Category: Courtly Literature

THE DUKE OF URBINO'S BOOK OF MILITARY MEMOIRS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANDREW FLETCHER

A FAMOUSLY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ALL ROYAL HOUSES OF ENGLAND

[gallery ids="6536,4236,4237,4238,4235,4234,4232,4233"] DELLA CASA, Giovanni. Novella di Monsignor Gio. Della Casa tratta dal suo Galateo Livorno, Pei tipi di Francesco Vigo, 1870. £1000 8vo, pp. 13 (=16). Modern buckram gilt. ...

A MARVELLOUS DOCUMENT WITH 179 ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

[gallery ids="1503,1504,1505,1506,1508,1507"] CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (CHAPPUYS, Gabriel, Tr.). Le parfait courtisan… Paris, Par Nicolas Bonfons, 1585. £975 8vo, ã8 ê8 a-z A-V8, pp. (xxxii) 678 (=658) (xxx). Double column, French in ...

[gallery ids="1443,1445,1441,1442,1440,1439,1444"] CAMILLI, Camillo. I cinque canti…aggiunti al Goffredo del signor Torquato Tasso. Ferrara, Appresso Giulio Cesare Cagnaccini, & Fratelli, 1585. £425 12mo, pp. 181 (=151) (1), † b-f12 g4. ...

[envira-gallery id="10195"] INNOCENT III, Pope; BUSCHE, Hermann von dem (ed.). Fundamentum eterne felicitatis cum libro de Miseria conditionis humane. Köln, per Matinum de Werdena, 1509.       £ 2,350 ...

[gallery ids="1288,1286,1291,1289,1287,1290"] LAPINI, Frosino. Lettere toscane…in quattro libri  Bologna, Appresso Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1556. £500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. (viii) 311 (i), (no signature)4 A-T8 V4. Four books bound in one ...

ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN’S COPY [gallery ids="1209,1210,1207,1212,1213,1211,1206,1208"] CARO, Annibale. Apologia de gli Academici di Banchi di Roma, contra messer Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena. In forma d’uno spaccio di maestro Pasquino, ...

A MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED COPY OF THE VALGRISI EDITION OF ARIOSTO'S ORLANDO FURIOSO