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A first edition hard back of With Wings On Their Feet by Ivan Curotta signed 2002 and similar ephemera

Edmond Terakopian (by), Coronavirus Lockdown, Giclée, Hahnemüehle photo rag, signed to verso, embossed, limited edition 1/25, 16.5" x 11.7", certificate of authenticity. Deserted London town following the COVID 19 pandemic and the first month of the coronavirus lockdown. The deserted courtyard in the famous Covent Garden Apple Market. London, UK. April 23, 2020. For additional information regarding this lot please contact Edmond Terakopian at edo@pix.org.uk.

This is a biblical-themed lithograph by Reuven Rubin, a Romanian-born Israeli artistwho painted in the style of Marc Chagall and was Israel’s first ambassador to Romania.He was born to a Hasidic family, one of thirteen children. In 1912 he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Ayear later he studied art in Paris. At the outbreak of World War I, he returned toRomania, where he spent the duration of the war. In 1921, he traveled to New York Citywith his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik; they met Alfred Stieglitz, who wasinstrumental in organizing their first American show at a gallery in the city. Following theexhibition, they returned to Europe, and in 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine.Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920’s were both modern and naive; hispaintings reflected a spiritual, translucent light. In Palestine, he became one of thefounders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, theProphets, the biblical landscape, folklore and people, including Yemenites, Hasidic Jewsand Arabs, and many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and theGalilee. Rubin was influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau, and he signed his workswith his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters.This is a signed and numbered lithograph depicting an angel comforting a Moses-likefigure holding the Ten Commandments. It is numbered 12 of an edition of 150 in thelower left and signed on the plate in the lower right. We believe the lithograph is printedby Mourlot on Arches paper, but we have not removed the paper on the backside of thelithograph to find out. The overall size is 36 3/4 x 30 in. wide and the sight size is26 5/8 x 20 1/2 in. wide

A mixed lot of boxed Collector's Cars including a Corgi Lady Penelope's Fab 1, On the Buses, together with exclusive First Edition Buses, Days Gone box collector's cars (15)

A boxed set of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in the first Collins Clearprint edition of 1903, with illustrations by Millais, Lawrence, etc.

Quantity of Antiquarian and Later First Edition Books on the Scottish Borders, To include A Roman Frontier Post & Its People - The Fort of Newstead, By James Curle F.S.A, Published by James Maclehose and Sons, to the University of Glasgow, First Edition of From the Border Hills by Molly Clavering, In Praise of Tweed by W. S. Crockett, Printed by James Lewis Selkirk 1899, Some Scottish Border Souvenirs by Margaret D. Hayward, Printed by Andrew Elliot 17 Princess st Edinburgh, Strange Tales of the Borders Old and New, by Halbert J. Boyd, First Edition of Folk Tales of the Borders by Winifred Petrie, Drawings by Barbara Gray, First Edition of Tell the Towers Thereof by Madge Elder, Illustrated by John Mackay, First Edition of Portrait of the Border Country by Nigel Tranter, Two First Edition Copies of Andrew Lang by Roger Lancelyn Green,One copy with Dust Cover, The Illustrated Portrait of The Border Country by Nigel Tranter, Illustrated by Sue Scullard, Also with some books on Scotland, To include The County of Caithness, First Edition of Tartans of the Clans & Families of Scotland by Thomas Innes of Learney, Dated 1938, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance by Duncan Glen, The County of Sutherland, Edited by John S. Smith, First Edition of Puppets into Scotland by Walter Wilkinson, And with a First Edition of The Churches and Graveyards of Berwickshire by G. A. C. Binnie etc, (22)

