Search Results: Titles starting with V from Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books

1570 Valerius Maximus Dictorum Factorum ROME Tiberius Scipio Latin Vellum
A rare printing of Valerius's "Dictorum et Factorum" or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius' lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius's work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a 'master-slave' relationship; not within a public and high status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting political… Read More

1681 ROME Valerius Maximus DictorumFactorum Tiberius Latin Dutch Minellius
A rare printing of Valerius's "Dictorum et Factorum" or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius's lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius's work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a 'master-slave' relationship, not within a public and high-status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting… Read More

1647 1ed Valerius Maximus Dictorum Factorum ROME Tiberius Scipio Latin Lipsius
A rare printing of Valerius's "Dictorum et Factorum" or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius' lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius's work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a 'master-slave' relationship; not within a public and high status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting… Read More

1914 Sherlock Holmes 1ed Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrated Mystery

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!"
– Sherlock Holmes

First appearing in 1887, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest and most well-known fictional detective. This first edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final book of Doyle's Sherlock series published 3 months prior to the British edition.

This 1914 true first edition includes seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller!

Item number: #30771
Price: $599

DOYLE, Arthur Conan

The Valley of Fear

New York: George H. Doran Company, ©1914. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 320
o 7 illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Red cloth
o Facsimile dust jacket
· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)

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1870 Vanity Fair ART Henry Bulwer Frederick III of Prussia Illustrated COLOR
A rare printing of the first volume of the Vanity Fair Album. Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, , scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,
"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."
This 1870 edition includes 24 full page color plates of famous figures including

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Marquis of Westminster
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The Duke of Sutherland
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Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox
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Robert Montagu
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Prince of Prussia, Frederick III
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Henry Bulwer
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1885 Vanity Fair Men of Times Illustrated 100 COLOR Plates Liszt HUGE FOLIO

A rare printing of Vanity Fair, "Men of the Day". Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,
"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."

This portfolio features the artwork of artists Ape, Lib, and Spy and includes 100 full page color plates of famous figures including:
· Colonel JP Mahon, "Mhagthamma"
· Sir TE Colebrooke Bt, "Lanarkshire"
· Edward Brydges-Willyams, "Cornwall"
· Justin McCarthy, "Irish… Read More

1938 Ernest Hemingway ALL TRUE 1st editions Winner Take Nothing 7v Collector Lot

Ernest Hemingway wrote many novels that became some of the most popular works in American literature such as "Winner Take Nothing" and "Islands in the Stream" both of which are included in this lot of Hemingway books.

Item number: #23325
Price: $1500

Main author: HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Title: Winner Take Nothing
Published: New York: Scribner's Sons, 1933 1st edition
Note: Facsimile dust jacket

Title: The Fifth Column and the first forty-nine stories
Published: New York: Scribner's Sons, 1938 1st edition
Note: Facsimile dust jacket

Title: Men at War
Published: New York: Crown Publishers, 1942. 1st edition
Note: Facsimile dust jacket

Title: Across the river and into the trees
Published: New York: Scribner's Sons, 1950 1st edition
Note: Facsimile dust jacket

Title: By-line: Ernest Hemingway
Published: New York: Scribner's Sons, 1967 1st edition
Note: Original dust jacket

Title: Islands in the Stream
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1853 7 Book Lot CHINA Athens Greece England Revolution India Egypt Sinai Bede
In the mid-19th-century, Henry Bohn published countless works of classical history, China and southern Asia, India, biblical and church history, Egypt and the Holy Land, Julius Caesar and Cicero, and even the history of kings of England and France. This lot of seven books from Bohn includes some of his most famous editions.

Item number: #22632
Price: $750
Main author: Henry Bohn
Title: China pictorial, descriptive, and historical : with some account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam
Published: London: Henry Bohn, 1853.
Note: Illustrated throughout

Main author: Richard Lepsius
Title: Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai
Published: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
Note: Includes color frontispiece and two folding maps

Main author: Julia Corner
Title: India, pictorial and historical : from the earliest times to the present
Published: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.
Note: Illustrated throughout

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1939 DISNEY 1ed Books Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Pinocchio Dumbo 8v Heath

"That's the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up."
– Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse has long been one of the world's most iconic and recognized cartoon characters. From the imagination of Walt Disney, Mickey and Minnie Mouse have captured the attention and hearts of both children and adults for nearly a century.

This lot of Disney books includes some of the most famous characters Mickey and Donald Duck!

Item number: #23502
Price: $599

Title: Pinocchio
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Water Babies' Circus
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Mickey Never Fails
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1939.

Title: School Days in Disneyville
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1939.

Title: Here They Are
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Donald Duck and His Nephews
Published: Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1940.

