No 3948
William Shakespeare
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE.
Revised by George Stevens.
London, W. Bulmer and Company for John and Josiah Boydell, 1802.
Nine volumes. Large folio. Contemporary full redbrownish calf, rebacked with brown gold tooled leather in seven compartments. Some damages at top and tale, partly cracks in the joints, 2 upper and 3 lower covers detached, all edges gilt.
Engraved frontispiece, frontispiece portrait and 94 engraved plates. Occasional foxing and spotting. Armorial bookplate for Charles Barkley.
For the Boydell edition were specially erected a type foundry, an ink factory and a printer’s workshop.
(Extra shipment cost due to weight and size)
Price: 13200 USD
No 5029
William Shakespeare
THE WORKS OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR; IN EIGHT VOLUMES. Adorn'd with Cutts....By N. Rowe, Esq;...
London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1714
Nine volumes. With 41 engraved plates. Contemporary full paneled calf, rebacked to match the original spines with five raised bands. The condition of the text and plates is fresh and clean throughout.
A rare and important edition edited by N. Rowe, first duodecimo edition, suceeding the 1709 edition. The first eight volumes are the plays, the extra ninth is poetry.
A very attractive set.
Price: 14900 USD
No 3608
Agricola, G. (1494-1555)
DE RE METALLICA LIBRI XII
Basel, 1561.
Second edition. Folio. Later vellum in old style. One folded wooden graved plate and 273 woodcuts in the text, mostly full page by R. Deutsch after B. Wefring and two woodcut printers devices on title and colophon leaf. Excellent copy with strong impression of the cuts. Agricola’s best known work, “On Metals”, is the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times. (Printing and the mind of man. No 79) Horblit, H. D. “100 books famous in science” (N:o 2b).
Price:
12900 USD
No 4200
Church Slavonic Evangelie
EVANGELIE NAPRESTOLNOE
Lvov, 1704.
Printed at the Lvov Uspensk brotherhood. Folio. 424 leaves (complete). 57 engravings, four full page of the apostles (engraved by Zavadovsky, dated 1681, 1682, 1683).
Contemporary satin on wooden boards.
Ref: KARATAEV 1007. ZAPASKI - ISAEVICH No 795.
Price 10800 USD
Preface by Archmandrit Roman. Dedicated to Empress Anna Ivanovna (1730-1740). Contemporary full calf. Spine richly gilt. Four raised binds. All edges gilt, cicelled. Old owners notations on blanks. 19 full page engravings. Size: 80 x 120 mm. Prayers and short hymns (Troparies) for the Russian Orthodox Church Year (September-August).
Price 3500 USD
No 3746
Coptic-Ethiopian Illustrated manuscript
(Anon)
COPTIC-ETHIOPIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Ethiopia, about 1800.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum of the Coptic church in Ethiopia,
written in the Old-Ethiopian Slavonic scholar language of
Ge´ez. Lithurgical respectively biblical text.
34 leaves, 13,5 : 10,5 cm, two columns, 15 lines, numerous
passages set off in red, initial page with little pen- and
ink drawing in red and black.
Contains 5 fullpage miniatures, size 10,5 : 8 cm. with New
Testaments scenes. Depicted are Annunciation, the Nativity,
Stations of the Cross, Mary and John at the Cross, and the
Risen Christ teaches the disciples.
Traditional Coptic binding of wooden boards covered with redbrown
leather with bolt plate scrapers and blind stamping.
8 vo (13,8 : 11,2 cm). Cf. Das Buch im Orient. Katalog Bayr,
Staatsbibliotek München/Wiesbaden 1982-83, cat. no 42,
describing a similar manuscript. Cf. also Tresor d’Orient.
Catalogue Bibliotheque Nationale Paris 1973, pp. 42. Partly minor soiling, margins with trace of nailing for each
line due to original ruling. Well preserved manuscript in
a nice contemporary Coptic binding.
Price: 6150 USD
No 4251
Soderini, Giovanni Vettorio TRATTATO DELLA COLTIVAZIONE DELLE VITI, E DEL FUTTO CHE SE NE PUO CAURE. E la Coltiuazione Toscana Dell Viti, e d’Alcuni Arbori del S. Bernardo DavanZATI BOSTICHI.
