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Metamorphoses. Ed. Barnabas Celsanus by Ovidius Naso, Publius (43 BCE-17 CE)

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Title: Metamorphoses. Ed. Barnabas Celsanus
Author: Ovidius Naso, Publius (43 BCE-17 CE)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein. 12 August, 1480. An early edition (the first was printed in 1471) of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, printed as a companion to the same printer's volume of Ovid's other works, printed in May of the same year. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary Italian calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled and panelled by intersecting fillets (rebacked, worn, wormholes; clasps and catches missing), bottom edge lettered “Ovidij Metam.”. The paste-downs are almost complete leaves from a printed legal work (see below). An attractive copy with wide margins. Some soiling and light stains. With single clean tears (no loss of paper or text) in the lower margin of lvs. B1, D4, L2, M7, P3, S1. Tiny hole in blank lower margin of leaf K7. Wear to two lines of type on leaf M1. This is the first edition to be edited by Barnabas Celsanus (d. 1502) a local scholar in Vicenza. The edition includes the introductory synopses of Bonus Accursius, which first appeared in 1477. On 10 May 1480 Liechtenstein had published a volume which included Ovid’s ‘Amores’, ‘De arte amandi’, ‘Tristia’, ‘ex Ponto’, etc. With the printing of the ‘Metamorphoses’ in August, Liechtenstein had printed all of Ovid’s work. Although intended as a unified printing of the Opera, it is common to find the volumes separately; many of those locations listed on ISTC have only one part. Provenance: The copy (almost certainly) of the Sforza diplomat and councillor Pietro da Gallarate whose ownership inscription appears on the verso of final blank leaf, which reads, “Liber hic est mei Petri de Gallarate filius quondam domini marci de gallarate et cetera”. Gallarate was from a Milanese noble family and was a diplomat under the Sforzas between 1458 and 1495 (see: L. Cerioni, La diplomazia sforzesca, 1970, passim.). In 1477 he became a member of the select consilio segreto ducale constituted by Bona of Savoy. He had links with France, being a brother-in-law of François Royer, chamberlain to the king, and the Bibliothèque Nationale possesses a unique copy printed on vellum of the first edition of the Commentarii of Giovanni Simonetta (1420-1490) published in Milan in 1490, presented to Louis XI by Gallarate with a printed letter of Gallarate to the king. (See: G. Ianziti, Humanistic historiography under the Sforza, Oxford, 1988, p.216.). It should be noted that in this volume the prefatory letter from Bonus Accursius is addressed to Giovanni’s brother, Cicco Simonetta (1410-80). The few annotations which occur in the volume seem to be in Gallarete’s hand, e.g. f. A1v (contents of book VI) at the words ‘Agrestes Lycii in ranas’ is written ‘nota de latona que peperit apolinem et dianam et convertit agricolas in ranas’ (‘Note about Latona, who gave birth to Apollo and Diana and turned farmers into frogs’). On C4r is a correction ‘utereque parentis’ changed to ’uteroque’. F5r (Met. V, 1). H1v has a note again on the conversion into frogs. Most of the annotations are very simple –‘nota’, ‘notabile’, mentions of figures of speech. There are also notes in another hand - C5v ( Met.II, xii) a gloss of ‘caducifer’ ferens caducium [ sic ](carrying the caduceus)’ and ‘Inde caduciator [herald] qui pacem fert’(‘Whence ‘caduciator’, a herald who brings peace’). The pastedowns are from a contemporary edition of Duranti’s ‘Speculum utriusque juris or Speculum judiciale’.

Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, et Bustes en marbre. Dont la majeure partie provient du célèbre Cabinet de…vendue le 22, & jours suivans. Par F.C. Joullain fils by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LASSAY, Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de)

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Title: Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, et Bustes en marbre. Dont la majeure partie provient du célèbre Cabinet de…vendue le 22, & jours suivans. Par F.C. Joullain fils
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LASSAY, Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 36 pp. 8vo, late 19th-century green morocco-backed marbled boards (extremities a little worn), title on spine. Paris: Joullain, 1775. A rare sale catalogue describing an impressive group of paintings. Lassay (1652-1738), known as the “Don Juan du Grand Siècle” due to his dissipated personal life, was a man of letters and supporter of the libertines. His son, Léon de Madaillan, the comte de Lassay (1683-1750), commissioned the construction of the Hôtel de Lassay, now the residence of the president of the Assemblée nationale. Charlotte Guichard has written that unscrupulous experts continued to employ the Lassay family name to promote sales decades after their deaths, even when little to nothing in the sale had actually belonged to them. This catalogue details 84 lots, all but one are paintings. The paintings include the work of Parmigianino, Albani, Caravaggio, Castiglione, A. Locatelli, J. Brueghel, Bril, Teniers, Jordaens, Rembrandt, F. Bol, Asselijn, Huysum, Callot, N. Poussin, Claude Le Lorrain, Le Nain, E. Le Sueur, Bourdon, B. Boullogne, J. Parrocel, Le Moine, Lancret, etc. Nice wide-margined copy. Foxing to final few leaves. As usual, not bound with the supplement of 12 pages. Engraved bookplate of [H]enry [Pannier] (1853-1935), the Parisian art dealer, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ❧ Lugt 2413. Guichard, Les Amateurs d’Art à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (2008), p. 109.

