Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books

Naples: O. Salviani, 1580. CONTEMPORARY NEAPOLITAN BLIND-RULED AND GILT BROWN MOROCCO, two blind triple rule borders enclosing A WIDE FRAME OF A TYPICALLY SPANISH ROLL OF DRUMS, MASKS, HELMETS, SHIELDS, TOOLS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND WEAPONS, potted bouquets in the outer corners and angel heads in the inner corners, deeply impressed gilt central cartouche with AN UNIDENTIFIED DUCAL ARMORIAL CHARGE PAINTED ON A RAISED OVAL MEDALLION (painting worn), gilt birds in the spine compartments (base neatly repaired), evidence of four leather ties, edges gilt and gauffered.             Only Edition of this anthology of judicial opinions compiled for the use of law students in the Spanish Kingdom of Naples.             Primarily extracted from recent Spanish legal sources, these one hundred exemplary court decisions pose and resolve cases spanning DIVORCE, RAPE, ADULTERY, THEFT, TAXES, USURY, STUDENT DEBT, MONEY BETS, THE INHERITANCE, ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, CONCUBINES, etc. The majority treat issues… Read More

[Paris]: [René Boyvin or his atelier], 1560. CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO WITH THE ARMS OF HENRI III AS KING OF FRANCE AND POLAND in a field of lilies, the corners with his crowned cipher braced by foliage, gilt lilies cover the flat spine, evidence of four ties, all edges gilt (Olivier-Hermal-Roton 2491,2 and 2491,8). "AMONG THE BEST-KNOWN ORNAMENT PRINTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL OF FONTAINEBLEAU" (Acton).             Flesh has become artifact. The figure has become a work of art, a vehicle for ornament, the exotic and the mysterious - part ancient Rome, part Arabia, part carnival. Without horizon or background, eyeholes darkened, mouths frozen, parted lips immobile, the profiles disquiet the viewer.             The scale and overabundance make the images difficult to read. Grotesques, animals, shocks of feathers, straps and diadems crowd helmets, bows, blooms, crowns and plaits. Shimmering jewelry falls from head to chest. Cabochons are the size of lion pelts. Pearls are as… Read More

Lyon: S. Gryphe, 1554. CONTEMPORARY WHITE CALF GILT AND PAINTED WITH A DESIGN OF INTERLACING DOUBLE-RULE VINE STRAPWORK AND FOLIAGE (soiled, some wear and loss of paint). The upper right and lower left outer ribbons were painted brown and the outer foliage painted green. The upper left and lower right outer ribbons were left plain. The foliage around the central lozenge was painted blue and the two leaves in the middle painted green; the six spine compartments gilt (worn) and the edges gilt and gauffered with ?tulips. Pocket edition executed in small italic type (69 mm. for 20 lines). The competition was fierce and the market large for this text. The careful work of Moss records fifty-two printings of the Metamorphoses in France from 1496 to 1560 in folio, quarto, octavo and sextodecimo. Gryphe and his heirs account for thirty-one percent of the total and over sixty percent of the small formats editions. That offered here is fashionably clothed in the high style of the time (the front free endleaf… Read More