[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - GREEK]. ESTIENNE, Robert, editor.

T?? Ka???? ??a????? ?pa?ta [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] = Novum Jesu Christi D.N. Testamentum Ex Bibliotheca Regia.Paris, Robert Estienne, King's printer, 1550. Folio (35 x 24 cm). With a Greek and Latin title-page including Estienne’s woodcut basilisk device as King’s printer (and 1 repeat), his woodcut olive tree device on the otherwise blank last page (N6v), 3 single-piece decorated architectural frames with putti, etc. (plus 3 repeats) for the tables of the Eusebian canons for the Gospels, 9 woodcut headpieces and 21 decorated woodcut initial letters (plus numerous repeats). Set almost entirely in the three sizes of Claude Garamont’s famous Greek printing types, known as the Grecs du Roi, and the first use of the largest size. The present copy has been richly decorated, probably around the time it was bound, not just by colouring Estienne’s woodcut devices (the basilisk in gold), decorative frames, headpieces and initials, but also by adding extensive decorations in rococo style, the whole using a large number of mostly bright colours plus gold and silver. Gold-tooled black sheepskin, the gold-tooled spine with the title, publisher and date in the 2nd and 6th of 7 compartments in roman capitals, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and richly gauffered edges, Dutch combed and curled endpapers.

[32], “272” [= 268], 202, [2] pp.Robert Estienne’s ground-breaking critical edition of the Greek New Testament, including variant readings from 15 manuscripts (plus the printed New Testament text of the 1514 Computensian Polyglot), mostly of the manuscripts from the French King François I’s Bibliotheque Royale, but most importantly including for the first time the 5th-century manuscript later known as the Codex Bezae, then in a monastic library in Lyon. Each of these sources was designated by a Greek letter in Estienne’s shoulder notes in the gutter mergin giving the variants. Estienne proved himself the consummate scholar-printer, strongly influenced by Erasmus, producing one of the greatest monuments of Renaissance erudition. This opened up opportunities for further research and for new interpretations of the New Testament text, opportunities often more appreciated by Protestants than by the conservative Catholics of the Council of Trent. The book frequently came under fire. The three sizes of highly ligatured Greek types cut by the rising star of French typographic punchcutting, Claude Garamont (ca. 1505/10-1561), also made it one of the greatest monuments of Renaissance typography: “sumptuous” (Schreiber), “the best type of its kind that has ever been cut” (Proctor quoted by Updike), and it assured Estienne of “sa réputation comme savant littérateur et typographe distingue” (Renouard). Mortimer notes that the headpiece on H7r (p. 125) was replaced during the press run (perhaps it was accidentally damaged). Our copy has what she believes is the earlier state of this form, with a crowned angel head in the headpiece.The first part of the text (a-o) contains the four Gospels and the acts of the Apostles (plus lives of the Evangelists by Sophronius and Dorotheus), while the second part (A-N) contains the Epistles and Revelation, with a Greek divisional-title - with the basilisk device but without imprint - on A1r: the word basilisk is related to the Greek word for king. Estienne’s 1-page Latin note to the reader is set in a roman type, as are the Latin words on the title-page, but otherwise the book is set entirely in Greek except for the quire signatures and the arabic numerals for the pagination. Although Estienne had produced two earlier Greek New Testaments (in 1546 and 1549) they were in small format with no critical apparatus and were completely overshadowed by the present edition. In the present copy, all the woodcut devices, frames, headpieces and initials are coloured in a wide variety of bright colours, gold and silver, with extensive rococo decorations added, as noted above..With numerous short marginal notes in Latin, written in dark brown ink, probably from the time of the binding and colouring. With a gift inscription in English on an endleaf at the front, the name difficult to decipher, but something like: “W. J. Buebile|with much love from|his mother|February 13th 1925”. Three preliminary leaves with marginal tears repaired and a margonal stain in one leaf, but otherwise in good condition. The raised bands and other extremities are worn and a couple sewing supports broken at the hinge, but the binding is otherwise in good condition, with nearly all of the tooling well-preserved. A great work of Greek scholarship and typography, here brightly coloured and with extensive colour decorations added in rococo style.l Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622; Mortimer, French 78; Renouard, Estienne, pp. 76-77, item 1; Schreiber, The Estiennes 105; USTC 150710; for the Greek types: Updike, Printing types, I, pp. 236-237; Vervliet, Conspectus 334, 352, 356; Vervliet, Palaeotypography, pp. 383-397, items 1-3.

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Cappelletti, Mara

The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch Design

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Cappelletti, Mara

The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch Design

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Condé Nast, 2011. 2011. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 250 pages environ - nombreuses photos et publicités en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues. .