*Charity Lot* All funds raised on the sale of this lot, including premiums, will be donated to Sporting Bears and the multiple children's charities that they supportA home market car and one of just 200 'Monte Carlo' EditionsUK-supplied (in 1994) and first registered on the 10/01/1995Commemorating the successes of the Mini Cooper in the Monte Carlo RallyFully resprayed and now presenting beautifully with the original interiorThe history file is excellent including past MOTs and contains the original service bookAll funds raised on the sale of this lot, including commission, will be donated to Sporting Bears and the multiple children's charities that they support#In 1994, three decades after an invincible little British car and a legendary driver had defeated hordes of larger and more powerful rivals to win the gruelling Monte Carlo Rally, a new version of the Cooper and the original Paddy Hopkirk returned to seek class honours in the 1994 running of the event. Clad in the same livery as its famous predecessor and sporting the same start number, the Mini Cooper powered confidently into the arduous six-day event cheered on by excited French supporters who took Number 37, 'Le Mini Anglaise', to their hearts. After thirty years, the Cooper's legendary ability still shone against the might of formidable opposition and Paddy and Number 37 were applauded wherever they went.The Mini Cooper 'Monte Carlo' was a limited-edition of 200 cars built in early 1994 to celebrate Paddy's return to Monaco and was based upon the Mini Cooper 1.3i. The 'Monte Carlo ' was given special exterior colours (Flame Red and Black only), special badges, a special interior with Monte Carlo specific details, four auxiliary lamps at the front and 12-inch Minilite-style alloy wheels. Under the bonnet was the standard, single-point fuel-injected 1275cc, 63bhp A-Series engine linked to the normal four-speed gearbox. Four auxiliary lamps dominated the front of the car, while the body-coloured wheel-arch extensions deceived the eye and made the car look that little bit wider than it was. Specially finished alloy wheels wearing Dunlop 165x12" tyres added to the sporty look, whilst a set of special Monte Carlo decals, including a John Cooper signature, completed the effect.Whilst the exterior of the car was influenced by the Monte Carlo rally cars, the interior was a world apart from the spartan cockpit of its competition brethren. The red and white colouring found on the outside of the car was carried through to the inside with the seats boasting red side rolls with patterned white facings. On the walnut dashboard, a set of Ivory-white dials added a sporty twist, and an extra switch on the dashboard controlled the two fog lamps. Other tweaks include a red leather-covered gear knob and steering wheel and a set of red seat belts.Dating from mid-1994 and first registered on 10/01/1995, this smart, right-hand drive Mini Cooper 'Monte Carlo Edition' has recently been finished in a fresh coat of Flame Red with an Old English White roof. The indicated mileage is 44,847 supported by the original service book, older MOTs and a good history file. The current MOT is valid until Saturday 13 February 2021.Charity Fundraiser details:Sporting Bears is a key partner of The NEC Classic Motor Show where they usually operate 'Dream Rides' - giving attendees the opportunity to experience being a passenger in an amazing car. All the money that is taken for the rides is donated to various children's charities that they support. As the event is unable to go ahead this year, as well as so many of their usual fundraising efforts, Silverstone Auctions are working with the organisers of The NEC Classic Motor Show to help raise awareness of the Sporting Bears activities and continue to fundraise where possible.This year Sporting Bears are raising money for: Birmingham Children's HospitalAlder Hey Children's HospitalChildren's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)Naomi House & Jack 's Place (Winchester)Zoe's Place Baby Hospice (Middlesbough)Chestnut Tree House (Sussex)Rainbows Children 's Hospice (Loughborough)Julia's House Children's HospiceThis lot, the 1995 Rover Mini Cooper 'Monte Carlo', will be offered as part of the auction, with all funds raised on the sale of this lot, including premiums, being donated to Sporting Bears and the multiple children's charities that they support.You can now book a one-to-one appointment (up to one hour) to view this lot at our central location of Stoneleigh Park (CV8 2LG) Monday to Friday, between Thursday 29th October - 12th November. Please contact Silverstone Auctions on 01926 691 141 / enquiries@silverstoneauctions.com to secure your appointment or to discuss the car in more detail.The health and safety of both our customers and team remains the utmost priority, we are therefore operating to strict COVID-19 guidelines and full instructions for arrival and inspection protocols will be given when making your appointment. Click here for more information and additional photographsSpecificationMake: RoverModel: Mini Cooper Monte Carlo EditionYear: 1995Chassis Number: SAXXNNAYCBD100255Engine Number: 12A2EJ66294045Transmission: ManualDrive Side: Right-hand DriveOdometer Reading: 44847 milesBody Colour: Red/WhiteInterior Colour: Black

Poster VSOE VENICE SIMPLON ORIENT EXPRESS by Fix Masseau 1979, first edition printed in 1981. Double Royal 25in x 40in. In excellent condition, depicts passengers in a restaurant car.

Poster VSOE VENICE SIMPLON ORIENT EXPRESS by Fix Masseau 1981, first edition printed in 1981. Double Royal 25in x 40in. In excellent condition, depicts a passenger in a sleeping berth.

James Bond Limited Edition of 995 Ten Stamp Collection (framed), various First Day Covers and First Day Postcards, ebony elephant.

Royal Crown Derby GRECIAN BULL made for Harrods: Gold stopper, certificate, first quality, no box. Limited edition 281/752

Royal Crown Derby paperweight SPIRIT OF PEACE DOVE: Gold stopper, certificate, first quality. Limited edition 27/ 150.

Royal Crown Derby paperweight DRAGON OF HAPPINESS: Gold stopper, certificate, first quality, original box. Limited edition 283 / 1500

Royal Crown Derby paperweight IMARI HONEY BEAR (Goviers): Gold stopper, certificate, first quality, original box. Limited edition 40/250.

Royal Crown Derby paperweight CROCODILE: Gold stopper, certificate, first quality, gold signature edition, original box.

