar, pictures, bells, churchyard, etc.; II of the ministers; III of vestments; IV of the Mass; V of the canonical hours; VI of the Proprium mporis; VII of the Proprium Sanctorum; and VIII of the astronomical calendar, manner of finding Easter, Epacts, etc. |
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| DEUCHAR, DAVID - HANS JOHN WITH 51 PLATES THE ONLY AVAIALBLE |
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THE DANCES OF DEATH Through the Various Stages of Human Life; Wherein the Capriciousness of That Tyrant is Exhibited in Farty six Copper Plates; Done from the Original Designs Which Were Cut in Wood and Afterwards Painted By John Holbein |
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| The Dances of Death, Through the Various Stages of Human Life. Wherein the Capriciousness of That Tyrant is Exhibited in Forty-six Copperplates, done from the Original Designs which Were Cut in Wood, and Afterwards Painted By John Holbein..... Edinburgh. Printed By W. Darling, Advocates Close, 1788. First Deuchars Edition. 8vo. [4], 46pp. With frontispiece portrait of Deuchars, portrait of Holbein, extra-engraved French title, and 48 etchings FOR A TOTAL OF 51 ETCHING. NOT EVEN ANOTHER ONE AVAIALBLE. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spine and a new morocco lettering-piece laid down. Rubbed, with loss to corners. Hinges reinforced with buckram. Bookplate of Lieutenant General William Thornton M.P. to FEP. Sporadic marking and heavy foxing to text, with some offsetting to plates. Marginal paper repair to leaf D1. The first Deuchars edition of this classic of European medieval macabre, which rather disingenuously references the original illustrations of Hans Holbein as inspiration and source. David Deuchars (1743-1808), Goldsmith, seal engraved and amateur etcher produced this suite of 48 etchings without reference to the originals; 30 are copied from Wenceslaus Hollar's small suite of 1651, and 17 of the remainder from Hollar's own inspiration, Arnold Birckmann's woodcuts featuring in the 1551 edition. The French extra-engraved title is a copy of that present in the 1780 Mechel edition, altered to read 'D. Deuchar], is mistakenly dated 1786. The work would be entirely devoid of originality were it not for the frontispiece self-portrait and a likeness of Holbein that follows it. Known in two variants, with and without a nambed publisher to the imprint; this signed W. Darling is much rarer (meaning the name of the publisher on the title page) , with ESTC locating only two copies (BL and NLS). |
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