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LANDAU, LEV (1908-68) Prominent Soviet
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| Typed Document Signed, in Russian, 4to, 1 page, Conclusion to a Paper byengineer N. Kalashnikov, "Description of centrifugal cooling pump",Institute for the physic problems, Moscow, n.d.
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This is a conclusion to be added to a paper by a colleague of Landau's, an engineer at the Institute for physics problems in Moscow. In it Landau disagrees with the ideas set forth in the paper - "On the basis of letters: Narkommash number 21/19.03/1465 and The physical institute from 26.03.38 number 41". The engineer, "Kalashnikov's idea about 'The centrifugal cooling pump based on utilization of the salt's characteristics to cool down at a low temperatures with the changing of the magnetic field' is based on misunderstanding. The author wrongly suggests that the cooling down of the paramagnetic salts is happening in every rariable field; but in fact the paramagnetic salts get cooled down only with reduction of the field. The salts are getting warmer with the increasing of the field. So the total effect which will take place in the diagram of the proposed construction comes to nothing...Thus, this project is completely unrealizable...." Signed, "L. Landau". There are several handwritten corrections by the author. The paper is browned with age. Landau was the head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for physical problems from 1937 until 1962. He was a brilliant scientist and many prominent Soviet scientists were his pupils. This critical analysis by Landau is an example of his work.
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PORCACCHI TOMASO
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| LETTERE DI XIII HUOMINI ILLUSTRI, ALLE QUALI OLTRA TUTTE L'ALTRE FIN QUI STAMPATE, DI NUOVO NE SONO STATE AGGIUNTE MOLTE IN VENETIA. APPRESSO IACOMO VIDALI 1576
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- in 8 piccolo, pp. 8 nn., 471, bella leg. in p/perg. coeva, ds, a nervi e tass. dorato per tit., tagli blu, marca tip. al front., capil. e fregi tip., carattere corsivo. Edizione giudicata dal Gamba (1465) una delle piu' ricche. Magnifico esempl. 675/12 (CINQUECENTINA - CORRISPONDENZA LETTERARIA)
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ROVERELLA Bartolomeo (Rovigo 1406 -
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| Ecclesiastico italiano. Divenuto Segretario di Papa Eugenio IV, dallo stesso fu nominato Vescovo di Adria nel 1444 e, l'anno seguente, Arcivescovo di Ravenna. Nel 1460 Pio II lo fece Cardinale della Chiesa con il titolo di San Clemente. Svolse tutti i suoi incarichi con molto zelo e godette sempre della stima dei suoi superiori e di molti principi. Nel 1474, l'anziano e potente Cardinale promosse la costruzione del maestoso Palazzo Roverella, nella Piazza Maggiore di Rovigo.
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- Importante lettera sulle crociate datata al giugno dell'anno 1465. Il Cardinale era stato insignito, lo stesso anno, del titolo di Abate commendatario dell'Abbazia dei Santa Maria di Corazzo - provincia di Catanzaro - affinchè predicasse la crociata contro i musulmani di Maometto II (1432-1481). La minaccia dell'arrivo degli "infedeli" si era infatti riaccesa, attorno al 1460, quando il settimo sultano dell'Impero ottomano aveva ripreso con maggior vigore la sua offensiva contro i paesi del Mediterraneo. Papa Pio II, temendo l'invasione islamica, dapprima tentò di convertire il sultano, poi, una volta fallita l'azione, decise di organizzare una crociata per difendere il cristianesimo dall'invasione musulmana. La nuova crociata sembrava essere nata sotto i migliori auspici. Ma l'euforia durò poco, infatti il 14 agosto 1464 morì papa Pio II, e con lui svanì anche il progetto della grande crociata. Ormai l'idea di una guerra di religione non attirava più i regnanti europei, i quali volevano bensì combattere i turchi, ma solo per necessità politiche e mercantili. A soli quattro mesi dalla nomina l'abate Roverella si rivolge al corrispondente bolognese, "Ludovico Virgilio", per confermare la propria disponibilità alla missione, scrive "per quanto la mia possibilità sia ben poca potete avere ogni fede". Su pagina in-8° obl. Con indirizzo manoscritto al verso. Macchie di umidità, piccola lacuna al centro lede una parola del testo.; Tipologia di articolo: Autografi ( ove non altrimenti specificato) / Book Type: autograph/document (Unless differently specified).
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 - Single column 17 lines of text in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical panel with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS SHOWING THREE SAINTS ST. THOMAS ON THE RECTO AND ST. PHILIP AND JAMES THE APOSTLE ON THE VERSO. A few innocuous spots in the margin tiny losses of blue in the garments otherwise in fine condition generally well preserved in every important way. The artist has here combined the apostles Philip and James the Less in one frame perhaps because we know nothing more of them than that they were numbered among the original Disciples. However they are given very distinct clothing. One is portrayed as a bearded elder dressed in quiet pink and gray-blue robes while the other a dark-haired young man sports a scarlet robe highlighted with a multitude of gilt folds and a bright blue cloak. Saint Thomas however is well known and had many legends attached to him. He is the famous Doubting Thomas who is said to have questioned that the risen Christ was really the man he had known; he also apparently went on an apostolic mission to India. Here he holds a spear and casts his eyes up to heaven perhaps a reference to the story that he alone witnessed the assumption of the Virgin Mary to heaven. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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WIRSING, Adam Ludwig.
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| Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides Coloribus Suis Exprimi . Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten und einiger verwandten Steine nach der Natur auf das sorgfältigste mit Farben erleuchtet. Nuremberg, [printed by Bieling], for the author, 1775. Super royal 4to (31.5 x 22 cm). With 73 hand-coloured engraved plates with 417 figures of types of marble (plate mark 23 x 16 cm). Nineteenth-century leather.
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- 84 pp. Brunet V, col. 1465; IV, col. 1243 (98 plates); Cobres II, p. 461, no. 44 (42 plates); Sinkankas 7281 (54 plates); Sotheran, Third Suppl. 2394 (54 plates); not in BMC NH, Engelmann, Honeyman, Hoover, Norman Library, Ward; cf. Landwehr, Col. Plates 1 (edition 1776); Thieme & Becker XXXVI, p. 99; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies with 12 to 54 plates); OCLC WorldCat (3 copies with 68 plates). First edition with a large number of plates of this extremely rare work on marble with spectacularly coloured illustrations of 417 cross-sections of marble. The work was published in parts (see for instance the colophon at the bottom of p. 20 and the signature of the engraver on the first plate of the later sections), which explains the difference between extant copies in the number of plates. The Sinkankas and Sotheran copies have 54 plates (up and till the section on Tyrole), OCLC WorldCat lists three copies with 68 plates, our copy has 73, and the most complete copy of the first edition has 98 plates according to Brunet V, col. 1465. Lately a copy of the first edition with 98 plates appeared at auction. It has an additional section of 21 plates with 126 figures of Italian marble and a supplement of four plates with miscellaneous contents. We did not locate other copies of the 1775 edition with either 73 or 98 plates. The depicted stones in Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides are called "marble," however not all stones are "the granular/crystalline metamorphic rocks normally considered to be marbles but they include numerous very fine-grained types that probably are limestones, many veined, others spotted, and still others brecciated, and including fossiliferous varieties. In some examples the banding suggests that these are calcite onyxes or possibly several cut from cave onyxes" (Sinkankas). "Under each painting lies a complex, lightly-incised network of lines, almost like rouletting, over which the coloures have been laid. Near the end of the volume appear the most complex designs, beautifully done, of slabs of dendritic limestomes" (Sinkankas). The depicted stones come from quarries in or near Bayreuth (13 plates), Würtemberg (12 plates), Neresheim (5 plates), Durlach (6 plates), Salzburg (6 plates), Switzerland (7 plates), Baden (3 plates), Tyrole (2 plates), southern France (6 plates), Brabant (8 eight plates) and Saxony (5 plates). There are two, four, six or nine numbered samples to a plate, accompanied by text-leaves with an explanation in Latin (left column) and German (right column). The text-leaves are paginated consecutively. Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733/34-1797) was an important engraver of natural history works, but the present, splendidly drawn and coloured work is not mentioned by Thieme & Becker. The text was provided by Casimir Christoph Schmidel (1718-1792; Poggendorf II, cols 813-814).A few leaves slightly browned and foxed, otherwise a well preserved copy with the plates vibrantly coloured and in excellent condition.
