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Displayed below are selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1514 Majoragio, Marco Antonio [Antonius Maria deOConti] & Morhof, Daniel Georg Philochrysus Sive De Laudibus Auri Orationes duae,: Omnis generis hominum, praecipue Ecclesiasticorum, vitia salse traducentes, quarum Priorem inter Maioragii anekdota Mediolani repertam, & Ultraiecti Anno 1666 primum editam, nunc recusam sistit, Post       A-D8,E4; A-D8,E4.: 72;70,[1],[1]pp., Lubeck:. Disbound, old stamp on t.p., very good copies.. Peter Bockmann,. Printer�s device on second t.p., head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Marco Antonio Maioragio (1514-1555), Italian humanist, philosopher,and jurist, born in Majoragio, a small town not far from Milan. After completing his education with difficulty because of the Italian wars that ruined his family's finances, he went to Milan to continue his interest in the classics, mathematics and rhetoric. He was a student of philosophy under Vincent Madius. In 1541 he was named to chair of eloquence at the college at Milan and later taught also in Ferrara (1543-55). He taught rhetoric and eloquence and published a series of classical treatises and translations and is most remembered for his work on Aristotle. This treatise was not printed with his other works, probably because it criticizes church authorities, and remained unpublished until Marquard Gudius found a copy in Milan and caused it to be printed in Utrecht in 1666. Morfof reprints the work with a new preface and with his own oration on gold. It is a rare work and Thorndike was unable to locate a copy (See V,547.) [For other references to Majoragio see Lohr, Latin Aristotle Commentaries, II,239ff.]Morhof was born at Wismar, 6 Feb., 1639. From 1660 to 1666 was professor of poetry at Rostock, in 1666 he removed to Kiel as professor of history. In 1680 he was made librarian, an office for which he was admirably fitted, and which he turned to the best account of his writings...He was a man of very great learning, and of sound critical judgement.� [Ferguson] VD17 14:645231T [Including: VD17 3:306642P.] Bruniibg 2664. Ferguson, Glasgow,442 [1 part only]. Niceron, Memoires, V2,22ff. Not in Caillet, Ferguson (Young), Ackermann, Rosenthal, Duveen, or OCLC.       [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]  1.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Pontanus, Joannes Jiovanus Ioannis Ioviani Pontani amorum libri duo Eiusdem de amore coniugali, libri tres Tumulorum, libri duo Eiusdem de divinis laudibus, lib unus Hendecasyllaborum seu baiarum, libri duo Eiusdem iambici versus de Obitu Lucci filii Item lyrici versus ad res varias pertinentes In calce libri duo, q[ui]bus titulus est Eridanus       Philippi de Giunta, Florence 1514 - 8vo (16.5 x 9.5 cm), 187 [9] leaves. Lovely woodcut initials throughout. Full later calf binding, gilt ruling on front and back boards, red and black morocco spine lables with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Binding firm though joints a bit cracked, leather rubbed at edges and corners. Several leaves well-repaired at top and bottom; all leaves have ruling in fine red ink at margins; a few pages with foxing, otherwise a clean and attractive copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Hudson Street Books]  2.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Lull, Ramon & John of Rupescissa.[Jean de Roquetaillade] Sacri Doctoris Raymundi Luli de secretis naturae sive de quinta essentia Libellus       a6, b-f4.: 26ff=52pp., Augsburg:. First Separate Edition.. Modern 1/2 vellum, some ink stains on t.p., last 5 leaves with some worming (minor text loss), closely trimmed with side-notes and border of t.p. slightly cut into.. [Sigmund Grimm & Marx Wirsung],. Fine woodcut t.p. border Lullian version of John of Rupescissa�s �De Consideratione Quintae Essentiae.� (First printed in Venice 1514.)Lull (ca. 1232-1315) Spanish philosopher, alchemist, Catholic martyr. His works on occult philosophy, memory, and alchemy were basic to Renaissance magic. "As the inventor of a method which was to have an immense influence throughout Europe for centuries, Lull is an extremely important figure. Lullism is a precursor of scientific method. Lullian astral medicine developed into Pseudo-Lullian alchemy. The great figures of Renaissance Neoplatonism include Lulliiam in their interests, and naturally so since Lullism was the precursor of their ways of thinking. And from the point of history of religion and of religious toleration, surely we admire Lull's vision in taking advantage of the unique concentration of Christian, Moslem, and Jewish traditions..."{Francis Yates,Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age,1979.]John of Rupescissa is the actual author of the alchemical 'Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia' traditionally ascribed to Lull. It was written in the mid-fourteenth century. Michela Pereira "Alchemical Corpus Attributed To Raymond Lull,1989" notes"...all point in the same direction: the false attribution of every alchemical treatise concerning the fifth essence of wine and its attribution to Raymond Lull. Clearly, in alchemical and Hermetic tradition Lull's name carried more weight than Rupescissa's. VD 16 R157. Rogent/Duran 71. Mellon 8. Bruning 115. BM STC (Germ.) 533. Rosenthal, Magica. 541. Palau 143.829.Neville II,101.       [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]  3.   Check availability:     ABAA    Biblio   Link/Print   Caesar Gaius Julius [OPERE]. [COMMENTARIA] IN HIS AUTEM COMENTARIIS CONTINENTUR. [Commentariorum] De bello Gallico Libri VIII. Be bello civili pompeiano. Libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino. Liber I. De bello Africano. Liber I. De bello Hispaniensi. Liber I. Nomina locorum, ur       Florentiae (Florence): Philippi de Giunta, August 1514. First Giunta Edition and probably the earliest of the 8vo editions of Caesar. The plates in this edition were used by Aldus for his edition dated 1513. Beautifully illustrated with 2 double-page woodcut maps of France and Spain, and of Europe north of the Mediterranean and east into Germania and 5 fine full-page woodcut plates. Engraved Giunta device on the verso of the last leaf. 8vo, in a finely designed full morocco binding by Graba, the covers with a central ornamental device surrounded by a large diamond at the center in blind and surrounded by multi blind tooled panels, all enclosed by a single fillet blind tooled line, the spine with wide raised bands, the diamond designs repeated in the compartments, title in one compartment gilt. (16ff), 285 leaves, (1 ff with device on verso). A wonderfully preserved copy, the binding in excellent condition, the textblock and illustrations also in excellent, fresh, clean and crisp condition.. RARE. ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED IN OCLC. A FINE COPY OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT GIUNTA EDITION. Despite the fact that Julius Caesar remains one of the most illustrious men in history, only a handful of his extensive writings survive to the present day. This �Opera� contains his primary works, �Commentaries on the Gallic War� and the three books of the Civil Wars in Rome with Pompey, as well as his further works. Dibden calls the Giunta edition more correct than that of Aldus. Julius Caesar was anxious to establish his own record of his successful campaigns in Gaul from 58 to 52 B.C., which includes the less successful invasion of Britain. To answer those who accused him of purely personal ambition, he wished to appear as a straightforward soldier, fighting wars that were essential to Rome. Fascinating for its insights into a man who shaped the history of the western world, his first-hand account of the Gallic Wars is a crucial source for the history of Britain and Germany as well as Gaul. Books I[VII were probably written year by year, when events were fresh in Caesar�s mind and issued together in 51 B.C. Book VII ends with the defeat of Cercingetorix so that Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 B.C.) Caesar�s lieutenant in Gaul, took up the narrative in Book VII with th ensuing uprisings and the beginnings of Caesar�s disputes with the authorities in Rome. The �Commentaries� was written not to suggest a history, but rather as a bald record of events. Caesar wished to create an impression that he was just a simple soldier fighting for the good of Rome. It is unique as a contemporary account of a drawn out (nine years) foreign war written by a Roman general, and he has written it in lucid and unrhetorical Latin. The work was probably first published in 51 BC. The books on the Civil War are rather more obviously political, the theme being that his enemies forced the war upon him. The narrative is greatly relieved however by touches of humility and humor. Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC.       [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]  4.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Plauti Comoediae viginti nuper recognitae et acri iudicio Nicolai Angelii diligentissime excussae.       August 1514 Florence, Filippo de Giunta. With woodcut title-border, woodcut device on last leaf verso. Printed in Italics. 8 unn., 368 num. leaves. 8vo. Contemp. limp vellum. From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. (Florence, Filippo de Giunta, August 1514). First Giunta edition of the comedies of Plautus, edited by Niccolo Angeli (1448 - c. 1529), philologer and professor of Greek and Latin. His edition is based on manuscripts and texts hitherto not used. It is dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. - Contemp. neat ms. annotations in margins in brown ink, some small wormtracks, partly faint waterstaining in lower margin, otherwise a good copy. - STC (Italian) 524; Adams P-1484; Ebert II, 17168; Brunet IV, 708. CLASSICS ;.       [Bookseller: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat]  5.   Check availability:     choosebooks    ilabdatabase.com    AntiQbook   Link/Print   Petrus Lombardus Sacratissima Senteniraum totius theolgie.] Textus Primi sente(n)tiarum cum co(n)clusionibus magistri Henrici Gorichem.       Gregorius de Gregorii, 7. April (Venedig, 1514.) - Besch�digter Lederband des 17. Jahrhunderts mit goldgepr�gtem rotem R�ckenschild und reicher R�ckenvergoldung. 63 (von 64) num.Bl., gedruckt in 2 Spalten in gothischen Typen. Mit kleinen Holzschnittinitialen. Folio. Adams P 897 - Der erste Teil (von 4) ohne das Titelblatt. Ohne den Titel. Dem Buch liegt eine handschriftlicher Text bei: "Am 12. Nov. 1913 bei Professor Haebler in der K�niglichen Bibliothek gewesen, der mir folgendens sagte: Venetianischer Druck aus dem Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. Nicht uninteressant." - Durchgehend mit zeitgen�ssischen handschriftlichen Marginalien. - Vereinzelt schwacher Wasserrand. Die letzten 2 Bl�tter des Register mit alt hinterlegtem Eckausriss, dadurch das letzte Blatt mit minimalstem Textverlust. Einbandr�cken mit grossen Fehlstellen.       [Bookseller: Daniel Thierstein]  6.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Luis, De Granada; Sousa, Lu�s De; Cacegas, Lu�s De; Cunha, Rodrigo Da; Munoz, Luiz La Vie De Dom Barthelemy Des Martyrs, Religieux De L'Ordre De S. Dominique, Archevesque De Brague En Portugal. Tir�e De Son Histoire �crit En Espagnol & En Portugais Par Cinq Auteurs, Dont Le Premier Est Le Pere Louis De Grenade       Paris: Chez Pierre le Petit, 1663. Some minor foxing at the margins else a fine copy. Frontis, [42], 874, pp. Sm. 4to. Palau 320788. Barbier IV, 960. Innoccencio V. 16, p. 72. Translated by by Pierre Thomas du Fosse and Isaac Le Maitre de Saci. Two other editions were published the same year with different pagination. Bartholomew of Braga (1514-1590), Portuguese Dominican theologian, played an important role in the Council of Trent.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  7.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Anonymer Stecher nach Albrecht D�rer - "Melencolia I" (Die Melancholie).       . Kupferstich (Kopie), 1514., Blattgr��e: 23,7 x 18,5 cm.- Gerahmt., Illustr. Bartsch 074, C2.- Bartsch 74 b.- Heller 847.- Vgl. Meder 75.- Vgl. Schoch/Mende Scherbaum 71.,.       [Bookseller: Galerie Jens-H. Bauer]  8.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   Becerra Guibert, Ignacio El Cierre Fiscal y Contable. Ejercicio 2008       Ciss 1468625 - En la edici�n 2008, Ignacio Becerra reescribe casi por completo su obra para adecuarla al nuevo escenario establecido por el nuevo Plan General de Contabilidad (Real Decreto 1514/2007), as� como por el Plan General de Contabilidad para la peque�a y mediana empresa (Real Decreto 1515/2007), as� como a los cambios en el Impuesto sobre Sociedades, necesarios para que los nuevos criterios contables no alteren los resultados fiscales. Establece una comparativa sistem�tica entre el PGC y PGC Pymes en aquellos casos en los que existen divergencias entre ambos planes. Por otro lado, en esta obra se tratan las particularidades que le pueden presentar a los contribuyentes personas f�sicas (aut�nomos, por ejemplo) que tributan seg�n la normativa del IRPF y no del IS.Este libro posibilita estar al d�a de todo el cat�logo de novedades normativas que, ejercicio a ejercicio, se van desencadenando en el �mbito de los tributos principalmente, pero tambi�n en otros campos relacionados intr�nsecamente con el mundo jur�dico de la empresa: mercantil, contable, laboral, etc., los cuales, sin duda, poseen efectos sobre la fiscalidad de la misma, sin perder por supuesto de vista las dos materias principales protagonistas del cierre del ejercicio societario y, en consecuencia del libro: el IS y el Plan General Contable. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Agapea Factory S.A]  9.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Guymier, Cosmas (editor) Pragmatica Sanctio       Johan Barbier, Paris 1514 - 14th January 1514, 205 leaves + 82pp table, title printed in red & black with woodcut device, gothic letters in double columns, 18th century calf, slightly rubbed, lacks E1 & E8 of index, small hole in title with loss of two words on verso & edge tear with no loss, few faint underlinings & annotations, contents generally very clean, 8vo (12.5x18cm), Brunet IV p855 [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Flora Books]  10.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Canon Law Corpus Juris Canononici. Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII Titolo: Sextus...       1514 Canon Law. Corpus Iuris Canonici. Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII Titolo: Sextus Decretalium Libera Bonifacio VIII in Concilio Lugdunensi Editus. Cum Glossematum Divisionibus que ex Novella Ioannis Andreee: Suis Sunt Locis Passim Apposite. Interpretamentis Domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus Litteralibus Summulis Regulis in Ris Cesarei ac Tabulis Quam Optimis. Multarum Glossarum Castigatione. Additione in Margine Litterarum quo Minusculi Characteres Lineis Intercepti Clarius Appareant. Liber Clementinarum cum Additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. Extravagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum Glossis. Extravagantes Communes cum Glossis. Constitutiones Concilij Florentini sub Domino Eugenio Papa llll Super Unione Grecorum Armenorum et Iacobinorum. Bulla Iulij ll de Electione Romani Pontificis. Venice: Per Lucantonium de Giunta, die XX Maij, 1514. XXXVIII, CXX, LXIIII, LXIIII, XI, [1] ff. 75 woodcuts. Text printed in red and black. Main text surrounded by linear gloss in parallel columns. Defective: first two leaves including title page, folio 7, and second part of book comprising c. 248 leaves lacking. Quarto (8" x 6"). Contemporary vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, chip to foot of spine, rear hinge broken. Woodcut table of descents, dedication-vignette, numorous text woodcuts. Toning, occasional dampstaining and annotations to margins, wear to edges of a few leaves, some repaired. interior otherwise fresh. * This edition is ntable to its elegant typography and numerous woodcuts relating to the text. The most notable of these appears in Fol. CXXXVIII of the Liber Sextus Decretalium. It depicts a magician-cleric conjuring at a table placed in front of a group of spectators. It relates to an edict that forbids members of the clergy from practicing magic. Censimento Nazionale Delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16) CNCE 13404.       [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]  11.   Check availability:     AntiQbook    choosebooks    ilabdatabase.com   Link/Print   HOCK VON BRACKENAU, Wendelin; Mentagra, sive tractatus de causis preservativis regimine & cura morbi Gallici. Quem subsequitur tractatus eiusdem utilissimus de curandis ulceribus hunc morbum ut in plurimu[m] consequentibus.       Strasbourg 1514 Jean Schott - In-4 de 52 ff.ch. (dont le titre imprim� rouge et noir), 4 ff.n.ch. ; maroquin vert, dos � nerfs, compartiments de filets orn�s d'un fleuron aldin, encadrement de filets et fleurons d'angle sur les plats, dentelle int�rieure, deux filets sur les coupes, tranches dor�es (Petit). Graesse, III, 312 ; Waller, 4622 ; Wellcome, 3255 ; NLM, 2450 ; Stillwell, 423 ; Osler, 2977; Muller, II, p. 75, n� 31 ; Ritter, 1176 ; Proctor, 10275 ; Alden, 514/9 ; Leclerc (1881), 3265; voir aussi J. A. van der Linden, De scriptis medicis, Nuremberg, 1686, p. 1050. Int�ressant ouvrage consacr� � la syphilis. On ne sait presque rien de l'auteur, Wendelin Brock, sinon qu'il naquit � Brackenau (Wurtemberg), re�ut le bonnet de docteur � l'universit� de Bologne, et pratiqua la m�decine en Italie au d�but du XVIe si�cle. Son trait� de la syphilis, �tabli sur les travaux de Torella, Almenar, Pinctor et Schelling, donne une description compl�te de ce fl�au, avec les moyens de le soigner et l'hygi�ne de vie � respecter pour �viter la contamination. Parmi les auteurs anciens les plus cit�s : Aristote, Hippocrate, Galien, Averro�s, Avicenne et Rhazes. La mention de l'ouvrage par les libraires et bibliographes am�ricanistes (Leclerc, Alden) s'explique par l'hypoth�se d'une transmission de la maladie via les �quipages des premiers explorateurs du Nouveau Monde, th�orie aujourd'hui contest�e, mais dont les partisans ont pu invoquer le t�moignage de Wendelin Hock. "This volume is of great interest to students of the early story of America, as it deals with the treatment of the disease whose first propagation in Europe has been attributed to the sailors of Christopher Columbus" (cf. Maggs Bros, Manuscripts and Books on Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology, Londres, 1929, n� 70). Un certain nombre de bibliographies, dont Osler et Wellcome, signalent une premi�re �dition publi�e � Venise en 1502 (Van der Linden donne m�me l'adresse : "apud Octavianum"). Malgr� nos efforts, nous n'avons pu trouver un exemplaire, ni m�me une collation de cette �dition v�nitienne, non recens�e par Alden. Bel exemplaire, grand de marges, finement reli� par Petit ; papier l�g�rement et uniform�ment bruni. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  12.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   SCH�PPER, J. Two Latin school plays for the gymnasium at Dortmund, Euphemus, seu felicitatus Jacob: actio nova & sacra, descripta historice. Item. Ovis perdita: parabola evangelica, comice descripta.       Johannes de Laet, 17254, Antwerp, - 2 plays in one vol. 12mo. 19th century half morocco, spine gilt. With woodcut printer's device on two titles. 55, (1 blank); 55 (=56) pp. Two extremely rare Latin school plays by Jacob Sch�pper the Elder, German humanist, poet and preacher (ca.1514-1554). Sch�pper studied at Louvain, and worked since 1544 at Dortmund. He came from a Dortmund patrician family and was from his youth a close friend of Johann Lambach, who founded the Gymnasium at Dortmund in 1543. Sch�pper wrote the present plays for performance at the Dortmund school and he also directed them personally. When the plays had much success, they were published and became also popular with the larger public. The first edition was published by Philippus Maurer in Sch�pper's home town Dortmund in 1552, but of this edition only an incomplete copy is preserved in the Landesbibliothek Dortmund. The present Antwerp edition was probably the second edition. Both plays were published together, but they both have their own title-page, dedication, collation and pagination. The second play "Ovis Perdita" was based on a parable of the same title, written by Jacobus Zovitius from Breda. Sch�pper's collected school plays, six in all, were published in 1562, at Cologne. Fine copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed; marginal waterst.) Belg. Typogr. 4291; Goedeke II, p. 137, no. 23 e-f; not in Bibl. Belg., Machiels, STC Dutch; nor STC German. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  13.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Canon Law. Corpus Juris Canononici. Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII Titolo: Sextus       Venice: Per Lucantonium de Giunta, die XX Maij, 1514. - Corpus Iuris Canonici. Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII Titolo: Sextus Decretalium Liber a Bonifacio VIII in Concilio Lugdunensi Editus. Cum Glossematum Divisionibus que ex Novella Ioannis Andreee: Suis Sunt Locis Passim Apposite. Interpretamentis Domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus Litteralibus Summulis Regulis in Ris Cesarei ac Tabulis Quam Optimis. Multarum Glossarum Castigatione. Additione in Margine Litterarum quo Minusculi Characteres Lineis Intercepti Clarius Appareant. Liber Clementinarum cum Additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. Extravagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum Glossis. Extravagantes Communes cum Glossis. Constitutiones Concilij Florentini sub Domino Eugenio Papa llll Super Unione Grecorum Armenorum et Iacobinorum. Bulla Iulij ll de Electione Romani Pontificis. XXXVIII, CXX, LXIIII, LXIIII, XI, [1] ff. 75 woodcuts. Text printed in red and black. Main text surrounded by linear gloss in parallel columns. Defective: first two leaves including title page, folio 7, and second part of book comprising c. 248 leaves lacking. Quarto (8" x 6"). Contemporary vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, chip to foot of spine, rear hinge broken. Woodcut table of descents, dedication-vignette, numorous text woodcuts. Toning, occasional dampstaining and annotations to margins, wear to edges of a few leaves, some repaired. interior otherwise fresh. * This edition is ntable to its elegant typography and numerous woodcuts relating to the text. The most notable of these appears in Fol. CXXXVIII of the Liber Sextus Decretalium. It depicts a magician-cleric conjuring at a table placed in front of a group of spectators. It relates to an edict that forbids members of the clergy from practicing magic. Censimento Nazionale Delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16) CNCE 13404. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]  14.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   OSLEY, Arthur S. Luminario. An Introduction to the Italian writing-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.       HDG94, Nieuwkoop, - Small folio. Cloth. With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs. XIII, 173 pp. The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books. "This is a brilliant and fascinating book" (Reynolds Stone in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts March 1974). "A.S. Osley has written an admirably level-headed introduction to the study of these masters of writing" (Times Literary Supplement). "Here is a handsome book for the student of calligraphy, but it is also an endurung document for the history of writing" (Lawrence S. Thompson in 'The American Book Collector' 23,4, 1973). [Attributes: Soft Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  15.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Notice to Pilots. Trinity-House, London 11th. January 1825. It having been officially signified to this Corporation that a Flag of which the Drawing below is a correct Representation, will in future be displayed at the Fore-top-Gallant-Most-head of Russi       Hand-coloured etching and letter. 271 x 204mm. 10� x 8". The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters; however it excludes Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Northern Ireland. It is responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids such as lighthouses, lightvessels, buoys and maritime radio/satellite communication systems. Trinity House is also the official deep sea pilotage authority providing expert navigators for ships trading in Northern European waters. It is a non-departmental public body. The Corporation came into being in 1514 by Royal Charter granted by Henry VIII. The first Master was Thomas Spert, captain of Henry�s flagship Mary Rose.       [Bookseller: Grosvenor Prints]  16.   Check availability:     ilabdatabase.com   Link/Print   Brook, Robert and Anthony Fitzherbert Le Premier Part de les Reports del" Cases en Ley: Que surent arguesen le temps de le tres Haut & Puissant Prince Roy Edward le Tierce       London: George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft, 1679 . LAW Folio. . Contemporary calf. Expertly rebacked worn at edges still a sound copy . The original edition was written by Anthony Fitzherbert and entitled La Grande Abridgement London 1514 and printed by Pynson. It is the first serious attempt to reduce the laws enacted during the reign of Edward III into systematic shape. It is a digest of the year books arranged under appropriate titles in alphabetical order and it is considered the principal source for all future attempts at codification of the law. Brook or Broke who edited and expanded Fitzherbert"s work received high praise from Coke for his effort. "Broke"s treatise however is considered superior in lucidity of arrangement to that of Fitzherbert and contains also some valuable original matter." DNB.An endorsement for the book signed by 13 "Reverend Judges" attests to the use and benefit of reprinting the Year-Book used       [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]  17.   Check availability:     abaa.org   Link/Print   Mynsinger, Joachim � Frundeck Dn. Ioachimi Mynsingeri � Frundeck, iureconsulti clarissimi apotelesma, sive corpus perfectum scholiorum ad quatuor libros Institutionum Iuris Civilis.       - Basileae, Per Eusebium Episcopium, 1569In folio (cm 22,1 x 33,5), bellissima legatura piena pelle di scrofa coeva, assai ben conservata, vera e propria scultura ornata di minuziosi ceselli: le sedici figurine per piatto dell'Antico e del Nuovo Testamento: Davide con l'arpa, Pietro. ogni personaggio con in calce il proprio motto, gli ornamenti e i fregi di ogni genere -qui il leit-motiv � dato dalle ghiande, presenti in numero di ventiquattro. Cc (13), (1) bianca, 660, (35) di Indici. Al frontespizio, splendida impresa dell'Episcopius: mano vescovile regge pastorale, che reca in cima cicogna con il sassolino nella zampa, simbolo di vigile attesa; circondato da ricca cornice silografica allegorica. L'impresa � ripetuta, con varianti, al verso dell'ultima carta, a piena pagina. Al verso del frontespizio, grande stemma araldico della famiglia Frundeck. Esemplare in buone condizioni, Al verso del piatto, etichetta ex libris "Castello di Duino"; Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck (* 13. Agosto 1514 in Stuttgart; ? 3. Maggio 1588 in Helmstedt) fu celebre giurista riformato, la cui opera fu messa all'Indice; i Paesi tedeschi erano i centri dell'"infezione" luterana, e la vigilanza doveva essere applicata soprattutto a quelle opere di cui maggiore era la pericolosit�, perch� trattanti di: usura, questione del matrimonio (uno dei cardini della nuova legislazione tridentina), giurisdizione temporale del papa. Il Mynsinger rimase all'Indice fino al 1580, anche perch� nel 1581 venne impressa un'edizione preventivamente espurgata. Nessun esemplare di questa edizione censito nelle biblioteche consultate; SBN censisce sette esemplari dell'edizione veneziana Porta del 1581. Bibliografia: Sabine Schumann, Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck (1514-1588). Herzoglicher Kanzler in Wolfenb�ttel - Rechtsgelehrter - Humanist. Zur Biographie eines Juristen im 16. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden 1983. Karl Zippelius, Ein Juristenleben im 16. Jahrhundert: Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck. In: Melanges Fritz Sturm, Li�ge 1999, S. 959-970.       [Bookseller: Studio Bosio]  18.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Agricola, Daniel Passio domini nostri Jesu christi s[ecundu]m serie[m] q[ua]ttor eva[n]gelistaru[m]: p[er] fratre[m] Daniele[m] Agricola[m] ordi[ni]s minoru[m] de observa[n]tia: accuratissima op[er]a devotissimaq[ue] expositio[n]e illustrata: magnoru[m]q[ue] viro[rum] se[       Basel: A. Petri de Langendorff, 1514. Quarto, 7.8 x 5.6 in. The first edition of Agricola's work on the Passion of Christ was printed in 1506. Aa8, Bb-Gg4, Hh8. This copy is lacking the four-leaf "Directorium in D[omi]nice Passionis articulos" that is normally found preceding the "Passio domini nostri..       [Bookseller: James & Devon Gray Booksellers]  19.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Canon Law. Corpus Juris Canononici.       