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RARE FIRST ITALIAN VERNACULAR TRANSLATION OF VEGETIUS'S DE RE MILITARI
FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, ff. [100], with a few little woodcuts in the text. Imprint from colophon. Woodcut historiated initials and capital spaces with guide-letters. Errata: p. [197]-[198]. Ms. annotation at foot of final leaf. Some initial and final light foxing. Generally clean and crisp. Contemporary limp vellum with ties. Early title handwritten at head of spine. Bookseller's label on upper pastedown (Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan). An excellent copy.
First edition of the Italian translation, unknown to Cockle, who records the 1525 edition only. Dedication to Federigo Gonzaga di Bozzolo by the translator Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi. Few secular works of Antiquity were as popular in the Middle Ages as Vegetius' De re militari, or Epitoma rei militaris, the broadest ancient manual of Roman warfare.
EDIT16 CNCE 37965.

EL SIGLO DE ORO: VEGA CARPIO, AMESCUA AND THEIR COLLEAGUES."TODAS [EDICIONES] SON RARAS Y JAMÁS LAS HEMOS VISTO EN VENTA" (PALAU). PALAU PROVIDES NO COLLATION SINCE HE NEVER CAME ACROSS A COPY OF THE WORK.ÁVILA, Francisco de (Ed.), Lope de VEGA CARPIO, Antonio MIRA DE AMESCUA et AL. Flor de las comedias de España de diferentes autores. Quinta parte.Barcelona, en casa Sebastian de Cormellas al Call, 1616.4to, ff. [2], 334. Double-column text. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and headpieces. Small chip at outer margin of leaf C3 with loss of a letter. Contemporary limp vellum, early calligraphic title to spine. Very fresh and clean throughout. An excellent copy of this rare work.The extremely rare fifth part of El Fénix de Los Ingenios's comedies; even though, in fact, the book contains a collection of comedies by a number of important Spanish authors and only one by Vega Carpio. El Fénix's comedies were printed in more than twenty parts throughout the first three decades of the 17th-century, from… Read More

"CETTE EDITION EST FORT BELLE" (BEUCHOT). THE RARE FIRST DRESDEN EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S WORKS IN A FINE BINDING WITH TWO PRESTIGIOUS PROVENANCES.
Large 8vo. 9 vols, 8 printed in 1748 and 1 in 1750 (A 10th supplementary volume was issued four years later, in 1754 – here not present and very rarely found to complete the series). First volume with frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Jean-Joseph Balechou after Maurice Quentin de La Tour's painting; 20 full-page plates (11 to the 1st, 5 to the 4th and 4 to the 5th volume) by Johann Martin Bernigeroth, some of which, according to Bengesco, were engraved after the illustrations of La Henriade (1728, 4to) and others after those of the collected and separate editions of Voltaire's Théâtre. 17 folding plates at the end of the 6th volume illustrating Voltaire's scientific works. 38 plates in total. Half-titles, titles in red and black, engraved vignettes on title-pages, numerous head- and tail-pieces. Bound in strictly contemporary sumptuous fauve… Read More