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Galluzzi Riguccio
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| Istoria Del Granducato Di Toscana Sotto Il Governo Di Casa Medici. a Sua Altezza Reale Il Serenissmo Pietro Leopoldo, Principe Reale D'Ungheria E Di Boemia, Arciduca D'Austria, Granduca Di Toscana, &C., &C. Firenze, Per Gaetano Cambiagi Stampatore...
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. Prima edizione. Opera completa in cinque volumi. Cm.26x19, 5. Pg. LVI, 400; 480; 516; 412; 372. Legature coeve in mz. pergamena con titoli manoscritti al dorso, piatti in carta marmorizzata. L'Opra consta di 13 tavoile incise: cinque in grande formato, una per volume, raffiguranti gli stemmi medicei del 1373 e del 1465 e quattro alberi genalogici e otto ritratti in medaglione, raffiguranti Leopoldo di Lorena, Cosimo I, Francesco, Ferdinando I, Cosimo II, Ferdinando II, Cosimo III e Giangastone. Buon esemplare su carta pesante, con buoni margini, in eccellenti condizioni di conservazione, solo con le legature appena allentate. Al primo volume ex libris "Bibliotheca Francisci Riccardi De Vernaccia". Rara prima edizione di un'opera fondamentale che vide numerose ristampe. Ne è autore Jacopo Riguccio (o Ricucio) Galluzzi: "Nato a Volterra nel 1739 e condotti i suoi primi studi nel seminario di quella città, Jacopo Ricucio Galluzzi si iscrisse, nel 1757, all'università di Pisa dove si laureò in “utroque iure” nel 1762. Dopo una breve esperienza nella segreteria di Pompeo Neri, nel 1768 ottenne la cattedra di Filosofia Morale presso lo Studio fiorentino. Nell'ottobre del 1769, insieme a Carlo Bonsi e a Ferdinando Fossi, ebbe l'incarico di riordinare le carte della Segreteria Vecchia, cioè dell'archivio familiare dei Medici conservato a Palazzo Vecchio. Da una relazione inviata allo stesso Granduca, il 22 dicembre 1777, firmata dal Galluzzi e dal Fossi, si apprende che erano occorsi due anni per cercare di riordinare i documenti e altri cinque per compilare lo spoglio del materiale contenuto in 6570 filze, dislocate in nove stanze di Palazzo Vecchio. Il Galluzzi lavorava ancora al riordino dell'archivio quando, nel 1775, il granduca Pietro Leopoldo, preso atto delle difficoltà incontrate da Vincenzio Martinelli nello scrivere una storia della dinastia dei Medici, lo incaricò di continuare questo progetto. Dopo molti anni di studio, nel 1781 l'archivista dette finalmente...
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Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.
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| Blatt aus einer lateinischen Handschrift auf Pergament.
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Frankreich, , um 1465. Blattgröße: 168 x 115 mm. Schriftraum: 92 x 60 mm. 21 Zeilen Text in brauner Bastarda... . Das Blatt enthält die bedeutendste und rührendste Szene aus dem Marienleben, die zentrale Stelle der "Stunden der Seeligen Jungfrau Maria". Nachdem der Engel mit der Verkündigung zu Maria gekommen war, antwortet diese ("Dixit autem maria ad angelum:) "Quomodo fiet istud quoniam virum non cognosco. Et respondens angelus dixit ei Spiritus sanctus superveniet in te et virtus altissimi obumbrabit tibi. Ideoque et quod ex te nascetur sanctum vocabitur Filius Dei" ("Wie soll das zugehen, da ich doch von keinem Manne weiß? Der Engel antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Der heilige Geist wird über die kommen, und die Kraft des Höchsten wird dich überschatten; darum wird auch das Heilige, das von dir geboren wird, Gottes Sohn genannt werden" (Lukas 1, 34). Der Text wird links (bzw. recto rechts) je von einer breiten (92 x 19 mm) Kastenbordüre flankiert mit fein stilisierten, je zweifarbigen Akanthusranken in Blau-Rot und Blau-Rosa, aus denen zarte Blumen hervorschießen. Jeweils in der Mitte steht auf einem Rasenstück ein hübsches kleines Fabelwesen mit Goldtupfern auf dem braunen Fell. Verso ein besonders amüsantes Monster auf zwei Krallenfüßen mit kurzem Schwanz, dessen Hals und Kopf wie ein Chamäleon in einen Türkiston changiert, während es breit und verschmitzt grinst. Ein sorgfältig gepinselter Goldgrund mit schwarzen Püntchen hinterfängt die Malereien kontrastgebend. Das hübsche Blatt auf sehr feinem Pergament, leicht wellig und nur ganz gelegentlich gering fleckig, ein winziger Einriß im recht breiten Rand.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 182 x 127 mm. (7 1/8 x 5""). Single column 16 lines of text (17 on verso) in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical part of this frame with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS ST. MARGARET ON THE RECTO AND ST. BARBARA ON THE VERSO. Areas of paint loss in Barbara's garment front portion of Margaret's dragon somewhat blurred otherwise fine the gold especially bright and the margins very ample. In this delightful depiction of Saint Margaret the young saint demurely cocks her head and clasps her hands in prayer completely unruffled by the experience of having just burst from the side of the dragon who had dared to swallow her and who still mouths her blue robe. The dragon although serpentine as to his tail and back seems to have been modeled on a fat orange cat. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most enduringly popular saints invoked by women in childbirth with the hope that their newborn would issue as painlessly from the womb as Margaret did from the dragon. Barbara on the reverse is also a popular Christian heroine who like Margaret suffered for her decision to choose virginity over marriage. The tower in which her father imprisoned her in a vain attempt to make her change her mind on the topic of marriage is here shown twice. She sits in its interior calmly reading a book and beside her a miniature tower stands as her identifying attribute. $6000
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PLAUTO Tito Maccio.
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| M. ACTII PLAUTI COMOEDIAE VIGINTI. Lugduni, apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554.
