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LUCIANUS SAMOSATENSIS
VERA HISTORIA) LUCIANUS DE VERIS NARATIONIBUS ET DIODORUS SICULUS. (TRAD. LILIUS CASTELLANUS) DIODORI SICULI, BIBLIOTHECAE HISTORICA (TRAD. POGGIUS BRACCIOLINUS).
PER PHILIPPUS PINCIUS MANTUANUS 20 NOVEMBRIS. 1493., VENETIA - [INCUNABOLO] (cm. 31,3) bella legatura del XX secolo in mz. pergamena antica, piatti e sguardie antichi. -- cc. 50 (di 60) mancano le ultime 10 carte. Segnatura A8, a-g6 e mancano h8 e i4. Carattere rotondo, spazi per lettere capitali, 60 linee. Luciano di Samosta (II sec. D.C.) fu uno dei più raffinati scrittori greci del suo tempo. Incunabolo abbastanza raro, GOFF registra solo 11 copie in America e SANDER solo 3 vendite. Manca al CAT. 103 di OLSCHKI (1903) "MONUMENTA" e al CAT. 94 OLSCHKI (1915) "INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA" e al CAT. HARPER (1930). Purtroppo esemplare con difetti: aloni sparsi ai margini, più pesanti verso la fine, vari forellini di tarlo nel testo e altri ben restaurati ai margini bianchi, vecchio restauro al margine bianco dell' ultima carta. Peraltro esemplare a buoni margini e ben legato con varie chiose dell' epoca manoscritte in latino da unica mano ai margini bianchi. HAIN 10260; I.G.I. 5841; GOFF L 328; ROSENTHAL CAT. 24 "INCUNABULA" MONACO 1900; n° 2640 un esemplare scompleto ad alto prezzo; HARVARD 2449; PROCTOR 5300; POLAIN 1289; BMC V 495. [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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THE NEW CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY
The University Press, Cambridge, Cambridge, England - A nearly complete set, with volume thirteen missing. The complete set consists of fourteen volumes total. Present are Vol. I, The Renaissance 1493-1520. Vol. II, The Reformation 1520-59. Vol. III, The Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution 1559-1610. Vol. IV, The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War 1609-48/59. Vol. V, The Ascendency of France 1648-88. Vol. VI, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia 1688-1715/25. Vol. VII, The Old Regime 1713-63. Vol. VIII, The American and French Revolutions 1763-93. Vol. IX War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval 1793-1830. Vol. X, The Zenith of European Power 1830-70. Vol. XI, Material Progress and World-Wide Problems 1870-1898. Vol. XII, The Era of Violence 1898-1945. [Vol. XIII, the so-called Companion volume, is missing.] Vol. XIV, Atlas. Ex-library with the usual ex-library markings. Some volumes are first printings, some are later printings. Printed and bound in England. Blue buckran bindings, with gold-stamped lettering/design to the spines. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. Moderately bumped spine head and tail, and gently bumped corners. Fairly clean interiors, apart from the ex-library markings. Note that as to Vol. II, hinges starting. As to Vol. VII, the rear hinge is almost completely separated. As to Vol. IX, the rear hinge is starting. Gently read. Shelf wear within expectations for a moderately used ex-library set. With the original blue/black/white DJs. The DJ for Vol VI is missing. All DJs in Mylar DJ protectors. A sturdy set. Quality ranges from Good Minus to Good Plus. A Good set of books with Very Good DJs. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: The Book Carrel]
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Montmorency, Anne Herzog von
Montmorency, Anne Herzog von
- Anne Herzog von Montmorency (1493-1567), Marschall und Connétable von Frankreich. Brief m. e. U. u. e. „Vostre byen bon amy Montmorency", S[ ] 16.IX.1550, eine Seite gr.-4°. Mit Adresse. An „Monsieur le senneschal D’agenoys", dem er zwanzig Bogenschützen schickt und aufträgt, König Heinrich II. und der Königin Katharina von Medici laufend über das Wohlergehen des Dauphins, des späteren Königs Franz II., zu berichten. „Monsieur le senneschal \| Jay Receu vostre lettre Et ay commande ce matin au lieutenant du prevost de vous envoier vingt archier[s] \| Vous advisant que ne scauriez mieux fere que descripre souvent au roy des nouvelles et sante de monsieur le daulphin ensemble a la Royne et a moy comme de coustume \| On trouve tres bon an demeurant que Vous fassiez porter par le chevaucheur qui est a la suytte dudit Sieur les paquets a la premiere coste affin que nous ayons plussouvent que en meilleure dilligence de ses nouvelles [ ]" – Unter dem schwachen König Heinrich II. führte Montmorency die Regierungsgeschäfte „presque en maître absolu" (Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Générale). Anne Duke of Montmorency (1493–1567), French soldier, statesman and diplomat. LS "Vostre byen bon amy Montmorency". S[ ], 16 Sept. 1550. Large 4°. 1 p. With address. To "Monsieur le senneschal D’agenoys", sending him twenty archers and instructing him to continuously report to King Henry II and Queen Catherine de’ Medici on the well-being of the Dauphin, later King Francis II: "Monsieur le senneschal \| Jay Receu vostre lettre Et ay commande ce matin au lieutenant du prevost de vous envoier vingt archier[s] \| Vous advisant que ne scauriez mieux fere que descripre souvent au roy des nouvelles et sante de monsieur le daulphin ensemble a la Royne et a moy comme de coustume \| On trouve tres bon an demeurant que Vous fassiez porter par le chevaucheur qui est a la suytte dudit Sieur les paquets a la premiere coste affin que nous ayons plussouvent que en meilleure dilligence de ses nouvelles [.]". – Under the weak king Henry II, Montmorency conducted the government affairs "presque en maître absolu" (Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Générale). [Bookseller: Kotte Autographs]
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Schedel, Hartmann (woodcut engravings
Woodcut Engraving of Solomon's Judgement: Nuremberg Chronicle): Iudicium Salomonis
A. Koberger, Nuremberg 1493 - VG+ B&W woodcut (few wormholes expertly repaired in margin-- very hard to see) from Liber Chronicarum (nuremberg Chronicle) of this scene of judgement and wisdom. Wohlgemut was perhaps the most important engraver of his time, and a teacher of Albrecht Durer. Pleydenwurff was Wohlgemut's son-in-law. Text recto and verso in latin. Numerous small portraits on verso, beginning with Solomon, and giving the apprearance of family connections (tree/vines). The main image is 14x23cm, on a page measuring 42x27cm. [Bookseller: The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books]
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Schedel, Hartmann
Florencia
Original woodcut from the famous “Nurnberg Chronicle”, printed in Nürnberg, in December 1493. Fullyhand colored city view. Verso illustrated as well with fourteen smaller hand colored woodcuts of saints. German text edition. This view of Florence is one of the earliest obtainable authentic city views, published only a few years before 1500. This plate was exactly published and printed in December 1493 in Nurnberg at Koberger. The “Nurnberg Chronicle” was the earliest and most richly illustrated incunabula and description of the world, which was as well illustrated with a small number of authentic double page city views. The woodcuts were mostly cut by Pleydenwurff. With the usual skillfully mended stitch wholes at the centre fold. In excellent condition. Nurnberg, Koberger 1493 (25,2 x 52,5 cm) Condition: Excellent [Stock No.: 22297] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Reinhold Berg]
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SANT' AGOSTINO (AUGUSTUS
LIBER EPISTOLARUM BEATI AUGUSTINI EPISCOPI HIPPONENSIS ECCLESIE. BASILIERI, IOHANES DE AMERBACH, 1493.
In 4, mm 216 x 313; ff 328, testo di 52 linee in carattere romano tondo; ricco capolettera iniziale a due colori su 11 righe (mm 49) e capilettera rubricati in rosso e blu su 3 righe (mm 16) per tutto il testo, ampissimi margini. Legatura coeva in piena pelle bruna su assicelle originali con impressioni a secco, 3 nervi al dorso, mancanti come spesso accade gli antichi fermagli dei quali sono ancora presenti gli attacchi sui lati esterni dei piatti. Cerniere fragili, sbucciature abilmente riparate ai piatti mentre sono sani e originali sia le cuffie che i capitelli. Lo stampatore Jean de Amerbach (1444-1516), fu uno dei primi grandi tipografi di Basilea e fu considerato dallo Zwinger uno degli "Eroi della tipografia". Importanti le sue edizioni di testi dei Padri della Chiesa (tra cui Sant'Agostino). I suoi figli continuarono l'attivita', imprimendo insieme a Froben le opere di Erasmo da Rotterdam e furono noti, oltre che come tipografi, anche come insigni giuristi. Assai bello questo esemplare con carta in magnifico stato di conservazione e solo una trascurabile gora ai margini delle prime 12 carte. Esemplare assolutamente completo in ogni sua parte. Terza edizione non comune, della quale si trovano 9 esemplari nelle Biblioteche Pubbliche Italiane. IGI, 995; BMC, III, 755; GOFF, A-1268. [Bookseller: BIGGIO Giuseppina - Torino - Italy]
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CICERONIS M. TULII.
