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Bodoni: Poems of “Armonide Elido”
(A Sweet SET of Bodonis). Mazza, Angelo. Opere. Parma: Per Giuseppe Paganino, 1816–19. 8vo (21.4 cm, 8.42"). 5 vols. I: Frontis., xx, 182 pp. II: 192 pp. III:
206 pp. IV: 180, [2] pp. V: 198 pp.
$350.00
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Collected verse from a Parma-born scholar and poet. Mazza (1741–1817), who as a member of
the Academy of Arcadia used the name Armonide Elideo, was known for translating Dryden, Gray, and Thompson into Italian as well as for his own poems. This
Bodoni-printed five-volume set comprises two volumes of sonnets, two of “sciolti,” and one of stanzas and odes; it does not include the dedication found in the quarto edition printed at roughly the same time, but does feature the frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Giovanni Rocca.
Bindings: Contemporary half calf and and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges ruled in gilt, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume numbers, and with gilt-tooled raised bands and blind-tooled compartments, making a striking effect. All edges marbled; original silk bookmarks present and attached.
Provenance: From the collection of Brian Douglas Stilwell, sans indicia.
Brooks 1183; Brunet 16403. Bindings as above; minimal shelfwear overall, one spine head chipped. Vol. I: first few leaves with very light waterstaining across lower corners, not approaching frontispiece image or type; last few leaves with lightest imaginable waterstaining to lower halves . Vol. III: short tear in oute margin of one leaf. Vol. V: title-page with sprinkling of tiny spots; one page with small ink smear.
A clean and handsome set. (40203)

A 30-Item One-Author Sampling of
Bodoni “Job Printing”
(A BODONI “BUNDLE”). Turchi, Adeodati. Collection of Bodoni editions of 30 works by Turchi. [Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale], 1788–96. 12mo & 8vo. In 3 vols.
$2500.00
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30 different, very short works by Turchi, a Capuchin friar who rose to be Bishop of Parma, plus six duplicates of which two are incomplete. All are prime examples of job printing, executed in the same small elegant font, each page with the same border of type ornaments and a small composed ornament above that; present as below are expositions of faith and doctrine, pastoral letters, remissions and pardons, and many, many homilies. Some entries have, on their first page, a crisply neat rendering of the bishop's coat of arms.
Sermons, pastoral letters, and homilies are among the types of job printing that have provided necessary cash flow for all presses throughout time. And because of their ephemeral and narrow-interest nature combined with their short print runs, they tend to be among the scarcest productions of the Bodoni Press.
VOLUME 1: Epostola. 21 Septembris 1788 (Sallander No. 46); Indulto. 18 February 1789 (Sallander No. 51); Lettera pastorale. No date. (Brooks 1348); Omelia recitata al popolo. 1789, (Sallander No. 54); Indulto. 1790. (Sallander No. 55);Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1790 (Sallander No. 56); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno dell' Assunzione di Maria Vergine. 1790 (Sallander No. 57); Omelia. Recitata al popolo nel giorno si San Bernardo. 1790 (Sallander No. 58); Indulto pubblicato. 1791 (Sallander No. 59); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1791 (Brooks 432); Omelia. Recitata nel giorni di Tutti li Santi. 1791 (Brooks 433); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1791 (Sallander No. 61); Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65).
VOLUME 2: Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65; second copy); Omelia. Recitara nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1792 (Sallander No. 66); Omelia. Recitata al suopopolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1792 (Brooks 498); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1792 (Sallander No. 67); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70); Omelia. Diretta al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1793 (Sallander No. 72); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1793 (Sallander No. 73); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze.1794 (Brooks 582); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1795 (Sallander No. 81).
VOLUME 3: Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70; second copy); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel Giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves containing pages 29 to 32); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves consisting of first blank leaf and title); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79; second copy); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze. 1794 (Brooks 582; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1795 (Sallander No. 82); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1795 (Sallander No. 83). Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 84); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1796 (Sallander No. 86).
Two volumes in contemporary marbled boards, and one volume in boards with repurposed antique marbled paper, that volume with top edge gilt. Some pages are trimmed at foremargins, most not; vol. II retains a silk placemarker.
All volumes are clean, sound, and attractive. (40140)
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Brunet: “Belle Édition” — Sole Italian Estienne — Tall Copy
Alamanni, Luigi. La coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo re Francesco Primo. Parigi: Ruberto Stephano, 1546. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). [2], 154, [2] ff.
$1875.00
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First edition of Alamanni’s “famous didactic poem on the care of fields and gardens” (Schreiber, Estiennes), inspired by Virgil’s Georgics. The author was a Florentine-born humanist, poet, and diplomat who spent much of his life in the service of Francis I and Henry II of France, and who — possibly as a peace offering for having once participated in a conspiracy against her father — dedicated the present work to the Dauphine, Catherine de’ Medici.
Set in Simon de Colines’s Great Primer Chancery Italic, this poetic tribute to agriculture is
the only work Estienne printed in Italian. Schreiber notes that the tallest copy he had seen measured 8 1/4", with the current example coming very close to that; the dedication, errata, and privilege are all present here.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Fratelli Salimbeni (with shelving number) and of “G.P.C.” (with woodcut image of Pegasus and motto “Nec adversa retorquent”); front fly-leaf with early inked annotation “H.III.161" and lined-through (still partially legible) inscription “Bibliotheque Vallicellane”; title-page with early inked inscription “Petri Salvati - V.” surrounding printer’s vignette, and obscured inscription in lower portion. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams A409; Brunet, I, 125; Renouard, Estienne, 68:22; Schreiber, Estiennes, 88. Later vellum, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-stamped blue leather publication label; vellum with minimal dust-soiling and traces of wear to extremities, two bottom-most spine compartments with later replacement (blank) vellum “labels,” one now starting to peel slightly. All edges stained blue. Bookplates and inscriptions as above; front free endpaper with later pencilled annotations (one giving incorrect Adams reference). One early inked marginal annotation. Pages gently age-toned, with intermittent minor foxing to margins; final leaf with small paper flaws in lower margin.
An attractive copy of an interesting and significant volume. (37916)

AGRICULTURE & APIARIES
Alamanni, Luigi. La coltivazione et gli epigrammi ... e Le api di Giovanni Rucellai, geniluomini Fiorentini; colle annotazioni del Signor Dottor Giuseppe Bianchini. Venezia: Stamperia Remondini, 1756. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.8"). Frontis., 96, [2], 280 pp.
$200.00
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Two long didactic poems, one on agriculture and one on bees (originally published in 1546 and 1539, respectively), each an important example of the form in Italian, here in a later edition.
While Rucellai's piece appeared first, Alamanni's contains more original material and less content directly derived from Vergil; both works appear here with extensive notes and with attractive woodcut headpieces and capitals, following
a title-page printed in red and black and an engraved portrait of Alamanni.
WorldCat lists no U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 9103.0-1. 19th-century quarter diced brown sheep with marbled paper sides done in imitation of tree calf; spine gilt-stamped with title and decorative bands; corners bumped and leather lightly worn, foot of spine discolored from a now-absent label, red-inked onetime price note on fly-leaf, otherwise clean and fresh. Title-page with outer portion restored and one letter supplied; some occasional light spotting or staining but text really quite clean. A nice old book. (37453)

First Edition of a CLASSIC Building Shapes EFFICIENTLY
Alberti, Giuseppe Antonio. Trattato della misura delle fabbriche nel quale oltre la misura di tutte le superficie comuni si da ancora la misura di tutte le specie di Volte, e d'ogni specie di solido, che possa occorrere nella misura di esse. Venezia: appresso Giambattista Recurti, 1757. 8vo (21.4 cm; 8.5"). Engr. frontis. port., xxxii, 279, [3] pp., XXXVIII plts.
$550.00
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First edition of an important work on stereometry — meaning the volume measurement of solid figures — as it relates to architecture, from an influential Bolognese architect and mathematical writer who also invented his own land surveying tools.
The text has been expertly set to include both complicated and extended formulas and is complete with
37 full-page plates and one folding engraved plate depicting the various measurements and angles to be taken into consideration when building with various shapes. Alberti uses the research of other architects and theoreticians — including Jousse, Blondel, Sangallo, Parent, La Hire, and Varignon — in the explanations of various mathematical problems.
Binding: Original cartonné binding; title inked on spine, text untrimmed and partially unopened.
Catalogo ragionato dei libri d’arte e d’antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 389; Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana, vol. I, col. 16–7. Bound as above, gently rubbed with squiggle of wormtracking through front board and first leaves including half title/frontispiece, portrait, and title-page, with delicate repairs thereto. Two central sections with light staining to upper outer corners, as of old, very light blue ink; some late leaves with slim crescent of old and likewise light waterstain just into top margins; two leaves with limited in-press ink smears (and a few mispaginations). Nice copy of an important work. (37209)