Royal Crown Derby paperweight UNICORN made for Goviers: Gold stopper, certificate, first quality, original box. Limited edition 1004 / 2000

Jean de Brunhoff Babar and Father Christmas, Methuen & Co, 1940, (First Edition)

Paul Brickhill, The Dam Busters, 1951 first edition; together with Hillary St George Saunders, The Green Beret, the story of the commandos, 1950

C S Forester, A Ship of the Line, Michael Joseph, 1938, first edition in dust jacket

AMIOT, Joseph Marie (1718-1793), and others. Memoires concernant l 'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les meurs, les usages, &c. des chinois: par les missionaires de Pekin. Paris: Nyon, 1776-1791.15 volumes, 4to (250 x 195 mm). Half-titles to vols.I-II and IX-XV, 2 engraved frontispiece portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and Amiot, 193 engraved plates (5 folding, plate 1, a portrait of Confucius, bound as the frontispiece to vol.XII). (Occasional light spotting and toning.) Contemporary French mottled calf, edges stained red (a few joints starting, some wear to spines, extremities, and a few lettering-pieces). Provenance: Lord Clifford Ugbrooke (Ugbrooke Library stamps).  FIRST EDITION of this survey by Jesuit missionaries containing translations of classic Chinese works of law, essays on Chinese linguistics, philosophy, science, cultural life, and politics. Vol.VII is a reprint of Amiot's Art militaire des Chinois (Paris, 1772), considered the first translation of ancient Chinese military strategy into a European language. Missionaries who contributed to this work include Amiot, Cibot, Bourgeois, Poirot, Ko and Yang. The complete series comprises 17 volumes with vols.XVI and XVII published a few decades later in 1814 under a different imprint; complete 17 volume sets are infrequently found on the market. Brunet 3, 1596; Cordier, Sinica I, 54-55; Lust 96.  Property from a Prominent Chicago CollectionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. -- SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS.   Winning Designs 1904-1927. Paris Prize in Architecture. New York: Pencil Points Press, 1928.  Folio. 35 plates. Loose as issued in original red gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards, cloth ties (slight soiling, minor wear to extremities).  FIRST EDITION featuring the award-winning designs for buildings and public monuments selected by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A group of 28 Christmas cards, including:Two Tramps In Mud-Time. 1934. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 175 copies printed for the Melchers of Montclair of a total edition of 775 copies. Crane B2. -- To A Young Wretch. 1937. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 275 copies printed for Elinor and Robert Frost of a total edition of 820 copies. Crane B5. -- Triple Plate. 1939. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 copies printed for the Melchers of Montclair / Marguerite and Fred of a total edition of 1,825 copies. Crane B7. -- Our Hold on the Planet. N.p., n.p.: 1940. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 125 copies printed for Marguerite and Fred Melcher of a total edition of 975 copies. Crane B8. -- The Guardeen [Fragment of an Unpublished Play by Robert Frost]. Los Angeles: Privately Printed for Earl J. Bernheimer by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1943. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 6 of 96 copies SIGNED BY BERHEIMER. Crane B11. -- An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box. 1944.   FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1,250 copies printed for Henry Holt and Company of a total edition of 2,050 copies. Crane B13. -- And 22 others. Together, 28 Christmas cards for the years 1934, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1943-1944, 1950, 1952-1954, 1956-1963 and 1965.  With duplicate cards for 1956-1958, 1959, 1961, and 1962. ALL FIRST EDITIONS OR FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. Printed by The Spiral Press in New York except where indicated. All in original printed wrappers, condition generally fine, complete list available on request.Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma CotnerFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A group of approximately 87 works by or about Frost consisting of later editions of his works, collected editions, and reference works, including:Selected Poems. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. Provenance: Elizabeth Blair (signature, 1923). FIRST EDITION. -- Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964. Later edition. -- Come In And Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. Later edition. -- Selected Poems. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. Third edition. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery, editor. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1967. FIRST EDITION. -- And approximately 82 others. Published between various dates, in various 4to, 8vo and 12mo formats, most later editions except where indicated, publisher 's cloth, cloth-backed boards, or printed wrappers, many with dust jackets, condition generally fine, complete list available on request.Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma CotnerFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of approximately 143 reference works about Frost, including:COX, Sidney. Robert Frost. Original "Ordinary Man." New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. LIMITED EDITION, number 178 SIGNED BY COX. Provenance: Edmond Garesche Benoist (bookplate). -- THOMPSON, Lawrance, editor. Selected Letters of Robert Frost. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1964. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THOMPSON to Norma and Robert Cotner. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery, editor. Interviews with Robert Frost. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY LATHEM. -- THOMPSON, Lawrance. The Early Years, 1874-1915. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THOMPSON. -- GRADE, Arnold, editor. Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1972. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY LESLEY FROST to Robert A. Cotner. -- And approximately 138 others. Published between various dates, in various 4to, 8vo and 12mo formats, most later editions except where indicated, publisher 's cloth, cloth-backed boards or printed wrappers, many with dust jackets, condition generally fine, complete list available on request.Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma CotnerFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

