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Paperback. Condición: Good. Shakespeare's Hamlet is not a wholly original story, but is the greatest retelling of the legend of Amleth, recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus four centuries before Shakespeare. Saxo's tale is a highly entertaining adventure in its own right and provides insights into the creative processes by which the old, pagan legend evolved to strike fire in the Christian age of Elizabethan theater. This accurate new translation of The Revenge of Amleth by Soren Filipski gives a complete selection of the Amleth legend, including Amleth's often-omitted adventures in Britain. Filipski also provides an historical introduction that traces Saxo's influence on Shakespeare's contemporaries, with exhaustive citations of every Elizabethan reference to earlier versions of Hamlet. Also included is the full text of Francois de Belleforest's Hystorie of Hamblet, an influential pre-Shakespearean adaptation of the same story.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. Shakespeare's Hamlet is not a wholly original story, but is the greatest retelling of the legend of Amleth, recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus four centuries before Shakespeare. Saxo's tale is a highly entertaining adventure in its own right and provides insights into the creative processes by which the old, pagan legend evolved to strike fire in the Christian age of Elizabethan theater. This accurate new translation of The Revenge of Amleth by Soren Filipski gives a complete selection of the Amleth legend, including Amleth's often-omitted adventures in Britain. Filipski also provides an historical introduction that traces Saxo's influence on Shakespeare's contemporaries, with exhaustive citations of every Elizabethan reference to earlier versions of Hamlet. Also included is the full text of Francois de Belleforest's Hystorie of Hamblet, an influential pre-Shakespearean adaptation of the same story.…

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Añadir al carritoCouverture souple. Condición: Bon. A. Quantin, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1882 Collection des anciennes descriptions de Paris - In-8° broché, couv. cart., 290 pages + table, légères traces du temps ou d'usage sinon bon état, propre, mais plan dépliant de Paris absent. Tirage limité à 330 exemplaires, un des 300 sur Hollande.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Añadir al carritoCouverture souple. Condición: Assez bon. Édition limitée. in-8 br. (17 x 11,5), XXVI-292 p., collection "Anciennes descriptions de Paris, VII", tiré à 330 exemplaires celui-ci N° 103/300 sur Hollande (après les 30 sur Chine), introduction et notes de l'abbé Valentin Dufour, 1 croquis, carte absente, dos recollé, intérieur très propre, assez bon état. Avec sa collection des Anciennes Descriptions de Paris, l'abbé Dufour a rassemblé des descriptions inédites ou peu connues parfois cachées dans des ouvrages plus importants aux thèmes plus larges mais qu'il isole pour leur sujet parisien propre. Avec une table alphabétique des noms de personnes et de lieux. Voir le sommaire sur photos jointes. …

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Añadir al carritopet. in-8, XXVI-292 pp., broché. Mouillure marginale. Premières pages tachées. Édition critique des extraits consacrés à la ville de Paris dans la Cosmographie publiée par Belleforest en 1575.Tirée à 330 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci sur Hollande. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.…
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Añadir al carritoBroché. Broché. 1 volume. In-8. 292 pp. + 1 carte dépliante. Introduction et notes par l'abbé Valentin Dufour. Couverture gris-bleu souple piquée. Intérieur propre. Non rogné. EDITION ORIGINALE. Un des 299 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande. Exemplaire en état correct.Envoi de photos.

Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Famaux Autheurs. A Rare and Fantastical Collection of Tales about Monsters, Demons, Extraordinary Events, and More, with Almost 100 Woodcuts
Pierre Boaistuau; Claude de Tesserant; François de Belleforest; Rod Hoyer
Idioma: Francés
Editorial: Antwerpen, chez Guislain Janssens, Belgium, 1595
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Very Good. A scarce, late 16th century edition of Prodigious stories extracted from several famous authors, divided into five books, and enriched with nearly 92 beautiful woodcuts. A rather rare and curious work, the collection covers various tales of an admonitory or educative nature, drawn from biblical, classical or other reputable sources, meant to delight and bewilder the reader. Stories of demons, sea monsters, monstrous humans, comets, earthquakes and floods, unnatural and natural phenomena, the works are by Boaistuau, with additional tales by de Tesserant, de Belleforest, and Hoyer. A very rare and curious work. It deals with sea monsters, Siamese twins, thunder entering a girl's mouth and exiting through her private parts, a child born half-man, half-dog, etc. The two volumes added to Boaistuau's are by Claude de Tesserant and François de Belleforest. Many of the woodcuts are truly bizarre in nature, enhancing the impact of each tale and scenes. There are early depictions of Siamese twins, a rather shocking woodcut of a thunder creature entering through the mouth of a woman and out her vagina, monstrous, furred beings of an anthropomorphic nature and much, much more. USTC records 13 existing copies of this edition in libraries. One finely bound volume in 12mo, 720+(8) pages This volume is in very good shape, with a vertical split to the front cover, with some rubbing to the binding as well. The first three leaves bear some minor restorations, and there is some soiling and staining throughout.…
Más imágenesLes Mémoires et Histoire de l'Origine, Invention & autheurs des choses [ Edition originale de la traduction française ]
POLYDORE VERGILE ; ( BELLE-FOREST, François de ; BELLEFOREST ) ; [ POLYDORUS VERGILIUS ]
Idioma: Francés
Editorial: Chez Robert Le Mangnier, 1576
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Añadir al carritorigide. Condición: Satisfaisant. Faicte en latin, & divisée en huict livres, par Polydore Vergile, natif d'Urbin: & traduite par François de Belle-Forest, Comingeois, Avec une Table très ample des noms, matières, & choses mémorables y contenuës, 1 vol. in-8 (16,2 x 10,5 cm en marges) reliure XIXe demi-basane marron, Chez Robert Le Mangnier, Paris, 1576, 6 ff., 848 pp. et 49 ff. n. ch. Édition originale de la traduction par François de Belleforest, du traité "De rerum inventoribus" de l'humaniste et ami d'Erasme, Polydoro Vergilio (1470-1555). Véritable encyclopédie, l'ouvrage composé de 8 livres offre un panorama de toutes les inventions humaines, et entremêlant sciences, magie, fantastique et religion, à la façon typique des grands écrits de la Renaissance. Etat satisfaisant (dos frotté et reliure modeste, sans la seconde garde volante, forte mouill. dans la première partie de l'ouvrage, petit travail de vers marginal sur qq. ff., plusieurs annotations marginales anciennes). Brunet, V, 1137 Langue: Français.…

