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Volkmar, Christoph:
Reform statt Reformation. Die Kirchenpolitik Herzog Georgs von Sachsen 1488-1525.
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- Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation - Band 41. Erste Ausgabe. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. 701 Seiten, Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe. Leinenband mit goldener Titel- und Rückentitelprägung in sehr gutem, nahezu neuwertigem Zustand. (Very good condition, unused.) - Die Reformation war die weltgeschichtliche Sternstunde Mitteldeutschlands. Christoph Volkmar sucht diese Umbruchszeit erneut auf und hinterfragt drei wichtige Erzähltraditionen: die Rolle der Fürsten als Förderer der Reformation, das Schicksal der spätmittelalterlichen Reformversuche und die Einordnung einer Schlüsselfigur der Zeit.Herzog Georg von Sachsen (1471-1539) gilt als schärfster Gegner Luthers unter den deutschen Fürsten. An seinem Beispiel wird untersucht, welchen Einfluß weltliche Landesherren bereits im späten Mittelalter auf die Kirche in ihren Territorien ausübten. Dies eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf die Reformationszeit. Denn der Albertiner nutzte die Machtmittel des landesherrlichen Kirchenregiments, um die Evangelische Bewegung in seinem Territorium zu unterdrücken und die Reform der alten Kirche voranzutreiben. (Klappentext) Geschichte. Kirchengeschichte. Religionswissenschaft.
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FRANCHI, FILIPPO; FRANCHIS, PHILIPP DE
Commentaria in Titulum Decretalium [and] In Sextum Decretalium...
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Franchi, Filippo [d. 1471]. Horario, Bartholomaeus ab, Editor. Commentaria in Titulum Decretalium De Appellationibus: Bartholomaei Ab Horrario, Iurisc. Patavini, Aliorumque Doctissimorum Hominum Adnotationibus Illustrata: Omnibus Iuris Utriusque Studiosis, Forensiumque Causarum Patronis Utilissima, Ac Pernecessaria; Cum Summariis, & Indice Rerum ac Verborum Locupletissimo, Nunc Recens Optima Serie Instaurato. Hac Vero in editione Summo Studio Atque Diligentia ab Innumeris Mendis Repurgata. Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1578. 102, [10] ff. Main text in parallel columns. [And] Franchi, Filippo. Godemini, Vicenzo [b. 1503], Editor. In Sextum Decretalium Volumen Commentaria, Nicolai Superantii, Bernar. de Roma et Celsi, Alias Impressis, Ac Etiam Novissimis nunc Primum Additis Vincentii Godemini, Pisis Ord. Iuris Can. Legentis, Adnotationibus Illustrata. Cum Summariis, & Indice Rerum ac Verborum Memorabilium. Locupletissimis, Hac in Editione Summo Studio ac Diligentia ab Innumeris & Variis Mendis Repurgata. Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1579. 298, 20 ff. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (17" x 11"). Contemporary vellum, raised bands and early hand-lettered titles to spine and foot of text block, two of the four thong ties lacking. light soiling and rubbing, a few scuffs to boards, rubbing to spine exposing bands, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges cracked but secure, minor worming to pastedowns, front free endpaper lacking. Large Giunta title-page devices printed in red and black, others, in black, to verso of final leaves of second volume and its index, woodcut decorated initials. Toning and light foxing in places. Annotation in early hand to title page of first volume, interior otherwise clean. $7,500. * Later editions. This volume contains two notable treatises on canon law. The first one deals with appellate procedure, the second is a commentary on the Liber Sextus Decretalium, one of the components of the Corpus Juris Canonici. Both were notable works that went through several issues and editions. Born in Perugia, Franchi studied at the Universities of Perugia and Pavia. He was a law professor at the University of Ferrara from 1461 to 1471. No copies of these imprints located in North America. Censimento Nazionale Delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (ED
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DUPAN (Archives).
Dossier de diverses pieces manuscrites et actes relatifs a la famille Dupan, originaire du Piemont, etablie a Geneve et a Fribourg a la fin du XVe siecle.
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- Parchemins : 1471 ; 1521 ;1544 ; 1535 - Documents sur papier : 1534 : 1583 - Demande de reconnaissance de Bourgeoisie de Fribourg. 17 pieces. - Arbre genealogique aquarelle - Pieces diverses (16) - Actes de bapteme, extraits de naissance, filiations etc 27 pieces. - 2 copies de documents Xve faites au XVIIe siecle. - Liquidation d'hoiries…15 pieces. - Demande de refuge a Fribourg 1795/1796 14 pieces - XII 10 pieces Galiffe : " Louis Dupan II du nom, ayant ete du nombre des Genevois qui preparerent les voies de notre independance, je le place parmi les fondateurs de la liberte…Son fils Claud fut un des personnages les plus distingues de la Republique, parce qu'il embrassa la reformation avec ardeur, et fut un des amis de Calvin.". Gallife : Notices genealogiques des familles genevoises…G. 1829.p.140 a 157.
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Franchi, Filippo; Franchis, Philipp de
Commentaria in Titulum Decretalium [and] In Sextum Decretalium
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1471] 1471 - Franchi, Filippo [d.Horario, Bartholomaeus ab, Editor. Commentaria in Titulum Decretalium De Appellationibus: Bartholomaei Ab Horrario, Iurisc. Patavini, Aliorumque Doctissimorum Hominum Adnotationibus Illustrata: Omnibus Iuris Utriusque Studiosis, Forensiumque Causarum Patronis Utilissima, Ac Pernecessaria; Cum Summariis, & Indice Rerum ac Verborum Locupletissimo, Nunc Recens Optima Serie Instaurato. Hac Vero in editione Summo Studio Atque Diligentia ab Innumeris Mendis Repurgata. Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1578. 102, [10] ff. Main text in parallel columns. [And] Franchi, Filippo. Godemini, Vicenzo [b. 1503], Editor. In Sextum Decretalium Volumen Commentaria, Nicolai Superantii, Bernar. de Roma et Celsi, Alias Impressis, Ac Etiam Novissimis nunc Primum Additis Vincentii Godemini, Pisis Ord. Iuris Can. Legentis, Adnotationibus Illustrata. Cum Summariis, & Indice Rerum ac Verborum Memorabilium. Locupletissimis, Hac in Editione Summo Studio ac Diligentia ab Innumeris & Variis Mendis Repurgata. Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1579. 298, 20 ff. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (17" x 11"). Contemporary vellum, raised bands and early hand-lettered titles to spine and foot of text block, two of the four thong ties lacking. light soiling and rubbing, a few scuffs to boards, rubbing to spine exposing bands, corners bumped and somewhat worn, hinges cracked but secure, minor worming to pastedowns, front free endpaper lacking. Large Giunta title-page devices printed in red and black, others, in black, to verso of final leaves of second volume and its index, woodcut decorated initials. Toning and light foxing in places. Annotation in early hand to title page of first volume, interior otherwise clean. * Later editions. This volume contains two notable treatises on canon law. The first one deals with appellate procedure, the second is a commentary on the Liber Sextus Decretalium, one of the components of the Corpus Juris Canonici. Both were notable works that went through several issues and editions. Born in Perugia, Franchi studied at the Universities of Perugia and Pavia. He was a law professor at the University of Ferrara from 1461 to 1471. No copies of these imprints located in North America. Censimento Nazionale Delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (ED. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Herlitz, George And Kirschner, Bruno, Edited By
Jüdisches Lexikon: Ein Enzyklopädisches Wissen in Vier Bänden Mit Über 2000 Illustrationen, Beilagen, Karten Und Tabellen
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Jüdischer Verlag Berlin 1927-1930. First Edition. Four quartos [ of five-LACKS volume V, S-Z ], xxxvi, 1471, xxxxii, 1727, xxxii, 1448, xxxii, 1590, xxxii, 1664 pp. [aribic numerated paginations are for pages with a pagination for each of the two columns], chromolithographic frontispieces, b/w drawings and photographs throughout, maps, tables. Gilt decorated buckram as issued. Very slight water staining to one vol, else fine. * Unter Mitarbeit von etwa 300 jüdischen Gelehrten und Schriftstellern und unter redaktioneller Mithelfe von Prof. Dr. Ismar Elbogen, Dr. Georg Herlitz, Dr. Josef Meisl, Dr. Aron Sandler, Dr. Max Soloweitschik, Dr. Felix A. Theilhaber, Dr. Robert Weltsch, Rabbi Dr. Max Wiener. A fine Jewish Encyclopedia harvesting the best of the German-Jewish scholarship before the Nazi-period.
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DUPAN (Archives).
Dossier de diverses pièces manuscrites et actes relatifs à la famille Dupan, originaire du Piémont, établie à Genève et à Fribourg à la fin du XVe siècle.
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- Parchemins : 1471 ; 1521 ;1544 ; 1535 - Documents sur papier : 1534 : 1583 - Demande de reconnaissance de Bourgeoisie de Fribourg. 17 pièces. - Arbre généalogique aquarellé - Pièces diverses (16) - Actes de baptême, extraits de naissance, filiations etc 27 pièces. - 2 copies de documents Xve faites au XVIIe siècle. - Liquidation d’hoiries…15 pièces. - Demande de refuge à Fribourg 1795/1796 14 pièces - XII 10 pièces Galiffe : " Louis Dupan II du nom, ayant été du nombre des Genevois qui préparèrent les voies de notre indépendance, je le place parmi les fondateurs de la liberté…Son fils Claud fut un des personnages les plus distingués de la République, parce qu'il embrassa la réformation avec ardeur, et fut un des amis de Calvin.". Gallife : Notices généalogiques des familles genevoises…G. 1829.p.140 à 157.
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Herausgegeben von Wolff, Helmut / Hist. Komm. bei d. Bayerischen Akad. d. Wiss.
Deutsche Reichstagsakten Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Friedrich III. / 8. Abt. 1471 (Ältere Reihe / BD 22 / 2. Hälfte]
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag - Deutsche Reichstagsakten Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Friedrich III. / 8. Abt. 1471 (Ältere Reihe / BD 22 / 2. Hälfte] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) ISBN: 978-3-525-35203-8 kartoniert XL,S. 307-949 Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Friedrich III. / 8. Abt. 1471 Herausgegeben von Wolff, Helmut / Hist. Komm. bei d. Bayerischen Akad. d. Wiss. Verlag : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ISBN : 978-3-525-35203-8 Einband : kartoniert Preisinfo : 175,00 Eur[D] / 180,00 Eur[A] / 268,00 CHF UVP Alle Preisangaben in CHF (Schweizer Franken) sind unverbindliche Preisempfehlungen. Legende: UVP = unverbindliche Preisempfehlung, iVb = in Vorbereitung. Seiten/Umfang : XL,S. 307-949 Erschienen : 12.1999 175,00 Eur[D] Inhalt Der Band stellt den Regensburger "Christentag" im Jahr 1471 und die Nürnberger Verhandlungen nach dessen Ende dar. Vorbereitungen und Vorverhandlungen: Kaiserliche Korrespondenz / Fürstliche Korrespondenz / Reichsstädtische Korrespondenz / Italienische und kuriale Korrespondenz / Vorbereitungen der Stadt Regensburg / Ausbleiben des Kaisers / Anreise der päpstlichen Delegation / Berichte über Vorverhandlungen Hauptverhandlungen des Tages: Teilnehmerlisten / Allgemeine Verhandlungsberichte / Akten zur Türkensache / Landfriedensakten / Kostenaufstellungen Nachverhandlungen. Der Herausgeber Dr. Helmut Wolff ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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EUTROPE
Breviarium historiae romanae. Pauli Diaconi de gestis romanorum libri octo ad Eutropij historiam additi.
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Les histoires romaines semblent avoir paru pour la premiere fois avec les annotations de Paul Diacre en 1471 a Rome, in Folio. La BN de France et la British Library possedent cette edition incunable, mais non la notre, que nous n'avons pu retrouver dans les catalogues electroniques. §Marque de l'imprimeur au pelican sur la page de titre. §Plein Veau d'epoque. Dos a nerfs orne de 4 fleurons, filets a froid sur les coiffes. Plats avec un motif geometrique. Encadrements a froid formant un rectangle central avec 4 fleurons dans les ecoincons. Quelques taches. Jolie reliure Renaissance. §Eutrope vecut au Ive siecle. L'Abrege de l'Histoire Romaine, en dix livres, va de la fondation de Rome a la fin du regne de l'empereur Jovien (364). C'est un recit clair et d'un style facile, compose pour l'instruction de l'empereur Valens, semble-t-il. etait un historien romain pendant les regnes des empereurs Constantin Ier, Julien, Jovien, Valentinien Ier, Valens, Gratien et Theodose Ier. Il assista a l'expedition que fit Jovien contre les Perses. §Paul Diacre (720/730-797) ne a Frioul en Lombardie, sejournera a la cour de Charlemagne, entrera comme moine au Mont Cassin en 774. Historiographe des Lombards et auteurs d'une histoire des eveques de Metz et d'une vie du pape Gregoire. Il fut egalement theologien et poete.Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com. apud Hyeronimum de Marnef, sub Pelicano. Parisiis (Paris) _1560 in 16 (7,5x12cm) 259pp. (1bc) (36). relie
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Virgile
Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera
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Parisiis, Barbou , 1790, Deux volumes in douze, (2ff)- xxviii-392 pp, (2ff)-423 pp, reliure d'?poque en plein veau marbr?,dos lisse orn? de fleurons ,pi?ce de titre en cuir brun fonc?,tranches dor?es,coiffes l?g?rement endomag?es,sinon bon ?tat g?n?ral,triple filets d'encadrement sur les plats,
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THOMAS, À KEMPIS
Opera … aucta & diligentius recognita …
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[Paris:] Vaenundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio (1523) The title-page with a fine, deep woodcut border enclosing Badius's large woodcut of a printing press in use, folios (8), 191, (1, blank), folio, old half roan : with a short clean tear without loss in two leaves and the running headline touched only very slightly on just a very few leaves, otherwise a well-margined and very good-nice copy. Adams K14 (2 copies). An uncommon edition of the collected works, ascetical, homiletic, poetical, biographical, etc., all pervaded by the devotional spirit which finds its classic expression in the 'Imitation', of this ascetical writer (1380-1471). This edition follows that of Pirckheimer (1494) and carries his intrroduction as well as a short prologue by Jodocus Badius, the publisher of the present edition.
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Cyprianus, santo (iii sec. d.C.).
Epistolae.