16th-Century Tour of Italy — Venice Is an Island
Alberti, Leandro. Descrittione di tutta l'Italia & isole pertinenti ad essa. In Venetia: Appresso Gio. Maria Leni, 1577. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 2 vols. in 1. [303], 503, [1(blank)], 69 (i.e., 96), [4] ff.
$2500.00
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Early, expanded edition, following the first of 1550: An important and widely read account of Italy, written by a Dominican monk and Bolognese scholar who spoke at length about his home city in addition to the other major regions of the country. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) online notes that the work contains “many valuable topographical and archaeological observations.”
Nicely printed in italic type (without maps), the work has a good index. The separate title-page of vol. II gives Isole appartenenti alla Italia, dated 1576. Venice is treated here, as an island, not as part of “the mainland.”
Adams A475; Index Aurel. 102.349. Contemporary vellum, worn and darkened, lacking ties. Hinges (inside) with insect damage causing partial opening, text block starting to pull away from spine. Front free endpaper with two inked ownership inscriptions, one dated 1620 and one 1898. Small area of worming to upper inner margins of about 40 leaves, minor and not approaching text. Scattered instances of early inked underlining and a very few marginalia, pages otherwise pleasingly clean. Ready for many more years of use! (26501)

Boccaccio's Language
Catalogued & Cross-Referenced — A Poet's Copy
Alunno, Francesco. Le ricchezze della lingua volgare. In Vinegia: [colophon: In casa de Figliuoli di Aldo], 1543. Folio (32.7 cm, 12.875"). 225, [1] ff.
$2500.00
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First edition of grammarian, calligrapher, and Petrarchan scholar Alunno's glossary of all the words used in the works of Boccaccio, with examples of their uses and citations to the works and pages wherein they are found, these
cross-referenced as often now is not noted with their uses in Dante, Petrarch, Amedo, and Philocolo. The prefatory matter includes letters to the reader from both the Aldine Press and the author, a dedication to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, notes on the organization of the text, numerous finding aids (word lists of homophones, foreign cognates, proverbs, and Italian dialect words), and more. Renouard notes of the work's popularity that “dans son temps, fut en grande estime, et eut un grand nombre de lecteurs,” which probably explains its reprinting in 1551, 1555, and 1557. Here, the Italian text is set in double columns using mostly italic and some roman type, with unaccomplished guide letters and catchwords; the iconic Aldine device appears within a foliate frame of four grotesques on the title-page and final text leaf. This is only the second appearance of this version of the device (B1), the first having been in Calepino's Dictionarium of 1542.
Provenance: Ink signature of Janus Broukhusius appears on the title-page in an early hand; a.k.a. Joan van Broekhuizen, 1649–1707, he was a Dutch man of letters known for his poems in Latin. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 1308; Adams A842; Index Aurel. 104.190; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books, 288; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 312; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, 283; Renouard, Alde, 127, no. 2; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, I, p. 88. 19th-century Cambridge-style calf, rebacked harmoniously in speckled calf with gilt-stamped compartments and three red leather labels. Board edges with gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt roll of two leaf designs; boards gently rubbed and refurbished, new endpapers. Light age-toning throughout with faint indications of old water exposure narrowly along top edge of upper margins and darker but still light waterstaining elsewhere marginally; otherwise, minutest wormtracking at bottom edge of bottom margins in two gatherings, occasionally a minor stain, and a good many upper corners very lightly creased across. Also present are two témoins and a few examples of paper flaws from manufacture or incomplete trimming. Provenance indicia as above, small pencil notations on title-page verso and first text leaf.
A scholarly work in vernacular language on vernacular language, from a scholarly press; furthermore a handsome publication, and in a handsome copy with wide handsome margins. (38897)

The Best of 16th-Century Italian Satire
Ariosto, Ludovico, & others; Francesco Sansovino, ed.
Sette libri di satire di Ludovico Ariosto, Hercole Bentivogli, Luigi Alemanni, Pietro Nelli,
Antonino Vinciguerra, Francesco Sansovino, ed altri scrittori. Venice: Appresso Fabio, &
Agostin Zopini fratelli, 1583. 8vo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). [8], 206, [1] ff. (lacking original final
blank).
$500.00
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Later edition of collected satires by famous Italian authors, edited by one of them,
Francesco Sansovino (1521–86).
Sansovino dedicates this collection to the historian Camillo Portio (Porzio, 1526 – ca.
1580), and introduces it with an essay on the material of satire, which he breaks down as “pure
simplicity, with severe acerbity, sometimes mixed with a bit of salt, or with some feature [that is]
tasty, and acute.” Prior to this, Sansovino also worked on the satires of Ariosto (1474–1533),
separately published.
The text is divided into sections by author, each of whom the editor introduces with a
brief biography. A short abstract printed in roman precedes each poem, printed in italic. Fine
woodcut head- and tailpieces, and a variety of initials in historiated, patterned, and factotum
designs, decorate the text; and the title-page features the woodcut printers' device of Truth
personified, flanked by an eagle, a lion, a bull, and an angel, representing the Four Evangelists.
Provenance: Ownership inscription on front fly-leaf of Luigi Pagani Cesa, possibly the
Italian jurist born at Belluno in 1855, who served as a member of Parliament for 1904–13; and
the words “penso che” (“I think that . . .”) written above, in an earlier hand?
Adams A1691; CNCE 2806. Later glazed cream-colored boards, title and date
inked on upper spine, small paper label on lower spine, marbled red edges; boards soiled and
front joint opening. One spot of worming on front pastedown and on colophon leaf; traces of
former mounting on colophon leaf verso. Title-page with one letter added in manuscript (o, in
Bentivoglio). Trimmed close at margins almost grazing headline on a few leaves. Very minor
stains on a few leaves, generally bright and crisp.
(30836)

The First Jesuit Mission to the
Mughal Empire
Bartoli, Daniello. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aqvaviva ... sua vita e morte, e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della fede in Salsete di Goa. Milano: Lodovico Monza, 1664. 12mo. [4] ff., 193, [1] p., [1] f.
$8750.00
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Rodolfo Acquaviva (a.k.a., Ridolfo Aquaviva), nephew of Claudio Acquaviva the fifth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1581–1615), after his Jesuit novitiate was ordained a priest in 1578 at Lisbon and sailed for India. Arriving in India he taught at the Jesuit school (Saint Paul's College) in Goa, founded by St. Francis Xavier and the site of the first printing press in India. In 1580 the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great summoned him to his court and thus began Acquaviva's mission to the Mughal empire. His was, in fact, the first Jesuit mission there.
As Prof. Emerita Frances W. Pritchett of Columbia University writes on her great website (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/ikram/part2_12.html): “Of all the aspects of Akbar's life and reign, few have excited more interest than his attitude toward religion. . . . [H]e built the Ibadat Khana, the House of Worship, which he set apart for religious discussions. Every Friday after the congregational prayers, scholars, dervishes, theologians, and courtiers interested in religious affairs would assemble in the Ibadat Khana and discuss religious subjects in the royal presence.”
It was to these discussions/conversations/debates that Acquaviva was invited.
The religions represented were many, the major participants including Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Hindus, Jains, and Zoroastrians. After several months Acquaviva felt his contributions to the debates insufficient to justify continuing as part of the mission and left the task to fellow Jesuits. On return to Goa his missionary work led him to the Hindu Kshatriyas of Salcette, south of Goa, which proved a fatal decision. Prior to his arrival, the Jesuits with the aid of Portuguese troops had destroyed some temples there; the Cuncolim Revolt of July, 1583, was partially a result of
those actions and it was in the revolt that
Acquaviva and the four companions alluded to in the title of this work were murdered.
The author of this biography was a major Jesuit historian of the Society's activity in Asia. He was the author of the monumental Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu (1650–1673) in 6 folio volumes, Della vita e dell'istituto di S. Ignatio, fondatore della Compagnia di Gesu (1650), L'Asia (1653), Il Giappone, parte seconda dell'Asia (1660), La Cina, terza parte dell'Asia (1663), L'Inghilterra, parte dell'Europa (1667), L'Italia, prima parte dell'Europa (1673), and biographies of Jesuits Vincenzo Caraffa (1651), Robert Bellarmine (1678), Stanislas Kostka (1678), Francis Borgia (1681), and Niccolo Zucchi (1682). Also of interest are his works on science: Della tensione e della pressione (1677), Del suono, dei tremori armonici, dell'udito (1679), and Del ghiaccio e della coagulatione (1682).
This is the second edition of Bartoli's account of Acquaviva and his mission, following the first of the previous year. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate just two copies of the 1663 edition, both in the U.S., and similarly only two copies of this 1664 (one in Germany, one at Oxford).
DeBacker-Sommervogel, I, 975; Graesse, I, 303 (for first edition and other later editions but not knowing of this second). Late 18th-century quarter vellum over light boards covered with green paper. Undeciphered 17th-century ownership inscription on title-page. Waterstaining, at times significant, at others barely visible.
A sound copy with no worming or tears. (35200)

