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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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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BIZZARRI, Pietro (Petrus
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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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| 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 infolio, non paginé.
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LUTHER]. COCHLAEUS, Johannes.
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| 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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| 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 infolio, non paginé.
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Junghuhn, Frans Wilhelm
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| 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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- 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
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| 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
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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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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