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Displayed below are selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1474 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM HISTOIRE ANCIENNE JUSQU'� C�SAR.       [France, Brittany], 1474 345 x 250mm. 376 leaves: 1-478, COMPLETE, catchwords along the inner ruledvertical in the lower margin of final versos, irregular modern pencil foliation, two columns of 41 lines in brown in a cursive bookhand between four verticals and 42 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 250 x 168mm, rubrics, text capitals touched yellow, paragraph marks and line-endings in red or blue, two-line initials alternately of blue or red, guide letters often remaining, THIRTY-THREE HISTORIATED INITIALS with single burnished gold bars and partial borders of hairline tendrils with terminals of leaves and disks in burnished gold and painted leaves and flowers between larger sprays of painted fruit and flowers, initials 4-9 lines high, staves usually of gold on grounds of pink and blue patterned with white, THIRTY-FOUR SMALL MINIATURES framed in liquid gold or pink-red with single burnished gold bars and partial borders, mostly placed outside the text block in the lower margins, ONE LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE IN SIX COMPARTMENTS divided and framed in burnished gold with FULL-PAGE ARMORIAL BORDER and historiated initial (opening folios, including large miniature rubbed, slight flaking in a few miniatures, lower corners missing ff.2-5). 18th-century English calf gilt. Beginning at the Creation this great chronicle incorporates Biblical history into narratives of the empires of Babylon, Ninevah, Thebes, Troy, Macedon and Rome. Its anonymous author, writing for the ch�telain of Lille between 1208-1213 also directly points the moral lessons to be drawn from the past by didactic poems that introduce and then intersperse his prose narrative. He intended to bring his history up to the present day but his task was never completed: the text ends abruptly during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars as he erects a temple to Jupiter. The work proved enormously popular, fuelling and satisfying the burgeoning demand for classical and middle-Eastern history in the vernacular, essential knowledge for an educated gentleman of the day. There are about 70 manuscripts that preserve the text in whole or part and it was printed in Lyon c.1480. Extraordinarily, there is no complete modern edition of this work that was so important in popularising ancient history and interpretating the classical past (M.-R. Jung, 'La l�gende de Troie' en France au moyen �ge, 1996, pp.334-357).This copy is of considerable interest in preserving the original text comparatively intact. The prologue and 22 chapters in verse, known from 13th-century copies in Paris (BnF, Ms fr.20125) and Vienna, (�NB, cod.2576) were rapidly dropped to focus on the narrative history; most unusually, this copy still has some moral verse commentaries. The continuing desire for the past to inform the present is shown by the scribe's interpolations of his own reflections: on f.195v he relates the destruction of Rome by Brennius to le temps ou vous estes maintenant. mil iiijc. lx et. xiiij, showing that he was at work in 1474. A further distinctive feature of this recension is the retention of Book I -- from the end of the 13th century, the material from Genesis was commonly omitted -- and the abrupt termination of Book XI. From the 14th century, this was standardly replaced by the Livre des faits des romains to continue the history of the Roman Empire to a more logical termination. This manuscript can be added to the six listed by Jung as having Books I-XI without the Livre des faits des romains either present or intended; of these only the copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 212-213 can be dated to the 15th century. It is, therefore, likely that this manuscript was copied from a much earlier exemplar, as borne out by the miniatures which preserve the antique charm of an earlier age.The ms's first owner, Tanguy du Chastel also owned a profusely illustrated 14th-century copy, with no verses and Book XI replaced by the Livre des faits des romains, which may have come from his wife's family (Lot 20, Chester Beatty Sale, Sotheby's 6 June 1932; Cimelia, H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 165, 1983). Moreover, he commissioned a copy of a vastly expanded version, from which two volumes survive in the New York Public Library, with miniatures by the same hands as the present lot (Spencer Ms 41, J.J.G. Alexander et al., The Splendor of the Word, 2006, pp.371-5).The illuminators of the Histoire ancienne and the Spencer manuscript, who could appropriately be named the Masters of Tanguy du Chastel, continue the traditions of artists employed by the ducal house of Brittany from the mid-15th century (see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits � peintures en France 1440-1520, 1993, nos 94-5). The broad-faced figures are idiosyncratically proportioned to give the essentials of a scene, usually limited to the main protagonists against formalised settings, often with patterned backgrounds. This direct treatment of ambitious visualisations of antiquity results in an appealing sequence of scenes with wide-ranging subject matter.The early manuscripts are illustrated by both historiated initials and small miniatures within the text: small miniatures below the text are more of an Italian than a French convention, although the model used here cannot be identified with any surviving Italian manuscript. It apparently belonged to the oldest iconographic type: the Creation miniature over an historiated initial of God enthroned derives from the earliest conventions for illustrating the text, as seen in a Parisian copy of the second quarter of the 13th century (Brussels, KBR Ms 18295). Traditional patterns are also followed in such scenes as the death of Hector, f.133v, or Alexander kneeling before the name of God, f.253 (D. Oltr�gge, Die Illustrationszyklen zur 'Histoire ancienne jusqu'� C�sar' 1250-1400, 1989). The soldiers remain in 13th-century armour, with cylindrical helmets, loose surcoats and chain mail, while even the elephants and castles reflect an earlier iconographic tradition. Since painters usually modernised their patterns, the archaic forms may have been deliberately retained to give a sense of the past and of distant, exotic countries.Although fearsome monsters like the Sphinx, the Theban Tiger and the Minotaur, ff.91v, 112, 117v, have lost their awfulness over the centuries, the miniatures strikingly represent the continuum of history as then understood. Text and illustrations together afford direct contact with mediaeval perceptions of the classical and middle eastern heritage and their changing emphases. These can be charted from c.1210, when the original text was compiled, through its various modifications up to 1474, the date of this extensively illustrated copy commissioned by a leading bibliophile and member of the French court.The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:f.1 Large miniature in six compartments: God separates darkness from light; creation of the sun and moon; creation of land and sea; creation of plants; creation of animals, birds and fish; creation of Eve; f.4v The Lord cursing Cain; f.7 Noah and his family look out from the Ark at the birds and animals coming aboard; f.8v The drunkenness of Noah; f.10v Shem, Ham and Japheth and their descendants, including the giant Nimrod; f.11 Nimrod supervises the building of the Tower of Babel; f.31 Lot and his family are led by an angel from Sodom, which collapses in flames on the inhabitants; f.45 Jacob receives Isaac's blessing; in the background Esau returns from the hunt; f.57 Esau and Jacob place Isaac in his tomb; f.68v Pharoah dreaming of the lean and fat kine; f.71 Jacob gives his sons money to buy corn in Egypt; f.71v Joseph orders his brethren to fetch Benjamin; f.82 Joseph and his brethren place Jacob in the tomb; f.89v Oedipus hung up by the ankles; f.95v Polynices and Etiocles, as armed knights, fight on horseback; f.112 The 'Tiger' raised by Antigone and Ismene of Thebes; f.119 Queens Marpesia and Lampeto lead the Scythian women to battle; f.119v The Amazons putting men to flight; f.123 Hercules killing Cacus; f.123v Jason and the Argonauts aboard ship; f.133v Achilles kills Hector; f.141 Penthesilea leads her troops, one on a camel, to Troy; f.142 Penthesilea fights Pyrrhus; f.158v Dido kills herself on the towers of Carthage as Aeneas sets sail; f.160v The Minotaur; f.174 Aeneas leads his troops against Turnus; f.209 A city welcomes Holofernes with music and surrenders its keys; f.236 Fortune turning her wheel; f.237 Alexander fights Indian troops in castles on elephants; f.241 A terrible beast with three horns which attacks Alexander's troops; f.250v Alexander and King Porus of India fight on horseback; f.279 The two-headed statue of Janus watches those who bring the arms of the conquered to his temple and those who come to arm themselves from the common store; f.299 Scipio and Hannibal fight on horseback; f.338v Marius knocks Jugurtha from his horse; f.339 Jugurtha taken captive to Rome in a chariot.The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows:God seated on the rainbow f.1; Cain killing Abel f.4; the three men, as angels, are welcomed by Abraham f.29; the sacrifice of Abraham f.35v; Joseph and Potiphar's wife f.65v; Pharoah gives Joseph a chariot when he makes him ruler of Egypt f.70; Joseph reveals his identity to his brethren f.77; Jacob rejoices to have news of Joseph f.78; Jacob before Pharoah f.80; King Ninus f.84; King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes f.89v; Oedipus and the Sphinx f.91v; the Minotaur eating one of his victims f.117v; Hercules and Theseus capture the Amazons Menalippa and Hippolyta f.121; Pelleus tells Jason to fetch the Golden Fleece f.123v; Aeneas's ships leave Troy f.149; three men build Rome f.182; Brutus is elected first consul f.188; the infant Cyrus, abandoned to wild beasts, is rescued f.202; Cyrus's son Cambyses becomes king f.208; Judith cuts off the neatly night-capped head of Holofernes f.211v; Nectanebus, Alexander's father according to some, and Olympias, his mother f.229; Alexander kneels before the name of God on the tablet of gold held by the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem f.235; the beast with two heads f.243v; games held at Tarentum so that the Romans take the city by surprise f.259v; soldiers in castles on elephants arrive to help Tarentum f.260v; Romans and Carthaginians fight on horseback f.264v; Hannibal plans to avenge his father's death f.281v; a writer at his desk f.300v; the Carthaginians deliver up their armour to the Roman ships f.311v; Mithridates receives a Roman messenger 358v; Pompey enters Rome in a chariot f.369v; Roman senators? bearing swords f.370. Provenance:1. Tanguy du Chastel (d.1477) and his wife Jeanne Raguenel de Malestroit: on f.1 his arms are in the centre of the border and hers in a lozenge to the right; their initials are intertwined in the side border. The Breton noble, Tanguy du Chastel, was grand �cuyer to both Charles VII and Louis XI. With an apparently insatiable appetite for illuminated manuscripts, he commissioned new books and exploited royal favour: in 1476 he received many of the books confiscated from Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de Nemours, inheritor of much of the duc de Berry's library. 2. Library of the ch�teau of Anet: seventh manuscript listed in the catalogue drawn up after the death of Anne de Bavi�re, princesse de Cond� as 'orn� de miniatures tr�s singuli�res', Catalogue des manuscrits trouvez apr�s le d�c�s de Madame la Princesse, dans son Ch�teau Royal d'Anet, 1723.3. William Bragge (1823-1884): his sale, Wellington St, London, 7 June 1876. In Paris since 1872, Bragge returned to Birmingham in 1876 when his French business venture failed.4. Jonathan Peckover (1835-1882) of the Quaker banking family: his armorial bookplate.5. The Hon. Alexandrina Peckover (1860-1948): pencilled note 'left by her uncle Jonathan Peckover who died Feb 8th 1882'. Alexandrina was the second daughter of Jonathan's elder brother, the noted book-collector Alexander, created Lord Peckover of Wisbech in 1907.6. Alexander Peckover Doyle Penrose (1896-1950): armorial bookplate. He was the son of Alexandrina's elder sister Elizabeth and James Doyle Penrose of Watford and brother of the surrealist painter Roland Penrose; for a photograph of these two owners with family members, see A. Penrose and A. MacWeeney, Home of the Surrealists, 2001, p.12. Lot 20 in the Peckover Sale, Sotheby's, 3 December 1951.7. William Foyle (1885-1963): his leather bookplate; lot 86 in The Library of William Foyle, Christie's, 11 July 2000.8. Michael Sharpe: his leather bookplate       [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd.]  1.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   VIGNAUD, Henry Toscanelli and Columbus. The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the       0 - VIGNAUD, Henry. Toscanelli and Columbus. The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to the Indies by Way of the West, Sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and Later on to Christopher Columbus. A Critical Study on the Authenticity and Value of These Documents. London, 1902. 1st ed. Facs. map. 365pp. A very good, untrimmed copy in orig. vellum-backed cloth boards, t.e.g. Limited to 200 copies. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA]  2.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Boccaccio, Giovanni De claris mulieribus       Strasbourg: Georg Husner, about 1474-1475. Folio, 11.25 x 8.2 inches. Second edition. 83 of 84 unsigned and unpaginated leaves, lacking only the first blank. ISTC locates six copies in American libraries. This lovely copy is filled with contemporary rubrication and annotation. The margins are very large and crisp. A dampstain affects the top outer corner of the blank margin throughout this copy. The modern binding is tan calfskin with a gilt spine and has been recently rebacked. . OBoccaccioOs Famous Women (De mulieribus claris) is the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The nucleus of this innovative work, consisting in its final form of 104 chapters, was written at Certaldo between the summer of 1361 and the summer of 1362. [E] In the Preface, Boccaccio informs us it was PetratrchOs Lives of Famous Men (De viris illustribus) that prompted him to undertake his own work, for it was through PetrarchOs work that he came to appreciate the need for a similar compilation dealing with famous women. Boccaccio further explains that his purpose in writing the Famous Women is to record for posterity the stories of women who were renowned for any sort of great deed. Inevitably, this means including both good and bad women, but the distaste aroused by recounting the wicked deeds of some protagonists will be offset, he claims, by the exhortations to virtue that have been included. Boccaccio hopes that this mixture of the pleasant and the profitable will make its way into his readerOs mind and function as a spur to virtue and a curb on vice.O#11;OThe biographies of the Famous Women mostly follow the same formal pattern, borrowed from Jerome and Petrarch. Normally the life begins with the name of the woman, her parentage, and her rank. Next the reason for her fame is stated in general terms. Then Boccaccio explains in detail how her fame was acquired, usually in the form of a narrative. He authenticates his accounts by frequent allusions to learned authorities, almost always unspecified. At the conclusion of the biography comes a moral lesson or a moral exhortation or a passage of philosophical reflection. Further moralizing precepts are sometimes scattered throughout the narrative.O (Quoted from Virginia BrownOs preface to the I Tatti edition of De mulieribus claris.)#11;OLong ago there were a few ancient authors who composed biographies of famous men in the form of compendia, and in our day that renowned man and great poet, my teacher Petrarch, is writing a similar work that will be even fuller and more carefully done. This is fitting. For those who gave all their zeal, their fortunes, and (when the occasion required it) their blood and their lives in order to surpass other men in illustrious deeds have certainly earned a right to have their names remembered forever by posterity. What surprises me is how little attention women have attracted from writers of this genre, and the absence of any work devoted especially to their memory, even though lengthier histories show clearly that some women have performed acts requiring vigor and courage.#11;OIf we grant that men deserve praise whenever they perform great deeds with the strength bestowed upon them, how much more should women be extolledNalmost all of whom are endowed by nature with soft, frail bodies and sluggish mindsNwhen they take on a manly spirit, show remarkable intelligence and bravery, and dare to execute deed that would be extremely difficult even for men?O (Quoted from BoccaccioOs Preface.) #11;       [Bookseller: James & Devon Gray Booksellers]  3.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  4.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Guido de Columna: Historia destructionis Troiae, deutsch von Hans Mair: Eine sch�ne Historia wie Troja die k�stlich Statt erst�rrt ward (GW 7233, HC 5514).       Augsburg, Johann B�mler, 1474. Type 1.. Einspaltiges, 28-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt auf festem Papier mit einem altkoloriertem Holzschnitt (11,4 x 8 cm). Blatt etwas fleckig. Im unteren Rand knapp beschnitten. Blattgr��e: 18,2 x 22,6 cm.. Sehr seltenes Inkunabelblatt, von dem die Berliner Staatsbibliothek lediglich das Blatt (91) besitzt.       [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]  5.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   Herausgegeben von Militzer, Klaus / H�rter, Karl / Stolleis, Michael Repertorium der Policeyordnungen der Fr�hen Neuzeit / Reichsst�dte 2: K�ln [BD 6]       Vittorio Klostermann Verlag - Repertorium der Policeyordnungen der Fr�hen Neuzeit / Reichsst�dte 2: K�ln [BD 6] (Klostermann, Vittorio) ISBN: 978-3-465-03426-1 kartoniert XVI, 1474 S. Repertorium der Policeyordnungen der Fr�hen Neuzeit / Reichsst�dte 2: K�ln Herausgegeben von Militzer, Klaus / H�rter, Karl / Stolleis, Michael Verlag : Klostermann, Vittorio ISBN : 978-3-465-03426-1 Einband : kartoniert Preisinfo : 164,00 Eur[D] / 168,60 Eur[A] Alle Preisangaben in CHF (Schweizer Franken) sind unverbindliche Preisempfehlungen. Legende: UVP = unverbindliche Preisempfehlung, iVb = in Vorbereitung. Seiten/Umfang : XVI, 1474 S. Erschienen : 1. Aufl. 05.2005 Aus der Reihe : Studien zur Europ�ischen Rechtsgeschichte 191 164,00 Eur[D] Der sechste Band des Repertoriums der Policeyordnungen der Fr�hen Neuzeit behandelt die umfangreiche Ordnungsgesetzgebung der Reichsstadt K�ln, einer der bedeutendsten Handelsmetropolen und gr��ten St�dte des Alten Reiches. Entsprechend ausgedehnt ist der Regelungsumfang der nahezu 10.000 Policeygesetze, die der vorliegende Band detalliert und mit zahlreichen Fundstellen erschlie�t. Dabei handelt es sich ganz �berwiegend um die dichte �berlieferung des Historischen Archivs der Stadt K�ln, das als eines der reichsten Stadtarchive gelten kann. Die Gesetzgebung reicht dann auch bis in das 12. Jahrhundert zur�ck und umfa�t Policeynormen zu nahezu allen Lebens-, Arbeits und Verwaltungsbereichen einer mittelalterlichen bzw. fr�hneuzeitlichen Reichsstadt.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat-Versandbuchhandel Uwe L�b]  6.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Von S�bastien Mamerot. K�ln 2009. Eine Chronik der Kreuzz�ge.       - Vier Jahrhunderte franz�sischer Kreuzz�ge und die Versuche mehrerer K�nige in Folge, das Heilige Land zu erobern, schildert S�bastien Mamerot in einem einzigartigen zeitgen�ssischen Dokument - seinem um 1474 vollendeten, reich illustrierten Manuskript �Les Passages d'Outremer�. Die meisten der 66 prachtvollen Miniaturen stammen von dem mittelalterlichen Buchmaler Jean Colombe, der durch seine Arbeit an den �Tr�s Riches Heures du Duc du Berry� ber�hmt wurde. Mamerot widmete die Handschrift seinem Auftraggeber Louis de Laval, Statthalter der Champagne. Lavals Vorstellung von dem fremdenfeindlichen heiligen Krieg, der auf einen Aufruf von Papst Urban II. zur�ckging, stellte das christliche �quivalent zum extremistischen Dschihad dar. Die Handschrift umfasst 277 Pergamentbl�tter und befindet sich heute in der Biblioth�que nationale de France. Auf diesem einzigartigen Manuskript basiert die hier vorliegende Ausgabe, die das Original detailgetreu bis hin zum mittelalterlichen Goldlack reproduziert. Die aufwendig gestaltete, zweib�ndige Hardcover-Edition im Schuber ist ein gro�artiges Zeugnis dieser langen, glorreichen und zugleich blutigen Epoche der Geschichte. Farbenpr�chtige Miniaturen von Schlachten, Begr�bnissen, Kr�nungen und k�niglichen Prozessionen helfen zu erkl�ren, wie wir dahin kamen, wo wir heute sind. 23 x 32 cm, 816 S., zahlr. farbige Abb., geb. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Fr�lich und Kaufmann]  7.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  8.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Masanes, Fabrice Mamerot, Les Passages D'Outremer       Taschen GmbH, Germany 2009 - This book features the clash of the crusaders. It presents a rare 15th-century account of French crusades and pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Completed around 1474, Sebastien Mamerot's "Expeditions Made Overseas by the French Against the Turks, from Charlemagne until 1462" is a unique collection of texts and illustrations describing the dramatic and bloody crusades from the 11th-century up to 1462, during which time the French strove to recapture the Christian Holy Land. Jean Colombe, the famous illuminator known best for his work on the addendum to the Tres Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry, is the main artist of the 66 exquisite miniatures. Mamerot's manuscript was dedicated to his patron Louis de Laval, governor of Champagne; it was later owned by such important figures as Diane de Poitiers (famed mistress of Henry II) and Cardinal Jules Mazarin, and is now held by the Bibliotheque national de France in Paris. It is from this original manuscript that Taschen's painstaking and complete fascimile-reprint has been made. Readers can now pore over the meticulously reproduced miniatures of battles, church scenes, funerals, religious ceremonies, coronations, and royal proceedings, in illuminations that trace centuries of merciless and epoch-shaping crusades whose effects can still be felt in the world today. Retail Price �100.00, you save 41%. Browns Books - selling books online since 1999 hardcover [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Browns Books]  9.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  10.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   SIMON DE G�NES; Synonima medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.       Padoue Pierre Maufer 20 avril 1474 - In-folio de 162 ff.n.ch. ; cartonnage du XVIII�me si�cle. Goff, S-527 (2 exemplaires) ; Klebs, 920.3; Garrison-Morton, 6788 (�dition de 1473) ; Wellcome, 5977 (pour l'�dition de 1486). Rarissime �dition incunable du premier dictionnaire m�dical. Cet ouvrage est l'un des premiers dictionnaire de th�rapeutique. Il renferme un grand nombre d'observations originales. R�dig� � la fin du treizi�me si�cle, cet inventaire des termes m�dicaux va bien au del� d'un simple dictionnaire, il tend � v�ritablement clarifier la terminologie m�dicale. "M�decin et chapelain du pape Nicolas IV, Simon de G�nes appartenait � ce milieu de la cour pontificale o� la recherche de livres �tait particuli�rement active. Termin� sous le pontificat de Boniface VIII, avant septembre 1296 - date de la mort de son d�dicataire, le savant math�maticien et astronome Campanus de Novare -, le lexique de termes de la botanique, de la m�decine et de la min�ralogie que constitue la Clavis sanationis s'appuie sur un vaste travail pr�alable d'�rudition qui a pris une trentaine d'ann�es, au cours desquelles furent rassembl�es de multiples sources, �num�r�es dans la pr�face. Le De Medicina de Celse est au nombre de ces sources, mais Simon de G�nes s'en sert essentiellement pour expliciter des mots grecs, d�j� pr�sent dans l'ouvrage du savant romain". Danielle Jacquart, Vestiges Romains dans la science m�di�vale in M�di�vales, 1994, pp. 5-16. "Muni de rudiments d'arabe et de grec, Simon de G�nes se livra � une importante recherche de manuscrits ; il b�n�ficia pour la mener � bien des facilit�s qu'offrait alors la cour pontificale, peu avant le d�part de celle-ci pour Avignon. Lieu de rencontres de savants d'origines diverses, la curie abrita des entreprises de traduction, � la fois du grec et de l'arabe, et suscita un intense rassemblement de livres. Simon de G�nes voyagea beaucoup, il dit, dans sa pr�face de sa Clavis sanationis, avoir m�me herboris� en Cr�te en compagnie d'une anicula." Danielle Jacquard, Du Moyen Age � la Renaissance, Pietro d'Abano et Berengario da Carpi, lecteurs de la pr�face de Celse in Guy Sabbah, Philippe Mudry. La m�decine de Celse, pp. 343-345 Ce rare volume a �t� r�alis� sous les presses italiennes de l'imprimeur normand Pierre Maufer, natif de Rouen. Parti pour l'Italie vers 1472, Maufer fut l'un des premiers imprimeurs � exercer � Padoue, avant de s'installer � V�rone en 1480 et � Mod�ne en 1491. Manque de papier sur le dos du modeste cartonnage, galeries de ver marginales cependant bel exemplaire rubriqu� en rouge et bleu. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  11.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  12.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Genealogia dei Principi d'Este       Il Bulino Edizioni d'Arte, Modena - genealogia, Este, edizioni di pregio, facsimili, tiratura limitata 37x26 cm., 12 cc., 169 ritratti miniati di principi e parenti di Casa d'Este, dalle origini fino alle soglie del Cinquecento, legatura in velluto blu con stemma estense impresso in oro zecchino al piatto, cofanetto, edizione a tiratura esclusiva mondiale di 333 esemplari numerati su carta conforme alla pergamena, la doratura a rilievo dei fondi � stata applicata con impressioni a caldo, in italiano dialettale ferrarese L'opera, commissionata dal Ministero dei Beni Culturali, riunisce i due frammenti originari inizialmente uniti, conservati presso la Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena e presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma - fondo Vitt. Emanuele, del codice miniato su pergamena risalente al 1474-79 ca. Il manoscritto, un unicum nel suo genere per interesse genealogico, iconografico e per la storia del costume, rivestiva la funzione di aulico "album di famiglia" da mostrare agli ospiti di rango per osten       [Bookseller: ALFEA Rare Books]  13.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   "SIMON DE G�NES;" Synonima medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.       Padoue Pierre Maufer 20 avril 1474 "In-folio de 162 ff.n.ch. ; cartonnage du XVIII�me si�cle." "Goff, S-527 (2 exemplaires) ; Klebs, 920.3; Garrison-Morton, 6788 (�dition de 1473) ; Wellcome, 5977 (pour l'�dition de 1486). Rarissime �dition incunable du premier dictionnaire m�dical. Cet ouvrage est l'un des premiers dictionnaire de th�rapeutique. Il renferme un grand nombre d'observations originales. R�dig� � la fin du treizi�me si�cle, cet inventaire des termes m�dicaux va bien au del� d'un simple dictionnaire, il tend � v�ritablement clarifier la terminologie m�dicale. ""M�decin et chapelain du pape Nicolas IV, Simon de G�nes appartenait � ce milieu de la cour pontificale o� la recherche de livres �tait particuli�rement active. Termin� sous le pontificat de Boniface VIII, avant septembre 1296 - date de la mort de son d�dicataire, le savant math�maticien et astronome Campanus de Novare - , le lexique de termes de la botanique, de la m�decine et de la min�ralogie que constitue la Clavis sanationis s'appuie sur un vaste travail pr�alable d'�rudition qui a pris une trentaine d'ann�es, au cours desquelles furent rassembl�es de multiples sources, �num�r�es dans la pr�face. Le De Medicina de Celse est au nombre de ces sources, mais Simon de G�nes s'en sert essentiellement pour expliciter des mots grecs, d�j� pr�sent dans l'ouvrage du savant romain"". Danielle Jacquart, Vestiges Romains dans la science m�di�vale in M�di�vales, 1994, pp. 5-16. ""Muni de rudiments d'arabe et de grec, Simon de G�nes se livra � une importante recherche de manuscrits ; il b�n�ficia pour la mener � bien des facilit�s qu'offrait alors la cour pontificale, peu avant le d�part de celle-ci pour Avignon. Lieu de rencontres de savants d'origines diverses, la curie abrita des entreprises de traduction, � la fois du grec et de l'arabe, et suscita un intense rassemblement de livres. Simon de G�nes voyagea beaucoup, il dit, dans sa pr�face de sa Clavis sanationis, avoir m�me herboris� en Cr�te en compagnie d'une anicula."" Danielle Jacquard, Du Moyen Age � la Renaissance, Pietro d'Abano et Berengario da Carpi, lecteurs de la pr�face de Celse in Guy Sabbah, Philippe Mudry. La m�decine de Celse, pp. 343-345 Ce rare volume a �t� r�alis� sous les presses italiennes de l'imprimeur normand Pierre Maufer, natif de Rouen. Parti pour l'Italie vers 1472, Maufer fut l'un des premiers imprimeurs � exercer � Padoue, avant de s'installer � V�rone en 1480 et � Mod�ne en 1491. Manque de papier sur le dos du modeste cartonnage, galeries de ver marginales cependant bel exemplaire rubriqu� en rouge et bleu. "       [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]  14.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   SIMON DE G�NES; Synonima medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.       Padoue Pierre Maufer 20 avril 1474 - In-folio de 162 ff.n.ch. ; cartonnage du XVIII�me si�cle. Goff, S-527 (2 exemplaires) ; Klebs, 920.3; Garrison-Morton, 6788 (�dition de 1473) ; Wellcome, 5977 (pour l'�dition de 1486). Rarissime �dition incunable du premier dictionnaire m�dical. Cet ouvrage est l'un des premiers dictionnaire de th�rapeutique. Il renferme un grand nombre d'observations originales. R�dig� � la fin du treizi�me si�cle, cet inventaire des termes m�dicaux va bien au del� d'un simple dictionnaire, il tend � v�ritablement clarifier la terminologie m�dicale. "M�decin et chapelain du pape Nicolas IV, Simon de G�nes appartenait � ce milieu de la cour pontificale o� la recherche de livres �tait particuli�rement active. Termin� sous le pontificat de Boniface VIII, avant septembre 1296 - date de la mort de son d�dicataire, le savant math�maticien et astronome Campanus de Novare -, le lexique de termes de la botanique, de la m�decine et de la min�ralogie que constitue la Clavis sanationis s'appuie sur un vaste travail pr�alable d'�rudition qui a pris une trentaine d'ann�es, au cours desquelles furent rassembl�es de multiples sources, �num�r�es dans la pr�face. Le De Medicina de Celse est au nombre de ces sources, mais Simon de G�nes s'en sert essentiellement pour expliciter des mots grecs, d�j� pr�sent dans l'ouvrage du savant romain". Danielle Jacquart, Vestiges Romains dans la science m�di�vale in M�di�vales, 1994, pp. 5-16. "Muni de rudiments d'arabe et de grec, Simon de G�nes se livra � une importante recherche de manuscrits ; il b�n�ficia pour la mener � bien des facilit�s qu'offrait alors la cour pontificale, peu avant le d�part de celle-ci pour Avignon. Lieu de rencontres de savants d'origines diverses, la curie abrita des entreprises de traduction, � la fois du grec et de l'arabe, et suscita un intense rassemblement de livres. Simon de G�nes voyagea beaucoup, il dit, dans sa pr�face de sa Clavis sanationis, avoir m�me herboris� en Cr�te en compagnie d'une anicula." Danielle Jacquard, Du Moyen Age � la Renaissance, Pietro d'Abano et Berengario da Carpi, lecteurs de la pr�face de Celse in Guy Sabbah, Philippe Mudry. La m�decine de Celse, pp. 343-345 Ce rare volume a �t� r�alis� sous les presses italiennes de l'imprimeur normand Pierre Maufer, natif de Rouen. Parti pour l'Italie vers 1472, Maufer fut l'un des premiers imprimeurs � exercer � Padoue, avant de s'installer � V�rone en 1480 et � Mod�ne en 1491. Manque de papier sur le dos du modeste cartonnage, galeries de ver marginales cependant bel exemplaire rubriqu� en rouge et bleu. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  15.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  16.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM HISTOIRE ANCIENNE JUSQU'� C�SAR.       - [France, Brittany], 1474 345 x 250mm. 376 leaves: 1-478, COMPLETE, catchwords along the inner ruled vertical in the lower margin of final versos, irregular modern pencil foliation, two columns of 41 lines in brown in a cursive bookhand between four verticals and 42 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 250 x 168mm, rubrics, text capitals touched yellow, paragraph marks and line-endings in red or blue, two-line initials alternately of blue or red, guide letters often remaining, THIRTY-THREE HISTORIATED INITIALS with single burnished gold bars and partial borders of hairline tendrils with terminals of leaves and disks in burnished gold and painted leaves and flowers between larger sprays of painted fruit and flowers, initials 4-9 lines high, staves usually of gold on grounds of pink and blue patterned with white, THIRTY-FOUR SMALL MINIATURES framed in liquid gold or pink-red with single burnished gold bars and partial borders, mostly placed outside the text block in the lower margins, ONE LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE IN SIX COMPARTMENTS divided and framed in burnished gold with FULL-PAGE ARMORIAL BORDER and historiated initial (opening folios, including large miniature rubbed, slight flaking in a few miniatures, lower corners missing ff.2-5). 18th-century English calf gilt. Beginning at the Creation this great chronicle incorporates Biblical history into narratives of the empires of Babylon, Ninevah, Thebes, Troy, Macedon and Rome. Its anonymous author, writing for the ch�telain of Lille between 1208-1213 also directly points the moral lessons to be drawn from the past by didactic poems that introduce and then intersperse his prose narrative. He intended to bring his history up to the present day but his task was never completed: the text ends abruptly during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars as he erects a temple to Jupiter. The work proved enormously popular, fuelling and satisfying the burgeoning demand for classical and middle-Eastern history in the vernacular, essential knowledge for an educated gentleman of the day. There are about 70 manuscripts that preserve the text in whole or part and it was printed in Lyon c.1480. Extraordinarily, there is no complete modern edition of this work that was so important in popularising ancient history and interpretating the classical past (M.-R. Jung, 'La l�gende de Troie' en France au moyen �ge, 1996, pp.334-357).This copy is of considerable interest in preserving the original text comparatively intact. The prologue and 22 chapters in verse, known from 13th-century copies in Paris (BnF, Ms fr.20125) and Vienna, (�NB, cod.2576) were rapidly dropped to focus on the narrative history; most unusually, this copy still has some moral verse commentaries. The continuing desire for the past to inform the present is shown by the scribe's interpolations of his own reflections: on f.195v he relates the destruction of Rome by Brennius to le temps ou vous estes maintenant. mil iiijc. lx et. xiiij, showing that he was at work in 1474. A further distinctive feature of this recension is the retention of Book I -- from the end of the 13th century, the material from Genesis was commonly omitted -- and the abrupt termination of Book XI. From the 14th century, this was standardly replaced by the Livre des faits des romains to continue the history of the Roman Empire to a more logical termination. This manuscript can be added to the six listed by Jung as having Books I-XI without the Livre des faits des romains either present or intended; of these only the copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 212-213 can be dated to the 15th century. It is, therefore, likely that this manuscript was copied from a much earlier exemplar, as borne out by the miniatures which preserve the antique charm of an earlier age.The ms's first owner, Tanguy du Chastel also owned a profusely illustrated 14th-century copy, with no verses and Book XI replaced by the Livre des faits des romains, which may have come from his wife's family (L       [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB]  17.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   VIGNAUD, Henry Toscanelli and Columbus. The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the       0. VIGNAUD, Henry. Toscanelli and Columbus. The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to the Indies by Way of the West, Sent in 1474 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and Later on to Christopher Columbus. A Critical Study on the Authenticity and Value of These Documents.... London, 1902. 1st ed. Facs. map. 365pp. A very good, untrimmed copy in orig. vellum-backed cloth boards, t.e.g. Limited to 200 copies.       [Bookseller: George S. MacManus Company]  18.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Tepl, Johannes von (Johannes von Saaz)] - Albert Schramm (Hg.) Hie nach volgend ettliche zumole kluoger vnd subtiler rede wissend Wie emer was genant der ackerman von b�hem ....       - 8, 24 u. 2 Bl., Titelholzschnitt handkoloriert, 2 weitere Abb., Broschur, Exlibris auf Einbandinnenseite, tadellFaksimile. Exemplar 119 (Auflage unbekannt vermutlich aber nicht �ber 150). Auf den letzten 2 Bl�ttern handschriftliche (aber gedruckt) erl�utert Albert Schramm handschriftlich das B�ndchen. Laut diesen Angaben ist die Inkunabel in der Bibliothek in Bamberg auffindbar [aber auch in anderen] und wurde von Konrad Fyner in Esslingen 1474 gedruckt.       [Bookseller: antiquariat peter petrej]  19.   Check availability:     booklooker.de   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  20.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   (INCUNABOLO) NICOLAUS DE AUXIMO SUPPLEMENTUM SUMMAE PISANELLAE VENETIIS, FRANCISCUS RENNER DE HEILBRON ET NICOLAUS DE FRANKOFORDIA, 1474.       In folio, legatura coeva con piatti in assicelle di legno e dorso in pelle impr. a secco, nervi della cucitura originale in evidenza (restaurata e rimontata); cc. 333, mancano le prime due cc. (la prima delle quali bianca, la seconda ' qui proposta in riproduzione in facsimile su carta antica) e l'ultima bianca. Testo su due colonne, in carattere gotico, con numerose rubriche in rosso e blu. Seconda edizione. Ricostruito il margine inf. bianco dell'ultima c. Bell'esemplare. BMC, V 192: "The occurrence in this book only of alternative M and Q with type 150 G. suggests that it is the first bbok in wich he type was used". IGI, 6870.       [Bookseller: Libreria DOCET�]  21.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   HOMER. Brescia, Baptista Farfengus, for Franciscus Laurinus, 6 Sept. 1497.       This is the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla�s prose translation of the Iliad, the first complete rendering of either the Iliad or the Odyssey to achieve print in the renaissance. It first appeared in 1474 (anticipating the Florence 1488-89 edition of the Greek text by fourteen years). This is the second edition, with a new introduction. Written in a stylish Latin prose, this version was one of George Chapman�s sources for his English translation of 1598�1611. Chapman claimed to have translated from the Greek but even in his own day it was buzzed abroad that he used a Latin version. �Though he refers to it disparagingly, [Chapman] used it more than he chose to admit (cf. Book iv. 308-9). Valla: �Illi veteres �hac disciplina, hoc more, hoc animo in bellis usi, multas urbes multaque oppida expugnaverunt�.Chapman imitates Valla�s epanaphora: �And with this discipline�, said he, �this form, these minds, this trust, Our ancestors have walls and towns laid level with the dust�.