Search Results: Medieval from Cole & Contreras

Paris: Dumoulin, 1877. ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL FRENCH DRAMATIC WORKS (12th century), here printed with the "Quinze signes du jugement", a contemporary poem about the signs of the coming Apocalypse. 3, XII, 188 pp. EDITION LIMITED TO 220 COPIES, ALL PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER. A presentation copy from the editor to Xavier Barbier de Montault (1830-1901), scholar of all things Christian, with his bookplate and signed inscription. 4to. Attractively bound in quarter calf and marbled boards. Original wraps bound in. Vicaire VI, 316. Very scarce.

Paris: Firmin Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1877. First edition of this extremely important medieval French epic. Extensive notes throughout. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Large 8vo, original cloth. Binding near fine. Internally fine, uncut, and almost entirely unopened. Bossuat 164; Gautier 686.

Paris: Aubry, 1863. FIRST EDITION of this extremely important 13th century courtly romance. Edition limited to 350 copies. Printed on fine wove paper. Attractively bound in contemporary morocco and decorated boards. Near fine. Cole 1863/1; Bossuat 1232; Vicaire II, 899.

London: John Russell Smith, 1844. First and only edition of this imortant collection of short medieval narrative poems in French, English, and Latin, which are printed here for the first time. Among the three French fabliaux is "Le meunier et deus Clers" ("The Miller and Two Clerks") which was an important source for Chaucer. Edition limited to 250 copies. 8vo. Bound in recent attractive cloth. Half-title and errata leaf somewhat discolored (surely because of contact with inferior materials in a previous binding), else fine and bright. Very rare outside institutional collections.

Berlin: Königliche Akademie / Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1846-1852. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this important Middle High German text, wtih an offprint of the continuation published several years later in Philologische und historische Abhandlungen. 123 + 16 pp. THE LAST WORK EDITED BY WILHELM GRIMM. Printed with huge margins on fine wove paper. Large 4to. Main volume bound in recent marbled boards. Continuation in wraps. A bit of light foxing, a few scholarly annotations in red and blue pencil. ELSE UNCUT AND CLEAN. A major philological landmark, and very rare.

Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF), 1931-1933. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this important 14th-century Middle French prose romance. Includes (also in first edition) the fragments of the 13th-century Old French poem on which the prose work is based. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut and unopened. Bindings lightly worn. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 4100.

Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF) / Firmin-Didot, 1875. FIRST EDITION of this important Old French romance. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. Binding lightly worn. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 1288.

Bruxelles (Brussels): Mathieu Closson, 1874. FIRST EDITION of this important chanson de geste. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. 4to. Original wraps. Entirely uncut and unopened. FINE AND BRIGHT. Cole 1874/3; Gautier 998; Bossuat 269.

Paris: Hachette, 1843 and Flot, 1847 (reprint). Two volumes in one, complete. The catalogue of the private library of Viollet le Duc (father of the architect), compiled by the collector himself. Still the best bibliography of French poetry, fiction, and songs composed from the middle ages until 1700. Hundreds of items thoroughly described. Thick 8vo. Publisher's buckram. Fine and bright.

Paris: J. Techener, 1861. The auction catalogue of the library left by Louis-Jean-Monmerqué at the time of his death. XX, 458 pp. plus an engraved portait of Monmerque. 4229 lots. Monmerque was among the most erudite scholars of his generation, a specialist in the middle ages, and a distinguished bibliophile (a founding member of the Societe des Bibliophiles Francais). Printed on good wove paper. Large 8vo. Original wraps. Wraps somewhat worn and stained, internally clean.

Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1912. First edition of the poems of Gautier de Dargies, an early thirteenth-century poet. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth. Uncut and unopened. About fine. Bossuat 2341.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. A scholarly edition, with textual variants and music. Inscribed and signed by the editor for Harvard scholar Jules Brody. 4to, publisher's cloth. Near fine.

Madrid: Don Antonio de Sancha, 1779-1790. Four volumes. A COMPLETE SET, ON SPECIAL PAPER, OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATION OF SPANISH MEDIEVAL TEXTS. Comprises, IN FIRST EDITION, (I) the Poema del Cid, (II) the complete works of Berceo, (III) the Poem of Alejandro Magno, and (IV) the Arcipreste de Hita's Libro de buen amor (this fourth volume is almost always missing.) This is A SPECIAL SET, PRINTED ON THICK PAPER. This is furthermore AN ASSOCIATION COPY, from the library of DANIEL DEVOTO AND MARIA BEATRIZ DEL VALLE-INCLAN (their stamp on rear endpapers). Devoto (1916-2001) was an important intellectual figure who counted among his close friends many of the great literary figures of 20th-century Spain, France, and Latin America. He wrote many books and articles, some of which concern the texts which appear in the present publication. COMPLETE WITH ALL HALF-TITLES. 8vos. ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN SPANISH CALF. Tiny traces of wear to bindings, else an EXCELLENT SET. In the introduction to his… Read More

Barcelona: Biblioteca Catalana / Miquel Rius, 1932. First critical edition of this important medieval Catalan romance of chivalry long suspected of perhaps being a 19th-century forgery. XLIV, 584 pp. + five extremely fine double-page facsimiles. Printed on fine Guarro laid paper. Facsimiles from the only surviving manuscript. Large 8vo, publisher's goldstamped cloth. ENTIRELY UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. LIKE NEW, IN PERFECT CONDITION.

Barcelona: Real Academia de Buenas Letras, 1901. First edition of this 15th-century romance of chivalry, one of the masterpieces of Catalan literature. 8vo. Attractively bound in half vellum and marbled boards by Subirana (signed). Spine gilt in six compartments, leather spine label. First quire (8 leaves) printed on cheaper paper (as always). Else near fine. Rare. Palau 66426.

Brunswyk (Braunschweig, Brunswick), drukked im Forstliken Weisenhuse (Waisenhausbuchhandlung), 1826. First complete edition of this 13th-century Low Saxon chronicle. XVI, 336 pp. Scheller filled the lacunae in the manuscript by translating a 15th-century translation of the chronicle back into Plattdeutsch, earning him the mockery of leading philologists. Interestingly, many of the quires are PRINTED ON BLUISH LAID PAPER. 8vo. Bound in contemporary marbled boards. A bit of wear to binding, but structurally solid. Internally very clean. Very scarce.

Trieste: Tipografia del Lloyd Austriaco, 1865. First and only edition of this scarce bibliographical work dedicated to Dante. The author, Agostino Palesa, published these notes, based on his admirable collection of rare and important editions of the works of Dante, on the occasion of the sixth centary of the poet's birth. Printed on good wove paper. Small 4to, original wraps. Light wear to spine, else about fine. Uncut and unopened. Very scarce.

Wiesbaden: F. A. Brockhaus, 1972. The classic critical edition. 8vo, publisher's cloth. About fine.

Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1880. First edition of this important Provencal chanson de geste, found in a unique manuscript in the Didot collection. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. One of 100 large-paper copies beautifully printed on fine Whatman wove paper. This copy was printed for Alfred Didot. Large 8vo, quarter morocco over decorated boards, all edges beautifully marbled. One corner of upper board scraped, spine sunned. Else fine. Gautier 1200.

Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1880. First edition of this important Provencal chanson de geste. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth. Uncut. Very light wear to binding, else fine. Gautier 1200.