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LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis: ac mendosa. Nouissime autem a viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata: scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono vicentino: . Additis insuper de nouo grecis: que vbique deerant.
Agostino de Zani for Melchior Sessa 4 June 1511, Venice - Modern binding using vellum leaves from a 15th-century manuscript over boards backed with new vellum backing Folio . An important and rare corrected edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated edition of Lucan's epic of the Civil Wars edited by Joannes Sulpitius and Omnibonus of Vicenza. According to d"Essling (cf. vol. p. 271 for illus.) this is also the first appearance of these woodcuts. As occasionally happens during the process of printing there was some variety in the quality of paper used in the printing of this work with the result that about a dozen leaves are foxed and somewhat browned but with the remaining text generally fresh and white. Presumably all copies would have this same problem however due to the rarity of the work I haven't been able to find another copy to compare. No copies located by the OCLC in US libraries [4], 205 leaves (without last blank leaf). Title printed in red, Sessa's cat and mouse device on title and smaller device on last page; 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. About a dozen leaves have browned and there is a small inkstain in outer blank corner of latter part of the work; few minor marginal dampstains; inner margin of first and last few leaves reinforced § d'Essling, Libres a figures Vénitiens II, p. 270, no. 853 (p. 271: illus.); Edit16 CNCE 52789; not in Adams or the BM/STC Italian. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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[Coutumes. Comtat Venaissin, 1511]. Statuta comitatus venayssini.
Thomas Des Cloches 1511 Petit in-4 gothique de (55) ff. (le dernier feuillet, blanc g8, manque). Relié à la suite : [Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini ]. Manuscrit de (35) ff. Les 2 pièces reliées en 1 vol petit-in-4 (130 x 200 mm), basane havane, dos orné à nerfs (reliure de la fin du XVIIe siècle). 8500 Edition originale des Statuts du comtat venaissin imprimée à Avignon par Thomas Des Cloches. Au verso du titre : Statuta edita per reverendissimum in Christo patrem dominum Henricum episcopum ruthenensen rectorem comitatus Venayssimi. Et confirmata per Fe Re. Clementam papam septinum. Une des premières impressions avignonnaises ornée sur le titre de 2 gravures sur bois : Vierge à l'enfant (30 x 50 mm) et les armoiries de Julien de La Rovère (70 x 50 mm) ; ces mêmes armoiries sont copiées à l'encre au verso du titre. Le texte imprimé est copieusement annoté en marges et suivi de feuillets manuscrits qui sont le commentaire anonyme latin de chaque article (Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini). L'ensemble de ces notes a certainement été rédigé autour de 1700 ; quelques annnotations manuscrites dans le texte et un ex-libris biffé sur le titre sont en revanche de l'époque de l'impression. Ex-libris armorié et manuscrit du comte Victor de Gaudemaris (1835-1918), conservateur du musée des photographies documentaires de Provence, accompagné d'une note manuscrite en regard : Extraits du livre des statuts du comté venaissin existant (ä) la cour de la rectorie du d. comtat venaissin , par honorable homme maître romain filieul {filoili} notaire et secrétaire de la communauté de Carpentras et par Jean Rouland {Rolandi} et (ä) {Raimondi} aussi notaires et greffiers de laditte cour de la Rectorie. Nota {ce livre est rare}. Mouillure marginale, léger manque de papier sans atteinte au texte au dernier feuillet, premier plat légèrement épidermé. Comme l'exemplaire décrit par Brunet, le nôtre est incomplet du dernier feuillet blanc (a-f par huit et g par sept). Brunet II, 394 : ' Cette édition est fort rare É ; Baudrier, X, 312 ; Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana XXXIII, p.19 ; Gouron et Terrin, 923. [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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Bernadus Sylvanus
Quinta Asiae Tabula [Persia]
Sylvanus' map of Persia, is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printedin two colors. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates. The map has been printed on two leaves, which have here been rejoined and backed with Japan paper on the verso, and trimmed into the right margin, with minor loss of text. In all, this remains a good example of a map which very rarely appears on the market. The map appeared in Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae . . ., publish in Venice in 1511. (Venice, 1511) [color: Uncolored, size: 20 x 16 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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CLICHTOVE, Josse, ed.)
Dogma moralium philosophorum compendiose et studiose collectum
Josse Badius Ascencius for Jean Petit, Paris 1511 - Modern full calf with original tooled calf laid over Small 4to . FIRST EDITION of Josse Clichtove's revision of the "Dogma moralium philosophorum" which is a collection of quotations taken primarily from Seneca and Cicero, supplemented by Sallust, Boethius, Horace, Juvenal, Terence and Lucan that was put together by an unidentified twelfth-century author working in northern France. Half of the work consists of extracts from classical authors illustrating "That which is morally virtuous", organized according to the four cardinal virtues. This work was very popular in the Middle Ages with over one hundred Latin manuscripts surviving. It was translated into French, German, Italian and even Icelandic. It was first printed at Deventer in 1479. In the present edition Clichtove (cf. Contemporaries of Erasmus I, pp. 317-20) has reworked the text and has gone on to identify the sources of the classical quotations. The work was reprinted the following year at Strassburg. The original Paris edition is very rare with the OCLC locating only copies at Princeton University and Gottingen University in Germany [42] leaves. Large woodcut of Jean Petit on title-page (Renouard no. 881), metal cut initials; ruled in red throughout; generous margins with deckle visible on some leaves; some light staining, soiling and smudging to title and a few other margins. § Renouard, Badius, II, 408 (long note); Bibliotheca Belgica D 193; not in Adams or the BM/STC French. [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Coutumes. Comtat Venaissin, 1511]. Statuta comitatus venayssini.
Avignon Thomas Des Cloches 1511 - Petit in-4 gothique de (55) ff. (le dernier feuillet, blanc g8, manque). Relié à la suite : [Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini ]. Manuscrit de (35) ff. Les 2 pièces reliées en 1 vol petit-in-4 (130 x 200 mm), basane havane, dos orné à nerfs (reliure de la fin du XVIIe siècle). Edition originale des Statuts du comtat venaissin imprimée à Avignon par Thomas Des Cloches. Au verso du titre : Statuta edita per reverendissimum in Christo patrem dominum Henricum episcopum ruthenensen rectorem comitatus Venayssimi. Et confirmata per Fe Re. Clementam papam septinum. Une des premières impressions avignonnaises ornée sur le titre de 2 gravures sur bois : Vierge à l'enfant (30 x 50 mm) et les armoiries de Julien de La Rovère (70 x 50 mm) ; ces mêmes armoiries sont copiées à l'encre au verso du titre. Le texte imprimé est copieusement annoté en marges et suivi de feuillets manuscrits qui sont le commentaire anonyme latin de chaque article (Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini). L'ensemble de ces notes a certainement été rédigé autour de 1700 ; quelques annnotations manuscrites dans le texte et un ex-libris biffé sur le titre sont en revanche de l'époque de l'impression. Ex-libris armorié et manuscrit du comte Victor de Gaudemaris (1835-1918), conservateur du musée des photographies documentaires de Provence, accompagné d'une note manuscrite en regard : Extraits du livre des statuts du comté venaissin existant ( ) la cour de la rectorie du d. comtat venaissin, par honorable homme maître romain filieul {filoili} notaire et secrétaire de la communauté de Carpentras et par Jean Rouland {Rolandi} et ( ) {Raimondi} aussi notaires et greffiers de laditte cour de la Rectorie. Nota {ce livre est rare}. Mouillure marginale, léger manque de papier sans atteinte au texte au dernier feuillet, premier plat légèrement épidermé. Comme l'exemplaire décrit par Brunet, le nôtre est incomplet du dernier feuillet blanc (a-f par huit et g par sept). Brunet II, 394 : « Cette édition est fort rare » ; Baudrier, X, 312 ; Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana XXXIII, p.19 ; Gouron et Terrin, 923. Législation,droit;Sélection; [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius - SYLVANUS,
The Caucuses] Tertia Asiae Tabula.
