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G. BOCCACCIO, THE DECAMERON, PRINTED 1665 Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci. Published 1665 by [Elzevir], Amsterdamo. Early edition. Mottled brown calf leather binding with raised bands on the spine. Gilt titling and decoration on the spine. 32mo. 744pp.
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FRANKLIN LIBRARY 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIMES, 60 VOL. Various Sizes 60 vol. Each leather bound with gilt edging, including, Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams", 1982; "The Confessions of Saint Augustine", 1976; Aristophanes, "Five Comedies", 1982 (2 copies); Sir Francis Bcon, "Essays Advancement of Learning New Atlantis", 1982;Charles Baudelaire, "The Flowers of Evil", 1977; William Blake, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", 1980; Geovanni Boccaccio, "The Decameron", 1970; Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights", 1975; John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress", 1976; Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim", 1977; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote de La Mancha", 1976; Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species", 1975; Daniel Defoe, "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders", 1978; Charles Dickens "David Copperfield", 1976; Feodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment", 1975; George Elliot, "The Mill on the Floss", 1982; Euripides, "1976; William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury", 1976; Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones, 1979; Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", 1978; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust", 1979; Pere Gotiot, "Balzac", 1977; Thomas Hardy, "The Return of the Native", 1978; Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms", 1975; Henrik Ibsen, "Six Plays", 1977; Henry James, The Ambassadors", 1980; Henry James, "Nine Tales", 1977 (2 copies); Franz Kafka, "The Trial", 1977; D.H. Lawrence, "Women in Love", 1979; Thomas Mann, "Five Stories", 1977; Herman Melville; "Moby-Dick", 1974; John Stewart Mill, "Political Writings", 1982; Moliere, "Seven Plays", 1980; Blaise Pascal, "Notes from the Editors", 1979; Patronius, "Satyricon", 1980; Plutarch, "Twelve Illustrious Lives", 1981; Edgar Allan Poe, "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe", 1974; Marcel Proust, "Swann's Way, 1982 (2 copies); Francois Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel", 1978; Jean Racine, "Six Tragedies", 1982 (2 copies); Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Political Writings, ", 1982; William Shakespeare, "Six Histories", 1981; William Shakespeare, "Tragedies",1975; Bernard Shaw, "Three Plays", 1979; "The Tragedies of Sophocles", 1981; Laurence Sterne, "The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", 1980; Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island", 1975; Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels", 1974 (2 copies); William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair, "1977; Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1976 (2 copies); Loe Tolstoy, "War and Peace", 1981; Ivan Turgenev, "Fathers and Sons", 1981; Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1975; Emile Zola, "Nana", 1981.
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GROUP OF LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS BOOKS (56) 56 Leather bound Easton Press books, to include: A Passage to India, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, War & Remembrance (2 vols), The Essays (Bacon), Livy- History of Early Rome, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vanity Fair, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Ivanhoe, Winds of War (2 vols), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Analects of Confucius, Decameron, Anna Karenina, First Circle, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Short Stories (Wilde), Heart of Darkness, Gulliver's Travels, Short Stories (Dickens), Women in Love, Confessionsof Jea-Jacques Rousseau, Canterbury Tales, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Journal of the Plague Years, Madame Bovary, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robinson Crusoe, Poems of Robert Browning, Confessions of Saint Augustine, Flowers of Evil, One Day In The Life, Adventures of Sherlock Holems, Arabian Nights, Return of the Native, The Alhambra, Two Plays for Pilgrims, War & Peace, Poems of Yeats, Plato's Dialogues on Love and Friendship, Odyssey of Homer, Portrait of a Lady, Lord Jim, Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Poems of John Donne, Poems of John Keats, Three Plays (Ibsen), Pilgim's Progress, Talisman, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (2 Vols). Condition: All in excellent / unread condition. All (most) with Easton Bookplates applied.
