Search Results: Authors starting with V from John Price Antiquarian Books

Hanoviae. Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennei, 1612. Large folio, 327 x 207 mms., pp. [xvi], 1992 columns, pp. [152], attractively bound in 19th full panelled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, black leather label; some slight wear to binding, but a very good to fine copy of this major work on semitic languages. Schindler (1543 - 1604), a professor of Hebrew and oriental languages was said to have worked for decades on this dictionary, which translates Hebrew and four other semitic languages into Latin. In his Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660) (2012), Stephen G. Burnett takes account of the comparative similarity of Hebrew and other semitic languages, and the study of them in the early 17th century. Referring to Schindler's "massive" work as "particularly important because it was the first attempt to produce a universal Semitic reference dictionary that provided information on biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic Hebrew, targumic and Talmudic Aramaic and even… Read More

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy...Sold by G. B. Whittaker, Longman and Co.; Baldwin and Co; Cowslade Reading...; 1826. Large 8vo, 228 x 138 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 208, uncut, original boards; front free end-paper creased, spine slightly worn, joints with some paper missing, label defective, corners crushed, but a good copy. In the preface, the classics scholar and schoolmaster Richard Valpy (1754 - 1836) notes that these poems were first recited in 1782 in Reading School; and the first edition was published in 1806. This revised, second edition, with several poems dated 1824, has textual changs as well as new poems. Among the contributors are William Benwell (1765 - 1796), whose sister was married to Valpy; George Butt (1741 - 1795), who contributes a hilarious parody of Milton's L'allegro ed Il Pensoroso; William Bolland (1772 - 1840), who was instrumental in forming the Roxburghe Club; Henry James Pye (1745 - 1813), later the Poet Laureate; and William Seward (1747 - 1799).… Read More

Venetiis. Apud Alexandrum Gryphiumm. 1580. Small 8vo, 144 x 91 mms., foliated 109 [110 111, with verso blank, woodcut on title-page of angel blowing a trumpet, early 19th century quarter calf, gilt rules on spine, olive morocco label, marbled boards. A very good copy. Veneto Paulo (c. 1370 - 1428) is said to have studied at Oxford, but he finished his doctorate at the University of Padua in 1405. Wikipedia asserts that his "philosophy has been categorised within the realist tradition of medieval thought. Following on from John Wycliffe and the subsequent Oxonians who followed him, Paul further developed this new brand of realism, and further renewed Walter Burley's opposition to nominalism. Paul's metaphysical theses are rooted fundamentally in Scotist thought. Duns Scotus maintained the doctrine of the univocity of being and the existence of the universal forms of objects outside of the person's mind. He also maintained Scotus' notion of the real identity and the formal… Read More

Napoli Dalla Tipografia di Angelo Trani, 1814. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 213 x 132, pp. 59 [60 blank], bound in contemporary marbled paper; corners curled, spine defective. Ventignano addresses his preface to Canova (1757 - 1822) who was, of course, still alive in 1814, stating that he (Canova) cannot induce his soul to hope or to fear and that he does not presume to glorify him with his verses. A rare book of poetry on the sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822), widely regarded as the greatest sculptor of his day. Cesare della Valle, Duke of Ventignano (1776-1860) addresses his preface to Canova, who was, of course, still alive in 1814, stating that he (Canova) cannot induce his soul to hope or to fear and that he does not presume to glorify him with his verses. COPAC locates only a single copy: the National Art Library in the V&A Museum, London. OCLC adds UCLA, Harvard, NYPL, and the National Art Gallery in Washington, DC, plus four copies in continental libraries. The inscription,… Read More

Lucca Per il Busdrago, 1755. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 199 x 125 mms., pp. [x], 213 [214 - 219 index, 220 blank], including half-title, early 19th century half vellum, marbled boards, gilt spine, red morocco label; text lightly foxed throughout, ex-library, with a library stamp on title-page, but a very good copy. OCLC asserts in its listing that this is an Italian version of Reflexions critiques sur les différentes écoles de peinture, which is, of course a work by Jean-Baptise Dubos (1670 -1742) and whose religious and philosophical principles were quite the oppositE of those of .Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704 - 1771). The only North American copy of this book that I found is at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, which names the Marquis d'Argens as the author. Even with my limited Italian, derived mostly from Italian operas and cookery, it is clear to me that the book is not by d'Argens, but is in fact a commentary on his critical reflections… Read More

