![Item #2595 El Bernardo o victoria de Roncesvalles poema heroyco […]. Bernardo de Balbuena](/pictures/thumb/2595.jpg?v=1645781011)
Madrid: por Diego Flamenco, 1624. First edition. In early 19th-century marbled calf, panels ruled by gilt frames, edges and spine gilt, red title vignette on spine. Marbled endpapers. Engraved, illustrated title page (by Juan de Diesa). Few woodcut initials and a large woodcut tailpiece at the end of the work..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1955). First edition. Limited, numbered one of 50 (of 56) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black, protected with tracing paper. 272, (8) p. Limited, first edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s collection of essays. According to Beauvoir the question “how the privileged may think about..... More
![Item #1708 [De l'institution du Prince.] De Linstitution du Prince. Livre contenant plusieurs...](/pictures/thumb/1708.jpg?v=1568715005)
Imprimé à l’Arrivour Abbaye [Larrivour]: dudict Seign, Par Maistre Nicole Paris, 1547. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer’s device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered..... More
![Item #2259 Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda. Historia setentrional. […]. Miguel de...](/pictures/thumb/2259.jpg?v=1626606265)
En Pamplona: Por Nicolás de Assiayn [Asiaín], Impressor de libros, y a su costa, 1629. In later cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Handwritten title label on spine in ink. Shelfmarks on front pastedown in pencil and ink, shelfmark vignette on rear pastedown. ff [1(title page)] [1]–296 [Complete, with several misnumberings..... More
A Amsterdam: Aux depens d’Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l’on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique, M. DCC. VII [1707]. First Amsterdam edition. With Valentine de Laborde’s bookplate on inner front panel. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. 19th century leather. Spine..... More
Paris: Librairie Plon les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, [1954]; [1956]. First editions. First two volumes of Mémoires de Guerre (of three, third volume appeared in 1959). First volume numbered, inscribed by the author. In publisher’s original wrappers. [6] 680 [4] p., and a folded map; [6] 712 [2] p...... More
Naples: Borel et Bompard, 1841. With a contemporary gouache paint of Mount Vesuvius erupting, with four vessels in the sea in the foreground (10.5 × 7 cm) on p. (7). First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt spine. (9), 10–61, (1) p. The painting is depicting probably the eruption of..... More
En Anveres [Antwerp]: En l’Oficina Plantiniana, Cerca la Biuda, Iuan Moreto [widow of Plantin and Jan Moretus], M. D. XC I. [1591]. Illustrated with an engraved title vignette of a knight on horseback with background and 20 full-page etchings, attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. First Plantin edition. In contemporary..... More
A Constantinople [but Paris]: De l’Imprimerie d’Ibrahim Pacha (Et se vend a Francfort, Chez J. G. Eslinger), First edition. In contemporary marbled paper. Typographic and woodcut head and tailpieces. 100, - 700, 60, 15 [1775]. [4] 212 p. First edition of Lancelin de Laval’s stories about Muhammad's private life and..... More
A Paris: Chez Tuossainct du Bray, rue Sainct Jacques, aux Epics-meurs, M. DC. XXIIII [1624]. First edition. In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt ornament and title. Edges tinted in red and brown. Woodcut initials and headpieces. (16), 1115, (3 [last 2 blank]) p. Collation..... More
![Item #1799 [Relación de los toros de Meco.] Relación de las fiestas de toros, que corrio la...](/pictures/thumb/1799.jpg?v=1591181147)
[S.l.]: [S.n.], [no date, but 1690?]. Unbound, protected with later marbled paper cover. [8] p. Scarce Spanish Golden Age poem on bullfighting. Published anonymously, but written by Manuel de León Marchante (1631–1680), poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. This humorous poem about the bullfight of Meco Relación..... More
V Praze (Prague): Hyperion, 1927. With a plate of etching by Cyril Bouda. First edition. In publisher’s artistic leather binding, gilt ornamentation on panels of Hebrew text with biblical and astrological motifs. Gilt title on spine. Bound by Antonín Tvrdý. In publishers hard paper box. The original, illustrated wrapper bound..... More
![Item #1783 [Vitae illustrium virorum. Spanish.] La primera [secunda] parte de Plutharco. [Vidas...](/pictures/thumb/1783.jpg?v=1591110007)
[Sevilla (Seville)]: [Cuatro Compañeros Alemanes] [Paulus de Colonia, Johann Pegnitzer, Magnus Herbst and Thomas Glockner], 2 July, 1491. First edition. Imprint from colophon of the second volume. Text set in tortis type, in two columns, 48–50 lines. Heading to each life printed in red. Foliated in Arabic numerals. In two..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Frist edition. Presentation copy. In original cloth with dust jacket. 62 p. First edition of the Snodgrass' first book. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for this collection of poems. Inscribed to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer, president..... More