[Venice], [Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, ] 1511 - Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves, leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso. Dimensions (sheet): 410 by 550mm. (16 by 21.75 inches). Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae.', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions. [Bookseller: Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, ABA ILAB]
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LUCANUS, Marcus Anneus
Pharsalia. cum figuris. [Annei Lucani bellorum ciuilium scriptoris accuratissimi Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis ac mendosa. Nouissime autem a viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata: scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono Vicentino. ].
- Venecia, Augutín de Zanis de Portesio para Melchor Sessa, 1511. En folio. (4) h., 205 folios. Bella portada a dos tintas con marca del impresor grabada en el centro, 10 grabados en madera por el texto, hermosas letras capitulares historiadas a gran tamaño. Importante encuadernación heráldica francesa del siglo dieciocho en pleno marroqués burdeos, doble filete dorado en los planos con escudo de armas en oro en el centro, lomera decorada con hierros, ruedas y puntillé dorado, rueda dorada en los cantos y contracnatos, cabeza y cortes dorados. Magnífica edición impresa con gran esmero artístico y tipográfico. Texto de la obra en el centro enmarcado por los comentarios. Al comienzo de cada capítulo un grabado en madera.Marco Anneo Lucano, sobrino de Séneca, nació en Córdoba en el 39 d. de C., aunque se crió en Roma. El éxito que obtuvieron las lecturas públicas de sus poemas provocaron la envidia del emperador, que tenía veleidades literarias, y Lucano cayó en desgracia. Nerón le prohibió escribir poesía y ejercer la abogacía en los tribunales. Acusado de participar en la conjura de Pisón fue obligado a suicidarse, igual que su tío Séneca, en el 65 d. de C, a la edad de 26 años. La "Pharsalia" es la única obra que conservamos completa de él.El verdadero nombre de la obra es "Bellum Civile", aunque ha pasado a la posteridad con el nombre de la gran batalla que enfrentó a César y Pompeyo, la Pharsalia. La obra es un poema épico-histórico escrito en hexámetros que tiene como tema la guerra civil entre César y Pompeyo.Referencias: Palau 143159 [Bookseller: Librería José Porrúa Turanzas S.A.]
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Justinianus I, Emperor, 483-565.
Institutiones Imperiales. Ordinate Glosis Textuales Divisiones Habentur. Patescit Grecum Utile Cum Expositione Succincta.
Bertholdu Rembolt, Parisiusm [Paris] 1511 - . Univerversi Tituli Alphabetico Ordine Ponuntur, Sumaria Rubra Multis Adjectis Sunt Textibus Immixta. In Latin. Includes double-page folding woodcut, additional full-page woodcut with acrostic of the translator's name below, woodcut initials throughout, printer's device and other small woodcuts on title page with lions and shield tinted red, text in black and red throughout. Later full calf binding, most likely late eighteenth century, with dual black spine labels and elaborate blind-stamped design on both covers, all edges gilt, [32], 412 pages [CCVI pages numbered on recto only], pages 24.5 cm tall with good margins that are not excessively trimmed. Covers rubbed with neatly made but unfortunate reinforcement to the joints through use of three parallel horizontal strips of brown binder's tape, hinges also reinforced with binder's tape, text block sound, occasional and fairly faint dampstains throughout much of the second half of the book, somewhat expert repair to insect damage on final leaf with some very minor loss of text. Armorial bookplate of Sheffield Grace, Esq., L.L.D., F.S.A., 1829, on front pastedown, some elaborate marginalia in a sixteenth century hand throughout, including miniature hands with fingers pointing to pertinent passages. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC]
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GREGORIUS [GREGORY] I, 'The Great,'
Dialogus beati Gregorij Pape: eiusque diaconi Petri in quattuor libros diuisus: De vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum: et de eternitate animarum: cum tabulis nuncnunc a nouo superadditis.
Petit and Barbier, Paris 1511 - Parisius expensis Iohannis Petit . impressus vero opera Iohannis Barbier, 1511, pridie kalendas Augusti). Small in 8° (mm.140 x 100), of ([1], XCIIII, [9] leaves., signature : a-n8), old vellum binding, labelled gilt titles on spine, title page with half page Petit device and the spectacular full page Jean Barbier printer's device on last leaf verso, text in gothic type, 38 lines to a page, redolent of delightfully engraved initial crible letters, an excellent and crisp copy on sound paper. RARE: only 3 copies recorded in Italian ICCU, 3 in Britain; OCLC records no copies in N. America. Handsome copy of the FIRST PETIT BARBIER EDITION. Ref.;Adams G 1190 ; Renouard: Paris 3, n. 174 [Bookseller: rambler rare books]
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Bernadus Sylvanus
Secunda Africa Tabula [Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia]
Sylvanus' map of part of Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printed in two colors. The map appeared in Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae . . ., publish in Venice in 1511. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates. The map has been printed on two leaves, which have here been rejoined and backed with Japan paper on the verso, with several minor areas of loss skillfully repaired. A nice example of a map which very rarely appears on the market. (Venice, 1511) [color: Uncolored, size: 22 x 16 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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Sacrobosco, J. de
Textus de Sphera.
- Paris, H.S. Estienne, 1511 (Renouard; Estienne 10, nr 5). Folio, IXI century half calf. 32 leaves, engraved title page (woodcut Estiennes angel title border, carrying coat of arms of the University of Paris). Large woodcut in verso of a3 & c1, many small woodcuts illustrating the text.Three texts in one volume, edited by Estienne for use at the University of Paris: Sacroboscos de Sphere; Bonus Latensis: liber annuli astronomici and Euclides: de Geometria i the Latin translation by Boethius. [Bookseller: Frederik Muller Rare Books BV*]
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Livius, Titus:
Decades cum figuris noviter impresse.
Venedig, Pincius, 1511 (27. September).. Fol.. XX, CCLIII num. Bll., 1 w. Bl., mit grosser Druckermarke, vielen Initialen, 3 blattgr. und 171 kleineren Holzschnitten. Titel in Rot Halb-Leder um 1800 mit Rückenvergoldung und Blindprägung. Essling 38; Sander 4002; Nagler, Monogr. II, 1846 (schreibt die, teils mit "F" monogrammierten Holzschnitte und Bordüren dem Umkreis von Bellini zu). Reich illustrierte Livius-Ausgabe in Folio mit den schönen Holzschnitten der Ausgabe von 1506. Dargestellt sind historische Ereignisse aus der römischen Geschichte mit Schlachten, Gerichts- und Folterszenen, kleinen Stadtansichten etc.. - Schönes Exemplar. Titel gering angestaubt und mit kl. Randriss, nur vereinzelt fleckig, nur etwa die letzten zehn Blätter mit kl. Wasserrand. Insgesamt sauber. Schöner Einband um 1800. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek]
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HORTUS SANITATIS
Ortus Sanitatis (en Latín).
