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CHRONIQUES D’ENGUERRAN DE MONSTRELET GENTIL-HOMME IADIS DEMEURANT CAMBRAY EN

Author: de Monstrelet, Enguerran. I with [12], 10, 12-106, 117-328, [4] leaves; Vol. II with [8], 205, [3] leaves; Vol. III with [10], 84, 84-89, 91-130, 124, [10] leaves. In full contemporary leather binding with gilt ruled borders to boards; spine paneled with gilt titling; rebacked, with contemporary leather of spine and boards preserved over the newer leather.

CHRONIQUES D’ENGUERRAN DE MONSTRELET GENTIL-HOMME IADIS DEMEURANT CAMBRAY EN

Author: de Monstrelet, Enguerran. I with [12], 10, 12-106, 117-328, [4] leaves; Vol. II with [8], 205, [3] leaves; Vol. III with [10], 84, 84-89, 91-130, 124, [10] leaves. In full contemporary leather binding with gilt ruled borders to boards; spine paneled with gilt titling; rebacked, with contemporary leather of spine and boards preserved over the newer leather.

1617 TORQUATO TASSO La Gerusalemme liberata AMAZINGLY ILLUSTRATED antique FOLIO

[CHIVALRIC POEM]. TASSO Torquato (1544-1595)La Gerusalemme liberataGenoa: Giuseppe Pavoni for Bernardo Castello; 1617 Fully illustrated with splendid full page engravings by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco after Bernardo Castello (total 19 (of 20) plates plus engraved title)Small folio: 8 by 11 1/3″ Engraved title-page:With portrait of Torquato Tasso, bust, facing front, wearing a laurel crown; within an oval pendant, lettered “TOROVATO […] TASSO EF”, suspended from a pediment, beneath which a view of Genoa is flanked by two columns, and above is a tablet, lettered: “LA GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA | DI TORQUATO | TASSO. | Con le annotazioni | di Scipion | Gentili, e di Givlio | Guastauini , | Et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti , | STAMPATA | Per Giuseppe Pauoni ad instanza di | Bernardo Castello,in Genova | L’Anno MDCXVII.”Engraved plates at the start of each canto, vignettes and headpieces (missing +2 and +4 v* with engraved dedication to Savoy and a leaf of sonnets to Tasso) old repairs to the title-page and to the margin of the penultimate leaf, some occasional marginal spots). Early twentieth-century half-calf with embossed damask sides, title gilt, marbled endpapers Text in Italian ==========================================Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata – lit.?’The freed Jerusalem’), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Tasso’s choice of subject matter, an actual historic conflict between Christians and Muslims (albeit with fantastical elements added), had a historical grounding and created compositional implications (the narrative subject matter had a fixed endpoint and could not be endlessly spun out in multiple volumes) that are lacking in other Renaissance epics. Like other works of the period that portray conflicts between Christians and Muslims, this subject matter had a topical resonance to readers of the period when the Ottoman Empire was advancing through Eastern Europe.The poem was hugely successful, and sections or moments from the story were used in works in other media all over Europe, especially in the period before the French Revolution and the Romantic movement, which provided alternative stories combining love, violence, and an exotic setting.=========================================Please see my other auctions Thank You Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. Items must be returned to us within 20 days in order to receive a refund or replacement. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution

1617 TORQUATO TASSO La Gerusalemme liberata AMAZINGLY ILLUSTRATED antique FOLIO

[CHIVALRIC POEM]. TASSO Torquato (1544-1595)La Gerusalemme liberataGenoa: Giuseppe Pavoni for Bernardo Castello; 1617 Fully illustrated with splendid full page engravings by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco after Bernardo Castello (total 19 (of 20) plates plus engraved title)Small folio: 8 by 11 1/3″ Engraved title-page:With portrait of Torquato Tasso, bust, facing front, wearing a laurel crown; within an oval pendant, lettered “TOROVATO […] TASSO EF”, suspended from a pediment, beneath which a view of Genoa is flanked by two columns, and above is a tablet, lettered: “LA GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA | DI TORQUATO | TASSO. | Con le annotazioni | di Scipion | Gentili, e di Givlio | Guastauini , | Et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti , | STAMPATA | Per Giuseppe Pauoni ad instanza di | Bernardo Castello,in Genova | L’Anno MDCXVII.”Engraved plates at the start of each canto, vignettes and headpieces (missing +2 and +4 v* with engraved dedication to Savoy and a leaf of sonnets to Tasso) old repairs to the title-page and to the margin of the penultimate leaf, some occasional marginal spots). Early twentieth-century half-calf with embossed damask sides, title gilt, marbled endpapers Text in Italian ==========================================Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata – lit.?’The freed Jerusalem’), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Tasso’s choice of subject matter, an actual historic conflict between Christians and Muslims (albeit with fantastical elements added), had a historical grounding and created compositional implications (the narrative subject matter had a fixed endpoint and could not be endlessly spun out in multiple volumes) that are lacking in other Renaissance epics. Like other works of the period that portray conflicts between Christians and Muslims, this subject matter had a topical resonance to readers of the period when the Ottoman Empire was advancing through Eastern Europe.The poem was hugely successful, and sections or moments from the story were used in works in other media all over Europe, especially in the period before the French Revolution and the Romantic movement, which provided alternative stories combining love, violence, and an exotic setting.=========================================Please see my other auctions Thank You Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. Items must be returned to us within 20 days in order to receive a refund or replacement. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution

1595 SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D’ESPAGNE antique SATIRICAL WORK

SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D’ESPAGNE, ET DE LA TENUE DES ESTATS DE PARIS. NOUVELLE ÉDITION AUGMENTÉE À LA FIN DE PLUSIEURS NOTABLES RECERCHES [SIC] & OBSERVATIONS, QUI DESCOUVRENT DE PLUS EN PLUS LES SECRETS DE LA LIGUE.Written by Pierre Leroy, Jacques Gillot, Florent Chrestien, Pierre Pithou, Nicolas Rapin and Jean Passerat. Rare augmented edition of the satirical and political work about the tensions after the conversion of Henry to Catholicism. Printed in 1595Size 4 by 6″ 1/196-[2 bl.]-197/244 [= 254] pp. Later blind tooled leather binding [by De Samblanx], with fillets and frame in Renaissance-style, ornate spine with raised bands, red sprayed edges Lower corner of the title page is repaired Upper edge of the spine is repairedProv. Gaëtan Quercus (hand-coloured and gold heightened mod. armorial bookplate)- A. Berthel, bookseller (label).244 pagesText in French==========================The Satire Ménippée (or La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d’Espagne) was a political and satirical work in prose and verse that mercilessly parodied the Catholic League and Spanish pretensions during the Wars of Religion in France, and championed the idea of an independent but Catholic France. The work was a collaborative effort of various functionaries, lawyers, clerics and scholars. It appeared at a time that coincided with the ascendance of Henry IV of France and the defeat of the League.The title derives from the classical Greek and Roman literary genre “menippean satire”, a form of carnivalesque literature in a free-form mixture of prose, verse and dialogue. Mikhail Bakhtin called the Satyre Ménippée “one of the greatest political satires of world literature”.==============================Please see my other auctions Thank You Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. Items must be returned to us within 20 days in order to receive a refund or replacement. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution

1595 SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D’ESPAGNE antique SATIRICAL WORK

SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D’ESPAGNE, ET DE LA TENUE DES ESTATS DE PARIS. NOUVELLE ÉDITION AUGMENTÉE À LA FIN DE PLUSIEURS NOTABLES RECERCHES [SIC] & OBSERVATIONS, QUI DESCOUVRENT DE PLUS EN PLUS LES SECRETS DE LA LIGUE.Written by Pierre Leroy, Jacques Gillot, Florent Chrestien, Pierre Pithou, Nicolas Rapin and Jean Passerat. Rare augmented edition of the satirical and political work about the tensions after the conversion of Henry to Catholicism. Printed in 1595Size 4 by 6″ 1/196-[2 bl.]-197/244 [= 254] pp. Later blind tooled leather binding [by De Samblanx], with fillets and frame in Renaissance-style, ornate spine with raised bands, red sprayed edges Lower corner of the title page is repaired Upper edge of the spine is repairedProv. Gaëtan Quercus (hand-coloured and gold heightened mod. armorial bookplate)- A. Berthel, bookseller (label).244 pagesText in French==========================The Satire Ménippée (or La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d’Espagne) was a political and satirical work in prose and verse that mercilessly parodied the Catholic League and Spanish pretensions during the Wars of Religion in France, and championed the idea of an independent but Catholic France. The work was a collaborative effort of various functionaries, lawyers, clerics and scholars. It appeared at a time that coincided with the ascendance of Henry IV of France and the defeat of the League.The title derives from the classical Greek and Roman literary genre “menippean satire”, a form of carnivalesque literature in a free-form mixture of prose, verse and dialogue. Mikhail Bakhtin called the Satyre Ménippée “one of the greatest political satires of world literature”.==============================Please see my other auctions Thank You Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. Items must be returned to us within 20 days in order to receive a refund or replacement. Buyer is responsible for shipping costs. Powered by SixBit’s eCommerce Solution

