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

Rome: Valerio Dorico, 1560. CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO DECORATED BY THE RUIZ BINDER WITH A STYLISH GILT INTERLACING STRAPWORK FRAME AND CENTRAL LOZENGE (upper and lower inner corners repaired), in the middle a gilt scutcheon with THE ARMS OF POPE PIUS V IN GILT AND RED PAINT (front) AND THOSE OF HIS SECRETARY OF MEMORIALS, TEODOSIO FIORENZI, ON THE REAR, both escutcheons are belonged to the Ruiz Bindeer, a gilt fleuron in each spine compartment (crown and base repaired), evidence of eight red textile ties, all edges gilt.             The "Papal Ceremonial...regulates the observance of the papal court, the elevation and coronation of the pope and the imperial coronation" (New Grove2). It prescribes the movements, gestures, actions, ornaments, and vestments of the officiants. This most elusive, elaborate and complex part of the liturgy was unaffected by the sweeping changes made by the Council of Trent to nearly every other type of service book. This is the only edition printed in Rome. The title… Read More

Naples: B.-M. Raillard, 1714. CONTEMPORARY GILT AND PAINTED BROWN MOROCCO (rubbed, tips worn, minor defects). Gilt rules and blooms border the outer foliage frame, which has been touched with ?silver paint. The partly pointillé volutes massed in the corners have also been highlighted with ?silver as have the volutes enclosing the circular central medallion with THE ARMS OF THE CUNNING AND RICH CESARE MICHELANGELO D'AVALOS. Repetitions of an open leaf tool fill the surrounding. The spine (crown defective) is similarly gilt and painted, all edges gilt.             The only publication by the first scientific academy, "including such original minds as Viviani (pupil of Galileo and Torricelli), the anatomist Borelli, mineralogist Steno, embryologist Redi and astronomer Cassini. Their combined efforts...served as a model to other groups in the use of methods they evolved and instruments they developed" (Dibner). Daumas points out the importance of the Accademia in the construction and distribution… Read More

Venice: Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 1498. FINE UNSHADED TITLE WOODCUT of the four commentators at desks with their names above, white-line historiated and floriated woodcut initials, a white-line woodcut Tacuino device on the penultimate verso. CONTEMPORARY CALF-BACKED WOODEN BOARDS (worn and partly defective), remnants of two catches, two repoussé brass scallop shell clasps. These witty and cruel satires deride decadence in all its forms - prostitution, marital infidelity, extravagant banquets, cannibalism, sodomy, hypocrisy, waste.... The Renaissance took them as literary models and as a storehouse of quotations.    This is the first printing to combine the 15th-century prefatory matter and commentaries of papal secretary Dom. Calderini, teacher and poet Ant. Mancinelli, press corrector and book hunter Giorgio Merula and science writer and bibliophile Giorgio Valla. Their notes surround the text on three sides.    When the title woodcut first appeared in 1494/5, Juvenal held the cathedra… Read More

Lyon: [T. Payen for Dominique de Portonariis at Aix], 1540. 20th-century vellum over thin flexible boards, spine title lettered in black. First Edition. From printed and manuscript sources, jurist and poet Antoine Arena compiled the privileges, duties and wages of every court office in Provence and the fees levied by them for services, including the preparation and execution of documents. in provençal, the final five pages list the towns and fortified castles in Provence under the French crown's authority.      Lyonese printer Payen struggled to cast off copy or made a stop-press correction. To fit the text, he began one medial quire with 45 lines per page, jumped to 49 lines in the middle and settled back to 45 at the end. In good condition (small portion of the first blank margin neatly supplied). ¶Davies, Catalogue of...Early French Books...Fairfax Murray 411(2); Bechtel, Catalogue des gothiques T-26; Cioranesco 2608; Dollieule, Antoine Arena 70-71; Répertoire bibliographique des livres… Read More

Orléans: [P.-F.] Perdoux, 1780.  Beneath the title band lies the walled city of Soissons, fronted by a broad field. In the center left, shoemakers and cobblers serve customers and make and repair shoes in the shelter of a temporary stall. An elaborate outsized carriage dominates the scene. On the left, an angel leads the team of six white horses toward the town gate.  In the carriage, a well dressed coachmen drives the beasts, which are caparisoned with the tools of the shoemaker's and cobbler's trades. With a Cross of the Holy Spirit pinned to each of their chests, Saints Crispin and Crispinian, richly garbed, sit behind, unruffled in their journey. The carriage door is emblazoned with shoemakers' and cobblers' tools.   In the lower left of the scene more tools overflow a wooden box, and, just to the right, a pair of high boots and a half-dozen lasts lie scattered on the ground. Famous throughout northern Europe in the Middle Ages, Crispin and Crispinian are known today from the king's great… Read More

Florence: F. II Giunta, 1590. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled), manuscript spine title and label, evidence of four pigskin ties. The Order of Saint Stephen was founded in 1561 by Duke Cosimo I de'Medici to CLEAR THE MEDITERRANEAN OF PIRATES and free Christian captives held by the Turks. These statutes cover the finances, medical care, dress, celebrations, office holder's duties and disciplinary action, including for fornication. The Order remained a vital naval force into the 18th century. In good condition (a few scattered stains), 17th-century signatures on title. ¶Bibliografia delle edizioni giuridiche antiche in lingua italiana I(1): 187; Camerini, I Giunti...di Firenze 168; EDIT16 CNCE 10542.

Milan: s.n., 1704. Modern pastepaper boards, lettered paper spine label. First Edition. THE STATUTES OF THE MILAN WIGMAKERS and of their newly established school govern elections, officers, ceremonies, record keeping, fees, membership, apprentices, conduct and fraud, e.g., the use of goat and horse hair and the sale of imports. Not found in U.S. collections. In good condition, some margins uncut. ¶Biblioteca del Senato, Catalogo della raccolta di statuti IV: 337-8 (1915 only).

Augsburg: M. Manger, 1578. CONTEMPORARY GILT-TOOLED CALF WITH SUNKEN PANELS AND PAINTED VELLUM INSETS BY SEVERIN RÖTTER of Wittenberg (insets 90 x 54/51 mm.; minor restoration, endleaves renewed).  The front vellum sheet bears a blind-stamped hand-painted half-figure portrait of August of Saxony with Rötter's initials, the date 1579 and three lines of text all painted in gold ink (Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I: 387,VII). The initials H*A*P*S are above the inset and the date 1579 below it. The rear vellum sheet bears the Duke's blind-stamped hand-painted arms (Haebler I: 388,XVIII), stars and cherubs above and below. The spine compartments have a bloom and foliage roll slightly run over onto the panels; edges are gilt and gauffered with lilies enclosed in half circles and frames painted in red, green, brown and black. To decorate a binding in this way, the central portion of each pressed paper board is partly removed, the whole covered with thoroughly dampened leather which is pressed into… Read More