A Londres� Chez Jean Nourse, M. DCC. LXV � 1765. 12mo, 149 x 85 mms., pp. [xxiv], 215 [218 blank], 218 - 236 [237 sic blank], later 18th century half calf, speckled boards, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motive, red leather label; a very good copy, with the bookplate of Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, née Wrangel (1770-1835) on the front paste-down end-paper. This edition of Histoire des Révolutions de Portugal by the Abbé de Vertot, René-Aubert Vertot (1655-1735), is so rare that the ESTC finds only two copies: one at the Bodleian in the United Kingdom, and one at Cornell in the United States. So, this edition is indeed rare, but the book itself is one of the most frequently reprinted and tranlated books of the 18th century. Vertot published the book in 1690 as Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal. In a "General note", one ESTC cataloguer moots, "The imprint may be false; printed on the continent?" (ESTC N49946). The… Read More

Paris Calmann Levy, Editeur..., 1890. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 175 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], [3] - 319 [320 blank]; [iv], 304 [305 text, 306 colophon], attractively bound in art nouveau style quarter calf, marbled boards, red morroco strips and gilt rules on spine. A very good set. Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923) published his first of many exotic novels, Asayade, in 1879. Pecheur d'Islande Roman, a novel of life among the Breton fishing men, in 1886, and Edmund Gosse described it as as "the most popular and finest of all his writings." Giacomo Puccini and his librettists Madame Chrysantheme also drew on Madame Chrysantheme (1887) for Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly (1904)

Olisipone [Lisbon] Ex Typographia Nationalii 1839. ?FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 162 x 100 mms. pp. 68, [2], 3 - 8, attractively bound in full red morocco with with gilt floral borders panelled gilt decorations with the central panel, spine rolled in gilt, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt; front hinge very slightly cracked before title-page, some very slight wear to binding, corners very slightly crushed, library stamp on title-page, with contemporary inscription and woodcut ornament; a very good to fine copy. Vincentii Ferrerii or Vicent Ferrer (1350 - 1419) was a Valencian Dominican Friar was canonized by Pope Calixtus III on 3 June 1455. He attended the University of Lleida, from which he received a doctorate in theology. He is said to have visited England during his missionary work. The previously-schismatic Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a pontifical religious institute founded in 1979, is named after him. No copy traced in available online databases, e. g., WorldCat and Copac, but… Read More

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, E. Curll, and J. Pemberton. 1736. 2 volumes. 12mo, pp. [ii], xxiv, 300 [v] vi - xxxiii [xxxiv blank, xxxv - xxxix Index, xl blank]; [ii], 287 [288 blank], engraved portrait olf Voiture in volume 1, and lacking initial blank leaf in volum2,, bound in contemporary calf, gilt borders on covers, spines ornately gilt in compartments (but faded), lacks labels, tops and bases of spines chipped, corners worn.

Londra Pressa Giovanni Nourse..., 1758. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 201 x 123 mms., pp. [iv] v - xvi [xvii - xxxi Index, xxxii blank], 397 [380 blank], including half-title (soiled) cheaply recased in quarter calf, marbled boards, blocked in gilt on spine. Martinelli (1702 - 1785) came to England in 1748, and with his first publication, Istoria Critica della Vita Civile ( 1752), he "made his reputation as a man of letters, and was reprinted several times both in England and in Italy," as E. H. Thorne records�. The Monthly Review for 1758 said of Lettere Familiari e Critiche "his compositions are pure, easy and flowing. The nature of his undertaking required, that he should sometimes write on familiar occasions, and his letters have therefore the defect unavoidable in such performances. They do not always inform us of any thing that it is much of our interest to know; and are more valuable for the mode of expression than for the thing expressed." Among the good and the great… Read More

Londra: Per Giogrio Woodfall..., 1752. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 294 x 231 mms., pp. 12, 311 [312 blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked at some stage, title in gilt on spine. With the "Milton,/ Peterborough" book label on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. The subscribers include Mark Akenside, Earl of Chesterfield, Moses Mendez and two other members of his family, the dedicatee Charles Townshend, and Horace Walpole. Martinelli (1702 - 1785) came to England in 1748 and this was the first of three books that he published in England, and, as E. H. Thorne records, "made his reputation as a man of letters, and was reprinted several times both in England and in Italy. It consists of nineteen chapters each dealing with one aspect of la vita civile; aspects ranging from education and the duties of family life, through industry, art, and science, laws and methods of government, to la vita felice, and it ends - inevitably for a foreigner in… Read More

A Paris, Chez Deterville..., [An IV], 1790. 8vo, pp. [iv], lix [lx blank], 334 blank, 33 numbered engraved plates (five folding), including frontispiece of Da Vinci, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco label; pp. 320 - 333 affected by damp, with the last leaf of the index holed (no loss) and very stained, and the blank rear free and paste-down end-papers severely affected. Da Vinci's Tratto della Pittura was first published in 1651, and the first English translation in 1721. It was translated into French by Ronald Fréart de Chambray in 1651, and a revised edition was published by Giffart in 1716, with a life of Da Vinci. This appears to be a reprint of the 1716 edition.