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Venezia, Vindelino da Spira, 1471. "In-folio (mm 318x218). Segnatura: [a-m10, n12, o-r10, s12]. 182di 184 carte non numerate, mancano le ultime due carte bianche. Testo su una colonna di 38 linee. Caratteri 110R2, 110Gk. Alla c. A3r bella cornice in stile veneziano miniata in cremisi, verde oro e argento su fondo blu e ornata da bianchi girari con, nella parte inferiore, uno scudo lasciato in bianco affiancato da due putti e da due conigli. Alla stessa carta grande iniziale ‘C’ miniata con corpo della lettera in argento su fondo blu e cremisi e ornata da una voluta fitomorfa bianca. Iniziali miniate in stile analogo, con corpo della lettera in argento su fondo blu e rosa decorate da bianchi girari, alle cc. [c]6r, [r]1r, [r]6v, [s]6r. Gli altri capilettera dipinti alternativamente in rosso e blu. Legatura settecentesca in mezza pelle nocciola con angoli, carta decorata ai piatti; titolo e decorazioni in oro al dorso, tagli rossi. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione, alcune gore e alcune lievi fioriture alle prime e alle ultime carte; un piccolo foro di tarlo lungo l’angolo inferiore esterno di tutto il volume, senza perdita di testo. Ex-libris moderno al contropiatto anteriore. Al recto del secondo foglio di guardia anteriore un lungo brano manoscritto in inchiostro marrone e di mano cinquecentesca che riporta una serie di sentenze tratte dalle opere di Sant’Agostino (‘Divi Augustinj aurea sententia). Al verso dell’ultima carta nota manoscritta di un antico possessore in inchiostro marrone, dalla quale si apprende che il proprietario – un certo ‘Alixandro Diacono’ – ha ricevuto il libro in eredità dal suo maestro ‘Vitus Theophilus’, morto nel luglio del 1524. Seconda edizione assoluta, la prima con data certa, delle opere di San Cipriano, che riproduce il testo della princeps, curato da Giovanni Andrea de’ Bussi, vescovo di Aleria, impresso nello stesso anno a Roma da Sweynheym e Pannartz, omettendo però la sua dedicatoria a papa Paolo II, morto il 26 luglio 1471. L’impresa di pubblicare l’opera del santo cartaginese era nata su iniziativa del vescovo di Aleria che, recatosi a Parigi per studiare presso l’università di quella città, scoprì un codice delle epistole di Cipriano che riportò in Italia, dove si dedicò, insieme ai due celebri prototipografi tedeschi, ad allestire la prima edizione a stampa di questi testi. L’edizione vindeliniana si basa sul testo di quella romana, salvo qualche minima modifica ortografica. Cecilio Cipriano, soprannominato Tascio, nacque a Cartagine, nel 210 circa. Dopo aver seguito un accurato e completo corso di retorica, insegnò questa materia e fu valente e celebre avvocato. Per influenza del venerabile prete Ceciliano, nel 245 si convertì al cristianesimo. Ancora neofita, nel 249, alla morte del vescovo Donato, divenne per acclamazione popolare vescovo di Cartagine e primate di tutta l’Africa. Tra le numerose opere di Cipriano le sessantacinque Lettere, sono tra quelle di maggiore interesse. Esse rivelano una personalità desiderosa di mantenere l’unità della Chiesa e di guidarla con mano sicura durante un periodo travagliato, oscurato dalle tremende persecuzioni di Decio e Valeriano che, a breve distanza di tempo, sconvolsero l’intera comunità cristiana. Amazing copy of the second very rare edition - the first dated - of St. Cyprian collection of epistles, that follows the first one printed in Rome earlier that year and edited by Giovanni Andrea de’ Bussi, bishop of Aleria. On leaf A3r a decorated border and a big initial ‘C’ both richly illuminated in blue, green, pink, gold and silver with, in the lower part of the border, a shield without the armorial coat with, at both sides, rabbits and putti. 4 white vine initials illuminated in blue, red and silver throughout the text; the other initials painted in blue or red. All the decorations can be ascribed to a contemporary Venetian workshop. 18th century half brown calf binding with decorated paper on boards and gilt title and decorations on spine. HC* 5897; GW 7884; IGI 3295; Goff C, 1011; BMC V, 159."
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ALBERTI, Leon Battista.
Hecatomphila che ne insegnia l’ingeniosa arte d’amore. Deiphira che ne mostra suggir il mal principiato amore.
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A combined edition of the Ecatomfila and the Deifira, Alberti’s two dialogues on love. They originally appeared separately in 1471, probably the first works of literature by a living author printed in Italian. They treat the vagaries of love from different perspectives. In the Ecatomfila, a woman, expert in matters of love, counsels her youthful listeners on how to secure and keep love. The ideal lover is prudent, modest, and virtuous; above all, he is a man of letters. In the Deifira Filarco counsels Pallimacro, hopelessly in love with Deifira, on the dangers of love and on how the humanist may experience the intensity of love as a young man without abandoning his literary and artistic pursuits.The emblem of the vase of flames – the symbol of love, carnal and spiritual – occurs on both Italian and French renaissance bindings. Anthony Hobson cites examples of its use in Humanists and Bookbinders, Cambridge, 1989, pp. 165-166. See also two examples in Breslauer, cat. 110, nos. 23 and 25.Contemporary owner’s initials at foot of title “F.M.S.I.B.”. From the library of L.A. Barbet, sale Paris (Giraud-Badin), part 2 (Oct-Nov. 1932), lot 256. De Marinis (La legatura artistica in Italia), no. 2202.Sander, no. 148. Venice, Giovanni Antonio et Fratelli da Sabbio ad instantia de Nicolo & Francesco Librari al Dolphin, 1528.
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CRESCENZI, Pietro
Opus Ruralium Commodorum
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Folio [27.9 cm x 18.4 cm], (147) ff., lacking final blank. I!6, A8, B-Y6, Z8. Bound in 18th-c. quarter vellum and speckled paper over boards, spine in four compartments, blind ruled, title inked at head of spine; rubbed but solid and attractive. Pinpoint wormhole in lower margin and mild dampstaining on a few leaves; early ownership inscription (16th c.?) at top of first leaf. Perfectly fresh and clean copy of this "practical" book, excellent. Early Strasbourg incunable edition and internally fine copy of the best-known account of medieval agriculture, and the most popular practical guide to farming until the 16th century. Crescenzi's work covered everything from estate management to hunting to viniculture; it was the first important work on European agronomy in the 900 years after Palladius and became the model for many gardening books of the 16th and 17th centuries. In deference to its calendrically concerned predecessors, Opus Ruralium Commodorum is arranged in 12 parts; but it is organized more scientifically, by subject matter rather than months of the year. Although he makes frequent reference to earlier authors such as Albertus Magnus, Palladius, Varro, and Columella, Crescenzi's approach is critical and draws on his own experience managing the countless difficulties of husbandry and agriculture relating to the maintenance of a great estate. The work is of wide interest, addressing for example fishing, the grafting of grapes, the making of wine, diseases of animals, and of course the cultivation of every sort of crop, drawing upon the procedures of the farmers of Milan, Tuscany, and the author's own Emilia-Romagna. Of additional note is the advice on the best location and arrangement of a manor, villa or farm, including every point from proper water supply to the dues of the head of the household. Perhaps in an attempt to compete with the herbals of his time, Crescenzi describes over 120 plants useful for medicine and nourishment.Crescenzi's ideas showed remarkable foresight in his own time and for the next century: for example, he made the first European reference to the "hotbed" method of extending the growing season (a technique from Moorish Spain) and advocated waiting until wine is at least a year old before drinking it-advice very contrary to the contemporary view! Pietro Crescenzi (c.1233-c.1321) was a university-educated Bolognese jurist who apparently decided to devote his time to agronomy rather than the practice of law. The Opus ruralium, finished around 1306, circulated in a rich manuscript tradition as late as the 16th century. The editio princeps appeared in 1471. While the present edition appears to have been the first and only Latin Strasbourg edition, the city's printers also brought out four later German editions.*See Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History (1983), I, 450, and Anderson,Illustrated history of Herbals (1977), pp. 66-72.
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS CAIUS
VITAE XII CAESARUM. (VENETIIS), NICOLAUS JENSON, 1471,
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in-4, ff. 162 (su 164, mancando gli ultimi 2 ff. bianchi.) senza numeraz. ne' segnatura, leg. settecentesca p. perg., doppio tass. con titolo oro al dorso. F.1r.: Versus Ausonii in libros Svetonii/ Caii Svetonii Tranquilli De Vita. XII./ Caesarum Liber primus Divus Iulius / Caesar incipit foeliciter.'; f. 162 v., secondo colophon: Hoc ego nicoleos gallus cognomine ienson ImpressiM.CCCC.LXXI.'. Una delle migliori produzioni di Jenson, impressa con un raffinato carettere tondo che rese celebre questo stampatore. Terza edizione, decisamente piu' bella, benche' meno rara, delle due impresse a Roma lanno precedente, di questopera della classicita' latina. Ottimo esempl. su carta forte, con i passi in greco, lasciati bianchi nel testo, vergati da mano coeva, come pure i capilettera e le chiose aggiunti a penna nei margini dei fogli. BMC V, 170. Goff S-817; HC 15117*; Proctor 4070. IGI V, 127.
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Herlitz, Georg Und Kirschner, Bruno;
Jüdisches Lexikon (I-V). Ein Encyklopädisches Handbuch Des Jüdischen Wissens in Vier Bänden. (=5 Volumes). Mit Über 2000 Illustrationen, Beilagen, Karten Und Tabellen
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Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin, 1927-1930. Small folio in very nice and well-preserved blue cloth-bindings (hardbound) with gilt frames and the initials JV (=Jüdisches Verlag) in gilt on front boards. Spines with gilt ornaments and two green titel-labels with text in gilt. Top edges green. Very few and small traces of use. Very good condition! Vol. I; Coloured frontispice, XXXVIII, 1471 columnes (2 on each page). Vol. II; Coloured frontispice, XXXII, 1727 columnes, Vol. III; Front., XXXI, 1446 columnes, (I), Vol. IV; ICol. front., XXXI, 1590 columnes, (I). Vol. IV: 2 (On spine Band V); Col. front., XXXII, 1662 columnes, (I). International standard work.
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JOYCE, James.
ULYSSES. Preface by Stephen James Joyce, introduction by Jacques Aubert, with etchings by Mimmo Paladino.
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[Limited edition (No.1471 of 1760 copies] Folio Society, 2004. Full turquoise goatskin leather blocked in gilt and black with a design by Jeff Clements. Acetate dustwrapper, lined solander box gilt. Pp.xix, 735, top edges gilt, with 18 etched plates in black and gold A fine copy of this sumptuous edition, which was. published on 16 June 2004 to mark the centenary of the day on which the action of the book is set. It is a “facsimile reproduction of the 1926 second edition, with badly broken characters corrected and blemishes deleted.”
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Privilegia Urbis Panormi. Collecta Iussu Praetoris Petri Specialis. Palermo, Arti Grafiche Siciliane, 1992
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. Pubblicazione a cura dell'Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Pubblica Istruzione della Regione Siciliana e della Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo. Premessa di Enrico Mazzarese Fardella. Introduzione di Angela Daneu Lattanzi. Cm.31, 2x21. Pg. XXII, 690. Legatura in tela editoriale con titoli in oro alla coperta. Manca la sovracoperta. Belle policromie. Esemplare fuori commercio. Bella ristampa anastatica della raccolta organica dei diplomi che contenevano le norme emanate o approvate per regolare gli aspetti economici e sociali della vita dei cittadini di Palermo dall'epoca di Federico II di Svevia (1200) a quella di Giovanni d'Aragona (1471). Il codice originale, conosciuto come "Codice Speciale" dal nome del committente, è conservato presso la Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo alla segnatura Qq. H. 125.
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BRUNI, Leonard.
De bello italico adversus gotthos.
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(Venedig), Nicolaus Jensen, 1471. Folio [stor 4:o i halvark]. (64) blad. Sista sidan blank. Breda marginaler med rikliga samtida anteckningar och teckningar. Ett maskhål i marginalen genom blad 13-20. Senare skinnrygg (sent 1800-tal) över samtida träpärmar, rester av spännen, de bakre med Guds lamm präglat. Ett försättsblad av pergament med spår av äldre handskrift. Detta och det sista bladet med rikliga samtida anteckningar i bläck, de sistnämnda daterade 1477. På sista sidan finns en delvis utraderad ägaranteckning: "Hic liber me ..." Eftersättsbladet av pergament delvis bortklippt. På frampärmen finns en påbörjad teckning av ett vapen i bläck. Ur Ericsbergs bibliotek, med dess exlibris samt därunder fastklistrad informationslapp. Warmholtznummer inskrivet med bläck på frampärmens insida. ISTC: b01235000. Hain 1559. Goff B1235. Warmholtz 1359 för upplagan 1470. Brunet I, 398 "Édition encore rare et recherchée". Graesse I, 186. Carlander III, 568ff. 64 blad med 32 rader per sida. Andra tryckningen av Leonard Bruni Aretinus verk om kriget mot goterna. Den första (varav fem varianter är kända) trycktes i Foligno året innan, och ytterligare två inkunabelupplagor trycktes, 1485 och 1494. Leonard Bruni från Arezzo (1369-1444) var humanist och historiker, påvlig sekreterare från 1405 samt republiken Florens sekreterare från 1427. Hans mesta kända verk är en historik över Florens, "Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII". Hans arbete om goternas krig i Italien är en översättning och delvis bearbetning av Prokopius, att han huvudsakligen översatte Prokopius nämnde Bruno dock inte. Den fick dock stor betydelse som den första skildringen av barbarinvasionen, då Prokopius egen text inte trycktes förrän 1531. Den franske myntgravören Nicolaus Jensen (+1481) kom till Mainz 1458 för att lära sig boktryckarkonsten och tio år senare började han sin verksamhet i Venedig. Han är berömd för sin fina antikvastil och den stora bibel som han tryckte 1476.
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Paulus Orosius:
Historiae adversus gaganos. (GWM 28416, H 12101). Fragment Buch 1 bis 5 (von 7). Editio Princeps.