Exhibition card: “Between and Through,” works by Daniel Buren (13 May-3 June 1974) by (BUREN, Daniel)

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Title: Exhibition card: “Between and Through,” works by Daniel Buren (13 May-3 June 1974)
Author: (BUREN, Daniel)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Printed on one side. Transparent plastic card. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1974. A brilliant example of Buren’s invitation card design, a see-through card, produced and distributed by Barbara Cusack’s trailblazing gallery. Near fine.

Atomeysik For Hvermand. by SENDAK (Maurice):

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Title: Atomeysik For Hvermand.
Author: SENDAK (Maurice):
Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description: SENDAK (Maurice): ATOMEYSIK FOR HVERMAND by Dr Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff and Hyman Ruchlis. Copenhagen: H Hagerup, 1948. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak, his first book "Atomics for the Millions". Tall 8vo, 324pp + [6] index; pictorial colored wrappers (white spine discolored, lightly creased). First Foreign Language translation of a book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the Danish version prepared by V. Thorsen. The drawings done when Sendak was 18 years old, originally published in New York 1947. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in graphite on the title-page.

Top Flight [Vol. I, No. 17 (Oct 29 1949)]

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Title: Top Flight [Vol. I, No. 17 (Oct 29 1949)]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good -
Description: New York City: N.P., 1949. Very good -. 10 7/8” x 8½”. Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. 4. Very good minus: moderately creased at old folds; a bit toned. This is an issue of a seemingly forgotten periodical that was created by and for high school- and college-aged African Americans in New York City, Top Flight. The issue covers two young men who went on to notable careers, one in business and one in music, Walter Branford and Andrew Frierson. The paper's editor and business manager, respectively, were brothers Arthur and Richard Hardie. We found brief mentions of the brothers in the “Teen Age” column of a few 1949 New York Age issues online, learning that Arthur had recently graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx and that Richard was due to that year. Top Flight's tagline was “News of the younger set” and this issue posited that “as young people many of us often forget that we owe something to our community, for it is our community that gives us our means of living, our safety and protection.” The leading article shared that the paper's staff had been invited to a press conference at Mt. Morris, “the only interracial voluntary hospital in the U.S.A.” and a photographic image showed a few “of our many young people who are participating in the fund raising campaign to fight Polio.” A “Who's Who” column focused on Delores Hall, “dramatic soprano singer,” student at Brooklyn College and the recipient of a scholarship to study under Lucille Stevenson, a “famous concert artist and the former singing star of the Pet Milk Show.” Great photographic images revealed “Miss Top Flight,” Barbara Fair (a student at Franklin Lane High School), and identified the members of “Club Kopaynes,” an African American social youth group. There was also a feature, with two photographic images, on a dance attended by pledges of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest historically African American fraternity. The paper reported that “the place was just filled with young people from all over the city and beyond” and that the pledges “themselves looked like something out of Esquire.” It noted that “Walter Branford is the only pledge coming from the N.Y. State Maritime College. Walt represents one-half of the Negro population of the school . . .” Branford went on to be president and CEO of Double Eagle Lines, Inc., the first Black-owned steamship company in the United States. A rare and fantastic publication created by young African Americans doing great things. Not located in OCLC or in Danky Hady.

Maple Sugar Makers' Guide. Everything for the sugar maker from tapping bit to syrup can by [Trade Catalogue – Maple Syrup; Leader Evaporator Co. (Burlington, Vermont)]

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Title: Maple Sugar Makers' Guide. Everything for the sugar maker from tapping bit to syrup can
Author: [Trade Catalogue – Maple Syrup; Leader Evaporator Co. (Burlington, Vermont)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Burlington, Vt: Leader Evaporator Co, 1934. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers (22. x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies, including evaporators, gathering tanks, sap buckets, sap spouts, tapping bits, gathering pails, hydrometers, thermometers, filters, syrup cans, pails, and cartons. Instructions for sugaring, and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader Evaporator Company was formed in 1988. Some light fading to wrappers, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates one copy of this earliest of the Leader trade catalogues (and a number of copies of various later editions)].

A Bend in the Road (Signed First Edition) by Nicholas Sparks

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Title: A Bend in the Road (Signed First Edition)
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780446527781
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/Stated First Printing with the complete number line; a Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only the ghost of a sticker and a PO initials and date to the front free paper, in a clean, crisp, and bright dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

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Red Trance by Zimmerman, R.D.

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Title: Red Trance
Author: Zimmerman, R.D.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780688130305
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: William Morrow, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original blue quarter cloth and red boards. Signed presentation by the author on the title page.

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