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Early Spectacle Including Rare Prints Early Spectacle Including rare prints Golden Legend, Inc. 11740 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 109 Los Angeles, CA 90049 Table of Contents Ariosto, Lodovico, Scolastica. Comedia ~Delete4 Brun, Franz, Euterpe Engraving ~Delete5 festival. La Brillante journée ou le carrousel des… ~Delete6 Moll Davis Mezzotint 1673 after Lely ~Delete7 Bella, Stefano, Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul, 1661 ~Delete8 Benserade, Isaac, Les OEuvres de Monsieur de Bensserade ~Delete9 Dancourt, Florent, Les vendanges, comedie ~Delete10 Du Peschier, La comédie des comédies ~Delete11 François l’Hermite, Pantheé, Tragedie de Monsieur de Trista ~Delete12 Genest, Charles, Zélonide princesse de Sparte, tragédie ~Delete13 Gilbert, Gabriel, Rodogune: tragi-comédie ~Delete14 La Chapelle, Les Carosses d'Orleans Comedie par le sieur D.L.C ~Delete15 Moliere 1622-1673, L'Amour Medecin ~Delete16 Molière, Benserade, Molière and His Ballets: Recueil of 12 Librettos… ~Delete17 Quinault, Philippe, La Mort de Cyrus, tragedie ~Delete18 Torelli, Giacomo, Feste theatralie per la Finta Pazza drama Etching… ~Delete19 Vondel, Joost, A collection of almost all the plays, over… ~Delete20 Amigioni, Carlotta, Celebre Auretti, La ~Delete21 Amoroso Antonio, The musician 1764 ~Delete22 ballet, Recueil of 13 ballets performed at L’Academie Royale… ~Delete23 Beaunoir, pseud, Le Ramoneur prince et le prince ramoneur, comedie… ~Delete24 Boissy, Louis, Francois a Londres Le, comedie ~Delete24 Dorat, Claude, La Feinte par amour, comedie en trois actes… ~Delete25 Dorvigny pseud, Les fausses consultations, comedie en 1 acte, representee… ~Delete25 Duclos, Antoine, Le Bal Pare a monsieur de Villemorieu Fila… ~Delete26 Duclose, Marie, Duclose in the role of Ariane ~Delete27 Dumaniant, pseud, Les Intrigants, ou Assaut de fourberies, comedie en… ~Delete28 Fagan” pseud, Les Caracteres de Thalie ~Delete29 Fokke, Simon, Engraving Het Treurspel Demophontes, vertoond op den ~Delete30 Grétry, André, six librettos to his operas ~Delete31 Guichard, Jean, Le Bucheron, ou les Trois souhaits, comedie en… ~Delete32 Hogarth, William, Analysis of Beauty, Plate 2 ~Delete33 Lancret, Nicolas, Marie Sallé. Se vende a Paris chez l'auteur d'entre… ~Delete34 Table of Contents 310-385-1903 • [email protected] ii Laroon, Marcellus, Lady Granny in her supposed grandure ~Delete35 Martinelli, Gaetano, Il Trionfo di Sebaste. Componimento Drammatico ~Delete36 Metastasio, Pietro, Partenope. Festa teatrale ~Delete37 Monvel pseud, L'Amant bourru, comedie en 3 actes et en… ~Delete38 Nilson, Johann, Catharina Helena Stöber. German midget, model, 1721-1788 ~Delete39 Petronius Arbiter, La matrone d'Ephese: comedie par Mr B*** A ~Delete40 Robineau de, La Philosophe, Anti-Drame ~Delete41 Schlenkert, Friedrich, Graf Wiprecht von Groizsch; ein Nazionalschauspiel in ~Delete41 Schroder, Friedrich, Erster Theil des Rings: ein Lustspiel in funf… ~Delete42 Smit, J, Complete Series of 12 Engravings of Sets from… ~Delete43 St. Aubin, Ballet dansé au Théatre de l'Opera, dans le… ~Delete44 Various, Sammelband. Jansenist plays ~Delete45 Vivaldi,Antonio, Giustino dramma per musica ~Delete46 Voltaire Francois, Le heros de Ferney au theatre de Chatelaine… ~Delete47 Zamora, Antonio, Comedia nueva intitulada Todo lo vence el amor… ~Delete48 Table of Contents 310-385-1903 • [email protected] iii 1 Ariosto, Lodovico & Gabriel. Scolastica. Comedia. (Venezia: G. Griffi, 1547). Original edition: Not in Adams; EDIT 16; CNCE 2644; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p.38; Not in Clubb. Agnelli e Ravegnani pp 129-30; Very rare First editiion of a five act comedy in verse written by Lodivico Ariosto until verse 14 of the fourth scene of the fourth act and then finished by his brother Gabriel. The 19th century English critic John Addington Symonds writes, “the unmistakable stamp of [Ariosto’s] ripest genius impressed upon the style no less than on the structure of the plot.” The merit of the play lies in the characters, which are “ably conceived and sustained with more than even Ariosto’s usual skill. Each of the servants, too, has a well-marked physiognomy . the most original of all the dramatis personae the excellent keeper of lodgings* for Ferrarese students.” Symonds continues, “Each of these characters has been copied from the life. The taint of Latin comedy has been purged out of them. They move, speak, act living beings, true to themselves in every circumstance, and justifying the minutest details of the argument.” Full Description: DontDelete $6,000 http://www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/Ariosto.pdf Copy and paste the link into your browser if it doesn't open in three seconds. Golden Legend, Inc. 310-385-1903 • [email protected] Page 4 2 Brun, Franz Isaac. Euterpe (Engraving). Brun, Franz Isaac (printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20). Euterpe [Engraving on laid paper, last half of 16th century. Strasbourg]. Bibliography See Bartsch