Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books

Rome: F.M. Calvo, 1524. CONTEMPORARY BLIND- AND GILT-DECORATED ROMAN BINDING of brown morocco over paper boards, panels with straight and curved frames, branches, flames, daisies and a ropework central medallion (some gilding lost, corners and tips slightly defective), vellum pastedowns and their stubs (see below), evidence of eight green fabric ties, all edges gilt. First Edition of the color theorist, classical scholar and playwright's first book of verse. In late 1523, Telesio (1482-1534) was called from Milan to Rome, where he immediately praised the newly elected Pope Clement VII in print, joined the humanist circles of Giovio and the future Pope Paul IV and secured the patronage of Gian Matteo Giberti, this book's dedicatee.             The present collection includes two pieces that herald themes in Telesio's 1527 stage play. Other poems describe a bronze lamp given by a nobleman named Lampius (nomen omen), the 1521 explosion of a gunpowder depot in the Castello Sforzesco and the… Read More

Rudolstadt: Court Printer C.P. Fröbel for J.K. Krieger in Kassel, 1817. Contemporary speckled sheep-backed marbled boards (worn), gilt-ruled flat spine. With: Walther, Friedrich Ludwig.             Die Lehre vom Dung.  Anspach, B.F Haueisen 1787. 8vo. xvi, 55p. With: Fischer, August Wilhelm.            Ueber das neu erfundene allgemeine Befruchtungsmittel der Erde. Magdeburg, J.C. Giesecken [1795]. 8vo. viii, 56p.               Ad I-III: Three treatises on agriculture and horticulture: the first two are first editions. Thon (I) treats the cultivation of various species of currants and gooseberries for wine. Walther (II) investigates manure and its uses. He includes a calendar for field fertilization. Fischer (III) advertises his "newly invented" fertilizer and its potential applications by farmers and gardeners (first published in 1794). Only the Thon is held by any North American institution. A modest copy (foxed, first quarter of the volume stained). ¶Ad I: Engelmann,… Read More

Florence and Lucca: the Marescandoli Brothers, 1681. 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine title. First Edition. In 1431 the humanist, theologian and friend of the "book hunters" Niccolò Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini visited the Italian Camaldolese monasteries for Pope Eugene IV. In good condition, signature of philologist A. Wilmanns (1833-1917). ¶Brunet V: 931 (no portrait); see Bracciolini & Niccoli's Two Renaissance Book Hunters ed. Gordan passim and Sabbadini's Le Scoperte dei codici latini e greci passim.

[Geneva]: H. II Estienne, 1557. Mid-19th-century gilt- and blind-decorated calf (hinges worn), spine and lettering gilt, marbled edges, red silk marker. With: Maximus Tyrius.             Sermones siue Disputationes XLI.  [Geneva], H. II Estienne 1557. 8vo. [xvi], 320p.              Ad I-II: Editio Princeps of these Greek lectures on moral philosophy, here with the Latin translation of Cosimo de' Pazzi (1466-1513). Estienne edited the Greek text, added critical notes and substantially emended the Latin version. In good condition (first title cut close at the top), scattered early manuscript annotations, bookplate of Bob Luza (1893-1980). ¶Renouard, Annales...des Estienne 116,2.