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CICERO M. TULLIUS
EPISTOLAE AD ATTICUM
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MAGISTRUM EUCHARIUM SILBER ALIAS FRANCK, ROMAE 1496 - Rileg. antica tutta pelle Titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Mancanze nella rilegatura ma il tutto ben restaurato. H. 30 1 fg. bianco 1 fg. n.n. 25 172 n.n. 1 bianco. ( chiose manoscritte antiche su bordi bianchi per i primi quaranta fgg.) Graesse II / 169 segna per l' editore Silber solo le edizioni 1490 e 1499
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[BOTANY / HERBAL / GART DER GESUNDHEIT]
Herbarius zu teutsch unnd von allderhandt kreuteren
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Augsburg: Johann Schonsperger, 1496. Extremely rare, complete (see below) edition of !the most important medieval work on natural history with illustrations! (Choulant) and the first printed vulgate herbal. Klebs, the great historian of herbals, has compared the Gart der Gesundheit to Vesalius! De humani corporis fabrica, alleging it !marks a similar milestone in the evolution of the healing art into a science.! Unlike De humani corporis, however, we can be certain that the present work occupied an immensely popular spot in the limited canon of 15th century !layman!s books,! accessible to and used by learned and unlearned alike. In contrast with its contemporary rival, Lignamine!s Apuleius (1484), the Gart der Gesundheit!s pictures are generally taken from Nature rather than ancient manuscripts, it does not uncritically reproduce the superstitious herbal lore of past generations, and most significantly, it is printed in the vulgate. These factors have served to convince most historians of science that the present text truly was !the only botanical incunabulum of real importance! (Blunt & Stearn) and !the chef d!oeuvre of all early herbals and the real starting point for the future direction of scientific publications.! (Klebs)Although the present work became unrivalled in popularity (running through 16 German editions, 6 other vulgate translations, and 8 loosely based Latin editions), its widespread use doomed it to extreme rarity. By appearing in the vulgate, the Gart der Gesundheit would have appealed to non-professionals as well as herbcutters, apothecaries, and physicians; !I have had it made in German that it may help all the world, learned and unlearned,! declares the unknown author in his preface. The rough-and-tumble lifestyle of a domestic herbal has taken its toll over 500 years. We have managed to check 16 US copies of incunable editions by inspection or from reliable records; of these, only 8 are complete. The present volume thus affords an extremely rare example of this influential work in its entirety, of which only two other copies are known to exist in America. This, the sixth Augsburg edition, is essentially a reprint of the second edition of 1486 with smaller type, presumably for an even wider circulation. The second edition contained 13 more woodcuts than the original, and this particular printing contains a few more additions. Johann Schonsperger masterfully pirated the first edition of the Gart der Gesundheit only five months after it was published in 1485 by Schoffer, the technical genius in the enterprise of Gutenberg and Fust; many other pirated editions followed.The Gart der Gesundheit may be considered equally important as a monument of the German language, being one of most substantial texts preserved from this period, and representing !a remarkable source for folklore and dialect studies! (Klebs). Although the format of the work appears to follow the traditional model of picture, description, and medicinal uses, both German and Arabic names are noted, as well as the Latin and Greek. The original and fascinating index of the medicinal powers of plants (!Was den schlaff bringt,! etc.) must have proved invaluable to the user. According to the preface, the compiler, having discovered that many of the herbs mentioned by the Ancients did not grow in Germany, set out for the Holy Land to pursue what must have been the first botanical expedition in history, if the claim is true. Despite this, several species that the artist presumably never managed to see are illustrated in the traditional style!for example, the charming male and female mandrakes. Blunt & Stern, The Art of Botanical Illustration (1994); Klebs, A Catalogue of Early Herbals (1925).. Folio [24.5 x 15.5 cm], 261 ff., lacking the first blank leaf. Quarter blind-tooled vellum over cont. boards, rebacked to style, spine in 4 compartments with raised bands, clasps with leather hinges. Around 400 cont. hand-colored woodcuts. Scattered fingersoiling and marginal repairs. A very attractive copy.
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Lucian
LUCIANUS OPERA (Leaf in Greek Letter)
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Laurentius De Alopa, Florence, 1496, Florence - A beautiful, clean and bright incunabula leaf from the Greek letter edition of Lucianus printed by Lorenzo di Francesco di Alopa in 1496. That edition was noted for its beautiful Greek typography. This leaf is from the beginning of a section of the book with a two line title in large type over the body of text. Professionally mounted in a large mat that has a descriptive tag mounted to the mat. The whole ready for framing. The descriptive tag reads, "Plate 13. Florence, Laurentius De Alope, 1496. Type 5." The plate number is apparently the page number from the book. The mat is a large 16 1/2 inches wide by 21 inches high. Will be shipped in the mat. A very lovely leaf from a very scarce and valuable book. Informational insert taped out of sight inside the mat states that the type used for this edition of Lucian was noted for its great legibility together with its moderate use of ligatures so that, in all, the fount had less than two hundred different sorts. This type was in use in 1496, but after the end of that year the press seems to have been closed down. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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P&O - Orient Lines:
S.S. ORANIA, Werbeprospekt wohl vor Indienststellung des Liners, 30 x 25 cm, insg. 22 Seiten, teils mit ganzseitigen farbigen Zeichnungen ( Druck) über das geplante Aussehen von S.S. ORANIA, zeichnerische Darstellung von: seitl. Schiffsansicht (aufklappbar), First class Ballroom, Princess Room and Libary, Veranda Cabin, First Class Cabin, First Class Swimming Pool, Stadium and Restaurant, Monky Bar, Cinema,
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- Tourist Class Cabin, Junior Club, Ballroom and Restaurant, Stern Gallery, Ocean Bar, Lido and Poop Deck. Textl. Beschreibung in engl. Sprache ( Interior Design, Veranda Cabins, the Penthouse or Special Suite, First Class Restaurant, Silver Grill, Monkey Bar, Machinery, Communal Comforts, Cinema, Red Carpet Room, Unusual Service, Hairdressing Salons, Tourist Restaurant, Stern Gallery, Outdoor Exercise, Small Fry, and so on), farbige aufklappbare Schnittdarstellung des Liners ( Deckaufbau, Namen der Decks, Unterteilung in Tourist u. First Class), Techn. Angaben ( z.B.: 27,5 Knoten Geschw., 638 Pass 1. Kl., 1496 Pass. 2.Kl., u.a.m.), Vorstellung von Design-Entwürfen für: deck-chairs, glassware, steel cutlery and the specially designed ashtrays incorporating the "O" for Orania in green and gold glaze ( Darstell. auf Fotos ). Papie min. altersbed. gebräunt, Deckblatt einige kl. Flecke, innen tadellos, insg. sauber und sehr gut. Versandfertig in 24 Stunden!
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GOBLER, Justin.
Den spieghele der rechte, uit den natuerlijcken, bescrevenen, gheestelijcken, wereltlijcken, ende anderen ghebruyckelijcken rechten, oock die ghemeyne inden heylighen rijck der Duytscher natien, insettinghen ende oeffeninghen daer toe ghesedt.
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Only Dutch edition of a famous juridical work by the German lawyer Justin Gobler (1496-1567) Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1560. Folio. Eighteenth-century blindstamped vellum, with green ties. Half-page woodcut on title, repeated in text, two woodcuts, one full-page and one half-page in text, and numerous woodcut initials. (4), 172 lvs. Only Dutch edition of this famous juridical work by the German lawyer Justin Gobler (1496-1567), originally published in German by Christ. Egenolff at Frankfurt in 1550. The author published many other, more specialized juridical works, but the present is a general work, a mirror of all his knowledge of the laws in force at the time, comprehensively treating administrative, canon, public and private law, criminal, feudal, military, procedural law, etc. in ten chapters, including also juridical notions like obligations, conveyances, privileges, contracts, bail, succession, etc. The present is a nice edition, including a full-page woodcut of a genealogical tree, and 2 other half-page woodcuts; it is neatly printed in two columns of gothic, with captions and latin references in the margins; a summary and a comprehensive table of contents make this work easily accessible. Very rare. Fine copy. With the bookplate of L.J. Hijmans van den Bergh.- (One corner of binding ink-stained; beginning and end very sl. browned). Belg. Typogr. 1277; Machiels G 368; STC Dutch p. 86; not in Adams; not in NUC.
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TRINCAVELLI Vettore V.
Enchiridion medicum de cognoscendis curandisque tam externis, quam internis humani corporis morbis.
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Edition originale. Absent a Brunet. Absent a la BN de France et aux catalogues francais. §Plein Velin a recouvrement d'epoque, dos sans titre, traces de lacets. Mouillures marginales claires sur les 100 premieres pages et les 100 dernieres. Un Vol. petit in 4 (18,7 x 13 cm) de (16) 823 pp. (39 de tables). §Manuel de medecine fort complet et de remedes de Trincavelli (1496-1568), medecin et professeur a Padoue qui avec Sylvius a Montpellier s'opposa a Gallien. L'edition a ete etablie par un professeur de medecine de Suede, Anders Christensen (1551-1606). Le manuel traite de toutes les infections, les fractures et de tous les organes, il est egalement compose de parties sur les purgatifs et les vomitifs.Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com. typis Oporinianis per Balthasarum Han & Hyeronimum Gemusaeum Basilae (Bale) _1583 petit in 4 (18,7x13cm) (16) 823pp. (39). Un Vol. relie
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Messie Pierre; Gruget, Claude
Les Diverses Leçons De Pierre Messie Gentil-Homme De Sevile, Contenans Variables & Memorables Histoires: Mises En Francois Par Claude Gruget Parisien. Ne Nouveau Revues, Corr & Agm
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Lyon, Gabriel Cotier 1563. 886pp, woodcut initials throughout, woodcut title. Seventeenth century calf with raised bands & profuse gilt decoration to spine. Fine. Auteur espagnol originaire de Séville, Pedro MEXIA en français Pierre Messie (1496-1552), doit sa réputation à cet ouvrage: Silva de varia leccion, compilation dans le genre des nuits attiques d'Alu-Gelle, dont il fit paraître la première éditionà Séville en 1540. Souvent réimprimée avec d'amples augmentations, Claude GRUGET en donna la traduction française en 1552 sous le titre de Diverses leçons de P. Messie., Pedro MEXIA in French Pierre Messiah (1496-1552), owes his reputation to this work:
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[Incunable]. Nicolaus de Blony (Blonie) (Plove, Plonius)
Tractatus sacerdotalis de sacrementis deq[ue] divinis officiis et eoru[m] administrationibus
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Imp[re]ssus Arge[n]tine [Strasbourg]:: p[er] Martinu[m] Flach,, 1496.. .. Early or original boards with remnant of old clasp; recently rebacked.. 4to. (18.6 x 13.2 cm.).. Nicolaus de Plove is also listed in Jocher, Adelung and Schulte (which we know thanks to our learned friend Jesse Mann). Lower right corner gone from I4 (leaf 67); paper flaw (browning) fore-edge of L signature -- neither touching text; 2 microscopic pin-prick size worm holes, barely noticeable, G1 to end not affecting text. Very early marginalia and markings, probably 15th or early 16th century. This copy has an early example of the title page (A)1 giving the title in full. Very early signature and ONic De PloveO in ink on the front board; two later signatures on (A)1, one crossed through. A very nice complete copy of this handbook to the sacraments by the Bishop of Posan and a fine example of 15th century printing from the famous press of Martin Flach in Strasbourg. FlachOs first book appeared in 1487, but Ohe had worked at Strassburg, presumably as a journeyman, as early as 1472O [Colin Clair, p.25 and esp. p. 89]. Ours is the only Flach/ Strasbourg imprint currently offered in the trade.
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[ TULLY , Mlle ]
Voyage a Tripoli , ou Relation d ' un sejour de dix annees en Afrique , contenant des renseignemens et des anecdotes authentiques sur le Pacha regnant , sur sa famille , et sur differens personnages de distinction de la cour de Tripoli , ainsi que des observations sur les moeurs privees des Mores , des Arabes et des Turcs . Traduit de l ' anglais sur la seconde edition par J. Mac Carthy . Paris , Mongie Aine , 1819 . 2 volumes in-8 , X , 392 pp , (2) ff , 394 (1) pp , 1 carte et 7 gravures hors-texte , demi veau havane , dos lisse orne en long , tranches marbrees . ( reliure de l ' epoque ) .
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Premiere traduction francaise par Jacques Mac-Carthy . Document de premiere main , l ' auteur etait une proche duConsulde l ' Angleterre a la cour de Tripoli et intimement liee avec la famille du pacha . Bel exemplaire . ( Gay , 1496 bis ) .
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Antoninus, Saint, Abp. of Florence
Tertia pars totius su[m]me maioris beati Antonini [i.e., Summa theologica, pars tertia]
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[Argentinae:: Johann Gr!ninger,, 1496].. Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt rules, small gilt place/date stamps, and otherwise plain (with no labels); rules in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. "Title-page" with 17th-century notes about the author and the printing of this work in a very neat hand in Latin. Light waterstaining in some margins; pin-type wormholes in lower margin of early leaves. A few leaves with browning due to impurities in water during paper manufacture; paper in fact excellent. Lacks final blank (only). A fine production.. Folio ( 31 cm; 12/25"). [311 of 312] ff., lacks final blank. . Fame would descend on at least three of the would-be Dominicans who made their noviates in 1405 at Cortona under Br. Lawrence of Ripafratta. They were Fra Angelico - the painter; Fra Bartolommeo - the miniaturist; and St. Antoninus (1389-1459) - the reformer and theological writer.#11; Summa Theologica Moralis is the saint's principal work and was written shortly before his death. Scholars say it marks a new and considerable development in moral theology, as well as containing a fund of matter for the student of the history of the 15th century.#11; Offered here is vol. III (of 5) of the Strassburg, 1496, incunable edition from the press of Johann Gruninger. It is printed in gothic type, double-column format of mostly 67 lines, with some guide letters (unaccomplished) and spaces for capitals.#11; Provenance: 1630 ownership inscription; later in the library of a divinity school, deaccessioned.
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Plutarch
Plutarchi Vitae parallelae (Greek and Roman Lives)
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Bartholameus De Zanis Translated from the Greek into Latin by Lapus Floreninus etc. pubd Bartholomaeus de Zanis 8th June, 1496. (320mm x 210mm) a-r8 s10 (a1r title, a1v tables - torn and professionally repaired with part of table on verso well executed in ink hand); A-S8; S8v blank. 290 leaves (i.e.580pp). Woodcut illustration and elaborate woodcut border on a2r. illustration shows Theseus and the Minotaur. Corner repair to a2 not affecting text. Contemporary marginal ink annotations. Good margins. C19 half leather binding with marbled boards. Overall a very pleasing copy, clean and tight text block. Goff P-834; Hain 13130; Doheny Sale Part 1 - Lot 103 Very Good
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A PARTIR DE CERO. Revista de poesía y antipoesía. Nº 1, noviembre 1952, Nº 2, diciembre 1952 y Septimbe 1956
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J. B. Alberdi 1496 - 1º B, Buenos Aires 1952 - "ARGENTINEAN SURREALISM IN ITS FINEST APPEARANCE". Full collection of this magazine gathering the most representative members of Argentinean avant-garde, i.e., Enrique Molina, Aldo Pellegrini, Francisco Madariaga, Llinás, Olga Orozco, etc. This journal is considered by surrealist bibliography as a turning point in the history of Latin American avant- garde. Fragile as it is and having had little promotion, very few copies reached our times. In 40 years as bookdealers, we have never seen a complete copy as this before. A landmark in the history of South American surrealism. 3 issues (all Published); narrow folio; small illustrations in text. " EL SURREALISMO ARGENTINO EN SU MÁS ALTA EXPRESIÓN".-------- Colección completa de esta revista que reune a los más representativos integrantes de la vanguardia argentina i.e. Enrique Molina, Aldo Pellegrini, Francisco Madariaga, Llinás, Olga Orozco, etc. La aparición de este periódico está considerada por la bibliografía surrealista como un punto de inflexión en la historia de la vanguardia latinoamericana. Debido a su fragilidad y a la poca difusión que tuvo, muy pocos ejemplares han llegado a nuestro días. En nuestros 40 años como libreros no hemos visto nunca un ejemplar completo (3 numeros). Un hito en la historia del surrealismo sudamericano. 3vols. Folio varias pp ills Good copy. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Hennegau / Hainault].