Venice: Per Lucantonium de Giunta, 1514. - [Corpus Juris Canonici]. Decretu[m] Gratiani cu[m] Glossis D[omi]ni Ioannis Theutonici Prepositi Alberstatensis; [et] Annotationibus Bartholomei Brixiensis. [And] Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII Titolo: Sextus Decretalium Liber a Bonifacio VIII in Concilio Lugdunensi Editus. Cum Glossematum Divisionibus que ex Novella Ioannis Andree.Liber Clementinarum cum Additionibus. [And] Decretales di Pape Gregorii Noni Acurata Diligentia Novissime [Quisque] Pluribus Cum Exemplaribus Emendate: Aptissimisq[ue] Imaginibus Exculte: Cum Multiplicibus Repertorijs Antiquis. Three volumes. Complete set. Quarto (8" x 6"). Contemporary panelled sheep, raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to corners and spines, occasional cracks to text blocks. Woodcut tables of descent and consanguinity, vignettes, numerous text woodcuts. Printed thoughout in red and black. Occasional annotations, cross-outs and emendations in contemporary hand, one pasted over modified paragraph (In the Decretals of Gregory IX). Toning, dampstaining to margins, occasionally to text, light foxing in a few places, interior otherwise fresh. Damage to two leaves in Gratian due to large inkstains with some loss to text, damage carefully repaired. Most of interior clean and bright. A solid, very presentable copy. * This edition contains the complete text of the Corpus Juris Canonici as it stood in 1514. It is notable to its elegant typography and numerous woodcuts and vignettes relating to the text. Attempts to codify the body of canon law began in earnest during the Carolingian Empire. These efforts reached fruition between 1020 and 1025 in the twenty-volume Decretum of Burchard, Bishop of Worms. The next great step was taken in 1151 with Gratian's Concordia Discordantium Canonum, or Decretum Gratiani, a watershed compilation that superseded earlier collections. The Libre Quinque Decretalium of Gregory IX followed in 1234. Published in 1298, the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII was the last great collection of the pre-Reformation era. John XXII adde.       [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]  20.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   BONIFACIUS (Papa VIII); Sextus decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII in concilio Lugdunensi editus. Cum glossematum diuisionibus que ex nouella Ioannis Andreee: suis sunt locis passim apposite. Interpretamentis domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus litteralibus summulis regulis in ris cesarei ac tabulis quam optimis. Multarum glossarum castigatione. Additione in margine litterarum quo minusculi characteres lineis intercepti clarius appareant. - Liber clementinarum cum additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. - Extrauagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum glosis. - Extrauagantes communes cum glosis. -Constitutiones Concilij Florentini sub domino Eugenio papa llll super unione Grecorum Armenorum et Iacobinorum. Bulla Iulij ll de electione Romani pontificis s       Luca Antonio Giunta Venezia XX mai 1514 - Petit in-4 de 288 ff. num. CCLXXXVIII, 120 ff. num. CXX, 64 ff. num. LXIIII, 64 ff. num. LXIIII, 11 ff. num. XI (table), demi veau, dos lisse orn�, pi�ces de titre (reliure du XVIII�me si�cle). Nombreux bois grav�s dans le texte (Prince d'Essling : les Livres � Figures V�nitiens 1814 - 1816). Bon exemplaire. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Dimitri KRONIS]  21.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   S. AMBROSIUS Divi Ambrosii mediolanensis episcopi officioru liber       Venezia Gregorio De Gregori 1514 - In 8, cc. 88. p. pl. coeva. poche manc. alla parte inf. del f. Tarletti al amrg. int. del volume (nessuna perdita di testo.). Antica firma di possesso al f. Lieve gora alla parte inf. delle prime cc.e qualche altra gora marg. Bella edizione in carattere gotico degli Officii di Sant' Ambrogio.       [Bookseller: coenobium libreria antiquaria]  22.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Hernandez de Toledo, Francisco (1514-1587) Antiguedades de la Nueva Espana       pspan style="font-family: Arial;"363 pages with illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/4") rebound in full leather with red and black spine labels and gilt lettering, original wrappers bound in. Translated by Joaquin Garcia Pimentel. From the library of George M Foster. 1st Mexican edition limited to 100 copies.br /br /Francisco HernA!ndez de Toledo (La Puebla de MontalbA!n, Toledo 1514 a!! Madrid 28 January 1587) was a naturalist and court physician to the King of Spain. HernA!ndez was among the first wave of Spanish Renaissance physicians practicing according to the revived principles formulated by Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna. HernA!ndez studied medicine and botany at the University of AlcalA! and may have traveled between cities in Spain as was common among physicians seeking to make a name for themselves. Moving from Seville with his wife and children, HernA!ndez served briefly in the Hospital y Monasterio de Guadalupe and then at the Hospital Mendoza in Toledo, where he gained prominence for his studies of medicinal botany and publication of a Castilian translation of a work on natural history by Pliny the Elder. In 1567 HernA!ndez became a personal physician to King Philip II. In 1571 HernA!ndez was ordered to embark on the first scientific mission in the New World, a study of the region's medicinal plants. Accompanied by his son Juan, he traveled for 7 years collecting and classifying specimens, interviewing the indigenous people through translators and conducting medical studies in Mexico and the Philippines. He was assisted by three indigenous painters (baptized, AntA3n, Baltazar ElA!as and Pedro VA!zquez respectively), who prepared illustrations. During the 1576 yellow fever ("cocoliztle") epidemic HernA!ndez performed autopsies in the Hospital Real de San JosA! de los Naturales in collaboration with surgeon Alonso LA3pez de Hinojosos and physician Juan de la Fuente. Parts of Francisco HernA!ndez' extensive descriptions of his findings were published in a translated collection entitled emPlantas y Animales de la Nueva Espana, y sus virtudes por Francisco Hernandez/em, y de Latin en Romance por Fr. Francisco Ximenez (Mexico, 1615) also cited as emCuatro libros de la naturaleza y virtudes de las plantas y animales que estA!n recibidos en uso de medicina en la Nueva EspaA!a/em published by Francisco JimA!nez. A heavily redacted compendium in the original Latin was later published as emRerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus/em (Rome, 1628) by collector, Federico Cesi. Another impression was put out by Johannes Schreck and Fabio Colonna as emNova plantarum, animalium et mineralium mexicanorum historia a Francisco HernA!ndez in indis primum compilata, de inde a Nardo Antonio Reccho in volumen digesta/em (Rome: Vital Mascardi, 1648). Some of HernA!ndez' original manuscripts are housed in the library of the Escorial, but many were lost in the fire of July 17, 1671. A new compilation by physician Casimiro GA3mez Ortega, based on additional material found in the Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas de Madrid was entitled emFrancisci Hernandi, medici atque historici Philippi II, hispan et indiar. Regis, et totius novi orbis archiatri. Opera, cum edita, tum medita, ad autobiographi fidem et jusu regio/em. (1790).br /br /George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.br /br /strongCondition:/strongbr /br /Foster's stamp on front wrapper and date of aquiry (6/26/46) on front end paper, some rubbing to extremities, an unread copy, spine sunned else a very good copy. /span/p       [Bookseller: The Book Collector]  23.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Schatzger Kaspar Examen novarum doctrinarum pro elucidatione veritatis Evangelicae & catholice omnibus studiosis, diuinorum uoluminum scrutatoribus, pro salubri exercitio evulgatum. Ulm, J.Gr�ner 1523. 4�. 64 Bll. Prgt.       - VD 16, S 2327 - STC 784 - Adams 439 - Kuczynski 2368.- Schatzger war von 1514 - 1517 Vikar, von 1520 - 1523 Provincial der oberdeutschen Observanten. Seine zahlreichen durch sein Amt veranla�ten Reisen und die dabei gemachten Erfahrungen regten ihn zu den meisten Streitschriften gegen das Luthertum an, die ihn zu einem der wichtigsten katholischen Kontroversisten Bayerns machten.- Mit einigen zeigen�ss. Anmerkungen.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat M�ller]  24.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   VIGO, Giovanni de; Practica in Chirurgica copiosa. continens novem libros.       Roma per S. Guillireti et H. Bononiensem 1514 - In-folio de 220 ff.ch. et 5 ff.n.ch.; peau de truie estamp�e � froid (reliure de l'�poque). Garrison-Morton, 5559.1; Waller, 9976; N.L.M. 4605 (incomp.); cf. Des Fran�ais � Rome, 11-15. Edition originale. Edit�e par Giovanni Antracini et imprim�e � Rome par Etienne Guillery en association avec Hercule Bononiensis. "The first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis. It was a book which especially suited a practitioner who knew nothing of anatomy and feared or dislike to make use of the knife" (Garrison-Morton). Giovanni da Vigo (1460-1525) fut le chirurgien du pape Jules II. Dans cet ouvrage, qui connut de nombreuses �ditions, il traite des deux probl�mes majeurs auxquels les chirurgiens de l'�poque devaient faire face : les plaies par arme � feu et la syphilis. Il donne de bonnes descriptions de la gangr�ne, des fractures du cr�ne, de l'hydroc�le, de l'h�mostase par ligature et conseille des frictions mercurielles contre la syphilis. Ambroise Par� s'opposera � sa m�thode de caut�risation des plaies � l'aide d'huile bouillante et d'onguents. Bel exemplaire, lav� et replac� dans sa reliure, restaurations � l'angle de quelques feuillets surtout en fin de volume. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  25.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   "MANFREDI, Girolamo;" Libro de lhomo in lingua materna Co[m]pilato per misser Hieronymo di Manfredi da Bologna ad utilita & delectatio[n]e del genere humano: inelqual dilucida le cause della natura circa la co[n]servatione dela sanita: & dele cose se sumeno in cibo & poto: con la compositione de lhomo per la quale cognosce naturalmente le bonta & defecti di quello: ditto vulgarmente P�rche.       Venise Simone da Lovere 1514 "In-4 goth. de 10 ff.n.ch., 67 ff.ch., 1 f.n.ch. (texte sur deux colonnes) ; veau brun d�cor� � froid, tranches rouges (reliure moderne � l'imitation)." "Sander, 4189 ; NLM, 2927 ; Bagnasco, 1225 ; Simon, Bacchica, II, 427 (collation erron�e) ; Simon, Gastronomica, 993 ; pas dans Wellcome et Waller. Belle �dition de cette encyclop�die populaire, m�dicale et gastronomique. Girolamo Manfredi, philosophe, astrologue et professeur universitaire n� � Bologne vers 1430, est mort dans cette ville en 1493. La premi�re �dition de son trait� de sant�, compos� sous forme de questions et r�ponses � ce qui lui a valu la d�nomination de livre du Perch� (pourquoi) �, a paru pour la premi�re fois en 1474 sous le titre de Liber de homine. Manfredi y aborde la question de la conservation de la sant� sous tous ses aspects, des conditions atmosph�riques � la qualit� du sommeil en passant par l'influence des saisons, la nature des vents, l'exercice physique, les passions de l'�me etc. Une grande partie du volume, sans conteste la plus int�ressante, concerne l'alimentation et les r�gimes de sant�, avec des consid�rations sur les diff�rents types de boissons et notamment le vin : ""Les diff�rentes qualit�s de vins, la fa�on dont on doit boire sagement et celle dont on peut boire plus que de raison occupent une place importante dans cet ouvrage dont les �ditions furent fort nombreuses au XVIe si�cle"" (Simon). La moiti� du titre est orn�e d'un bois grav� repr�sentant ""un homme nu, pos� de face, les bras �cart�s du corps, avec des lignes droites partant des diff�rentes parties du corps et qui devaient aboutir, sur le livre d'anatomie auquel cette figure est emprunt�e, � des d�signations qui ont �t� supprim�es ici"" (Sander). Quelques lettrines orn�es. L'imprimeur Simone da Lovere, originaire de Lovere (pr�s de Bergame) et actif � Venise � partir de 1489, utilisa le mat�riel typographique qui avait appartenu � Lazzaro Soardi. Notes manuscrites de l'�poque � l'encre noire, notamment au verso du titre et au dernier f. ; r�paration au f. B3.. Provenance : ""Joanes Batt. Parmensis"" (ex-libris manuscrit de l'apoque au bas du titre) - Dr. Maurice Villaret."       [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]  26.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   CATEJAN (Tommaso de Vio) COMMENTARIA REVERENDISSIMI PARTRIS FRATRIS THOME.: de Vio Caietani artium sacre theologie et ordinis predicatorum professoris ac eiusdem ordinis Generalis magistri in libros Aristotelis de ania novissime recognita.       Octavianus Scotus: Giorgius Arrivabenus. 1514. - with woodcut initials. folio. 68 leaves. modern half claf. water stained.       [Bookseller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB]  27.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   "VIGO, Giovanni de;" Practica in Chirurgica copiosa... continens novem libros.       Roma per S. Guillireti et H. Bononiensem 1514 "In-folio de 220 ff.ch. et 5 ff.n.ch.; peau de truie estamp�e � froid (reliure de l'�poque)." "Garrison-Morton, 5559.1; Waller, 9976; N.L.M. 4605 (incomp.); cf. Des Fran�ais � Rome, 11-15. Edition originale. Edit�e par Giovanni Antracini et imprim�e � Rome par Etienne Guillery en association avec Hercule Bononiensis. ""The first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis. It was a book which especially suited a practitioner who knew nothing of anatomy and feared or dislike to make use of the knife"" (Garrison-Morton). Giovanni da Vigo (1460-1525) fut le chirurgien du pape Jules II. Dans cet ouvrage, qui connut de nombreuses �ditions, il traite des deux probl�mes majeurs auxquels les chirurgiens de l'�poque devaient faire face : les plaies par arme � feu et la syphilis. Il donne de bonnes descriptions de la gangr�ne, des fractures du cr�ne, de l'hydroc�le, de l'h�mostase par ligature et conseille des frictions mercurielles contre la syphilis. Ambroise Par� s'opposera � sa m�thode de caut�risation des plaies � l'aide d'huile bouillante et d'onguents. Bel exemplaire, lav� et replac� dans sa reliure, restaurations � l'angle de quelques feuillets surtout en fin de volume."       [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]  28.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   S. AMBROSIUS DIVI AMBROSII MEDIOLANENSIS EPISCOPI OFFICIORU LIBER VENEZIA GREGORIO DE GREGORI 1514       In 8, cc. 88. p. pl. coeva. poche manc. alla parte inf. del f. Tarletti al amrg. int. del volume (nessuna perdita di testo.).� Antica firma di possesso al f. �Lieve gora alla parte inf. delle prime cc.e qualche altra gora marg. �Bella edizione in carattere gotico degli Officii di Sant' Ambrogio.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria COENOBIUM�]  29.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   Diaz del Castillo, Bernal (1492!1585) The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, By Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquerors. Written in the year 1568       pspan style="font-family: Arial;"viii+514 pages with frontispiece map. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 3/4") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated by Maurice Keatinge. From the library of George M Foster. 