IX 443-472 (as Maître FB); Hollstein 26. Whole-length, winged female figure in profile to left, wearing antique costume and playing a harp. Image of the muse of music and lyric poetry. Trimmed to platemark (uneven along right margin). Height: 72 millimetres; Width: 50 millimetres. Fine impression. Signed in the plate with monogram ‘FB’ and inscribed 'EUTERPE' along the upper edge. From a series of 9 engravings of the muses. Franz Brun (b. Pressburg? Possibly trained in Nuremburg. active 1559 - 1596) He was a draughtsman, goldsmith and engraver from Strasbourg. He engraved several series in the manner of the Nuremberg "Kleinmeister". Provenance: Friedrich August of Saxony (lugt 971); two other: Hugo Ahne and a Dr K. O neither in Lugt. Full Description: DontDelete $1,250 http://www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/euterpe.pdf Copy and paste the link into your browser if it doesn't open in three seconds. Golden Legend, Inc. 310-385-1903 • [email protected] Page 5 3 (festival). La Brillante journée ou le carrousel des galans Maures, entrepris par Monseigneur le dauphin: avec la comparse, les courses, et des madrigaux sur les devises. Se vendra à Versailles le jour du carrousel, et se débite. Paris: Chez la Veuve Blageart, Court-neuve du Palais, au Dauphin, 1685. Original edition. Watanabe O’Kelly #1953, etc. Quarto. La Brillante journée is the first equestrian parade and carrousel that took place at the palace of Versailles June 4th and 5th 1685. This printed programme for the festival includes descriptions of costumes and setting, as well as, a list of the participants and a summary of the events. Completed shortly before the event, the 70p programme was published for the notables at the event and for the enthralled public of Paris who could get the programme at the booksellers or at Versailles. It provided (and still provides) a factual guide to the participants, details of their dress, the order of the parade and a summary of the contests that followed The printed programme La Brillante journée is a “remarkably full treatment” of events of the carrousel which was organized and led by Louis, Dauphin of France (1661-1711), son of Louis XIV. Versailles, seat of royal power of Louis XIV and his family, had become one of the most ornate and sumptuous courts in Europe. The parade carrousel included exotic animals, oriental luxuries, and Arabian horses. The décor and jeweled accessories (including that of the women who rode in the Full Description: DontDelete $2,000 http://www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/maure.pdf Copy and paste the link into your browser if it doesn't open in three seconds. Golden Legend, Inc. 310-385-1903 • [email protected] Page 6 4 Moll Davis [Mezzotint] 1673 after Lely Possibly the first professional woman dancer on the English Stage. Mary "Moll" Davis (also Davies or Davys; ca. 1648 – 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, dancer singer, and actress. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster. Not much is known of her until the early 1660s when she became an actress in the 'Duke's Theatre Company' and boarded with the company's manager, Sir William Davenant. Like other performers on the early-English stage, Moll Davis was a versatile performer. From her first appearance in the early 1660s, however, Moll s was particularly praised, by Pepys and others, for her dancing. On 18 February 1662, Pepy’s first reference to a female dancer came when he saw Davenant’s The Law Against Lovers[adaptation of Shakespear’s Measure for Measure], where Davis played Viola. Pepys notes “...a good play and well performed, especially the little girl’s (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing.” Pepys’ in his diary for the 1660s notes his enjoyment of a number of Davis’ performances where she danced the “jigg”. (see Van Lennep. The London Stage 1660-1800, Part I, p48). Later she became the dancing partner of Josias Priest (c. 1645 – 3 January 1735 in Chelsea, London. (Grove Music) An article “Who was the first female professional dancer on the London Stage” in Dance in History for December 20, 2017 concludes “So, the player with the best claim to be the first female Full Description: DontDelete $2,000 www.goldenlegend.com/pdfs/davissh.pdf Copy and paste the link into your browser if it doesn't open in three seconds. Golden Legend, Inc. 310-385-1903 • [email protected] Page 7 5 Bella, Stefano Della . [Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul], 1661 . The most arresting of the three Della Bella etchings taken from the festival book Il mondo festiggiante balletto a cavallo, fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. Etching on paper 17 1/8 x 9 1/16", with margins. Mounted on laid paper. An excellent impression, in very good and clean condition, with slight chipping and some minor repairs). By Stefano della Bella after G.A. Moniglia. d'Orleans. In Firenze: . This plate pictures a backdrop constructed for the huge half-oval behind the Pitti Palace.
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