EPISTOLARUM FAMILIARUM LIBRI SEXDECIM / UBERTINI CLERICI CRESENTINATIS IN CICERONIS EPISTOLAS COM / MENTARII / MARTINI PHILETICI IN QUASDAM EPISTOLAS ELLECTAS COMMENTARII / GEORGII MERULAE ALESXANDRINI IN EPISTOLAM AD LENTULUM / SPINTHEREM ACCURATA INTERPRETATIO / ADDITA SUNT ETIAM NONNULLA ALIA LOCA IN LIBRO MISCELANEARUM / PER ANGELUM POLITIANUM INTERPRETATA. IMPRESSUM VENETIIS PER BERNARDINUM BENALIUM. ANNO DOMINI, 1493. DIE. XXI. MAII. IN-4, MEZZO MAROCCHINO (MODERNO) CON NERVATURE, PIATTI IN ASSI DI LEGNO COEVI, CON TRACCIA DI FERMAGLI, SGUARDIE MODERNE. FF.4 NN., 234 FF. N., 2 FF. BIANCHI. ANNOTAZIONI DI MANO ANTICA. MINIMO RESTAURO NEL MARGINE ESTERNO DI POCHE CARTE, ALL'INIZIO, ESEGUITO A REGOLA D'ARTE. NEL COMPLESSO OTTIMO ESEMPLARE. (HAIN, N. 5204).
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Schedel, Hartmann
Basilea
Original woodcut from the famous “Nurnberg Chronicle”, printed in Nürnberg, in December 1493. Fullyhand colored city view. Verso illustrated as well with four smaller hand colored woodcuts of saints. German text edition. This view of Basel is one of the earliest obtainable authentic city views, published only a few years before 1500. This plate was exactly published and printed in December 1493 in Nurnberg at Koberger. The “Nurnberg Chronicle” was the earliest and most richly illustrated incunable and descripton of the world, which was as well illustrated with a small number of authentic doublepage city views. The woodcuts were mostly cut by Pleydenwurff. With the usual skillfully mended stitch wholes at the centre fold. In excellent condition. Nurnberg, Koberger 1493 (25,2 x 52,9 cm) Condition: Excellent [Stock No.: 22296] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Reinhold Berg]
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JOHANNES DE VERDENA.
SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE TEMPORE. [bound with] SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE SANCTIS.
Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 10 January 1493 [for first part], 27 December 1492 [for the second] - Excellent Contemporary Copy of Very Rare EditionIssued by the Only 15th Century Printer in Hagenau [134] and [200] leaves (instead of the 134 and 196 called for): the second part with four leaves of gathering C repeated; gathering K of the second part bound in incorrect order but all leaves present. Two works in one volume. PLEASING CONTEMPORARY PIGSKIN OVER WOODEN BOARDS the covers featuring a large diapered central panel with lozenges containing various stamps of circular oblong spade-like and diamond shapes inhabited by the symbols of the four evangelists (the angel of St. Matthew the lion of St. Mark and the bull of St. Luke both with wings and the eagle of St. John) a unicorn two eagles and various botanical images the whole surrounded by a border of scrolls proclaiming Maria raised bands two circular stamps containing roses in each of the four large spine panels a (17th century?) paper label covering most of the top two panels and a small oblong shelf label in the third lightened area at the center of fore edge where clasp once was present inside of the covers with transfers from the text and music of an old (ca. 1300?) vellum manuscript formerly used as pastedowns but now gone revealing the inner structure of the book with rawhide cords and wooden pegs now exposed in the channels carved out of the wooden boards. Both works with the printer's device on title page showing a haloed scholar (St. Thomas Aquinas) at his desk on his shoulder a dove symbolizing divine inspiration whispering in his ear and two young scholars at his feet surrounded by a ribbon inscribed with the Latin motto Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti urging the pupils to make these important and holy teachings a part of themselves. Bookplate at the front of Daniel Canon Rock D.D. inscription on title page of first work indicating that in 1685 the volume was kept at the convent of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia (also known as St. Elizabeth of Hungary) in Bavarian Schillingsfürst. A few 15th century marginal annotations in a neat German hand. Four inches of front joint cracked at head top of spine bent back slightly and with two small vertical cuts overall darkening and minor chafing to pigskin but the original binding completely solid with the cords entirely intact and with blindstamping that is very clear. First woodcut title page (of two) restored at fore and tail edge and with inner margin reinforced on recto obscuring three-quarters of an inch of the left side of the woodcut one leaf a little ragged from once being loose (and now reattached) a two-inch and a three-inch closed tear entering the text (but no loss in either case) faint overall browning a little soiling and other trivial defects here and there but the text quite fresh and generally appealing with excellent margins. First work: BMC III, 682; Second work: BSB I-556. First work not in Goff, second work not in BMC or Goff. This is an incunabular item of particular interest because of its appealing binding and woodcuts as well as its considerable rarity and the printing history connected to it. The two works in our volume were published in Alsatian Hagenau where Diebold Lauber in the early 14th century had set up perhaps the earliest secular commercial book copying business in German speaking lands. But when printing developed Hagenau could boast only one printer of incunabula Heinrich Gran who began issuing books in 1488. He specialized in sermon collections such as these and the books he produced imitated the typefaces of nearby Strassburg. His printer's device the famous Accipies woodcut was first employed by Heinrich Quentell at Cologne in 1490 but was also used by other German printers in Augsburg Ulm and Strassburg; it generally appeared in books of a scholastic nature. The first collection here of 71 sermons (beginning with a sermon for the first Sunday of Advent) is arranged to follow the liturgical year while the second collection of 70 sermons commemorates for the most part saints on [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]
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BUSTI, Bernardinus de, O.F.M.
Mariale [with additions by] Domenico Ponzoni [and] Officium et Missa Immaculatae Conceptionis BMV.
Leonardus Pachel 13cm x 19cm Milan 1493 21 May 1493. Modern blindruled calf over original wood (rubbed, catch & clasp gone), spine on 3 raised bands, [388] ff., 58 ll. (single line letterpress title cut out and mounted, marg. staining). Good complete copy. First complete edition of a collection of 63 sermons on the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin by the Franciscan preacher B. de Busti (d. 1513), a pupil of Michael de Carcano. Small woodcut ills (often repeated). Decorative woodcut initials. Woodcut printer's mark at end. Printed in gothic type in 2 cols. Ownership entry on A2r. Some ms. notes. Ref. ISTC ib01333000. GW 5804. Goff B-1333. Polain 2613 (1). IDL 1089 (1). Not in BSB M¥nchen. Very Good Condition [Bookseller: Louis Caron]
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JOHANNES DE VERDENA.
SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE TEMPORE. [bound with] SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE SANCTIS.