Bilingual Stanze in
Elegant Dos à Dos Format
New Translation, Limited Edition
Bembo, Pieto. Stanze composte ... in occasione delle festivita da carnevale alla corte d'Urbino nell' anno ... [di] mille cinquencento sette ... Austin: Pr. by Bradley Hutchinson for Michele Miracolo, 2015.
$165.00
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The inaugural publication of the Michele Miracolo Press is the Stanze by Pietro Bembo, the famed Venetian poet and humanist who composed this 50 stanza poem as part of the Carnival festivities for the court of Urbino in 1507. The text has been
newly translated into English by David Slavitt and printed by Bradley Hutchinson from Blado types cast at his letterpress workshop in Austin, Texas. Approximately 100 copies of this bilingual edition were printed and bound in an unusual “tête bêche” [a.k.a., dos a dos ] style, with each language having its own front cover but meeting in the middle, one text upside down in relation to the other.”

Celebrating the Pope's Visit to Bologna — Illustrations by Guido Reni
Benacci, Vittorio, pub.; Guido Reni, illus. Descrittione de gli apparati fatti in Bologna per la venuta di N.S. Papa Clemente VIII. & insieme di essa venuta, & dimora di sua beatitudine in detta citta. [colophon: Bologna: Per Vittorio Benacci], 1599. 4to (22.5 cm, 8.8"). [28] pp.; illus. (lacking signature C, including 4 plts.).
$8000.00
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Uncommon festival book commemoration of Pope Clement VIII's ceremonial entrance into Bologna in 1598, depicting the arches and other architectural features designed by the celebrated painter Guido Reni for the pope's visit. The five full-page images were copper-engraved from Reni's vividly rendered sketches of his own designs, with an additional vignette of the arms of Bologna on the title-page and Benacci's printer's device on the final page. Complete copies of this work are seldom encountered and, while the present example is lacking signature C (including four plates), it still offers
five lively, engaging views of significant architectural, artistic, and Catholic interest. This is the second edition, following the first of the previous year.
Evidence of readership: Six pages towards the end of the work bear marginal notes in early, neatly inked Italian.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, I, 768 (for 1598 ed.); Cicognara, I, 1402 (for 1598 ed.); EDIT16 CNCE 5106; Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books, 50. 18th-century mottled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and board edges with blind roll; leather almost entirely sueded. Later endpapers (watermarked “Chantry”). Lacking one signature and four plates, including one folding. Last few leaves annotated as above, some notes shaved. Imperfect and so priced; still, both attractive and worthy of study. (37836)

Bernesque Poetry at its Finest
Berni, Francesco; Giovanni Mauro; & Others. Tutte le opere del Bernia in terza rima, nuovamente con somma diligentia stampate. [Venice?: s.n.], 1540. 8vo (15.1 cm, 6"). 168 ff.
$2250.00
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Italian translator Berni (1497/8–1535) was so good at writing serio-comic and satirical poetry with double meanings that the style took on his name. Written in terza rima, the present early “Bernesque” collection showcases his aesthetic by gathering his work with that of three of his peers. Donadoni notes Berni's “poems deal with the most futile, most cunningly indecent, or the most paradoxical themes,” and these examples are no exception — they cover a variety of topics including Pope Adriano and Aristotle (History of Italian Literature, I, 240). Court official Mauro (1490–1536), bishop Della Casa (1503–56), and apostolic abbreviator Bini (1484–1556) were all friends of Berni and here imitate his poetry, although none of them comments on a pope.
The text is neatly printed in single columns and split into three different parts with a sectional title-page for each, the latter two reading “Tutte le terze rime del Mauro, nuouamente raccolte e stampate” and “Le ter'ze rime de messer Giouanni dalla casa, di messer Bino et d'altri.”
Though several editions were printed in a short period of time in the 16th century (1538, 1540, 1542, 1545), extant copies are few and far between. Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC reveal
only one holding of this edition in a U.S. institution (Penn).
Evidence of Readership: An early owner has added a handful of inked words and marks on two pages; a more recent owner has penciled extensive notes on several endpapers, supplied page numbers where lacking, marked several passages with arrows or bars, and written a marginal word.
Provenance: Title-page marked with initials “G.D.S.R.” in ink; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 seems to have based its entry on an incomplete copy, for it gives the foliation as 267 [i.e., 167], and while folio 167 is misnumbered in this copy, there is also a folio 168 that is correctly numbered.
EDIT16 CNCE 5538; Adams B753; not in Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua. Recent cream calf, spine with two dark red leather labels, new endpapers; light scratching. Provenance and readership evidence as above. Light dust-soiling, staining, or spotting mostly in margins; just under four gatherings with light marginal waterstaining.
A desirable representative of the burlesque poetry genre. (38032)
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A Protestant Italian Bible — With Woodcuts
Bible. Italian. 1562. Brucioli. La Bibia, che si chiama Il vecchio Testamento, nuouamente tradutto in lingua volgare secondo la verità del testo Hebreo ... Quanto al nuouo Testamento è stato riueduto e ricorretto secondo la verità del testo Greco.... [Geneva]: Stampato Appresso Francesco Durone, 1562. 4to (26.2 cm; 10.375'). [6] ff., 465 (i.e., 467), [1], 110, [18] ff., [1] folding plt. (facsim), [1] folding table (facsim); illus.
$4275.00
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A much revised edition of Brucioli's Old Testament married to Massimo Teofilo's New Testament, printed for Genevan Protestant refugees and meant to be spirited into Italy for crypto-Protestants. Darlow and Moule note that “this edition closely resembles certain contemporary French and English Bibles printed at Geneva. The woodcuts are the same as those in the French Bible of 1560 printed by Antoine Rebul . . . , and the type is that of the English Geneva Bible of 1560.” Of the two variations described in Darlow and Moule, this copy is variant A, meaning that the N.T. has marginal notes similar to those of the rest of the text; Darlow and Moule also tell us that “[t]his revision. . . has been ascribed to Filippo Rusticio, or Rustico.”
The work offers a handsome printer's device on its title-page, along with
24 in-text
woodcuts of various sizes, all located in the Old Testament, and a folding plate, “La forma de la restauration del Tempio.” A second folding plate contains a table of the passion timeline. At the end of the edition's O.T. is a two-page commentary on “Lo stato dei giudei sotto la monarchia dei Romani,” i.e., the state of the Jews in [ancient] Rome.
Adams B1198; Darlow & Moule 5592. For more on Italian editions of the Bible, see: Pelikan, The Reformation of the Bible; the Bible of the Reformation, p. 60. 18th-century vellum over boards with narrow yapp edges, spine ruled in gilt, covers framed in gilt with gilt arabesque centerpiece, remnants of green silk ties; small sticker on spine, front joint just starting, pastedowns lost with turn-ins starting to warp and fly-leaves (due to this) tattered at edges. Light pencilling/inking on inside front board, and evidence of bookplate no longer present. Age-toning variously with light, often very faint waterstaining to most bottom corners; signature on title-page, a few worn edges or unevenly trimmed leaves, one repaired corner, occasionally a spot, and a number of leaves creased across lower outer corner. Folding plate and folding table both in excellent facsimile, laid in.
A sturdy, relatively affordable copy of this beautiful book. (37300)