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- Testo latino. Cm.12x6,8. Pg.1078. Modesta legatura cartonata con piatti marmorizzati e tassello cartaceo con titoli manoscritti al dorso. Tagli spruzzati. Al frontespizio marca tipografica con il classico grifone che regge una pietra alla quale e' attaccata una sfera alata. Ai lati della silografia il motto "Virtute duce, comite fortuna". Il quaderno ss è posposto al quaderno tt. Il testo è preceduto da una "Plauti vita ex Petro Crinito de poetis latinis". Il volume contiene le celebri venti commedie di Plauto giunte integre sino a noi: "Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Capteivei, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Bacchides, Mostellaria, Menaehmi, Miles gloriosus, Mercator, Pseudolus, Poenulus, Persa, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus". Pietro Crinito è lo pseudonimo dell'umanista fiorentino Pietro Riccio (1465-1507). > Graesse, V, 327. ICCU\RMGE\001460.
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WIRSING, Adam Ludwig.
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| Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides Coloribus Suis Exprimi ... Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten und einiger verwandten Steine nach der Natur auf das sorgfältigste mit Farben erleuchtet... Nuremberg, [printed by Bieling], for the author, 1775. Super royal 4to (31.5 x 22 cm). With 73 hand-coloured engraved plates with 417 figures of types of marble (plate mark 23 x 16 cm). Nineteenth-century leather.
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84 pp. Brunet V, col. 1465; IV, col. 1243 (98 plates); Cobres II, p. 461, no. 44 (42 plates); Sinkankas 7281 (54 plates); Sotheran, Third Suppl. 2394 (54 plates); not in BMC NH, Engelmann, Honeyman, Hoover, Norman Library, Ward; cf. Landwehr, Col. Plates 1 (edition 1776); Thieme & Becker XXXVI, p. 99; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies with 12 to 54 plates); OCLC WorldCat (3 copies with 68 plates). First edition with a large number of plates of this extremely rare work on marble with spectacularly coloured illustrations of 417 cross-sections of marble. The work was published in parts (see for instance the colophon at the bottom of p. 20 and the signature of the engraver on the first plate of the later sections), which explains the difference between extant copies in the number of plates. The Sinkankas and Sotheran copies have 54 plates (up and till the section on Tyrole), OCLC WorldCat lists three copies with 68 plates, our copy has 73, and the most complete copy of the first edition has 98 plates according to Brunet V, col. 1465. Lately a copy of the first edition with 98 plates appeared at auction. It has an additional section of 21 plates with 126 figures of Italian marble and a supplement of four plates with miscellaneous contents. We did not locate other copies of the 1775 edition with either 73 or 98 plates. The depicted stones in Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides are called "marble," however not all stones are "the granular/crystalline metamorphic rocks normally considered to be marbles but they include numerous very fine-grained types that probably are limestones, many veined, others spotted, and still others brecciated, and including fossiliferous varieties. In some examples the banding suggests that these are calcite onyxes or possibly several cut from cave onyxes" (Sinkankas). "Under each painting lies a complex, lightly-incised network of lines, almost like rouletting, over which the coloures have been laid. Near the end of the volume appear the most complex designs, beautifully done, of slabs of dendritic limestomes" (Sinkankas). The depicted stones come from quarries in or near Bayreuth (13 plates), Würtemberg (12 plates), Neresheim (5 plates), Durlach (6 plates), Salzburg (6 plates), Switzerland (7 plates), Baden (3 plates), Tyrole (2 plates), southern France (6 plates), Brabant (8 eight plates) and Saxony (5 plates). There are two, four, six or nine numbered samples to a plate, accompanied by text-leaves with an explanation in Latin (left column) and German (right column). The text-leaves are paginated consecutively. Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733/34-1797) was an important engraver of natural history works, but the present, splendidly drawn and coloured work is not mentioned by Thieme & Becker. The text was provided by Casimir Christoph Schmidel (1718-1792; Poggendorf II, cols 813-814).A few leaves slightly browned and foxed, otherwise a well preserved copy with the plates vibrantly coloured and in excellent condition.
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| Vrelant-Stundenbuch. "Libro de Horas" der Leonor de la Vega.
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- Limitierte Auflage in 500 Exemplaren. Deutscher Kommentarband in Vorbereitung: Claus Weinert., Brügge um 1465 - 1470 (Faksimile-Nachdruck jüngeren Datums). 404 Seiten im Format 19 x 13cm mit 78 Miniaturen. Die flämisch-burgundische Buchmalerei erlebte ihre Blütezeit unter dem Patronat der kunstsinnigen burgundischen Herzöge Philipps des Guten und Karls des Kühnen zwischen den Jahren 1440/45 und 1475. Philipp der Gute versammelte die bedeutendsten Buchmaler der Zeit an seinem Hof in Brügge. Eine große und außerordentlich produktive Werkstatt unterhielt auch Willem Vrelant, der 1456 das Bürgerrecht von Brügge erwarb und dort später die Miniaturisten- und Illustratorengilde begründete. Der 1410 im holländischen Utrecht geborene Vrelant, ein nüchterner Meister der Buchmalerei, bekannt für seine saubere und sorgfältige Arbeit, eine sonore Farbgebung, ausdrucksstarke zeichnerische Konturierungen und Grisaillemalerei, schuf vor allem Gebetbücher auf hohem Niveau. 1481/82 starb der erfolgreiche Miniaturist in Brügge.
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Boniface VIII
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| Sextus Decretalium Liber…in Lugdunensi Coniclio Editus…Paris, Joannes Kerbriand, 1531 [With: ] Clementinarum Constitutionum Liber. Paris, Joannes Parvi, 1531 [and: ] Extravagantes Communes a Diversis Romanis Pontificibus…Paris, [J. Kerbriand], 1531...
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. 4 works in 1, 8vo. ff. 78 [ii]; 36; 44; 20. Lettre Batârde, double column in red and black throughout, first and second titles within elaborate woodcut borders of jesters, fools, grotesques and foliage, full page printed diagram on last leaf of first work, fine woodcut initials in several series, summaries indicated with a charming red finger. One or two inksplashes here and there, a few very light spots to some leaves, a very good and clean copy in contemporary French calf gilt, covers with central floral tool within a gilt-and blind-ruled frame and fleurons at corners, narrow tear with lack to front cover, two wormholes, small parts of spine lacking, joints cracked. Early underlinings, early ms motto in blank portion of title 'In valesta vera virtus' and 'Joannes' in the same hand on final page, contemporary ex-libris at head of title page of the Capuchins of Valence, 19th-century library stamp of a French seminary beneath. Early editions of four very popular texts of canon law, including the Decretals of Boniface VIII, one of the greatest jurists of his age. Although printed with their own title pages and sold separately, these works are sometimes preserved together, as here. Boniface VIII's decretals were first published in 1465, these works were published together in Basel in 1511 in folio; these are reimpressions of the Paris editions of 1523. Decretals are Papal letters that formulate decisions in ecclesiastical law. These make up most of the 'Corpus Juris'. They cover such topics as the ordination and privileges of priests and the election of bishops; the sacraments, including baptism (with a woodcut table of impediments) and the veneration of relics. The first text is the great work on canon law by Boniface VIII, who added a great deal to ecclesiastical legislation, which came to be known as the Liber Sextus (the Decretals of Gregory IX (1239) had consisted of five books). The Liber Sextus is glossed by Giovanni d'Andrea, one of the greatest canonists of...
