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![Small 8vo (134 mm.). [8]p. Gothic type (?86), title woodcut of two knights kneeling before a lady (56 x 55 mm), a larger block of God with Angels & Virtues (74 x 67 mm.) on final verso. GILT CITRON MOROCCO (Bauzonnet) with narrow decorative outer borders, corner fleurons include an acorn, central medallion of partly pointillé tools around a rose, spine & red morocco label gilt, turn-ins & all edges gilt. A LATE MEDIEVAL VERSE GUIDE FOR SERVANTS ON MANNERS, FOOD, DRINK and the vicissitudes of life: Seruans doiuent auoir cecy En eulx Cest que chascun se sache Tout premier oreilles de vache Groing de porc dos dasne aussi…We are, i.a., URGED TO SCOFF THE GOOD BITS OFF THE MASTER’S PLATE AND CAUTIONED AGAINST CARDS, DICE AND THEFT. Four Renaissance editions of the text are known — all are undated with no established priority. None is in NUC, OCLC, BM STC, Rothschild or Adams. The poem shares much with the 15th century Régime pour tous serviteurs (see Montandon, Bib. des traités de savoir-vivre I: 25-6). Gilt leather bookplates of Alphonse Audenet and Charles Nodier.Nodier, Description 319 “Magnifique exemplaire”; Brunet II: 781 (this ex.); see Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance 287.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6672.jpg "Small 8vo (134 mm.). [8]p. Gothic type (?86), title woodcut of two knights kneeling before a lady (56 x 55 mm), a larger block of God with Angels & Virtues (74 x 67 mm.) on final verso. GILT CITRON MOROCCO (Bauzonnet) with narrow decorative outer borders, corner fleurons include an acorn, central medallion of partly pointillé tools around a rose, spine & red morocco label gilt, turn-ins & all edges gilt. A LATE MEDIEVAL VERSE GUIDE FOR SERVANTS ON MANNERS, FOOD, DRINK and the vicissitudes of life: Seruans doiuent auoir cecy En eulx Cest que chascun se sache Tout premier oreilles de vache Groing de porc dos dasne aussi…We are, i.a., URGED TO SCOFF THE GOOD BITS OFF THE MASTER’S PLATE AND CAUTIONED AGAINST CARDS, DICE AND THEFT. Four Renaissance editions of the text are known — all are undated with no established priority. None is in NUC, OCLC, BM STC, Rothschild or Adams. The poem shares much with the 15th century Régime pour tous serviteurs (see Montandon, Bib. des traités de savoir-vivre I: 25-6). Gilt leather bookplates of Alphonse Audenet and Charles Nodier.Nodier, Description 319 “Magnifique exemplaire”; Brunet II: 781 (this ex.); see Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance 287.")
![4to (189 x 128 mm). [xiv], [292], [2]p. Bâtarde type, double column, NINETY-SEVEN TEXT WOODCUTS, title in red & black within four-block architectural woodcut border of feasting scenes, grotesqueries, etc. Janot’s first device on final verso (Renouard 476). 19th century crushed brown morocco (Pratt), gilt panelled frames with gilt outer corner fleurons, spine & title gilt, board edges & turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt.The most important 15th century work written in French, the founding of the modern French short story and the first significant advance in French narrative technique since the 12th century. Composed as after dinner entertainment for King Louis XII, these tales employ love triangles, intense sensuality, shameless mockery and explicit eroticism. THE WOODBLOCKS SHOW HUNTING PARTIES, COUNTING HOUSES, LOVE-MAKING, SERENADES, FARMERS PLOWING, JOUSTS, MARINERS RETURNING HOME…. Of the dozen or so editions to 1540 are all undated and all of the utmost rarity (e.g., NUC lists only two). This copy was first described in The Huth Library (II: 281). It sold for £30 (Sale IV (1912) 1406) to Quaritch for Rahir, who offered it that year for FF 1500- (Bull. mensuel 15 (N.S.) 427 — for comparison he had the 1531 Alciati at FF 250-). It remains THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF THIS EDITION, many margins untrimmed; Huth’s gilt blue morocco ex libris and Jean Hersent’s engraved bookplate on the front pastedown.Moreau V: 65 (this ex.); Dubois, Les cent nouvelles nouvelles & la tradition de la nouvelle en France au Moyen âge.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/4314.jpg "4to (189 x 128 mm). [xiv], [292], [2]p. Bâtarde type, double column, NINETY-SEVEN TEXT WOODCUTS, title in red & black within four-block architectural woodcut border of feasting scenes, grotesqueries, etc. Janot’s first device on final verso (Renouard 476). 19th century crushed brown morocco (Pratt), gilt panelled frames with gilt outer corner fleurons, spine & title gilt, board edges & turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt.The most important 15th century work written in French, the founding of the modern French short story and the first significant advance in French narrative technique since the 12th century. Composed as after dinner entertainment for King Louis XII, these tales employ love triangles, intense sensuality, shameless mockery and explicit eroticism. THE WOODBLOCKS SHOW HUNTING PARTIES, COUNTING HOUSES, LOVE-MAKING, SERENADES, FARMERS PLOWING, JOUSTS, MARINERS RETURNING HOME…. Of the dozen or so editions to 1540 are all undated and all of the utmost rarity (e.g., NUC lists only two). This copy was first described in The Huth Library (II: 281). It sold for £30 (Sale IV (1912) 1406) to Quaritch for Rahir, who offered it that year for FF 1500- (Bull. mensuel 15 (N.S.) 427 — for comparison he had the 1531 Alciati at FF 250-). It remains THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF THIS EDITION, many margins untrimmed; Huth’s gilt blue morocco ex libris and Jean Hersent’s engraved bookplate on the front pastedown.Moreau V: 65 (this ex.); Dubois, Les cent nouvelles nouvelles & la tradition de la nouvelle en France au Moyen âge.")
