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![12mo. [xxiix], [320], [2]p. Nearly full-page woodcut portrait of the author, title in four-block white-line metalcut borders of rabbits, cornucopias & foliage. Contemporary Wittenberg gilt tooled calf by Severin Rötter with sunken panels and painted vellum insets (insets 90 x 54/51 mm.; minor restoration, endleaves renewed). On both panels the vellum inset is framed by a foliage roll. The front vellum sheet bears a blind stamped hand painted half-figure portrait of August of Saxony with Rötter’s initials, the date 1579 and three lines of text all painted in gold ink (Haebler I: 387,VII). The initials H*A*P*S are above the inset and the date 1579 below it. The rear vellum sheet bears the blind stamped hand painted arms of Duke August (Haebler I: 388,XVIII), stars and cherubs above and below. The spine compartments have a bloom and foliage roll slightly run over onto panels; edges gilt and gauffered with lilies enclosed in half circles and frames painted in red, green, brown and black. To decorate a binding in this way, the central portion of each pressed paper board is partly removed, the whole covered with thoroughly dampened leather, which is stamped into each panel’s recess. The die-sunk relief printed vellum leaf is then fixed in the hollow, colored and the gold applied. First Complete Edition of these 281 verse biographies, dedicated to Emperor Rudolph and enlarged by a third over its predecessor. The fresh poems address his prominent courtiers and humanists. Only a handful of copies survive. In excellent condition, fourteen-line ms. verse on Charles VI on the rear flyleaves.VD 16 ZV 13136; Schmidt, Bucheinbände a. d. 14.-19. Jahrh. 22 and Taf. XLIII Abb. 64 and Taf. XLIV Abb. 66; Davenport, Cameo Bookstamps XIII-XIV.](/mckittrick/images/items/120x500/7676.jpg "12mo. [xxiix], [320], [2]p. Nearly full-page woodcut portrait of the author, title in four-block white-line metalcut borders of rabbits, cornucopias & foliage. Contemporary Wittenberg gilt tooled calf by Severin Rötter with sunken panels and painted vellum insets (insets 90 x 54/51 mm.; minor restoration, endleaves renewed). On both panels the vellum inset is framed by a foliage roll. The front vellum sheet bears a blind stamped hand painted half-figure portrait of August of Saxony with Rötter’s initials, the date 1579 and three lines of text all painted in gold ink (Haebler I: 387,VII). The initials H*A*P*S are above the inset and the date 1579 below it. The rear vellum sheet bears the blind stamped hand painted arms of Duke August (Haebler I: 388,XVIII), stars and cherubs above and below. The spine compartments have a bloom and foliage roll slightly run over onto panels; edges gilt and gauffered with lilies enclosed in half circles and frames painted in red, green, brown and black. To decorate a binding in this way, the central portion of each pressed paper board is partly removed, the whole covered with thoroughly dampened leather, which is stamped into each panel’s recess. The die-sunk relief printed vellum leaf is then fixed in the hollow, colored and the gold applied. First Complete Edition of these 281 verse biographies, dedicated to Emperor Rudolph and enlarged by a third over its predecessor. The fresh poems address his prominent courtiers and humanists. Only a handful of copies survive. In excellent condition, fourteen-line ms. verse on Charles VI on the rear flyleaves.VD 16 ZV 13136; Schmidt, Bucheinbände a. d. 14.-19. Jahrh. 22 and Taf. XLIII Abb. 64 and Taf. XLIV Abb. 66; Davenport, Cameo Bookstamps XIII-XIV.")
Svmmorvm Regvm…Libri Septem.
Reusner, Nicolaus. 1545-1602.
Augsburg, M. Manger 1578. 12mo. [xxiix], [320], [2]p. Nearly full-page woodcut portrait of the author, title in four-block white-line metalcut borders of rabbits, cornucopias.. more
Price: $22,000.00
![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/120x500/6672.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.")
Doctrinal des bons seruiteurs.
s.l., s.n. c. 1525. Small 8vo (134 mm.). [8]p. Gothic type (?86), title woodcut of two knights kneeling before a lady (56 x 55.. more
Price: $17,000.00