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Augsburg, Johann Schüssler, 7. Juni 1471. Type 1.. Neuer Halbpergamenteinband mit Kibitzpapier bezogenen Deckeln aus einer Restaurierungswerkstatt. Handschriftlicher Titel auf Rücken. Im Schnitt etwas gebräunt. Original Inkunabelfragment mit 67 (von 130) 35-zeiligen Blättern. Blätter mit Resten von ledernen Blattweisern und zahlreichen roten Lombarden z. Teil mit Randausläufern. Einige Marginalien der Zeit. Seiten mit Blattbezeichnung von alter Hand, breitrandiges Exemplar, Papier mit dem Wasserzeichen: Ochsenkopf mit Augen - Darüber zweikonturige Stange - Darüber Krone - Darüber Kreuz, Einzelblattgröße: 21,5 x 31 cm.. Die fehlenden Texte am Ende der Historia werden durch leere Büttenpapierblätter angedeutet. Das Wasserzeichen ist identisch mit dem WZ des Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart: Bestand J 340 WZ-Sammlung Piccard Nr. 070664. Paulus Orosius (um 385 - um 418) war ein in Bracara Augusta (Braga / Portugal) geborener spätantiker Historiker und christlicher Theologe. Seine im Jahr 418 veröffentlichte "Historiae adversum paganos libri VII" ist der erste Versuch, die Universalgeschichte einer christlichen Grundidee zu verfassen und ist sein berühmtestes Werk. Für die Abfassung seines historiographischen Werkes besuchte Osorius 413/4 n. Chr. Augustinus in Karthago und im darauffolgenden Jahr 415 Hieronymus in Bethlehem. Der Nordafrikaner Augustinus begann zum gleichen Zeitpunkt seine 'De Civitate Die', die er von 413 bis 426 schrieb. Orosius übertrug die Ideen des Augustinus (354 - 430) auf seine Geschichtsschreibung. So macht der Prolog offensichtlich, dass Orosius seine Historiae auf 'Befehl' des Augustinus verfasste: "Pauli horosii presbiteri historiographi ... Receptis tuis parui beatissime pater augustie ...". (Orosius, 1471 Historiae). Seine Geschichte umfasst, wie er selbst schreibt, die Zeit von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zu seiner eigenen Zeit. Er hält das Erscheinen Christi als den wesentlichen Einschnitt in der Geschichte. Seine Historiae endet mit der chaotischen Situation auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Jahre 418 als Folge der babarischen Invasionen. Seine Historiae ist aber vor allem auch eine Apologie, eine Verteidigung des Christentums gegen die Heiden, die im Gegensatz zur zyklische Auffassung der Heiden, das lineare Geschichtsbild (Adam Christi Gericht) der Juden und Christen aufweist. Er selbst glaubt an die Vorsehung, deren Walten darzulegen, Hauptziel des gesamten Werkes ist. Die Quellen, derer sich Orosius bediente, wurde von T. de Morner ermittelt: neben dem Alten und Neuen Testament scheint er vor allem Caesar, Livius, Junianus Justinus, Tacitus, Sueton, Florus und eine Kosmographie herangezogen und zudem großen Wert auf Hieronymus Übersetzung der Kirchengeschichte des Eusebius von Caesarea gelegt zu haben. Die Historiae des Orosius, die hier als Fragment der ersten fünf Bücher in der Editio Princeps vorliegt, erfuhr im Mittelalter eine große Ausbreitung. Nach dem Werk des Paulus Orosius Historiae adversum paganos libri VII gibt es keine andere systematische Auslegung der Weltgeschichte in der Spätantike. Die früheste bekannte Beschäftigung mit der Chronologie begann mit Apollodorus von Athen (180 - 120 v. Chr.) und Kastor von Rhodos (1. Jhd. v. Chr.). Nach 221 n. Chr. wird die erste christliche Weltchronik durch Sextus Julius Africanus veröffentlicht. Es ist eine chronistische Zusammenfassung von Adam bis 217 n. Chr.; wobei die Geburt Christi auf das Jahr 5500 nach der Weltschöpfung festgelegt wird. Eine künftig bestimmende Chronologie der Weltgeschichte führte Eusebios von Kaisareia (260 - 330) mit seiner Chronik ein, die später von Hieronymus (385 - 420) bis 378 n. Chr. fortgesetzt wurde. Die Weltchronik von Eusebius übertrug das weltgeschichtliche Denken des Alten Testamentes in das Mittelalter. Die Plünderung Roms durch die Goten im Jahre 410 forderte eine christliche Antwort auf die Schuldzuweisungen der "Heiden" an die Christen heraus. In diesem Zusammenhang enstanden die Bücher "De Civitas Dei" des Augustinus zwischen 413 und 426 und die des Paulus Horosius zwischen 413 - 418 nach Christus (vgl. Jose Miguel Alonso-Nunez, Die Universalgeschichte in der Spätantike und die Westgotische Historiographie, In: Zwischen Historiographie und Hagiographie, Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Franz Steiner Verlag 2005).
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Illustrated London News
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NY International News Company 1915. VG. some foxing, couple tears, soil, wear. approx 350 pp. several issues, vol 57 #1471-1485, July 17 1915-October 23, 1915, bound together; very large 16 x 12 inches/40 x 30 cm newsmagazine; not cited in Noffsinger's bibliography; illus; photos; ads; on all aspects of WWI; from the Noffsinger collection. **very heavy**.
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A Kempis, Thomas
Of the Imitation of Christ with Twenty Four Coloured Reproductions from the Old Masters
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London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. Printed by The Press Printers. - The devotional classic from the Brethren of the Common Life. A Kempis lived from 1380 to 1471. Handsome book. UNCOMMON in this condition. Owner's inscription dated 1927. Full polished calf leather. Rich maroon hardcover. Bright gilt to all page edges. Covers bordered by twin narrow lines of gilt and blind stamping. Inside edges have wide band of ornate gilt decoration all round. Five raised bands to spine with gilt. Two panels have tan leather with gilt lettering for title and author. Ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. 218pp. The Burlington Library Series. Nice gift. Collectors. VG. Binding sound. Pages clean. Two owner's names with one of them blackened out to 1st endpage. Bright and clean. One minor scuff mark to front cover probably removable with polish. Very slight wear to corner tips. Tan panels have two small scuff marks. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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eltwirtschaft und Wirtschaftsordnung: Festschrift fur Jurgen Schneider zum 65. Geburtstag
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Franz Steiner Verlag. Hardcover. 3515080430 àeine Festschrift, die insgesamt durch die durchweg hohe Qualität ihrer Beiträge besticht. Sie erschlieat dem wirtschaftshistorisch interessierten Leser einiges Bekanntes und viel Unbekanntes und erweitert den bisweilen doch stark europazentristischen Blick der Disziplin um einige anregende Eindrücke aus hier bisher weniger beachteten Staaten." Der Anschnitt "Durch das breite Spektrum der dargestellten Themen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven ist mit der vorliegenden Festschrift ein sehr anregendes Buch entstanden, dessen Lektüre auaerordentlich lohnt. Es ist letztlich eine Bereicherung der internationalen wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Literatur." Archiv und Wirtschaft "Alles in allem ein auaerordentlich anregendes Buch, dessen Niveau dem Jubilar gerecht wird und jedem Wirtschaftshistoriker zur Lektüre empfohlen werden kann." Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Aus dem Inhalt M. Morineau: Variations sur des thèmes labroussiens K. Baczkowski: Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Krakau und Oberungarn (Slowakei) ca. 1471-1526 J. Buza: Der Wechselkurs des ungarischen und türkischen Dukaten im 16. Jh. R. Walter: Fremde Kaufleute in Sevilla im 16. Jh. R. Hildebrandt: Informationsprobleme im interkontinentalen Handel des 16. Jhs. J. J. McCusker: Information and Transaction Costs in Early Modern Europe E. Westermann: Zum Hamburger Kupfermarkt an der Wende vom 16. zum 17. Jh. D. O. Flynn / A. Giráldez: Conceptualizing Global Economic History: The Role of Silver O. Prakash: Asia and the Rise of the World Economy in the Early Modern Period R. Klump: Der englisch-portugiesische Handel und die Entwicklung der modernen Auaenhandelstheorie K. H. Kaufhold: Schlesien 1740-1806 - Entwicklungen auf europäischen Kaffeemärkten 1735-1810 M. A. Denzel: Der Nürnberger Wechselmarkt im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert O.-E. Krawehl: Zahlungsverkehr eines äZwischenhändlersô u.a. Schriftenverzeichnis von Jürgen Schneider 1969-2002. (Franz Steiner 2002). 9783515080439. Hardback . New. 2002-01-01.
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CRESCENZI, Pietro di
Ruralia commoda
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Augsburg, Johann Schüssler, ‘circiter’ 16 February 1471 [bound with:] RODERICUS ZAMORENSIS. Speculum vitae humanae. Augsburg, Günther Zainer, 11 January 1471 2 vols in one, folio (287 x 214 mm), [Crescenzi:] ff 210 [terminal blank used as pastedown]; [Rodericus:] 128; the Rodericus bound first, initial spaces supplied in red, blue, and green, some with flourishes and extensions, red paragraph marks and capital strokes, some contemporary ms foliation and quiring, some pinholes visible, a fine, large copy, with many deckle edges, in its original, probably Augsburg, binding of blindstamped vellum over wooden boards, covers ruled in blind in diamond pattern with stamps of leaf, fleur-de-lis, rose, scroll, etc., centre and corner bosses removed, clasps and catches present, copper index tab to Crescenzi, seventeenth-century gilt on paper labels (one black, the other white), a few small wormholes, a single minute hole penetrating into the final four leaves. £155,000 First edition, a fine, beautifully rubricated copy of the first printed and most important original medieval work on agriculture, husbandry, horticulture and viticulture.Crescenzi was born in Bologna ca 1231. He first studied medicine and natural sciences but then became a lawyer. He composed his text around 1306, drawing on the Roman writers whose works form the Scriptores rei rusticae, Cato, Columella, Varro, and Palladius, and supplementing it with his own experience and observations as a country landowner. ‘The contents of Crescenzi’s book provided anyone who worked on the land with a well-organized manual of procedure. The [book] is divided into twelve sections, each of which addressed itself to a specific agricultural topic. Book I discusses the best location and arrangement of a manor, villa, or farm, and touches on every necessary point from proper water supply to the dues of the head of the household. Book II provides the farmer with the botanical background needed to raise every kind of crop. Book II tells how to build a granary and a threshing floor, and how to cultivate cereal, forage, and food crops. Book IV is on vines, wine-making, the means of preserving both fresh and dried grapes. Books V and VI are on arboriculture and horticulture, respectively. Book VII is on meadows and woods, while Book VIII, which contains a quantity of original material, is on gardens, and is very much the model for gardening books of the 16th and 17th centuries. Book IX concerns animal husbandry and bee-keeping (honey was then the major source for sweeteners). Book XI offers a general summary of the work, and Book XII is a calendar of duties and tasks to be performed month by month’ (Anderson, An illustrated history of herbals). Books V and VI, the largest section of the work, comprise the herbal or botanical portion per se. Some 185 plants useful for medicine or nourishment are described. Four variants exist in the collation of the last three gatherings, but do not involve textual difference. This copy agrees with the Berlin and Chatsworth copies. The collation of this copy is given in a manuscript marginal note in the BMC photofacsimile reprint of the master catalogue. The Rodericus Zamorensis is the second edition (first Rome, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1468). It is a treatise on the duties and benefits of various callings, secular and religious. It went through numerous editions and translations. This and the Crescenzi were almost certainly bound together because they were issued in the same place at almost the same time. Provenance: contemporary inscription on first page ‘Iste liber est monasterii S. Magni in faucibus alpini’ on first leaf, i.e. Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, Füssen; Princes von Öttingen-Wallerstein, with stamp on first page (they acquired most of the St. Mang library in 1803); C.S. Ascherson, with bookplate, sold to Bernard Quaritch ca 1944, with their collation note and cost code on rear pastedown; Bernard Quaritch catalogue 645 (1947) n. 293, priced £180; Clifford Rattey (1886-1970) with bookplate I. BMC II p 328; BSB Ink S-59; Goff C965; GW 7820; Hain 5828; Klebs 310.1; Oates 891; Simon 32; Stillwell 615; Walsh 528; II. BMC II p 316; BSB Ink S-59; Goff R215; Klebs 857.3; Walsh 496-7
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Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
"ALBERTI DURERI CLARISSIMI PICTORI ET GEOMETRA DE SYMMETRIA PARTIUM IN RECTIS FORMIS HUMANORUM CORPORUM, LIBRI IN LATINO CONUERSI. Norimbergae, Excudebatur Opus aestate a Christo Servatore Genito M.D.XXXII in aedibus viduae Durerianae (1532)"
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"Description : [in folio] - leaves [80] with woodcut illustrations.Collation : A-E6 , F4, G-N6, O4Note : missing O[4] last blank leaf. Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) German painter and engraver. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Dürer is best known in art history as one of the outstanding creators of old master print. His printed works were often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). Dürer's best known individual engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and speculation. His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the ""Rhinoceros"", and numerous self-portraits in oils. The artist probably did not cut his own woodblocks but employed a skilled carver who followed his drawings faithfully. Durer’s artworks earned his author considerable reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded among the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since. His work reflected the spirit of his time, when social and religious upheaval were common. He was sympathetic to the reform work of Martin Luther, who at Dürer's death wrote to a friend, ""Affection bids us mourn for one who was the best’Despite complaining of his lack of formal education, especially in the classical languages, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters, and learned much from his great friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images. He also derived great satisfaction from his friendship and correspondence with Erasmus from Rotterdam and other contemporary scholars. Dürer succeeded in finishing and producing two books during his lifetime. One on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) was published at Nuremberg in 1525 and it is the first book to be published on mathematics in German. His work on fortification was published in 1527, and his work on human proportion of which the present copy is the first latin edition was brought out in four volumes shortly after his death at the age of fifty-six, in 1528 in german language and translated and 4 years in latin between 1532 ( first 2 parts) and 1534 ( third and fourth part) by Joannis Camerarius .Dürer’s reputation spread throughout Europe already during his lifetime, well beyond his native city of Nuremberg, a thriving center of trade and culture. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer became deeply involved in scientific and mathematical studies; his application of scientific principles to the creation of art marks the beginning of art theory in Northern Europe and Germany particularly. This rare volume includes the first two books of Dürer’s De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum (Books on the normal proportions of the parts of the human form), it is the first latin edition by Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574) of the Von menschlicher Proportion. It will be only 2 years later in 1534 that the following 2 books titled De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium will separately appear by the same printer. Dürer’s beautifully illustrated study of the measurements and proportions of the human form is a pioneering work in scientific illustration containing a large number of wonderfully carved full pages woodcuts of the human body in its entirety and in different positions, with a whole array of different projection schemes for measuring human proportions. Dürer’s intriguing designs had definitely a major impact on Northern Renaissance art. A modern reader may find it difficult to see how the decision to originally write and publish this books in German was a problem for Renaissance humanists. Yet even Erasmus qualified his praise of Underweysung der Messung adding the observation that the otherwise excellent book was written in the vernacular. Indeed Camerarius’ Latin edition, illustrated using the original woodblocks of the german edition, laid the foundations for the international reception of Dürer’s writings and delivered its original message to the general audience of artists, scholars and scientists of the time outside the boundaries of Germany.Attractive copy in overall good antiquarian condition of this very rare work, late mute paperboard binding, a few internal marginal defects including old reparations at marginal tears on the lower margins at leaves N3, N4 and N[5] and a restoration to integrate the lower right end corner worn out due to use on titlepage for about one centimeter, a few marginal contemporary notes in black ink, and some stains, the last blank leaf of the last gathering o[4] is missing as reported in note of the physical description, for the rest a nice copy of this very rare and important book.FIRST LATIN EDITIONEXTREMELY RARE Cfr.: Graesse, II, 452; Wellcome, II,1920 ; Bohatta, 28. Meder, p. 289. Choulant-Frank, pp. 143-147. Cicognara, 321. Bestermann, Old Art Books, 34. Durling, 1299. B. ROEHR, History and bibliography of artistic anatomy, pp. 58-59 e 377: ""The first illustrated treatise on proportions"". Schlosser-Magnino, 274"
