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[Hours]
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Officium Romanum.
Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 7 June 1516, 12mo, old blindstamped
calf (binding & spine expertly repaired), gilt ornaments on covers, spine on 2 raised bands, gilt
gauffered edges, in slipcase, [24]-179-[1] ff. (some staining on O11r-12r). Excellent copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 750/1000
Apparently unrecorded
(?) illustrated early Venetian Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rome).
Woodcut
ills
: 11 full-page, 11 large historiated initials, 2 half-page and 83 small woodcuts. Entirely printed
in red and black. Woodcut mark at the end. 17th-c. armorial bookpl. with device “Patriae et Amicis”
(probably a member of the Nürnberg patrician family Pfinzing von Henfenfeld).
Ref.
Not in Edit16,
USTC, Adams, Bohatta, Essling, Sander, STCItalian (BL), BnF etc.
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[Italian literature]
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CECCHI, Giovan Maria
- La moglie, comedia. Venice, G. Giolito de Ferrari,
1556, 12mo, mod. cloth, 36 (= 43)-[1] ff. (some spotting and staining). Good copy.
€ 100/150
Rare Venice ed.
of a comedy by the Florentine playwright G. Cecchi (1518-1587). Woodcut mark on
title and at end. In italics.
Ref.
Edit16 10642. STCItalian (BL) 164. Not in Adams.
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[Judaica]
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JOSEPHUS, Flavius
- Opera omnia. [Geneva], J. Stoer, 1595, 16mo, 2 vols in cont.
vellum, 570-[14], 356-[12] ff. Good copy.
€ 150/250
Latin trsl. of Josephus’ extensive works on Jewish history. General title in red and black. Woodcut
mark.
Ref.
GLN 3802. Adams J-371. Hoffmann II:594.
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[Landshut imprint]
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HUTTEN, Ulrich von
- Febris. Dialogus. Landshut, J. Weissenburger, Febr.
1519, 4to, mod. paper covered limp vellum, [4] ff. (1st & last pp. sl. soiled, sm. hole in t.-p.). Good
copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 450/650
One (1st?) of 3 eds published in 1519. Hutten presents a grim satirical picture of the behaviour of
the rich and of the higher clergy. Large decorative woodcut initials.
Ref.
VD-16 H-6332 (2). Adams
H-1233. STCGerman (BL) p. 426. Benzing, Hutten 93. Not in BnF, NUC.
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