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A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE GREAT BIBLIOPHILE HORACE DE LANDAU.
PROUST, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les jours. Illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire. Preface d'Anatole France. Quatre pieces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn.
Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896.
FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [2], X, 271 pp., [2]; with 14 plates out of the text and several illustrations in the text. Landau's bookplate. Beautiful dedication on the initial blank by Proust to Baron Landau: "A Monsieur Horace de Landau, comme un hommage de ma respecteuse, admirative et reconnaisante amitié Marcel Proust". Contemporary binding in half purple morocco, publisher's printed wrappers preserved. Pasteboard slipcase. Fine copy.
Horace de Landau was an important 19th century banker and a great collector and bibliophile. Part of his famous library was donated to the city of Florence, the other was auctioned by Hoepli in 1945.
The work is a collection of poems and prose on the world of the Parisian salons and cultural… Read More

RARE FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF PONTANO'S LOVE POETRYFIRST ALDINE EDITON. 8vo, ff. 170 [i.e.164], [2] (Renouard: "lacune de huit [feuillets] après le fol. 88"; leaves 144 and 165 are blank). Italic letter, a little Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters, Aldus' device on t-p and verso of final leaf. Imprint and register on recto of second-to-last sheet. A few ms. annotations, mainly on title. Some wear at headcap. An attractive crisp and clean copy bound in 18th-century mottled brown leather, gilt-tooled spine. Original endpapers, a.e.r.Dedicated to Antonio Mocenigo. Francesco D'Asola's preface includes a wonderful praise of Pontano's poetry. The man of letters was very much appreciated by the dedicatee, who kept Pontano's portrait in his private library. D'Asola also tells that the dedicatee's father, Aloisio, who served the Republic as ambassador, brought an old manuscript of Pliny's letters from France to Venice, where the editor and his kin Aldus amended and curated the text for… Read More

RARE EDITION, THE SECOND IN VERNACULAR ITALIAN, IN IMITATION OF THE ALDINES

8vo, ff. [128], with 2 final blanks. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Register at colophon and imprint within double-fillet border at end. Very light water staining at upper corner of a few central gatherings. Attractive contemporary limp vellum. An excellent copy with original endpapers and remains of ties.
Rare second edition of Veronese humanist Giorgio Sommariva's translation of Juvenal's satires, which were first published in vernacular Italian in 1480 in Treviso. The text is sided by several printed maniculae. Early ms. title on foot fore-edge.
A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), n. 82; EDIT16 CNCE 28202.