- Venecia, B. Benalius y J. de Tridino, 1511. En folio. 367 hojas (de 368, falto de la última blanca sólo). Portada artística dentro de rectángulo tipográfico, 3 GRABADOS A TODA PáGINA Y MAS DE 1000 GRABADOS ILUSTRANDO PLANTAS, HIERBAS, ANIMALES, MINERALES, PIEDRAS, ETC. Encuadernación de la época en pergamino a la romana, lomera con tejuelo original en plena piel con letrería dorada. PRIMERA EDICIÓN DEL "HORTUS SANITATIS "EN LATÍN IMPRESO EN Venecia, LA CUARTA DESDE QUE APARECIÓ EL TEXTO EN 1491; las tres ediciones anteriores se imprimieron en Alemania.Se trata de una edición rara y de gran importancia por la elevada cantidad de grabados que la ilustran. La obra se divide en siete partes y al final se incluye una tabla con los nombres y localización de cada una de las especies descritas. La primera parte "De herbis et plantis" es la más extensa e importante y ocupa más de la mitad del volumen; está dedicada por completo a las plantas, hierbas y a sus propiedades y usos medicinales. El "Ortus Sanitatis" es el más extenso de los tres textos botánicos fundamentales (los otros dos el "Gart der Gesundheit" y el "Herbario Latino") que hoy llamamos herbarios y difiere de ellos en el modo en que describe las plantas, sus sinónimos, su origen geográfico, y porque termina con una lista de los usos y virtudes de la misma, principalmente médicas, que a diferencia de los otros dos textos, es mucho más amplia y específica al describir estos usos y virtudes medicinales con gran extensión. Además, la obra continúa con las siguientes partes: "De animalibus et reptilibus" dedicado a los animales, anfibios y roedores; "De Avibus et volatilibus" dedicado a las aves, pájaros e insectos; "De Piscibus et natatilibus" que trata de los peces y moluscos y "De Lapidibus et in terre venis mascemtibus" que versa sobre los minerales y piedras preciosas; todas estas partes no aparecen o aparecen muy brevemente tanto en el Gesundheit como en el Herbario Latino. "De Urinis" y "De Facile acquisibilibus", los dos últimos capítulos, son textos de Galeno y aparecen por vez primera aquí.EL "ORTUS SANITATIS", TAL Y COMO LO DESCRIBE CHOULANT, ESTA CONSIDERADO COMO EL TEXTO MEDIEVAL ILUSTRADO MAS IMPORTANTE SOBRE LA BOTÁNICA Y LA HISTORIA NATURAL. Un tercio de los grabados se realizaron para esta obra mientras que la mayor parte de los dos tercios restantes están tomados del "Gart der Gesundheit". Este libro es, como hemos mencionado anteriormente, muy rico en ilustraciones; destacan además del grabado de la portada, los tres grabados a toda página, uno con la representación del esqueleto humano, y los otros dos que representan escenas de varios médicos y boticarios manteniendo discusiones de botánica y medicina. Entre las más de mil ilustraciones que se reparten por el texto se incluyen todo tipo de hierbas y plantas, animales, aves, peces y minerales descritos, y aparecen de vez en cuando ilustraciones que representan el mundo mitológico como el árbol llamado "Bausor" al cual se le suponían ciertos efectos narcóticos, el árbol de la sabiduría con Adán, Eva y la Manzana, etc. Además de la gran mayoría de hierbas, se describen sustancias como el vinagre, el queso, la sopa, etc. También hay algunas representaciones figuradas como la ilustración del vino mediante un hombre mirando un vaso, la representación del pan a través de una ama de casa con los panes en una mesa en frente de ella, la representación del agua a través de una fuente o la representación de la leche a través de una mujer ordeñando una vaca.Magnifico ejemplar, limpio, amplio de márgenes e impreso sobre buen papel. Muy ligeras manchas ocasionales aquí o allá, alguna hoja ocasional ligeramente oscurecida, experta restauración del margen superior de seis hojas al final del volumen, por lo demás perfecto. Ejemplar atractivo y genuino, vestido con su encuadernación original.Obra muy rara y escasa, especialmente buenos ejemplares como este, por el frecuente uso que se hacía de ella. El ejemplar de la British [Bookseller: Librería José Porrúa Turanzas S.A.]
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DUËZ, Nathanaël.
Le Guidon de la langue italienne. Avec Trois dialogues familires, Italiens & François. La Comedie de la Moresse. Les Complimens Italiens. Et une Guirlande de Proverbes. Reveu & corrigé par l'Autheur. Amsterdam, D. Elzevier, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary calf with gilt spine.
- (4), 256 pp; v.d.AA, D 116; BM French, D 975; Brunet, II, 862; Rahir, 1511; Willems, 1431. Fourth edition by Elzevier of this Italian grammar in French. It was written by the grammarian and polyglot Duëz, born in Metz in 1609, and student at the University of Leyden in 1637 and 1639. He apparently found there in the Elzevier family the printers for his numerous linguistic works, starting in 1639 with 'Le Guidon da la langue françoise'. Copy with the bookplate of the 'Citoyen' Lemoine de la Giraudais and his name in ink on the title-page. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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BONIFACIUS VIII.
Sextus Decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII. In Concilio Lugdunensi Editus . (With the Commentary of Johannes Andreae). (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope seated with an open book meeting an audiance of people, and with two large woodcuts relative to the Three of Consanguinity. - (Bound with:) CLEMENT V. Constitutiones in Concilio Viennensi Edite . (Basel, Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, with central text block surrounded by commentary. With large woodcut printer's device on title and with a three-quarter page large woodcut of the Pope
- 0 Amerbach, Petri & Froben, 1511.) Printed in red and black, central text surrounded by commentary, large woodcut printer's device on title. Two parts in one. Three works bound together in one volume. (6), 177, 5 leaves, with the final blank; 72, (4) leaves; 39, (1), 39, (3) leaves. Large folio. Original blindpanelled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps gone, two tears at top and bottom of spine. None of these editions is in Adams.A rare volume of three important texts in medieval canon law and very nicely printed by the shortlived partnership of three of Basel's greatest printers, Adam Petri, Johann Amerbach and Johan Froben. First work: The great work on canon law by Bonifacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetano). He added a large number of constitutions to the general ecclesiastical legislation, which came to be known as Liber Sextus, since the Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1239, consists of five books. Giovanni d'Andrea was one of the great canonists of his age and his gloss is incorporated in all early editions.Verso third leaf recto fifth leaf contain the Arbor consanguinitatis and the Arbor affinitatis of Johannes Andreae. Some small worming throughout mostly but not exclusively limited to the lower blank margin, first title neatly rebacked, ownership inscription at top of first title dated 1588. Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in red ink. Second work: Clement V was elected pope in 1305 as successor to Benedict XI. He fixed his residence in Avignon thus inaugurating the seventy years' 'Captivity'. Clement was seen as being heavily dependant on the French king, Philip the Fair, who insisted on a formal condemnation of Clement's predecessor, Bonifacius VIII, on charges of heresy and immorality.Third work: John XII was elected pope in 1316 as candidate of Robert of Anjou and fixed his residence in Avignon where he remained the rest of his life. His reign was filled with theological and political conflicts. He was however a capable administrator, enlarged and reorganized the Curia, put the Papal finances on a sound basis and strengthened the hierarchy by founding new, and defining the frontiers of old, dioceses. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: A. Gerits & Son b.v.]