� � H.C. Fay, �George Chapman�s Translation of Homer�s Iliad�, The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Apr., 1951), pp. 121-128.This copy was read from beginning to end by a contemporary reader who has added annotations (mostly subject headings) throughout in a cursive humanist hand.H8775; BMC VII 986; Goff H312 recording only five complete copies in America (Huntington, Yale, Maryland Diocesan Library, Phyllis & John Gordon, and the Lilly Library).       [Bookseller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.]  22.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  23.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Calderini, Domizio: Commentarii in Martialem.       Publisher: [colophon: Venetiis [Venice] arte & ingenio Jacobi de Rubeis] 1474 idibus Septembris [i.e. 13 September] Folio, 171 unnumbered leaves (lacking final blank). With initial blank present. Roman type, 50 lines per page. Good margins. Contemporary boards, with titles inked on front and back covers in contemporary or early hands, spine replaced in vellum in 17th or 18th centuries. Internally, despite some soiling and a few wormholes towards beginning and end, generally in very good condition; externally, boards with some worming and loss, and old furniture removed, and with some tears, and small loss at head, to spine. Provenance: inscription at top of 2nd fol. recto of Magr. Ioannes de Liminio; below colophon, of Ant.o ?Guadello; the odd contemporary or early marginalium, and numbering of books at top of page; 19th-cent. armorial bookplate of Rev. J. Williams, M.A., Bryntirion. One of three editions from the first year of printing (the first Rome, 22 March, and the other, also Venice, without a day of issue), of this significant book in Renaissance humanism, a commentary on the epigrams of the 1st-cent. Roman poet Martial. This edition is often found bound with a c.1475 edition of Calderini's 'Commentarii in Ovidii Ibin' (Goff C41). Calderini (c.1444-1478), born near Verona but educated and employed in Rome, was "one of a new generation of humanists [...] [who] formed the crest of the mid-[15th] century 'nouvelle vague'" (Grafton). As literature professors, they chose line-by-line commentaries such as this to "best demonstrate their independence from the work of their immediate predecessors, while at the same time winning their colleagues' attention and serving the needs of their students" (id.). Their chosen authors were often Latin, particularly satirical poets (such as Martial). It was a very competitive world and "Calderini falsified his notes on Martial to refute a justified attack by Perotti" (id) However, some of Calderini's notes in this work, for example, readings of words and phrases for two-horned rhinocoruses and camels, do stand up against successors' criticisms. With dedications to Francesco Lodovico Gonzaga and Lorenzo de' Medici.One of four known books from the second year that this printer operated, there being one extant publication from 1473. Jacobus de Rubeis/Rubeus belonged to a notable family of craftsmen from Chablis. He may well have worked in Venice for his fellow-Frenchman Nicolas Jenson, who remembered him and his wife in his will, and "several of his types are very close copies of Jensonian models" (cf. BMC). He removed to Pinerolo near Turin in 1478/9, possibly on account of plague. Bodleian XV-Century Books, C-021. Goff C38. GW 5889. BMC V 213 (copy described bound with Goff C41); see also V xiv-xv for notes on Rubeus. See Anthony Grafton, 'Joseph Scaliger' (2 vols. Oxford 1983) I, 15, 20, 41-2.       [Bookseller: Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, ABA, PBFA, I]  24.   Check availability:     PBFA   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  25.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY Vols. 1-5. London, 2002-2006.       . . Teilserien und Einzelb�nde auf Anfrage lieferbar. 1474-8851       [Bookseller: Schmidt Periodicals GmbH]  26.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   PAULUS VENETUS NICOLETTI [1368-1428]. Logica       1474 - Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 14 Dec. 1474. 4�. 76 leaves: a10, b6, c10, d6, e10, f6, g-i8, k6. With the initial blank. Gothic letters, two columns. Contemporary annotations. Handsome retrospective blind-stamped calf by Bayntun. Mostly marginal worming in some leaves, marginal stains, some leaves remargined not touching the text, the colophon leaf restored with three letters in fine pen. The rare second edition, existing in only sixteen complete institutional copies [of which only one is in N. America], published two years after the first, existing in only two institutional copies. The paucity of surviving copies well proves Pollard's remark of a century ago: "There were some dozens of books, large, unreadable, picked from the literature of the three preceding centuries, without which no monastic library felt itself complete, and the German printers made their profit by turning out numerous editions of these, many copies of which have come down to us in a preservation so excellent as to suggest that they were very little read". Edited by Boninus or Bonino Mombritius. Paul of Venice or Paulus Venetus was a Roman Catholic theologian and logician. He studied in Oxford around 1390 and brought back Oxford logic to Italy, lecturing at Padua and influencing the development of philosphy in the Renaissance. He became the most widely read author on the subject of the time. There are more than 80 manuscripts extant and some 25 editions. His writings show a wide knowledge and interest in the scientific problems of his time. This is his major work, the Logica parva et logica magna, also known as Logica Duplex. There are numerous incunable printings of which this is the first obtainable edition of this important text, regularly discussed today amongst historians and religious philosophers. Hain 12500; Goff P220 ; HR 12500 ; Pell Ms 9096 (8937) ; CIBN P-86 ; IGI 7349 ; Bod-inc P-062 ; Sheppard 4885 ; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1334 ; Pr 5876       [Bookseller: rambler rare books]  27.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  28.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   EMERALD MANAGEMENT REVIEWS Vols. 30-35 (last publ.). Bradford, 2001-2006.       . . Teilserien und Einzelb�nde auf Anfrage lieferbar. 1474-6085       [Bookseller: Schmidt Periodicals GmbH]  29.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   (INCUNABOLO) NICOLAUS DE AUXIMO SUPPLEMENTUM SUMMAE PISANELLAE VENETIIS, FRANCISCUS RENNER DE HEILBRON ET NICOLAUS DE FRANKOFORDIA, 1474.       "In folio, legatura coeva con piatti in assicelle di legno e dorso in pelle impr. a secco, nervi della cucitura originale in evidenza (restaurata e rimontata); cc. 333, mancano le prime due cc. (la prima delle quali bianca, la seconda � qui proposta in riproduzione in facsimile su carta antica) e l'ultima bianca. Testo su due colonne, in carattere gotico, con numerose rubriche in rosso e blu. Seconda edizione. Ricostruito il margine inf. bianco dell'ultima c. Bell'esemplare. BMC, V 192: "The occurrence in this book only of alternative M and Q with type 150 G. suggests that it is the first bbok in wich he type was used". IGI, 6870.       [Bookseller: Libreria DOCET�]  30.   Check availability:     ILAB    Maremagnum   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  31.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   GREGORIUS IX Pont. Max. Decretales, cum glossa.       Roma, Ulrich Han e Simone Cardella, 20.IX.1474, in-folio, ff. 475 n.n. (su 478: mancano a1 bianco, x2, D8; S1 bianco presente), senza segnatura (con indicazione del capitolo e numerazione mss. da mano coeva nell'angolo alto di ciascun foglio; quest'ultima per� non tiene conto del primo f. bianco mancante); legatura secentesca in pergamena con grande fregio dorato al centro e 4 agli angoli dei piatti, dorso rifatto. Sul primo foglio 2 iniziali grandi e tre pi� piccole dipinte in rosso e blu con fregi filigranati, sparse nel testo svariate centinaia di altre piccole iniziali in rosso o blu. Testo su due colonne in car. tondo, racchiuso dal commento in car. pi� piccolo. F. 2 r.: �Incipit nova compilatio decretalium gregorii. ix.�; in fine, f. 476v., colophon: �Finiunt decretales correctissime: impresse in alma urbe Roma�per magistrum Uldaricum gallum Alamanum & Symonem nicolai de Luca: cum glosis ordinariis Bernardi Parmensis & additionibus suis�anno domini. MCCCCLXXIIII. die. xx. mensis septembris��. Rarissimo incunabulo romano, probabilmente la terza edizione di questa raccolta di leggi papali che il grande Papa Gregorio IX (Ugolino dei conti di Segni, nato ad Anagni intorno al 1148, morto nel 1241) aveva pensato di far redigere fin dai primi anni del suo pontificato, quale "rinvigorimento dell'autorit� pontificia e del suo influsso", tanto pi� necessario dopo la promulgazione delle Costituzioni di Melfi da parte di Federico II di Sicilia (cfr. Encicl. Catt. VI, 1136). Esempl. molto bello (nonostante la mancanza dichiarata), impresso su carta forte, a grandi margini, con rare postille di mano coeva nei margini (qualche ingiallitura qua e l�, forellini di tarlo senza danno al testo sui primi 20 ed ultimi 9 ff.). Nessun esempl. al British Museum n� in USA. IGI 4452 (4 copie). GW 11452. Vaticana G-164.       [Bookseller: Pregliasco Libreria Antiquaria di Umbert]  32.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   JODOCUS ERFORDENSIS Vocabularius utriusque juris.       - [Basel, Michael Wenssler, no antes de 1474]. En folio. 310 hojas, incluyendo la primera blanca. Gran inicial "Q" en la primera hoja de texto as� como dos l�neas de dedicatoria en rojo. Encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla, planos ricamente gofrados, reenlomado. Primera o segunda edici�n de "la primera enciclopedia de derecho jam�s impresa" (Stintzing, "Pop. Lit". 129ff). Impreso hacia 1474, este libro compite con otra edici�n impresa por el mismo Michael Wenssler tambi�n sin fechar y que sali� de la imprenta poco antes o despu�s. A pesar de que algunas bibliograf�as apuntan que esta edici�n debi� imprimirse en 1475, en la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek en Munich tienen un ejemplar procedente de Johannes Geginger, can�nigo de Regensburg, con la inscripci�n de que fue adquirido en 1474.Efectivamente el "Vocabularius Utriusque Juris" fue la primera enciclopedia impresa dedicada al derecho y se convierti� en un texto extraordinariamente �til y popular como trabajo de referencia legal. La primera edici�n se publica hacia 1474 en Basilea, llegando a publicarse m�s de 70 ediciones en los siguientes ciento cincuenta a�os. Es una colecci�n autorizada de t�rminos y conceptos tomados de textos legales redactados entre los siglos XII y XV; el compilador del "Vocabularius" fue un reputado jurista de la Universidad de Erfurt llamado Jocodus, quien firm� algunos manuscritos del texto. Incluye adem�s el "Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis" escrito en1432, el "Collectio Terminorum Legalium" escrito hacia 1400, y el "Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum" escrito por Hermann von Schildesch hacia el a�o 1330.Ejemplar en magn�fica condici�n; papel fuerte y de grandes m�rgenes. Con su encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla de madera. Totalmente completo incluyendo la primera hoja que es blanca. No se conoce ning�n ejemplar en bibliotecas p�blicas espa�olas, el ejemplar m�s temprano recogido en nuestras bibliotecas es la edici�n de Spira de 1477.Referencias: Goff V-335; Copinger 6354; BMC III 722; GW M12625 First or second edition of the first printed encyclopedia on law. A copy at M�nchen BSB has a buyer’s date of 1474. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked.       [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas S.A.]  33.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   GOROSABEL, Pablo MEMORIA SOBRE LAS GUERRAS Y TRATADOS DE GUIPUZCOA CON INGLATERRA EN LOS SIGLOS XIV Y XV       - Monograf�a sobre el tema, con el texto de diversos tratados: el de 1341 escrito en franc�s, de 1353 y 1474 en lat�n, y 1482 traducido al castellano. Premiada por las Juntas Generales de Villafranca en el Certamen anunciado por la Diputaci�n. Tama�o 14 x 20,5 cms. 112 p�ginas. Tolosa 1865. R�stica, cubiertas originales deterioradas, hojas sueltas. () [Attributes: Soft Cover]       [Bookseller: Librer�a Izaro]  34.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  35.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Sonnet, Hippolyte, Dictionnaire des math�matiques appliqu�es. Comprenant les principales applications des math�matiques: A l'architecture, � l'arithm�tique commerciale.la cin�matique.g�od�sie.horlog�rie.m�canique. probabilit�s.et l'explication d'un grand nombreHachette Paris, 2i�me ed., 1874,       - IV, 1474 S. m. 1900 Textholzstiche, Originalhalbleder (publisher's halfleather),Name auf Titelblatt (name on titlepage). Sonnet, Hippolyte (1803-1879) war Prof. der Analyse und der Mechanik an der Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures und "Inspecteur de l'Academie de Paris".       [Bookseller: Dr. Martin Saendig GmbH]  36.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Perez Galdos, Benito OBRAS COMPLETAS. (4 tomos). Tomos I y II: Novelas. Tomo III: Novelas y Miscelanea. Tomo IV: Cuentos y Teatro. Introducciones Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles       Aguilar, 1474/1634/1480 /1433 pgs., Madrid - Papel biblia, un retrato. Tomos I y II: 1981. Tomo III: 1982. Tomo IV: 1986. [Libro en Espa�ol / Book in Spanish] [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Buenos Aires Libros]  37.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  38.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Barbara F. Weissberger Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power       University of Minnesota Press. New As queen of Spain, Isabel 1 of Castile (known to history as Isabella the Catholic, 1474-1504) oversaw the creation of Europe's first nation-state and laid the foundations for its emergence as the largest empire the West has ever known— nearly a century before the better known and more widely studied Elizabeth I of England. What we know of this remarkable ruler is typically gleaned from hagiographic texts that negate her power and accept her own propagandistic self-fashioning as legitimate heir, pious princess, devoted wife, and heaven-sent healer of the wounds inflicted on Spain's body politic by impotent kings, seditious nobles, and such undesirable others as Jews, Muslims, and sodomites. Isabel Rules is the first book to examine the formation of the queen's public image, focusing on strategies designed to cope with the ideological and cultural dissonance created by the combination of her gender and her profoundly patriarchal political program for unifying and purifying Spain. Barbara Weissberger identifies two primary and interrelated strategies among the supporters of the queen— often writing in her employ— and her critics. Her loyalists use Marian imagery to portray Isabel as a pious, chaste, and submissive queen consort to her husband Ferdinand, while her opponents imagine the queen as a voracious and lascivious whore whose illicit power threatens the virility of her male subjects and inverts the traditional gender hierarchy. Weissberger applies a materialist feminist perspective to a wide array of texts of the second half of the fifteenth century in order to uncover and study the masculine psycho-sexual anxiety created by Isabel's anomalous power. She then demonstrates thepersistence of the two sides of the propagandistic construction of the Catholic queen, reviewing modern treatments in Francoist schoolbooks and in the fiction of Juan Goytisolo, Alejo Carpentier, and Salman Rushdie. A deconstruction of the strategies used to shape the...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  39.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   BROMHULL (John, of Little Torrington, North Devon) Recognisance of debt, in Latin with transcription and translation,       saying he has �altogether renounced for me and my heirs for ever to Stephen Phelip of Great Torynton [Torrington] his heirs and assigns all my right and claim ... in all the lands and tenements commons woods meadows pastures and all other their appurtenances within the demesne of Little Torynton lying in the hundred of Shebbear that will fall to my inheritance there after the death of Nicholas Bromhull my father�, and that he and his heirs �are excluded by these presents from all action right and claim in the same for ever ... As Witness �William CANYNGES� [the elder, M.P., d. 1396] then �mayor of Bristol� Henry Vyel[l] deputy John Seymour Thomas Sampson Bailiffs Walter Derby Walter Frompton [sic, for Frampton] Elias Spelly and others�, no signatures, vellum, 4�� x 11��, Bristol, the Sunday [9th March] next before the feast of St. Gregory [12th March], 50th year of Edward III [1376], All the witnesses named are connected with the great first flourishing of Bristol. �William Canynges the elder� was the first mayor of Bristol as a �City and County of a City�, 1373, the first designation of its kind. His ships carried his woollen cloth to Calais and Flanders and pilgrims to Coru�a for Compostella. He was again mayor in 1375, 1381, 1385 and 1389, and three times M.P.. His grandson, William the younger (c. 1399-1474), rebuilt St. Mary Redcliffe as it appears today. �Henry Vyell� was the father of John (d. 1398), the first Sheriff of Bristol in 1373. �Walter Derby� senior was Canynges� fellow bailiff in 1362, mayor 1367, and M.P. 1372. His son founded St. Werburga�s church. �Walter Frampton� (d. 1388) is buried in St. John the Baptist�s church. His father founded the chantry there in 1375. �Elias Spelly� built the chapel on Bristol Bridge, dedicated in 1361. He shared with Canynges the licence to take pilgims to Coru�a and bring back merchandise, and they were M.P.s together for Bristol in 1386. For this period see Edith E. Williams, �The Chantries of William Canynges [the younger] in St. Mary Redcliffe� (1950), pp. 45-51. Bristol was one of the 16 cities appointed to register recognisances for debt (see Birch, �Seals�, 1907, p. 69). Little Torrington is on the South side of the Torridge, with Great Torrington on the North in Fremington Hundred. They are linked by the Town Bridge and (on the East) by Town Mills Bridge.       [Bookseller: Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupr�]  40.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Teofilo F. Ruiz Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474       Blackwell Publishers. New This book is a comprehensive history of Spain from the turn of the fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474. In the early 1300s instabilities threatened to undermine Spain's basic social, economic, political, and cultural structures. This text focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages, ranging from plague and famine to violence and civil war. It considers the early transformations that underpinned the country's later successes and describes resolutions to the country's hardships brought about by the reforms of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, in the late 1470s. The book examines the administrative changes and cultural revival that readied Spain for the opportunities and challenges of the oncoming early modern Age of Discovery. ISBN10: 1405127899.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  41.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   S R Sharma Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence       Anmol. New. Contents: Vol. I. Jurisprudence: Preface. 1. Jurisprudence: an overview. 2. Conventionalism. 3. Pragmatism and personification. 4. Integrity. 5. Integrity in law. 6. Police practices. 7. Dirty business. 8. Illegitimate insularity. 9. The black goes free. 10. No caste here. 11. Laissez-faire. 12. Free trade. 13. The sociology of law and sociology of jurisprudence. Index.|~|Vol. II. Laws and Politics: Preface. 1. The common law. 2. Statutes. 3. The constitution. 4. Politics and criminal law: revision of the New York State Penal Law on prostitution. 5. Organization and process in the administration of law and control of deviance. 6. Police control of juveniles. 7. Violence and the police. 