BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 1: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables. Autographs of Walter Falk and Morley Hirsch., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 2: 26 cm. Armorial bookplate: John Holland., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 3: 25 cm. Bookplates of George Herbert Palmer and Chauncey Brewster Tinker., BEIN Tinker 1069: 24 cm. Bound with his The beggar's opera. 3d ed. London, 1729] Imperfect: p.173 wanting. In manuscript on t.p.: "O.F. [i.e. Charles Ford] given me by Mr. Gay 1727.", Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A²., and Final p. blank.
Fvnerale della signora Sitti Maani Gioerida della Valle
Description:
"Nel funerale di sitti Maani Gioerida sua consorte" by Pietro della Valle: p. 115-149 (in prose)., Account of the funeral of Maani al Jairudu della Valle held 27 March, 1627 at S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome., Armorial bookplate: Biblioteca Peruzzi. Stamp: Ex libris D.A., Engravings: fold. plate of catafalque, portrait on p. [3] , coat of arms of Maani della Valle on t.p., family seal in Arabic & Syriac on p. 17., Includes epitaphs in Arabic, Armenian & Greek., and Pages 31-69 have verse in Italian, p. 70-114 in Latin, by members of the Accademia degli Umoristi, Rome.
Publisher:
Appresso l'Erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti,
Subject (Name):
Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652., Erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti, printer., Peruzzi--Bookplate., and Valle, Maani al Jairudu della,--1598?-1621--Death and burial.
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Rome--Early works to 1800.
A collection of 20 proof states of the 27 prints after George Cruickshank used as illustrations for The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth. Most are signed with Marshall's initials 'JRM', with two signed 'J.R. Marshall' and most identify the artist as 'G.C.' (i.e. George Cruikshank) or G. Cruikshank'. One print based on William Hogarth's "O the roast beef of Old England, &c." includes the attribution "From Hogarth by G.C."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth was first issued by John Fairburn in weekly numbers beginning in 1825, and then shortly afterwards by Jones & Co.; see Cohn., Printed on india paper with three additional prints, all duplicate impressions on a different paper stock and all faulty. One duplicate plate is annotated in the top margin: "3 blocks by G. Ck. 9 blocks by RC. 1 block by [illegible]. Rimil 1863 r/m/. Out of Universal songster. Bone has the others.", Bound in calf gilt, all edges gilt; two auction records tipped on first blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
Opera composed by Johann Kaspar Kerll with libretto by Giorgio Giacomo Alcaini, orignally performed in Munich, 13 February, 1657.
Description:
A-H⁴ I⁴(-I4, blank?)., All illustrations hand-colored. Text inlaid into sheets with height of 32 cm. Armorial bookplate: Ex bibliotheca Fran. Comitis. de Haunsperg. Shelf-mark label. Printed waste used in binding., Libretto without the music., No. 2 of 2 titles bound together., and Opera composed by Johann Kaspar Kerll with libretto by Giorgio Giacomo Alcaini, orignally performed in Munich, 13 February, 1657. Cf. Grove music online.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author
Published / Created:
Mcccclxxxxiii die xviii Iulii [18 July 1493]
Call Number:
2017 +316
Image Count:
320
Alternative Title:
Works. 1493 and Tragoediae
Description:
BEIN 2017 +316: Capitals supplied in red or blue. Manuscript note on free back endpaper: Collated complete pp. B. Quaritch Ltd. [undeciphered initials]., BEIN 2017 +316: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 55] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès), 6. Helmut Friedlaender (bookplate "HNF"; sale Christie's NY, 23 April 2001, lot 117). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +316: Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Hobson's Belluno Binder A. Sides panelled within triple fillets, outer and central compartments adorned with widely spaced small 4- and 5-petalled rosette tools, two inner borders composed respectively of a repeated blossom and leaf tool and leafy tool (see Hobson tools 1, 2, 7 and 11). Spine with two double raised bands tooled with intersecting triple fillets, 4 (of 10) brass bosses, 1 (of 2) clasps and 2 catches. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Seneca with abbreviated name and title ("SEN T") at bottom., BEIN Zi +4994: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Manuscript marginal notes. Worm-eaten, with some damage to text. Bound in old limp vellum, with flap, oriental style, and leather strap; part of the strap, presumably with buckle, missing. Manuscript notes: fol. 2a: "Es dela Libr1. de S. Miguel de los Reyes."; fol. 1a: "This book was given to me by Dr. Pedro Perez the antiquarian of Valencia May 8th 1844. Q. Ayshford Sanford." Dr. Perez's visiting card pasted on fol. 1a. 31 cm., Title from caption of text on leaf I (a1); imprint from colophon., Commentaries by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus., Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴ (A1 blank)., and Woodcut initials, also capital-spaces with guide-letters.
Describes the entry of Charles IX and Catherine de' Medici into Bayonne to meet Elizabeth de Valois., Imperfect: wormed with slight loss of text. Unidentified armorial bookplate., and Signature: a⁴.
Publisher:
[s.n.],
Subject (Geographic):
Bayonne (France)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catherine de Médicis,--Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,--1519-1589., Charles--IX,--King of France,--1550-1574., and Elizabeth,--of France, Queen, consort of Philip II, King of Spain,--1545-1568.
Subject (Topic):
Festivals--France--Bayonne--Early works to 1800. and Visits of state--France--Bayonne.
A collection of sixty-four prints (mostly engravings and etchings) showing views of London and its vicinity, including views of Chelsea with Ranelagh, Hampstead, Highgate from Upper Halloway, Old Bedham with the gardens in front, Whitehall with the gatehouse, Grosvenor Square, St. Mary's Church on the Strand with old Somerset House, The Royale Mews in Charing Cross, St. James's Square with the Round Pond, Covent Gardent, Royal Gardens of Somerset, Hampstead, and scarce views of Barnes and Richmond as well as views of Twickenham, and many other scenes in and around London in the later half of the 18th century
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., Thames River (England), Saint James's Park (London, England), Twickenham (London, England), and London (England)