Londini, Typis Excudit J. F. Dove, Veneunt apud Richardum Priestley, 1821. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. [ii], 487 [488 blank]; [ii], 786; [ii], 611 [612 blank]; [ii], 447 [448 blank], contemporary half roan, gilt spine, marbled boards; some evidence of damp-staining in margins, rear cover volume 1 detached, front joints of volumes 1 and 2 tender, top of spine volume 3 chipped. Christopher Gottlob Heyne (1729 - 1812) first published his edition of Virgil in 1767 - 1775.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1790. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. lxxii, 174; [iv], 240; [iv], 256, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, red morocco titling label on volume 1; blank prelims in volume 1 removed, lacks titling labels on volumes 2 and 3, slight wear to tops and bases of spines, front joint volume 2 cracked, Warton's translation of the Eclogues and Georgics and Pitt's of the Æneid were first published in four volumes in 1753, in an edition printed for Robert Dodsley. This is one of several reprints of that edition, without the plates and reduced to three volumes. James Dodsley, Robert's younger brother, followed him in the trade, but the firm ceased to exist after his death in 1797. Curiously uncommon: ESTC T218877 locates copies in Liverpool University Library; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; and Perkins School of Theology Bridwell Library, Dallas, Texas.

Firenze: A spese dell'autore, 1864. 12mo, 185 x 121 mms., pp. [iv], 96, original printed wrappers, with author, title, and imprint on front cover; some slight wear to wrappers, and corners creased The translator is the same Antonio Angelelli who is responsible for a later publication, a shorter book titled, Memorie Storiche di Montaione in Valdelsa (1875), which was also published in Florence, and whose title-page describes him as the Professor of Italian literature at the Military College in Florence ("Professore di Lettere Italiane nel Collegio Militare di Firenze"). COPAC locates a copy of Memorie Storiche (1875), but does not give a birth date or death date for Angelelli, nor other details about him. I am happy to assert that a great deal more can be said of Antonio Angelelli today, as there is an account of him in the biographical reference book by Rino Salvestrini, Personaggi nella storia di Montaione, published online, where it is said that Antonio Angelelli died on 25… Read More

Amstelodami, Apud Judocum Juymer Bibliopolam, propter Curiam, sub signo Senecæ. MDCLIX., 1659. 12mo, 152 x 93 mms., pp. [xii], 94. BOUND WITH: Verisimilium Librii Quatuor. In quibus mula veterum scriptorum loca, Symmachi maxime, Cor. Nepotis, Propertii, Petronii, aliorum, enendantur, augentur, inlustrantur. Amestelodami, Apud Judocum Pluymer Bibliopolam, M. DC. Lxii [1662]. 12mo, pp. 168. BOUND WITH: Casparis Scioppi, Suspectarum Lectionum Libri Quinque, In centum & quatuordecim epistulas ad celeberrimos quosque aevi nostri viros aliosque amicos, facti: In quis amplius decentis locis Plautus, plurimus Apulejus, Diomedes Grammaticus, alii, corriguntur, notantur, subplentur, illustrantur. Amstelodami, Apud Jodocum Playmer, Biblliopolam. 1664. 12mo, pp. [viii], 304 [305 -328 indexes]. BOUND WITH: Priapeia, Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus illustrati commentariis Gasperis SchoppI, Franci. L. Apuleii Madavrensis Anechomenos, ab eodem illustratus. Ut & Heraclii imperatoris,… Read More

Tours, Alfred Mame et Files..., 1884. Tall 8vo, pp. 237 [238 blank, 239 contents, 240 blank], including half-title, steel-engraved frontispiece, prize copy from the Ecole Primaire Publique in Orleans, bound in contemporary green embossed cloth, front cover blocked in gilt to a rectangle within a semi-lozenge design, with the arms of Orleans in the centre, all edges gilt; binding a little worn and soiled, front hinge slightly cracked. Seeburg's book was first published in Regensburg in 1882, and the French translation was first published in 1883, and into English in 1884.