Search Results: Titles starting with L from Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB

DALÍ, Salvador, and Tristan CORBIÈRE. Les Amours Jaunes.
Paris, Éditions Pierre Belfond, 1974.

Folio. 398 x 300 x 24mm. (15 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 1in.); Plates 298 x 212mm. (11 3/4 x 8 3/8in.).
Sheets 380 x 280mm. (15 x 11in.). 10 etchings and drypoint with extensive additions in
gold paint contained in red linen covered clam-shaped portfolio with gilt letters. The
complete set of ten drypoint etchings with gilding, hors-texte, on Arches wove paper, with
the title page and justification, numbered 275 on the justification in pencil, each drypoint
signed and numbered 275/300 in pencil (there was also an edition of 200 in Roman
numerals on Japan); the full sheets, loose (as issued), without the text, together with a
certificate from the publisher, contained within a red fabric slipcase, with gold lettering
on the front cover. Glassine guards. Excellent condition.
Les Amours Jaunes is the only collection of poems by Tristan Corbière (1845-1875), an
author who died young and unknown. He was rediscovered by… Read More

A VERY INTRIGUING LITTLE BOOK OF THE UTMOST RARITYFIRST and ONLY edition. 12mo, 96 pp., title within a charming woodcut border. Several headpieces. Contemporary calf with gilt decorations to spine, skilfully restored. An excellent copy.This anonymous collection of heroical, amorous and frivolous poems is a mystery. It has no imprint information, so no place, no name nor date stated. The title-page tells us just "printed in that year", which seems a joke. The only bibliographical work mentioning it is Lachèvre's Bibliographie des recueils collectifs de poésies publiés de 1597 a 1700 (Paris, 1905), in the Supplement (Vol. 4, p. [22], Letter N). Not even Lachèvre managed to see this work in person as he stated in his comment to the work: "Nous n'avons pas été assez heureux pour mettre la main sur ce petit volume...". Lachèvre suggested that the book might have been published "vers 1675".The book is mentioned also in the third part of Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana (no. 1961, p. 149), the catalogue of… Read More

A UNIQUE COPY!!12mo. 2 vols: [2], 352; [4], 291, [1] pp., with 16 folding engraved plates bound horizontally taken from a 16th century edition. Bound in quarter red morocco and paper over pasteboards. Some light scratches and scuffing to the binding, else very good. Light age toning. Clean and crisp throughout.This curious copy of an early C19th edition of Ovid's Latin Metamorphoses with a French translation by J. G. Dubois Fontanelle, was cheaply printed in Paris by Duprat-Duverger and Delalain in 1806 in two 12mo volumes. It is "curious" because it contains a gorgeous folding engraved frontispiece and 15 other alike engraved plates bound horizontally at the beginning of each book of the Metamorphoses. After a careful investigation, we found out that all the other digitised copies of the same edition of this book, either do not have plates at all or they do, but the plates are totally different, being full-page, none folding and surely executed in a later style. Moreover, the initial plate is not… Read More

4to, ff. LVI. Paganini's curious Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Title within charming intricate white-on-black border, 5 woodcut vignettes and 5 initials, one of which criblé. Text in verse printed on centre of the pages, sided by two-column commentary by Bartolomeo Merula, printed side notes and occasional early ms. underscoring. C19th private-library stamp on t-p, torn bookplate on verso of flyleaf. Bound in 18th-century stiff vellum with calligraphic title written on front cover, spine with later stamped lettering. All edges sprinkled in red, overhang cover. A very good copy.The first edition of Ovid's classic appeared in 1494 and was multifariously reprinted. This fascinating edition, which includes also the companion work De remedio amoris, was printed by Alessandro Paganini, a rather mysterious printer who produced visually-intriguing imprints during the first half of the 16th century.The Ars amatoria ("Art of loving"), which is the title derived from the manuscript tradition, while the title… Read More