Search Results: Authors starting with M from Govi Rare Books LLC

OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE4to (203x140 mm); 18th-century full calf, panels within a triple fillet in gilt, spine with five raised bands and gilt title on morocco label, marbled endleaves, gilt edges (joints and top of the spine partially restored); 331, (5) pp. With frontispiece, portrait of the Madonna di San Luca and 81 full-page emblems, all engraved by Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1595-1649), Oliviero Gatti (1598-1646) and Agostino Parisini (fl. 1625-1636) after drawings by Florio Macchi and Giovanni Battista Coriolano. Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), minister of finances of France under King Louis XIV, also renown for his celebrated library which was sold at Paris in 1728 (his ownership's inscription on the title-page); Richard Heber (1773-1833), English book-collector and founder of the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles, whose library of 105,000 volumes was sold by auction at London in 1835 (his stamp on the front flyleaf); Beckford Library (pencil note on the front flyleaf, dated Dec.… Read More

THE FOUNDING NOVEL OF MODERN ITALIAN LANGUAGE
BOUND FOR A SICILIAN CARDINAL
4to (285x209 mm). 864 pp. With frontispiece, vignette on title page and 450 illustrations in text. Text within typographic frame. Late 19th-century gilt-tooled red leather, gilt and raised bands on spine, red satin and marbled paper endleaves, binding marked "Engel rel. Paris". Very good overall with light scuffing to boards, spine darkened, minor rubbing to joints, light to moderate foxing and toning throughout, fabric coming unglued in areas, small stamp on frontispiece, small tear to marbled endpaper, small hole on pp. 225/226 partially affecting the text but with no loss, bottom outer corner of p. 391 torn off, some offsetting of a few illustrations, bottom margin of a few leaves slighlty shorter than in others, bound with numerous blank leaves at the end. A good, wide-margined copy.
Provenance. On the panels gilt coat-of-arms of cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1843-1913). Born in Polizzi Generosa, near Cefalù,… Read More

AN UNCUT COPY WITH DECKLE EDGES AND CONTEMPORARY CARDBOARDS
8vo (164x106 mm). [12], 371 [i.e. 373], [63] pp. Collation: A-EE8. Repeated in pagination the pp. 163-164. The last leaf is a blank. Colophon at l. EE7r. Printer's device on title page and l. EE7v. Light marginal staining and foxing on a few leaves. Outer margin of the title page soiled. Contemporary cardboards, spine covered with a later colored paper, lettering piece on spine (panels slightly soiled, minor losses to spine). A bit loose, but a very good copy, uncut with deckle edges.
SECOND EDITION of the 'Lives of the Doges" by Pietro Marcello in the translation by Lodovico Domenichi. The first edition of this translation, the only one ever made, was printed by Marcolini in 1557 for Plinio Pietrasanta. Basically, Marcolini's name appears only in this second edition, which differs from the first for small changes in the dedication to Giovanni Priuli and for the addition of some final Latin verses by Bernardo Giorgi.
The first Latin edition… Read More

"THE MOST DARING PIECE OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES" (HALLER)
IN CONTEMPORARY BLIND-STAMPED CALF
Folio (320x210 mm). [200] leaves. Collation: A6 [rum]-[rum-rum]6 b-z6 A-G6 H8. Colophon on l. H8r. Title within three-quarters ornamental border attributed to Franz Gerster (1498-1535) and used by Curio in the same year also for his edition of Luther's De abroganda missa privata sententia; below the title is a large woodcut (attributed to Hans Holbein) of Emperor Ludwig IV with his and Bavaria's coats-of-arms surrounded by kingths and advisors (including probably Marsilius himself), facing a view of the city of Rome from his throne. First page of the Praefatio (l. A2r) within a woodcut ornamental border attributed to Heinrich Wechtelin and used again by Curio for his 1523 Strabo. Woodcut ornamental head-pieces and initials. Sideglosses. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine with five raised bands (traces of ties, slightly stained, tpo spine edge repaired). Engraved armorial bookplate on… Read More