1595 ROMAN AGRICULTURAL STATUTES History ROME Agriculture FARMING Vellum Binding

[Agriculture] ~ [ROME AGRICULTURAL STATUTES] Statuta nobilis artis agriculturae urbis.. Romae [i.e. Rome]. Apud Georgium Ferrarium, 1595. Quarto. [8], 196pp, [34]. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities worn, heavily marked and discoloured, several wormholes to boards, spine cracked. Inkstamp of the Lawes Agricultural library to FEP, early ink signatures to title (a couple scored through), leaves browned and stained, some worming to margins. An early edition of the statutes and laws of the Roman city guild of agricultural workers, published by Giorgio Ferrari for the Roman Papal Press. Part of the comprehensive reforms and publication of decrees and statutes issued in the wake of Michele Ghislieri’s, election as Pope Pius V in 1566, this volume outlines an extensive reorganisation of the agricultural industry, including measures relating to the sale and distribution of vegetables and livestock (including pricing), regulations regarding the division of land, the rates of pay for farm workers and numerous public health measures relating to hygiene. Numerous revised editions were issued up to the midnineteenth century. COPAC records copies of this edition at two locations (Cambridge and Oxford); OCLC adds one further (BNF). ~ About Antiquates We’re based in the heart of the Dorset countryside, with an antiquarian bookshop in Wareham, housed within a beautiful Grade II Listed Georgian Building, we also travel far and wide to buy, sell and advise on rare books. We offer a wealth of antiquarian books, specialising in early and hand-press printing – but not excluding all others! Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important – and we try to offer our customers a varied and frequently changing selection, along with advice on library development and special purchases. We are proud and active members of the ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association), ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and the PBFA (Provincial Book Fairs Association) – professional bodies for the antiquarian book trade, abiding by their codes of practice and exhibiting at several large national and regional book fairs each year. Viewings of all books in our stock are possible by appointment at our Wareham bookshop, the details for which are displayed in the ‘Business seller Information’ section below. Purchase and Payment We aim to make your purchase as straightforward and pleasurable as possible. Payment can be made by various methods: From customers in the UK we accept: Paypal Bank Transfers (in GBP £ Sterling) Cheques (in GBP £ Sterling) For customers from the rest of the world we accept: Paypal Bank Transfers (in GBP £ Sterling) Postage and Packing As experienced and professional booksellers we have shipped books to many countries, and will be happy to quote costs for destinations and/or services other than those currently specified for this heavy book. All books are expertly wrapped, dispatched via national and international postal or courier services, and fully insured from our door to yours. Please be aware that antiquarian books can be imported to many destinations without restriction or extra duties (for example, the entire European Union), but that some destinations do charge import duties and/or sales tax on imported items. As per eBay terms, buyers are liable to pay these costs on receipt. Please see Postage and Payments section

1595 ROMAN AGRICULTURAL STATUTES History ROME Agriculture FARMING Vellum Binding

[Agriculture] ~ [ROME AGRICULTURAL STATUTES] Statuta nobilis artis agriculturae urbis.. Romae [i.e. Rome]. Apud Georgium Ferrarium, 1595. Quarto. [8], 196pp, [34]. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities worn, heavily marked and discoloured, several wormholes to boards, spine cracked. Inkstamp of the Lawes Agricultural library to FEP, early ink signatures to title (a couple scored through), leaves browned and stained, some worming to margins. An early edition of the statutes and laws of the Roman city guild of agricultural workers, published by Giorgio Ferrari for the Roman Papal Press. Part of the comprehensive reforms and publication of decrees and statutes issued in the wake of Michele Ghislieri’s, election as Pope Pius V in 1566, this volume outlines an extensive reorganisation of the agricultural industry, including measures relating to the sale and distribution of vegetables and livestock (including pricing), regulations regarding the division of land, the rates of pay for farm workers and numerous public health measures relating to hygiene. Numerous revised editions were issued up to the midnineteenth century. COPAC records copies of this edition at two locations (Cambridge and Oxford); OCLC adds one further (BNF). ~ About Antiquates We’re based in the heart of the Dorset countryside, with an antiquarian bookshop in Wareham, housed within a beautiful Grade II Listed Georgian Building, we also travel far and wide to buy, sell and advise on rare books. We offer a wealth of antiquarian books, specialising in early and hand-press printing – but not excluding all others! Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important – and we try to offer our customers a varied and frequently changing selection, along with advice on library development and special purchases. We are proud and active members of the ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association), ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and the PBFA (Provincial Book Fairs Association) – professional bodies for the antiquarian book trade, abiding by their codes of practice and exhibiting at several large national and regional book fairs each year. Viewings of all books in our stock are possible by appointment at our Wareham bookshop, the details for which are displayed in the ‘Business seller Information’ section below. Purchase and Payment We aim to make your purchase as straightforward and pleasurable as possible. Payment can be made by various methods: From customers in the UK we accept: Paypal Bank Transfers (in GBP £ Sterling) Cheques (in GBP £ Sterling) For customers from the rest of the world we accept: Paypal Bank Transfers (in GBP £ Sterling) Postage and Packing As experienced and professional booksellers we have shipped books to many countries, and will be happy to quote costs for destinations and/or services other than those currently specified for this heavy book. All books are expertly wrapped, dispatched via national and international postal or courier services, and fully insured from our door to yours. Please be aware that antiquarian books can be imported to many destinations without restriction or extra duties (for example, the entire European Union), but that some destinations do charge import duties and/or sales tax on imported items. As per eBay terms, buyers are liable to pay these costs on receipt. Please see Postage and Payments section