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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Fäsch Johann Rudolph
Kriegs- Ingenieur- und Artillerie-Lexicon. Worinnen die einem Ingenieur, Offizier und Artilleristen, bey eines jedweden Profeßion vorkommende Wörter, ihrem eigentlichen Verstande nach, in alphabetischer Ordnung, deutlich und mit hierzu noethigen Kupfern, erkläret werden. Nürnberg, J. Chr. Weigel 1726. 8º. (Dplblgr.)Titel, 6 Bll., 347 S., mit (dplblgr.) gest. Frontispiz u. 12 (dplblgr.) Kupfertafeln, Interims-Pbd. d. Zt.
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Jähns II, 1455 - vgl. Zischka 73 (Ausg. 1735).- Erste unter diesem Titel verlegte Ausgabe, gegenüber der Ausgabe von 1723 um mehr als die Hälfte vermehrt.- Das Werk übertrifft an praktischen Wert das ãLexicon militare“ des Jesuiten Caroli de Aquino (Rom 1724), das als erste militärische alphabetisch geordnete Enzyklopädie gilt. ãEs ist ein Wörterbuch im eigentlichen Sinn des Wortes; die technischen Kunstausdrücke werden kurz erläutert... Ein doppelter Anhang bringt erstlich ein geogr. Ortsverzeichnis, zweitens eine Übersicht der vornehmsten Münzsorten nach Wert der sächs. Währung, beides wie das Wörterbuch in alphabet. Folge. Gute Kupfertafeln erläutern des Text.“ (Jähns).- Tls. leicht braunfleckig, Ebd. stärker berieben u. bestoßen.
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SACROBOSCO, Johannes de.
Heavily annotated copy of one of the early Cologne (Quentell) editions, Opus sphericum magistri Joannis de Sacro Busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et interpretatione familiari ad comoditatem desiderantium iucundissima Artis Astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum.
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Sons of Henricus Quentell, 21405, Cologne, - 4to. Modern boards. With a six-line woodcut initial on title comprising a teacher with his pupil, full-page woodcut of a armillary globe held by angels above and below, with the zodiac and a small view of a walled small town in centre on the verso of the title, and 27 large half-page astronomical and cosmological woodcuts in text, 2 other 6-line woodcut initials. (38) lvs. (last blank present; collation: A6, B-C4, D6, E-F4, G6, H4). Rare fourth Quentell edition printed in Cologne, edited and together with the extensive comments by Wenceslaus Fabri of Budweiss (1455-1518), a medieval Czech astronomer, mainly known as the author of almanacs. After a university career in Leipzig he returned to his native town, now Ceské Budejovice, where he is considered one of the most distinguished medieval intellectual personages.The first edition of Sacrobosco's text as edited by Fabri of Budweiss was printed by Henricus Quentell in 1500 (HC 14124), followed by editions by the same publisher in 1501 (37 ff.; VD16, J-708), 1503 (45 pp.; VD16, J-709); again 1503 (37 ff.; VD16, J-710), and 1505 (our copy), and followed by an edition in 1508 (38 ff.; VD16, J-713). It seems likely that most editions were page-for-page reprints of the first 1500 edition. The editio princeps of De Sphaera appeared in Ferrara in 1472.Our copy is dated in the colophon: "Anno supra Jubileum Magnum Quinto ad finem Januarij", five years after the Great Jubilee (of 1500). On f. G2v is a printed table of the latitudes of the main places on earth: 'Tabula Climatum rectificata 1491. Of special interest is that our copy is heavily annotated in a tiny contemporary scholarly hand in Latin and in brown ink, all around the title, interlinear and in the margins. Reliable information about the life of Johannes de Sacrobosco (d. ca. 1256) is scarce, and standard sources such as the Dictionary of Scientific Biography have unfortunately included as fact material deriving from the speculations and inventions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarians. On the basis of a statement made in 1271 by his commentator Robertus Anglicus, he is believed to have been of English origin; his name is frequently anglicised as John of Holywood. At some time in the earlier part of the thirteenth century he arrived in Paris. It is presumed that at some point he was enrolled as a regent master lecturing on mathematics and astronomy. Sacrobosco's importance in the history of astronomy stems from his authorship of some of the most popular and enduring textbooks of the middle ages, the most famous of his works, De Sphaera, a basic account of the spherical geometry underpinning the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators. It was composed c. 1230 and rapidly achieved popularity, and was reproduced and commented upon even into the seventeenth century. Sacrobosco was the first European scientist to use Arabic sources on astronomy. Fine copy.- (Old worm-holes, sometimes sl. affecting the text). VD16., J-712; not in Houzeau-Lancaster. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Henry, Tom; Kanter, Laurence B
Luca Signorelli: Leben und Werk (German Edition)
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Hirmer Verlag. Hardcover. 3777493600 Luca Signorelli ist einer der auaergewöhnlichsten Vertreter der italienischen Renaissancemalerei. Nach der Restaurierung seines Hauptwerks, des monumentalen Freskenzyklus in der Cappella di San Brizio im Dom von Orvieto, steht nun die lange überfällige Monographie seines Werkes an. Luca Signorelli (Cortona, um 1455 1523) gilt neben Pietro Vannucci, genannt Perugino, als Hauptvertreter der mittelitalienischen Renaissancemalerei. Schon in seiner Frühzeit zeigte sich Signorelli stark beeinfluat von den monumentalen, hart umrissenen Gestalten des Piero della Francesca und den plastisch durchmodellierten Körpern der Pollaiuoli. Auf dieser Basis entwickelte er sein Hauptanliegen, die Seelenzustände und Affekte der Gestalten in unterschiedlichen Posen und Bewegungen einzufangen, wofür er konzentrierte Lichtführung, strenge Plastizität, bisweilen kühne Verkürzungen und eine intensive Farbgebung einsetzte. Laurence B. Kanter gibt in dem einführenden Text einen umfassenden Einblick in die künstlerische Entwicklung des Malers. In einem ausführlichen uvrekatalog erfaat Tom Henry insgesamt 148 Werke mit überwiegend sakraler Thematik: neben den Fresken in Orvieto und Loreto, sowie seinem Anteil an den umfangreichen Wandbildzyklen in der Sixtinischen Kapelle und der Abtei Monteoliveto Maggiore auch umstrittene Zuschreibungen, Neuzuschreibungen oder gar wiederentdeckte Gemälde dieses auaergewöhnlichen Meisters. 272p, 84 col & 276 b/w illus. (Hirmer Verlag 2002). 9783777493602. Hardback . New. 2002-01-01.
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WICAR- MASQUELIER- MONGEZ
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Holy Bible: the Bible of Borso D'Este
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. New Elegant new edition of the Holy Bible. Profusely illustrated from the magnificent Italian Renaissance Bible of Borso d'Este, it uses the prose from the King James translation. Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, commissioned his Bible in 1455. With more than one thousand illustrations, the border on each page is sumptuously decorated with lovely vermilion and blue rosettes, gold ornamentation, delicate butterflies, birds, deer, trumpet-blowing angels, fierce dragons, and charming miniature scenes in perfect harmony with the biblical stories. This exclusive Museum edition is housed in a custom contoured slipcase. 892 pages, more than 1, 000 color illustrations. 12 in. x 16 3/4 in. Hardcover, with slipcase.
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WICAR- MASQUELIER- MONGEZ
Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camées de la galerie de Florence et du palais Pitti.
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Bibliotheque Royale Albert Iier, Brüssel, Ms. 10218
Jagdbuch des Königs Modus.
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. Entstehungszeit des Codex: um 1455, flämisch. Das Jagdbuch des Roi Modus - so nannte Henri de Ferrieres sein Buch über das Waidwerk, das er um 1370 mit profunder Kenntnis verfaßte. Der normannische Edelmann, der erst im hohen Alter das Schwert mit der Feder vertauschte, schuf damit das älteste Jagdtraktat in französischer Sprache, das seitdem vielfach kopiert worden war. Vermutlich wurde unsere Handschrift für Herzog Philipp den Guten von Burgund geschaffen, den dritten der großen Burgunderherzöge, die ein Reich zusammenführten, das an Reichtum und Macht alle anderen übertraf. Der Autor wollte die Autorität seines Textes unterstreichen und seine Leser fesseln. Deshalb legte er sein Werk nach Art der griechischen Philosophen als Zwiegespräch zwischen Lehrer und Schüler über die Jagd an; der Lehrer ist dabei die allegorische Figur des Königs Modus. Besondere Bedeutung kommt den Miniaturen unserer 1455 in Burgund geschaffenen Handschrift zu. Mit ihrem reichen Goldschmuck haben sie nicht nur die Aufgabe, die textlichen Anweisungen anschaulich zu verdeutlichen, sondern verherrlichen auch den Glanz des adeligen Lebensstils. Sie bestechen durch ihre Lebendigkeit, die gekonnte Wiedergabe der Tiere und die Authentizität der prächtigen Kleidung. Die enge Verbindung mit der Natur wurde von den Buchmalern gefordert, da höchster Wert auf die Authentizität der Darstellungen gelegt wurde. Somit zeigt sich hier flämische Kunst, geschaffen für einen hochadeligen Fürsten, in höchster Vollendung. 29,9 x 20,5 cm, mit 56 Miniaturen, einigen Randminiaturen und durchgehend mit Goldinitialen. Einband: Leder mit Goldprägung. Originalgetreue Wiedergabe des marmorierten Vorsatzpapiers. Alle Blätter sind dem Original entsprechend randbeschnitten. Der Kommentarband: Einführung D. Thoss. Übersetzung von M. Haehn. 120 Seiten, pb. Sonderausgabe der Faksimile-Ausgabe der 214 Seiten, aus der Auflage für den frankophilen Raum. Limitiert auf 500 Exemplare Früher 960,23 EUR jetzt nur noch.
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AUBERT, David
CRONICA DE LAS CRUZADAS DE JERUSALEM. Facsímil
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Eds. Reales Sitios Apaisado de 544 x 282 mm. 44p. con las guardas, Miniaturas: 147 (grandes, pequeñas, medallones y capitulares historiadas). Impresión a su color con estampación de oros. Encuadernación artesanal, exacta al original en pergamino sobre tabla. Se incluye Libro de Estudios conteniendo: Transcripción, Traducción, Paleográfico, Codicológico, Histórico, Artístico, Catálogo de Imágenes. Contiene toda la obra a todo su color. Tirada única de 575 ejemplares numerados y certificados ante notario.Esta obra fue realizada en el taller de David Aubert y pintado por el maestro Guillermo Vrelant hacia 1455 para Felipe III el Bueno, Duque de Borgoña, describe las batallas y sitios de ciudades que tuvieron lugar durante las Cruzadas y la conquista de la Tierra Santa. Su extraño formato alargado y apaisado explica su propia razón de ser: además de una crónica, es una genealogía de los reyes del reino latino.The Chronicles of the Crusades Viena, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2533 Format: Oblong of 544 x 282 mm. Pages: 44 (including blank pages). Miniatures: 147, big and small medals and historical chapters. Printing: To all its colour with golden print. Binding: Artisan, exact as original. Parchment on plank. Book of Studies: Transcription, Translation, Palaeographic, Codicological, Historic, Artistic and catalogue of illustrations. It contains a complete work to all its colour. Print Run: Unique 575 numbered copies with notarized deed. Made in David Aubert's studio and painted by de master Guillermo Vrelant towards 1455, for Felipe III "The Good One", Duke of Borgoña. It describes the battles and the sieges of the cities that took place during the Crusades ant the conquer of the "Holy Land". Its strange and oblong format explains its own reason of being; besides being a chronicle, it is also a genealogy of the kings of the Latin Kingdom. The genealogies used to be written on a parchment that could be rolled. In an inventory made in 1467 at Borgoña's court, the note aside this manuscript said "tournant en maniêre de rôle", which explains its format and the composition of the text into four columns. Afterwards it was cut to be binded as a codice. The result was spectacular. Since the first crusade, encouraged by the Pope Urban II in 1095, to the fall of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, appeared Godofredo of Bouillon, Federico Barbaroja, Ricardo Corazón de Leon, Saladino among others historical characters. It also gathers the creation of The Knights Templar Order and the Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint John, lately Order of Rhodes, nowdays Order of Malta. Besides its esthetic, they appear condensed the utensils for the assault, war machines, ships, sited and surrounded cities, clothes and armors, horses, shields and standards, complete armies etc. A need for the studious and an authentic pleasure for the bibliophile.
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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MONTENARI
(Giorgio, of Gazzola, Piacenza, N. Italy) Bargain of sale in the hand of notary Pietro Lanzafani,
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in Latin, with transcription and English summary, Giorgio, son of Bartolameo [sic] acknowledges receipt of 44 lire from Bartolameo Morello, notary, son of Antognoli, in return for 4 perches out of 7 of cultivated and fenced land in Gazzola !in Costa Brestheria!, freehold, bounded south by the heirs of Antonino Anguissolla, east by Carlo Anguissolla held partly from Paolo della Costa and partly from Pietro Griffo, west by the heirs partly of Raphael de Ziliano and partly of Antonino Anguissolla, apart from the purchaser!s own property, in the 4 perches are 2 lines of fences (!filagni!) and part of a 3rd, the property was held by the purchaser or his father from Giovanna de Saffignano and from Alberto Malvicino de Fontana as appears by an instrument of 12th April 1455 drawn by notary Gregorio Mazucho, notary!s device and !Ego! clause, vellum, 8! x 13!, at the Treasury, Piacenza, 25th February 1482 The vendor warrants on oath that he will defend the purchaser!s right to use the land as he wishes against every person, body, college and university, undertaking to pay double the cost of righting any defects in title and 5 lire on each such occasion, all spelt out in great detail, even to referring such cost to arbitration.#11;Witnessed by Andrea Duranto son of Pietro, Master Giovanni Pietro Constantino professor of grammar son of Master Simon, and Master Alberto de Silvestris Barberio son of Stephen.#11;At the foot are the first two lines of a deed in the same hand with the same preamble, apparently the counterpart, as it begins with the purchaser!s name. Lanzafani is fond of doubling his consonants - as in verssus, deffenssio, allia, scripssi and the like - and writes !thexauraria! for !treasury!.#11;The Anguissolla (from at least 996 A.D.), Fontana, with the Landi and Scotti were the main feudal landowners in the Piacentino.
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AUBERT, David
CRONICA DE LAS CRUZADAS DE JERUSALEM. Facsímil
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Eds. Reales Sitios - Apaisado de 544 x 282 mm. 44p. con las guardas, Miniaturas: 147 (grandes, pequeñas, medallones y capitulares historiadas). Impresión a su color con estampación de oros. Encuadernación artesanal, exacta al original en pergamino sobre tabla. Se incluye Libro de Estudios conteniendo: Transcripción, Traducción, Paleográfico, Codicológico, Histórico, Artístico, Catálogo de Imágenes. Contiene toda la obra a todo su color. Tirada única de 575 ejemplares numerados y certificados ante notario.Esta obra fue realizada en el taller de David Aubert y pintado por el maestro Guillermo Vrelant hacia 1455 para Felipe III el Bueno, Duque de Borgoña, describe las batallas y sitios de ciudades que tuvieron lugar durante las Cruzadas y la conquista de la Tierra Santa. Su extraño formato alargado y apaisado explica su propia razón de ser: además de una crónica, es una genealogía de los reyes del reino latino.The Chronicles of the Crusades Viena, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2533 Format: Oblong of 544 x 282 mm. Pages: 44 (including blank pages). Miniatures: 147, big and small medals and historical chapters. Printing: To all its colour with golden print. Binding: Artisan, exact as original. Parchment on plank. Book of Studies: Transcription, Translation, Palaeographic, Codicological, Historic, Artistic and catalogue of illustrations. It contains a complete work to all its colour. Print Run: Unique 575 numbered copies with notarized deed. Made in David Aubert's studio and painted by de master Guillermo Vrelant towards 1455, for Felipe III "The Good One", Duke of Borgoña. It describes the battles and the sieges of the cities that took place during the Crusades ant the conquer of the "Holy Land". Its strange and oblong format explains its own reason of being; besides being a chronicle, it is also a genealogy of the kings of the Latin Kingdom. The genealogies used to be written on a parchment that could be rolled. In an inventory made in 1467 at Borgoña's court, the note aside this manuscript said "tournant en maniêre de rôle", which explains its format and the composition of the text into four columns. Afterwards it was cut to be binded as a codice. The result was spectacular. Since the first crusade, encouraged by the Pope Urban II in 1095, to the fall of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, appeared Godofredo of Bouillon, Federico Barbaroja, Ricardo Corazón de Leon, Saladino among others historical characters. It also gathers the creation of The Knights Templar Order and the Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint John, lately Order of Rhodes, nowdays Order of Malta. Besides its esthetic, they appear condensed the utensils for the assault, war machines, ships, sited and surrounded cities, clothes and armors, horses, shields and standards, complete armies etc. A need for the studious and an authentic pleasure for the bibliophile.