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 182 x 127 mm. (7 1/8 x 5""). Single column 16 lines of text (17 on verso) in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical part of this frame with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS ST. MARGARET ON THE RECTO AND ST. BARBARA ON THE VERSO. Areas of paint loss in Barbara's garment front portion of Margaret's dragon somewhat blurred otherwise fine the gold especially bright and the margins very ample. In this delightful depiction of Saint Margaret the young saint demurely cocks her head and clasps her hands in prayer completely unruffled by the experience of having just burst from the side of the dragon who had dared to swallow her and who still mouths her blue robe. The dragon although serpentine as to his tail and back seems to have been modeled on a fat orange cat. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most enduringly popular saints invoked by women in childbirth with the hope that their newborn would issue as painlessly from the womb as Margaret did from the dragon. Barbara on the reverse is also a popular Christian heroine who like Margaret suffered for her decision to choose virginity over marriage. The tower in which her father imprisoned her in a vain attempt to make her change her mind on the topic of marriage is here shown twice. She sits in its interior calmly reading a book and beside her a miniature tower stands as her identifying attribute. $6000
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LANDAU, LEV (1908-68) Prominent Soviet
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| Typed Document Signed, in Russian, 4to, 1 page, Conclusion to a Paper by engineer N. Kalashnikov, "Description of centrifugal cooling pump", Institute for the physic problems, Moscow, n.d.
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This is a conclusion to be added to a paper by a colleague of Landau's, an engineer at the Institute for physics problems in Moscow. In it Landau disagrees with the ideas set forth in the paper - "On the basis of letters: Narkommash number 21/19.03/1465 and The physical institute from 26.03.38 number 41". The engineer, "Kalashnikov's idea about 'The centrifugal cooling pump based on utilization of the salt's characteristics to cool down at a low temperatures with the changing of the magnetic field' is based on misunderstanding. The author wrongly suggests that the cooling down of the paramagnetic salts is happening in every rariable field; but in fact the paramagnetic salts get cooled down only with reduction of the field. The salts are getting warmer with the increasing of the field. So the total effect which will take place in the diagram of the proposed construction comes to nothing.Thus, this project is completely unrealizable." Signed, "L. Landau". There are several handwritten corrections by the author. The paper is browned with age. Landau was the head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for physical problems from 1937 until 1962. He was a brilliant scientist and many prominent Soviet scientists were his pupils. This critical analysis by Landau is an example of his work. Landau was the head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for physical problems from 1937 until 1962. He was a brilliant scientist and many prominent Soviet scientists were his pupils. This critical analysis by Landau is an example of his work.
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Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.
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Frankreich, , um 1465. Blattgröße: 168 x 115 mm. Schriftraum: 92 x 60 mm. 21 Zeilen Text in brauner Bastarda... . Das Blatt enthält die bedeutendste und rührendste Szene aus dem Marienleben, die zentrale Stelle der "Stunden der Seeligen Jungfrau Maria". Nachdem der Engel mit der Verkündigung zu Maria gekommen war, antwortet diese ("Dixit autem maria ad angelum:) "Quomodo fiet istud quoniam virum non cognosco. Et respondens angelus dixit ei Spiritus sanctus superveniet in te et virtus altissimi obumbrabit tibi. Ideoque et quod ex te nascetur sanctum vocabitur Filius Dei" ("Wie soll das zugehen, da ich doch von keinem Manne weiß? Der Engel antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Der heilige Geist wird über die kommen, und die Kraft des Höchsten wird dich überschatten; darum wird auch das Heilige, das von dir geboren wird, Gottes Sohn genannt werden" (Lukas 1, 34). Der Text wird links (bzw. recto rechts) je von einer breiten (92 x 19 mm) Kastenbordüre flankiert mit fein stilisierten, je zweifarbigen Akanthusranken in Blau-Rot und Blau-Rosa, aus denen zarte Blumen hervorschießen. Jeweils in der Mitte steht auf einem Rasenstück ein hübsches kleines Fabelwesen mit Goldtupfern auf dem braunen Fell. Verso ein besonders amüsantes Monster auf zwei Krallenfüßen mit kurzem Schwanz, dessen Hals und Kopf wie ein Chamäleon in einen Türkiston changiert, während es breit und verschmitzt grinst. Ein sorgfältig gepinselter Goldgrund mit schwarzen Püntchen hinterfängt die Malereien kontrastgebend. Das hübsche Blatt auf sehr feinem Pergament, leicht wellig und nur ganz gelegentlich gering fleckig, ein winziger Einriß im recht breiten Rand.
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LANDAU, LEV (1908-68) Prominent Soviet
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| Typed Document Signed, in Russian, 4to, 1 page, Conclusion to a Paper byengineer N. Kalashnikov, "Description of centrifugal cooling pump",Institute for the physic problems, Moscow, n.d.
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This is a conclusion to be added to a paper by a colleague of Landau's, an engineer at the Institute for physics problems in Moscow. In it Landau disagrees with the ideas set forth in the paper - "On the basis of letters: Narkommash number 21/19.03/1465 and The physical institute from 26.03.38 number 41". The engineer, "Kalashnikov's idea about 'The centrifugal cooling pump based on utilization of the salt's characteristics to cool down at a low temperatures with the changing of the magnetic field' is based on misunderstanding. The author wrongly suggests that the cooling down of the paramagnetic salts is happening in every rariable field; but in fact the paramagnetic salts get cooled down only with reduction of the field. The salts are getting warmer with the increasing of the field. So the total effect which will take place in the diagram of the proposed construction comes to nothing...Thus, this project is completely unrealizable...." Signed, "L. Landau". There are several handwritten corrections by the author. The paper is browned with age. Landau was the head of the Theoretical Division at the Institute for physical problems from 1937 until 1962. He was a brilliant scientist and many prominent Soviet scientists were his pupils. This critical analysis by Landau is an example of his work.
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WIRSING, Adam Ludwig.
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| Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides Coloribus Suis Exprimi . Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten und einiger verwandten Steine nach der Natur auf das sorgfältigste mit Farben erleuchtet. Nuremberg, [printed by Bieling], for the author, 1775. Super royal 4to (31.5 x 22 cm). With 73 hand-coloured engraved plates with 417 figures of types of marble (plate mark 23 x 16 cm). Nineteenth-century leather.