Erburkunde der Frührenaissance.
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- Bouvignies bei Ath, 4. XII. 1496.Mittelfranzösische Bastarda auf Pergament. 48 Zeilen. Gefaltet, ca. 30 x 24 cm.Vor dem Bürgermeister von Bouvignies bei Ath (Hainaut/Hennegau, heute Belgien), M. Deleuze, dem dortigen Obergericht und den Schöffen geschlossener Vertrag: Jaspart Ysacq aus Ath und sein Sohn Hanin vermachen Denis Beurelin aus Bouvignies aus freien Stücken und auf Lebenszeit gegen eine Rente einen halben Hektar Land, das Ysacq in Bouvignies, nahe dem Wald von Remonquesnoit, besitzt. Das Grundstück ist auf der einen Seite begrenzt durch den dorthin führenden Weg, auf einer anderen Seite durch den Weg nach Bigode und schließlich durch die Güter von Jacquemin Beurelin: "Jaspart hysacq en la ville dath et avoecq lui hanin Son filz quil heult de deffuncte Juliane de le plancq [...] de leurs pure et bonne voulentet et Sans constrainte nulle dirent et congnetrent quilz avoient donnet et mis a rente et ferme main tousiours perpetuelement A denis beurelin manouvries demorant en ladite ville de bouvegnies la estant present Liertaige de demi bonnier de terre ou environ [...]". Denis Beurelin verpflichtet sich ferner, binnen eines Jahres auf dem Grundstück ein Steingebäude mit Gebälk zu errichten. Er und seine Nachkommen verpflichten sich gegenüber Ysacq und seinen Nachkommen zur Zahlung einer jährlichen Summe von 26 Sols, leistbar jeweils zur Hälfte am Johannistag und am Weihnachtstag. Die erste Zahlung soll am kommenden Johannistag 1497 erfolgen. - Sollten Beurelin und seine Erben diese Rente von 26 Sols einmal nicht mehr zahlen können und sind drei aufeinanderfolgende Zahlungen ausgeblieben, so sollen Ysacq oder seine Anspruchsberechtigten, aber auch jeder Inhaber dieser Urkunde das genannte Grundstück mitsamt dem darauf errichteten Haus zurückfordern dürfen. Beurelin soll das Grundstück lebenslang nutzen dürfen, unabhängig vom Familienstand und von der Existenz von Nachkommen. Sollte er aber ohne Nachkommen sterben, so soll das Grundstück nach seinem Tod an Jean Dottegnies fallen. - Die Ortschaft Bouvignies ist heute der wallonischen Stadt Ath eingemeindet. Die Grafschaft Hennegau war mit der burgundischen Erbschaft 1477 an das Haus Habsburg gefallen und blieb bis zur Französischen Revolution österreichisch. - Volltranskription liegt bei.
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REGIOMONTANUS (MÜLLER, Johann) and PURBACH, George.
Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei.
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- Venice, Johannes Hamman for Kaspar Grossch and Stephan Roemer, 31 August 1496. FIRST EDITION, first issue. Folio. ff. (cviii). [a10, b-n8,6, o6, p8] last blank, 48 lines and headline. Gothic letter, some Greek. 8 fine 14 line white on black woodcut historiated and floriated initials, numerous six line white on black initials, 279 woodcut marginal diagrams (including repeats), xylographic title, woodcut printer's device on verso of p7, full-page woodcut of Ptolemy and Regiomontanus in discussion below a large armillary sphere, within a fine white-on-black ornamental border. A few marginal annotations in an early hand, pencil acquisition note of S.S. Dunham 1931 from Hoepli sale Milan. Very occasional and minor light marginal mark. A fine, tall copy, crisp and clean (unwashed) in very fine impression, in early vellum, recased. First edition of the first appearance in print of Ptolemy's 'Almagest', an encyclopedia of astronomical knowledge which established astronomy as a mathematical discipline. It is the only incunable edition, preceding the first complete edition by 20 years; a full Latin translation appeared in 1515. Much of the text derives from Hipparchus, whose originals are now lost. It contains an elaborate theory of the planets, the discovery of the second inequality of the moon's motion, the determination of the distance of the moon, an exposition of spherical and plane trigonometry and an account of the construction and use of astronomical instruments. "The importance of this book lies in the fact that it enshrines, within the editor's commentary, the first appearance in print, in a Latin translation from the Greek, of the monumental compendium of Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria known as the Almagest (an Arabic portmanteau word derived from the Greek for 'the great astronomer')". PMM. In 1460 Peurbach, professor of astronomy at the University of Vienna, was persuaded by Cardinal Bessarion, then papal legate to the Holy Roman Empire, to undertake a briefer and more comprehensible Latin condensation of Ptolemy's formidably complex Syntaxis. Peurbach based his epitome on a copy that he himself had transcribed of Gerard of Cremona's 12th-century translation. He died just after completing Book VI, and the remaining seven books were completed, using a more accurate manuscript, by his former student, friend and colleague Johannes Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), who dedicated the final text to its patron Bessarion. In Regiomontanus's manuscript, preserved in the Institut de France, he did not address Bessarion as Patriarch of Constantinople (a title which is used in the printed edition), showing that the manuscript must have been completed before 28 April 1463. Regiomontanus determined to master the language of Ptolemy and he acquired remarkable fluency in Greek from his close association with Bessarion, which combined with his mathematical and astronomical knowledge meant that he was one of the few people in Europe with the required expertise to undertake such a task. The importance of the work in the history of science in Europe is demonstrated by the fact that Copernicus, whilst a student in Bologna, was struck by an error in Ptolemy's lunar theory (book V, proposition 22 in the Epitome), which lead him to overthrow the Ptolemaic system and lay the foundation of modern astronomy. "At the end of the fifteenth century, Ptolemy's achievement remained at the pinnacle of astronomical thought: and by providing easier access to Ptolemy's complex masterpiece, the Peurbach-Regiomontanus Epitome contributed to scientific research rather than to improved understanding of the past. Moreover, the Epitome was no mere compressed translation of the Syntaxis, to which it added later observations, revised computations, and critical reflections." (DSB 11:349). As usual without the bifolium containing a letter dated 15 August 1496 inserted in a few, later copies. Given most copies do not contain a letter dated only 15 days before the
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Curtius Rufus, Quntus
Historiae Alexandri Magni
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Venice:: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino,, 1496.. Early paper covered limp boards, some loss to spine,old description on front paste-down; single wormhole in lower margin, minor corner stains, small tear in LI. Provenance: Julio Berunza Collection of Alexander the Great (bookplate removed).. Folio 12 1/2 x 8 1/2O. Printer's device on register leaf. Decorated initials Curtius Rufus wrote this history of Alexander the Great ,his march through Phrygia and the cutting of the Gordian Knot,under Claudius or Vespasian. "The author is an excellent story-teller and makes the most of many thrilling or picturesque incidents in the Asiatic expedition..."[OCCL]#11;Merula, Italian humanist and poet, was born in Mantua. He taught grammar in Split from 1487-9. When the powerful Venicean Zori of the Corner family sought a tutor for his sons, Merula won the position. OAmong the most powerful families in Venice at this period were the Corner, whose members included the titular Queen of Cyprus and her brother Zorzi, one of the most widely employed and respected statesmen in the Republic. Zorzi had a history of connections with scholars of an earlier generation such as George of Trebizond and Merula, so when it became known in 1484 that he was seeking a tutor for his sons, the post was eagerly sought. Ermolao Barbaro and Gerolamo Donato were asked to intercede. Bartolomeo Merula, the successful candidate, gained a certain status in Venetian intellectual society, editing a number of Latin texts for the press of Tacuinus during the 1490s and 1500s. When his main charge, Marco Corner, was given a cardinalcy in 1500, Bartolomeo simply became his secretary instead of his tutor and was in due course rewarded for his services by the appointment of apostolic protonotary.O [Martin Lowry, World of Aldus Manitius.] Ann Moss in her OOvid In Renissance FranceO calls him an OindefatigableO editor and in the case of Ovid, OHis main concern is to make the sense of the text clear by paraphrasing difficult passages and enlarging on historical, geographical and mythological allusions, with the help of recognized authorities. His is a grammatical, rather than a rhetorical commentary.O Goff C1003 ; HCR 5886 ; Pell 4068 ; CIBN C-687 ; Neveu 208 ; Polain(B) 4310 ; IDL 1447 ; IBE 1966 ; IGI 3291 ; IBP 1820 ; Saj!-Solt!sz 1125 ; Sallander 2176 ; Madsen 1311 ; Ernst(Hildesheim) I,I 163 ; G!nt(L) 3748 ; Voull(B) 4432 ; Sack(Freiburg) 1200 ; Finger 326 ; Walsh 2567 ; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 645 ; Bod-inc C-498 ; Sheppard 4535, 4536 ; Pr 5443 ; BMC V 531 ; GW 7876. ISTC ic01003000.
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REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes
Epytoma...in Almagestum Ptolomei
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[Edited by Caspar Grosch & Stephan Romer]. Full-page woodcut of Ptolemy & Regiomontanus seated beneath an armillary sphere within a fine white-on-black woodcut border and 279 woodcut diagrams in the text. Gothic letter. Numerous 6-, 7-, & 14-line floriated & historiated woodcut initials, xylographic title, & woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. 107 leaves (lacking the final blank). Folio (298 x 210 mm.), 17th cent. calf (joints & corners well repaired, first & final leaves with some worming, second & third leaves entirely remargined), single gilt fillet round sides, gilt arabesque in center of each cover, spine gilt. Venice: Johannes Hamman, 21 Aug. 1496. First edition and a good copy of this great book in the history of astronomy. "The importance of this book lies in the fact that it enshrines, within the editor's commentary, the first appearance in print, in a Latin translation from the Greek, of the monumental compendium of Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria known as the Almagest...The Almagest is an encyclopaedia of astronomical knowledge...which established astronomy as a mathematical discipline. It contains an elaborate theory of the planets, the discovery of the second inequality of the moon's motion (known as evection), the determination of the distance of the moon, an exposition of spherical and plane trigonometry and an account of the construction and use of astronomical instruments... "Regiomontanus' influence was felt in both western and eastern Europe and his publication of the Almagest helped to re-introduce Greek astronomy into the western world."!Printing & the Mind of Man 40. "The Epytoma is a central work in the history of Renaissance astronomy in that it codified and corrected the somewhat disordered Ptolemaic astronomy of the middle ages."!Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 94. A good clean copy preserved in a morocco box. In this copy, the first three leaves have been very skillfully supplied from another example. Lightly washed. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 1!"This handsome volume again brought Greek astronomy and the accepted version of the universe before the Western world in Latin, a language all learned men could read. The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic." Evans, First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 14. Goff R-111. Horblit 89. Klebs 841.1. Stillwell 103. .
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CEBES (Johann ELICHMANN, editor and translator, and Claud...
Tabula Cebetis Graece, Arabice, Latine. Item Aurea Carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrasi Arabica . . . Cum praefatione Cl[audii] Salmasii.
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First edition in Arabic. This copy is complete with the folding plate, usually lacking. The mysterious Tabula Cebetis, a first-century Hellenistic allegorical work of doubtful authorship, was first published in Greek in Florence c. 1496. It was translated into Latin by the Paduan humanist Ludovico Odasio (1455–1509).Johann Elichmann (c. 1600–1639), a physician from Silesia, disccovered the Arabic texts published here while inspecting the Leiden manuscript of Miskawayh’s Jawidan Khirad. The Arabic version of the Tabula is printed together with the Greek text (emended in the light of the Arabic) and Elichmann’s Latin translation of the Arabic. At the end is printed Odasio’s Latin version. The final part of the work contains an Arabic paraphrase of the Golden Verses of Pythagoras with a parallel Latin translation by Elichmann. Elichmann had intended to add a Persian version of the Arabic paraphrase, but he died before the work went to press. Vocalisation was therefore added by Claudius Salmasius, who also wrote the extensive preface in which he expresses reservations about using Arabic texts to emend Greek ones. ‘In publishing the remarkable edition prepared by his friend, Dr. Elichmann, Salmasius made an important contribution to scholarship. He, like the dozens of philologists who concerned themselves with the little allegory of the Tabula, must have found the dialogue not only a charming literary piece, but a work of real value for education. It is ironical that, in this, he was in agreement with his implacable enemy, John Milton, who, in his famoud Letter to Samuel Hartlib on education, recommends the Tabula as a work eminently suitable for schoolboys “to win them over to the love of true virtue and labour” ’ (Cora E. Lutz, ‘The Salmasius-Elichmann edition of the Tabula of Cebes’, Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XXVII, No. 2 (April 1979), pp. 165–171, p. 171).Smitskamp, Philologia orientalis 322; Schnurrer 409. Leiden, Jan Maire, 1640.
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Antoninus, Saint, Abp. of Florence
Tertia pars totius su[m]me maioris beati Antonini [i.e., Summa theologica, pars tertia]
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Johann Gr!ninger, [Argentinae:: Johann Gr!ninger,, 1496].. Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt rules, small gilt place/date stamps, and otherwise plain (with no labels); rules in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. "Title-page" with 17th-century notes about the author and the printing of this work in a very neat hand in Latin. Light waterstaining in some margins; pin-type wormholes in lower margin of early leaves. A few leaves with browning due to impurities in water during paper manufacture; paper in fact excellent. Lacks final blank (only). A fine production.. Folio ( 31 cm; 12/25"). [311 of 312] ff., lacks final blank. . Fame would descend on at least three of the would-be Dominicans who made their noviates in 1405 at Cortona under Br. Lawrence of Ripafratta. They were Fra Angelico - the painter; Fra Bartolommeo - the miniaturist; and St. Antoninus (1389-1459) - the reformer and theological writer.#11; Summa Theologica Moralis is the saint's principal work and was written shortly before his death. Scholars say it marks a new and considerable development in moral theology, as well as containing a fund of matter for the student of the history of the 15th century.#11; Offered here is vol. III (of 5) of the Strassburg, 1496, incunable edition from the press of Johann Gruninger. It is printed in gothic type, double-column format of mostly 67 lines, with some guide letters (unaccomplished) and spaces for capitals.#11; Provenance: 1630 ownership inscription; later in the library of a divinity school, deaccessioned.
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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus
Las Epístolas (en Castellano).