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Beato Angelico. L'Alba Del Rinascimento
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Skira, 2009. New Roma, Musei Capitolini, 8 aprile-5 luglio 2009. A cura di Alessandro Zuccari, Giovanni Morello e Gerardo de Simone. Milano, 2009; ril., pp. 304, ill. b/n col., tavv. col., cm 24, 5x28, 5. La nuova, definitiva monografia che fa il punto su uno dei più grandi artisti del Quattrocento. Beato Angelico fu il massimo pittore italiano tra Masaccio e Piero della Francesca: dall'uno seppe apprendere, per primo e più in profondità di chiunque altro (come testimonia il Vasari), il chiaroscuro e la nuova humamtas, coniugandola in modo originale e sublime con le preziosità tardogotiche apprese da Lorenzo Monaco e da Gentile da Fabriano e con le cadenze scultoree di Lorenzo Ghiberti; al secondo seppe trasmettere la maestrìa nell'uso della luce e la vocazione alla sintesi linguistica ed espressiva, che e al fondo ricerca dell'assoluto, al contempo formale e spirituale. A 550 anni dalla morte (1455), il volume-che accompagna la straordinaria mostra antologica romana-documenta tutte le fasi della lunga e composita produzione dell'Angelico attraverso una selezione di opere che non è solo efficacemente esemplificativa, ma mette a confronto ravvicinato anche le più recenti attribuzioni, i nuovi ritrovamenti, i percorsi critici meno battuti e la trascurata parentesi del decennio romano. il percorso dell'Angelico viene documentato non solo da numerose tavole-tabernacoli autonomi per la devozione privata, scomparti di pale d'altare e di polittici (santi assorti e isolati su fondo oro nelle cuspidi, nei pinnacoli, nei laterali, vivaci scene narrative nelle predelle)-e da alcune rarissime opere su tela, ma anche da alcuni non meno rari disegni e da splendide miniature, attestanti lo straordinario livello qualitativo raggiunto in questo campo dall'artista, la cui formazione avvenne come miniatore e come pittore insieme.
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MILÁ, Luis de, Cardinal.
[Letter of Indulgence]. [In Catalan].
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A printed indulgence - for the restoration of the Cathedral of Lérida - from one of the rarest of Spanish fifteenth-century centres of printing.The Saxon Heinrich Botel printed at least two settings each of two separate indulgences designed to gather funds for the rebuilding of the sacristy of the cathedral of Lérida. The difference between the two indulgences is that one is for the living (promising, that is, absolution for various sins, some of them specified) and the other for the dead (for whose souls commemoration in prayers, masses, offices of the dead, etc., was purchased by relatives). The two versions are easily distinguished by the first words, 'A exaltacio' for the dead and 'A honor' for the living, and the ensuing texts. In the case of that for the dead, two copies survive with two settings of each printed one above the other on one side of a folio half-sheet, the upper in 24 lines and the lower in 23 lines.1 The same type (Botel's 104G) is used for the two settings of the indulgence for the living, both of them in 31 lines, which are found one above the other in a single copy in Barcelona;2 the first setting only is further found in this copy and another at the Huntington Library, California.3 In summary, there are three copies known of the first indulgence for the living (Quaritch, Huntington, Barcelona AHM), one only of the second (Barcelona AHM); of the two indulgences for the dead, two copies are known of the first (Cambridge and Lérida) and three of the second (Library of Congress, and the twins of the first at Cambridge and Lérida).The indulgence is issued in the name of Cardinal Luis Juan de Milá, Bishop of Lérida (Lleida, in Catalan) and one of the most powerful churchmen of the latter half of the fifteenth century. His mother was Caterina de Borja, the sister of the Alonso de Borja who became Pope Calixtus III on 8 April 1455. Luis de Milá was already by that stage Bishop of Segorbe (near Valencia), from 1453 until his translation to the see of Lérida on 7 October 1459. He retained that bishopric even after becoming cardinal priest of SS. Quattro Coronati ('Cardinal de santiquatre' in the indulgence) in September 1456, a position held by Calixtus III until his elevation to the papacy. This first creation of his uncle's reign also saw his younger cousin Rodrigo Borgia, later the infamous Alexander VI, made cardinal deacon by the familiar Renaissance practice of papal nepotism. Luis de Milá remained a cardinal for more than fifty years, dying in 1508 as the senior member of the college.4We have apparently good documentary evidence on the circumstances that gave rise to this set of indulgences. The sacristy of the cathedral of Lérida had burned down in 1473. In this 'gran incendi e cremament', as the indulgence puts it (line 4), a great many articles of priestly attire and church ornament were lost. A passage in Jaime Villanueva's Viage literario of 1851 says that the author had seen a decree of 1497 issued by Juan of Aragón, the king's lieutenant in Catalonia. The decree ordered the revenues of the bishop to be sequestered at the instance of the chapter of the cathedral, frustrated that throughout the bishop's long tenure the sums designated each year for the repair of the sacristy had never been applied to that purpose. As a result Bishop Milá offered to pay 6,000 sueldos (in Catalan, sous)5 towards the repairs on 22 November 1498, in the same year issuing a printed decree granting indulgences to those who contributed to this pious work.6This, then, is clear enough proof that the four indulgences (and possibly others now lost) were at least first printed in 1498. They are thus by some way the latest known products of the printer Botel's career, his last dated book being of 1495 and nothing further, apart from the indulgences, plausibly datable later. Heinrich Botel of Einbeck in Saxony, a priest as well as a printer, had been involved in some of the earliest books printed in Spain. He undertook to teach two other Germans the art of printing at Barcelona in 1473 and the Aristotle that was then produced (GW 2371) is the first book known to have been printed in that city. By 1476 Botel had moved to Zaragoza and printed there with various companions before repairing to Lérida in 1479. In the Catalan city, situated between Barcelona and Zaragoza, some 90 miles from each, he began printing independently and without competitors for the first time, issuing a local breviary on 16 August 1479.7 His production thereafter was intermittent and not copious (a total of nineteen books and seven indulgences, in Latin, Catalan, and twice in Spanish), which suggests that his press was not continuously active and that he had other employment as occasion offered.8 Botel's name does not appear after the Sagramental of 5 November 1495 (BMC X 46); but unless an anonymous successor was using his types in these Catalan indulgences, he was still at work late in 1498.The text of the indulgence itself is interesting for the extensive list of sins for which the purchaser of this document (at a cost of two sous, line 8) could have absolution through a confessor: involuntary homicide, blasphemy, getting married in secret, eating meat during Lent or eating meat or drinking wine [sic] that belonged to Moors, killing or suffocating by negligence one's children in bed, perjury, arson, theft, invocation of evil spirits, abortion, having illicit relations with female relatives or nuns, failing to say the required canonical hours (for the religious), committing the crime of luxury in churches, keeping concubines (provided that they leave them and return to their wives), hearing Mass during one's marriage in time of interdict or giving church burial while under interdict (publicly imposed by the bishop with the cathedral doors open and the bells ringing). All pardons and graces granted by the bishop's predecessors are here confirmed in veneration of the glorious relics of the Holy Cloth and the Holy Thorn. It is not clear whether these relics survive in the Seu Vella of Lérida, a fine example of the Transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic architecture, dating from 1203 but much abused as a garrison for more than two centuries until the mid-1940s. The Holy Cloth, as the first two lines of the indulgence tell us, was a fragment of Christ's swaddling-clothes:9 indeed a rarissimum incunabulorum.Footnotes: 1. A reduced facsimile of the folio page with both together is given by F. Vindel, El arte tipográfico en España durante el siglo XV, 9 vols (Madrid, 1945-51), I, Cataluña, no. 130, p. 212. The whereabouts of that page was unknown to Vindel at the time of writing but it is presumably one of the two copies now known: at Cambridge UL (J. C. T. Oates, A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the University Library Cambridge (Cambridge, 1954), no. 4050, presented by S. Gaselee in 1934) and at Lérida, Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Legat Areny (Catálogo general de incunables en bibliotecas españolas [IBE]: Adiciones y correcciones, ed. by J. Martín Abad, I, (Madrid, 1991), nos 6342 and 6343). The latter copy was purchased from Maggs in the late 1940s ([María del Carmen] T[orres] G[raell], 'La paleografía tipográfica de las Bulas incunables leridanas', Ilerda, 19 (1955), 129-35, at p. 132. She gives a reduced photograph of the Areny copy opposite p. 131). The second setting in 23 lines is also found by itself in a copy offered in Maggs catalogue 402 (1921), 653B ('the only copy known'), which may well be that recorded at the Library of Congress (Goff, Census, M-470). The 23-line setting is recorded in K. Haebler's Bibliografía ibérica del siglo XV, 2 parts, The Hague and Leipzig, 1903-17, II 433(3), though Haebler did not see it and believed it lost.2. IBE 3941 and 3942 at Barcelona, Archivo histórico municipal.3. Goff M-569; Goff's references are confused, as his notes give one to understand that M-569 for the living and his M-570 for the dead were once two settings on the same sheet, and both are referred to Vindel's reproduction and to Oates, each of which concerns the two indulgences for the dead. H. R. Mead, 'Unique Spanish Incunabula', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1950), 153-59 at pp. 154-55 gives details of the Huntington indulgence which confirm that it is the same as the Quaritch copy and also as the first in Barcelona AHM (IBE 3941: note 2 above). The present copy is that sold by Maggs Cat. 402 (1921), 653A, alongside 653B for the dead (see note 1 above), and registered in Goff M-569 as in the hands of the bookseller John Fleming of New York. Mead was wrong to say (p. 154B) that the Huntington copy, in fact bought from A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1925, was that offered by Maggs.4. See K. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, II (Münster, 1901), pp. 12, 72, 188, 258 for details of his church career; also the entry s.v. Milà (in the Catalan spelling) in Diccionari Biogràfic, III (Barcelona, 1969), p. 178; Michael Mallett, The Borgias (London, 1969), ad indicem.5. In Latin solidi, English 'shillings'. As a comparison one may note that Botel engaged by contract to sell his edition of the Fori Aragonum (with Paulus Hurus, Zaragoza, 1477; GW 10174, folio, 380 leaves) at 60 solidi: BMC X, p. l, G. D. Painter in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1962), p. 139.6. J. L. Villanueva, Viage literario a las iglesias de España, vol. XVII (Madrid, 1851), p. 46: 'De 1497 he visto un decreto de D. Juan de Aragón, conde de Ribagorza, lugar-teniente general del rey en Cataluña, mandando secuestrar las rentas de nuestro obispo, a instancias del Capítulo, quejoso de que en tantos años de pontificado no aplicaba lo que anualmente se le había señalado para reparo de la sacristía incendiada ya había algunos años, ni del palacio ni de los castillos. En consecuencia de esto, ofreció día 22 de noviembre de 1498 pagar 6,000 sueldos para reparo de la sacristía incendia. Y además publicó un decreto impreso el mismo año, en que concede indulgencias a los que contribuyesen a dicho objeto'. This passage is taken over by M. Jiménez Catalán, Apuntes para una Bibliografía Ilerdense de los siglos XV al XVIII (Barcelona, 1912), p. 75, and by Vindel (note 1 above), without new evidence. Villanueva printed the text of the indulgence for the dead as doc. XV, pp. 265-66. 7. Breviarium Ilerdense, GW 5363. Lérida thus became the sixth printing town of Spain, after Segovia, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville.8. For details of his career, see BMC X, Introduction, pp. xxxvii-xxxix (Barcelona), l-li (Zaragoza), lvii (Lérida), and also the entry s.v. Botel in Juan Delgado Casado, Diccionario de impresores españoles (Siglos XV-XVII), 2 vols (Madrid, 1996), I, pp. 86-87. There seems no good reason to follow Ferdinand Geldner in believing that Botel died at Lérida in 1495 (Die deutsche Inkunabeldrucker, 2 vols [Stuttgart, 1968-70], II, p. 288).9. ... aquela deuotissima reliquia del sant drap en lo qual nostre senyor fonch per la verge maria embolicat e nudrit ... ('that most venerable relic of the Holy Cloth wherein our Lord was wrapped and fed by the Virgin Mary'). The relic was examined on a visitation of the Cathedral in 1535 (Villanueva, Viage literario, doc. XVI, pp. 266-67). Lérida, Heinrich Botel, c.1498.
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- Document manuscrit sur velin, 7,5 x 30,5 cm, sceau en lacque rouge, très belle signature. Laurent (le/de) Maech fut un financier de Philippe le Bon; il commanda la Crucifixion de St. Bavon de Joos van Wassenhove, qui devenu fameux travailla à Urbino et Gubbio. (Receipt on parchment, red lacquer seal, very fine signature from the Burgundian treasurer and maecenas, who ordered the Crucifixion triptych by Joos van Wassenhove - Giusto di Guanto - still in Ghent cathedral.) Avec un document légal sur velin, 14 x 39 cm, traces de deux sigles, signé par Jean de Mes. Un Jean de Novelemport (Novelenpont, Nouillonpot), appelé Jean de Mez, fut un des compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc. Né ca. 1398, en 1455 il témoigna encore au procès de réhabilitation. (With a 1411 legal document by Jean du Mes, de Troyes. The name was made famous by one of Joan of Arc's companions.)§.
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J. S. Bothwell
Falling From Grace: Reversal of Fortune and the English Nobility 1075-1455
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Manchester University Press. New This original study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell, usually dramatically and often violently, from positions of power in the period 1075-1455. It also considers what those who survived this fall did while out of favor and what some families did to attempt to revive their fortunes. For those noble dynasties that managed to survive such downturns, there was usually an attempt to return to position, if not power— though the road was never easy and, this book argues, increasingly involved sustained efforts by wives, mothers and daughters. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, "Falling from Grace" spans almost four centuries, from the Earls' Revolt of 1075 to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, and will be of considerable interest to both academic and general audiences. ISBN10: 0719075211.
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Document manuscrit sur velin, 7,5 x 30,5 cm, sceau en lacque rouge, très belle signature. Laurent (le/de) Maech fut un financier de Philippe le Bon; il commanda la Crucifixion de St. Bavon de Joos van Wassenhove, qui devenu fameux travailla à Urbino et Gubbio. (Receipt on parchment, red lacquer seal, very fine signature from the Burgundian treasurer and maecenas, who ordered the Crucifixion triptych by Joos van Wassenhove - Giusto di Guanto - still in Ghent cathedral.) Avec un document légal sur velin, 14 x 39 cm, traces de deux sigles, signé par Jean de Mes. Un Jean de Novelemport (Novelenpont, Nouillonpot), appelé Jean de Mez, fut un des compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc. Né ca. 1398, en 1455 il témoigna encore au procès de réhabilitation. (With a 1411 legal document by Jean du Mes, de Troyes. The name was made famous by one of Joan of Arc's companions.)§.
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SPINO, Pietro.
Historia della Vita, et Fatti dell'Eccellentissimo Capitano di Guerra Bartolomeo Coglione.