Excellent Contemporary Copy of Very Rare EditionIssued by the Only 15th Century Printer in Hagenau Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 10 January 1493 [for first part], 27 December 1492 [for the second] 213 x 143 mm. (8 7/8 x 5 3/4""). [134] and [200] leaves (instead of the 134 and 196 called for): the second part with four leaves of gathering C repeated; gathering K of the second part bound in incorrect order but all leaves present. Two works in one volume. PLEASING CONTEMPORARY PIGSKIN OVER WOODEN BOARDS the covers featuring a large diapered central panel with lozenges containing various stamps of circular oblong spade-like and diamond shapes inhabited by the symbols of the four evangelists (the angel of St. Matthew the lion of St. Mark and the bull of St. Luke both with wings and the eagle of St. John) a unicorn two eagles and various botanical images the whole surrounded by a border of scrolls proclaiming Maria raised bands two circular stamps containing roses in each of the four large spine panels a (17th century?) paper label covering most of the top two panels and a small oblong shelf label in the third lightened area at the center of fore edge where clasp once was present inside of the covers with transfers from the text and music of an old (ca. 1300?) vellum manuscript formerly used as pastedowns but now gone revealing the inner structure of the book with rawhide cords and wooden pegs now exposed in the channels carved out of the wooden boards. Both works with the printer's device on title page showing a haloed scholar (St. Thomas Aquinas) at his desk on his shoulder a dove symbolizing divine inspiration whispering in his ear and two young scholars at his feet surrounded by a ribbon inscribed with the Latin motto Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti urging the pupils to make these important and holy teachings a part of themselves. Bookplate at the front of Daniel Canon Rock D.D. inscription on title page of first work indicating that in 1685 the volume was kept at the convent of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia (also known as St. Elizabeth of Hungary) in Bavarian Schillingsfürst. A few 15th century marginal annotations in a neat German hand. Four inches of front joint cracked at head top of spine bent back slightly and with two small vertical cuts overall darkening and minor chafing to pigskin but the original binding completely solid with the cords entirely intact and with blindstamping that is very clear. First woodcut title page (of two) restored at fore and tail edge and with inner margin reinforced on recto obscuring three-quarters of an inch of the left side of the woodcut one leaf a little ragged from once being loose (and now reattached) a two-inch and a three-inch closed tear entering the text (but no loss in either case) faint overall browning a little soiling and other trivial defects here and there but the text quite fresh and generally appealing with excellent margins. First work: BMC III, 682; Second work: BSB I-556. First work not in Goff, second work not in BMC or Goff. This is an incunabular item of particular interest because of its appealing binding and woodcuts as well as its considerable rarity and the printing history connected to it. The two works in our volume were published in Alsatian Hagenau where Diebold Lauber in the early 14th century had set up perhaps the earliest secular commercial book copying business in German speaking lands. But when printing developed Hagenau could boast only one printer of incunabula Heinrich Gran who began issuing books in 1488. He specialized in sermon collections such as these and the books he produced imitated the typefaces of nearby Strassburg. His printer's device the famous Accipies woodcut was first employed by Heinrich Quentell at Cologne in 1490 but was also used by other German printers in Augsburg Ulm and Strassburg; it generally appeared in books of a scholastic nature. The first collection here of 71 sermons (beginning with a sermon for the first Sunday of Advent) is arranged to follow the liturgical year while the second collection of 70 sermons commemorates for the most part saints on their festival days. The rather humorous title suggests that the priest who uses these volumes can sleep securely or without care because the author has taken upon himself the burden of creating interesting sermons for him. Johannes de Verdena (von Werden) was a 14th century Franciscan of Cologne. While these sermons are usually attributed to him the name of Richard of Maidstone (d. ca. 1400) has also been suggested as their source. This English Carmelite friar educated at Oxford was a poet as well as a theologian who wrote a poem in English on the deposition of Richard II. These sermons can be found from time to time in one edition or another but our printings are obviously very rare with no copies of either collection in Goff and the second collection likewise not owned by the British Library. Since our editions come from the sole incunabular printer in Hagenau this rarity takes on somewhat more significance than it otherwise would. We have so far been unable to identify the workshop from which our binding came but it is an attractive volume not least because in its present state--with pastedowns removed--it represents a perfect tool for the visual exposition of 15th century binding technology. $8000 [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscri]
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Schedel, Hartmann
[incunabula woodcut map of Europe]
Original woodcut map published in the famous “Nurnberg Chronicle”, printed in Nürnberg, in December 1493. Verso with descriptive text and the imprint for the German text edition of the ‘Nurnberg chronicle’. This map of Central and Northern Europe is one of the earliest obtainable authentic woodcut maps, published only a few years before 1500. The plate was exactly published and printed in December 1493 in Nurnberg at Koberger. The “Nurnberg Chronicle” was the earliest and most richly illustrated incunabula and description of the world, which was as well illustrated with a small number of authentic double page city views. The woodcuts were mostly cut by Pleydenwurff. The map extends from Southern France in the Southwest towards Lithuania in the Northeast. In the north it shows Iceland, Norway, Lappland, Sweden, Finnland, land mass named ‘Grunland’ and parts of Russia. The centre of the map provides good and detailed information on rivers and mountain chains of Central Europe showing Germany, Poland and Hungary prominently. Capitals and regions are named. Printed on the full double page sheet (45,6 x 62,8 cm) as published. Small restorations and mended stitch wholes in the centre fold, as usual. as well a few skillful restorations at the right blank outer margin, these are not affecting the image of the map. A very good impression on paper with wide margins. In very good condition. Nurnberg, Koberger 1493 (39,2 x 58 cm) Condition: VG/Excellent [Stock No.: 21990] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Reinhold Berg]
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Hoffman, Robert M.
News of the Nation (Boxed Classroom Set)
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs - BOX: Good; Repaired; Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Chipped. BOOK: Fine; Light Creasing on Front Cover. NEWSPAPERS: Fine; Light Creasing on Few Pages. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Canada Post's Priority Worldwide Service Shipping is included in the price of this title. Included in this Service are Insurance, a Tracking Number and Link, and Delivery Confirmation and Signature. Delivery takes approximately 2-3 business days. Shipping charges added during the Checkout process will be fully refunded during processing of your order. CONTENTS: 1 Copy of How to Use News of the Nation in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide by William Marina (Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University); 6 Copies of Each of the Following 4-Page Newspapers (46 + Contents/Index): April 14, 1493 - The Discovery - Up to 1493; June 8, 1610 - The Age of Exploration - 1493 to 1610; May 24, 1701 - Founding the Colonies - 1610 to 1701; March 6, 1770 - Crisis With Britain - 1701 to 1770; June 17, 1775 - Revolutionary War Begins - 1770 to 1775; May 4, 1778 - Independence and the War - 1775 to 1778; Sept. 3, 1783 - Victory and Peace - 1778 to 1783; Jan. 10, 1788 - Struggle Over Constitution - 1783 to 1788; Oct. 27, 1795 - Neutrality and Bill of Rights - 1788 to 1795; Oct. 19, 1803 - Louisiana Purchase - 1795 to 1803; June 20, 1812 - War with Britain Again - 1803 to 1812; Feb. 17, 1815 - War Ends, Treaty A Standoff - 1812 to 1815; Dec. 2, 1823 - Monroe Doctrine; Missouri Compromise - 1815 to 1823; Nov. 11, 1833 - Compromise Averts Secession - 1823 to 1833; Dec. 31, 1837 - Depression Grips Nation - 1833 to 1837; Dec. 29, 1845 - Annexation of Texas - 1837 to 1845; March 10, 1848 - Mexican War; California Settled - 1845 to 1848; May 22, 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act; Gold Discovered - 1848 to 1854; April 13, 1861 - Civil War Begins - 1854 to 1861; July 4, 1863 - War Continues - 1861 to 1863; April 15, 1865 - War Ends; Lincoln Dead - 1863 to 1865; May 28, 1868 - Reconstruction Begins - 1865 to 1868; March 2, 1877 - Government Scandals; Indian Wars - 1868 to 1877; Sept. 19, 1881 - Settlers Move Westward - 1877 to 1881; Nov. 4, 1884 - Business Grows; Labour Restless - 1881 to 1884; July 2, 1890 - Business Trusts Formed - 1884 to 1890; July 20, 1894 - Social Conscience Rising - 1890 to 1894; July 17, 1898 - Policy of Imperialism - 1894 to 1898; Sept. 14, 1901 - Involvement In Asia - 1898 to 1901; April 18, 1906 - Teddy Roosevelt and "Progressivism" - 1901 to 1906; March 4, 1913 - Wilson Idealism; Social Discontent - 1906 to 1913; April 6, 1917 - US Enters a World War - 1913 to 1917; Nov. 19, 1919 - Senate Rejects Versailles Treaty - 1917 to 1919; July 21, 1925 - Government Scandals; the "Monkey Trial" - 1919 to 1925; Nov. 13, 1929 - Stock Crash Ends "Roaring 20s" - 1925 to 1929; March 4, 1933 - Roosevelt Inaugurated; Depression Grows - 1929 to 1933; Oct. 5, 1937 - The New Deal; FDR Questions Neutrality - 1933 to 1937; Dec. 8, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Bombed; US at War - 1937 to 1941; Dec. 2, 1943 - Allies Move Toward Victory - 1941 to 1943; Aug. 11, 1945 - European War Over; Japanese Ask Peace - 1943 to 1945; June 27, 1950 - US, UN Defend South Korea - 1945 to 1950; May 17, 1954 - Supreme Court Ends School Segregation - 1950 to 1954; April 24, 1961 - J. F. Kennedy's "New Frontier" - 1954 to 1961; Nov. 25, 1963 - JFK Killed; Space Exploration - 1961 to 1963; Aug. 29, 1968 - Student Unrest; City Violence - 1963 to 1968; Jan. 1, 1976 - US Celebrates 200th Birthday - 1968 to 1975. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Past Pages]
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MALRAUX André
LES NOYERS DE L'ALTENBURG
- PARIS, Editions Lidis, Imprimerie Nationale, 1962IN4, couverture rempliée, titre imprimé en rouge et noir sur le premier plat, sous jaquette rodoïde, sous chemise rigide verte illustré de feuilles de noyer estampées en noir, titre en noir imprimé au dos de la couverture, l'ensemble sous emboîtage pleine toile sur tranchesExemplaire n°1010, un des 800 exemplaires numérotés de 694 à 1493 sur vélin d'Arches pur chiffon filigrané " André Malraux ". Edition imprimée pour le compte des Editions Lidis sur les Presses de l'Imprimerie Nationale supervisée par Daniel GIBELIN et Georges ARNOULT. Texte composé avec le Saint-Augustin Tournefort du type Granjean dit " Romain du Roi ", caractère gravé sur l'ordre de Louis XIV en 1699, classé monument historique, propriété de l'Imprimerie Nationale.Note de l'auteur en tête de volumeExemplaire en deux parties : - LES NOYERS DE L'ALTENBURG- CAMP DE CHARTRESOuvrage décoré de superbes illustrations en couleurs sous serpente volante d'après les lithographies originales de Walter SPITZER, composées et gravées par les Ateliers Mourlot Frères.In fine, table des matièresSuperbe exemplaire, bel état de fraîcheur, intérieur très frais, bords de chemise et d'emboîtage un peu frottés177p [Bookseller: Livres Libres]
