Search Results: Authors starting with A from Liber Antiquus

Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (small repairs to foot of the spine, re-cased, endpapers renewed.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled, small wormholes in first four lvs., a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf. Marginal hole (not affecting text) to leaf B3, margins of portrait leaf foxed and with light stain at foot. The volume was re-cased, probably to remove a second, slim work (judging by the size of the overlapping vellum fore-edges of the binding.) Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Augustin Erath (1648-1719), German Augustinian Canon, theologian, translator. The "Phonurgia" is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by Georg Andreas Wolfgang (1631-1716) after Felix Cheurier, an engraved title vignette, an engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold I by Wolfgang after Franz Herman, two engraved plates, seventeen… Read More

Venice: Aldus Manutius, August, 1502. FIRST ALDINE EDITION of Dante's "Commedia. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, ruled in red throughout, bound in early 19th-c. English burgundy morocco. The boards are tooled in blind and ruled with a single gilt filet. The spine is tooled in compartments in gilt and blind and lettered directly in gilt. With doublures and end-leaves of brown silk with gilt borders and corner-pieces. Edges of the text-block gilt; spine very lightly sunned, some minimal rubbing at extremities and minor marks to boards; engraved armorial bookplate of William Ewart Gladstone to front pastedown (see provenance note below). Recto of first and final leaf lightly soiled. First leaf lightly foxed and with a light stain, small light stain to margin of lvs. a5 and a6; a few other trivial blemishes. Very nice. This is the state with the Aldine anchor and dolphin device on the final leaf. Quires a-c were also completely re-set, the present copy having the headline 'INFERNO' on a2r, and 'INF' in… Read More

Mexico: por la Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1745. THIRD EDITION (1st ed. Madrid 1689; 2nd Mexico 1690.). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. vellum, possibly re-cased at an early date. A fine copy with light wear to corners and a few margins, and a few trivial blemishes. With a woodcut title border and decorative borders to the text leaves throughout; a few of the borders very lightly shaved. Type-set acrostic poem on penultimate leaf. With a 19th c. private ownership stamp (dated 1881) Pedro Escobar y Cano, possibly the Durango jurist of that name. A marvelous and highly unusual first person verse travelogue by a Mexican Franciscan priest, who relates his journey from Zacatecas to Rome in the year 1687. De Castro was commissioned to represent the province of Zacatecas in the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order that was to take place on June 5, 1688 in Rome. De Castro recounts his journey overland through Mexico, by ship through the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to Spain, overland… Read More

First and third works: Augsburg: Durch Johann Schultes, 1640 and 1641. Second work: Ulm: Durch Jonam Saurn, 1628. FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. Hardcover. Fine. A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's major architectural treatises. With 3 engraved frontispieces, printed titles in red and black, and a total of 89 folding plates of various sizes (the largest of them 370 x 300 mm.) showing residences, civic structures, palaces, churches, elaborate gardens and grottoes, pavilions, and theaters. All works with elaborate decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, German text in Gothic type throughout. The plates by various engravers, largely after Furttenbach himself. Exceptional copies, complete with all plates, the text and plates on the whole bright and crisp. Bound in contemporary full vellum (lightly soiled, minor wear to extremities) with a decorative title label (gilt-tooled with citron wash.) All plates are folding, having been tipped in on guards at the time of binding… Read More

Venice: Nicolò Bascarini, 1548. SECOND EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS (1st eds. 1540). Hardcover. Fine. A fine, attractive, and unsophisticated copy, bound in contemporary limp vellum (binding a bit rumpled, with small defects to the spine and nibbling to the upper edge -charming evidence of a hungry mouse.) The text is in excellent condition, very fresh, with trivial blemishes as follows: Leaf i1 with a clean tear in the text (no loss), lvs. k1-2 with contemporary marginal notes; small stain in lower margin of gathering O, a damp-stain in the lower margin of gathering P; leaf P2 with a small paper flaw affecting a few letters, trivial light foxing to the upper margin of a few gatherings, very light stain in lower margin of final 2 lvs. The book is illustrated with woodcut diagrams, illustrations of instruments, and 47 full-page woodcut star maps. Alessandro Piccolomini was professor of philosophy at the University of Padua from 1539 to 1543. In 1541, in a famous letter written to Pietro Aretino, he… Read More