Title: Little Pig's Picnic
Published: Boston:… Read More

1545 Saint Venerable BEDE Bible & Commentary English Monk Church Cosmology

Saint Venerable Bede was an English monk during the 7th- and 8th-centuries. He is most remembered for his ecclesiastical work on the history of English people, in which he discusses the establishment and growth of the church throughout the known world. He also wrote important commentaries on the books of the Bible. This work explains relevant Biblical passages, as well as describes the allegorical notes of Church Fathers. However, he did not write exclusively of church theology. He also wrote on the development of time and ideas of cosmology.
This 16th-century Latin edition was published in Paris by Roigny. An impressive, three-volume folio set!

Item number: #11735
Price: $3500
BEDE, Saint Venerable
Venerabilis Bedae presbyteri theologi doctissimi juxta ac sanctissimi, commentationum in Sacras Literas, tomus primus : in quo ea maximè quae Veteris Testamenti sunt, ita perspicuè ac dilucidè enarrantur, ut inter… Read More

1720 1ed Brussels Massacre Belgium Sacrament of Miracle Judaica Jews

A rare historical account of the Sacrament of Miracle by Petrus Cafmeyer. The Sacrament of Miracle, also known as the Brussels Massacre, was an anti-Semitic riot in Brussels in 1370 in which a number of Jews were killed and banished from Brussels in connection with a host desecration at the synagogue. Christians claimed that a Jew stabbed a host and was not harmed – an event that lead to the establishment of the Cult of the Miracle.

This rare 1720 first edition was written by Petrus de Cafmeyer and published in Brussels. Illustrated with 21 fascinating engravings depicting scenes from the massacre.

Item number: #5673
Price: $550
CAFMEYER, Petrus de
Venerable histoire du trés-saint Sacrement de Miracle : notablement ameliorée & augmantée en cette nouvelle Edition de plusieurs preuves, témoignages & circonstances curieuses ... : le tout tiré de plusieurs autheurs ...
A Bruxelles : Chez George De Backer, 1720. First… Read More

1673 Council of Trent Italian Jesuit Pallavicino Catholic Doctrine HUGE FOLIO
Beginning in 1651, Pietro Sforza Pallavicino composed a thorough and detailed response denying Paolo Sarpi's 'History of the Council of Trent'. With the support of other Jesuits, Pallavicino wrote extensively on Catholic doctrine which does not differ from that which was established by the Council of Trent; however, he does discuss major controversial treatises that arose from the most important ecumenical council. This work became the source and the focus of major criticism and is the reason that Pallavicino is remembered today.
Item number: #20991
Price: $750
PALLAVICINO, Pietro Sforza
Vera Concilii Tridentini historia : contra falsam Petri Suavis Polani narrationem
Antverpiae: 1673.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 parts in 1
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Vol. 1 – [20], 14, 296 (i.e., 294), [22]
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Vol. 2 – [4], 297, [27]
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Vol. 3 – [4], 326 (i.e., 316), [22]
· Provenance: Handwritten – [J. Veltman]
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1683 Saint Francis de Sales Catholic MYSTICISM Bible Italian Venice Woodcuts
"Be who you are and be that well."
― Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales was a 16th-century Catholic bishop from Geneva and was a voice of reason during the unrest caused by the Protestant Reformation. Many of his treaties were highly influential, particularly to those studying Mysticism. He and his writings were popular in both Protestant and Catholic circles, much in part to his works serving as guides to moral living and spiritual devotion, rather than focusing on religious doctrine. In his most famous work 'Devout Life', De Sales states,
"My purpose is to instruct those who live in town, within families, or at court, and are obliged to live an ordinary life as to outward appearances."
'Epistres Spirituels' was one of Sales main treatises on spiritual direction and mysticism.
Item number: #16679
Price: $550
De SALES, Francis
Veri Trattenimenti, O Discorsi Spiritvali Di Monsignor Francesco di Sales
Venetia: per Li Bertani,… Read More

1696 Japanese Woodblock Chinese History Tsuzoku kanso gundan Qing Han War CHINA
A 17th century Sino-Japanese woodblock print history of the Chu-Han Contention between the Qing and Han Dynasty bound in the fukurotoji style. The Tsuzoku kanso gundan is the tale of the conflict between the chu and han after the Qing Dynasty before Liu Bang united China in 202 BC as the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It was translated into Japanese and in turn helped shape Japanese literature away from the stylized Chinese verse of scholarly attention and began considering the more mundane, as literature as well. This was done by entertaining and educating the natives of Japan about the world, specifically China, who were banned from leaving the mainland during that time period. Pastreich writes,
"Such Chinese historical novels may have appealed to Japanese readers because they covered the details of Chinese history in a lively and accessible manner, going beyond the digested and sanitized description of history to the… Read More

