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Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)

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Title: Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes
Author: Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Description: Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1520. FIRST EDITION OF THE TRIAS ROMANA, FORTUNA, FEBRIS SECUNDA, AND INSPICIENTES. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 17th c. calfskin, spine tooled in gold (discreet repairs to joints, corners, and top compartment of spine; slim crack at head of rear joint, minor wear to the gilding.) A nice copy with minor soiling to title and final leaf, and a few instances of light marginal foxing. With a title page allegorical woodcut of Fortuna (Fairfax Murray 215) and three attractive woodcut initials on a black ground. First edition of this important collection. Only the first "Fever" poem had appeared previously (in 1519). The anonymous German satire "Trias Romana"(1519) is a different work than Hutten's satire of the same name. The title woodcut illustrates the second (and lightest) of the five satirical dialogues, in which Hutten implores Fortune to grant him a pretty wife, a nice house with a library, children, and a reasonable income so that he can study and write. "Fever" I & II "The picture of Hutten handed down to us by history is that of the militant knight and poeta laureatus mentioned earlier. Yet in his dialogues, Hutten's positioning of his own persona is more complex and characterized by one development : the one-sided emphasis on militancy is attributed to the escalation of the Reformation controversy (evident in the Dialogi novi), whereas in the earlier dialogues deviations from this positioning are quite clear. "In the two Latin Fever dialogues (Febris prima and Febris secunda) of 1518/1519, the first dialogues in which Hutten himself appears, the author positions his own persona quite differently from his stance in the later works. In both dialogues the personified Fever attempts to invade the persona of the author in extolling to Hutten his own merits. Hutten tries to divert Fever's attention to other targets, in particular the clerics, who do not take poverty and chastity very seriously. Hutten does not limit himself to a harmless form of clerical satire; he recommends to Fever the figure of Cardinal Cajetan as a very worthwhile target. During his attendance at the Diet of Augsburg of 1518, the conduct and lifestyle of the Cardinal had offered more than enough material for satirical criticism. This polemical trait is not, however, the sole characteristic of this dialogue, which Hutten conceives in the tradition of a paradoxical encomium with his own figure being subjected to irony. "Fever tries to convince Hutten of his merits: a person beset with fever is industrious and sharp-witted and after the fever has abated, the health of the patient improves. Hutten as author can refute these claims from his own experience: when he was writing the Fever dialogues, he was undergoing the cure with Guaiacum that he had publicized in 1519 in the monograph written in that year. When the persona of Hutten declares in the dialogue that he has suffered from the aftermath of this and other diseases for many years after the fever has subsided, the author and the persona are correspondingly close. "Hutten continues with the ironic treatment of his own persona right at the beginning of the second Fever dialogue, as Fever, who was only temporarily repelled at the end of the first dialogue, now seeks even more intensive contact with Hutten. Hutten, aided by his squire, tries once again to shake Fever off. As the conversation progresses, Hutten is able to convince Fever that it is desperately needed to clean up the situation in Rome, and Fever finally leaves Hutten in peace... "The Observers" "As part of his criticism of the Church, Hutten's satire made a special target of Cardinal Cajetan, the Curia's envoy to the Diet of Augsburg in 1518. In his dialogue Inspicientes (The Observers), which appeared in 1520, Hutten has the sun god Sol and his son Phaethon observe and discuss the events in the northern hemisphere from the heavens. The two divine observers keep a careful eye on the Diet of Augsburg. At the end of the dialogue, Hutten has Cardinal Cajetan appear as the third participant in the dialogue. "In this dialogue's frenzied finale, Cardinal Cajetan vents his fury and arrogance at the sun god in the heavens and complains about the prolonged period of bad weather in Germany that is taking place contrary to his specific orders. The Cardinal threatens Sol with a ban since the god is not adhering to Cajetan's instructions and is questioning the authority of the pope. Thus, the Cardinal positions himself as being beyond the divine and human spheres and unmasks his hubris. His presumption stands in stark contrast to the positioning of Sol and Phaethon, who refer to him merely as a 'homuncio'. "Fortune" In a letter to Pirckheimer, Hutten wrote that some things are achieved on by fortune and not by virtue. "In those cases, I look for the turning of the wheel, to the blind goddess, the mad ruler, the queen of all vicissitudes. I look for a lucky turn of the wheel to bring me prosperity." In the dialogue "Fortuna", Hutten asks the goddess to grant him the means to lead a comfortable life, with leisure to study and write. "How much would be enough?" she asks. Well, Hutten answers, if he were to marry he would want a house with a garden, some land with a few fish ponds, dogs for hunting, a few riding horses, servants, herdsmen, cattle. The house must be outfitted with galleries, a library, dining rooms, baths, etc. He will also need money so that his wife can dress respectably and money to put aside for children. So, about 100,000 gulden. When Fortune advises to work instead, Hutten laments that he has worked and studied for years, wandering in exile, struggling with poverty and disease. He has tried to enrich himself at court, like other people, but has had no luck. Fortune tells him that if he wants to live a life of leisure and study, he should be content to live in poverty. After all, successful people don't have much leisure. "Do you know any?", she asks. "Priests", replies Hutten. As Fortuna casts fortune down upon the people of Earth, Hutten looks down on the scene from above and sees a mass of people scrambling. Some look pleased at what they have managed to grab, others are vexed. He observes that Spain has the best luck, winning many crowns and an Emperor, while the Pope's legate is ready to hang himself. Hutten wants a wife but Fortuna cautions him that marriage can be difficult (and dangerous). Yet Hutten argues that he needs someone to take care of him, feed him, take care of the kids while he studies, nurse him when he is ill. Someone who will mourn and rejoice with him, and to whom he confide anything. Looking into Fortuna's cornucopia, he sees just the woman: pretty, shapely, charming, and rich. But Fortune casts her lots and the girl becomes the wife of a bloated, pompous courtier. And Hutten, in despair, goes to a chapel to pray. "Trias Romana" "In April 1520, Hutten published the collection of five Dialogi in which the dialogue 'Vadiscus sive Trias Romana' stands out on account of its unusually fierce, outspoken and sweeping criticism of Rome. Hutten expressed this opinion in a letter to Eobanus Hessus and in the preface to the dialogue itself. Hutten positions himself as a fighter for freedom in claiming that he as the author has freed liberty from the snares of the pope and brought her back from banishment. "The title of the dialogue is a reference to the persona of Hutten telling the second interlocutor, Ernholdus, about all the evil reported to him by a certain Vadiscus after the latter's return from Rome. This report contains 58 "litany-like" groups of three (triads) into which the transgressions of Rome are compressed. It was with the publication of this dialogue in particular that Hutten attracted the attention of the pope and his curia."(Arnold Becker, Hutten's Polemical Dialogues: Literary Positioning and its Impacts, in Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe).

