Search Results: Authors starting with P from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books

Milan: L. Monza for A. Petrarca, 1649. Contemporary vellum over thin wooden boards, later manuscript spine title, green edges. Only Edition of this illustrated festival book. It was issued in preparation for the entry into Milan on 30 May 1649 of Maria Anna of Austria on her way to Spain to marry her uncle, King Philip IV. The portraits are set in an elaborate etched cartouche of banderoles, gristlework and imperial insignia. In excellent condition (endleaves browned). ¶Praz, Studies in 17th-Century Imagery 443 & 568 ("Devices described, without figures"); Daly & Dimler, Corpus librorum emblematum: The Jesuit Series J.1109; Sommervogel-deBacker, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus VI: 115,1.

Munich: C.T.F. Sauer at J. Lindauer's Bookshop, 1830. Original decorative printed wrappers. Only Edition, based on the author's experiments. This analyzes residential cast iron and earthen stoves and ovens, the best materials for thermal conductivity, fuels (cost and heat output), construction specifications and improvements to existing stoves. It also describes a device to eliminate smoky interiors. The plates illustrate the stoves from above and in profile. Lindauer advertises his stock in technology and home economy on the front and rear wrappers and on the final leaf. I have not located a copy outside Germany. In original condition, contemporary inscription. ¶Engelmann, Bibliotheca mechanico-technologica 275.

Milan: s.n., 1704. Modern pastepaper boards, lettered paper spine label. First Edition. THE STATUTES OF THE MILAN WIGMAKERS and of their newly established school govern elections, officers, ceremonies, record keeping, fees, membership, apprentices, conduct and fraud, e.g., the use of goat and horse hair and the sale of imports. Not found in U.S. collections. In good condition, some margins uncut. ¶Biblioteca del Senato, Catalogo della raccolta di statuti IV: 337-8 (1915 only).

Florence: L. Torrentino, 1551. CONTEMPORARY LACE-CASED INTERIM VELLUM BINDING (soiled), 17th-century manuscript spine title, contemporary manuscript-lettered title on the bottom edge, evidence of four pigskin ties, edges gauffered in blind; spine lining from a medieval vellum manuscript.             A REMARKABLE COPY PRESERVED IN A WHOLLY UNREMARKABLE TEMPORARY BINDING. This example is large, substantially taller and wider than, for instance, Jean Grolier's on ordinary - median folio - paper, measuring 350 x 250 mm. and bound in contemporary morocco.            Pausanias' 2nd-century C.E. Greek travelogue of Greece records local history, legends, customs and superstitions. His firsthand observations on temples, monuments and ruins remain essential for archeologists today.           First Edition of the first complete translation into any language, which remained the standard in Latin into the 19th century. This version, by Romolo Amaseo (1489-1552), a leading humanist, was completed… Read More

Paris: J.Borel, 1565. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled, small lacunae on spine), old title label (perished), evidence of four pigskin ties. First Edition. This is the scholar, lawyer and book collector's first book. These forty essays treat ancient and medieval texts and concern Druids, law, medicine, oaths, grammar and theater. They present variant readings, emendations and corrections based on manuscripts in his own library and in those of other bibliophiles. Lyonese printer Claude Senneton is a dedicatee. In original condition, early 18th-century inscription on the front pastedown. ¶Haag, La France protestante IX: 255-57; Cioranesco 17652; see Sandys' A History of Classical Scholarship II: 192.

Paris: P. Gromors, 1543. Early 19th-century gilt-ruled glazed tan calf (Antoine Chaumont, see below; hinges neatly repaired), flat spine with a gilt cross in four compartments and a vertically gilt-lettered green morocco label, all edges gilt, ruled in red. Only Edition, divided into two books, each with twelve chapters. "A work in which Postel attempts to prove that there is nothing in religion that is not in conformity with nature and with reason" (Caillet, tr.). In the first section, Postel outlines his personal summation of the tenets of the Christian faith and in the second similarly addresses the actions that define a Christian life. Together they reinforce his belief that the fundamental method for the communication of religious truth must be rational demonstration.             These two dozen essays openly express his growing, highly personal, mysticism and his irenic ideals, which "aroused the hostility of both political and religious authority" (Bouwsma).             The year… Read More