Search Results: Titles starting with M from Sanctuary Books

Lugdun. Batavor: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1639. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24 mo. 442, [154] pp. 18th c. olive morocco, spine flat, nicely gilt on all sides. This is the third volume of the 1639 - 1640 Elzevier edition of the works of Seneca the Elder & Younger (Willems notes a 1640 edition, but not this edition). The first two volumes contain Seneca the Younger, while the third volume contains the works of the Elder, his father. So this volume, although an odd volume technically speaking, stands alone as complete for Seneca the Elder. A lovely copy in a charming binding. This printing is one of Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir's famed pocket editions of Latin classics, initiated in 1629 during an expansion of the press. The aim was to ensure wide circulation of accurate texts for everyday use, and the books were printed with engraved title-pages, narrow margins, and a distinctive font of type, cut by Christoffel van Dijck, whose influence on subsequent typographers endured well into the 19th century.

Amsterdam: Elezeviriana, 1669. Full calf. Very Good+. Lugd. Batav. et Roterod. Ex Officiana Hackiana, 1669. 8vo. Engraved title page, folding map, headpieces. [xvi], 614, [144] pp. Contains the Civil Wars between Pompey and Caesar. Contemporary calf with armorial (royal?) crest to front and rear covers. Spine a bit worn, but still a handsome copy in an intriguing binding.

Frankfurt. Hardcover. Very Good+. MDLII (1652). 8vo (160 x 90mm). Pagination: 463pp. Signatures: A-Z(8), Aa-Ff(8). Italic type.Period vellum, spine inscribed 78; (covers somewhat soiled and darkened, corners lightly bumped, intermittent browning, sound copy with period annotations). This copy enhanced with Latin marginalia throughout, including pastedown and front flyleaf covered in threepages of philosophical notations written in Latin, seemingly following a traditional Thomastic philosophy on the theme of sin. These are seemingly unpublished thoughts written in a clear, later 17th- or early 18th-century hand. The rear blanks extra inscribed with an index to the chapters 1 through 38 and further thoughts on the four elements and miscellaneous text. Somewhat faded ownership inscription to title, showing “Georgius” and the year 1779. Daniel Stahl was a professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Jena, one of the oldest universities in Germany to maintain a long… Read More

Venice: Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino, 1535. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (295 x 190mm). [12], I-CX, (110ff.) Signatures: AA6-BB6; A8-N8; O6. Title printed in red and black with woodcut block border depicting strewn armor and dueling knights with wreathed portrait of Cicero at top and plaques with monogram initials of Roman Emperors Fabius Maximus, Julius Caesar, and Alexander Magnus. 136 woodcut in-text illustrations depicting lives of primitive humans, the famous Vitruvian Man on p. XXII, constellations, rules for perspective, and other mathematical figures and diagrams of architecture. Woodcut historiated chapter initials throughout of repeating portraits. Translated by Benedetto Giovio (1471-1545). Edited by Francesco Lutio Durantino. 19th-century calf with decorative stamps, spine stamped in gilt TRAT DE ARCH, endpapers renewed; (loose in binding, some margins trimmed close, some light worming, at least six early cancelled inscriptions on title, leaf CX with significant excision, otherwise… Read More

Oxford: Stephani Fletcher, [1723]. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (195 x 119mm). [6], 317pp., [23]. Portraits. Contemporary calf; (light occasional stains; calf torn to upper cover and spine somewhat chipped, corners bumped). Cicero’s important classic and esteemed edition of Jacques Proust author of Diderot et L’Encylopedie. Cicero’s De oratore (“On the Orator”) is a moral and political dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BCE. It is set in 91 BCE when Lucius Licinius Crassus died, just before a social war and civil war broke out between Marius and Sulla, and during which Marcus Antonius Orator, the other great orator of this dialogue, died. Cicero wrote De Oratore to describe the idyllic Marcus Antonius and imagine him as a philosophic and moral guide of the state.

Padua: Ex Typographia Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfre, 1742. Hardcover. Good. Patavii [i.e. Padua]: Ex Typographia Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfre, 1742. Cicero. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Atticum Libri XVI. Tomus 1 & II. Pocket edition in two volumes. Contemporary vellum. Volume 1 binding is fresh, Volume 2 worn and chipped vellum,

Venice: Apud Franiscum Franciscium Senensem, & Ioan. Crugher Germanum (Francesco DeFranceschi & Johann Criegher), 1567. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (289 x 205mm). Pagination: [20], 375, [1] pages (lacks p. 10). Collation: a(6), b(4), A(5 of 6, lacking A5), B-Z(6), AA-GG(6), HH(8). Title and rear verso leaf with woodcut printer’s device of the virtue of Peace, inscribed Pax, holding olive branch within cartouche border with masks. Title verso with full-page woodcut of the muse of architecture, raising ruler in right hand. The Plantin woodcut device “Labore et Constantia” printed in red ink supplied and mounted on blank verso of b4. Woodcut illustrations throughout of diagrams and geometric graphs of architectural interest (cross-sections of classical buildings, molds, and friezes) and other mathematical lines and planes, also including illustrations for the Vitruvian man (p. 89), the Venetian lagoon (p. 204), laborers at a hydraulic mill (pp. 348-349), parts of an… Read More

Great Britain: Emanuel Wax For Pendragon Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slim 8vo. Original cloth. 21 pages. Copy #758. SIGNED by the author at the end of the text on p.19. Additonally laid in is an autograph post card from Harold Pinter (on his stationary) to the actor Michael York presenting him with the book.