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84 pp. Brunet V, col. 1465; IV, col. 1243 (98 plates); Cobres II, p. 461, no. 44 (42 plates); Sinkankas 7281 (54 plates); Sotheran, Third Suppl. 2394 (54 plates); not in BMC NH, Engelmann, Honeyman, Hoover, Norman Library, Ward; cf. Landwehr, Col. Plates 1 (edition 1776); Thieme & Becker XXXVI, p. 99; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies with 12 to 54 plates); OCLC WorldCat (3 copies with 68 plates). First edition with a large number of plates of this extremely rare work on marble with spectacularly coloured illustrations of 417 cross-sections of marble. The work was published in parts (see for instance the colophon at the bottom of p. 20 and the signature of the engraver on the first plate of the later sections), which explains the difference between extant copies in the number of plates. The Sinkankas and Sotheran copies have 54 plates (up and till the section on Tyrole), OCLC WorldCat lists three copies with 68 plates, our copy has 73, and the most complete copy of the first edition has 98 plates according to Brunet V, col. 1465. Lately a copy of the first edition with 98 plates appeared at auction. It has an additional section of 21 plates with 126 figures of Italian marble and a supplement of four plates with miscellaneous contents. We did not locate other copies of the 1775 edition with either 73 or 98 plates. The depicted stones in Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides are called "marble," however not all stones are "the granular/crystalline metamorphic rocks normally considered to be marbles but they include numerous very fine-grained types that probably are limestones, many veined, others spotted, and still others brecciated, and including fossiliferous varieties. In some examples the banding suggests that these are calcite onyxes or possibly several cut from cave onyxes" (Sinkankas). "Under each painting lies a complex, lightly-incised network of lines, almost like rouletting, over which the coloures have been laid. Near the end of the volume appear the most complex designs, beautifully done, of slabs of dendritic limestomes" (Sinkankas). The depicted stones come from quarries in or near Bayreuth (13 plates), Würtemberg (12 plates), Neresheim (5 plates), Durlach (6 plates), Salzburg (6 plates), Switzerland (7 plates), Baden (3 plates), Tyrole (2 plates), southern France (6 plates), Brabant (8 eight plates) and Saxony (5 plates). There are two, four, six or nine numbered samples to a plate, accompanied by text-leaves with an explanation in Latin (left column) and German (right column). The text-leaves are paginated consecutively. Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733/34-1797) was an important engraver of natural history works, but the present, splendidly drawn and coloured work is not mentioned by Thieme & Becker. The text was provided by Casimir Christoph Schmidel (1718-1792; Poggendorf II, cols 813-814).A few leaves slightly browned and foxed, otherwise a well preserved copy with the plates vibrantly coloured and in excellent condition.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 Single column 17 lines of text in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical panel with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS SHOWING THREE SAINTS ST. THOMAS ON THE RECTO AND ST. PHILIP AND JAMES THE APOSTLE ON THE VERSO. A few innocuous spots in the margin tiny losses of blue in the garments otherwise in fine condition generally well preserved in every important way. The artist has here combined the apostles Philip and James the Less in one frame perhaps because we know nothing more of them than that they were numbered among the original Disciples. However they are given very distinct clothing. One is portrayed as a bearded elder dressed in quiet pink and gray-blue robes while the other a dark-haired young man sports a scarlet robe highlighted with a multitude of gilt folds and a bright blue cloak. Saint Thomas however is well known and had many legends attached to him. He is the famous "Doubting Thomas" who is said to have questioned that the risen Christ was really the man he had known; he also apparently went on an apostolic mission to India. Here he holds a spear and casts his eyes up to heaven perhaps a reference to the story that he alone witnessed the assumption of the Virgin Mary to heaven. $7000 [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ROVERELLA Bartolomeo (Rovigo 1406 -
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| Ecclesiastico italiano. Divenuto Segretario di Papa Eugenio IV, dallo stesso fu nominato Vescovo di Adria nel 1444 e, l'anno seguente, Arcivescovo di Ravenna. Nel 1460 Pio II lo fece Cardinale della Chiesa con il titolo di San Clemente. Svolse tutti i suoi incarichi con molto zelo e godette sempre della stima dei suoi superiori e di molti principi. Nel 1474, l'anziano e potente Cardinale promosse la costruzione del maestoso Palazzo Roverella, nella Piazza Maggiore di Rovigo.
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Importante lettera sulle crociate datata al giugno dell'anno 1465. Il Cardinale era stato insignito, lo stesso anno, del titolo di Abate commendatario dell'Abbazia dei Santa Maria di Corazzo - provincia di Catanzaro - affinchè predicasse la crociata contro i musulmani di Maometto II (1432-1481). La minaccia dell'arrivo degli "infedeli" si era infatti riaccesa, attorno al 1460, quando il settimo sultano dell'Impero ottomano aveva ripreso con maggior vigore la sua offensiva contro i paesi del Mediterraneo. Papa Pio II, temendo l'invasione islamica, dapprima tentò di convertire il sultano, poi, una volta fallita l'azione, decise di organizzare una crociata per difendere il cristianesimo dall'invasione musulmana. La nuova crociata sembrava essere nata sotto i migliori auspici. Ma l'euforia durò poco, infatti il 14 agosto 1464 morì papa Pio II, e con lui svanì anche il progetto della grande crociata. Ormai l'idea di una guerra di religione non attirava più i regnanti europei, i quali volevano bensì combattere i turchi, ma solo per necessità politiche e mercantili. A soli quattro mesi dalla nomina l'abate Roverella si rivolge al corrispondente bolognese, "Ludovico Virgilio", per confermare la propria disponibilità alla missione, scrive "per quanto la mia possibilità sia ben poca potete avere ogni fede". Su pagina in-8° obl. Con indirizzo manoscritto al verso. Macchie di umidità, piccola lacuna al centro lede una parola del testo.; Tipologia di articolo: Autografi ( ove non altrimenti specificato) / Book Type: autograph/document (Unless differently specified).
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MAP - NETHERLANDS - HEENVLIET].
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| Caarte ende Afbeeldinge der Stede en Vrye Heerlykheit van Heenvliet. No. XVII.[Brielle?], 1698/[1701]. Large engraved map of the Heenvliet polder (50.5 x 87.5 cm), with etched pictorial decorations and arms by Jan LUYKEN, with each of the several hundred parcels delineated and their surface areas indicated, a summary table, scale and large compass rose, and the houses, trees, windmills and Ravesteyn Castle individually drawn. Coloured by a contemporary hand.
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BMC Printed Maps XIV, col. 910; Donkersloot-De Vrij 247; V. Eeghen & V.d. Keller 2825 (no. 370/17); Klaversma & Hannema 1465 & 1466; Landwehr, De Hooghe Book Ill. 97; Phillips & LeGear 3089; Sijmons 336; IKAR (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy); OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); NCC (5 copies); STCN (1 copy); not in Cat. Nat. Mar. Mus.; Koeman; Nordenskiöld. A large engraved map of the Heenvliet polder on the Maas river near Rotterdam in South Holland, with lovely etched decorations by Jan Luyken. At a scale of about 1:7300, it shows every parcel within the polder with its surface area indicated (a summary table at the upper right gives the areas of each district and the total). The small town of Heenvliet and just outside the polder the larger town of Geervliet and village of Zwartewaal are depicted in detail, and outside of Geervliet every house is separately drawn. Ravesteyn castle and its moat, whose ruins remain a popular tourist site today, are shown intact, although the Dutch burned the castle in 1572 to prevent it from falling into Spanish hands and never rebuilt it. Jan Luyken’s decorations show the crowned coats of arms of Heenvliet and of Baron Jacob Fredrik van Beieren van Schagen (1662-1724), Lord of Heenvliet, supported by a griffon and a lion, and with a falcon in between. Three men sit in the foreground, one with a firelock and one with a sickle and shock of wheat, with two dogs. The background shows two mounted men with two dogs and a boy on foot carrying their rack of falcons, milkmaids, a mounted hunter with dogs giving chase to a hare, and a church. Below left is a scale of 200 Heenvliet rods.The map was produced for the polder atlas, Voorne: Caart-Boeck van alle de Dorpen, en Polders gelegen inden lande van Oost, ende West Voorne, [Brielle?], 1701, with 3 overview and 29 detail maps, but the certification on this map is dated 30 April 1698 and it may have been printed at that time. Four people played a role in the production: the map was planned by Steyaart, drawn by the surveyor Heijman van Dijck and engraved by Jan Stemmers, and the pictorial decorations etched by Jan Luyken. The paper (one and a quarter sheets, pasted together before the map was printed from a single, very large plate) is watermarked: "PvL" monogram (Pieter van der Ley) = fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield above "4" & "WR" (general style Heawood 1781a, from Amsterdam ca. 1686).In very good condition and with the colouring fresh and bright, with only a couple marginal tears, one crossing the border but not affecting the map image, and three vertical folds, one somewhat worn. A beautiful and extremely detailed polder map with decorations by Jan Luyken.
