A November Miscellany

A November Miscellany

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Item #3976 Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran...

Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia nella chiesa di S. Ninfa.

Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.

Price: $2,600.00

Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...

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Item #4523 Esequie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al Ser. D. Cosimo II, quarto Gran...

Esequie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al Ser. D. Cosimo II, quarto Gran Duca di Toscana il di 25 di Maggio 1621. Orazione di Giulio Strozzi recitata da lui in Venetia nell'esequie del Serenissimo D. Cosimo II…

Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...

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Item #4585 The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many...

The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.

Price: $15,000.00

A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to...

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Item #4657 Tutte le Rime della illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Vittoria Colonna, Marchesana...

Tutte le Rime della illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Vittoria Colonna, Marchesana di Pescara. Con l'espositione del Signor Rinaldo Corso nuouamente mandate in luce da Girolamo Ruscelli. Alla illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Donna Issabella Gonzaga, Marchesana di Pescara.

Venice: Per Giovan Battista et Melchior Sessa fratelli, 1558.

Price: $8,500.00

A nice, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum. Title dusty, a few light marginal stains, marginal paper flaw (not affecting text) to leaf *4, short worm-trail in lower margin of five gatherings (Q-S, V-X), touching a single letter in the bottom line of text on some lvs., damp-stain to 4...

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Item #4595 Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit:...

Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit.

Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the...

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Item #4594 Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum...

Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum Belgii principum Alberti et Isabellæ, Austriæ archiducum: et eorum optatissimi in Belgium aduentus, rerumque gestarum et memorabilium, gratulationum, apparatuum, et spectaculorum in ipsorum susceptione et inauguratione hactenus editorum accurata descriptio.

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.

Price: $16,000.00

A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...

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Item #4627 De Confessione Amantis. John Gower, 1325?-1408

De Confessione Amantis.

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John...

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Item #4597 Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem....

Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem.

[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 19th c. green Morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs.A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by the King when he was only 23 years of age. The letter...

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Item #4621 Vita Philosophorum et Poetaru[m] : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorunde[m]...

Vita Philosophorum et Poetaru[m] : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorunde[m] annexis

Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516.

Price: $10,500.00

[Bound with]: Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536) De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516 [And]: Hutten, Ulrich von...

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Item #4544 Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at...

Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene".

London: St. James's Palace, 7th June, 1556.

Price: $50,000.00

Blind-stamped paper seal and address panel on verso "To our right trustie wellbeloved Counsillor Lord Paget de Beaudesert...", docketed on verso: "for thabsentes... Quene marie to my Lorde for process xvi"A remarkable letter, signed by Mary Tudor as Queen, instructing Lord Paget as Keeper of the Privy Seal to send...

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Item #4587 The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of...

The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.

Price: $8,500.00

An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.The...

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Item #4600 Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali....

Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali.

Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...

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Item #4632 Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes...

Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicæ factae primúmque hac noua forma nunc editæ: opera ac industria R.B. in Axholmiensi insula Lincolnsherij Epvvortheatis

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....

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