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Hartmann Schedel
Praga
Gorgeous full color example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Praga (Prague) from Schedel's Liber Chronicum, perhaps the single most influential secular illustrated book of the 15th Century and one of the landmark printed works of the 15th Century. Schedel's view of Praga is one of the earliest obtainable views of the City and realistically the only large format 15th Century illustration of the Prague, including the Prague Castle and St. Vitus’ Cathedral, with both overlooking a bridge crossing the Vitava River. Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten (loosely transalated as World Chronicle, but popularly referred to as the Nuremberg Chronicle, based upon the city of its publication), was the first secular book to include the style of lavish illustrations previously reserved for Bibles and other liturgical works. The work was intended as a history of the World, from Creation to 1493, with a final section devoted to the anticipated Last Days of the World. It is without question the most important illustrated secular work of the 15th Century and its importance rivals the early printed editions of Ptolemy's Geographia and Bernard von Breydenbach's Perengrinatio in Terram Sanctam in terms of its importance in the development and dissemination of illustrated books in the 15th Century. Published in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger, the book was printed in Latin and 5 months later in German (translated by George Alt), and enjoyed immense commercial success. A reduced size version of the book was published in 1497 in Augsburg by Johann Schonsperger. The illustration for Venice is adapted from the larger illustration of Venice in Breydenbach's Peregrinatio, which was illustrated by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, who was working in Mainz in the 1480s. Schedel's view of Florence is one of the earliest obtainable views of the City and realistically the only large format 15th Century illustration available to collectors. The view is an adaptation of Francesco Rosselli's now lost six-sheet engraving of Florence, which is believed to have been engraved sometime between 1471 and 1482, known only through a single woodcut copy in the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin. Rosselli is perhaps best known as the cartographer responsible for the Contarini-Rosselli World Map of 1506 (the first map to depict America, based upon information derived from Columbus) and his world map of 1508, the first depiction of the World in an Oval Projection, which includes a depiction of the Southern Continent which may have been the influence for the world maps of Piri Reis (1513), Lopo Homem (1519) and Juan Vespucci (1524). Hartmann Schedel was a prominent physician and writer, who amassed one of the largest private book collections of the 15th Century. Schedel's work is illustrated by over 1800 woodcut images by Michael Wohlgemut (1434–1519) and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460–1494). Wohlgemut, an important painter and xylographer, is perhaps best known as having been an early teacher of Albrecht Durer, who apprenticed in Wohlgemut's workshop from 1486 to 1489. It is believed that Durer was involved in the production of several of the illustrations in Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, as work on the illustrations commenced during the period when Durer was apprenticing with Wohlegut and a study of several of the illustrations suggests they may have been drawn by Durer, who would have prepared the drawings used as forms for the craftsmen who cut the woodblocks. While the majority of the illustrations in the book depict the various saints, royalty, nobles and clergyman of the period, the work is perhaps best known for the large format views of a number of the major European Cities, including Rome, Venice, Paris, Vienna, Florence, Genoa, Saltzburg, Crakow, Breslau, Budapest, Prague, and major cities in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantipole, as well as a number of cities in what would become the German Empire. The work also included a magnificent double page map of the World, a large map of Europe and several famous illustrations, including the "Dance of Death," and scenes from the Creation and the Last Judgement. While many of the double-page city views are less than accurate illustrations of the cities as they existed at the end of the 15th Century, the illustrations are of great importance in the iconographic history of each of the cities depicted. Some of the double-page views were also apparently offered separately for sale, including some which had been colored prior to sale. Schedel's World map is based upon Ptolemy, omitting Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East, and depicting the Indian Ocean as landlocked. The depiction of the World is surrounded by the figures of Shem, Japhet and Ham, and the sons of Noah, who re-populated the Earth after the Flood. On the left, printed from a separate block, are pictures of various mythical creatures, based upon classical and early mediaeval travellers' accounts, including "a six-armed man, possibly based on a file of Hindu dancers so aligned that the front figure appears to have multiple arms; a six-fingered man, a centaur, a four-eyed man from a coastal tribe in Ethiopia; a dog-headed man from the Simien Mountains, a cyclops, one of those men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders, one of the crook-legged men who live in the desert and slide along instead of walking; a strange hermaphrodite, a man with one giant foot only (stated by Solinus to be used a parasol but more likely an unfortunate sufferer from elephantisis), a man with a huge underlip (doubtless seen in Africa), a man with waist-length hanging ears, and other frightening and fanciful creatures of a world beyond." The World map also includes a large island off the west coast of Africa, which may relate to the account of Martin Behaim's voyage to the region, which is referenced by Schedel in the text. In 1552, Schedel's grandson, Melchior Schedel, sold about 370 manuscripts and 600 printed worksf from Hartmann Schedel's library to Johann Jakob Fugger. Fugger later sold his library to Duke Albert V of Bavaria in 1571. This library, one of the largest formed by an individual in the 15th century, is now mostly preserved in the Bayerische Staasbibliothek in Munich. Among the surviving portions of Schedel's libary are the records for the publication of the work, including Schedel's contract with Koberger for the publication of the work and the financing of the work by Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, as well as the contracts with Wohlgemut and Pleydenwurff for the original artworks and engravings. The collection also includes the original manuscript copies of the work in Latin and German. (Nuremberg, 1493) [color: Hand Colored, size: 21 x 10.5 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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Wolgemut, Michael.
Four Dancing Couples and Two Musicians.
Wolgemut, Michael. [Four Dancing Couples and Two Musicians]. (One page from Liber Chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493). Woodcut on paper with text. Good condition. Image size 5" x 6½", page size 17" x 11½". Ink notes in a 16th century hand. One of the earliest pictures of a dance from a printed book (Sowell). Art of Terpsichore, #101. This woodcut depicts four stately dancing couples in formal courtly attire of the early Renaissance: the men are to the left of the women and appearing in tights and tunics; the women wear long trailing dresses. Both the male musicians who play a flute and a drum and the dancing couples wear identical shoes that are flat heeled, long and pointed. [Bookseller: Golden Legend, Inc.]
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Natalibus, Petrus de
Catalogus Sanctorum et Gestorum eorum ex Diversis Voluminibus Collectu
1493 - NATALIBUS, PETRUS DE. Catalogus Sanctorum et Gestorum eorum ex Diversis Voluminibus Collectus. Vicenza: Henricus de Sancto Ursio, 12 Dec. 1493. Fol. 331 (of 332) leaves; lacks final blank. Roman type. Title in red and black. Woodcut initials throughout. Nineteenth century Italian vellum, gilt. Brown dampstaining confined to the gutters through most of volume but occasionally extending slightly into top and bottom blank margins. Scattered early marginalia, occasionally cropped. First edition. A collection of brief lives of the saints, arranged according to the liturgical calendar. Goff N6; BMC VII 1047; HC 11676. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA]
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EUCHERIUS, Saint.
Libellus elegans ad Valerianum propinquum suum de contemptu mundi cultuque dei.
Incunable from Zwolle on the contempt of the world by one of the great neglected spiritual writers of Western Orthodoxy (Zwolle, Pieter van Os, between 26 March 1493 and 1 December 1496). 4to. Modern light-brown calf, with the sides of the (a?) contemporary brown calf binding pasted on; the sides are blind-stamped in panel designs, with floral stamps in between. With large woodcut of a bishop holding a book in his hand (St. Eucherius?) on title, and full-page woodcut of Christ as Salvator mundi on verso title, the first initial supplied in blue, all other initials in red, rubricated throughout. 40-42 lines. (8) lvs. Collation: (a)-b4. Finely produced and nicely illustrated incunable, published without address or date by Pieter van Os at Zwolle, on the ground of the abrasion of the woodcuts dated between 26 March 1493 and 1 December 1496. It contains a letter by Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (born ca. 380 - died ca 449), one of the great neglected spiritual writers of Western Orthodoxy and a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. On the death of his wife he withdrew for a time to the monastery of Lérins, on the smaller of the two islands off Antibes , to live a severely simple life of study and devote himself to the education of his sons. Soon afterward he withdrew further, however, to the neighbouring island of Lerona (now Sainte-Marguerite), where he devoted his time to study and mortification of the flesh. It was at this time (ca 428) that Eucherius wrote his epistolary essay De laude Eremi ('In praise of hermits').To his kinsman Valerian, he wrote this Epistola paraenetica ad Valerianum cognatum, de contemptu mundi (Epistle on the contempt of the world) an expression of the despair for the present and future of the world in its last throes shared by many educated men of Late Antiquity, with hope for a world to come, at the same time to persuade him to let go of the riches and vanities of the world. Erasmus thought so highly of its Latin style that he edited and published it at Basel (1520).The fame of Eucherius was soon so widespread in South-eastern Gaul that he was chosen bishop of Lyon in 434. In 1654 the letter translated into English by Henry Vaughan. Fine copy, with ample margins. Hermans, Zwolse boeken, pp. 167-8, nr. ZD 88 (copies a.o. in The Hague and Deventer); Kok, pp. 416-19, 919; GKW 9427/30; IDL 1730; ILC 967; HPT II, 450; Hain-Copinger 6692; Campbell 709; Polain 1424; Abbot 234; Oates 3622; NK 0476. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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Schedel, Hartmann.