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Bernadus Sylvanus
Quarta Asiae Tabula [Holy Land and Cyprus]
Sylvanus' map of the Cyprus, the Holy Land and the regions west of the Tigris River is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printed in two colors. The map appeared in Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae . . ., publish in Venice in 1511. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates. The map has been printed on two leaves, which have here been rejoined and backed with Japan paper on the verso, with several minor areas of loss skillfully repaired. A nice example of a map which very rarely appears on the market. (Venice, 1511) [color: Uncolored, size: 22 x 15 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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BRADWARDINE, THOMAS.
Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor Geometria speculativa, omnes conclusiones geometricas studentibus artium & philosophie aristotelis valde necessarias simul cum quodam tractatus de quadratura circuli noviter edito.
Paris, Gaillard, for Jehan Petit, 1511. - Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in the style of the early 16th-century, uncut. With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages. (40) pp. Beautifully produced and illustrated early 14th century treatise on geometry for use of art students and philosophers with little appetite for mathematical niceties. Although an elementary compendium of the subject, it still does include elementary material not developed in Euclid's "Elements", like stellar polygons, isoperimetry, the filling of space by touching polyedra, etc. Thomas Bradwardine was a famous English mathematician and natural philosopher born about 1290-1300, and died at Lambeth, England, in 1349. Bradwardine taught art at Oxford until in about 1335 he was appointed chaplain to King Edward III and accompanied the latter to Flanders and France. Just before his death he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Bradwardine wrote all his philosophical, mainly on logic, and mathematical works, mainly on the science of art, when still teaching at Oxford. The present work also, intended for students of art and philosophy, is especially of interest as its author was primarily interested in the relation of mathematics with art and philosophy. It was first published, edited by Petrus Cirvelo, at Paris in 1495 and much republished throughout the 16th century. Still all editions are very rare today. Fine copy. Adams B 2651; not in STC French, or Coll. Honeyman; Poggendorff I, p. 271 (other ed.); DSB 2, p. 390 ff. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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Coutumes. Comtat Venaissin, 1511]. Statuta comitatus venayssini.
Avignon Thomas Des Cloches 1511 - Petit in-4 gothique de (55) ff. (le dernier feuillet, blanc g8, manque). Relié à la suite : [Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini ]. Manuscrit de (35) ff. Les 2 pièces reliées en 1 vol petit-in-4 (130 x 200 mm), basane havane, dos orné à nerfs (reliure de la fin du XVIIe siècle). Edition originale des Statuts du comtat venaissin imprimée à Avignon par Thomas Des Cloches. Au verso du titre : Statuta edita per reverendissimum in Christo patrem dominum Henricum episcopum ruthenensen rectorem comitatus Venayssimi. Et confirmata per Fe Re. Clementam papam septinum. Une des premières impressions avignonnaises ornée sur le titre de 2 gravures sur bois : Vierge à l'enfant (30 x 50 mm) et les armoiries de Julien de La Rovère (70 x 50 mm) ; ces mêmes armoiries sont copiées à l'encre au verso du titre. Le texte imprimé est copieusement annoté en marges et suivi de feuillets manuscrits qui sont le commentaire anonyme latin de chaque article (Annotationes ad Statuta Comitatus venaissini). L'ensemble de ces notes a certainement été rédigé autour de 1700 ; quelques annnotations manuscrites dans le texte et un ex-libris biffé sur le titre sont en revanche de l'époque de l'impression. Ex-libris armorié et manuscrit du comte Victor de Gaudemaris (1835-1918), conservateur du musée des photographies documentaires de Provence, accompagné d'une note manuscrite en regard : Extraits du livre des statuts du comté venaissin existant ( ) la cour de la rectorie du d. comtat venaissin, par honorable homme maître romain filieul {filoili} notaire et secrétaire de la communauté de Carpentras et par Jean Rouland {Rolandi} et ( ) {Raimondi} aussi notaires et greffiers de laditte cour de la Rectorie. Nota {ce livre est rare}. Mouillure marginale, léger manque de papier sans atteinte au texte au dernier feuillet, premier plat légèrement épidermé. Comme l'exemplaire décrit par Brunet, le nôtre est incomplet du dernier feuillet blanc (a-f par huit et g par sept). Brunet II, 394 : « Cette édition est fort rare » ; Baudrier, X, 312 ; Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana XXXIII, p.19 ; Gouron et Terrin, 923. Législation,droit; [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis: ac mendosa. Nouissime autema viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata:scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono vicentino: ... Additis insuper denouo grecis: que vbique deerant.
Agostino de Zani for Melchior Sessa Venice 4 June 1511 Modern binding using vellum leaves from a 15th-century manuscript over boards backed with new vellum backing Folio . An important and rare corrected edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated edition of Lucan's epic of the Civil Wars edited by Joannes Sulpitius and Omnibonus of Vicenza. According to d"Essling (cf. vol. p. 271 for illus.) this is also the first appearance of these woodcuts. As occasionally happens during the process of printing there was some variety in the quality of paper used in the printing of this work with the result that about a dozen leaves are foxed and somewhat browned but with the remaining text generally fresh and white. Presumably all copies would have this same problem however due to the rarity of the work I haven't been able to find another copy to compare. No copies located by the OCLC in US libraries [4], 205 leaves (without last blank leaf). Title printed in red, Sessa's cat and mouse device on title and smaller device on last page; 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. About a dozen leaves have browned and there is a small inkstain in outer blank corner of latter part of the work; few minor marginal dampstains; inner margin of first and last few leaves reinforced § d'Essling, Libres a figures Vénitiens II, p. 270, no. 853 (p. 271: illus.); Edit16 CNCE 52789; not in Adams or the BM/STC Italian [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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Giuliano della Rovere (1443-1513), Pope
Bulla intimatio[n]is generalis concilii apud Lateranum per S.d.n. Juliu[m] Papa[m] ii. edita.
Rome 1511 - 8 ff. A1-[iv]; Bi-[iv]. Top edges gilt. Bound in cream parchment, moderately yelllowed with age; with extra blanks at each end. Internally very good, with minimal spots of discolouration or rubbing; small indent (ca 5mm) at extreme upper corner of pages, as if something has at one time been caught between the folios. Large woodcut of the Papal coat of arms on title-page. One of the greatest Renaissance patrons of the arts, Julius II commissioned some of the greatest works of the Renaissance, including the reubuilding of St Peters's, the painting of the Sistine Ceiling from Michelangelo, and the paintings by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura, including The School of Athens. His papacy was challenged in 1511 by rebellious cardinals meeting in Pisa in May 1511, and this Bull was Julius's response, calling a Lateran Council, the Fifth, to be held in Rome in 1512. it was issued 18th July 1511, subscribed on Bii verso by the Papal secretary Sigismundus. This copy of the Bull bears the label of the gilt on white oval, 'Ex Musaeo Huthii,' 'Ani Non Mus Res.' It was last purchased from the sales of the (Henry) Huth Collection in the early years of the 20thC, by William Graham, banker, author and bibliophile, of Edinburgh, and bears a few pencil notes by him. [Bookseller: ASP Art & Science Projects]
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Gregory I "The Great", Pope & Saint;
septe(m) penite(n)tiales explanatio admodum utilis: cu(m) tabula materiarum.Paris: Jean Barbier for Jean Petit,[1511.][bound with:]Expositio beati Gregorii pape super Cantica canticoru(m) Parisiis nuper impressa.Paris: Jean Barbier for Jean Petit, 1511.[bound with:]Gerson: Regule morales Johan(n)is de Gersonno doctoris christianissimi.Paris: Jean Petit, 1516.
