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AMMAN, JOST. Kunstbuchlin. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Feyerabends, 1599. Small quarto. (iv),(148)ff. First and only edition. Brunet calls this compilation of wood-engravings "rare et fort curieux". Originally intended for instructional use, this book, whose images include costumes, potentates and emblematic devices, is rarely encountered complete. This is the first complete copy to appear on the market in over twenty years. Bound in full straight-grain blue morocco with gilt and blind borders, and armorial device on both panels featuring a winged griffin beneath a pair of crowns. This is the Huth copy, with his leather book label on front pastedown. Carefully washed, leaves show only minor soiling and spotting, and the binding exhibits only the slightest shelf wear. Overall, a fine copy of a truly rare book with a fine provenance. (Colas 119; Lipperheide 498; Berlin Katalog 4757z). (19405) $18,500.
Folio. 124 ff. First edition, Brooks's state "b", with the poem by Conte Della Torre di Rezzonico. With engraved title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials. Considered one of Bodoni's finest type specimen books, it contains the alphabets of twenty-five exotic languages, including Tibetan, Phoenician and Coptic. In a contemporary binding of full polished calf, gilt, which shows some rubbing along extremities as well as minor abrasions to the covers, and some wear to lower front corners. Interior bright. A.e.g. Overall a fine copy of a beautiful and rare book. Housed in a cloth folding case. (Brooks 70). (17404) $30,000.
Octavo. [32], 289, [51] ff. First Aldine edition, second issue with "duernionem" correctly spelled on the last leaf. Text in Latin and Greek. This miscellany, which encompasses fragments of a number of lost works touching on such subjects as archaeology, grammar, and lexicography, is among the last books produced by Aldus Manutius prior to his death in April 1515. Slight spotting to top and bottom edges of text block, few small wormholes at pastedowns, else internally quite clean and fresh. Bound in lightly soiled seventeenth century full VELLUM with yapped fore-edges. (Renouard 73:9; Brunet II, 1523). (18101) $7,500.
[PLANTIN, CHRISTOPHER]. Junius, Hadrianus. Emblemata. Antwerp, 1565. Octavo. 84 ff. First edition. An emblem book with 58 woodcut emblems by Gerard Janssen van Kampen and Arnold Nicolai after designs by Geoffroy Ballain and Peter Huys. Each emblem appears with a decorative typographical border, accompanied by a caption summary of the emblem's meaning, and a quatrain. Bound in early eighteenth century deep red morocco, gilt, which shows some rubbing along outer hinges. A sound, fresh copy. A.e.g. Housed in a quarter morocco folding case. (Landwehr 398). (17339) $7,500.
Octavo. 140 ff. With twelve woodcut illustrations from thirteen blocks, Tory's "pot cassé" device on title page and colophon, and each page with a four-piece border of twenty-six distinct combinations. The lower blocks of several borders feature coats of arms, including those of the King, François I; his mother, Louise of Savoy; Henri d'Albret, the King of Navarre; and d'Albret's queen, the sister of François. Text in lettre bâtarde, printed in red and black. With Almanac for 1528-1548.
Bound in eighteenth century crimson morocco with triple gilt rules on both panels, gilt turn-ins, flat spine gilt in four compartments, with two green morocco lettering pieces. Few light stains to both panels, some light rubbing to corners and outer hinges. A.e.g. Housed in a modern morocco-backed folding case. With the monogram stamp of noted Prussian collector Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler on bottom title page margin. Leather booklabel of Paul Harth on front pastedown.
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