Das Buch der Croniken. [Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure[n] und Pildnussen von Anbegin der Welt bis auf dise unsere Zeit.]
Nürnberg (Anton Koberger), 1493. - (10), cclxxxvi, (1)ff. (several misnumbered), plus 2 blank leaves. 645 woodblocks, repeated to a total of 1,809 impressions. Stout folio. 431 x 307 mm. Contemporary stamped pigskin over heavy wooden boards, recently rebacked; remains of one metal clasp and one leather thong. The first German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed simultaneously with the Latin edition (Liber Chronicarum) in July 1493, but published some five months later, on 23 December. The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century and quite arguably the greatest, the Nuremberg Chronicle--a massive history of the world from Creation to the time of its publication--is filled with woodcuts of exceptionally high quality by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff depicting a vast range of Biblical and historical subjects, and including many detailed views of contemporary European cities, which are of great topographic interest. The significance of Wolgemut's and Pleydenwurff's innovations for the development of a new woodcut style----also to be seen in their "Schatzbehalter" of 1491--is underscored both by the fact that here they are the first artists ever to be named in the colophon of a book, and by the almost certain participation of Wolgemut's young apprentice Albrecht Dürer, whose Apocalypse illustrations are remarkably close to these. The text, which was translated from the Latin by Georg Alt, covers not only the Old and New Testaments, and classical and mediaeval history, but such recent and contemporary events as the invention of printing in Mainz, the exploration of the Atlantic and of Africa, the heresy of Wycliff and the Hussites, and other subjects. This vernacular German edition was the first history of the world printed in any language other than Latin, and it is notably rarer than the Latin, having been printed in a considerably smaller edition. Title-page trimmed at all sides; some 50 leaves have been remargined and extended and fitted into the binding; intermittent soiling and light waterstaining, occasional old mends (including marginal reinforcement at the foot of the double-page map), cut rather close at top edge towards the end, slightly cropping the foliation of several leaves; the binding with losses of the pigskin, primarily on the lower cover, exposing small portions of the wooden boards. A desirable copy, complete with the two blank leaves, the Pope Joan text and illustration (f. clxix verso) untouched. Two ownership inscriptions at the foot of the second leaf, one of them sixteenth-century, the other "Mich. [?] Richey 1737"; bookplate and miscellaneous bookseller descriptions mounted inside front cover and on initial blank. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)]
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William Faden
A Map of America or The New World wherein are introduced All The Known Parts of the Western Hemisphere...with …additions of the Discoveries made since the Year 1761…1797.
First state of Faden's beautiful map of America and the Western Hemisphere, with the words O Rare Columbus at the top of the title cartouche. The map illustrates the discoveries of Captains Cook & La Perouse along the NW Coast of America and throughout the Pacific, including the Sandwich Islands. Pope Alexander's 1493 Line of Demarcation is shown in the Atlantic, separating the Portugese and Spanish possessions. The Antarctic Icy Sea is noted, along with a note reading Cook's Nec Plus Ultra 71 Degrees 10 Minutes Latitude South January 30th 1774. While the Bay of the West is not shown, there is an annotation in the Northwest which reads A'ASS TOPULSE or GREAT SEA of the Indians SEA of THE WEST of the Geographers. The Arctic Icy Sea or Hyperborean Sea is named. Excellent detail along the Northwest Passage, with several additional annotations. Several discovery and explorations annotations appear in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, relative to late 18th Century discoveries. Attractive cartouche with the words O Rare Columbia engraved in the clouds above the cartouche. A striking example of the first edition of this map. Stevens & Tree 2(a). Only the second example of the map we have handled in 15 years. Cleanly split at the fold and rejoined. (London, 1797) [color: Hand Colored, size: 23 x 21 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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KOPPEL, Susanne, et al., eds.
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH.
- Text in German. Lacks volume II, part II. Volume I describes 684 works on Brazil published from 1493 to 1919. Each entry gives a full bibliographic description of each book with useful commentary by the editor. Volume II, part I has the original slipcase. This volume describes 236 sketches, with commentaries by the editors, from the 1815-1817 expedition to Brazil of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied. 92 sketches are illustrated in color in this volume. 108 color plates, 42 b/w plates, 2 maps. Band I and Band II, part I only. 2 vols. 4to, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. lightly rubbed, otherwise very good). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1986, 1988). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]
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PASCAL, Antoine.
Redouté's Blumenmalerkunst. Oder Anweisung, Blumen in Aquarell, nach der, bis jetzt unbeschriebenen Manier des berühmten französischen Blumenmalers Redouté, nach der Natur zu malen; mit Erläuterung der andern Arten der Malerei, einer gedrängten Einleitung in die Pflanzenkenntniss, einer Anleitung zum leichten Erlernen des Blumenzeichnens, zur Composition und zu verschiedenen Vortheilen für Blumenmaler, besonders zum Selbstunterricht. Frei nach dem Französischen des Pascal bearbeitet und mit Zusätzen versehen von einem Liebhaber der Blumenmalerei.Quedlinburg, Leipzig, Gottfr. Basse, 1839. 4to. With 8 lithographed plates, 5 of them coloured. Modern half morocco.
- iv, 26, (2) pp. OCLC WorldCat (1 copy at Dumbarton Oaks); cf. Blunt, p. 219; Nissen, BBI 1493; Stiftung für Botanik 588; not in Dunthorne.Rare German translation of Antoine Pascal's L'Aquarelle, ou, les fleurs peintes d'apres la methode de M. Redouté, 1836, a detailed instruction for flower painting by a pupil of Redouté. Redouté himself never described his own methods. The anonymous translator writes in his introduction that he wanted to adapt the original to make it more accessible for novice painters. He gives a general introduction to different forms of painting, and an introduction to botany. The chapter "Unterricht" expands on the materials, drawing, painting, and the framing the pictures. There are two general plates, with numerous figures providing examples for the artist and illustrating the use of colour and perspective. The other six plates depict three different flowers, each uncoloured and coloured. Blunt does not mention the present German translation, and knew the French original, only from the entry in the British Museum catalogue, as the book had been destroyed in World War II. Nissen could not locate a copy either, and merely refers to Blunt.Very good copy, slightly foxed. Rare translation of a work on Redouté's painting methods by one of his pupils. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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EUCHERIUS, Saint.
Incunable from Zwolle on the contempt of the world by one of the great neglected spiritual writers of Western Orthodoxy Libellus elegans ad Valerianum propinquum suum de contemptu mundi cultuque dei.
(Zwolle, Pieter van Os, between 26 March 1493 and 1 December 1496). - 4to. Modern light-brown calf, with the sides of the (a?) contemporary brown calf binding pasted on; the sides are blind-stamped in panel designs, with floral stamps in between. With large woodcut of a bishop holding a book in his hand (St. Eucherius?) on title, and full-page woodcut of Christ as Salvator mundi on verso title, the first initial supplied in blue, all other initials in red, rubricated throughout. 40-42 lines. (8) lvs. Collation: (a)-b4. Finely produced and nicely illustrated incunable, published without address or date by Pieter van Os at Zwolle, on the ground of the abrasion of the woodcuts dated between 26 March 1493 and 1 December 1496. It contains a letter by Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (born ca. 380 - died ca 449), one of the great neglected spiritual writers of Western Orthodoxy and a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. On the death of his wife he withdrew for a time to the monastery of Lérins, on the smaller of the two islands off Antibes, to live a severely simple life of study and devote himself to the education of his sons. Soon afterward he withdrew further, however, to the neighbouring island of Lerona (now Sainte-Marguerite), where he devoted his time to study and mortification of the flesh. It was at this time (ca 428) that Eucherius wrote his epistolary essay De laude Eremi ('In praise of hermits').To his kinsman Valerian, he wrote this Epistola paraenetica ad Valerianum cognatum, de contemptu mundi (Epistle on the contempt of the world) an expression of the despair for the present and future of the world in its last throes shared by many educated men of Late Antiquity, with hope for a world to come, at the same time to persuade him to let go of the riches and vanities of the world. Erasmus thought so highly of its Latin style that he edited and published it at Basel (1520).The fame of Eucherius was soon so widespread in South-eastern Gaul that he was chosen bishop of Lyon in 434. In 1654 the letter translated into English by Henry Vaughan. Fine copy, with ample margins. Hermans, Zwolse boeken, pp. 167-8, nr. ZD 88 (copies a.o. in The Hague and Deventer); Kok, pp. 416-19, 919; GKW 9427/30; IDL 1730; ILC 967; HPT II, 450; Hain-Copinger 6692; Campbell 709; Polain 1424; Abbot 234; Oates 3622; NK 0476. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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SVETONIUS TR. GAIUS
VITAECAESARUM (CUM COMMENTARIO ANTONIUS SABELLICUS).