Jean Petit, Paris: 1511 - 1516. - Small 8vo. 3 vols. in 1. A-I8,K4;a-e8 [-e8 blank, usually lacking see Renouard];A-D8,E4 [E4 blank present]. 18th c. vellum, yapp fore-edge; old Jesuit ownership inscription on first t.p.,some light marginal stains,Occ. light stains, a very good copy with good margins. 3 Petit devices [Renouard 889] on t.p.s, All initials colored in blue, red, and yellow-gold inks (later). Gregory I was born at Rome about 540 and died 12 March 604. "Gregory is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church. To him we must look for an explanation of the religious situation of the Middle Ages; indeed, if no account were taken of his work, the evolution of the form of medieval Christianity would be almost inexplicable. And further, in so far as the modern Catholic system is a legitimate development of medieval Catholicism, of this too Gregory may not unreasonably be termed the Father. Almost all the leading principles of the later Catholicism are found, at any rate in germ, in Gregory the Great. (F.H. Dudden, "Gregory the Great", 1, p. v). "Gregory gave much of his time to lecturing on the Holy Scriptures and is recorded to have expounded to his monks the Heptateuch, Books of Kings, the Prophets, the Book of Proverbs, and the Canticle of V+Canticles. Notes of these lectures were taken at the time by a young student named Claudius, but when transcribed were found by Gregory to contain so many errors that he insisted on their being given to him for correction and revision. Apparently this was never done, for the existing fragments of such works attributed to Gregory are almost certainly spurious." [CE]Gerson (1363-1429) French scholar, educator, reformer, poet, and chancellor of the University of Paris. "Gerson wished to banish scholastic subtleties from the studies of the university, and at the same time to put some evangelical warmth into them, giving them a more spiritual and practical focus. He was called at this period of his life Doctor Christianissimus; later his devotional and pastoral writings brought him the title Doctor Consolatorius. His plan was to make theology plain and simple by founding it on the philosophical principles of nominalism. His method was a clear exposition of the principles of theology where clearness was possible, with a due recognition of the place of mystery in the Christian system of doctrine." [Wkd] Septem: Renouard, Imp. Parisiens, III, 178 (Barbier). Adams G1178. BM (French) 61. Moreau II,100.Expositio: Renouard, Imp. Parisiens, 175 (Barbier). BM (French) 61. Adams G1182. Moreau II,97.Gerson: Moreau II,1354. [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]
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BERNARDO SILVANUS
(MONDO ANTICO) 1511 VENEZIA
"La Geographia di Tolomeo pubblicata a Venezia nel 1511 a cura di Bernardo Sylvanus rimane un insolito esempio di anacronistica geografia. Le nuove scoperte del tardo Quattrocento e dei primi anni del sedicesimo secolo iniziavano a diffondersi in tutta Europa ed i cartografi iniziavano ad applicare le nuove informazioni alla classica rappresentazione delle mappe. Il mappamondo del Sylvanus rappresenta perfettamente la sintesi di questo periodo transitorio della cartografia, unendo elementi tolemaici come la rappresentazione di Taprobana, a moderni dettagli nella Scozia, Nord Africa e penisola Indiana. Sebbene diversi cartografi si dedicarono alla rappresentazione del mondo nel medesimo periodo, lopera del Sylvanus, con i nomi stampati in rosso usando il doppio carattere, la rendono il primo esempio di cartografia stampato in due colori. Shirley lo definisce come un isolato esempio di cartografia veneziana, 37 anni prima della versione della Geographia curata da Giacomo Gastaldi. Lopera del Sylvanus non fu mai ristampata ed e' pertanto assai rara. Xilografia, stampata in rosso e nero, in eccellente stato di conservazione. Bibliografia: Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 31. Dimensioni: 560x280." Ptolemys Geographia, published in Venice in 1511 by Bernardo Sylvanus, is still an uncommon example of anachronistic geography. The new discoveries made between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries were starting to spread throughout Europe and the cartographers were beginning to use the new information to draw new maps. Sylvanus map is a perfect synthesis of this transient period in cartography for it perfectly combines Ptolemaic elements, such as the depiction of Taprobana, updated with modern details in Scotland, North Africa and India. Although in the same period many cartographers had devoted themselves to the representation of the same subject, Sylvanus work, with the names printed in red, can be considered as the first example of two-colour printing. Shirley calls it "an isolated example of Venetian cartographic enterprise", forty years before Gastaldi's version of Ptolemy. It was never reissued, and for that reason extremely rare. Woodcut, printed with black and red ink, in good condition. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 31. 560 280 [Bookseller: Libreria ANTIQUARIUS - Roma - Italy]
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Repertorium veridicum aureum ac preclarissimum excellentissimi iuris vtrisque luminis do. Anto. Corse in Abb. Panor .
Mediolani impensis. Jo. Jacobi et fratrum de lignano : Jo 1511 die xxij. mensis Octobris - In folio grande (cm 28,5 x 42,4), legatura piena pergamena tratta da antico antifonario o Exultet dai capilettera in rosso e blu, cc 141 i.e. 271, impresa al frontespizio (Angelo sostiene fra le braccia l'ostia raggiante con al centro il monogramma di Cristo e intorno al cerchio il nome dell'editore. Ai lati in basso: IOL) e al fine, colophon al fine con dati tipografici dello stampatore Scinzenzeler. Esemplare in buone condizioni, integrazioni ai marginii delle primissime cc, carta forte, rade bruniture. Prestigioso esemplare di questo commento del celebre canonista Corsetti (1450-1503), lettore di diritto canonico all'Università di Bologna tra il 1479 e il 1488, giurista e vescovo siciliano nato a Noto nel 1450 e morto nel 1503, al testo del Tedeschi (1386-1445), canonista benedettino nato a Catania nel 1386, morto a Palermo nel 1445. Fu professore a Parma, Siena e Bologna, arcivescovo di Palermo dal 1435. Esso è infatti il medesimo esemplare collazionato dala bibliografia delo Balsamo ". Giovann'Angelo Scinzenzeler tipografi in Milano, Sansoni 1959 "n. 95; Corsetti A. Repertorium veridicum aureum, Milano 1511: "In folio, cc 268 num con molti errori (3nn 4-192, 197-266, 263, 138, 141 ultima bianca 2 col. 70 linee, iniz ornate. Bella edizione. Non è segnalata da repertori, salvo che da Suterm, 145. L'esemplare esaminato è quello appartenuto a Filippo Archinto, come risulta dalla firma sul frontespizio; probabilm dell'A. sono le fitte note ms che riempiono l'ultima carta bianca e continuano in un foglio aggiunto con un lungo repertorio di opere giuridiche". Filippo Archinto nacque a Milano nel 1500 e si addottorò in diritto a Pavia a 20 anni, poco dopo fu ascritto al Collegio dei giuristi milanesi, molto presto diventò uomo di fiducia dell'Imperatore in Italia. Fu in seguito chiamato a Roma da Papa Farnese ed entrò formalmente nella curia romana ove iniziò una importante carriera. Fu il tramite tra Paolo III e S. Ignazio per le concessioni a favore dei Gesuiti in Italia. Due esemplari censiti in SBN. DBI, vol 29 pp da 540 a 522. DBI vol III p. 761,763. Superbo cimelio. [Bookseller: Studio Bosio]
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Sylvanus, Bernardus
Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura
Jacobus Pentius de Leucho, Venice 1511 - THE FIRST CORDIFORM MAP AND ONLY THE SECOND WORLD MAP TO DEPICT AMERICA Folio, first Venetian edition, translated by Jacobus Angelus, edited by Bernardus Sylvanus of Eboli, title printed in red text (in double column) and 28 full-sheet woodcut maps printed in red and black, all but the last printed on both recto and verso, the last being the world map by Sylvanus, woodcut diagrams in the text, spaces for initials with guide letters. Nineteenth-century limp vellum, in modern cloth chemese and morocco-backed slipcase Provenance: Tross; Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, bookplate; long autograph inscription by Henry Harrisse (who acted as Barlow’s bibliographical advisor) References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 55; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 32. The celebrated 1511 edition of Ptolemy's Geography represents a major stride in the intertwined histories of cartography and of printing technology. Bernardus Sylvanus was one of the first to produce a version of the Geography that sought to bring Ptolemy up to date rather than simply to reconstruct the ancient scholars maps. His Venice edition of Ptolemy was, therefore, the first to sound a rallying cry that would ultimately inspire later mapmakers to bring the science of cartography into the modern era. Sylvanus's version consists of twenty-eight maps as opposed to the canonical twenty-seven described by Ptolemy, the additional item being his "modern" representation of the world. The maps are among the earliest known examples of two-color printing in cartography, with the major place names in red, lesser ones in black. The large cordiform (or heart-shaped) map of the world is the earliest of its kind, and it was only the second map included in an edition of Ptolemy to show America, after Ruysch (see above, n. 3). Sylvanus, however, was less thorough in his nomenclature than his predecessor, identifying, for example, only three names on continental Europe ("magna germa," "Italia," "dalma") and labeling the New World as "Terra Sanctae Crucis" but signaling no additional place-names. The summary nature of Sylvanus's map also extends to the other side of the world, as the eastern coastline of Asia is left largely open and thus hypothetical. At the same time, Sylvanus's map is particularly striking aesthetically in light of its unusual chromatic contrasts, the curvilinear projection with flamboyantly undulating lines of longitude and latitude, the graphic prominence of rivers and stylized mountain ranges, as well as decorative elements including the wind-heads that surround the borders. When Sylvanus published his Ptolemy edition, Venetian printers had not yet begun to compete with their counterparts in Florence and northern Europe in the production of cartographic material, despite the fact that Venice was then the dominant European commercial port. Sylvanus's Ptolemy remained an early and isolated signal of the prominence that Venetian publishers would eventually claim much later in the sixteenth century. [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader III gallery]
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Bernardus
Quinta Asiae Tabula.
[Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, Venice, ]. 1511 - Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves (sheet: 41 x 55 cm). Leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, trimmed into text at right margin, several small areas of loss skilfully infilled. Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing, showing the southern part of the Caspian Sea. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae.', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions. [Bookseller: Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, ABA ILAB]
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius - SYLVANUS,
Secunda Asiae Tabula.
[Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, Venice, 1511].. Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves (sheet: 41 x 55 cm). Leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, small rust hole to left of centre-fold, skilfully infilled, reinforced at upper and lower margin. Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing, showing the Azov Sea and the land of the Don Cossaks. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae...', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions.. [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]
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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS AND BERNARDUS
QUINTA ASIAE TABULA. [JACOBO PENTIUS DE LEUCHO, VENICE, 1511].
Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves (sheet: 41 x 55 cm). Leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, trimmed into text at right margin, several small areas of loss skilfully infilled. Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing, showing the southern part of the Caspian Sea. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae...', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions. [Bookseller: SHAPERO Rare Books - Stocklight Ltd. - L]
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius - SYLVANUS,
Secunda Asiae Tabula.
[Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, Venice, 1511].. Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves (sheet: 41 x 55 cm). Leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, small rust hole to left of centre-fold, skilfully infilled, reinforced at upper and lower margin. Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing, showing the Azov Sea and the land of the Don Cossaks. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae...', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions.. [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]
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PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS (PTOLEMY) -
Clavdii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber Geographiae cvm Tabvlis et figvra et cvm ad ditione locorvm qvae a recentioribvs reper ta svunt diligenti cvra emenda tvs et impressvs.
- Venetiis (Venice) per Iacobum Pentium de leucho Anno domini M.D.XI. Die. XX. Mensis Martii (1511) Colophon. Folio. (44x30 cm.). Full vellum in old style (from ab. 1950). 92 leaves (lvs. 5 a. 11 misbound) - comprising the title, dedication and annotations in 4 leaves; text in 58 leaves and 28 woodcut maps on 30 leaves (complete). Title page printed in red, text printed in double columns in red and black with space for initials. Woodcut diagrams in the text. The 27 double-page ptolemaic maps printed on both recto and verso of leaves, the last map being the "modern" Sylvanus world map printed on one sheet (2 leaves), reverse blank. All maps printed in 2 colours, the major names in red. The first 11 maps in contemporary transparent handcolouring, blue and red. The first maps probably washed. All lower right corners of text and maps restored loosing only a few small letters in the margins of 6 maps (outside the trapezoidal framing). A few frames minimally effected. The modern map by Sylvanus having small restoring to lower part of centrefold, one left cloud and top of one windhead a bit shaved. Inner margin of title page restored. Text with a few brownspots and with many additions and annotations in a contemporary hand.The atlas comprises 2 world-maps, 1 ptolemaic and 1 modern cordiform, heartshaped projection (Sylvanus); 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa and 12 of Asia. This celebrated early edition of the Geography is the first printed in Venice and the Latin text is that of Jacobus Angelus who finished the translation which was already begun around 1400 by Emanuel Chrysolaras, a Byzantine scholar whose merit in promoting the spread of Greek literature in the west was very great. Sylvanus, on examining and comparing the several Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Geography, found "that his (Ptolemy's) only occasionally corresponded to the experience of the mariners of our time. This seemed to me so much more remarkable as I presumed that Ptolemy himself mostly based his work on the reports of the navigators." (Sylvanus' foreword). Along this new information he intended to improve the Ptolemaic maps and bringing them up to date. In the 4-page special introduction Sylvanus developes the principles for these corrections, but as he somewhat arbitrarily altered Ptolemy's data for longitude and latitude these attempts to transform the Geography of the Alexandrian geographer into a modern atlas partly failed, although there were some real improvements.The greatest contribution to the history of cartography by Sylvanus lies in the WORLD-MAP which he added to the usual 27 Ptolemaic-maps, and which is not found in all copies as it, according to Sabin (No 66477), "apparently (was) added after the book had been completed." This map has at least 4 remarkable features which makes it a LANDMARK MAP in the history of cartography. It is the FIRST PRINTED HEART-SHAPED WORLD-MAP, the cordiform projection with the title "De universalis habitabilis figura cum additionibus locorum nuper inventorum." This distinct projection was adopted by several later cartographers and used in a number of importent 16th century maps (Finaeus, Mercator etc.). Differs from Ptolemy's projection only in the common centre of the parallel-circles being placed 100 degr. instead of 181'8 from the equator, and the parallel-circles being extended. It then assumes a curvature at the pole which gives it a cordiform appearance.It is the SECOND PRINTED MAP OF THE WORLD, in the deliniation of which some attention has been paid to the great geographical discoveries of the preceeding years and it has the first printed delineation of any portion of the North American continent, under the names of regalis domus (Cortereal ?) and terra laboratorus, Labrador. It is the second map to show the New World visible along the western border such as eastern South America, Cuba and Hispaniola.It is the FIRST ATLAS to show JAPAN ON A MAP (Japan was first depicted on a single map by Contarini & Rosselli in [Attributes: Signed Copy] [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn ILAB-LILA]
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LUCANUS, Marcus Anneus
Pharsalia. cum figuris. [Annei Lucani bellorum ciuilium scriptoris accuratissimi Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis ac mendosa. Nouissime autem a viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata: scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono Vicentino. ].
