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Three editions of humanist works, two from Antwerp known only from 1 other copy each, in contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf with 6 animals in foliage plus an unusually detailed peacock

[FIOCCO, Andrea Domenico] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.
Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...
Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.
With:
(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).
(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...
Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523).
3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum. 91, [1]; 26, [2]; [40] ll. Full description
€ 12,000
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Satirical emblems of rogues in contemporary colouring

FLITNER, Johann [and Thomas MURNER]. Nebulo nebulonum, hoc est iocoseria modernae nequitiae censura; qua homine sceleratorum fraudes, doli ac versutiae aeri aëriqu exponuntur publice: carmine iambico dimetro adornata à Ioanne Flitnero, franco poëta laureato.
Frankfurt am Main, Jacobus de Zetter, 1620. 8vo. With an engraved title page, 33 engravings in the text (9.1 x 7.2 cm), several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Late 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [8], 164, [2] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Collection of the most important works by the first Dutch burlesque poet

FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.
Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.
With:
(2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen.
Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.
(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel.
Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [16], 447, [1 blank]; [16], 223, [1]; [16], 112; [8], 77, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Illustrated volume of an important work in Macaronic verse, bound by François Bozerian

[FOLENGO, Teofilo]. Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae mantuani macaronicorum.
Amsterdam [or possibly printed in Naples?], Abraham van Someren, 1692. 8vo. With a full-page engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece, 26 engraved illustrations in the text (ca. 6 x 5 cm), a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut floral and ornamental tailpieces. Early 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with a floral frame on both boards, detailed floral designs in the compartments on the spine and the title, year of publication, and name of the binder lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [30], 419, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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New edition by Pierre Coste of the famous fables of Jean de la Fontaine,
illustrated by Jacques Anthony Chovin

FONTAINE, Jean de la. Fables choisies, mises en vers par monsieur De La Fontaine...
Genève, J. Samuel Cailler, 1772. 2 volumes. 8vo. With titles printed in red and black, a portrait of De la Fontaine as frontispiece for volume 1, and Aesop teaching the animals as frontispiece for volume 2, 241 engraved illustrations to the 239 fables. Many woodcut and typographical endpieces. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title on spine. [4], XLVIII, 256; [4], 352 pp. Full description
€ 650
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Very fine large paper copy with etchings by Pieter de Mare after Christina Chalon,
contemporarily bound in Leiden by the so-called Second Dissertation Bindery

FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Johannes le. Zinspelende gedigjes, op de geestige printjes ge-etst door Pieter de Mare, na de teekeningen van mejuffrouw Christina Chalon.
Leiden, Frans de Does, 1779. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author and 32 etched illustrations by Pieter de Mare after Christina Chalon. Splendid contemporary (late 18th-century) gold-tooled red morocco, with a smooth spine, bound by the so-called Second Dissertation Bindery (Leiden ca. 1780-ca. 1794; Storm van Leeuwen IIA, pp. 350-358). Both boards show two gold-tooled connected floral frames (all the same roll) with 4 corner pieces on the inside of the inner frame and a large lozenge shaped centrepiece built up from multiple impressions of 3 different floral stamps. Further with a gold-tooled spine and board edges, marbled endpapers. 32 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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One of the first Sanskrit works published in Germany

FRANK, Othmar Chrestomathia Sanskrita, quam ex codicibus manuscriptis, adhuc ineditis, Londini exscripsit, atque in usum Tironum versione, expositione, tabulis grammaticis etc. illustratam edidit ...
Munich, typographice ac lithographice opera et sumtibus propriis, 1820-1821. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (22 x 25,5 cm). With 6 lithographed plates (4 folding). Original temporary grey boards as issued. XII, 194, [2]; [4], 147, [3] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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2 offprints discussing De Frobervilles researches on languages and races in sub-equatorial East Africa,with an autograph letter from De Froberville

FROBERVILLE, Eugène de, and [Louis BOUTON]. Analyse d'un mémoire de M. Eugène de Froberville sur les langues et les races de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'equateur.
[Port Louis, Mauritius], [Société dHistoire Naturelle de Maurice], [1846]. Offprint, with its own pagination, from Procès-verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice, du 6 octobre 1842 au 28 août 1845, [1846].
With: (2) FLOURENS, Pierre, [Louis-Isidore?] DUPERREY and Etienne SERRES. Rapport sur les races nègres de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'équateur, observées par M. de Froberville.
(Colophon: Paris, printed by Bachelier, [1850]). Offprint, with its own pagination, from Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, XXX (1850).
2 works in 1 volume. Small folio & large 8vo. 19th-century black half morocco, with the blue paper back wrapper of the second offprint bound in. Full description
€ 1,950
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