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Grotius Hugo
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| Hugonis Grotii De Jure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, in quibus Jus Naturae et Gentium, item Juris Publici praecipua explicantur. Cum Annotatis Auctoris, ex postrema ejus ante obitum cura. Accesserunt Annotata in Epistolam Pauli ad Philemonem, Dissertatio de Mari Libero, & Libellus singularis De Aequitate, Indulgentia, & Facilitate,. Nec non Joann. Frid. Gronovii. notae in totum opus De Jure Belli ac Pacis.
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, in-8, pagg. (14) + 904 + (14) + 32 + (96), p.pelle dorso cordonato titoli e fregi oro arabescati al dorso, Dorso screpolato dorature sbiadite, perduto l'occhiello, difetto alle cerniere, esemplare tuttavia pulito e in buono stato di conservazione, Frontespizi a caratteri neri e rossi, capilettera ornati. Antiporta figurati con ritratto dell'Autore e vignetta simbolica. Opera fondamentale per la dottrina giusnaturalista. La presente edizione è corredata dalle note del Gronovio. Cfr. Sapori, 1465 (Diritto:_filosofia_del_diritto), 1689, Sumptibus Janssonio-Waesbergiorum, Amstelodami
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Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.
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| Blatt aus einer lateinischen Handschrift auf Pergament.
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Frankreich, um 1465 Blattgröße: 168 x 115 mm. Schriftraum: 92 x 60 mm. 21 Zeilen Text in brauner Bastarda. Das Blatt enthält die bedeutendste und rührendste Szene aus dem Marienleben, die zentrale Stelle der "Stunden der Seeligen Jungfrau Maria". Nachdem der Engel mit der Verkündigung zu Maria gekommen war, antwortet diese ("Dixit autem maria ad angelum:) "Quomodo fiet istud quoniam virum non cognosco. Et respondens angelus dixit ei Spiritus sanctus superveniet in te et virtus altissimi obumbrabit tibi. Ideoque et quod ex te nascetur sanctum vocabitur Filius Dei" ("Wie soll das zugehen, da ich doch von keinem Manne weiß? Der Engel antwortete und sprach zu ihr: Der heilige Geist wird über die kommen, und die Kraft des Höchsten wird dich überschatten; darum wird auch das Heilige, das von dir geboren wird, Gottes Sohn genannt werden" (Lukas 1, 34). Der Text wird links (bzw. recto rechts) je von einer breiten (92 x 19 mm) Kastenbordüre flankiert mit fein stilisierten, je zweifarbigen Akanthusranken in Blau-Rot und Blau-Rosa, aus denen zarte Blumen hervorschießen. Jeweils in der Mitte steht auf einem Rasenstück ein hübsches kleines Fabelwesen mit Goldtupfern auf dem braunen Fell. Verso ein besonders amüsantes Monster auf zwei Krallenfüßen mit kurzem Schwanz, dessen Hals und Kopf wie ein Chamäleon in einen Türkiston changiert, während es breit und verschmitzt grinst. Ein sorgfältig gepinselter Goldgrund mit schwarzen Püntchen hinterfängt die Malereien kontrastgebend. Das hübsche Blatt auf sehr feinem Pergament, leicht wellig und nur ganz gelegentlich gering fleckig, ein winziger Einriß im recht breiten Rand. -:- Einzelblätter
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 Single column 16 lines of text (17 on verso) in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical part of this frame with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS ST. STEPHEN ON THE RECTO AND ST. LAURENCE ON THE VERSO. IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION the paint without any perceptible erosion and the leaf generally fresh and clean. Saint Lawrence and Saint Stephen are paired together here just as they are in the famous paintings of Fra Angelico in the Vatican chapel of Pope Nicholas V. Both were martyrs and both were deacons Stephen serving the first community of Christians in Jerusalem Lawrence ministering to the first Christians of Rome. They are here dressed in similar deacon outfits royal blue tunics trimmed with gold over long white gowns which crumple about their feet. The artist has varied his treatment centralizing the backdrop for Lawrence who holds in his hand the gridiron on which he was grilled and placing off center the angle of the room in which Stephen stands. $6500
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Grotius Hugo
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| Hugonis Grotii De Jure Belli ac Pacis libri tres, in quibus Jus Naturae et Gentium, item Juris Publici praecipua explicantur. Cum Annotatis Auctoris, ex postrema ejus ante obitum cura. Accesserunt ejusdem Dissertatio de Mari Libero et Libellus singularis De Aequitate, Indulgentia, et Facilitate, nec non Joann. Frid. Gronovii. notae in totum opus De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Editio novissima
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2 voll., 260x200 mm, pagg. (8) + 648; (4) + 268 + (86) + 44, p.perg. con titolo oro in finto tassello sul dorso, Tagli spruzzati, modeste perdite di pergamena a forma circolare al dorso di un volume, cuffie alte abrase, lieve gora ai frontespizi, piccoli percorsi di tarlo su pochissime carte, naturale ed omogenea brunitura delle pagine, perduto frammento di una carta con piccola perdita di testo alla fine dell'opera nel mare liberum, Frontespizi a caratteri neri e rossi, capilettera ornati. Opera fondamentale per la dottrina giusnaturalista. La presente edizione, forse napoletana, è corredata dalle note del Gronovio. Cfr. Sapori, 1465 (Diritto:_filosofia_del_diritto), 1719, s.e., s.l.
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REYNOLDS, GRAHAM; JOHN
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| The Early Paintings and Drawings of JOHN CONSTABLE.
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Reynolds, Graham. The Early Paintings and Drawings of JOHN CONSTABLE. 2 Volumes; volume 1: xiii and 280 pp. text; volume 2: xxx pp. text, followed by 1465 plates, approximately 100 of which are in colour. Large 4to's, cloth. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995. A handsome 2-volume set (one is text, the other is plates) which describes and reproduces 1370 paintings and drawings dating between 1790 and 1816, beginning with Constable's juvenilia and tentative experiments before he went to London in 1799 to become a professional artist. Includes numerous sketches and drawings. As an addenda to the companion volume, "The Later Paintings and Drawings", an appendix in this volume records and reproduces 94 works works produced between 1817 and 1836 that have come to light since those books were published. Announced for November.
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VICTOR SCHOLDERER
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| GREEK PRINTING TYPES 1465-1927. FACSIMILES FROM AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK PRINTING
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BRITISH MUSEUM 1927 Published by BRITISH MUSEUM in 1927, approx 80 pages, ex-library copy - usual stamps & marks, 1st edition, hardback (no D/J), very tall size, slight foxing, corners bumped, wear to head & tail of spine, quarter cloth and grey paper bards. 60 facsimiles, some collotype, some with second colour. 20061B5BRO3HX 8034203 (04-28) (20061B5BRO3HX 8034203) [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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Bruges, ca. 1465 Single column 16 lines of text (17 on verso) in an attractive gothic book hand. Rubrics in pink two two-line initials in blue magenta and burnished gold undulating line fillers in blue and gold BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH THREE-QUARTER PANEL BORDERS incorporating foliage blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems the vertical part of this frame with a bar border of colors and burnished gold terminating at top and bottom in colorful acanthus leaves and WITH TWO SMALL BUT CHARMING MINIATURE PAINTINGS ST. MARGARET ON THE RECTO AND ST. BARBARA ON THE VERSO. Areas of paint loss in Barbara’s garment front portion of Margaret’s dragon somewhat blurred otherwise fine the gold especially bright and the margins very ample. In this delightful depiction of Saint Margaret the young saint demurely cocks her head and clasps her hands in prayer completely unruffled by the experience of having just burst from the side of the dragon who had dared to swallow her and who still mouths her blue robe. The dragon although serpentine as to his tail and back seems to have been modeled on a fat orange cat. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most enduringly popular saints invoked by women in childbirth with the hope that their newborn would issue as painlessly from the womb as Margaret did from the dragon. Barbara on the reverse is also a popular Christian heroine who like Margaret suffered for her decision to choose virginity over marriage. The tower in which her father imprisoned her in a vain attempt to make her change her mind on the topic of marriage is here shown twice. She sits in its interior calmly reading a book and beside her a miniature tower stands as her identifying attribute. $6000
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BONIFACE VIII.
