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DANTE (CHROMOS INSTRUCTIFS).

By: Alighieri, Dante (12165-1321).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Belgium:, Jacques Superchocolat,: 1965.

Seller ID: 228

Condition: Fine

Cardstock. 2" x 2 3/4 " inches. This advertising trade card featuring Dante's portrait was included in packages of Jacques chocolate by Jacques Superchocolat of Belgium. The company issued a set of 240 cards entitled "Collection De Chromos Instructifs". The back of the card has a brief biography of Dante in French and Dutch.

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A WOODBLOCK FROM THE ASHENDENE PRESS FEATURING A SCENE FROM PARADISO, CANTO XIII.

By: Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321).

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London:, The Ashendene Press,: 1905.

Seller ID: 263

The Ashendene Press issued a three-volume Commedia between 1902 and 1905, and this woodblock was used in that edition of Paradiso. Printed in an edition of just 170 copies (50 on paper and 20 on vellum) with woodcut illustrations after the original woodcuts of the 1497 edition. The Ashendene Press, which set all of its editions by hand, issued 40 books in the years from 1895-1915 and 1920-1935. It's 1909 folio-sized edition of Dante (Tutte L'Opere) is generally considered one of the 'triple crown' of fine press printing along with the Doves Press Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer.

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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA DI DANTE ALIGHIERI.

By: Alighieri, Dante.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Firenze:, G. Barbera,: 1921.

Seller ID: 255

32mo. 4" x 2 3/4" 575 pp. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded portrait of Dante. Dark brown leather, bound in a medieval style with yapp edges, metal clasps, raised bands, and stamped title. In the uncommon, original clamshell box, which is covered in a floral paper and has a paper label with "La Divina Commedia" on spine. Text is in Italian. Fine book in very good clamshell box, which has light edgewear.

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DI GIORNO IN GIORNO [FROM DAY TO DAY].

By: Alighieri, Dante.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Firenze:, Presso Bernardo Seeber,: 1896.

Seller ID: 248

Condition: Good

Oblong hardcover, 7" x 5". Imitation vellum boards, toned with age, soiled, and heavily rubbed and bumped at the corners. Illuminated initial "D" in Dante and calligraphic title in red and black with a gold cloth spine. Gold rubbed off of cloth covering spine at joints. Toning to endpapers. Three owner inscriptions on endpapers and a preliminary blank page. Still, this is a nice example of a daybook, likely published for tourists visiting Italy. Each page features one day of the month, and each day features one quote from the works of Dante in Italian, French, German, and English from author...
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LA OPERE MINORI DI DANTE ALIGHIERI NOVAMENTE ANNOTATE DA G.L. PASSERINI.

By: Alighieri, Dante.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Florence:, G.C. Sansoni,: 1912-1923.

Seller ID: 319

Condition: Very Good

48mo. 3" x 4". Five, small volumes. Written entirely in Italian. Age-toned wraps with decorative calligraphic titles. Chipped wrappers and spines. Not a complete set, but a nice early 20th century survivor in wraps. Volume 1 - missing, Volume 2 - Rime, Volume 3 - Il Convivio, printed in 3 volumes, all labelled III. Volume 4- missing, Volume 5 Il Trattato Della Volgare Eloquenza.

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FIOR DA FIORE DALLE OPERE DI DANTE.

By: Biagi, Lodovico.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Firenze:, G. Barbera,: 1892.

Seller ID: 252

Sm. 8vo. 300+ un-numbered pp. Parchment colored leather exquisitely stamped with scarlet and gilt fleur-de-lys and scrolls. In original scarlet cloth dustjacket and slipcase. Gilt floral endpapers and original red silk bookmark. Features a quote from the works of Dante for every day of the year, each page with elaborate floral borders. Color title page and prelim. in the style of an illuminated manuscript. Bound by G. Giannini. Highly attractive book in fine condition with a fine dustjacket in a near fine slipcase.

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DISCOURSES ON DANTE.

By: Grandgent, Charles H. (1862-1939).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Harvard University Press,: 1924.

Seller ID: 233

Condition: Better than very good.

Sm. 8vo. vii, 201 pp. Navy blue gilt cloth. Better than very good condition but for rubbing to the Harvard University Press insignia at foot of spine.A professor at Harvard University form 1896-1932, Grandgent lectured on Dante as well as Romance linguistics and phonetics. He produced an edition of Divine Comedy, as well this book and another also featured in this catalogue, Ladies of Dante's Lyrics (Item___).

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LADIES OF DANTE'S LYRICS.

By: Grandgent, Charles H. (1862-1939).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Harvard University Press,: 1917.

Seller ID: 234

Condition: Very Good

8vo. iv,181pp. Dark green cloth. Gilt title on spine. Light rubbing and edgewear.A McBride Lecture sponsored by Harvard, the text of this book was originally delivered as in February, 1917. Of the many ladies that appear in Dante's works, this book focuses on five: Violetta, Matelda, Pietra, Beatrice, and Lisetta. A professor at Harvard University form 1896-1932, Grandgent lectured on Dante as well as Romance linguistics and phonetics. He produced an edition of Divine Comedy, as well this book and another also featured in this catalogue, Ladies of Dante's Lyrics (Item___).

