Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books

Basle: Ambr. and Aur. Froben, 1566. Contemporary blind-decorated pigskin (worn, two corners slightly defective); three rules flank a roll of cherub heads, busts and foliage, inner double-rule frame. The central rectangle of each panel has a two-scene stamp of the Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity and Patience figure on the front panel and Justice, Prudence, Strength and Temperance on the rear. The spine is decorated with a stylized lily roll, manuscript title; dark red edges. As papal secretary to Leo X, Bembo drafted and sent these five hundred eighty-one letters to, i.a., Raphael, Boiardo, Bibbiena, the kings of England, Hungary, Poland and Spain, daughters of friends, Lucrezia Borgia (with whom Bembo had a notorious affair).... Bembo's poem on Lago di Garda and five of his private letters to Erasmus, Longolius and Budé conclude the volume. In good condition, name excised from the title, early purchase inscription of G.E. Krefft on the title, nineteenth-century bookticket of B. Couissinier… Read More

[Venice: Alvise Schinelli 20 October-12 December, 1525. CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BLIND-RULED AND GILT RED MOROCCO BY THE ATELIER OF THE AGNESE BINDER (some wear and minor stains), gilt frame of a repeated lyre-shaped arabesque tool, outer corner rosettes and inner corner ivy leaves, blind-ruled central octagon with a gilt knotwork lozenge in the center with a fleur-de-lys above and below, gilt- and blind-ruled spine with split-strap sewing supports (crown and base defective), evidence of eight leather ties, all edges gilt, manuscript docketing A. NO. 39 on the front board and B on the rear.             Certified transcription of Latin and Italian cadastral documents, notarial acts, privileges, decrees, court judgments and official communications issued by the Paduan and Venetian governments concerning the tax immunity of private Venetian landowners in the district of Oriago (on the Brenta between Venice and Padua).             In 1405, Venice forcibly annexed Padua and its… Read More