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(The terrestrial, celestial and infernal worlds. The small, large, imagined, mixed, laughable world of the Wise & Fools, & the Tresgrand. The hell of schoolboys, ill-married people, whores & ruffians, cowardly soldiers & captains, poor doctors, usurers, ignorant poets & composers: Take from the works of Doni Florentin, by Gabriel Chappuis Tourangeau.)
by DONI, ANTONIO FRANCESCO (1513-1574)
CHAPPIUS, GABRIEL, translator.
Lyon: Barthelemy Honorati, 1583.
2 parts in 1 volume.
4 1/4 by 6 1/2" (167 x 104 mm).
Woodcut device on title-page of first part, woodcut emblems in text, woodcut initials and head-pieces.
Full calf, rebacked.
Some wear to binding, minor paper repair at top edge of title page, dampstaining to top corners of some leaves, and to lower margins, some old ink annotations.
Third (and best) edition of the French translation by Chappius, with the addition of Monde des Cornuz et de l'Enfer des Ingrats at the back.
Baudrier IV, 145; Caillet I, 483.
Text in French
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Antonio Doni (1513–74), Italian popular writer and satirist, born in Florence, the son of a scissors-maker; he entered the Servite Order and then travelled for many years in northern Italy
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1583 LES MONDES CELESTES TERRESTRES by ANTONIO DONI antique ILLUSTRATED rare
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Ink of Ages: 15th-19th Century Antique Books
May 08, 2026 3:00 PM EDTNew York, NY, United States
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