(IN FINE) : VENETIIS PER DAMIANUM DE GORGONZOLA. XXIX MENSE MARTII 1493, VENETIIS - [INCUNABOLO] (cm. 31) bella legatura del XX secolo in mz. vitello su assicelle in legno di faggio. Quattro nervi e impressioni a secco in stile quattrocentesco, sguardie antiche.-- cc. 129(su 130) carattere rotondo, 48 linee per il testo e 60-62 per il commento. Il testo inizia a carta a2: M. Antonius Sabellicus Augustino Barbarico serenissimo Venetiarum principi salutem. Al verso è un proemio. L' opera contiene vari passaggi in caratteri greci che sono fra i più antichi usati nella stampa. Il tipografo, Damiano de Mediolano nativo di Gorgonzola, stampò una dozzina di libri a Venezia e nel settembre del 1500 si stabilì a Perugia. La prima carta, che contiene il solo titolo: "Svetonius cum commento" è perfettamente riprodotta in fac-simile su carta antica ben uniformata al volume, tanto che è distinguibile solo per la diversa filigrana e così ingannevole da poter essere presa per originale. Qualche macchietta alle prime due carte e più pesanti alle ultime tre con lievi difetti. L' ultima carta contiene la vita di Svetonio e il registro, al verso è bianca. altrimenti esemplare bello e nitido. HAIN-C. 15124; I.G.I. 9237; GOFF S 824; HARPER(1930) 393; PELLECHET 10809; PROCTOR 5512; POLAIN 3629; BMC. V 543; OLSCHKI(2903) "MONUMENTA TYPOGRAPHICA" n° 1174. [Bookseller: LIBRI ANTICHI E RARI FRANCESCO&CLAUDIA]
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SCHEDELSCHE. -
Holzschnitt aus der Schedelsche Weltchronik.
- Farbig, teils vergoldet, handkoloriert. Titel: Das funft alter. Colonia. Nuremberg chronicles - colonia. Blatt XC: Geschichte von Antipater, Ptolomeus Dionysus XII., Cleopatra, Herodes. //.// und XCI (Rückseite): Colonia. Genealogie ganz erhalten. Colonia - Holzschnitt zur Hälfte (linke) und nur oberer Teil erhalten. Farbig. Kronen mit Goldfarbe. Nürnberg, 1493. 2 Blätter. Die Geschichte der Welt wird in der Chronik in sieben Zeitaltern dargestellt. Holzschnitte der Wolgemut-Werkstatt. Nuremberg chronicles - colonia. Blatt XC und XCI (Rückseite). Geschichte von Antipater, Ptolomeus Dionysus XII., Cleopatra, Herodes. // Colonia. Genealogie ganz erhalten.Ein wenig stockfleckig. //.// Schweizer Kunden können unser schweizer Geschäftskonto nutzen //.// Schedelsche Weltchronik, Colonia, Antipater, Ptolomeus, Cleopatra, Wolgemut, Mittelalter, Holzschnitt. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Karel Marel]
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PASCAL, Antoine.
Redouté's Blumenmalerkunst. Oder Anweisung, Blumen in Aquarell, nach der, bis jetzt unbeschriebenen Manier des berühmten französischen Blumenmalers Redouté, nach der Natur zu malen; mit Erläuterung der andern Arten der Malerei, einer gedrängten Einleitung in die Pflanzenkenntniss, einer Anleitung zum leichten Erlernen des Blumenzeichnens, zur Composition und zu verschiedenen Vortheilen für Blumenmaler, besonders zum Selbstunterricht. Frei nach dem Französischen des Pascal bearbeitet und mit Zusätzen versehen von einem Liebhaber der Blumenmalerei.Quedlinburg, Leipzig, Gottfr. Basse, 1839. 4to. With 8 lithographed plates, 5 of them coloured. Modern half morocco.
- iv, 26, (2) pp. OCLC WorldCat (1 copy at Dumbarton Oaks); cf. Blunt, p. 219; Nissen, BBI 1493; Stiftung für Botanik 588; not in Dunthorne.Rare German translation of Antoine Pascal's L'Aquarelle, ou, les fleurs peintes d'apres la methode de M. Redouté, 1836, a detailed instruction for flower painting by a pupil of Redouté. Redouté himself never described his own methods. The anonymous translator writes in his introduction that he wanted to adapt the original to make it more accessible for novice painters. He gives a general introduction to different forms of painting, and an introduction to botany. The chapter "Unterricht" expands on the materials, drawing, painting, and the framing the pictures. There are two general plates, with numerous figures providing examples for the artist and illustrating the use of colour and perspective. The other six plates depict three different flowers, each uncoloured and coloured. Blunt does not mention the present German translation, and knew the French original, only from the entry in the British Museum catalogue, as the book had been destroyed in World War II. Nissen could not locate a copy either, and merely refers to Blunt.Very good copy, slightly foxed. Rare translation of a work on Redouté's painting methods by one of his pupils. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN.
A SINGLE LEAF FROM LIBER CHRONICARUM. [THE NUREMBURG CHRONICLE].
Nuremburg: Anton Koberger 1493 - Folio, (405x275mm), leaf [cxxvi]/cxxvii, 62 lines in black letter type with 6 woodcut portraits of St Cristina, Julianus, Saturninus, Mennamiles, Victor, and Susanna on the recto and 5 woodcut portaits of Constantius, Galerius, Senerus & Maximianus, Licinius, and Maxentius on the verso. Slightly woiled, a small tear in the margin at the head/spine corner and a piece of later paper overlaid in the margin, perhaps to stiffen the rather thin paper at that point. A fine leaf from the first edition of what is surely one of the greatest of early printed books. The woodcuts were done by Michael Wohlgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Barry McKay Rare Books]
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Hartmann SCHEDEL
Hierosolima
Town Plan. Woodcut with modern hand coloring. Image measures 7.5" x 8.75", image plus text measures 14.75" x 8.75". From the German edition of the Liber cronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle). The first secular published book, it tells the history of the earth through seven "ages". This town plan of Jerusalem is one of two in the book. Includes city walls, the Temple of Solomon and David's Gate. [Publisher: Koberger, Anton] [Bookseller: amazon.com]
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514).