GUICCIARDINI, Francesco (1483-1540).   The Historie of Giucciardin, Containing the Warres of Italie and other partes...reduced into English by Geffray Fenton. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1579.  Folio (288 x 189 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Lacking initial blank and one other preliminary leaf, title browned and slightly frayed, A1 silked, some minor browning or spotting). 19th century half morocco (rebacked and repaired, old calf cover bound in).FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of La historia d'Italia, "undoubtedly the greatest historical work that had appeared since the beginning of the modern era. It remains ...the final triumph of the Florentine school of philosophical historians which included Machiavelli, Segni, Pitti, Nardi, Farchi, Francescto Vettori and Donato Giannotti " (J. A. Symonds). Guicciardini is regarded as the first "universal" historian, placing Italy within the larger context of the European system of states and demonstrating the interdependence of political events across the continent.  ESTC S120755; STC 12458a.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1927.8vo, original black cloth, printed front cover and spine labels (slightly shaken, endpapers slightly discolored); dust jacket (spine panel toned with some chipping at ends and with small area skinned near head, slight splitting along rear joint, minor chipping and wear to extremities, some soiling). Provenance: Robert G. Earley (small stamp on front free endpaper).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (weighing 15.7 ounces), in first printing dust jacket with no blurbs in the orange bands on the front panel. Hanneman A7a.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1937.8vo. Original publisher 's black cloth gilt; original dust jacket (slight chipping at head of spine and corners).    FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the Scribner's seal, and the capital "A" on the copyright page. Hanneman A14a.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). Leviathan, sive De materia, forma, et potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. Amsterdam: J. Blaeu, 1670.  4to (201 x 147 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials. (Marginal wormtrack to first ca 40 leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf, edges sprinkled brown and red (rebacked, endpapers renewed, a few other small repairs). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN LATIN. Hobbes prepared the translation himself, editing the text and including three apologetic dialogues in place of the original "Review and Conclusion." His translation first appeared in Opera philosophica quae Latine scripsit omnia, published by Blaeu in 1668. "It is the Latin version in which Hobbes really expresses his opinions...in his Latin version he was less concerned with personalities" (MacDonald & Hargreaves 45).  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BACON, Francis, Sir (1561-1626). Certaine Miscellany Works. London: John Haviland for Humphrey Robinson, 1629.  Small 4to (185 x 163 mm). Title-pages for each tract printed within double rule border, text printed within single rule border. (Lacking A quire, comprising: A1 blank, A2, general title, A3-4, "To the Reader." Some minor browning.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882), British politician (armorial bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, and the first appearance of three of the four tracts included herein: "An advertisement touching an holy warre," "An offer to our late soveraigne King James...", and "The history of the raigne of King Henry the Eighth." "Considerations touching a warre with Spaine" is a "corrupt and surreptitious edition" (editor's preface, not present in this copy). ESTC S100333; STC 1124.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HOPPIN, Benjamin (1851-1923). A Diary kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896. [New Haven?: n.p., 1897].8vo. Map frontispiece, one plate. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Provenance: Edward T. Owen (presentation inscription dated 29 June 1897).FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOPPIN: "For Prof. Edward T. Owen '72 from B. Hoppin '72 Baddock, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. For June 29th 1897." Hoppin, Peary's mineralogist, provides a first-hand account of the voyage of the Hope. RARE.  Arctic Bib. 7401.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HUME, David (1711-1776).   Essays and Treatises on Various Subjects...A new edition. London: A. Millar and A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson at Edinburgh, 1758.  4to (260 x 207 mm). (Some very minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (Joints starting, some rubbing or wear).Second collected edition, later issue, with the 4 additional leaves signed *4 including the "Two additional essays." THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME QUARTO EDITION, including Hume's most important philosophical works, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and The Natural History of Religion (1757), the first collected edition to include the Four Dissertations. Goldsmiths' 9314; Higgs 1616; Jessop 5; Kress 5712.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[INDIAN & SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART]. A group of 8 works in 10 volumes, including:  DOHRING, Karl Von. Buddhistische Templanlagen in Siam. Bangkok, Siam: Asia Publishing House, 1920. -- GROSLIER, George. La Sculpture Khmere Ancienne. Paris: Les Editions G. Cres & Co., 1925. -- INDIA HOUSE. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Collection to be found at India House. New York: The Sign of the Gosden Head 1935. LIMITED EDITION, number 667 of 1,000 copies. --ROWLAND, Benjamin. Wall-Paintings of India Central Asia & Ceylon. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1938. Limited Edition, number 405 of 500 copies. -- Broderies Hindoues. Paris: Ernst Henri, editeur, n.d. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 10 volumes, large folio or 4to, most first editions, all in cloth or cloth-backed boards, condition generally good, complete list available on request. Property from a Prominent Chicago CollectionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784).   The Idler. London: printed for J. Newbery, 1761.  2 volumes, 8vo (161 x 94 mm). 3pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary half calf gilt, edges stained yellow (some minor wear, endleaves renewed). Provenance: Nicholas Frederic Brady (bookplate); Brick Row Book Shop, New Haven, CT (morocco book label).  FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the 104 sketches that appeared between 15 April 1759 and 5 April 1760. All but 12 were written by Johnson; the others were written by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Warton.   Courtney and Smith p. 83; ESTC T153829; Roscoe A-264.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language. London: for J. F. and C. Rivington and others, 1785.2 volumes, 4to (267 x 212 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I dated August 21st 1786. (Lacking half-title to vol. I, light offsetting of frontispiece to title, scant spotting or soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary reversed calf, blind roll tooling to covers, brown and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (some rubbing or wear, a few joints just starting). Sixth edition, FIRST QUARTO EDITION, of Johnson's "most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (PMM). ESTC T116655.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