8. Securing police compliance with constitutional limitations: the exclusionary rule and other devices. 9. Disposition of cases in control agencies. 10. Constitutional moralism and the politics of advice and consent. Index.|~|Vol. III. Evolution of Law and Society: Preface. 1. Law in a primitive society. 2. Social evolution and legal evolution. 3. Functions of courts. 4. The judges. 5. The lawyers. 6. Social control and social order. 7. Law and legal study. 8. Sources of law. 9. The civil court structure. 10. The criminal court structure. 11. Legal science and social science. 12. Law as a type of social control. 13. Social and political forces on the law: law as dependent. Index.|~|Vol. IV. American Legal System: Preface. 1. American theory of justice. 2. Law and judicial reform in America. 3. The new century. 4. Regulation of the legal profession. 5. Legal education. 6. Professional reform. 7. Pragmatic instrumentalism in American law. Index. |~|Vol. V. English Legal System: Preface. 1. English idioms from the penal law. 2. A ministry of justice. 3. Essays or counsels civil and moral: of judicature. 4. The forty years of the Irish Bar. 5. Some aspects of the work of the court of appeal. 6. The punishments of convicts. 7. A simple statement. 8. While collar crime. 9. Judicial precedent in England. 10. Remedies in private law. 11. Remedies against public authorities, inferior courts and tribunals. 12. An admonition. 13. Counsel of deception. Index.|~|"Jurisprudence is the science or body of ordered knowledge which deals with a particular species of law. Law may be defined as the force or tendency which makes for righteousness. We may at once deny for jurisprudence any direct concern with the non human contents of the universe. Natural laws or the physical laws are not the work of the jurist. The study of jurisprudence concerns human thought in relation to social existence.|~|"In a wide sense "jurisprudence" is used also to describe the legal connections of any body of knowledge: so "dental jurisprudence", "architectural jurisprudence" or "medical jurisprudence" would be titles for expositions of such aspects of dentistry, architecture or medicine as may be important in law. In French law jurisprudence is the term(s) applied to the body of law built-up by the decisions of particular courts.|~|"At the present time jurisprudence may tentatively be described as any thought or writing about law and its relation to other disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology, economics, anthropology, etc. It is to be distinguished from expositions of the law itself. The present work in five volumes encompasses encyclopaedia information on various aspects of jurisprudence." (jacket) . ISBN: 81-261-1474-6.       [Bookseller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd]  42.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant (pseudonym). Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Korf: waer in ghy beschreven vindt, al tghene dat nu wtghegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede, . beginnende in Mey 1607, ende noch en hebben wy niet het eynde. Ende is ghestelt op een tzamen-sprekinghe, tusschen een Vlaming ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht een Ghedicht, .[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With 2 decorated woodcut initial letters, arabesque fleurons on the title-page and forming a headpiece, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Disbound.       - (8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/116 (4 copies); Asher 26/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1474; Sabin 98201; Tiele 684; OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); STCN (7 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). A nearly untrimmed copy of the first edition of the famous Nederlandse Bijenkorf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty anonymous pamphlets agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the present first to 37 in the third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April: Asher 26-28/24 refers to events of that date) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes already in this first edition that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find." He also notes that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf, appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions of the Bye-Korf. Nearly all are Pot quartos.In very good condition and nearly untrimmed, leaving large margins. Only slightly browned and with minor damage at the fold, not approaching the text or decorations. An unusually lar       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  43.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   MADURELL MARIMON, JOSE M. (edicion) - Jorge Rubio y Balaguer (anotacion) DOCUMENTOS PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA IMPRENTA Y LIBRERIA EN BARCELONA (1474-1553)       Gremios de Editores, de libreros y de Maestros impresores Barcelona - BIBLIOFILIA BIBLIOGRAFIA LIBRERIA BIBLIOTECONOMIA BARCELONA Tipo de cubierta: Rustica en rama con estuche en cart�n y telaDescription: 'Muy buen estado, intonso'       [Bookseller: C & C International Services, Inc]  44.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hierokles von Alexandria (gest. Mitte des 5. Jh.) In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.       Padua, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474.. 1. Ausgabe. Provenienzexemplar. 4�; 20 cm hoch, 15,5 cm tief. 91 (statt 92) Bll., a-k8 l6 m5 (letztes leeres Bl. fehlt). 24 Zeilen pro Seite (Textspiegel: 132 x 76 mm). Ganzleder. Sehr Guter - Guter Zustand.; 1. InkunabelnLateinische �bersetzung durch Joannes Aurispa. Ganzlederband des sp�ten 19. Jh. (GW 12409 Goff H-151) Wunderbar erhaltene Erstausgabe in prachtvollem roten Ledereinband des 19. Jahrhunderts. Es handelt sich hierbei um einen Kommentar zum "Goldenen Gedicht" der Phytagoreer, das einzige vollst�ndig erhaltene Werk des Neoplatonikers Hierokles von Alexandria. Der Text wurde durch den sizilianischen Humanisten Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459) ins Lateinische �bersetzt, der die griechische Handschrift 1441 in Venedig erstand. Die dem Text vorangestellte vierseitige Widmung richtete Aursipa an Papst Nicolas V. (1447-55). Eine ausgesprochene Besonderheit dieser Ausgabe sind die handgestempelten Lagenz�hlungen, die aus einer Reihe von bei Valdezoccho [auch: Val de Zoccho] gedruckten Werken aus dem Jahre 1474 bekannt sind. Bei einer Neubindung wurden diese h�ufig durch den Buchbinder abgeschnitten, was im vorliegenden Fall f�r die Lagen i-m zutrifft. Bei den Lagen a-h sind diese au�ergew�hnlichen Stempel jedoch erhalten. Weiterhin sind der ausgesprochen breite Rand sowie die fr�he romanische Drucktype wichtige Merkmale, welche die besondere �sthetik des vorliegenden Bandes unterstreichen. Prachtvoller roter Ganzlederband des sp�ten 19. Jahrhunderts mit dezenten goldenen R�ckenpr�gungen sowie feinen goldgepr�gten Bord�ren auf Deckeln, Innen- und Stehkanten. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. [Zustand des Einbandes: 1-2 / Zustand des Papiers: 2+ / Sonstige Anmerkungen: Die Inkunabel befindet sich innerlich wie �u�erlich in wunderbarem Zustand. Die Kanten und Ecken des Einbandes sind nur leicht berieben, die rote Farbe des Leders kr�ftig und leuchtend. Kleines Bibliotheksschildchen auf dem vorderen Deckel. Das Papier ist nur sehr leicht gebr�unt und bis auf wenige schwache Flecken makellos. Auf dem vorderen Spiegel findet sich das gedruckte Exlibris John Vertues, Bishop of Portsmouth (1826-1900), der den Band im Jahre 1894 dem Stonyhurst College in Lancashire vermachte. Ein prachtvoll erhaltenes und sch�n gebundenes Exemplar dieser gesuchten Erstausgabe.] Hierokles (gest. Mitte des 5. Jh.) war ein Sch�ler des Plutarch von Athen (ca. 350 - 431 oder 433). Er hielt stets an seinem Heidentum fest und vertrat die Ansicht, dass die g�ttliche Vorsehung und der freie Wille des Menschen durchaus miteinander zu vereinbaren waren: "Die wichtigsten Quellen f�r die Kenntnis der Philosophie des H. bilden sein Kommentar zum Goldenen Gedicht der Pythagoreer und das von Photius referierte Werk Peri Pronoias (�ber Vorsehung). Der oberste Gott �bt als Demiurg seine Vorsehung durch Engel aus, was aber mit dem freien Willen vereinbar bleibt." (BBKL, Bd. II, Sp. 817).       [Bookseller: Bibliopegi GmbH]  45.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   JODOCUS ERFORDENSIS Vocabularius utriusque juris.       - [Basel, Michael Wenssler, no antes de 1474]. En folio. 310 hojas, incluyendo la primera blanca. Gran inicial "Q" en la primera hoja de texto as� como dos l�neas de dedicatoria en rojo. Encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla, planos ricamente gofrados, reenlomado. Primera o segunda edici�n de "la primera enciclopedia de derecho jam�s impresa" (Stintzing, "Pop. Lit". 129ff). Impreso hacia 1474, este libro compite con otra edici�n impresa por el mismo Michael Wenssler tambi�n sin fechar y que sali� de la imprenta poco antes o despu�s. A pesar de que algunas bibliograf�as apuntan que esta edici�n debi� imprimirse en 1475, en la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek en Munich tienen un ejemplar procedente de Johannes Geginger, can�nigo de Regensburg, con la inscripci�n de que fue adquirido en 1474.Efectivamente el "Vocabularius Utriusque Juris" fue la primera enciclopedia impresa dedicada al derecho y se convierti� en un texto extraordinariamente �til y popular como trabajo de referencia legal. La primera edici�n se publica hacia 1474 en Basilea, llegando a publicarse m�s de 70 ediciones en los siguientes ciento cincuenta a�os. Es una colecci�n autorizada de t�rminos y conceptos tomados de textos legales redactados entre los siglos XII y XV; el compilador del "Vocabularius" fue un reputado jurista de la Universidad de Erfurt llamado Jocodus, quien firm� algunos manuscritos del texto. Incluye adem�s el "Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis" escrito en1432, el "Collectio Terminorum Legalium" escrito hacia 1400, y el "Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum" escrito por Hermann von Schildesch hacia el a�o 1330.Ejemplar en magn�fica condici�n; papel fuerte y de grandes m�rgenes. Con su encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla de madera. Totalmente completo incluyendo la primera hoja que es blanca. No se conoce ning�n ejemplar en bibliotecas p�blicas espa�olas, el ejemplar m�s temprano recogido en nuestras bibliotecas es la edici�n de Spira de 1477.Referencias: Goff V-335; Copinger 6354; BMC III 722; GW M12625       [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas S.A.]  46.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. WENDEL.Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates. Modern half morocco.       - (8), 235, (1 blank), ix pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromolithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos.The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the paltes are fresh and in very good condition.       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  47.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   JODOCUS ERFORDENSIS Vocabularius utriusque juris.       - [Basel, Michael Wenssler, no antes de 1474]. En folio. 310 hojas, incluyendo la primera blanca. Gran inicial "Q" en la primera hoja de texto as� como dos l�neas de dedicatoria en rojo. Encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla, planos ricamente gofrados, reenlomado. Primera o segunda edici�n de "la primera enciclopedia de derecho jam�s impresa" (Stintzing, "Pop. Lit". 129ff). Impreso hacia 1474, este libro compite con otra edici�n impresa por el mismo Michael Wenssler tambi�n sin fechar y que sali� de la imprenta poco antes o despu�s. A pesar de que algunas bibliograf�as apuntan que esta edici�n debi� imprimirse en 1475, en la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek en Munich tienen un ejemplar procedente de Johannes Geginger, can�nigo de Regensburg, con la inscripci�n de que fue adquirido en 1474.Efectivamente el "Vocabularius Utriusque Juris" fue la primera enciclopedia impresa dedicada al derecho y se convierti� en un texto extraordinariamente �til y popular como trabajo de referencia legal. La primera edici�n se publica hacia 1474 en Basilea, llegando a publicarse m�s de 70 ediciones en los siguientes ciento cincuenta a�os. Es una colecci�n autorizada de t�rminos y conceptos tomados de textos legales redactados entre los siglos XII y XV; el compilador del "Vocabularius" fue un reputado jurista de la Universidad de Erfurt llamado Jocodus, quien firm� algunos manuscritos del texto. Incluye adem�s el "Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis" escrito en1432, el "Collectio Terminorum Legalium" escrito hacia 1400, y el "Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum" escrito por Hermann von Schildesch hacia el a�o 1330.Ejemplar en magn�fica condici�n; papel fuerte y de grandes m�rgenes. Con su encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla de madera. Totalmente completo incluyendo la primera hoja que es blanca. No se conoce ning�n ejemplar en bibliotecas p�blicas espa�olas, el ejemplar m�s temprano recogido en nuestras bibliotecas es la edici�n de Spira de 1477.Referencias: Goff V-335; Copinger 6354; BMC III 722; GW M12625       [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas S.A.]  48.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Ovidius, Naso Publius (43 a.C.-ca. 17 d.C). [Opera].       Venezia, Jacobus Rubeus, 1474. "Due volumi in-folio (mm 331x225 e 329x186). Segnatura: [a-e10, f8, g-m10, n-o12, p-q10, r-s8, t10, u12, x8, y6, A10, A-B10, C12, D-H10, I8, K6, L-M10, N12, O10, P-T10]. 411 di 412 carte non numerate, manca la prima bianca. Due iniziali dipinte rispettivamente all�inizio del primo e del secondo volume. Il primo volume legato in marocchino rosso del secolo XIX, con titolo in oro al dorso. Il secondo volume preserva parte della legatura veneziana cinquecentesca originale, con piatti decorati in oro e a secco; restauri a porzione novecenteschi al dorso e ai piatti. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, alcuni fori di tarlo. Terza edizione dell�Opera omnia di Ovidio curata da Giovanni Calpurnio che, per allestire il testo di bas� sulla princeps bolognese del 1471. HC 12138; Goff O, 128; BMC V, 214."       [Bookseller: Philobiblon di Francesca Petrilli e Fili]  49.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   [USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant (pseudonym). Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Korf: waer in ghy beschreven vindt, al tghene dat nu wtghegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede, ... beginnende in Mey 1607, ende noch en hebben wy niet het eynde. Ende is ghestelt op een tzamen-sprekinghe, tusschen een Vlaming ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht een Ghedicht, ...[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With 2 decorated woodcut initial letters, arabesque fleurons on the title-page and forming a headpiece, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Disbound.       (8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/116 (4 copies); Asher 26/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1474; Sabin 98201; Tiele 684; OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); STCN (7 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). A nearly untrimmed copy of the first edition of the famous Nederlandse Bijenkorf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty anonymous pamphlets agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the present first to 37 in the third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April: Asher 26-28/24 refers to events of that date) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes already in this first edition that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find." He also notes that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf , appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions of the Bye-Korf . Nearly all are Pot quartos.In very good condition and nearly untrimmed, leaving large margins. Only slightly browned and with minor damage at the fold, not approaching the text or decorations. An unusually large-marginned copy of the first edition Bye-Korf .       [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]  50.   Check availability:     choosebooks    ILAB   Link/Print   Hierocles of Alexandria (died 5th century AD) In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.       Padua, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474. - First Edition. 4�; 20 cm x 15,5 cm. 91 (of 92) leaves, a-k8 l6 m5 (lacking last blank leaf). 24 columns per page (Text size: 132 x 76 mm). Full calf binding. Very good condition. Wonderfully preserved First Edition in a superbly elegant binding made of beautiful red leather. The work contains the commentary to the "Golden Poem" by the Pythagoreans. It is the only surviving work by the Neo-Platonist Hierocles of Alexandria. The text was translated into Latin by the Sicilian humanist Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459; also known as Joannes Aurispa) who bought the original Greek manuscript in Venice in 1441. The book is dedicated to Pope Nicolas V. (1447-1455). This edition also features an extremely rare characteristic of old incunables: the quire counts were stamped onto the paper by hand. These hand-stamped counts are especially known in works printed by Valdezoccho (also: Val de Zoccho) in 1473. When these works were rebound the bookbinder usually removed the stamps, which happened here in quires i-m. Quires a-h still retain these remarkable stamps. The broad margins and early Roman type are also important criteria which further underline the esthetical uniqueness of the volume at hand. Elegant full red leather binding of the late 19th century with beautifully discreet gilt-stamped spine and fine gilt-stamped borders on covers and edges. All edges of the text block are golden. [Condition of the binding: Very Good / Condition of the paper: Good (+) / Further remarks: The incunable is in very good condition. The corners and edges of the binding are only very lightly rubbed. The red color of the leather is strong and bright. A small library label on the front cover. The paper has hardly darkened and apart from a few light marks appears as new. The inner cover with a book plate by John Vertues, Bishop of Portsmouth (1826-1900), who gave the book to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire in 1894. A remarkably beautiful and wonderfully preserved copy of this very much sought-after First Edition. ] Hierocles (died 5th century A.D.) was a student of Plutarch of Athens (c. 350 - 431/433). He was an avid defender of heathen beliefs and was of the opinion that divine intervention and free will could coexist: "The most important source for our knowledge of H.'s philosophy is his commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans." (BBKL, Bd. II) (GW 12409 Goff H-151). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Bibliopegi GmbH]  51.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO Interrogatorium sive Confessionale       Christophorus Valdarfer, Milano 1474 - CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO. Interrogatorium sive Confessionale.[followed by:] ANSELMO DI CANTERBURY. Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. [al colophon:] Impressit magnum maximus auctor opus. 1474. 3�. k[a]l[end]as octobris. [Milano, Christophorus Valdarfer, 29 settembre 8vo (155x115 mm), 18th century half calf binding on coloured paper boards, gilt lettered title and rules on red leather label at spine, ff. [174]. THREE LINES ILLUMINATED INITIALS and thirteen small capital letters (two lines) in red and blue; elegant marginal extension in coloured ink. Several rubrics in red or blue at the beginning or at the end of each paragraph. RARE FIRST EDITION of the popular Confessionale by Bartolomeo Caimi, the second book printed by Valdarfer after his displacement from Venice to Milan, following Saint Ambrogius' De Officis, published in January of the same year. Bartolomeo Caimi († ca. 1496), Franciscan monk in the convent of Saint Mary of the Angels in Milan and papal legate under Sistus IV, was auctor unius libri: this unique work became so common that it was reprinted eleven times during the 15th century, primarily in Germany. The Confessional is a handbook, organized into chapters according to saint Antoninus outline, and probably inspired by Clavasius's Summa Angelica. It contains specific prescriptions for the confessors about questions and penances and also an excursus concerning the numerous kinds of gambles, forbidden to the clergymen. Small wormholes on outer margin of nine leaves, perfectly restored. Overall a very good and clear copy on crisp paper, enriched by many contemporary handwritten notes. PROVENANCE: Owner's inscription S Mari(a)e Grati(a)e Arci on first leaf, marginal notes (slightly trimmed), pagination and headlines in red or black, in two different but contemporary handwritings. Hain, 2481*; IGI, 2718; BMC, VI 725; BSB-Ink, C-244; GW, 6540; Goff, B-153 (10 copies); CIBN, C-233 (2 copies); Parguez, 141; IDL, 1220; Pellechet, 1859; Ohly-Sack, 846; Madsen, 1110; Walsh, 3075; Oates, 2269; Proctor, 5875. In-8� (155x115 mm), legatura in mezza pelle ottocentesca su piatti di cartone e carta colorata, tassello in pelle rossa con filetti e titolo in oro al dorso, cc. (174). GRANDE INIZIALE RUBRICATA (tre linee) e tredici piccole iniziali (due linee) in rosso e in blu; eleganti estensioni marginali filigranate in inchiostro. Numerose rubricature in rosso o in blu all'inizio e alla fine di ogni paragrafo. RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE del popolare Confessionale di Bartolomeo Caimi: � il secondo volume impresso dal Valdarfer dopo il trasferimento da Venezia a Milano, che segue il De Officis di Sant'Ambrogio, del gennaio dello stesso anno. Bartolomeo Caimi († ca. 1496), monaco francescano nel convento di santa Maria degli Angeli a Milano e legato papale sotto Sisto IV, fu auctor unius libri: questa sua unica opera divenne utilizzatissima tanto da essere ristampata undici volte nel quindicesimo secolo, principalmente in Germania. Il Confessionale � un manuale pratico, organizzato per capitoli secondo lo schema proposto da sant'Antonino e probabilmente ispirato alla Summa Angelica del Clavasio, con indicazioni specifiche ai confessori su domande e penitenze relative alle singole professioni, e con un excursus dei vari tipi di giochi d'azzardo, proibiti agli uomini di chiesa. Segni di tarlo restaurati al margine esterno di nove carte. In generale, esemplare fresco e molto buono su carta forte, impreziosito da numerose note manoscritte coeve. PROVENIENZA: Nota di possesso S Mari(a)e Grati(a)e Arci alla prima carta, note marginali (leggermente rifilate), paginazione e titoli correnti manoscritti in due diverse grafie coeve, in inchiostro rosso o nero. Hain, 2481*; IGI, 2718; BMC, VI 725; BSB-Ink, C-244; GW, 6540; Goff, B-153 (10 esemplari); CIBN, C-233 (2 esemplari); Parguez, 141; IDL, 1220; Pellechet, 1859; Ohly-Sack, 846; Madsen, 1110; Walsh, 3075; Oates, 2269; Proctor, 5875.       [Bookseller: Bibliopathos]  52.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. WENDEL.Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates. Modern half morocco.       - (8), 235, (1 blank), ix pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromolithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos.The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the paltes are fresh and in very good condition.       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  53.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   COUTAU SIGISMOND ARCHIVES DE LA SOCIETE DE L ARQUEBUSE - DOCUMENTS HISTORIQUES 1474-1847       Documents historiques recueillis par Sigismond Coutau, capitaine f�d�ral, pr�sident de la St� des exercices r�unis de l'Arquebuse et de la Navigation. Pi�ces historiques du 2 ao�t 1474 jusqu'en 1847. Textes r�dig�s en latin jusqu'en 1536 (textes originaux avec la traduction en fran�ais). Notes diverses. Noms des rois dont on trouve les portraits dans la grande salle de l'H�tel. Ex-libris. IMPRIMERIE CAREY GENEVE 1872 183 pp IN4 Cartonnage rouge, dos percaline rouge, plat aux armes de la St� de l'Arquebuse Couverture frott�e, coins �mouss�s, int�rieur propre       [Bookseller: Librairie AaZbooks.com]  54.   Check availability:     Livre-Rare-Book   Link/Print   CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO INTERROGATORIUM SIVE CONFESSIONALE CHRISTOPHORUS VALDARFER MILANO       CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO. Interrogatorium sive Confessionale.[seguito da:] ANSELMO DI CANTERBURY. Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. [al colophon:] Impressit magnum maximus auctor opus. 1474. 3. k[a]l[end]as octobris. [Milano, Christophorus Valdarfer, 29 settembre 1474]. In-8 (155x115 mm), legatura in mezza pelle ottocentesca su piatti di cartone e carta colorata, tassello in pelle rossa con filetti e titolo in oro al dorso, cc. (174). GRANDE INIZIALE RUBRICATA (tre linee) e tredici piccole iniziali (due linee) in rosso e in blu; eleganti estensioni marginali filigranate in inchiostro. Numerose rubricature in rosso o in blu all'inizio e alla fine di ogni paragrafo. RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE del popolare Confessionale di Bartolomeo Caimi: e' il secondo volume impresso dal Valdarfer dopo il trasferimento da Venezia a Milano, che segue il De Officis di Sant'Ambrogio, del gennaio dello stesso anno. Bartolomeo Caimi (� ca. 1496), monaco francescano nel convento di santa Maria degli Angeli a Milano e legato papale sotto Sisto IV, fu auctor unius libri: questa sua unica opera divenne utilizzatissima tanto da essere ristampata undici volte nel quindicesimo secolo, principalmente in Germania. Il Confessionale e' un manuale pratico, organizzato per capitoli secondo lo schema proposto da sant'Antonino e probabilmente ispirato alla Summa Angelica del Clavasio, con indicazioni specifiche ai confessori su domande e penitenze relative alle singole professioni, e con un excursus dei vari tipi di giochi d'azzardo, proibiti agli uomini di chiesa. Segni di tarlo restaurati al margine esterno di nove carte. In generale, esemplare fresco e molto buono su carta forte, impreziosito da numerose note manoscritte coeve. PROVENIENZA: Nota di possesso S Mari(a)e Grati(a)e Arci alla prima carta, note marginali (leggermente rifilate), paginazione e titoli correnti manoscritti in due diverse grafie coeve, in inchiostro rosso o nero. Hain, 2481*; IGI, 2718; BMC, VI 725; BSB-Ink, C-244; GW, 6540; Goff, B-153 (10 esemplari); CIBN, C-233 (2 esemplari); Parguez, 141; IDL, 1220; Pellechet, 1859; Ohly-Sack, 846; Madsen, 1110; Walsh, 3075; Oates, 2269; Proctor, 5875.       [Bookseller: Libreria BIBLIOPATHOS�-�Milano�-�Italy]  55.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   VIGNAUD H La lettre et la carte de Toscanelli sur la route des Indes par l'Ouest adressées en 1474 au portugais Fernad Martins et transmises plus tard à Christophe Colomb       Paris: Edition originale.!Il s'agit d'un etude sur l'authenticite et la valeur de ces documents et sur les sources des idees cosmographiques de C. Colomb.!Dos insole, piqures sur le deuxieme plat, bel etat interieur., La lettre et la carte de Toscanelli sur la route des Indes par l'Ouest adressees en 1474 au portugais Fernad Martins et transmises plus tard a Christophe Colomb. , * Voyages, Marine et Horizons lointains/Voyages et Marine, 1901, Paris, *1901. 18x27,5cm. Edition originale.!Il s'agit d'un etude sur l'authenticite et la valeur de ces documents et sur les sources des idees cosmographiques de C. Colomb.!Dos insole, piqures sur le deuxieme plat, bel etat interieur. * Voyages, Marine et Horizons lointains/Voyages et Marine       [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]  56.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. WENDEL.Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates. Modern half morocco.       (8), 235, (1 blank), ix pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromolithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos.The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the paltes are fresh and in very good condition.       [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]  57.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  58.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [Limoges, Pierre de] - Climacus, Johannes, santo. Libro de locchio morale et spirituale. Venezia, [Giovanni de� Rossi da Vercelli], 21 maggio 1496. (Legato con:) Climacus, Johannes, santo. Scala paradisi. Venezia, Cristoforo de Mandelo, 12 ottobre 1492.       "Due opere in un volume in-4� (mm 200x142). i. Segnatura: a-h8. 64 carte non numerate. Testo su unacolonna di 36 linee, caratteri 135G e 82R. Alla prima carta legno (mm 76x75) raffigurante un monaco che insegna, nell�atto di indicarsi l�occhio, gi� apparso nell�edizione latina dello stesso anno. Iniziali silografiche ornate su fondo nero nel testo. ii. Segnatura: a-l8, m10. 98 carte non numerate. Testo su 42 linee, carattere 80Ra. Alla prima carta legno (mm 55x75) raffigurante Cristo circondato dalla folla, alla c. 2v piccola vignetta raffigurante la piet�; iniziali silografiche ornate su fondo nero. Legatura moderna in pelle marrone decorata da ferri dorati, tagli gialli. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, lievi gore alle ultime carte della seconda opera. Timbro �Sch�nborn Bibliothek� al verso dell�ultima carta della seconda opera. Prima edizione in italiano della seconda opera pi� antica sull�occhio, dopo il De oculis del Grassus (1474). Questo trattato � spesso attribuito a Johannes Peckam, ma l�autore sembrerebbe piuttosto essere Petrus de Lapicera, il cui nome appare nel colophon, o Petrus Lemovicensis (Pierre de Limoges), originario di Parigi e tra i fondatori della Sorbona alla fine del xiii secolo. Il testo di questa edizione � di fra� Teofilo Romano. Prima di questa vennero stampate tre edizioni latine (1476, 1477 e 1496). L�opera � fondamentalmente un trattato morale, ma non mancano capitoli di interesse scientifico, e contiene la prima descrizione anatomica dell�occhio. �The purpose of the De oculo morali is purely ethical but it contains a description of the eye, together with a brief account of eye diseases and their treatment� (Sarton ii, p. 1029). La seconda opera legata � la terza edizione volgare, ristampa fedele della seconda impressa dal Benali e dal Capcasa nel 1491, della Scala Paradisi, del mistico bizantino Giovanni Climaco, sul conseguimento della perfezione morale. i. HC* 9805; BMC v, 419; IGI 7384; Goff J, 393; Essling 892; Sander 3757. ii. HC* 5466, 5467; BMC v, 468; IGI 5216; Goff J, 310; Essling 566; Sander 2019. First Italian edition of the second earliest printed work on the eye, containing in the first four chapters a description of the eye together with a brief account of eye diseases and their treatment. Bound with a vernacular incunable edition of the Scala paradisi, written by the Byzantine mystic Johannes Climacus."       [Bookseller: Philobiblon S.r.l.]  59.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Sonnet, Hippolyte, Dictionnaire des math�matiques appliqu�es. Comprenant les principales applications des math�matiques: A l'architecture, � l'arithm�tique commerciale.la cin�matique.g�od�sie.horlog�rie.m�canique. probabilit�s.et l'explication d'un grand nombreHachette Paris, 2i�me ed., 1874,       - IV, 1474 S. m. 1900 Textholzstiche, Originalhalbleder (publisher's halfleather),Name auf Titelblatt (name on titlepage). Sonnet, Hippolyte (1803-1879) war Prof. der Analyse und der Mechanik an der Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures und "Inspecteur de l'Academie de Paris".       [Bookseller: Dr. Martin Saendig GmbH]  60.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hierocles of Alexandria (died 5th century AD) In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.       Padua, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474.. First Edition. 4�; 20 cm x 15,5 cm. 91 (of 92) leaves, a-k8 l6 m5 (lacking last blank leaf). 24 columns per page (Text size: 132 x 76 mm). Full calf binding. Very good condition.; 1. IncunableWonderfully preserved First Edition in a superbly elegant binding made of beautiful red leather. The work contains the commentary to the "Golden Poem" by the Pythagoreans. It is the only surviving work by the Neo-Platonist Hierocles of Alexandria. The text was translated into Latin by the Sicilian humanist Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459; also known as Joannes Aurispa) who bought the original Greek manuscript in Venice in 1441. The book is dedicated to Pope Nicolas V. (1447-1455). This edition also features an extremely rare characteristic of old incunables: the quire counts were stamped onto the paper by hand. These hand-stamped counts are especially known in works printed by Valdezoccho (also: Val de Zoccho) in 1473. When these works were rebound the bookbinder usually removed the stamps, which happened here in quires i-m. Quires a-h still retain these remarkable stamps. The broad margins and early Roman type are also important criteria which further underline the esthetical uniqueness of the volume at hand. Elegant full red leather binding of the late 19th century with beautifully discreet gilt-stamped spine and fine gilt-stamped borders on covers and edges. All edges of the text block are golden. [Condition of the binding: Very Good / Condition of the paper: Good (+) / Further remarks: The incunable is in very good condition. The corners and edges of the binding are only very lightly rubbed. The red color of the leather is strong and bright. A small library label on the front cover. The paper has hardly darkened and apart from a few light marks appears as new. The inner cover with a book plate by John Vertues, Bishop of Portsmouth (1826-1900), who gave the book to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire in 1894. A remarkably beautiful and wonderfully preserved copy of this very much sought-after First Edition. ] Hierocles (died 5th century A.D.) was a student of Plutarch of Athens (c. 350 - 431/433). He was an avid defender of heathen beliefs and was of the opinion that divine intervention and free will could coexist: "The most important source for our knowledge of H.'s philosophy is his commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans." (BBKL, Bd. II) (GW 12409 Goff H-151).       [Bookseller: Bibliopegi GmbH]  61.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   GREGORIUS IX Pont. Max. Decretales, cum glossa.       Roma, Ulrich Han e Simone Cardella, 20.IX.1474, in-folio, ff. 475 n.n. (su 478: mancano a1 bianco, x2, D8; S1 bianco presente), senza segnatura (con indicazione del capitolo e numerazione mss. da mano coeva nell'angolo alto di ciascun foglio; quest'ultima per� non tiene conto del primo f. bianco mancante); legatura secentesca in pergamena con grande fregio dorato al centro e 4 agli angoli dei piatti, dorso rifatto. Sul primo foglio 2 iniziali grandi e tre pi� piccole dipinte in rosso e blu con fregi filigranati, sparse nel testo svariate centinaia di altre piccole iniziali in rosso o blu. Testo su due colonne in car. tondo, racchiuso dal commento in car. pi� piccolo. F. 2 r.: �Incipit nova compilatio decretalium gregorii. ix.�; in fine, f. 476v., colophon: �Finiunt decretales correctissime: impresse in alma urbe Rom?&per magistrum Uldaricum gallum Alamanum & Symonem nicolai de Luca: cum glosis ordinariis Bernardi Parmensis & additionibus sui?&anno domini. MCCCCLXXIIII. die. xx. mensis septembri?&�. Rarissimo incunabulo romano, probabilmente la terza edizione di questa raccolta di leggi papali che il grande Papa Gregorio IX (Ugolino dei conti di Segni, nato ad Anagni intorno al 1148, morto nel 1241) aveva pensato di far redigere fin dai primi anni del suo pontificato, quale "rinvigorimento dell'autorit� pontificia e del suo influsso", tanto pi� necessario dopo la promulgazione delle Costituzioni di Melfi da parte di Federico II di Sicilia (cfr. Encicl. Catt. VI, 1136). Esempl. molto bello (nonostante la mancanza dichiarata), impresso su carta forte, a grandi margini, con rare postille di mano coeva nei margini (qualche ingiallitura qua e l�, forellini di tarlo senza danno al testo sui primi 20 ed ultimi 9 ff.). Nessun esempl. al British Museum n� in USA. IGI 4452 (4 copie). GW 11452. Vaticana G-164.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]  62.   Check availability:     Maremagnum    ILAB   Link/Print   MERULA, Giorgio. In librum de homine Martii Galeotti opus�       Venice, Johannes de Colonia & Johannes Manthen c.1474 FIRST EDITION. 4to. 80 unnumbered ll. [b2-b10, c10, d-g8, h10, i6, l2-l8, m6]. Roman letter, some Greek. 29 lines per page, guide letters, spaces blank, lacking the two blanks. One leaf (l8) not printed, text supplied in contemp. ms., medical marginalia in the same hand throughout. Marginal soiling to first leaf, two small marginal wormholes to first four gatherings, a little foxing to some leaves. A very good, clean, wide-margined copy on thick paper in C17th mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments. Illegible ownership inscription in lower blank portion of first leaf dated 1644, another, contemporary, at end of first part. A very attractive copy of the first edition of Merula's (c.1430-1494) elaborate philological attack on Galeotus' medical and astrological treatise, Liber de homine, published in Bologna in 1471. The present work is divided into four sections. In the first, Merula takes short statements or extracts from Galeotus, and interweaves them with his own, lengthy, commentary (he takes pains to cite and correct Galeotus' work in meticulous detail). Galeotus' work is first concerned with medicine, so Merula's criticisms - which frequently refer to Classical sources including Pliny, Demosthenes and Aristotle - discuss medical conditions and treatment, among them nasal polyps, stomach-ache, haemorrhoids (which Merula attributes to a surfeit of black choler in the veins around the groin), and glaucoma, when the eyes appear "lividi et plumbei coloris." Merula states that Galeotus describes the condition inaccurately and confuses it with hypochyma, citing authorities to support his claims; the work is arranged systematically (discussions of other eye diseases follow). Merula takes issue with Galeotus' reading of the Classical medical authorities, criticizing his understanding of the texts, rather than his medical knowledge as such. Merula also elaborately criticises Galeotus' astrological views, which make up the second subject matter of his work, especially his rather na�ve infatuation with judicial astrology which Merula clearly does not share. The remaining three sections, addressed to some of the great nobleman-scholars of the day, contain some excellent examples of the Classical scholarship for which Merula was renowned: (1) An interpretation of Sappho, written to Patricius Marcus Antonius Maurocenus (Morosini), a member of the noble Venetian family which supplied many Doges and Cardinals, perhaps to be identified with the Antonio Morosini who was author of the great historical manuscript the Morosini Codex (c.1430), held in the Austrian Nationalbibliothek. (2) A discussion of Pliny the Younger, addressed to Antonius Chronicus (Antonio Vinciguerra Cronico), a little-known scholar, praised by the cabbalist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in his Orations as a man of immense learning. (3) Nominally a commentary on Vergil, but more a gazetteer of places in the ancient world, such as Athens, Cythera and Sidon, their contemporary equivalents and the derivations of their names, as well as ancient cultures, including the Spanish, Saxons and Amazons. This is addressed to Prince Ludovicus Gonzaga, a name held by several members of the family of the Dukes of Mantua, but given the date, most probably Ludovicus III (1414-1478). Merula taught Classics for forty years in Milan and Venice, and was "un des restaurateurs des bonnes �tudes" (NBG). He published commentaries on Cicero, Pliny, Virgil, Ovid and Juvenal, editiones principes of Plautus and the Scriptores rei rusticae, and corresponded with many of his leading contemporaries, not always on cordial terms. "Sa vanit�, qui �tait encore plus grande que son savoir", led him into conflicts such as the present one. Galeotus (tutor to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and professor at Bologna) was so angry with Merula that he published a response to the present work, Refutatio obiectorum in librum de homine a Giorgio Merula, in 1476, a "bitter invective against Merula" (BMC). Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen worked together from 1474 until 1480, in a reconstruction of Colonia's earlier partnership with Vindelinus de Spira. This is one of their earliest productions, and remains an elegant example of early Venetian typography. BMC V, 230; GW M22925; Goff M-0504 (6 copies only); Hain 11097; Klebs 678.1; Thorndike IV, 399; Brunet II, 1453; not in Osler or HoH. L532b       [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd.]  63.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   REGIOMONTANUS (D.I. JOHANNES M�LLER VON K�NIGSBERG). [Calendarium latinum.]       [N�rnberg,] Johannes Regiomontanus, [1474]. 4�. R�mische Type, 32 Zeilen. In Rot und Schwarz gedruckt. 30 unnum. Bl. (statt 32; es fehlen die Bl�tter 19 und 20 mit der Darstellung der astronomischen Apparate; ohne Lagenz�hlung). Mit 60, teilweise gelb kolorierten Holzschnitten f�r die Mondphasen auf f�nf Bl�ttern und 22 Holzschnittinitialen auf schwarzem Grund. Moderner, hellbrauner Halbschweinslederband (sign. Hedberg, Stockholm). � Hain-Copinger 13775. Proctor 2210. BMC II, 456 (IA 7877). Goff R-92. Schreiber 4376 (nur acht Exemplare verzeichnet, dabei dieses). Klebs 836.1. Rosenwald 43. � Erste lateinische Ausgabe des ersten typographisch gedruckten Kalenders, von Regiomontan in seiner N�rnberger Privatdruckerei vermutlich gegen Ende 1474 gedruckt, gleichzeitig mit einer deutschen Ausgabe. Das Werk enth�lt astronomische Angaben f�r die Jahre 1475 bis 1513. Im vorliegenden Exemplar ist die erste unbedruckte Seite von zeitgen�ssischer (italienischer) Hand mit ausf�hrlichen astronomischen Notizen dicht beschrieben. Die ersten zw�lf Versoseiten enthalten die Tabellen f�r die Conjunction und Opposition des Mondes, auf den entsprechenden zw�lf Rectoseiten ist das Calendarium angeordnet. Im Kalender sind einige Heiligen-Festtage mit roter Tinte eingedruckt, in den Conjunctions- resp. Oppositionstabellen sind zahlreiche Daten mit roter Tinte von Hand eingeschrieben. Auf das Dezember- Kalendarium folgt eine �Tabula Regionum�, darauf f�nf Bl�tter mit den Darstellungen der Eclipsen. Weiter finden sich Angaben f�r die Kalenderberechnung, den Lauf der Sonne und des Mondes, Tagesl�ngen mit Tafel, die Anweisung zur Anfertigung einer Sonnenuhr, �ber die Tag- und Nachtgleiche, die Stundenzahl der Tage, eine Ostertafel, sowie �ber das Aderlassen. Wie im Exemplar des British Museum ist vor die Tafel der beweglichen Feste ein Zettel eingeklebt, der Erg�nzungen zur Berechnung der beweglichen Feste in Schaltjahren verzeichnet. Johannes M�ller (1436-1476), der sich nach seiner Heimatstadt K�nigsberg �Regiomontanus� nannte, studierte Mathematik und Astronomie an der Wiener Universit�t. Auf Einladung Kardinal Bessarions ging er 1460 nach Italien, um seine Griechisch-Kenntnisse zu vervollkommnen und um Astronomie in Ferrara, Padua und Venedig zu lehren. 1468 kehrte er nach Wien zur�ck, wurde bald von Mathias Corvinus als dessen Bibliothekar nach Buda geholt. 1471 l��t er sich in N�rnberg nieder, wo er in Bernhard Walther einen wohlhabenden F�rderer findet, mit dessen Hilfe er 1473 seine Druckerei einrichtet, aus der bis 1475 insgesamt elf Drucke ans Licht kommen, sechs davon sind seine Kalender und Ephemeriden. 1475 rief Papst Sixtus IV. Regiomontan f�r seine geplante Kalenderreform nach Rom; dort starb er kurz nach Ankunft. � Unserm Exemplar fehlen die beiden Bl�tter mit der Darstellung der astronomischen Instrumente. Die vorhandenen Bl�tter sind durchgehend etwas finger- oder schmutzfleckig. Das breitrandige Exemplar weist einige unbedeutende Randeinrisse und winzige Wurmspuren ebenfalls im Rand auf. Das zw�lfte Blatt ist alt mit einem Papierstreifen ausgebessert (ohne Textverlust). Das zwanzigste Blatt ist ebenfalls alt geklebt (vermutlich bereits bei Drucklegung). - Von gro�em Interesse sind die handschriftlichen Marginalien, die sich auf allen Bl�ttern des Kalendariums finden. Diese Eintragungen - sie d�rften aus dem fr�hen 16. Jh. stammen - sind von einem Kenner der Materie und sind Erg�nzungen zu den Conjunctions- und Oppositionstabellen (jeweils im oberen wei�en Rand); am Fu� Verweise auf die Sternzeichen. Auf dem Dezember-Blatt und dem gegen�berliegenden Blatt zwei h�bsche Zeichnungen von Voll- und Neumond. Einige Marginalien von sp�terer Hand. - Es ist reizvoll zu spekulieren, ob die von Hand rot eingetragenen Daten auf den Conjunctions- und Oppositionstabellen sowie in der Tabelle der beweglichen Feste etwa von der Hand Regiomontans herr�hren k�nnten. � Wie alle Drucke aus Regiomontans Privatdruckerei von gro�er Seltenheit.       [Bookseller: Moirandat Company AG - B�cher & Autograp]  64.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant (pseudonym). Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Korf: waer in ghy beschreven vindt, al tghene dat nu wtghegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede, . beginnende in Mey 1607, ende noch en hebben wy niet het eynde. Ende is ghestelt op een tzamen-sprekinghe, tusschen een Vlaming ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht een Ghedicht, .[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With 2 decorated woodcut initial letters, arabesque fleurons on the title-page and forming a headpiece, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Disbound.       - (8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/116 (4 copies); Asher 26/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1474; Sabin 98201; Tiele 684; OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); STCN (7 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). A nearly untrimmed copy of the first edition of the famous Nederlandse Bijenkorf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty anonymous pamphlets agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the present first to 37 in the third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April: Asher 26-28/24 refers to events of that date) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes already in this first edition that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find." He also notes that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf, appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions of the Bye-Korf. Nearly all are Pot quartos.In very good condition and nearly untrimmed, leaving large margins. Only slightly browned and with minor damage at the fold, not approaching the text or decorations. An unusually lar       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  65.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Ovidius, Naso Publius (43 a.C.-ca. 17 d.C). [Opera].       Venezia, Jacobus Rubeus, 1474. "Due volumi in-folio (mm 331x225 e 329x186). Segnatura: [a-e10, f8, g-m10, n-o12, p-q10, r-s8, t10, u12, x8, y6, A10, A-B10, C12, D-H10, I8, K6, L-M10, N12, O10, P-T10]. 411 di 412 carte non numerate, manca la prima bianca. Due iniziali dipinte rispettivamente all�inizio del primo e del secondo volume. Il primo volume legato in marocchino rosso del secolo XIX, con titolo in oro al dorso. Il secondo volume preserva parte della legatura veneziana cinquecentesca originale, con piatti decorati in oro e a secco; restauri a porzione novecenteschi al dorso e ai piatti. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, alcuni fori di tarlo. Terza edizione dell�Opera omnia di Ovidio curata da Giovanni Calpurnio che, per allestire il testo di bas� sulla princeps bolognese del 1471. HC 12138; Goff O, 128; BMC V, 214."       [Bookseller: Philobiblon S.r.l.]  66.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   MAGNI, Jacobus. Sophologium.       Uncut copy of the first edition of the Sophologium, given by Wilhelm of Aachen to the 'Domus Regularium Bonorum puerorum'at Liege in 1474 (Strassburg, 'R' printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1470). Folio. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards, spine ribbed, with original green morocco label lettered in gold; both covers with blind tooled lozenge-shaped pattern with small fleur-de-lys and star stamps; original label with title and shelf-mark pasted to the front cover; in modern half calf case. Roman letter (Type: R 103), rubricated in red throughout with red paragraph marks and initials on the three to five line spaces left open, many with printed guide letters; wide margins (the measuring 295 x 215 mm.), 35 lines to a page; Collation: (a-d)10, (e)8+1(f. e2 added, no lost of text), (f)8, (g-i)10, (k)6, (l-m)8, (n-o)10, (p-q)8, (r-u)10, (x)8, (y)10, (z)8, (A)8-2 (without the mostly lacking last two blanks); 217 leaves. First edition of this very rare incunable. There are two undated editions of this work by the same printer Adolf Rusch, which were printed shortly after one another (HC 10471 and 10472) and our copy appears to belong to the first. The anonymous printer, whose modern nickname is derived from the peculiar 'R' of his 103 type is now generally identified with Adolf Rusch of Ingweiler who married Johann Mentelin's daughter Salome and who succeeded Mentelin - the very first printer in Strassburg - in his business after his death in 1479. Before that date he worked already partly for Mentelin and partly for his own, as our book shows. His type with the peculiar 'R' is the first Roman type ever used in Germany.Jacobus Magni (or Jacques Legrand) was a French Augustinian, born in Toulouse (ca. 1350) where he first worked as a librarian. Later on, at the beginning of the fifteenth century he moved to Paris to become a preacher. In Paris he came in contact with the Royal Court of Charles VI, where he preached in 1405 with much boldnes against Queen Isabel of Bavaris (1371-1435) and the inpopular Duc d'Orl�ans. After the assassination of the Duc, Le Grand was sent to England to negociate with the English King. He died around 1422. Being in essence an encyclopaedical work especially in the field of philosophy and economy, the Sophologium was considered to be a handbook of good manners at the same time. As such it had a great success and judging by the vast number of incunable and post-incunable editions the book became very popular during the first century of printing. In fact the work is an anthology of philosophy and science taken from numerous ancient writers and early Fathers, as well as Albumazar, Chaucer, etc. Because it is a well composed and rather complete summary of all relevant classical and medieval authors, the book was used intensively till far into the 17th century. The text was translated into French by Jacques le Grand himself and was published (only in abridged form) in Chablis in 1478 under the title 'Le livre intitule de bonnes meurs d�di� � tr�s -noble prince ... Jean, fils du roi de France, duc de Berry ...'. An English translation was printed by Caxton in 1487 with the title 'The Book of Good Manners'.The incunable has a very interesting provenance. On verso of the first fly-leaf a manuscript note states that this copy was given to the 'Convent of the regular Canons at the priory of St. Elisabeth or of the 'Good boys' (des Bons-Enfants)' in Li�ge in 1474 by Wilhelmus de Aquisgrani (of Aachen), canon of the St. Lambert Church at Li�ge (Monast. Belge, II, p. 376-9): "Liber regularium domus bonorum puerorum in Leodio. Quem dedit nobis venerabilis dominus wilhelmus de aquisgrani. doctor in sacra theologia. et canonicus ecclesie sancti lamberti leodiensis ... oremus ergo cordialiter pro eo: Anno domino M. cccc. lxxiiii." Our copy is herewith the third copy known with an added date in manuscript - one with the date 1473 and one other with 1474 - giving a firm 'terminus ante quem' to the undated edition. We know also the orifinal shelf-mark of the book in the library of the convent: "M vi" is written on the label on the front cover, as well as on a label pasted to the verso of this cover.Furthermore our copy shows a number of very interesting features regarding the history of early printing. The leaves are totally uncut in such a way that not only most of the original manuscript signatures and catchwords are visible in the lower margins, but also the little holes in the upper and lower margins caused by the nails on the tympan of the printing-press, enabling the printer to print the lines on the rectos and the versos of the leaves 'in register': just on top of each other.- f. 1r-3r: Contents: Capitula tractatus primi libri primi Incipiunt.- f. 3v: Dedication the the French King by Jacobus Magno. Inc.: '(I)llustrissimi principis regis francorum.- f. 3v-217v: Text. Inc.: 'Tractatus primus huius primi libri: est de quibusdam que inducunt ad amorem sapiencie. Cuius primum capitulum est de inducentibus ad amorem sapiencie. (D)icit Ariostoteles decimo ethicorum ...'- f. 217v: Colophon: 'Sophilogium editum a fratre Iacobo magni de Parisiis ordinis heremitarum sancti Augu. finit foeliciter'. Very interesting, important and good uncut copy.- (Rebacked and covers skilfully restored, with some ms. notes in the margins; some occasional soiling; parchment leaves with a 15th-century treatise entitled 'Tractatus de amore sapientie', pasted to the inner sides of the boards). Goff M-38; Hain-Copinger 10472*; Polain (B) 2458; Polain (F) 7045; Oates 100; Klebs 595.2; BMC I 61; Proctor 241; Ritter 293; cf. Baer II 207; Zehnacker, Cat. r�g. des inc., XIII, 1, 1480; L. Halkin, 'La maison des Bons Enfants de Li�ge', in: Bulletin de l'Institut arch�ol. li�geoise', 64 (1940), pp. 5-54.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  67.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   JODOCUS ERFORDENSIS Vocabularius utriusque juris.       [Basel, Michael Wenssler, no antes de 1474]. En folio. 310 hojas, incluyendo la primera blanca. Gran inicial �Q� en la primera hoja de texto as� como dos l�neas de dedicatoria en rojo. Encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla, planos ricamente gofrados, reenlomado. Primera o segunda edici�n de �la primera enciclopedia de derecho jam�s impresa� (Stintzing, �Pop. Lit�. 129ff). Impreso hacia 1474, este libro compite con otra edici�n impresa por el mismo Michael Wenssler tambi�n sin fechar y que sali� de la imprenta poco antes o despu�s. A pesar de que algunas bibliograf�as apuntan que esta edici�n debi� imprimirse en 1475, en la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek en Munich tienen un ejemplar procedente de Johannes Geginger, can�nigo de Regensburg, con la inscripci�n de que fue adquirido en 1474.Efectivamente el �Vocabularius Utriusque Juris� fue la primera enciclopedia impresa dedicada al derecho y se convierti� en un texto extraordinariamente �til y popular como trabajo de referencia legal. La primera edici�n se publica hacia 1474 en Basilea, llegando a publicarse m�s de 70 ediciones en los siguientes ciento cincuenta a�os. Es una colecci�n autorizada de t�rminos y conceptos tomados de textos legales redactados entre los siglos XII y XV; el compilador del �Vocabularius� fue un reputado jurista de la Universidad de Erfurt llamado Jocodus, quien firm� algunos manuscritos del texto. Incluye adem�s el �Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis� escrito en1432, el �Collectio Terminorum Legalium� escrito hacia 1400, y el �Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum� escrito por Hermann von Schildesch hacia el a�o 1330.Ejemplar en magn�fica condici�n; papel fuerte y de grandes m�rgenes. Con su encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla de madera. Totalmente completo incluyendo la primera hoja que es blanca. No se conoce ning�n ejemplar en bibliotecas p�blicas espa�olas, el ejemplar m�s temprano recogido en nuestras bibliotecas es la edici�n de Spira de 1477.Referencias: Goff V-335; Copinger 6354; BMC III 722; GW M12625       [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas, S.A.]  68.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Sonnet, Hippolyte, Dictionnaire des math�matiques appliqu�es. Comprenant les principales applications des math�matiques: A l'architecture, � l'arithm�tique commerciale.la cin�matique.g�od�sie.horlog�rie.m�canique. probabilit�s.et l'explication d'un grand nombreHachette Paris, 2i�me ed., 1874,       - IV, 1474 S. m. 1900 Textholzstiche, Originalhalbleder (publisher's halfleather),Name auf Titelblatt (name on titlepage). Sonnet, Hippolyte (1803-1879) war Prof. der Analyse und der Mechanik an der Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures und "Inspecteur de l'Academie de Paris".       [Bookseller: Dr. Martin Saendig GmbH]  69.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po�me h�ro�que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos � nerfs, tranches dor�es. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non sign�es. �dition recherch�e pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessin�es par Cochin et grav�es par De Launay, Ling�e et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr�s pour cette �dition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les �pisodes fantastiques du po�me ont �t� merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustr� au XVIII�me si�cle). Arioste, c�l�bre po�te italien, n� � Reggio dans le duche de Mod�ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  70.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   JODOCUS ERFORDENSIS Vocabularius utriusque juris.       [Basel, Michael Wenssler, no antes de 1474]. En folio. 310 hojas, incluyendo la primera blanca. Gran inicial �Q� en la primera hoja de texto as� como dos l�neas de dedicatoria en rojo. Encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla, planos ricamente gofrados, reenlomado. Primera o segunda edici�n de �la primera enciclopedia de derecho jam�s impresa� (Stintzing, �Pop. Lit�. 129ff). Impreso hacia 1474, este libro compite con otra edici�n impresa por el mismo Michael Wenssler tambi�n sin fechar y que sali� de la imprenta poco antes o despu�s. A pesar de que algunas bibliograf�as apuntan que esta edici�n debi� imprimirse en 1475, en la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek en Munich tienen un ejemplar procedente de Johannes Geginger, can�nigo de Regensburg, con la inscripci�n de que fue adquirido en 1474.Efectivamente el �Vocabularius Utriusque Juris� fue la primera enciclopedia impresa dedicada al derecho y se convierti� en un texto extraordinariamente �til y popular como trabajo de referencia legal. La primera edici�n se publica hacia 1474 en Basilea, llegando a publicarse m�s de 70 ediciones en los siguientes ciento cincuenta a�os. Es una colecci�n autorizada de t�rminos y conceptos tomados de textos legales redactados entre los siglos XII y XV; el compilador del �Vocabularius� fue un reputado jurista de la Universidad de Erfurt llamado Jocodus, quien firm� algunos manuscritos del texto. Incluye adem�s el �Vocabularius Stuttgardiensis� escrito en1432, el �Collectio Terminorum Legalium� escrito hacia 1400, y el �Introductorium pro Studio Sacrorum Canonum� escrito por Hermann von Schildesch hacia el a�o 1330.Ejemplar en magn�fica condici�n; papel fuerte y de grandes m�rgenes. Con su encuadernaci�n original en piel sobre tabla de madera. Totalmente completo incluyendo la primera hoja que es blanca. No se conoce ning�n ejemplar en bibliotecas p�blicas espa�olas, el ejemplar m�s temprano recogido en nuestras bibliotecas es la edici�n de Spira de 1477.Referencias: Goff V-335; Copinger 6354; BMC III 722; GW M12625       [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas, S.A.]  71.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. WENDEL.Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates. Modern half morocco.       (8), 235, (1 blank), ix pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromolithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos.The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the paltes are fresh and in very good condition.       [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]  72.   Check availability:     choosebooks    ILAB   Link/Print   USSELINCX, Willem?]. ADAMS, Yemant (pseudonym). Den Nederlandtschen Bye-Korf: waer in ghy beschreven vindt, al tghene dat nu wtghegaen is, op den Stilstant ofte Vrede, . beginnende in Mey 1607, ende noch en hebben wy niet het eynde. Ende is ghestelt op een tzamen-sprekinghe, tusschen een Vlaming ende Hollander. Noch is hier by ghevoecht een Ghedicht, .[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With 2 decorated woodcut initial letters, arabesque fleurons on the title-page and forming a headpiece, and 1 woodcut tailpiece. Disbound.       - (8) pp. Alden & Landis 608/116 (4 copies); Asher 26/1 & Add.; Knuttel 1474; Sabin 98201; Tiele 684; OCLC WorldCat (2 copies); STCN (7 copies); cf. Simoni U-10 (2nd ed.). A nearly untrimmed copy of the first edition of the famous Nederlandse Bijenkorf (Dutch Beehive), printed to advertise and introduce a collective issue of thirty anonymous pamphlets agitating against the proposed truce between Spain and the Netherlands in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, and warning the Dutch not to sacrifice their West Indian trade to the pursuit of peace. The anonymous publisher notes that a friend had urged him to gather together "all that has been published about the ceasefire and peace" because many people wished to collect the pamphlets and have them bound together, but since not even the booksellers know exactly what has been published, no one knows whether their collections are complete. He therefore brought together "all that I could get hold of" and added the present dialogue to be bound before them. In fact he included only pamphlets against the truce: none in favour of the truce! The main text of the present introductory pamphlet takes the form of a conversation between a Hollander (from the Dutch Republic in the Northern Netherlands) and a Flemish refugee (from the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands), the Hollander selling the Fleming the pamphlets, which are named individually. The present pamphlet therefore serves as a sort of catalogue, as well as a general introduction to the subject. The poem at the end, about Spain's untrustworthiness and the dangers of trying to make a peace settlement with them, is signed "Yemant Adams" (Someone Adams, a pseudonym probably meaning merely a descendent of Adam).On 4 May 1607, after forty years of war, Spain and the Dutch Republic began a ceasefire and peace negotiations that were to lead to the twelve-year truce two years later. The sharply divided opinions on the acceptable terms for peace and on the benefits and harm a truce might bring to the Republic set off a flood of pamphlets. The Dutch were considering establishing a West India Company, and Spain's wish to limit Dutch trade in the West Indies was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations. The present pamphlet appeared in at least three editions (the STCN notes a fourth variant) listing an increasing number of pamphlets (from 30 in the present first to 37 in the third edition, including the introduction). All three are dated 1608 and apparently appeared after Easter (6 April: Asher 26-28/24 refers to events of that date) but before most of the pamphlets were banned on 27 August 1608, for the ban specifically mentions two pamphlets listed only in the third edition. Several of the key pamphlets in the collection were written by Willem Usselincx, but it is not known whether he had a hand in the introduction. His most beloved project was to establish the West India Company, and the present introduction mentions both the Spanish intent to snatch away the best part of the Indies trade and how important it is to safeguard the Republic's free trade in the West Indies. The Hollander in the dialogue explicitly notes already in this first edition that some of the pamphlets are "difficult to find." He also notes that one pamphlet exists under two different titles, so it had clearly gone through two editions before the first edition of the introduction. Some pamphlets listed in all three editions of the Bye-Korf, appear to have been printed only once, while some mentioned only in the third edition survive in several printings. Clearly the pamphlets were reprinted at irregular intervals as supplies ran out, and more study is needed to determine the order of the editions and which were issued with which editions of the Bye-Korf. Nearly all are Pot quartos.In very good condition and nearly untrimmed, leaving large margins. Only slightly browned and with minor damage at the fold, not approaching the text or decorations. An unusually lar       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  73.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Merula, Giorgio In Librum De Homine Martii Galeotti Opus�       Venice, Johannes de Colonia & Johannes Manthen, c.1474. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 80 unnumbered ll. [b2-b10, c10, d-g8, h10, i6, l2-l8, m6]. Roman letter, some Greek. 29 lines per page, guide letters, spaces blank, lacking the two blanks. One leaf (l8) not printed, text supplied in contemp. ms., medical marginalia in the same hand throughout. Marginal soiling to first leaf, two small marginal wormholes to first four gatherings, a little foxing to some leaves. A very good, clean, wide-margined copy on thick paper in C17th mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments. Illegible ownership inscription in lower blank portion of first leaf dated 1644, another, contemporary, at end of first part. A very attractive copy of the first edition of Merula's (c.1430-1494) elaborate philological attack on Galeotus' medical and astrological treatise, Liber de homine, published in Bologna in 1471. The present work is divided into four sections. In the first, Merula takes short statements or extracts from Galeotus, and interweaves them with his own, lengthy, commentary (he takes pains to cite and correct Galeotus' work in meticulous detail). Galeotus' work is first concerned with medicine, so Merula's criticisms-which frequently refer to Classical sources including Pliny, Demosthenes and Aristotle-discuss medical conditions and treatment, among them nasal polyps, stomach-ache, haemorrhoids (which Merula attributes to a surfeit of black choler in the veins around the groin), and glaucoma, when the eyes appear "lividi et plumbei coloris. " Merula states that Galeotus describes the condition inaccurately and confuses it with hypochyma, citing authorities to support his claims; the work is arranged systematically (discussions of other eye diseases follow). Merula takes issue with Galeotus' reading of the Classical medical authorities, criticizing his understanding of the texts, rather than his medical knowledge as such. Merula also elaborately criticises Galeotus' astrological views, which make up the second subject matter of his work, especially...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  74.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   ARIOSTE (Ludovico) 1474-1533 Roland Furieux. Po?me hero?que. Traduction nouvelle par M. D'Ussieux.       - Demi-maroquin rouge, dos ? nerfs, tranches dorees. Avec 87 planches hors-texte dont 46 par Cochin, 7 de Moreau, 9 de Cipriani, 2 de Eisen, 2 de Monnet et 21 non signees. ?dition recherchee pour les 46 figures avec encadrements dessinees par Cochin et gravees par De Launay, Lingee et Ponce. "Les estampes, faites expr?s pour cette edition, sont fort belles (Cohen 97)". Les episodes fantastiques du po?me ont ete merveilleusement rendus par Cochin. Cette suite qui fut un travail de longue haleine, est l'un de ses chefs-d'oeuvre (Chritian Michel, Charles Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustre au XVIII?me si?cle). Arioste, cel?bre po?te italien, ne ? Reggio dans le duche de Mod?ne le 8 septembre 1474, mort en 1533. (Hoefer 3, 152). Bel exemplaire. (az) Paris, Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes in-8�, (3) +321+ 391+407 410 pages.       [Bookseller: Vauban Collections]  75.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hierocles of Alexandria (died 5th century AD) In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.       Padua, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474.. First Edition. 4�; 20 cm x 15,5 cm. 91 (of 92) leaves, a-k8 l6 m5 (lacking last blank leaf). 24 columns per page (Text size: 132 x 76 mm). Full calf binding. Very good condition.; 1. IncunableWonderfully preserved First Edition in a superbly elegant binding made of beautiful red leather. The work contains the commentary to the "Golden Poem" by the Pythagoreans. It is the only surviving work by the Neo-Platonist Hierocles of Alexandria. The text was translated into Latin by the Sicilian humanist Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459; also known as Joannes Aurispa) who bought the original Greek manuscript in Venice in 1441. The book is dedicated to Pope Nicolas V. (1447-1455). This edition also features an extremely rare characteristic of old incunables: the quire counts were stamped onto the paper by hand. These hand-stamped counts are especially known in works printed by Valdezoccho (also: Val de Zoccho) in 1473. When these works were rebound the bookbinder usually removed the stamps, which happened here in quires i-m. Quires a-h still retain these remarkable stamps. The broad margins and early Roman type are also important criteria which further underline the esthetical uniqueness of the volume at hand. Elegant full red leather binding of the late 19th century with beautifully discreet gilt-stamped spine and fine gilt-stamped borders on covers and edges. All edges of the text block are golden. [Condition of the binding: Very Good / Condition of the paper: Good (+) / Further remarks: The incunable is in very good condition. The corners and edges of the binding are only very lightly rubbed. The red color of the leather is strong and bright. A small library label on the front cover. The paper has hardly darkened and apart from a few light marks appears as new. The inner cover with a book plate by John Vertues, Bishop of Portsmouth (1826-1900), who gave the book to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire in 1894. A remarkably beautiful and wonderfully preserved copy of this very much sought-after First Edition. ] Hierocles (died 5th century A.D.) was a student of Plutarch of Athens (c. 350 - 431/433). He was an avid defender of heathen beliefs and was of the opinion that divine intervention and free will could coexist: "The most important source for our knowledge of H.'s philosophy is his commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans." (BBKL, Bd. II) (GW 12409 Goff H-151).       [Bookseller: Bibliopegi GmbH]  76.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   OTTOLANDER, K.J.W., A. KOSTER Mz. and C. de VOS, editors. Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona, beschreven en uitgegeven door het Bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop. Met platen naar de natuur geteekend door A.J. WENDEL.Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1876. Large 4to. With 81 full-page chromolithographed plates. Modern half morocco.       (8), 235, (1 blank), ix pp. Nissen, BBI 1474. An extensive and well-illustrated account of Dutch fruits and berries, flowers, shrubs, conifers and a few other trees, with 81 chromolithographed plates. It was issued by the pomological association, so more than half of the plates are devoted to fruits (apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes) and berries. It was intended primarily for professional growers and provides practical information, as well as accurate colour illustrations. Each description is initialed, mostly by Ottolander and De Vos.The first leaf of the index is bound at the end. With the inside front hinge cracked, a few minor marginal tears and very minor foxing, but the paltes are fresh and in very good condition.       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  77.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Salomon (Ramschwag), Bischof von Konstanz (Episcopus Constantiensis): Glossae (GWM 39747, HC 14134, C 5231). Blatt XLIII.       (Augsburg, St. Ulrich u. Afra, ca. 1474). Type 1.. Zweispaltiges, 55-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit gelb- und rotgestrichenen Versalien und Rubriken. Wasserzeichen: achtbl�ttrige Blume. Blattgr��e: 28 x 40 cm. Incunabula text leaf.. Die Glossae des Salomon III (Ramschwag), Bischof von Konstanz und Abt von St. Gallen (891 - 920), ist eine der fr�hesten gedruckten lateinischen W�rterb�cher oder Glossare des XV. Jahrhunderts (B�hler 1967, 133). Die Druckt�tigkeit des Reichsklosters St. Ulrich und Afra bei Augsburg begann 1473 mit dem Erwerb von f�nf Pressen Johann Sch�sslers durch den Abt Melchior von Stamhaim. Geldner geht davon aus, dass die Druckt�tigkeit mit dem Tod des Abtes Melchior im Jahre 1474 erlosch (Geldner I, 139). Nur 16 Drucke entstammen dieser Werkstatt, deren Typen von Zainer, B�mler und Sorg stammen. Werkmeister der Druckerrei waren wohl G�nther Zainer und Anton Sorg.       [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]  78.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   Genealogia dei Principi d'Este       Modena Il Bulino Edizioni d'Arte genealogia, Este, edizioni di pregio, facsimili, tiratura limitata 37x26 cm., 12 cc., 169 ritratti miniati di principi e parenti di Casa d'Este, dalle origini fino alle soglie del Cinquecento, legatura in velluto blu con stemma estense impresso in oro zecchino al piatto, cofanetto, edizione a tiratura esclusiva mondiale di 333 esemplari numerati su carta conforme alla pergamena, la doratura a rilievo dei fondi � stata applicata con impressioni a caldo, in italiano dialettale ferrarese L'opera, commissionata dal Ministero dei Beni Culturali, riunisce i due frammenti originari inizialmente uniti, conservati presso la Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena e presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma - fondo Vitt. Emanuele, del codice miniato su pergamena risalente al 1474-79 ca. Il manoscritto, un unicum nel suo genere per interesse genealogico, iconografico e per la storia del costume, rivestiva la funzione di aulico "album di famiglia" da mostrare agli ospiti di rango per ostentare ricchezza, potere e illustri origini; 169 personaggi dei primi quattro secoli di dominio estense (1095-1479) vi sono ritratti. Eseguito da un autore rimasto anonimo (ma attribuito a Bonifacio Bembo o alla cerchia di Baldassarre d'Este), il codice fu disperso sul finire del XVIII secolo, e un frammento pervenne appunto alla Biblioteca Estense, nel 1782. Commentario di 208 pagine con trascrizione integrale dei testi e saggi di E.Milano, F.Niutta, M.M.Breccia Fratadocchi e M.Bini.       [Bookseller: ALFEA Rare Books]  79.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO INTERROGATORIUM SIVE CONFESSIONALE CHRISTOPHORUS VALDARFER MILANO       CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO. Interrogatorium sive Confessionale.[seguito da:] ANSELMO DI CANTERBURY. Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. [al colophon:] Impressit magnum maximus auctor opus. 1474. 3. k[a]l[end]as octobris. [Milano, Christophorus Valdarfer, 29 settembre 1474]. In-8 (155x115 mm), legatura in mezza pelle ottocentesca su piatti di cartone e carta colorata, tassello in pelle rossa con filetti e titolo in oro al dorso, cc. (174). GRANDE INIZIALE RUBRICATA (tre linee) e tredici piccole iniziali (due linee) in rosso e in blu; eleganti estensioni marginali filigranate in inchiostro. Numerose rubricature in rosso o in blu all'inizio e alla fine di ogni paragrafo. RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE del popolare Confessionale di Bartolomeo Caimi: e' il secondo volume impresso dal Valdarfer dopo il trasferimento da Venezia a Milano, che segue il De Officis di Sant'Ambrogio, del gennaio dello stesso anno. Bartolomeo Caimi (� ca. 1496), monaco francescano nel convento di santa Maria degli Angeli a Milano e legato papale sotto Sisto IV, fu auctor unius libri: questa sua unica opera divenne utilizzatissima tanto da essere ristampata undici volte nel quindicesimo secolo, principalmente in Germania. Il Confessionale e' un manuale pratico, organizzato per capitoli secondo lo schema proposto da sant'Antonino e probabilmente ispirato alla Summa Angelica del Clavasio, con indicazioni specifiche ai confessori su domande e penitenze relative alle singole professioni, e con un excursus dei vari tipi di giochi d'azzardo, proibiti agli uomini di chiesa. Segni di tarlo restaurati al margine esterno di nove carte. In generale, esemplare fresco e molto buono su carta forte, impreziosito da numerose note manoscritte coeve. PROVENIENZA: Nota di possesso S Mari(a)e Grati(a)e Arci alla prima carta, note marginali (leggermente rifilate), paginazione e titoli correnti manoscritti in due diverse grafie coeve, in inchiostro rosso o nero. Hain, 2481*; IGI, 2718; BMC, VI 725; BSB-Ink, C-244; GW, 6540; Goff, B-153 (10 esemplari); CIBN, C-233 (2 esemplari); Parguez, 141; IDL, 1220; Pellechet, 1859; Ohly-Sack, 846; Madsen, 1110; Walsh, 3075; Oates, 2269; Proctor, 5875.       [Bookseller: Libreria BIBLIOPATHOS�-�Milano�-�Italy]  80.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   [Limoges, Pierre de] - Climacus, Johannes, santo. Libro de locchio morale et spirituale. Venezia, [Giovanni de� Rossi da Vercelli], 21 maggio 1496. (Legato con:) Climacus, Johannes, santo. Scala paradisi. Venezia, Cristoforo de Mandelo, 12 ottobre 1492.       "Due opere in un volume in-4� (mm 200x142). i. Segnatura: a-h8. 64 carte non numerate. Testo su unacolonna di 36 linee, caratteri 135G e 82R. Alla prima carta legno (mm 76x75) raffigurante un monaco che insegna, nell�atto di indicarsi l�occhio, gi� apparso nell�edizione latina dello stesso anno. Iniziali silografiche ornate su fondo nero nel testo. ii. Segnatura: a-l8, m10. 98 carte non numerate. Testo su 42 linee, carattere 80Ra. Alla prima carta legno (mm 55x75) raffigurante Cristo circondato dalla folla, alla c. 2v piccola vignetta raffigurante la piet�; iniziali silografiche ornate su fondo nero. Legatura moderna in pelle marrone decorata da ferri dorati, tagli gialli. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, lievi gore alle ultime carte della seconda opera. Timbro �Sch�nborn Bibliothek� al verso dell�ultima carta della seconda opera. Prima edizione in italiano della seconda opera pi� antica sull�occhio, dopo il De oculis del Grassus (1474). Questo trattato � spesso attribuito a Johannes Peckam, ma l�autore sembrerebbe piuttosto essere Petrus de Lapicera, il cui nome appare nel colophon, o Petrus Lemovicensis (Pierre de Limoges), originario di Parigi e tra i fondatori della Sorbona alla fine del xiii secolo. Il testo di questa edizione � di fra� Teofilo Romano. Prima di questa vennero stampate tre edizioni latine (1476, 1477 e 1496). L�opera � fondamentalmente un trattato morale, ma non mancano capitoli di interesse scientifico, e contiene la prima descrizione anatomica dell�occhio. �The purpose of the De oculo morali is purely ethical but it contains a description of the eye, together with a brief account of eye diseases and their treatment� (Sarton ii, p. 1029). La seconda opera legata � la terza edizione volgare, ristampa fedele della seconda impressa dal Benali e dal Capcasa nel 1491, della Scala Paradisi, del mistico bizantino Giovanni Climaco, sul conseguimento della perfezione morale. i. HC* 9805; BMC v, 419; IGI 7384; Goff J, 393; Essling 892; Sander 3757. ii. HC* 5466, 5467; BMC v, 468; IGI 5216; Goff J, 310; Essling 566; Sander 2019. First Italian edition of the second earliest printed work on the eye, containing in the first four chapters a description of the eye together with a brief account of eye diseases and their treatment. Bound with a vernacular incunable edition of the Scala paradisi, written by the Byzantine mystic Johannes Climacus."       [Bookseller: Philobiblon S.r.l.]  81.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   LES TROBES... LES TROBES EN LAHORS DE LA VERGE MARIA / PUBLICADAS EN VALENCIA EN 1474, Y REIMPRESAS POR PRIMERA VEZ, CON UNA INTRODUCCION Y NOTICIAS BIOGRAFICAS DE SUS AUTORES, ESCRITAS POR FRANCISCO MARTI GRAJALES       Valencia: Libr. de Pascual Aguilar, 1894.