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- Colleoni was perhaps the most respectable of all the Italian condottieri.no act of treachery is imputed to him, nor did he subject the territories he passed through to the rapine and exactions practised by other soldiers of fortune." Ency. Britannica VI, p. 687. During his career he introduced the use of artillery to his armies. He fought mostly for Venice against Milan, but changed sides several times. In 1455, he became captain-general of the Venetian Republic. Adams S1601. STC Books printed in Italy.Brit. Museum, p. 637. Engraved t.p., (lacks frontis. port. and 2 plates). 284pp. 4to, older calf, gilt spine; (dampstain to table of contents, some contemporary annotations in margins, back hinge starting at top, several pp. creased in lower corner). (Vinetia: Appresso Gratioso Percaccino, 1569). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Liebig, Justus von,
Chemistry in its application to agriculture and physiology. Edited from the manuscript of the author by Lyon Playfair.Taylor & Walton London, 2nd ed., 1842,
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- XII, 409 S. und 16 S. Verlagsanzeigen, Originalleinen (original cloth) mit Blindprägung , Rücken mit Goldprägung,Name auf Vorsatzblatt (name on fly-leaf), Einband leicht verschossen (binding slightly discoloured), Einband leicht bestoßen (binding slightly bumped). Paolini, S. 353; Poggendorff I, S. 1455; DSB VIII, S. 329; NDB XIV, S. 497; PMM, S. 310. Liebig, Justus von (1803 - 1873) Prof. für Chemie Giessen, seit 1851 dann München, einer der bedeutendsten Chemiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, entwickelte die organ.-chemische Elementaranalyse, die Radikaltheorie u. die Agrikulturchemie. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Borsali, Redouane;Pecora, Robert
Soft-Matter Characterization Scattering, Imaging and Manipulation
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Springer-Verlag GmbH, Juli 2008. NEUBUCH! 4-volume set, not available separately. - 1455 Seiten 245 mm mm mm x 172 mm mm mm x 74 mm mm mm mm mm Einband:Gebunden. This 2 volume 4-part set includes extensive discussions of scattering techniques (light, neutron and X-ray) and related fluctuation and grating techniques that are at the forefront of this field. Most of the scattering techniques are Fourier space techniques. Recent advances have seen the development of powerful direct imaging methods such as atomic force microscopy and scanning probe microscopy. In addition, techniques that can be used to manipulate soft matter on the nanometer scale are also in rapid development. These include the scanning probe microscopy technique mentioned above as well as optical and magnetic tweezers. This will appeal to soft matter scientists at the graduate level and above, condensed matter physicists, chemists, biologists, medical doctors and engineers. TOC:Volume I:Part I: Basic Concepts of Scattering.- Rod-like particles and Semi-rigid Polymers.- Theory of Polyelectrolytes.- Star Polymers and Dendrimers.- Micelles.- Brush-like Polymers.- Part II: Static Light Scattering.- Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS).- Light Scattering in Shear Fields.- Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching.- Forced Rayleigh Scattering (FRS).- Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS).- Dynamics of Block Copolymer disordered state: RPA approach. Light Scattering by Polysaccharides.- Gels.Volume II:Part III: Neutron Scattering: SANS.- SANS Liquid Crystal.- Adsorption of polyelectrolyte micelles as studied with neutron reflectivity and ellipsometry.- X-ray Scattering: SAXS/WAXS and ASAXS.- X-Ray (XPCS).- SAXS of Polyelectrolytes.- SAXS of Block Copolymer.- SAXS by Proteins.- Part IV: Imaging of Membranes (AFM).- Vesicles/micelles/rods and Imaging.- Polymers at Interfaces (AFM, etc).- Cryo-TEM.- Tweezers and Fluorescence microscopy.- Single Molecule Microscopy.- DNA Manipulation.- Brush-like Polymers.- Proteines/AFM.
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Britnell, Richard
The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society
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Boydell Press. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. The Winchester pipe rolls-the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester-constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in the world, supplying detailed evidence for agriculture, prices, wages, the land market and peasant society in an exceptionally well-preserved sequence from 1209 onwards. They have attracted the attention of historians of medieval economy and society for over a century, first in deposit in the Public Record Office, more recently in Hampshire Record Office. The essays collected here celebrate their survival and demonstrate their quality, putting them into perspective as a documentary source, and assessing how far their evidence is representative of England as a whole. The volume also demonstrates some of the new ways in which they are being put to use to enhance knowledge of medieval England, with a number of the articles concerned with recent research projects. The book is completed with a handlist of these records up to 1455, the year in which the bishopric administration started to keep its accounts in registers rather than rolls. Contributors: RICHARD H. BRITNELL, BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL, JOHN LANGDON, JOHN MULLAN, MARK PAGE, K. J. STOCKS, CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT. RICHARD BRITNELL is Professor of History at the University of Durham. ISBN10: 1843830299.
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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James H. Marrow, James H. Morrow
The Hours of Simon De Varie
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Getty Publications. New Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book. Completed in 1455, it included five priceless works by the most eminent French painter of the time, JeanFouquet, as well as other striking paintings by two of his contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume— thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired bythe Getty Museum— contains the first miniatures by Jean Fouquet to have been discovered in eighty years. This beautiful book will reproduce in color all of the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with selected text pages with secondary decoration. Comparative illustrations also accompany the two essays in the volume. Marrow's text addresses the role of books ofhours in late medieval culture; the contents and form of de Varie's Hours; and the relationship of the miniatures by Fouquet to the rest of the artist's oeuvre. In a related essay, Francois Avril discusses the position of Simon de Varie and his family in mid-fifteenth-century France. The publication of The Hours of Simon de Varie adds to the Getty's impressive list of publications on illuminated manuscripts begun in 1990 and including the widely acclaimed facsimile Mira calligraphiae monumenta. ISBN10: 0892362847.
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Liebig, Justus von,
Untersuchungen über einige Ursachen der Säftebewegung im thierischen Organismus.Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1848,
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- VI, 93 S. m. 14 Textholzschnitten, Broschiert (bookblock),einige Seiten leicht wasserwellig (some pages slightly water waves). Ferchl, S. 315; Poggendorff I, S. 1455; DSB VIII, S. 329; NDB XIV, S. 497; PMM, S. 310. Liebig, Justus von (1803 - 1873) Prof. für Chemie Giessen, seit 1851 dann München, einer der bedeutendsten Chemiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, entwickelte die organ.-chemische Elementaranalyse, die Radikaltheorie u. die Agrikulturchemie./ "A rare work which contains a careful study of osmosis and the permeability of membranes" (Partington IV, 316). [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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Bibliothèque Royale Albert Iier, Brüssel, Ms. 10218
Jagdbuch des Königs Modus
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- Entstehungszeit des Codex: um 1455, flämisch. Das Jagdbuch des Roi Modus - so nannte Henri de Ferrières sein Buch über das Waidwerk, das er um 1370 mit profunder Kenntnis verfaßte. Der normannische Edelmann, der erst im hohen Alter das Schwert mit der Feder vertauschte, schuf damit das älteste Jagdtraktat in französischer Sprache, das seitdem vielfach kopiert worden war. Vermutlich wurde unsere Handschrift für Herzog Philipp den Guten von Burgund geschaffen, den dritten der großen Burgunderherzöge, die ein Reich zusammenführten, das an Reichtum und Macht alle anderen übertraf. Der Autor wollte die Autorität seines Textes unterstreichen und seine Leser fesseln. Deshalb legte er sein Werk nach Art der griechischen Philosophen als Zwiegespräch zwischen Lehrer und Schüler über die Jagd an; der Lehrer ist dabei die allegorische Figur des Königs Modus. Besondere Bedeutung kommt den Miniaturen unserer 1455 in Burgund geschaffenen Handschrift zu. Mit ihrem reichen Goldschmuck haben sie nicht nur die Aufgabe, die textlichen Anweisungen anschaulich zu verdeutlichen, sondern verherrlichen auch den Glanz des adeligen Lebensstils. Sie bestechen durch ihre Lebendigkeit, die gekonnte Wiedergabe der Tiere und die Authentizität der prächtigen Kleidung. Die enge Verbindung mit der Natur wurde von den Buchmalern gefordert, da höchster Wert auf die Authentizität der Darstellungen gelegt wurde. Somit zeigt sich hier flämische Kunst, geschaffen für einen hochadeligen Fürsten, in höchster Vollendung. 29,9 x 20,5 cm, mit 56 Miniaturen, einigen Randminiaturen und durchgehend mit Goldinitialen. Einband: Leder mit Goldprägung. Originalgetreue Wiedergabe des marmorierten Vorsatzpapiers. Alle Blätter sind dem Original entsprechend randbeschnitten. Der Kommentarband: Einführung D. Thoss. Übersetzung von M. Haehn. 120 Seiten, pb. Sonderausgabe der Faksimile-Ausgabe der 214 Seiten, aus der Auflage für den frankophilen Raum. Limitiert auf 500 Exemplare [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.
Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, . Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques . Recueillis . par . S.A.S.A. Gritti, . D.A.J. Salanova, . J.F. de Voisin, . 28 Mars 1769. The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards.
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- 162; (1), (1 blank), 182 (2 blank); (1), (1 blank), 216, 7 pp. Cat. Bib. Vereeniging Boekhandel IV, p. 247; Bibliopolis (www.kb.nl/coop/bibliop/bibl-html/) veilingen (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); OCLC World.Cat. (1 copy); STCN (1 copy); for Van Damme: NNBW II, 363.Catalogue for the auction of books from the libraries of Andrea Gritti (1455-1528), Doge of Venice; D.A.J. Salanova, Canon of Valencia and Spain; and J.F. de Voisin, Flemish jurist. Bibliopolis notes that the books had come into the stock of the Amsterdam bookseller Pieter van Damme (1727-1806), although his name does not appear in the catalogue. At the end of the last part is a 7-page list of 155 coins and medals, along with the cabinet that held them, painted by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Van Damme, a member of the Amsterdam booksellers guild since 1756, started selling off his stock after he had secured himself an income by marrying a wealthy lady. The stock was sold at auction on two occasions, in 1764 and the present 1669. Most of Van Damme's coin and medal collection was acquired by King Louis Napoleon of the Netherlands in 1809 and survives in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet.With the title-page loose at the head, but still a good copy. Binding rubbed. Interesting catalogue of books and coins & medals.
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Heiratsbrief des Cunrad Neuenhaus und der Ballen Trennbeck mit Vereinbarungen über die Einkünfte aus Sitz Eckerstorff. Pergament. Mit 2 (davon 1 beschädigter) Wachs-Siegeln am Band.
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Gebn an Sunttag sand Appollonia tag 1455 - Ca. 21,3 x 29,7 cm. Etwas gebräunt, oben links etwas Fleckchen. Kalligraphisch saubere Handschrift. Als Zeugen sind genannt Cunrat Sulzperg zu Hofau, Panngratz Hohalting Kastner zu Dingolfing, Hainrich Fackenhofer, Hanns Packreis Kastner zu Teispach und Wilhalm Lewprechting zu Pannzing (Schreibweise wie aufgeführt). - Teisbach, Leoprechting zu Panzing, Eckersdorf, Eckersdorff, Sulzberg, Packreiss.
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[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.
Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, ... Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques ... Recueillis ... par ... S.A.S.A. Gritti, ... D.A.J. Salanova, ... J.F. de Voisin, ... 28 Mars 1769. The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards.
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. 162; (1), (1 blank), 182 (2 blank); (1), (1 blank), 216, 7 pp. Cat. Bib. Vereeniging Boekhandel IV, p. 247; Bibliopolis (www.kb.nl/coop/bibliop/bibl-html/) veilingen (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); OCLC World.Cat. (1 copy); STCN (1 copy); for Van Damme: NNBW II, 363. Catalogue for the auction of books from the libraries of Andrea Gritti (1455-1528), Doge of Venice; D.A.J. Salanova, Canon of Valencia and Spain; and J.F. de Voisin, Flemish jurist. Bibliopolis notes that the books had come into the stock of the Amsterdam bookseller Pieter van Damme (1727-1806), although his name does not appear in the catalogue. At the end of the last part is a 7-page list of 155 coins and medals, along with the cabinet that held them, painted by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Van Damme, a member of the Amsterdam booksellers guild since 1756, started selling off his stock after he had secured himself an income by marrying a wealthy lady. The stock was sold at auction on two occasions, in 1764 and the present 1669. Most of Van Damme's coin and medal collection was acquired by King Louis Napoleon of the Netherlands in 1809 and survives in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet.With the title-page loose at the head, but still a good copy. Binding rubbed. Interesting catalogue of books and coins & medals..
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P Vohra, R Mehta
Encyclopaedia Of World Great Economists
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- , (4 vols. set), Economics is being employed by individuals and societies since prehistoric times for their betterment and to satisfy their wants even before it was recognized as a subject or as a special area of scientific study of choices made by individuals and societies in regard to alternative uses of resources which are employed to satisfy their wants and needs. When it comes to great economists, a few thinkers dominate the landscape. In broad span of time since these thinkers first presented their ideas, economic issues and concerns have changed greatly but society still has learn valuable lessons from history's great economists, whether their theories held up over time, required revision or have been discredited in practice. By providing glimpses into the mind of these geniuses who laid the foundation of modern economics the present encyclopedic work offer new ideas and perspectives to enhance our understanding of the subject. As to learn more about law these great ones formed their ideas, one can gain a better grasp of important economic principles that drive and shape modern world. The present encyclopaedia of world great economists is a cogent account of its kind, which records systematic responses of the great economists. Encyclopaedia in four volumes thus projects an elaborated view of the great pioneers of economic thought on all most all the broad aspects of seminal contributions made by them. These volumes contain not only selected speeches of the greatest economists but also incorporate biographical sketches. This encyclopaedia comprised in four volumes is unique and exclusive publication that will introduce and throw light on life and working pattern of some of the great economists of their times. This will introduce and throw light on life and working pattern of some of the great economists of their times. This up to date and comprehensive work is designed to provide a useful and reliable fact about the masters of economics, which will be of immense interest of students, teachers, academicians and general readers. ISBN:9788131101087 1455 Yr. of Pub.2007
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Gerssdorff (Gersdorff), Hans v.:
Feldtbuch der Wundt Artzney/ sampt des Menschen Cörpers Anatomey/ und Chirurgischen Instrumenten/ wahrhaftig Abcontrafeyt und beschrieben. Allen Aerzten .. treulich an Tag gegeben/ Durch M. Hanns Gersdorffen.. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Hermann Gülfferichen/ inn der Schnurrgassen zum Krug, 1551, Klein Folio, schwarz/rotes Titelblatt, (8), 202, (2) pp., zahlr. Holzschnitte, davon 22 fast blattgroße, 1 ganzseitige Druckermarke, HPgmtBd.
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. Sehr seltenes, und frisches Exemplar der reichhaltigsten illustrierten Ausgabe dieses Klassikers der Chirurgie. Eine Seite ist leicht Blutfleckig; dem Buch zur Zierde gereichen einige Anmerkungen alter Hand. Wie fast alle bekannten Exemplare ohne die beiden apart erhältlichen Falttafeln, diese jedoch als Faksimile bei gebunden; das ganze im schmucken Halbpergamenteinband neuerer Hand; siehe ausführliche 32seitige Beschreibung in Medicusbooks.com. Hans von Gersdorff (ca. 1455-1529) "was a military surgeon who had gained wide experience during the course of some forty years of campaigning and was an expert in the care and treatment of battlefield injuries. His work is divided into four books which treat of anatomy, surgery, leprosy, and glossaries of anatomical terms, diseases, and medications. Gersdorff emphasized a well-founded knowledge of anatomy because the surgeon was frequently called upon to deal with extensive bodily trauma. He derived his anatomy primarily from the Arabic authors and works of Guy de Chauliac. The surgical portion of the work was devoted to wound surgery and covers in some detail the methods he employed for extracting foreign objects and amputating limbs. He used a tourniquet to control bleeding when amputating and covered the stump with the bladder of a bovine or swine to help control postoperative hemorrhaging. He also included information on various remedies and medications that might be employed by the surgeon. Of special interest are the sedatives and analgesics, although he appears not to have employed them in his practice. The section on leprosy is given over largely to remedies for a disease he did not believe could be cured. The final part of the book consists of a series of Latin-German glossaries containing anatomical terms, diseases, and some 800 simples of animal, mineral, and plant origin. The book contains many woodcuts, attributed to Hans Wechtlin (b. ca. 1480), which depict anatomy, surgical operations, and surgical instruments and devices. Herrlinger comments that "The illustrations . . . belong to the early phase of 16th-century medical illustration and represent one of its high points" (History of medical illustration. London, 1970. p. 142). The practical nature of Gersdorff's book and its fine illustrations caused it to become very popular and it was frequently referred to, widely quoted, and freely plagiarized. The work went through at least twelve editions between the time of its first publication in 1517 and the early seventeenth century. The book also appeared in several Latin and Dutch editions." Heirs of Hippocratesü, No.149 (1530).
