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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

Les délices de l'esprit. Dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde. 4 volumes in one. With 4 engraved titles, 18 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes. 35,5 x 23 cm. Contemporary marbled calf (slightly rubbed, scratched and spotted) with gold pressed spine title and gilt spine. Paris, Florentin Lambert, 1661.

Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900

800,- EUR
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Robert Estienne

Dictionarium Latinogallicum. 2 leaves., 575 pages. With large woodcut printer's device on title page and 19 woodcut 14-lines initials. 31,5 x 21 cm. Brown calf of the late 16th century (scratched, restaured) with some blind fillets. Paris, Estienne, 1538.

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert

2000,- EUR
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Libri de Horas de los Reyes Católicos - Voustre Cemeure

Book of Hours by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Ms. Vit 25-5 - 78 B 13 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. Facsimile and commentary. 2 volumes. 14 x 10.5 cm and 33 x 23.5 cm respectively. Green calf leather over wooden boards with narrow gold-embossed borders on the spine and covers, featuring a metallic-enamelled coat of arms on the front cover, 2 clasps and gold edging on three sides, housed in a green old leather slipcase (hardly rubbed) with a gold-embossed title on the spine. Commentary with bound in brown gilt linen with an illustrated dust jacket. Valencia, Patrimonio, 2009.

Sachgebiete: Faksimilewerke

2400,- EUR
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Opera quae exstant omnia: a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholis illustrata. Editio quarta, atque ab ultima Lipsi manu. 8 leaves, XXXVI, 911 pages. With engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, full-page portrait engraving and 3 (2 full-page) engravings. 41 x 25 cm. Contemporary brown calf (capitals worn and torn, a little scratched, bumped and rubbed) with formerly gold embossed spine and spine label (oxidized). Amsterdam, Plantin-Moretus, 1652.

Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900

500,- EUR
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Roger Pillet

Les Oraisons Amoureuses de Jeanne-Aurélie Grivolin Lyonnaise. X pp., 1 leaf, 213 pp., 1 leaf. With 15 original color drypoint etchings and numerous text illustrations by Yan B. Dyl. 24 x 17 cm. Contemporary half-vellum (slightly rubbed) with gilt spine and spine label (original wrapper bound in). Paris 1925.

Sachgebiete: Art deco , Erotica

650,- EUR
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Das Flämische Stundenbuch der Maria Medici

Facsimile of MS Douce 112 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Facsimile and commentary. 2 volumes. 21 x 13.5 cm. Red original velvet binding with elaborate silver and silk embroidery; original cloth binding with gold-stamped titles in an original acrylic glass slipcase. Lucerne, Quaternio, 2011.

Sachgebiete: Faksimilewerke

2700,- EUR
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William Whitehead

Plays and Poems. 2 volumes. 2 leaves, 304 pp.; 1 leaf, 326 pp., 1 leaf. 17.5 x 11 cm. Contemporary green English shagreen bindings (slightly rubbed; signed: "Andw. Grieve Edinb.") with floral gilt spines, red spine labels, subtle gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins and edges. London, Dodsley, 1774.

Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900

300,- EUR
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Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Papst Pius II)

Histoire de deux amants. Manuscrit latin de 1544 traduit par Louis Gielly orne d'illustrations originales par Maurice Lalau. XII, 121 pp., 2 leaves. With 30 color etchings and numerous color decorative elements, featuring gold leaf applications both within and outside the illustrations. Folio. Loose double leaves in original wrappers, original cardboard covers, and slipcase. Paris, Jules Meynial, 1931.

Sachgebiete: Art deco

1200,- EUR
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Francesco Petrarca

Rime. 2 volumes. 2 leaves, XVII, 352 pp., 1 blank leaf; 2 leaves, XXXIV, 373 pp., 1 leaf. 16.5 x 11.5 cm. Original interim wrappers (somewhat stained and rubbed, with minor edge wear; spine covering with losses). Parma, Bodoni, 1799.