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THE MAKERS OF VENICE: DOGES, CONQUERORS, PAINTERS, AND MEN OF LETTERS.

By: Oliphant, Mrs. [Margaret] (1828-1897).

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York:, Thomas Y. Crowell and Company,: ca. 1900.

Seller ID: 471

12mo. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". [i-iv]v-xiii,[1]-345. Hand-painted, full parchment binding. Upper board painted with red, blue, green, and yellow Florentine scrolls and rubricated initials. Heavily embossed in gilt. At the top corner of the upper board is a 2 1/2" x 3 3/4" embossed gilt frame. Inside the frame, a picture of mountains and the ocean is hand-painted. Gold, hand-painted scroll on spine. Lower board hand-painted in dark green with a gold dragon. Paint on upper board heavily-faded, embossed gilt dull and missing four places. Four leather ties are not present. Else ...
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THE REPRESENTATION OF THE IMAGE IN DANTE.

By: Olivero, Frederico.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Torino, Italy:, S. Lattes & C.,: 1936.

Seller ID: 451

Limited Edition, #2 of 250 copies. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". 149 pp. Half-morrocco and purple boards with gilt lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped and paper beginning to brown around the edges. Very good.

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ICONOGRAFIA DANTESCA: LA RAPPRESENTAZIONI FIGURATIVE DELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA.

By: Volkmann, Ludovico.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Firenze-Venezia:, G. Locella,: 1898.

Seller ID: 258

4to. [i-v]vi-xix], [1]2-166pp. First Italian Edition of this major survey of the figurative representation of The Divine Comedy. Illustrated throughout. Chromolithographic frontispiece, red silk bookmark, gilt floral endpapers. Bound in full, elaborately gilt parchment with the binder's tag of Giulio Giannini, Piazza Pitti, Florence. Except for the usual yawning of the vellum and a small amount of soiling, this is a better than very good copy.Though there is no statement of limitation, Fiske states that this edition was printed in an edition of 250 copies (p.486).This particular copy wa...
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FABLES: CONSISTING OF SELECT PARTS FROM DANTE, BERNI, CHAUCER, AND ARIOSTO. IMITATED IN ENGLISH HEROIC VERSE.

By: Wharton, Richard, Esq. M.P.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London:, Printed by T. Bensley . . . for Payne and Mackinlay,: 1804.

Seller ID: 298

8vo. 199 pp. Inscribed by the author's wife, "Given to Mr. J.W. Phipps by Mrs. Wharton, March 13, 1812." In navy blue embossed leather with gilt decorative devices and gilt letters on spine. A.e.g. Joints and corners heavily rubbed. Corners lightly bumped. Else very good.Though Henry Francis Cary was the first to translate the entire Divine Comedy into English, several English authors translated various cantos of the work into their native tongue prior to him. According to ESTC, the first such partial translation of Dante's poetry into English appeared in 1773. Wharton's 1804 translation o...
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FABLES: CONSISTING OF SELECT PARTS FROM DANTE, BERNI, CHAUCER, AND ARIOSTO. IMITATED IN ENGLISH HEROIC VERSE.

By: Wharton, Richard, Esq. M.P.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London:, Printed by T. Bensley . . . for Payne and Mackinlay,: 1804.

Seller ID: 317

8vo. 199 pp. Inscribed by the author and with the bookplate of Peter Isaac. Gray, paper-covered boards with parchment spine. Corners bumped, gray paper worn away at bottom corners. Else very good.Though Henry Francis Cary was the first to translate the entire Divine Comedy into English, several English authors translated various cantos of the work into their native tongue prior to him. According to ESTC, the first such partial translation of Dante's poetry into English appeared in 1773. Wharton's 1804 translation of cantos 3 (the description of the entrance to Hell), 32 and 33 (the story of...
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DANTE.

By: [ALIGHIERI, DANTE (1265-1321)]. Gardner, Edmund G.

Price: $800.00

Publisher: London:, Aldine House, J.M. Dent & Co. ,: June, 1903.

Seller ID: 223

Condition: Very Good

16mo. vi,166pp. A rather pedestrian Temple Primer on Dante bound in a very sophisticated, hand-painted vellum binding with five raised bands. Vellum cords with fleur-de-lis shaped raised device and yapp edges give a medieval style to the binding. Upper board painted with a rubricated initial, floral border, and a central frame of laurel leaves featuring a portrait of Dante in his scarlet robes against a starry sky. Lower board features an urn with flames against a starry in a similar frame of laurel leaves and floral border. Spine painted with scarlet flourishes. Unique.

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INSCRIPTIONS FROM DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA IN THE STREETS OF FLORENCE.