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Oriflamme. 128 bis 141; 16 Hefte 1972/74
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- Verlag Psychosophische Gesellschaft, Stein/AR. Schweiz Zürich, Illus. Papier, geheftet 8°, Seiten 1455-1642 - Einbände teilw. lichtrandig, ein Expl. fingerfl., sonst gute Expl. - Zeitschrift des: Ordo Illuminatorum : Ordo Templi Orientis : Fraternitas Rosicruciana : Ecclesia gnostica Catholica. (Siehe dazu Miers S. 464f) - U.a.: Dr. Henri Clemens Birven "Aus dem Leben Aleister Crowleys"; Albin Grau, Fra.:. Pacitius "Der Weg ins ewige Schweigen"; F.W. Krippner "Einweihung in die geheime Gesellschaft der ägyptischen Priester (Crata Repoa); Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. Werner Zimmermann "Freiheit und Verantwortung"; F.W. Krippner "Von den Mithrageheimnissen der Perser"; Aus persönlichen Handschriften (.der berühmten Martha Küntzel, Soror I.:.W.:.E.:.); Leopold Engel "Geheime Gesellschaften"; Henry van Dyke "Die Geschichte vom Vierten Weisen aus dem Morgenland"; Gnosis. - Wichtiges Periodikum der Appenzeller Thelema: Amtlicher Ordensanzeiger für alle Provinzen deutscher Zunge. Aleister Crowley
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AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.
Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, . Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques . Recueillis . par . S.A.S.A. Gritti, . D.A.J. Salanova, . J.F. de Voisin, . 28 Mars 1769. The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards.
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- 162; (1), (1 blank), 182 (2 blank); (1), (1 blank), 216, 7 pp. Cat. Bib. Vereeniging Boekhandel IV, p. 247; Bibliopolis (www.kb.nl/coop/bibliop/bibl-html/) veilingen (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); OCLC World.Cat. (1 copy); STCN (1 copy); for Van Damme: NNBW II, 363.Catalogue for the auction of books from the libraries of Andrea Gritti (1455-1528), Doge of Venice; D.A.J. Salanova, Canon of Valencia and Spain; and J.F. de Voisin, Flemish jurist. Bibliopolis notes that the books had come into the stock of the Amsterdam bookseller Pieter van Damme (1727-1806), although his name does not appear in the catalogue. At the end of the last part is a 7-page list of 155 coins and medals, along with the cabinet that held them, painted by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Van Damme, a member of the Amsterdam booksellers guild since 1756, started selling off his stock after he had secured himself an income by marrying a wealthy lady. The stock was sold at auction on two occasions, in 1764 and the present 1669. Most of Van Damme's coin and medal collection was acquired by King Louis Napoleon of the Netherlands in 1809 and survives in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet.With the title-page loose at the head, but still a good copy. Binding rubbed. Interesting catalogue of books and coins & medals.
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Gerssdorff (Gersdorff), Hans v.:
Feldtbuch der Wundt Artzney/ sampt des Menschen Cörpers Anatomey/ und Chirurgischen Instrumenten/ wahrhaftig Abcontrafeyt und beschrieben. Allen Aerzten treulich an Tag gegeben/ Durch M. Hanns Gersdorffen. Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, durch Hermann Gülfferichen/ inn der Schnurrgassen zum Krug, 1551, Klein Folio, schwarz/rotes Titelblatt, (8), 202, (2) pp., zahlr. Holzschnitte, davon 22 fast blattgroße, 1 ganzseitige Druckermarke, HPgmtBd.
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- Sehr seltenes, und frisches Exemplar der reichhaltigsten illustrierten Ausgabe dieses Klassikers der Chirurgie. Eine Seite ist leicht Blutfleckig; dem Buch zur Zierde gereichen einige Anmerkungen alter Hand. Wie fast alle bekannten Exemplare ohne die beiden apart erhältlichen Falttafeln, diese jedoch als Faksimile bei gebunden; das ganze im schmucken Halbpergamenteinband neuerer Hand; siehe ausführliche 32seitige Beschreibung in Medicusbooks.com.Hans von Gersdorff (ca. 1455-1529) "was a military surgeon who had gained wide experience during the course of some forty years of campaigning and was an expert in the care and treatment of battlefield injuries. His work is divided into four books which treat of anatomy, surgery, leprosy, and glossaries of anatomical terms, diseases, and medications. Gersdorff emphasized a well-founded knowledge of anatomy because the surgeon was frequently called upon to deal with extensive bodily trauma. He derived his anatomy primarily from the Arabic authors and works of Guy de Chauliac. The surgical portion of the work was devoted to wound surgery and covers in some detail the methods he employed for extracting foreign objects and amputating limbs. He used a tourniquet to control bleeding when amputating and covered the stump with the bladder of a bovine or swine to help control postoperative hemorrhaging. He also included information on various remedies and medications that might be employed by the surgeon. Of special interest are the sedatives and analgesics, although he appears not to have employed them in his practice. The section on leprosy is given over largely to remedies for a disease he did not believe could be cured. The final part of the book consists of a series of Latin-German glossaries containing anatomical terms, diseases, and some 800 simples of animal, mineral, and plant origin. The book contains many woodcuts, attributed to Hans Wechtlin (b. ca. 1480), which depict anatomy, surgical operations, and surgical instruments and devices. Herrlinger comments that "The illustrations belong to the early phase of 16th-century medical illustration and represent one of its high points" (History of medical illustration. London, 1970. p. 142). The practical nature of Gersdorff's book and its fine illustrations caused it to become very popular and it was frequently referred to, widely quoted, and freely plagiarized. The work went through at least twelve editions between the time of its first publication in 1517 and the early seventeenth century. The book also appeared in several Latin and Dutch editions." Heirs of Hippocratesü, No.149 (1530) [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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BIZZARRI, Pietro (Petrus BIZARUS).
Persicarum Rerum Historia in XII. libros descripta, totius gentis initia, mores, instituta, et rerum domi forisque gestarum .Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1583.WITH: MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. Persische Historia, das ist: Warhaffte und außführliche Beschreibung von dem langwirigen und erschröcklichen Krieg, der Türcken, wider die Persier, welcher sich im . 1577. angesponnen, und bißanhero . verhalten hat.Frankfurt am Main, (colophon: Peter Fischer, printed by Johann Feyrabendt), 1592. Folio. 2 works in 1 volume. The Bizzarri with Plantin’s woodcut device in a scrollwork frame on the title-page, the woodcut arms of the dedicatee on the back of the title-page (Augustus I, Elector of Saxony), and 10 large (30-51 mm) woodcut decorated initials
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- (12), 451, (24); (32), 294, (2 blank), (18), (2 blank) pp. Adams B-2088 (Bizzarri; cf. M-1455: 1588 Venice ed. of Minadoi); Belg. Typ. 320 (Bizzarri); BMC STC Dutch, p. 35 (Bizzarri); VD16 M-5416 (Minadoi); Voet 727 (Bizzarri); Minadoi not in BMC STC German; for Minadoi: Lucia Samaden, "Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi (1548-1615):." in: Quaderni per la Storia dell’ Università di Padova 31 (1998), pp. 91-164. First edition, printed by Christoffel Plantin in Antwerp, of Bizzarri’s classic history of Persia in twelve books, from antiquity to 1581. Bound with it is the German translation of the second (enlarged Italian) edition (Venice, 1588) of Minadoi’s eye-witness account of the Turko-Persian War, 1577-1590, still in progress when the Italian edition appeared. It includes graphic descriptions of the atrocities, such as the live flaying of a Druse leader by the Turks.Bizzarri (ca. 1525/30-ca. 1586) studied in Venice, but lived in Germany and England after his early conversion to Protestantism and gathered intelligence for the English government. He returned to Venice in the 1560s, moved to Antwerp by 1578 and to Leiden around the time Antwerp fell to Spain in 1585. Minadoi (1548-1615) was physician to the Venetian community in the Middle East, where he lived for at least seven years, and professor at the University of Padova.The inscription on the title-page (covered with a slip) reads "Monasterii Augiæ Minoris" referring to the twelfth-century Weißenau Monastery near Ravensberg, dissolved in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the armorial bookplate (with initials "BAZW") is that of its Abbot, Benedict Rheindl (see Warnecke, Die deutschen Bücherzeichen 2409). The endpapers are watermarked: gothic "p" with the arms of the Elector of Bavaria and an "A" (for Augsburg) = --, similar to Piccard IV, XVII, 791-797 (Augsburg et al., 1588-1593). With occasional underlining or marginal notes. With occasional minor browning in the Minadoi but otherwise in fine condition, with only two tiny holes affecting a few letters of the text in the Bizzarus and a small marginal chip or water stain in 4 leaves of the Minadoi. The binding is good, with the vellum slightly wrinkled and rubbed, and lacking the ties. A fine copy of two important sixteenth-century works on Persia, the Bizzarri a Plantin first edition.
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AUBERT, David
CRONICA DE LAS CRUZADAS DE JERUSALEM. Facsímil
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Eds. Reales Sitios - Apaisado de 544 x 282 mm. 44p. con las guardas, Miniaturas: 147 (grandes, pequeñas, medallones y capitulares historiadas). Impresión a su color con estampación de oros. Encuadernación artesanal, exacta al original en pergamino sobre tabla. Se incluye Libro de Estudios conteniendo: Transcripción, Traducción, Paleográfico, Codicológico, Histórico, Artístico, Catálogo de Imágenes. Contiene toda la obra a todo su color. Tirada única de 575 ejemplares numerados y certificados ante notario.Esta obra fue realizada en el taller de David Aubert y pintado por el maestro Guillermo Vrelant hacia 1455 para Felipe III el Bueno, Duque de Borgoña, describe las batallas y sitios de ciudades que tuvieron lugar durante las Cruzadas y la conquista de la Tierra Santa. Su extraño formato alargado y apaisado explica su propia razón de ser: además de una crónica, es una genealogía de los reyes del reino latino.The Chronicles of the Crusades Viena, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2533 Format: Oblong of 544 x 282 mm. Pages: 44 (including blank pages). Miniatures: 147, big and small medals and historical chapters. Printing: To all its colour with golden print. Binding: Artisan, exact as original. Parchment on plank. Book of Studies: Transcription, Translation, Palaeographic, Codicological, Historic, Artistic and catalogue of illustrations. It contains a complete work to all its colour. Print Run: Unique 575 numbered copies with notarized deed. Made in David Aubert's studio and painted by de master Guillermo Vrelant towards 1455, for Felipe III "The Good One", Duke of Borgoña. It describes the battles and the sieges of the cities that took place during the Crusades ant the conquer of the "Holy Land". Its strange and oblong format explains its own reason of being; besides being a chronicle, it is also a genealogy of the kings of the Latin Kingdom. The genealogies used to be written on a parchment that could be rolled. In an inventory made in 1467 at Borgoña's court, the note aside this manuscript said "tournant en maniêre de rôle", which explains its format and the composition of the text into four columns. Afterwards it was cut to be binded as a codice. The result was spectacular. Since the first crusade, encouraged by the Pope Urban II in 1095, to the fall of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, appeared Godofredo of Bouillon, Federico Barbaroja, Ricardo Corazón de Leon, Saladino among others historical characters. It also gathers the creation of The Knights Templar Order and the Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint John, lately Order of Rhodes, nowdays Order of Malta. Besides its esthetic, they appear condensed the utensils for the assault, war machines, ships, sited and surrounded cities, clothes and armors, horses, shields and standards, complete armies etc. A need for the studious and an authentic pleasure for the bibliophile.
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LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens . auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, also on pasted label, with clasps but catches missing.
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- (16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE, p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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GUTENBERG BIBLE.
BIBLIA LATINA. [Mounted in:] A Noble Fragment: being a leaf of the Gutenburg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
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[Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenburg and Johann Fust, 1455.] - Royal folio (389 x 273 mm.). A single leaf, containing Acts of Apostles VII:35–VIII:37, double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes). A Noble Fragment consists of title printed in red and black + 2 unnumbered leaves + 3 blank leaves. Early 20th century dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co. of New York, ruled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. A single paper leaf from the first substantial book printed with movable type in the western world, now known simply as the Gutenburg Bible or the 42-line Bible. It is the first and, judging it by the quality of its design and materials, still the greatest of all printed books. It consists of 641 leaves, and was printed in an edition of probably 35 copies on vellum and 150 on paper, of which 48 complete or nearly complete copies are extant, 12 on vellum and 36 on paper. It initiated the ability to disseminate and store knowledge and literature as never before, by a method still unsurpassed. The Noble Fragment originated with an imperfect copy of the Gutenburg Bible which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by A. Edward Newton’s essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721–1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); thence the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810–1873) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby’s, 9th November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. BMC I, 17 (IC. 55). GW 4201. Goff B-526. See PMM 1, etc. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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WICAR- MASQUELIER- MONGEZ
Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camées de la galerie de Florence et du palais Pitti.
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand in-folio, non paginé.
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KARL I., letzter Kaiser von Österreich (1887-1922)
Eigenhänd. 4-zeilige Bleistiftmitteilung mit Unterschrift auf kleinem karierten Notizzettel, 9 x 5 cm, auf Oktavblatt montiert, ohne Ort und Datum.