Sachgebiete: Italien, Literatur bis ca. 1900, Typographie

500,- EUR
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Adolphe Jullien

Hector Berlioz, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Ouvrage orné de 14 lithographies originales par Fantin-Latour. XVI, 386 pp., 1 leaf. With 14 original lithographs by Henri Fantin-Latour (in two states on China paper), 1 original etching by A. Gilbert after the famous portrait by Courbet (present in two states), a heliogravure after a lithograph by Kriehuber, a double-page reproduction after a lithograph by J. Traviès, and numerous illustrations within the text. 32 x 25 cm. Green morocco binding (showing faded water damage; original wrapper bound in) featuring five raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title, floral cover vignette, gilt edges on the turn-ins (dentelle) and board edges, and cherry-red silk moiré endpapers; housed in a green half-leather slipcase (by Pagnant). Paris, Librairie de l'Art, 1888.

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

2500,- EUR
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Gertrude Stein

Everybody’s Autobiography. 4 leaves., 318 p., includes 8 black and white photographs by Carl Van Vechten. 21,5 x 15 cm. Original hardcover (cloth) with dust-wrapper (some small chips and tears). New York, Random House, 1937.

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

80,- EUR
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Fernand Léger. - Éluard, Paul

Liberté, j'écris ton nom. Folded accordion-style booklet. Original screen print on paper. 28.8 x 111.5 cm. Housed in a private half-linen clamshell box (slightly rubbed) featuring a title on the spine and an inlaid, color-illustrated title on the cover. Paris, Éditions Seghers, (1953).

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

1600,- EUR
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Friedrich Wolters und Friedrich Andreae

Arkadische Launen. 84 p., 1 leave. 24 x 16 cm. Original full vellum with gilt-lettered title on front cover and spine. Edges gilt. Berlin, S. Calvary, 1907.

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

130,- EUR
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Ernest Hemingway

Death in the afternoon. 358 p., 1 l., with a colour frontispiece (from a painting by Juan Gris: The Bullfighter) and 81 full page reproductions from black and white photos. 22,5 x 15 cm. Original publisher's orange/brown cloth with black lettering to spine and upper board. Dust jacket, not price-clipped (light rubbing). London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

260,- EUR
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Aphorismes et Variétés. Gravures originales à l’eau-forte par Raoul Dufy. 128 p., 8 l. With 20 drypoint etchings by Raoul Dufy. 31,5 x 24 cm. In-4 in leaves. Green Folder and slipcase (cardboard) with gilt-letterd title on spine. Paris, pour les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1940.

Sachgebiete: Literatur ab ca. 1900

650,- EUR
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Utagawa Kunisada

Yoshida. Ukiyo-e color woodblock print from the “Tokaido” series. Tokyo (Edo), circa 1863.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Holzschnitt

150,- EUR
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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy: What is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and several cures of it. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up, by Democritus Iunior (pseud.). 3 parts in one volume. 2 ll., 64 pp. (Preface); 2 ll., 188 pp.; 2 ll., pp. 189–332; 1 l., pp. 333–557 (recte 567), 3 ll. (index “The Table”). 27.5 x 17.5 cm. Contemporary dark brown calf (slightly rubbed and bumped, joints partly worn), with gilt fillet borders, restrained spine tooling and gilt-lettered spine title. Oxford, J. Lichfield and J. Short for H. Cripps, 1624. Literature: STC 4160. Madan 521. Jordan-Smith 2. Krivatsky 1968. PMM 253.

Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900

2800,- EUR
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Kobayashi Kiyochika

Battle between Japanese and Chinese troops at Songhwan. ‘A great victory for our troops at Seikan’ (in Japanese: ‘Seikan ni oite Nisshin gekisen, waga hei daisho zu’). Triptych. 3 ukiyo-e colour woodblock prints mounted on Japanese paper. Oban tate-e format (38.5 x 27 cm). Tokyo, c. 1894.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Holzschnitt

200,- EUR
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

A double portrait of two Kabuki actors, one of whom is dressed as a geisha. Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tobi-no-mono Omatsuri Kingorô and Bandô Shûka I as the geisha Gaku no Kosan. Ôban tate-e format. 35.5 x 24 cm. Edo (Tokyo), after 1852.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Holzschnitt

120,- EUR
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kanadehon Chushingura (The Loyalty of the Forty-Four Ronin). Ukiyo-e colour woodblock print. Ôban yoko-e format. 25 x 37 cm. Edo (Tokyo), c. 1855.

Sachgebiete: Asien, Holzschnitt

250,- EUR
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