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Historia septem sapientum Rome.Cologne, Johann Koelhoff the Elder, of Lübeck, (before 6 November) 1490. 4to (200 x 128 mm), 34-37 lines, gothic type, rubricated in red. Illustrated with a large armorial woodcut printer’s device at the end and 23 full-page woodcuts, with two of the woodcuts repeated several times. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled full calf over wooden boards. Remains of clasps. Endpapers from a rubricated incunabular edition of the Biblia cum glossa ordinaria.

[SINDBAD - SEVEN SAGES]. · 1475 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€125,000.00 ($137,775.88 | £104,268.12 | ¥22,003,656)

[50] ff. [a–g6, H8].Very rare Cologne edition of “The Seven Sages of Rome”, a popular mediaeval cycle of stories about wise counsellors and wicked women which has its ultimate roots in the Middle East, where it is usually known as “The Book of Sindbad”. This Latin edition (the s…

The Oxford book of villains

Mortimer, John. · 1992 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€9.50 ($10.47 | £7.92 | ¥1,672)

Oxford University Press 1992 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 431pp., 16.5x24cm., in very good condition (dustjacket with light traces of use). ISBN 9780192141958. "The world may be short of many things," writes John Mortimer in the introduction to this marvelous volume, …

Thomas More, Dialogue du reconfort,

N/A; · 2011 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€71.50 ($78.81 | £59.64 | ¥12,586)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Paperback, 585 p., 12,5 x 19. ISBN 9782503531137. Thomas More s'exerca au dialogue en traduisant du grec ceux de Lucien, publies a Paris des 1506 dans un recueil ou il a Erasme pour emule. Il frequenta evidemment ceux de Platon, de Ciceron, et de saint Gr…

Il disprezzo del mondo opera bellissima & utile e necessaria a cadauno Christiano. Novamente di Latino in volgar tradotta per Pietro Lauro Modonese. Con la tavola de tuute le materie e capitoli che sono ne lopera[!].Venice, Comin de Trino di Monferrato, 1543. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, which is repeated at the end, and 12 decorated woodcut initials. Modern gold tooled half red morocco.

INNOCENT III, Pope, and Pietro LAURO. · 1472 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

29, [1], [2 blank] ll.Extremely rare first and only edition of Lauro's Italian translation of De miseria condicionis humanae (on the wretchedness of the human condition), also known as Liber de contemptu mundi, a very popular and influential 12th-century religious text on asceti…

William Caxton: A Biography

PAINTER, GEORGE D. · 1977 · Round Table Books, LLC

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. 0399118888. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0399118888. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on brown panel on spine, gold endpapers. Illustrated with 15 plates and reproductions. Includes Notes on the Illustrations…

Bell&Apos;S Edition the Poets of Great Britain

Various · 1777 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

Edinburgh, At the Apollo Press, 1777-78. First edition. Leather. A collection of twelve volumes from the original eighteenth century Bell's edition of the Poets of Great Britain, including the works of Dryden, Swift, Butler, Gay, and Parnell. A collection of twelve volumes …

Die tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark in deutscher Sprache. Neu übersetzt und eingerichtet von Gerhart Hauptmann, begleitet von Auszügen, die den Geschichten von Saxo Grammaticus und François de Belleforest und der Hystorie of Hamblet entnommen sind. Mit Vortitel in Holzschnitt von Eric Gill und 75 Original-Holzschnitten von Edward Gordon Craig. First edition.

[Cranach-Presse]. Shakespeare, William, Craig, Edward Gordon (illustrator). · 1928 · Fahrenheit 451

€16,500.00 ($18,186.42 | £13,763.39 | ¥2,904,483)

Weimar, Cranach Presse, 1928 (copyright date 1929), (5 blank lvs.),202,(2),(5 blank lvs.) pag., illustrated throughout with woodengravings in the text by Edward Gordon Craig printed in different shades of black, half-title designed and cut by Eric Gill, printed in black and red…

Réécritures et adaptations de l'Ovide moralisé (XIVe-XVIIe siècle)

Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Marylène Possamai-Pérez (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 306 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 tables b/w., Language(s):French, English. ISBN 9782503590240. Summary L'Ovide moralisé a joué un rôle significatif pour la connaissance des mythes antiques et la création de nouvelles ?uvres littéraires qu…

Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers. Medieval Visions and their Legacies. Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman

Steven Rozenski, Joshua Byron Smith, Claire M. Waters (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 420 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 18 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599748. Summary The conjunction of medieval religious studies and gender studies in the past several decades has produced not only nuanced attention to medieval…

Wörter und Regeln Die Natur der Sprache Steven Pinker Linguistik Sprachforscher Sprachinstinkt Fachvokabular linguistische Theorien Linguistik Sprachforscher Sprachinstinkt Fachvokabular linguistisch Theorie linguistisches Fachbuch