Leon Bakst. 42 Tafeln und 7 Abbildungen (42 Plates and 7 Illustrations) Complete. Extra illustrated with Five Additional Plates by Bakst, Léon; Carl Einstein (Introduction)

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Title: Leon Bakst. 42 Tafeln und 7 Abbildungen (42 Plates and 7 Illustrations) Complete. Extra illustrated with Five Additional Plates
Author: Bakst, Léon; Carl Einstein (Introduction)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Good- to fine condition.
Description: Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G, 1927. First edition. Good- to fine condition.. 176/330. 41 (1)pp., 42 plates with printed tissue guards. Original quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device and black double frame. Cover design by Lucian Zabel. With an introduction on Russian culture, the tradition of ballet and theater, set and costume design by Carl Einstein. Many of the plates with dates ranging from 1910 to 1923, including motifs created during the war. The motifs of the plates range from close-up figure drawings to simple folk costumes, elaborate gowns for members of the Court, mystical figures and various set designs. Illustrated with forty-two plates, nineteen of them fully or partially colored by hand or pochoir, some heightened in gilt or silver, three b/w, one sepia-toned lithograph and nineteen plates reproduced in high quality offset printing. The title page calls for forty-two plates and six illustrations in the text. Our copy is illustrated with seven tipped-in color offset reproductions and one b/w lithograph as endpiece on page seventeen. In addition the work is extra-illustrated with five color offset reproductions: one full-page embossed color plate with extensive hand-applied gilt overlay facing page seven (Le Roi), a full-page embossed color offset reproduction with extensive silver overlay facing plate one (Phedre Thesee, dated 1923) and three full page color offset reproductions facing plates fifteen (L'Amazone, with black overprinting), twenty-five (Scheherazade, embossed and heightened in silver, and Lampe d'Aladin, multicolor overprint)) and thirty-six (La Sultane, embossed and overprinted in gilt, facing the same image though with greater detail). The copies listed in OCLC vary in publication dates, all calling for 42 plates and six in-text illustrations. Auction records call for 1925. One auction record for the 1925 edition calls for the lithograph line drawing in the text. Our copy contains two plates dated 1922 in addition to others dated 1917. We've been unable to find any bibliographic record that describes seven in-text illustrations or the five additional illustrations facing four of the plates and the first page of the text as described. Text in German. Binding with light wear along edges but vellum smudged and variously discolored. Block lightly starting at a few plates (11, 15, 19, 27, 30, 42). A couples of tissue guards for plates loose but present. Binding in overall good-, plates in very good+ to fine condition. Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was a Russian painter, costume and set designer. Bakst studied art at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle. In 1893 he moved to Paris for four years, studying at the Academy Julian. He founded the magazine 'Mir Iskusstva (World of Art)' with his friends Alexander Benois, Sergei Diaghilev and Valentin Serov. Bakst is best known for his work in set and costume design for the Ballet Russes.

