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Vita di Esopo Frigio ... Alquale di nuovo sono aggiunti le favole del medesimo Esopo, con molte altre d'alcuni elevati ingegni, ascendentia all somma di 400.Trevigi, Girolamo Righettini, 1643. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables, including some repeats. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

AESOP. (Giulio LANDI, translator). · 1498 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.29 | £1,626.84 | ¥343,105)

413, [19], [5 blank] pp.Rare edition of the Italian translation by the philosopher Giulio Landi (1498-1579) of Aesop's fables and the Life of Aesop, including no less than 400 animal fables, some collected from other sources. The fables are illustrated with numerous small anonym…

Joconde ou les coureurs d'aventures.Including: [ALMANAC]. Petit souvenir des dames.Paris, chez Janet, [1815]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 16mo. With an engraved title for both parts, and 6 fine stipple-engraved plates by Massol after designs by Sébastian Le Roy, protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled dark red paper, imitating straight-grained morocco, with a vine on the spine and an ornamental border on both boards, gilt edges. Housed in a matching slipcase.

[ALMANAC]. · 1775 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

48, [36] pp.Beautiful almanac for ladies, here published for the first time, inspired by the great success of the Paris opéra comique of the same name, written by Nicolas Isouard (1775-1818). Consequently, Joconde contains a collection of the most popular songs from the musical,…

Voorlooper. Over Adriani Smoutii schriftuerlyck jae, dienende tot openinge ende recht verstandt van synen toe-eyghen-brief aen de E.M. Heeren Staten, aengaende de questie: of de vyf verschillighe poincten de salicheyt raecken of niet. Ghestelt door eenen lief-hebber der waerheyt, tot dienste van alle ghetrouwe ondersaten ende vreed-lievende menschen hier te lande.Rotterdam, Matijs Bastiaensz., [1613]. 4to. Disbound.

[SMOUT, Adriaan Joriszoon (reply to)]. · 1580 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

[32] pp.First and only edition of an anonymous pamphlet criticizing religious matters as advocated by the Remonstrants, published in answer to a pamphlet by the ultra-orthodox minister Adriaan Joriszoon Smout (1580-1646). Smout had published his pamphlet, entitled Schriftverlic …

Elogio del cavaliere Isacco Newton.[Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1778].With:(2) FRISI, Paolo. Elogio del signor D'Alembert.Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1786.(3) FRISI, Paolo. Elogi di Galileo Galilei e di Bonaventura Cavalieri.Milan, Guiseppe Galeazzi, 1778. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment.

FRISI, Paolo. · 1728 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

132; 81, [1 blank]; 107, [5], 53, [1] pp.Four eulogies, written in Italian by the astronomer and mathematician Paolo Frisi (1728-1784), paying respects to Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1…

Dictionnaire Japonais-Français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie du Japon. Suivi de 17 appendices sur les empereurs, shogun, nengo, sectes bouddhistes, provinces, départements, mesures, etc.Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 8vo. With an engraved printer's device on the title page, engraved tailpieces and Japanese characters. Contemporary blind-tooled glazed purple calico over boards, title in gold on spine.

PAPINOT, Edmond. · 1860 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.29 | £1,626.84 | ¥343,105)

VII, 297 pp.First edition of a French-Japanese dictionary written by Edmond Papinot (b. 1860), an apostolic missionary. The goal of Papinot's work was to give summary information on the principal names that can be found in the history and geography of Japan. He includes the name…

Album hipponae sive hippodromi leges. Ad Christianissimum et invictissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIV deo-datum.Caen, Claudius Le Blanc, 1662. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges.

SAVARY, Jacques. (= Jacques TIMENT). · 1607 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,250.00 ($4,684.35 | £3,545.67 | ¥747,792)

[6], 2, 72 pp.First edition of a very rare Latin poem presenting the rules of tournaments and carrousels. The technical terms of hunting and riding are explained in the margins. Jacques Savary (Caen 1607-1670), actually called Jacques Timent, published several Latin poems on dif…

Cardiomorphoseos sive ex corde desumpta emblemata sacra. Verona, superiorum permissu, 1645. 4to. With engraved allegorical title-page (signed ''G.G.'' below right) showing King David and Saint Paul holding a heart, with the arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, at the foot, 101 engraved emblems in text, each on the theme of the heart, with a letterpress title in any of about 7 different woodcut panels, and a letterpress explanation below, continuing onto the verso. Each is printed from an oval plate (10.5 x 8 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

PONA, Francesco. · 1594 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,950.00 ($9,864.68 | £7,466.76 | ¥1,574,762)

[8], 208 pp.First edition of a religious emblem book in Latin, built around the theme of the heart, written by the Marinist poet, writer, doctor and philosopher Francisco Pona (1594-1654). The illustrations, largely etched and unsigned, are slightly primitive in execution, but h…

Principes de cosmographie, tirez d'un manuscrit de Viette, & traduits en François. Corrigées et augmentées.Paris, Jean Behourt, 1647. 12mo. With 2 woodcut illustrations in the text (a geocentric universe and a simple geometric figure). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

VIÈTE, François. · 1540 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€11,500.00 ($12,675.29 | £9,594.16 | ¥2,023,437)

[8], "72" [=172] pp.Third edition of one of the first scientific works of the greatest French mathematician of the 16th century, François Viète (1540-1603). Viète graduated in 1560 from the University of Poitiers with a law degree. "In 1564, Viète accepted a position in the hous…

Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût.Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. With an engraved title-page and 37 numbered engraved plates showing numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs, and tables. 19th-century gold-stamped artificial green leather, marbled paper over boards, blue sprinkled edges.

GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. · 1763 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.50 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,878)

[38] leaves.First Italian editon of a beautiful and interesting work containing engraved designs for all sorts of ornaments used in garden decoration. Johann Gottfried Grohmann (1763-1805) was a German engraver and artexpert. He also published several theoretical works on archit…

In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey. Edted by Warren Montag. Translated by Ted Stolze.

MACHEREY, PIERRE · 1998 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€30.52 ($33.64 | £25.46 | ¥5,370)

London, Verso, 1998. X,197 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. English edition. Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical wri…

Archetypi Homiliarvm in Apocalypsin S. Iohannis, Heinrichi Bvllingeri, Ministri Ecclesiae Tigurinae. Accessit ejusdem Sylvvla Homiliarvm Festalium et selectiorum aliarum, de praecipuis doctrinae Christianae cap. Ex Ejvs Avtographo in vnum corpus redacti, & Indice aucti, operâ ac studio Heinrichi Bvllingeri, Nep. Ecclesiae ejusdem Ministri. WITH: Archetypi Homiliarvm festarum Dn. Rodolhi Gvaltheri, Antistitis quondam Ecclesiae Tig. Adjecta est Sylvula Homiliarvm in Avgvralium, nunquam antehac editarum, ejusd. Auctoris. Omnia Ex autographis ipsius vulgata a Casp. VVasero, Tig.

BULLINGER, HEINRICH|Gwalther, Rudolf · 1609 · Antiquariaat de Roo (NVvA)

€1,650.00 ($1,818.63 | £1,376.55 | ¥290,319)

Zürich, Johannes Wolphius 1609/1612 2 works in 1 binding, (engraved titlepage, 11) 186 (6), (engraved titlepage, 3), (4) 96, 142 (2) folia. Contemporary folding Vellum, 8° (Occasionally some browning. The titlepage and prelims of the second work are erroneously bound in front of…

BOUND FOR GLORY

GUTHRIE, Woody · 1943 · Charles Agvent

$25,000.00 (€22,681.93 | £18,922.97 | ¥3,990,909)

New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. First Edition. Autobiography and first book by one of our greatest songwriters, author of this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." This title served as the basis for the Hal Ashby film starring David Carradine. Thi…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

SHERMAN, General William Tecumseh · 241879 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

Washington DC. A six-page letter on both sides of three lined Headquarters Army of the United States letterhead (5" x 8") to Colonel L. B. Church. Sherman expresses his well wishes as Col. Church recovers from an illness, noting that "I know that in conveying to you this note of…

CROSS CREEK

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan · 1942 · Charles Agvent

$1,562.50 (€1,417.62 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,432)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. In the first issue dustwrapper. Illustrations by Edward Shenton. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Rawlings on the front blan…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Thomas Bailey Aldrich

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1871 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

Hartford. A fine two-page handwritten letter on one side of two 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" sheets of paper SIGNED "Mark" to author Thomas Bailey Aldrich letting him know that he must cancel their plans for a visit by Aldrich and his wife to them due to Mrs. Clemens's health, going into det…

THE IRIS: AN ILLUMINATED SOUVENIR FOR MDCCCLII (1852)

[EASTMAN, Mary & Seth] HART, John (editor) · 1852 · Charles Agvent

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

Philadelphia. Lippincott, Grambo & Co.. First Edition. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in the original full embossed burgundy morocco leather with a gilt decorative figure in the center of both covers. Neatly rebacked at a recent date with a new leather spine. Most notable for th…

MY TRIP ABROAD

CHAPLIN, Charles (CHAPLIN, Charlie) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. A very early, if not first, printing with no date on the title page and the code "B-W" on the copyright page indicating publication in February 1922. Chaplin's account of what Europe did to the world's most popular movie actor…

COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM

FROST, Robert · 0 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

New York. Halcyon House. First Edition. First Printing of the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction of the Holt edition published a month earlier but without the introduction. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Cornelius Weygandt" on the front endpaper with the f…

THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM

FROST, Robert · 0 · Charles Agvent

$8,125.00 (€7,371.63 | £6,149.96 | ¥1,297,045)

New York. Modern Library. Reprint of this popular collection which features Frost's essay on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an introduction. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED to minor poet and folklorist Addison Barker with the complete eight-line poem "Th…

THE GREEN WALL

WRIGHT, James · 1957 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

New Haven. Yale University Press. First Edition. Poet's very scarce first book, part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. This copy belonged to Wright's wife, Liberty, with her SIGNATURE at the top of the front free endpaper and below that a …