Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1741. Editio quinta emendatior, & auctior, 2 volumes, folio; Vol. I: a6 A-2X6 2Y2; Vol. II: A-2I6 2K12 2L-3H6 3I8; full contemporary calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spine in 7 compartments, 2 tan gilt spine labels, all edges red; boards rubbed with minor loss of leather to... More
Patavii: Ex Typographia Seminarii, Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1736. Editio quarta emendator, 2 volumes, folio, pp. [12], 554; [2], 570, 30, 110; Vol. I: a6 A-2L8 2M8; Vol. II: [†]1 A-2O8 2P4 a-g8; woodcut printer's marks and initials, Vol. I title page printed in red and black, text primarily in double... More
Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1758. Edition octava retractatior, 2 volumes in one, folio, pp. [8], 464, [2], 481, [1], 24, 86; Vol. I: [†]4 A-2P6 2Q4; Vol. II: [*]2 A-2R6 a-h6 i8; woodcut printer's marks and initials, Vol. I title page printed in red and black, text primarily in... More
Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1758. Edition octava retractatior, 2 volumes, folio, pp. [8], 464; [2], 481, [1], 24, 86; Vol. I: [†]4 A-2P6 2Q4; Vol. II: [*]2 A-2R6 a-h6 i8; woodcut printer's marks and initials, Vol. I title page printed in red and black, text primarily in double column;... More
Patavii: Typographia Seminarii, Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1726. Editio altera emendatior, 2 volumes, folio, pp. [12], 578; 594, 30, 110; a6 A-2N8 [*] [†2] A-2Q8 a-o4; lacking [†] (Vol. II half title page) and o4 (blank); woodcut printer's devices, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; 19th-century three-quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards... More
Venetiis: ex typographia Johannis Gatti ... superiorum facultate, 1778. Editio novissima, folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. x, 446; 458, 22 (Verba barbara ex Calepini), 80 (Vocabulario Italiano, e Latino ... per uso delle scuole di gramatica); primary title page printed in red and black and with woodcut vignette, lexicon... More
Patavii [i.e. Padua]: apud Joannem Manfre, 1746. 2 volumes, folio, pp. [12], 529; [2], 542, 28 (Verba Barbara), 100 (Vocabulario Italiano, e Latino); first title page printed in red and black, botgh titles with woodcut device; lexicon in double column; full contemporary Spanish calf, red and black morocco labels on... More
Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: FFr. Anissoniorum et Joannis Posuel, 1681. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [8], 1004; 862; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full paneled vellum, central lozenge stamped in blind on both covers, manuscript titling... More
Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: sumptibus Iacobi Cardon, 1634. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [12], 902, [2], 815; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, copper-engraved head-piece on dedication page, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 8 compartments, label perished;... More
Augustae Vindelicorum & Graecii: Sumptibus Philippi, ac Martini Veith, & Joannis fratris haeredum, 1729. 2 volumes in one, folio, pp. [12], 499, 503; a6 A-E6 F4 G-2T6; A-2T6; 22 engraved plates including 5 folding; woodcut printer's devices typographical decorative head-pieces; text printed in double columns; contemporary blind-tooled boards, unadorned spine... More
Venice [and Lucca]: Sebastian Colet [and Leonardo Venturini], 1726-31. 4 volumes, folio, including the 2 volume supplement (Lucca, 1731), vignette title pages in first two volumes, titles printed in red and black in the supplement, woodcut initials throughout, text in double column, 4 engraved folding maps (two of the Holy... More
London: printed for J. Knox, 1767. First edition,12mo, pp. xxxix, [1], 180; later full polished tan calf by Ramage, red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spine, yellow edges; upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed; a good copy, or better. A popular attack on the diction of Samuel Johnson which went... More
New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1977. 8vo, pp. 151, [5]; black and white text illustrations; original cloth in green and blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, cloth quite foxed, jacket edges a bit shelf worn, interior very good. More
London: Thomas Martin, 1788. 12mo, pp. [2], 203; engraved portrait frontispiece of Carew; full contemporary sheep, red morocco label; small, scallop-size chip from the fore-margine of the title page, prelims a little foxed, else a very good, sound copy. An interesting piece of Americana, first published in 1745. "For misdemeanors... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. 140; 14 leaves of plates, some in color, printed on rectos and versos; text illustrations throughout; original boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; jacket edges shelf worn, 2 shallow tears to front bottom edge; previous owner's rubber stamp on ffep, else interior fine. More
Venetia: Vendese en casa de Damian Zenaro, 1591. 8vo, a-c8, A-2C8, 2D-[2D4], pp. [48], 1-240, 257-437, [3]; woodcut devices, head- and tail-pieces, and initials; full period velum, vellum ties, contemporary manuscript spine title; thongs partially perished, 2 small holes along upper cover fore-edge; front joint split, dampstaining throughout, numerous contemporary... More
Venetia: vendese en casa de Damian Zenaro mercader de libros, 1587. 8vo, a1-c8, Al-Dd4, pp. [48], 437, [1]; full 17th century calf, gilt spine, upper joint quite rubbed but binding firm, some rubbing on spine, but really a rather nice copy nonetheless, and unrestored. First published in 1570, this Tuscan-Castillian... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. 4to, pp. clvi, 903; blue cloth in dust jacket, slight soiling to edges and corners; very good. More
London: Thomas Roycroft, 1669. First edition, 2 parts in 1; folio, title page in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne, text primarily in triple column and printed in Roman, Italic, Hebrew and a variety of other exotic fonts, pp. [8] & 4008 columns (this copy's pagination identical... More
Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2000. Small 4to, pp. xvii, [1], 332; black and white text illustrations; original red pictorial paper over boards; fine. More
Cambridge: University Press, 1964. Folio, pp. xxxv, [1], 49; near fine in quarter red morocco over red cloth boards, with gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. Contains an extensive bibliographical and textual introduction, followed by 49 facsimile pages. Handsomely designed and printed by Brooke Crutchley. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, frontispieces, over 2,000 illustrations in the text; extremities a bit worn, edges bumped, else a good set or better in maroon cloth with paper labels on spine. An extensive dictionary of works and biography of painters as well as a bibliography. More
London: Trübner & Co. 1882. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. xvi, 128, [1], (ad); original brown cloth (a touch soiled), gilt-lettered spine; some shelf wear, spine ends chipped, related contemporary clippings tipped to front pastedown (with some glue residue) and rear free endpaper; textblock fine. Kennedy 9052. More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1968. Facsimile reprint, 8vo, pp. xvi, 166; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, green endpapers; gutters of endpapers foxed, else fine. Facsimile of the London: Trübner & Co., 1868 edition. More
Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie, 1880. Second edition, 4to, pp. 557; original brown cloth, spine gilt, marbled endpapers; covers a bit rubbed, front hinged cracked, some foxing, mainly to page edges, else very good. More
