Maffei, Signed (12 results)

First Edition. Signed by the author. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 112-128p. : III plates ; 25cm. Subjects: Martorelli, Pier Filippo. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Signed by the author. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 112-128p. : III plates ; 25cm. Subjects: Martorelli, Pier Filippo. 1 Kg.

Condition: OTTIMO USATO. ITALIANO Volume con dedica autografa dell'autrice. Brossura in cartoncino lucido in buone condizioni. Le pagine interne sono chiare, ben conservate. Il dorso è integro, la legatura salda. Numero pagine 54.

Brossura. Condition: discrete. Prima edizione. Prima edizione. Cm.20,3x14,8. Pg.120. Brossura editoriale. Dedica autografa dell'Autore. Studio sul favolista francese e su Tommaso Crudeli, Lorenzo Pignotti e Luigi Clasio. 150 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Three volumes in full leather. Heavy wear to spines and edges (see photos). Bookplate on vol. 1 pastedown, ownership signed in ink on ffeps, ink stamps on rear of title pages. Light foxing throughout, mostly in the margins. Bindings are solid; text blocks tight. Texts are free of any writing or markings. A collection of early Italian tragedies: La Sofonisba del Trissino; L'Oreste del Rucellai; L'Edipo di Sofocle tradotto dal Giustiniano; La Merope del Torelli; Il Torrismondo del Tasso; L'Astianatte del Gratarolo; La Semiramide del Manfredi; Le Gemelle Capovane del Ceba; Il Solimano del Bonarelli; L'Alcippo del Ceba; L'Aristodemo del Dottori; La Cleopatra del Delfino. Signed.

Interessantissima opera; la prima messa in musica da Robert Alexander Schumann nella cantata "Il Paradiso e la Peri", poema orientale di Tommaso Moore tratta da "Lalla Rookh" " l'evocazione sfumata e delicatamente sensuale di un Oriente favoloso e lussureggiante " la seconda "Sogno di Sardanapalo" di George Gordon Noel Byron. Nella traduzione di Andrea Maffei e Gregorio Cusimano. Dedica autografa del Cusimani a Giuseppe Guerzoni (Calcinato, 27 febbraio 1835 Montichiari, 26 novembre 1886 fu patriota garibaldino , scrittore e il maggiore biografo di Giuseppe Garibaldi). Esemplare perfetto. Brossura editoriale, pp. 61, in 8° grande.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. 131 pages ; 15,5 x 21,7 x 1,2 cm ; 280 gr. Broché, couverture à rabats. Exemplaire de tête n° 41/150 sur papier édition de luxe vergé sans bois satiné mat vergé. Recueil de 30 textes publiés à l'occasion de la Fête des Lettres Vaudoises réunissant Gustave Roud et ses amis le 16 juin 1957 à Crêt-Bérard (VD). EXEMPLAIRE DEDICACÉ PAR GUSTAVE ROUD. Dédicacé par l'auteur.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Maffei (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. Full title. The Antiquities of Gaul. Written in Latin, Greek and Italian. Fulll title original is Galliae Antiquites quaedam selectae atque in plures epistotlas distributae. Folio. In the original boards and patterned cloth spine as isssed in this 2nd version in Verona after the 1733. Complete with copper plate engravings of the sites of France from The ancient era of Roman rule. Most in the south of France. The author ventured to Paris to publish, then returned to his native Verona and produced this edition, in crisp remarkably fine condition, Provenance: from the library of the Count de Buri, ruler of Verona, ca. 1780 to 1830. an ink note on front fly leaf indicates this fact. the copper plates are fresh, Maffei was born 1675, died 1755. and did extensive tours of the south of France. Nice at this time was an Italian provenance. Superb engraving. By the Owner.

Holograph of sixteen-line poem in four four-line stanzas, headed 'Il tramonto' and signed at bottom right 'Andrea Maffei'. 1p, 16mo. Text entirely clear and complete, on discoloured laid paper with chipping and slight loss at right-hand margin. Begins: 'Amo l'ova del girono che muore / Quando il sole già stanco declina,'. No variations from the version printed in the 1864 Florence edition of Maffei's works, apart from 'Una età' beginning l.6 here, as opposed to 'Un' età' there. The 1864 printed version itself differs a couple of ways from the version put to music by Verdi as the first of his 'Sei Romanze' (1838). See Image.

8°.Titel mit gest. Vignette, XLI, 281 (1) S. mit 5 gestoch. Vignetten u. 1 gefalt. gest. Taf. Pgmt.-Bd. d. Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschidlchen. Etwas berieben, Spiegel mit zeitgen. Notiz. Innen vereinzelt. etwas gebräunt, vereinzelt kl. Tintenkleckse, sonst gut erhalten. Sammlungvon Theaterstücken des italienischen Barockdichters Scipione Maffei (1675-1755). Enthalten sind die 3 Stücke: La Merope, Le Ceremonie u. La fida ninfa. Gewidmet dem Herzog von Modena, Rinaldo d'Este (1655-1737). Mit einer Vignette Rinaldos von Francesco Zucchi (1698-1764). Die Falttafel ist signiert "Andrea Zucchi sculp.". Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Small folio (302 x 200 mm), rebound in full calf. Folding engraved map of the world. Minor worming to the world map, principally affecting blank margin and a small area outside the border. Lengthy presentation inscription on a free end-paper, dated 4th November, 1648. Cologne, Officina Birckmann [Heirs of Arnold Birckmann] for Arnold Mylius, 1593.  This is the second Cologne edition of this important collection of accounts of the Portuguese discoveries and missionary work in China and Japan, the East Indies and Brazil and the Americas. The text was first published in Florence in 1588, without a map. The subsequent Cologne edition of 1589 was first to contain a map, which is reprinted in this edition. "Maffei writes extensively about Brazil, describing it very accurately" (Borba de Moraes). The second part reprints the correspondence of Francis Xavier, Louis de Almeyda and many other Jesuit travellers to the Far East, followed by a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. The world map, 'Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque descriptio Pet. Maffei Historiae harum verissimae dedicata.', is copied from Ortelius? early world map, with the prominent bulge in the coast of South America, and the extensive southern continent along the foot of the map, but with the loose cloud border replaced by a more formalized strapwork design. Prize presentation signed by Joannes Leurenius (1606-1656) who entered the Jesuit order in 1627 and taught at a College in Aix-la-Chapelle.  Alden & Landis 593/38; Alt-Japan Katalog 915; Borba de Moraes, pp. 508-509; Cordier, Japonica, cols. 63-64; Cordier, Sinica, col. 782; De Backer/Sommervogel V,  298, no.3; Palau 146981; Sabin 43772; VD16 M106.  .

Copy after Annibale Carracci's popular engraving of the Madonna della Scodella: the Madonna, seated with the infant Christ on her lap, holds a bowl for the infant Baptist to drink from; in this copy the figure of St. Anne standing in the back, watching over the scene is missing. Signed above right: 'Ani: Car in./ Nicolaus fran.ur Maffei / fecit'. The halos are left blanco, no hatchings. l Engraving on paper; trimmed within platemark; total: 130 x 159 mm; on the verso traces of previous mounting; selected literature: Bartsch, XVIII.186.9; De Grazia Bohlin, no. 20, copy I; Bohn 1995, no. 3906.020, copy I.