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Zaragoza, Pablo Hurus para Juan Thomas Favario de Lumelo, 3 de Marzo de 1496. En folio. Tipografía gótica. 84 folios. Un grabado a toda página en xilografía representando a Séneca ofreciendo el libro a Nerón, y manca del impresor en la última hoja. Encuadernación en pergamino moderno. Primera Edición española y primera edición ilustrada de las famosas epístolas del cordobés Lucio Aneo Séneca, de extraordinaria rareza. De acuerdo con Palau, la traducción al castellano se debe a Pedro Díaz de Toledo y fue posteriormente revisada por Fernán Díaz de Guzmán, estado definitivo con el cual se imprimió el texto. La última parte de la obra contiene la "Introducción de Filosofía", de Leonardo Aretino. Este libro fue impreso por uno de los mejores y más importantes impresores de cuantos se establecieron en España durante el periodo incunable. Pablo Hurus de Constanza llegó a la ciudad aragonesa de Zaragoza para establecer su taller de impresión a finales de 1476, junto con su amigo Henricus Botel de Sajonia. Ambos habían establecido la primera imprenta en Barcelona el año anterior. Hombre extraordinario, es una de las figuras más interesantes de la imprenta incunable española; cursó estudios en la Universidad de Basilea y mantuvo inquietudes literarias, a su llegada a España se relacionó con el mundo intelectual zaragozano, entrando en contacto con alguno de los autores de las obras impresas por él, e incluso costeándolas. En Zaragoza imprimió al principio en compañía de otros impresores y porteriormente solo. En 1477 Hurus imprime el "Fori Regni Aragonum" junto con Botel, y posteriormente hasta 1480 no se tienen nuevas noticias de impresiones suyas, momento a partir del cual imprime en colaboración con Juan Planck obras como la "Descriptio absidionis Rhodiae urbis" (1481) o las Fábulas de Esopo (1482). Tras un paréntesis, a partir de 1485 y hasta 1499, año de su última impresión, se desarrolla el período más intenso de su actividad, ya en solitario y sin la asociación con ningún otro tipógrafo. Imprimió en estos años numerosas obras de gran calidad como Las Mujeres Ilustres de Boccaccio (1494), la presente primera edición castellana de las Epístolas de Séneca (1496), o el Viaje a Tierra Santa de Breydenbach (1498). En 1499 Hurus transfirió su establecimiento tipográfico a Jorge Cocci, quien tantas glorias dio también a la imprenta española, y se retiró a Constanza. Obra muy rara que no se encuentra en la British Library. Según Salvá "Méndez no conoció esta magnífica primera edición" y Pellicer desconocía incluso la existencia de esta traducción castellana. En España se conservan sólo cuatro ejemplares completos en bibliotecas públicas, ninguno de ellos en Zaragoza. Goff registra dos ejemplares en Estados Unidos: Hisoanic Society of America y Curt F. Bühler. Referencias: Goff, S-383; Copinger, 5350; Haebler, 622; Palau, 308013; Salvá 4003; IBE 5195 First Spanish edition of Seneca’s Epistles, of extreme rarity. According to Palau, the translation of Seneca’s letters was done by Pedro Diaz de Toledo, although it is frequently attributed to Fernan Diaz de Guzman. The last part contains the Introduccion de Phiosophia, written by Leonardo Aretino and consists in a dialogue on philosophy, between Marcelino and Leonardo, the author. This book was printed by one of the best and most important printers in Spain at the end of the 15th century. Paul Hurus from Constantia arrived in Zaragoza to settle his printing workshop at the end of 1476, with his friend Henricus Botel from Saxonia. They both had established their first press in Barcelona in the previous year. It was during the last decade of the century that the Hurus press was most prolific, and by the extent, variety and quality of its output won for itself an outstanding position in the annals of early Spanish printing. Illustrated with an engraved woodcut frontispiece showing Seneca offering his book to Nero and Hurus’s device at the colophon. First quire mounted on stubs, early annotations in the margins, but a good copy of this famous rarity.
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Aquileya
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- Xilografia originale tratta dall'edizione ridotta del famoso libro "Liber Chronicarum." stampato nel 1496 di mm. 145 x 95. Incisione rara.
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PETRARCA, Francesco [1304-1374].
Opera Latina. Edited by Sebastian Brant.
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[Colophon on fo. 367a:] Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496. - folio. 275 x 191 mm. [ff. 388 (of 389)]. lacking the final blank. divisional titles. roman type. 49-55 lines. initial spaces with guide letters. rubricated: initials supplied in blue & red. later calf (c1700), rebacked preserving endleaves (covers rubbed, title bit soiled, with ms. notes in lower margin & repair to outer margin, some small round inconsequential wormholes, small amateurish drawing on verso of one leaf; a nice copy with good margins). First Collected Edition of the Latin poetry and prose works of Petrarca, edited by Sebastian Brant. This was the only collected edition published in the fifteenth century. Included here are: Bucolicum carmen; De vita solitaria (a panegyric of solitude); De remediis utriusque fortunae (a treatise on human happiness and unhappiness); Secretum; De vera sapientia (actually by Nicolaus de Cusa; see E.P.Goldschmidt, Medieval texts, p. 133); De rebus memorandis; Quattuor libri invectivarum contra quendam medicum (relating to Petrarca’s quarrels with the physicians of Avignon); Epistolae familiares; Epistolae sine titulo; Ad Charolum quartum Romanorum regem epistola; De studiorum suorum successibus ad posteritatem epistola; Septem psalmi poenitentiales; Epitoma illustrium virorum (an epitome of the biographies of Roman worthies); Epitomatis post obitum Petrarchae Lorbardi di Siricho supplementum; Benevenuti de Rombaldis libellus qui Augustalis dicitur; Principalium sententiarum ex libris Petrarchae collectarum summaria annotatio. The most important of the Latin works in the volume is the collection of Epistles. "These are not only of high interest from the portrait they convey of the man himself, equally as an individual and as the ideal type of man of letters, but [they] form a perpetual commentary on the manners and customs of his age. Some are of unique interest, such as the description of his ascent of Mont Ventoux, of the great tempest at Naples, and of the apparition of the ghost of the Bishop of Lombes, the first circumstantial narrative of its kind, and perhaps to this day the best authenticated."" (Bernard Quaritch Incunable Cat., 1927) "When we attempt to estimate Petrarch’s position in the history of modern culture, the first thing which strikes us is that he was even less eminent as an Italian poet than as the founder of Humanism, the inaugurator of the Renaissance in Italy. What he achieved for the modern world was not merely to bequeath to his Italian imitators masterpieces of lyrical art unrivalled for perfection of workmanship, but also and far more, to open out for Europe a new sphere of mental activity. Standing within the threshold of the middle ages, he surveyed the kingdom of the modern spirit, and, by his own inexhaustible industry in the field of scholarship and study, he determined what we call the revival of learning.". (Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.) BMC III 757. Brunet IV 565. Fowler, Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection bequeathed by Willard Fiske (Cornell University Library), pp. 1-2. Goff P-365. Hain-Copinger 12749. IGI 7564. Oates 2791. Polain (B) 3059. Proctor 7608. [Attributes: First Edition]
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Antoninus, Saint, Abp. of Florence
Tertia pars totius su[m]me maioris beati Antonini [i.e., Summa theologica, pars tertia].
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Johann GrÅninger 1496], [Argentinae - Fame would descend on at least three of the would-be Dominicans who made their noviates in 1405 at Cortona under Br. Lawrence of Ripafratta. They were Fra Angelico - the painter; Fra Bartolommeo - the miniaturist; and St. Antoninus (1389-1459) - the reformer and theological writer. Summa Theologica Moralis is the saint's principal work and was written shortly before his death. Scholars say it marks a new and considerable development in moral theology, as well as containing a fund of matter for the student of the history of the 15th century. Offered here is vol. III (of 5) of the Strassburg, 1496, incunable edition from the press of Johann Gruninger. It is printed in gothic type, double-column format of mostly 67 lines, with some guide letters (unaccomplished) and spaces for capitals. Provenance: 1630 ownership inscription; later in the library of a divinity school, deaccessioned. Folio ( 31 cm; 12/25"). [311 of 312] ff., lacks final blank. Goff A-878; Hain-Copinger 1249; GKW 2192; BMC, I, 109; Polain 272; Proctor 469; ISTC ia00878000. Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt rules, small gilt place/date stamps, and otherwise plain (with no labels); rules in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. "Title-page" with 17th-century notes about the author and the printing of this work in a very neat hand in Latin. Light waterstaining in some margins; pin-type wormholes in lower margin of early leaves. A few leaves with browning due to impurities in water during paper manufacture; paper in fact excellent. Lacks final blank (only). A fine production. [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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Raimundus de Sebunda
Theologia naturalis siue Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura eius inquantum homo. et de hisque sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsium & deum. et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligat tam deo atque primo.
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Straßburg, Flach 21. Januar 1496. 28 cm. (162) Blatt, zweispaltig gedruckt je 50 Zeilen mit Kolumnentitel, rot rubriziert und mit rot eingemalten Initialen. Brauner Lederband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln mit Blindprägung und handschriftlichem Papier-Titelschild auf dem Vorderdeckel - GW M36911 - Goff R-33 - Hain 14069 - Realenz. 16, 415 - Erste datierte Ausgabe. Raimundus de Sebunda (auch: Sabunde, Sabiende, Sabieude) vollendete das Werk im Jahr 1436. In dem in ganz Europa bekannten Werk suchte er "eine Parallelisierung der natürlichen Erfahrungen mit der Offenbarung der Bibel" (Realenz.). Es wurde im 16. Jahrhundert von Michel de Montaigne ins Französische übersetzt und in seinen "Essais" verteidigt. Vollständiges Exemplar. Beide Deckel sind mit Streicheisenlinien und Rollenstempeln versehen, dazwischen Einzelstempel (Blüten und Ranken), das Mittelfeld mit Gitterwerk; auf dem Vorderdeckel Titel-Blindprägung "Theologia naturalis". Der Rollenstempel auf dem hinteren Deckel zeigt Jagdszenen (Jäger, Hirsch, 2 Hunde, 87 x 18 mm). Einband am Rücken und an den Ecken restauriert, Schließen entfernt, in den Deckeln einzelne Wurmlöcher; die letzten Buchstaben der Titel-Blindprägung sind abgegriffen; im oberen Viertel und im unteren Schnitt Feuchtigkeitsränder, durchgängig einzelne kleine Wurmlöcher, Titelblatt mit 2 zeitgenöss. Besitzeintragungen - Sprache / Language: Lateinisch / Latin -
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Perottus, Nicolaus.
Cornucopiae linguae latinae. (And:) Commentariolus in prohemium historiae naturalis Plinii.
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Venice, Johannes Tacuinus, 20. XII. 1496. - Folio. Roman and occasional Greek type (title page in Gothic type). 2 cols., 62 lines. With woodcut printer's device at the end and numerous woodcut initials. (38), CCCVII ff., last blank. Contemp. blindstamped vellum over wooden boards. With 7 (instead of 10) brass fittings and 2 claps (leather bands restored). Ms. title to upper fore-edge. Important collection of philological texts, actually a commentary on the first book of Martial. Originally compiled by Niccolò Perotti (1430-80), first printed by Paganinus in 1489, and edited by Johannes Pompeius Cornianus and Polydorus Vergilius. The theologian and scholar Perotti taught Latin at Rome, but quarrelled with Domenico Calderino over the proper interpretation of Martial, removed himself to zu Bologna and there taught oratory, philosophy, and even medicine (cf. Jöcher III, 1398). In 1458, Cardinal Bessarion made him Archbishop of Manfredonia. In the "Cornucopiae", his principal work, he is said to have "committed a plagiarism which Calepinus in his 'Dictionario' then in turn committed against this work" (cf. ibid.). - Slight waterstaining throughout. Front endpaper and title page have contemp. notes (name index and Greek and Latin mottos). Attractive German Renaissance binding; front cover shows traces of a contemp. ms. cover title. The fine brass corner fittings and the metal clasps are preserved; both center fittings and one corner fitting on the back cover are missing. Large stain to back cover; still, altogether a fine, well-preserved copy of this rare incunable. Hain/C. 12704. Goff P-295. GW M 31100. Pellechet Ms 9221 (9045). Sheppard 4537. Proctor 5444. BMC V, 531. BSB-Ink P-220. ISTC ip00295000. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Bibliotheca Aldina. 3 Spezial-Antiquariatskataloge Tle. zusammen in 1 Bd
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Ohne Ort, ohne Jahr. . Paperback. 44; XXII, 178; 27 S. Mit Abb. imText u. auf Taf. Priv. HLn. Stellenw. starker braunfleckig. - 1: Aldine Press. 400 items 1496-1594. Catalogue 13, H. W. Belmore, Rome / 2: Bibliotheca Aldina. Eine Sammlung von 800 Drucken des Aldus Manutius u. seiner Nachfolger, mit einer bibliographischen Einfuhrung u. einem Autorenregister. Angeboten von der Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, Leipzig. (deutsch u. englisch) / 3: Aldina. Grande Collezione di Libri stampati dagli Aldi (414 Nrn.). Catalogo N. 320 della Libreria Antiquaria Alb. Bocca, Roma. - Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Manuzio, d. A., 1449-1515) grundete 1493 eine Buchdruckerei in Venedig u. brachte textlich einwandfreie, sorgfaltig gedruckte Ausgaben griechischer u. lateinischer Klassiker heraus, seit 1501 meist im Oktavformat. In den lateinischen Drucken verwendete er statt der bis dahin ublichen gotischen Schrift die von ihm entwickelten "Aldinen" (Antiqua) oder Kursivschrift. Nach seinem Tod fuhrte sein Schwager die Offizin, 1533 ubernahm sie sein Sohn Paulus (1512-1574), bis 1585 wurde sie von seinem Enkel Aldus M. d. J. (1547-1597) weitergefuhrt, der 1590 die "Stamperia Vaticana" ubernahm (Meyers Enzykl. Lex., 9. Aufl.).
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BOTANY / HERBAL / GART DER GESUNDHEIT]
Herbarius zu teütsch unnd von allderhandt kreuteren.