1st English edition.br /br /was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortes. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Cuba in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population of the island had already been killed by epidemics and forced labor, and in 1517 an expedition was sent to the smaller Caribbean islands to find alternative sources of labor. Diaz joined this group, under the command of Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba. It was a difficult venture, and although they discovered the Yucatan coast, by the time the expedition returned to Cuba they were in disastrous shape. Nevertheless, Diaz returned to the coast of Yucatan the following year, on an expedition led by Juan de Grijalva, with the intent of exploring the newly discovered lands. Upon returning to Cuba, he enlisted in a new expedition, this one led by Hernan Cortes. In this third effort, Diaz took part in one of the legendary military campaigns of history, bringing an end to the Aztec empire in Mesoamerica. During this campaign, Diaz spoke frequently with his companions in arms about their experiences, collecting them into a coherent narration. The book that resulted from this was emHistoria verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana/em (English: emThe True History of the Conquest of New Spain/em. In it he describes many of the 119 battles in which he claims to have participated, culminating in the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521.br /br /As a reward for his service, Diaz was appointed governor of Santiago de los Caballeros, present-day Antigua Guatemala. He began writing his history in 1568, almost fifty years after the events described, in response to an alternative history written by Cortes's chaplain, who had not actually participated in the campaign. He called his book the Verdadera Historia ("True History"), in response to the claims made in the earlier work. Diaz died in 1585, without seeing his book published. A manuscript was found in a Madrid library in 1632 and finally published, providing an eye-witness account of the events, often told from the perspective of a common soldier. Today it is one of the most important sources in understanding the campaign that led to the collapse of the Aztec Empire and the Spanish conquest of Mexico.br /br /George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.br /br /strongCondition:/strongbr /br /Front hinge beginning, corners bumped, previous owner's book plate on front paste down, George and Mary Foster's book plate on front end paper. Some foxing to map else a very good copy./span/p       [Bookseller: The Book Collector]  30.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Cajetan, Tommaso De Vio, Jean De Jandun, Gaietanus De Thienis Commentaria Reverendissimi Patris Fratris Thome De Vio Caietani Artium Sacre Theologie Et Ordinis Predicatorum Professoris Ac Eiusdem Ordinis Generalis Magistri in Libros Aristotelis De Ania Novissime Recognita: Cu[N]Ctisq[Ue] Errorib[Us] Expurgata,...       Heirs of Octavianus Scotus; Giorgius Arrivabenus, 1514-1519. Three works bound in one volume. Small folio (29.5 x 20 cm), 68, 132, 91 numbered leaves. Woodcut initials and diagrams, full vellum binding. Further information available upon request.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  31.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   SIGISMUND I., K�nig von Polen (1467-1548) - DIE SCHLACHT vo[n] dem Kunig von Poln. vn[d] mit dem Moscowiter gescheen am tag Marie gepurt. M.CCCCC.Xiiij.       - Kl.-4to. Mit fast ganzseitigem Titelholzschnitt. [3] S. Flexibler Pergamentband. (N�rnberg, Jobst Gutknecht, 1514). Erstausgabe. �usserst seltener, mit grossem Titelholzschnitt illustrierter zeitgen�ssischer Bericht �ber die Schlacht bei Orscha am 8. September 1514. Die Kr�fte Polen-Litauens standen unter dem Kommando des Grosshetmans von Litauen, Konstanty Ostrogski, jene Moskowiens unter dem Befehl des Konjuschis von Moskowien, Iwan Tscheljadin und Knjas Michael Goliza. Die viel kleinere polnisch-litauische Armee besiegte die Streitkr�fte des russisch-moskowitischen Grossf�rsten und stoppte vorerst dessen Expansionsdrang. K�nig Sigismund I. von Polen versuchte in der Folge, so viel Nutzen wie m�glich aus dem Sieg zu erzielen. Im folgenden Jahr schloss er ein Heirats- und somit auch Regierungsb�ndnis mit Kaiser Maximilian von Habsburg. Der Kaiser erkannte die Thorner Friendesbestimmung von 1466 an und verzichtete darauf, Polen-Litauen zusammen mit dem Grossf�rsten von Moskau anzugreifen. Der prachtvolle, noch ganz im Stil der Illustrationen in mittelalterlichen Chroniken gehaltene Holzschnitt wurde sp�ter noch in anderen Drucken des seit 1514 in N�rberg wirkenden Druckerverlegers Jobst Gutknecht verwendet. Die vorliegende Flugschrift z�hlt zu den allerersten Drucken dieser Offizin, aus der bis 1542 �ber 350 Druckwerke nachgewiesen werden. - Unbedeutender Braunfleck im Aussensteg. VD 16, S-2936 (3 Exx.; BSB M�nchen, HAB Wolfenb�ttel und OeNB Wien); Weller, Repertorium, 851; Schottenloher, Flugblatt und Zeitung, Abb. S. 159; First edition. Exceedingly scarce contemporary German account on the battle of Orsha, finely illustrated with a large title woodcut. The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy, Ivan Chelyadnin and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsa. The Battle of Orsha - one of the biggest battles of 16th-century Europe - was part of a long chain of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the Old Ruthenian lands under their rule. Due to the spectacular proportions of the defeat, information about the Battle of Orsha was suppressed in Muscovite chronicles. King Sigismund I of Poland on the other hand sought to gain as much political advantage as possible from his victory. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was impressed by the scope of the Polish-Lithuanian victory and started peace negotiations with Jagiellons in Vienna in 1515. The finely executed large woodcut was reissued later by the Nuremberg printer Jobst Gutknecht who started business in 1514. Until his death in 1542 over 350 titles left his press. - Minor brown stain in outer margin. - Flexible old vellum. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Erasmushaus - Haus der B�cher AG]  32.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Valerius Maximus Exempla Qvatvor Et Viginti nvper inventa ante capvt de ominibvs       Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Octobri, 1514. Small 8vo, 216 leaves, printerOs device on title and verso of final leaf. Old stiff vellum, red morocco label. Marginal annotations in an early hand (faded or lightly washed out), top of front free-endpaper torn away, 18th-century notes on acquisition (see below). A pleasant copy with large margins and complete with the internal blank.#11; ! Third edition of the Aldine printing of the Facta et dicta memorabilia, a collection of anecdotes for the use of orators printed by Aldus in 1502 after numerous incunable editions. This edition has the prefaces to the 1502 and 1503 editions at the front. An interesting copy, with manuscript notes at the front recording the Wodhull, Mead, Askew, and Pinelli copies with prices. The blank 6th leaf is present. The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is printed twice, at front and back. Renouard p. 69. Brunet#11;       [Bookseller: Antiquarian Bookseller]  33.   Check availability:     ABAA    Biblio   Link/Print   VIGO, Giovanni de; Practica in Chirurgica copiosa. continens novem libros.       Roma per S. Guillireti et H. Bononiensem 1514 - In-folio de 220 ff.ch. et 5 ff.n.ch.; peau de truie estamp�e � froid (reliure de l'�poque). Garrison-Morton, 5559.1; Waller, 9976; N.L.M. 4605 (incomp.); cf. Des Fran�ais � Rome, 11-15. Edition originale. Edit�e par Giovanni Antracini et imprim�e � Rome par Etienne Guillery en association avec Hercule Bononiensis. "The first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis. It was a book which especially suited a practitioner who knew nothing of anatomy and feared or dislike to make use of the knife" (Garrison-Morton). Giovanni da Vigo (1460-1525) fut le chirurgien du pape Jules II. Dans cet ouvrage, qui connut de nombreuses �ditions, il traite des deux probl�mes majeurs auxquels les chirurgiens de l'�poque devaient faire face : les plaies par arme � feu et la syphilis. Il donne de bonnes descriptions de la gangr�ne, des fractures du cr�ne, de l'hydroc�le, de l'h�mostase par ligature et conseille des frictions mercurielles contre la syphilis. Ambroise Par� s'opposera � sa m�thode de caut�risation des plaies � l'aide d'huile bouillante et d'onguents. Bel exemplaire, lav� et replac� dans sa reliure, restaurations � l'angle de quelques feuillets surtout en fin de volume. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  34.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO, GONZALO DE LAS GRANDEZAS DE MADRID (2 VOLS) 1514-1556/NOTICIAS DE MADRID Y FAMILIAS" "BLAZQUEZ, GUILLERMO       ..." "24 X 33 CM 232 p. LIBRO NUEVO. BOOK NEW       [Bookseller: PESSOA LIBROS�]  35.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   Valerius Maximus Exempla Qvatvor Et Viginti nvper inventa ante capvt de ominibvs.       - Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Octobri, 1514. Small 8vo, 216 leaves, printer's device on title and verso of final leaf. Old stiff vellum, red morocco label. Marginal annotations in an early hand (faded or lightly washed out), top of front free-endpaper torn away, 18th-century notes on acquisition (see below). A pleasant copy with large margins and complete with the internal blank. � Third edition of the Aldine printing of the Facta et dicta memorabilia, a collection of anecdotes for the use of orators printed by Aldus in 1502 after numerous incunable editions. This edition has the prefaces to the 1502 and 1503 editions at the front. An interesting copy, with manuscript notes at the front recording the Wodhull, Mead, Askew, and Pinelli copies with prices. The blank 6th leaf is present. The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is printed twice, at front and back. Renouard p. 69. Brunet       [Bookseller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA]  36.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BONIFACIUS (Papa VIII); Sextus decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII in concilio Lugdunensi editus. Cum glossematum diuisionibus que ex nouella Ioannis Andreee: suis sunt locis passim apposite. Interpretamentis domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus litteralibus summulis regulis in ris cesarei ac tabulis quam optimis. Multarum glossarum castigatione. Additione in margine litterarum quo minusculi characteres lineis intercepti clarius appareant. - Liber clementinarum cum additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. - Extrauagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum glosis. - Extrauagantes communes cum glosis. -Consti...       Luca Antonio Giunta Venezia XX mai 1514 Petit in-4 de 288 ff. num. CCLXXXVIII, 120 ff. num. CXX, 64ff. num. LXIIII, 64 ff. num. LXIIII, 11 ff. num. XI (table), demi veau, dos lisse orn�, pi�ces de titre (reliure du XVIII�me si�cle). Nombreux bois grav�s dans le texte (Prince d'Essling : les Livres � Figures V�nitiens 1814 - 1816). Bon exemplaire.       [Bookseller: Librairie Kronis Livres anciens]  37.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Bible. Latin. Selections. Peckham. 1514 Divinarum sententiarum libro[rum] Biblie ad certos titulos redacte collectariu[m], ingenio siquide[m] eruditissimi sacris literis assuetissimi viri ... Joha[n]nis de Pechano ... compilatu[m]       Parisius :: Venales reperiu[n]tur in vico diui Jacobi ad intersignium diui Claudii [Francois Regnault],, 1514.. Volume rebacked and much of old spine reapplied. Lacks title-leaf. All initials highlighted in red; occasional early underlining. Missing leaf notwithstanding (though it does lower the price), a very nice copy in a notable early binding.. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.875"). [11 (of 12)], cclxi [i.e., 260] ff. (without the title-leaf). . Also known as Collectarium sacrae Bibliae, this is only the second edition, the first having appeared earlier the same year at the suggestion of John Fisher (1459-1535), of this medieval compilation from the pen of the archibishop of Canterbury (d. 1292). An epitome and a particular one, which saw considerable acceptance if the number of surviving manuscript copies (whole or partial) are testimony.#11; Binding: Contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, calf over bevelled boards with remnants of brass and leather clasp. Each cover embossed twice with a panel featuring medallions of mythical and other creatures; thus, the panel is used four times.#11; Provenance: 17th-century spine label with initials "S.F." and a tree design between them. Ownership signature of Gordon Duff; Yale University (bookplate) - deaccessioned.       [Bookseller: Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Co]  38.   Check availability:     ABAA   Link/Print   SIGISMUND I., K�nig von Polen (1467-1548) - DIE SCHLACHT vo[n] dem Kunig von Poln. vn[d] mit dem Moscowiter gescheen am tag Marie gepurt. M.CCCCC.Xiiij.       (N�rnberg, Jobst Gutknecht, 1514). - Kl.-4to. Mit fast ganzseitigem Titelholzschnitt. [3] S. Flexibler Pergamentband. Erstausgabe. �usserst seltener, mit grossem Titelholzschnitt illustrierter zeitgen�ssischer Bericht �ber die Schlacht bei Orscha am 8. September 1514. Die Kr�fte Polen-Litauens standen unter dem Kommando des Grosshetmans von Litauen, Konstanty Ostrogski, jene Moskowiens unter dem Befehl des Konjuschis von Moskowien, Iwan Tscheljadin und Knjas Michael Goliza. Die viel kleinere polnisch-litauische Armee besiegte die Streitkr�fte des russisch-moskowitischen Grossf�rsten und stoppte vorerst dessen Expansionsdrang. K�nig Sigismund I. von Polen versuchte in der Folge, so viel Nutzen wie m�glich aus dem Sieg zu erzielen. Im folgenden Jahr schloss er ein Heirats- und somit auch Regierungsb�ndnis mit Kaiser Maximilian von Habsburg. Der Kaiser erkannte die Thorner Friendesbestimmung von 1466 an und verzichtete darauf, Polen-Litauen zusammen mit dem Grossf�rsten von Moskau anzugreifen. Der prachtvolle, noch ganz im Stil der Illustrationen in mittelalterlichen Chroniken gehaltene Holzschnitt wurde sp�ter noch in anderen Drucken des seit 1514 in N�rberg wirkenden Druckerverlegers Jobst Gutknecht verwendet. Die vorliegende Flugschrift z�hlt zu den allerersten Drucken dieser Offizin, aus der bis 1542 �ber 350 Druckwerke nachgewiesen werden. - Unbedeutender Braunfleck im Aussensteg. VD 16, S-2936 (3 Exx.; BSB M�nchen, HAB Wolfenb�ttel und OeNB Wien); Weller, Repertorium, 851; Schottenloher, Flugblatt und Zeitung, Abb. S. 159; First edition. Exceedingly scarce contemporary German account on the battle of Orsha, finely illustrated with a large title woodcut. The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy, Ivan Chelyadnin and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsa. The Battle of Orsha - one of the biggest battles of 16th-century Europe - was part of a long chain of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the Old Ruthenian lands under their rule. Due to the spectacular proportions of the defeat, information about the Battle of Orsha was suppressed in Muscovite chronicles. King Sigismund I of Poland on the other hand sought to gain as much political advantage as possible from his victory. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was impressed by the scope of the Polish-Lithuanian victory and started peace negotiations with Jagiellons in Vienna in 1515. The finely executed large woodcut was reissued later by the Nuremberg printer Jobst Gutknecht who started business in 1514. Until his death in 1542 over 350 titles left his press. - Minor brown stain in outer margin. - Flexible old vellum. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Erasmushaus - Haus der B�cher AG]  39.   Check availability:     Abebooks   Link/Print   Jordanus Nemorarius] Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata. Musica libri demostrata quator. Epitome in Libros Arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetij. Rithmimachie ludus qui et pugna numuroru appellatur.       - Paris, H. Estienne, (7 Sept. 1514). 4to (27.3 x 19.2 cm), printed in Gothic type. Title set within woodcut border, full-page woodcut on one page and small woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. Many decorative initials. Expertly executed new calf binding in period style. *Historians of mediaeval mathematics agree that Jordanus de Nemore (1225-1260) was one of the most important writers on mathematics in Europe. He was, for example, among the first to use letters to replace numbers in algebraic calculations. But almost nothing is known about his life. This edition of Jordanus' Arithmetica - the first Estienne edition - is a fine example of early sixteenth century printing, complete with numerous mathematical diagrams. It comprises Jordanus' work on the theory of numbers, as well as a treatise on music by le F�vre, an epitome (also by le F�vre) of Boethius' Arithmetica, and an anonymous tract (attributed to John Shirwood) about the arithmetical game of "Rithmimachia". This Estienne edition was printed from settings similar to those used in the first printed edition of 1496. A rare book - ABPC records only 2 copies in the last 30 years. A small hand stamp on verso of title page, Some very small and marginal wormholes at the beginning and end, but not obtrusive in any way. Two small paper repairs to corners of first two leaves. Some near-contemporary marginalia and the text "Jordani Arithmetica" added in ink to title, Estienne's name inked out on title-page and colophon. Provenance: Harvard College Library. Overall a very nice crisp and clean copy of a rare work. Adams, J324; Renouard Estienne, p. 16. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: DIETER SCHIERENBERG BV]  40.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [Jordanus Nemorarius] Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata. Musica libri demostrata quator. Epitome in Libros Arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetij. Rithmimachie ludus qui et pugna numuroru appellatur       Paris, H. Estienne, (7 Sept. 1514). 4to (27.3 x 19.2 cm), printed in Gothic type. Title set within woodcut border, full-page woodcut on one page and small woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. Many decorative initials. Expertly executed new calf binding in period style. *Historians of mediaeval mathematics agree that Jordanus de Nemore (1225-1260) was one of the most important writers on mathematics in Europe. He was, for example, among the first to use letters to replace numbers in algebraic calculations. But almost nothing is known about his life. This edition of Jordanus' Arithmetica - the first Estienne edition - is a fine example of early sixteenth century printing, complete with numerous mathematical diagrams. It comprises Jordanus' work on the theory of numbers, as well as a treatise on music by le Fevre, an epitome (also by le Fevre) of Boethius' Arithmetica, and an anonymous tract (attributed to John Shirwood) about the arithmetical game of "Rithmimachia". This Estienne edition was printed from settings similar to those used in the first printed edition of 1496. A rare book - ABPC records only 2 copies in the last 30 years. A small hand stamp on verso of title page, Some very small and marginal wormholes at the beginning and end, but not obtrusive in any way. Two small paper repairs to corners of first two leaves. Some near-contemporary marginalia and the text "Jordani Arithmetica" added in ink to title, Estienne's name inked out on title-page and colophon. Provenance: Harvard College Library. Overall a very nice crisp and clean copy of a rare work. Adams, J324; Renouard Estienne, p. 16.       [Bookseller: Dieter Schierenberg bv]  41.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Cajetan, Tommaso De Vio, Jean De Jandun, Gaietanus De Thienis Commentaria Reverendissimi Patris Fratris Thome De Vio Caietani Artium Sacre Theologie Et Ordinis Predicatorum Professoris Ac Eiusdem Ordinis Generalis Magistri in Libros Aristotelis De Ania Novissime Recognita: Cu[N]Ctisq[Ue] Errorib[Us] Expurgata,...       Heirs of Octavianus Scotus; Giorgius Arrivabenus, 1514-1519. Three works bound in one volume. Small folio (29.5 x 20 cm), 68, 132, 91 numbered leaves. Woodcut initials and diagrams, full vellum binding. Further information available upon request.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  42.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Schepenbrief van Meerssen, meldende de ...rechten die hij had op het huis Meersenhoven met wederhooren aan jonker Diederick van Leroide door den schoonbroeder Jacob van Moriame       Meerssen 1514. 8vo, oorspronkelijk perkamenten schepenbrief uit 1514 met een wat latere notatie op de achterzijde van 1541. Met besch. stempel. Meer studie naar de precieze inhoud van de tekst is vereist. Teksten en data zijn overgenomen van 19e eeuwse beschrijving op papieren wikkel waar de schepenbrief zich in bevindt. Perkament gescheurd in vouwhoeken, ietsjes smoezelig. Tekst duidelijk leesbaar (voor de paleontoloog), uitvergroting van de tekst op verzoek leverbaar. Uniek stuk. (Please inquire before collecting in our bookstore).       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat & Galerie de Bovenste Plank]  43.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   PLINIO, Cayo Caii Plinii secundi Veronensis NATURALIS HYSTORIAE. Libri XXXVII ..       Paris Edibus Johannis Petit 1514 Folio. 20h sin foliar (aa6,bb8,cc6) incl. portada grabada "ab optimo calcographo Nicolao de Pratis", CCLXII folios numerados (faltan las signaturas m, o, p, y, E). Hol. puntas det. y medio suelta. Titulos letra g�tica, texto en redonda. Capitulares (Ref. 22139)       [Bookseller: Librer�a de la Escalinata ]  44.   Check availability:     uniliber   Link/Print   S.THOMAS DE AQUINO Tertia pars summe praeclarissimi doctoris S. Thome aquinatis cum additionibus ex quarto sentiarum eiusdem angelici doctoris excerptis noviter per reuerendos P.F. Petrum de Nouimagio ac F. Vincentium de haerlem �       Paris, Claude Chevallon, 1514. In-8�. [6], CCCIII, [4], CCCIII-CCCCCL [i.e.554]. Binding without the leather, only boards preserved. Very early imprint by Claude Chevallon. Very rare ! Unfortunally 2 leaves missing CCCCCXLVI and CCCCCXLVII;       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Garcia]  45.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Captain Bernal. The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, By... One of the Conquerors. Written in the Year 1568. Translated from the Original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge.       London 1800. First English edition, 4to, viii, 514 pp. Map frontispiece of Mexico City, minor marginal worming to the lower corners of the first 14 leaves. Uncut and recently rebound in half morocco, marbled sides, gilt spine with a black label, a very good copy. The Author sailed to Cuba in 1514 and was part of the group who first explored the Yucatan peninsula. He subsequently took part in the numerous battles that eventually defeated the Aztec empire, being made Governor of what is now Antigua in Guatemala as a reward. Not published in his lifetime, a manuscript was discovered in Madrid in the following century. An important firsthand account.       [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop]  46.   Check availability:     PBFA   Link/Print   Gaguin, Robert (1433?-1501) Compe[n]dium Roberti Guaguini super francorum gestis.       Poncet Le Preux, Paris 1514 - [Continuation of title field from the colophon] Preclarissimum hoc de francorum gestis compendium multis notatu dignissimorum additionibus libriq; vnius accessione locupletatum: & non segni accuratione a mendis tersum Impressit rursus diligens ac peritus chalcographus Anthonius bon[n]emere in inclyto Parisiorum gymnasio in vico diui Iohannis beluacensis. Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo decimoquarto die vero, xij, Iulij. (July 12, 1514). [16], 312 leaves. Woodcut title page with saints Dagobert, Charlemagne, and Louis framed by the arms of various provinces. Full page woodcut colophon of the Parisian printer, Poncet le Preux (1507-1559) with two dragons rampant. Contributions to the text by Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535). Ornamented woodcut initials throughout text. Bound in seventeenth century dark brown calf with double blind-ruled covers enclosing a blind-stamped leaf wreath. Gilt-lettered title and four gilt-tooled raised cords on spine separating double blind-ruled and decorated compartments. Early owner's signature on verso of unnumbered leaf 16 and marginal notations in sepia ink by the same hand throughout text. Leaves 43 and 76 are misnumbered, but the text follows in correct sequence. Wormholes in leaves 1-23 and 185-212 affecting one line of text. All foredgtes have been affected by water damage to the outer margin. Leaves 2-43 and 258-812 have been repaired with rice paper which has darkened with age. The foredges of the title page and colophon (first and last leaves) have been discreetly strengthened with a strip of paper. Joints rubbed but solid. Two small holes in base of spine; small (1.3cm) abrasion on leather of front lower corner.       [Bookseller: Lavengro, Inc]  47.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Jackson, Lady Catherine Charlotte Selected Works       Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1878-1890. First Edition Seven works bound in fourteen volumes namely: Old Paris; Its Court and Literary Salons (2 vols.); The Old R�gime. Court, salons, and theatres. (2 vols.); The French Court and Society. Reign of Louis XVI and First Empire. (2 vols.); The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe. (2 vols.); The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century. 1514-1559. (2 vols.); The Last of the Valois, and Accession of Henry of Navarre. 1559-1589. (2 vols.); The First of the Bourbons. 1595-1610. (2 vols.). First Editions. With half-titles, engraved frontispieces and several plates.A good set bound by Zaehnsdorf.       [Bookseller: Classic Bindings Limited]  48.   Check availability:     PBFA   Link/Print   Valerius Maximus Exempla Qvatvor Et Viginti nvper inventa ante capvt de ominibvs.       Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Octobri, 1514. Small 8vo, 216 leaves, printer�s device on title and verso of final leaf. Old stiff vellum, red morocco label. Marginal annotations in an early hand (faded or lightly washed out), top of front free-endpaper torn away, 18th-century notes on acquisition (see below). A pleasant copy with large margins and complete with the internal blank. � Third edition of the Aldine printing of the Facta et dicta memorabilia, a collection of anecdotes for the use of orators printed by Aldus in 1502 after numerous incunable editions. This edition has the prefaces to the 1502 and 1503 editions at the front. An interesting copy, with manuscript notes at the front recording the Wodhull, Mead, Askew, and Pinelli copies with prices. The blank 6th leaf is present. The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is printed twice, at front and back. Renouard p. 69. Brunet       [Bookseller: Antiquarian Bookseller, John Windle]  49.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   LUCIANUS/NACHTIGALL, Ottmar (a.k.a. LUSCINIUS), tr. & ed Deorvm dialogi numero. 70. una cum interpretatione e regione Latina: nus[quam] antea impressi       Rare first edition of the Strasbourg humanist Ottmar Nachtigall's edition and parallel Latin translation of Lucian's satirical Dialogues of the Gods. The ancient's cynicism and common sense found a wide audience among Northern European humanists in the intellectual orbit of Erasmus. A member of the circle of Strasbourg humanists which included Jakob Sturm, Nikolaus Gerbel, Thomas Vogler, his teacher Jakob Wimpfeling and Sebastian Brant, Nachtigall is credited with introducing the formal teaching of Greek to the city of Strasbourg. In this capacity he prepared a number of Greek grammars and Greek texts, including an edition of the Palatine Anthology. He met Erasmus during the humanist's visit to Strasbourg in 1514; Erasmus is duly saluted in the present work's preface (a1v), though relations between the two men later underwent some strain when they lived in the same house in Basel (see Contemporaries of Erasmus III.3). Nachtigall is also known for a popular defense of humanistic studies, Grunnius sophista and original works of music theory, and his career warrants study as a Northern humanist sympathetic to church reform who nonetheless remained a Catholic. OCLC lists U.Texas/Austin, Cambridge, Emory Pitts, Harvard.PROVENANCE: Josef Adolf Schwerdfeger (1867-1931), Austrian historian. * VD16 L2955; Proctor 10277; Adams L-1617; Hoffmann III.538; Panzer VI.73, n. 385.       [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]  50.   Check availability:     Biblio    ABAA   Link/Print   Valerius Maximus Exempla Qvatvor Et Viginti nvper inventa ante capvt de ominibvs.       - Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Octobri, 1514. Small 8vo, 216 leaves, printer's device on title and verso of final leaf. Old stiff vellum, red morocco label. Marginal annotations in an early hand (faded or lightly washed out), top of front free-endpaper torn away, 18th-century notes on acquisition (see below). A pleasant copy with large margins and complete with the internal blank. � Third edition of the Aldine printing of the Facta et dicta memorabilia, a collection of anecdotes for the use of orators printed by Aldus in 1502 after numerous incunable editions. This edition has the prefaces to the 1502 and 1503 editions at the front. An interesting copy, with manuscript notes at the front recording the Wodhull, Mead, Askew, and Pinelli copies with prices. The blank 6th leaf is present. The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is printed twice, at front and back. Renouard p. 69. Brunet       [Bookseller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA]  51.