Search Results: Authors starting with A from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

24mo, pp. [viii], 4-8, 10-11, 13-14, 16-17, 19-46, 48-49, 51-52, 54-55, 57-58, 60-61, [8]; with twelve engraved plates; title-page entirely engraved; some light spotting in places but largely clean and fresh; in contemporary boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and gouache depicting a vase of flowers, preserved in the original slipcase; binding somewhat rubbed, and foot of case loose, but still a very attractive copy.
A lovely copy of this very rare almanac for the year 1783, comprising both a calendar and a collection of songs for each month, with each illustrated with a plate by the painter François-Marie-Isidor Queverdo (1748-1797), engraved by his frequent collaborator Jean Dambrun (1744-c. 1814).
Cohen/De Ricci, p. 47 (for the 1784 edition); OCLC records only one copy of this year, at Vassar College.
The texts range from drinking songs to erotic rounds, to songs extolling the delights of hunting and fishing, and finishes with a page detailing the various Almanac offerings of Boulanger, 'Doreur… Read More

8vo, pp. [ii], 16; with full-page engraved title, woodcut headpieces and initials; some foxing and browning throughout; engraved title tightly cropped at foot; in later pink wrappers, lightly stained.
Very rare poem, written to celebrate the wedding of Francesco Salvator Garzoni and Chiara Mansi, which took place in Lucca in 1654.
One of a number of works written for the wedding by poets including Francesco Sbarra, Iride Messaggiera describes the Goddess Iris (representing the rainbow) naked in her chariot, adorned with myrtle, with a burning torch, and the engraved title-page depicts a similar scene, although Iris's nakedness is modified to suit image rather than text. The title-page also, in the background, contains an image of the groom's family home, Villa Garzoni in Collodi, near Lucca, famous for its gardens with their giochi d'aqua, which had been completed only a couple of years before the printing of this work.
We have been unable to locate any further reference to Altogradi beyond the entry… Read More

8vo, pp. [ii], 34; woodcut vignette on title-page; foxing and browning throughout, especially to first and last few leaves; in contemporary patterned wrappers; small hole to upper cover.
Attractively bound in coloured, patterned wrappers, this rare work satirises the habits of Viennese high society in the second half of the eighteenth century. The anonymous author sketches the characters and activities of various wealthy Viennese (presumably not wholly imaginary), as they sit in their coffee houses, go to the theatre, beautify themselves, while musing on the uneasy relationship between wealth and happiness (while acknowledging that he has neither).
The contemporary review in the Weiner Wochenschrift was not enthusiastic: noting the rather bitter tone of the work, it observes that 'the characters presented are seldom drawn naturally or faithfully from people's daily and social lives, and Rabener's genius does not inspire the author in his work - there is also no lack of rambling, un-German passages… Read More

22 works bound together, 4to; for full listing see below; some browning, foxing and damptstaining in places; in contemporary vellum, gilt lettering-piece on spine, some wear and marking to boards and chipping to vellum, but sound.
An extraordinary collection of 22 Italian works relating to the funeral of Maria Theresa of Austria, which was marked across her dominions for months after her death in November 1780 with a series of memorials.
The works are as follows:
1. FILANGIERI, Serafino. ELOGI PER LA GLORIOSA MEMORIA della imperatrice Regina Maria Teresa d'Austria ne' solenni funerali ordinati da Sua Eccellenza Reverendissima D.Serafino Filangieri, Arcivescovo di Napoli, nella sua Cattedrale il dì 13 Gennaio 1781. In Napoli, Presso Faustino de Bonis, [1781]. pp. xxii, [ii] blank, [xi] Iscrrizioni Sopra la Porta al di fuori, [i] blank. Not in OCLC.
2. [AVERSA]. FUNERALI PER LA MORTE DI MARIA TERESA imperatrice de' Romani, Regina di Ungheria e di Boemia, celebrati nella Real Chiesa della SS.Annunciata… Read More