Liber chronicarum.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Folio (440x 300mm). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 122 134 14-166 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-606 616-2] (1/1r xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 1/2r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 52/5-6 and 53/1 blank but for foliation on rectos and headlines recto and verso, 54/6v blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Europe, 61/4v colophon, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement (this quire bound at the end, as often), 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank). Ff. [20], I-CCXCIX, [CCC], [CCCI-CCCVI]; f. XXIX misnumbered XIXX, f. CCXXIX misnumbered CCXXXI. 326 (of 328) leaves, without final blanks 61/5-6 as often. 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, ff. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110bG (text). Woodcut initials, capitals supplied by hand in red and blue. Illustration: 1,809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century, Hammersmith: 1897, pp. 35-6), by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and their workshop, some full-page or extending over two pages, including a double-page Ptolemaic world map on 6/2v-6/3r and a double-page map of Northern and Central Europe on 61/3v-4r. Binding: full native-tanned and -dyed Niger morocco over plywood boards by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Letchworth for Paul Hirsch, c. 1937 with Cockerell's manuscript note tipped onto lower pastedown [vide infra], spine divided into compartments by five raised bands, lettered in one compartment with author's name and title, and at the foot with place and date of publication, the other compartments with phoenix tools in blind, the bands terminating on the boards in points enclosed by three groups of three trefoil tools in blind with gilt dots between the stems, red- and blue-sprinkled edges, cloth solander box by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 1989. Provenance: late 15th-/early 16th-century inscription on title noting that Hartmann Schedel of Nuremberg was the author of the work; a few leaves with early annotations, including some around the scored-through woodcut of Pope Joan on f. CLXIXv; Baron Gottfried Daniel Wunschwitz (1678-1741, ownership inscription on title 'Godefridus Daniel Liber Baro de Wunschwitz. Anno 1699'); Paul and Olga Hirsch (1881-1951 and 1889-1969, note by Roger Powell of Douglas Cockerell & Son recording restoration for Paul Hirsch tipped onto the lower board, with a printed woodcut panel on the left bearing the text 'repaired \| for paul \| hirsch by \| douglas \| cockerell \| and son \| letchworth \| 1937' beneath a phoenix device and a manuscript note reading: 'The whole of this book has been resized, after treating the blue initial letters with cellulose, to hold the colour while wet, with very satisfactory results. Owing to the bad state of the book generally & of the indifferent existing rebinding, the binding has been scrapped & the book cut into single leaves & French guarded, throwing out double page illustrations to allow them to open to the middle. The book is now sewn on five double cords, & lined up between the bands with Native tanned & dyed Niger skin, the ends of the lines being carried onto the inside of the (plywood) boards, following the Mediaeval practice. The headbands are sewn with unbleached linen sewing thread over a roll of Native Niger & sewing cord, & with silk over gut. D.C & Son. 65.'; typed 20th-century short-title description tipped onto upper pastedown; manuscript note [attributed to Olga Hirsch by the accompanying typed transcription] describing the work and its contents and referring to a typed letter signed by Andrew Cook about the work (present), s.l., s.d., 2 pp., 4to; typed note signed by the conservator R.W. Proctor, stating that 'After water damage the text block has been treated with a distilled water/I.M.S. solution. The cover treated with leather dressing of lanolin/neatsfoot oil/canuba wax, and a protective box provided', Fitzwilliam Museum, [Cambridge], 25 August 1989, 1 p., oblong 12mo, in envelope with paper, vellum and leather fragments, presumably recovered from the volume by Cockerell). Condition: text leaves with some light marking, heavier on title, some light damp-marking on margins, some marginal tears or chips, occasionally causing loss or touching text, some skilfully repaired, some supplied capitals affected by water, all leaves guarded in by Cockerell & Son; binding with minor rubbing and scuffing and slight damp-marking to lower parts of boards; overall a fresh and clean copy in a fine binding by Cockerell & Son. References: Bod-Inc S-108; BMC II, p. 437; Brunet I, col. 1860; CIBN S-161; Goff S307; HC 14508; Polain (B) 3469; for the maps see T. Campbell The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500 (London: 1987), 219-220. First edition. The Liber chronicarum was compiled by the German doctor and scholar Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) from a wide variety of sources, with the assistance of the humanist and poet Konrad Celtis (1459-1508) and the Nuremberg physician and traveller Hieronymous Münzer (1437-1508), under the patronage of Sebald Schreyer, a wealthy fur-trader, bibliophile, and humanist of Nuremberg, and Sebastian Kammermeister. This first edition was published in Latin in July 1493, in an edition thought to have been of c. 1,500 copies, and it was followed some months later by a German edition of c. 1,000 copies in December 1493. As a chronicle of world history, the Liber chronicarum followed an established pattern of mediaeval historiography, describing the sacred and profane history of the Christian era within the structure of the six ages of the world, from the Creation to the Day of Judgement. A. and J.L. Wilson comment that, 'On the whole, Schedel's text is scarcely more than an eclectic scholastic work in a thin humanist guise [...] But the Schedel Chronicle very rightly became famous because of its illustrations, its extraordinary graphic design, its printing, and for its woodcuts and descriptions of cities. The Nuremberg Chronicle remains one of the great works in graphic art of the fifteenth century and its making deserves the interest not only of art historians, typographers and printers, but of all those who love books' (The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (Amsterdam: 1976) p. 28). The striking woodcuts for which the work is celebrated were executed by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and their workshop, and it is thought that some are most probably the work of the young Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), who was apprenticed to Michael Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, and was the godson of Anton Koberger, the printer of the book. The range of subjects of the woodcuts -- which number some 1,809 illustrations printed from 645 blocks -- include biblical and mythical scenes, portraits of historical and ecclesiastical figures, and many views of towns and cities throughout the known world, including the famous double-page view of Nuremberg, and images of Babylon, Constantinople, Jericho, Jerusalem, Naples, Venice, and Rhodes. The work also includes two double-page maps: a world map and a map of Northern and Central Europe. The Ptolemaic world map depicts the Eastern hemisphere, and is a copy of a woodcut map issued in Erhard Ratdolt's edition of Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia geographia (Venice: 1482), with 'one small refinement, a curiously shaped, unidentified island off the west African coast' (Campbell, p. 152). Whilst the map reproduces the border of twelve heads representing the twelve wind directions from Ratdolt's map, 'what makes [this map] visually so distinct from its predecessors is the way in which the medieval myth and fantasy that fill so much of the volume spill over onto the margins of the map itself. Three of its corners are occupied by portraits of Shem, Ham and Japhet, the sons of Noah supposedly responsible for recolonizing the world after the Flood, while the left-hand margin displays seven semi-human creatures. These are printed from a separate woodblock and mark the end of a catalogue of human freaks, starting on the preceding page, which derive from the ever-popular Polyhistor of Solinus [...] Comparison of the bald and ascetic Mela cut with the flowing lines, elegant lettering and characterful faces of the Nuremberg version emphasizes the latter's sophistication' (loc. cit.). The second map, of Northern and Central Europe, is circumscribed by Iceland and Scandinavia in the north, the British Isles in the west, Marseilles, Trieste and Constantinople in the south, and the edge of the Black Sea in the east. It is thought to be the work of Schedel's collaborator Münzer, who had travelled through Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and supplied some of the geographical information on Europe in the Liber chronicarum: 'Scholars incline to the view that Münzer had access to the lost manuscript of [Cardinal Nicholas of] Cusa's ["Eichstätt"] map, supposedly drawn somewhere in the period 1439-54. On these grounds, Münzer's map is claimed as the first modern map of this region to appear in print. Although published later than the map of Germany in the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy, it was constructed earlier' (Campbell, p. 153). This copy was previously in the library of Baron Gottfried Daniel Wunschwitz, the son of Matthias Gottfried Wunschwitz (1632-1695). The Bohemian general Matthias Gottfried Wunschwitz was an adviser to Emperor Leopold I (by whom he was created a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire in 1671) and scholar, who is described by the Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne as 'extrêmement instruit, non-seulement dans le jurisprudence et la politique, mais encore dans la philologie et les sciences théologiques' (XLIV, p. 115), and was the author of many works on the political history of Germany, which remained unpublished at his death. His son Gottfried Daniel Wunschwitz, who acquired this work in 1699, was very well educated under the direction of his father, and spent six years travelling throughout Europe, visiting England, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, and Italy, and becoming an accomplished linguist. In the course of his travels, Wunschwitz acquired a large collection of paintings, antiquities, medals, and rare manuscripts (and possibly the present volume), and on his return to Bohemia devoted himself to historical studies, publishing his Memoriae genealogico-heraldicae in Prague in 1727 and a number of works on St John Nepomuk in the 1720s. Upon his death in 1741, he left (like his father) many unpublished manuscripts, which the Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne describes as 'extrêmement remarquables; et plusieurs personnes, qui ont les compulsés, assurent que comme antiquaire, historien, et généalogiste, l'auteur s'y montre un savant de premier ordre' (loc. cit.); a large collection of Wunschwitz's manuscripts are held by the Národní Archiv, Prague. Subsequently, the present copy was in the celebrated collections of Paul and Olga Hirsch. Paul Hirsch was the son of the wealthy industrialist Ferdinand Hirsch (1843-1916), the founder of the Frankfurt-am-Main firm Hirsch und Co., one of the largest iron businesses in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Paul Hirsch became Director of Hirsch und Co (and was also the Vice-President of the Industrie- und Handelskammer Frankfurt-Hanau), but his overriding passion was music and his outstanding library of printed and manuscript music and other works. Hirsch was an accomplished musician, who played the violin and the viola to a high standard (having studied the former under Weigert and Rebner), and began his collection of music as a sixteen-year-old with the acquisition of a copy of Johann Sebastian Bach's Matthäus-Passion in 1897. Purchasing from a wide range of booksellers in Germany and abroad, Hirsch built up a remarkable library, which was curated by his librarian Kathi Meyer-Baer and would eventually total some 18,000 volumes. From 