JONSON, Benjamin (1572-1637). Seianus, his Fall. [Extracted from:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: William Stansby, 1616.  Small folio (280 x 174 mm). Comprising pp. 357-438. (Small repairs to text Mm5-6 with a few words supplied in facsimile some light staining or browning).   Provenance: Bennett H. Jackson (bookplate).FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published in the month of Shakespeare's death, listing him as a player. The 1616 folio edition of Jonson's works provided a precedent for Heminges and Condell when they prepared the first folio edition of Shakespeare's works seven years later, to which Jonson provided verses. See ESTC S111817.; see STC 14751.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LE COMTE, Louis Daniel (1655-1728).   Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil and Ecclesiastical. Made in a Late Journey Through the Empire of China. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke and Sam Buckley, 1697.8vo (188 x 115 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates (2 folding), 1 engraved folding table. (Toning and spotting affecting a few leaves.) Contemporary panelled calf gilt (rubbing to extremities).    FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Le Comte 's experience as a Jesuit missionary in China, with a folding plate depicting the observatory established by the Jesuits in Pekin. ESTC R15898; Wing L831.Property from a Prominent Chicago CollectionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LEO I (ca 360-461, Pope from 400). Sermones et epistolae. Translated from Latin into Italian by Filippo Corsini. Florence: [Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini], 21 May 1485.  Chancery folio (277 x 205 mm). Collation: I4; 2-218 2210. 173 leaves (of 174; lacking final blank). 33 lines. Roman type 3:112. Capital spaces with guide letters, illuminated with 2 6-line initials in blue with elaborate red penwork, numerous 2-line initials in blue. (First and last leaves inlaid, repairs to a few lower corner margins occasionally just touching a letter or two). 20th-century blind-stamped blue morocco by Vignal (upper cover detached, lower joint slightly rubbed, minor chipping to spine ends).  FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Leo I's sermons. The Bishop of Aleria's epistle, beginning on 1v, shows Corsini worked from the Latin edition of Sweynheym and Pannartz, published in 1470 in Rome, or one of its reprints (the present edition omitting a few miscellaneous pieces at the end).   BMC VI, 638; BSB-Ink L-104; HC 10016; Goff L-136.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LOCKE, John (1632-1704). Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and Several of his Friends.   London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1708.  8vo (188 x 110 mm). Title-page printed within double rule border, woodcut devices on title-page. Contemporary panelled calf (neatly rebacked to style).    FIRST EDITION of Locke's correspondence with philosopher and scientist William Molyneux (1656-1698) and Dutch theologian Philip van Limborch (1633-1712). The letters on pp. 297-540 are in Latin. ESTC T117287; Pforzheimer 611.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.  8vo. Publisher's advertisements dated November 1855. (Some spotting to a few leaves at beginning and end.) Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth gilt-lettered on spine (some light wear to spine ends, a few minor stains, spine slightly leaned); quarter red morocco slipcase. Provenance: E. A. Beatly? (early faint inscription on front flyleaf); A. H. Armour & Co. (early bookseller's label).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Longfellow's epic poem. BAL 12111. A BRIGHT COPY.    Property from the Collection of John S. LeipsicFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LUDOLF, Hiob (1624-1704).  Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum: ex omnibus libris impressis, et multis MSStis contextum... Editio secunda. Frankfurt: John David Zunner, 1699.  Folio (312 x 194 mm). Title-page printed in red and black. (Some browning or spotting.) Contemporary boards (worn, a few leaves becoming loose).  Provenance: unidentified paper seal lower margin title-page.  Second edition of Ludolf's Ethiopic-Latin dictionary, first published in London by Thomas Roycroft in 1661.  Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527). Discorsi...sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Nicolini da Sabio, Melchior Sessa, 1537.  8vo (160 x 103 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Some minor staining.) Later half vellum, upper cover with the gilt arms of the Bridgewater family. Provenance: a few early manuscript annotations verso of last blank leaf; the Bridgewater family library (binding, bookplate and shelfmark, see below).Early edition of Machiavelli's Discourses, preceded by Antonio Blado's 1531 edition published in Rome, and a 1534 edition published by Sessa. In 1540, the first Aldine edition was published. The Bridgewater family library was acquired by Henry Huntington en bloc in 1917 from the fourth Earl of Ellsemere; at the time, it was the oldest family library still in private hands. Small portions of the library were sold in the 19th century; Henry Huntington sold some books from the collection at auction between 1918 and 1924. The rest of the collection comprises the core of the Huntington Library's early English collections.    VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copy this edition has sold at auction in the last 40 years; OCLC traces only two copies (held by the  Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Not in Adams; Grasse IV 323; STC (Italy) II 293.