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. "Bitte Frl. Hertha die 'Borsobibel' zu übergeben Karl".. Die lateinische Borso-Bibel, heute in der Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena aufbewahrt (Cod. MS LAT 422 & 423), gilt als ein Hauptwerk der italienischen Renaissance-Miniaturkunst und als das schönste (und teuerste) Buch der Welt. Borso d'Este, Herzog von Ferrara, lässt in den Jahren 1455-1461 das zweibändige illuminierte Manuskript höchst aufwendig von den besten Künstlern seiner Zeit (Taddeo Crivelli u. a.) gestalten; die Illustrationen allein kosten die damals enorme Summe von fast 5000 Lire. 1598 wandert die "Bibia bela", wie sie in den estensischen Inventaren genannt wird, mit der Verlegung der herzoglichen Residenz nach Modena, das 1796 mit der Cisalpinischen Republik vereinigt wird. Als 1803 das Haus Este im Mannesstamm ausstirbt und sich die Erbtochter Maria Beatrix mit Ferdinand, dem 3. Sohn von Kaiser Franz II./I. vermählt, gehört die Bibel der neu entstandenen Linie Österreich-Este und gelangt erstmals nach Österreich; ab 1831 ist sie neuerlich in Modena, bis sie es 1859 mit dem entmachteten Herzog Franz V. wieder verlässt. Durch Vermächtnis des Herzogs kommen die gesamten estensischen Kunstsammlungen 1875 an Franz Ferdinand, der den Titel "Este" annimmt. Nach seiner Ermordung im Juni 1914 geht die Borso-Bibel - die inzwischen im Wiener "Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses" eine erste wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung erfahren hat - auf Karl über. Der Zusammenbruch der Monarchie gibt dem Königreich Italien die Möglichkeit, den Besitz der Bibel zu beanspruchen, und der Vertrag von St. Germain legt ihre Rückkehr nach Italien fest. Die betreffende Bestimmung bleibt allerdings Papier, da Karl die Borso-Bibel, die er zu seinem Privatvermögen rechnet, bereits außer Landes gebracht hat: Nachdem er auf die Mitwirkung an den Regierungsgeschäften, jedoch nicht auf den Thron verzichtet hat, ist er im März 1919 mit seiner Familie und einem beträchtlichen Gefolge in die Schweiz ausgereist; den Familienschmuck, den er zum Teil aus der Schatzkammer hat holen lassen und der nach der Konfiskation des Habsburgervermögens in den Nachfolgestaaten der Donaumonarchie nunmehr seinen finanziellen Rückhalt darstellt, hat er teils mit sich geführt, teils hat er ihn bereits vorher in die Schweiz bringen lassen. Auch die Borso-Bibel dürfte im Winter 1918/19 in der Schweiz deponiert worden sein: vermutlich ist unser Dokument, das aus einer niederländischen Privatsammlung stammt, im Zusammenhang damit entstanden. Karl verpfändet Teile des Schmucks gegen einen hohen Kredit an die Schweizer Nationalbank und versucht darüber hinaus, weiteres zu verkaufen - da die österreichische Regierung die Rückgabe der Kleinodien fordert, ist dies nur auf dem Schwarzmarkt möglich. Als Mittelsmann fungiert der österreichische Anwalt Bruno Steiner, der bereits für Franz Ferdinand dessen große Este-Erbschaft in Rom verwaltet hat. Er verschafft dem exilierten Kaiser Geld für die Juwelen und ermöglicht ihm damit seine beiden Restaurationsversuche in Ungarn. Nach ihrem Fehlschlagen wird Karl von den Westmächten auf die portugiesische Insel Madeira verbannt, wo er am im November 1921 mit seiner Frau Zita und kleiner Begleitung eintrifft. Zu Beginn des Jahres 1922 reist Zita unter strenger Bewachung in die Schweiz, um ihre dort zurückgebliebenen Kinder abzuholen und sich um den Rest von Karls Vermögen zu kümmern - das exilierte Kaiserpaar ist der Meinung, dass etwa noch die Hälfte davon vorhanden sein müsse. Zita erklärt dem Rechtsanwalt der Familie in Zürich, dass zwei Stücke davon verkauft werden sollen und sie auch bereits amerikanische Interessenten dafür habe: der sogenannte Florentiner-Diamant Karls des Kühnen, der viertgrößte Diamant der Welt (Verkaufspreis nicht unter 10 Millionen Schweizer Franken), und die Borso-Bibel (Verkaufspreis ca. 5 Millionen Schweizer Franken). Allerdings sind beide Objekte unauffindbar, ebenso wie die verpfändeten Juwelen und Anwalt Bruno Steiner, und Zita kehrt ohne Schmuck und Geld nach Madeira zurück. Karl stirbt wenige Wochen später in seinem ungeheizten feuchten Quartier. Zitas Bruder Xavier kann den in einem Hotel in Wiesbaden unter falschem Namen lebenden Bruno Steiner aufspüren, dem es aber zu fliehen gelingt; er stirbt in den Dreißigerjahren in Armut. Der Florentiner-Diamant sowie der übrige habsburgisch-lothringische Familienschmuck bleiben bis heute unauffindbar und geben Stoff für Spekulationen aller Art - seriöse historische Quellen zum Thema sind kaum greifbar. Das weitere Schicksal der Borso-Bibel ist hingegen bekannt: sie taucht im Frühjahr 1923 bei dem Pariser Kunstmakler Gilbert Romeuf auf - laut Bestätigung eines Notars in Lausanne hat sie ihm Kaiser Karl "par representation" verkauft. Romeuf hat vom Kaiserpaar den Auftrag, die Bibel nach Möglichkeit nach Italien weiterzuverkaufen. Der Florentiner Antiquar Tammaro De Marinis macht die italienische Regierung auf die Sache aufmerksam, worauf Benito Mussolini den kulturbegeisterten lombardischen Industriellen und Finanzmann Giovanni Treccani für einen patriotischen Kraftakt gewinnen kann: Treccani erwirbt das Buch am 1. 5. 1923 um die astronomische Summe von 3,3 Mio. Francs (über 5 Mio. Lire) und sticht damit seinen amerikanischen Konkurrenten, die Pierpont Morgan Library, aus. Er lässt die Borso-Bibel in ihre Heimat zurückkehren, schenkt sie dem italienischen Staat und veranlasst die erste Faksimile-Ausgabe des Buches, die 1937 in Mailand erscheint. Und Zita bedankt sich zwei Tage nach Unterzeichnung des Kaufvertrags mit folgendem Schreiben bei Romeuf: "... J'apprends ... que vous avez pu vendre en Italie la Bible de Borso que mon epoux Sa Majeste l'Empereur Charles vous avait cedee. J'en suis tres heureuse et vous remercie de vous etre souvenu de votre engagement gracieux. Ainsi se trouve terminee cette question au mieux des interets de tous ...". - Digitalbild auf Anfrage.
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A LOVELY ILLUMINATED MINIATURE SHOWING PENTECOST CUT FROM A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS.
ARCHIVE OF PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS RELATING TO THE CROWN POINT EXPEDITION AND THE WAR IN UPPER NEW YORK].
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Paris, ca. 1455-60 - A Fine Miniature of Pentecost PerhapsDone by the Master of Jean Rolin Himself In a handsome gilt wooden frame of classic design secured by double mats of off-white and light blue the miniature (glued onto wood sometime ago and) framed without any surrounding border visible. The visible side WITH A BEAUTIFULLY REALIZED DEPICTION OF PENTECOST the Virgin kneeling at the center six apostles on either side of her the Holy Dove entering a central window open to blue sky and stars bringing the light of salvation with its flight the other windows showing mere blackness the scene within a very highly detailed church interior with much visual elaboration in vaulting decoration and even brickwork the whole in an arched gold compartment. The features on some of the faces slightly faded (but still distinct and perhaps now with even greater delicacy than originally) a little paint lost on the prie-dieu and the faces of three apostles (the damage not critical or severe) otherwise in very fine condition the paint on the clothing and the architectural detail (as well as the gilt) still very fresh and bright. In many ways this is a simply wonderful miniature clearly done by an artist of the first rank. The composition is very close to one by the Master of Jean Rolin (compare Avril & Reynaud p. 44 #12) and must be derived ultimately from the same pattern-sheet. The leaf is certainly from the Master's workshop and perhaps even from his own hand. Avril & Reynaud believes that although the Master of Jean Rolin may have been of Burgundian origin he completed his artistic education in Paris probably in the workshop of the Bedford Master and then established his own atelier in Burgundy where he played a key role in the transition from the Bedford Master's style to the more modern style of Maître François by eliminating gothic elements for a veristic and thoroughly Renaissance approach. Art scholar Eleanor Spencer was the first to separate the works of our painter from those of François and the Bedford Master and to designate him the Master of Jean Rolin because of the missals he illuminated for Rolin cardinal-bishop of Autun (d. 1483). There are a number of notable things to be said about the present memorable scene. To begin with the central iconographic image is unusual: the Virgin is kneeling at her prie-dieu. This image is typical for depictions of the Annunciation but in the usual Pentecost design she is generally seated. In another echo of typical Annunciation scenes our Lady crosses her hands here in obedient acceptance of her fate. From a bibliophilic perspective it is noteworthy that on the slanted ledge of the prayer stand before her we can see two books (one obviously devotional as it is bound in blue velvet the other less clearly a prayer book as it is in pigskin); there is also a book opened on a stool at the very forefront of the scene and there surely must be at least one book on the ledge of the prie-dieu that faces Mary out of our view. The artist has made what appear to be conscious and clever decisions about color in our miniature particularly in connection with garments as he has clothed all of the major figures in dark and/or light blue. Behind the central Virgin stands John her adopted son whose gown is the same light teal color as her own while Peter's cobalt blue tunic echoes her cloak and is picked up by the figure on the right with the longer pointed beard who is probably Peter's brother Andrew. (It is also undoubtedly no mistake that the Holy Dove descends from a sky that is both dark and light blue.) The more generalized figures in the scene are dressed in green or brown. The Virgin and John the Evangelist are given very youthful and delicate faces with tiny chins and retroussé noses while Peter kneeling at the front right has more the air of a sturdy peasant. The details of the garments the faces and the architecture of the church interior are all very impressive. See Avril & Reynaud (pp. 38-45 and accompanying illustratio [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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A Fine Miniature of Pentecost PerhapsDone by the Master of Jean Rolin Himself Paris, ca. 1455-60 229 x 184 mm. (9 x 7 1/4""). In a handsome gilt wooden frame of classic design secured by double mats of off-white and light blue the miniature (glued onto wood sometime ago and) framed without any surrounding border visible. The visible side WITH A BEAUTIFULLY REALIZED DEPICTION OF PENTECOST the Virgin kneeling at the center six apostles on either side of her the Holy Dove entering a central window open to blue sky and stars bringing the light of salvation with its flight the other windows showing mere blackness the scene within a very highly detailed church interior with much visual elaboration in vaulting decoration and even brickwork the whole in an arched gold compartment. The features on some of the faces slightly faded (but still distinct and perhaps now with even greater delicacy than originally) a little paint lost on the prie-dieu and the faces of three apostles (the damage not critical or severe) otherwise in very fine condition the paint on the clothing and the architectural detail (as well as the gilt) still very fresh and bright. In many ways this is a simply wonderful miniature clearly done by an artist of the first rank. The composition is very close to one by the Master of Jean Rolin (compare Avril & Reynaud p. 44 #12) and must be derived ultimately from the same pattern-sheet. The leaf is certainly from the Master's workshop and perhaps even from his own hand. Avril & Reynaud believes that although the Master of Jean Rolin may have been of Burgundian origin he completed his artistic education in Paris probably in the workshop of the Bedford Master and then established his own atelier in Burgundy where he played a key role in the transition from the Bedford Master's style to the more modern style of Maître François by eliminating gothic elements for a veristic and thoroughly Renaissance approach. Art scholar Eleanor Spencer was the first to separate the works of our painter from those of François and the Bedford Master and to designate him the Master of Jean Rolin because of the missals he illuminated for Rolin cardinal-bishop of Autun (d. 1483). There are a number of notable things to be said about the present memorable scene. To begin with the central iconographic image is unusual: the Virgin is kneeling at her prie-dieu. This image is typical for depictions of the Annunciation but in the usual Pentecost design she is generally seated. In another echo of typical Annunciation scenes our Lady crosses her hands here in obedient acceptance of her fate. From a bibliophilic perspective it is noteworthy that on the slanted ledge of the prayer stand before her we can see two books (one obviously devotional as it is bound in blue velvet the other less clearly a prayer book as it is in pigskin); there is also a book opened on a stool at the very forefront of the scene and there surely must be at least one book on the ledge of the prie-dieu that faces Mary out of our view. The artist has made what appear to be conscious and clever decisions about color in our miniature particularly in connection with garments as he has clothed all of the major figures in dark and/or light blue. Behind the central Virgin stands John her adopted son whose gown is the same light teal color as her own while Peter's cobalt blue tunic echoes her cloak and is picked up by the figure on the right with the longer pointed beard who is probably Peter's brother Andrew. (It is also undoubtedly no mistake that the Holy Dove descends from a sky that is both dark and light blue.) The more generalized figures in the scene are dressed in green or brown. The Virgin and John the Evangelist are given very youthful and delicate faces with tiny chins and retroussé noses while Peter kneeling at the front right has more the air of a sturdy peasant. The details of the garments the faces and the architecture of the church interior are all very impressive. See Avril & Reynaud (pp. 38-45 and accompanying illustrations) for an extended discussion of our painter. $8500
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BIZZARRI, Pietro (Petrus BIZARUS).
Persicarum Rerum Historia in XII. libros descripta, totius gentis initia, mores, instituta, et rerum domi forisque gestarum ...Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1583.WITH: MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. Persische Historia, das ist: Warhaffte und außführliche Beschreibung von dem langwirigen und erschröcklichen Krieg, der Türcken, wider die Persier, welcher sich im ... 1577. angesponnen, und bißanhero ... verhalten hat.Frankfurt am Main, (colophon: Peter Fischer, printed by Johann Feyrabendt), 1592. Folio. 2 works in 1 volume. The Bizzarri with Plantin’s woodcut device in a scrollwork frame on the t...
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(12), 451, (24); (32), 294, (2 blank), (18), (2 blank) pp. Adams B-2088 (Bizzarri; cf. M-1455: 1588 Venice ed. of Minadoi); Belg. Typ. 320 (Bizzarri); BMC STC Dutch, p. 35 (Bizzarri); VD16 M-5416 (Minadoi); Voet 727 (Bizzarri); Minadoi not in BMC STC German; for Minadoi: Lucia Samaden, “Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi (1548-1615): ...” in: Quaderni per la Storia dell’ Università di Padova 31 (1998), pp. 91-164. First edition, printed by Christoffel Plantin in Antwerp, of Bizzarri’s classic history of Persia in twelve books, from antiquity to 1581. Bound with it is the German translation of the second (enlarged Italian) edition (Venice, 1588) of Minadoi’s eye-witness account of the Turko-Persian War, 1577-1590, still in progress when the Italian edition appeared. It includes graphic descriptions of the atrocities, such as the live flaying of a Druse leader by the Turks.Bizzarri (ca. 1525/30-ca. 1586) studied in Venice, but lived in Germany and England after his early conversion to Protestantism and gathered intelligence for the English government. He returned to Venice in the 1560s, moved to Antwerp by 1578 and to Leiden around the time Antwerp fell to Spain in 1585. Minadoi (1548-1615) was physician to the Venetian community in the Middle East, where he lived for at least seven years, and professor at the University of Padova.The inscription on the title-page (covered with a slip) reads “Monasterii Augiæ Minoris” referring to the twelfth-century Weißenau Monastery near Ravensberg, dissolved in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the armorial bookplate (with initials “BAZW”) is that of its Abbot, Benedict Rheindl (see Warnecke, Die deutschen Bücherzeichen 2409). The endpapers are watermarked: gothic “p” with the arms of the Elector of Bavaria and an “A” (for Augsburg) = --, similar to Piccard IV, XVII, 791-797 (Augsburg et al., 1588-1593). With occasional underlining or marginal notes. With occasional minor browning in the Minadoi but otherwise in fine condition, with only two tiny holes affecting a few letters of the text in the Bizzarus and a small marginal chip or water stain in 4 leaves of the Minadoi. The binding is good, with the vellum slightly wrinkled and rubbed, and lacking the ties. A fine copy of two important sixteenth-century works on Persia, the Bizzarri a Plantin first edition.
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WOODWARD, John.
Geographie Physique ou Essay sur l'Histoire Naturelle de la Terre, traduit de l'Anglois. par M. Noguez, . Avec la résponse aux observations de M. le Docteur Camerarius; plusieurs lettres écrites sur la même matiere; & la distribution méthodique des fossiles, traduit de l'Anglois, . par le R.P. Niceron, Barnabite. Amsterdam, aux dépens de La Compagnie, 1735. 8vo. 3 works paginated as 1. Title-page in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, 2 divisional titles, 1 engraved folding plate showing a cross-section of the earth, woodcut tailpieces and decorative initials, and bands of arabesque fleurons. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, blue edges, green ribbon marker.
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- (xi), (5), 496 pp. Zittel, pp. 29-30; OCLC WorldCat (9 copies); STCN (3 copies); cf. BMC NH supp., p. 1455 (Briasson ed.); Hoover 896-897 (English eds.); Ward 2362 (Briasson ed.); for Woodward: DSB XIV, pp. 500-503.Rare Amsterdam French edition of Woodward's Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695), his response to Camerarius's critique (first published in Latin in 1714) and his Fossils of All Kinds (1728), translated by Pierre Noguez, Benjamin Holloway and R.P. Niceron respectively. The Paris edition of this translation, published by Briasson in the same year (described as a 4to: xiv, 389, (3) pp.) is more common. The folding plate shows a cross-section of the earth at a scale of about 1:90,000,000, with a four-layer crust surrounding a water core. The scale of the crust is greatly exaggerated, so that the mountains rise to nearly 1000 kilometres. The thickness of the crust nearly coincides, no doubt accidentally, with modern measurements of the thickness of the mantle, so that the liquid core is very nearly correct, though without a solid centre and containing water rather than molten iron or rock. Water sinks or sources run down through all four layers to the water core. John Woodward (1665-1722), collector and palaeontologist, was a famous and influential English representative of the religious school of geologists. In this work, also published in Latin, he describes his collection of fossils, minerals, metals and rock specimens, and promotes his theory to explain the stratification of fossils. He was ahead of his time in arguing that fossils (a word used in this period to denote what we now call fossils as well as organic remains such as bones, shells, etc.) derived from ancient and now extinct plants and animals. In later years, however, his explanation of their origins (that they were antedeluvian plants and animals washed away by the flood and deposited in layers according to their density) hindered the progress of modern scientific theories. One of the most violent opponents of Woodward's theories was Elias Camerarius, professor at Tubingen, whose critique Woodward rebuts in the second work. The final work inc;udes an appendix of letters to Newton and others about the distribution of fossils.In very good condition, with stains in the endpapers. The biinding is worn and chipped, but structurally sound. French edition of Woodward's important and influential publications on fossils, including letters to Camerarius, Newton and others.
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Junghuhn, Frans Wilhelm
Java, deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. 3 vols. in 4 bindings and portfolio with 11 plates. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1850-1854.