Civil Engineering: Building (& Funding!) Railroads, in Italian
Biot, Édouard, & David Hansemann; Luigi Tatti, ed. & trans. L'architetto delle strade ferrate: Ovvero, saggio sui principi generali dell'arte di formare le strade a ruotaje di ferro di Eduardo Biot altro dei sovraintendenti all' esecuzione della strada ferrata da Santo Stefano a Lione. Recato in Italiano con note ed aggiunte dall' ingegnere Luigi Tatti[.] Unitavi una memoria di Davide Hansemann relativa ai rapporti politici ed economici di questa specie di strade. Milano: Angelo Monti, 1837. 8vo (29.1 cm, 11.45"). viii, 371, [1] pp.; 5 fold. plts.
$750.00
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First edition: Italian rendition of two railway-related items, from two authors and a translator who were all prominent in that field. First here is Manuel du constructeur de chemins de fer, a treatise on railroad construction written by the French engineer, Sinologist, and author-translator Biot (1803–50); following that work, with a separate title-page, is “Le strade ferrate e i loro imprenditori considerati nei rapporti colla pubblica amministrazione,” by Prussian politician and banker Hansemann (1790–1864), one of the Rhenish Railway directors. Both items were translated into Italian by engineer, architect, and architectural historian Luigi Tatti (1808–81). At the back of the volume are
five oversized, folding plates, each with multiple figures of train and track schematics.
This first Italian appearance is now uncommon: searches of WorldCat find only four U.S. institutions reporting physical holdings (Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan).
Provenance: Title-page, rear free endpaper, and rear pastedown rubber-stamped “Ex libris Augustini Mueller.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29998. 19th-century quarter brown sheep, marbled paper–covered sides in a Spanish wave and shell vein pattern; spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, blind-tooled decorative motif in center, and small gilt roll bands. Binding moderately rubbed overall, more so at edges, extremities, and joints; light to moderate foxing, one page with small area of tiny ink splatters in outer margin; large Mueller rubber-stamp as noted.
A sound, more than serviceable copy of this interesting work. (40072)

A FORGERY of a Renaissance Rarity
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Decamerone ... nvovamente corretto. et con diligentia stampato. [colophon: Firenze {i.e., Venice}: Li heredi di Philippo di Giunta {i.e,, Angiolo Pasinello for Stefano Orlandelli}, 1527 {i.e, 1729}]. 4to (24 cm, 9.5"). [16] pp, 284 ff.
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In 1527 the heirs of Filippo di Giunta printed the definitive Renaissance edition of The Decameron; it immediately became the basis for all subsequent interpretations. By the 18th century the Giunta edition of 1527 had achieved the state of being a rarity to be sought after, and demand led to supply — of this forgery. It is well done and passes the “first blush” test, i.e., it does not immediately look wrong. Pasinello, who printed it for Stefano Orlandelli “at the request of the English consul [Joseph] Smith” (Petras), did a good job of matching types and even reproducing the printer's device, which appears on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf. Closer examination, however, shows that the paper is wrong, the typesetting is different, and the measurements of the text block are incorrect.
Adams, in his catalogue of 16th-century books in the Cambridge University libraries, gives a handy litmus test for determining fakes of the Giunta 1527 edition: Folios 42, 102, and 108 are correctly numbered in the forgeries, but in the true 16th-century copies the numbers are 24, 101, and 168.
Brunet says the forgery consisted of 300 copies.
Provenance: Hevdholm Bibliothek stamp on title-page; acquired by PRB&M at an auction at Freeman's in Philadelphia in 1992; sold to a private collector the same year; reacquired by PRB&M at a Swann auction over 25 years later. (Jokes about “bad pennies returning” occur to one; but this is too nice a “counterfeit” to permit fair indulgence in them!)
Pettas, The Giunti of Florence (2013 ed.), 217; Adams B2147; Gamba 172; Zambrini, Bibliotheca Boccaccesca, p. 36; Edit16 CNCE 24078; I Giunti tipografi editori di Firenze, I, p. 133; Renouard, Annali delle editione aldine; pp. 1–11; Brunet, I, p. 999. 18th-century mottled calf with round spine, raised bands, and gilt spine extra, with later endpapers; all edges carmine. Front joint (outside) abraded and opening from top, rear one just starting at bottom; front cover with two wormholes and old worm action contributing to the startings. Text is unwormed, clean, and white save for a display of foxing on the title-page and occasionally a very limited spot of soil, staining, or foxing elsewhere.
Sound, handsome, and a most interesting production. (40738)

Plates by Leclerc, Sole Elzevir Edition, Olshki Provenance
Bonarelli della Rovere, Guidubaldo. Filli di Sciro, favola pastorale. Amsterdam: nella stamperia del D. Elsevier; et in Parigi si vende apresso Thomaso Jolly, 1678. 24mo (10.5 cm; 4.125"). Engr. title-page (included in pagination), 168 pp., 5 engr. plts.
$575.00
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Sole Elzevir edition, with an added engraved title-page and five engraved plates by Sebastien Leclerc. The text is a pastoral drama, a remake of the medieval legend of Florio and Biancofiore. It was extremely popular in the 17th century because of the musicality of its language.
Provenance: Bookseller label of Leo S. Olschki. Most recently in the collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat find fewer than a dozen North American libraries reporting ownership.
Willems 1542. 19th-century maroon calf, plain but with raised bands beaded; rose-color endpapers. Fly-leaf with old, largely obliterated inscription; a few preliminary leaves with old faded waterstains along the outer and top margins.
An attractive copy of a nice little Elzevir. (37778)

Rime Pietose — De Luca Copy
Interestingly VARIOUS Management of the Woodcuts
Bramicelli, Guglielmo, transl. Inni che si cantano tutto l'anno alle hore canoniche, nella Chiesa romana. Venetia: Giorgio Angelieri, 1597. 8vo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). [40] pp., 93 (i.e., 100) ff. (pagination erratic); illus.
$1975.00
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First edition: Catholic hymns, translated from Latin into Italian verse by a member of the Clerics Regular of Somasca (variously identified as either Bramiceli or Bramicelli). Many of the hymns open with small illustrations — totaling
42 in-text woodcuts— and the title-page features Angelieri's printer's device of an amphora watering a seedling, bearing the motto “A poco a poco.”
The woodcuts are notable not only for the variety of scenes they present but for a certain variety in presentation: Many of the images are presented with their edges visually defined in the normal way, essentially “ruled”; but some are presented as if paintings, within full Renaissance “picture frames” --- with the images themselves, inside, sometimes having their edges normally defined and sometimes floating entirely free. Yet other cuts are given framing at their sides or top and bottom, but not both!
Bramicelli's vernacular renditions were apparently unauthorized; one source claims that the Church ordered the book burned (Tentorio, Saggio storico sullo sviluppo dell'ordine somasco dal 1569 al 1650, p. 178). This may explain why the work is now
scarce, with WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locating only one U.S. institutional holding (Newberry), and only one additional one internationally. EDIT16 gives only ten Italian libraries as holding copies.
Provenance: From the collection of Don Tommaso De Luca (1752–1829), described by Alexander Roberson as “a priest of the old school . . . possessed of one of the finest libraries in all Northern Italy”; front free endpaper inked with “Exemplare proveniente dalla celebre Collezione de Luca. Veggasi suo Catalogo stampato, alla pag. 101, lin. 29.30" (referring to De Luca's 1816 Catalogo di una pregevole collezione di manoscritti e di libri a stampa delle più ricercate edizioni). Most recently in the library of of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 7425. Not in Adams; not in Mortimer; not in Index Aurel. Contemporary marbled paper–covered limp wrappers, faded and rubbed overall; spine darkened and chipped, front cover with early inked numeral at upper center. Front hinge (inside) cracked, with uppermost of two sewing bands separated from vellum; front free endpaper with early bibliographic note in neatly inked Italian. Light waterstaining to lower outer corners of about 12 ff., scattered minor foxing.
A fascinating production. (38978)