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BEROALDUS, Philippus (1453-1505). Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1499.Small 4to (197 x 145 mm). Collation: a-b8, c4. 20 leaves. 27 lines. Roman and Greek types. Woodcut printer's device at end, initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title slightly soiled with short marginal tears, single worm-hole touching letters throughout, minor worm-hole to lower margin of a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf gilt (some light rubbing, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: Old ownership inscriptions crossed out on title-page.  FIRST EDITION with the first word on ff.3 as "Argumentum", and with the colophon as described in Hain.   A second edition of the same year has the first word on ff.3 in majuscules and the colophon as described in BMC. Beroaldus' well-known satire against drunkenness, whoring and gambling is written in the form of a dialogue between the three vices.   BMC VI, 845 (see note); BSB-Ink B-370; GW 4130; Goff B-471; Hain 2965.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MACHIAVELLI, NiccoloÌ€ (1469-1527). Machiavels Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius. Translated by Edward Dacres. London: Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, 1636.  12mo (144 x 82 mm). Woodcut ornaments and initials. (First gathering disbound, some minor browning or staining, a few rust-holes occasionally affecting letters.) Contemporary blind calf, edges stained red (old rebacking, some minor wear). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with animadversions in italics on the title-page and [B1] a cancelandum. "Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind - it should be remembered that a parallel work to The Prince was his historical essay on the first ten books of Livy" (PMM 63, see next lot). ESTC S109049; STC 17160.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MACHIAVELLI, NiccoloÌ€ (1469-1527). Nicholas Machiavel's Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. And the meanes Duke Valentine us'd to put to death Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto of Fermo Paul, and the Duke of Gravina. Translated by Edward Dacres. London: R. Bishop for William Hils and Daniel Pakeman, 1640.    12mo (140 x 77 mm). Collation: A6, B-O12. Printed rule borders throughout. (Some borders shaved, a few pale stains.) Modern calf. Provenance: a few old annotations and markings to blank areas and verso of final leaf.FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. "'The Prince' is far more than a book of directions to any one of the many Italian princelings. Machiavelli had profited by his journeys to France and Germany to make the most able analyses (in his reports to his government) of a national government, and he now wrote for the guidance of the ruler by whom alone Italy, desperately divided, could be restored to political health. Hitherto political speculation had tended to be a rhetorical exercise based on the implicit assumption of Church or Empire....Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery. Many of the remedies he proposed for the rescue of Italy were eventually applied. His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies" (PMM). Bertelli & Innocenti XVII, 38; Gerber III, p. 104, no. 2; PMM 63; STC 17168.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527).   The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English... Henry Neville, translator. London: for John Starkey, Charles Harper and John Amery, 1680.  Folio (312 x 193 mm). General title-page and 4 section titles printed within double rule border. (Some dampstaining or browning.) contemporary calf (defective, covers detached).   Provenance: Thomas Shillington (signature on title-page); Tiffany Thayer (102-1959) American actor, founder of Fortean Society (bookplate). Second edition in English of the collected works of Machiavelli, first published in 1675. With section titles for The history of Florence, The Prince, The discourses...upon the first decade of Titus Livius, and The art of war.   ESTC R13145; Wing M-129.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[MAGNA CARTA] Magna Charta, cum statutis quae antiqua vocantur, iam recens excusa, & summa fide emendata, iuxta vetusta exemplaria ad Parliamenti rotulos examinata: quibus accesserunt nonnulla nunc primum typis edita... London: Richard Tottell, 12 June 1556.  2 parts in 1 volume, 12mo (134 x 90 mm). Woodcut initials. 20th-century half brown calf, edges stained red (upper cover detached). Provenance: early marginalia; H. H. Hedderwick (gift inscription).  FIRST TOTTELL EDITION, with line 1 of the title-page to the second part reading "SECVN-". Another Tottell edition, dated 1556 on the title-page (but actually published ca 1560 according to STC), reads "SECVNDA" in line 1 of the title-page to part II.   A revised edition of Thomas Berthelet's version published in 1531. Beale S15; ESTC S101069; STC 9277.5.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MANDEVILLE, Bernard de (1670?-1733). An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour and The Usefulness of Christianity in War. London: for John Brotherton, 1732.  8vo (191 x 120 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf (Old rebacking, endpapers renewed, covers detached).   Provenance: Lincoln's Inn Library (withdraw stamp). FIRST EDITION, a continuation of the dialogues found in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.  ESTC T59021; Rothschild 1375.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