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Set of 4 vols.,: 671, 1455, 482 pp. With 4 lithographed titlepages, 1 large tinted lithographed folding plate in vol. 1, and 43 (of 49) folding plates. With a separate portfolio with the complete set of 11 large coloured lithographed plates depicting views of the scenery at Java. Cont. half linen publisher’s bindings with gilt titles on the spine. Bindings somewhat rubbed at the corners and edges. The large scenic views lightly browned, the original portfolio worn at the covers. Reasonable set of the first edition of this highly important description of Java. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864) was born in Mansfeld (Germany) and studied medicine and natural sciences at Halle and Berlin. He served the Prussian army, but was imprisoned after killing an opponent. He managed to flee and joined the French Foreign Legion as a surgeon in Algiers. In 1834 he returned to Europe and, after being pardoned, joined the Netherlands Indies Army. Allthough not very succesfull as a soldier, Junghuhn soon had the opportunity to start his research on the local nature and scenery of present day Indonesia as a member of the Natural Sciences Commission and later as inspector for Natural Science investigations. He travelled to Java and Sumatra regularly by order of the colonial authorities. The main focus of these travels usually being economic, it gave him the opportunity to exploit all parts of Java. In 1848 Junghuhn returned to the Netherlands on a furlough and started to work on what was to become his most important publication: the present extensive description of Java. It was published in 13 issues between 1849 and 1854 and immediately established as the most comprehensive monography on the geography, ethnography and natural history of the island. A second, revised edition appeared in The Hague (1853-1854). Both first and second edition of Junghuhn’s masterpiece were accompanied by an oblong atlas-volume with eleven large lithographs, printed by C.W. Mieling after drawings made by Junghuhn himself. The set of prints was issued both in coloured and uncoloured state and sold subsequently for quite different prices (about 65 guilders for the complete work with coloured plates and 47 guilders for a set with uncoloured plates).
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[LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens ... auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, a...
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(16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri . This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE , p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri . The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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GUTENBERG BIBLE.
BIBLIA LATINA. [Mounted in:] A Noble Fragment: being a leaf of the Gutenburg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
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[Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenburg and Johann Fust, 1455.] Royal folio (389 x 273 mm.). A single leaf, containing Acts of Apostles VII:35–VIII:37, double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes). A Noble Fragment consists of title printed in red and black + 2 unnumbered leaves + 3 blank leaves. Early 20th century dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co. of New York, ruled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. A single paper leaf from the first substantial book printed with movable type in the western world, now known simply as the Gutenburg Bible or the 42-line Bible. It is the first and, judging it by the quality of its design and materials, the greatest of all printed books. It consists of 641 leaves, and was printed in an edition of probably 35 copies on vellum and 150 on paper, of which 48 complete or nearly complete copies are extant, 12 on vellum and 36 on paper. It initiated the ability to disseminate and store knowledge and literature as never before, by a method still unsurpassed. The Noble Fragment originated with an imperfect copy of the Gutenburg Bible which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by A. Edward Newton’s essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721–1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); thence the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810–1873) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby’s, 9th November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. BMC I, 17 (IC. 55). GW 4201. Goff B-526. See PMM 1, etc.
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BIZZARRI, Pietro (Petrus BIZARUS).
Persicarum Rerum Historia in XII. libros descripta, totius gentis initia, mores, instituta, et rerum domi forisque gestarum .Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1583.WITH: MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. Persische Historia, das ist: Warhaffte und außführliche Beschreibung von dem langwirigen und erschröcklichen Krieg, der Türcken, wider die Persier, welcher sich im . 1577. angesponnen, und bißanhero . verhalten hat.Frankfurt am Main, (colophon: Peter Fischer, printed by Johann Feyrabendt), 1592. Folio. 2 works in 1 volume. The Bizzarri with Plantin’s woodcut device in a scrollwork frame on the title-page, the woodcut arms of the dedicatee on the back of the title-page (Augustus I, Elector of Saxony), and 10 large (30-51 mm) woodcut decorated initials
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- (12), 451, (24); (32), 294, (2 blank), (18), (2 blank) pp. Adams B-2088 (Bizzarri; cf. M-1455: 1588 Venice ed. of Minadoi); Belg. Typ. 320 (Bizzarri); BMC STC Dutch, p. 35 (Bizzarri); VD16 M-5416 (Minadoi); Voet 727 (Bizzarri); Minadoi not in BMC STC German; for Minadoi: Lucia Samaden, "Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi (1548-1615):." in: Quaderni per la Storia dell’ Università di Padova 31 (1998), pp. 91-164. First edition, printed by Christoffel Plantin in Antwerp, of Bizzarri’s classic history of Persia in twelve books, from antiquity to 1581. Bound with it is the German translation of the second (enlarged Italian) edition (Venice, 1588) of Minadoi’s eye-witness account of the Turko-Persian War, 1577-1590, still in progress when the Italian edition appeared. It includes graphic descriptions of the atrocities, such as the live flaying of a Druse leader by the Turks.Bizzarri (ca. 1525/30-ca. 1586) studied in Venice, but lived in Germany and England after his early conversion to Protestantism and gathered intelligence for the English government. He returned to Venice in the 1560s, moved to Antwerp by 1578 and to Leiden around the time Antwerp fell to Spain in 1585. Minadoi (1548-1615) was physician to the Venetian community in the Middle East, where he lived for at least seven years, and professor at the University of Padova.The inscription on the title-page (covered with a slip) reads "Monasterii Augiæ Minoris" referring to the twelfth-century Weißenau Monastery near Ravensberg, dissolved in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the armorial bookplate (with initials "BAZW") is that of its Abbot, Benedict Rheindl (see Warnecke, Die deutschen Bücherzeichen 2409). The endpapers are watermarked: gothic "p" with the arms of the Elector of Bavaria and an "A" (for Augsburg) = --, similar to Piccard IV, XVII, 791-797 (Augsburg et al., 1588-1593). With occasional underlining or marginal notes. With occasional minor browning in the Minadoi but otherwise in fine condition, with only two tiny holes affecting a few letters of the text in the Bizzarus and a small marginal chip or water stain in 4 leaves of the Minadoi. The binding is good, with the vellum slightly wrinkled and rubbed, and lacking the ties. A fine copy of two important sixteenth-century works on Persia, the Bizzarri a Plantin first edition.
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WICAR- MASQUELIER- MONGEZ
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand infolio, non paginé.
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LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens . auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, also on pasted label, with clasps but catches missing.
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- (16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE, p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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WICAR- MASQUELIER- MONGEZ
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- Demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs orné, tranche dorée, 50 planches dessinés par Wicar et gravés sous la direction de C. L. Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez. L'ensemble comporte 4 volumes. (un mors fendu sur 11 cmc, rares rousseurs). Brunet II - 1455. (az) Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1819. Tome second seul, grand infolio, non paginé.
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Junghuhn, Frans Wilhelm
Java, deszelfs gedaante, bekleeding en inwendige structuur. 3 vols. in 4 bindings and portfolio with 11 plates. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1850-1854.
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Set of 4 vols.,: 671, 1455, 482 pp. With 4 lithographed titlepages, 1 large tinted lithographed folding plate in vol. 1, and 43 (of 49) folding plates. With a separate portfolio with the complete set of 11 large coloured lithographed plates depicting views of the scenery at Java. Cont. half linen publisher’s bindings with gilt titles on the spine. Bindings somewhat rubbed at the corners and edges. The large scenic views lightly browned, the original portfolio worn at the covers. Reasonable set of the first edition of this highly important description of Java. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864) was born in Mansfeld (Germany) and studied medicine and natural sciences at Halle and Berlin. He served the Prussian army, but was imprisoned after killing an opponent. He managed to flee and joined the French Foreign Legion as a surgeon in Algiers. In 1834 he returned to Europe and, after being pardoned, joined the Netherlands Indies Army. Allthough not very succesfull as a soldier, Junghuhn soon had the opportunity to start his research on the local nature and scenery of present day Indonesia as a member of the Natural Sciences Commission and later as inspector for Natural Science investigations. He travelled to Java and Sumatra regularly by order of the colonial authorities. The main focus of these travels usually being economic, it gave him the opportunity to exploit all parts of Java. In 1848 Junghuhn returned to the Netherlands on a furlough and started to work on what was to become his most important publication: the present extensive description of Java. It was published in 13 issues between 1849 and 1854 and immediately established as the most comprehensive monography on the geography, ethnography and natural history of the island. A second, revised edition appeared in The Hague (1853-1854). Both first and second edition of Junghuhn’s masterpiece were accompanied by an oblong atlas-volume with eleven large lithographs, printed by C.W. Mieling after drawings made by Junghuhn himself. The set of prints was issued both in coloured and uncoloured state and sold subsequently for quite different prices (about 65 guilders for the complete work with coloured plates and 47 guilders for a set with uncoloured plates).
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Oriflamme. 128 bis 141; 16 Hefte 1972/74
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- Verlag Psychosophische Gesellschaft, Stein/AR. Schweiz Zürich, Illus. Papier, geheftet 8°, Seiten 1455-1642 - Einbände teilw. lichtrandig, ein Expl. fingerfl., sonst gute Expl. - Zeitschrift des: Ordo Illuminatorum : Ordo Templi Orientis : Fraternitas Rosicruciana : Ecclesia gnostica Catholica. (Siehe dazu Miers S. 464f) - U.a.: Dr. Henri Clemens Birven "Aus dem Leben Aleister Crowleys"; Albin Grau, Fra.:. Pacitius "Der Weg ins ewige Schweigen"; F.W. Krippner "Einweihung in die geheime Gesellschaft der ägyptischen Priester (Crata Repoa); Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. Werner Zimmermann "Freiheit und Verantwortung"; F.W. Krippner "Von den Mithrageheimnissen der Perser"; Aus persönlichen Handschriften (.der berühmten Martha Küntzel, Soror I.:.W.:.E.:.); Leopold Engel "Geheime Gesellschaften"; Henry van Dyke "Die Geschichte vom Vierten Weisen aus dem Morgenland"; Gnosis. - Wichtiges Periodikum der Appenzeller Thelema: Amtlicher Ordensanzeiger für alle Provinzen deutscher Zunge. Aleister Crowley
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AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.
Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, . Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques . Recueillis . par . S.A.S.A. Gritti, . D.A.J. Salanova, . J.F. de Voisin, . 28 Mars 1769. The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards.
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- 162; (1), (1 blank), 182 (2 blank); (1), (1 blank), 216, 7 pp. Cat. Bib. Vereeniging Boekhandel IV, p. 247; Bibliopolis (www.kb.nl/coop/bibliop/bibl-html/) veilingen (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); OCLC World.Cat. (1 copy); STCN (1 copy); for Van Damme: NNBW II, 363.Catalogue for the auction of books from the libraries of Andrea Gritti (1455-1528), Doge of Venice; D.A.J. Salanova, Canon of Valencia and Spain; and J.F. de Voisin, Flemish jurist. Bibliopolis notes that the books had come into the stock of the Amsterdam bookseller Pieter van Damme (1727-1806), although his name does not appear in the catalogue. At the end of the last part is a 7-page list of 155 coins and medals, along with the cabinet that held them, painted by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Van Damme, a member of the Amsterdam booksellers guild since 1756, started selling off his stock after he had secured himself an income by marrying a wealthy lady. The stock was sold at auction on two occasions, in 1764 and the present 1669. Most of Van Damme's coin and medal collection was acquired by King Louis Napoleon of the Netherlands in 1809 and survives in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet.With the title-page loose at the head, but still a good copy. Binding rubbed. Interesting catalogue of books and coins & medals.
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A LOVELY ILLUMINATED MINIATURE SHOWING PENTECOST CUT FRO...
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A Fine Miniature of Pentecost PerhapsDone by the Master of Jean Rolin Himself Paris, ca. 1455-60 229 x 184 mm. (9 x 7 1/4""). In a handsome gilt wooden frame of classic design secured by double mats of off-white and light blue the miniature (glued onto wood sometime ago and) framed without any surrounding border visible. The visible side WITH A BEAUTIFULLY REALIZED DEPICTION OF PENTECOST the Virgin kneeling at the center six apostles on either side of her the Holy Dove entering a central window open to blue sky and stars bringing the light of salvation with its flight the other windows showing mere blackness the scene within a very highly detailed church interior with much visual elaboration in vaulting decoration and even brickwork the whole in an arched gold compartment. The features on some of the faces slightly faded (but still distinct and perhaps now with even greater delicacy than originally) a little paint lost on the prie-dieu and the faces of three apostles (the damage not critical or severe) otherwise in very fine condition the paint on the clothing and the architectural detail (as well as the gilt) still very fresh and bright. In many ways this is a simply wonderful miniature clearly done by an artist of the first rank. The composition is very close to one by the Master of Jean Rolin (compare Avril & Reynaud p. 44 #12) and must be derived ultimately from the same pattern-sheet. The leaf is certainly from the Master's workshop and perhaps even from his own hand. Avril & Reynaud believes that although the Master of Jean Rolin may have been of Burgundian origin he completed his artistic education in Paris probably in the workshop of the Bedford Master and then established his own atelier in Burgundy where he played a key role in the transition from the Bedford Master's style to the more modern style of Maître François by eliminating gothic elements for a veristic and thoroughly Renaissance approach. Art scholar Eleanor Spencer was the first to separate the works of our painter from those of François and the Bedford Master and to designate him the Master of Jean Rolin because of the missals he illuminated for Rolin cardinal-bishop of Autun (d. 1483). There are a number of notable things to be said about the present memorable scene. To begin with the central iconographic image is unusual: the Virgin is kneeling at her prie-dieu. This image is typical for depictions of the Annunciation but in the usual Pentecost design she is generally seated. In another echo of typical Annunciation scenes our Lady crosses her hands here in obedient acceptance of her fate. From a bibliophilic perspective it is noteworthy that on the slanted ledge of the prayer stand before her we can see two books (one obviously devotional as it is bound in blue velvet the other less clearly a prayer book as it is in pigskin); there is also a book opened on a stool at the very forefront of the scene and there surely must be at least one book on the ledge of the prie-dieu that faces Mary out of our view. The artist has made what appear to be conscious and clever decisions about color in our miniature particularly in connection with garments as he has clothed all of the major figures in dark and/or light blue. Behind the central Virgin stands John her adopted son whose gown is the same light teal color as her own while Peter's cobalt blue tunic echoes her cloak and is picked up by the figure on the right with the longer pointed beard who is probably Peter's brother Andrew. (It is also undoubtedly no mistake that the Holy Dove descends from a sky that is both dark and light blue.) The more generalized figures in the scene are dressed in green or brown. The Virgin and John the Evangelist are given very youthful and delicate faces with tiny chins and retroussé noses while Peter kneeling at the front right has more the air of a sturdy peasant. The details of the garments the faces and the architecture of the church interior are all very impressive. See Avril & Reynaud (pp. 38-45 and accompanying illustrations) for an extended discussion of our painter. $8500
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LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens . auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, also on pasted label, with clasps but catches missing.
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(16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE, p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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BIZZARRI, Pietro (Petrus BIZARUS).
Persicarum Rerum Historia in XII. libros descripta, totius gentis initia, mores, instituta, et rerum domi forisque gestarum ...Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1583.WITH: MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. Persische Historia, das ist: Warhaffte und außführliche Beschreibung von dem langwirigen und erschröcklichen Krieg, der Türcken, wider die Persier, welcher sich im ... 1577. angesponnen, und bißanhero ... verhalten hat.Frankfurt am Main, (colophon: Peter Fischer, printed by Johann Feyrabendt), 1592. Folio. 2 works in 1 volume. The Bizzarri with Plantin’s woodcut device in a scrollwork frame on the t...