Vincenza's
Illustrated & Hand-BEADED Prayer Book
Catholic Church. Liturgy. L'anima adoratrice del santissimo sacramento, raccolta di orazioni per ascoltare la santa Messa secondo le proprie intenzioni, ed altre divotissime preghiere. Besanzone: Antonio Montarsolo (pr. by Bonvalot), [ca. 1860]. 16mo (12.5 cm, 4.9"). Frontis., illum. t.-p., 464 pp.; 2 plts.
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Scarce illustrated Catholic prayer book intended to accompany Mass, this copy in a
lovingly personalized, hand-beaded binding featuring the owner's initial. The title-page is printed in red, green, and gold, and each page of text appears within a decorative border; the frontispiece and two additional steel-engraved plates were done by Dopter at Paris (and captioned in French). A small color-printed icon of St. Anna is laid in, along with black and white images of the Holy Family and St. Aloysius.
Searches of WorldCat find
no reported holdings of this printing in any binding.
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, spine with gilt-stamped decoration of geometric and foliate elements, boards framed and panelled in single gilt roll, leather of center panels partially cut away and replaced with beaded canvas. Front cover beading presents clusters of red, pink, and gold flowers on green vines, surrounding a central gold “V”; back cover beading, mostly lost or perhaps never completed, shows offers portions of pink flowers and green vines on a background of brown beads.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription of Vincenza Landi, dated 1860.
Bound as above; central portion of back cover beading mostly sans beads as above, front panel nearly perfect and very bright. Hinges (inside) cracked but holding; back free endpaper torn. Pages and plates foxed.
Unique, and a remarkably evocative object. (41245)

Beautifully Bound Bilingual Edition of Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Catullo Tibullo e Properzio d'espurgata lezione tradotti dall'ab. Raffaele Pastore. Bassano: Tip. Giuseppe Remondini e Figli ed., 1823. 12mo (17 cm; 6.75"). 2 vols. in 1. I: [15], 4–297, [3] pp.; II: 317, [3] pp.
$275.00
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Bilingual edition of the works of the famous trio of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, translated by poet Raffaele Pastore into Italian, here in the fifth edition. For easy comparison, the Latin original is in italic type on the left and the Italian translation is in roman on the right, with marginal notes added. The title-page notes this edition has been “ritoccata dal traduttore, accresciuta insieme e modificata in parte, e divisa in due volumi.”
Binding: Black morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt using six different rolls and a single and a triple rule; two compartments stamped in blind. Covers single-ruled in gilt around a frame of blind-stamped flowers with a blind-embossed “chipped” diamond design at center that incorporates two different texturings and a central circle-and-swirls motif; board edges and turn-ins gilt in zig-zag patterns. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled in an identical design. Green ribbon place marker still attached.
Provenance: Presentation label noting “To Angelo C. Hayter, from his affectionate father, Sir George Hayter. 1864" on front pastedown; title-pages with barely legible rubber-stamp from St. Michele's in Bologna. George Hayter (1792–1871) was a noted English painter who served as Queen Victoria's Principal Painter in Ordinary. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above, gently rubbed, tailband partially detached; provenance evidence as above, four examples of a chipped margin, trimmed corner, or tremoin. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots.
A clean and handsome copy. (37740)

Star-Crossed Italian Lovers — Peregrino & Genevera
Caviceo, Jacopo. Il peregrino. Vinegia: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. 8vo (15 cm, 5.9"). [16] pp., 271, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus.
$2250.00
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“Nuovamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, et alla sua pristina integrita ridotto”: an uncommon early edition of Caviceo's best-selling, often translated, and widely influential romance. The author had a complicated life which included dropping out of law school shortly before he could be expelled, becoming a court historian and diplomat in Parma, being banished from that city for seducing a nun (and possibly more than one), voyaging in the Middle East and India, and embroiling himself in various political intrigues before working his way to the post of Vicar General in cities including Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence. His classically inspired novel, first published in 1508 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, is a romance in which Peregrino tells the ghost of Boccaccio all about his globe-spanning quest to satisfy his passion for the fair Genevera — with the plot incorporating the author's own travel experiences.
In addition to the woodcut architectural border on the title-page (previously used in the printer's 1536 edition of Boccaccio's Laberinto), the text is decorated with one large and two small woodcut illustrations, the large cut showing our lovelorn hero tormented by two satyrs playing fantastical string and wind instruments, under the banner “Ancora spero solver me.”
WorldCat locates
only three U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams C1190; EDIT 16 CNCE 71312; Brunet, I, 1701; Index aurel. 134.670. 19th-century half calf over marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped olive morocco title-label and gilt-tooled bands, all page edges speckled in brown; binding rubbed and worn, joints cracked but holding. First gathering very possibly supplied from a different copy. Front pastedown with two older cataloguing slips affixed; front free endpaper and (tipped-in) fly-leaf with later inked annotations in Latin and Italian. Occasional small spots of foxing and ink staining; a limited circle of light waterstain(?) to last leaf; a very few small early inked marks of emphasis in margins. A solid, eminently readable copy of an
important, readable, and uncommon early prose romanzo d'amore. (37524)

Bodoni Press: Genesis in Italian Verse
Cerati, Gregorio [Gaetano Gerardo]. La genesi: Versione di Monsignor D. Gregorio Cerati, già vescovo di Piacenza. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1807. 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). [2], lix, [3], 260, [4] pp.
$275.00
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First edition: Poetic retelling of key Old Testament events from the creation of the world through the deaths of Jacob and Joseph, by an author (1730–1807) who served as bishop of Piacenza from 1783 until his death. This Bodoni printing sets Cerati's terza rima in the press's typically restrained, minimalist style; the preface is dedicated “al chiarissimo Giambatista Bodoni” by Antonio Cerati.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, spine with gilt-stamped floral motifs, covers bordered with gilt roll. Attractive marbled endpapers; original silk bookmarker present and attached.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Benedetto Grandi, a collector of books and antiquities, and with small early label marked “Attilio”; front free endpaper with bookplate of Dom Henri Quentin (1872–1935), philologist and editor of the Vulgate Old Testament.
Brooks 1018; Giani 180 (p. 72; apparent error in collation). Bound as above, lightly rubbed overall and spine sunned to olive. Scattered minor foxing; small signs of worming buried in gutters and other spots in inner margins with repairs done some time ago, with occasional minor adhering between pages at repair locations.
Solid and very readable; a pleasing copy. (40193)

Eminent Rhetorician Bodoni Printing
Cerretti, Luigi. Poesie. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 8vo (16.1 cm, 6.33"). [2], 49, [1] pp.
$350.00
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Uncommon Bodoni edition: Verses from a Modena poet (1738–1808) who began his studies with the Jesuits before going on to a respected career as a professor — but one with a tumultuous personal and political life. “The purity and elegance of his diction made [Cerretti] at an early age, the most distinguished professor of rhetoric and oratory in Italy. His ‘Poems and Select Prose,’ collected into a posthumous volume, were instantly successful, and have retained their rank ever since” (Charles Dudley Warner). This is
the first and only appearance of any of Cerretti's work from the prestigious Bodoni press (with the title-page here giving the author's name as Ceretti).A search of WorldCat finds only five U.S. institutions reporting holdings (Harvard, Southern Methodist, University of Oregon, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 804; De Lama, II, 142; Giani 134 (p. 65). Contemporary limp marbled boards, spine with original printed paper label upside down at foot of spine; lightly rubbed overall, spine slightly darkened. Endpapers with pencilled bibliographic annotations, front pastedown with early inked numeral and tiny inscription. Page edges untrimmed, a few with chips and some with lightest dust-soiling; a very attractive little item. (40183)