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IGNATIUS a Jesus (Carlo LEONELLI).

Grammatica linguae Persicae. Auctore Patre Fratre Ignatio à Jesu Carmelita Discalceato missionario, & vicario residentiae Tripolis, & Montis Libani.Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1661. 4to. With a device on the title-page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments and a 4-page letterpress table showing the Persian alphabet with the initial, medial, final and stand-alone forms of the letters. Modern ivory vellum in the style of the time, manuscript title on spine.

[2], 60 pp.Rare first edition of a valuable Persian grammar (written in Latin), printed in Rome by the printing office of the Propaganda Fide. The third printed Persian grammar: only those of Louis de Dieu (Leiden 1639) and Greaves (London 1649) preceded it. Smitskamp, who refers to the present edition, though he had no copy to offer in his catalogue, notes that Greaves and the present author based their grammars "largely” on De Dieu’s, but where De Dieu wrote for a scholarly audience, Ignatius produced a practical aid for missionaries in the field.Ignazio di Gesù or Ignatius a Jesus, born Carlo Leonelli (1596-1667) joined the order of discalced Carmelites in Italy, who sent him as a missionary to preach the Gospel in Persia/Iran (1629-1641), where he lived in Isfahan and Shiraz and learned the rudiments of Persian, and in Mesopotamia, Syria and probably Turkey and Armenia. He is best known for his work among the Gnostic Christian Mandaeans (Christians of Saint John) near Basra, attempting to convert them to the Catholic faith. After more than twenty years, he returned to Rome and from 1652 to 1661 published accounts of his experiences in the East, helping to pioneer Persian studies in Europe. An account of his travels appeared in Melchisédech Thévenot’s collection (Relations de divers voyages, 1663?). Though he had little training as an orientalist or a scholar, he wrote the present grammar based on information collected during his dozen years in Iran and it therefore forms an important source for the language as it was used there in the 1630s and 1640s.With an old library shelfmark in ink on the title-page. Lacking the final blank leaf. Some light foxing and browning as usual, a slight abrasion on the title-page (device very slightly affected), but otherwise in very good condition.l Amaduzzi, p. 43; Brunet III, 405; Schwab, Bibliographie de la Persica 863; Smitskamp 310c (note); for the author: Encyclopaedia Iranica XII, pp. 619-620; Lupieri, “Friar of Ignatius of Jesus (Carlo Leonelli) ...”, in: ARAM periodical, 16 (2004), pp. 25-46; Nouvelle biographie générale, 25 (1858), col. 805.

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Mara Cappelletti:

The Style of Time. The evolution of wristwatch design

10 2022, (27 x 31 cm), 272 pp. English, 200 colour ills., hardcover. Time is a great mystery. A changeable element, which expands or vanishes, but that appears concrete as it is marked by the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years. The path toward the capture of minutes and seconds coincided with the phases of scientific evolution that allowed man to manufacture watches that are increasingly reliable, but that are also in tune with changes in customs, social needs, and aesthetic canons. This book covers the art of watch manufactory as well as 60 great models, covering both their technical evolution and style trends. In each chapter in-depth studies will guide the reader to the history of the most important manufacturers, the personalities linked to the models treated, technical innovations, styles of the period, or records achieved by the wristwatches: from the watch that helped Charles Lindbergh during the first transatlantic solo flight, to the one worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on the top of Mount Everest, the most iconic models will be discussed in detail.

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Catalogue: klokken & horloges, wetensch. instr. / Clocks, watches, scientific instruments

Metsapelto, Janne,

Drum Course for Beginners: Mastering Rhythm and Style One Beat at a Time.

New York, Metro Books, 2015. Trade Paperback., Vg- in Wraps. Light Wear & Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 144.

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NEVE, CHRISTOPHER

Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague

London, Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2023. (ISBN: 9780500025796). Hardcover. Used, Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the author, with a postcard from the author's son laid in. Jacket edges are creased and nicked. Slight surface colour loss to the jacket in places and a little rippling on the rear. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Very Good/Very Good. Signed and Dedicated By Author.

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PASSLER, DAVID L.

Time, Form and Style in Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1971. (ISBN: 9780300014273). Hardcover. Used, No dust jacket. Hardcover. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine ends and leading corners are a little worn and bumped. Page block is foxed. Front flap of absent dust jacket is laid in between front pastedown and FEP. One or two minor foxing marks on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. AF. Good/No Dust Jacket.

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Passler, David L.

Time, Form, and Style in Boswell's Life of Johnson

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. 8vo. 164 pp. Very Good, Red Cloth, Dust Jacket, edge-wear, shelf-wear, small tears on jacket. .

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