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(12), 451, (24); (32), 294, (2 blank), (18), (2 blank) pp. Adams B-2088 (Bizzarri; cf. M-1455: 1588 Venice ed. of Minadoi); Belg. Typ. 320 (Bizzarri); BMC STC Dutch, p. 35 (Bizzarri); VD16 M-5416 (Minadoi); Voet 727 (Bizzarri); Minadoi not in BMC STC German; for Minadoi: Lucia Samaden, “Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi (1548-1615): ...” in: Quaderni per la Storia dell’ Università di Padova 31 (1998), pp. 91-164. First edition, printed by Christoffel Plantin in Antwerp, of Bizzarri’s classic history of Persia in twelve books, from antiquity to 1581. Bound with it is the German translation of the second (enlarged Italian) edition (Venice, 1588) of Minadoi’s eye-witness account of the Turko-Persian War, 1577-1590, still in progress when the Italian edition appeared. It includes graphic descriptions of the atrocities, such as the live flaying of a Druse leader by the Turks.Bizzarri (ca. 1525/30-ca. 1586) studied in Venice, but lived in Germany and England after his early conversion to Protestantism and gathered intelligence for the English government. He returned to Venice in the 1560s, moved to Antwerp by 1578 and to Leiden around the time Antwerp fell to Spain in 1585. Minadoi (1548-1615) was physician to the Venetian community in the Middle East, where he lived for at least seven years, and professor at the University of Padova.The inscription on the title-page (covered with a slip) reads “Monasterii Augiæ Minoris” referring to the twelfth-century Weißenau Monastery near Ravensberg, dissolved in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the armorial bookplate (with initials “BAZW”) is that of its Abbot, Benedict Rheindl (see Warnecke, Die deutschen Bücherzeichen 2409). The endpapers are watermarked: gothic “p” with the arms of the Elector of Bavaria and an “A” (for Augsburg) = --, similar to Piccard IV, XVII, 791-797 (Augsburg et al., 1588-1593). With occasional underlining or marginal notes. With occasional minor browning in the Minadoi but otherwise in fine condition, with only two tiny holes affecting a few letters of the text in the Bizzarus and a small marginal chip or water stain in 4 leaves of the Minadoi. The binding is good, with the vellum slightly wrinkled and rubbed, and lacking the ties. A fine copy of two important sixteenth-century works on Persia, the Bizzarri a Plantin first edition.
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KARL I., letzter Kaiser von Österreich (1887-1922)
Eigenhänd. 4-zeilige Bleistiftmitteilung mit Unterschrift auf kleinem karierten Notizzettel, 9 x 5 cm, auf Oktavblatt montiert, ohne Ort und Datum.
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. "Bitte Frl. Hertha die 'Borsobibel' zu übergeben Karl".. Die lateinische Borso-Bibel, heute in der Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena aufbewahrt (Cod. MS LAT 422 & 423), gilt als ein Hauptwerk der italienischen Renaissance-Miniaturkunst und als das schönste (und teuerste) Buch der Welt. Borso d'Este, Herzog von Ferrara, lässt in den Jahren 1455-1461 das zweibändige illuminierte Manuskript höchst aufwendig von den besten Künstlern seiner Zeit (Taddeo Crivelli u. a.) gestalten; die Illustrationen allein kosten die damals enorme Summe von fast 5000 Lire. 1598 wandert die "Bibia bela", wie sie in den estensischen Inventaren genannt wird, mit der Verlegung der herzoglichen Residenz nach Modena, das 1796 mit der Cisalpinischen Republik vereinigt wird. Als 1803 das Haus Este im Mannesstamm ausstirbt und sich die Erbtochter Maria Beatrix mit Ferdinand, dem 3. Sohn von Kaiser Franz II./I. vermählt, gehört die Bibel der neu entstandenen Linie Österreich-Este und gelangt erstmals nach Österreich; ab 1831 ist sie neuerlich in Modena, bis sie es 1859 mit dem entmachteten Herzog Franz V. wieder verlässt. Durch Vermächtnis des Herzogs kommen die gesamten estensischen Kunstsammlungen 1875 an Franz Ferdinand, der den Titel "Este" annimmt. Nach seiner Ermordung im Juni 1914 geht die Borso-Bibel - die inzwischen im Wiener "Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses" eine erste wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung erfahren hat - auf Karl über. Der Zusammenbruch der Monarchie gibt dem Königreich Italien die Möglichkeit, den Besitz der Bibel zu beanspruchen, und der Vertrag von St. Germain legt ihre Rückkehr nach Italien fest. Die betreffende Bestimmung bleibt allerdings Papier, da Karl die Borso-Bibel, die er zu seinem Privatvermögen rechnet, bereits außer Landes gebracht hat: Nachdem er auf die Mitwirkung an den Regierungsgeschäften, jedoch nicht auf den Thron verzichtet hat, ist er im März 1919 mit seiner Familie und einem beträchtlichen Gefolge in die Schweiz ausgereist; den Familienschmuck, den er zum Teil aus der Schatzkammer hat holen lassen und der nach der Konfiskation des Habsburgervermögens in den Nachfolgestaaten der Donaumonarchie nunmehr seinen finanziellen Rückhalt darstellt, hat er teils mit sich geführt, teils hat er ihn bereits vorher in die Schweiz bringen lassen. Auch die Borso-Bibel dürfte im Winter 1918/19 in der Schweiz deponiert worden sein: vermutlich ist unser Dokument, das aus einer niederländischen Privatsammlung stammt, im Zusammenhang damit entstanden. Karl verpfändet Teile des Schmucks gegen einen hohen Kredit an die Schweizer Nationalbank und versucht darüber hinaus, weiteres zu verkaufen - da die österreichische Regierung die Rückgabe der Kleinodien fordert, ist dies nur auf dem Schwarzmarkt möglich. Als Mittelsmann fungiert der österreichische Anwalt Bruno Steiner, der bereits für Franz Ferdinand dessen große Este-Erbschaft in Rom verwaltet hat. Er verschafft dem exilierten Kaiser Geld für die Juwelen und ermöglicht ihm damit seine beiden Restaurationsversuche in Ungarn. Nach ihrem Fehlschlagen wird Karl von den Westmächten auf die portugiesische Insel Madeira verbannt, wo er am im November 1921 mit seiner Frau Zita und kleiner Begleitung eintrifft. Zu Beginn des Jahres 1922 reist Zita unter strenger Bewachung in die Schweiz, um ihre dort zurückgebliebenen Kinder abzuholen und sich um den Rest von Karls Vermögen zu kümmern - das exilierte Kaiserpaar ist der Meinung, dass etwa noch die Hälfte davon vorhanden sein müsse. Zita erklärt dem Rechtsanwalt der Familie in Zürich, dass zwei Stücke davon verkauft werden sollen und sie auch bereits amerikanische Interessenten dafür habe: der sogenannte Florentiner-Diamant Karls des Kühnen, der viertgrößte Diamant der Welt (Verkaufspreis nicht unter 10 Millionen Schweizer Franken), und die Borso-Bibel (Verkaufspreis ca. 5 Millionen Schweizer Franken). Allerdings sind beide Objekte unauffindbar, ebenso wie die verpfändeten Juwelen und Anwalt Bruno Steiner, und Zita kehrt ohne Schmuck und Geld nach Madeira zurück. Karl stirbt wenige Wochen später in seinem ungeheizten feuchten Quartier. Zitas Bruder Xavier kann den in einem Hotel in Wiesbaden unter falschem Namen lebenden Bruno Steiner aufspüren, dem es aber zu fliehen gelingt; er stirbt in den Dreißigerjahren in Armut. Der Florentiner-Diamant sowie der übrige habsburgisch-lothringische Familienschmuck bleiben bis heute unauffindbar und geben Stoff für Spekulationen aller Art - seriöse historische Quellen zum Thema sind kaum greifbar. Das weitere Schicksal der Borso-Bibel ist hingegen bekannt: sie taucht im Frühjahr 1923 bei dem Pariser Kunstmakler Gilbert Romeuf auf - laut Bestätigung eines Notars in Lausanne hat sie ihm Kaiser Karl "par representation" verkauft. Romeuf hat vom Kaiserpaar den Auftrag, die Bibel nach Möglichkeit nach Italien weiterzuverkaufen. Der Florentiner Antiquar Tammaro De Marinis macht die italienische Regierung auf die Sache aufmerksam, worauf Benito Mussolini den kulturbegeisterten lombardischen Industriellen und Finanzmann Giovanni Treccani für einen patriotischen Kraftakt gewinnen kann: Treccani erwirbt das Buch am 1. 5. 1923 um die astronomische Summe von 3,3 Mio. Francs (über 5 Mio. Lire) und sticht damit seinen amerikanischen Konkurrenten, die Pierpont Morgan Library, aus. Er lässt die Borso-Bibel in ihre Heimat zurückkehren, schenkt sie dem italienischen Staat und veranlasst die erste Faksimile-Ausgabe des Buches, die 1937 in Mailand erscheint. Und Zita bedankt sich zwei Tage nach Unterzeichnung des Kaufvertrags mit folgendem Schreiben bei Romeuf: "... J'apprends ... que vous avez pu vendre en Italie la Bible de Borso que mon epoux Sa Majeste l'Empereur Charles vous avait cedee. J'en suis tres heureuse et vous remercie de vous etre souvenu de votre engagement gracieux. Ainsi se trouve terminee cette question au mieux des interets de tous ...". - Digitalbild auf Anfrage.
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WOODWARD, John.
Geographie Physique ou Essay sur l'Histoire Naturelle de la Terre, traduit de l'Anglois... par M. Noguez, ... Avec la résponse aux observations de M. le Docteur Camerarius; plusieurs lettres écrites sur la même matiere; & la distribution méthodique des fossiles, traduit de l'Anglois, ... par le R.P. Niceron, Barnabite. Amsterdam, aux dépens de La Compagnie, 1735. 8vo. 3 works paginated as 1. Title-page in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, 2 divisional titles, 1 engraved folding plate showing a cross-section of the earth, woodcut tailpieces and decorative initials, and bands...
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(xi), (5), 496 pp. Zittel, pp. 29-30; OCLC WorldCat (9 copies); STCN (3 copies); cf. BMC NH supp., p. 1455 (Briasson ed.); Hoover 896-897 (English eds.); Ward 2362 (Briasson ed.); for Woodward: DSB XIV, pp. 500-503.Rare Amsterdam French edition of Woodward's Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695), his response to Camerarius's critique (first published in Latin in 1714) and his Fossils of All Kinds (1728), translated by Pierre Noguez, Benjamin Holloway and R.P. Niceron respectively. The Paris edition of this translation, published by Briasson in the same year (described as a 4to: xiv, 389, (3) pp.) is more common. The folding plate shows a cross-section of the earth at a scale of about 1:90,000,000, with a four-layer crust surrounding a water core. The scale of the crust is greatly exaggerated, so that the mountains rise to nearly 1000 kilometres. The thickness of the crust nearly coincides, no doubt accidentally, with modern measurements of the thickness of the mantle, so that the liquid core is very nearly correct, though without a solid centre and containing water rather than molten iron or rock. Water sinks or sources run down through all four layers to the water core. John Woodward (1665-1722), collector and palaeontologist, was a famous and influential English representative of the religious school of geologists. In this work, also published in Latin, he describes his collection of fossils, minerals, metals and rock specimens, and promotes his theory to explain the stratification of fossils. He was ahead of his time in arguing that fossils (a word used in this period to denote what we now call fossils as well as organic remains such as bones, shells, etc.) derived from ancient and now extinct plants and animals. In later years, however, his explanation of their origins (that they were antedeluvian plants and animals washed away by the flood and deposited in layers according to their density) hindered the progress of modern scientific theories. One of the most violent opponents of Woodward's theories was Elias Camerarius, professor at Tubingen, whose critique Woodward rebuts in the second work. The final work inc;udes an appendix of letters to Newton and others about the distribution of fossils.In very good condition, with stains in the endpapers. The biinding is worn and chipped, but structurally sound. French edition of Woodward's important and influential publications on fossils, including letters to Camerarius, Newton and others.
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SPINO, Pietro.
Historia della Vita, et Fatti dell'Eccellentissimo Capitano di Guerra Bartolomeo Coglione.
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Colleoni was perhaps the most respectable of all the Italian condottieri.no act of treachery is imputed to him, nor did he subject the territories he passed through to the rapine and exactions practised by other soldiers of fortune." Ency. Britannica VI, p. 687. During his career he introduced the use of artillery to his armies. He fought mostly for Venice against Milan, but changed sides several times. In 1455, he became captain-general of the Venetian Republic. Adams S1601. STC Books printed in Italy.Brit. Museum, p. 637. Engraved t.p., (lacks frontis. port. and 2 plates). 284pp. 4to, older calf, gilt spine; (dampstain to table of contents, some contemporary annotations in margins, back hinge starting at top, several pp. creased in lower corner). (Vinetia: Appresso Gratioso Percaccino, 1569).
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WOODWARD, John.
Geographie Physique ou Essay sur l'Histoire Naturelle de la Terre, traduit de l'Anglois. par M. Noguez, . Avec la résponse aux observations de M. le Docteur Camerarius; plusieurs lettres écrites sur la même matiere; & la distribution méthodique des fossiles, traduit de l'Anglois, . par le R.P. Niceron, Barnabite. Amsterdam, aux dépens de La Compagnie, 1735. 8vo. 3 works paginated as 1. Title-page in red and black with an engraved publisher's device, 2 divisional titles, 1 engraved folding plate showing a cross-section of the earth, woodcut tailpieces and decorative initials, and bands of arabesque fleurons. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, blue edges, green ribbon marker.
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(xi), (5), 496 pp. Zittel, pp. 29-30; OCLC WorldCat (9 copies); STCN (3 copies); cf. BMC NH supp., p. 1455 (Briasson ed.); Hoover 896-897 (English eds.); Ward 2362 (Briasson ed.); for Woodward: DSB XIV, pp. 500-503.Rare Amsterdam French edition of Woodward's Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695), his response to Camerarius's critique (first published in Latin in 1714) and his Fossils of All Kinds (1728), translated by Pierre Noguez, Benjamin Holloway and R.P. Niceron respectively. The Paris edition of this translation, published by Briasson in the same year (described as a 4to: xiv, 389, (3) pp.) is more common. The folding plate shows a cross-section of the earth at a scale of about 1:90,000,000, with a four-layer crust surrounding a water core. The scale of the crust is greatly exaggerated, so that the mountains rise to nearly 1000 kilometres. The thickness of the crust nearly coincides, no doubt accidentally, with modern measurements of the thickness of the mantle, so that the liquid core is very nearly correct, though without a solid centre and containing water rather than molten iron or rock. Water sinks or sources run down through all four layers to the water core. John Woodward (1665-1722), collector and palaeontologist, was a famous and influential English representative of the religious school of geologists. In this work, also published in Latin, he describes his collection of fossils, minerals, metals and rock specimens, and promotes his theory to explain the stratification of fossils. He was ahead of his time in arguing that fossils (a word used in this period to denote what we now call fossils as well as organic remains such as bones, shells, etc.) derived from ancient and now extinct plants and animals. In later years, however, his explanation of their origins (that they were antedeluvian plants and animals washed away by the flood and deposited in layers according to their density) hindered the progress of modern scientific theories. One of the most violent opponents of Woodward's theories was Elias Camerarius, professor at Tubingen, whose critique Woodward rebuts in the second work. The final work inc;udes an appendix of letters to Newton and others about the distribution of fossils.In very good condition, with stains in the endpapers. The biinding is worn and chipped, but structurally sound. French edition of Woodward's important and influential publications on fossils, including letters to Camerarius, Newton and others.
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MONTENARI
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in Latin, with transcription and English summary, Giorgio, son of Bartolameo [sic] acknowledges receipt of 44 lire from Bartolameo Morello, notary, son of Antognoli, in return for 4 perches out of 7 of cultivated and fenced land in Gazzola !in Costa Brestheria!, freehold, bounded south by the heirs of Antonino Anguissolla, east by Carlo Anguissolla held partly from Paolo della Costa and partly from Pietro Griffo, west by the heirs partly of Raphael de Ziliano and partly of Antonino Anguissolla, apart from the purchaser!s own property, in the 4 perches are 2 lines of fences (!filagni!) and part of a 3rd, the property was held by the purchaser or his father from Giovanna de Saffignano and from Alberto Malvicino de Fontana as appears by an instrument of 12th April 1455 drawn by notary Gregorio Mazucho, notary!s device and !Ego! clause, vellum, 8! x 13!, at the Treasury, Piacenza, 25th February 1482 The vendor warrants on oath that he will defend the purchaser!s right to use the land as he wishes against every person, body, college and university, undertaking to pay double the cost of righting any defects in title and 5 lire on each such occasion, all spelt out in great detail, even to referring such cost to arbitration.#11;Witnessed by Andrea Duranto son of Pietro, Master Giovanni Pietro Constantino professor of grammar son of Master Simon, and Master Alberto de Silvestris Barberio son of Stephen.#11;At the foot are the first two lines of a deed in the same hand with the same preamble, apparently the counterpart, as it begins with the purchaser!s name. Lanzafani is fond of doubling his consonants - as in verssus, deffenssio, allia, scripssi and the like - and writes !thexauraria! for !treasury!.#11;The Anguissolla (from at least 996 A.D.), Fontana, with the Landi and Scotti were the main feudal landowners in the Piacentino.