Firenze, Per i Giunti, 1610. Quarto (203 x 152 mm). [8], 128, [8]; [4],45, [3] pp. Printer's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, remnants of ties on front and back covers. Near contemporary ownership inscription (partially marked out) and early nineteenth century ownership inscription on front flyleaf recto. Manuscript notes on recto of rear free endpaper and small (religious?) symbol on titlepage. Occasional light spotting throughout, primarily to margins. Small hole in outer margin of first three leaves, also unaffecting text. Old paper repair to outer edge of title-page, unaffecting text. Overall a very good copy.This second edition of Soderini's Trattato della Coltivazione delle Viti, with Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi's Coltiuazione Toscana Dell Viti, appears to be even rarer than the first edition, printed ten years earlier in 1600; although three U.S. libraries report one copy of the book, no copy has come up for auction in the past three decades. An important Renaissance work on viticulture which was still being published as late as 1851, Soderini's Trattato della Coltivazione delle Viti ("Treatise on the Cultivation of Wine") was the culmination of his lifework, which included various works on agriculture and gardening. Bound with Davanzati Bostichi's Coltiuazione Toscana Dell Viti ("On the Cultivation of Wine in Tuscany").BM v.23 col 494. BMSTC p. 631 (first edition). Westbury, p. 206.
Price: 13400 USD
(Book ID: 4251)
No 4474
BIBLIA INTEGRA: SUMMATA: DISTINCTA: SUP(ER)EME(N) DATA VTRIUSQ(UE) TESTAME(N)TI...
Basel, Johannes Froben, 27 June 1491
First printed bible in octavo, the so-called "Poor Man's Bible". Short octavo (6 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 157x110 mm; title somewhat smaller (6 2/16x4 inches; 154x102 mm)). [493] of 496 leaves (bound without a1, the final leaf of Summarium, and e7 and e8, the two final blanks). Fiftysix lines of gothic type in two- and three-columns. Nearly every page ruled in red by a contemporary hand. many pages, especially preliminaries, with rubrication. Manuscript three-line capitals in red and blue throughout, title within a decorative manuscript red scroll. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with expert joint restoration. Boards with triple-filleted and foliate borders, and floral ornaments and deer and griffin stamps within a lattice of triple-filleted rules. Spine in compartments. manuscript paper label. Original brass catch-and clasp fasteners, partially renewed, with new straps. New endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscription at foot of leaf 2 recto. From the library of Swedish bibliophile Per Hierta (1864-1924), with his notations on a leaf of parchment bound in place of a front free endpaper, the parchment also with notes by Swedish philosopher Alf Ahlberg (1892-1979). Occasional light spotting. Leaf 2 trimmed somewhat close. Pinhole sized worming from first leaf to c2. Some insect damage to front board. Overall an excellent copy; clean, fresh and in a contemporary binding. Housed in a parchment backed clamshell box. This is a notably handsome, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work, the first Bible printed by renowned printer Johann Froben, and also the first Bible ever to be printed in an octavo format. Bound without the final two blanks, as is often the case; in the past thirty years, just one copy has come up for auction with both blanks present (Sotheby's, December 15, 1986, lot 158). Prior to the publication of Froben's 1491 Biblia integra, printed Bibles tended to be massive folios that were difficult to transport, making them talismanic objects as mush as texts, and therefore primarily suited for ecclesiastical use. Because of its relatively diminutive size Froben's Bible became known as the original "Poor Man's Bible", eminently transportable and therefore eminently accessible. Although Froben's Biblia integra was printed in Latin, beacuse of its small size, it should rightly be ranked with Martin Lunther's 1534 German Bible, and later sixteenth and seventeenth century Bibles translated into other vernacural European languages, that made the Bible increasingly accessible to laypeople in early modern Europe.
"The earliest edition printed in octavo was printed by Johannes Froben de Hammelburg: Baseileae, 27 June 1491. This edition from its small size is known as the first "poor man's bible". It is noteworthy also as being the first book, or one of the first books, issued by Johann Froben, the celebrated printer in Basel, who was intimately connected with Erasmus and other prominent men of age, and printed many books in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Froben's Latin Bibles were based on the "Fontibus ex Graecis", editions and were highly esteemed for their accuracy. (Darlow & Moule).
No 4524
Dostoevsky, F. D.