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| Sextus decretalium liber…in Lugdunensi coniclio editus…Paris, Joannes Kerbriand, 1531 [with:] Clementinarum Constitutionum liber. Paris, Joannes Parvi, 1531 [and:] Extravagantes communes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus…Paris, [J. Kerbriand], 1531 [and:]Extravagantes seu constitutions viginti: a Joanne XXII edite…Paris, J. Kerbriand, 1531.
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4 works in 1, 8vo. ff. 78 [ii]; 36; 44; 20. Lettre Batârde, double column in red and black throughout, first and second titles within elaborate woodcut borders of jesters, fools, grotesques and foliage, full page printed diagram on last leaf of first work, fine woodcut initials in several series, summaries indicated with a charming red finger. One or two inksplashes here and there, a few very light spots to some leaves, a very good and clean copy in contemporary French calf gilt, covers with central floral tool within a gilt- and blind-ruled frame and fleurons at corners, narrow tear with lack to front cover, two wormholes, small parts of spine lacking, joints cracked. Early underlinings, early ms motto in blank portion of title 'In valesta vera virtus' and 'Joannes' in the same hand on final page, contemporary ex-libris at head of title page of the Capuchins of Valence, 19th-century library stamp of a French seminary beneath. Early editions of four very popular texts of canon law, including the Decretals of Boniface VIII, one of the greatest jurists of his age. Although printed with their own title pages and sold separately, these works are sometimes preserved together, as here. Boniface VIII's decretals were first published in 1465, these works were published together in Basel in 1511 in folio; these are reimpressions of the Paris editions of 1523. Decretals are Papal letters that formulate decisions in ecclesiastical law. These make up most of the 'Corpus Juris'. They cover such topics as the ordination and privileges of priests and the election of bishops; the sacraments, including baptism (with a woodcut table of impediments) and the veneration of relics. The first text is the great work on canon law by Boniface VIII, who added a great deal to ecclesiastical legislation, which came to be known as the Liber Sextus (the Decretals of Gregory IX (1239) had consisted of five books). The Liber Sextus is glossed by Giovanni d'Andrea, one of the greatest canonists of his age, and the woodcut illustration on the final page is his 'Arbor Consanguinitatis'. The second text is by Clement V, who inaugurated the Avignon Papacy, after the condemnation of Boniface VIII as a heretic under pressure from the French King, Philip the Fair. The Extravagantes are the collections of decretals that were not included in any of the three official collections of decretals (including the Liber Sextus); they should be found in all complete editions of the Corpus Juris Canonici. When John XXII (1316-1334) published the decretals known as the Clementines, there already existed some pontifical documents, obligatory upon the whole Church but not included in the Corpus Juris; hence these decretals were called Extravagantes. In 1325 Zenselinus de Cassanis added a gloss to twenty constitutions of Pope John XXII, and named this collection Viginti Extravagantes pap Joannis XXII. The others were known as "Extravagantes communes", a title given to the collection by Jean Chappuis in the Paris edition of the Corpus Juris. He adopted the systematic order of the official collections of canon law, and classified in a similar way the Extravagantes commonly met with in the editions of the Corpus Juris. All four texts in this edition are rare: COPAC records one copy only of all four together (at Glasgow), and only one copy has sold at auction in the last 30 years; RLG records one copy only of three of the texts (at Harvard) and none of the Extravagantes communes. Adams B-2440 (part I only); Index Aureliensis 122.004 (part I only); not in BM STC Fr., Brunet or Graesse.
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WIRSING, Adam Ludwig.
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| Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides Coloribus Suis Exprimi ... Abbildungen der Marmor-Arten und einiger verwandten Steine nach der Natur auf das sorgfältigste mit Farben erleuchtet... Nuremberg, [printed by Bieling], for the author, 1775. Super royal 4to (31.5 x 22 cm). With 73 hand-coloured engraved plates with 417 figures of types of marble (plate mark 23 x 16 cm). Nineteenth-century leather.
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84 pp. Brunet V, col. 1465; IV, col. 1243 (98 plates); Cobres II, p. 461, no. 44 (42 plates); Sinkankas 7281 (54 plates); Sotheran, Third Suppl. 2394 (54 plates); not in BMC NH, Engelmann, Honeyman, Hoover, Norman Library, Ward; cf. Landwehr, Col. Plates 1 (edition 1776); Thieme & Becker XXXVI, p. 99; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (4 copies with 12 to 54 plates); OCLC WorldCat (3 copies with 68 plates). First edition with a large number of plates of this extremely rare work on marble with spectacularly coloured illustrations of 417 cross-sections of marble. The work was published in parts (see for instance the colophon at the bottom of p. 20 and the signature of the engraver on the first plate of the later sections), which explains the difference between extant copies in the number of plates. The Sinkankas and Sotheran copies have 54 plates (up and till the section on Tyrole), OCLC WorldCat lists three copies with 68 plates, our copy has 73, and the most complete copy of the first edition has 98 plates according to Brunet V, col. 1465. Lately a copy of the first edition with 98 plates appeared at auction. It has an additional section of 21 plates with 126 figures of Italian marble and a supplement of four plates with miscellaneous contents. We did not locate other copies of the 1775 edition with either 73 or 98 plates. The depicted stones in Marmora et adfines Aliquos Lapides are called "marble," however not all stones are "the granular/crystalline metamorphic rocks normally considered to be marbles but they include numerous very fine-grained types that probably are limestones, many veined, others spotted, and still others brecciated, and including fossiliferous varieties. In some examples the banding suggests that these are calcite onyxes or possibly several cut from cave onyxes" (Sinkankas). "Under each painting lies a complex, lightly-incised network of lines, almost like rouletting, over which the coloures have been laid. Near the end of the volume appear the most complex designs, beautifully done, of slabs of dendritic limestomes" (Sinkankas). The depicted stones come from quarries in or near Bayreuth (13 plates), Würtemberg (12 plates), Neresheim (5 plates), Durlach (6 plates), Salzburg (6 plates), Switzerland (7 plates), Baden (3 plates), Tyrole (2 plates), southern France (6 plates), Brabant (8 eight plates) and Saxony (5 plates). There are two, four, six or nine numbered samples to a plate, accompanied by text-leaves with an explanation in Latin (left column) and German (right column). The text-leaves are paginated consecutively. Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733/34-1797) was an important engraver of natural history works, but the present, splendidly drawn and coloured work is not mentioned by Thieme & Becker. The text was provided by Casimir Christoph Schmidel (1718-1792; Poggendorf II, cols 813-814).A few leaves slightly browned and foxed, otherwise a well preserved copy with the plates vibrantly coloured and in excellent condition.