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Augsburg Johann Schönsperger 1496. - Folio [24.5 x 15.5 cm], 261 ff., lacking the first blank leaf. Quarter blind-tooled vellum over cont. boards, rebacked to style, spine in 4 compartments with raised bands, clasps with leather hinges. Around 400 cont. hand-colored woodcuts. Scattered fingersoiling and marginal repairs. A very attractive copy. Extremely rare, complete (see below) edition of "the most important medieval work on natural history with illustrations" (Choulant) and the first printed vulgate herbal. Klebs, the great historian of herbals, has compared the Gart der Gesundheit to Vesalius? De humani corporis fabrica, alleging it "marks a similar milestone in the evolution of the healing art into a science." Unlike De humani corporis, however, we can be certain that the present work occupied an immensely popular spot in the limited canon of 15th century "layman?s books," accessible to and used by learned and unlearned alike. In contrast with its contemporary rival, Lignamine?s Apuleius (1484), the Gart der Gesundheit?s pictures are generally taken from Nature rather than ancient manuscripts, it does not uncritically reproduce the superstitious herbal lore of past generations, and most significantly, it is printed in the vulgate. These factors have served to convince most historians of science that the present text truly was "the only botanical incunabulum of real importance" (Blunt & Stearn) and "the chef d?oeuvre of all early herbals and the real starting point for the future direction of scientific publications." (Klebs)Although the present work became unrivalled in popularity (running through 16 German editions, 6 other vulgate translations, and 8 loosely based Latin editions), its widespread use doomed it to extreme rarity. By appearing in the vulgate, the Gart der Gesundheit would have appealed to non-professionals as well as herbcutters, apothecaries, and physicians; "I have had it made in German that it may help all the world, learned and unlearned," declares the unknown author in his preface. The rough-and-tumble lifestyle of a domestic herbal has taken its toll over 500 years. We have managed to check 16 US copies of incunable editions by inspection or from reliable records; of these, only 8 are complete. The present volume thus affords an extremely rare example of this influential work in its entirety, of which only two other copies are known to exist in America. This, the sixth Augsburg edition, is essentially a reprint of the second edition of 1486 with smaller type, presumably for an even wider circulation. The second edition contained 13 more woodcuts than the original, and this particular printing contains a few more additions. Johann Schönsperger masterfully pirated the first edition of the Gart der Gesundheit only five months after it was published in 1485 by Schöffer, the technical genius in the enterprise of Gutenberg and Fust; many other pirated editions followed.The Gart der Gesundheit may be considered equally important as a monument of the German language, being one of most substantial texts preserved from this period, and representing "a remarkable source for folklore and dialect studies" (Klebs). Although the format of the work appears to follow the traditional model of picture, description, and medicinal uses, both German and Arabic names are noted, as well as the Latin and Greek. The original and fascinating index of the medicinal powers of plants ("Was den schlaff bringt," etc.) must have proved invaluable to the user. According to the preface, the compiler, having discovered that many of the herbs mentioned by the Ancients did not grow in Germany, set out for the Holy Land to pursue what must have been the [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes
Epytoma...in Almagestum Ptolomei
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[Edited by Caspar Grosch & Stephan Romer]. Full-page woodcut of Ptolemy & Regiomontanus seated beneath an armillary sphere within a fine white-on-black woodcut border and 279 woodcut diagrams in the text. Gothic letter. Numerous 6-, 7-, & 14-line floriated & historiated woodcut initials, xylographic title, & woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. 107 leaves (lacking the final blank). Folio (298 x 210 mm.), 17th cent. calf (joints & corners well repaired, first & final leaves with some worming, second & third leaves entirely remargined), single gilt fillet round sides, gilt arabesque in center of each cover, spine gilt. Venice: Johannes Hamman, 21 Aug. 1496.pFirst edition and a good copy of this great book in the history of astronomy. "The importance of this book lies in the fact that it enshrines, within the editor's commentary, the first appearance in print, in a Latin translation from the Greek, of the monumental compendium of Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria known as the Almagest...The Almagest is an encyclopaedia of astronomical knowledge...which established astronomy as a mathematical discipline. It contains an elaborate theory of the planets, the discovery of the second inequality of the moon's motion (known as evection), the determination of the distance of the moon, an exposition of spherical and plane trigonometry and an account of the construction and use of astronomical instruments... "Regiomontanus' influence was felt in both western and eastern Europe and his publication of the Almagest helped to re-introduce Greek astronomy into the western world."!Printing & the Mind of Man 40. "The Epytoma is a central work in the history of Renaissance astronomy in that it codified and corrected the somewhat disordered Ptolemaic astronomy of the middle ages."!Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 94. A good clean copy preserved in a morocco box. In this copy, the first three leaves have been very skillfully supplied from another example. Lightly washed. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 1!"This handsome volume again brought Greek astronomy and the accepted version of the universe before the Western world in Latin, a language all learned men could read. The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic." Evans, First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 14. Goff R-111. Horblit 89. Klebs 841.1. Stillwell 103.. First Edition. Hard cover.
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APPLANUS Costantino
De Humani Arbitrii Libertate et Potestate Solliloquiorum Liber.
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(In-fine, colphon:) Charoli de Darleriis Cremonensis impressoris egregi inclita urbe Cremona anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quarto…Imperante uero faustissimo ac sapientissimo Ludovico Sfor. Anglo Mediolani Duce… (Cremona, Carlo Darleri, 1496), in-4, ff. (12), 180 (con errori di numerazione), caratt. romano, impresa dello stampatore in silografia al verso del f. 179. Legatura 800sca in assicelle, dorso in cuoio. Bell'esemplare con ampi margini. Libro dedicato a Lud. Maria Sforza da Costantino Applanus (di cui si anno scarse notizie biografiche, deceduto nel1508). Contiene riflessioni storico-filosofiche sul Nuovo Testamento, e riporta scritti di Pietro Cremonese, Nicola Lugaro, Eleuterio Cremonese ed altri. Raro incunabulo di Cremona. B.M.C. VII, 959. H.C. 1313. GW 2295. Vaticana I, A-390. IGI 768. Goff A-933.
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Hellmut Kretzschmar: Vom Anteil Sachsens an der neueren deutschen Geschichte: Ausgewahlte Aufsatze
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Franz Steiner Verlag. Hardcover. 3515074686 ein "à überzeugender Band." Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte Inhalt: Karlheinz Blaschke: Hellmut Kretzschmar zum Gedächtnis Aufsätze: Der Anteil Sachsens an der neueren deutschen Geschichte - Die Wettiner - Die Stellung Magdeburgs in der sächsischen Geschichte - Die Bedeutung der Elbe für die Geschichte Sachsens - Zur Geschichte der sächsischen Diplomatie - Die Anfänge des Geheimen Rates in Sachsen - Herrschaft und Fürstentum Querfurt zwischen 1496 und 1815 - Zur Geschichte der sächsischen Sekundogeniturfürstentümer - August der Starke - August der Starke von Sachsen-Polen und Karl XII. von Schweden - Der Friedensschlua von Altranstädt 1706/07 - Sachsen vor 100 Jahren - Die sächsische Verfassung vom 4. September 1831 - Friedrich List und der sächsische Staat - [Dresden und Paris im Spiegel französischer und sächsischer Gesandtschaftsberichte 1848-1849] - [König Johann von Sachsen und seine Lebenserinnerungen] - Sachsen und Bismarck 1862/63 - Schicksal und Anteil Sachsens auf dem Wege zum Kriege 1866 - Heinrich von Treitschkes Verhältnis zu Sachsen - Das sächsische Königtum im 19. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Typologie der Monarchie in Deutschland - Reichsgeschichte und Landesgeschichte in der Neuzeit Manfred Kobuch: Bibliographie Hellmut Kretzschmar. Überarbeitete und ergänzte Fassung. (Franz Steiner 1999). 9783515074681. Hardback . New. 1999-01-01.
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[INCUNABLE LYONNAIS]
TRACTATUS COMPENDIOSISSIMI SEPTUAGINTATRIUM QUESTIONUM SUPER POTERTATE ET AUCTORITATE PAPALI ET SENTENTERIS SANCTI THOMA COLLECTARUM PER MAGISTRUM JOHANNEM DE TURRECREMATA ORDINIS PREDICATOR AD JULIANUM CARDINALEM INCIPIT PREFATIO. MENTION AU COLOPHON : EXPLICIUNT FLORES SENTENTARIUS BEATI THOMAE DE AQUINO DE AUCTORITATE SUMMI PONTIFICIS COLLECTI PER MAGISTRUM JOHANNEM DE TURRECREMATA IN CONCILIO BASILIEN. LUGDUNI, P. MAGISTRUM JOHANNEM TRESCHEL, ANNO 1496 DIE VERO 20 MENSIS SEPTEMBRIS. IN-FOLIO GOTHIQUE, DEUX COLONNES ; 15 PP. (1 BL.) ; PLEIN VELIN IVOIRE, TITRE AU DOS (RELIURE FIN XIXE-DEBUT XXE).
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Mouillure-brunissure en pied des feuillets, sinon bon exemplaire. (Pericaud : Bibliographie lyonnaise du XVe siecle, CXIII).Ne' a' Vallaloid en Espagne (1388-1468), Jean de Torquemada (Turrecremata en latin), qu'il ne faut pas confondre avec le grand inquisiteur Thomas de Torquemada qui etait probablement de la meme famille, fut un theologien et cardinal tres en vue au XVe siecle : entre' chez les Dominicains, il se fit rapidement connaitre par ses talents et le Pape Eugene IV l'appela a' Rome et le nomma Maitre du Sacre' Palais puis le designa pour son theologien au Concile de Bale. Torquemada y fit condamner les doctrines de Wiclef et de Jean Hus.
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Lilius, Zacharias
De origine et laudibus scientiarum etc.
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- Florence, Bonaccorsi, 1496 (Hain 10103; BMC VI 675; Harisse 17; Sabin 41607; JCB I p 24; Riccardi Vol 2: 41.1) Small quarto, newly bound in old, plain vellum. 65 (of 72) nn leaves. Leaves a1 and a2 with marginal restorations, incl. some letters in manuscript. Seven leaves in good facsimile on old paper. Heavily but well restored copy. *Five books in one volume. Contains an early TO worldmap (Shirley nr 1; Campbell nr 86) and is a very early Americana. Extremely rare.#[508]
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INCUNABLE;GREGORIUS MAGNUS;GREGORIUS I;GREGOIRE LE GRAND;
Recueil factice de 4 textes du pape Grégoire le Grand, dont 3 incunables.
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Michael Furter Bâle 1496 4 ouvrages en 1 volume in-4. Pleine peau de truie estampée sur ais, tranches bleutées. Attaches de laiton. Reliure alémanique du XVIIème siècle. (Manque une des deux attaches de laiton. Piqûres bénignes de vers.) Gregoire le Grand (Rome 540-604), élu pape en 590, après avoir été nommé premier magistrat (civil) de la ville de Rome et avoir adopté dès 574 la vie monastique, est un des quatre Pères de l'Eglise d'Occident. L' influence de sa pensée théologique, philosophique et morale est considérable pendant tout le Moyen-Age, dont Grégoire est un des thèmes iconographiques favoris. Sa réputation était telle qu'on lui attribua des réformes liturgiques ou des innovations -comme le chant grégorien -auxquelles il n'eut que des parts réduites. 1) Gregoriana super Novum Testamentum, ex operibus beati Gregorii ...Exceptionum opus ...ab Alulpho ... collectum. [Colophon :] Impresse Argentine per Joannem Knoblouch. Anno Domini 1516. 8 feuillets non chiffrés signés AA8, 160 feuillets numérotés en chiffres romains, signés a-y8, z4, A-F8. Belle impression strasbourgeoise sur 2 colonnes dans le caractère gothique de Knoblouch, ou Knoblauch ; titre en rouge et noir. Le moine bénédictin Alulphe de Tournai vivait au XIème siècle. Il consacra sa vie à l'étude des textes grégoriens, et réunit dans ces Gregoriana ou Opus exceptionum les sentences et moralités tirées par Grégoire du Nouveau Testament. Cette édition datée de Strasbourg 28 juillet 1516 n'est précédée que par celle de Berthold Remboldt (dont elle reprend d'ailleurs la préface), publiée à Paris en 1515. Les deux éditions sont rares. 2) Gregorius Magnus : Libri dialogorum. [Colophon :] Impressi ac diligentissime correcti Basileae per Michaelem Furter sub anno domini 1496. Laus deo. 58 feuillets non chiffrés signés a-b8 c4 d8 e4 f8 g4 h8 i6. Exemplaire partiellement rubriqué. La première édition de ces "Libri (quatuor) Dialogorum" est de Strasbourg, 1472-1474. Cette édition de Furter datée 1496 est la seule édition bâloise incunable de ce texte dont le succès fut considérable : il en existe 8 éditions incunables en latin, 2 en allemand, 4 en italien, 1 en espagnol. Dans le second dialogue, chap.I, Gregoire donne les seules informations biographiques qui nous soient parvenues sur saint Benoît (490-547), figure majeure du monachisme occidental. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n°G 407, page 273) 3) Expositio beati Gregorii pape super Cantica Canticorum. [Colophon :] Impressa Basilee anno domini 1496, die vero 13 mensis martii. Laus deo. 24 feuillets non chiffrés signés a8 b4 c4 d6. Deuxième édition de cette Expositio (ou Commentum) ; la première est de Cologne, 1473. Cet ouvrage n'a pas été rédigé par Grégoire, mais dicté de mémoire par le moine Claude, rapportant ce qu'il en avait entendu de Grégoire. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n°G 405, page 273.) 4) Pastorale beati Gregorii pape. [Colophon :] Vigilanti et cura in urbe Basiliensi arte impressoria perfectus feliciter explicit. Sub anno domini 1496, die vero 15 mensis februarii. 40 feuillets non chiffrés, signés A8 B4 C8 D4 E8 FG4. Nombreuses notes de lecture dans les marges, renvoyant aux passages de la Bible, d'une écriture du temps. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n°G 441, page 275). Ex-libris XVI ou XVIIème manuscrit sur le titre : Monasterii Pethrusiani ; cachet XVIIIème sur le second feuillet du premier ouvrage et sur le titre du second : Monasterii Petridom. [Monastère de Petershausen, en Haute Bavière.] Un bristol glissé dans l'ouvrage indique le nom du grand libraire "Rosenthal Antiquariat München", et celui de "Barack directeur de la Landesbibliothèque".
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Bonaventura (S. )
Meditationes in Vita Christi
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SENZA NOTE TIPOGRAFICHE Ma (Strasburg Johann Gruninger, 1496 circa), 1496. [Incunabolo-raro] (cm.18, 7) solido cartonato recente. -cc.53 di (54) errori di numerazione, la penultima numerata 57 anczichè 53, l'ultima non è numerata ed è bianca al verso. 43 linee di testo a due colonne, caratteri gotici. Spazi con lettera guida per le iniziali. Famosa opera di carattere popolare, l'editio princeps fu impressa ad Asburgo nel 1468. Incunabolo molto raro, manca ad Harvard library, Sander "Prices", Olschki cat. 94, Rosenthal "Monaco 1900" non registrano alcuna vendita. Solo 3 copie presenti in America e secondo I.G.I. nessun esemplare in Italia. manca purtroppo la prima carta (A1) sostituita da una ristampa su carta antica che contiene solo il titolo: "Vita Christi edita a Sancto Bonaventura" Qualche lievissima ombreggiatura e leggere tracce di polvere ma esemplare molto bello e fresco. *Hain 3550; *Proctor 505; * Polain 779; * GW 4754; * Goff B 897; *Pellechet-Polain 2699; BMC I 116.
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INCUNABLE;GREGORIUS MAGNUS;GREGORIUS I;GREGOIRE LE GRAND;
Recueil factice de 4 textes du pape GrÈgoire le Grand, dont 3 incunables.
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Michael Furter B‚le 1496 - 4 ouvrages en 1 volume in-4. Pleine peau de truie estampÈe sur ais, tranches bleutÈes. Attaches de laiton. Reliure alÈmanique du XVIIËme siËcle. (Manque une des deux attaches de laiton. PiqÞres bÈnignes de vers.) Gregoire le Grand (Rome 540-604), Èlu pape en 590, aprËs avoir ÈtÈ nommÈ premier magistrat (civil) de la ville de Rome et avoir adoptÈ dËs 574 la vie monastique, est un des quatre PËres de l'Eglise d'Occident. L' influence de sa pensÈe thÈologique, philosophique et morale est considÈrable pendant tout le Moyen-Age, dont GrÈgoire est un des thËmes iconographiques favoris. Sa rÈputation Ètait telle qu'on lui attribua des rÈformes liturgiques ou des innovations -comme le chant grÈgorien -auxquelles il n'eut que des parts rÈduites. 1) Gregoriana super Novum Testamentum, ex operibus beati Gregorii.Exceptionum opus.ab Alulpho. collectum. [Colophon :] Impresse Argentine per Joannem Knoblouch. Anno Domini 1516. 8 feuillets non chiffrÈs signÈs AA8, 160 feuillets numÈrotÈs en chiffres romains, signÈs a-y8, z4, A-F8. Belle impression strasbourgeoise sur 2 colonnes dans le caractËre gothique de Knoblouch, ou Knoblauch ; titre en rouge et noir. Le moine bÈnÈdictin Alulphe de Tournai vivait au XIËme siËcle. Il consacra sa vie ‡ l'Ètude des textes grÈgoriens, et rÈunit dans ces Gregoriana ou Opus exceptionum les sentences et moralitÈs tirÈes par GrÈgoire du Nouveau Testament. Cette Èdition datÈe de Strasbourg 28 juillet 1516 n'est prÈcÈdÈe que par celle de Berthold Remboldt (dont elle reprend d'ailleurs la prÈface), publiÈe ‡ Paris en 1515. Les deux Èditions sont rares. 2) Gregorius Magnus : Libri dialogorum. [Colophon :] Impressi ac diligentissime correcti Basileae per Michaelem Furter sub anno domini 1496. Laus deo. 58 feuillets non chiffrÈs signÈs a-b8 c4 d8 e4 f8 g4 h8 i6. Exemplaire partiellement rubriquÈ. La premiËre Èdition de ces "Libri (quatuor) Dialogorum" est de Strasbourg, 1472-1474. Cette Èdition de Furter datÈe 1496 est la seule Èdition b‚loise incunable de ce texte dont le succËs fut considÈrable : il en existe 8 Èditions incunables en latin, 2 en allemand, 4 en italien, 1 en espagnol. Dans le second dialogue, chap.I, Gregoire donne les seules informations biographiques qui nous soient parvenues sur saint BenoÓt (490-547), figure majeure du monachisme occidental. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n?G 407, page 273) 3) Expositio beati Gregorii pape super Cantica Canticorum. [Colophon :] Impressa Basilee anno domini 1496, die vero 13 mensis martii. Laus deo. 24 feuillets non chiffrÈs signÈs a8 b4 c4 d6. DeuxiËme Èdition de cette Expositio (ou Commentum) ; la premiËre est de Cologne, 1473. Cet ouvrage n'a pas ÈtÈ rÈdigÈ par GrÈgoire, mais dictÈ de mÈmoire par le moine Claude, rapportant ce qu'il en avait entendu de GrÈgoire. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n?G 405, page 273.) 4) Pastorale beati Gregorii pape. [Colophon :] Vigilanti et cura in urbe Basiliensi arte impressoria perfectus feliciter explicit. Sub anno domini 1496, die vero 15 mensis februarii. 40 feuillets non chiffrÈs, signÈs A8 B4 C8 D4 E8 FG4. Nombreuses notes de lecture dans les marges, renvoyant aux passages de la Bible, d'une Ècriture du temps. (Goff, Incunabula in American libraries, n?G 441, page 275). Ex-libris XVI ou XVIIËme manuscrit sur le titre : Monasterii Pethrusiani ; cachet XVIIIËme sur le second feuillet du premier ouvrage et sur le titre du second : Monasterii Petridom. [MonastËre de Petershausen, en Haute BaviËre.] Un bristol glissÈ dans l'ouvrage indique le nom du grand libraire "Rosenthal Antiquariat M nchen", et celui de "Barack directeur de la LandesbibliothËque". [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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München". Gesamtansicht.
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- Holzschnitt nach M. Wolgemut aus Schedels "Weltchronik", bei H. Schönsperger, Augsburg, 1496, 8,5 x 19 cm (Darstellung) auf der vollen Buchseite 27 x 20,5 cm. Abb. und genaue Beschreibung in: Schönes Altes München, S. 130f; nicht bei Lentner, Maillinger und Slg. Proebst. - Der Verlag Schönsperger in Augsburg druckte 1496 eine deutsche und 1497 eine lateinische, jeweils verkleinerte Ausgabe der Schedelschen Weltchronik von 1493. Die Gesamtansicht von München ist gegenüber der Schedelschen entsprechend verkleinert und etwas vereinfacht. - Die Buchseite unten mit Eckausrissen, mittig in der Schrift eine Querfalte. 1
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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS SANTO
TRACTATO VOLGARE DI FRATE ANTONIO ARCIVESCOVO DI FIRENZE INTITOLATO DEFECERUNT CHE INSEGNA AL CONFESSORE DI CHE CASI & IN CHE MODO DEBBA DOMANDARE COLUI CHE EGLI CONFESSA. (IN FINE, COLOPHON:) FIRENZE, LORENZO MORGIANI E GIOVANNI DI PIETRO PER PIERO PACINI, 22 FEBBRAIO 1496.
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in-4 (mm 210 x 138), ff. 114 n.n., leg. 800sca in mezza pelle rossa , tit. e fregi oro al dorso. Testo in bel car. rom. su 36 linee per pag., in fine al verso del f.142, le tre grandi imprese tipografiche figurate del Pacini; iniziale D istoriata al recto del secondo foglio. Sulla pagina del titolo grande e bella silografia raffigurante, entro una cappella, la confessione di un giovane al monaco e due altri personaggi; il legno e' tratto dall'edizione del 1493 (Firenze, Lorenzo de Morgianis e G. di Pietro). Rara e bella edizione figurata, in volgare del Defecerunt, prima parte del Confessionale, opera minore di S. Antonino (1389-1459), che ebbe notevole fortuna in quanto manuale pratico di confessione. Esemplare grande di margini, ottimamente conservato. HCR 1211. Pellechet 869. CIBN A-437. IGI 657. Sander 428. Proctor 6370. BMC VI 683. GW 2142.
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BONAVENTURA (S.)
Meditationes in Vita Christi.
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Strasburg, Senza Note Tipografiche Ma (Strasburg Johann Gruninger, 1496 Circa). 1496. [Incunabolo - raro] (cm.18,7) solido cartonato recente. -cc.53 di (54) errori di numerazione, la penultima numerata 57 anczichè 53, l'ultima non è numerata ed è bianca al verso. 43 linee di testo a due colonne, caratteri gotici. Spazi con lettera guida per le iniziali. Famosa opera di carattere popolare, l'editio princeps fu impressa ad Asburgo nel 1468. Incunabolo molto raro, manca ad Harvard library, Sander "Prices", Olschki cat. 94, Rosenthal "Monaco 1900" non registrano alcuna vendita. Solo 3 copie presenti in America e secondo I.G.I. nessun esemplare in Italia. manca purtroppo la prima carta (A1) sostituita da una ristampa su carta antica che contiene solo il titolo: "Vita Christi edita a Sancto Bonaventura" Qualche lievissima ombreggiatura e leggere tracce di polvere ma esemplare molto bello e fresco. Hain 3550; Proctor 505; Polain 779; GW 4754; Goff B 897; Pellechet-Polain 2699; BMC I 116..
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CICERO M. TULLIUS
EPISTOLAE AD ATTICUM
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MAGISTRUM EUCHARIUM SILBER ALIAS FRANCK, ROMAE 1496 - Rileg. antica tutta pelle Titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Mancanze nella rilegatura ma il tutto ben restaurato. H. 30 1 fg. bianco 1 fg. n.n. 25 172 n.n. 1 bianco. ( chiose manoscritte antiche su bordi bianchi per i primi quaranta fgg.) Graesse II / 169 segna per l' editore Silber solo le edizioni 1490 e 1499
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APPLANUS COSTANTINO
DE HUMANI ARBITRII LIBERTATE ET POTESTATE SOLLILOQUIORUM LIBER. (IN-FINE, COLPHON:) CHAROLI DE DARLERIIS CREMONENSIS IMPRESSORIS EGREGI INCLITA URBE CREMONA ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QUADRINGENTESIMO NONAGESIMO QUARTOIMPERANTE UERO FAUSTISSIMO AC SAPIENTISSIMO LUDOVICO SFOR. ANGLO MEDIOLANI DUCE (CREMONA, CARLO DARLERI, 1496),
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in-4, ff. (12), 180 (con errori di numerazione), caratt. romano, impresa dello stampatore in silografia al verso del f. 179. Legatura 800sca in assicelle, dorso in cuoio. Bell'esemplare con ampi margini. Libro dedicato a Lud. Maria Sforza da Costantino Applanus (di cui si anno scarse notizie biografiche, deceduto nel1508). Contiene riflessioni storico-filosofiche sul Nuovo Testamento, e riporta scritti di Pietro Cremonese, Nicola Lugaro, Eleuterio Cremonese ed altri. Raro incunabulo di Cremona. B.M.C. VII, 959. H.C. 1313. GW 2295. Vaticana I, A-390. IGI 768. Goff A-933.
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HIERONYMUS [Saint Jerome] (c.347–420).
Epistolae Sancti Hieronymi
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Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1496 - Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 12 July 1496. Folio in 4's, 6's and 8's (320 x 230 mm). 6 ff. non num., 392 ff. C&p. First 2 leaves blank, 62 lines, Gothic and Italic type. 18th-century calf backstrip over marbled paper boards, early marginal notations and text to first two leaves. Some light dampstaining. Marginal repairs to final eight leaves; serious only on last leaf, which suffers some text loss. Binding mildly rubbed and bumped. All in all, a very good copy of a now extremely scarce incunable. Goff H-175; BMC V 419; HC 8563*. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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SAVONAROLA MICHELE GIOV.
PRACTICA SAVONAROLE DE FEBRIBUS. (F.2:) CANONICA DE FEBRIBUS MAGISTRI MICHAELIS SAVONAROLE AD RAYNERIUM SICULUM INCIPIT. (IN FINE, COLOPHON:) OPUS HOC MAGISTRI MICHAELIS SAUONAROLE DICTUM CANINICA DE (IN FINE, COLOPHON:) OPUS HOC MAGISTRI MICHAELI SAUONAROLE DICTUM CANINICA DE FEBRIBUS VENETIIS IMP.SSUM P. CHRISTOSERUM DE PENSIS DE MANDELLO ANNO DOMINI MCCCCLXXXXVI. DIE XVI OCTOBRIS (VENEZIA, CRISTOFORO DE PENSIS DI MANDELLO, 1496),
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in-folio, ff:(1), CXI, (1, bianco), bel carattere romano su due colonne. Bella legatura moderna in piena pelle ad imitazione antica, dippia bordura e filetti a secco sui piatti, dorso a nervi decorato a secco. In vari margini presenti postille manoscritte di mano coeva. Seconda edizione (prima 1487 a Bologna), molto rara (otto esempl. in biblioteche italiane, quattro in America), di questa opera medica di G.M.Savonarola, uno dei migliori scienziatri in materia del '400, medico di Lionello d'Este. Tratta vari aspetti della medicina (De dieta in febris, de cibis temperatis, de ordinatione dietarum , de acutis pestiferis, de febribus, de cura quartane, etc. etc.). Bell'esemplare (salvo un alone marginale in vari fogli). BMC V, 470. Goff S-294. HC 14488. Klebs 885.2. IGI 8808. Non in Wellcome Library Cat.
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Perotto, Niccolò (1429-1489). Marco Valerio Marcial.
Cornucopiae linguae latinae.
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Juan Tacuino de Tridino, 1496, 20 de diciembre, Venecia: - 348 hojas, con la última blanca original. Todos los pliegos son de 8 hojas, excepto dd y P, que son de 6. El porqué del famoso pliego o con 9 hojas queda explicado en el Catálogo del Museo Británico: "The matter of the hitherto unpublished 'due carte' mentioned in the title. runs from the last line but five of the recto of the leaf signed o iii and numbered XCI to the last line but two of the recto of the next leaf, signed o 3 and numbered 92. Both leaves are separate half-sheets, leaf o iii being a cancel and leaf o 3 not appearing in the register". Ejemplar con leves manchas y encuadernado en media badana de principios del siglo xix. Hain 12704*. Goff P-295. BMC v, 531. IGI 7426. IBE 4430 sólo 1 ejemplar. Ser Nicolo de Augostino de Urbino. Anotaciones y poemas manuscritos del siglo xv en las hojas blancas iniciales y finales, referencias Pesaro, la familia Sforza, a Poliziano, a Barbaro, a la muerte de un profesor en Bolonia en 1510, a Battista Guarino, Enorme edición corregida y aumentada del más importante comentario literario y filológico producido durante el Renacimiento italiano. Es la primera edición con las correciones de Juan Pompeyo Corniano y Polidoro Virgilio. También aparece por primera vez el Commentariolus in prohemium Historiae naturalis Plinii. La Cornucopia es una relectura y una explicación de los Epigramas de Marcial y una de las referencias de la crítica literaria de toda la historia de la literatura. Nicolás Perotto construye en esta Cornucopia uno de los textos fundamentales del humanismo: "Obras como las Elegantiae de Valla o la Cornucopia de Perotto no sólo se basan en un directo y amplísimo conocimiento de los textos originales, sino que constituyen una introducción al estudio de los gramáticos, lexicógrafos, historiadores y de los críticos originales." [Garín].La primera edición se publicó en 1489. [Attributes: Signed Copy]
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MANLIIS DE BOSCO, JOHANNES JACOBUS (vissuto tra XV e XVI sec.)
Luminare maius.
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Venezia, Boneto Locatello per Ottaviano Scoto 1496 - Folio (cm 31), cartoncino rustico, un lieve alone di umiditˆ al marg. inf., una notazione ms. a c. 64v, bell'esemplare genuino. Testo in carattere gotico su 66 linee a 2 colonne, carte 77, (3), l'ultima bianca originale conservata. Seconda edizione di questa opera, tra le primissime farmacopee in assoluto. Edizione rara e pregiata divisa in 15 parti: terapie e diagnosi di medici famosi, gli sciroppi, gli unguenti, gli olii, erbe e medicamenti. Ferguson II, pag. 73: "Joannes Jacobus Manlius or de Manliis, with the addition de Bosco or Bosco, was an italian physician, born at Alexandria, who florished in the fifteenth century. The best edition of the Luminare is said to be that by Nic. Mutonus". Hain/Cop. 10712; BMC V, 446; Goff M-208; BSB Ink. M-127.
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SAVONAROLA Michele Giov.
Practica Savonarole De Febribus. (f.2:) Canonica de febribus magistri Michaelis savonarole ad Raynerium siculum incipit. (In fine, colophon:) …opus hoc magistri Michaelis Sauonarole dictum Caninica de
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(In fine, colophon:) Opus hoc magistri Michaeli Sauonarole dictum Caninica de febribus Venetiis imp.ssum p. Christoserum de pensis de Mandello anno Domini MCCCCLXXXXVI. die XVI Octobris (Venezia, Cristoforo de Pensis di Mandello, 1496), in-folio, ff:(1), CXI, (1, bianco), bel carattere romano su due colonne. Bella legatura moderna in piena pelle ad imitazione antica, dippia bordura e filetti a secco sui piatti, dorso a nervi decorato a secco. In vari margini presenti postille manoscritte di mano coeva. Seconda edizione (prima 1487 a Bologna), molto rara (otto esempl. in biblioteche italiane, quattro in America), di questa opera medica di G.M.Savonarola, uno dei migliori scienziatri in materia del '400, medico di Lionello d'Este. Tratta vari aspetti della medicina (De dieta in febris, de cibis temperatis, de ordinatione dietarum , de acutis pestiferis, de febribus, de cura quartane, etc. etc.). Bell'esemplare (salvo un alone marginale in vari fogli). BMC V, 470. Goff S-294. HC 14488. Klebs 885.2. IGI 8808. Non in Wellcome Library Cat.
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HARTMANN SCHEDEL
RAVENNA 1496 AUSBURG
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Veduta fantastica della citta' posta nella parte inferiore del foglio che contiene anche il teste descrittivo, tratto dal Liber cronicarum cum figuris et umaginibus ab initio mudi usus mit temporis rarissima edizione "tascabile" della celebre cronaca del mondo, edita ad Ausburg presso Johann Schonsperger, nel 1496. Prima edizione in tedesco dello Schonsperger. Egli abbrevia sia il testo sia il formato dello Schedel per produrre un edizione che fosse piu' maneggevole a commerciabile di quella di A. Koberger. Silografia, posta nella parte centrale di un doppio foglio di testo, leggero restauro alla piega centrale, per il resto in ottimo stato di conservazione. Rara. Imaginary view of the city, inserted in the lower part of a text sheet, from the Liber cronicarum cum figuris et umaginibus ab initio mudi usus mit temporis, a very rare "pocket" edition of the famous Chronica, printed in Augsburg by Johann Schonsperger, in 1496. First German edition of Schonsperger. He shortened both Schedel's texts and images to realize a more handy edition. Woodcut, in the central part of a double sheet text, light repair in the central forld, otherwise in excellent condition. Rare. 140 90
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CICERO M. TULLIUS
EPISTOLAE AD ATTICUM
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Curtius Rufus, Quntus. Historiae Alexandri Magni.
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Bartholomaeus Merula, ed. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 1496. Folio 12 1/2 x 8 1/2” a8,b-l6. 68 leaves. [1],lxvi,[1], [1]p. Early paper covered limp boards, some loss to spine,old description on front paste-down; single wormhole in lower margin, minor corner stains, small tear in LI. Provenance: Julio Berunza Collection of Alexander the Great (bookplate removed). Printer's device on register leaf. Decorated initials Curtius Rufus wrote this history of Alexander the Great ,his march through Phrygia and the cutting of the Gordian Knot,under Claudius or Vespasian. "The author is an excellent story-teller and makes the most of many thrilling or picturesque incidents in the Asiatic expedition..."[OCCL] Merula, Italian humanist and poet, was born in Mantua. He taught grammar in Split from 1487-9. When the powerful Venicean Zori of the Corner family sought a tutor for his sons, Merula won the position. “Among the most powerful families in Venice at this period were the Corner, whose members included the titular Queen of Cyprus and her brother Zorzi, one of the most widely employed and respected statesmen in the Republic. Zorzi had a history of connections with scholars of an earlier generation such as George of Trebizond and Merula, so when it became known in 1484 that he was seeking a tutor for his sons, the post was eagerly sought. Ermolao Barbaro and Gerolamo Donato were asked to intercede. Bartolomeo Merula, the successful candidate, gained a certain status in Venetian intellectual society, editing a number of Latin texts for the press of Tacuinus during the 1490s and 1500s. When his main charge, Marco Corner, was given a cardinalcy in 1500, Bartolomeo simply became his secretary instead of his tutor and was in due course rewarded for his services by the appointment of apostolic protonotary.” [Martin Lowry, World of Aldus Manitius.] Ann Moss in her “Ovid In Renissance France” calls him an “indefatigable” editor and in the case of Ovid, “His main concern is to make the sense of the text clear by paraphrasing difficult passages and enlarging on historical, geographical and mythological allusions, with the help of recognized authorities. His is a grammatical, rather than a rhetorical commentary.” Goff C1003 ; HCR 5886 ; Pell 4068 ; CIBN C-687 ; Neveu 208 ; Polain(B) 4310 ; IDL 1447 ; IBE 1966 ; IGI 3291 ; IBP 1820 ; Sajó-Soltész 1125 ; Sallander 2176 ; Madsen 1311 ; Ernst(Hildesheim) I,I 163 ; Günt(L) 3748 ; Voull(B) 4432 ; Sack(Freiburg) 1200 ; Finger 326 ; Walsh 2567 ; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 645 ; Bod-inc C-498 ; Sheppard 4535, 4536 ; Pr 5443 ; BMC V 531 ; GW 7876. ISTC ic01003000.
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C
Historia naturalis (Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus)
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 12 Dec 1496, Venice - 17th century speckled calf (neatly rebacked with original gilt spine preserved) BOUND WITH SABELLICUS, M. A. In hoc volumine hec continentur: Marci Antonii Sabellici annotationes veteres [et] recencentes: Ex Plinio: Livio: [et] pluribus authoribus. Philippi Beroaldi annotationes centum. Eiusdem contra Seruium gram[m]aticum libellus. Eiusdem castigationes in Plinium. Eiusdem etiam appendix annotamentorum. Ioannis Baptiste pii Bononiensis annotationes. Angeli Politiani Miscellaneorum Centuria vna. Domitii Calderini Obseruationes quedam. Eiusdem Politiani Panepistemon. Eiusdem prelectio in Aristotele[m]: cui titulus est Lamia. Joa[n]. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti Racemationes. [Venice], (Giacomo Penzio, 16. Dec. 1502). Folio. [19], 85 (i.e. 86) leaves. Without last blank leaf. Several lengthy Greek sections. Folio . I. Beautifully printed and well preserved early Venetian edition of Pliny the Younger's Natural History which, according to the British Museum Catalogue was based on Britannicus' Brescia edition of 1496. Pliny's Historia naturalis, written in 77 A.D. is the earliest extant encyclopedia, an enormous repository of ancient knowledge and belief about cosmography, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine, metallurgy, mineralogy and the fine arts. It is particularly valuable for including its sources (which number nearly 500), and for containing the earliest surviving account on Roman plant-lore (Norman). II. FIRST EDITION of this rare post-incunable which is a collection of works by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, Pliny, Domitius de Calderiis, Philipp Beroaldus, Angelo Politanus, Giovanni Baptiste Egnatius, and others. Including a long Greek poem. The prefatory letter "Ioannes Bembus Venetus Andreae Anixi Corcyraeo.S.P.D." is dated February 11, 1502. Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506) was an eminent Italian humanist and historian who had studied under Julius Pomponius Laetus, Gaspar Veronese and Porcelio Pandone at Rome. He taught rhetoric at Udine and later held the first lectureship in humanities at the school of San Marco. He also served as librarian to the collection of books which Cardinal Bessarion had given Venice. 239 leaves (of 240; without last blank). Large woodcut initials; capital spaces with guide letters; Roman letter. Very minor marginal dampstain on first 20 leaves; some light toning to margins of title-page; marginal annotationson on about 30 leaves in a neat contemporary hand. Early printed book plate (17th cent.?): "De La Bibliotheque de Jean-Charles Bayle, fils, De Riom." § I. Goff P-798; GW M 34335; BMC V, 433; Klebs 786.13 II. BM/STC, Italian, 188; not in Adams. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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BRUTUS JACOBUS
Corona Aurea Coruscantibus Gemmis: Et Preliosissimis Conserta Margaritis in Qua He Perpulchre et Scientifice Mat' Ie Parisiensi More Pertractantur
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Venetiis, (in Fine): Venetiis Per Joannem de Tridino Alias Tacuinum. XV Januarii. (1496-7). 1496, Edizione Unica. Jpg. [Incunabolo-Edizione unica] (cm. 21) bella mz. pergamena antica ben restaurata, piatti con foglio di messale del '500 rosso e nero con due grandi capolettera figurati.-- cc. 188 (di 208). 39 linee carattere rotondo. A carta X4 grande capolettera figurato a fondo nero. Editio Princeps ed unica così definita da Olschki "Monumenta Typographica" 1903 n°1136: "C' est le seule edition connue d' un recueil de traitès theologiques sur l' ame et la vie future; livre fort rare". Mancano 20 carte segnate (a-b8) e le ultime 4 carte segnate c(?). Sono invece presenti le prime 12 carte con segnatura numerica (1-8). Vecchio rinforzo alla cerniera di alcune carte, tracce di polvere al frontis. Alcune macchie e difetti al margine interno peraltro buon esemplare ben marginato. Hain 4026; Gw 5657; I.G.I. 2211; Bmc V 531; Polain 4257; Goff B 1262; Proctor 5445; Pellechet 3044; Harvard 2568; Oates 2116; Olschki "monumenta" n° 1136; I.A. 24066.
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Trier].
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- Holzschnitt aus dem Kleinen Schedel, 1496. Ca. 8,5 x 14 cm (Bild), ca. 22,5 x 14,5 cm (mit Text). Rosar Nr. 1.2.2. Phantasieansicht der Stadt Trier aus dem sogenannten Kleinen Schedel von Schönsperger aus Augsburg, einem Raubdruck der berühmten Schedelschen Weltchronik. Der Raubdruck im Quartformat erschien erstmals 1496 in deutscher Sprache. Im deutschen Text erwähnt sind u.a. die Basilika und die Porta Nigra. Rückseitig Ansicht von Damaskus.
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C
Historia naturalis (Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus)
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 12. Dec. 1496 17th century speckled calf (neatly rebacked with original gilt spine preserved) BOUND WITH SABELLICUS, M. A. In hoc volumine hec continentur: Marci Antonii Sabellici annotationes veteres [et] recencentes: Ex Plinio: Livio: [et] pluribus authoribus. Philippi Beroaldi annotationes centum. Eiusdem contra Seruium gram[m]aticum libellus. Eiusdem castigationes in Plinium. Eiusdem etiam appendix annotamentorum. Ioannis Baptiste pii Bononiensis annotationes. Angeli Politiani Miscellaneorum Centuria vna. Domitii Calderini Obseruationes quedam. Eiusdem Politiani Panepistemon. Eiusdem prelectio in Aristotele[m]: cui titulus est Lamia. Joa[n]. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti Racemationes. [Venice], (Giacomo Penzio, 16. Dec. 1502). Folio. [19], 85 (i.e. 86) leaves. Without last blank leaf. Several lengthy Greek sections. Folio . I. Beautifully printed and well preserved early Venetian edition of Pliny the Younger's Natural History which, according to the British Museum Catalogue was based on Britannicus' Brescia edition of 1496. Pliny's Historia naturalis, written in 77 A.D. is the earliest extant encyclopedia, an enormous repository of ancient knowledge and belief about cosmography, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine, metallurgy, mineralogy and the fine arts. It is particularly valuable for including its sources (which number nearly 500), and for containing the earliest surviving account on Roman plant-lore (Norman). II. FIRST EDITION of this rare post-incunable which is a collection of works by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, Pliny, Domitius de Calderiis, Philipp Beroaldus, Angelo Politanus, Giovanni Baptiste Egnatius, and others. Including a long Greek poem. The prefatory letter "Ioannes Bembus Venetus Andreae Anixi Corcyraeo.S.P.D." is dated February 11, 1502. Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506) was an eminent Italian humanist and historian who had studied under Julius Pomponius Laetus, Gaspar Veronese and Porcelio Pandone at Rome. He taught rhetoric at Udine and later held the first lectureship in humanities at the school of San Marco. He also served as librarian to the collection of books which Cardinal Bessarion had given Venice. 239 leaves (of 240; without last blank). Large woodcut initials; capital spaces with guide letters; Roman letter. Very minor marginal dampstain on first 20 leaves; some light toning to margins of title-page; marginal annotationson on about 30 leaves in a neat contemporary hand. Early printed book plate (17th cent.?): "De La Bibliotheque de Jean-Charles Bayle, fils, De Riom." § I. Goff P-798; GW M 34335; BMC V, 433; Klebs 786.13 II. BM/STC, Italian, 188; not in Adams
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Pico [Picus] della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco [Gianfra...
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Prefatory letter to Hieronymus Savonarola, [10/19/1496;. and another before the second work to Albertus Pius [12/24/1496] on f5v. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris Faelli, 1497,20 July. 4to. a-i8. 72ff=144pp. 16th c. limp vellum (slightly soiled), recased, in modern wood case with leather onlays; first and last leaf with small restored tears at top margin, minor holes from acid ink skillfully repaired on t.p., faint dampstain in bottom margin; inscription at top of t.p. “Dolce Jesu per amore, crucifixo cum dolore; inamora il mio cuore, di partir per tuo amore.” & “ Hic liber è mon(aster)ii fr(atr)um s(an)cte Marie mo(n)tis oliveti ... ad usu(m) no(stri) fr(atr)is hier(oni)mi...” with numerous border-lines, additions, annotations and corrections in his hand. Provenance: this copy belonged to either Fra Girolamo Scolari da Mantova of Monte Oliveto or Fra Girolamo of Genoa of the Carmelite Monastery of Santa Maria of Monte Oliveto (near Genoa). First Edition. Famous philosophical treatise where the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is mentioned with careful reflections, it gives one of the first testimonies of the slowly changing awareness of the importance of this discovery. No copy listed in ABPC in the last 25 years or in JAP vols. 41-53. “Spatestens drei Jahre, nachdem es bekannt geworden war, beenditge der junge Gebieter von Mirandola einer religos-moralische Abhandlung ‘Von der Pflicht des Menschen, des Todes Christi und auch seines eigenen zu gedenken’, die er Savonarola widmete. Er legt hier an einer deratig innige Verbindung mit dem Gottmenschen Christus zu treten, dass dessen menschliche Tugenden und gottliche Gnadenfulle in ihn nach dem Maqsse seiner Fassungskraft ubergingen. ‘Und dazu bedarf es nicht einmal grosser Anstrengung. Da gilt es nicht, Indien zu erreichen; nicht, die erythraeischen Gestade zu erforschen...Im Gegenteil, wir werden wie durch einen Naturtrieb zu ihm hingezogen: ‘Non ad Indos accedere oportet: Non Erithrea perscrutari littora...” Albert Schill, [At the most, three years after it became known (Columbus' discovery of America), the young lord Mirandola finished a religious-moral treatise on the duty of man to remember Christ's death and his own, which he dedicated to Savonarola. He established a inner connection in man with both the human nature of Christ and with his sacred fullness of grace which each man can develop to the full measure of his comprehension. "It does not require great exertion. It doesn't mean we have to seek to reach India nor explore the erithean shores. On the contrary we will be drawn to him by a natural drive."] Gianfrancesco Pico dela Mirandola und die Entdeckung Amerikas, in Biographien und Studien; Martin Breslauer, Berlin,1929, p19. Giovanni Francesco Pico (1469-1533) nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In the “De Studio divinae...” he compares the study of profane philosophy with that of scripture and demonstrates the greater wisdom evinced from the latter. “He himself rejected Aristotle’s natural philosophy wrote treatises against astrology and witchcraft and proposed that salvation depended on the divine wisdom of scripture rsther than on human reason. He was a follower of Savonarola...” [OCIL] Quaquarelli/ Zanardi 17. Goff P644. Hain/Copinger 13002*. GfT 2163. Polain(B) 3149. Pell Ms 9469 (9292). CIBN P-349. Fernillot 475. Hillard 1613. IBE 4603. IGI 7740. IDL(Suppl) 3694a. Voull(B) 2780. Sack(Freiburg) 2875. Borm 2153. Sheppard 5386. Proctor 6634. BMC VI 843. BSB-Ink P-482. [GW 33328] ISTC P00644000-E.] Not in Alden, European Americana or Sabin.
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CICERO M. TULLIUS
EPISTOLAE AD ATTICUM
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MAGISTRUM EUCHARIUM SILBER ALIAS FRANCK, ROMAE 1496 - Rileg. antica tutta pelle Titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Mancanze nella rilegatura ma il tutto ben restaurato. H. 30 1 fg. bianco 1 fg. n.n. 25 172 n.n. 1 bianco. ( chiose manoscritte antiche su bordi bianchi per i primi quaranta fgg.) Graesse II / 169 segna per l' editore Silber solo le edizioni 1490 e 1499
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C
Historia naturalis (Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus)
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 12 Dec 1496, Venice - 17th century speckled calf (neatly rebacked with original gilt spine preserved) BOUND WITH SABELLICUS, M. A. In hoc volumine hec continentur: Marci Antonii Sabellici annotationes veteres [et] recencentes: Ex Plinio: Livio: [et] pluribus authoribus. Philippi Beroaldi annotationes centum. Eiusdem contra Seruium gram[m]aticum libellus. Eiusdem castigationes in Plinium. Eiusdem etiam appendix annotamentorum. Ioannis Baptiste pii Bononiensis annotationes. Angeli Politiani Miscellaneorum Centuria vna. Domitii Calderini Obseruationes quedam. Eiusdem Politiani Panepistemon. Eiusdem prelectio in Aristotele[m]: cui titulus est Lamia. Joa[n]. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti Racemationes. [Venice], (Giacomo Penzio, 16. Dec. 1502). Folio. [19], 85 (i.e. 86) leaves. Without last blank leaf. Several lengthy Greek sections. Folio . I. Beautifully printed and well preserved early Venetian edition of Pliny the Younger's Natural History which, according to the British Museum Catalogue was based on Britannicus' Brescia edition of 1496. Pliny's Historia naturalis, written in 77 A.D. is the earliest extant encyclopedia, an enormous repository of ancient knowledge and belief about cosmography, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine, metallurgy, mineralogy and the fine arts. It is particularly valuable for including its sources (which number nearly 500), and for containing the earliest surviving account on Roman plant-lore (Norman). II. FIRST EDITION of this rare post-incunable which is a collection of works by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, Pliny, Domitius de Calderiis, Philipp Beroaldus, Angelo Politanus, Giovanni Baptiste Egnatius, and others. Including a long Greek poem. The prefatory letter "Ioannes Bembus Venetus Andreae Anixi Corcyraeo.S.P.D." is dated February 11, 1502. Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506) was an eminent Italian humanist and historian who had studied under Julius Pomponius Laetus, Gaspar Veronese and Porcelio Pandone at Rome. He taught rhetoric at Udine and later held the first lectureship in humanities at the school of San Marco. He also served as librarian to the collection of books which Cardinal Bessarion had given Venice. 239 leaves (of 240; without last blank). Large woodcut initials; capital spaces with guide letters; Roman letter. Very minor marginal dampstain on first 20 leaves; some light toning to margins of title-page; marginal annotationson on about 30 leaves in a neat contemporary hand. Early printed book plate (17th cent.?): "De La Bibliotheque de Jean-Charles Bayle, fils, De Riom." § I. Goff P-798; GW M 34335; BMC V, 433; Klebs 786.13 II. BM/STC, Italian, 188; not in Adams. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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Lilius, Zacharias
De origine et laudibus scientiarum etc.