Judith & Holofernes — A “Last-Era” Bodoni
Di Calboli Paulucci, Francesco. La Giuditta: Canti del marchese Francesco di Calboli Paulucci fra gli Arcadi Euricrate Acrisioneo; membro ordinario Dell'Accademia Italiana, ecc. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1813. Large 4to (31.9 cm, 12.56"). [8], xiii, [3], 207, [1] pp.
$425.00
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First edition: A lengthy verse retelling of Judith's triumph in a large handsome font, two verses to a broad page, dedicated to Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. Bodoni began the preparation of this edition, and Luigi Orsi finished it after his death; one of his final works, this impressive large quarto embodies
the later, absolutely unadorned Bodoni aesthetic.
A search of WorldCat finds only seven U.S. institutions reporting ownership.
Brooks 1146; De Lama, II, 218–19. Contemporary speckled paper–covered boards, framed in single blind roll, spine with later gilt-stamped red leather title and publisher labels; spine darkened, edges and extremities chewed, back joint starting from head and foot. Front pastedown showing small line of adhesion from now-absent affixed label. A very few faint spots of foxing only, indeed happily few as Bodoni productions can go; internally, an attractive, wide-margined example, with its page edges untrimmed. (40201)
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Greek History for Italians
Dictys, Cretensis; Dares, Phrygius; Porcacchi, Tommaso, trans. Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio della Guerra Troiana. In Vinetia: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrarii, 1570. 4to (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [32], 180 pp.
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First Italian edition of Tuscan historian, philologist, and poet Porcacchi's translations of Dictys Cretensis' and Dares Phrygius' works on
the Trojan War, with supplementary materials. The text starts with a dedication from Porcacchi to Silvio Torelli; a detailed index; and introductory material on the importance of historical study, past Greek historians, and a publication history, before moving on to Cretensis' Ditte candiotto della Guerra Troiana; a letter from Cornelio Nepote to Crispo Sallustio on Phrygius' work; Phrygius' Historia di Darete Frigio della ruina di Troia; three of Libanius' declamationes discussing Helen of Troy, Medea, and Andromache; and the Vite di tutti gl'historici antichi greci, with biographies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, and others.
The work is beautifully printed in single columns with shouldernotes using italic and roman type; Giolito has added numerous head- and tailpieces plus an array of lovely, variously sized historiated initials, with his sizable printer's device appearing on the title-page.
Provenance: A shelfmark has been added on the top edge and title on the bottom edge in ink, with the shelflabel of Domenico Olivieri di Parma on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams D437; Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito, II, 295–7; EDIT16 CNCE 17123; Graesse, II, p. 389; Schweiger, II, 332. 19th-century quarter vellum and beige paper–covered boards, gilt-stamped green leather spine label, pink ribbon placemarker; expectable dust-soiling on covers, one limited stain on front. Light to moderate age-toning, three gatherings with rather light marginal waterstaining; title-page and a few other leaves with small stains of various darkness, a missing corner, a marginal repair, or a short tear. Provenance indicia as above, one inked note on front free endpaper, ink on edges occasionally bleeding slightly into margins.
A neatly, in fact elegantly packaged overview of the Trojan War and Greek historians. (39331)

Art Artists Wit Allegory Prose Poetry
Doni, Anton Francesco. La zvcca del Doni, Fiorentino. Divisa in cinqve libri di gran valore ... In Venetia: Appresso F. Rampazetto, ad instantia di G.B. & M., Sessa fratelli, 1565. 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.25"). [8], 316 ff.
$850.00
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Doni (1513–74) first published La zucca in parts over the course of 1551 and 1552 — a collection of moral tales, witticisms, aphorisms, and letters in which he often mocks his contemporaries, all of it in prose with some poetry and with a heavy helping of allegory. In this edition that Rampazetto printed for the famous Sessa family of publishers/printers, he has edited the five parts and renamed them in the forms now most commonly used.
Added here is his work on art (“Pitture”), which had first appeared in 1564 at Padua. The theme is the allegorical representation of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. Through this work he gives us an understanding of the artistic theory of his era and
many observations on the life and works of such artists as Giovanni Angelo (1507–63) and Vasari.
A full-page woodcut portrait of author is found on the verso of leaf *8, along with the printer's woodcut device on the title-page and woodcut headpieces and initials throughout the text.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Grässe, II, p. 424; Marsili-Libelli, Anton Francesco Doni,; 57; Edit16 CNCE 17710; Gamba 1367 (note). . . Early 20th-century vellum over light boards, ruled and tooled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Possible ownership name in one margin (not deciphered). Light waterstaining in some upper and lower margins, with occasional limited effect to text; overall in fact
a good and attractive copy. (40658)

Bodoni Poetry
Doricleo, Silvino [pseud. of Giuseppe Bonvicini]. Pensieri poetici. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1797. 4to (31 cm, 12.25"). [8], 31, [1] pp.
$300.00
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Uncommon first edition: 28 poems from a Parma lawyer, in
a large, handsome Bodoni quarto with the verses set in elegant italics.Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 672; De Lama, II, 124; Giani 102 (p. 59). Modern quarter brown morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title; traces of wear to front joint and extremities. Title-page with spot of staining affecting final two letters of epigraph from Vergil, carrying through to first dedication leaf; foxing in the variable degrees typical of so many Bodoni productions. Clean and solid; page edges untrimmed. (40177)

History of Rome in Both Latin & Italian —Bodoni Press
Eutropius; Giuseppe Bandini, trans. Il compendio della storia romana di Flavio Eutropio recato di latino in italiano. Parma: Dalla Tipografia Ducale, 1828. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). xxii, 354, [2 (errata)] pp.
$250.00
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First edition of Bandini's Italian translation of the Breviarium historiae romanae, Eutropius's widely read history of Rome, as well as the first appearance from the Bodoni-run ducal press, at the time of this printing under the supervision of
Margherita Dall’Aglio, Giambattista Bodoni's widow. The text, which includes the original Latin set in italics beneath each section of Italian, is crisply printed on notably heavy paper — “molto bene stampato,” as Brooks puts it.This Bodoni production is now uncommon, with searches of WorldCat finding
only three U.S. institutions (University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Yale) reporting holdings.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 1298. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and acanthus motifs; binding rubbed. Very minor spots of foxing to title-page, wide-margined pages otherwise clean. (40205)
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Praised by the Pope, CONDEMNED by the Chinese: Death of a Jesuit Missionary
[Fatinelli, Giovanni Jacopo]; Carlo Majelli. Relazione della preziosa morte dell' eminentiss. e reverendiss. Carlo Tomaso Maillard di Tournon prete cardinale della S.R. Chiesa. Commissario, e Visitatore Apostolico Generale, con le facoltà di legato a latere nell' Impero della Cina, e regni dell' Indie Orientali, seguita nella città di Macao li 8. del mese di giugno dell' anno 1710, edi [sic] ciò, che gli avvenne negli ultimi cinque mesi della sua vita. Roma & Bologna: Costantino Pisarri, 1711. 4to (20.4 cm, 8"). 70, [2] pp.
$875.00
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Cardinal Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon (a.k.a. Carlo Tommaso, 1668–1710) was a papal legate to the East Indies and China, tasked with overseeing the missionaries in those areas and with managing the inflammatory issue of the Malabar and Chinese rites: controversial practices intended to accommodate Indian and Chinese traditions and rituals as part of the process of teaching Christian thought and practice. While in India in 1704, Tournon attempted to resolve the problem there by issuing a decree prohibiting a variety of missionary adaptations thought to endorse idolatry or superstition — a decree which actually caused further, knottier complications for the local missions and for the Pope — but once he arrived in China and the Kangxi Emperor learned of his intentions, he was imprisoned at Macau, where he died.
This announcement of Tournon's death, written in Italian with Latin quotations, is attributed to the Cardinal's deputy, Abbot Giangiacomo Fatinelli; following the main statement are “Verba per Sanctissimum Dominum Nostrum Clementem Papam XI . . . de obitu Cardinalis de Tournon” and Carlo Majelli's “Oratio habita in Sacello Pontificio V. Kal. Decembris A.D. MDCCXI. in funere ... Cardinalis Caroli Thomae Maillard de Tournon apostolici ad Sinas, & Indias Orientales.” This is the second of three editions published in 1711, with this being a notably scarce printing: Searches of WorldCat find
only three U.S. institutions reporting holdings (Harvard, Princeton, and Cleveland).
Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, 913–14 (for Gonzaga ed.); DeBacker-Sommervogel, XI, 1285-6 (calling for 38 pages only, i.e. the first part). Later plain paper wrappers, darkened and worn, back wrapper with numeral in red. Title-page with early inked numeral in upper outer corner. Title-page mildly foxed, pages otherwise overall clean. (40109)