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Hartmann Schedel
Florencia
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Gorgeous full color example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Florence, from Schedel's Liber Chronicum, perhaps the single most influential secular illustrated book of the 15th Century and one of the landmark printed works of the 15th Century. Schedel's view of Florence is one of the earliest obtainable views of the City and realistically the only large format 15th Century illustration available to collectors. The view is an adaptation of Francesco Rosselli's now lost six-sheet engraving of Florence, which is believed to have been engraved sometime between 1471 and 1482, known only through a single woodcut copy in the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin. Rosselli is perhaps best known as the cartographer responsible for the Contarini-Rosselli World Map of 1506 (the first map to depict America, based upon information derived from Columbus) and his world map of 1508, the first depiction of the World in an Oval Projection, which includes a depiction of the Southern Continent which may have been the influence for the world maps of Piri Reis (1513), Lopo Homem (1519) and Juan Vespucci (1524). Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten (loosely transalated as World Chronicle, but popularly referred to as the Nuremberg Chronicle, based upon the city of its publication), was the first secular book to include the style of lavish illustrations previously reserved for Bibles and other liturgical works. The work was intended as a history of the World, from Creation to 1493, with a final section devoted to the anticipated Last Days of the World. It is without question the most important illustrated secular work of the 15th Century and its importance rivals the early printed editions of Ptolemy's Geographia and Bernard von Breydenbach's Perengrinatio in Terram Sanctam in terms of its importance in the development and dissemination of illustrated books in the 15th Century. Published in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger, the book was printed in Latin and 5 months later in German (translated by George Alt), and enjoyed immense commercial success. A reduced size version of the book was published in 1497 in Augsburg by Johann Schonsperger. The illustration for Venice is adapted from the larger illustration of Venice in Breydenbach's Peregrinatio, which was illustrated by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, who was working in Mainz in the 1480s. Schedel's view of Florence is one of the earliest obtainable views of the City and realistically the only large format 15th Century illustration available to collectors. The view is an adaptation of Francesco Rosselli's now lost six-sheet engraving of Florence, which is believed to have been engraved sometime between 1471 and 1482, known only through a single woodcut copy in the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin. Rosselli is perhaps best known as the cartographer responsible for the Contarini-Rosselli World Map of 1506 (the first map to depict America, based upon information derived from Columbus) and his world map of 1508, the first depiction of the World in an Oval Projection, which includes a depiction of the Southern Continent which may have been the influence for the world maps of Piri Reis (1513), Lopo Homem (1519) and Juan Vespucci (1524). Hartmann Schedel was a prominent physician and writer, who amassed one of the largest private book collections of the 15th Century. Schedel's work is illustrated by over 1800 woodcut images by Michael Wohlgemut (1434–1519) and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460–1494). Wohlgemut, an important painter and xylographer, is perhaps best known as having been an early teacher of Albrecht Durer, who apprenticed in Wohlgemut's workshop from 1486 to 1489. It is believed that Durer was involved in the production of several of the illustrations in Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, as work on the illustrations commenced during the period when Durer was apprenticing with Wohlegut and a study of several of the illustrations suggests they may have been drawn by Durer, who would have prepared the drawings used as forms for the craftsmen who cut the woodblocks. While the majority of the illustrations in the book depict the various saints, royalty, nobles and clergyman of the period, the work is perhaps best known for the large format views of a number of the major European Cities, including Rome, Venice, Paris, Vienna, Florence, Genoa, Saltzburg, Crakow, Breslau, Budapest, Prague, and major cities in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantipole, as well as a number of cities in what would become the German Empire. The work also included a magnificent double page map of the World, a large map of Europe and several famous illustrations, including the "Dance of Death," and scenes from the Creation and the Last Judgement. While many of the double-page city views are less than accurate illustrations of the cities as they existed at the end of the 15th Century, the illustrations are of great importance in the iconographic history of each of the cities depicted. Some of the double-page views were also apparently offered separately for sale, including some which had been colored prior to sale. Schedel's World map is based upon Ptolemy, omitting Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East, and depicting the Indian Ocean as landlocked. The depiction of the World is surrounded by the figures of Shem, Japhet and Ham, and the sons of Noah, who re-populated the Earth after the Flood. On the left, printed from a separate block, are pictures of various mythical creatures, based upon classical and early mediaeval travellers' accounts, including "a six-armed man, possibly based on a file of Hindu dancers so aligned that the front figure appears to have multiple arms; a six-fingered man, a centaur, a four-eyed man from a coastal tribe in Ethiopia; a dog-headed man from the Simien Mountains, a cyclops, one of those men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders, one of the crook-legged men who live in the desert and slide along instead of walking; a strange hermaphrodite, a man with one giant foot only (stated by Solinus to be used a parasol but more likely an unfortunate sufferer from elephantisis), a man with a huge underlip (doubtless seen in Africa), a man with waist-length hanging ears, and other frightening and fanciful creatures of a world beyond." The World map also includes a large island off the west coast of Africa, which may relate to the account of Martin Behaim's voyage to the region, which is referenced by Schedel in the text. In 1552, Schedel's grandson, Melchior Schedel, sold about 370 manuscripts and 600 printed worksf from Hartmann Schedel's library to Johann Jakob Fugger. Fugger later sold his library to Duke Albert V of Bavaria in 1571. This library, one of the largest formed by an individual in the 15th century, is now mostly preserved in the Bayerische Staasbibliothek in Munich. Among the surviving portions of Schedel's libary are the records for the publication of the work, including Schedel's contract with Koberger for the publication of the work and the financing of the work by Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, as well as the contracts with Wohlgemut and Pleydenwurff for the original artworks and engravings. The collection also includes the original manuscript copies of the work in Latin and German. (Nuremberg, 1493) [color: Hand Colored, size: 21.5 x 9 inches, condition: VG+]
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS Caius
Vitae XII Caesarum.
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Privilegia Urbis Panormi. Collecta Iussu Praetoris Petri Specialis. Palermo, Arti Grafiche Siciliane, 1992
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. Pubblicazione a cura dell'Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Pubblica Istruzione della Regione Siciliana e della Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo. Premessa di Enrico Mazzarese Fardella. Introduzione di Angela Daneu Lattanzi. Cm.31, 2x21. Pg. XXII, 690. Legatura in tela editoriale con titoli in oro alla coperta. Manca la sovracoperta. Belle policromie. Esemplare fuori commercio. Bella ristampa anastatica della raccolta organica dei diplomi che contenevano le norme emanate o approvate per regolare gli aspetti economici e sociali della vita dei cittadini di Palermo dall'epoca di Federico II di Svevia (1200) a quella di Giovanni d'Aragona (1471). Il codice originale, conosciuto come "Codice Speciale" dal nome del committente, è conservato presso la Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo alla segnatura Qq. H. 125.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Icones Plantarum Galliae Rariorum nempè incertarum aut nondum delineatarum. Paris, 1808. Imperial 4to. With 50 engraved plates, designed by Turpin (43) and Poiteau (7), and engraved by Plée and V. Plée fils. Modern half black morocco.
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- viii, 16 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 70; GFB, p. 53; Nissen, BBI 322; Plesch, p. 170; Pritzel 1471; Stafleu & Cowan 989; DSB III, pp. 43-45. First and only edition of the only published instalment of a work on French botany by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841). Candolle was a well-known botanist, author of the famous Liliaceae. He undertook botanical expeditions already at the age of 14. Growing up Candolle became acquainted with important natural scientists and botanists, such as Jean Pierre Vaucher and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He lived in Paris from 1800 until 1808, when he was called to Montpellier to the chair of botany at the École de Médecine and the Faculté de Sciences. In 1816 he accepted a chair in natural history in Geneva. Candolle is the author of nearly 180 memoirs and other works, and at his death he left some forty unfinished manuscripts. "The world's botanists have shown their admiration of and gratitude to the Genevan naturalist by dedicating more than 300 plants to his memory: one family (Candolleaceae) and two genera (Candollea and Candollina) have been named for him" (DSB). Engraved armorial bookplate of Count Goblet d'Alviella. Very good copy, upper right corner of last 30 plates sl. dam. not approaching the printed image, last leaf backed with paper. Very good copy, of a well illustrated flora by a major French botanist.
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CRESCENZI, PIER DE' (1233-1321 CA.).
OPERA DI AGRICOLTURA. NELLA QUALE SI CONTIENE A' CHE MODO SI DEBBE COLTIVAR LA TERRA: SEMINARE, INSERIRE GLI ALBERI , GOVERNAR LI GIARDINI E GLI HORTI: LA PROPRIETA DI TUTTI E FRUTTI, ET HERBE: LA NATURA DI TUTTI LI ANIMALI, ET UCCELLI VENEZIA EREDI
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In 8vo (cm 15,5); pergamena floscia con unghie e resti di legacci; cc. 335, (8). Manca l'ultima carta bianca. Marca tipografica al titolo e in fine. Le carte del fascicolo X sono rilegate in ordine errato. Esemplare con aloni di umidita' nella prima parte e piuttosto ingiallito, ma nel complesso in buono stato e genuino.L'Opus ruralium commodorum, che, dopo aver avuto una vastissima diffusione manoscritta, fu stampato la prima volta ad Augsburg nel 1471 (la prima edizione in italiano apparve invece a Firenze nel 1478), e' il piu' importante trattato di agronomia del Medioevo. Nei dodici libri di cui si compone, l'autore tratta diffusamente di tutto quanto attiene alla coltivazione dei campi e all'allevamento degli animali, non limitandosi a ripetere le opinioni degli antichi, ma trasmettendo anche la propria esperienza acquisita nella pratica quotidiana e nei viaggi. Di lui colpiscono il senso pratico, la razionalita' e una disposizione all'esperimento che lo pongono in anticipo sui suoi tempi.Pier de' Crescenzi, bolognese, fu uomo di ampia cultura, che spaziava dal diritto alla medicina, dalla botanica alle scienze naturali. Egli rimase per tutta la vita in contatto con l'ambiente intellettualmente molto vivace dell'universita' di Bologna. Dopo aver svolto alcuni incarichi pubblici per la sua citta', dal 1298 egli si ritiro' a vita privata, dividendo il suo tempo tra Bologna e la residenza rurale di Villa dell'Olmo e compiendo saltuari viaggi, che gli permisero di raccogliere preziose osservazioni sulle tecniche agricole e i sistemi di coltivazione di numerose regioni italiane. La presente opera fu con ogni probabilita' redatta tra il 1304 e il 1309 (cfr. Pier de' Crescenzi (1233-1321). Studi e documenti, Bologna, 1933, passim).Edit16, CNCE 13740. Lord Westbury, Handlist of Italian Cookery Books, Firenze, 1963, p. 61. A. Sorbelli, Bibliografia delle edizioni, in: "Op. cit.", pp. 344-345, nr. XI.
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A Kempis, Thomas
Of the Imitation of Christ with Twenty Four Coloured Reproductions from the Old Masters
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VG. Binding sound. Pages clean. Two owner's names with one of them blackened out to 1st endpage. Bright and clean. One minor scuff mark to front cover probably removable with polish. Very slight wear to corner tips. Tan panels have two small scuff marks. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. Printed by The Press Printers. The devotional classic from the Brethren of the Common Life. A Kempis lived from 1380 to 1471. Handsome book. UNCOMMON in this condition. Owner's inscription dated 1927. Full polished calf leather. Rich maroon hardcover. Bright gilt to all page edges. Covers bordered by twin narrow lines of gilt and blind stamping. Inside edges have wide band of ornate gilt decoration all round. Five raised bands to spine with gilt. Two panels have tan leather with gilt lettering for title and author. Ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. 218pp. The Burlington Library Series. Nice gift. Collectors. Catalogs: Classics. Keywords: Classics
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PRINTED LEAVES FROM BARTOLUS DE SAXOFERRATO'S DIGESTUM NO...
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Venice: Wendelin Da Spira, 1471 445 x 299 mm. (17 1/2 x 11 3/4""). Two columns roman type. Paragraphs and capitals marked alternately in red and blue. Upper corner of recto with headings in red ink in a fine contemporaneous hand. Lightly dampstained and frayed in margin at foot otherwise IN EXCELLENT CONDITION BRIGHT AND WITH SPACIOUS MARGINS (the original quiring in dark brown ink at lower right in a neat contemporaneous hand). GW 3546. Not in Goff or BMC. Printed with the first type used in Venice the beautiful large roman typeface of Da Spira.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Icones Plantarum Galliae Rariorum nempè incertarum aut nondum delineatarum. Paris, 1808. Imperial 4to. With 50 engraved plates, designed by Turpin (43) and Poiteau (7), and engraved by Plée and V. Plée fils. Modern half black morocco.
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- viii, 16 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 70; GFB, p. 53; Nissen, BBI 322; Plesch, p. 170; Pritzel 1471; Stafleu & Cowan 989; DSB III, pp. 43-45. First and only edition of the only published instalment of a work on French botany by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841). Candolle was a well-known botanist, author of the famous Liliaceae. He undertook botanical expeditions already at the age of 14. Growing up Candolle became acquainted with important natural scientists and botanists, such as Jean Pierre Vaucher and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He lived in Paris from 1800 until 1808, when he was called to Montpellier to the chair of botany at the École de Médecine and the Faculté de Sciences. In 1816 he accepted a chair in natural history in Geneva. Candolle is the author of nearly 180 memoirs and other works, and at his death he left some forty unfinished manuscripts. "The world's botanists have shown their admiration of and gratitude to the Genevan naturalist by dedicating more than 300 plants to his memory: one family (Candolleaceae) and two genera (Candollea and Candollina) have been named for him" (DSB). Engraved armorial bookplate of Count Goblet d'Alviella. Very good copy, upper right corner of last 30 plates sl. dam. not approaching the printed image, last leaf backed with paper. Very good copy, of a well illustrated flora by a major French botanist.