1909, Hirsch opened the library to the public for two afternoons a week at his home at 29 Neue Mainzerstraße, and its reputation as one of the pre-eminent European collections of music in rare and important editions grew swiftly, attracting distinguished and admiring visitors such as the violinist Alfred Einstein, cousin of the physicist (the house was also the venue for chamber music concerts given by Hirsch's string quartet and quintet). Hirsch was the founder of the Frankfurter Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft, of which he was President from 1922 to 1933, and he published a series of scholarly works on his collection, which documented the development and growth of the library and culminated in the finely-produced, four-volume Katalog de Musikbibliothek Paul Hirsch (Berlin, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Cambridge: 1928-1947), edited by Hirsch and Meyer-Baer and issued in an edition of 300 copies. Following the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s, Paul and Olga Hirsch left Germany for England in 1936, where they settled in Cambridge. Remarkably, Hirsch was able to remove his library from Germany to England by train with the assistance of Olga (a binding specialist and collector in her own right), who oversaw the packing of the collection; the covert removal of such a substantial and important library from Germany was a notable feat, particularly when one considers that collections of important German material were frequently acquired by prominent Nazis under duress, either by seizure or forced sales at very low prices. Much of the collection was then placed on loan at Cambridge University Library, where it remained until 1946, when the music collection was sold to the British Library for £120,000, whence it was followed by the bequest of Olga Hirsch's collection of decorated papers to the British Library in 1968. The Liber chronicarum was one of a number of works in the collections of Paul and Olga Hirsch that was not related to music or decorated papers, and therefore remained in the family collection. The restoration and rebinding of this volume was undertaken by the leading British bookbinders Douglas Cockerell & Son for Paul Hirsch, as the note tipped onto the lower pastedown attests, and it seems probable that this work was executed after a fire at Hirsch's home in Cambridge in January 1937. Roger Powell (who worked for Douglas Cockerell & Son from 1935 to 1947 and wrote this label), noted on the endpapers of his copy of Cockerell's Bookbinding and the Care of Books (London: 1915) that in the 1930s Cockerell 'produced a copy of B[ook]b[inding]. & the C[are]. of B[ook]'s interleaved with blank paper & invited me to re-write the book with him. Half an hour later came an S.O.S. call from Paul Hirsch in Cambridge telling him of a fire in his house - 300 books soused in dirty water. The re-writing got no further! R.P. 1983' (cf. sale Ceramics, Glass and Decorative Arts including [...] the Powell Archive, Bonham's Knowle, 22 November 2005, lot 513, quoting the note). The printing of the slips recording Cockerell & Son's restoration (which are found in a number of Hirsch's books) suggests the restoration of a significant number of books, and the use of a phoenix device on both Cockerell & Son's slips and the spine of the volume make it seem probable that this volume was one of those damaged in the fire. Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945) was the brother of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, a friend (and eventually the executor) of William Morris and from 1894 Secretary to the Kelmscott Press, and in 1893 Douglas was apprenticed to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery in Hammersmith. At the Doves Bindery, Cockerell was responsible for the special pigskin bindings executed on the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's Works (Hammersmith: 1896), which were designed by Morris and based on a 15th-century German binding by Ulrich Schreier in Morris' library. Interestingly and appropriately, the illustration of Schedel's Liber chronicarum was analysed and described in S.C. Cockerell's Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century, which was based on incunabula in Morris' library and published by the Kelmscott Press in 1897. In 1897 Douglas Cockerell established his own bindery in London, which merged with the W.H. Smith & Sons' bindery in 1904. In 1924 Cockerell re-established his bindery in Letchworth in partnership with his son Sydney Morris ('Sandy') Cockerell, under the name Douglas Cockerell and Son. As Bernard Middleton states, Cockerell 'put many of [Cobden-Sanderson's] ideals into practice, developed more of his own in a very practical way, and influenced bookbinding thought far more than anyone else has done in the past, or probably ever will again' (A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique (New York and London: 1963), p. 273). In tandem with Cockerell's teaching and practical efforts to improve the standard of bookbinding in Britain, after Sandy Cockerell joined the bindery, 'The binding of manuscripts and early printed books with a view to their conservation was increasingly important [... Cockerell's] approach, grounded in traditional structure and materials, lent itself to that kind of work, and in 1935 he rebound the celebrated fourth-century biblical text the Codex Sinaiticus for the British Museum. This approach came to be recognized as the "Cockerell tradition" in British craft bookbinding. It was born of the romantic enthusiasms of the Arts and Crafts movement at the turn of the century, but it lasted beyond them because Cockerell's insistence on sound workmanship answered the conservation needs of university and cathedral libraries' (ODNB, s.n.). [Bookseller: Henry Sotheran Ltd.*]
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Schedel, Hartmann.
Das Buch der Croniken.... [Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure[n] und Pildnussen von Anbegin der Welt bis auf dise unsere Zeit.]
Nürnberg (Anton Koberger), 1493. (10), cclxxxvi, (1)ff. (several misnumbered), plus 2 blank leaves. 645 woodblocks, repeated to a total of 1,809 impressions. Stout folio. 431 x 307 mm. Contemporary stamped pigskin over heavy wooden boards, recently rebacked; remains of one metal clasp and one leather thong. The first German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed simultaneously with the Latin edition (Liber Chronicarum) in July 1493, but published some five months later, on 23 December. The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century and quite arguably the greatest, the Nuremberg Chronicle--a massive history of the world from Creation to the time of its publication--is filled with woodcuts of exceptionally high quality by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff depicting a vast range of Biblical and historical subjects, and including many detailed views of contemporary European cities, which are of great topographic interest. The significance of Wolgemut’s and Pleydenwurff’s innovations for the development of a new woodcut style----also to be seen in their “Schatzbehalter” of 1491--is underscored both by the fact that here they are the first artists ever to be named in the colophon of a book, and by the almost certain participation of Wolgemut’s young apprentice Albrecht Dürer, whose Apocalypse illustrations are remarkably close to these. The text, which was translated from the Latin by Georg Alt, covers not only the Old and New Testaments, and classical and mediaeval history, but such recent and contemporary events as the invention of printing in Mainz, the exploration of the Atlantic and of Africa, the heresy of Wycliff and the Hussites, and other subjects. This vernacular German edition was the first history of the world printed in any language other than Latin, and it is notably rarer than the Latin, having been printed in a considerably smaller edition. Title-page trimmed at all sides; some 50 leaves have been remargined and extended and fitted into the binding; intermittent soiling and light waterstaining, occasional old mends (including marginal reinforcement at the foot of the double-page map), cut rather close at top edge towards the end, slightly cropping the foliation of several leaves; the binding with losses of the pigskin, primarily on the lower cover, exposing small portions of the wooden boards. A desirable copy, complete with the two blank leaves, the Pope Joan text and illustration (f. clxix verso) untouched. Two ownership inscriptions at the foot of the second leaf, one of them sixteenth-century, the other “Mich. [?] Richey 1737”; bookplate and miscellaneous bookseller descriptions mounted inside front cover and on initial blank. [Bookseller: Ars Libri Ltd.]
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Potter, G.R.
NEW CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY, THE. Volumes I - XII. Plus Volume XIV Atlas ( 13 Volumes total)
Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge - All 13 volumes bound in matching dark blue cloth with spines lettered and ruled in gold and with Cambridge seal in gold at base of spine. Top fore edges are blue. All volumes have their original blue-and-black dust jackets with some degree of chipping and wear; they are all price clipped. Volumes I: The Renaissance, 1493-1520, edited by G. R. Potter [1971). Volume II: The Reformation, 1520-1559, edited by G. R. Elton [1968]; Volume III: The Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution, 1559-1610, edited by R. B. Wernham [1968]; Volume IV: The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609-48/59, edited by J. P. Cooper, [1971]; Volume V: The Ascendancy of France, 1648-88, edited by F. L. Carsten [1964], first few pages are creased; Volume VI: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25, edited by J. S. Bromley [1970]; Volume VII: The Old Regime, 1713-63, edited by J. O. Lindsay [1970]; Volume VIII: The American and French Revolutions, 1763-93, edited by A. Goodwin [1971]; Volume IX: War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval, 1793-1830, edited by C. W. Crawley [1974]; Volume X: The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70, edited y J. P. T. Bury [1971]; Volume XI: Material Progress and World-wide Problems, 1870-1898, edited by F. H. Hinsley [1970] Volume XII: The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898-1945, edited by C.L. Mowat [1968]. Missing volume XII. Volume XIV: Atlas, edited by H.C.Darby and Harold Fullard [1970]. This is a heavy set and will require extra shipping. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: BEACON BOOKS]
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JOHANNES DE VERDENA.
SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE TEMPORE. [bound with] SERMONES DORMI SECURE DE SANCTIS.
Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 10 January 1493 [for first part], 27 December 1492 [for the second] - Excellent Contemporary Copy of Very Rare EditionIssued by the Only 15th Century Printer in Hagenau [134] and [200] leaves (instead of the 134 and 196 called for): the second part with four leaves of gathering C repeated; gathering K of the second part bound in incorrect order but all leaves present. Two works in one volume. PLEASING CONTEMPORARY PIGSKIN OVER WOODEN BOARDS the covers featuring a large diapered central panel with lozenges containing various stamps of circular oblong spade-like and diamond shapes inhabited by the symbols of the four evangelists (the angel of St. Matthew the lion of St. Mark and the bull of St. Luke both with wings and the eagle of St. John) a unicorn two eagles and various botanical images the whole surrounded by a border of scrolls proclaiming Maria raised bands two circular stamps containing roses in each of the four large spine panels a (17th century?) paper label covering most of the top two panels and a small oblong shelf label in the third lightened area at the center of fore edge where clasp once was present inside of the covers with transfers from the text and music of an old (ca. 1300?) vellum manuscript formerly used as pastedowns but now gone revealing the inner structure of the book with rawhide cords and wooden pegs now exposed in the channels carved out of the wooden b