Paris, A. Lotrian & D. Janot c. 1536.
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![4to (195 x 137 mm.). [36] leaves. Gothic type, 32-33 lines per page, full-page woodblock of an angel before a church greeting St. Francis, twenty-one large white-line and smaller Lombardic woodcut initials. Superb decorative printed book covers with unshaded Venetian woodblocks on the first recto and final verso. On the first recto the full-page cut shows John the Baptist and St. Peter in a desert landscape supporting four circles formed of intertwined foliage. The large central circle bears the Christogram and the three smaller (with letterpress legends) represent the Holy Trinity. On the final verso St. John the Evangelist with his eagle and St. Francis stand before a church, again supporting four foliage circles, the largest with maria and the others with her virtues (these legends xylographic). Bound in gilt ruled crushed green morocco (Wallis & Lloyd), spine and title gilt, all edges gilt. The Monte’s “handsome woodcuts [are] placed on the first and last page…so as to form an ornamental cover” (BMC). “Examples of early paper bindings with woodcuts are rare indeed, and they are of considerable interest…[for] binding…and for the history of wood engraving” (E.P. Goldschmidt). Paul Needham notes that pictorial printed woodcut wrappers “were meant to function…as eye-catching advertisements for the books they covered, precisely as book jackets do today”. IN THE PRESENT CASE, THE COVERS ARE INTEGRAL TO THE TEXT BLOCK, FORGING A CLOSE IDENTITY BETWEEN THE BOOK’S EXTERIOR ICONOGRAPHY AND ITS CONTENT. A good copy (washed and pressed). We have traced one complete example at auction in the last half century (1977, to Breslauer).ISTC im00847000; Goff M-487 (2 exx.); BMC V: xxxi-xxxii and 378; Essling 728 and see 306 n. 1 “Les deux grands bois…forment une couverture illustrée”; Sander 4879; Jackson, “Printed Wrappers of the 15th to the 18th Centuries” in Harvard Lib. Bull. 6 (1952) pp. 313-21 p. 314, 318 and 321 “integrated wrapper”; see Needham’s Twelve Centuries of Bookbinding 117-9 and Goldschmidt’s Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings 36.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/7736.jpg "4to (195 x 137 mm.). [36] leaves. Gothic type, 32-33 lines per page, full-page woodblock of an angel before a church greeting St. Francis, twenty-one large white-line and smaller Lombardic woodcut initials. Superb decorative printed book covers with unshaded Venetian woodblocks on the first recto and final verso. On the first recto the full-page cut shows John the Baptist and St. Peter in a desert landscape supporting four circles formed of intertwined foliage. The large central circle bears the Christogram and the three smaller (with letterpress legends) represent the Holy Trinity. On the final verso St. John the Evangelist with his eagle and St. Francis stand before a church, again supporting four foliage circles, the largest with maria and the others with her virtues (these legends xylographic). Bound in gilt ruled crushed green morocco (Wallis & Lloyd), spine and title gilt, all edges gilt. The Monte’s “handsome woodcuts [are] placed on the first and last page…so as to form an ornamental cover” (BMC). “Examples of early paper bindings with woodcuts are rare indeed, and they are of considerable interest…[for] binding…and for the history of wood engraving” (E.P. Goldschmidt). Paul Needham notes that pictorial printed woodcut wrappers “were meant to function…as eye-catching advertisements for the books they covered, precisely as book jackets do today”. IN THE PRESENT CASE, THE COVERS ARE INTEGRAL TO THE TEXT BLOCK, FORGING A CLOSE IDENTITY BETWEEN THE BOOK’S EXTERIOR ICONOGRAPHY AND ITS CONTENT. A good copy (washed and pressed). We have traced one complete example at auction in the last half century (1977, to Breslauer).ISTC im00847000; Goff M-487 (2 exx.); BMC V: xxxi-xxxii and 378; Essling 728 and see 306 n. 1 “Les deux grands bois…forment une couverture illustrée”; Sander 4879; Jackson, “Printed Wrappers of the 15th to the 18th Centuries” in Harvard Lib. Bull. 6 (1952) pp. 313-21 p. 314, 318 and 321 “integrated wrapper”; see Needham’s Twelve Centuries of Bookbinding 117-9 and Goldschmidt’s Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings 36.")
