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Satirical poetry by a Medici opponent who fled Florence for France

ALAMANNI, Luigi. Opere toscane.
Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (colophons: printed by Peter Schoeffer the younger), 1542. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut Giunta device, and a full-page woodcut showing a larger version of the same device on the last printed page of vol. 2. Set in an Aldine-style italic. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. [16], 431, [1 blank]; 295, [7] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Remarkable extra illustrated edition of a collection of anecdotes about London's high society
by fencing master Henry Angelo

ANGELO, Henry and Rev. Charles SWYNNERTON. Angelo's pic nic with twenty-four illustrations from contemporary drawings and prints in the collection of Joseph Grego with a prefatory note on the Angelo family.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd., 1905. 2 vols. Large-8vo. With a frontispiece in vol. 1 and 110 illustrations mounted on separate leaves. Red cloth. XXXVII, [1], 122; [2], 123-267 (=145), [1] pp. Full description
€ 750
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A Flemish didactic satire, illustrated by Antoine van der Does

BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO). Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...
Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum. [16], 271, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Two rare print series depicting beggars and tramps

CALLOT, Jacques. Capitayn van de bende.
[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1645]. A series of 24 numbered engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot (some copied in mirror image), the first with the title on a banner carried by the beggar in plate 1.
With: (2) QUAST, Pieter Jansz. T is al verwart-gaeren.
[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1652. With 24 (of 26) numbered engraved plates, the first with the title at the foot. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 19.5 cm). 18th-century paste paper over boards. 24; 1-2, 5-26 (of 26) engr. ll. Full description
€ 9,500
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Rare first and only editions of Neo-Latin poems on ships and monkeys

CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Navis carmen.
Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, 1695. With a folding engraved plate of a 44-gun ship.
With: (2) CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Simius carmen.
Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, [ca. 1695]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. 34, [2 blank], 31 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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In praise of money and Rembrandt

DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht, ofte vervolg der rijm-oeffeningen. Verdeelt in twee boecken. Behelsende gedichten van verscheydene stoffe.
Amsterdam, Widow of Marten Jansz. Brandt, Abraham vanden Burgh (colophon: Pieter Dirksz Boeteman), 1667. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 51 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [16], 128, [4], 108 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Very rare edition of the translation of two collections of dialogues by Erasmus and Lucian

ERASMUS, Desiderius, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen ... Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.
Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval. On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. π2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum. [18], 141, [3] ll. Full description
€ 4,950
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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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