A Summer Selection
A S UMMER SELECTION FROM SOUTH AUDLEY STREET BERNARD QUARITCH LIMITED MMXIV CONTENTS ordered by item number – please click the links to jump to individual sections LITERATURE, DRAMA & MUSIC 1–28 TRAVEL & TOPOGRAPHY 29–47 SCIENCES & NATURAL HISTORY 48–53 PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & ECONOMICS 54–65 PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 66–76 BINDINGS & FINE PRINTING INDEX OF AUTHORS AND ARTISTS 40 South Audley Street ● London W1K 2PR Tel: 020 7297 4888 ● Fax: 020 7297 4866 www.quaritch.com LITERATURE , D R A M A & MUSIC EARLY CERVANTES INFLUENCE 1. [BANCHIERI, Adriano]. Trastulli della villa divisi in sette giornate. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Giuliani, 1627. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 366, [6], complete with blanks; some light soiling and some creasing, title-page thumbed and worn at gutter, but a good, unsophisticated copy in contemporary vellum, somewhat worn and soiled. £1750 One of the two editions which appeared in 1627 (the other Bologna, Mascheroni) of a collection of 39 original stories by the celebrated musician, composer and writer Banchieri. Banchieri favoured the expressive value of dialects over literary refined language, introducing Bolognese, Bergamasco and Venetian elements in his dialogues. One of the pieces in this collection testifies to Cervantes’ early literary influence: openly entitled ‘Novella di Don Chisciotto’, it contains, through the voice of the garrulous char acter Nicolosa, a version of Cervantes’ story of the Moorish king Mambrino and his magic gold helmet, elements of which are ably interwoven with the characters’ adventures. Graesse, VI, 288; Gamba, Novellieri, 186-7. ANTI-JACOBIN, ANTI-GOTHIC 2. BISSET, Robert. Douglas; or, the Highlander. A Novel. In four Volumes ..
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