Menorath hammaor. Eine moralisch-religiöse und erbauliche Lektüre für Jung und Alt. 3 Vols. in 1 (Candelabrum of Light. Edifying Moral and Religious Reader for Young and Old) by Abohab, Isaac (Aboab); R. J. Fürstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend (translation)

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Title: Menorath hammaor. Eine moralisch-religiöse und erbauliche Lektüre für Jung und Alt. 3 Vols. in 1 (Candelabrum of Light. Edifying Moral and Religious Reader for Young and Old)
Author: Abohab, Isaac (Aboab); R. J. Fürstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend (translation)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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Description: Krotoschin (Krotoszyn): B. L. Monasch & Sohn, 1848. First German edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. viii, 315, (1) 558, 392pp. Bound in modern brown half-cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Light brown endpapers. The author, Isaac Aboab lived in Toledo at the end of the 14th century. His Hebrew work, Menorath HaMe'or ("The Candelabrum of Light") is a classic ethical work. It became immensely popular among the Jews in the Middle Ages with more than seventy editions printed. Originally written in Hebrew it was translated into Spanish, Ladino, Yiddish and German, with the 1st edition printed in Constantinople in 1514. "Developing the image of the seven-branched candlestick (cf. Num. 4:9), Isaac divides his work into seven nerot ("lamps"). These, in turn, are subdivided into main divisions, parts, and chapters. Using the three parts of Psalms 34:15 as general headings, he assigns the seven lamps to them in the following manner: (a) "Depart from evil," (1) guard against envy, lust, ambition; (2) be wary of sins attendant upon speech. (b) "Do good," (3) observance of mitzvot such as circumcision, rearing of children, prayer, festivals, honoring parents, founding a family, charity, justice; (4) study of Torah; (5) repentance. (c) "Seek peace and pursue it," (6) peace and love for fellowman; and (7) humility. Into this rather loose framework lsaac fitted a wealth of aggadic material, culled from the Talmud and the vast midrashic literature. His use of passages from aggadic works now lost and the variants in the talmudic and midrashic texts he cites make the Menorat ha-Ma'or of great importance for establishing the text of the Talmud used in the Spanish-North African academies as distinct from that of the Franco-German school. Isaac is selective in using esoteric texts, and he fights shy of statements that may provoke doubt and heresy." -see:encyclopedia dot com. The translation by R. J. Fürstenthal was completed by Benzion Behrend. Block somewhat browned with sporadic light foxing. Water stain at lower foredge and bottom, visible for about fifty pages. Binding in overall very good, interior in good condition.

THE WORLD OF FASHION 1837-1922 by (BINDINGS - COSWAY-STYLE). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (FASHION). NEVILL, RALPH