Illustrated Italian Gospels
Fiorentino [Nannini], Remigio, transl. Epistole et evangelii, che si leggono tutto l'anno alla Messa, secondo l'uso della Santa Romana Chiesa. Vinegia: Gabriel Giolito, 1569. 4to (24.7 cm, 9.72"). [32], 527, [1] pp.; illus.
$2000.00
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This devotional work “nuovamente tradotti in lingua toscana” was by a Dominican friar, is here in its second edition (following a first of 1567), and is one of the few vernacular biblical texts at the time approved by the Catholic Church, being
the only accepted Italian translation. Nannini's text is embellished with
numerous large, often striking woodcut illustrations and with many and various initials of various sizes, and it includes two calendrical tables as well as an index.
Provenance: Front pastedown with “E Bib. Si. Fi. Xii” bookplate, overlying a lengthy inked annotation in Italian, dated 1682. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 11371. Not in Adams, not in Brunet. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in complementary very plain style without labels; sides with moderate scuffing. Pagination occasionally erratic, especially towards back of volume, with no apparent break in text; all edges speckled red. Bookplate and annotations as above, with occasional early inked doodles and annotations, including to title-page and final page (with printer's vignette). Text age-toned with intermittent light to moderate waterstaining and spotting, first and final leaves more noticeably soiled; a few corners bumped or torn away.
Very solid, and with all its obvious use and wear quite attractive. (41333)

A Really Elaborate Apology — Columbus, Too!
Foglietta, Uberto. Uberti Folietae clarorum Ligurum elogia. Genuae: Ex officina Hieronymi Bartoli, 1588. 4to (24.5 cm, 9.6"). [8], 265, [3] pp.
$875.00
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First Genoa edition of Italian historian Foglietta's biographical sketches of influential citizens from Liguria, the region in which Genoa happens to be located, including
four pages on Christopher Columbus. Native Genoan and historian Fogiletta (1518–81) was banished from the city and moved to Rome after publishing his work Delle cose della repubblica di Genova, which described abuses of the old nobility against the new (the latter including his family). The present work, originally published in 1572 at Rome, was written to prove his loyalty to his hometown, to which he happily returned in 1576.
The text is sumptuously printed in single columns with spacious margins using roman and italic type with a few illustrated initials, headpieces, and type ornaments as well as a printer's device featuring a hydra surrounded by the motto “virtus virescit vulnere” on the title-page; an index printed in double columns and register follow the main body of text. Cataloging at the Library of Congress notes that this edition consists of the same sheets as the Rome, 1573 printing except for the first gathering (pp. [1–8]), which has been reset.
Provenance: “Foglieta Claro[rum] Illustrium” has been written in ink along the bottom edge with “Don Berardi della Ferra” and another name scribbled out on the title-page, as well as a signature dated 1669 below the colophon, in what appear to be three different early hands; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 588/31; EDIT16 CNCE 19333; Sabin 24942. Not in Adams. On Foglietta, see: Treccani (online). Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine and bottom edge, evidence of now-absent ties; spine darkened and crackling just enough to show evidence of binding waste, some spotting on covers, endpapers repaired. Provenance notes and booklabel as above. Light to moderate age-toning and mostly faint marginal waterstaining throughout, with intermittent foxing and a handful of spots. Three leaves including the title-page have been repaired.
Exactly what one expects a nice 16th-century book to look like! (39368)

A Pretty Little Book — A Litmus Test for
“Your” Variety of Catholicism
Francis of Assisi, St. Fioretti ... testo di lingua secondo la lezione adottata dal P.A. Cesari e con brevi note filologiche di P. Fraticelli. Firenze: Pietro Fraticelli, 1845. Sm 8vo (14.8 cm; 5.75"). 330 pp.
$400.00
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Handsome little edition of these classic Franciscan writings. Oddly, while the New Catholic Encyclopedia of 1967 rather sternly decries the Fioretti as overly legendary and romantic, the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 praises the work as a beautiful expression of medieval religious life, saying “Nowhere can there be found a more childlike faith, a livelier sense of the supernatural, or a simpler literalness in the following Christ than in the pages of the Fioretti.” The text of the present edition follows that adopted by Antonio Cesari, the “standard” Italian version.
Searches of WorldCat and the NUC suggest that two U.S. libraries report ownership, but there is really
only one and it is now at Georgetown.
Binding: Contemporary cream speckled paper over boards in imitation of vellum, covers bordered in gilt single and red double fillets; red leather title label to spine divided into compartments by gilt-stamping in broad bands, with a gilt device in each compartment. Ornate gilt inner dentelles, and stiff marbled endpapers typical of the era. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
Bound as above, front cover very slightly sprung; corners bumped with some accompanying discoloration, not severe. Two front fly-leaves with pencilled notes, some faint spots of foxing.
Overall a clean, lovely little book; quite pleasing. (36682)

Literary Bad Boy Gets Cleaned Up; Remains Popular
Franco, Niccolò; Girolamo Giovannini da Capugnan, ed. Dialoghi piacevolissimi di Nicolò Franco da Benevento. Vinegia: Presso Altobello Salicato, 1590. 8vo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). [8], 148 ff.
$750.00
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First Catholic-approved edition of Franco's Dialogi piacevoli. During the Counter Reformation, most of the “ingrato e faticoso lavoro” (as described by the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani) of censoring texts that the Church found objectionable was carried out anonymously; Dominican priest and prolific editor Giovannini was one of the few whose name was associated with his work. His expurgated productions achieved notable success — this title alone was republished in six other editions by 1609.
Author Franco (1515–70) led quite the interesting life first as Pietro Aretino's secretary and then as his nemesis, before being hanged by the Inquisition, though the present radically altered version of his work might suggest otherwise. Ugo Rozza reports that Giovannini chose to omit Franco's eulogy for Erasmus and, further, that the “rewriting was a travesty of Franco's thought: the explicit anti-Roman polemic in the original was
perverted into an apologia for doctrine and for the most orthodox sentiments” (“Italian Literature on the Index,” Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy). Indeed, in a twist showing how radically confusing to readers and “the record” censorship could be, Giovannini's revisions here were so extensive that he later decided to publish the work under his own name rather than Franco's!
Of the two Salicato printings of 1590, this offering is distinguished by a dedication from Giovannini to Annibale Ruccelai instead of the later dedication to Bernardo, Brandimarte, and Bartolomeo Lovaria. The text, in Italian, is neatly printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman type, with several decorative and historiated initials as well as head- and tailpieces; Salicato's printer's device appears on the title-page.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams F954; Brunet, II, 1377; EDIT16 CNCE 79848; Graesse, II, p. 628. On Franco & Giovannini, see: Treccani (online). Rebacked 18th-century speckled calf, spine with gilt-lettered red leather label, raised bands ruled in gilt, covers framed in gilt double fillets; extremities rubbed, original leather showing fine cracks, free endpapers chipped (with a few pencilled notations). All edges speckled red. Light age-toning and mostly faint marginal waterstaining, a few other stains; four leaves with uneven edges or marginal paper flaws from manufacture. Booklabel as above, evidence of partially removed bookseller label; title-page with small ink dashes, five leaves with mostly illegible ink notes (occasionally offsetting) in an early hand.
Intriguing, particularly in comparison with Franco's original. (39319)

Vices & Virtues for Children — A Woodcut BESTIARY
[“Frate Tommaso”]. Fior di virtu historiato utilissimo a' fanciulli, & ad ogni stato di persone. Verona: Angelo Tamo, 1610. 16mo (14.9 cm, 5.86"). 92, [4] pp.
$1500.00
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Uncommon children's chapbook edition of the “Flower of Virtue,” an illustrated conduct book pairing good and bad qualities, with stories about animals and imaginary beasts providing analogies. First printed in Italian in the 15th century, the work was supposedly written in the 14th and sometimes attributed to Tommaso Leoni or Tommaso Gozzadini; it was a popular didactic text, translated into several different languages (including Hebrew, in 1600). This printing claims to have been newly revised by the Inquisition, and “da molti errori espurgato,” according to the title-page.
The small but vigorous woodcuts include a unicorn, basilisk, and phoenix as well as a camel, lion, falcon, etc.
WorldCat finds
no reported holdings of this printing, and only a handful of other early 17th–century examples.
Evidence of use: Covers with numerous early inked doodles in addition to inscription described below; early inked marginal doodles and marks of emphasis throughout (including the inked outlining of the title-page griffin.
Provenance: Front cover with inked inscription “Tobia 1614"; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Contemporary cartonné binding, darkened, spine and extremities rubbed, front cover with 19th-century small paper shelving label, and spine with two earlier paper labels now chipped and largely lost; corners bumped, with one lower outer corner and one upper outer apparently cut away. Pages age-toned and stained, with a good deal of deep dog-earing and lower outer corner of final leaf torn away not touching text.
A good solid copy, obviously well used and in some ways the more appealing for that. (41237)