POLNOE SOBRANIE SOCHINENII F. M. DOSTOEVSKAGO. JOBILEINOE IZDANIE
St. Petersburg, Panteleev, 1904-06
Folio edition on thick paper, photographic plates in vol. 1. Attribution to Anna Grigorevna by D. Merezhkovskii. 40 pp. preface by S. Bulgakov: Ocherk o Dostoevskom. 14 volumes in 12. Contemporary cloth/calf. Magnificient 25th. anniversary jubilee edition in celebration of the great writer (1821-1881). All volumes in great condition, externally and internally.
Price 16500 USD
No 5325
Friche, V. M. & others (eds.)
LITERATURNAYA ENTSIKLOPEDIYA
Moskva (Moscow), Komm. Akad., 1929-39
Ten volumes, complete as issued (vols. 1-9 & 11). Original publishers cloth. Cover of vol. 1 worn, otherwise a very good, strong set. Pagination: VIII, 768 pp; VI, 768; XII, 634; IV, 716; IV, 784; IV, 920; VIII, 888; IV, 736; VIII, 832; IV, 824. All volumes are richly illustrated, in the later volumes many stiff paper full page portraits.
The famous literary encyclopedia, of which vol. 10 was suppressed for ideological reasons. Vol. 10 was suppressed by the Party Censorship in 1937 and the whole project was abandoned in 1939 and with it also a projected final 12th volume. Some part versions of vol. 10 did however survive in the home library of one of the contributors, and was published as a reprint in Munich in 1991. The present set is a complete original of the first and only edition. Literaturnaya entsiklopediya is an invaluable work of reference information and remains a scholarly resource. Many leading scholars of the period participated; Asmus, Poppe, Sergievskii, Timofeev, Fomin, Shor, and many others. The edition contains more than 10,000 entries. Since the encyclopedia was published only once it soon became a bibliographical rarity.
Price: 4250
No 5090
Dampier, Guillaume
NOUVEAU VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE
Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1698.
Two volumes bound in one. (10), 315; (4) 316-616, (4). Lacks four text leaves (pps 321-328). Contemporary full calf. Very strong, tight original binding. Engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved maps and 6 engraved plates. All maps and plates fine except the Manila plate w. a minor dirty spot. First French edition of the famous travel account (1683-91). The original edition, in English, appeared in 1797.
Sabin 18381.
Price: 3900 USD
No 5417
BJÖRLING, JUSSI (1911-1960),
Autograph Metropolitan program
BJÖRLING, JUSSI (1911-1960), Swedish opera-singer. Autograph in blue ink on the front cover of program for the Metropolitan opera, season of 1956-1957, for the Verdi opera Don Carlo. Also with autograph of Jerome Hines and Nicola Moscona.
Small 4:o (230x165). 21 pp. One page (17) with advertisment for Björling records. Program with vertical fold in the middle, minor tear to margin on cover.
Jussi Björling (Bjoerling) played the leading part of Don Carlo, Hines-Philip II and Moscona-The grand inquisitor. (Bjorling, Bjoerling)
Pris: 825 USD
No 3889
(Dostoevsky, Fedor Michajlovich) DNEVNIK PISATELYA ZA 1877. (An author’s diary for 1877)
St. Petersburg, 1877.
First edition. 326 pp. All issues for 1877 bound in one volume.
Contemporary paper binding with some damages. Slightly water
stained.
KILGOUR 285.
Price: 3525 USD
No 5428
(Naidenov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich)
MOSKVA. SNIMKI S VIDOV MESTNOSTEI, KHRAMOV, ZDANII I DRUGIKH SOORUZHENII
n.p. Moskva (Moscow), 1886.
Contemporary quarter calf w. cloth boards. Large oblong folio, 43 cm X 63 cm. Two parts bound in one volume. Block partly separated, due to weight. First few leaves of vol. 1 a bit wrinkled, a few plates loose. Clean plates throughout, no spotting. 66 plates depicting old Moscow views; Landscapes, Churches, Buildings, Monasteries and other structures. Volume 1 contain 29 plates, volume 2 contain 37 plates. Plate texts in Russian and French, all plates dated 1886.
Plate book from the Russian Empire, described in: Notable Russian and Soviet Illustrated Books....at the New York Public Library. Nikolai Naidenov (1834-1905), Russian plate books, Imperial Russia.
Price: 6900 USD