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Title: THE WORLD OF FASHION 1837-1922
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Description: London: Methuen & Co, 1923. 218 x 138 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). vii, [1], 280 pp. ELEGANT DARK BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with gilt fillet frame, stippled volute cornerpieces, UPPER COVER WITH LOVELY MINIATURE PORTRAIT of a fashionable lady, the painting under glass and surrounded by a gilt-tooled frame, raised bands, spine compartments with volute frame, gilt lettering, gilt-framed turn-ins, ecru moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. WITH 21 PLATES OF FASHIONABLE PEOPLE, five of these called for (one color), and 16 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED (seven of these in color, one double-page, and nine in black & white), all with tissue guards. Spine gently sunned to navy blue, just a hint of rubbing to joints, but still quite a fine copy--clean and fresh internally, and with almost no signs of use inside or out. This handsomely illustrated look at the London social scene during the Victorian and Edwardian eras and after the Great War comes in a suitably chic binding by the last Victorian bindery still in family hands. Author Ralph Nevill (1865-1933) was a denizen of the world he writes about, being the son of one of the leading hostesses of the day, Lady Dorothy Walpole Nevill (1826-1913); DNB notes that "family tradition" held that Ralph's father was her close friend, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield. Nevill has a wide array of insider anecdotes to share about country house life, the pleasures of London society, and prominent politicians and journalists. He makes it clear that the Victorian era was preferable to the 20th century, and nothing is more drab that the post-war world. The illustrations feature portraits of prominent men, landscapes of stately homes, and scenes from the balls, operas, and royal occasions that made up the London Season. The very pretty binding is in the Cosway style made popular by bookseller Henry Sotheran and the Riviere bindery, characterized by a miniature painting set under glass on the covers or doublures. Our binding was done by the venerable English firm founded in Bath by George Bayntun in 1894. Among the great English workshops of the Edwardian "golden age" of lavish bindings, Bayntun has the distinction of being the only one located outside London's West End to be sought after by bibliophiles. Bayntun was a worthy rival to the likes of Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Riviere & Son (the latter being subsumed by Bayntun in 1939). Bayntun of Bath continues to create fine hand bindings for bibliophiles. Unusually, the miniature painting in our binding is signed by the artist, but we were unable to decipher the signature, and the Bayntun bindery did not have any information about the painter's identity..

Hello, My Name is Paul Stuart [Deluxe edition] by SMITH, Paul; Deyan SUDJIC; Donna LOVEDAY

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Title: Hello, My Name is Paul Stuart [Deluxe edition]
Author: SMITH, Paul; Deyan SUDJIC; Donna LOVEDAY
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Description: New York: Rizzoli, 2014. As-new in shrinkwrap. 29.5 x 24 cm. 271 pages. Original cloth; cloth slipcase; publisher's original pritned cardboard folding box. Deluxe edition in slipcase and publisher's box. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from the 15th November 2013 to 9th March 2014, London's Design Museum.

ZIEGFELD GIRL VIRGINIA CRUZON [1941] Pin-up photo by Eric Carpenter by Eric Carpenter

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Title: ZIEGFELD GIRL VIRGINIA CRUZON [1941] Pin-up photo by Eric Carpenter
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Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1941]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin keybook photo. Fine. MGM photographer Eric Carpenter offers his vision of a Ziegfeld girl with Virginia Cruzon and a Spanish motif. Ink stamped on verso "This is a Key Set Print" and "MGM Photo by Eric Carpenter", as well as photo code ink stamp S1165-355. A special print from MGM studios.

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Title: One-dollar Bank Note issued by the Vermont Glass Factory Salisbury VT
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Title: Sixty Days and Counting
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29TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. HO. OF REPS. REP. NO. 451. NATIONAL ARMORY AT FORT MASSAC. [TO ACCOMPANY BILL H. R. NO. 325.] MARCH 27, 1846. MR. YELL, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT: THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.... by (Yell, Archibald)

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Title: 29TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. HO. OF REPS. REP. NO. 451. NATIONAL ARMORY AT FORT MASSAC. [TO ACCOMPANY BILL H. R. NO. 325.] MARCH 27, 1846. MR. YELL, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT: THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS....
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The female soldier; or, The surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell (1750). Introduction by Dianne Dugaw

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Title: The female soldier; or, The surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell (1750). Introduction by Dianne Dugaw
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Description: Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1989. 8vo, pp. xiii, 42, [1]; engraved portrait frontispiece reproduction, facsimile reprint; original pale grey printed wrappers, "Soldier, Female" written in pencil at head of upper cover, else fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 257.

Bird print - Broad-winged Hawk and Sparrow-Hawk (3 birds) - Plate 16 - from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania by Warren, B.H.

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Title: Bird print - Broad-winged Hawk and Sparrow-Hawk (3 birds) - Plate 16 - from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania
Author: Warren, B.H.
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Description: Harrisburg: E. K.Meyers, 1890. Very Good. Chromolithograph. Includes one Sparrow-Hawk clutching it's prey, which appears to be a sparrow. Minor browning. Size: 9.25 x 6 inches. PRINT/080620.

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The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance by Anastas, Benjamin

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Title: The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance
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