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Calpurnius Siculus (Titus)
Bucolica]. Begins: C. Calphurnii carme[n] bucolicu[m] incipit feliciter.
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[Rome: Conradus Sweynheym & Arnoldus Pannartz]. , not before 5 April, 1471 - 38 lines, type 115R., capital spaces, single wormhole running through, small stain to the margin of the first two leaves, ownership inscriptions on the front endpaper, slip identifying the work and giving a reference to Boxhorn in a seventeenth century manuscript hand, pasted in to face the first leaf, 15 leaves [ff. 166-180], folio early twentieth-century red half morocco, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt, by Maltby with their stamp inside the front cover, bookplates, good Profoundly influential, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, introduced the art of printing to Italy, where they produced Cicero's De Oratore in 1465 at a Benedictine abbey in Subiaco on the outskirts of Rome. The set of types they used (Typ.1:120R) is said to have been the first Roman type, and later, the Ashendene Press printed books using an imitation of this typeface. Their work also influenced William Morris. Sweynheym and Pannartz moved to Rome in 1467, and by 1475 they had printed 50 works using a new Roman type. They intended, according to their own list of publications, that the above work was bound after Silius Italicus. Punica (5 April, 1471), 165 leaves, and followed by Hesiod. Opera, 12 leaves, making 194 ununumbered leaves in all. Provenance: The inscription on the endpaper is that of Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Magdelen College, Oxford, 925. Turner, ecclesiastical historian and New Testament scholar, 1860-1930, spent his mature life in Oxford as a research fellow. The bookplate (by Emery Walker), is that of John Waynflete Carter, who also inscribed it, at the foot of the endpaper, with a note, in Latin, stating that the book was bought from Blackwell’s and bound by Maltby’s. This is John Carter, the well-known bibliographer and bookseller, 1905-1975. In addition there is a note which explains how the work was issued by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Goff S503; BMC IV 13; Hain 14733 (Silius only)] [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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KEMPIS, THOMAS À:
De christo imitando liber i-iv. Ex latino in arabicum sermonem versus a P.F. Coelestino a S. Liduina, carmelia discalceato. Recudi curavit Io. Henr. Callenberg. Parts i-iv. Four volumes. Halae 1738-39.
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Pp. (xviii), 96; (iv), 56; (xiv), 218; (50). Part four has no Latin title (maybe missing?). Complete in four volumes, with text in Arabic, parts i-iii have also Latin titles. Bound in beautiful contemporary marbled papers, with different patterns but with matching colours. A lovely set. Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471) resided at the Augustine Monastery of Mount St. Agnes where his was ordained priest in 1414. He became famous for this celebrated devotional treatise "The Imitation of God" which was first published anonymously. It went through numerous editions and translated into many languages. This is a reprint of the Rome 1663 edition with the exception of a few passages about the Roman Catholic cult and of the Latin preface. Callenberg obtained a copy of the original Rome edition and arranged with this reprint. The Arabic translation was prepared by Petrus Golius, brother of the famous Leiden professor Jacob Golius. Schnurrer 288. Zenker BO i, 1597.
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Lechter, Melchior. Kempen, Thomas von.
Die vier Bücher von der Nachfolge Christi.
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1379-1471. Auf Grundlage der Görresschen Übertragung durchgesehene Ausgabe. Bln.: Einhorn-Presse 1922. 327 (7) S., 1 Bl., Bandentwurf, ornamentaler Doppeltitel, 4 Zwischentitel, 114 figürliche Initialen u. 27 Schlußstücke von Melchior Lechter. Asiatischer OPflanzenfaser-Pp. m. reicher ornamentaler Blindprägung, VDeckel- u. RVerg., KGoldschnitt in braunem OPp.-Schuber. 2°.. . Raub A 114; Rodenberg I, 151; "Von Odysseus bis Felix Krull" 3/16 mit Abbildung. (Opus IV der Einhorn-Presse). In 1000 num. Expl. (Gesamtaufl. 1005 Expl.) bei Otto von Holten, Berlin, in Rot, Blau und Schwarz in 3 verschiedenen Schrift-Typen auf Alt-Bütten gedruckt, Impressum von M. Lechter E. MONOGRAMMIERT. Die umfassendste Arbeit M. Lechters und eine seiner schönsten buchkünstlerischen Arbeiten. Otto von Holten benötigte für den Druck insgesamt 8 Jahre. Der empfindliche ostasiatische Pflanzenfaser-Einband kaum merklich angestaubt und geringfügig stockig, Vorsätze stärker stockig, Blattrand - wie immer - zu Anfang und Ende mit Anflug einzelner Stockfleckchen. Ordentliches, bis auf die Stockfleckchen gutes, sauberes, 2-seitig unbeschnittenes Expl.
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS CAIUS
VITAE XII CAESARUM.
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(Venetiis), Nicolaus Jenson, 1471, in-4, ff. 162 (su 164, mancando gli ultimi 2 ff. bianchi.) senza numeraz. ne' segnatura, leg. settecentesca p. perg., doppio tass. con titolo oro al dorso. F.1r.: Versus Ausonii in libros Svetonii/ Caii Svetonii Tranquilli De Vita. XII./ Caesarum Liber primus Divus Iulius / Caesar incipit foeliciter.'; f. 162 v., secondo colophon: Hoc ego nicoleos gallus cognomine ienson ImpressiM.CCCC.LXXI.'. Una delle migliori produzioni di Jenson, impressa con un raffinato carettere tondo che rese celebre questo stampatore. Terza edizione, decisamente piu' bella, benche' meno rara, delle due impresse a Roma lanno precedente, di questopera della classicita' latina. Ottimo esempl. su carta forte, con i passi in greco, lasciati bianchi nel testo, vergati da mano coeva, come pure i capilettera e le chiose aggiunti a penna nei margini dei fogli. BMC V, 170. Goff S-817; HC 15117*; Proctor 4070. IGI V, 127.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Icones Plantarum Galliae Rariorum nempè incertarum aut nondum delineatarum. Paris, 1808. Imperial 4to. With 50 engraved plates, designed by Turpin (43) and Poiteau (7), and engraved by Plée and V. Plée fils. Modern half black morocco.
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viii, 16 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 70; GFB, p. 53; Nissen, BBI 322; Plesch, p. 170; Pritzel 1471; Stafleu & Cowan 989; DSB III, pp. 43-45. First and only edition of the only published instalment of a work on French botany by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841). Candolle was a well-known botanist, author of the famous Liliaceae . He undertook botanical expeditions already at the age of 14. Growing up Candolle became acquainted with important natural scientists and botanists, such as Jean Pierre Vaucher and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He lived in Paris from 1800 until 1808, when he was called to Montpellier to the chair of botany at the École de Médecine and the Faculté de Sciences. In 1816 he accepted a chair in natural history in Geneva. Candolle is the author of nearly 180 memoirs and other works, and at his death he left some forty unfinished manuscripts. "The world's botanists have shown their admiration of and gratitude to the Genevan naturalist by dedicating more than 300 plants to his memory: one family (Candolleaceae) and two genera (Candollea and Candollina) have been named for him" (DSB). Engraved armorial bookplate of Count Goblet d'Alviella. Very good copy, upper right corner of last 30 plates sl. dam. not approaching the printed image, last leaf backed with paper. Very good copy, of a well illustrated flora by a major French botanist.
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CORNELIUS NEPOS
Vitae imperatorum. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March
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4to. 263 x 186mm. 53 (last blank) ff. (of 54, lacking first blank). Roman type, 32 lines (184 x 105mm.), capital spaces. Early 18th century English red morocco bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, covers with gilt border of dentelles and fleurons at the corners, spine richly gilt in compartments, paper label at foot of spine, gilt edges (joints rubbed). 1471. The Pembroke Copy of the first edition of the Roman historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos' Vitae, an early Jenson printing in his "perfect" roman type. "The Roman type employed by Jenson is the most beautiful ever cut and with him printing suddenly attained its perfection just five years after the introduction of that art into Italy. His books have served as an inspiration and a model to most of the fine presses established in England and elsewhere during the period of the revival of typography as an art, from the 1890's onwards." (The Italian Book 1465-1900, Catalogue of an exhibition, National Book League, 1953, no. 8).Published, as usual, under the name of Aemilius Probus this surviving fragment of Nepos' work contains 25 lives in all, mostly of Greek generals such as Themistocles, Miltiades, Epaminondas and Pausanias, but also including Hannibal and Hamilcar.The Earls of Pembroke were patrons of learning and the arts for several generations. However, the choicer and more important part of the library was acquired mainly by Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733). He held high office in various capacities - for example, Lord Privy Seal and First Lord of the Admiralty - and was associated in politics with two other famous bibliophiles, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. His son, Henry, the ninth Earl, though chiefly interested in architecture, also added to the library with works in that field and in numismatics.The Pembroke library, "hardly contained anything but incunabula, selected with great judgement and an obvious desire to combine the earliest monuments of typography with the first editions of the classics" (De Ricci, English Collectors, (1930), pp. 40-41). De Ricci also notes (p. 33) that Thomas Herbert along with Robert Harley, Charles Spencer and William, second Duke of Devonshire, "are the first great collectors of early-printed books, not only in England but in Europe, for the first time in history, large sums of money were expended on the gathering of incunabula and, to the present day, we are still to a certain extent dependent on the admirable stores accumulated by these wealthy pioneers".Provenance:1.) Unidentified 16th? century ink ownership inscription at foot of first page, rubbed out, a few marginal annotations in an early hand. 2.) Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, with a Pembroke binding and shelf-mark "Kc.7.", and paper shelf-label at foot of spine with call no. "Gg 4o", sold at Sotheby's 25 June 1914, lot 72, £85 to Quaritch (pencil collation note by F.S. Ferguson dated 2 July 1914). 3.) C.S. Ascherson with his printed label inside back-cover. 4.) Edward Hilton Young, first Baron Kennet (1879-1960), politician and writer, with his armorial bookplate inside front cover, bought from Davis & Orioli 1941.A single wormhole at top edge of upper margin for first few leaves, one or two leaves with very light marginal foxing otherwise an exceptionally clean, wide-margined copy.BMC V, p. 167. H* 5733. IGI 3211. Goff C-915.
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Butler (John K.) & Leigh Brackett
THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST. [Screenplay]
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Legal sized, two brads, no wrappers, 71 mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, slightly soiled. Undated, production #1471. The 1945 film was directed by Lesley Selander and starred John Abbot and Charles Gordon. The 1945 film was the first scr ipt by Leigh Brackett to be produced and immediately preceded the production of her script for the Noir classic, THE BIG SLEEP. Brackett's other screenplays include RIO BRAVO (1959), EL DORADO (1967), and the first version of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BAC K (1980) which was unfinished at the time of her death.
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Nicolaus de Lyra (1270 ca.-1349).
Postilla super totam Bibliam.
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Roma, Conrad Sweynheym e Arnold Pannartz, 18 novembre 1471. "Una parte in due volumi in-folio (mm 367x260). Segnatura: [a2, b-c10, d-f8, g-i10, k12, l-n10, o12, p-r10, s-t8, v-y10, z12, A-C10, D12, E-P10, Q8, R10, S8, T-Y10, Z8, &8]. 452 carte non numerate, la terza e l’ultima bianche. Alla carta 4 recto del primo volume splendida bordura miniata, di scuola romana, a bianchi girari su fondo blu, rosso e verde a puntini bianchi, bordi e capolettera a foglia d’oro; nella parte inferiore una cornice circolare a foglie di alloro. Capilettera dipinti alternativamente in rosso e blu nel testo. Legatura uniforme in pergamena settecentesca per entrambi i volumi; titolo manoscritto al dorso. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione; restauri alle prime carte del primo volume e all’ultima del secondo. Prima edizione del primo dei cinque volumi del primo commento alla Bibbia mai apparso a stampa. L’opera dell’esegeta e religioso francescano di origine francese Niccolò de Lyra venne pubblicata dagli allievi di Gutenberg tra il 1471 e il 1472. H 10363;Goff N, 131; BMC IV, 14; IGI, 6818."
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EUTROPE
Breviarium historiae romanae. Pauli Diaconi de gestis romanorum libri octo ad Eutropij historiam additi.