METHODIUS, Saint, Archbishop of Tyre (827-869).   [Revelationes]. Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae de principio mundi.  Edited by Sebastian Brant. Basel: Michael Furter, 14 February 1500.4to (207 x 144 mm). Collation: a-g8 h-i6. 68 leaves. 36 lines and marginalia. Type: 156bG, 6:106G, 1:83G, 4:64G. 61 woodcuts (some repeated), a few with hand-coloring in red, woodcut initials hand-colored in red, red strokes. (Tiny mostly marginal wormholes to a few leaves occasionally touching letters, some minor browning or soiling.) 19th-century calf gilt (rebacked, hinges reinforced, some wear).   Provenance: unidentified bookplate, obscured by the bookplate of; Chester Dudley Ward. Second illustrated edition of the Divine Revelations, first published by Furter in 1498.   Furter also printed two later editions in 1504 and 1515.   The second edition is often attributed to 1516 as the date in the colophon reads "MCCCCC.XVI.Kal.' Martii." "XVI," however, indicates that the book was printed sixteen days before the Kalends of March, as was the usual manner of recording the date using the Julian Calendar. The original edition of the text was published in 1475; this second illustrated edition is nearly a page-for-page reprint of Furter's 1498 edition with the same woodcuts.  VERY RARE: online records record only 3 complete copies of this edition at auction in the last 40 years. Adams 1369 (dating the work 1516); BMC III, 786; BSB-Ink M-354; Goff M-525; GW M23062; ISTC im00525000.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MILTON, John (1608-1674).   The Works. London: n.p., 1697.  Folio (315 x 200 mm). Title-page printed within double rule border and with woodcut device. Contemporary blind-panelled calf (rebacked, some wear, a few leaves at the beginning becoming disbound). Provenance: Harvard University Library (bookplate, duplicate stamp on title verso, blind stamp).  FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Milton's prose works. Pforzheimer 728; Wing M-2086.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[MINIATURE BOOK]. -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Bible in Miniuture [sic], or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: [Elizabeth] Newberry, 1780.  64mo (41 x 28 mm). Engraved title pages (including second title for the New Testament) and 13 (of 14) engraved plates. (Lacking plate facing p.221.) Original olive green morocco gilt, onlaid red calf ovals with cross and JHS overlaid front and back, marbled endpapers, edges gilt (light wear to corners and joints). Provenance: H. Reeve (ownership inscription, 26 May 1790); William Thorowgood (d. 1877), typographer and type founder (inscription) given to his granddaughter; Lucy Ellen Hibberdine (presentation inscription, 22 November 1860).  FIRST EDITION of "the best-known miniature Bible" (Adomeit). THE EARLIEST ISSUE without an imprint on p.256, without a period after the date on the first title page and with parentheses enclosing the page numbers. The binding first appeared on the first edition of Harris' miniature Bible (published 1771, Adomeit B18), and is known in several colors, most commonly red, here in the rarer olive green. Adomeit B26; ESTC T124732.  Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MAUGHAN, William Charles (1836-1914). The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873.  8vo (218 x 140 mm). Half-title, frontispiece map (library stamp affecting image), 36pp. publisher 's advertisements at end. Publisher 's decorated red cloth gilt (hinges starting, binding loose). Provenance: Clinton Hall Association, N.Y. For the Use of the Mercantile Library (library stamps).  FIRST EDITION of Maughan 's narrative account of his travels through the Middle East.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. POPE, Arthur U. (1881-1969) and ACKERMANN, Phyllis (1893-1977), editors. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938-1939.  6 volumes, large folio. Half-titles, titles printed in blue and black, 1,482 plates, a few in color, numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher 's blue cloth gilt (sunning to spines, a few scuffs, rubbing to extremities, old adhesive remnants to upper cover of vol.IV).  FIRST EDITION of Pope 's survey of Persian art, architecture, and material culture, published under the auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology. Pope was a pioneer in the study of Persian art, heritage, and culture, and he was an important collector, curator, and art dealer.Property from a Prominent Chicago CollectionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. SAKISIAN, Armenag Bey (1875-1949). La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siècle. Paris and Brussels: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929.  Folio. 106 plates (including 2 in color) of reproductions of 193 Persian miniatures. Half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt (rubbing to extremities, slight soiling to bottom edge); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: M.L. Hermanos (bookplate).    FIRST EDITION of Sakisian 's academic study of Persian miniatures produced in Iran between the 12th and 17th centuries.    [With:] BINYON, Laurence (1869-1943). -- Wilkinson, James Vere Stewart (1885-1957). -- GRAY, Basil (1904-1989). Persian Miniature Painting. Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1933. Folio. Frontispiece, 113 plates, a few in color. Original yellow-brown cloth stamped in gilt (very light rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION.Property from a Prominent Chicago CollectionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). Winnie-The-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926.  8vo. Half-title; numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's green gilt-stamped cloth. Quarter burgundy morocco gilt slipcase, chemise.  FIRST TRADE EDITION of Milne's beloved classic.    [With:]  MILNE, Alan Alexander. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. 8vo. Half-title; numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's burgundy gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, pink pictorial endpapers; quarter burgundy morocco gilt slipcase, chemise (a touch of wear to spine ends). FIRST TRADE EDITION.    