Steven Pinker · 2000 · LLU Buchservice

€64.90 ($71.53 | £54.14 | ¥11,424)

, Spektrum-Akademischer Vlg, 2000. 478, 21,6 x 13,9 x 3,7 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Dies ist ein linguistisches Fachbuch mit allem Drum und Dranmit Fachvokabular und einer neuen, komplexen Theorie. Das Themaunregelmässige Verben. Das klingt nach trockener und schwieriger Fachle…

Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV. Expurgati, & explanati. Cum appendice de Diis, & Heroibus Poeticis. Auctore Josepho Juvencio e Societate Jesu.

OVIDIUS. · 1715 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€190.00 ($209.42 | £158.49 | ¥33,446)

Venice (Venetiis), Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1715. 12mo. (VI),640,(13 index),(1 blank). Calf 15.5 cm 'Kind of prize copy?' (Ref: Not in Schweiger, though he mentions other editions; cf. Graesse 5,76; cf. Ebert 15445) (Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Woodcut ornament on…

Sammlung von 124 Bänden (in 133 Büchern)

(Insel Taschenbuch Reihe) · 2001 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Insel Verlag - DAS FOTO ZEIGT NUR EINEN TEIL DES KONVOLUTS!!!/gute Exemplare/enthalten: George Sand: Lucrezia Floriani/Theodor Fontane. Briefe an Georg Friedlaender/Hans Blumenberg: Vor allem Fontane/Peter Demetz: Alt-Prager Geschichten/Julius Meier-Graefe: Vincent van Gogh/Ho…

P. Papinii Statii Opera ex recensione et cum notis I. Frederici Gronovii.

STATIUS. · 1653 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Amsterdam (Amsterodami)., Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, Sumptibus Societatis, 1653. 16mo. (VIII),424 p. Overlapping vellum 12 cm (Ref: This edition is 'the most significant stage in the evolution of the printed text of the Thebaid before the late nineteenth century.' (Berlincourt, …

A Collection from the Early English Text Society

Various; Fredrick J. Furnivall; Rev Walter W. Skeat et al [ed.] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London , N. Trubner and Co. 1865-1893. Cloth. A terrific collection of uniformly bound early English texts, published for the Early English Text Society. An impressive collection of twenty-two volumes from the Early English Text Society, a society founded in 1864 dedicated to th…

Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. (Edited by) Joach. Camerarius.

MACROBIUS. · 1535 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

Basel (Basileae), Ex officina Ioan. Hervagii, 1535. Cum privilegio Caesaris ad quinquennium. Folio. (XL),334,2 p. Vellum 30 cm (Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2,586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue, schätzbare Recension von Joach. Camerar…

P. Papinii Statii Opera ex recensione et cum notis I. Frederici Gronovii.

STATIUS. · 1653 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€390.00 ($429.86 | £325.32 | ¥68,651)

Amsterdam (Amsterodami)., Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, 1653. 16mo. (VIII),424 p. Vellum 12 cm (Ref: This edition is 'the most significant stage in the evolution of the printed text of the Thebaid before the late nineteenth century.' (Berlincourt, Classical quarterly, 2016, 66 (1),…

Le Premier [-Second, -Tiers, -Quart] Volume de Froissart. Des Croniques de France, Dangleterre, Descoce. Despaigne, de Bretaigne, de Gascongne, de Flandres. Et Leiux Circunnoisins. [the Seminal First Hand Study of the Hundred Years' War by Jean Froissart]. First Editions

Froissart, Jean (c.1333-1337 - c.1400-1405) · 1517 · Wittenborn Art Books

$11,000.00 (€9,979.98 | £8,324.75 | ¥1,756,768)

Paris: Vol. I pour Antoine Vérard, i.e. pour Germaine Guyart, veuve d'Antoine Vérard, [1517-1518] - Vol II , Michel Le Noir, July 15, 1505; and Vols. III & IV pour Guillaume Eustache, 1513-1514. 4 vols. bound in 2. Vols. I & II in 18th Century marbled calf, 19 x 26cm.; Vols, III…

Genius Die hundert bedeutendsten Autoren der Weltliteratur

Harold Bloom (Autor), Yvonne Badal (Übersetzer) · 2004 · LLU Buchservice

€53.99 ($59.51 | £45.04 | ¥9,504)

, Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 2004. 1088, 23 x 15,8 x 5,6 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Harold Bloom, streitbarer Star der amerikanischen Literaturkritik und international anerkannter Wissenschaftler mit Bestsellerqualitäten, präsentiert seine 100 grössten Schriftsteller aus 2500 Jahren…