[Venice, Bernardinus Benalius before June 1493].
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Abstemius, Laurentius. c. 1440-1508.
Venice, Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino 1495.
Price: $32,000.00
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![Folio (370 mm.). Engraved frontis., engraved title, [iv], 1457 [r. 1474]p. and two folding tables. Contemporary gilt and painted brown calf (minor wear). The overall corner and center design has five double-rule strapwork compartments, corner compartments with flowers and foliage painted silver. The central compartment and the remainder of the field have volutes, daisies, small sprays and dots. The spine compartments have narrow geometric and drawer handle roll borders, center foliage and blooms painted silver; marbled pastedowns, edges gilt and gauffered.First Edition of this synopsis of Imperial law. Fresh, on thick paper, contemporary ms. inscription Ex Bibliotheca Dni. Comitis a Petrà (Oudenbourg). A nice copy.Stintzing-Landsberg, Gesch. d. deut. Rechtswissensch. III(2): 165.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6286.jpeg "Folio (370 mm.). Engraved frontis., engraved title, [iv], 1457 [r. 1474]p. and two folding tables. Contemporary gilt and painted brown calf (minor wear). The overall corner and center design has five double-rule strapwork compartments, corner compartments with flowers and foliage painted silver. The central compartment and the remainder of the field have volutes, daisies, small sprays and dots. The spine compartments have narrow geometric and drawer handle roll borders, center foliage and blooms painted silver; marbled pastedowns, edges gilt and gauffered.First Edition of this synopsis of Imperial law. Fresh, on thick paper, contemporary ms. inscription Ex Bibliotheca Dni. Comitis a Petrà (Oudenbourg). A nice copy.Stintzing-Landsberg, Gesch. d. deut. Rechtswissensch. III(2): 165.")
Andler, Franz Friedrich, Freiherr von. 1632-1703.
Regensburg, L.C. Lochner 1675.
Price: $11,000.00
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Augustinus Moravus. 1467-1513.
Venice, [Paul Fridenperger or Bernardinus Benalius] 24 March 1493.
Price: $9,500.00
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Aumont, Louis Marie Augustin, duc d’. 1709-1782.
Paris, [Didot for] P.F. Julliot & J.A. Paillet [1782].
Price: $1,950.00
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Baldinucci, Filippo. ?1624-1696.
Florence, A. Bonducci for G. Rigacci 1765.
Price: $1,200.00
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Bergen, Carl August von. 1704-1760.
Frankfurt a.d. Oder, P. Schwartz 1744.
Price: $2,800.00
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![16mo. [cxxx], [vi blank], 507, [5 blank], [110]p. TWO FOLDING WOODCUT MAPS, FIVE FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS. Contemporary blind tooled Lyonese calf (worn), panels alike with triple rule outer & inner rectangle, gilt acorns at corners, gilt fleuron at center, blind ruled spine compartments (base damaged, lacks ties).Both folding maps are in excellent condition. A handful of 18th century ms. annotations in Latin.Schweiger I: 42; Baudrier V: 242.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6422.jpg "16mo. [cxxx], [vi blank], 507, [5 blank], [110]p. TWO FOLDING WOODCUT MAPS, FIVE FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS. Contemporary blind tooled Lyonese calf (worn), panels alike with triple rule outer & inner rectangle, gilt acorns at corners, gilt fleuron at center, blind ruled spine compartments (base damaged, lacks ties).Both folding maps are in excellent condition. A handful of 18th century ms. annotations in Latin.Schweiger I: 42; Baudrier V: 242.")