- Venecia, Augutín de Zanis de Portesio para Melchor Sessa, 1511. En folio. (4) h., 205 folios. Bella portada a dos tintas con marca del impresor grabada en el centro, 10 grabados en madera por el texto, hermosas letras capitulares historiadas a gran tamaño. Importante encuadernación heráldica francesa del siglo dieciocho en pleno marroqués burdeos, doble filete dorado en los planos con escudo de armas en oro en el centro, lomera decorada con hierros, ruedas y puntillé dorado, rueda dorada en los cantos y contracnatos, cabeza y cortes dorados. Magnífica edición impresa con gran esmero artístico y tipográfico. Texto de la obra en el centro enmarcado por los comentarios. Al comienzo de cada capítulo un grabado en madera.Marco Anneo Lucano, sobrino de Séneca, nació en Córdoba en el 39 d. de C., aunque se crió en Roma. El éxito que obtuvieron las lecturas públicas de sus poemas provocaron la envidia del emperador, que tenía veleidades literarias, y Lucano cayó en desgracia. Nerón le prohibió escribir poesía y ejercer la abogacía en los tribunales. Acusado de participar en la conjura de Pisón fue obligado a suicidarse, igual que su tío Séneca, en el 65 d. de C, a la edad de 26 años. La "Pharsalia" es la única obra que conservamos completa de él.El verdadero nombre de la obra es "Bellum Civile", aunque ha pasado a la posteridad con el nombre de la gran batalla que enfrentó a César y Pompeyo, la Pharsalia. La obra es un poema épico-histórico escrito en hexámetros que tiene como tema la guerra civil entre César y Pompeyo.Referencias: Palau 143159 [Bookseller: Librería José Porrúa Turanzas S.A.]
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LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis: ac mendosa. Nouissime autema viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata:scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono vicentino: ... Additis insuper denouo grecis: que vbique deerant.
Agostino de Zani for Melchior Sessa Venice 4 June 1511 Modern binding using vellum leaves from a 15th-century manuscript over boards backed with new vellum backing Folio . An important and rare corrected edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated edition of Lucan's epic of the Civil Wars edited by Joannes Sulpitius and Omnibonus of Vicenza. According to d"Essling (cf. vol. p. 271 for illus.) this is also the first appearance of these woodcuts. As occasionally happens during the process of printing there was some variety in the quality of paper used in the printing of this work with the result that about a dozen leaves are foxed and somewhat browned but with the remaining text generally fresh and white. Presumably all copies would have this same problem however due to the rarity of the work I haven't been able to find another copy to compare. No copies located by the OCLC in US libraries [4], 205 leaves (without last blank leaf). Title printed in red, Sessa's cat and mouse device on title and smaller device on last page; 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. About a dozen leaves have browned and there is a small inkstain in outer blank corner of latter part of the work; few minor marginal dampstains; inner margin of first and last few leaves reinforced § d'Essling, Libres a figures Vénitiens II, p. 270, no. 853 (p. 271: illus.); Edit16 CNCE 52789; not in Adams or the BM/STC Italian [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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Gregorius I Magnus, Pope.
In septem psalmos penitentiales explanatio admodum utilis.
Paris, J. Petit, (ca. 1511). Woodcut printer's mark on title, initial white on black ground in the dotted manner, printed in larger and smaller Gothic type. 76 lvs. 8vo. Modern half vellum.Moreau-Renouard II, No. 100 (the copy in the Bibl. Nat. Paris is incomplete). Adams G-1178. Nice postincunable edition of this famous exposition of the Seven Penitential Psalms ascribed to Pope Gregory I the Great, who was Pope from 590. One of the greatest successes of his Pontificate was the conversion of England. He was a very fertile author and an ardent promoter of Benedictine monasticism. According to Moreau-Renouard printed with type of J. Barbier.[(4367)] [Bookseller: Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat*]
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Bernadus Sylvanus
Secunda Africa Tabula [Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia]
Sylvanus' map of part of Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printed in two colors. The map appeared in Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae . . ., publish in Venice in 1511. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates. The map has been printed on two leaves, which have here been rejoined and backed with Japan paper on the verso, with several minor areas of loss skillfully repaired. A nice example of a map which very rarely appears on the market. (Venice, 1511) [color: Uncolored, size: 22 x 16 inches, condition: VG] [Bookseller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc]
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LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia: antea temporum iniuria difficilis: ac mendosa. Nouissime autem a viro docto expolita: & apprime plusque bis mille locis emendata: scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono vicentino: . Additis insuper de nouo grecis: que vbique deerant.
Agostino de Zani for Melchior Sessa 4 June 1511, Venice - Modern binding using vellum leaves from a 15th-century manuscript over boards backed with new vellum backing Folio . An important and rare corrected edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated edition of Lucan's epic of the Civil Wars edited by Joannes Sulpitius and Omnibonus of Vicenza. According to d"Essling (cf. vol. p. 271 for illus.) this is also the first appearance of these woodcuts. As occasionally happens during the process of printing there was some variety in the quality of paper used in the printing of this work with the result that about a dozen leaves are foxed and somewhat browned but with the remaining text generally fresh and white. Presumably all copies would have this same problem however due to the rarity of the work I haven't been able to find another copy to compare. No copies located by the OCLC in US libraries [4], 205 leaves (without last blank leaf). Title printed in red, Sessa's cat and mouse device on title and smaller device on last page; 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. About a dozen leaves have browned and there is a small inkstain in outer blank corner of latter part of the work; few minor marginal dampstains; inner margin of first and last few leaves reinforced § d'Essling, Libres a figures Vénitiens II, p. 270, no. 853 (p. 271: illus.); Edit16 CNCE 52789; not in Adams or the BM/STC Italian. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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(LICHTENBERG JOANNES).
PRONOSTICATIO IN LATINO. RARA ET PRIUS NON AUDITA: QUAE EXPONIT ET DECLARAT NONNULLOS COELI INFLUXUS: ET INCLINATIONE CERTARUM CONSTELATIONUM MAGNE VIDELICET. VENEZIA, 23 AGOSTO 1511. 1511
"In-4; 39 cc., 1 c.b.; legatura antica in tutto cartone alla rustica. Marca tipografica al titolo su fondo nero, bordura ornamentale al verso della c. 2, iniziali ornate, 1 illustrazione a piena pagina raffigurante Tolomeo, Aristotele, la Sibilla, Santa Brigida e Lullo al recto del c. 3, 44 xilografie nel testo. Qualche sottolineatura, il verso della c. 10 completamente annotato a margine. Lievi tracce d'uso, una macchia alla c. 37, ma bell'esemplare ben conservato." L'opera, che contiene una serie di profezie, ebbe diverse edizioni e molto successo per il suo carisma profetico e le sue oscure interpretazioni degli avvenimenti. Questi pronostici e profezie furono stampati per la prima volta a Modena nel 1492. L'apparato iconografico subi' diversi cambiamenti. Tutte le edizioni, per il loro carattere effimero, sono da considerarsi di estrema rarita'. Essling 1252. Sander 3968. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria MEDIOLANUM - Milano ]
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HOWITT, WILLIAM.
