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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.
Doctrinal des bons seruiteurs.
s.l., s.n. c. 1525.
Price: $17,000.00
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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.
Monte dell’ Orazione.
[Venice, Bernardinus Benalius before June 1493].
Price: $35,000.00
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Fabulæ.
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.
Corpus Constitutionum Imperialium Das ist…Auffgerichte Reichs: und Deputations Abschied.
Andler, Franz Friedrich, Freiherr von. 1632-1703.
Regensburg, L.C. Lochner 1675.
Price: $11,000.00
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Dialog[us] in defensionem poetices.
Augustinus Moravus. 1467-1513.
Venice, [Paul Fridenperger or Bernardinus Benalius] 24 March 1493.
Price: $9,500.00
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Catalogue des Vases, Colonnes, Tables de Marbres rares, Figures de bronze, Porcelaines…Laques, Meubles…Pendules, Lustres… Lanternes…Bijoux & autres Effets.
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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4to. vii, 171p. Title vignette of books jumbled on a table. Contemporary vellum, gilt lettered spine title on orange painted patch.Only Collected Edition. An expert in Lombard painting, Baldinucci guided the growth of the Uffizi. Here he discusses Cimabue and Donatello, 16th and 17th century artistic sensibilities and METHODS TO DISTINGUISH ARTISTS FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS AND ORIGINALS FROM COPIES. In excellent condition.Schlosser-Magnino, La letteratura artistica 623; Gamba 1764.
Raccolta Di…Opuscoli…Di Pittura Scultura E Architettura.
Baldinucci, Filippo. ?1624-1696.
Florence, A. Bonducci for G. Rigacci 1765.
Price: $1,200.00
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Catalogvs Stirpivm Indigenarvm…Qvas Hortvs Medicvs Academiae Viadrinae Complectitvr.
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.
[Opera].
Caesar. 100-44 BCE.
Lyon, [S. Barbier for] J. Frellon 1557.
Price: $800.00
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Sacerdotale Brixinen. Continens Modvm Administrandi Sacramenta…reformatum, atque in lucem editum.
Catholic Church. Liturgy & Ritual. Ritual. [Early Forms] Sacerdotale. Brixen/Bressanone.
Innsbruck, D. Paur 1609.
Price: $2,650.00
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De Officio Scholastici, Sev Magistri Scholarvm.
Cohon, Sébastian. fl. 1622.
Nantes, P. Doriou 1622.
Price: $4,200.00
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Recveil Des Enigmes De Ce Temps. Premiere [-Troisieme] Partie[s].
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.
[Vetustissimorum authorum georgica, bucolica et gnomica quae supersunt. Omnia graecolatina].
Crespin, Jean. ed. c. 1520-1572.
Geneva, Jean Crespin 1569-1570.
Price: $1,600.00
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16mo. 1127p. A woodcut Gryphe title device (Baudrier 2). Contemporary Lyonese tan calf (minor restoration), triple blind rules around a single gilt rule, GILT DEVICE OF SÉBASTIEN GRYPHE IN THE CENTER (see Baudrier 1, 1bis & 10, tool measures 32 x 20 mm.), blind ruled spine with an open gilt quatrefoil in each compartment, all edges gilt.“These bindings are indeed ‘trade bindings’…specimens of a bookseller’s stock kept ready bound on his premises for the inspection of his books by the customers” (Goldschmidt). Colin concludes “les reliures ornées de telles marques sont extrêmement rares”. In good condition (a few lower outer corners slightly damp wrinkled), 16th century signature of Vidus Menutius.J. Baer, Kat. 770 (1930) 105 & Taf. XX (this copy); Colin, “Les marques de libraires et d’éditeurs dorées sur des reliures” in Bookbindings…Essays in Honour of A. Hobson (1994) 77-115, 97,B,1; Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings I: 40-1; see Gruel, Manuel…de reliures II: 89; Hoffmann I: 560; Baudrier, Bib. lyonnaise VIII: 259 = Gültlingen, Lyon V: 196,1229.
Bibliothecae Historiae Libri XVII.
Diodorus Siculus. fl. 21 B.C.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe 1552.
Price: $15,000.00
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Histoire Physique, Civile Et Morale De Paris.
Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine. 1755-1835.
Paris, [T.-F. Rignoux for] L.-M. Guillaume 1821-1825.
Price: $2,200.00
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Noms Des Peintres Les Plus Celebres Et Les Plus Connus, Anciens & Modernes.
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux & de Jarvercy. 1619-1695.
Paris, s.n. 1679.
Price: $3,200.00
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Beyträge zu der Mineral=Geschichte von Böhmen.
Ferber, Johann Jakob. 1743-1790.
Berlin, C.F. Himburg 1774.
Price: $1,500.00
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Neuer Leitfaden zur deutschen und französischen Conversation. Nouveau Guide De La Conversation En Allemand Et En Français.
Fries, J.G. fl. 1838-1846.
Paris, [P. Renouard] for C. Thiériot & the Author 1838.
Price: $250.00
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Kurtze Historische/ Physicalische und Medicinische Relation…von einem Monstrobicorporeo, Oder…Wunder=Geburth.
Grimm, Johann Caspar. 1662-1728.
Leipzig, Katharina Höcker Widow of J. Reinhold for the Author 1700.
Price: $1,200.00
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