Sam Gatteño Books: Seventeenth Century Books, Illustrated Books
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An historical dictionary of England and Wales. In three parts.
London: printed for Abel Roper at the Mitre in Fleet-street near Temple-Bar, 1692. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [292]pp. A6-I6, Aa6-Mm6, Aaa6-Ccc6, Ddd2. First leaf is blank. With final advertisement leaf. Contemporary calf. With a folding map. Wing H2103A; ESTC R7803. Good.
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Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, elegantissimus iconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes Aesopus.
Lyon [Geneva?]: Apud Joannem Tornæsium Typogr. Regium, 1619. 0. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. 410, [vi]pp. With a vignette (portrait of Aesop) on the title-page. Pages 173, 188 & 213 misnumbered 173, 181 & 219. a8-z8, A8-C8. Contemporary calf, repaired. With 60 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. Not in Cartier; Mortimer French 7; Olschki, Choix 417. Reprint of the 1570 de Tournes edition. Good.
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The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations. By John Ogilby, Esq; Master of His Majesties Revells in the Kingdom of Ireland. Æsopics: or a Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse.
London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the author, 1665-1668. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 211, [i]pp. Title-page in red-and-black. Lacks pp. 201-208. This is the first folio edition with illustrations in large format, but the second edition overall. Half calf, with older spine mounted. Portrait of author signed "P. Lilly pinxit P. Lombart sculpsit Londini." Other plates signed by Wenceslaus Hollar, and D.D.D. Engraved head-pieces and initials. Illustrations to fables 14-15 are combined in one engraving. Portrait plate and 38 other plates missing. ESTC R11060; Wing A693. Extensive staining throughout; some, in a limited number of pages, quite heavy. Two leaves damaged; repaired, but with text supplied in a very attractive hand in a few lines. Fair.
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Andreae Alciati I.V.C. Emblemata.
Apud Lvgdvni: Apud Hæredes Gulielmi Rouillii, 1614. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [20]ff. 816pp. [12]ff. a8, e4, i8, A8-Fff8, Ggg4. First title-page in red and black. Printer's device of G. Roville's heirs (an eagle on a globe, and two serpents with tails interlaced, with motto: In virtvte et fortvna) on title page, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Pagination discrepancy. Page 704 bound with 707. Contemporary limp vellum. With 211 (wrongly numbered 213) nearly half-page emblems; 14 woodcuts of trees, and 197 emblematic woodcut illustrations. No. LXII without woodcut device. Green 141; Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese Books of Devices and Emblems 94; Duplessis 73; Collection of the Emblem Books of Andrea Alciati, Jurisconsult, in the Library of George Edward Sears, p. 22. Slightly waterstained. With a separate title-page to Notæ Posterioris ad Alciati Emblemata, but with continuous pagination. Text edited by Claude Mignault. Good.
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Emblemata cum Commentariis.
Padua: Petrum Paulum Tozzium, 1621. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. lxxx, 1003, [1]pp. a8-e8, A8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, Gg8, [±Gg4], Hh8-Zz8, Aaa8-Qqq8, Rrr6. Additional engraved title-page and large woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. Additional title leaf laid down. Limp vellum, worn and soiled with several small holes. With 213 (including one in the prefatory material) emblematic illustrations. Landwehr 99. Light foxing and staining to several index leaves at rear. Good.
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Emblemi di Andrea Alciato Huomo Chiarissimo dal Latino nel Vulgare Italiano Ridotti Contenenti il Fiore et la Sostanza de' più Scelti Scrittori ...
Padova: Per P.P. Tozzi, 1626. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 343pp. [dagger]4, A8-X8, Y4. Vellum. With 212 emblematic woodcuts. Old repair to title-page. Previous owner's ink stamp on title-page verso. Light foxing. Some worming in lower margins at front and rear (text and illustrations not affected). Good.
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Keywords: Artbooks
Commentaires historiques contenans l'histoire generale des empereurs, imperatrices, caesars et tyrans de l'Empire romain.
A Paris: Chez S. Hure, au Coeur-Bon, et Frederic Leonard, a l'Escu de Venise, rue Saint Iacques, 1657. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Three volumes. I: [xii], 16, [xiv], 757, [i], [xxiv]pp.; II: [ii], 681, [i], 4pp.; III: [ii], 748, 4, [lxiv]pp. With a half-title to volume one. Title-pages in red-and-black. Contemporary calf. Illustrated. Good.
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Perpetua Crux sive Passio Jesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitæ quadragenis iconibus explicate & Altera Perpetva Crvx Jesu Christi.