The History Of Discovery In Australia, Tasmania And New Zealand,From The Earliest Date To The Present Day.
With Maps Of The Recent Explorations, From The Official Sources. 2 Volumes; First Edition; both volumes; 8vo; original green boards, brown endpapers with blind stamp pattern, gilt title and author on spine. Volume One; pp. xvi, 418; 6 pages of ads for books; large foldout map of Australia, including Van Diemans Land or Tasmania, Timor and parts of New Guinea. and including explorers tracks , title page has raised stamp "Presented by the publisher" in top right corner, frontispiece map has 2 small tears, a foldout large map ofTasmamia; folding map of Tasmania also has small tear; a good copy. Volume Two; pp. xviii, 462; large folding frontispiece map of New Zealand; bumps and wear toboards, foxing to endpapers and earland facing pages; a good copy. Volume 1 has 75 fascinating pages of pre Cook accounts of early exploration and ancient maps from the Greeks and Marco Polo, around Australia including New Guinea in 1511, also Magellans voyage, Serrano, Gonneville and Francis Drake. Colonel Purry proposed settlement of New Holland in 1723 to the British Dutch and French but was ridiculed. Chapters include Visits of Captains De Surville, St. Alouarn, and . To Australia, Van Diemans Land and New Zealand in 1769 and 1772, Cooks voyages, La Perouse, D'Entrecasteaux, William Bligh, Admiral Edwards, Wreck of the Pandora, and others. Founding of Sydney, explorations of Bass and Flinders settlement of Tasmania. Inland explorations including Sturt, Oxley, Mitchell, settlement of Port Phillip, voyages of the Beagle, Eyre. Leichardt, Landor and Lefroy, Kennedy, Austin, Gregory, Stuart, Burke and Wills, McKinlay, Landsborough. Incidents of Discovery and settlement in New Zealand, D'Urville, Stokes, Brunner, Munroe, Mitchell, Dashwood, Thomson, Eyre. Dr. Haasts and many explorations through New Zealand. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1965. [Bookseller: Time Booksellers]
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HEGESIPPUS - GEILER - POGGIO -
Reunion de 4 ouvrages du debut XVIe siecle, en 1 fort volume in-folio, ais de bois recouverts de peau de truie estampee à froid, avec decor de rosaces, banderoles, fermoirs de cuivre. (Reliure de l’epoque)
- 1 - HEGESIPPUS. Aegesippi Historiographi Fidelissimi ac disertissimi et inter Christiansos Antiquissimi Historia. De bello Judaico. Sceptri sublatione. Judeorum dispersione. Et Hierosolymitano Excidio. A divo Ambrosio Mediolanen. Antistite e Graeca Latina facta. Alphabetica serie ab Ascensio collectoParis, Josse Badius 30 dec. 1511 - 1er janv. 1512 ; petit in-folio.4 ff. limin., LXXVII ff. chiffres et 5 ff. n. chiffres - grandes lettres ornees sur fonds cribles.Seconde edition donnee par Josse Bade, copie de l’edition de 1510 du meme, avec, en plus, l’index à trois colonnes, redige par Bade, qui paraît ici pour la premiere fois.Renouard. Josse Badius II p. 488 n°2. - Moreau 107.Traduction latine de l’Histoire des Juifs de Flavius Josephe, attribuee à Hegesippe. Elle fut attribuee à Saint-Ambroise, mais les Benedictins ne l’ont jamais inseree dans les edition du saint prelat. Cette precieuse edition fut etablie par Josse Bade, Michel Hamel-Burgins (auteur de 5 tableaux de concordance) et Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples.2 - GEILER von KAYSERSBERG (Johann.) Navicula penitencie sive sermones quadragesimales de navicula penitencieAugsbourg, J. Ottmar, 1511 ; in-folio.5 ff. n. ch. (sur 6) et 80 ff. chiffres (incomplet de la page de titre).Premiere edition donnee par Jean Ottmar à Augsbourg. Le recueil sera ensuite publie à Strasbourg en 1512. Graesse p. 42.La Nef de penitence du grand predicateur Geiler, est la contre-partie des sermons sur la Nef des fous. Elle contient des idees neuves sur le christianisme et l’eglise.3 - POGGIO (Giovani.) Orationes, Invectivae, Epistolae, Descriptiones quaedam et Faceciarum liber.Strasbourg, Joh. Knobloch, 1511 ; petit in-folio.LXXII ff. chiffres (sans les 4 ff. de table ni les 29 ff. pagines à part pour les Faceties.)Titre dans un superbe encadrement sur bois avec ceps de vigne, putti, ourson et tireur à l’arc, texte en rouge et noir.eDITION ORIGINALE EXTÊMEMENT, ornee de quelques grandes initiales illustrees. - Ritter 1900 ou 1901 - Cette premiere edition fut donnee par les soins de Thomas Aucuparius. Les 29 derniers ff. qui renfermaient les celebres faceties de l’humaniste florentin ont ete arrachees par les Capucins auxquels le volume a appartenu, ceux-ci les trouvaient sans doute trop licencieuses.4 - SABELLICUS (Marcus Antonius Coccius.) Exemplorum Libri Decem.Strasbourg, Matthias Schurer, 1511 ; petit in-folio.4 ff. n. ch., XCIX ff. (le dernier chiffre par erreur XCXIX) caract. romains. Deuxieme edition strasbourgeoise, la premiere ayant paru chez le meme editeur en 1509. Une edition avait d’abord paru à Venise en 1507. - Ritter 2048 (qui ne signale pas les 4 ff. du debut.) - L’ouvrage est dû aux soins d’Egnatius qui en avait recu le manuscrit de l’auteur mourant. L’erudit italien Sabellicus est ne à Vicovaro pres de Rome en 1436 et mort à Venise en 1506. Dans sa jeunesse il fut l’eleve de Pomponius Laetus. Il vecut longtemps à Venise et publia une histoire de cette cite. "Ses infirmites, qui etaient plus le fruit de ses debauches que de ses travaux, l’obligerent à se demettre en 1505 de son poste de bibliothecaire de Saint-Marc." Il mourut de maladie venerienne "gallica tabe ex vaga Venere quaesita, non obscure consumptus" dit P. Jove.Les ff. liminaires de cette edition portent une lettre de Beatus Rhenanus, un poeme de D. Palladius Soranus et l’epître dedicatoire de J. B. Egnatius au doge de Venise Leonardus Lauretanus.Beau volume, dans un interessante reliure monastique du debut du XVIe siecle. Grandes marges. Quelques trous de vers marginaux sur certains cahiers.Ex-libris manuscrit sur le 1er titre : Jacobi Röchlinet Couvent des Capucins de Cella Ratsol (.?) [Bookseller: Librairie du Manoir de Pron]
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius - SYLVANUS,
[Tunisia, Libya, Sicily and Sardinia] Secunda Africa Tabula.
[Venice], [Jacobo Pentius de Leucho, 1511 Woodcut printed in red and black on two leaves, leaf split and re-joined, backed with japan on verso, trimmed at upper margin, just affecting image. Dimensions (sheet): 410 by 550mm. (16 by 21.75 inches). Scarce. One of the earliest examples of two colour printing. From Bernardus Sylvanus's 'Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae...', published in Venice in 1511. 'The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already out-dated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions. [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]
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