Search Results: Titles starting with B from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

I. Large 8vo, pp. [4]; printed within decorative border, with woodcut head- and tailpieces; clean and crisp, in contemporary Italian decorative wrappers; II. Large 8vo, pp. [7], [1] blank; decorative border to p. [2], woodcut head and tailpieces; ink blot to foot of second leaf, but otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary Italian decorative wrappers.
Lovely copies, both in Italian block-printed paper wrappers, of these two poems printed for the marriage of Heinrich XLII (1672-1818) and Caroline Henriette of Hohenloe-Kirchberg (1761-1849), which took place at Kirchberg in Thuringia on June 10th, 1779.

Both take the form of brief cantatas, with the first consisting of a short air followed by a longer recitative and a duet, and concluding with a further recitative and a chorus ("Fromme Wünsche bringen wir für die Neuvermählten"); this was, according to the title-page, to be performed at the Musik-Collegium in Kirchberg, although neither the librettist nor the composer is named. The… Read More

8vo, pp. [iv], 182, [6] contents and privilege; numerous woodcut ornaments throughout; occasional spotting and browning, especially to last few leaves, but largely clean and fresh; contemporary ownership signature on title-page; in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt morocco lettering-piece; wear to edges of boards and corners with small loss to calf, and slightly sprung, but still an attractive copy.
First edition of this collection of Latin poems, many alongside their French translations, by the poet, novelist, and fabulist Antoine-Louis Le Brun (1680-1743).
Best known for his Fables of 1722, Le Brun here offers a collection of poems ranging from the bawdy (a number of verses addressed to Bacchus) to the tragic (on the drowning of a friend in the Seine), the historical (on the capture of Barcelona by the French in 1696, and on the peace between France and Savoy in the same year), and the moral and religious (on piety and true friendship).
While the bulk of the poems are… Read More

8vo, pp. 8; with woodcut vignette on title and woodcut headpiece; clean and fresh throughout; unbound as issued.

A good copy of this rare petition to the legislators of the recently established Helvetic Republic, from the Canton of Thurgau, in the aftermath of the 1799 Battles of Zürich in the French Revolutionary Wars.

Bemoaning the poverty suffered by the inhabitants of Thurgau, the authors address the Citizen Legislators: 'Should we come with bitter but well-founded complaints to you? Should we tell you how our canton ... suffers the cost of the military? Should we describe to you the misery and distress that comes from a shortage of earnings and the high prices of everyday goods? Shall we set before you the poverty, the exhaustion, the ruin, and all the nameless woes that lie before us, and seems to remain in front of our eyes far into the future?'

Setting out these various miseries, the pamphlet is signed in print by the District Judge and the Municipal President of the Thurgäu canton, with… Read More

22 works bound together, 4to; for full listing see below; some browning, foxing and damptstaining in places; in contemporary vellum, gilt lettering-piece on spine, some wear and marking to boards and chipping to vellum, but sound.
An extraordinary collection of 22 Italian works relating to the funeral of Maria Theresa of Austria, which was marked across her dominions for months after her death in November 1780 with a series of memorials.
The works are as follows:
1. FILANGIERI, Serafino. ELOGI PER LA GLORIOSA MEMORIA della imperatrice Regina Maria Teresa d'Austria ne' solenni funerali ordinati da Sua Eccellenza Reverendissima D.Serafino Filangieri, Arcivescovo di Napoli, nella sua Cattedrale il dì 13 Gennaio 1781. In Napoli, Presso Faustino de Bonis, [1781]. pp. xxii, [ii] blank, [xi] Iscrrizioni Sopra la Porta al di fuori, [i] blank. Not in OCLC.
2. [AVERSA]. FUNERALI PER LA MORTE DI MARIA TERESA imperatrice de' Romani, Regina di Ungheria e di Boemia, celebrati nella Real Chiesa della SS.Annunciata… Read More