Search Results: Authors starting with F from Liber Antiquus

Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht, 1554. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The first work was first printed in 1535 as "Eyn new gedichte von den Schmeichlern"( VD16 S 478). The third fable appeared as a broadside ca. 1540 (Weller 82, not in VD16). I have been unable to trace an earlier ed. of the second fable. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum over boards (soiled, slightly bowed). The text is in very good condition with a little light dust-soiling, a few small spots on the final two leaves, and soiling to the verso of the final leaf. With two woodcut illustrations and a fine woodcut ornament on the final leaf. No copies traced in North America. Hans Sachs' reworkings of three traditional fables, two by Aesop ("The shepherd flatters the wolf" and "The hares and the frogs"), and one ("the envious man and the miser") by the Latin fabulist Avianus. The first woodcut shows the devious wolf hiding in his cave. The second shows the miser and envious man having their eyes gouged out.… Read More

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page. A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin Louis, son of King Louis XV of France (1715-1774) and his royal consort María LeszczyÅ„ska (1703-1768). The Rococo painter Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1750), charged with staging the events, had the piazza "restored" to its ancient glory as the stadium of Domitian, the foundations of which are buried beneath the piazza and give the modern space its distinctive, oblong shape. The spectacle was captured by the Roman painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691-1765), who produced a painting of the Piazza in its glory, of which two copies exist. One is in the Louvre, the other in the… Read More

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. 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 slim worm-trail in blank margin of a handful of gatherings, Q4 with small rust spot, creasing to lower margin and in gutter to closing three gatherings, last gathering separating in gutter revealing sliver of manuscript binder's waste. A splendidly illustrated record of the triumphal entries of the newlyweds Albrecht VII, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Brabant (1559-1621), and Sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands; and his bride Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain (1566-1633) into Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Valenciennes in 1599. Profusely illustrated. With an elaborately engraved… Read More

Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed "Mattheus Greuter excudit".) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case in all copies I have examined. Manuscript foliation at head of first leaf. With the combined woodcut arms of Cosimo II and Maria Magdalena. Small woodcut of the Laocoön on leaf B4. Extremely rare. 1 copy traced in North America (Getty). First edition of these verses composed for a banquet, held in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on 19 October 1608, celebrating the wedding of Cosimo II de' Medici (1590-1621) and Maria Magdalena, Archduchess of Austria (1589-1631). The songs are sung by the Nymph of the Arno, possibly the singer, dressed as a nymph, who sat upon a giant conch shell at the left-hand side of the dais -upon which… Read More

Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition. An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30 Oct. 1723). The ceremonies took place in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence on 16 May 1724.The volume offers us a comprehensive and minutely detailed description of the funeral honors and the decorations that had transformed the church of San Lorenzo. Chief among these was the catafalque built by the architect Alessandro Galilei. The engraving of the large panel is the work of Vincenzo Franceschini, after Galilei's design. The second part of the work contains the funeral oration, delivered by Andrea Alamanni. To the façade of the church, draped with black damask, were affixed three large, inscribed plaques,… Read More

Cambridge: ¶ Printed by the Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with:] Fletcher, Giles (1585/6-1623) Christs victorie and triumph in heaven and earth, over and after death. The second edition. Cambridge: printed [by Thomas and John Buck] for Francis Green, 1632 [Bound with:] Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650) Locustae, vel Pietas Iesuitica. Per Phineam Fletcher Collegii Regalis Cantabrigiae [Second title page:] The Locusts, or Appollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher of Kings Colledge in Cambridge. [Cambridge]: Apud Thomam & Ioannem Bucke, celeberrimae Academiae typographos, Ann. Dom. MDCXXVII. [1627] $5,800 Quarto: 18.3 x 1.3 cm. Three books bound as one: I. (Purple Island): [16], 181, [7], 96, 101-130, [2] p. Collation: ¶4 (-blank ¶1), ¶¶4, A-Z4, (with blank Z4 present), [chi]2 (- blank chi2), A-L4, M4, O-R4 (lvs. M3-4 mis-signed N1-2). II. (Christs Victorie): [16], 84 p. Collation: A4 (A1 blank but for device), ¶4, A-K4, L2. III. (The Locusts): [8], 100 p.… Read More

Venice: Giovann' Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546. SECOND EDITION (1st 1527, also by the Sabio brothers.) For this second edition, some explanatory notes have been added to the political sonnet "Europa mia, quando fia mai che l'una", from which offending verses had been omitted in the first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light foxing). On the title page (and repeated on ll. D1r and M1r) is the woodcut emblem of the author with the initials M.L.T.F. ("Merlino Limerno Teofilo Folengo"), the initials FE for Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, and GO, which stand for Francesco Grifalcone, a friend of the author, and for Camillo Orsini, captain of the Republic of Venice and Folengo's patron. The book is dedicated to all… Read More

London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, 1633. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th century half calf and marbled boards (leather scraped at corners and spine, light wear at lower edges.), spine with title and date tooled in gold. Contents foxed and spotted, some minor stains, outer margin of H4 and I3 trimmed with some minor loss to the ends of the last two lines and the catchword on H4 recto, and the two-line stage direction at the bottom of I3 recto. With an 18th century ink inscription on the title, reading "written by John Ford." With the paper label of James Stevens Cox, (1910-1997), bookseller, publisher, writer, archaeologist, historian, and hairdresser. First edition of John Ford's shocking tragedy dramatizing the incestuous relationship between brother and sister. "The play's open treatment of the subject of incest made it one of the most controversial works in English literature." (Logan & Smith 128) "John Ford never met a character he didn't want to kill:… Read More