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Florence, Bonaccorsi, 1496 (Hain 10103; BMC VI 675; Harisse 17; Sabin 41607; JCB I p 24; Riccardi Vol 2: 41.1) Small quarto, newly bound in old, plain vellum. 65 (of 72) nn leaves. Leaves a1 and a2 with marginal restorations, incl. some letters in manuscript. Seven leaves in good facsimile on old paper. Heavily but well restored copy.*Five books in one volume. Contains an early TO worldmap (Shirley nr 1; Campbell nr 86) and is a very early Americana. Extremely rare.
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CICERO M. TULLIUS
EPISTOLAE AD ATTICUM
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MAGISTRUM EUCHARIUM SILBER ALIAS FRANCK, ROMAE 1496 - Rileg. antica tutta pelle Titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Mancanze nella rilegatura ma il tutto ben restaurato. H. 30 1 fg. bianco 1 fg. n.n. 25 172 n.n. 1 bianco. ( chiose manoscritte antiche su bordi bianchi per i primi quaranta fgg.) Graesse II / 169 segna per l' editore Silber solo le edizioni 1490 e 1499
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Brutus Jacobus
Corona Aurea Coruscantibus Gemmis: Et Preliosissimis Conserta Margaritis in Qua He Perpulchre Et Scientifice Mat' Ie Parisiensi More Pertractantur
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(in fine): Venetiis Per Joannem De Tridino Alias Tacuinum. XV Januarii, 1496. Jpg. [Incunabolo-Edizione unica] (cm. 21) bella mz. pergamena antica ben restaurata, piatti con foglio di messale del '500 rosso e nero con due grandi capolettera figurati. --cc. 188 (di 208). 39 linee carattere rotondo. A carta X4 grande capolettera figurato a fondo nero. Editio Princeps ed unica così definita da Olschki "Monumenta Typographica" 1903 n°1136: "C' est le seule edition connue d' un recueil de traitès theologiques sur l' ame et la vie future; livre fort rare". Mancano 20 carte segnate (a-b8) e le ultime 4 carte segnate c(? ). Sono invece presenti le prime 12 carte con segnatura numerica (1-8). Vecchio rinforzo alla cerniera di alcune carte, tracce di polvere al frontis. Alcune macchie e difetti al margine interno peraltro buon esemplare ben marginato. * Hain 4026; * Gw 5657; * I.G.I. 2211; * Bmc V 531; * Polain 4257; * Goff B 1262; * Proctor 5445; * Pellechet 3044; * Harvard 2568; * Oates 2116; * Olschki "monumenta" n° 1136; * I.A. 24066.
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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus
Las Epístolas (en Castellano).
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- Zaragoza, Pablo Hurus para Juan Thomas Favario de Lumelo, 3 de Marzo de 1496. En folio. Tipografía gótica. 84 folios. Un grabado a toda página en xilografía representando a Séneca ofreciendo el libro a Nerón, y manca del impresor en la última hoja. Encuadernación en pergamino moderno. Primera Edición española y primera edición ilustrada de las famosas epístolas del cordobés Lucio Aneo Séneca, de extraordinaria rareza. De acuerdo con Palau, la traducción al castellano se debe a Pedro Díaz de Toledo y fue posteriormente revisada por Fernán Díaz de Guzmán, estado definitivo con el cual se imprimió el texto. La última parte de la obra contiene la "Introducción de Filosofía", de Leonardo Aretino.Este libro fue impreso por uno de los mejores y más importantes impresores de cuantos se establecieron en España durante el periodo incunable. Pablo Hurus de Constanza llegó a la ciudad aragonesa de Zaragoza para establecer su taller de impresión a finales de 1476, junto con su amigo Henricus Botel de Sajonia. Ambos habían establecido la primera imprenta en Barcelona el año anterior. Hombre extraordinario, es una de las figuras más interesantes de la imprenta incunable española; cursó estudios en la Universidad de Basilea y mantuvo inquietudes literarias, a su llegada a España se relacionó con el mundo intelectual zaragozano, entrando en contacto con alguno de los autores de las obras impresas por él, e incluso costeándolas. En Zaragoza imprimió al principio en compañía de otros impresores y porteriormente solo. En 1477 Hurus imprime el "Fori Regni Aragonum" junto con Botel, y posteriormente hasta 1480 no se tienen nuevas noticias de impresiones suyas, momento a partir del cual imprime en colaboración con Juan Planck obras como la "Descriptio absidionis Rhodiae urbis" (1481) o las Fábulas de Esopo (1482). Tras un paréntesis, a partir de 1485 y hasta 1499, año de su última impresión, se desarrolla el período más intenso de su actividad, ya en solitario y sin la asociación con ningún otro tipógrafo. Imprimió en estos años numerosas obras de gran calidad como Las Mujeres Ilustres de Boccaccio (1494), la presente primera edición castellana de las Epístolas de Séneca (1496), o el Viaje a Tierra Santa de Breydenbach (1498). En 1499 Hurus transfirió su establecimiento tipográfico a Jorge Cocci, quien tantas glorias dio también a la imprenta española, y se retiró a Constanza.Obra muy rara que no se encuentra en la British Library. Según Salvá "Méndez no conoció esta magnífica primera edición" y Pellicer desconocía incluso la existencia de esta traducción castellana. En España se conservan sólo cuatro ejemplares completos en bibliotecas públicas, ninguno de ellos en Zaragoza. Goff registra dos ejemplares en Estados Unidos: Hisoanic Society of America y Curt F. Bühler.Referencias: Goff, S-383; Copinger, 5350; Haebler, 622; Palau, 308013; Salvá 4003; IBE 5195 First Spanish edition of Seneca’s Epistles, of extreme rarity. According to Palau, the translation of Seneca’s letters was done by Pedro Diaz de Toledo, although it is frequently attributed to Fernan Diaz de Guzman. The last part contains the Introduccion de Phiosophia, written by Leonardo Aretino and consists in a dialogue on philosophy, between Marcelino and Leonardo, the author.This book was printed by one of the best and most important printers in Spain at the end of the 15th century. Paul Hurus from Constantia arrived in Zaragoza to settle his printing workshop at the end of 1476, with his friend Henricus Botel from Saxonia. They both had established their first press in Barcelona in the previous year. It was during the last decade of the century that the Hurus press was most prolific, and by the extent, variety and quality of its output won for itself an outstanding position in the annals of early Spanish printing. Illustrated with an engraved woodcut frontispiece showing Seneca offering his book to Nero and Hurus’s device at the colophon. First quire mounted on stubs, early annotations in
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ESTIENNE, CH.
De Vasculis Libellus, Adulescentulorum Causa ex Bayfio decerptis, Addita Vulgari Latinarum Vocum Interpretatione.
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Adapted for children after one of the famous monographs on classical history by Lazare de Baïf (ca.1496-1547) Paris, Robert Stephani (Estienne), 1543. Sm.8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt-titled, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET) With woodcut printer's device on title. 52, (4) lvs. Rare early edition of the second children's book composed by Charles Estienne, adapted after one of the famous monographs on classical history by Lazare de Baïf (ca. 1496-1547). Baïf's "De Vasculis", dealing with Roman vessels, containers, dishes, vases, and receptables, was first published at Basel in 1531. The adaptation for children by Charles Estienne was first published in 1535, shortly after "De re vestiaria", the first children's book ever published. In his preface Charles Estienne gives all credit and praise to Baïf although these children's books were quite new works. The book is well-produced and finely printed in a small Italic type, the chapter-titles in Roman type. In our copy all initials are left blank, with printed guide-letters. Fine copy, with ample margins. Adams B 58; this ed. not in Renouard, Schreiber, Buisson, or in STC French; this ed. unknown to Pinvert and Armstrong.
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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus
Las Epístolas (en Castellano).
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Zaragoza, Pablo Hurus para Juan Thomas Favario de Lumelo, 3 de Marzo de 1496. En folio. Tipografía gótica. 84 folios. Un grabado a toda página en xilografía representando a Séneca ofreciendo el libro a Nerón, y manca del impresor en la última hoja. Encuadernación en pergamino moderno. Primera Edición española y primera edición ilustrada de las famosas epístolas del cordobés Lucio Aneo Séneca, de extraordinaria rareza. De acuerdo con Palau, la traducción al castellano se debe a Pedro Díaz de Toledo y fue posteriormente revisada por Fernán Díaz de Guzmán, estado definitivo con el cual se imprimió el texto. La última parte de la obra contiene la "Introducción de Filosofía", de Leonardo Aretino. Este libro fue impreso por uno de los mejores y más importantes impresores de cuantos se establecieron en España durante el periodo incunable. Pablo Hurus de Constanza llegó a la ciudad aragonesa de Zaragoza para establecer su taller de impresión a finales de 1476, junto con su amigo Henricus Botel de Sajonia. Ambos habían establecido la primera imprenta en Barcelona el año anterior. Hombre extraordinario, es una de las figuras más interesantes de la imprenta incunable española; cursó estudios en la Universidad de Basilea y mantuvo inquietudes literarias, a su llegada a España se relacionó con el mundo intelectual zaragozano, entrando en contacto con alguno de los autores de las obras impresas por él, e incluso costeándolas. En Zaragoza imprimió al principio en compañía de otros impresores y porteriormente solo. En 1477 Hurus imprime el "Fori Regni Aragonum" junto con Botel, y posteriormente hasta 1480 no se tienen nuevas noticias de impresiones suyas, momento a partir del cual imprime en colaboración con Juan Planck obras como la "Descriptio absidionis Rhodiae urbis" (1481) o las Fábulas de Esopo (1482). Tras un paréntesis, a partir de 1485 y hasta 1499, año de su última impresión, se desarrolla el período más intenso de su actividad, ya en solitario y sin la asociación con ningún otro tipógrafo. Imprimió en estos años numerosas obras de gran calidad como Las Mujeres Ilustres de Boccaccio (1494), la presente primera edición castellana de las Epístolas de Séneca (1496), o el Viaje a Tierra Santa de Breydenbach (1498). En 1499 Hurus transfirió su establecimiento tipográfico a Jorge Cocci, quien tantas glorias dio también a la imprenta española, y se retiró a Constanza. Obra muy rara que no se encuentra en la British Library. Según Salvá "Méndez no conoció esta magnífica primera edición" y Pellicer desconocía incluso la existencia de esta traducción castellana. En España se conservan sólo cuatro ejemplares completos en bibliotecas públicas, ninguno de ellos en Zaragoza. Goff registra dos ejemplares en Estados Unidos: Hisoanic Society of America y Curt F. Bühler. Referencias: Goff, S-383; Copinger, 5350; Haebler, 622; Palau, 308013; Salvá 4003; IBE 5195 First Spanish edition of Seneca’s Epistles, of extreme rarity. According to Palau, the translation of Seneca’s letters was done by Pedro Diaz de Toledo, although it is frequently attributed to Fernan Diaz de Guzman. The last part contains the Introduccion de Phiosophia, written by Leonardo Aretino and consists in a dialogue on philosophy, between Marcelino and Leonardo, the author. This book was printed by one of the best and most important printers in Spain at the end of the 15th century. Paul Hurus from Constantia arrived in Zaragoza to settle his printing workshop at the end of 1476, with his friend Henricus Botel from Saxonia. They both had established their first press in Barcelona in the previous year. It was during the last decade of the century that the Hurus press was most prolific, and by the extent, variety and quality of its output won for itself an outstanding position in the annals of early Spanish printing. Illustrated with an engraved woodcut frontispiece showing Seneca offering his book to Nero and Hurus’s device at the colophon. First quire mounted on stubs, early annotations in the margins, but a good copy of this famous rarity.
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Hennegau / Hainault].
Erburkunde der Frührenaissance.