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Das Stundenbuch der Isabel Católica. Vrelant Stundenbuch
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Willem Vrelant und Werkstatt, Brügge, um 1455. Erstausgabe, Madrid 1991. Vollständiges Testimonio-Faksimile der Pergamenthandschrift o.Sig. in der Biblioteca del Palacio Real Madrid. Madrid. Testimonio-Verlag., 1991. Goldgeschmückte Miniaturen + 24 Kalender-Bilder. Schrift: gothica textualis formata. Perfekte Reprotechnik auf pergamentgleichem Material. Kommentar: Gregory Clark, Sewanee/Texas in Deutsch. Im Originalformat 72 20,5 x 13,8 cm., Zustand (I) Bei Kaufinteresse unverbindliche Ansicht auf Anfrage möglich., Handnumerierte, auf 980 Ex. lim. Aufl. 2 Einbandarten: Ausg. A: Dekor-Version, eingel. in eine Velours-Schatulle. Ausg. B: Mudejár-Version.€ 6480.- Dokumentation (Englisch). Für Königin Juana Enriquez von Navarra und Aragón wird dieser Codex geschaffen, der nicht nur äußerst splendid in der Ausstattung ist, sondern mit seiner reichen und ungewöhnlichen Textfülle seinesgleichen sucht. Keinen Zufall gibt es bei der Konzeption dieses Stundenbuches, Texte und Miniaturen bilden eine sich wechselseitig erhellende Einheit, eine erstaunliche Interdependenz von Text und Bild. Der geistige Urheber jedoch ist bis heute nicht (womöglich ist Alfonso V der Spiritus Rector). Juanas Sohn Fernando überreicht dann den Codex zur Hochzeit 1469 Isabel von Kastilien. Beide vereinigen ganz Spanien und werden die Reyes Católicos, die Katholischen Könige genannt. Das Werk selbst aber ist das Opus magnum des berühmten flämischen Buchmalers und "Verlegers" Willem Vrelant.Im engeren Sinne bezeichnet man mit Stundenbuch oder „Libro de Horas" ein Gebetbuch für Laien. Ein solches Buch war das Hochzeitsgeschenk der Stadt Saragossa an Isabel la Católica. Ursprünglich für Königin Juana Enriquez von Navarra und Aragón geschaffen, besticht dieser Codex nicht nur durch die Schönheit seiner Ikonographie, sondern auch mit seiner ungewöhnlichen Textfülle. Seine 72 goldgeschmückten Miniaturen sind ein Beweis für den Reichtum und das Prestige, die sich mit dem Besitz solcher Handschriften verbanden. Faksimile, Bibliophilia, Mittelalter.
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AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.
Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, . Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques . Recueillis . par . S.A.S.A. Gritti, . D.A.J. Salanova, . J.F. de Voisin, . 28 Mars 1769. The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards.
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162; (1), (1 blank), 182 (2 blank); (1), (1 blank), 216, 7 pp. Cat. Bib. Vereeniging Boekhandel IV, p. 247; Bibliopolis (www.kb.nl/coop/bibliop/bibl-html/) veilingen (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); OCLC World.Cat. (1 copy); STCN (1 copy); for Van Damme: NNBW II, 363.Catalogue for the auction of books from the libraries of Andrea Gritti (1455-1528), Doge of Venice; D.A.J. Salanova, Canon of Valencia and Spain; and J.F. de Voisin, Flemish jurist. Bibliopolis notes that the books had come into the stock of the Amsterdam bookseller Pieter van Damme (1727-1806), although his name does not appear in the catalogue. At the end of the last part is a 7-page list of 155 coins and medals, along with the cabinet that held them, painted by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Van Damme, a member of the Amsterdam booksellers guild since 1756, started selling off his stock after he had secured himself an income by marrying a wealthy lady. The stock was sold at auction on two occasions, in 1764 and the present 1669. Most of Van Damme's coin and medal collection was acquired by King Louis Napoleon of the Netherlands in 1809 and survives in the Koninklijk Penningkabinet.With the title-page loose at the head, but still a good copy. Binding rubbed. Interesting catalogue of books and coins & medals.
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[LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens ... auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, a...
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(16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri . This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE , p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri . The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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GUTENBERG BIBLE.
BIBLIA LATINA. [Mounted in:] A Noble Fragment: being a leaf of the Gutenburg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921).
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[Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenburg and Johann Fust, 1455.] Royal folio (389 x 273 mm.). A single leaf, containing Acts of Apostles VII:35–VIII:37, double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes). A Noble Fragment consists of title printed in red and black + 2 unnumbered leaves + 3 blank leaves. Early 20th century dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co. of New York, ruled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. A single paper leaf from the first substantial book printed with movable type in the western world, now known simply as the Gutenburg Bible or the 42-line Bible. It is the first and, judging it by the quality of its design and materials, the greatest of all printed books. It consists of 641 leaves, and was printed in an edition of probably 35 copies on vellum and 150 on paper, of which 48 complete or nearly complete copies are extant, 12 on vellum and 36 on paper. It initiated the ability to disseminate and store knowledge and literature as never before, by a method still unsurpassed. The Noble Fragment originated with an imperfect copy of the Gutenburg Bible which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by A. Edward Newton’s essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721–1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); thence the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810–1873) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby’s, 9th November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. BMC I, 17 (IC. 55). GW 4201. Goff B-526. See PMM 1, etc.
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LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
Historia Martini Lutheri: Das ist, Kurtze Beschreibung seiner Handlungen und Geschrifften, der Zeit nach, vom M.D.XVII. biß auff das XLVI. Jar seines Ableibens . auß dem Latein ins Teutsch gebracht Durch Johann Christoff Hueber. Ingelstad, David Sartorius, 1582. 4to. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards, 1 roll Salvator, Peter, Paul, John, signed "MG," another roll with classical heads and ornamental flowers, on the front cover "1582," and monogram "I.D.W.," spine with 4 double raised bands, title in black ink in manuscript writing, also on pasted label, with clasps but catches missing.
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(16), 1-674, (34) pp. BMC STC German, p. 247; Haebler I, p. 150, no. 5; Stalla 1455 (9 copies); NUC (5 copies); VD 16, C-4280 (2 copies); TRE VIII, pp. 140-146. First German edition of Cochlaeus's Historia de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. This important biography of the life and works of Martin Luther is written by one of the main players and firsthand witnesses in the turbulent period 1520-1546. According to TRE (p. 145), it is "eine wertvolle zeitgeschichtliche Quelle und übertrefft an historischem Wert die Kommentare von Sleidanus, die im bewußten Gegensatz zu den Lutherkommentaren des Cochläus veröffentlicht wurden." Johannes Cochlaeus (German name: Dobneck; 1479-1552) was one of the most prominent Catholic polemicists against the Reformation in Germany. When he found himself in disagreement with Luther's opinions of the sacrament of the ordination of priests, the Eucharist, the relation between free will and grace, etc., he devoted his life from 1520 onward to fighting against the Reformation in order to preserve the unity of the church. To this end, he participated in the major conventions, for instance Worms, Augsburg, Trent, and wrote over two hundred histories and pamphlets. "Die größte Bedeutung haben jedoch seine historischen Schriften gefunden: die Hussitengeschichte und die Lutherkommentare" (TRE, p. 145), where he can draw to a large extent on his personal experience as a main player in and eyewitness to many key events. In his biography of Luther, Cochlaeus sketches the development of Luther's thought and the progress of the Reformation in Germany for a foreign Catholic audience. On the one hand, he does not mince his words in blaming Luther's theological conceptions for the deep divisions, great suffering, and political upheaval within the church and in Germany. On the other hand, however, he applauds Luther's emphasis on the study of the Bible and his translation of the Bible into German, which have stimulated the common people to read the Word of God themselves. His biography was first published in Mainz in 1549 as Commentaria de Actis et Scriptis Martini Lutheri. The present work is the first German translation. The attractive, blind-stamped pigsking binding has been signed "MG." According to Haebler, this is the signature of an Augsburg bookbinder, who may be identified with Matthaeus or Matthias Gärtner. Library stamps endleaves, title-page, verso title-page, minor wormholes in first leaves, very slightly affecting text, marginal annotations and cross references in brown ink; faint waterstaining; a very attractive copy.
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AUBERT, David
CRONICA DE LAS CRUZADAS DE JERUSALEM. Facsímil
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Eds. Reales Sitios Apaisado de 544 x 282 mm. 44p. con las guardas, Miniaturas: 147 (grandes, pequeñas, medallones y capitulares historiadas). Impresión a su color con estampación de oros. Encuadernación artesanal, exacta al original en pergamino sobre tabla. Se incluye Libro de Estudios conteniendo: Transcripción, Traducción, Paleográfico, Codicológico, Histórico, Artístico, Catálogo de Imágenes. Contiene toda la obra a todo su color. Tirada única de 575 ejemplares numerados y certificados ante notario.Esta obra fue realizada en el taller de David Aubert y pintado por el maestro Guillermo Vrelant hacia 1455 para Felipe III el Bueno, Duque de Borgoña, describe las batallas y sitios de ciudades que tuvieron lugar durante las Cruzadas y la conquista de la Tierra Santa. Su extraño formato alargado y apaisado explica su propia razón de ser: además de una crónica, es una genealogía de los reyes del reino latino.The Chronicles of the Crusades Viena, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2533 Format: Oblong of 544 x 282 mm. Pages: 44 (including blank pages). Miniatures: 147, big and small medals and historical chapters. Printing: To all its colour with golden print. Binding: Artisan, exact as original. Parchment on plank. Book of Studies: Transcription, Translation, Palaeographic, Codicological, Historic, Artistic and catalogue of illustrations. It contains a complete work to all its colour. Print Run: Unique 575 numbered copies with notarized deed. Made in David Aubert's studio and painted by de master Guillermo Vrelant towards 1455, for Felipe III "The Good One", Duke of Borgoña. It describes the battles and the sieges of the cities that took place during the Crusades ant the conquer of the "Holy Land". Its strange and oblong format explains its own reason of being; besides being a chronicle, it is also a genealogy of the kings of the Latin Kingdom. The genealogies used to be written on a parchment that could be rolled. In an inventory made in 1467 at Borgoña's court, the note aside this manuscript said "tournant en maniêre de rôle", which explains its format and the composition of the text into four columns. Afterwards it was cut to be binded as a codice. The result was spectacular. Since the first crusade, encouraged by the Pope Urban II in 1095, to the fall of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, appeared Godofredo of Bouillon, Federico Barbaroja, Ricardo Corazón de Leon, Saladino among others historical characters. It also gathers the creation of The Knights Templar Order and the Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint John, lately Order of Rhodes, nowdays Order of Malta. Besides its esthetic, they appear condensed the utensils for the assault, war machines, ships, sited and surrounded cities, clothes and armors, horses, shields and standards, complete armies etc. A need for the studious and an authentic pleasure for the bibliophile.
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BIBLE.
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[Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenburg and Johann Fust, 1455.] Royal folio (389 x 273 mm.). A single leaf, containing Acts of Apostles VII:35–VIII:37, double column, 42 lines per column, rubricated in red and blue (headlines in alternating red and blue lombard letters, chapter initial in red with numerals alternating in red and blue, red capital strokes). A Noble Fragment consists of title printed in red and black + 2 unnumbered leaves + 3 blank leaves. Early 20th century dark blue morocco by Stikeman & Co. of New York, ruled in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt. A single paper leaf from the first substantial book printed with movable type in the western world, now known simply as the Gutenburg Bible or the 42-line Bible. It is the first and, judging it by the quality of its design and materials, the greatest of all printed books. It consists of 641 leaves, and was printed in an edition of probably 35 copies on vellum and 150 on paper, of which 48 complete or nearly complete copies are extant, 12 on vellum and 36 on paper. It initiated the ability to disseminate and store knowledge and literature as never before, by a method still unsurpassed. The Noble Fragment originated with an imperfect copy of the Gutenburg Bible which was divided by Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, and dispersed as single leaves or larger fragments, the individual leaves mostly accompanied by A. Edward Newton’s essay, as here. The copy had previously formed part of the collection of Maria von Sulzbach (1721–1794, wife of Carl Theodore, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate and subsequently Electoral Prince of Bavaria); thence the Hofbibliothek at Mannheim; the Royal Library at Munich (sold as a duplicate in 1832); and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche (1810–1873) and his descendants. It was sold at auction in 1920 (Sotheby’s, 9th November, lot 70) to Joseph Sabin, who in turn sold it to Wells. BMC I, 17 (IC. 55). GW 4201. Goff B-526. See PMM 1, etc.
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Das Stundenbuch der Isabel Católica. Vrelant Stundenbuch
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Willem Vrelant und Werkstatt, Brügge, um 1455. Erstausgabe, Madrid 1991. Vollständiges Testimonio-Faksimile der Pergamenthandschrift o.Sig. in der Biblioteca del Palacio Real Madrid. Madrid. Testimonio-Verlag., 1991. Goldgeschmückte Miniaturen + 24 Kalender-Bilder. Schrift: gothica textualis formata. Perfekte Reprotechnik auf pergamentgleichem Material. Kommentar: Gregory Clark, Sewanee/Texas in Deutsch. Im Originalformat 72 20,5 x 13,8 cm., Zustand (I) Bei Kaufinteresse unverbindliche Ansicht auf Anfrage möglich., Handnumerierte, auf 980 Ex. lim. Aufl. 2 Einbandarten: Ausg. A: Dekor-Version, eingel. in eine Velours-Schatulle. Ausg. B: Mudejár-Version.€ 6480.- Dokumentation (Englisch). Für Königin Juana Enriquez von Navarra und Aragón wird dieser Codex geschaffen, der nicht nur äußerst splendid in der Ausstattung ist, sondern mit seiner reichen und ungewöhnlichen Textfülle seinesgleichen sucht. Keinen Zufall gibt es bei der Konzeption dieses Stundenbuches, Texte und Miniaturen bilden eine sich wechselseitig erhellende Einheit, eine erstaunliche Interdependenz von Text und Bild. Der geistige Urheber jedoch ist bis heute nicht (womöglich ist Alfonso V der Spiritus Rector). Juanas Sohn Fernando überreicht dann den Codex zur Hochzeit 1469 Isabel von Kastilien. Beide vereinigen ganz Spanien und werden die Reyes Católicos, die Katholischen Könige genannt. Das Werk selbst aber ist das Opus magnum des berühmten flämischen Buchmalers und "Verlegers" Willem Vrelant.Im engeren Sinne bezeichnet man mit Stundenbuch oder „Libro de Horas" ein Gebetbuch für Laien. Ein solches Buch war das Hochzeitsgeschenk der Stadt Saragossa an Isabel la Católica. Ursprünglich für Königin Juana Enriquez von Navarra und Aragón geschaffen, besticht dieser Codex nicht nur durch die Schönheit seiner Ikonographie, sondern auch mit seiner ungewöhnlichen Textfülle. Seine 72 goldgeschmückten Miniaturen sind ein Beweis für den Reichtum und das Prestige, die sich mit dem Besitz solcher Handschriften verbanden. Faksimile, Bibliophilia, Mittelalter.
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1461 VI 30 - LE MAECH Laurens - Jean du MEZ.
Manuscript - Reçu sur velin avec sceau. (deux documents) .
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Document manuscript sur velin, 7,5 x 30,5 cm, sceau en lacque rouge, très belle signature. Laurent (le/de) Maech fut un financier de Philippe le Bon; il commanda la Crucifixion de St. Bavon de Joos van Wassenhove, qui devenu fameux travailla à Urbino et Gubbio. (Receipt on parchment, red lacquer seal, very fine signature from the Burgundian treasurer and maecenas, who ordered the Crucifixion triptych by Joos van Wassenhove - Giusto di Guanto - still in Ghent cathedral.) Avec un document légal sur velin, 14 x 39 cm, traces de deux sigles, signé par Jean de Mes. Un Jean de Novelemport (Novelenpont, Nouillonpot), appelé Jean de Mez, fut un des compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc. Né ca. 1398, en 1455 il témoigna encore au procès de réhabilitation. (With a 1411 legal document by Jean du Mes, de Troyes. The name was made famous by one of Joan of Arc's companions.)§.
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