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Les histoires romaines semblent avoir paru pour la première fois avec les annotations de Paul Diacre en 1471 à Rome, in Folio. La BN de France et la British Library possèdent cette édition incunable, mais non la nôtre, que nous n'avons pu retrouver dans les catalogues électroniques. §Marque de l'imprimeur au pélican sur la page de titre. §Plein Veau d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné de 4 fleurons, filets à froid sur les coiffes. Plats avec un motif géométrique. Encadrements à froid formant un rectangle central avec 4 fleurons dans les écoinçons. Quelques tâches. Jolie reliure Renaissance. §Eutrope vécut au Ive siècle. L'Abrégé de l'Histoire Romaine, en dix livres, va de la fondation de Rome à la fin du règne de l'empereur Jovien (364). C'est un récit clair et d'un style facile, composé pour l'instruction de l'empereur Valens, semble-t-il. était un historien romain pendant les règnes des empereurs Constantin Ier, Julien, Jovien, Valentinien Ier, Valens, Gratien et Théodose Ier. Il assista à l'expédition que fit Jovien contre les Perses. §Paul Diacre (720/730-797) né à Frioul en Lombardie, séjournera à la cour de Charlemagne, entrera comme moine au Mont Cassin en 774. Historiographe des Lombards et auteurs d'une histoire des évêques de Metz et d'une vie du pape Grégoire. Il fut également théologien et poète. *1560 Parisiis (Paris) apud Hyeronimum de Marnef, sub Pelicano. in 16 (7,5x12cm) 259pp. (1bc) (36). relié relié
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Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
"ALBERTI DURERI CLARISSIMI PICTORI ET GEOMETRA DE SYMMETRIA PARTIUM IN RECTIS FORMIS HUMANORUM CORPORUM, LIBRI IN LATINO CONUERSI. Norimbergae, Excudebatur Opus aestate a Christo Servatore Genito M.D.XXXII in aedibus viduae Durerianae (1532)"
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"Description : [in folio] - leaves [80] with woodcut illustrations.Collation : A-E6 , F4, G-N6, O4Note : missing O[4] last blank leaf. Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) German painter and engraver. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Dürer is best known in art history as one of the outstanding creators of old master print. His printed works were often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). Dürer's best known individual engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and speculation. His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the ""Rhinoceros"", and numerous self-portraits in oils. The artist probably did not cut his own woodblocks but employed a skilled carver who followed his drawings faithfully. Durer’s artworks earned his author considerable reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded among the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since. His work reflected the spirit of his time, when social and religious upheaval were common. He was sympathetic to the reform work of Martin Luther, who at Dürer's death wrote to a friend, ""Affection bids us mourn for one who was the best’Despite complaining of his lack of formal education, especially in the classical languages, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters, and learned much from his great friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images. He also derived great satisfaction from his friendship and correspondence with Erasmus from Rotterdam and other contemporary scholars. Dürer succeeded in finishing and producing two books during his lifetime. One on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) was published at Nuremberg in 1525 and it is the first book to be published on mathematics in German. His work on fortification was published in 1527, and his work on human proportion of which the present copy is the first latin edition was brought out in four volumes shortly after his death at the age of fifty-six, in 1528 in german language and translated and 4 years in latin between 1532 ( first 2 parts) and 1534 ( third and fourth part) by Joannis Camerarius .Dürer’s reputation spread throughout Europe already during his lifetime, well beyond his native city of Nuremberg, a thriving center of trade and culture. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer became deeply involved in scientific and mathematical studies; his application of scientific principles to the creation of art marks the beginning of art theory in Northern Europe and Germany particularly. This rare volume includes the first two books of Dürer’s De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum (Books on the normal proportions of the parts of the human form), it is the first latin edition by Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574) of the Von menschlicher Proportion. It will be only 2 years later in 1534 that the following 2 books titled De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium will separately appear by the same printer. Dürer’s beautifully illustrated study of the measurements and proportions of the human form is a pioneering work in scientific illustration containing a large number of wonderfully carved full pages woodcuts of the human body in its entirety and in different positions, with a whole array of different projection schemes for measuring human proportions. Dürer’s intriguing designs had definitely a major impact on Northern Renaissance art. A modern reader may find it difficult to see how the decision to originally write and publish this books in German was a problem for Renaissance humanists. Yet even Erasmus qualified his praise of Underweysung der Messung adding the observation that the otherwise excellent book was written in the vernacular. Indeed Camerarius’ Latin edition, illustrated using the original woodblocks of the german edition, laid the foundations for the international reception of Dürer’s writings and delivered its original message to the general audience of artists, scholars and scientists of the time outside the boundaries of Germany.Attractive copy in overall good antiquarian condition of this very rare work, late mute paperboard binding, a few internal marginal defects including old reparations at marginal tears on the lower margins at leaves N3, N4 and N[5] and a restoration to integrate the lower right end corner worn out due to use on titlepage for about one centimeter, a few marginal contemporary notes in black ink, and some stains, the last blank leaf of the last gathering o[4] is missing as reported in note of the physical description, for the rest a nice copy of this very rare and important book.FIRST LATIN EDITIONEXTREMELY RARE Cfr.: Graesse, II, 452; Wellcome, II,1920 ; Bohatta, 28. Meder, p. 289. Choulant-Frank, pp. 143-147. Cicognara, 321. Bestermann, Old Art Books, 34. Durling, 1299. B. ROEHR, History and bibliography of artistic anatomy, pp. 58-59 e 377: ""The first illustrated treatise on proportions"". Schlosser-Magnino, 274"
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DES REGLEMENTS für Unsere Geworbene und National-Infanterie, Dritter Theil.
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- Von dem Soldaten überhaupt, und eines jedes Pflichten; Von dem Montirung, und dem Anzuge; Von dem Ceremoniell, und sonst gewöhnlichem Dienste; Wie auch von den Regiments- und Compagine-Büchern, Protocollen, Journalen, Rollen, Listen, Attesten, Pässen, Abschieden, Quitungen und Berechnungen, etc. No. 1471. Gedruckt bei J.G. Höpffner, Kopenhagen 1747. 8°. 528+(30) Seiten+58 Tafeln+(8) Seiten. Etwas abgenutztes, zeitg. Ganzleder. Das ausfaltbare Tafel 47 ist lose. Sonst einwendig gut erhalten und fast ganz sauber. * With contemp. gilt lettering on front board signifying that the book has been in use with the Bergenhus National Regiment in Norway.** Important military historic sourcebook with regulations for the conduct and uniforms of various infantry servicemen, not to mention 58 plates with matrices for various types of documents used in the service. Contemp. somewhat worn full leather binding. Insides are crisp and clean with very little brownspotting. One large foldable plate (no. 47) is loose. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Nicolaus de Lyra (1270 ca.-1349).
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Roma, Conrad Sweynheym e Arnold Pannartz, 18 novembre 1471. "Una parte in due volumi in-folio (mm 367x260). Segnatura: [a2, b-c10, d-f8, g-i10, k12, l-n10, o12, p-r10, s-t8, v-y10, z12, A-C10, D12, E-P10, Q8, R10, S8, T-Y10, Z8, &8]. 452 carte non numerate, la terza e l’ultima bianche. Alla carta 4 recto del primo volume splendida bordura miniata, di scuola romana, a bianchi girari su fondo blu, rosso e verde a puntini bianchi, bordi e capolettera a foglia d’oro; nella parte inferiore una cornice circolare a foglie di alloro. Capilettera dipinti alternativamente in rosso e blu nel testo. Legatura uniforme in pergamena settecentesca per entrambi i volumi; titolo manoscritto al dorso. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione; restauri alle prime carte del primo volume e all’ultima del secondo. Prima edizione del primo dei cinque volumi del primo commento alla Bibbia mai apparso a stampa. L’opera dell’esegeta e religioso francescano di origine francese Niccolò de Lyra venne pubblicata dagli allievi di Gutenberg tra il 1471 e il 1472. H 10363;Goff N, 131; BMC IV, 14; IGI, 6818."
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Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
"ALBERTI DURERI CLARISSIMI PICTORI ET GEOMETRA DE SYMMETRIA PARTIUM IN RECTIS FORMIS HUMANORUM CORPORUM, LIBRI IN LATINO CONUERSI. Norimbergae, Excudebatur Opus aestate a Christo Servatore Genito M.D.XXXII in aedibus viduae Durerianae (1532)"
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"Description : [in folio] - leaves [80] with woodcut illustrations.Collation : A-E6 , F4, G-N6, O4Note : missing O[4] last blank leaf. Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) German painter and engraver. He was born and died in Nuremberg. Dürer is best known in art history as one of the outstanding creators of old master print. His printed works were often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). Dürer's best known individual engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and speculation. His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the ""Rhinoceros"", and numerous self-portraits in oils. The artist probably did not cut his own woodblocks but employed a skilled carver who followed his drawings faithfully. Durer’s artworks earned his author considerable reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded among the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since. His work reflected the spirit of his time, when social and religious upheaval were common. He was sympathetic to the reform work of Martin Luther, who at Dürer's death wrote to a friend, ""Affection bids us mourn for one who was the best’Despite complaining of his lack of formal education, especially in the classical languages, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters, and learned much from his great friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images. He also derived great satisfaction from his friendship and correspondence with Erasmus from Rotterdam and other contemporary scholars. Dürer succeeded in finishing and producing two books during his lifetime. One on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) was published at Nuremberg in 1525 and it is the first book to be published on mathematics in German. His work on fortification was published in 1527, and his work on human proportion of which the present copy is the first latin edition was brought out in four volumes shortly after his death at the age of fifty-six, in 1528 in german language and translated and 4 years in latin between 1532 ( first 2 parts) and 1534 ( third and fourth part) by Joannis Camerarius .Dürer’s reputation spread throughout Europe already during his lifetime, well beyond his native city of Nuremberg, a thriving center of trade and culture. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer became deeply involved in scientific and mathematical studies; his application of scientific principles to the creation of art marks the beginning of art theory in Northern Europe and Germany particularly. This rare volume includes the first two books of Dürer’s De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum (Books on the normal proportions of the parts of the human form), it is the first latin edition by Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574) of the Von menschlicher Proportion. It will be only 2 years later in 1534 that the following 2 books titled De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium will separately appear by the same printer. Dürer’s beautifully illustrated study of the measurements and proportions of the human form is a pioneering work in scientific illustration containing a large number of wonderfully carved full pages woodcuts of the human body in its entirety and in different positions, with a whole array of different projection schemes for measuring human proportions. Dürer’s intriguing designs had definitely a major impact on Northern Renaissance art. A modern reader may find it difficult to see how the decision to originally write and publish this books in German was a problem for Renaissance humanists. Yet even Erasmus qualified his praise of Underweysung der Messung adding the observation that the otherwise excellent book was written in the vernacular. Indeed Camerarius’ Latin edition, illustrated using the original woodblocks of the german edition, laid the foundations for the international reception of Dürer’s writings and delivered its original message to the general audience of artists, scholars and scientists of the time outside the boundaries of Germany.Attractive copy in overall good antiquarian condition of this very rare work, late mute paperboard binding, a few internal marginal defects including old reparations at marginal tears on the lower margins at leaves N3, N4 and N[5] and a restoration to integrate the lower right end corner worn out due to use on titlepage for about one centimeter, a few marginal contemporary notes in black ink, and some stains, the last blank leaf of the last gathering o[4] is missing as reported in note of the physical description, for the rest a nice copy of this very rare and important book.FIRST LATIN EDITIONEXTREMELY RARE Cfr.: Graesse, II, 452; Wellcome, II,1920 ; Bohatta, 28. Meder, p. 289. Choulant-Frank, pp. 143-147. Cicognara, 321. Bestermann, Old Art Books, 34. Durling, 1299. B. ROEHR, History and bibliography of artistic anatomy, pp. 58-59 e 377: ""The first illustrated treatise on proportions"". Schlosser-Magnino, 274"
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NICOLAUS de Lyra.
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In folio ( 400x285 mm ).Carte 445 ( di 450:mancano due carte preliminari con il titolo e l'Incipit,due carte del testo,e la carta finale di testo col colophon ),Caratteri romani,46 linee.Un buco alla prima carta con perdita di circa dieci parole,qualche ( Roma,Arnoldus Pannartz et Conradus Sweynheym in domo Petri de Maximis, 18 Nov.1471 incunable Prima edizione.E' il primo dei cinque volumi dell'Opera di Nicolaus de Lyre che gli allievi di Gutenberg pubblicarono fra il 1471 ed il 1472.Entambi alla bottega diGutemberg,lo Sweynheym, di Magonza,esperto nell'incisione dei punzoni,della fusione dei c
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PRIVILEGIA URBIS PANORMI. Collecta iussu praetoris Petri Specialis. Palermo, Arti Grafiche Siciliane, 1992.
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- Pubblicazione a cura dell'Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Pubblica Istruzione della Regione Siciliana e della Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Palermo. Premessa di Enrico Mazzarese Fardella. Introduzione di Angela Daneu Lattanzi. Cm.31,2x21. Pg.XXII, 690. Legatura in tela editoriale con titoli in oro alla coperta. Manca la sovracoperta. Belle policromie. Esemplare fuori commercio. Bella ristampa anastatica della raccolta organica dei diplomi che contenevano le norme emanate o approvate per regolare gli aspetti economici e sociali della vita dei cittadini di Palermo dall'epoca di Federico II di Svevia (1200) a quella di Giovanni d'Aragona (1471). Il codice originale, conosciuto come "Codice Speciale" dal nome del committente, è conservato presso la Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo alla segnatura Qq. H. 125.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Icones Plantarum Galliae Rariorum nempè incertarum aut nondum delineatarum. Paris, 1808. Imperial 4to. With 50 engraved plates, designed by Turpin (43) and Poiteau (7), and engraved by Plée and V. Plée fils. Modern half black morocco.
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viii, 16 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 70; GFB, p. 53; Nissen, BBI 322; Plesch, p. 170; Pritzel 1471; Stafleu & Cowan 989; DSB III, pp. 43-45. First and only edition of the only published instalment of a work on French botany by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841). Candolle was a well-known botanist, author of the famous Liliaceae . He undertook botanical expeditions already at the age of 14. Growing up Candolle became acquainted with important natural scientists and botanists, such as Jean Pierre Vaucher and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He lived in Paris from 1800 until 1808, when he was called to Montpellier to the chair of botany at the École de Médecine and the Faculté de Sciences. In 1816 he accepted a chair in natural history in Geneva. Candolle is the author of nearly 180 memoirs and other works, and at his death he left some forty unfinished manuscripts. "The world's botanists have shown their admiration of and gratitude to the Genevan naturalist by dedicating more than 300 plants to his memory: one family (Candolleaceae) and two genera (Candollea and Candollina) have been named for him" (DSB). Engraved armorial bookplate of Count Goblet d'Alviella. Very good copy, upper right corner of last 30 plates sl. dam. not approaching the printed image, last leaf backed with paper. Very good copy, of a well illustrated flora by a major French botanist.
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS Caius
Vitae XII Caesarum.
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(Venetiis), Nicolaus Jenson, 1471, in-4, ff. 162 (su 164, mancando gli ultimi 2 ff. bianchi.) senzanumeraz. né segnatura, leg. settecentesca p. perg., doppio tass. con titolo oro al dorso. F.1r.: «Versus Ausonii in libros Svetonii…/ Caii Svetonii Tranquilli De Vita. XII./ Caesarum Liber primus Divus Iulius / Caesar incipit foeliciter.»; f. 162 v., secondo colophon: «Hoc ego nicoleos gallus cognomine ienson Impressi…M.CCCC.LXXI.». Una delle migliori produzioni di Jenson, impressa con un raffinato carettere tondo che rese celebre questo stampatore. Terza edizione, decisamente più bella, benché meno rara, delle due impresse a Roma l’anno precedente, di quest’opera della classicità latina. Ottimo esempl. su carta forte, con i passi in greco, lasciati bianchi nel testo, vergati da mano coeva, come pure i capilettera e le chiose aggiunti a penna nei margini dei fogli. BMC V, 170. Goff S-817; HC 15117*; Proctor 4070. IGI V, 127.
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NICOLAUS de Lyra.
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In folio ( 400x285 mm ).Carte 445 ( di 450:mancano due carte preliminari con il titolo e l'Incipit,due carte del testo,e la carta finale di testo col colophon ),Caratteri romani,46 linee.Un buco alla prima carta con perdita di circa dieci parole,qualche macchia,qualche foro di tarlo,ma esemplare in condizioni originali a margini originali stampato su carta forte,legato in pergamena del primo Cinquecento,restauro al dorso,titolo calligrafico. ( Roma,Arnoldus Pannartz et Conradus Sweynheym in domo Petri de Maximis, 18 Nov.1471 Prima edizione incunabula.E' il primo dei cinque volumi dell'Opera di Nicolaus de Lyre che gli allievi di Gutenberg pubblicarono fra il 1471 ed il 1472.Entambi alla bottega diGutemberg,lo Sweynheym, di Magonza,esperto nell'incisione dei punzoni,della fusione dei caratteri...Hain,10363;Goff,N,131 elenca 12 copie nelle biblioteche americane,quasi tutte di un volume soltanto e spesso scomplete.IGI,6818.