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| Tewtsche Theologey. (München, H. Schobser 1528). Fol. 251 Bll. mit Holzschn-Titelbordüre, blindgepr. Schweinsldr. d. Zt. auf Holzdeckeln.
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STC 698 - VD 16 P 2922 - Dodgson II, 425, 12 c Anm - Schottenloher, Schobser 92.- Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe (Druckvermerk am Schluß v. Bl. 251 verso).- Die erste katholische Dogmatik in deutscher Sprache, von Berthold Pirstinger (1465-1543), Bischof von Chiemsee, nach seinem Verzicht auf den Bischofssitz (1526) verfaßt. "Bertholds deutsche Theologie ... ist von bedeutendem Werthe sowohl in sprachlicher, als noch viel mehr in theologischer Beziehung" (Wetzer-W. II, 474).- Die schöne Holzschnittbordüre von Jörg Breu d. Ä. (?) zeigt oben Gottvater, unten Maria mit dem Kinde, links Petrus, rechts Paulus und in den Ecken die vier Evangelistensymbole.- Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk des Münchner Franziskanerklosters, Ränder tls. leicht wasserrandig, kaum fleckig, Vorsätze erneuert, Rücken unauffällig restauriert, insges. schönes Ex.
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| Vrelant-Stundenbuch. "Libro de Horas" der Leonor de la Vega.
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Limitierte Auflage in 500 Exemplaren. Deutscher Kommentarband in Vorbereitung: Claus Weinert., Brügge um 1465 - 1470 (Faksimile-Nachdruck jüngeren Datums). 404 Seiten im Format 19 x 13cm mit 78 Miniaturen. Die flämisch-burgundische Buchmalerei erlebte ihre Blütezeit unter dem Patronat der kunstsinnigen burgundischen Herzöge Philipps des Guten und Karls des Kühnen zwischen den Jahren 1440/45 und 1475. Philipp der Gute versammelte die bedeutendsten Buchmaler der Zeit an seinem Hof in Brügge. Eine große und außerordentlich produktive Werkstatt unterhielt auch Willem Vrelant, der 1456 das Bürgerrecht von Brügge erwarb und dort später die Miniaturisten- und Illustratorengilde begründete. Der 1410 im holländischen Utrecht geborene Vrelant, ein nüchterner Meister der Buchmalerei, bekannt für seine saubere und sorgfältige Arbeit, eine sonore Farbgebung, ausdrucksstarke zeichnerische Konturierungen und Grisaillemalerei, schuf vor allem Gebetbücher auf hohem Niveau. 1481/82 starb der erfolgreiche Miniaturist in Brügge.
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Galbreath, Donald L
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| Armoriaux I
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Switzerland: [Manuscript - Working Papers] Appears to be a compilation of notes/reference from various museums, monasteries, etc. Hard cover bound manuscript in fair condition. Covers have shelfwear with rubbing and bumping at corners. Inside pages with text appear to be mimeographed sheets or early photocopies (blue ink) that are pasted onto white sheelts; also numerous rough line drawings of heraldric crests roughly pasted on to blank white sheets. Extensively marked with notes/notations and drawings in ink. "Chapters" are not indicated but headings include "Codex Fojnica - 1340", "Lehensbuch des Bistums Speier - 1465", "Codex Redinghoven c.1425 - Wappenkunde 1895" and more. Most of the text is in English with names and some references in other languages. Bookplate (Galbreath) affixed to inside front cover and small envelope with some markings and Galbreath's card enclosed. Photographs available on request, and queries welcome. . Hard Cover. Fair. Manuscript.
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JACOBUS de GRUYTRODE),
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| Aureum Speculum anime peccatricis. (Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1494). 4to. a-d6. 24 lvs. 36 lines. Type 10:155G (1st title-line), 7:80G (text). With "accipies" woodcut and rubricated throughout. Calfbacked boards, gilt lettering on spine.
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. With a large "accipies" woodcut on the title. This "road to holy eternity" is in seven chapters, one for each day of the week and treats the sins and vices as well as the merit of a repentant life and the joy of Paradise. It became very popular and there are a number of 15th century editions. Some browning but as a whole a good copy with wide margins. The 'Speculum' has sometimes been identified as a work by Dion. de Leuwis, sometimes as a work by Jacobus de Clusa, alias de Jüterbog, but Gruytrode is the probable author acc. to G.W. He was at first a Cistercian and later entered the more rigid Carthusian order at Erfurt, where he died in 1465. The woodcut on title is Schreiber/Heitz, No. 18. Some contemporary marginal notes. Slightly browned in the margins in the beginning, otherwise a good copy with wide margins. HC 14901. Proctor 1423. Goff S-647. Voullieme, Köln 374. Not in BMC, Polain or IGI. .
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Plauto Tito Maccio
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| M. Actii Plauti Comoediae Viginti. Lugduni, Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554
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. Testo latino. Cm.12x6, 8. Pg.1078. Modesta legatura cartonata con piatti marmorizzati e tassello cartaceo con titoli manoscritti al dorso. Tagli spruzzati. Al frontespizio marca tipografica con il classico grifone che regge una pietra alla quale e' attaccata una sfera alata. Ai lati della silografia il motto "Virtute duce, comite fortuna". Il quaderno ss è posposto al quaderno tt. Il testo è preceduto da una "Plauti vita ex Petro Crinito de poetis latinis". Il volume contiene le celebri venti commedie di Plauto giunte integre sino a noi: "Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Capteivei, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Bacchides, Mostellaria, Menaehmi, Miles gloriosus, Mercator, Pseudolus, Poenulus, Persa, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus". Pietro Crinito è lo pseudonimo dell'umanista fiorentino Pietro Riccio (1465-1507). > Graesse, V, 327. ICCU\RMGE\001460.
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Galbreath, Donald L.
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| Armoriaux I
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Switzerland [Manuscript - Working Papers] . Unpublished manuscript appears to be a compilation of notes/reference material from various museums, monasteries, etc. Hard cover bound manuscript in fair condition. Covers have shelfwear with rubbing and bumping at corners. Inside pages with text appear to be mimeographed sheets (blue ink) that are pasted onto white sheets; also numerous rough line drawings of heraldric crests roughly pasted on to blank white sheets. Extensively marked with notes/notations and drawings in ink. "Chapters" are not indicated but headings include "Codex Fojnica - 1340", "Lehensbuch des Bistums Speier - 1465", "Codex Redinghoven c.1425 - Wappenkunde 1895" and more. Most of the text is in English with names and some references in other languages. Bookplate (Galbreath) affixed to inside front cover and small envelope with some markings and Galbreath's card enclosed. Photographs available on request, and queries welcome. Hard Cover . Fair
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Gelli, Giovanni Battista
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| LA SPORTA / DI GIOUAN BATISTA GELLI ACCADEMICO FIORENTINO
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In Firenze: [Lorenzo Torrentino]. BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p.294. Adams G338. Vellum binding, pastedowns and flyleaves, apparently, are of a later date, perhaps 18th Century. From the library of the noted bibliophile, Louis Thompson Rowe of XV Hammersmith Terrace, W. , with his bookplate. VERY RARE! ! . 1548.
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