- 79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80
79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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LARGE CAPODIMONTE STYLE FIGURINE GROUPING, DECAMERONLarge ceramic figure base of the novels, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Limited series. Depicts 2 men and a woman. Hand decorated ceramic; exquisite detail. Crowned N mark on base. Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
Issued: 20th c.
Dimensions: 14.75"H
Country of Origin: Italy
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MAHLON BLAINE "THE DECAMERON OF BOCCACCIO"Mahlon Blaine (American, 1894-1969), "The Decameron of Boccaccio" (illustration for the Bibliophilist Society) Volume 2, P. 34, initialed lower right. Framed, not examined out of frame. Sight size: 15 1/4" high, 9 1/2" wide. Frame size: 20 1/2" high, 14 1/2" wide.
- ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLPHE MONTICELLI OIL
ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLPHE MONTICELLI OIL ON CANVASAttributed to Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (French, 1824-1886). Oil on canvas Le Decameron. Unsigned, with paper label and Vose Galleries, 559 Boylston Street, Boston label on verso. 14" x 9 1/2" (overall with frame 22" x 18"). Minor losses to frame. From the collection of Long Island, New York art dealer and collector Ella Jaffe Freidus.
- EASTON PRESS BOOKS (5) LEATHERIncludes
EASTON PRESS BOOKS (5) LEATHERIncludes Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories, The Decameron, Don Quixote and Paradise Lost. All are still shrink-wrapped. shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
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HERITAGE PRESS MASTERPIECES GROUP, 17 Group of specialty bound western literary masterpieces, largely by the Heritage Press' Special Editions Club, 17 books comprising: Emil Zola, Germinal, The Heritage Press: New York, 1942; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Riverside Press: Cambridge, Mass, 1957; Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Easton Press: Norwalk, CT., 1994; Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, The Heritage Press: New York, 1935; Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, The Heritage Press, New York, 1942; Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, The Heritage Press: New York, 1942; Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels, The Heritage Press: New York, 1953; A.E. Houseman, A Shropshire Lad, The Heritage Press: New York, 1951; Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, The Heritage Press: New York, 1954; Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Heritage Press: New York, 1938; Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, The Limited Editions Club, 1950 (in slipcase); Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary [French language], Librairie Grund: Paris, 1941; Richard Sheridan,The Rivals & The School for Scandal, The Heritage Press: New York, 1939; Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, The Heritage Press: New York, 1952; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron [Italian Language], Unione Tipografico: Turin, 1956 together with a decond volume, Classici Italiani by the same press. Largest: 11" H x 8.5" W.
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(10) FRANKLIN LIBRARY BOOKS W/ GILT BINDINGS(lot of 10) Books, published by the Franklin Library, with gilt embossed bindings, gilt edges, including: (1) "Decision," Allen Drury, signed first edition, 1983, 486 pages, (1) "Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer, 1981, 618 pages, (1) "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville, 1979, 527 pages, (1) "Fathers and Sons," Ivan Turgenev, 1984, 247 pages, (1) "The Mill on the Floss," George Eliot, 1981, 536 pages, (1) "The Annals of Tacitus," 1982, 375 pages, (1) "The Decameron," Giovanni Boccaccio, 1981, 749 pages, (1) "The Confessions of Saint Augustine," 1982, 312 pages, previous owner's pencil notes on first page, (1) "Rhetoric and on Poetics," Aristotle, 1981, 244 pages, (1) "The Odyssey," Homer, 1979, 502 pages; 19.75lbs total
- ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLPHE MONTICELLI OIL
ATTRIBUTED TO ADOLPHE MONTICELLI OIL ON CANVASAttributed to Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (French, 1824-1886). Oil on canvas Le Decameron. Unsigned, with paper label and Vose Galleries, 559 Boylston Street, Boston label on verso. 14" x 9 1/2" (overall with frame 22" x 18"). Minor losses to frame. From the collection of Long Island, New York art dealer and collector Ella Jaffe Freidus.
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THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, LONDON, PRIVATELY PRINTEDThe Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, London, Privately Printed,