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CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.
Icones Plantarum Galliae Rariorum nempè incertarum aut nondum delineatarum. Paris, 1808. Imperial 4to. With 50 engraved plates, designed by Turpin (43) and Poiteau (7), and engraved by Plée and V. Plée fils. Modern half black morocco.
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viii, 16 pp. BMC NH, p. 310; Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 70; GFB, p. 53; Nissen, BBI 322; Plesch, p. 170; Pritzel 1471; Stafleu & Cowan 989; DSB III, pp. 43-45. First and only edition of the only published instalment of a work on French botany by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841). Candolle was a well-known botanist, author of the famous Liliaceae. He undertook botanical expeditions already at the age of 14. Growing up Candolle became acquainted with important natural scientists and botanists, such as Jean Pierre Vaucher and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. He lived in Paris from 1800 until 1808, when he was called to Montpellier to the chair of botany at the École de Médecine and the Faculté de Sciences. In 1816 he accepted a chair in natural history in Geneva. Candolle is the author of nearly 180 memoirs and other works, and at his death he left some forty unfinished manuscripts. "The world's botanists have shown their admiration of and gratitude to the Genevan naturalist by dedicating more than 300 plants to his memory: one family (Candolleaceae) and two genera (Candollea and Candollina) have been named for him" (DSB). Engraved armorial bookplate of Count Goblet d'Alviella. Very good copy, upper right corner of last 30 plates sl. dam. not approaching the printed image, last leaf backed with paper. Very good copy, of a well illustrated flora by a major French botanist.
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DE BEHAULT de Dornon.
Bruges, sejour d'exil des Rois d'Angleterre Edouard IV
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(1471) et Charles II (1656-1658). Sur e.a. La Gilde des Arbaletriers de Saint George et de Saint-Denis. "Dames Anglaises". Genealogie des familles Lanchals de Grass, Adornes, Gruuthuse, etc. Bien complet avec du volume I et II avec 40 et 92 planches hors-texte avec armoiries, chateaux, portraits, Maison des Archers, Zeven Torren, Gruuthuse, etc. Bruges,1931,481 Pages. Volume I et II avec les planches sur papier couche. Bruxelles,1931. Ensemble tres rare !
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KEMPIS, THOMAS À:
De christo imitando liber i-iv. Ex latino in arabicum sermonem versus a P.F. Coelestino a S. Liduina, carmelia discalceato. Recudi curavit Io. Henr. Callenberg. Parts i-iv. Four volumes. Halae 1738-39.
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Pp. (xviii), 96; (iv), 56; (xiv), 218; (50). Part four has no Latin title (maybe missing?). Complete in four volumes, with text in Arabic, parts i-iii have also Latin titles. Bound in beautiful contemporary marbled papers, with different patterns but with matching colours. A lovely set. Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471) resided at the Augustine Monastery of Mount St. Agnes where his was ordained priest in 1414. He became famous for this celebrated devotional treatise "The Imitation of God" which was first published anonymously. It went through numerous editions and translated into many languages. This is a reprint of the Rome 1663 edition with the exception of a few passages about the Roman Catholic cult and of the Latin preface. Callenberg obtained a copy of the original Rome edition and arranged with this reprint. The Arabic translation was prepared by Petrus Golius, brother of the famous Leiden professor Jacob Golius. Schnurrer 288. Zenker BO i, 1597.
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SVETONIUS TRANQUILLUS CAIUS
VITAE XII CAESARUM.
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(Venetiis), Nicolaus Jenson, 1471, in-4, ff. 162 (su 164, mancando gli ultimi 2 ff. bianchi.) senza numeraz. ne' segnatura, leg. settecentesca p. perg., doppio tass. con titolo oro al dorso. F.1r.: Versus Ausonii in libros Svetonii/ Caii Svetonii Tranquilli De Vita. XII./ Caesarum Liber primus Divus Iulius / Caesar incipit foeliciter.'; f. 162 v., secondo colophon: Hoc ego nicoleos gallus cognomine ienson ImpressiM.CCCC.LXXI.'. Una delle migliori produzioni di Jenson, impressa con un raffinato carettere tondo che rese celebre questo stampatore. Terza edizione, decisamente piu' bella, benche' meno rara, delle due impresse a Roma lanno precedente, di questopera della classicita' latina. Ottimo esempl. su carta forte, con i passi in greco, lasciati bianchi nel testo, vergati da mano coeva, come pure i capilettera e le chiose aggiunti a penna nei margini dei fogli. BMC V, 170. Goff S-817; HC 15117*; Proctor 4070. IGI V, 127.
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Calpurnius Siculus (Titus)
Bucolica]. Begins: C. Calphurnii carme[n] bucolicu[m] incipit feliciter.
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[Rome: Conradus Sweynheym & Arnoldus Pannartz]. , not before 5 April, 1471 38 lines, type 115R., capital spaces, single wormhole running through, small stain to the margin of the first two leaves, ownership inscriptions on the front endpaper, slip identifying the work and giving a reference to Boxhorn in a seventeenth century manuscript hand, pasted in to face the first leaf, 15 leaves [ff. 166-180], folio early twentieth century red half morocco, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt, by Maltby with their stamp inside the front cover, bookplates, good Profoundly influential, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, introduced the art of printing to Italy, where they produced Cicero's De Oratore in 1465 at a Benedictine abbey in Subiaco on the outskirts of Rome. The set of types they used (Typ.1:120R) is said to have been the first Roman type, and later, Ashendene Press printed books using an imitation of this typeface. Their work also influenced William Morris. Sweynheym and Pannartz moved to Rome in 1467, and by 1475 they had printed 50 works using a new Roman type. They intended, according to their own list of publications, that the above work was bound after Silius Italicus. Punica (5 April, 1471), 165 leaves, and followed by Hesiod. Opera, 12 leaves, making 194 ununumbered leaves in all. Provenance: The inscription on the endpaper is that of Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Magdelen College, Oxford, 925. Turner, ecclesiastical historian and New Testament scholar, 1860-1930, spent his mature life in Oxford as a research fellow. The bookplate (by Emery Walker), is that of John Waynflete Carter, who also inscribed it, at the foot of the endpaper, with a note, in Latin, stating that the book was bought from Blackwell’s and bound by Maltby’s. This is John Carter, the well-known bibliographer and bookseller, 1905-1975. In addition there is a note which explains what how the work was issued by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Goff S503; BMC IV 13; Hain 14733 (Silius only)] [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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CORNELIUS NEPOS
Vitae imperatorum. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March
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4to. 263 x 186mm. 53 (last blank) ff. (of 54, lacking first blank). Roman type, 32 lines (184 x 105mm.), capital spaces. Early 18th century English red morocco bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, covers with gilt border of dentelles and fleurons at the corners, spine richly gilt in compartments, paper label at foot of spine, gilt edges (joints rubbed). 1471. The Pembroke Copy of the first edition of the Roman historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos' Vitae, an early Jenson printing in his "perfect" roman type. "The Roman type employed by Jenson is the most beautiful ever cut and with him printing suddenly attained its perfection just five years after the introduction of that art into Italy. His books have served as an inspiration and a model to most of the fine presses established in England and elsewhere during the period of the revival of typography as an art, from the 1890's onwards." (The Italian Book 1465-1900, Catalogue of an exhibition, National Book League, 1953, no. 8).Published, as usual, under the name of Aemilius Probus this surviving fragment of Nepos' work contains 25 lives in all, mostly of Greek generals such as Themistocles, Miltiades, Epaminondas and Pausanias, but also including Hannibal and Hamilcar.The Earls of Pembroke were patrons of learning and the arts for several generations. However, the choicer and more important part of the library was acquired mainly by Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733). He held high office in various capacities - for example, Lord Privy Seal and First Lord of the Admiralty - and was associated in politics with two other famous bibliophiles, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. His son, Henry, the ninth Earl, though chiefly interested in architecture, also added to the library with works in that field and in numismatics.The Pembroke library, "hardly contained anything but incunabula, selected with great judgement and an obvious desire to combine the earliest monuments of typography with the first editions of the classics" (De Ricci, English Collectors, (1930), pp. 40-41). De Ricci also notes (p. 33) that Thomas Herbert along with Robert Harley, Charles Spencer and William, second Duke of Devonshire, "are the first great collectors of early-printed books, not only in England but in Europe, for the first time in history, large sums of money were expended on the gathering of incunabula and, to the present day, we are still to a certain extent dependent on the admirable stores accumulated by these wealthy pioneers".Provenance:1.) Unidentified 16th? century ink ownership inscription at foot of first page, rubbed out, a few marginal annotations in an early hand. 2.) Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, with a Pembroke binding and shelf-mark "Kc.7.", and paper shelf-label at foot of spine with call no. "Gg 4o", sold at Sotheby's 25 June 1914, lot 72, £85 to Quaritch (pencil collation note by F.S. Ferguson dated 2 July 1914). 3.) C.S. Ascherson with his printed label inside back-cover. 4.) Edward Hilton Young, first Baron Kennet (1879-1960), politician and writer, with his armorial bookplate inside front cover, bought from Davis & Orioli 1941.A single wormhole at top edge of upper margin for first few leaves, one or two leaves with very light marginal foxing otherwise an exceptionally clean, wide-margined copy.BMC V, p. 167. H* 5733. IGI 3211. Goff C-915.
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EINE LUSTIGE DISPUTATION, eines gefangnen, einfeltigen, und ungelerten Bawren, mit Namen B. Nicolaus, In einem Synodo geschehen, in Böhemen, An(n)o 1471 mit den Pfaffen der Römischen seyten. Von dem Blut unsers Herren Jesu Christi, Daß es den Layen auch solte zu trincken gereicht und gegeben werden. Auß Böhemischer Sprach auffs trewlichste verdeutscht. Durch Martinum Peonium. O.O., Dr. u. J.
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(Nürnberg ?, um ). 1560 Kl.-4to. 16 Bl. (das letzte weiß). Mit großem Titelholzschnitt. Neue Br. (durchgehend leicht gebräunt, einige Bl. mit hinterlegter Randfehlstelle bzw. -einriss ohne Textverlust). (WR 01-115) Der arme Böhmische Bauer bringt das hohe Inquisitions-Kollegium, bestehend aus dem obersten Landesbischof, einem Doktor aus Krumau (Krumlov) und 20 vom Römischen Stuhl verordneten Pfaffen durch seinen unerschrockenen Glaubensmut und eulenspiegelhaften Witz in arge Verlegenheit. Später sollen sogar zwei der römischen Pfaffen zum Glauben gefunden haben. Obwohl Zeit, Ort und Umstände näher angegeben sind, am Ende auch versichert wird, dass "also inn der Warheit alles geschehen", dürfte es sich wohl nicht um ein historisches Ereignis gehandelt haben. Goedeke führte den zwischen 1546(?) und 1561 mehrfach gedruckten Disput unter der Rubrik 'Kirchliche Volksdichtung'. Der Holzschnitt zeigt, wie der gefesselte Bauer vom Henker drei Geistlichen vorgeführt wird.- Kuczynski 592; Goed. II, 274,77; vgl. Hohenemser 4019 f; dieser Druck nicht im VD 16 (vgl. L 3292 ff).
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CORNELIUS NEPOS
Vitae imperatorum. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March
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4to. 263 x 186mm. 53 (last blank) ff. (of 54, lacking first blank). Roman type, 32 lines (184 x 105mm.), capital spaces. Early 18th century English red morocco bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, covers with gilt border of dentelles and fleurons at the corners, spine richly gilt in compartments, paper label at foot of spine, gilt edges (joints rubbed). 1471. The Pembroke Copy of the first edition of the Roman historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos' Vitae, an early Jenson printing in his "perfect" roman type. "The Roman type employed by Jenson is the most beautiful ever cut and with him printing suddenly attained its perfection just five years after the introduction of that art into Italy. His books have served as an inspiration and a model to most of the fine presses established in England and elsewhere during the period of the revival of typography as an art, from the 1890's onwards." (The Italian Book 1465-1900, Catalogue of an exhibition, National Book League, 1953, no. 8). Published, as usual, under the name of Aemilius Probus this surviving fragment of Nepos' work contains 25 lives in all, mostly of Greek generals such as Themistocles, Miltiades, Epaminondas and Pausanias, but also including Hannibal and Hamilcar. The Earls of Pembroke were patrons of learning and the arts for several generations. However, the choicer and more important part of the library was acquired mainly by Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733). He held high office in various capacities - for example, Lord Privy Seal and First Lord of the Admiralty - and was associated in politics with two other famous bibliophiles, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. His son, Henry, the ninth Earl, though chiefly interested in architecture, also added to the library with works in that field and in numismatics. The Pembroke library, "hardly contained anything but incunabula, selected with great judgement and an obvious desire to combine the earliest monuments of typography with the first editions of the classics" (De Ricci, English Collectors, (1930), pp. 40-41). De Ricci also notes (p. 33) that Thomas Herbert along with Robert Harley, Charles Spencer and William, second Duke of Devonshire, "are the first great collectors of early-printed books, not only in England but in Europe, for the first time in history, large sums of money were expended on the gathering of incunabula and, to the present day, we are still to a certain extent dependent on the admirable stores accumulated by these wealthy pioneers". Provenance:1.) Unidentified 16th? century ink ownership inscription at foot of first page, rubbed out, a few marginal annotations in an early hand. 2.) Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, with a Pembroke binding and shelf-mark "Kc.7.", and paper shelf-label at foot of spine with call no. "Gg 4o", sold at Sotheby's 25 June 1914, lot 72, £85 to Quaritch (pencil collation note by F.S. Ferguson dated 2 July 1914). 3.) C.S. Ascherson with his printed label inside back-cover. 4.) Edward Hilton Young, first Baron Kennet (1879-1960), politician and writer, with his armorial bookplate inside front cover, bought from Davis & Orioli 1941. A single wormhole at top edge of upper margin for first few leaves, one or two leaves with very light marginal foxing otherwise an exceptionally clean, wide-margined copy. BMC V, p. 167. H* 5733. IGI 3211. Goff C-915.
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus
Lactantii Firmiani de divinis institutionibus adversus gentes. Rubricae primi libri incipiut.