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Opvs Epistolarvm Des. Erasmi Roterodami: 1484-1514: 001       - Used, remainders or ex-library, english-speaking-service, Gebraucht oder Verlagsrestbestand, evtl. aus Bibliotheksbestand, bei mehrb�ndigen Werken bitten wir um vorherige Anfrage, korrekte Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt., deutschsprachiger Service, 14-Tage-R�ckgaberecht       [Bookseller: buxbox]  52.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [Selim I., Sultan]: Wernher (Peter), trans: VON DER SCHLACHT GESCHEHEN DEM TURCKEN VON DEM GROSSEN SOPHI IN CALIMANIA DER PROVINTZ NACH BEY LEPO DEM CASTEL. VND VON DEM TODT DES SCHLACHTUNGEN GESCHEHEN AUFF DEM MEER, VND AUFF DEM LANDT. IN DEM. 1514. AN DEM. XVIJ. TAG JUNIJ       [Nurenberg: Hieronimus Holtzel, 1514]. [Nurenberg: Hieronimus Holtzel, 1514].. 6 leaves. Title with large woodcut vignette. Small quarto. Old flexible vellum. Overall a very good copy. First German edition. A remarkable account of the battle of Chaldiran between the Turkish Sultan Selim I. (1465-1520) and the Persian Shah Ismail I. (1487-1524), which was won by the Turks. Selim usurped the throne from his father, Bayezid II, in 1512 and eliminated all potential pretenders to the throne. In a number of military campaigns he defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and annexed Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. He extended Ottoman power to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, claiming the position of "Guardian of the Faithful," a title that had hitherto been held by Shah Ismail. During his rule, Selim more than doubled the size of the Ottoman empire. According to Gollner, the present German translation appears to be based on an Italian original. News of the Persian defeat reached Germany in a remarkably short time. Two other editions (one in Latin, one in German) were issued in Augsburg in the same year. Only two copies are located on OCLC. Gollner: TURCICA I:67. VD16, V-2594. Panzer: ANNALEN DER ALTEREN DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR 796.       [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana]  53.   Check availability:     ABAA    Biblio   Link/Print   Bissel Johannes Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV. M�nchen, Lukas Straub f�r Johann Wagner 1647. Kl. 8� 12Bll. 480S. 6Bll. mit 1 gest. Titel, Holzschn.-Titelvign. u. 1 Kupferkarte, Ldr. d. Zt. mit reicher beids. Deckelverg. u. Goldschn.       - VD17 23:256037B - Sabin 99443 (unter Victoria) - De Backer-S. I, 1514, 8 - Leclerc 67 (2. Ausg.) - Palau 102.964 (unter Petro Gobeo) - Borba de Moraes 108.- Erste Ausgabe.- Mit dem h�ufig fehlenden dekorativen Frontispiz und der sch�nen Karte von Amerika (Burden 272).- The book is full of so many adventures that Henry Stevens described it as a geographical novel. With the small, beautiful map of America, derived from Ortelius.- "This book is not a true Latin translation of Pedro Govea de Victoria‘s work., but is rather another version based on it. Bissel gives information about the Jesuit missions in America and in the Amazon" (Borba de Moraes).- Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk, tls. leicht fleckig, Ebd. berieben (R�cken st�rker). [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Antiquariat M�ller]  54.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BEUTHER, DAVID Zwey rare Chymische Tractate, Darinnen Nicht nur alle Geheimnisse der Probier-Kunst, Derer Ertze und Schmeltzung derselben, Sondern auch Die M�glichkeit der Verwandelung, Der geringen Metallen in bessere, gar deutlich gezeiget werden. Aus einem        alten raren, von Anno 1514. biss 1582. geschriebenen Buch zum ersten mahl in Druck gegeben. Leipzig, Martini 1717. 16 cm. (16), 218, (12), 58 Seiten Titel rot und schwarz gedruckt. kartoniert der Zeit � - Caillet I, 1123 - Darmstaedter, Bergb. 104 - Ferguson I, 105 - Ferchl 44 - Erstausgabe. Selten. "The "Probier-Kunst", it is said by the editor, was copied by a pupil of Beuther's out of his private books and was never published before. It has been accordingly doubted whether or not it is by Beuther, and Kopp only goes the length of saying that the book appeared uner his name" (Ferguson I, 106). Enth�lt im Anhang beuthers "Universal, Und Vollkommener Bericht Von Der hochber�hmten Kunst der Alchymie", erstmals 1631 erschienen. Einband berieben, hinteres Gelenk restauriert, stellenweise braunfleckig, Exlibris. -       [Bookseller: H.Th. Wenner Antiquariat]  55.   Check availability:     AntiQbook   Link/Print   Bissel Johannes Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac sociorum ejus. Libri XV. M�nchen, Lukas Straub f�r Johann Wagner 1647. Kl. 8� 12Bll. 480S. 6Bll. mit 1 gest. Titel, Holzschn.-Titelvign. u. 1 Kupferkarte, Ldr. d. Zt. mit reicher beids. Deckelverg. u. Goldschn.       . . VD17 23:256037B - Sabin 99443 (unter Victoria) - De Backer-S. I, 1514, 8 - Leclerc 67 (2. Ausg.) - Palau 102.964 (unter Petro Gobeo) - Borba de Moraes 108.- Erste Ausgabe.- Mit dem h�ufig fehlenden dekorativen Frontispiz und der sch�nen Karte von Amerika (Burden 272).- The book is full of so many adventures that Henry Stevens described it as a geographical novel. With the small, beautiful map of America, derived from Ortelius.- "This book is not a true Latin translation of Pedro Govea de Victoria's work..., but is rather another version based on it. Bissel gives information about the Jesuit missions in America and in the Amazon" (Borba de Moraes).- Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk, tls. leicht fleckig, Ebd. berieben (R�cken st�rker).       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Johannes M�ller]  56.   Check availability:     ILAB    choosebooks   Link/Print   BONIFACIUS (Papa VIII); Sextus decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII in concilio Lugdunensi editus. Cum glossematum diuisionibus que ex nouella Ioannis Andreee: suis sunt locis passim apposite. Interpretamentis domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus litteralibus summulis regulis in ris cesarei ac tabulis quam optimis. Multarum glossarum castigatione. Additione in margine litterarum quo minusculi characteres lineis intercepti clarius appareant. - Liber clementinarum cum additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. - Extrauagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum glosis. - Extrauagantes communes cum glosis. -Consti...       Luca Antonio Giunta Venezia XX mai 1514 Petit in-4 de 288 ff. num. CCLXXXVIII, 120 ff. num. CXX, 64ff. num. LXIIII, 64 ff. num. LXIIII, 11 ff. num. XI (table), demi veau, dos lisse orn�, pi�ces de titre (reliure du XVIII�me si�cle). Nombreux bois grav�s dans le texte (Prince d'Essling : les Livres � Figures V�nitiens 1814 - 1816). Bon exemplaire.       [Bookseller: Librairie Kronis Livres anciens]  57.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Johanne Froben 1514 Johanne Froben Latin Bible: "Biblia, Cum Peno Apparatu Summariorum Concordantiarum et Quadruplici.       Johanne Froben, Basel, Switzerland 1514 - Title: Bible, Latin: "Biblia, cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum et quadruplici repertori." Publisher: Johanne Froben, Basel. Froben was a historic Renaissance printer who also printed numerous works of Erasmus, including Erasmus' 1519 Novum Testamentum, which became the basis for Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German for the common people of his culture. Year: 1514 Edition: Masterpiece work of typography; post-incunabula. Size: 9 x 13.5" (Folio) Collation: 14 leaves + 351 leaves + 28 leaves forming 986 pages. Complete. Binding: Original pigskin binding, large repair to front cover, clasps missing, but all intact. Inscriptions: A few instances of antique handwriting occur; no apparent family history Description/Contents: Pages printed on heavy paper with dark ink, accented with woodcut engravings (see below). Title with verso beginning small section of introductory notes. Three sections of tables follow. "Tabula alphabetica historiarum" follows the Tables. Followed by General Divisions of the Bible. Scriptural text follows, with prologues to each book. Apocryphal books are included but not grouped together (interspersed with Old Testament Books). Leaves (e.g., not pages) are numbed (Fo. 1, etc.) throughout the text of Scripture, but not the pre- or post- Scriptural text materials. Last numbered leaf is 351, which is then followed by a brief index and what appears to be Interpretation of Hebrew Names, numerous leaves, but apparently complete. Other features of this Bible include some printed marginal references and a several page chart between the Old and New Testaments, each titled "Canon" with successive numbers 1-10. Engravings: Decorative and illustrative woodcut border on title leaf. Initial decorative woodcut letters appear to open each book. Additional woodcut, depicting someone reading the Hebrew Bible in the temple, adds visual interest to this Bible. This woodcut also has decorative accents borders to each side. Condition: Binding of text block generally secure; one weakened spot noted behind the third table, but no leaves are detached. A number of leaves have small wormholes, but these are generally found in the margins where present. Some do cover text, and result in the loss of a few letters, but not severe. Occasional colored pencil notes, modern, but not extensive. Occasional small spots found at a brief perusal (foxing, smudging, soiling, staining) but most pages are generally clean and white. Last few leaves have brown staining, covering but not obscuring all text. Additional Reference: British Library: General Reference Collection; 3020.f.6. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Christian Heritage Museum]  58.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [San Pedro Diego Fernandez De] Carcer d�amore traducto dal magnifico Miser Lelio de Manfredi ferrarese: de idioma spagnolo in lingua materna, [in fine:] Venezia, [G. De Rusconi?], 1515.       8� (mm 153x104); cc. (46). Al frontespizio, bellissima silografia raffigurante un erudito nel suo studiolo (vedi sotto). Testo in carattere romano, diposto su due colonne. Piccoli capilettera silografici. Marocchino nero giansenista: titolo al dorso, dentelles interne e tagl� in oro. Bell�esemplare. Rarissimo volgarizzamento � verosimilmente coniato sulla prima traduzione italiana dell�anno precedente (Venezia, Zorzi di Rusconi, 1514) � �di questo celebre romanzo, tra i capolavori della letteratura spagnola; e pubblicato per la prima volta a Siviglia nel 1492. Esso apre l�interpretazione delle posteriori raffigurazioni letterarie in materia d�amore: influ� sulla Celestina, sull�Amadigi di Gaula, sulla Diana, sulla Galatea e sugli episodi sentimentali del Don Chisciotte� (C.A. Chiesa, Libri italiani rari del Rinascimento, 187 � altra edizione). La silografia del frontespizio � la medesima � raffigurante l��Unico Aretino�, ovvero Bernardo Accolti � dell�edizione veneziana della sua Opera nova (N. Zoppino-V. Polo, 12-iii-1515 (U. Rozzo, Lo studiolo nella silografia italiana (1479-1558), Udine 1998, pp. 74-75). Palau, 293382; Essling, 1885; Sander, 6728.       [Bookseller: Chartaphilus Libri antichi e rari di Gia]  59.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   D�RER, Albrecht (1471 N�rnberg 1528). DIE JUNGFRAU MIT HAARBAND IM STRAHLENKRANZ AUF DER MONDSICHEL.       - Kupferstich auf B�tten ohne WZ. Re. unt. Monogr. "AD" und dat. "1514". 11,6 : 7,1 cm. Bis z. Plattenrand beschn. - B. 33; M. 35 a/b (von c). Sch�ner, klarer und kr�ftiger Abdruck dieses gesuchten Madonnenmotives. Min. stockfl., obere Ecken anger�ndert, li. unt. Ecke restaur., ganz hinterlegt, re. 5 mm. beschn. Insgesamt sch�ner Abzug dieses seltenen Blattes. ABBILDUNG TAFEL XV.       [Bookseller: Falk+Falk, Antiquariat, Auktionen]  60.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   FLAVIUS, Joseph, [Roberti Goullet] Josephi Judei historici preclara opera : non parua accuratione & diligentia rece[n]ter i[m]ressa (.)       Fransisci Regnault et Joannis Petit 1514 - In-folio (20x27 cm). Texte sur plusieurs colonnes avec sa typographie et sa mise en page, ses marginalias et lettrines histori�es magnifiquemement tenues, texte en latin imprim� en caract�res gothiques, page de titre grav�e et imprim�e en deux couleurs. Volumes complet reli�s en un, non foliot� [1 f. bl. + &v (ff.)[+5ff. imp.] et Lliiij(ff.) [+5ff. imp.] + 1 f. bl.]. Modeste demi basane, plats cartonn�s, tranches mouchet�es. Trace de scotch au dos, ex dono et ex-libris sur page de titre. Int�rieur tr�s frais, photos sur demande. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: au point du jour]  61.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Francis Lefebvre. Memento practico Contable 2009       2008 - En el Memento Contable 2009 realiza el an�lisis m�s amplio y riguroso de toda la contabilidad. Lejos de ofrecerle un simple estudio de cada cuenta, en �l se analizan los diferentes aspectos relacionados con la contabilidad que deben tenerse en cuenta para tomar decisiones con seguridad: reg�menes especiales, planes sectoriales, aspectos fiscales, auditor�a, infracciones y sanciones, figuras mercantiles, valoraci�n de empresas, Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad, etc. Tras la entrada en vigor del nuevo Plan General Contable, esta nueva edici�n 2009 del Memento Contable adapta su estudio a la nueva realidad, cambiando en parte su sumario, a�adiendo numerosos ejemplos pr�cticos a lo largo de toda la obra, e introduciendo nuevos cap�tulos como el relativo a otras formas societarias y de cooperaci�n. Adem�s del an�lisis del nuevo PGC (RD 1514/2007), se estudia tambi�n el Plan General Contable de las peque�as y medianas empresas y los criterios contables espec�ficos para microempresas (RD 1515/2007). El Memento Contable le ofrece nuevos contenidos y un an�lisis m�s exhaustivo de cuestiones contables de gran inter�s para el experto, como la reforma mercantil en materia contable o el nuevo Reglamento de la CE en materia de NIIF/NIC. Adem�s, la obra incorpora nueva doctrina, nuevas resoluciones del ICAC, de especial inter�s pr�ctico para la aplicaci�n del nuevo Plan General Contable y relevantes sentencias relacionadas con el �mbito contable. 0 p�gs.       [Bookseller: Ecobook - Libreria del Economista]  62.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Flavius Josèphe Josephi judei historici. Preclara opera... de Antiquitatibus libri viginti... de Judaico bello libri septem... de Antiqua Judeorum origine... Roberti Goullet... Tetramonon... Ejusdem Compendium de sex etatibus seculi... Venundantur Parrhisii in vico divi Jacobi, sub intersignio sancti Claudii. - A la fin Opera Joannis Barbier et impensis Francisci Regnault et Joannis Petit... Impressum Parrhisii, anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo decimo quarto, penultima martii       Collectible       [Bookseller: amazon.fr]  63.   