Literati Literature
Gaddi, Jacopo. Adlocutiones, et elogia exemplaria, cabalistica, oratoria, mixta, sepulcralia. Florentiae: Typis Petri Nestei, ad signum solis, 1636. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.34"). [2] ff., 187, [1] pp. [with the same author's] [Corollarium poeticum]. [Florence: Pietro Nesti, 1636]. 118, [2] pp. (probably lacking first two preliminary leaves).
$650.00
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First edition of Gaddi's Adlocutiones and the only edition of his Corollarium. Jacopo Gaddi (d. 1668) published these speeches, poems, and epitaphs praising European men of letters within years of founding the Accademia degli Svogliati, an international circle of living literati (including John Milton) who met at his home in Florence to discuss poetry and philosophy. His accolades, in Latin and Italian, go mostly to Italians, including Pietro Bembo, Pope Pius II, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Vicentine nobleman Giangiorgio Trissino, and Dante, among other late greats.
The Corollarium is only found bound with the Adlocutiones, as here; however the latter was also published separately the same year. Both were printed by Pietro Nesti at Florence using roman and italic type with woodcut initials, ornaments, head- and tailpieces. This volume concludes with the original final blank, lacking in many copies, although the Corollarium seems to lack a preliminary signature of two leaves (probably a blank and a sectional title leaf).
Provenance: Front fly-leaf and title-page with early owner's inscription of Oliver Pagn[...]; fly-leaf verso with owner's inscription dated 1650 of Jo[h]annes Baptista Adimari (related, perhaps, to Alessandro Adimari, a member of Gaddi's Accademia who died in 1649?); and front fly-leaf with later owner's inscription of Philadelphian Henry John Gibbons (“Rittenhouse Square West”).
Contemporary flexible vellum with title inked to spine, pierced at the edges for four ties, now wanting; repairs with tissue to headcap, spine, and front cover edge. Title-page and following leaf repaired in two places, and following 30 pp. repaired in outer margin; first two leaves of second book wanting, as above. Foxing and occasional other staining throughout, the occasional tear, one leaf holed touching text but not spoiling reading, rear free endpaper torn away. Doodlings on front pastedown and fly-leaf; brief index to the first part written by an early hand on final recto and rear pastedown; later pencil markings.
A proud witness to the interests of (Italian) academia. (30505)

Poems of Town, Country, & Church from the
Bodoni Press
Giordani, Luigi Uberto. Versi di Luigi Uberto Giordani. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1809. 8vo “piccolo” (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 4 vols. in 2. I & II: [8], 99 (9-16 supplied twice), [9], 103, [1] pp. III & IV: [2], xx, 133, [7], 123, [1] pp.
$250.00
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SOLE EDITION, Bodoni printing: Verses from a poet-lawyer (1753–1818) known in his day both as an orator and as a jurist who taught criminal law at the University of Parma, now remembered primarily as the author of the funeral oration for Ferdinand, Duke of Parma. The first two volumes comprise four pieces “fatti in Villa” (“Il Monte,” “Il Bosco,” “Il Colle,” and “Il Torrente”), and four pieces “fatti in Città” (“Il Teatro,” “Le Tombe,” “Il Passeggio,” and “Il Foro”), while the third volume offers psalm translations (with
Latin and Italian given on facing pages) and the fourth a collection of miscellaneous poems. The author's dedication (“Agli amici l'autore”) is set in a beautiful rounded italic, and the main text in a minute but legible roman.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 1063; De Lama, II, 187; Giani 189 (p. 74). Modern full crimson morocco, covers framed in single gilt fillet, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume numbers, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, in a matching cloth slipcase; original paper spine labels for the four volumes affixed to front pastedowns. Page edges untrimmed; one leaf in vol. I with chip out of lower margin and with signature 2 (pp. 9–16) bound in twice. A very few scattered small spots to first three volumes, fourth volume slightly more noticeably so affected, pages overall clean and crisp.
A handsome set. (40196)
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Bodoni Edition: “All' Amica” “Il Rossetto” “La Chitarra” & Other Poems
Giusti, Giovanni Battista. Versi di Gio. Batista Giusti. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.23"). [2], 67, [1] pp.
$150.00
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Twelve pieces from a
Bolognese engineer, scientific instrument maker, and amateur poet in a graceful, petite 16mo variant printed in the same year as the Bodoni quarto first edition.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 818; De Lama, II, 145; Giani 141 (p. 66). Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, spine with hand-inked paper label, rubbed and fadedl; front joint cracked with spine wanting to pull away from text block although still attached. Back pastedown with small inked annotation and pencilled collation note. Scattered minor foxing, two pages with light offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages overall clean with untrimmed edges.
An uncommon Bodoni production. (40185)

Early Study of Tuscan Literature from the
GIUNTA PRESS
Gualteruzzi, Carlo; Vincenzo Borghini, ed. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. Nel qual si contengono cento nouelle altrauolta mandate fuori da Messer Carlo Gualteruzzi da Fano ... Con aggiunta di quattro altre nel fine. Et con una dichiaratione d'alcune delle voci piu antiche. In Fiorenza: Nella Stamparia dei Giunti, 1572. 4to (22.5 cm, 8.875"). [28], 153 (i.e., 165; 79–88 repeated), [3] pp.
$2250.00
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Neatly printed collection of French-, Provençal-, and Italian-inspired stories primarily edited by Carlo Gualteruzzi, with four other stories edited by Vincenzo Borghini and an introduction for “alli studiosi della lingua Toscana” by Filippo and Jacopo Giunti. Considered by Dionisotti to be the first critical edition of an ancient text of Tuscan prose, this “nuovo ricorrette” edition comes after the first of 1525. Brunet notes of this edition that “l'auteur a réformé l'orthographe de celle de 1525,” and Gamba points out the two have varying content — that this printing features
four new tales not found in the first edition. Boccaccio is believed to have borrowed the “Three Rings” story for his Decameron.
The text is printed in single columns of roman and italic font with initials of varying decorative quality and size, some historiated, with different Giunta devices present on the title- and final pages.
Binding: Rich green morocco, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with compartmental fleurons, covers framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt decorative corner stamps, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT 16 CNCE 47120; Adams G1358; Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX (4th ed.), 687; Brunet, I, 1737. Bound as above, moderately rubbed especially corners and spine. Light pencilling on endpapers and one blue crayon mark over a numbered stamp with another stamp at back; provenance as above, old oval rubber-stamp (imperfect) on two leaves of text. Two small marginal paper flaws; leaves with a few instances of light marginal waterstaining or the occasional spot and light age-toning generally.
An elegant production, an attractive volume. (37997)

The Life of the Courtier —
Guevara, in Italian
Guevara, Antonio de; Vincenzo Bondi, trans. Aviso de favoriti, e dottrina de cortegiani, opera non meno vtile, che diletteuole. In Venetia: Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1562. 8vo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 205 (i.e., 207), [1] ff.
$750.00
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Fray Antonio de Guevara (ca. 1481–1545) was a historian, bishop, court historiographer of Charles V, and acclaimed Golden Age literary figure. This volume presents an early Italian translation of his Aviso de prevados y doctrina de cortesanos — in which Guevara lays out the duties of courtiers (specifically, of the secular rather than religious members of a royal entourage) — along with
the first Italian translation of the author's Menosprecio de corte, a popular, critical satire on courtly life. This printing is not common in the U.S., with WorldCat locating only six reported institutional holdings (Columbia, UCLA, UMichigan, UIllinois, Harvard, UWisconsin-Milwaukee, Huntington).
Provenance: Title-page with traces of partially effaced early institutional armorial rubber-stamp; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 22234; Palau 110317; USTC 835287. Not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of ties now gone; spine with some sections chipped away, remnants of blue and white printed label, and inked title; binding stained, rubbed, and worm tracked with title-page, last two leaves of text, and endpapers also tracked. Interior overall rather nice with age-toning, intermittent foxing or faint marginal waterstaining, and a few leaves creased along corners. Otherwise a few flawed leaves, probably from paper manufacture, and pagination erratic; provenance indicia as above, front free endpaper with early
inked annotation in Italian, and one marginal accent in ink Sound, despite noted binding flaws, and an interesting work. (39705)
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