Veinant auguste alexandre editor (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good minus. reprint. Text in French. Four archival reprints by Silvestre, Paris at the Crapelet press, on laid paper, printed in gothic letter with intertextual woodcuts between 1838 and 1842, with additional publishing descriptions in Italianate at the end of first three pieces; (originally issued individually) but bound together in 1/4 leather over marbled boards with marbled endpapers, BUT now lacking the front cover and backstrip, with marbled free-endpaper still attached and the internal sewn binding still firm. 24mo, 5 3/4" tall (150 mm), unpaginated, about 98 leaves total (approximately 196 pages) Paper clean and only slightly yellowed. Light foxing to fore-edges only. The condition of the paper and the quality of the printing of this still beautiful little volume is deserving of binding restoration. 'Le chevalier delibere' is about 120 pages with 1 woodcut; 'Le Mirouer des femmes vertueuses' about 48 pages with 6 woodcuts + 4 notes; 'Les grans regrets' about 8 pages without woodcut (a page stub indicating one may be removed) + 1 notes; 'Les Sept Marchans' about fifteen pages with title page woodcut.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Les Sept Marchans de Naples. [Ed. by A.A. Veinant] Paris, Crapelet chez Silvestre, 1838. 12mo. [8] + [1]f. Gothic letter. Woodcut of a scholar reading in his study. Contemporary morocco-backed boards, gilt title on spine. Facsimile imprint of a popular French Renaissance verse composition originally published between c1534 and 1553 by Nicolas Buffet describing seven 'unsavoury' types, described in Naples as 'mals francais' but in France as 'mals de Naples'; they are an adventurer, a priest, a student, a blind man, a villager, a merchant and a braggart. The main poem is followed by four rondeaux and a ballade. The poem, taken from the rare original fascicule, is in gothic letter, with vignette on title of a scholar in his study. The piece was edited by Auguste Alexandre Veinant (d. 1859) was a noted Parisian scholar and collector of early texts, whose celebrated library was sold in 1855.…