Check availability:     amazon.fr   Link/Print   SIGISMUND I., K�nig von Polen (1467-1548) - DIE SCHLACHT vo[n] dem Kunig von Poln. vn[d] mit dem Moscowiter gescheen am tag Marie gepurt. M.CCCCC.Xiiij.       Kl.-4to. Mit fast ganzseitigem Titelholzschnitt. [3] S. Flexibler Pergamentband. (N�rnberg, Jobst Gutknecht, 1514). Erstausgabe. �usserst seltener, mit grossem Titelholzschnitt illustrierter zeitgen�ssischer Bericht �ber die Schlacht bei Orscha am 8. September 1514. Die Kr�fte Polen-Litauens standen unter dem Kommando des Grosshetmans von Litauen, Konstanty Ostrogski, jene Moskowiens unter dem Befehl des Konjuschis von Moskowien, Iwan Tscheljadin und Knjas Michael Goliza. Die viel kleinere polnisch-litauische Armee besiegte die Streitkr�fte des russisch-moskowitischen Grossf�rsten und stoppte vorerst dessen Expansionsdrang. K�nig Sigismund I. von Polen versuchte in der Folge, so viel Nutzen wie m�glich aus dem Sieg zu erzielen. Im folgenden Jahr schloss er ein Heirats- und somit auch Regierungsb�ndnis mit Kaiser Maximilian von Habsburg. Der Kaiser erkannte die Thorner Friendesbestimmung von 1466 an und verzichtete darauf, Polen-Litauen zusammen mit dem Grossf�rsten von Moskau anzugreifen. Der prachtvolle, noch ganz im Stil der Illustrationen in mittelalterlichen Chroniken gehaltene Holzschnitt wurde sp�ter noch in anderen Drucken des seit 1514 in N�rberg wirkenden Druckerverlegers Jobst Gutknecht verwendet. Die vorliegende Flugschrift z�hlt zu den allerersten Drucken dieser Offizin, aus der bis 1542 �ber 350 Druckwerke nachgewiesen werden. - Unbedeutender Braunfleck im Aussensteg. VD 16, S-2936 (3 Exx.; BSB M�nchen, HAB Wolfenb�ttel und OeNB Wien); Weller, Repertorium, 851; Schottenloher, Flugblatt und Zeitung, Abb. S. 159; First edition. Exceedingly scarce contemporary German account on the battle of Orsha, finely illustrated with a large title woodcut. The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy, Ivan Chelyadnin and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsa. The Battle of Orsha - one of the biggest battles of 16th-century Europe - was part of a long chain of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the Old Ruthenian lands under their rule. Due to the spectacular proportions of the defeat, information about the Battle of Orsha was suppressed in Muscovite chronicles. King Sigismund I of Poland on the other hand sought to gain as much political advantage as possible from his victory. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was impressed by the scope of the Polish-Lithuanian victory and started peace negotiations with Jagiellons in Vienna in 1515. The finely executed large woodcut was reissued later by the Nuremberg printer Jobst Gutknecht who started business in 1514. Until his death in 1542 over 350 titles left his press. - Minor brown stain in outer margin. - Flexible old vellum.       [Bookseller: Erasmushaus - Haus der B�cher AG]  64.   Check availability:     choosebooks    ILAB   Link/Print   H�ndel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759): (HWV 396-402) Seven Sonatas or Trios. For Two Violons or Two German Flutes And a Violoncello [op. 5]. Composed & Published in the Year 1739... Partitur. [London, Arnold] (Pl.Nrn. 48/49) [1789]. 59 gest. S. [RARE PRINTED MUSIC]       . Smith, S. 247; H�ndel-Handbuch III, S. 183; RISM H/HH 1514. - Erstausgabe der Partitur (zuvor nur in Einzelstimmen erschienen, vgl. Smith). - Reihentitel (nach RISM, hier nicht verzeichnet): The Works of G.F. Handel, in score, correct, uniform, and complete. Consisting of his oratorios, operas, duets, anthems, concertos, lessons, Te Deums, trios, fugues &c. Elegantly engraved, on large folio plates, under the immediate direction and inspection of Dr. Arnold, No. 48/49. - R�cken und Seiten teilweise im Bund verst�rkt. Vereinzelt minimal stockfleckig, S. 13/14 mit kleiner Papierausbesserung. Insgesamt sehr sch�nes, nahezu druckfrisches Exemplar..       [Bookseller: Bernd Katzbichler Musikantiquariat & Mus]  65.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   SIGISMUND I., K�nig von Polen (1467-1548) - DIE SCHLACHT vo[n] dem Kunig von Poln. vn[d] mit dem Moscowiter gescheen am tag Marie gepurt. M.CCCCC.Xiiij.       - Kl.-4to. Mit fast ganzseitigem Titelholzschnitt. [3] S. Flexibler Pergamentband. (N�rnberg, Jobst Gutknecht, 1514). Erstausgabe. �usserst seltener, mit grossem Titelholzschnitt illustrierter zeitgen�ssischer Bericht �ber die Schlacht bei Orscha am 8. September 1514. Die Kr�fte Polen-Litauens standen unter dem Kommando des Grosshetmans von Litauen, Konstanty Ostrogski, jene Moskowiens unter dem Befehl des Konjuschis von Moskowien, Iwan Tscheljadin und Knjas Michael Goliza. Die viel kleinere polnisch-litauische Armee besiegte die Streitkr�fte des russisch-moskowitischen Grossf�rsten und stoppte vorerst dessen Expansionsdrang. K�nig Sigismund I. von Polen versuchte in der Folge, so viel Nutzen wie m�glich aus dem Sieg zu erzielen. Im folgenden Jahr schloss er ein Heirats- und somit auch Regierungsb�ndnis mit Kaiser Maximilian von Habsburg. Der Kaiser erkannte die Thorner Friendesbestimmung von 1466 an und verzichtete darauf, Polen-Litauen zusammen mit dem Grossf�rsten von Moskau anzugreifen. Der prachtvolle, noch ganz im Stil der Illustrationen in mittelalterlichen Chroniken gehaltene Holzschnitt wurde sp�ter noch in anderen Drucken des seit 1514 in N�rberg wirkenden Druckerverlegers Jobst Gutknecht verwendet. Die vorliegende Flugschrift z�hlt zu den allerersten Drucken dieser Offizin, aus der bis 1542 �ber 350 Druckwerke nachgewiesen werden. - Unbedeutender Braunfleck im Aussensteg. VD 16, S-2936 (3 Exx.; BSB M�nchen, HAB Wolfenb�ttel und OeNB Wien); Weller, Repertorium, 851; Schottenloher, Flugblatt und Zeitung, Abb. S. 159; First edition. Exceedingly scarce contemporary German account on the battle of Orsha, finely illustrated with a large title woodcut. The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy, Ivan Chelyadnin and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsa. The Battle of Orsha - one of the biggest battles of 16th-century Europe - was part of a long chain of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the Old Ruthenian lands under their rule. Due to the spectacular proportions of the defeat, information about the Battle of Orsha was suppressed in Muscovite chronicles. King Sigismund I of Poland on the other hand sought to gain as much political advantage as possible from his victory. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was impressed by the scope of the Polish-Lithuanian victory and started peace negotiations with Jagiellons in Vienna in 1515. The finely executed large woodcut was reissued later by the Nuremberg printer Jobst Gutknecht who started business in 1514. Until his death in 1542 over 350 titles left his press. - Minor brown stain in outer margin. - Flexible old vellum. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Erasmushaus - Haus der B�cher AG]  66.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   AGRICOLA Daniel (Germania, attivo nel 1540) Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum seriem quattuor evangelistarum: per fratrem Danielem agricolam ordinis minorum de observantia: accuratissima opera devotissimaque expositione illustrata: magnorunque virorum sententijs compte adornata       Adam Petri de Langendorff, Basilea 1514 - frontespizio illustrato e 20 illustrazioni xilografiche di Urs Graf (Solothurn, Svizzera ca. 1485 - Basel ca. 1527). Il nome dell'artista si evince dal frontespizio e da alcune xilografie dove si trova inciso il suo monogramma. Le ultime cinque pagine costituiscono l'indice "Directorium in indice passionis articulos", con proprio frontespizio, con titolo inquadrato in una cornice decorata anch'essa firmata con monogramma di Urs Graf. Questo indice fu pubblicato separatamente nel 1513. Testo in gotico, con differenti grandezze e disposizione dei caratteri. Le xilografie illustrano con semplicit� e immediatezza espressiva la passione di Cristo. Daniele Agricola francescano, membro del convento di Basel fu teologo di impronta umanista, sacerdote e poeta, impegnato nella polemica contro il luteranesimo. Questa "Passio domini." � la sua opera principale. La prima edizione sembra sia del 1509 (Basilea, A. Petri de Langendorff), illustrata da Urs Graf, a cui segue una ristampa con l'indice nel 1511. Un'altra edizione esce nel 1512 (Basilea, J. Frobenii) in sole 36 carte. Nel 1513 viene pubblicato l'indice con il frontespizio di Urs Graf e una nuova ristampa del libro con l'indice in appendice. Post-incunabolo in ottimo stato di conservazione, con lievissime arrossature ai margini. Probabile quarta edizione, a cui � unita la prima edizione dell'indice. Bibliografia: Pellikan Conrad, Chronica, Basel, Riggenbach,1877: pag 41; Sbaralea Joannes, Supplementum et castigatio ad Scriptores., (Roma), 1908: vol. I, pag. 323; Zawart Anscar, The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927) a bio-bibliographical study, New York, J. F. Wagner, (1928): pp. 340 e 346. Formato in centrimetri 21,4x15,5 cc. 39 (1) - (4)pagine Legatura legatura in pergamena coeva rimontata in epoca successiva       [Bookseller: L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico]  67.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [San Pedro Diego Fernandez De], Carcer d�amore traducto d...       8� (mm 153x104); cc. (46). Al frontespizio, bellissima silografia raffigurante un erudito nel suo studiolo (vedi sotto). Testo in carattere romano, diposto su due colonne. Piccoli capilettera silografici. Marocchino nero giansenista: titolo al dorso, dentelles interne e tagl� in oro. Bell�esemplare. Rarissimo volgarizzamento � verosimilmente coniato sulla prima traduzione italiana dell�anno precedente (Venezia, Zorzi di Rusconi, 1514) � �di questo celebre romanzo, tra i capolavori della letteratura spagnola; e pubblicato per la prima volta a Siviglia nel 1492. Esso apre l�interpretazione delle posteriori raffigurazioni letterarie in materia d�amore: influ� sulla Celestina, sull�Amadigi di Gaula, sulla Diana, sulla Galatea e sugli episodi sentimentali del Don Chisciotte� (C.A. Chiesa, Libri italiani rari del Rinascimento, 187 � altra edizione). La silografia del frontespizio � la medesima � raffigurante l��Unico Aretino�, ovvero Bernardo Accolti � dell�edizione veneziana della sua Opera nova (N. Zoppino-V. Polo, 12-iii-1515 (U. Rozzo, Lo studiolo nella silografia italiana (1479-1558), Udine 1998, pp. 74-75). Palau, 293382; Essling, 1885; Sander, 6728.       [Bookseller: Chartaphilus Libri antichi e rari di Gia]  68.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   BONIFACIUS (Papa VIII); Sextus decretalium liber a Bonifacio VIII in concilio Lugdunensi editus. Cum glossematum diuisionibus que ex nouella Ioannis Andreee: suis sunt locis passim apposite. Interpretamentis domini Helie et Dominici de Sancto Geminiano. Casibus litteralibus summulis regulis in ris cesarei ac tabulis quam optimis. Multarum glossarum castigatione. Additione in margine litterarum quo minusculi characteres lineis intercepti clarius appareant. - Liber clementinarum cum additionibus Zabarelle et Ioannis de Ymola. - Extrauagantes XX d. Ioannis XXII cum glosis. - Extrauagantes communes cum glosis. -Consti...       Luca Antonio Giunta Venezia XX mai 1514 Petit in-4 de 288 ff. num. CCLXXXVIII, 120 ff. num. CXX, 64ff. num. LXIIII, 64 ff. num. LXIIII, 11 ff. num. XI (table), demi veau, dos lisse orn�, pi�ces de titre (reliure du XVIII�me si�cle). Nombreux bois grav�s dans le texte (Prince d'Essling : les Livres � Figures V�nitiens 1814 - 1816). Bon exemplaire.       [Bookseller: Librairie Kronis Livres anciens]  69.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   PLUTARCH. The most influential Latin edition printed outside Italy Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei post Pyladen Brixianum longe diligentius repositae: cum moiore verioreque indice: necnon cum Aemilii Probi vitis.       Paris, Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), 1514, November 13, preface dated 1 December 1514.. Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), Folio. Half blind stamped 16th-century pigskin over the original wooden boards, with two clasps, spine in compartments with title written in ink: 'Plutarchus 35', title also in 16th-century hand on the wood of the front board. Title in splendid Renaissance woodcut border, with coat of arms left blank in the lower borderpiece (Renouard, Encadrement no. 1); in the middle the printer's device of Jodocus Badius Ascensus with the heading 'prelum Ascensianum' printed in red (Renouard, marque 3, ill. vol. 1, p. 43), lettering of the title, as well as certain elements in the border printed in red. Many beautiful woodcut initials in the text. (22), 393, (1 blank) lvs.. Very rare first Latin edition of Plutarch's Vitae paralellae (Lives) by the famous Parisian printer and publisher Josse Badius Ascensius. After the Strassbourg edition of 1470-71 this is the first and by far the most influential Latin edition outside Italy, printed three years before the Greek edition princeps. Much better, as is stated on the title, than the edition by Pylades Brixianus (=Johannes Franciscus Buccardus, 1506), printed in Brescia in 1499.Plutarch's popularity and importance rest primarily on these ' Parallel Lives' - composed ca. 100-120 AD -, which were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. The lives are presented in pairs, for example: Theseus-Romulus, Demosthenes-Cicero, Alexander the Great-Caesar, etc. There are 22 pairs, and four single biographies of Aratus, Artaxerxes, and the Roman emperors Otho and Galba. By exhibiting noble deeds and characters, they were also to provide patterns of good behavior and moral and ethical values. Plutarch's later influence has been profound, but his reputation faded in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, only to be re-introduced in Renaissance Italy by Byzantine scholars in the 15th century. Italian humanists had already translated Plutarch's work into Latin before 1509 when the Greek editio princeps of the Moralia, the other great work by Plutarch, was published by Aldus Manutius at Venice. The Greek editio princeps of the Vitae appeared at Florence in 1517 and they were printed in 1519 by Aldus. Especially through its translations into Latin - of which this 1514 edition by Badius is undoubtedly the most important - as well as in the vernacular - the famous French translation by Jacques Amyot in 1559, and the English by Sir Thomas North in 1579 - the Lives could gain an enormous impact on Western civilisation by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montagne, Corneille, Racine, Rousseau and Schiller heavily drew upon the Lives . This was certainly also the case with Shakespeare for whom the Lives were the main source for his Roman history plays. Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Timon of Athens, all come, often literally, from the Lives. They have functioned also to a great extent as a model for later rulers like the French king Henry IV, Frederik II of Prussia and even Napoleon. The book is printed in a fine Roman type. Very good copy, with ownerships's entry of Albertus Trechsel (?) in ink on verso front cover, and the bookplate of Ludovicus Romanus IVD on verso of first flyleaf.- (Some contemporary 16th century scholarly annotations, esp. on lvs. 120-126v: the 'Live of Cato'). Renouard, Josse Badius Ascensius , III, p. 175-8 (4 copies, one of which in the Bibl. Arsenal); NUC lists 3 copies, one of which in the Folger Shakespeare Library); not in STC French , and Adams; no copy in the British Library; no copy in BNF.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  70.   Check availability:     zvab   Link/Print   VALERIO MASSIMO EXEMPLA QUATUOR ET VIGINTI NUPER INVENTA ANTE CAPUT DE OMINIBUS       EDIBUS ALDI VENEZIA 1514 - In 8�, pp. 216, numerazione solo al recto. Legatura in mezza pelle con nome dell'autore impresso in oro al dorso. Ancora del celeberrimo stampatore al frontespizio e al fine. Interessante e rara terza edizione aldina dei "facta e dicta memorabilia". carattere corsivo, tipico delle edizioni curate da Aldo Manuzio. L’opera di Valerio Massimo, che ebbe grandissima fortuna nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento, � una raccolta di exempla, cio� di episodi tratti sia dalla storia del popolo romano che da quella di altre nazioni, raggruppati in modo da illustrare una serie di virt�, di vizi, di rilevanti fenomeni culturali o istituzionali. La distribuzione delle categorie secondo cui questi exempla sono raccolti d� all’opera un impianto tale da farne un repertorio in cui retori di scuola dell’antichit� potevano trovare gi� organizzati in un’ordinata serie di rubriche episodi celebri e significativi della storia pi� antica. Esemplare fresco e marginoso, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Renouard pag 69       [Bookseller: Il Pensatoio Studio Bibliografico]  71.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   SAXO. Danorum regum heroumque historie stilo elegantia Saxone Grammatico natione Sialandica necno Roskildensis ecclesie preposito.       Paris, Ioducus Badius Ascensius, 1514. Folio. (8),+ 199�blad. Saknar det sista blanka bladet B8. Titel tryckt i r�tt och svart inom tr�snittsram, med tryckt r�d kolorering. Enstaka samtida understrykningar och marginalantecknigar i bl�ck. Enstaka sm�fl�ckar, n�got st�rre p� blad 78, �terkommande svag fuktrand i yttermarginal, n�got kraftigare mot slutet. Fin inlaga, med breda marginaler. N�ra samtida skinnband �ver tr�p�rmar, med blindpr�glad rygg med upph�jda bind fr�n 1700-talet med senare svart titeletikett, samtida i rutm�nster blindpr�glade p�rmar, sp�r av sp�nnen. F�rst�rkning av inre p�rmpapper �ver det samtida. Skada p� �vre kapit�l och mindre maskh�l i p�rmarna. Fr�mre snitt med titel textad med bl�ck. �garanteckningar: Georgii Johis n�copeij och Nicolai Joannis Smalandij p� titelsidan, liksom �ven Joh. Benzels namnteckning, daterad Stockholm, 1745. Bl�ckanteckning p� framp�rmens insida: "Duplette, h�mtad ur sk�pet e 23.1. der samma edition af boken finnes". Ur det Engestr�mska biblioteket, och ur Ericsbergs bibliotek, med Carl Jedvard Bondes exlibris. Adams S530. Brunet V, 175. LN240. Bibl. danica III, sp. 9. Reinhardt, Danish literatur 1. Thesaurus 190. Warmholtz 2631�not. Carlander II�s. 34�resp. 42 & III�s. 564ff. Walde, NTBB 1926,�s. 171ff. A-editionen. Fint exemplar av den mycket viktiga Parisupplagan av Saxos danska kr�nika, utgiven av Christiern Pedersen. F�rsta utg�van och det f�rsta tryckta nordiska historieverket �verhuvudtaget. Inget komplett manuskript till Saxos 1200-talskr�nika finns bevarat, vilket g�r Petersens utg�va extra viktig. En ny upplaga trycktes i Basel 1534�och en tredje i Frankfurt 1576. A-editionen (enligt Rosenkilde & Ballhausen) saknar texten "Venundantur in �dibus Ascensianis" p� titelbladet, och var troligen t�nkt f�r export. Denna bok utg�r f�rsta numret i Reinhards utst�llning Danish Literature p� Harvard 1986. Kallad omv�xlande f�r Gesta Danorum och Historica Danica utg�r Saxos kr�nika startskottet f�r den danska (och nordiska) humanismen. Dess f�rsta del behandlar Danmarks �ldsta "historia", fr�n Dan till Gorm III med m�ngder av legender, inte minst den om Hamlet. Den andra f�r upp den danska historien till 1185, �ret d� han sj�lv p�b�rjade sin kr�nika. Saxo var pr�st i Lund och blev kallad Grammaticus f�r sina kunskaper i latin. En bok ur Nicolaus Johannis Smolandius bibliotek, det gamla svenska bibliotekshistorieproblemet! Bok�garen Nicolaus Johannis Smolandius d�k upp som ett fr�getecken vid f�rs�ljningen av det Cederhielmska biblioteket p� Bj�rka-S�by 1878-82, vilket inneh�ll ett antal b�cker med hans proveniens. Enligt en uppgift som verkar h�rr�ra fr�n Eichhorn var han huspredikant �t G�ran Gyllenstierna (s� �ven hos Carlander). Otto Walde identifierade honom dock i en uppsats fr�n 1926�som hertig Karls sekreterare Nils J�nsson. Denne, som troligen kom fr�n V�xj�, skrevs in vid universitetet i Wittenberg 1551. Han tr�dde sedan f�rst in i hertig Magnus tj�nst men �vergick senare i hertig Karls, d�r han tj�nade i n�rmare trettio �r. Han tj�nstgjorde ofta som s�ndebud och f�retog ett flertal utrikes resor, och k�pte bl.a. b�cker p� m�ssan i Frankfurt. Han dog ca 1605. Som Walde visat var historia ett av hans huvudsakliga intressen och av Saxo �gde han �ven Vedels danska �vers�ttning fr�n 1575. Redan 1721�hade en stor del av hans bibliotek kommit i familjen Cederhielms �go, men s�ledes ej denna bok. I Nyk�ping, d�r hertig Karl ofta hade sitt kansli, fanns �ven Petrus Johannis Ostrogothus, som inhyste Nils J�nsson d� denne kom till Nyk�ping och de blev v�nner. �t honom sk�nkte Nils J�nsson 1571�en Albert Krantz. Den s�lde Petrus Johannis 1591�vidare till en Johannes Georgii, troligen identisk med Johan G�ransson Rosenhane (Walde�s. 175). Denna Saxo torde dock snarast ha g�tt fr�n den sistn�mndes fader, J�ran Johansson Rosenhane, till Nils J�nsson. J�ran Johansson Rosenhane (1525-1576) var fogde och sedermera st�th�llare p� Nyk�ping slott, och stod hertig Carl n�ra. Han �r dock ej omn�mnd av Carlander som bok�gare, men b�r v�l rimligen liksom sonen ha haft ett bibliotek. Anteckningarna i boken och understrykningarna �r troligen av Smolandius. Benzel �r n�gon av dem som ej tog namnet Benzelstierna, och boken har troligen g�tt till Matthias Benzelstierna. Dennes stora bibliotek �rvdes av familjen von Engestr�m och bildade grunden f�r det von Engestr�mska biblioteket, vilket �verl�mnades till Kungliga biblioteket 1864. En betydlig samling dubbletter sorterades dock ut och �verl�mnades till donatorns bror.       [Bookseller: Centralantikvariatet]  72.   Check availability:     antikvariat   Link/Print   PLUTARCH. The most influential Latin edition printed outside Italy Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei post Pyladen Brixianum longe diligentius repositae: cum moiore verioreque indice: necnon cum Aemilii Probi vitis.       Paris, Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), 1514, November 13, preface dated 1 December 1514. - Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), Folio. Half blind stamped 16th-century pigskin over the original wooden boards, with two clasps, spine in compartments with title written in ink: 'Plutarchus 35', title also in 16th-century hand on the wood of the front board. Title in splendid Renaissance woodcut border, with coat of arms left blank in the lower borderpiece (Renouard, Encadrement no. 1); in the middle the printer's device of Jodocus Badius Ascensus with the heading 'prelum Ascensianum' printed in red (Renouard, marque 3, ill. vol. 1, p. 43), lettering of the title, as well as certain elements in the border printed in red. Many beautiful woodcut initials in the text. (22), 393, (1 blank) lvs. Very rare first Latin edition of Plutarch's Vitae paralellae (Lives) by the famous Parisian printer and publisher Josse Badius Ascensius. After the Strassbourg edition of 1470-71 this is the first and by far the most influential Latin edition outside Italy, printed three years before the Greek edition princeps. Much better, as is stated on the title, than the edition by Pylades Brixianus (=Johannes Franciscus Buccardus, † 1506), printed in Brescia in 1499.Plutarch's popularity and importance rest primarily on these 'Parallel Lives' - composed ca. 100-120 AD -, which were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. The lives are presented in pairs, for example: Theseus-Romulus, Demosthenes-Cicero, Alexander the Great-Caesar, etc. There are 22 pairs, and four single biographies of Aratus, Artaxerxes, and the Roman emperors Otho and Galba. By exhibiting noble deeds and characters, they were also to provide patterns of good behavior and moral and ethical values. Plutarch's later influence has been profound, but his reputation faded in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, only to be re-introduced in Renaissance Italy by Byzantine scholars in the 15th century. Italian humanists had already translated Plutarch's work into Latin before 1509 when the Greek editio princeps of the Moralia, the other great work by Plutarch, was published by Aldus Manutius at Venice. The Greek editio princeps of the Vitae appeared at Florence in 1517 and they were printed in 1519 by Aldus. Especially through its translations into Latin - of which this 1514 edition by Badius is undoubtedly the most important - as well as in the vernacular - the famous French translation by Jacques Amyot in 1559, and the English by Sir Thomas North in 1579 - the Lives could gain an enormous impact on Western civilisation by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montagne, Corneille, Racine, Rousseau and Schiller heavily drew upon the Lives. This was certainly also the case with Shakespeare for whom the Lives were the main source for his Roman history plays. Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Timon of Athens, all come, often literally, from the Lives. They have functioned also to a great extent as a model for later rulers like the French king Henry IV, Frederik II of Prussia and even Napoleon. The book is printed in a fine Roman type. Very good copy, with ownerships's entry of Albertus Trechsel (?) in ink on verso front cover, and the bookplate of Ludovicus Romanus IVD on verso of first flyleaf.- (Some contemporary 16th century scholarly annotations, esp. on lvs. 120-126v: the 'Live of Cato'). Renouard, Josse Badius Ascensius, III, p. 175-8 (4 copies, one of which in the Bibl. Arsenal); NUC lists 3 copies, one of which in the Folger Shakespeare Library); not in STC French, and Adams; no copy in the British Library; no copy in BNF. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  73.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS. Danorum Regum heroumque Historie. (Issued by Christiern Pedersen).       - Paris, Iodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius, 1514 (on colophon). Small folio. Bound in a very nice Danish Cambridge style-binding (Danish "mirror-binding") from ab. 1720-30 w. five raised bands on richly gilt back. Some scratches and overall wear, but well-preserved. Title-page printed in red w. large woodcut ornamental border and large woodcut depicting a Danish king in front of his army (signed C.P.). Numerous beautiful large and small woodcut initials throughout. Title-page repaired at margin w. very minor loss, none to woodcuts or text on verso; occasional later colouring in red to parts of the woodcuts of the title-page border. Minor browning an waterstaining (mostly marginal) throughout. One leaf (xiii) w. a tear, no loss. Cont. ownership-inscriptions to title-page and colophon. All in all a very nice and handsome copy. 107 ff. + final blank (being a1-(8) - z1-(8) + A1-(8) - B(1-(7) + 1 blank; quire aa bound first, aa1 being the title-page). The seminal first edition of Saxo's "History of Denmark", the edition that preserved the first full history of Denmark for posterity and to this day the most important of all Danish historical publications. The work furthermore contains the first known written narrative of the legend of Hamlet. No complete manuscript of the work has survived, merely a few loose leaves have been preserved, and thus "Pedersen's edition is indeed our only source to Saxo's history" (Thesaurus, 190). "[I]t is this edition that saved Saxo's work, because as mentioned earlier, during the course of time, all manuscripts have disappeared". ([own translation] Carl S. Petersen). The present copy is the A issue without the words "Venundantur in �dibus Ascensius" underneath the woodcut of the Danish King on the title-page; according to Thesaurus, "[p]resumably the B issue was for sale in Paris and the A issue for export". Saxo Grammaticus (ab. 1150-1220) was probably a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the great Danish churchman, statesman and warrior. Saxo is remembered today as the author of the first full history of Denmark, in which he modelled himself on the classical authors (e.g. Virgil, Plato, Cicero) in order to glorify his fatherland. The work dates from the end of the 12th century and was edited by Christiern Pedersen, a Canon of Lund, and printed by Jodocus Badius Ascendius in Paris in 1514 (the present copy) with 16th century re-issues following in 1534 (Basel) and 1576 (Frankfurt). Only with the first printing of this seminal work did the work become known throughout academic circles. The work soon received international fame and is to this day renowned as not only being immensely important historically, but also being extremely well written (Saxo is praised by Erasmus, for instance, for possessing great power of eloquence). The work consists of sixteen books that cover the time from the founders of the Danish people (Dan I of Denmark) till Saxo's own time, ending around 1185 (with the submission of Pomerania), when the last part is supposedly written. The work thus covers the entire history of Denmark until Saxo's own time, seen under a somewhat glorified perspective, from heathen times with tales of Odin and the gods of Valhalla to the times of Absalon, who probably directly influenced the sections on the history of his own time, working closely with Saxo himself. Apart from that, the work contains the first known written narration of the legend of Hamlet (Amleth, the son who took revenge for his murdered father). It is most likely this narrative of Saxo's, which he based on an oral tale, that forms the basis for Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which takes place in Helsinore in Denmark. There is fairly certain evidence that Shakespeare knew Saxo's work on the History of Denmark and thus the legend of Amleth.Laur.Nielsen 240. - Thesaurus 190. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  74   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   1513 1515

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