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Bouvignies bei Ath, 4. XII. 1496. - Mittelfranzösische Bastarda auf Pergament. 48 Zeilen. Gefaltet, ca. 30 x 24 cm. Vor dem Bürgermeister von Bouvignies bei Ath (Hainaut/Hennegau, heute Belgien), M. Deleuze, dem dortigen Obergericht und den Schöffen geschlossener Vertrag: Jaspart Ysacq aus Ath und sein Sohn Hanin vermachen Denis Beurelin aus Bouvignies aus freien Stücken und auf Lebenszeit gegen eine Rente einen halben Hektar Land, das Ysacq in Bouvignies, nahe dem Wald von Remonquesnoit, besitzt. Das Grundstück ist auf der einen Seite begrenzt durch den dorthin führenden Weg, auf einer anderen Seite durch den Weg nach Bigode und schließlich durch die Güter von Jacquemin Beurelin: "Jaspart hysacq en la ville dath et avoecq lui hanin Son filz quil heult de deffuncte Juliane de le plancq [.] de leurs pure et bonne voulentet et Sans constrainte nulle dirent et congnetrent quilz avoient donnet et mis a rente et ferme main tousiours perpetuelement A denis beurelin manouvries demorant en ladite ville de bouvegnies la estant present Liertaige de demi bonnier de terre ou environ [.]". Denis Beurelin verpflichtet sich ferner, binnen eines Jahres auf dem Grundstück ein Steingebäude mit Gebälk zu errichten. Er und seine Nachkommen verpflichten sich gegenüber Ysacq und seinen Nachkommen zur Zahlung einer jährlichen Summe von 26 Sols, leistbar jeweils zur Hälfte am Johannistag und am Weihnachtstag. Die erste Zahlung soll am kommenden Johannistag 1497 erfolgen. - Sollten Beurelin und seine Erben diese Rente von 26 Sols einmal nicht mehr zahlen können und sind drei aufeinanderfolgende Zahlungen ausgeblieben, so sollen Ysacq oder seine Anspruchsberechtigten, aber auch jeder Inhaber dieser Urkunde das genannte Grundstück mitsamt dem darauf errichteten Haus zurückfordern dürfen. Beurelin soll das Grundstück lebenslang nutzen dürfen, unabhängig vom Familienstand und von der Existenz von Nachkommen. Sollte er aber ohne Nachkommen sterben, so soll das Grundstück nach seinem Tod an Jean Dottegnies fallen. - Die Ortschaft Bouvignies ist heute der wallonischen Stadt Ath eingemeindet. Die Grafschaft Hennegau war mit der burgundischen Erbschaft 1477 an das Haus Habsburg gefallen und blieb bis zur Französischen Revolution österreichisch. - Volltranskription liegt bei. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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BRUTUS JACOBUS
Corona Aurea Coruscantibus gemmis: Et Preliosissimis Conserta Margaritis in Qua he Perpulchre et Scientifice mat' Ie Parisiensi More Pertractantur
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(in fine): Venetiis Per Joannem De Tridino Alias Tacuinum. XV Januarii. (1496-7), Venetiis - [Incunabolo-Edizione unica] (cm. 21) bella mz. pergamena antica ben restaurata, piatti con foglio di messale del '500 rosso e nero con due grandi capolettera figurati.-- cc. 188 (di 208). 39 linee carattere rotondo. A carta X4 grande capolettera figurato a fondo nero. Editio Princeps ed unica così definita da Olschki "Monumenta Typographica" 1903 n°1136: "C' est le seule edition connue d' un recueil de traitès theologiques sur l' ame et la vie future; livre fort rare". Mancano 20 carte segnate (a-b8) e le ultime 4 carte segnate c(?). Sono invece presenti le prime 12 carte con segnatura numerica (1-8). Vecchio rinforzo alla cerniera di alcune carte, tracce di polvere al frontis. Alcune macchie e difetti al margine interno peraltro buon esemplare ben marginato. * Hain 4026; * Gw 5657; * I.G.I. 2211; * Bmc V 531; * Polain 4257; * Goff B 1262; * Proctor 5445; * Pellechet 3044; * Harvard 2568; * Oates 2116; * Olschki "monumenta" n° 1136; * I.A. 24066. [Attributes: First Edition]
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C
Historia naturalis (Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus)
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis 12 Dec 1496, Venice - 17th century speckled calf (neatly rebacked with original gilt spine preserved) BOUND WITH SABELLICUS, M. A. In hoc volumine hec continentur: Marci Antonii Sabellici annotationes veteres [et] recencentes: Ex Plinio: Livio: [et] pluribus authoribus. Philippi Beroaldi annotationes centum. Eiusdem contra Seruium gram[m]aticum libellus. Eiusdem castigationes in Plinium. Eiusdem etiam appendix annotamentorum. Ioannis Baptiste pii Bononiensis annotationes. Angeli Politiani Miscellaneorum Centuria vna. Domitii Calderini Obseruationes quedam. Eiusdem Politiani Panepistemon. Eiusdem prelectio in Aristotele[m]: cui titulus est Lamia. Joa[n]. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti Racemationes. [Venice], (Giacomo Penzio, 16. Dec. 1502). Folio. [19], 85 (i.e. 86) leaves. Without last blank leaf. Several lengthy Greek sections. Folio . I. Beautifully printed and well preserved early Venetian edition of Pliny the Younger's Natural History which, according to the British Museum Catalogue was based on Britannicus' Brescia edition of 1496. Pliny's Historia naturalis, written in 77 A.D. is the earliest extant encyclopedia, an enormous repository of ancient knowledge and belief about cosmography, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine, metallurgy, mineralogy and the fine arts. It is particularly valuable for including its sources (which number nearly 500), and for containing the earliest surviving account on Roman plant-lore (Norman). II. FIRST EDITION of this rare post-incunable which is a collection of works by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, Pliny, Domitius de Calderiis, Philipp Beroaldus, Angelo Politanus, Giovanni Baptiste Egnatius, and others. Including a long Greek poem. The prefatory letter "Ioannes Bembus Venetus Andreae Anixi Corcyraeo.S.P.D." is dated February 11, 1502. Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506) was an eminent Italian humanist and historian who had studied under Julius Pomponius Laetus, Gaspar Veronese and Porcelio Pandone at Rome. He taught rhetoric at Udine and later held the first lectureship in humanities at the school of San Marco. He also served as librarian to the collection of books which Cardinal Bessarion had given Venice. 239 leaves (of 240; without last blank). Large woodcut initials; capital spaces with guide letters; Roman letter. Very minor marginal dampstain on first 20 leaves; some light toning to margins of title-page; marginal annotationson on about 30 leaves in a neat contemporary hand. Early printed book plate (17th cent.?): "De La Bibliotheque de Jean-Charles Bayle, fils, De Riom." § I. Goff P-798; GW M 34335; BMC V, 433; Klebs 786.13 II. BM/STC, Italian, 188; not in Adams. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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SAVONAROLA Gerolamo
Espositione del Salmo LXXVIIII Qui Regis Israel.
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Foglio 1, recto: “Proemio di frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dellordine de / predicatori nella expositione del psalmo lxxviiii. / tradocto in lingua Fiorètina da un suo deuoto familiare” (In fine:) Impresso in Firenze Adi: viii. di Giugno / MCCCCLXXXXVI. (1496), in-4 (205x143), ff.14 nn., segn a8-b6, caratt. rom., due silografie: a f.1 recto “Davide inginocchiato in una radura con l’arpa a terra alla sua sinistra” (mm.68x47); a f.2 verso “figura a mezzo busto di santo in preghiera incoronato” (mm.28x30). Leg. antica in cartoncino rigido e carta marmorizz. a fiori. Esemplare assai bello di raro incunabulo figurato. AUDIN 127. SANDER 6790. KRISTELLER 388C. GRUYER p.13/14. BMC VI, 675. IGI 8740.
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[Trier].
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Holzschnitt aus dem Kleinen Schedel, 1496. Ca. 8,5 x 14 cm (Bild), ca. 22,5 x 14,5 cm (mit Text). Rosar Nr. 1.2.2. Phantasieansicht der Stadt Trier aus dem sogenannten Kleinen Schedel von Schönsperger aus Augsburg, einem Raubdruck der berühmten Schedelschen Weltchronik. Der Raubdruck im Quartformat erschien erstmals 1496 in deutscher Sprache. Im deutschen Text erwähnt sind u.a. die Basilika und die Porta Nigra. Rückseitig Ansicht von Damaskus.
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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS Santo
Tractato volgare di frate Antonio Arcivescovo di Firenze intitolato Defecerunt che insegna al confessore di che casi & in che modo debba domandare colui che egli confessa.
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(In fine, colophon:) Firenze, Lorenzo Morgiani e Giovanni di Pietro per Piero Pacini, 22 Febbraio 1496. in-4 (mm 210 x 138), ff. 114 n.n., leg. 800sca in mezza pelle rossa , tit. e fregi oro al dorso. Testo in bel car. rom. su 36 linee per pag., in fine al verso del f.142, le tre grandi imprese tipografiche figurate del Pacini; iniziale D istoriata al recto del secondo foglio. Sulla pagina del titolo grande e bella silografia raffigurante, entro una cappella, la confessione di un giovane al monaco e due altri personaggi; il legno è tratto dall'edizione del 1493 (Firenze, Lorenzo de Morgianis e G. di Pietro). Rara e bella edizione figurata, in volgare del Defecerunt, prima parte del Confessionale, opera minore di S. Antonino (1389-1459), che ebbe notevole fortuna in quanto manuale pratico di confessione. Esemplare grande di margini, ottimamente conservato. HCR 1211. Pellechet 869. CIBN A-437. IGI 657. Sander 428. Proctor 6370. BMC VI 683. GW 2142.
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EUCHERIUS, SAINT.
LIBELLUS ELEGANS AD VALERIANUM PROPINQUUM SUUM DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI CULTUQUE DEI. (ZWOLLE, PIETER VAN OS, BETWEEN 26 MARCH 1493 AND 1 DECEMBER 1496).
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4to. Modern light-brown calf, with the sides of the (a?) contemporary brown calf binding pasted on; the sides are blind-stamped in panel designs, with floral stamps in between. With large woodcut of a bishop holding a book in his hand (St. Eucherius?) on title, and full-page woodcut of Christ as Salvator mundi on verso title, the first initial supplied in blue, all other initials in red, rubricated throughout. 40-42 lines. (8) lvs. Collation: (a)-b4. Finely produced and nicely illustrated incunable, published without address or date by Pieter van Os at Zwolle, on the ground of the abrasion of the woodcuts dated between 26 March 1493 and 1 December 1496. It contains a letter by Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (born ca. 380 - died ca 449), one of the great neglected spiritual writers of Western Orthodoxy and a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. On the death of his wife he withdrew for a time to the monastery of Lerins, on the smaller of the two islands off Antibes , to live a severely simple life of study and devote himself to the education of his sons. Soon afterward he withdrew further, however, to the neighbouring island of Lerona (now Sainte-Marguerite), where he devoted his time to study and mortification of the flesh. It was at this time (ca 428) that Eucherius wrote his epistolary essay De laude Eremi ('In praise of hermits').To his kinsman Valerian, he wrote this Epistola paraenetica ad Valerianum cognatum, de contemptu mundi (Epistle on the contempt of the world) an expression of the despair for the present and future of the world in its last throes shared by many educated men of Late Antiquity, with hope for a world to come, at the same time to persuade him to let go of the riches and vanities of the world. Erasmus thought so highly of its Latin style that he edited and published it at Basel (1520).The fame of Eucherius was soon so widespread in South-eastern Gaul that he was chosen bishop of Lyon in 434. In 1654 the letter translated into English by Henry Vaughan. Fine copy, with ample margins. Hermans, Zwolse boeken, pp. 167-8, nr. ZD 88 (copies a.o. in The Hague and Deventer); Kok, pp. 416-19, 919; GKW 9427/30; IDL 1730; ILC 967; HPT II, 450; Hain-Copinger 6692; Campbell 709; Polain 1424; Abbot 234; Oates 3622; NK 0476.
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[Hennegau / Hainault].
Erburkunde der Frührenaissance.
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Bouvignies bei Ath, 4. XII. 1496. Mittelfranzösische Bastarda auf Pergament. 48 Zeilen. Gefaltet, ca. 30 x 24 cm. Vor dem Bürgermeister von Bouvignies bei Ath (Hainaut/Hennegau, heute Belgien), M. Deleuze, dem dortigen Obergericht und den Schöffen geschlossener Vertrag: Jaspart Ysacq aus Ath und sein Sohn Hanin vermachen Denis Beurelin aus Bouvignies aus freien Stücken und auf Lebenszeit gegen eine Rente einen halben Hektar Land, das Ysacq in Bouvignies, nahe dem Wald von Remonquesnoit, besitzt. Das Grundstück ist auf der einen Seite begrenzt durch den dorthin führenden Weg, auf einer anderen Seite durch den Weg nach Bigode und schließlich durch die Güter von Jacquemin Beurelin: "Jaspart hysacq en la ville dath et avoecq lui hanin Son filz quil heult de deffuncte Juliane de le plancq [...] de leurs pure et bonne voulentet et Sans constrainte nulle dirent et congnetrent quilz avoient donnet et mis a rente et ferme main tousiours perpetuelement A denis beurelin manouvries demorant en ladite ville de bouvegnies la estant present Liertaige de demi bonnier de terre ou environ [...]". Denis Beurelin verpflichtet sich ferner, binnen eines Jahres auf dem Grundstück ein Steingebäude mit Gebälk zu errichten. Er und seine Nachkommen verpflichten sich gegenüber Ysacq und seinen Nachkommen zur Zahlung einer jährlichen Summe von 26 Sols, leistbar jeweils zur Hälfte am Johannistag und am Weihnachtstag. Die erste Zahlung soll am kommenden Johannistag 1497 erfolgen. - Sollten Beurelin und seine Erben diese Rente von 26 Sols einmal nicht mehr zahlen können und sind drei aufeinanderfolgende Zahlungen ausgeblieben, so sollen Ysacq oder seine Anspruchsberechtigten, aber auch jeder Inhaber dieser Urkunde das genannte Grundstück mitsamt dem darauf errichteten Haus zurückfordern dürfen. Beurelin soll das Grundstück lebenslang nutzen dürfen, unabhängig vom Familienstand und von der Existenz von Nachkommen. Sollte er aber ohne Nachkommen sterben, so soll das Grundstück nach seinem Tod an Jean Dottegnies fallen. - Die Ortschaft Bouvignies ist heute der wallonischen Stadt Ath eingemeindet. Die Grafschaft Hennegau war mit der burgundischen Erbschaft 1477 an das Haus Habsburg gefallen und blieb bis zur Französischen Revolution österreichisch. - Volltranskription liegt bei.
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C
Historia naturalis (Ed. Hermolaus Barbarus)
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Bartholomaeus de Zanis Venice 12. Dec. 1496 17th century speckled calf (neatly rebacked with original gilt spine preserved) BOUND WITH SABELLICUS, M. A. In hoc volumine hec continentur: Marci Antonii Sabellici annotationes veteres [et] recencentes: Ex Plinio: Livio: [et] pluribus authoribus. Philippi Beroaldi annotationes centum. Eiusdem contra Seruium gram[m]aticum libellus. Eiusdem castigationes in Plinium. Eiusdem etiam appendix annotamentorum. Ioannis Baptiste pii Bononiensis annotationes. Angeli Politiani Miscellaneorum Centuria vna. Domitii Calderini Obseruationes quedam. Eiusdem Politiani Panepistemon. Eiusdem prelectio in Aristotele[m]: cui titulus est Lamia. Joa[n]. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti Racemationes. [Venice], (Giacomo Penzio, 16. Dec. 1502). Folio. [19], 85 (i.e. 86) leaves. Without last blank leaf. Several lengthy Greek sections. Folio . I. Beautifully printed and well preserved early Venetian edition of Pliny the Younger's Natural History which, according to the British Museum Catalogue was based on Britannicus' Brescia edition of 1496. Pliny's Historia naturalis, written in 77 A.D. is the earliest extant encyclopedia, an enormous repository of ancient knowledge and belief about cosmography, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicine, metallurgy, mineralogy and the fine arts. It is particularly valuable for including its sources (which number nearly 500), and for containing the earliest surviving account on Roman plant-lore (Norman). II. FIRST EDITION of this rare post-incunable which is a collection of works by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, Pliny, Domitius de Calderiis, Philipp Beroaldus, Angelo Politanus, Giovanni Baptiste Egnatius, and others. Including a long Greek poem. The prefatory letter "Ioannes Bembus Venetus Andreae Anixi Corcyraeo.S.P.D." is dated February 11, 1502. Marcantonio Sabellico (1436-1506) was an eminent Italian humanist and historian who had studied under Julius Pomponius Laetus, Gaspar Veronese and Porcelio Pandone at Rome. He taught rhetoric at Udine and later held the first lectureship in humanities at the school of San Marco. He also served as librarian to the collection of books which Cardinal Bessarion had given Venice. 239 leaves (of 240; without last blank). Large woodcut initials; capital spaces with guide letters; Roman letter. Very minor marginal dampstain on first 20 leaves; some light toning to margins of title-page; marginal annotationson on about 30 leaves in a neat contemporary hand. Early printed book plate (17th cent.?): "De La Bibliotheque de Jean-Charles Bayle, fils, De Riom." § I. Goff P-798; GW M 34335; BMC V, 433; Klebs 786.13 II. BM/STC, Italian, 188; not in Adams
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Retablo De Isabel LA Catolica by Juan De Flandes and Michel Sittow
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BREPOLS PUB, 25-0. Brand new. This book is the first serious monograph about the Retablo de Isabel la Catolica (ca. 1496-1504) painted by Juan de Flanders and Michel Sittow. Tracing the critical history of the altarpiece and publishing some archival material for the first time, it presents the first discussion and technical examination of the individual panels, including infrared reflectography and microscopie examination of the painted surface. Technical examination also reveals the subject matter was closely related to the religious and political issues that concerned Queen Isabella in the waning years of her reign. The conservatism inherent in the austere painted treatment of the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary is compared to conservative works of religious literature commissioned by or dedicated to the Queen in the years that the altarpiece was being painted. Finally, a brief catalogue of the surviving twenty-eight panels will restore a degree of narrative coherence to a project that is too little understood in large part because of the early dispersal of its paintings.
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