Search Results: Authors starting with G from Liber Antiquus

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from text in Vol. I, and another in Vol. II (in "Il Saggiatore"); light stains to margins of four lvs. (F2, Q2, T2 and V2) in the "Mechanica"; a few instances of light foxing; a few ink spots to one leaf; occ. minor blemishes. Complete with the requisite number of parts, half-titles and the one added plate. With an engraved frontispiece by Stefano della Bella and an engraved portrait of Galileo by Francesco Villamena. The text is illustrated with astronomical and mathematical woodcuts; those in the "Sidereus Nuncius" showing the moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo and his iconic images of the moon as… Read More

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the end of the volume. FIRST EDITION of Giraldi's most important contribution to literary criticism and his most lasting influence on dramatic theory and practice. Almost all the main issues in Renaissance dramatic criticism are examined somewhere in his various works and prefaces. Giraldi rejected the Greek arrangement of plays into prologue, episodes, and choral odes and returned to the five acts of the Roman theatre. He reasoned that a good play should first present the argument, direct the argument toward its end, present obstacles to its resolution, offer a means of removing the obstacles, and end with a resolution, all… Read More

Rome: Matteo Gregorio de Rossi, 1692. FIRST STATE (of 2). Carlo Losi printed a second issue in 1773. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent, bright copy with the image in very sharp impression. Light soiling to the blank margins, far from the plate mark. A splendid view of Ponte and Castel Sant' Angelo with the Girandola. The print shows Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome, decorated with sculptures of the angels designed by Bernini, each holding an Instrument of the Passion of Christ. Most of the statues were completed in 1669 when Pope Clement IX, who had given Bernini the commission, died. The Angel with the Cross, considered the masterpiece of the master stone-carver Ercole Ferrata, was not completed until 1670; in the following year the bridge was formally inaugurated. The composition of this print is based on an earlier (1671) print by Falda, which lacked the fireworks display, issued to commemorate the inauguration of the bridge. The scene in De Rossi's print shows very clearly minute details such as the… Read More

London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1699. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt's "De l'art de la verrerie". Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus. The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret had produced his own English (unillustrated) translation of Neri's work in 1662. Among Blancourt's notable contributions to the text are a chapter on crystal, glass and metal mirrors; and an appendix on a secret technique for making glass eyes look "Very Natural". "Antonio Neri's 'L'Arte Vetraria' as the first printed book… Read More

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532. SECOND EDITION (1st ed. 1483). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John Man, John Smyth and Edward Hertford, and a few 16th c. annotations; Ex libris John William Cole and W.R. Jeudwine, sold in the latter's sale as lot 71 on 18 September 1984; with bookplates. A very nice, tall copy with minor scattered stains or light soiling. Small hole and repaired on blank margin of title, a tear on the same leaf entering the text (without loss) also mended; two clean marginal tears not affecting the text (lvs. K3, N2), a little worming in the gutter from gatherings M-Q, not affecting the text. Along with works of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl poet,… Read More

[Geneva:]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, [for Ulrich Fugger], 1566. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in seventeenth-century limp vellum. A fine copy, profusely annotated, with scattered instances of damp-staining in the lower margin, and a small piece of the blank margin of leaf y2 snipped away; leaves z7 & 8 with a small marginal paper flaws. Printed in Claude Garamond's Greek type ('grecs du roi'). The extensive translations and annotations are in two different hands, one sixteenth- and the other eighteenth-century. The earlier ones were made by a certain "P (?) Robertus"; the later ones by the poet Johannes Nicolaus Goetzius (1721-1781). On the pastedown is the name of a third owner, Th. Fritzsche (dated 1872), who later added quotations from a study on the Greek Anthology by Georg Finster, published 1876. THE TRANSLATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS: 1. The first annotator identifies himself on the title-page: "Verus huius libri possessor P(?) Robertus" and "Emptus genevae 16 calendas Augusti: Anno a Christo nato.… Read More