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Más imágenesHistoires Prodigieuses Extraictes De Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs Grecs + Latins Sacrez + Prophanes diuisees En Cinq Tomes
Pierre Boaistuau / Francois Belleforest / Claude De Tesserant / TEXT IS ONLY IN OLD FRENCH
Editorial: Traduict de Latin en François par F. de Belleforest Comingeois / Paris 1582 / Modern Reprint Academic Library 0, United States, 1582
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Añadir al carritoSoft Flex Covers w Cloth Spine. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Modern reprint, no edition stated. Beautiful reprint. 156 pages, soft cover modern facsimile limited edition, flex covers with cloth spine, archival-style replica edition limited to 250 copies. Very good or better condition, clean and unmarked, with only slight bookshop wear from handling and storage. A scarce and unusual modern reprint of the 1582 French edition of Histoires Prodigieuses, a collection of marvelous, strange, sacred, profane, moral, religious, historical, and legendary accounts drawn from Greek and Latin authors and translated into old French by François de Belleforest, with related material associated with Pierre Boaistuau, Claude de Tesserant, and other early compilers. The text is only in old French and is reproduced directly from the early printed source, preserving the look of the original typography, title pages, page layout, marginal notes, woodcut-style device, and period printing character. An intriguing reference for collectors and researchers interested in Renaissance literature, early modern French printing, prodigy books, sacred and profane histories, marvel literature, religious interpretation, astrology, omens, wonders, classical sources, folklore, moral examples, and 16th century European thought. As is true with many reprinted antiquarian works, some smaller text, uneven original printing, faded areas, or page details may be difficult to read in places due to the age, paper quality, small type size, and condition of the original source copy. Overall a clean, sturdy, firmly readable facsimile of a rare early French title, useful for reference, study, collecting, and historical browsing. ~ It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you. Book.…
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Die tragische geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Dænemark in Deutscher sprache : neu übersetzt und eingerichtet von Gerhart Hauptmann begleitet von auszügen die den geschichten von Saxo Grammaticus und François de Belleforest und der Hystorie of Hamblet entnommen sind
Shakespeare, William ; Hauptmann, Gerhart [trans] ; [Saxo Grammaticus] ; Belleforest, François de ; Craig, Edward Gordon [illus]
Editorial: Leipzig : Edition Leipzig, 1967
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Añadir al carritoFirst Edition. Near fine copy in the original plain boards backed with vellum, both title-blocked. Panel edges show the mild wear of use. Vellum corners, with top edge gilt-blocked. Rear pocket torn sans loss at the lower left corner. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Accompanying original slip-case good, with edges nicked. Physical description; 202 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm + 1 booklet (xiv, [i] pages). Notes; Includes extracts from the stories of Saxo Grammaticus and François de Belleforest (1582) and an anonymous version of Belleforest's work "Hystorie of Hamblet" (1608). Includes a booklet on the printing of "Hamlet" and the history of the Cranach Press, titled "Die tragische geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Dänemark : Faksimileausgabe nach dem Druck der Cranach-Presse, Weimar. Epilogue." Inserted in a pocket in the back cover. Includes woodcuts by Edward Gordon Craig. Subjects; Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, translations. Cranach Presse, printing history. Craig, Edward Gordon, woodcuts. Fine press books, Germany. 1 Kg.…
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Good. [FANTASTICAL STORIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE]16mo. Six volumes in three. 1) ff. (x) 191 (iii); 2) pp. 120 (viii) (last two leaves blank); 3) pp. 372 (iv); 4) pp. 80 (vi) (last leaf blank) 5) pp. 159 (i); 6) pp. 91 (v) (last leaf blank). Roman letter, some Italic. Cavellat's woodcut printer's device on each title, a larger version repeated on verso of last of volumes IV and VI, numerous nearly 1/2 page woodcuts in text, generally at the beginning of each tale, one fold out woodcut of a knife (often missing) in volume VI, floriated woodcut initials and headpieces. Light age yellowing, minor marginal spotting in places, light water stain to volumes II, V and VI, the odd marginal spot. Good copies, a bit short, finely bound in early C18th red morocco, covers bordered with a triple gilt rule, spines with gilt ruled raised bands, compartments gilt 'a la grotesque,' inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt. A lovely set of this beautifully printed and illustrated popular work, a collection of stories of Monsters and extraordinary events. The original 40 stories by Boaistuau in volume I of this set were first published in 1560 and were hugely popular, leading to many further editions with additions by other authors, culminating in this set, with the addition of 15 stories in volume II by Claude de Tesserant, 17 in volume III by Bellesforest, 11 in volume IV by Rod Hoyer, 8 stories in vol V translated from the Latin of Arnauld Sorbin by Belleforest, and 6 anonymous stories (by I. D. M.) in the final volume. Boaistuau and Belleforest's popular reworking of these tales, and their other translations, had tremendous influence in England, especially on the playwrights of the Elizabethan period, Shakespeare included, who often used their stories as the basis for their works. The first manuscript of this work, now in the Wellcome Library, was dedicated and presented to Elisabeth I by Boaistuau. Histoires Prodigieuses is an example of a genre of literature that was immensely popular in the 16th and 17th centuries: tales of an admonitory or educative nature, drawn from biblical, classical or other reputable sources, that were nonetheless intended to astonish and delight the reader. It is not so much an original creative work of literature as a compilation and retelling of stories that derive largely from earlier authoritative sources and thereby gain added credibility and value. Boaistuau, whose final work it proved to be, had already published several such compilations before Histoires Prodigieuses in a brief flurry of activity from 1556, and indeed he helped establish the genre as his works continued to be expanded, reissued and translated by others after his death.' Dr. Richard Aspin, Wellcome Library. He pretends that he has compiled his little book to show how the anger of God and the violence of his justice are manifested in abominations of nature, so that men might search their consciences and be horrified at their misdeeds. Volume VI contains a story of a woman (undoubtedly possessed by the devil), who was stabbed in the side and lived for a year with the knife protruding from her until it was removed by a German doctor. The story is illustrated with a folding plate of a life size portrait of the knife as it was once removed from her body. One suspects that his real motivation was sensationalism, always a best seller. The text is extensively illustrated with woodcuts of monsters and prodigies, which suggests the popular market. Pierre Boaistuau, called Launay (d. 1566) is described by the Nouv. Biog. Gén. as "un bon parleur et non sans une certaine érudition." A most interesting, readable work. "The subject was a popular one and the blocks were well designed." Harvard C16th. Fr. 103 on the first edition with illustrations. These later editions mention America, cf. Alden 595/9. BM STC FR. C16th p. 70. Brunet I 982-3. Wellcome 898 (earlier edition).…

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