Coloniae: Apud Constantinum Münich, 1650. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Two parts in one volume. I: 96pp.; II: 96pp. I: A12-D12; II: A12-D12. Nineteenth-century half calf. Small engraving on the title-page; 40 engravings each in parts I and II. The engravings are copies of the woodcuts found in the 1649 Antwerp edition. The woodcuts are by Jan Christoffel Jegher after Anthonis Sallaert, signed with the monograms I.C.I. and A.S. De Backer-Sommervogel I, col. 376. Not in Praz, Landwehr, nor Faber du Faur; Graesse I, 124; Brunet I, 277-278; Funck, pp. 250, & 328; Lehmann-Haupt, An Introduction to the Woodcut of the 17th Century (1977); VD17 12:100262Z & VD17 12:100299X. Bound with: Anni Cælestis Dies Mariani cum Devotis Aspirationibus and Schmidt, Maximillian. Hyperdulia Mariana . Good.
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Orlando Furioso di m. Lodouico Ariosto. Nuouamente ristampato, & ricorretto.
In Venetia: Appresso Pietro Farri, 1619. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. No pagination. [340]pp. a8, A8-SS8, TT4. Engraved title-page. Cinque canti has separate title-page. Seventeenth-century vellum, worn. Agnelli-Ravegnani I, p.186. Good.
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Ioan Barclai Argenis verdeutscht durch Martin Opitzen.
Amsterdam: gedruckt bey Johan Jansson, 1644. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 2 volumes. I; 15ff. 750 pages; II: 12ff. 478 pages. Second German edition (the first was published in 1626). Engraved title-page to part one. Contemporary vellum. With 36 copperplate engravings. Good.
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Le monde enchante: ou, Examen des communs sentimens touchant les esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs operations. Et touchant les efets que les hommes sont capables de produire par leur communication & leur vertu, ...
A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Rotterdam, libraire sur le Vygendam, 1694, 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Four volumes. I: [lxviii]ff. 387, [v]pp.; II: [xii]ff. 733, [vii]pp.; III: [xviii]ff. 484, [iv]pp.; IV: [xvi]ff. 727, [ix]pp. [last leaf blank]. I: *8, **12-******12, A12-Q12, R4; II: *12, A12-Z12, AA12-FF12; III: *12, **6, A12-U12, X4; IV:*12, **4, A12-Z12, AA12-GG12, HH8. Final leaf of volume one is the errata. Includes indexes. Volumes 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. All edges gilt. Volune one has metalcut frontispiece portrait of the author and six plates in volume four. From the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, with her bookplate in each volume. This item may not be in the catalogue compiled by Charles James Stewart, "A Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire." Caillet 915; Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 62; Cornell, Witchcraft 42. Good.
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The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages.
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1611. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. 602 ff. [--]4, A8-E8, F6, A8-Z8, Aa8-Zz8, Aaa8-Hhh8, Iii2, *4, Kkk-Yyy8, Zzz10. Text ends on fo. 554 (really 552); and tables on L2. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With bosses. Clasps missing. Illustrated. Darlow & Moule 239. Bound with: The vvhole book of Psalmes: collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins, and others. London: printed [by R. Feld] for the Companie of Stationers, 1612. Octavo. [x], 100, [ii]pp. ESTC S124338; STC (2nd ed.) 2542. Imperfect; lacks all after page 76, and Herrey, Robert F. Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances, or large and ample tables alphabeticall. Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1611. Quarto. Unpaginated. [164]pp. A8-K8, L2. ESTC S122433; STC (2nd. Ed) 13232.5. Good.
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Signorum Veterum Icones.
n.p. [Amsterdam]: [Hendrik de Leth], n.d. [1670(?)]. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Has illustrated etched half-title: Signorvm vetervm icones. Some copies of this book have a few pages of introductory text in Latin and Dutch, but these leaves were not issued with all copies. Modern red goatskin. Fillet borders. With 100 engraved plates. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 117; Bibliothèque Nationale 150, 337; Thieme-Becker 22, 235; Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700.6; Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes 1550-1820.5. Good.
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Alle de Theosoophsche of Godwijze Werken Van den Godzaligen en Hoogverlichten Jacob Böhme, Anders genaamd, Teutonicus Philosophus.
T'Amsterdam: Voor Fredrik Vorster, Boekverkooper op de Lauw'rier-graft, 1686. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [xxxviii], 461pp. With an additional title-page, engraved, bearing the title, "De Wortel of moeder der philosophia, astrologia, en theologia." No more published. Contemporary vellum. With six engraved plates by Jan Luyken. A very uncommon item. Good.
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Les Fastes Antiquitez et choses plus remarquables de Paris. Labeur de curieuse & diligente recherche, divisé en quatre livres.
Paris: Nicolas & Pierre Bonfons, 1605. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xxxii], 336ff. First edition. Modern full tan calf by Riviere, spine gilt, morocco labels, all edges gilt. Extremities rubbed, front joint and hinge cracked. Woodcuts after Jean Rabel. From the library of Thomas Gaisford, with his bookplate. Title leaf resized and possibly backed, final leaf resized. Very Good.
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