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within plain arabesque ornaments. This considerably predates what is
generally regarded as the first successful use of gold blocking directly on
cloth spines which Leighton used on vol two of Byron’s works which he
published in 1832. A rather nice copy.
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SOUTHEY (Robert).
of Robert Southey with Caroline
Bowles. To which are added: correspondence with Shelley, and
Southey’s Dreams. Edited, with an introduction, by Edward
Dowden. 1881.
A correspondence of twenty years which fully attests to their entire
congeniality.
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DRUMMOND (Wm.), of Hawthornden.
The poetical
works. Edited by William B. Turnbull.
John Russell Smith,
Library of Old Authors series,
1856. FIRST EDITION EDITED
TURNBULL, with a portrait, pages xx, 346, (2, blank), large
12mo, original cloth: a nice, fresh copy. (4)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1367
.
VELASTUS (Stanislas Thomas), SJ.
Dissertatio de
Litterarum Graecorum pronuntiatione
Romae: sumptibus
Venantii Monaldini … typis Angeli Rotilii, et Philippi Bacchelli,
1751
FIRST EDITION, pages 111, (1, errata), 4to, original marbled
paper wrappers, spine crudely renewed, minor corner stain,
some old marginal pencil notes in English, a very good, uncut
and unsophisticated copy.
De Backer & Sommervogel III. 1321. An influential work which ran
to a second edition, Prague 1770. Velasti was successively professor of
belles-lettres, Greek, philosophy and theology at the College de Piazza
in Sicily.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
ANTONINI (Annibal).
Dizionario
Italiano, Latino e Francese … Nuova edizione. Riveduta,
corretta, e notabilmente accresciuta.
In Lione [Lyons]: appresso
Benedetto Duplain …,
1770. Pages xvi, 7668: (4), 672, with the
half-title in the second volume (none issued in the first),2 vols,
4to, contemporary mottled sheep, fully gilt spines, with
contrasting labels, gilt, silk markers; light scratching of boards,
very slight wear at corners and headbands but the bindings
strong and attractive and internally a well-margined and
attractive copy.
With the neat, near contemporary signature of Thos. Everard on both
title-pages.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1368
.
VERGILIUS (Polydorus).
Anglicae historiae libri
vigintiseptem …
Basiliae, apud Mich. Isingrinium,
1557
With woodcut device on title-page and on verso of final leaf,
the first page of dedication to Henry VIII and the first page of
text surrounded by fine metal-cut four-piece borders by Hans
Frank, and with some ornamental iniitials throughout, pages
(2), 691, (37) and final leaf blank but for large woodcut device
on verso, folio, contemporary calf with small arabesque oval
device in blind on both boards, old rebacking with label, gilt,
new endpapers and flyleaves, with the armorial book plate of
Colonel Cooper and Markree library label: faint old water stain
in lower margin of first few leaves, small piece cut from the
lower outer blank margin of leaf N6 clear of text, headbands
worn but binding strong and otherwise a large and very good,
clean copy with the contemporary signature of “Gilbtr. Deani”
on title-page and the later inscription, also on title-page, “Liber
Edm Deani”.
Adams V 451 (C only). The twenty-seventh book (dealing with the
history of Henry VIII’s reign to 1538), here included, was first
published in the same publisher’s edition of 1555. This, the earliest
critical history of England, compiled by an Italian humanist residing
at the court of Henry VIII, utilises many curious sources and contains
the sources of Cymbeline, King Lear, Macbeth, etc. As an authority it
is invaluable for the reign of Henry VII (DNB).
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
1369
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VERRIUS FLACCUS.
M. Verrii Flacci quae extant. Et
Sex. Pompei Festi de verborum significatione libri XX. Iosephi
Scaligeri Iulii Caesaris F. in eosdem libros castigationes,
recognitae & auctae.
Lutetiae [Paris], apud Mamertum
Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani,
1576
With woodcut device on both title-pages, pp (28), cccix, (1,
blank), (24), (2, blank); ccxvi, (22), (2, blank); lxxv, 8vo, finely
bound in full calf antique: with a small oval stamp on the title-
page, otherwise a very good-nice copy, complete with the blank
leaves X8 and Pp8.
Adams V 589 (C only). “Verrius Flaccus (fl. 10 BC) … his great work
‘De Verborum Significatu’, the first Latin lexicon ever written …
survives in the incomplete and fragmentary abridgement by Pompeius
Festus (2nd cent. AD) … It appears to have been of the nature of an
encyclopaedia, including ‘not only lexicographical matter, but much
information on points of history, antiquities, and grammar, illustrated
by numerous quotations from poets, jurists, historians, old legal
documents, and writers on religious or political antiquities. “ - Sandys
I. 200. The second work comprises the scholia and annotations of the
great French philologist Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), considered the
greatest scholar of modern times.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1370
.
[VERSE/PROSE MISCELLANY]
. A Collection of
Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. With Original Poetry and
Fugitive Pieces.
Dublin, R. M. Butler,
1795.
2 vols in 1. 12mo. Contemporary full calf with label. Good
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1371
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VILLANI (Giovanni).
Istorie di Matteo Villani
cittadino fiorentino. Che continua quelle di Giovanni suo
fratello. Con l’aggiunta di Filippo suo figliuolo, che arrivano
sino all’anno 1364. Nuovamente ricorette, e ristampatere ultimi
libri. [bound with:] … Li tre ultimi libri …
In Firenze, nella
stamperia de’ Giunti
1581-77
Two works in one volume, pages (32),560, (44): (16), 177, (11),
complete with leaf Pp6 with register, imprint and printer’s
device, 4to, old half vellum, gilt spine, with label, gilt: with a
small, light, oval stamp in two places and some very light
suggestion of foxing, but still, a well-margined and very good
to nice copy, strongly bound.
Adams V 795 and 796. A good edition of Matteo Villani’s
continuation of his brother Giovanni’s history not only of Florence
but also of Europe in general, from 1348 to 1363. This was first
published in Venice in 1562; but this 1581 edition, based on a hitherto
unpublished manuscript, is a notable improvement both in terms of
size and correctness. The second work, a first edition, contains the last
three books of the history by Giovanni’s son, Filippo, bringing the
narrative to 1364.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1372
.
VIRGIL.
Opera, quæ quidem extant omnia: cum...
commentarijs T. Donati & S. Honorati... a G. Fabricio
emendatis: Adjecto etiam ab eodem Rerum & verborum
locuplete in ijsdem memorabilium Indice. Quibus accesserunt
etiam Probi Grammatici, P. Sabini, P. Beroaldi, J. Hartungi, I.
Willichij, G. Fabricij, Bonfinis, et aliorum annotationes. [With
the supplement to the Æneid by Vegius and the minor poems
attributed to Virgil.].
Basileæ: ex officina Henricpetrina,
(1575)
With printer’s device on title-page and woodcut initials, pages
24, cols 2174, pages (45) and with leaf Bbbb9 blank but for
329