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Folio, 216ll (of 218), 38 lines to a full page, leaf 12 (recto) has an early decorative border, coloured blue, red and brown and the capital letter (ëMí) is embellished and coloured; at some time this copy has been washed as there are the faint remains in margins of very early (16th century?) annotations and a light grey ëleachí mark on the borders of most pages, a few leaves with neat and barely visible strengthening to the inner margin and occasional remains of glue showing as a small brown stain; however this is a crisp copy with large margins, bound in later, but not recent, vellum with red morocco label on spine. (Venice?), Adam de Ambergrau, 1471. Lactantius was an eminent father of the early church and was a Christian in the reign of Dioclesian, but is thought to have been as African by birth who was appointed by Dioclesian to teach rhetoric and was later appointed by the Emperor Constantine to teach his son Crispus. His principal work is ëInstitutiones Divinalí produced in response to two heathen authors who attacked Christianity.
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(LYRA, NICOLAUS DE, COMMENT.)
Biblia Latina.
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Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 6 september. Single leaf. 2°. Size 24 x 34 cm. Matted in white cardboard frame. Biblia Latina P. IV. With the "Postilla litteralis" by Nicolaus de Lyra, "Expositiones prologurum" by Guilelmus Brito, "Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra" by Paulus Burgensis and Replicae contra Burgensem by Matthias Doering. Leaf from: St. Paul the Apostle, Second Letter to the Corinthians. Leaf CCV/ cc 5. Beautifully printed. Text 2 colums, 19 (recto) and 23 (verso) lines. Commentary 2 columns, 71 lines. Rubricated in red and blue and with red and blue lombards. Nicolaus Lyranus (Vieille Lyre, Normandy, ca 1270 - 1349) was a French Franciscan, a doctor at the Sorbonne in Paris and one of the foremost medieval exegetes. His main work, the "Postillae perpetuae in universam S. Scripturam", was the first printed Bible commentary. Nicolai's exegesis was strongly influenced by the commentaries of St. Thomas of Aquino. The Editio Princeps appeared in 1471 in Rome, and was reprinted many times. The "Postilla" remained the most influential exegesis-manual in the next centuries and Luther used it too. A fine leaf.
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Valla, Lorenzo (Laurentius Valla, 1405-57).
De linguae latinae elegantia: et de ego, mei, tui et sui.
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Venice: Nicolaus Jenson 1471. Folio; 18 1/2 inches x 13 1/2 in., 200 printed leaves; 1 of the 2 blanks is present (the second of the two blanks at the end is lacking)Rubricated initial letters. Full, dark blue, straight-grain morocco with six sets of double raised bands on the spine, gilt-lettered titling in compartments, richly gilt design in compartments, elaborate gilt tooled borders around the covers, gilt inner dentelles, by P. Bozerian jeune, with his name stamped near the base of the spine, all edges gilt, headbands, pink silk bookmarker ribbon; brown endpapers with the printed label of English medieval manuscript & book collector: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead (1865-1912), and the armorial book label of J. Gomez de la Cortina, Marquis of Morante (1805-1868), a noted Spanish Book collector, refered to in the catalogue entry present in this copy. A copy that belonged to famous French bibliographer, expert on Aldines, and book collector, Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853). In a binding by P. Bozerian jeune (who worked, ca. 1805-15). From an early printed catalogue entry, in this copy: "Edition rarissime et la plus complete. Magnifique exemplaire de Renouard, tres-grand de marges et parfaitement conserve. M. de Morante a consacre a Lorenzo Valla une longue et savante notice dans son Catalogue (tome VI)." The binding corners show light wear. Stillwell V47, p. 547; Hain 15802. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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HERMES TRISMEGESTUS.
Corpus Hermeticum [i.e. De Potestate et Sapientia Dei].
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Geradrus de Lisa, de Flandria 18 December 1471, Treviso First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 inches). [56] leaves. [A-G8]. With 4-line initial in red on A2r, with a small initial and a paragraph mark also in red.Early 19th century straight-grain blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Quarter blue morocco clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. One of the hand-colored initial with a bit of bleeding but otherwise a beautiful copy of this vastly important title. Very rare first edition of what may be considered the premier work of ÒThe Perennial Philosophy,Ó reintroduced to Europe after an absence of over a thousand years, presenting the wisdom of the ancients to the growing consciousness of the Renaissance. The Corpus Hermeticum, a core book of any collection of philosophy, metaphysics, Renaissance thought, alchemy or magic, embodies a later form of Platonism, mixed with Gnostic, Hebraic, Mithraic, and ancient Egyptian traditions. When this edition was printed for the first time in the 15th century, it was believed to have been written by the philosopher king and priest of ancient Egypt Thoth (Hermes in Greek), god of wisdom and patron of astrology a and alchemy. The intellectuals of the Renaissance deemed the Corpus to be the Òprimordial fount of Wisdom,Ó and the specific source on which Platonic philosophy was based. The specific text is a series of short dialogues written around 300 A.D. It was cited by St. Augustine, then lost for a millennium during the darkness of the middle ages. Rediscovered in 1461, the manuscript was purchased by Cosimo de Medici, who ordered its translation by Ficino. It was the first published work by Ficino, the great Renaissance translator of Plato and Plotinus, and superseded his work on the actual texts of Plato. Furthermore, it appears to be the first lost work of antiquity to be printed. The Corpus had profound influence on Renaissance thought, and was widely disseminated, being printed more than twenty times before 1600. Standing in marked contrast to Christian Scholasticism, the work quickly found favor with the humanist mainstream. The study of the Corpus was recommended by Patrizzi to Pope Gregory XIV as containing "more philosophy than all the works of Aristotle taken together". Casaubon realised that it was of a later date, putting it around the first to second century CE. He thought that the treatment of subjects also found in early Christian literature meant an influence there from, but instead there was a similarity of thought in Christian and Pagan Platonists of that time. The unfortunate result of Casaubon's scholarship was that, shorn of the esteem due to ancient texts, the early C.E. Corpus largely fell from consideration. In the early part of the twentieth century the Corpus again came to prominence with Reitzenstein's Poimandres and G.R.S. Mead's translation and sympathetic study. Even Flinders Petrie contributed a theory on the dating of the collection, although his suggestion that the period between 500 and 200 B.C.E. as likely was not taken seriously. Scott made the important point that the texts do not represent a joint body of doctrine but only "a certain general similarity". They treat of many religious and philosophical topics, with even a cursory reading confirming Scott's observation.More visibly, and perhaps more significantly to todayÕs scholars, the Corpus Hermeticum gave birth to a new age of alternative spirituality, leading to both Platonicized interpretations of Christianity and Christian study of the Kabbalah, and further stimulating wide interest in Òspiritual magicÓ (i.e. theurgy) and alchemy. The Corpus Hermeticum is very rare in private hands, and indeed the 1471 first edition is missing from many institutional collections. Goff H-77
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Butler (John K.) & Leigh Brackett
THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST. [Screenplay]
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Legal sized, two brads, no wrappers, 71 mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, slightly soiled. Undated, production #1471. The 1945 film was directed by Lesley Selander and starred John Abbot and Charles Gordon. The 1945 film was the first script by Leigh Brackett to be produced and immediately preceded the production of her script for the Noir classic, THE BIG SLEEP. Brackett's other screenplays include RIO BRAVO (1959), EL DORADO (1967), and the first version of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) which was unfinished at the time of her death.
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HERMES TRISMEGESTUS
Corpus Hermeticum
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Treviso: Geradrus de Lisa, de Flandria, 18 December 1471. First edition. Octavo (8 ! x 5 ! inches). [56] leaves. [A-G8]. With 4-line initial in red on A2r, with a small initial and a paragraph mark also in red.Early 19th century straight-grain blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Quarter blue morocco clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. One of the hand-colored initial with a bit of bleeding but otherwise a beautiful copy of this vastly important title. Very rare first edition of what may be considered the premier work of The Perennial Philosophy, reintroduced to Europe after an absence of over a thousand years, presenting the wisdom of the ancients to the growing consciousness of the Renaissance. The Corpus Hermeticum, a core book of any collection of philosophy, metaphysics, Renaissance thought, alchemy or magic, embodies a later form of Platonism, mixed with Gnostic, Hebraic, Mithraic, and ancient Egyptian traditions. When this edition was printed for the first time in the 15th century, it was believed to have been written by the philosopher king and priest of ancient Egypt Thoth (Hermes in Greek), god of wisdom and patron of astrology a and alchemy. The intellectuals of the Renaissance deemed the Corpus to be the primordial fount of Wisdom, and the specific source on which Platonic philosophy was based. The specific text is a series of short dialogues written around 300 A.D. It was cited by St. Augustine, then lost for a millennium during the darkness of the middle ages. Rediscovered in 1461, the manuscript was purchased by Cosimo de Medici, who ordered its translation by Ficino. It was the first published work by Ficino, the great Renaissance translator of Plato and Plotinus, and superseded his work on the actual texts of Plato. Furthermore, it appears to be the first lost work of antiquity to be printed. The Corpus had profound influence on Renaissance thought, and was widely disseminated, being printed more than twenty times before 1600. Standing in marked contrast to Christian Scholasticism, the work quickly found favor with the humanist mainstream. The study of the Corpus was recommended by Patrizzi to Pope Gregory XIV as containing "more philosophy than all the works of Aristotle taken together". Casaubon realised that it was of a later date, putting it around the first to second century CE. He thought that the treatment of subjects also found in early Christian literature meant an influence there from, but instead there was a similarity of thought in Christian and Pagan Platonists of that time. The unfortunate result of Casaubon's scholarship was that, shorn of the esteem due to ancient texts, the early C.E. Corpus largely fell from consideration. In the early part of the twentieth century the Corpus again came to prominence with Reitzenstein's Poimandres and G.R.S. Mead's translation and sympathetic study. Even Flinders Petrie contributed a theory on the dating of the collection, although his suggestion that the period between 500 and 200 B.C.E. as likely was not taken seriously. Scott made the important point that the texts do not represent a joint body of doctrine but only "a certain general similarity". They treat of many religious and philosophical topics, with even a cursory reading confirming Scott's observation.More visibly, and perhaps more significantly to today s scholars, the Corpus Hermeticum gave birth to a new age of alternative spirituality, leading to both Platonicized interpretations of Christianity and Christian study of the Kabbalah, and further stimulating wide interest in spiritual magic (i.e. theurgy) and alchemy. The Corpus Hermeticum is very rare in private hands, and indeed the 1471 first edition is missing from many institutional collections. Goff H-77
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A Leaf from Nicolaus de Lyra's Glossae In Bibliam.
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Rome Sweynheim and Pannartz 1471-72 Folio. (2) pp. Known as "the first printers in Italy," Sweynheim and Pannartz printed this title in clear roman letter after seven years of being established in Rome. The margins are wide and the paper is handmade. Text in Latin. Includes a few wormholes and dampstains, else a fine and crisp specimen of incunabula.
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Woldman Norman Emme. Edited by John P. Frick.
Woldman's engineering alloys. ED7
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HARDCOVER Book-On-Demand Reprint from edition originally published: Materials Park OH : ASM International c1990. BRAND NEW HARDCOVER - Print-to-order B&W REPRINT of original book published: Materials Park OH : ASM International c1990. 1471 Pages Reprinted from microfilm of original text on acid-free archival quality paper - HARDCOVER - Charts photographs & graphics may reproduce less than perfectly & may be reduced to fit pages. SPECIAL ORDER Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. No Refund or Exchange unless not as described. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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ROLEWINCK, WERNER.
FORMULA VIVENDI CANONICORUM SIVE VICARIORUM SECULARIU
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4to. 19th century half vellum, boards covered with grained blue paper. Rubricated throughout, small red lombards; 45-48 lines; writing space: 146x88mm.; printed with three types: 145G (first line of title), 64G (text), 82G (signatures) (HMT 84 (107)). 11 lvs. (a6, b6-1, the last blank lacking). First and only edition published in the Northern Netherlands of this theological treatise formulating regimens for the best way of life for canons and priests by the famous Werner Rolewinck. Especially the many dangers threatening monastic and cloistered life are dealt with at length. The first edition had been printed in Cologne by Arnold ter Hoernen between 1471 and 1475. Two more editions appeared in Cologne before 1500. The first edition in the Netherlands was either printed in Alost or in Antwerp by Thierry Martens between 1486 and 1497, probably a few year earlier than the present Delft edition printed by the prolific printer/publisher Christiaen Snellaert who printed no less than 87 editions between 1486 and 1497, among which famous (first) editions of the Dutch literary texts Karel ende Elegast and Elckerlijck, the Missale Trajectense and Eike van Repgow's Spieghel van Sassen demand attention.Werner Rolewick (1425-1502) was a German Carthusian monk who composed many theological and devotional treatises and some important historical works, of which his Fascilucum temporum is by far the best known. First published in Cologne in 1474, this general history of the world was reprinted more than 30 times during the 15th century. Good copy of this interesting Dutch incunable. Hain-Copinger 7256; Campbell 755 = 1309 (II); Oates 3376; Voullieme, Trier 2368; BMC IX, 25; IDL 3955; Van Thienen, Inc. printed in the Low Countries 1885.
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EUTROPE
BREVIARIUM HISTORIAE ROMANAE. PAULI DIACONI DE GESTIS ROMANORUM LIBRI OCTO AD EUTROPIJ HISTORIAM ADDITI.
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Les histoires romaines semblent avoir paru pour la premiere fois avec les annotations de Paul Diacre en 1471 a' Rome, in Folio. La BN de France et la British Library possedent cette edition incunable, mais non la notre, que nous navons pu retrouver dans les catalogues electroniques. 'Marque de limprimeur au pelican sur la page de titre.'Plein Veau d'epoque. Dos a' nerfs orne' de 4 fleurons, filets a' froid sur les coiffes. Plats avec un motif geometrique. Encadrements a' froid formant un rectangle central avec 4 fleurons dans les ecoincons. Quelques taches. Jolie reliure Renaissance.'Eutrope vecut au Ive siecle. LAbrege' de l'Histoire Romaine, en dix livres, va de la fondation de Rome a' la fin du regne de l'empereur Jovien (364). C'est un recit clair et d'un style facile, compose' pour l'instruction de l'empereur Valens, semble-t-il. etait un historien romain pendant les regnes des empereurs Constantin Ier, Julien, Jovien, Valentinien Ier, Valens, Gratien et Theodose Ier. Il assista a' lexpedition que fit Jovien contre les Perses.'Paul Diacre (720/730-797) ne' a' Frioul en Lombardie, sejournera a' la cour de Charlemagne, entrera comme moine au Mont Cassin en 774. Historiographe des Lombards et auteurs dune histoire des eveques de Metz et dune vie du pape Gregoire. Il fut egalement theologien et poete. apud Hyeronimum de Marnef, sub Pelicano., Parisiis (Paris) 1560, in 16 (7,5x12cm) 259pp. (1bc) (36)., relie'.
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