Facetiae (5 results)

Condition: Fair. New Edition. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. II. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Notable insect damage to front and rear board. Book appears to have been rebound. Related article stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are fairly bright with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down and page 530, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Notable insect damage to front and rear board.

No illustrations (illustrator). Philadelphia, PA: El. Carey & A. Hart. Good plus condition-cover scratched & loose/No Dustjacket. 1835. 12mo., 204, 26 pp. . Good plus condition-cover scratched & loose/No Dustjacket.

first American edition (no illustrations); textblock generally in very good condition, with some age toning and foxing, a corner turn or two; green cloth binding (with gold imprinted squirrel on spine) in good plus condition, with some wear, esp. to extremities; 204 pages, plus publisher's adverts table of contents; nice item for the specialist collector;

12°, circa 14,5 x 10 cm. Engraved frontispiece, 1 f., 170 pp. Elegant modern half-calf "Gay-L. II, 224. Rare collection of amusing, critical and often erotic texts (poems, prose, dialogues etc.). According to Viollet-le-Duc it is an "excellent et joli livre, avec lequel on devrait se passer de beaucoup d'autres de meme espèce qui n'ont aucune des qualités qui distinguent celui-ci" (quoted in Gay-L.). Contains: Dialogue entre deux cochons., envie de femme grosse, Sur les betteraves, Journal du Carnaval, the little drama (by Fonpré de Fracansalle, not Voltaire as stated here) "La mort de mardi-gras"etc. - With the bookplate of Henri Carret. " - Nice copy, just minor browning or foxing, uncut, nice binding.

17 parts in 1 volume. Rare collection of popular farcical texts, inspired by the Facetiae (1474) of the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio wrote anti-clerical, bawdy and obscene stories, that enjoyed great popularity in the 16th century. He thereby showed that Latin was flexible enough to be written as a living language. His stories were soon imitated all over Europe. A collection of 12 titles, first published in 1600, was later placed on the Papal Index. The present collection, published by Augustin Ferber, increases the number of titles to 17. It mainly consists of mock medical dissertations and disputations and macaronic poetry about sex and drinking.Of particular interest are: Disputatio inauguralis, a mock disputation on the social law of drinking, with Bacchus as praeses and written by "Blasius Multibibus", a pseudonym often attributed to Richard Brathwait, who would translate this work into English in 1617 as A solemne joviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefly shadowing the law of drinking; Delineatio summorum capitum lustitudinis studenticae, a burlesque and facetious macaronic Latin/German poem about students visiting brothels; and Discursus methodicus de peditu ejusque speciebus crepitus & visio (Methodical discourse on farting, and its species, sound and appearance), "this is the most elaborate case of intellectual in-joking on a scatological topic that I have so far found" (B.C. Bowen, "The 'honourable art of farting' in continental Renaissance literature", in: Fecal matters in early modern literature and art, 2017).With the bookplate of the neurologist Willem Albert Hofman (1915-2002) and some early underscoring in text. A very good copy, with only the paste-downs coming loose.l Erman & Horn, Bibl. deutsche Univ. I, 7411; VD17 23:259247G; cf. Camden House history of German literature IV, p. 309; Gay & Lemmonyer II, cols. 215-216 (other eds.). Contemporary vellum. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations.