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Sholokhov, Mikhail; (Translation From The Russian By Stephen Garry; Revised & Completed By Robert Daglish)
And Quiet Flows the Don: a Novel in Four Books (Library of Soviet Literature)
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Foreign Languages Publishing House. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Text of all 4 volumes/BRAND NEW. Brown boards to all volumes/Fine. Illustrated DJs/VG; uniform condition w/nips, chips & small losses to edges and surface rubs. Ribbon bookmarks. Book 1 frontispiece, author's photograph. Laid in: Key to Principle Characters. When the Crimean Khanate fell to the Turks (1478), the legendary, hard-riding Cossack warriors settled along river banks in the frontier lands of southern Russian and the Ukraine; they became known as Don, Volga, and Dneiper Cossacks and the like. Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-) is a Don Cossack. In his preface to the first English edition (1934) Sholokhov writes: "...I should be happy if in this description of the Don Cossacks, so unfamiliar to Europeans, the reader discerned something else---those colossal changes in everyday habits, life and human psychology that have taken place as a result of the war and revolution. " Preceding this monumental work is an old song: "...Our father, the quiet Don, blossoms with orphans/And the waves of the quiet Don are filled with fathers' and mothers' tears/Oh thou, our father the quiet Don! /Oh why does thou, our quiet Don, so sludgy flow? " The USSR now gone, Cossack groups are reasserting their identity in both Russian and Ukraine...Sholokhov's voice stays and quiet flows the Don.
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MELA Pomponius
Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis.
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Venice, Bernard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1478, in-4, ff. 48 n.n., leg. 500esca pergamena floscia, titolo calligrafato lungo il dorso). Impresso in elegante carattere tondo; titolo entro splendida bordura su fondo nero, con due scudi incrociati sul lato inferiore; 4 grandi iniziali ornate. Alcune parti impresse in rosso: al primo f. titolo generale e del primo libro (3 linee), f. c1v (titolo ed iniziale del libro 2), e f. e2v (titolo del libro 3). Rara terza edizione del trattato di Pomponio Mela (metą del I secolo d.C.), classico testo cosmografico latino che costituisce la pił antica descrizione geografica della Terra, nonché la prima data alle stampe, seppur risenta di un palese lavoro di raccolta e selezione di notizie riferite da altri autori. Esemplare assai bello, a grandi margini. BMC, V, 245. CIBN M-281. Essling 273. Klebs 675.3. Sander 4484; Goff M-449. IGI 6342.
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[SACRO BOSCO, Joannes de and Gerardi Cremonensis [i.e. Sablonetani].]
Iohannis de sacrobusto anglici uiri clarissimi spera mundi feliciter incipit
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[Venetius, 1478.]. Small 4to, 20.5 cm., collating a-b8, c-d6; e-f10, this copy with 45 (of 48) leaves!lacking e2, and e9-10); 25 lines; types 5:109bR (text), 6:65G (diagram text); incipits to each part pprinted in red; 6 (of 11) woodcut diagrams (2 with hand-coloring), woodcut initials (mostly hand-colored), full contemporary and probably original limp vellum, old manuscript titling on spine, and with a wallet-style wrap-around flap, the vellum worn and soiled. Beginning at ff. [29]: Gerardi cremonensis uiri clarissimi Theorica planetaru[m] feliciter incipit. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cremonensis who died 1187. See DSB, Supplement, p. 189 for a summary of the evidence. Both works were first printed in 1472. In spite of the missing leaves, this is a most interesting copy, having been annotated by the rubricator and colorist, with 11 lines of notes by him on the verso of the blank leaf preceding a1, and notes in the margins of 25 of the pages of the Sphaera mundi, and another 3 more lines of notes on the blank leaf following f10; also with a dated ownership inscription of Caroli Malagesse Benigni, 1636, with his note "Impressum 1478" in ink on the first flyleaf, and with a calligraphic notation on verso of the second rear flyleaf: "Fur cave ne nostrum rapiat tua dextera librum, Ni dare vis lignis colla tenenda tribus: ("Thief, watch that your hand doesn't snatch our book away, Unless you wish your neck to be restrained by three wooden sticks" [i.e., the yoke]. Goff J-402; Hain-Copinger; *14108; Proctor, 4175; BM 15th Century, V, p. 195.
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Proverbia
De proverbia, ofte Spreuken van den allerwysten koning Salomon. Inhoudende allerlei schone, wyze, en godvrugtige leeringen, om in alle staten ende gelegenheden wysselyk ende godvrugtelyk te handelen. Zeer bekwaam om de jeugd in de scholen tot haar stigtinge te doen leren. Amsterdam, J. Ratelband en J. Bouwer, 1764.
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4ŗ: A-C 8, gepag.: 48 pp. Op de titelpagina een afbeelding in houtsnede van een schoolklas met meester en leerlingen Papieren omslag, op binnenzijde omslag ex-libris (geplakt) van F.H.M. Ouwerling. Vgl Buijnsters (BNK) 1351-1385); Forum I, 253-255; Muller 979-987; De Vries 442; Waller 1478-1479 (alle andere edities) De Meyer, De volks- en kinderprent in de Nederlanden van de 15e tot de 20e eeuw (Antwerpen-Amsterdam 1962) p.265-274 Ontelbare malen herdrukt volksboekje met de spreuken van koning Salomon, waaruit de schooljeugd gedurende enkele eeuwen heeft leren lezen en schrijven. Volgens Buijnsters dateren de oudst bekende edities van omstreeks 1540; bij Muller komt nog een druk uit 1825 voor, waarbij hij opmerkt: "curieus bewijs van het taaie leven van dergelijke boekjes". Op de eerste 20 pagina's zijn de spreuken zowel uit een gotische als een civilité-letter gezet, de resterende pagina's bevatten alleen civilité. De firma J. Ratelband en J. Bouwer was van omstreeks 1760 tot omstreeks 1767 werkzaam als bijbeldrukker en uitgever van volks- en kinderprenten en van schoolboekjes als de 'Proverbia'. Jeronimus Ratelband overleed in 1767; vanaf dat jaar luidde de firmanaam Wed. J. Ratelband en J. Bouwer. Het jaar daarop verscheen een nieuwe druk van de 'Proverbia' met dit impressum. De hier aangeboden uitgave is zeldzaam: ze komt niet voor in de NCC en de bekende referentiewerken.
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Giovanna Nepi Scire, Silvia Pagden, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
Giorgione
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Skira-Berenice. This extraordinary exhibition catalogue explores the rare works of one of the most enigmatic painters of the Renaissance, Zorzi da Castelfranco-universally known as Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478-Venezia, 1510)-examining 15 out of an oeuvre of his 25 attributed paintings. Fellow student of Titian under Giovanni Bellini in Venice, almost nothing is known of Giorgione's life except that he worked in Venice, undertook various important commissions in oil and fresco, and died of the plague in his early 30s. A major innovator, he is acclaimed as the father of modern Venetian painting of the 16th century. In his revolutionary brushwork he skilfully combined Leonardo's sfumato with the colours and the thin layers of paint favoured by the Old Flemish masters to give a new dimension to light and colour. This monograph features masterpieces by Giorgione such as The Tempest, The Old Woman, The Nude, the recently restored Altarpiece of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Christ Carrying the Cross, Three Philosophers and Laura as well as the only drawing by Giorgione View of Castel San Zeno at Montagnana and a Sitting Figure. Some seminal examples of works by Bellini, Titian, Durer and Cranach help to place Giorgione's art in context and to document his influence on later painters. A team of international art historians and critics contribute original essays to the richly illustrated and well-documented book that features new discoveries in Giorgione's technique, an analysis of the results of restoration, and an updated bibliography. ISBN10: 8884918677.
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Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de (1478-1557)
Historia general y natural de las Indias islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano
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pspan style="font-family: Arial;"4 volumes: cxii+632,[1] page with five plates; vii+511+[2] pages with three plates (two of which are folding maps); viii+651+[2] pages two plates (of which one is a map); viii+619+[2] pages plus five plates (of which one is a color folding map). Large quarto (12 3/4' x 9") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. 1st edition.br /br /Gonzalo FernA!ndez de Oviedo y ValdA!s (August 1478 - 1557) was a Spanish historian and writer. He was born in Madrid of a Noble Asturian lineage and educated in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. At thirteen, he became page to their son, the Infante Juan, (Infante is a title bestowed on any of the Royal Family's children that are not heirs to the Spanish Crown) was present at the siege of Granada, and there saw Christopher Columbus previously to his voyage to The Americas. On the death of Infante Juan (October 4, 1497), Oviedo went to Italy, and there acted as secretary to Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba. In 1514 he was appointed supervisor of gold-smeltings at Santo Domingo, and on his return to Spain in 1523 was appointed historiographer of the Indies. He paid five more visits to America before his death, which took place at Valladolid in 1557. First Oviedo's literary work was a Chivalric romance entitled emLibro del muy esforzado e invencible caballero Don Claribalte/em (Book of the very striving and invincible knight Don Claribalte). It was published in 1519 in Valencia by Juan ViA!ao, one of the prominent printers of that time. In the foreword, dedicated to Ferdinand of AragA3n, Duke of Calabria (not to be confused with the King Ferdinand II of Aragon), Oviedo relates that the work had been conceived and written while he was in Santo Domingo. Therefore, it seems that this was the first literary work created in the New World. Oviedo wrote later two extensive works of permanent value: emLa General y natural historia de las Indias and Las Quinquagenas de la nobleza de EspaA!a/em. The former work was first issued at Toledo (1526) in the form of a summary entitled emLa Natural hystoria de las Indias/em; the first part of emLa Historia general de las Indias appeared/em at Seville in 1535; but the complete work was not published till 1851-1855, when it was edited by J.A. de los Rios for the Spanish Academy of History. Though written in a diffuse style, it embodies a mass of curious information collected at first hand, and, the incomplete Seville edition was widely read in the English and French versions published by Eden and Poleur respectively in 1555 and 1556. Las Casas describes it as "containing almost as many lies as pages," and Oviedo undoubtedly puts the most favourable interpretation on the proceedings of his countrymen; but, apart from a patriotic bias which is too obvious to be misleading, his narrative is both trustworthy and interesting. It is through his book, that Europeans a!! and then the whole world a!! came to learn about the hammock, the pineapple and tobacco among other things, because these were used by the Native Indians that he encountered; The first illustration of a pineapple is credited to him. He was also placed in charge of the Fortaleza Ozama (famous Fort in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) where there is a large statue of him given to the Dominican government by the King of Spain. In his emQuinquagenas/em he indulges in much lively gossip concerning eminent contemporaries; this collection of quaint, moralizing anecdotes was first published at Madrid in 1880, under the editorship of Vicente de la Fuente.br /br /strongCondition:/strongbr /br /Lacks Foster's stamp, but includes Foster's date of aquiry and place of purchase on front end paper of volume one, some shelf wear else a very good to fine copy./span/p
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus (um 250 - nach 325).
Opera] De divinis institutionibus; De ira Dei; De opificio Dei vel de formatione hominis; De [ave] phoenice carmen; Epitome divinarum institutionum; Venantius Fortunatus: De resurrectione Christi.
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(Venedig, Johannes de Colonia und Johannes Manthen, 27. August 1478). - Folio (298 x 198 mm). [228] Bl. (das erste leer). Kalbslederband d. Z. über Holzdeckeln, mit blindgeprägtem Rautenmuster innerhalb ornamentalem Rollstempel-Rahmen (fachgerecht restauriert, Rücken erneuert). In Venedig erschienener Wiegendruck mit den Werken des aus Nordafrika stammenden christlichen Schriftstellers und herausragenden Rhetors Lactantius. Erstmals gedruckt erscheint hier am Schluss die Epitome divinarum institutionum, ein mit Verbesserungen versehener, kurzer Auszug aus den Divinae institutiones. Wie üblich ist diese Lage am Schluss zwischen z7 und z8 eingebunden. Die Schriften des Lactantius stellen gleichsam den Abschluss der frühchristlichen Apologetik dar. Der Verfasser vollzieht in ihnen eine eindeutige Trennung zwischen Christentum und religiöser Umwelt. Die Bildung hat ihren Platz in der Vorbereitung zum Glauben, sie wird jedoch dem Massstab der Offenbarung unterworfen. Die Göttlichen Unterweisungen, stellen den ersten Versuch in lateinischer Sprache dar, eine Systematik der christlichen Lehre zu entwickeln. In De opificio Dei vertritt der Kirchenvater ein teleologisches Weltbild, das vom Handeln eines Schöpfergottes bestimmt wird. Die Wohlgeordnetheit der Natur verweist den, der sie sehen kann, auf eine Vorsehung, hinter der Gott als Künstler-Architekt steht. In seiner vor allem gegen die Stoiker und Epikureer gerichteten Altersschrift De ira Dei, wendet sich Lactantius gegen die Philosophie im allgemeinen und jene Denker im speziellen, welche lehrten, dass Gott weder Zorn noch Gnade kennt. Seines geschliffenen Stils wegen galt Lactantius den Humanisten als "Cicero Christianus". Seine überragende Kenntnis der lateinischen Literatur macht ihn zu einem wertvollen Zeugen für die Rekonstruktion verlorener Schriften. Die beiden Deutschen Drucker Johannes de Colonia und Johann Manthen von Gerresheim übernahmen 1474 die Offizin der Brüder Speyer und druckten bis 1480 insgesamt 84 bevorzugt kanonistische, theologische und philosophische Werke. Die von Conrad Sweynheim und Arnold Pannartz gedruckte Editio princeps der Werke des Lactantius erschien 1465 als erstes datiertes Buch in Italien. - Mit sehr vielen, von einer Humanistenhand zierlich geschriebenen Marginalien. - Im Innensteg wasserrandig. Stempel "Museo Cavaleri" auf dem Fusssteg des ersten Textblattes. Aus der grossen Kunst- und Büchersammlung des Mailänder Juristen Michele Cavaleri, die im letzten Viertel des 19. Jhs. in Leipzig und Paris verkauft wurde. Literatur: BMC V, 233-234; BSB-Ink. L-7; Hain/Copinger 9814; Polain 2422; Goff L-9; Pellechet Ms 6992 (6944); IGI 5625; Madsen 2431; Voulličme (B) 3755; Walsh 1707, 1708; Yates. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), 6f. Early Incunabular edition of the works of Lactantius (250-325), the first christian humanist. He was an African by birth and a pupil of Arnobius, a distinguished rhetorician who taught at Sicca Veneria. At the request of Emperor Diocletian Lactantius became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia. After the publication of Diocletian's first Edict against the Christians in February, 303 A.D. Lactantius left Nicomedia [today Ismit]. The friendship of the Emperor Constantine raised him from penury and though very old he was appointed tutor in Latin to the emperor's son Crispus at Trier, where he spent the remainder of his life. First printed in 1465 by Conrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz Lactantius' writings were reprinted more than ten times up to 1501. For his masterful style in Latin Lactantius was called 'Christian Cicero' by the humanists. Unlike his master Arnobius, a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca in Proconsular Africa, who used his skills to ridicule paganism, Lactantius attempted to promote Christianity among the learned classes by meticulously explaining what Christians believed. His opus magnum the Divinae institutiones is the first large scale attempt in common Latin to set forth Christian doctrine in a detailed and systematic manner. In his De opificio D
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PETRARCH, Francesco
Trionfi
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1478. PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice: Reynaldus of Nijmegen and Theodorus of Rendsburg, February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum rebacked, new endpapers. Collation: a10, b8, c6, e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bb-ff6, gg10. Housed in custom clamshell box. $12,000. Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing Bernardo Lapini's influential commentary, with extensive references to Filelfo's commentary of 1446. Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341 and is generally considered the poet who ushered in the Renaissance. "He perfected the sonnet form and left behind a body of work in the Tuscan dialect of Italy, the beauty and sensibilities of which justly secured him the reputation as being the first modern lyric poet" (King's College). Trionfi is an allegorical cycle composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for the Divine Comedy. The poem is cautionary in nature and takes as its metaphor a triumphal procession of six allegorical figures!Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity!each victorious over its predecessor. Central to Trionfi (as well as to his later Canzoniere) is Petrarch's unrequited love for a woman named Laura, whom he first saw on April 6, 1327 in the church of St. Claire in Avignon and who died of the plague in 1348. "The first two parts, Triumph of Love and the Triumph of Chastity, were probably written within the years 1340-1344, as a work complete in itself. But the death of Laura in 1348 led Petrarch to write the Triumph of Death which he followed soon after with the Triumph of Fame. The last two parts, the Triumph of Time and the Triumph of Eternity, were not written until the last few years of his life and Petrarch constantly reworked the earlier sections of the Trionfi so at the time of his death it was still in an unfinished state" (King's College). "Commentaries on Petrarch's poetry in early printed editions exemplify the kinds of cultural interaction and, at times, of social and political intervention that authorize such texts" (William J. Kennedy). The earliest commentary was composed by Antonio da Tempo in Padua sometime before the 1440 and was reworked by Francesco Filelfo in 1446. "In 1475 Bernardo da Pietro Lapini da Montalcino (also 'Glicino' or 'Illicino') published the most influential of the early commentaries, bound together with the Canzoniere. Lapini established a tradition of interpreting the poem as an allegory of the human soul" (Notre Dame University). First circulated in manuscript form and finally published in 1470, Trionfi had a huge influence on the literature and art of Renaissance Europe. "Guardiani estimates that, in the 16th century alone, over 300,000 short lyrics, mostly sonnets, were written, and that most of them were in imitation of Petrarch. In England, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Donne all owe a debt to Petrarch as do Spenser, Surrey, and Wyatt" (King's College). Trionfi was also an inspiration to Shelley, whose Triumph of Life was also written in terza rima. In this 1478 edition, "the printers established a form followed in all later editions of separating the portions of [Petrarch's] text in rectangular spaces, the commentary filling the rest of the page" (Fiske Petrarch Collection). Rubricated throughout with initial letters and section marks. Without first blank leaf a1; gathering k bound before gathering J. Texts in Italian. Proctor 4429. Goff P381. Thacher 297. Running titles supplied by a later hand; a few annotations and marginal glosses. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior, with small worm-holes to first leaf and occasional worm-holing to inner margin, plus occasional light dampstaining. Paper repairs to inner margins of first two gatherings and to leaves k3 and k7. A lovely incunable, in excellent condition.
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Fracastorii Hieronymi
Hieronymi Fracastorii Veronensis Poemata Omnia, Nuinc Multo, Quam Antea, Emendatiora. Accesserunt Erliquiae Carminum Joannis Cottae, Jacobi Bonfadii, Adami Fumani, Nicolai Archii, Poetarum Veronensium
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Patavii. [Padua, 1718] Exc. Josephus Cominus. Large 8vo. pp [16] xl; 242, leaf of similar publications. Light waterstaining thorughout the lower half. Original calf & boards, raised bands. Beautifully printed, with woodcut initials and head-and tail-pieces throughout. A large copy, wide margins, uncut. Frontis portrait of Fracastoro; title-page woodcut depicts a laborer excavating artifacts of the past (ancient coins, ceramics, sculpture). * Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), of Verona, was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. Themes of his greatest literary work, The Syphilis, dedicated to Pietro Bembo, are the European exploration of the New World, and the rapid spread of the syphilis epidemic. Fracastori? s Syphilis became one of the most celebrated poems of the Renaissance; Fracastori was hailed as a major Latin poet, and compared to Virgil.
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BIBLIA LATINA. Vulgata.
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INCUNABLE LEAF. - Leaf: Hieremias / Propha (folio) ccxcij (292). Single leaf printed recto and verso. Text in double columns, with 51 lines to a column, text in Latin. with rubrication and one blue and 2 red initials executed by hand. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1478. Sheet size: 41 x 28,7 cm. A leaf from the third edition of Anton Koberger's Latin Bible, issued three years after his first great folio Bible. This third printing of his Latin Bible is essentially a reprint of his editions of 1477 and 1475, largely based on the Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1462. Anton Koberger was for a number of years the leading publisher of his time. The total list of his printings for the forty years from 1473 to 1513, when he died, comprises no less than 236 separate works, including fifteen impressions of the Biblia Latina, eight of which presented material differences of notes and commentaries which entitled them to be considered as distinct editions. 'In the actual number of separate works issued, Koberger was possibly equalled by one or more of his contemporaries, but in respect to literary importance and costliness, and in the beauty and excellence of the typography, the Koberger publications were not equalled by any books of the time excepting the issues of Aldus in Venice' (Putnam II, p. 150).
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Historisch-geographische Karten. -
Sammlung von 14 Blattern mit geographischen Karten, teilweise koloriert, 19. Jahrhundert, alle in Passepartout von gleichem Format, in Halbleinen-Mappe.
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Die folgenden 13 Karten, ca.15 x 20 cm: Schlacht bei Giornico, den 28 Christmonath 1478, Mullhaupt sc. / Schlacht bey Grandson, 2. Marz 1476. koloriert / Schlacht bei Nancy. 5 Januar 1477. Mullhaupt sc. koloriert / Belagerung der Stadt Zurich im Jahr 1444. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St Jacob an der Birs, 26 August 1444, koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz von Ende Juni 1476 bis zum 4 Jenner 1477. Mullhaupt sc. / Kriegs-Schauplatz vom 1 bis 21 Juni 1476. Mullhaupt sc. koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz im Schwaben-Krieg bis 20. April 1499. Mullhaupt sc. koloriert / Das Schlachtfeld bey Nafels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Das Schlachtfeld "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Carte des Rhein-Tales bey Sargans und Ragatz. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / und 1 Karte: Schlacht bey Murten 22 Jni 1476. Mullhauser sc. koloriert, 12 x 34 cm. English: Collection of 14 leaves with geographical maps, partly colored, 19th century, all in Passepartout of the same size, in half cloth cover. the following 13 maps, about 15 x 20 cm: Battle at Giornico, ... 1478, Mullhaupt sc. / Battle at Grandson, ... 1476. koloriert / Battle at Nancy. ... 1477. Mullhaupt sc. colored / Siege of the town of Zurich ... 1444. colored / Battle at St Jacob an der Birs, ... 1444, colored / Battle fields of the end of June 1476 to the 4th of Jan. 1477. Mullhaupt sc. / Battle fields of 1 to 21 Juni 1476. Mullhaupt sc. colored/ Battle field Schwaben-War until 20. April 1499. Mullhaupt sc. colored / The battle field at Nafels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Battlefield "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Map of the Rhein-Tales at Sargans and Ragatz. colored / Battle at St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / and 1 Map: Battle at Murten 22 Jni 1476. Mullhauser sc. colored, 12 x 34 cm.
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NASH (Paul W.) SAVAGE (Nicholas) BEASLEY (Gerald) MERITON (John) & SHELL (Alison) Compilers.
Early Printed Books 1478-1840: Catalogue of the British Architectural Library’s Early Imprints Collection.
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1994-2003. First Edition 5 Vols., numerous plates, orig. cloth. Early Printed Books includes detailed bibliographical descriptions of some 4200 books published between 1478 and 1840. As well as conventional bibliographical details (transcriptions of titlepages, collations, tables of contents, etc.) the illustrative elements of each work are described in unprecedented detail, in a manner specially-developed for this publication. At the end of each entry, before a description of the RIBA’s copy, there are notes which attempt to set the work in its context, to illuminate its history, critical reception and impact, and to discuss variations and peculiarities in its physical make-up. In many cases these notes are extensive and form, in effect, sustained historical essays on the works and authors under discussion. With the most important authors, attempts have been made to supply complete bibliographies, in addition to the detailed studies of the editions owned by the RIBA Library. Early Printed Books forms the most comprehensive bibliography of architecture and the related arts and sciences ever published. Each volume is illustrated with plates, reproducing woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and text-pages from the works described. The five volumes are arranged alphabetically by author, as follows: Volume 1 (published 1994). A-D (Academie-Dyce), 586 pages, with a foreword by Eileen Harris and an introduction by David Dean. With 35 plates and a frontispiece. This first volume contains descriptions of 960 books, among them important works by Robert Adam, L.B. Alberti (including the 1485 first edition of De Re Aedificatoria), the Blondels, John Britton, Sir William Chambers, Thomas Chippendale, A.B. Desgodetz and J.N.L. Durand. Volume 2 (published 1995). E-L (Eaton-Lysons), 540 pages, with 37 plates and a frontispiece. A total of 1024 books are described in this volume. Among the authors included are Andrļe Felibien, Benjamin Franklin, Roland Frļart, James Gibbs, William Halfpenny, Inigo Jones, Antonio Labacco, Batty Langley, Jean Le Pautre and J.C. Loudon, as well as the Baron d'Hancarville's celebrated description of Sir William Hamilton’s collection of vases. This volume also includes a substantial collection of British official publications and Acts of Parliament relating to building, arranged under the heading for Great Britain. Volume 3 (published 1999). M-R (McAdam-Rutter), 713 pages, with 37 plates and a frontispiece. This volume includes descriptions of 898 further books by authors such as Jean Marot, Peter Nicholson, William Pain, Percier and Fontaine, John Plaw, Andrea Pozzo, the Pugins, Raphael, Humphrey Repton, Luigi Rossini and the RIBA itself. This volume also contains extensive descriptions of the works of two of the most important authors in the canon, Andrea Palladio and G.B. Piranesi. Volume 4 (published 2001). S-Z (Sadeler-Zuccaro), 807 pages, with 36 plates and frontispiece. This volume is the most substantial of the series (although it describes only 859 books), since it includes some of the most influential and widely-read architectural writers of the last two thousand years. Four great Italians - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Sebastiano Serlio, G.B. da Vignola and Vitruvius - are afforded nearly two hundred pages of bibliographical and historical detail. Other notable authors include K.F. Schinkel, Thomas Sheraton, John Shute (author of The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture of 1563, the first English book on the subject), Sir John Soane, the Society of Dilettanti, Stuart and Revett, Giuseppe Vasi, John Wood and Sir Christopher Wren. There are also detailed descriptions of Vitruvius Britannicus (edited by Colen Campbell) and its successor volumes by Woolf and Gandon, and of a unique collection of publisher's catalogues issued by Taylor’s Architectural Library between 1787 and 1828. Volume 5 (published 2003). Indices, Corrigenda, Appendices and Supplement (A-Z), 840 pages, with 34 plates and a frontispiece. This volume completes the work. In addition to supplying a supplementary bibliography of the remaining 450 works which now make up the Collection, and corrections and additions to volumes 1-4, there are three detailed indices. The general index includes the names of all authors, editors, translators, architects, draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, wood-engravers, printers and publishers, as well as the titles of the books described. Also included are such ‘copy-specific’ information as the names of owners, donors, annotators and binders of the RIBA copies. Where possible, the exact role of each individual included in the index is indicated. A ‘Selective Subject Index’ gives subject and genre access to the bibliography, and a separate index of printers and publishers allows geographical and chronological analysis of this important aspect of publishing history. This volume also includes appendices of pre-1841 periodicals, shelfmarks and late acquisitions.
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or JASME)
Tractatus de Pestilentia
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Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82]. First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book ! ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a !Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon... !Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica... !The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes! treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind... !His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs.!!Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ❧ B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190. .
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 a. C. – 65 d. C.).
Opera philosophica. Epistolae. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (60 a. C. - ca. 40 d. C.). Declamationes, Suasoriae, Controversiae.
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Treviso, Bernardus de Colonia, 1478. "In-folio (mm x ). Segnatura: a10, b-h8, i10, k-l8, m10, n-z8, cum8, aa-bb8. 214 carte non numerate, la prima e l’ultima carta sono bianche. Testo su 53 linee. Carattere: 81G. Spazi per capilettera. Legatura in pergamena del secolo xviii con titoli in oro sul dorso; taglio superiore colorato. Esemplare ad ampi margini, in buono stato di conservazioen; qualche raro alone. Restauro del margine della carta segnata bb7. Ex-libris al contropiatto. Annotazioni di mano coeva al margine del testo. Seconda edizione delle opere filosofiche e morali di Seneca data alle stampe, unitamente alle Epistolae ad Lucilium e agli scritti teorici di Seneca il Vecchio, nel 1478 da Bernardo da Colonia, tipografo sul quale scarse sono le notizie. Attivo a Treviso tra il 1477 e il 1478, č nota una sola altra edizione uscita dai suoi torchi, il De priscorum proprietate verborum di Junianus Maius (1477). L’editio princeps di Seneca aveva visto la luce – per le cure di Blasius Romerus, monaco cistercense originario di Poblet in Catalogna – a Napoli nel 1475, presso Mathias Moravus, e della quale la stampa trevigiana del 1478 č una ristampa, riproducendone anche gli errori (cfr. H 14590). Tra le poche differenze si segnala la diversa posizione dell’elenco delle opere di Seneca (“In hoc volumine continentur infrascripti libri Senecae”), impresso da Bernardo di Colonia al recto della carta segnata bb7, tra l’explicit “Liber epistolarum moralissimi Senecae finit foeliciter”, e la sottoscrizione “Impressum Taruisij per Bernardum de Colonia Anno domini. M.cccc.lxxviij”, mentre nella stampa napoletana del 1475 tale elenco č in calce alla prima parte. Occorre, infine, notare che anche nel caso del De priscorum proprietate verborum, Bernardo di Colonia ristampņ la princeps apparsa, nel 1475, sempre presso l’officina napoletana di Moravo. Second dated complete edition of Seneca’s philosophical works and of the theorical works by his father (Seneca the Elder), reprint from the Naples 1475 edition of Moravus. One of the few editions from the printing office of Bernard of Cologne at Treviso who only worked there in 1477-78 and of whom only two dated and one undated editions are known. Good copy, bound in 18th century vellum with gilt title on spine. Repairs to the leaf bb7. Bookplate in the inner board. H 14591; BMC VI 892; Goff S369; IGI 8868; Sheppard 5517; Proctor 6484."
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EYB, Albrecht Von
Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering Paris: Ulrich Gering, 1478 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: !June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby! on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Hardcover. Very Good Condition.
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Duns Scotus, Johannes
Quaestiones in quattor libros Sententiarum.Part 2. [bound with]#11;Quodlibeta
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Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen, Venice:: Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen,, 1478, 7 January & 1477, 7 October.. 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards,fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of OBrother Antonius dOAsralo OMO on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins.. Folio. 2 works in 1volume.. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265!1308), Franciscan friar and theologian.tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of ScotusO important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone.#11;OIt was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because Othey could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). ScotusOs quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12.O [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus]#11;OThough less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), ScotusO Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris.O [Ency. of Philosophy]#11;Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford study he was granted leave to incept at Cambridge in the academic year 1466!7, and took the degree of DTh on 31 May 1468. He must have already had some repute within his order, since he was confirmed as prior provincial of England on 22 October 1469; but he evidently returned to Oxford, where he was permitted by his order to study and teach, until in 1474 he vacated the provincialship to study at Padua. He was appointed lector in metaphysics in the university there, almost certainly being the Master Thomas Anglicus confirmed in that post on 22 September 1475, and very probably holding it already in 1474, when he published in Venice his edition of the quodlibetal questions of John Duns Scotus. By 1477, when he brought out an edition of Scotus's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, he was holding the post of lector in theology, which he still held in 1479 according to his confr!re, Brother Iacopo Filippo da Bergamo. He was re-elected prior provincial in 1480 (confirmed 15 March 1481) and again on 1 April 1485, presumably until death. At Easter 1484 he preached a sermon in praise of Richard III, which, according to Sir Thomas More, was afterwards excoriated, but which brought him an annual pension of !10 from the king. He died in London on 20 May 1487.#11;#11;Penketh's principal achievement was to be the first to publish scholarly but usable printed editions of the chief works of Duns Scotus and the Scotist theologian Antonius Andreae. His editorial work was crowded into the five or six years he spent at Padua, where he could be in touch with experienced printers; but it originated in the Scotist teaching of the Oxford and Cambridge theological faculties, as a surviving notebook in his hand shows (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 126). It contains questions on universals by Brother William Russell, probably the Augustinian friar who incepted at Oxford in 1430, some unattributed questions on God and creatures, possibly Penketh's own, and a text of the commentary of Antonius Andreae on Aristotle's Metaphysics which he edited at Padua. All these texts are explicitly Scotist, one of the unascribed questions citing Scotus as doctor noster subtilis; together, they provide evidence of the theology taught at the Oxford Augustinian house from the 1430s to the 1470s, and of the Scotist learning that lay behind Penketh's editions of Scotus and Antonius Andreae. The editions ascribed to him are Scotus's Quaestiones quodlibetales, printed by Albert de Stendal (Padua, 1474), with the text emended by Penketh, and printed again from Penketh's text for Johann of Cologne (Venice, 1477) and reissued both in Nuremberg and in Venice in 1481; Scotus's Quaestiones super secundum librum sententiarum, printed by Stendal and emended by Penketh (Padua, 1474); Antonius Andreae's Quaestiones de tribus principiis rerum naturalium, printed by Laurentius Canozius and emended by Penketh and Laurentius de Lendenaria (Padua, 1475); Scotus's Quaestiones super libros sententiarum, edited by Penketh with Bartolomeo Bellati and printed for Johann of Cologne and Nicholas Jenson (Venice, 1477, and reissued there in both folio and quarto editions in 1481); Antonius Andreae's Quaestiones super OMetaphysicaO, printed for Nicholas Petri of Haarlem and emended by Penketh (Vicenza, 1477, and reissued in London for William Wilcock in 1480). 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Sack(Freiburg) 1293. Walsh 1699. Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 717. Sheppard 3490. Bodleian D162. Proctor 4320.BMC V 228. BSB-Ink D-318. GW 9068. ISTC id003930000.
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or JASME)
Tractatus de Pestilentia
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Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82].p First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book ! ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a !Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon... !Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica... !The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes! treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind... !His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs.!!Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ❧ B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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Heiland, K., Hrsg.
Der Stricker: Pfaffe Amis. "Disz buchlein sagt von dem ofenturliche man genant pfaf Amysz/was er wunders hat volbracht sein tag". Faksimile [1912] der einzige, vollständige Ausgabe [1478] aus Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek in München. Mit gleicher Fehlstelle wie im Originalausgabe auf Bl. 24 - fehlender/herausgeschnittener Holzschnitt ? -vorgestellt.
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[Strassburg: Johann Prüss, c. 1478] * München, K. Heiland, [1912],. PGMt.mit OSchuber, 26 ff, 8° u. mit handkolorierten Holzschnitten und Initialen versehen. Vergoldeter Kopfschnitt; gemusteter Bezug auf beiden Decken; Rückenschwarzprägung. Schuber mit gemustertem Papier überzogen. Fast unbeschädigtes Exemplar, Einband in sehr gutem Zustand; Schuber gering berieben u. bestossen. Selten. Sehr gut erhalten..
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PLUTARCHUS.
Vitae parallelae.
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Plutarch in the unsurpassed 1478 Jenson edition. Illuminated copy of Petrus De Ginori in a fine contemporary Italian binding Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1478, 2 January. 2 vols. in one. Folio. Beautiful contemporary blind tooled brown calf over wooden boards; fillets, rolls and loose stamps; an octangular space in the center with two ornaments composed of four demi-circles of six lines, surrounded by a pattern of very tiny stamps; spine in six compartments tooled in a lozenge-shaped pattern; brass corner- and centerpieces; four clasps and catches: two at the fore edge and one at the top and lower edge. First text-page lavishly illuminated: the 12-lines initial (Q) in gold decorated with a exquisite freely painted spray of coloured flowers in blue, red, pink and yellow, green leaves and tiny gold rayed discs in a North Italian (Florentine?) style, extending in the left and top margins; a similar spray in the right margin surrounds a monogram 'PB' and a coat of arms: a blue field with a gold bar with three gold stars, in a green wreath in the lower margin.Very wide margins (405 x 20mm.); printed in the famous Jenson roman (Type 115 (111)R); capital spaces with guide letters. Collation: Vol. 1 : a(10), b(12), c-m(10), n(8), o-x(10), y-z(8), &(8) (= 234 leaves, including the first blank and the often lacking blank f. b7); one extra blank leaf; vol. 2: A-E(10), F-N(alt. 8/10), oo-pp(8), Q-Y(10), Z(8), &&(10) (= 226 leaves). Parchment double-leaves are bound in at the beginning and the end of the book-bloc, one of the leaves pasted to the boards. Splendid and in many respects best and most important edition of the Lives by Plutarch, published by the famous printer, publisher and type-designer Nicolas Jenson. It is the third edition of this work, only preceded by the edtio princeps, edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus, printed in 1470-71 at Rome by Ulrich Hahn, and the Strassbourg edition by the R-printer (=Adolph Rusch), after 1471 (the edition by Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome 1473 - Hain 13126 - is a bibliographical ghost).It is a pity that we know so little of the genesis of what instantly became a much prized and widely read edition, recommended as much by its popular subject matter as by its exceptional typography, offering content and presentation in perfect harmony. The edition is based on the edition by Campanus, but a great deal of further editorial work had been needed, as Jenson acknowledged in a colophon, stating that the Lives had been 'emended with anxious care'. The Latin translations are by Johannes Tortellinus, Lapus Biragus, Donatus Acciaiuolus, Antonius Pacinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Brunus, Franciscus Barbarus, Leonardus Justinianus, Alamannus Rinuccinus and Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia. Added were the Vitae of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus and Charlemagne by Donatus Acciaiuolus; of Titus Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos; of Cicero and Aristotle by Leonardus Brunus; and of Plato by Guarinus Veronensis; the translation by Perigrinus Attius of the pseudo Plutarch Vita of Homer; the translation by Guarinus Veronensis of the Vita of Euagoras by Isocrates; the translation by Baptista Guarinus of the Vita of Agesilaos by Xenophon, and the Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani by Festus. Jenson substituted a version of the Lives of Theseus and Romulus by Lapo da Castiglionchio for the one by Filelfo which Campanus had used, deleted the non-Plutarchus Lives of Homer and Virgil from the end of the selection, and re-issued the remainder of the collection. Subsequent editions of the Vitae followed his. Such a procedure of changing and adding material in such a way as to give his version of the text a look of its own and to offer the reader something extra for his money, is typical for Jenson during the seventies of the century.Nicolas Jenson († 1480) was undoubtedly the greatest of the first generation of Venetian printers. Born ca. 1440 near Tours he may have been sent to Mainz in 1458 by King Charles VII to learn the secrets of the new trade of printing, introduced there by Gutenberg. He left Mainz probably in 1462. Until 1470 when he emerged as a first-rate printer in Venice, nothing is known about him. Unlike Aldus Manutius, who started printing in Venice in the later 80s, Jenson was a businessman and technocrat, not so much a humanist and scholar. Jenson's achievements were earlier than Aldus', slightly different, but in a sense they have had an even further-reaching importance, especially because of the grandeur and perfect lay-out of his Latin and Greek classics, and certainly also because of his letter forms which were justly admired for their beauty and legibility. In his letter designs he has transposed for the first time Carolingian script forms into a lower-case alphabet that would match the roman inscriptional capital letters already employed for the upper case alphabet. This was an artistical and technical achievement of the first magnitude and of lasting importance to the shape and appearance of our basic information medium in the Western civilisation: the roman letter forms. Jenson was already admired and respected by his contemporaries not only as a fine printer of classics, canon law and liturgical material, but also for his ability to render letter forms in distinctly 'typographic' characters that remain a source of inspiration for designers to this day. Harry Carter once observed after counting some thirty roman founts based on Janson's design: 'there was little left for makers of roman type but to copy Jenson'. Plutarch's popularity and importance rest primarily on these Vitae (or Parallel Lives) - composed in Greek ca 100-120 AD -, which were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. The lives are presented in pairs, for example: Theseus - Romulus; Demosthenes - Cicero; Alexander the Great - Caesar, etc. In all 22 pairs survive and four single biographies of Aratus, Artaxerxes, and the Roman emperors Otho and Galba. By exhibiting noble deeds and characters, they were also to provide patterns of good behavior and moral and ethical values. Plutarch's later influence has been profound, but his reputation faded in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, only to be re-introduced in Renaissance Italy by Byzantine scholars in the 15th century. Italian humanists had translated Plutarch's work into Latin long before the Greek editio princeps was published at Florence in 1517, re-published by Aldus in 1519. Especially through its translations into Latin (of which the present 1478 Jenson edition is the best incunable-edition), as well as in the vernacular (the famous French translation by Jacques Amyot in 1559, and the English translation by Sir Thomas North in 1579) the Lives could gain an enormous impact on Western civilisation by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montagne, Corneille, Racine, Rouseau and Schiller heavily drew upon the Lives. This was certainly also the case with Shakespeare for whom the Lives were the main source for his Roman plays. Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Timon of Athens, all come, often literally, from the Lives (G. Highet, The Classical Tradition, Oxford 1967. p. 210-14). They have functioned also to a great extent as a model for later rulers like the French King Henry IV, Frederik II of Prussia and even Napoleon.Provenance: The copy was first owned by Petrus de Ginoris (Pietro Ginori (de Riparbello)), who had the copy also illuminated. Not only there is the coat of arms of the Ginori family from Florence in the lower margin of the first text-page: a blue field with a gold bar with three gold stars (Rietstap, G (Plate L)), but there is also his embellished monogram ('PB') in the right margin. That this monogram PB is in fact the monogram of Petrus de Ginoris is proved by the ownership's entry on the recto of the free parchment flyleaf at the beginning: above his name 'Petri Gini de Ginoris' there is the same mongram 'PB'. The only problem is that this entry is dated 'cccco lxxii' which is impossible of course. Probably this is a mistake for 1482 (cccc lxxxii). Magnificent copy of this important edition with beautifully illuminated first page; very wide margins. Probably it was the original owner Petrus de Ginoris who wrote a table of contents on the recto of the first blank leaf.- (Few wormholes and insignificant staines in the margins; binding recently skillfully restored: rebacked with the remaining original fragments of the back pasted on; a restoration report is available). Hain-Copinger *13127; Goff P 832; Pol. 3212; BMC V, p. 178; Pell-Pol. 9387; Proctor 4113; BNCI P 491; IGI 7922; BSB-Ink, P 626; IDL 3749; Sardini, Nicolao Jenson, 1478 (i, ii); Flodr, Incun. 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Skira-Berenice. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This extraordinary exhibition catalogue explores the rare works of one of the most enigmatic painters of the Renaissance, Zorzi da Castelfranco-universally known as Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478-Venezia, 1510)-examining 15 out of an oeuvre of his 25 attributed paintings. Fellow student of Titian under Giovanni Bellini in Venice, almost nothing is known of Giorgione's life except that he worked in Venice, undertook various important commissions in oil and fresco, and died of the plague in his early 30s. A major innovator, he is acclaimed as the father of modern Venetian painting of the 16th century. In his revolutionary brushwork he skilfully combined Leonardo's sfumato with the colours and the thin layers of paint favoured by the Old Flemish masters to give a new dimension to light and colour. This monograph features masterpieces by Giorgione such as The Tempest, The Old Woman, The Nude, the recently restored Altarpiece of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Christ Carrying the Cross, Three Philosophers and Laura as well as the only drawing by Giorgione View of Castel San Zeno at Montagnana and a Sitting Figure. Some seminal examples of works by Bellini, Titian, Durer and Cranach help to place Giorgione's art in context and to document his influence on later painters. A team of international art historians and critics contribute original essays to the richly illustrated and well-documented book that features new discoveries in Giorgione's technique, an analysis of the results of restoration, and an updated bibliography. ISBN10: 8884918677.
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PLUTARCHUS.
Plutarch in the unsurpassed 1478 Jenson edition. Illuminated copy of Petrus De Ginori in a fine contemporary Italian binding, Vitae parallelae.
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Nicolas Jenson, 1478, 2 January., Venice, - 2 vols. in one. Folio. Beautiful contemporary blind tooled brown calf over wooden boards; fillets, rolls and loose stamps; an octangular space in the center with two ornaments composed of four demi-circles of six lines, surrounded by a pattern of very tiny stamps; spine in six compartments tooled in a lozenge-shaped pattern; brass corner- and centerpieces; four clasps and catches: two at the fore edge and one at the top and lower edge. First text-page lavishly illuminated: the 12-lines initial (Q) in gold decorated with a exquisite freely painted spray of coloured flowers in blue, red, pink and yellow, green leaves and tiny gold rayed discs in a North Italian (Florentine?) style, extending in the left and top margins; a similar spray in the right margin surrounds a monogram 'PB' and a coat of arms: a blue field with a gold bar with three gold stars, in a green wreath in the lower margin.Very wide margins (405 x 20mm.); printed in the famous Jenson roman (Type 115 (111)R); capital spaces with guide letters. Collation: Vol. 1 : a(10), b(12), c-m(10), n(8), o-x(10), y-z(8), &(8) (= 234 leaves, including the first blank and the often lacking blank f. b7); one extra blank leaf; vol. 2: A-E(10), F-N(alt. 8/10), oo-pp(8), Q-Y(10), Z(8), &&(10) (= 226 leaves). Parchment double-leaves are bound in at the beginning and the end of the book-bloc, one of the leaves pasted to the boards. Splendid and in many respects best and most important edition of the Lives by Plutarch, published by the famous printer, publisher and type-designer Nicolas Jenson. It is the third edition of this work, only preceded by the edtio princeps, edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus, printed in 1470-71 at Rome by Ulrich Hahn, and the Strassbourg edition by the R-printer (=Adolph Rusch), after 1471 (the edition by Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome 1473 - Hain 13126 - is a bibliographical ghost).It is a pity that we know so little of the genesis of what instantly became a much prized and widely read edition, recommended as much by its popular subject matter as by its exceptional typography, offering content and presentation in perfect harmony. The edition is based on the edition by Campanus, but a great deal of further editorial work had been needed, as Jenson acknowledged in a colophon, stating that the Lives had been 'emended with anxious care'. The Latin translations are by Johannes Tortellinus, Lapus Biragus, Donatus Acciaiuolus, Antonius Pacinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Brunus, Franciscus Barbarus, Leonardus Justinianus, Alamannus Rinuccinus and Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia. Added were the Vitae of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus and Charlemagne by Donatus Acciaiuolus; of Titus Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos; of Cicero and Aristotle by Leonardus Brunus; and of Plato by Guarinus Veronensis; the translation by Perigrinus Attius of the pseudo Plutarch Vita of Homer; the translation by Guarinus Veronensis of the Vita of Euagoras by Isocrates; the translation by Baptista Guarinus of the Vita of Agesilaos by Xenophon, and the Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani by Festus. Jenson substituted a version of the Lives of Theseus and Romulus by Lapo da Castiglionchio for the one by Filelfo which Campanus had used, deleted the non-Plutarchus Lives of Homer and Virgil from the end of the selection, and re-issued the remainder of the collection. Subsequent editions of the Vitae followed his. Such a procedure of changing and adding material in such a way as to give his version of the text a look of its own and to offer the reader something extra for his money, is typical for Jenson during the seventies of the century.Nicolas Jenson († 1480) was undoubtedly the greatest of the first generation of Venetian printers. Born ca. 1440 near Tours he may have been sent to Mainz in 1458 by King Charles VII to learn the secrets of the new trade of printing, introduced there by Gutenberg. He left Mainz probably in 1462. Until 1470 when he emerged as a first-rate printer in Venice, [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Kathleen Ann Myers
Fernandez De Oviedo's Chronicle of America: a New History for a New World
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University of Texas Press. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas from 1492 to 1547, along with descriptions of the land's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples. His Historia, which grew to an astounding fifty volumes, includes numerous interviews with the Spanish and indigenous leaders who were literally making history, the first extensive field drawings of America rendered by a European, reports of exotic creatures, ethnographic descriptions of indigenous groups, and detailed reports about the conquest and colonization process. Fernandez de Oviedo's Chronicle of America explores how, in writing his Historia, Oviedo created a new historiographical model that reflected the vastness of the Americas and Spain's enterprise there. Kathleen Myers uses a series of case studies— focusing on Oviedo's self-portraits, drawings of American phenomena, approaches to myth, process of revision, and depictions of Native Americans— to analyze Oviedo's narrative and rhetorical strategies and show how they relate to the politics, history, and discursive practices of his time. Accompanying the case studies are all of Oviedo's extant field drawings and a wide selection of his text in English translation. The first study to examine the entire Historia and its evolving rhetorical and historical context, this book confirms Oviedo's assertion that "the New World required a different kind of history" as it helps modern readers understand how the discovery of theAmericas became a catalyst for European historiographical change. ISBN10: 0292717032.
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Plutarch Jenson, Nicolaus
Vitae Parallelae Illustrium Virorum
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VeniceNicolaus Jenson, 1478. Translated from Greek into Latin by Lapus Florentinus, Leonardus Aretinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Justinianus and others. A Beautifully Illuminated Jenson Plutarch PLUTARCH. Vitae illustrium virorum. [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 2 January 1478]. Fourth edition, the first printed by Jenson, of Plutarch's Parallel Greek and Roman Lives (preceded by the edition printed in Rome by Ulrich Han in 1470-1471, the Strassburg edition printed by the “R-Printer” (Adolph Rusch) after 1471, and the edition printed in Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1473). Two large folio volumes (Volume I: 16 1/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 409 x 252 mm. and Volume II: 15 15/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 404 x 264 mm.). [233] (of 234) and [226] (of 228) leaves. Bound without blank leaf a1 but with blank leaf b7 in Volume I. Bound without two initial (unsigned) blank leaves in Volume II. Roman letter. Fifty lines. Capital spaces with guide letters. Volume I with opening twelve-line white-vine initial illuminated in gold, red, blue, and green, with marginal extensions, by a contemporary artist. Volume II with twenty-nine fine illuminated white-vine initials in gold, red, blue, and green, by a different artist, including two with very high quality portrait profiles of Lucius Lucullus on A6 recto (on a green background) and Nicias on B10 recto (on a red background). Eighteenth-century Italian calf. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines ruled in gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, mottled edges. Small bit of expert restoration to fore-edge of front board of Volume I. Some light insect damage to edges of front board of Volume II (and less so to lower rear board), slight crack to front joint of same. Volume I with small tear in the lower margin of m7, neatly repaired tear to lower inner margin of e5, some very occasional light staining to lower blank margin of a few leaves, manuscript notes erased, mostly marginal but some interlinear. Tiny marginal repair to upper margin of first leaf in Volume II, minor wormholes to the first five leaves...
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Pomponio Mela.
Cosmographia de situ orbis.
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Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn,, Venecia: 1478 - 48 hojas en signaturas a-f8. Bella impresión a dos tintas sobre papel grueso. En una encuadernación del siglo xvi en piel sobre tabla, gastada de las puntas y con las guardas nuevas. Alguna suciedad antigua y un fino punto de polilla imperceptible. Para la fortuna del libro de Pomponio Mela en la edad moderna véase, M. E. Miham, "An introduction to the Renaissance Tradition of Pomponius Mela", en Acta Conventus Neolatini Lovaniensis, Mśnich, 1979, pįginas 786-793 Hain-Copinger 11017*. Klebs 675.4. IBE 3906, tres ejemplares: Escorial, March y Real Academia de la Historia. IGI 6343. Proctor 4174. BMC v 195: "A close reprint of Maler and Ratdolt's 1478 edition." Goff M 450. Cuarta edición.La Geografķa de Pomponio Mela (hispano andaluz del siglo i dC) es la śnica obra geogrįfica latina de la época clįsica y un recorrido minucioso por las poblaciones costeras del Mediterrįneo. La editio princeps se publicó en Milįn: 1471, y ya desde siempre habķa sido considerado un clįsico.
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SCHULTE,Ed.
Reichsgeschichte der Niederlande seit der Burgundischen Zeit
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- Ein Aufris von 1478 bis 1919. Etwa 55 Bilder u.a. Holland und Belgien wieder vereint. De Bello Belgico. Famiani Stradae (Farbbild). Reichsadler. Wappen von Antwerpen (Hansekontors). Leo Belgicus 1585. Reichszugehörigkeit (Farbbild). Burgundischer Hochzeit,Gent,1477, usw. Amsterdam,1944. 147 Seiten in4. Halbleinen. Sehr selten ! [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus (um 250 - nach 325).
Opera] De divinis institutionibus; De ira Dei; De opificio Dei vel de formatione hominis; De [ave] phoenice carmen; Epitome divinarum institutionum; Venantius Fortunatus: De resurrectione Christi.
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- Folio (298 x 198 mm). [228] Bl. (das erste leer). Kalbslederband d. Z. über Holzdeckeln, mit blindgeprägtem Rautenmuster innerhalb ornamentalem Rollstempel-Rahmen (fachgerecht restauriert, Rücken erneuert). (Venedig, Johannes de Colonia und Johannes Manthen, 27. August 1478). In Venedig erschienener Wiegendruck mit den Werken des aus Nordafrika stammenden christlichen Schriftstellers und herausragenden Rhetors Lactantius. Erstmals gedruckt erscheint hier am Schluss die Epitome divinarum institutionum, ein mit Verbesserungen versehener, kurzer Auszug aus den Divinae institutiones. Wie üblich ist diese Lage am Schluss zwischen z7 und z8 eingebunden. Die Schriften des Lactantius stellen gleichsam den Abschluss der frühchristlichen Apologetik dar. Der Verfasser vollzieht in ihnen eine eindeutige Trennung zwischen Christentum und religiöser Umwelt. Die Bildung hat ihren Platz in der Vorbereitung zum Glauben, sie wird jedoch dem Massstab der Offenbarung unterworfen. Die Göttlichen Unterweisungen, stellen den ersten Versuch in lateinischer Sprache dar, eine Systematik der christlichen Lehre zu entwickeln. In De opificio Dei vertritt der Kirchenvater ein teleologisches Weltbild, das vom Handeln eines Schöpfergottes bestimmt wird. Die Wohlgeordnetheit der Natur verweist den, der sie sehen kann, auf eine Vorsehung, hinter der Gott als Künstler-Architekt steht. In seiner vor allem gegen die Stoiker und Epikureer gerichteten Altersschrift De ira Dei, wendet sich Lactantius gegen die Philosophie im allgemeinen und jene Denker im speziellen, welche lehrten, dass Gott weder Zorn noch Gnade kennt. Seines geschliffenen Stils wegen galt Lactantius den Humanisten als "Cicero Christianus". Seine überragende Kenntnis der lateinischen Literatur macht ihn zu einem wertvollen Zeugen für die Rekonstruktion verlorener Schriften. Die beiden Deutschen Drucker Johannes de Colonia und Johann Manthen von Gerresheim übernahmen 1474 die Offizin der Brüder Speyer und druckten bis 1480 insgesamt 84 bevorzugt kanonistische, theologische und philosophische Werke. Die von Conrad Sweynheim und Arnold Pannartz gedruckte Editio princeps der Werke des Lactantius erschien 1465 als erstes datiertes Buch in Italien. - Mit sehr vielen, von einer Humanistenhand zierlich geschriebenen Marginalien. - Im Innensteg wasserrandig. Stempel "Museo Cavaleri" auf dem Fusssteg des ersten Textblattes. Aus der grossen Kunst- und Büchersammlung des Mailänder Juristen Michele Cavaleri, die im letzten Viertel des 19. Jhs. in Leipzig und Paris verkauft wurde. Literatur: BMC V, 233-234; BSB-Ink. L-7; Hain/Copinger 9814; Polain 2422; Goff L-9; Pellechet Ms 6992 (6944); IGI 5625; Madsen 2431; Voulličme (B) 3755; Walsh 1707, 1708; Yates. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), 6f. Early Incunabular edition of the works of Lactantius (250-325), the first christian humanist. He was an African by birth and a pupil of Arnobius, a distinguished rhetorician who taught at Sicca Veneria. At the request of Emperor Diocletian Lactantius became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia. After the publication of Diocletian's first Edict against the Christians in February, 303 A.D. Lactantius left Nicomedia [today Ismit]. The friendship of the Emperor Constantine raised him from penury and though very old he was appointed tutor in Latin to the emperor's son Crispus at Trier, where he spent the remainder of his life. First printed in 1465 by Conrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz Lactantius' writings were reprinted more than ten times up to 1501. For his masterful style in Latin Lactantius was called 'Christian Cicero' by the humanists. Unlike his master Arnobius, a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca in Proconsular Africa, who used his skills to rid
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La scuola grande di San Rocco a Venezia.
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Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena, 2008 - A cura di Franco Posocco. Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la cittą di Venezia si votņ durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell'omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperitą nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama č legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestņ per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare č anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva 2 voll. cm.24x31, pp.660 compl., 410 figg.a col.40 figg.bn. Coll.Mirabiliae Italiae. legg.ed.in raso di seta nero con impressioni in oro e icone applicate a mano.
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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.
Beautiful clean large paper copy of the first translation into Italian De la cita di Dio (De civitate Dei, in Italian).
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(Venice (or Florence), Antonio di Bartolomeo da Bologna (Miscomini), ca. 1478; not after 1483). - Folio. Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century light brown calf, triple and double gilt filets along the borders of both sides with gilt corner pieces in between, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Printed in two columns, 47 lines, 3-6 lines initial spaces left blank (not rubricated), Type: 4: 78 (80)R. 324 leaves; collation: a12 (including first blank, sign. beginning on fol. 2 (= a1, etc.)), a-z, A-G10, H12 (including last blank). Beautiful copy with wide margins (paper: 288 x 202 mm) of this first Italian translation of one of the main works by St. Augustine (354-430): his famous De civitate Dei, the City of God, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos (The City of God against the Pagans). It is a book written in Latin in the early fifth century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other Christian philosophies. Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined. It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to provide a consolation of Christianity, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph.This magnificent incunable contains the first translation into Italian by an anonymous author, although the translation has been attributed to Brother Jacopo Passavarti in an inscription on H11v of a copy of this edition now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The same copy has an ownership's entry dated 1483, the reason why most bibliographies date the edition as 'not after 1483'. It is 'The only well authenticated early edition' of the Italian translation (BMC)Our edition was assigned to Miscomini's Florentine press by Proctor who identified Antonio di Bartolomeo with Antonio Miscomini who started his Florentine press in 1481.BMC, however, attributes it to his press in Venice because "(1) of the numerous watermarks several (scales in circle, large oxhead with shaft ending in cross and rosette, etc.) are characteristically Venetian but none characteristically Florentine; (2) the heavy a with head curled to left which is occasionally found elsewhere only in the Venetian Virgil of 1486." BMC provides further evidence for Venetian origin on the basis of several copies known in contemporary Venetian bindings. They note, however, "on the other hand, the frequent combination of the article with its substantive in one word is rather a Florentine characteristic." GW assigns the book to Florence, BSB-Ink., IDL and others to Venice. So, it is not completely clear whether this edition was printed at Antonio di Bartolommeo's (Miscomini's) Venetian press in the late 1470s or at his Florentine press in the early 1480s Very good clean copy with wide margins, and with both often lacking blanks at the beginning and end.- (Re-backed, back cover slightly scratched, some insign. wormholes). Hain-Copinger 2071=2072; Proctor 6145; GK 2892; Goff A-1248; BMC VII, 1136, V, pp. xvi-xvii, and VI, p. xv; Polain (B) 370; Pell. 1564 (calls for Florence, F. Bonaccorsius, 1475); Oates 2339, IGI 982; IBH (Hungary) 380; IDL 500. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Duns Scotus, Johannes. Quaestiones in quattor libros Sent...
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Thomas Penketh, ed. Venice: Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen, 1478, 7 January & 1477, 7 October. Folio. 2 works in 1volume. a10,b-e8, f-g6, h-l8.10,m-mm10,n-p8,q10,r8,s6. Complete with blank. a10, b-e8, f6, ff6, g-k8, l-m10. [lacking b5, text leaf -- with blank inserted incorrectly before b4 & m10 blank.] 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards,fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of “Brother Antonius d’Asralo OM” on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265–1308), Franciscan friar and theologian.tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of Scotus’ important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone. “It was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because ‘they could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). Scotus’s quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12.” [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus] “Though less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), Scotus’ Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris.” [Ency. of Philosophy] Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford study he was granted leave to incept at Cambridge in the academic year 1466–7, and took the degree of DTh on 31 May 1468. He must have already had some repute within his order, since he was confirmed as prior provincial of England on 22 October 1469; but he evidently returned to Oxford, where he was permitted by his order to study and teach, until in 1474 he vacated the provincialship to study at Padua. He was appointed lector in metaphysics in the university there, almost certainly being the Master Thomas Anglicus confirmed in that post on 22 September 1475, and very probably holding it already in 1474, when he published in Venice his edition of the quodlibetal questions of John Duns Scotus. By 1477, when he brought out an edition of Scotus's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, he was holding the post of lector in theology, which he still held in 1479 according to his confrčre, Brother Iacopo Filippo da Bergamo. He was re-elected prior provincial in 1480 (confirmed 15 March 1481) and again on 1 April 1485, presumably until death. At Easter 1484 he preached a sermon in praise of Richard III, which, according to Sir Thomas More, was afterwards excoriated, but which brought him an annual pension of £10 from the king. He died in London on 20 May 1487. Penketh's principal achievement was to be the first to publish scholarly but usable printed editions of the chief works of Duns Scotus and the Scotist theologian Antonius Andreae. His editorial work was crowded into the five or six years he spent at Padua, where he could be in touch with experienced printers; but it originated in the Scotist teaching of the Oxford and Cambridge theological faculties, as a surviving notebook in his hand shows (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 126). It contains questions on universals by Brother William Russell, probably the Augustinian friar who incepted at Oxford in 1430, some unattributed questions on God and creatures, possibly Penketh's own, and a text of the commentary of Antonius Andreae on Aristotle's Metaphysics which he edited at Padua. All these texts are explicitly Scotist, one of the unascribed questions citing Scotus as doctor noster subtilis; together, they provide evidence of the theology taught at the Oxford Augustinian house from the 1430s to the 1470s, and of the Scotist learning that lay behind Penketh's editions of Scotus and Antonius Andreae. The editions ascribed to him are Scotus's Quaestiones quodlibetales, printed by Albert de Stendal (Padua, 1474), with the text emended by Penketh, and printed again from Penketh's text for Johann of Cologne (Venice, 1477) and reissued both in Nuremberg and in Venice in 1481; Scotus's Quaestiones super secundum librum sententiarum, printed by Stendal and emended by Penketh (Padua, 1474); Antonius Andreae's Quaestiones de tribus principiis rerum naturalium, printed by Laurentius Canozius and emended by Penketh and Laurentius de Lendenaria (Padua, 1475); Scotus's Quaestiones super libros sententiarum, edited by Penketh with Bartolomeo Bellati and printed for Johann of Cologne and Nicholas Jenson (Venice, 1477, and reissued there in both folio and quarto editions in 1481); Antonius Andreae's Quaestiones super ‘Metaphysica’, printed for Nicholas Petri of Haarlem and emended by Penketh (Vicenza, 1477, and reissued in London for William Wilcock in 1480). 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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.
Beautiful clean large paper copy of the first translation into Italian De la cita di Dio (De civitate Dei, in Italian).
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(Venice (or Florence), Antonio di Bartolomeo da Bologna (Miscomini), ca. 1478; not after 1483). - Folio. Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century light brown calf, triple and double gilt filets along the borders of both sides with gilt corner pieces in between, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Printed in two columns, 47 lines, 3-6 lines initial spaces left blank (not rubricated), Type: 4: 78 (80)R. 324 leaves; collation: a12 (including first blank, sign. beginning on fol. 2 (= a1, etc.)), a-z, A-G10, H12 (including last blank). Beautiful copy with wide margins (paper: 288 x 202 mm) of this first Italian translation of one of the main works by St. Augustine (354-430): his famous De civitate Dei, the City of God, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos (The City of God against the Pagans). It is a book written in Latin in the early fifth century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other Christian philosophies. Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined. It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to provide a consolation of Christianity, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph.This magnificent incunable contains the first translation into Italian by an anonymous author, although the translation has been attributed to Brother Jacopo Passavarti in an inscription on H11v of a copy of this edition now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The same copy has an ownership's entry dated 1483, the reason why most bibliographies date the edition as 'not after 1483'. It is 'The only well authenticated early edition' of the Italian translation (BMC)Our edition was assigned to Miscomini's Florentine press by Proctor who identified Antonio di Bartolomeo with Antonio Miscomini who started his Florentine press in 1481.BMC, however, attributes it to his press in Venice because "(1) of the numerous watermarks several (scales in circle, large oxhead with shaft ending in cross and rosette, etc.) are characteristically Venetian but none characteristically Florentine; (2) the heavy a with head curled to left which is occasionally found elsewhere only in the Venetian Virgil of 1486." BMC provides further evidence for Venetian origin on the basis of several copies known in contemporary Venetian bindings. They note, however, "on the other hand, the frequent combination of the article with its substantive in one word is rather a Florentine characteristic." GW assigns the book to Florence, BSB-Ink., IDL and others to Venice. So, it is not completely clear whether this edition was printed at Antonio di Bartolommeo's (Miscomini's) Venetian press in the late 1470s or at his Florentine press in the early 1480s Very good clean copy with wide margins, and with both often lacking blanks at the beginning and end.- (Re-backed, back cover slightly scratched, some insign. wormholes). Hain-Copinger 2071=2072; Proctor 6145; GK 2892; Goff A-1248; BMC VII, 1136, V, pp. xvi-xvii, and VI, p. xv; Polain (B) 370; Pell. 1564 (calls for Florence, F. Bonaccorsius, 1475); Oates 2339, IGI 982; IBH (Hungary) 380; IDL 500. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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La scuola grande di San Rocco a Venezia.
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Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena, 2008 - A cura di Franco Posocco. Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la cittą di Venezia si votņ durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell'omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperitą nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama č legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestņ per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare č anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva 2 voll. cm.24x31, pp.660 compl., 410 figg.a col.40 figg.bn. Coll.Mirabiliae Italiae. legg.ed.in raso di seta nero con impressioni in oro e icone applicate a mano.
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Mela, Pomponius
INCUNABULA GEOGRAPHY Cosmographi de situ orbis.
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Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn,, Venice 1478 - One of the most sought after of the early editions of this geographic treatise of Pomponius Mela, the first-century earliest Roman geographer, which agrees in most of its views with the great Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. He writes that the world can be divided east and west into hemispheres, Asia on the east and Erope and Africa on the west. 48 leaves complete. The only defect being that first leave was damaged and the margins have been renewed. The actual leave is slightly damaged with a loss of a few letters of the text. Else a perfect copy with wide margins. Bound in contemporary vellum, with some slight remainders of a manuscripts [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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MELA Pomponius
Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis.
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Venice, Bernard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1478, in-4, ff. 48 n.n., leg. 500esca pergamena floscia, titolo calligrafato lungo il dorso). Impresso in elegante carattere tondo; titolo entro splendida bordura su fondo nero, con due scudi incrociati sul lato inferiore; 4 grandi iniziali ornate. Alcune parti impresse in rosso: al primo f. titolo generale e del primo libro (3 linee), f. c1v (titolo ed iniziale del libro 2), e f. e2v (titolo del libro 3). Rara terza edizione del trattato di Pomponio Mela (metą del I secolo d.C.), classico testo cosmografico latino che costituisce la pił antica descrizione geografica della Terra, nonché la prima data alle stampe, seppur risenta di un palese lavoro di raccolta e selezione di notizie riferite da altri autori. Esemplare assai bello, a grandi margini. BMC, V, 245. CIBN M-281. Essling 273. Klebs 675.3. Sander 4484; Goff M-449. IGI 6342.
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Mela, Pomponius
INCUNABULA GEOGRAPHY Cosmographi de situ orbis.
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Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn,, Venice 1478 - One of the most sought after of the early editions of this geographic treatise of Pomponius Mela, the first-century earliest Roman geographer, which agrees in most of its views with the great Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. He writes that the world can be divided east and west into hemispheres, Asia on the east and Erope and Africa on the west. 48 leaves complete. The only defect being that first leave was damaged and the margins have been renewed. The actual leave is slightly damaged with a loss of a few letters of the text. Else a perfect copy with wide margins. Bound in contemporary vellum, with some slight remainders of a manuscripts [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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C.Ptolemy / N.Germanus
Tertia Europe Tabvla
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Ptolemaic France, Rome, 1478 -1508, copperplate, Uncoloured. 43 x 38.5cms [17 x 15.25ins] An early, rare, printed map of France, based on the manuscripts of Nicholas Germanus, from the "Rome Ptolemy". These maps were prepared in Rome to accompany the "Geographia". Published by Domitius Caldernius and printed by Conrad Schweynhem, the work was continued after their deaths by Arnold Buckink with the subsequent editions of 1490, 1507 and 1508. The quality of printing of this particular map would imply that it is an early edition and is printed on good, strong paper with a visible watermark. Ptolemaic France is shown with rivers prominent and traversed by an exaggerated mountain range linking the Pyrenees with the Alps, and shows clearly the major rivers. A fascinating and rare item. Expert central repair with a little loss.
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PLUTARCH JENSON, Nicolaus
Vitae parallelae illustrium virorum Translated from Greek into Latin by Lapus Florentinus, Leonardus Aretinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Justinianus and others.
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Venice Nicolaus Jenson 1478 - A Beautifully Illuminated Jenson Plutarch PLUTARCH. Vitae illustrium virorum. [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 2 January 1478]. Fourth edition, the first printed by Jenson, of Plutarch?s Parallel Greek and Roman Lives (preceded by the edition printed in Rome by Ulrich Han in 1470-1471, the Strassburg edition printed by the "R-Printer" (Adolph Rusch) after 1471, and the edition printed in Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1473). Two large folio volumes (Volume I: 16 1/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 409 x 252 mm. and Volume II: 15 15/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 404 x 264 mm.). [233] (of 234) and [226] (of 228) leaves. Bound without blank leaf a1 but with blank leaf b7 in Volume I. Bound without two initial (unsigned) blank leaves in Volume II. Roman letter. Fifty lines. Capital spaces with guide letters. Volume I with opening twelve-line white-vine initial illuminated in gold, red, blue, and green, with marginal extensions, by a contemporary artist. Volume II with twenty-nine fine illuminated white-vine initials in gold, red, blue, and green, by a different artist, including two with very high quality portrait profiles of Lucius Lucullus on A6 recto (on a green background) and Nicias on B10 recto (on a red background). Eighteenth-century Italian calf. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines ruled in gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, mottled edges. Small bit of expert restoration to fore-edge of front board of Volume I. Some light insect damage to edges of front board of Volume II (and less so to lower rear board), slight crack to front joint of same. Volume I with small tear in the lower margin of m7, neatly repaired tear to lower inner margin of e5, some very occasional light staining to lower blank margin of a few leaves, manuscript notes erased, mostly marginal but some interlinear. Tiny marginal repair to upper margin of first leaf in Volume II, minor wormholes to the first five leaves (occasionally affecting a few letters), marginalia washed out. Scattered foxing and staining to both volumes. Although these two volumes led separate lives before their joining in the eighteenth-century, they are well matched, similar in size and with similar illumination and leaf edges. From the library of Gordon R. Block Jr., sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet in January 1974 (lot 167). Purchased by Abel E. Berland (with his bookplate) from Seven Gables Bookshop in February, 1974. An outstanding, extensively rubricated, textually complete copy of this extremely scarce edition. Only three complete copies have sold at auction in the last twenty-five years. Along with his Pliny printed in 1472, Plutarch?s Vitae illustrium virorum is one of Jenson?s finest productions. The edition is based on the edition by Campanus, but as Jenson acknowledged in a colophon, it was "emended with anxious care." The Latin translations are largely the work of fifteenth-century humanists, including Johannes Tortellinus, Lapus Biragus, Donatus Acciaiuolus, Antonius Pacinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Franciscus Barbarus, Leonardus Justinianus, Alamannus Rinuccinus, and Jacobus Angelus de Scarperia. They were commissioned by the Florentine stationer Vespasiano da Bisticci in the 1450s and 1460s. Added were the Lives of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, and Charlemagne by Donatus Acciaiuolus; of Titus Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos; of Cicero and Aristotle by Leonardus Brunus; and of Plato by Guarinus Veronensis; the translation by Perigrinus Attius of the pseudo Plutarch Life of Homer; the translation by Guarinus Veronensis of the Life of Euagoras by Isocrates; the translation by Baptista Guarinus of the Life of Agesilaos by Xenopho [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Historia Septem Sapientum Romanae, deutsch: Hie nach volget ein gar schoen Cronick und histori, Ausz den geschichten der Roemern. (GW 12857, H 8727)
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Strassburg, Johann Prüss, um 1478 / 79. Type 1.. Einspaltiges, 35-zeiliges O-Inkunabelblatt mit einem kolorierten Holzschnitt (12,5 x 9 cm). Blatt etw. fleckig. Blattgröße: 17,5 x 23,7 cm. Incunabula text woodcut leaf.. Sehr seltenes Inkunabelblatt aus der zweiten deutschsprachigen Ausgabe in der "abendländischen Normalform" der "Geschichte der sieben weisen Meister". Der älteste erhaltene Text der zyklischen Rahmenerzählung persischer Herkunft, ist vermutlich in der Mitte des 12. Jhd. entstanden. Die Rahmenfabel erzählt die Geschichte eines Prinzen, der von seiner Stiefmutter, deren Liebe er verschmäht hat, verleumdet und daraufhin durch den Vater zum Tode verurteilt wird. Weil ihm Schweigen auferlegt ist, verzögern sieben Weise die Hinrichtung des Prinzen durch das Erzählen von Geschichten, bis sich der Prinz verbal verteidigen kann. Der Unschuldige wird gerettet und die Verleumderin wird bestraft. Das Werk umfasst 66 Blätter und ist digitalisiert: http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00027804/images/ (Vgl. Blatt 10) Von dieser Ausgabe des Drucker Prüss ist nur ein Exemplar erhalten geblieben.
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Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Giovanna Nepi Scire, Charles Hope, Augusto Gentili
Giorgione: Myth and Enigma
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SKIRA EDITORE S.P. A. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This extraordinary exhibition catalogue explores the rare works of one of the most enigmatic painters of the Renaissance, Zorzi da Castelfranco-universally known as Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478-Venezia, 1510)-examining 15 out of an oeuvre of his 25 attributed paintings. Fellow student of Titian under Giovanni Bellini in Venice, almost nothing is known of Giorgione's life except that he worked in Venice, undertook various important commissions in oil and fresco, and died of the plague in his early 30s. A major innovator, he is acclaimed as the father of modern Venetian painting of the 16th century. In his revolutionary brushwork he skilfully combined Leonardo's sfumato with the colours and the thin layers of paint favoured by the Old Flemish masters to give a new dimension to light and colour. This monograph features masterpieces by Giorgione such as The Tempest, The Old Woman, The Nude, the recently restored Altarpiece of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Christ Carrying the Cross, Three Philosophers and Laura as well as the only drawing by Giorgione View of Castel San Zeno at Montagnana and a Sitting Figure. Some seminal examples of works by Bellini, Titian, Dürer and Cranach help to place Giorgione's art in context and to document his influence on later painters. A team of international art historians and critics contribute original essays to the richly illustrated and well-documented book that features new discoveries in Giorgione's technique, an analysis of the results of restoration, and an updated bibliography. ISBN10: 8884918677.
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Thomson, Thomas
The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes
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[1478- 1478 - [Scotland]. Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes. 1495]. [Edited by Thomas Thomson]. [Edinburgh]: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George the Third, 1839. Folio. 430, 60, 33 pp. Contemporary half-calf over boards. Ex-library. Worn, spine rubbed. Covers and a few leaves at beginning and end detached. Some foxing, otherwise good internally. * Published by the Record Commission. Contains judical proceedings in civil matters held before various committees. HLC I: 791. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ramesh Chaturvedi
Brahmavaivarta Purana - A Set of 2 Volumes (Sanskrit+English)
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Parimal Publications - CONDITION: NEW -- BINDING: Hardcover ~ Condition: NEW ~ Vedavyasa has composed Mahapuranas by resorting to the use of historical episodes, legends, stories, fables etc. in order to lay down clearly the topics described in those special type of episodes addressed as Purana in Vedic era.Brahmavaivarta is the most popular treatise among the eighteen Mahapuranas. This Mahapurana finds its references everywhere in various Puranas and in the inventory of names to these Mahapuranas. Moreover, as per the yardstick ascertained, this Mahapurana contains eighteen thousands hymns in it too. As the preaching delivered by god Krsna to desperate Arjuna considering them as nectar of Srimadbhagavad Gita, the special preaching delivered by the same god Krsna are stored in this Mahapurana too. As this Mahapurana discloses the mystery of Brahman, it is called Brahmavaivarta Mahapurana. This Mahapurana has adduced as an authority by a number of philosopher for their submissions. The commentators has from this angle, accepted the specific significance of Brahmavaivarta Mahapurana in literature on Puranas. Indian culture based in Vedas and the tradition of Indian school of thoughts is seen enumerated to suffice length in this Mahapurana.1478 pages ~ Isbn: n/a ~ language: Multi-Lingual ~ Year: 2001 ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Contents Religion/Hinduism/Scriptures & Hymns [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Sholokhov, Mikhail; (Translation from the Russian By Stephen Garry; Revised & Completed By Robert Daglish)
AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON : A Novel in Four Books
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Moscow, USSR: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Text of all 4 volumes/BRAND NEW. Brown boards to all volumes/Fine. Illustrated DJs/VG; uniform condition w/nips, chips & small losses to edges and surface rubs. Ribbon bookmarks. Book 1 frontispiece, author's photograph. Laid in: Key to Principle Characters. When the Crimean Khanate fell to the Turks (1478), the legendary, hard-riding Cossack warriors settled along river banks in the frontier lands of southern Russian and the Ukraine; they became known as Don, Volga, and Dneiper Cossacks and the like. Mikhail Sholokhov (1905 - ) is a Don Cossack. In his preface to the first English edition (1934) Sholokhov writes: "...I should be happy if in this description of the Don Cossacks, so unfamiliar to Europeans, the reader discerned something else --- those colossal changes in everyday habits, life and human psychology that have taken place as a result of the war and revolution." Preceding this monumental work is an old song: "...Our father, the quiet Don, blossoms with orphans/And the waves of the quiet Don are filled with fathers' and mothers' tears/Oh thou, our father the quiet Don!/Oh why does thou, our quiet Don, so sludgy flow?" The USSR now gone, Cossack groups are reasserting their identity in both Russian and Ukraine ... Sholokhov's voice stays and quiet flows the Don.. Unstated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by O. Vereisky & Y. Kopylov (Designers).
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SOLDUS, Jacobus.
Opus insigne de peste felicit.
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Bologna, Johannes Schriber de Annunciata for Thomas de Bononia. 1478. - Small 4to. [36] leaves. Gothic type. Text printed in double columns; 38 lines to a full column. Initials hand-painted in red. Limp vellum, made up of an antiphonal leaf. First edition of a treatise on the plague and its cure written in 1431 during an epidemic at Florence. Its author, Jacopo Soldi (1370-1440), a physician and humanist scholar, had joined the Order of the Servites, and his plague manual was printed by order of the Dean of the Bolognese Theological Faculty, Thomas de Bononia, a fellow Servite. Soldi’s other medical works remain unpublished. Old collector’s stamp in blank margins of recto of second leaf and on blank verso of last leaf. Bookplate of Hugo Fernandez de Burzago y Barrios. BMC VI, 818; Hain-Copinger 14870; Klebs 921.1; Klebs (Pest) 98; Osler 149; Sudhoff, Erste gedruckte Pestschriften, 98; Wellcome, I, 6001. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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La Scuola Grande Di San Rocco a Venezia. the Scuola Grande Di San Rocco in Venice
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Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2008. New A cura di Franco Posocco e Salvatore Settis. Testo italiano/inglese. Modena, 2008; 2 voll. ril. in seta in cofanetto, pp. 660, 619 ill. b/n col., cm 24, 5x31, 5. (Mirabilia Italiae. Collana diretta da Salvatore Settis. 15). (Volume I: Atlante fotografico e volume II: Testi). Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la cittą di Venezia si votņ durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell'omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperitą nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama č legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestņ per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare č anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva.
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Posocco Franco E Salvatore Settis a Cura Di
La Scuola Grande Di San Rocco a Venezia// The Scuola Grande Di San Rocco in Venice
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Franco Cosimo Panini, Modena 2008 - FRANCO COSIMO PANINI EDITORE A cura di Salvatore Settis e Franco Posocco La Scuola Grande di San Rocco a Venezia Ubicata al fianco della chiesa di San Rocco, santo a cui la cittą di Venezia si votņ durante la grande epidemia di peste del XV secolo, la Scuola Grande di San Rocco, sede dell’omonima confraternita, venne fondata nel 1478 da ricchi cittadini veneziani e godette di particolare prosperitą nel primo Cinquecento. Oggi la sua fama č legata soprattutto al vasto ciclo pittorico di Jacopo Tintoretto, che tra il 1564 e il 1578 apprestņ per le tre sale della Scuola una serie di "teleri" con Storie dell’Antico e del Nuovo Testamento. Non meno spettacolare č anche il magnifico coro intagliato da Francesco Pianta con una serie di figure allegoriche di grande forza espressiva. Volume Primo Atlante fotografico, pp. 374 - 402 illustrazioni a colori //Text in Italian and English Language in the Atlas//Testo in lingua Italiana e inglese nell'Atlante Volume Secondo Testi. Saggi e schede, pp. 400 - 217 illustrazioni in bianco e nero Text in Italian Language Prezzo: € 600,00 Codice: [9788824803441] Peso: 6,24 kg [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SCRIVERIUS, Petrus.
Het Oude Goutsche Chronycxken Van Hollandt, Zeelandt, Vrieslandt en Utrecht . Op nieus oversien en verbetert. Als mede met een Byvoeghsel En Toet-steen Vermeerdert. Amsterdam, J.H. Boom, J. Pluymer and C. Commelijn, 1663. 4to. With engraved title and 36 engraved illustrations of Dutch counts. Loosely inserted a full-page engraved portrait of the author by C. de Visscher. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
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- (8), 280 pp. Nijhoff, BHN III, p. 19, no. 227; De Wind, pp. 80-82; 424-428; V.d. Aa VI, pp. 182-185; Wurzbach II, p. 121. Chronicle of 31 successive counts of Holland, ranging from Dirk (Theodorick I), c. 920, till King Philip II of Spain, the last nobleman to hold the title Count of Holland. The chronicle was first published in Gouda in 1478 by Gerard Leeu, and was henceforth always called "Goutsche Chronycxken," and reprinted in Leiden in 1483. The first part, from the middle of the tenth century till 1437, the death of Countess Jacoba of Bavaria, was written by an anonymous author. The continuation till 1477, the death of Charles the Bold, was probably written by Jan van Naaldwijk (see De Wind, pp. 80-82). From 1478 onward, the poet and historian Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) continues the chronicle till the final Count of Holland, King Philip II of Spain. "After the examples of Dousa and Emmius, Scriverius tried to purify ancient history from fables and aberrations. but he sometimes threw out the good with the bad" (De Wind, p. 425). De Toets-steen, added at the end of the chronicle, has been written as a critical commentary to the text to see "which healthy parts can be retained" ("watter noch ghesondts aan is"). The commentary follows the order of pages of the chronicle. Scriverius's additions were published posthumously in 1663. It is not clear when he actually wrote his contribution. The date of the half-title to the By-voegsel is "1630." The Oude Goutsche Chronycxken contains attractive engravings of the counts of Holland made by Adriaan Matham (Wurzbach). A very good copy with attractive engravings.
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KONRAD SCHWEYNHEIM & ARNOLD BUCKINCK
PRIMA AFRICAE TABULA 1478 ROMA
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Seconda carta a stampa della regione, basata sul manoscritto di Nicholas Germanus, tratta dalla Geographia di Claudio Tolomeo, Roma 1478/90. Un anno dopo la prima edizione della Geographia, curata da Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, un nuovo set di mappe fu inciso a Roma per accompagnare il testo dell¯opera. Pubblicata da Domizio Caldernius e stampata da Konrad Schweynheym, alla loro morte fu ristampata da Arnold Buckinck nel 1490. Successivamente le lastre furono corrette e ristampate nel 1507 e 1508. Incisione in rame su due lastre unite, proiezione trapezioidale, lievi abrasioni nella piega centrale, nel complesso in buono stato di conservazione. Rarissima. Dimensioni 395-475x330." "Second printed map of the region, based on Nicholas Germanus manuscript and taken from Claudio Tolomeo¯s Geographia, Rome 1478/90. A year after the first Geographia edition, edited by Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, a new set of maps was engraved in Rome to illustrate the text. Published by Domizio Caldernius and printed by Konrad Schweynheym, the map was subsequently reissued by Arnold Buckinck in 1490. Later on, the plates have been corrected and reprinted in 1507 and 1508. Copperplate in two connected plates, trapezoidal projection, light abrasion in centre fold, in general in good condition. Extremely rare.
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INCUNABULA - [GRUYTRODE, JACOBUS DE].
Speculum aureum anime peccatricis. Colophon: speculum aureum anime peccatricis, a quodam cartusiense editum: finit feliciter. Impressumque Parisius per magistrum Vdalricum cognomento Gering.
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- Paris, Ulrich Gering [1478 or 79]. a-c10, d12: 42 ff. 4to, 207X143 mm. Rubricated in red throughout. First leaf slightly dusty, a few faint underlinings, but a clean, crisp and unwashed, internally near perfect copy with many uncut edges, preserving the ms catchwords at end of quires b and c. Bound in brown cloth from the second half of the 19th century. * Early (possibly second) edition of a feisty and charming devotional which quickly achieved tremendous popularity, appearing in about 40 known editions in the 15th century, including translations into French, German and English (by Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII). It is divided into seven chapters, one for each day of the week. ** Ulrich Gering was one of the triumvirate of German printers, called to Paris by its university in 1470, who became the first printers in France. Gering worked alone, as here, only around 1478 and 1479. A beautiful example of Gering's antiqua printing (the Roman type was apparently chosen at the insistence of the Paris university).*** References: ISTC 00639000; Goff S639; H 14904; Pell 4309. Very rare: ISTC records only eight copies: four outside France and one only in the US (Chicago, Newberry). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SILVATICO, Matteo.
Liber pandectarum medicine: omnia medicine simplicia continens: quem ex omnibus antiquorum libris aggregavit eximius artium.
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[Colophon] Vincentie [Vicenza:] Impressum p[er] Hermanum Lichtenstein [n.d., c. 1478–1480]. - Folio, 319 unnumbered leaves (of 322, lacking two blank leaves and the register leaf, supplied in a convincing facsimile). Text in double columns, Gothic letter, 56 lines, capital spaces with guide letters. Some very minor foxing, last two leaves a bit stained, last few leaves with several small wormholes and wear to corners, pale stain in upper corners, larger stain in last few gatherings (mostly very faint), but generally in very good condition. Full maroon morocco, sides panelled in blind, a fine modern binding. Inscription of an early Neapolitan owner at foot of A1, with short single-line marks against many paragraphs and the occasional word in the margins. Fourth printing. A dictionary of simples and their medicinal use, arranged in alphabetical order and giving the names of plants in Greek, Arabic, and Latin. "Matthaeus Silvaticus, Italian lexicographer, botanist and physician (d. c.1342) kept a botanical garden in Salerno which is the earliest garden of its kind known to us, if conventional herb gardens are not taken into account. In that garden he cultivated not only domestic but also foreign plants, such as Arum colocasia; he sowed it in seeds which he had obtained in Greece. He seems to have traveled extensively, and to have observed plants in many localities and collected information on them. He compiled a large materia medica entitled Pandectae The work, begun c.1297, was completed about 1317 and dedicated to King Robert (in 1337?). It is a reference book on diseases and their remedies in the form of a dictionary of simples The names are followed by descriptions of the simples and their properties according to the ‘authorities’. In some instances he adds his own observations. Many erroneous statements are due to his ignorance of the true names of the plants he dealt with. The Pandectae is much larger than the Synonyma of Simon of Genoa, but generally inferior, except from the purely botanical point of view. His descriptions of plants are more elaborate than Simon’s and he could occasionally refer to his experience as a traveler and a gardener These genuine botanical observations redeem the Pandectae from Haller’s severe judgement, ‘Auctor barbari opus chaoticum’. His main sources were the Synonyma medicinae of Simon of Genoa and the Agregatus in medicinus simplicibus of Serapion the Younger " (Sarton, III, pt. 1, p. 816). Despite the Pandectae’s shortcomings, partly due the the author’s ignorance of the Arabic language, it was very successful, running to ten incunable editions and several others in the sixteenth century. It was also one of the first books on the subject to appear in print. The first two editions, both dated 1474, are now extremely rare. Klebs 919.4. BMC VIII, 1038. Goff S513. Wellcome I, 5971. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, IV, pp. 167–177. See Stillwell III, 522 and IV, 697. As in the British Library copy, the table of contents and register is bound at the end.
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PETRARCH, Francesco
Trionfi
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1478 1478 - PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice: Reynaldus of Nijmegen and Theodorus of Rendsburg, February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum rebacked, new endpapers. Collation: a10, b8, c6, e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bb-ff6, gg10. Housed in custom clamshell box. $12,000. Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing Bernardo Lapini's influential commentary, with extensive references to Filelfo's commentary of 1446. Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341 and is generally considered the poet who ushered in the Renaissance. "He perfected the sonnet form and left behind a body of work in the Tuscan dialect of Italy, the beauty and sensibilities of which justly secured him the reputation as being the first modern lyric poet" (King's College). Trionfi is an allegorical cycle composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for the Divine Comedy. The poem is cautionary in nature and takes as its metaphor a triumphal procession of six allegorical figures-Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity-each victorious over its predecessor. Central to Trionfi (as well as to his later Canzoniere) is Petrarch's unrequited love for a woman named Laura, whom he first saw on April 6, 1327 in the church of St. Claire in Avignon and who died of the plague in 1348. "The first two parts, Triumph of Love and the Triumph of Chastity, were probably written within the years 1340-1344, as a work complete in itself. But the death of Laura in 1348 led Petrarch to write the Triumph of Death which he followed soon after with the Triumph of Fame. The last two parts, the Triumph of Time and the Triumph of Eternity, were not written until the last few years of his life and Petrarch constantly reworked the earlier sections of the Trionfi so at the time of his death it was still in an unfinished state" (King's College). "Commentaries on Petrarch's poetry in early printed editions exemplify the kinds of cultural interaction and, at times, of social and political intervention that authorize such texts" (William J. Kennedy). The earliest commentary was composed by Antonio da Tempo in Padua sometime before the 1440 and was reworked by Francesco Filelfo in 1446. "In 1475 Bernardo da Pietro Lapini da Montalcino (also 'Glicino' or 'Illicino') published the most influential of the early commentaries, bound together with the Canzoniere. Lapini established a tradition of interpreting the poem as an allegory of the human soul" (Notre Dame University). First circulated in manuscript form and finally published in 1470, Trionfi had a huge influence on the literature and art of Renaissance Europe. "Guardiani estimates that, in the 16th century alone, over 300,000 short lyrics, mostly sonnets, were written, and that most of them were in imitation of Petrarch. In England, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Donne all owe a debt to Petrarch as do Spenser, Surrey, and Wyatt" (King's College). Trionfi was also an inspiration to Shelley, whose Triumph of Life was also written in terza rima. In this 1478 edition, "the printers established a form followed in all later editions of separating the portions of [Petrarch's] text in rectangular spaces, the commentary filling the rest of the page" (Fiske Petrarch Collection). Rubricated throughout with initial letters and section marks. Without first blank leaf a1; gathering k bound before gathering J. Texts in Italian. Proctor 4429. Goff P381. Thacher 297. Running titles supplied by a later hand; a few annotations and marginal glosses. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior, with small worm-holes to first leaf and occasional worm-holing to
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AQUINAS, St Thomas
Summa Theologiae. (Prima pars, secunde partis)
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- Venice; F. Renner de Heilbrun & P. de Bartua, 1478. Folio. 279 unnumbered ll. 67 a-r10 s12 t-y10 1-510 lacking b8 blank. Double column, gothic letter, 47 lines and headline. Large red and red and white initials throughout, very large initial letter in red, white and blue, C16 ms ex libris within. Occasional slight worming, partially erased early armorial library stamp to lower margin of first leaf, infrequent ink and oil splashing to a few ll, mostly marginal except for table and register, here bound before the text. Generally a very good, clean, large copy in early C17 Italian mottled calf, spine gilt with red and brown morocco labels, chipped at head, slightly wormed, snail-pattern marbled endpapers, a little contemp. ms marginalia, face inside one illuminated letter. Blue and white marbled edges. One of a handful of works printed by Renner de Heilbrun during his short-lived partnership (1477-8) with Peter de Bartua, and a rare and early edition of the first and second parts of the Summa; Goff's only precursor is by Schoeffer, Mainz 1471. A handsomely produced and very legible edition of the unfinished "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest work of medieval philosophy and theology and the preeminent expression of that combined system 'scholasticism' which was to dominate European intellectual life into the C16. Compiling the main Christian teachings for the uninformed reader, the work draws upon scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and especially the Classical world. It is in three parts of which only the two published here are by Aquinas. Beginning with the nature of God, Creation and the physical universe, it discusses the meaning of human life and the code of Christian ethics, with a third part concerning Christ, God and Man completed after Aquinas' death. Perhaps its most famous presentation is that of the 'Quinquae Viae,' the proofs of the existence of God (ex motu, ex causa, ex contingentia, ex gradu, ex fine). A standard format is adopted for discussing each 'questio', beginning with a series of objections to the forthcoming conclusion, a short counter-statement made with reference to authorities, the argument proper where detailed justifications are used, and concluding with individual responses to any objections. Covering a phenomenal amount of material, from the principles of the Just War and Natural Law, the glorification of Theology - the most certain of all sciences, being rooted in omniscience - to the analysis of human knowledge as a combination of natural reason as exemplified by Plato and Aristotle and revelation by faith of natural truth, the Summa Theologicae has exerted unrivalled influence on the intellectual development of Western Christianity, leading Aquinas to be considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St. Thomas Aquinas with those of the four great Latin fathers. Later, in 1879 Pope Leo XIII stated that Aquinas' theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine, "equally, it underlies much subsequent theological, political and social inquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe," Printing and the Mind of Man pp17-18. BMC V 194. Hain 1448. Stilwell T 183. Proctor 4172. Goff T-204. L703
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or JASME).
Tractatus de Pestilentia.
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- Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82]. First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book — ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a "Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon. "Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica. "The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes’ treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind. "His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs."–Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ? B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Castiglione Baldassarre
La corte ducale di URBINO, Urbino, Regio Istituto belle arti delle Marche, 1927
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- 17,5 x 24, ril. coeva in piena belle con titoli in oro al dorso e sul piatto, qualche spellatura, bs. pp.108. Dal libro "Il Cortegiano" a cura di Luigi Renzetti (che pubblicņ all'epoca anche la rivista Urbinium) con quattro xilografie a piena pagina del maestro ALEARDO TERZI (che sarebbe poi divenuto direttore dell'Istituto d'arte di Urbino) 01) Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529) 02) Federico II da Montefeltro, duca di Urbino 03) Guidobaldo da Montefeltro 04) Elisabetta Gonzaga Montefeltro, duchessa di Urbino. Rara e preziosa edizione tirata in sole 300 copie, che inizia praticamente la grande stagione delle edizioni dell'Istituto d'arte di URBINO.
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Pius II, Pope
EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES
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(Cologne Johann Koelhoff 1478). - (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum, Part One, p.222; Hain, 150). It appears that only one other copy of this edition exists in America in a publicly catalogued collection, and only seventeen other copies of this edition were found in catalogue searches in libraries worldwide. No editions by this printer, Johann Koelhoff, appear in auction records after 1978. Auction records show that three editions of 1478 were sold, but these are printed by Michael Greyff in Reutlingen. This volume contains the correspondence of the great Italian humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Aeneas was known as something of a rake in his youth; his penchant for adventure and mischief is evidenced by his illegitimate children. He put off taking holy orders until after he was 40 years old. Though his behavior was modified in his early years as a priest, he did not seriously renounce his frivolous lifestyle until much later in his life when he was elected pope (1458). He adopted Pius II as his name, effectively conveying his change of attitude. In fact, he stated his desire to be remembered as the devout Pius, not the dandy Aeneas. He acted as an Imperial secretary to the Austrian emperor Frederick III of the Holy Roman Empire, apostolic secretary to two popes and the anti-pope Felix V. His loyalties shifted often through his career--initially opposed to Pope Eugene IV, he later became a great supporter and a defender of the church. As pope, Pius was more interested in continuing the crusading efforts of his predecessor, Calixtus III, than reviving the arts he enjoyed in his youth. He sought to unite Europe against the threat of Turkish invasion. His ambitions, life experiences and observations survive in a number of writings from throughout his lifetime. He was crowned Poet Laureate by Frederick, though critical appreciation of his poetry has diminished over time. He wrote about the events of his day, including works on general history and geography. Since scandal survives above all else, one of his best remembered works is his youthful romance De Duobus Amantibus, the Tale of Two Lovers, which went through many editions and was, in its time, a best seller in its own right. Late in his life he unsuccessfully tried to suppress the distribution of this popular work. The Epistolae Familiares was printed by Johann Koelhoff the Edler in Cologne just a couple of decades after the first printed book came off the presses of Johann Gutenberg. Koelhoff was a contemporary of William Caxton, who printed the first book in English. Caxton learned the craft of printing in Cologne but left for England soon after the heralded arrival of Koelhoff, the financially well-backed newcomer, in 1472. Other prominent printers moved out of Cologne around this time; though it is tempting to suggest that the new competition drove them away, the numbers are suggestive but not conclusive. Koelhoff trained in Venice, which was an important center for commercial book production through the century. Printed in blackletter. Initials, underlining, paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. First initial letter elaborated in blue and red with a decorative vegetal design scrolling down the entire margin. One other letter in blue. Index tab affixed to one page. The date of publication in the colophon is erroneously printed as 1458 and has been corrected in pen. Three plates affixed to the front pastedown: a library plate, a bookplate of Georgius Kloss, Frankfurt im Maine and an inscription stating, "372 [the '2' scratched out and 374 written above] years old: only 23 years later than the Mazarin Bible celebrated as the First Printed Volume." A handwritten note in the margin of one page, a few pa [Attributes: Signed Copy]
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EYB, Albrecht Von
Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering, Paris 1478 - 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: "June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby" on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Mela, Pomponius
Cosmographi de situ orbis.
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Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1478 - One of the most sought after of the early editions of this geographic treatise of Pomponius Mela, the first-century earliest Roman geographer, which agrees in most of its views with the great Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. He writes that the world can be divided east and west into hemispheres, Asia on the east and Erope and Africa on the west. 48 leaves complete. The only defect being that first leave was damaged and the margins have been renewed. The actual leave is slightly damaged with a loss of a few letters of the text. Else a perfect copy with wide margins. Second leave slightly browned. 18th century French full calf front cover detached [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Ptolemy, Claudius
World map from Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini philosophi Geographiam Arnoldus Buckinck e Germania Romae.
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Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck, Rome 1478 - THE FIRST PTOLEMAIC MAP TO BE PRINTED FROM A COPPER PLATE. Copper-plate engraving: 151/2" x 211/2" References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 36; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 4. The importance of this seemingly simple, elegant world map from the 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Georgraphia is impossible to overstate. It is considered by most historians to represent the apex of cartographic and technological progress in the fifteenth century (a time of major strides in the development of both printing and mapmaking). In terms of accuracy, beauty and graceful engraving, it remained the finest printed Ptolemaic map for nearly one hundred years after its publication. Ptolemy, the great Greek geographer, mathematician and astronomer, lived most of his life in Alexandria, the cultural center of the Hellenistic world. In about 160 A.D. he completed his "Guide to the Delineation of the World," which--after the New Testament--was the most enduring document of Christian doctrine, lasting for over 1400 years. Although he based much of his work on the information and learning of his predecessors, Ptolemy was the first to systematize geographical knowledge and to approach cartography in a scientific, systematic manner. His projection showed the sphericity of the earth and stressed the importance of determining exact latitude and longitude. Ptolemy, in fact, laid down principles of cartography almost two thousand years ago which in their essentials are in use to this day. Northern European immigrants to Rome, Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Buckinck engraved this world map in the Eternal City in 1478. In 1465, Sweynheym had set up the first printing press in all of Italy, and with the help of mathematicians, he was the first to apply the new art of copper-engraving to the printing of maps. This innovation was a true landmark in the history of map printing, and the copper-plate medium soon became the standard on which all map publications were based. Only thirty-nine copies of the first 1478 edition were known to exist in 1952, perhaps even fewer today. This represents a rare opportunity to acquire an early modern map of outstanding significance.
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Duns Scotus, Johannes. Thomas Penketh, ed.
Quaestiones in quattor libros Sententiarum.Part 2. [bound with]Quodlibeta.
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Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen, Venice: 1478, 7 January & 1477, 7 October. - Folio. 2 works in 1volume. a10,b-e8, f-g6, h-l8.10,m-mm10,n-p8,q10,r8,s6. Complete with blank.a10, b-e8, f6, ff6, g-k8, l-m10. [lacking b5, text leaf -- with blank inserted incorrectly before b4 & m10 blank.] 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards,fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of ŅBrother Antonius dÕAsralo OMÓ on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265Š1308), Franciscan friar and theologian.tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of ScotusÕ important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone.ŅIt was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because Ōthey could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). ScotusÕs quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12.Ó [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus]ŅThough less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), ScotusÕ Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris.Ó [Ency. of Philosophy]Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford study he was granted leave to incept at Cambridge in the academic year 1466Š7, and took the degree of DTh on 31 May 1468. He must have already had some repute within his order, since he was confirmed as prior provincial of England on 22 October 1469; but he evidently returned to Oxford, where he was permitted by his order to study and teach, until in 1474 he vacated the provincialship to study at Padua. He was appointed lector in metaphysics in the university there, almost certainly being the Master Thomas Anglicus confirmed in that post on 22 September 1475, and very probably holding it already in 1474, when he published in Venice his edition of the quodlibetal questions of John Duns Scotus. By 1477, when he brought out an edition of Scotus's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, he was holding the post of lector in theology, which he still held in 1479 according to his confrre, Brother Iacopo Filippo da Bergamo. He was re-elected prior provincial in 1480 (confirmed 15 March 1481) and again on 1 April 1485, presumably until death. At Easter 1484 he preached a sermon in praise of Richard III, which, according to Sir Thomas More, was afterwards excoriated, but which brought him an annual pension of £10 from the king. He died in London on 20 May 1487.Penketh's principal achievement was to be the first to publish scholarly but usable printed editions of the chief works of Duns Scotus and the Scotist theologian Antonius Andreae. His editorial work was crowded into the five or six years he spent at Padua, where he could be in touch with experienced printers; but it originated in the Scotist teaching of the Oxford and Cambridge theological faculties, as a surviving notebook in his hand shows (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 126). It contains questions on universals by Brother William Russell, probably the Augustinian friar who incepted at Oxford in 1430, some unattributed questions on God and creatures, possibly Penketh's own, and a text of the commentary of Antonius Andreae on Aristotle's Metaphysics which he edited at Padua. All these texts are ex
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KONRAD SCHWEYNHEIM & ARNOLD BUCKINCK
PRIMA AFRICAE TABULA 1478 ROMA
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Seconda carta a stampa della regione, basata sul manoscritto di Nicholas Germanus, tratta dalla Geographia di Claudio Tolomeo, Roma 1478/90. Un anno dopo la prima edizione della Geographia, curata da Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, un nuovo set di mappe fu inciso a Roma per accompagnare il testo dell¯opera. Pubblicata da Domizio Caldernius e stampata da Konrad Schweynheym, alla loro morte fu ristampata da Arnold Buckinck nel 1490. Successivamente le lastre furono corrette e ristampate nel 1507 e 1508. Incisione in rame su due lastre unite, proiezione trapezioidale, lievi abrasioni nella piega centrale, nel complesso in buono stato di conservazione. Rarissima. Dimensioni 395-475x330." "Second printed map of the region, based on Nicholas Germanus manuscript and taken from Claudio Tolomeo¯s Geographia, Rome 1478/90. A year after the first Geographia edition, edited by Taddeo Crivelli in Bologna, a new set of maps was engraved in Rome to illustrate the text. Published by Domizio Caldernius and printed by Konrad Schweynheym, the map was subsequently reissued by Arnold Buckinck in 1490. Later on, the plates have been corrected and reprinted in 1507 and 1508. Copperplate in two connected plates, trapezoidal projection, light abrasion in centre fold, in general in good condition. Extremely rare.
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Biblia: Machabe Orum I (Liber Macchabeorum), (GW 4235, HC 3042).
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Köln, Nicolaus Götz (Gotz), um 1478 / 80, Type 1.. Zweispaltiges 42-zeiliges Original-Inkunabelblatt auf festem sauberen Papier. Eine zweizeilige rote Lombarde zur Einleitung des 3. Kapitel und rotgestrichene Majuskeln. Blattgröße: 21 x 28,7 cm.. Selten! Der Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke verzeichnet für Götz 31 Drucke. Nikolaus Götz aus Schlettstadt wird um 1460 in Mainzer Urkunden als Goldschmied verzeichnet und ist 1470 in der juristischen Fakultät der Universität Köln eingeschrieben. Sein ältester datierter Druck stammt aus dem Jahre 1474 und sein letzter wird 1480 vollendet. Geldner geht davon aus, dass Götz vorwiegend für den Verleger Johann Helman arbeitete. 1477 geriet er in eine politische Auseinandersetzung, bei der die Stadt sein Druckgerät und seine Typen beschlagnahmte. Hierdurch verlor er seine Selbständigkeit und verließ die Stadt bald nach seinem letzten Druck. (Geldner I 1968, 94f.)
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JACOPI, Johannes (or JACME, Jean or JASME).
Tractatus de Pestilentia.
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Gothic type, 20 lines. [12] leaves. Small 4to (197 x 138 mm.), modern boards. [Augsburg: Johann Keller, 1478-82]. First edition of one of the earliest, most popular, and important tracts on the plague. This is an extremely rare book — ISTC locates only four copies: BSB, BL, Countway, and NLM. The in-progress GKW locates another copy at the Cistercian monastery at Wilhering in Upper Austria. The printer of this book, Johann Keller, published only five books and they are, for the most part, very rare. Jacopi (or Jacobi or Jaume or Jacme or Jasme), was a “Catalan physician, and translator from Arabic into Catalan, professor of medicine in Montpellier. His birthplace is unknown, but it was possibly Lleida (Lerida on the Segre), and he may have studied in the university of that city. He was mentioned as early as 1360 in a contested election for the chancellorship of the University of Montpellier, was finally elected to that position in 1364, and retained it until his death in 1384. He was consulting physician to several popes and kings: he attended pope Urban V (1362-70); in 1370 he was called to Avignon to aid pope Gregory XI (1370-78) ; in 1378 he was appointed physician to Charles V the Wise, king of France 1364-80; in 1384 he attended the antipope Clement VII (1378-94) in Avignon... “Joannes wrote a number of medical treatises, notably the Tractatus de pestilentia, the Secretarium practicae medicinae, and the Tractatus de calculis in vesica... “The first of these was probably the first to be composed, about 1373. Judging by the number of early printed editions, Joannes’ treatise on the plague was by far the most popular work of its kind... “His plague treatise is divided into three parts, dealing with the cause of the pestilence, the proper regimen for avoiding it, and the treatment. In part I he says that the plague may be caused by infections coming from bad sanitation, foul stagnant water, corrupt air. The two signs of the disease are fever and apostumes. Various questions concerning the susceptibilities of different people are debated. Part II deals with the precautions against the disease which everyone should take. Suitable dwelling places and proper living conditions are described; methods of fumigation, proper diet and exercise are advised. Bloodletting is to be used with caution. In part III the methods of treatment are discussed; these are purgation, bloodletting, and strengthening drugs.”–Sarton, III, Pt. 2, p. 1687. A fine and fresh copy with many edges uncut. ❧ B.M.C., II, p. 361. Goff J-15. Klebs 542.1. Klebs & Sudhoff, Die Ersten Gedruckten Pestschriften, no. 62 & pp. 145-49. Osler, Incunabula Medica, 190.
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SOLDUS, Jacobus.
Opus insigne de peste felicit.
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Bologna, Johannes Schriber de Annunciata for Thomas de Bononia. 1478. - Small 4to. [36] leaves. Gothic type. Text printed in double columns; 38 lines to a full column. Initials hand-painted in red. Limp vellum, made up of an antiphonal leaf. First edition of a treatise on the plague and its cure written in 1431 during an epidemic at Florence. Its author, Jacopo Soldi (1370-1440), a physician and humanist scholar, had joined the Order of the Servites, and his plague manual was printed by order of the Dean of the Bolognese Theological Faculty, Thomas de Bononia, a fellow Servite. Soldi’s other medical works remain unpublished. Old collector’s stamp in blank margins of recto of second leaf and on blank verso of last leaf. Bookplate of Hugo Fernandez de Burzago y Barrios. BMC VI, 818; Hain-Copinger 14870; Klebs 921.1; Klebs (Pest) 98; Osler 149; Sudhoff, Erste gedruckte Pestschriften, 98; Wellcome, I, 6001. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda Aurea Sanctorum.
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Nürnberg, Koberger 1478.. 42 cm. (2), 274 Blatt, 2 Spalten 50-zeilig. Mit großer Initiale auf Goldgrund, das Jüngste Gericht darstellend, und floraler Randbordüre auf Folio 1r, durchgehend rubriziert mit Kapitel-Initialen in Rot und Blau. Zeitgenössischer (Weihenstephaner?) Klostereinband aus rötlichem Hirschleder mit reicher Verzierung und Papiertitelschild. Rücken restauriert. In den Innendeckeln je ein Manuskriptblatt. Auf Registerblatt 1r Eintragung "Iste Liber attinet Weyhensteven". - Copinger, Rep. Bibl. 6414 - Proctor 1978 - Goff J-90 - Hase, Koberger S. 90 - IDL 2557; Madsen 2173. Impressum am Ende: 11. August 1478. Die ersten Blatt am breiten Rand etwas fingerfleckig und zwei kleine Randeinrisse. Die Einbandverzierung besteht aus zwei verschiedenen geprägten Bordüren. Das Mittelfeld ist in rautenförmige Felder aufgeteilt, Schließen und Beschläge entfernt. Auf beiden Deckeln durch Abschabung kleinere Fehlstellen. - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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[SACRO BOSCO, Joannes de and Gerardi Cremonensis [i.e. Sa...
Iohannis de sacrobusto anglici uiri clarissimi spera mundi feliciterincipit.
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per Franciscu[m] Renner de Hailbrun [Venetius 1478.] Small 4to, 20.5 cm., collating a-b8, c-d6; e-f10, this copy with 45 (of 48) leaves - lacking e2, and e9-10); 25 lines; types 5:109bR (text), 6:65G (diagram text); incipits to each part pprinted in red; 6 (of 11) woodcut diagrams (2 with hand-coloring), woodcut initials (mostly hand-colored), full contemporary and probably original limp vellum, old manuscript titling on spine, and with a wallet-style wrap-around flap, the vellum worn and soiled. Beginning at ff. [29]: Gerardi cremonensis uiri clarissimi Theorica planetaru[m] feliciter incipit. The Theorica planetarum is usually considered to be by the Cremona astrologer Gherardo da Sabbioneta, although some authorities ascribe it to the Gerardus Cremonensis who died 1187. See DSB, Supplement, p. 189 for a summary of the evidence. Both works were first printed in 1472. In spite of the missing leaves, this is a most interesting copy, having been annotated by the rubricator and colorist, with 11 lines of notes by him on the verso of the blank leaf preceding a1, and notes in the margins of 25 of the pages of the Sphaera mundi, and another 3 more lines of notes on the blank leaf following f10; also with a dated ownership inscription of Caroli Malagesse Benigni, 1636, with his note "Impressum 1478" in ink on the first flyleaf, and with a calligraphic notation on verso of the second rear flyleaf: "Fur cave ne nostrum rapiat tua dextera librum, Ni dare vis lignis colla tenenda tribus: ("Thief, watch that your hand doesn't snatch our book away, Unless you wish your neck to be restrained by three wooden sticks" [i.e., the yoke]. Goff J-402; Hain-Copinger; *14108; Proctor, 4175; BM 15th Century, V, p. 195.
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Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (ca. 245-ca. 323).
[Opera].
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Venezia, Johannes de Colonia e Johannes Manthen, 27 agosto 1478. "In-folio (mm 298x196). Segnatura:a12, b-m10, n8, o-r10, s-x8, y10, z8, 3-48; 228 carte non numerate di cui la prima bianca. Caratteri 109R2 e 110G. Alla carta b1 splendida iniziale miniata ‘M’ con corpo a foglia d’oro, decorata da motivi floreali in rosa, blu, verde, giallo e contenente un ritratto dell’autore coronato d’alloro entro medaglione circolare; al margine inferiore, racchiuse in serto d’alloro, armi non identificate composte da una croce in oro su tre promontori in campo verde con decorazioni floreali ai lati; nel testo dieci belle iniziali con corpo della lettera in oro, miniate in verde, blu, rosa con decorazioni floreali a pennello in bianco sul fondo; gli altri capilettera in blu o in rosso, segni di paragrafo in rosso. Legatura cinquecentesca in pergamena rigida, dorso a tre grandi nervi con titolo e antica segnatura scritti a mano. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione, alcune carte con barbe; qualche foro di tarlo alle prime e alle ultime carte. Antica segnatura manoscritta biffata alla prima carta; ex-libris di George Abrams e della Biblioteca Philosophico Ermetica al contropiatto anteriore. Rara edizione veneziana dell’opera del grande apologista cristiano che č una ristampa di quella impressa, sempre a Venezia, da Vindelino da Spira nel 1472. Alcuni esemplari dell’edizione di Vindelino contenevano un quaderno aggiuntivo – mancante nella maggior parte dei casi – recante l’Epitome divinarum institutionum di Lattanzio. Anche Johannes de Colonia e Johannes Manthen stamparono questo quaderno separatamente, dal momento che esso non viene segnalato nel registro, e che si trova, nel nostro esemplare, legato tra la carta 7 e la carta 8 del fascicolo ‘z’. Come tutte le impressioni antiche l’Epitome reca solo i capitoli dal 56 in poi dal momento che la parte iniziale dell’opera (capitoli 1-55) non verrą scoperta e pubblicata fino al 1712. Il poema di Lattanzio Phoenix č seguito da estratti riguardanti la fenice tratti dalle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, dal De resurrectione di Venanzio Fortunato e dall’Inferno di Dante (xxiv, vv. 106-111, qui alla c. 218r). HC* 9814; BMC v, 233; Goff L, 9; IGI 5625. A beautiful well-preserved copy of a rare Venetian Lactantius edition. Decorated by an opening historiated miniature showing the author with a book in his hand. From the George Abrams collection."
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SYLVIUS (Jacob).
De Medicamentorum Simplicium Delectu, Praeparationibus, Mistionis modo, Libri tres. Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1562. RELIÉ AVEC (ą la suite): 2). MESUE (Ioannis). De Re Medica Libri Tres. Iacobo Sylvio Medico interprete… Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1561. 3). GALIEN. Methodus Sex Librorum galeni differentiis morborum et symptomatorum in tabellas sex... De Signis Omnibus Medicis hoc est Salubribus, Insalubribus et Neutrii, commentarius omnino necessarius medico futuro per Iacobum Sylvium.. Paris, Gorbinum, 1561.
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3 ouvrages en un fort volume in-8. 1). 125ff.ch. 7ff. 2). 8ff. 200pp. 3). 103ff. ch. Pleine basane,dos ą nerfs (Reliure du XVIIIs.). 1). Pharmacopée de J. Sylvius (Jacques Dubois) (1478-1555), traitant de la préparation, du mélange et de la propriété des médicaments. 2). Cette Pharmacopée du médecin arabe Mesue (776-855) a eu de nombreuses éditions. Celle-ci est accompagnée des commentaires de J. Sylvius. Les différents chapitres s'intitulent: "Simplicium Medicamentorum", "Condita", "Iuleppa", "Syrupi", "Decocta", "Infusi", "Olea", "Cerata", etc. 3). Ouvrage de Galien traitant notamment des choses salubres et insalubres et en particulier des aliments et des boissons. C'est une version présentée par J. Sylvius sous forme de tableaux synoptiques ą l'usage des étudiants. (Marge inférieure des derniers feuillets rongée, loin du texte). Intéressante réunion de 3 ouvrages médicaux rares du XVIs. 1). Durling, 1245. 2). Durling, 3146. 3). Manque ą Durling.
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PETRARCH, Francesco
Trionfi
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PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice: Reynaldus of Nijmegen and Theodorus of Rendsburg, February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum rebacked, new endpapers. Collation: a10, b8, c6, e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bb-ff6, gg10. Housed in custom clamshell box. $12,000. Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing Bernardo Lapini's influential commentary, with extensive references to Filelfo's commentary of 1446. Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341 and is generally considered the poet who ushered in the Renaissance. "He perfected the sonnet form and left behind a body of work in the Tuscan dialect of Italy, the beauty and sensibilities of which justly secured him the reputation as being the first modern lyric poet" (King's College). Trionfi is an allegorical cycle composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for the Divine Comedy. The poem is cautionary in nature and takes as its metaphor a triumphal procession of six allegorical figures-Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity-each victorious over its predecessor. Central to Trionfi (as well as to his later Canzoniere) is Petrarch's unrequited love for a woman named Laura, whom he first saw on April 6, 1327 in the church of St. Claire in Avignon and who died of the plague in 1348. "The first two parts, Triumph of Love and the Triumph of Chastity, were probably written within the years 1340-1344, as a work complete in itself. But the death of Laura in 1348 led Petrarch to write the Triumph of Death which he followed soon after with the Triumph of Fame. The last two parts, the Triumph of Time and the Triumph of Eternity, were not written until the last few years of his life and Petrarch constantly reworked the earlier sections of the Trionfi so at the time of his death it was still in an unfinished state" (King's College). "Commentaries on Petrarch's poetry in early printed editions exemplify the kinds of cultural interaction and, at times, of social and political intervention that authorize such texts" (William J. Kennedy). The earliest commentary was composed by Antonio da Tempo in Padua sometime before the 1440 and was reworked by Francesco Filelfo in 1446. "In 1475 Bernardo da Pietro Lapini da Montalcino (also 'Glicino' or 'Illicino') published the most influential of the early commentaries, bound together with the Canzoniere. Lapini established a tradition of interpreting the poem as an allegory of the human soul" (Notre Dame University). First circulated in manuscript form and finally published in 1470, Trionfi had a huge influence on the literature and art of Renaissance Europe. "Guardiani estimates that, in the 16th century alone, over 300,000 short lyrics, mostly sonnets, were written, and that most of them were in imitation of Petrarch. In England, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Donne all owe a debt to Petrarch as do Spenser, Surrey, and Wyatt" (King's College). Trionfi was also an inspiration to Shelley, whose Triumph of Life was also written in terza rima. In this 1478 edition, "the printers established a form followed in all later editions of separating the portions of [Petrarch's] text in rectangular spaces, the commentary filling the rest of the page" (Fiske Petrarch Collection). Rubricated throughout with initial letters and section marks. Without first blank leaf a1; gathering k bound before gathering J. Texts in Italian. Proctor 4429. Goff P381. Thacher 297. Running titles supplied by a later hand; a few annotations and marginal glosses. Occasional scattered light foxing to interior, with small worm-holes to first leaf and occasional worm-holing to inner margin, plus occasional light dampstaining. Paper repairs to inner margins of first two gatherings and to leaves k3 and k7. A lovely incunable, in excellent condition.
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ASTESANUS de Asti ( 1260-1330 c. )
Summa de casibus conscientiae ( libri V-VIII ).De significatione verborum.
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In 2° ( 295x200 mm ).Carte 333 non numerate ( di 334:manca l'ultima carta bianca ).Testo a due colonne,54 linee . Interamente ed elegantemente rubricato nell'area dell'Italia del nord in rosso e blu alternativamente, spesso con estensioni calligrafiche, q Venezia,Giovanni da Colonia e Giovanni Manthem di Gherretzem, 18 Marzo 1478. incunable Prima edizione stampata in Italia.E' la seconda parte soltanto,gli ultimi quattro libri di otto,editi da Bartolomeo Bellati da Feltre e Frate Gometio spagnolo di Lisbona ( cosģ recita il testo ),e prima edizione del De significatione Verborum che si trova
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SILVATICO, Matteo.
Liber pandectarum medicine: omnia medicine simplicia continens: quem ex omnibus antiquorum libris aggregavit eximius artium.
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[Colophon] Vincentie [Vicenza:] Impressum p[er] Hermanum Lichtenstein… [n.d., c. 1478–1480]. Folio,319 unnumbered leaves (of 322, lacking two blank leaves and the register leaf, supplied in a convincing facsimile). Text in double columns, Gothic letter, 56 lines, capital spaces with guide letters. Some very minor foxing, last two leaves a bit stained, last few leaves with several small wormholes and wear to corners, pale stain in upper corners, larger stain in last few gatherings (mostly very faint), but generally in very good condition. Full maroon morocco, sides panelled in blind, a fine modern binding. Inscription of an early Neapolitan owner at foot of A1, with short single-line marks against many paragraphs and the occasional word in the margins. Fourth printing. A dictionary of simples and their medicinal use, arranged in alphabetical order and giving the names of plants in Greek, Arabic, and Latin. “Matthaeus Silvaticus, Italian lexicographer, botanist and physician (d. c.1342)…kept a botanical garden in Salerno which is the earliest garden of its kind known to us, if conventional herb gardens are not taken into account. In that garden he cultivated not only domestic but also foreign plants, such as Arum colocasia; he sowed it in seeds which he had obtained in Greece. He seems to have traveled extensively, and to have observed plants in many localities and collected information on them. He compiled a large materia medica entitled Pandectae… The work, begun c.1297, was completed about 1317 and dedicated to King Robert (in 1337?). It is a reference book on diseases and their remedies in the form of a dictionary of simples… The names are followed by descriptions of the simples and their properties according to the ‘authorities’. In some instances he adds his own observations. Many erroneous statements are due to his ignorance of the true names of the plants he dealt with. The Pandectae is much larger than the Synonyma of Simon of Genoa, but generally inferior, except from the purely botanical point of view. His descriptions of plants are more elaborate than Simon’s and he could occasionally refer to his experience as a traveler and a gardener… These genuine botanical observations redeem the Pandectae from Haller’s severe judgement, ‘Auctor barbari opus chaoticum’. His main sources were the Synonyma medicinae of Simon of Genoa and the Agregatus in medicinus simplicibus of Serapion the Younger…” (Sarton, III, pt. 1, p. 816). Despite the Pandectae’s shortcomings, partly due the the author’s ignorance of the Arabic language, it was very successful, running to ten incunable editions and several others in the sixteenth century. It was also one of the first books on the subject to appear in print. The first two editions, both dated 1474, are now extremely rare. Klebs 919.4. BMC VIII, 1038. Goff S513. Wellcome I, 5971. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, IV, pp. 167–177. See Stillwell III, 522 and IV, 697. As in the British Library copy, the table of contents and register is bound at the end.
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DUNS SCOTUS, JOHANNES. THOMAS PENKETH, ED.
QUAESTIONES IN QUATTOR LIBROS SENTENTIARUM.PART 2. [BOUND WITH]QUODLIBETA. VENICE: JOHANNES DE COLONIA & JOHANN MANTHEN, 1478, 7 JANUARY & 1477, 7 OCTOBER.
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Folio. 2 works in 1volume. a10,b-e8, f-g6, h-l8.10,m-mm10,n-p8,q10,r8,s6. Complete with blank.a10, b-e8, f6, ff6, g-k8, l-m10. [lacking b5, text leaf -- with blank inserted incorrectly before b4 & m10 blank.] 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards,fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of EBrother Antonius d¯Asralo OME on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265d1308), Franciscan friar and theologian.tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of Scotus¯ important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone.EIt was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because Ethey could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). Scotus¯s quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12.E [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus]EThough less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), Scotus¯ Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris.E [Ency. of Philosophy]Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford study he was granted leave to incept at Cambridge in the academic year 1466d7, and took the degree of DTh on 31 May 1468. He must have already had some repute within his order, since he was confirmed as prior provincial of England on 22 October 1469; but he evidently returned to Oxford, where he was permitted by his order to study and teach, until in 1474 he vacated the provincialship to study at Padua. He was appointed lector in metaphysics in the university there, almost certainly being the Master Thomas Anglicus confirmed in that post on 22 September 1475, and very probably holding it already in 1474, when he published in Venice his edition of the quodlibetal questions of John Duns Scotus. By 1477, when he brought out an edition of Scotus's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, he was holding the post of lector in theology, which he still held in 1479 according to his confrAAre, Brother Iacopo Filippo da Bergamo. He was re-elected prior provincial in 1480 (confirmed 15 March 1481) and again on 1 April 1485, presumably until death. At Easter 1484 he preached a sermon in praise of Richard III, which, according to Sir Thomas More, was afterwards excoriated, but which brought him an annual pension of u10 from the king. He died in London on 20 May 1487.Penketh's principal achievement was to be the first to publish scholarly but usable printed editions of the chief works of Duns Scotus and the Scotist theologian Antonius Andreae. His editorial work was crowded into the five or six years he spent at Padua, where he could be in touch with experienced printers; but it originated in the Scotist teaching of the Oxford and Cambridge theological faculties, as a surviving notebook in his hand shows (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 126). It contains questions on universals by Brother William Russell, probably the Augustinian friar who incepted at Oxford in 1430, some unattributed questions on God and creatures, possibly Penketh's own, and a text of the commentary of Antonius Andreae on Aristotle's Metaphysics which he edited at Padua. All these texts are e
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CAESAR, Caius Julius.
Commentarii.
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[Edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus. With Raymondus Marlianus, Index locorum in commentariis Caesaris de bello Gallico descriptorum.] Milan, Philippus de Lavagnia, 8 April 1478 Folio (326 × 234 mm). 151 leaves (of 152), medial blank fol. 132 (sig. r6) present as a stub only, as often. Collates: a–p8 q6 r6 A8 B8 C4. 42 lines to a page. Nineteenth-century vellum over thin pasteboards, bookplate of William Horatio Crawford on front pastedown endpaper. Large penwork initials and capital strokes in red throughout, contemporary ownership inscription on last leaf verso. Quaritch pencilled collation mark on rear inside cover, dated 10 Jan 1968. Some minor marginal finger-soiling in margins, an excellent copy, unwashed, the paper fresh and strong. A handsome early incunable edition of the Commentaries of Caesar, the fifth overall, with contemporary rubrication. The text comprises the seven books of the Gallic War with the continuation by Caesar’s friend Aulus Hirtius, together with the six books on the Civil Wars attributed to various authors. Added in this edition is the geographical index by the Milanese scholar Raymondo Marliano which had first appeared the previous year in the first edition printed at Milan, by Antonio Zaroto. The editio princeps was printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz at Rome in 1469.The inscription in Latin written on the last leaf verso in a fine lettre bātarde reads in translation, “This book was bought by Lord Henry Keddekij[?] the twenty-seventh abbot of the church of the Blessed Mary for [?] All Saints Chapel in the year 1480 AD. This book belongs to the church of the Blessed Mary in [?] All Saints Chapel of the Cistercian Order in the Diocese of Tournai in Flanders”. This contemporary provenance places this copy close to the University of Louvain, where the compiler of the geographical index Marliano taught classics from 1461 to 1475, one of an unbroken sequence of notable Italian lecturers there.From the library of William Horatio Crawford (1815–1888), the notable Irish collector of books, works of art and rare plants. Crawford, a reserved and dignified man of “ascetic temperament”, inherited from his father Lakelands, an old house overlooking Cork Harbour “richly stored with rare books, paintings and engravings” and with a fine arboretum. He funded the building of the magnificent 1884 extension to the Cork customs house which now houses the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, and part-funded the astronomical observatory at University College Cork which also bears his name. De Ricci (p. 165) refers to his “great library of manuscripts, incunabula and other rare volumes”. His estate sale, sold by Sotheby’s over 12 days beginning in March 1891, realised £21,255. Hain 4216; Proctor 5861; GW 5867; BMC VI 706 (IB 26152); Goff C-20.
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KONRAD SCHWEYNHEIM & ARNOLD BUCKINCK
SEXTA EUROPE TABULA 1478 ROMA
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"La prima carta a stampa della penisola e' opera di Taddeo Crivelli, noto artista ferrarese, e fu pubblicata nell¯atlante di Bologna del 1477. L¯opera, che sebbene di tipo tolemaico e' caratterizzata da un forte stile pittorico, non ebbe nessun influsso sulla cartografia italiana; al Crivelli venne infatti commissionato un atlante ¯sul modo degli antichi¯, inducendo quindi il pittore a realizzare una carta ¯vecchia¯ con similarita' ad un manoscritto. Un anno dopo la pubblicazione della Geographia di Bologna, due tipografi itineranti di origine germanica, Schweynheim e Buckinck, stampano a Roma una nuova edizione dell¯atlante bolognese. Il libro contiene una carta in piu', ma le carte conservano l¯identita' di disegno del Crivelli, risultando meno pittoriche ma piu' essenziali e cartograficamente piu' rilevanti. La letteratura individua nel Codice Ebneriano, conservato presso la Public Library di New York, la fonte di questa carta, nella quale sono presenti tutte le caratteristiche del modello tolemaico. Nelle carte sono infatti presenti stessi dettagli orografici ed idrografici riscontrabili nel Codice Ebner, con medesimi errori di posizione e nei toponimi. Della Geographia di Roma furono stampate nuove edizioni nel 1490, 1507 e 1508. Secondo il Borri l¯analisi degli elementi orografici ed idrografici relativi all¯Italia settentrionale e' indispensabile per cogliere le differenze tra questa edizione incunabolo e le successive; in particolare si fa notare che la ristampa del 1508 (Borri 11) e' realizzata con la stessa matrice alla quale sono state apportate delle correzioni. Sempre secondo Borri, data la traduzione fantasiosa del Crivelli, l¯opera si puo' considerare come la prima carta tolemaica della penisola. Incisione in rame, stampata su due fogli di carta vergata coeva uniti, lieve decolaroazione nella parte centrale, piccoli interventi di restauro perfettamente eseguiti, nel complesso in ottimo stato di conservazione. Di grandissima rarita'. Bibliografia: Almagia' p. 6b; Borri p. 24, 2; Perini p. 17-18; Nordenskiold 14b. Dimensioni 495x327." The first map of the Peninsula ever prnted has been realized by Taddeo Crivelli, a famous artist from Ferrara, and was published in the atlas of Bologna in 1477. Although it shows a ptolemaic imprint, this work is characterized by a strong pictorial style which did not influence Italian cartography. Crivelli was actually commissioned the realization of an atlas concernine the ancient worlds, inducine the painter to realize an ¯old¯ map like a manuscript. One year after the publication of the Geographia of Bologna, two German travelling typographers, Schweynheim and Buckinck, printed in Rome a new version of the Bolognese atlas. The book conteins one extra map, but all the works keep the imprint of Crivelli. The main sources of this map are the Codice Ebneriano, kept in the Public Library of New York, and the Ptolemaic model. The map shows the same orographic and hydrographic details of the Codice, with the same mistakes in their position and toponimics. The Geographia of Rome has been printed in different editions, in 1490, 1507 and 1508. According to Borri, the analysis of the orographic elements of Northern Italy is essential to understand the differences between this incunabulum edition and the others; Borri underlines that the edition of 1508 has been realized with the plates of the previous edition with some minor changes (Borri 11). He also says that, due to Crivelli¯s imagination, this work can be considered the frist Ptolemaic map of the peninsula. Copper engraving, printed in two sheets of contemporary paper, decoration in the central part, minor repairs perfectly executed, otherwise in good condition. Extremely rare. Almagia' p. 6b; Borri p. 24, 2; Perini p. 17-18; Nordenskiold 14b. Dimensioni 495x327
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EYB, Albrecht Von
Margarita poetica (part I)
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Ulrich Gering Hardcover Paris 1478 29 November 1478. Royal 4to (11 x 7 inches; 281 x 181 mm). Collation: a-r8 s6 (-s6). [141] leaves (of 142, without final blank.) 36-38 lines. Roman type 5:100. Initial spaces with guide letters. Opening initial in red and blue with handsome floral illumination on a gilt ground by a French hand, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue throughout. Late 19th-century blind-tooled morocco, edges stained dark brown from an earlier binding; morocco-backed folding case. Condition : Occasional wormholes at beginning and end. Provenance : Anthonius Grouche, priest of St.-Loup, Amiens, with his contemporary ownership inscription huius libri verus est possessor dominus Anthonius grouche , motto semper presumit seva perturbata conscientia written in gothic script, and paraphs at end; given to his brother Petrus Grouche: contemporary inscription Dominus anthonius Grouche sacerdos ecclesie divi lupi de ambianis dedit hunc librum dilecto sibi fratri fratri petri grouche orate pro eo ; Celestines of Amiens, 17th-century ownership inscription ; Paravicini Library, sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 1818, lot 156, to: Richard Heber, with Heber's inscription: June 1818, sale of imported books by Sotheby on front free endpaper (sale, 24 Jan. 1835, lot 1667); Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, with his shelfmark "12.F" (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1897, lot 1539); George Dunn of Woolley Hall, inscriptions and bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 22 November 1917, lot 3111); C.S. Ascherson, bookplate; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, bookplates; W.R.H. Jeudwine, bookplate; George Abrams, bookplate. Rare edition of an early work of German Humanism. Albrecht Eyb, doctor of law, holder of many benefices in Germany and chamberlain to Pius II, compiled this anthology of humanistic rhetoric, whose title honors his mother Margarete von Wolmershausen, as a manual of humanist rhetorical theory. The text contains selected passages from classical and Italian Renaissance authors and poets - Cicero. Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, et al., formulas for letter-writing, and general instruction in eloquence. The book remained popular for many years. This is the third Paris edition, following two editions, also of part I only, from the shop "Au Soufflet Vert". In early 1478, Ulrich Gering's association with the other Paris prototypographers Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger came to an end; in April 1478 he began printing under his name alone, using two new roman types for editions of classical, humanist, and theological texts. ISTC records only 11 surviving copies, of which at least one is imperfect, and of which only one in America (AnnMary Brown Memorial Library). This is a fine, fresh copy. Goff E-172; HC 6821; GW 9540. BMC VIII, 22; Pell 4705. UNIQUE PIECE!!!!!!!!! PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Very Good Condition
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Sammlung von 14 Blättern mit geographischen Karten, teilweise koloriert, 19. Jahrhundert, alle in Passepartout von gleichem Format, in Halbleinen-Mappe.
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Die folgenden 13 Karten, ca.15 x 20 cm: Schlacht bei Giornico, den 28 Christmonath 1478, Müllhaupt sc. / Schlacht bey Grandson, 2. März 1476. koloriert / Schlacht bei Nancy. 5 Januar 1477. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Belagerung der Stadt Zürich im Jahr 1444. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St Jacob an der Birs, 26 August 1444, koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz von Ende Juni 1476 bis zum 4 Jenner 1477. Müllhaupt sc. / Kriegs-Schauplatz vom 1 bis 21 Juni 1476. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Kriegs-Schauplatz im Schwaben-Krieg bis 20. April 1499. Müllhaupt sc. koloriert / Das Schlachtfeld bey Näfels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Das Schlachtfeld "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Carte des Rhein-Tales bey Sargans und Ragatz. koloriert / Die Schlacht bey St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / und 1 Karte: Schlacht bey Murten 22 Jni 1476. Müllhauser sc. koloriert, 12 x 34 cm. English: Collection of 14 leaves with geographical maps, partly colored, 19th century, all in Passepartout of the same size, in half cloth cover. the following 13 maps, about 15 x 20 cm: Battle at Giornico, ... 1478, Müllhaupt sc. / Battle at Grandson, ... 1476. koloriert / Battle at Nancy. ... 1477. Müllhaupt sc. colored / Siege of the town of Zürich ... 1444. colored / Battle at St Jacob an der Birs, ... 1444, colored / Battle fields of the end of June 1476 to the 4th of Jan. 1477. Müllhaupt sc. / Battle fields of 1 to 21 Juni 1476. Müllhaupt sc. colored/ Battle field Schwaben-War until 20. April 1499. Müllhaupt sc. colored / The battle field at Näfels A 1388 / Das Schlachtfeld "Am Stols" A 1405 / Battlefield "Bey Arbedo" A 1422 / Map of the Rhein-Tales at Sargans and Ragatz. colored / Battle at St. Jacob an der Sihl d. 22 July 1443. J.J. Goll, del et sc. / and 1 Map: Battle at Murten 22 Jni 1476. Müllhauser sc. colored, 12 x 34 cm.
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INCUNABULA - [GRUYTRODE, JACOBUS DE].
Speculum aureum anime peccatricis. Colophon: speculum aureum anime peccatricis, a quodam cartusiense editum: finit feliciter. Impressumque Parisius per magistrum Vdalricum cognomento Gering.
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Paris, Ulrich Gering [1478 or 79]. a-c10, d12: 42 ff. 4to, 207X143 mm. Rubricated in red throughout. First leaf slightly dusty, a few faint underlinings, but a clean, crisp and unwashed, internally near perfect copy with many uncut edges, preserving the ms catchwords at end of quires b and c. Bound in brown cloth from the second half of the 19th century.
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Pius II, Pope
EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES
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(Cologne Johann Koelhoff 1478). small 4to., full modern goat with five raised bands, stained top edge with cloth-covered clamshell box, snap closure and a leather title label on spine with gilt lettering. (251) leaves (first blank missing as also occurred in the BM copy).. (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum, Part One, p.222; Hain, 150). It appears that only one other copy of this edition exists in America in a publicly catalogued collection, and only seventeen other copies of this edition were found in catalogue searches in libraries worldwide. No editions by this printer, Johann Koelhoff, appear in auction records after 1978. Auction records show that three editions of 1478 were sold, but these are printed by Michael Greyff in Reutlingen. This volume contains the correspondence of the great Italian humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Aeneas was known as something of a rake in his youth; his penchant for adventure and mischief is evidenced by his illegitimate children. He put off taking holy orders until after he was 40 years old. Though his behavior was modified in his early years as a priest, he did not seriously renounce his frivolous lifestyle until much later in his life when he was elected pope (1458). He adopted Pius II as his name, effectively conveying his change of attitude. In fact, he stated his desire to be remembered as the devout Pius, not the dandy Aeneas. He acted as an Imperial secretary to the Austrian emperor Frederick III of the Holy Roman Empire, apostolic secretary to two popes and the anti-pope Felix V. His loyalties shifted often through his career--initially opposed to Pope Eugene IV, he later became a great supporter and a defender of the church. As pope, Pius was more interested in continuing the crusading efforts of his predecessor, Calixtus III, than reviving the arts he enjoyed in his youth. He sought to unite Europe against the threat of Turkish invasion. His ambitions, life experiences and observations survive in a number of writings from throughout his lifetime. He was crowned Poet Laureate by Frederick, though critical appreciation of his poetry has diminished over time. He wrote about the events of his day, including works on general history and geography. Since scandal survives above all else, one of his best remembered works is his youthful romance De Duobus Amantibus, the Tale of Two Lovers, which went through many editions and was, in its time, a best seller in its own right. Late in his life he unsuccessfully tried to suppress the distribution of this popular work. The Epistolae Familiares was printed by Johann Koelhoff the Edler in Cologne just a couple of decades after the first printed book came off the presses of Johann Gutenberg. Koelhoff was a contemporary of William Caxton, who printed the first book in English. Caxton learned the craft of printing in Cologne but left for England soon after the heralded arrival of Koelhoff, the financially well-backed newcomer, in 1472. Other prominent printers moved out of Cologne around this time; though it is tempting to suggest that the new competition drove them away, the numbers are suggestive but not conclusive. Koelhoff trained in Venice, which was an important center for commercial book production through the century. Printed in blackletter. Initials, underlining, paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. First initial letter elaborated in blue and red with a decorative vegetal design scrolling down the entire margin. One other letter in blue. Index tab affixed to one page. The date of publication in the colophon is erroneously printed as 1458 and has been corrected in pen. Three plates affixed to the front pastedown: a library plate, a bookplate of Georgius Kloss, Frankfurt im Maine and an inscription stating, "372 [the '2' scratched out and 374 written above] years old: only 23 years later than the Mazarin Bible celebrated as the First Printed Volume." A handwritten note in the margin of one page, a few passages bracketed with ink. Some pages slightly soiled. A few smudges of the red ink used to highlight initial and capital letters forcefully reminds the reader of the hands that decorated these pages five hundred and fifty years ago. The pages have been rebound, probably sometime in the past twenty years, in the style popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Blind tooled and gilt single-line frames with small gilt dentils. The austere style displays the beauty of the fine leather. Some internal repairs as well.
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Castiglione Baldassarre
La corte ducale di URBINO, Urbino, Regio Istituto belle arti delle Marche, 1927
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- 17,5 x 24, ril. coeva in piena belle con titoli in oro al dorso e sul piatto, qualche spellatura, bs. pp.108. Dal libro "Il Cortegiano" a cura di Luigi Renzetti (che pubblicņ all'epoca anche la rivista Urbinium) con quattro xilografie a piena pagina del maestro ALEARDO TERZI (che sarebbe poi divenuto direttore dell'Istituto d'arte di Urbino) 01) Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529) 02) Federico II da Montefeltro, duca di Urbino 03) Guidobaldo da Montefeltro 04) Elisabetta Gonzaga Montefeltro, duchessa di Urbino. Rara e preziosa edizione tirata in sole 300 copie, che inizia praticamente la grande stagione delle edizioni dell'Istituto d'arte di URBINO.
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AQUINAS, St Thomas
Summa Theologiae. (Prima pars, secunde partis)
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Venice; F. Renner de Heilbrun & P. de Bartua, 1478. . Folio. 279 unnumbered ll. 67 a-r10 s12 t-y101-510 lacking b8 blank. Double column, gothic letter, 47 lines and headline. Large red and red and white initials throughout, very large initial letter in red, white and blue, C16 ms ex libris within. Occasional slight worming, partially erased early armorial library stamp to lower margin of first leaf, infrequent ink and oil splashing to a few ll, mostly marginal except for table and register, here bound before the text. Generally a very good, clean, large copy in early C17 Italian mottled calf, spine gilt with red and brown morocco labels, chipped at head, slightly wormed, snail-pattern marbled endpapers, a little contemp. ms marginalia, face inside one illuminated letter. Blue and white marbled edges. One of a handful of works printed by Renner de Heilbrun during his short-lived partnership (1477-8) with Peter de Bartua, and a rare and early edition of the first and second parts of the Summa; Goff's only precursor is by Schoeffer, Mainz 1471. A handsomely produced and very legible edition of the unfinished "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest work of medieval philosophy and theology and the preeminent expression of that combined system 'scholasticism' which was to dominate European intellectual life into the C16. Compiling the main Christian teachings for the uninformed reader, the work draws upon scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and especially the Classical world. It is in three parts of which only the two published here are by Aquinas. Beginning with the nature of God, Creation and the physical universe, it discusses the meaning of human life and the code of Christian ethics, with a third part concerning Christ, God and Man completed after Aquinas' death. Perhaps its most famous presentation is that of the 'Quinquae Viae,' the proofs of the existence of God (ex motu, ex causa, ex contingentia, ex gradu, ex fine). A standard format is adopted for discussing each 'questio', beginning with a series of objections to the forthcoming conclusion, a short counter-statement made with reference to authorities, the argument proper where detailed justifications are used, and concluding with individual responses to any objections. Covering a phenomenal amount of material, from the principles of the Just War and Natural Law, the glorification of Theology - the most certain of all sciences, being rooted in omniscience - to the analysis of human knowledge as a combination of natural reason as exemplified by Plato and Aristotle and revelation by faith of natural truth, the Summa Theologicae has exerted unrivalled influence on the intellectual development of Western Christianity, leading Aquinas to be considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St. Thomas Aquinas with those of the four great Latin fathers. Later, in 1879 Pope Leo XIII stated that Aquinas' theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine, "equally, it underlies much subsequent theological , political and social inquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe," Printing and the Mind of Man pp17-18. BMC V 194. Hain 1448. Stilwell T 183. Proctor 4172. Goff T-204. L703
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Mela, Pomponius:
POMPONII MELLE COSMOGRAPHIA DE SITU ORBIS....
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Venice: F. Renner de Hailbrun, 1478. 48 leaves. Small quarto. Handsome brown morocco, tooled and paneled in gilt, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Front hinge repaired. Several small but persistent worm holes, several early marginal notes. A very nice, large copy of an important edition. Noted scholar Boies Penrose's copy, with his bookplate on the front free endpaper. Pomponius Mela is often taken as an accurate sum of European geographical knowledge before the discovery of the New World. This handsome Venetian edition is one of two printed in the city in that year, and they are among the earliest published geographical works. The publications of Mela and Ptolemy were incentives for further exploration, and in particular Mela's descriptions of Africa were used by the Portuguese navigators who were venturing far out into the Atlantic for the first time. GOFF M450. BMC V:195. JCB (3)I:9. HAIN 11017. PENROSE SALE 196.
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Ovidio Nasone Publio
Heroidum Epistolae P. Ovidij Nasonis. Et Auli Sabini Responsiones, Cum Guidonis Morillonij Argumentis, Ac Scholiis. His Accesserunt Ioan. Baptistae Egnatii Observationes. Venetiis, Apud Ioan. Gryphium, 1573
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. Testo latino. Cm.14, 4x9, 3. Pg.222. Legatura ottocentesca in mz. pelle con piatti marmorizzati. Tassello con titoli e fregi decorativi in oro al dorso. Tagli spruzzati in rosso. Marca tipografica con il celebre emblema del grifone al frontespizio, ripetuta al verso dell'ultima carta. Numerose bruniture. Minime mancanze da bruciature agli angoli di alcune carte, che non ledono il testo. Restauri cartacei d'epoca agli angoli superiori delle prime otto carte. Stimata edizione, con le pregevoli osservazioni di Giovanni Battista Cipelli, detto Egnazio (Venezia, 1478 circa-1555), professore di belle lettere che si cimentņ anche con Cicerone e Svetonio, oltre a comporre opere di varia erudizione. > Graesse, V, 73, cita l'edizione 1581.
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