Small yellowed spot on Bryher's hand, old mount residue to the verso. Image is unsigned. BRYHER]. Vintage Gelatin Silver Print of Bryher by Man Ray. 14 x 9 cm. Old mount residue to the verso. The photo is unsigned; a version of it appears in the book, Les Années 20: Les écrivains Américains à Paris et Leurs Amis. Bryher was an important figure in Paris literary scene of the 1920s, and a longtime partner of the poet, H.D.

FRENCH 17TH CENTURY LEGAL DOCUMENT.. No Binding. Good. Manuscript document on vellum (wrinkled), in French. [N.p. but Paris?:] 19 January 1653. 1 page (405 x 248mm). Written in brown ink in a small batarde script. Pertaining to inheritance to Antoine Pascal born c.1614; ìLouye par la grace de Dieu roy de France et de Navarre dans St. AffriqueÖ Louye PascalÖ heritier de feu maistre Anthoine PascalÖ chanoine de líeglise collegialle de ladite ville; (light dampstains, tears at folds, creases).

Hardcover. Good. 1742. Manuscript on paper, in German. 75pp., 8vo (178 x 128 mm). Illustrated title with decorated floreate border and arms. Engraved frontispiece depicting the Trinity enthroned over Calvary. Written in black ink in a uniform calligraphic hand, between borders, some chapter tailpieces and paragraph marks. Contemporary paneled calf, tooled in gilt, initials ìC. B.î and date ì1742î stamped in gilt to front cover, marbled paper pastedowns, gilt edges. Housed in near contemporary custom leather slipcase (contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, light dampstains, some dustsoiling; calf rubbed, tail chipped with some loss). A complete prayer book from 1742, apparently in circulation within German cults of Marian worship. The Litany is Virgin-centric including praising her as ìgates of the skyî and ìmorning star,î also îQueen of Martyrsî and ìMother of the Creatorî; Bitt fur uns! (pray of favor for us!)

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, in Court-Street, 1785. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare complete copy with the six folding plates. Later 3/4 leather and marbled boards; boards loose. The Academy's members included George Washington, John Adams, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin.

England: n.p., 1831. Hardcover. Very Good. [England: c.1821-1831]. 8vo (158 x 95mm). Paginated to p. 73, with additional c. 30 pages (although only half full). Written in brown ink in a uniform print and cursive hand in English, Latin and some Greek. Containing textual extracts and commentary from Gabriel Brotier’s translation of “Tacitus de moribus Germanorum” by C. Cornelius and from Xenophon’s “Expedition of Cyrus,” with a description for the “Needle Magnetic,” and for “Cannon & Gunpowder,” and containing brief biographies for famous Roman and Greek historians and statesmen, including Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles, Aristides, Hannibal, and other important figures including Pausanias, Lysander and Thrasybulus; including an extract captioned “Quarterly Review Jan. 1821 p. 400” and with several military comments dating to the 1830’s which date this interesting book to that time. Contemporary leather over boards, marbled edges;… Read More

Paris: Rene Julliard, 1954. Paperback. Good. Wraps. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909-2000) -- an iconic American actor from Hollwood's Golden Era, and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II -- with his bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf. Inscribed to him by Chevalier on the half-title page. His connection to Chevalier seems to be a long one: Fairbanks, Sr. (1883-1939) offered Chevalier a star billing with Mary Pickford, but Chevalier was hesitant to perform in a silent film. It is ilkely that their paths crossed often, as Chevalier (primarily associated with Paramount studios) and Fairbanks were part of a prolific and powerful Hollywood coterie, that included such giants as Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. Covers a little chipped at corners and along spine; leaves brittle, and mostly unopened.

Paris: Gallimard, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Original wrappers. Uncut. One of three copies "hors commerce". Fine copy.

Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Preceded by an acting proof. Pale green buckram, lined and lettered in gilt; t.e.g. Title page printed in red and black. 108 pp. Slight flecking to cloth, but still a lovely, tight copy.

Venice: Nella Stamperia Bragadina, [1750]. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 127mm). Vol. I: [2], 224 [i. e., 223], 16, 18; Vol. II: [2], 323, [1] leaves, including engraved additional titles. Full-page engraved title pages of Old Testament history (feasts, temple scenes) by Francesco Griselini (1717-1783), born in Venice, who lived as an academic and journalist, but later worked as an engraver. Hebrew text. Contemporary red morocco gilt and gilt edges, marbled endpapers, morocco label on spine (MACASOR ITALIANO); (corners bumped and light edgewear Vol. 2 joints splitting; Vol. 1 covers warped with light dampstaining to opening leaves, additional title partly detached but present, scattered light foxing, repaired clean tear across leaf 192). An excerpt from Midrash Mishlei, the haggadic midrash from the Book of Proverbs, in contemporary hand on recto of leaf 20. Bound at the end of Volume 2 are three leaves of contemporary manuscript in Hebrew by Leah Ashkenazi in memory of her deceased… Read More

Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Small folio. Publisher's cloth in suntanned DJ, with a bit of edgewear.

London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, n.d.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small quarto. Original green gilt stamped cloth. Lovely copy of this uncommon book with attractive plates printed in purple.

Paris: Librairie de France, 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 510 of a total edition of 1000. Illustrations by Pierre Laparde. Custom designer full burgundy leather binding by Suzanne Schrag.