By: [ALIGHIERI, DANTE [1265-1321]]. Riedisser, Ida.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Milan:, Alfieri & Lacroix,: 1913.

Seller ID: 236

Condition: About very good.

12mo. iv, 88pp. Age-toned, cardstock covers meant to resemble vellum with title and a color coat of arms on front cover. Yapp edges, which originally had ties to close the book. Ties missing. Dampstain to bottom of endpapers. Some soiling on top of pages 2 and 3. All 21 tipped-in color coats of arms are present.The city of Florence put up inscriptions from Dante's Commedia to mark all the places mentioned and all the sites where stood the houses of the families in the epic. The author arranges the inscriptions in the book chronologically, rather than topographically, and in doing so gives a...
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Image for SIGNED PROMOTIONAL POSTER. "CALIFORNIA ARTIST SANDOW BIRK CREATES A MULTI-MEDIA CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION OF THE CLASSIC DANTE'S INFERNO USING REFERENCES TO CURRENT EVENTS AND PEOPLE IN A LANDSCAPE POPULATED BY MINI-MALLS, FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS, AND ATMS."

SIGNED PROMOTIONAL POSTER. "CALIFORNIA ARTIST SANDOW BIRK CREATES A MULTI-MEDIA CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION OF THE CLASSIC DANTE'S INFERNO USING REFERENCES TO CURRENT EVENTS AND PEOPLE IN A LANDSCAPE POPULATED BY MINI-MALLS, FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS, AND ATMS."

By: [Alighieri, Dante] Birk, Sandow.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Fullerton, CA :, California State University, Fullerton,: 2006.

Seller ID: 260

Condition: Fine.

18" x 24" poster intended to be folded and sent as a mailer advertising an event at the Main Art Gallery of California State University, Fullerton, February 4 - March 10, 2006. This particular copy was never folded or used and is in perfect condition. Illustrated on both sides in Birk's black and white drawings, which feature Dante's Hell as if it took place in the popular culture of California. SIGNED by Birk.

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THE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH UNRHYMED HENDECASYLLABIC VERSE.

By: [ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. Lillie, Mary Prentice.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, Grabhorn Press,: 1958.

Seller ID: 295

4to. 3 volumes. Cream boards, spines gilt-lettered. Carboard slipcase. One of 300 sets. Near fine.In 1919, the brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn came from Indianapolis to San Francisco and immediately caught the attention of the community of bibliophiles with their imaginative and colorful books and ephemeral printing. The Grabhorn Press is one of the best-known fine press publishers in the United States.

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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA CON POSTILLE E CENNI INTRODUTTIVI DEL PROF. RAFFAELLO FORNACIARI.

By: [ANDERSON, MELVILLE BEST (1851-1933)]. Alighieri, Dante.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Milan:, Ulrico Hoepli,: No date, circa 1925.

Seller ID: 112

Condition: Very Good in very good slipcase

32mo. xxii, 577pp. Small book bound in light brown suede with a brass medallion of Dante on the front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Some fading to suede. Book comes in a plain cardboard slipcase that has some bumping to corners but is still sturdy and completely intact. Inscription on ffep.: "Agnes (Marchesa Mannucci Capponi) from Melville. Christmas, 1925."

Melville Best Anderson was an author, translator, and teacher at Stanford University whose particular interest was the work of Dante. His most celebrated literary achievement was his translation of the Divina Commedia (Oxford Univ...
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DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY: A LINEAL AND RHYMED TRANSLATION.

By: [BANDINI, ALBERT R.]. Alighieri, Dante (Translated by Rev. Albert R. Bandini).

Price: $300.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, The People's Publishing Company,: 1928.

Seller ID: 119

Condition: Very Good + in Very Good DJ

Three volumes bound as one. 8vo. xxiv, the pages of each volume numbered separately -- 220, 233, and 279 pp. respectively. Signed and inscribed by the translator, Albert R. Bandini on a blank prelim: "To Al Williams, I am sure you will enjoy the D.C. -- but take it in small doses. -- A.R. Bandini, The Translator." Additionally, Bandini has hand-corrected a number of line translations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red dustjacket with black borders and lettering. Book is in very good + condition with light shelfwear. Very good DJ with small chips to head and tail of spine and to...
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THE DIVINE COMEDY. Three Volume Set. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin and Illustrated by Leonard Baskin

By: [BASKIN, LEONARD (1922-2000)]. Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321).

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York:, Grossman Publishers,: 1969.

Seller ID: 107

Condition: Near fine in very good slipcase

Folio. Three volume set in slipcase. Brown boards with ivory colored, cloth covered spines. Titles stamped on each volume's spine in gilt. One small spot on the spines of both volume 1 and volume 3. Brown slip case with intact paper label affixed to front. Some wear to edges of slipcase, but still sturdy and in very good condition. Each volume filled with Baskin's dramatic illustrations. This set is inscribed on the ffep of volume 1, "To Pat Clifford from Leonard Baskin". It is not one of the limited edition of 100 signed copies, but instead a personalized inscription.

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