MILNE, Alan Alexander. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927. 8vo. Half-title; numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher 's gilt decorated red leather, edges gilt, pink pictorial endpapers; quarter morocco gilt slipcase. Provenance: Bobby Harris (bookplate). FIRST EDITION DELUXE ISSUE of the third title of Milne's adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. From the total deluxe edition of 50,000 copies, the Ship Binding Company bound 5,000 in leather with 2,000 in the present red, and the remaining 3,000 equally divided between blue and green leather.  Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay MeletFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat (1689-1755).   De l'Esprit des Loix. Geneva: Barillot, [but Paris: Prault, c.1748].  2 volumes, 4to (242 x 179 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut tail-pieces. (Two leaves with old repairs to lower blank margin just touching a letter, staining to a few leaves.) Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, brown and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (some light wear). Provenance: P. A. Verhaeghie? (signature dated 1773).Second edition, with "Barillot" in the imprint, first issue with the errata leaf at the end of vol. I, published in the same year as the rare first edition.   Montesquieu's theories had a profound influence on   Hamilton's Federalist Papers and Tocqueville's Democracy in America and influenced the thinking which led to the American and French Revolutions. "The United States Constitution in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated" (PMM). Tchemerzine VII 460 (a); see PMM 197.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MORE, Thomas, Sir. (1478-1535). The Workes ... wrytten by him in the Englysh tongue. Edited by William Rastell (1508?-1565). London: John Cawood, John Wally and Richarde Tottell, 1557.  4to (275 x 187 mm). Black letter, double column. Woodcut title border with the Queen's arms in top compartment and female figures with olive branches at sides [McKerrow and Ferguson 81]. Large and small woodcut initials. With the unsigned leaf after CC5, and the 8 unpaginated leaves of More's juvenilia. (Worming at beginning through ss6, a few wormholes at the end affecting text, short tears to a few leaves, D3 with a small flaw affecting a few letters, some minor dampstaining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Thomas, First Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster (1640-1714), (engraved armorial bookplate dated 1704), by descent to; the Marquess of Bath at Longleat (offered Sotheby's London, 11 June 1979, lot 110).  FIRST EDITION of the collected works in English. Rastell, living as a Catholic exile in Louvain during the reign of Edward VI, edited his uncle's English works, arranging them in chronological order and adding the "valuable marginal notes." The first quire, including the table compiled by Thomas Paynell, was printed by Cawood, but Tottell printed the rest of the book.   ESTC S115047; Pforzheimer 743; STC 18076.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). [Filocolo]. Inamoramẽto di Florio & di Biãzafiore chiamato Philocolo. Venice: Bernardino de Lissona Vercellense, 22 May 1520.Small 4to (206 x 150 mm). Title printed in Gothic within architectural woodcut border, text printed double-column in Roman type, woodcut initials. (Slight soiling to title-page, some minor spotting.) 18th-century sheep gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled red and blue (foot of spine separating, worn). Provenance: Edward Davenport (armorial bookplate); John S. Eells, Jr. (blindstamp). Rare Venitian edition of Boccaccio's Filocolo, inspired by the poem Florio e Biancifiore, which dates to ca 1160. The Filocolo is considered to be the first Italian literature written in prose, and was a source for Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale." RARE: according to online records, only two copies of this edition have appeared on the market at auction; OCLC locates only 8 copies. Essling 2074; STC Italian  111.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MORGAN, Sylvanus, (1620-1693). The Sphere of Gentry. London: William Leybourn, 1661.  4 parts in 1 volume, folio (305 x 194 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved dedication leaf, folding engraved plate, numerous engraved plates and illustrations. (Title soiled, some minor soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf (old neat rebacking, some wear). Provenance: Unidentified bookplate with cypher; Wilfred Merton (1888-1957), managing director of Emery Walker, Printers and Engravers (bookplate).  FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE FOLDING HOWARD PEDIGREE. ESTC R2775; Wing M-2743.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). [Opera Latina.]Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 15 July 1503.  Folio (296 x 204 mm). 494 leaves. Woodcut architectural border on A1. (Final leaf with tears repaired verso.) Modern calf. Provenance: Bibliotheca Numophylacii Regis Saxoniae (bookplate). Third edition of the Latin works of Petrarch, without the 30-leaf "Bucolicum carmen" at end. Petrarca, considered to be the "first humanist" established "the vogue and ideology of classical antiquity and humanistic studies... In this sense he was 'the founder of the Renaissance'" [Wedeck & Schweitzer, Dictionary of the Renaissance.] Adams P-774.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374), Canzonieri. Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo.  Venice: Giovanni Antonio and Nicolini da Sabio,  1541.  Small 4to (209 x 149 mm). With gloss surrounding single column of text. (Some minor spotting.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, hand-lettered on bottom edge and spine (lacking ties, soiled, small loss to lower corner). Provenance: Paolo Mila (signature on title-page).Presumed second Gesualdo edition, first published in 1533. An early edition with Gesualdo's popular commentaries, divided into two parts: I Sonetti e le Canzoni, and I Sonetti e le Canzoni... in Morte di Madonna Lavra. Adams P-807; BMC Italian 504; Graesse V:226.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com