The Renaissance World

Boethius; Isidor von Sevilla, Cartography. BOETHIUS - De consolatione Philosphiae. Cum editione commentaria beati Thome de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum; [Bound with,] ISIDOR - LIBER ETHIMILOGIARUM. Jsidori Hyspalensis epi(scopi). [Bound With] ISIDOR Hispalensis - DE SUMMO BONO, (Basel [and] Nuremberg [and] Venedig: M. Furter [and] Anton Koberger [and] Perrum loslein de Langencen, 1489, 1486, 1483)

Very early printings of each of the classic works. Probably one of the very earliest printings of each volume now attainable. A copy from the Koberger workshop and a copy with extensive and very interesting contemporary marginalia. Illustrated with the famous world map, the full page illustrated plate, and two other early illustrations in the text, rubricated throughout in red and blue in an expert and highly accomplished hand. Folio, most likely, according to expert opinion, a Koberger binding of contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, beautifully blind tooled with exact tooling in overall decoration of each cover and spine in Renaissance design, with brass corner pieces, bosses and clasps. A beautiful, very well preserved and very handsome copy, one central boss lacking, a very fine, crisp, clean and handsome copy throughout, text-blocks and all illustrations in excellent condition.

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Knight, Stan: HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller 1998
Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the high peaks in an endlessly shifting landscape. Throughout centuries, styles of writing were continually being modified and developed in response to a multitude of influences encompassing political, religious, aesthetic, intellectual, sociological, and pragmatic changes in the ways that books were made and scripts were written. The modern calligrapher, typographer, historian, and anyone interested in western lettering and documents benefits from studying the methods, skills, and attitudes of generations of historical scribes who produced such outstanding and accomplished works for so many centuries. Revised and expanded, this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style.

4to., cloth. 110 pages.

[KW: 9781884718564 TYPOGRAPHY MANUSCRIPTS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS OAK KNOLL PRESS UNITED STATES WRI- NEW GRAPHIC DESIGN New]

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Bass, George F. , editor. A HISTORY OF SEAFARING Based on Underwater Archaeology. 506 Illustrations, 150 in Colour. NY: Walker & Co., 1972.
This is a large, heavy book and is not eligble for Priority, Air or International under standard fees. Moderate moisture staining of front cover , spine is a little faded but lettering is still bright. Two light cup rings on back cover (that explains the front cover staining) . Otherwise very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Text pages are age-browned but not brittle. Illustration pages have very minor foxing in the white margins. Else Contents are clean and unworn. ; 8-3/4 x 11", 320pp. Blue cloth, bright gold lettering. HISTORY. The Chapters: The earliest seafarers in the Medittanean and the Near East; Greek, Etruscan and Phoenician ships and shipping; Romans on the sea; Greek and Roman harbourworks; Ships of the Roman period and after in Britain; Byzantium, mistress of the sea - 330-641; Scandinavian ships from earliest times to the Vikings; The Viking and the Hanseatic merchants - 900-1450; The Maritime Republics - Medieval and Renaissance ships in Italy; The influence of British naval stategy on shlp design - 1400-1850; Traders and privateers across the Atlantic - 1492-1733; Waterways open the New World. Glossary. Select bibliogaphy. Index. Contributors: George F. Bass, Arne Emil Christensen, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, Keith DeVries, Michael L. Katzev, Alexander McKee, Peter Marsden, Mendel L. Peterson, Enrico Scandurra, Peter Throckmorton, Joseph W. Shaw, Frederick Van Doorninck, Richard C. Van Gemert, Robert C. Wheeler..

First US Edition, Hardcover, G.

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Clegg, Cyndia Susan (editor): PEACEABLE AND PROSPEROUS REGIMENT OF BLESSED QUEENE ELISABETH: A FACSIMILE FROM HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES (1587).|THE, San Marino, California Huntington Library 2005
with an introduction by Cyndia Susan Clegg Textual commentary by Randall McLeod. Holinshed's Chronicles contains one of the few accounts of Elizabeth's reign written during her lifetime. A contemporary history, it was subjected to censorship by the Privy Council. This facsimile edition, a compilation based on this portion of the Chronicles in copies in the Huntington's collection as well as the British Library and Cambridge University Library, documents the censorship and demonstrates that it occurred in three stages. The Chronicles, a scrupulously produced monument to Elizabeth, is also a rich source for the study of printing practices. The base text chosen by the editors, an unusual copy in the Huntington Library, contains the largest sample of proofmarkings that survive from the sixteenth century. The proofmarkings are examined in light of contemporary printing-house practices and in relation to other copies of the work in libraries around the world. Distributed for the Huntington Library. Cyndia Susan Clegg is a Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University. She specializes in early modern print culture, censorship, Shakespeare, and English Renaissance Poetry. Her works include Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Press Censorship in Jacobean England (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Press Censorship in Caroline England (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Randall McLeod is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto and is the editor of Crisis in Editing: Texts of the English Renaissance , and he has published on the subjects of typography and printing. Distributed for the Huntington Library.

12.25 x 16.25 inches, hardcover. 580 pages.

[KW: 9780873281614 HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL FACSIMILES, PRE-INCUNABLE PERIOD HUNTINGTON LIBRARY BRITISH LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY QUEEN ELIZABETH I UNITED KINGDOM OAK KNOLL PRESS NEW]

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