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Sales catalogue 77: Davis & Orioli
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20th century
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WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/4
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![CALLIGRAPHY—continued. 22 Tensini (A.) La vera Regola dello scrivere utile a Giovani. Bassano, Remondini, s.d. (ca. 1650) £3 3s Oblong 4to. Wrappers. Engraved title and 16 delightful and fantastic examples of calligraphy. CLASSICS. 23 Aeschylus. Tragediae septem cum scholiis Graecis versione et commentario. Thomae Stanlei. London, J.-Plesher for J. Hart, 1664 30s Small folio. Old red morocco, back a little worn. Very fine engraved portrait of Stanley by Faithorne. “Cette belle édition a été long- temps la plus recherchée.”” A pencil note states that this copy was bought at the Beckford sale, where it fetched £10 10s. 24 Sulpicius Severus. Opera Omnia. Leiden Hackius, 1654 £2 2s 8vo. 18th century French red morocco, gilt fillets and fleurons on sides, gilt back. 25 Tacitus. Davanzati (Bernardo) Il primo Libro degli’ Annali di Gaio Cornelio Tacito Espresso in volgare Fiorentino. Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1596 10s 6d 8vo. Boards. Printer’s mark on title. 26 Valerius Maximus De i Detti et Fatti Memorabili tradotti di Latino da Giorgio Dati. Venice, s.n. 1551 10s 6d 8vo. Calf. Device on title and verso of last leaf, CONJURING. 27 Dean (H.) The whole Art of Legerdemain ; or Hocus Pocus in perfection The sixth edition, with large additions and amendments. London, L. Hawes, 1763 £3 12mo. Old boards. 132 pp. Woodcut frontis- piece and many illustrations in text. DUELLING. 28 Historia del Combattimento de’ tredici Italiani con altrettanti Francesi, fatto in Puglia tra Andria e Quarati. E la vittoria ottentuta da gl’ Italiani nell’ anno 1503 a 16 .<di Eebraro, scritta. da Autore di veduta, che v’intervenne. Naples, Lazaro Scotiggio, 1633 £1-1s 8vo. Vellum. Woodcut of a fighting knight on title. The story of a famous duel between thirteen Frenchmen and thirteen Italians. ECONOMICS. 29 [Venusti (Antonio Maria)] Compendio utilissimo di quelle cose, le quali a nobili a christiani mercanti appartengono.: Dis- corso della Mercantia. Trattato del cambio di Bisenzone. Esortatione a mercanti. Institutione de’ Mercanti. Trattato de Cambi in generale. Milan, Fratelli da Meda for Giov. Antonio de gli Antonii, 1561 ' £4 4s 8vo. Vellum. 1611., 32, 128 ff. Printer’s device on title. A very rare treatise, dealing with commerce and trade, banking, exchange, money, policy of prices, etc., etc. One of the earliest works on these subjects. - EMBLEMS. See also No. 11. 30 Alciat. Diverse Imprese Accomodate a diverse moralita, con versi che i loro signi ficati dichiarano insieme con molte altre nella lingua Italiana non piu _ tradotto Tratte da gli Emblemi. dell’. Alciato. Lyons, Matthias Bonhomme, 1551 £2 10s S8vo. Vellum. 191 pages of which 187 con- tain emblems. Each page is surrounded by a fine woodcut border, many in the style of Geoffroy Tory and Jean de Tournes. A very richly illustrated Lyonese woodcut book. Lower margin of title skilfully repaired. Otherwise in fine state. From the Gaisford collection, with his ex-libris. 31 Dolee (Lodovico) Imprese Nobili et ingeniose di diversi Prencipi, et d’altri Personaggi TIllustri nell’arme et nelle lettre : Le quali col disegno loro estrinseco dimostrano l’animo et la buona o mala fortuna de gli Autori loro. Con le dichiara- tioni in versi da L. Dolce. Venice, Giro- lamo Porro, 1578 £6 10s Small folio. Mottled calf, gilt centre piece, gilt fillets and fleurons on sides, g.e., by Bedford. Engraved title, 2 ll. of text and 69 fine full-page engraved plates (Brunet counts 72). Each plate has a few verses on prominent statesmen, men of letters, painters, poets, etc., of the period and a fine engraving of an emblematical character. One of the most beautiful engraved books of the latter half of the 16th century. A superb copy from the Huth library, with bookplate. Itis also the Slade-Mexborough copy. Brunet II. 792. 32 Giovio (P.) and Symeoni (Gabriel) Dialogo dell’ Imprese Militari et Amorosi, con un ragionamento di Lodovico Dolce. Lyons, G Rovillio, 1574 25s 8vo. Vellum. 280 pp., 8 Il., the last blank. Woodcut portrait of Giovio and over 200 woodcuts of an emblematical character in text. Here and there a few slight stains. 33 Horace. Vaenius (Otto) Le Théatre Moral de la Vie Humaine, representée en plus de cent tableaux divers, tirez du poete Horace par Otho Venius et expliqué par le Sieur de Gomberville. Brussels, Francois Foppens, 1678 30s Folio. Old calf. 811., 211 pp.; 16 pp. Engraving on title, fine engraved portrait of Vaenius and over 100 large engravings of emblems in the text. 34 Vaenius (Otto) Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata imaginibus in aes_ incisis notisque illustrata studio Othoni Vaeni Batavolugdunensis nunc cura et opera Stephani Mulinari iterum in luce edita. Florence, 1777 £3 3s Small folio. Contemporary Italian red morocco gilt, g.e. (one back slightly damaged). Bound in three volumes. 12 ll., 120 pp. Engraved titles and dedicatory leaves and 60 plates, by the Florentine engraver, Molinari. A most interesting edition for the fine colour printing used in this book. The title-page is printed within yellow border, many of the initial letters and vignettes are printed in red and the plates themselves are printed in various colours (red, green, brown). A fine copy. With the bookplate of the Duke of Alba,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33160089_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
