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DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). Poly-Olbion. London: [by Humphrey Lownes] for M. Lownes, I. Browne, I. Helme, I. Busbie, [1613?]. 2° (288 x 171mm), engraved title by W. Hole, engraved portrait of Prince Henry, 18 double-page engraved maps. With 4-leaf table at end. (Several maps with heavy marginal staining, occasional heavy staining to text margins, without letterpress title.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled edges (spine chipped, joints slightly cracked, corners bumped). Provenance: Anthony Berry (early signature) -- Anthony Earl of Kent (bookplate dated 1702) -- Thomas Philip Earl de Grey (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second issue? This copy conforms with the 1612 first issue in not having a letterpress title, and with the second issue in having the portrait and maps in second state -- the portrait with caption, the maps with page numbers -- and also in including the table on a final quire. The maps represent the different regions celebrated in the poem. STC 7227; cf. Pforzheimer 308. View on Christie's.com
TACKE, Johann (1617-1675). Folgen Die Trawer- Trost- und Ehren- Gedächtnuss Predigten Über den... Todtes- Fall des... Herrn Georgen Des Andern Landgraffen zu Hessen ... gehalten worden. Darmstadt: Christophor Abel, 1662. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (324 x 212mm). 28 double-page plates (numbered 1-56) and 34 double-page plates (numbered 1-34) by Johann Schweizer or Adriaen Haelwegh (some browning, light worming to gutter). 17th-century vellum (endpapers renewed, spine reinforced). This work commemorates the life and death of Georg II, Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt. The plates depict the funeral procession, the display of regalia, the crypt, and portraits of the landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt, including those of Georg II and his consort, and their successors Ludwig VI and his consort Maria Elisabeth, engraved by Johann Schweizer after Salomon Duarte, a genealogical table of the house of Hessen-Darmstadt, a triumphal arch and various poems in elaborate engraved frames. The second group of plates depict individual groups of the funeral procession. The text begins with a Latin inscription by Henning Witte, followed by numerous sermons and orations held in various cities, including sermons and orations by Balthasar Mentzer, Peter Haberkorn and Johann Tacke. The Lipperheide and Vinet copies appear to have no title, other sources refer to this work as Vita post Vitam. Lipperheide Sbd 9; Vinet 731. View on Christie's.com
GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo -- REISCH, Gregorius (d.1525). Margarita Filosofica. Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1599. 8° (216 x 160mm). With blanks, folding table and woodcut volvelle map, illustrations. (Occasional light soiling, one gathering browned, faint marginal dampstain in some gatherings.) 17th-century limp vellum (spine cracked, hinges split, lacking ties). Provenance: Dr. Andrea Raineri (inscription in an early hand) -- an early 20th-century collection (press label on the front cover). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN OF THIS CELEBRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA, translated by Gallucci. The Addenda comprises some of the additions of the 1512 Strasbourg edition, including Martin Waldseemüller's treatises on architecture and perspective, and Masha'allah's composition of the astrolabe. Some of the new additional treatises in this Italian edition are on arithmetic, geography and grammar. 2 issues are known, with apparently no priority: one with Barezzi's imprint, and another with Somascho's imprint which is more common institutionally. Not in Adams; Cicognara 3321; Sabin 69132 (Somascho imprint). View on Christie's.com
KRANTZ, Albert (c.1450-1517). Wandalia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1519. [Bound with:] -- Saxonia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1520. 2 works in one vol., small 2° (295 x 200mm). The first work with a 6-leaf table and the second work with an 8-leaf table bound before the titles. Titles within woodcut border. (Some mostly marginal dampstains, more pronounced in the second work, short worm-tracks in the first and last few gatherings, without final blank leaf.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript, edges red (upper board and spine soiled, front free endpaper with some loss). Provenance: a 19th-century reader (inscription in German dated 1826 on the front endpaper, very occasional marginalia). FIRST EDITIONS. Krantz's famous histories 'for the period in which they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research' (Encyclopaedia Britannica, eleventh edition). Adams C-2889, C-2884. View on Christie's.com
MASCALL, Leonard (d. 1589). A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to plant and grasse all sortes of trees. London: John Wight, 1575. Small 4° (176 x 128mm). Woodcut vignette on title, repeated on L1v, one woodcut plate illustrating grafting tools, 4 cuts and one diagram in text, ornamental initials, head and tailpieces. (Occasional light soiling or spotting, top margins shaved, occasionally touching headline). Green calf gilt by Bayntun, Bath, gilt edges (spine lightly sunfaded, a few light scuff marks). Provenance: old manuscript inscription on title ('This should have been bound after the table in the beginning of this book'). Third edition of the popular treatise, first published in 1569 and based on David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux. Henrey I, 258; STC 17575. View on Christie's.com
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. [The Decameron]. The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.. London: Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625-1620. 2 volumes in one, 2° (280 x 182mm). Titles within differing woodcut borders, the border to vol. I with a boar passant, the crest of the Sidney family, in top compartment [McKerrow and Ferguson 212], the border to vol. II composed of six woodcut medallions repeated as vignettes throughout both volumes. Woodcut initials and ornaments. (Without first and final blanks in both vols., lacking \\h\\h\\h2 (table) in vol. 2, lower margin of Mm6 trimmed, a little light spotting, a few tiny rustholes.) Brown morocco gilt by Birdsall, gilt edges (front hinge neatly splitting). Provenance: Rosenbach Collection (catalogue inserted) -- Peddie School (sale Christie's New York 2006). Second edition of vol. I, first edition of vol. II of THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH. At least fifty-four English plays, including several works by Shakespeare, have plots derived from the Decameron. Grolier Wither to Prior 250 (first edition); Pforzheimer 72 & 71; STC 3173 & 3172. View on Christie's.com
A Wedgwood Jasperware Round Lidded Jar on blue and white ground with raised classical figure, grape and vine decoration, 14.5cm high, a similar Wedgwood bulbous trumpet-shaped vase on blue and white ground with raised cupid decoration, and a Wedgwood green and white Jasperware lidded dressing table pot having raised grape and vine decoration (5)
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