1626 1ed Ubbo Emmius Graecorum Illustrata GREECE Greek Government Elzevier Law

Ubbo Emmius was a 16th-century German historian known for his works on historiography. He published an impressive and thorough history of Greece entitled 'Vetus Graecia Illustrata'
and was written as an essay on the forms of government in every commonwealth in Greece. The third volume of this work was the most desirable, which is included in this single-tome edition published in 1626 by Elzevier.
Item number: #14711
Price: $599
EMMIUS, Ubbo
Vetus Graecia illustrata studio & operâ Ubbonis Emmii Frisii
Lugduni Batauorum : Leiden : Ex officinâ Bonauenturæ & Abrahami Elzeuir, 1626.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes in 1
o Vol. I – [24], 194, [22]
o Vol. II – [4], 536, [32]
o Vol. III – [4], 519, [25]
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References: Willems 252;
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 13cm)
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1728 HUGE Vellum FOLIOS 3v SET Thomassin Disciplines of Catholic Church Lucca

Louis Thomassin was a 17th-century French theologian best-known for his book "Old and New Disciplines of the Church". First published in 1678, this work offers instruction on the expected disciplines of church clergy including cardinals, bishops, and other preachers. This work, still, is considered one of the best works on Benefices of the Catholic Church.

This enormous three volume set was published in Lucca, Italy – a city certainly not known for its 18th-century publishing. Still, this impressive 1728 set is highly desirable and impressive set. This particular edition is notable for including the entirety of Caesarius Maria Shguanin's essay, 'Tractatus Beneficiarius'.

Item number: #22970
Price: $750

THOMASSIN, Louis

Vetus et nova Ecclesiae disciplina circa beneficia et beneficiarios, distributa in tres partes, sive tomos, quae & ipsae in tres libros singulae distributae sunt

Lucae [Lucca]: Sumptibus Leonardi… Read More

1796 Nootka Crisis John Meares Voyages CHINA British Columbia SEA MONSTERS 3v
John Meares was an 18th-centry Irish explorer who was a notable fur trader with the East India Company. He based many of is voyages and ship out of European colonies in China. His most infamous voyage began in 1788 when he left China with two unregistered ships sailing the Portuguese flag each headed to the Nootka Sound in British Columbia. His arrival began what would be called the 'Nootka Crisis' – a political dispute between Spain, America, and England over local tribes and land.
The details of the event, from Meares perspective, were written in 'Voyages from China to the Northwest Coast of America'. This 1796 Italian edition was published in Naples and features absolutely stunning engravings, including views of sea monsters and ships!
Item number: #16895
Price: $1500
MEARES, John
Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord-ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789 dal capitano G. Meares
Napoli : Presso Guiseppe Policarpo… Read More

1818 RUSSIA 1ed Voyages of Ivan Krusenstern Fedorovich Pacific Ocean Science MAP
Adam Johann Krusenstern (i.e. Ivan Fedorovich) was a 19th-century Russian explorer best remembered for being the first Russian to voyage around the world. Beginning in 1803, Krusenstern set sail at the command of Tsar Alexander I to voyage around the world with the purpose of gaining geographical and scientific knowledge. While the voyage itself was important, it was the report that followed that was Krusenstern's lasting legacy. It proved to be one of the best descriptions of the Pacific and the tribes of the Pacific Islands.
This highly desirable first Italian edition of Kruzenstern's voyage report contains impressive, hand-colored illustrations of Pacific tribal natives as well as a huge folding map of the world!
Item number: #22988
Price: $599
KRUZENSTERN, Adam Johann (i.e. Ivan Fedorovich)
Viaggio intorno al mondo fatto negli anni 1803-4-5 e 1806
Milano: Dalla Tipografia di Giambaitista Sonzogno, 1818. First… Read More

1793 Astronomy Epic Poem Italian Certa Galileo Newton Brahe Copernicus Palermo

Giovanni Battista La Cetra, a relatively unknown Italian poet, published an impressive, epic poem on astronomy. "Viaggio pel Sistema planetario" is an eleven canto epic poem describing a journey and study of the planets, zodiac, and the solar system. This 1793 edition was published in Palermo.

Item number: #23337
Price: $599

LA CETRA, Giovanni Battista

Viaggio pel sistema planetario; poemetto scherzevole siciliano con delle note

Palermo: Per le Stampe del Solli, 1793.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xv, [1], 362, [2]
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)
· very rare

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1834 1ed Victor HUGO Poems French Literature Cromwell Hernani Lucrezia Odes 8v

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The best-known and oft-considered greatest French writer is unarguably Victor Hugo. His romance novels and stories have withstood the test of language and time. His most famous work, 'Les Miserables', has been transformed into film, theatre, and opera. This early printing of the works of Hugo includes works through 1838 including:
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"Cromwell"
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"Odes et Poesies et Ballads"
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"Les Orientales"
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"Hernani"
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"Marion de Lorme"
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"Le Roi S'amuse"
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"Lucrezia Borgia"
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"Les Chants du Crepuscule"
Item number: #14787
Price: $750
HUGO, Victor
[Victor Hugo works]
Paris: Libraire d'Eugene Renduel, 1834-1838. 1st editions

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages; 8 volumes
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~9.25in X… Read More