- 91 p. + 116 p. sin numerar de Les Trobes, y 2 h. al final de bibliografia; 4to.; gran papel de hilo; Media Piel chagren, nervios, hierros en seco, conserva las cubiertas originales en pergamino.- EJEMPLAR EN PERFECTO ESTADO, SIN CORTAR, CONSERVANDO TODOS SUS MARGENES. DEDICATORIA AUTOGRAFA DE MARTI GRAJALES A D. MIGUEL MIR EN LAPORTADILLA. AUNQUE NO LO INDICA, ES EDICION DE CORTA TIRADA Y LA PRIMERA REIMPRESION DE ESTA JOYA BIBLIOGRAFICA, QUE FUE UNO DE LOS PRIMEROS LIBROS IMPRESOS EN ESPANA. RARISIMO Y DE ALTA BIBLIOFILIA.*       [Bookseller: Libreria Miguel MIRANDA�-�Madrid�-�Spain]  82.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   GENEALOGIA DEI PRINCIPI D'ESTE . MODENA, IL BULINO EDIZIONI D'ARTE,       2 [ vol. + commentario] vol. 37x26 cm., 12 cc., 169 ritratti miniati di principi e parenti di Casa d'Este, dalle origini fino alle soglie del Cinquecento, legatura in velluto blu con stemma estense impresso in oro zecchino al piatto, cofanetto, edizione a tiratura esclusiva mondiale di 333 esemplari numerati su carta conforme alla pergamena, la doratura a rilievo dei fondi e' stata applicata con impressioni a caldo, in italiano dialettale ferrarese L'opera, commissionata dal Ministero dei Beni Culturali, riunisce i due frammenti originari inizialmente uniti, conservati presso la Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena e presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma - fondo Vitt. Emanuele, del codice miniato su pergamena risalente al 1474-79 ca.. Il manoscritto, un unicum nel suo genere per interesse genealogico, iconografico e per la storia del costume, rivestiva la funzione di aulico "album di famiglia" da mostrare agli ospiti di rango per ostentare ricchezza, potere e illustri origini; 169 personaggi dei primi quattro secoli di dominio estense (1095-1479) vi sono ritratti. Eseguito da un autore rimasto anonimo (ma attribuito a Bonifacio Bembo o alla cerchia di Baldassarre d'Este), il codice fu disperso sul finire del XVIII secolo, e un frammento pervenne appunto alla Biblioteca Estense, nel 1782. Commentario di 208 pagine con trascrizione integrale dei testi e saggi di E.Milano, F.Niutta, M.M.Breccia Fratadocchi e M.Bini.       [Bookseller: Libreria ALFEA rare books - Milano�-�Mil]  83.   Check availability:     zvab    Maremagnum   Link/Print   Jacobus Magni (Jacques Legrand): Sophologium. [GW M17665, Hain 10471].       Stra�burg, Adolf Rusch, 1474. Type 1.. Einspaltiges Original-Inkunabelblatt (21,3 x 29,4 cm) mit rubrizierten Majuskeln, Titel und Seitenzahl. Kleiner schwacher Wasserfleck im oberen Randbereich und schwacher kleiner roter Fleck im Textbereich. Incunabula text leaf.. "Adolf Rusch ist es gewesen, der zum ersten Male ein Druckwerk mit Antiqua-Typen zu drucken unternommen hat ... An ungew�hnlichen Formen weist die Rusch'sche Antiqua eigentlich nur das eigenartige R auf, das so gestaltet ist, als habe der Schriftstecher darin etwas wie ein Monogramm der Buchstaben A und R schaffen wollen." (Haebler 1927, S. 59). Ein Bild des Inkunabelblattes wird gerne auf Wunsch per email zugeschickt!       [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Christine Laist]  84.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   Paulo Veneto. Logica magna.       Crist�bal Valdarfer, 1474, 14 de diciembre, Mil�n: 76 hojas en signaturas: a10, b6, c10, d6, e10, f6, g-i8, k6. Conserva la primera hoja blanca. Letra g�tica a dos columnas. Anotaciones manuscritas de �poca. Pergamino de la �poca. Puntos de polilla, manchas y hongos en los m�rgenes, bastas restauraciones. Hain 12500. Goff P-220 (s�lo 1 ejemplar). IGI 7349. No en BMC. No en BN[de Par�s], No en BSB. No en IBE. Juan Bautista Landino, siglo xvi. Angelo de Brescia, siglo xvi. Rar�simo. Segunda edici�n. Este libro es la quintaesencia de la l�gica medieval, la antolog�a del silogismo, la proposici�n en grado superlativo, el aristotelismo m�s contumaz del pr�ncipe de los averroistas y del comentarista del Stagirita m�s vivo del siglo xv. Paulo Nicoletti fue profesor en Siena, muri� en 1429 y tuvo un �xito may�sculo como fil�sofo y comentarista.       [Bookseller: Els Llibres del Tirant]  85.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO Interrogatorium sive Confessionale       Christophorus Valdarfer, Milano 1474 CAIMI, BARTOLOMEO. Interrogatorium sive Confessionale.[seguito da:] ANSELMO DI CANTERBURY. Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti. [al colophon:] Impressit magnum maximus auctor opus. 1474. 3�. k[a]l[end]as octobris. [Milano, Christophorus Valdarfer, 29 settembre 1474]. In-8� (155x115 mm), legatura in mezza pelle ottocentesca su piatti di cartone e carta colorata, tassello in pelle rossa con filetti e titolo in oro al dorso, cc. (174). GRANDE INIZIALE RUBRICATA (tre linee) e tredici piccole iniziali (due linee) in rosso e in blu; eleganti estensioni marginali filigranate in inchiostro. Numerose rubricature in rosso o in blu all'inizio e alla fine di ogni paragrafo. RARA PRIMA EDIZIONE del popolare Confessionale di Bartolomeo Caimi: � il secondo volume impresso dal Valdarfer dopo il trasferimento da Venezia a Milano, che segue il De Officis di Sant'Ambrogio, del gennaio dello stesso anno. Bartolomeo Caimi (� ca. 1496), monaco francescano nel convento di santa Maria degli Angeli a Milano e legato papale sotto Sisto IV, fu auctor unius libri: questa sua unica opera divenne utilizzatissima tanto da essere ristampata undici volte nel quindicesimo secolo, principalmente in Germania. Il Confessionale � un manuale pratico, organizzato per capitoli secondo lo schema proposto da sant'Antonino e probabilmente ispirato alla Summa Angelica del Clavasio, con indicazioni specifiche ai confessori su domande e penitenze relative alle singole professioni, e con un excursus dei vari tipi di giochi d'azzardo, proibiti agli uomini di chiesa. Segni di tarlo restaurati al margine esterno di nove carte. In generale, esemplare fresco e molto buono su carta forte, impreziosito da numerose note manoscritte coeve. PROVENIENZA: Nota di possesso S Mari(a)e Grati(a)e Arci alla prima carta, note marginali (leggermente rifilate), paginazione e titoli correnti manoscritti in due diverse grafie coeve, in inchiostro rosso o nero. Hain, 2481*; IGI, 2718; BMC, VI 725; BSB-Ink, C-244; GW, 6540; Goff, B-153 (10 esemplari); CIBN, C-233 (2 esemplari); Parguez, 141; IDL, 1220; Pellechet, 1859; Ohly-Sack, 846; Madsen, 1110; Walsh, 3075; Oates, 2269; Proctor, 5875.       [Bookseller: Bibliopathos]  86.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Weale, W H Catalogus Missalium ritus latini ab anno 1474 impressorum Bibliographia Liturgica Bearbeitet von Bohatta, Hanns Weale, W H Catalogus Missalium ritus latini ab anno 1474 impressorum Bibliographia Liturgica Bearbeitet von Bohatta, Hanns       Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart Weale, W H Catalogus Missalium ritus latini ab anno 1474 impressorum Bibliographia Liturgica Bearbeitet von Bohatta, Hanns Verlag : Hiersemann, A ISBN : 3-7772-9021-1 Einband : Leinen Seiten/Umfang : XXXIV, 380 Seiten - 23 � 14 cm Erschienen : (Nachdruck d. Ausg. 1928) 2. Auflage 1990 Preisinfo : 240,00 Eur[D] Die von dem Wiener Bibliographen Hanns Bohatta (1864-1947) bearbeitete zweite Auflage (London/ Leipzig 1928) von Weales bibliographischem Katalog der lateinischen Me�b�cher (1886) ist seit langem antiquarisch selten und gesucht. In einem unver�nderten Nachdruck wird das wichtige Nachschlagewerk hiermit wieder verf�gbar gemacht. Es verzeichnet 1937 Drucke des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts und ist gegliedert in die Teile I "Missalia Ecclesiarum" und II "Missalia Ordinum" nebst Konkordanzen zu Hain, Copinger, Proctor sowie einem "Index chronologicus" und einem "Index typographorum et librariorum". - Vom selben Autor ist die "Bibliographie der Breviere 1501 - 1850" (siehe Bohatta).       [Bookseller: Antiquariat-Versandbuchhandel Uwe L�b]  87.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   MAGNI, Jacobus. Sophologium.       Uncut copy of the first edition of the Sophologium, given by Wilhelm of Aachen to the 'Domus Regularium Bonorum puerorum'at Liege in 1474 (Strassburg, 'R' printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1470). Folio. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards, spine ribbed, with original green morocco label lettered in gold; both covers with blind tooled lozenge-shaped pattern with small fleur-de-lys and star stamps; original label with title and shelf-mark pasted to the front cover; in modern half calf case. Roman letter (Type: R 103), rubricated in red throughout with red paragraph marks and initials on the three to five line spaces left open, many with printed guide letters; wide margins (the measuring 295 x 215 mm.), 35 lines to a page; Collation: (a-d)10, (e)8+1(f. e2 added, no lost of text), (f)8, (g-i)10, (k)6, (l-m)8, (n-o)10, (p-q)8, (r-u)10, (x)8, (y)10, (z)8, (A)8-2 (without the mostly lacking last two blanks); 217 leaves. First edition of this very rare incunable. There are two undated editions of this work by the same printer Adolf Rusch, which were printed shortly after one another (HC 10471 and 10472) and our copy appears to belong to the first. The anonymous printer, whose modern nickname is derived from the peculiar 'R' of his 103 type is now generally identified with Adolf Rusch of Ingweiler who married Johann Mentelin's daughter Salome and who succeeded Mentelin - the very first printer in Strassburg - in his business after his death in 1479. Before that date he worked already partly for Mentelin and partly for his own, as our book shows. His type with the peculiar 'R' is the first Roman type ever used in Germany.Jacobus Magni (or Jacques Legrand) was a French Augustinian, born in Toulouse (ca. 1350) where he first worked as a librarian. Later on, at the beginning of the fifteenth century he moved to Paris to become a preacher. In Paris he came in contact with the Royal Court of Charles VI, where he preached in 1405 with much boldnes against Queen Isabel of Bavaris (1371-1435) and the inpopular Duc d'Orl�ans. After the assassination of the Duc, Le Grand was sent to England to negociate with the English King. He died around 1422. Being in essence an encyclopaedical work especially in the field of philosophy and economy, the Sophologium was considered to be a handbook of good manners at the same time. As such it had a great success and judging by the vast number of incunable and post-incunable editions the book became very popular during the first century of printing. In fact the work is an anthology of philosophy and science taken from numerous ancient writers and early Fathers, as well as Albumazar, Chaucer, etc. Because it is a well composed and rather complete summary of all relevant classical and medieval authors, the book was used intensively till far into the 17th century. The text was translated into French by Jacques le Grand himself and was published (only in abridged form) in Chablis in 1478 under the title 'Le livre intitule de bonnes meurs d�di� � tr�s -noble prince ... Jean, fils du roi de France, duc de Berry ...'. An English translation was printed by Caxton in 1487 with the title 'The Book of Good Manners'.The incunable has a very interesting provenance. On verso of the first fly-leaf a manuscript note states that this copy was given to the 'Convent of the regular Canons at the priory of St. Elisabeth or of the 'Good boys' (des Bons-Enfants)' in Li�ge in 1474 by Wilhelmus de Aquisgrani (of Aachen), canon of the St. Lambert Church at Li�ge (Monast. Belge, II, p. 376-9): "Liber regularium domus bonorum puerorum in Leodio. Quem dedit nobis venerabilis dominus wilhelmus de aquisgrani. doctor in sacra theologia. et canonicus ecclesie sancti lamberti leodiensis ... oremus ergo cordialiter pro eo: Anno domino M. cccc. lxxiiii." Our copy is herewith the third copy known with an added date in manuscript - one with the date 1473 and one other with 1474 - giving a firm 'terminus ante quem' to the undated edition. We know also the orifinal shelf-mark of the book in the library of the convent: "M vi" is written on the label on the front cover, as well as on a label pasted to the verso of this cover.Furthermore our copy shows a number of very interesting features regarding the history of early printing. The leaves are totally uncut in such a way that not only most of the original manuscript signatures and catchwords are visible in the lower margins, but also the little holes in the upper and lower margins caused by the nails on the tympan of the printing-press, enabling the printer to print the lines on the rectos and the versos of the leaves 'in register': just on top of each other.- f. 1r-3r: Contents: Capitula tractatus primi libri primi Incipiunt.- f. 3v: Dedication the the French King by Jacobus Magno. Inc.: '(I)llustrissimi principis regis francorum.- f. 3v-217v: Text. Inc.: 'Tractatus primus huius primi libri: est de quibusdam que inducunt ad amorem sapiencie. Cuius primum capitulum est de inducentibus ad amorem sapiencie. (D)icit Ariostoteles decimo ethicorum ...'- f. 217v: Colophon: 'Sophilogium editum a fratre Iacobo magni de Parisiis ordinis heremitarum sancti Augu. finit foeliciter'. Very interesting, important and good uncut copy.- (Rebacked and covers skilfully restored, with some ms. notes in the margins; some occasional soiling; parchment leaves with a 15th-century treatise entitled 'Tractatus de amore sapientie', pasted to the inner sides of the boards). Goff M-38; Hain-Copinger 10472*; Polain (B) 2458; Polain (F) 7045; Oates 100; Klebs 595.2; BMC I 61; Proctor 241; Ritter 293; cf. Baer II 207; Zehnacker, Cat. r�g. des inc., XIII, 1, 1480; L. Halkin, 'La maison des Bons Enfants de Li�ge', in: Bulletin de l'Institut arch�ol. li�geoise', 64 (1940), pp. 5-54.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  88.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Hierocles of Alexandria (died 5th century AD) In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.       Padua, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 1474. First Edition. 4�; 20 cm x 15,5 cm. 91 (of 92) leaves, a-k8 l6 m5 (lacking last blank leaf). 24 columns per page (Text size: 132 x 76 mm). Full calf binding. Very good condition. Wonderfully preserved First Edition in a superbly elegant binding made of beautiful red leather. The work contains the commentary to the "Golden Poem" by the Pythagoreans. It is the only surviving work by the Neo-Platonist Hierocles of Alexandria. The text was translated into Latin by the Sicilian humanist Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459; also known as Joannes Aurispa) who bought the original Greek manuscript in Venice in 1441. The book is dedicated to Pope Nicolas V. (1447-1455). This edition also features an extremely rare characteristic of old incunables: the quire counts were stamped onto the paper by hand. These hand-stamped counts are especially known in works printed by Valdezoccho (also: Val de Zoccho) in 1473. When these works were rebound the bookbinder usually removed the stamps, which happened here in quires i-m. Quires a-h still retain these remarkable stamps. The broad margins and early Roman type are also important criteria which further underline the esthetical uniqueness of the volume at hand. Elegant full red leather binding of the late 19th century with beautifully discreet gilt-stamped spine and fine gilt-stamped borders on covers and edges. All edges of the text block are golden. [Condition of the binding: Very Good / Condition of the paper: Good (+) / Further remarks: The incunable is in very good condition. The corners and edges of the binding are only very lightly rubbed. The red color of the leather is strong and bright. A small library label on the front cover. The paper has hardly darkened and apart from a few light marks appears as new. The inner cover with a book plate by John Vertues, Bishop of Portsmouth (1826-1900), who gave the book to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire in 1894. A remarkably beautiful and wonderfully preserved copy of this very much sought-after First Edition. ] Hierocles (died 5th century A.D.) was a student of Plutarch of Athens (c. 350 - 431/433). He was an avid defender of heathen beliefs and was of the opinion that divine intervention and free will could coexist: "The most important source for our knowledge of H.'s philosophy is his commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans." (BBKL, Bd. II) (GW 12409 Goff H-151). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Bibliopegi GmbH]  89.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   CAMUS, Edmond Gustave. Orchid�es de France. [Paris], 1895. Imperial 4to (32 x 26.5 cm). Atlas-volume with calligraphed title-page, 52 fine watercolour drawings on 51 leaves showing orchid varieties, finished with arabic gum, and 1 leaf with photo of the author pasted in. Burgundy half morocco binding, marbled sides and endleaves.       Cf. Junk, Bibliographia Botanica 1474; Nissen, BBI supp. 316 na; Willing 473. Beautiful work with 52 watercolour drawings of the orchids of France on 51 leaves. These original drawings are most likely part of a continuing project to write a comprehensive study on the complicated taxonomy of the orchids in this region. The orchids are drawn on smaller sheets, measuring c. 24.5 x 15.5 cm, that have been pasted onto larger leaves of 32 x 26.5 cm. The latter are mounted on stubs and bound in into the present volume. There are 51 leaves, numbered I-XXIX, XXIXbis, XXX-L in the upper right corner, whereas leaf XLII has two varieties. Camus wrote the name of the variety and that of the botanist who first described this particular orchid in block letters underneath the drawing. Drawings XXIV and XXXVII have been signed by him, "E.G. Camus," the others are unsigned. Because of the small sheets on which the orchids have been drawn, sixteen varieties have been depicted in a lower and an upper half. Edmond Gustave Camus (1852-1915), a pharmacist and botanist, was fascinated by the intricate taxonomy of the genus of the orchid. He lived close to l'Isle-Adam, the habitat of numerous orchids, and set out to collect the different varieties. In 1891 he published twelve sets with the first fruits of his research in Iconographie des Orchid�es des environs de Paris, each of which contained forty meticulously drawn and hand-coloured drawings of orchids, "j'ai entrepris l'oeuvre laborieuse de former douze exemplaires de l'Iconographie en dessinant et peignant douze fois les quarante plances (de grandeur naturelle) qui la composent" (Bulletin de la Soci�t� Botanique de France, vol. 7 (1885). In 1891 Camus began to publish his Monographie des Orchid�es de France, which was to appear in a series of articles in the Journal de Botanique. The first article appeared in Journal de Botanique 5 (1891), pp. 429-434, and the final article was published in the same magazine in 1893 (see Willing 473 for a complete list of these articles). The text of these articles was published separately in 1894, consisting of a text-volume with 130 pages of text, and an atlas-volume with 52 photographic plates (there was now a XLII and a XLIIbis), partially hand-coloured. Both volumes measure 25 cm in height and were published in an edition of 38 copies only (see Junk, Nissen). In the Monographie des Orchid�es de France, which we consulted in the version of the journal articles, Camus dicusses a total of 155 numbered varieties of orchids, and for 52 varieties, he refers to illustrations in an accompanying Atlas. The names of these varieties agree exactly with the orchids depicted in our atlas-volume. The present 52 watercolour drawings are not listed in any of the bibliographies, not even in the bibliography of the publications by E.G. Camus, prepared by Henri Lecomte and Camus's daughter Aim�e Antoinette in E.G. Camus, Iconographie des Orchid�es d'Europe (Paris 1921-1929; Stafleu & Cowan 971). These drawings testify to Camus's outstanding craftmanship both as a botanist and artist and to his love for orchids. Their charm cannot fail to captivate anyone who browses through the atlas. The splendid drawings are in excellent condition.       [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]  90   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   1473 1475

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