Caesar. 100-44 BCE.
Lyon, [S. Barbier for] J. Frellon 1557.
Price: $800.00
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Catholic Church. Liturgy & Ritual. Ritual. [Early Forms] Sacerdotale. Brixen/Bressanone.
Innsbruck, D. Paur 1609.
Price: $2,650.00
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Cohon, Sébastian. fl. 1622.
Nantes, P. Doriou 1622.
Price: $4,200.00
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Cotin, Charles. 1604-1682.
Rouen, J. Cailloüé 1655.
Price: $1,400.00
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![Four parts in one vol. 16mo. [xxxii], 159p. & [iix], 280p. & 47p. & 267, [5]p. Greek & Roman type (parallel text), woodcut initials & headpieces, MAIN & THREE DIVISIONAL TITLES IN A MANNERIST WOODCUT FRAME OF GROTESQUERIES, SWAGS, etc. (its first use). Contemporary sheep (worn), panels alike with single outer blind rule & double inner gilt rule borders, daisies at corners, oval foliage arabesque medallion at center, flat spine in four compartments with gilt stylized foliage tools, edges gilt & gauffered — each with a different design contrasting plain & gilt surfaces.First Edition of the first such collection in Greek. Henri Estienne II launched the vogue with his 1566 Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Crespin immediately capitalized with the present gathering of more than two dozens texts on agriculture, country living and wise sayings, for which he provided facing Latin translations — mostly by Protestants — in pocket format. This copy has the title to Part II with the date 1569 in Greek, an unrecorded variant. Some browning and staining, narrow worm trail in outer edge of two quires.Gilmont, Bib. des éditions de J. Crespin I: 69/5 (1b, 2 unrecorded state as above, 3a, 4a); Hoffmann III: 234; Legrand, Bib. hellénique IV: 167-8, 674 “Rarissime volume”; Desgraves, Élie Vinet 92, 190.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6830.jpg "Four parts in one vol. 16mo. [xxxii], 159p. & [iix], 280p. & 47p. & 267, [5]p. Greek & Roman type (parallel text), woodcut initials & headpieces, MAIN & THREE DIVISIONAL TITLES IN A MANNERIST WOODCUT FRAME OF GROTESQUERIES, SWAGS, etc. (its first use). Contemporary sheep (worn), panels alike with single outer blind rule & double inner gilt rule borders, daisies at corners, oval foliage arabesque medallion at center, flat spine in four compartments with gilt stylized foliage tools, edges gilt & gauffered — each with a different design contrasting plain & gilt surfaces.First Edition of the first such collection in Greek. Henri Estienne II launched the vogue with his 1566 Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Crespin immediately capitalized with the present gathering of more than two dozens texts on agriculture, country living and wise sayings, for which he provided facing Latin translations — mostly by Protestants — in pocket format. This copy has the title to Part II with the date 1569 in Greek, an unrecorded variant. Some browning and staining, narrow worm trail in outer edge of two quires.Gilmont, Bib. des éditions de J. Crespin I: 69/5 (1b, 2 unrecorded state as above, 3a, 4a); Hoffmann III: 234; Legrand, Bib. hellénique IV: 167-8, 674 “Rarissime volume”; Desgraves, Élie Vinet 92, 190.")
Crespin, Jean. ed. c. 1520-1572.
Geneva, Jean Crespin 1569-1570.
Price: $1,600.00
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Diodorus Siculus. fl. 21 B.C.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe 1552.
Price: $15,000.00
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Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine. 1755-1835.
Paris, [T.-F. Rignoux for] L.-M. Guillaume 1821-1825.
Price: $2,200.00
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Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux & de Jarvercy. 1619-1695.
Paris, s.n. 1679.
Price: $3,200.00
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Ferber, Johann Jakob. 1743-1790.
Berlin, C.F. Himburg 1774.
Price: $1,500.00
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Fries, J.G. fl. 1838-1846.
Paris, [P. Renouard] for C. Thiériot & the Author 1838.
Price: $250.00
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Grimm, Johann Caspar. 1662-1728.
Leipzig, Katharina Höcker Widow of J. Reinhold for the Author 1700.
Price: $1,200.00
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