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Munster, Sebastian (1488-1552), cartographer and Holbein, Hans, the Younger (1497-15430, Draftsman "Typus cosmographicus universalis" from Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus, Novis orbis Regionum
Basel: Hervagius, 1532 THE FIRST WORLD MAPS TO DEPICT THE THEORIES OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Woodcut: 143/4" x 22" References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 65; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 67. While the Paris edition of Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus's 1532 Novus orbis regionum included Oronce Finé's double-cordiform map (see above, n. 9), the Basel edition of the same year included this very different cartographic treatment of the world on an oval projection. With the cartography ascribed to prominent cartographer Sebastian Münster and the execution to the celebrated German artist Hans Holbein the Younger, the map is particularly fine from an artistic standpoint, with sea monsters adorning the waves of the oceans, exotic animals and landscape views with curious classical architectural structures around the margins, along with less benign scenes depicting acts of cannibalism and animal sacrifice. These nightmarish fantasies of terrible creatures and terrifying customs in distant places surely reflect the flights of imagination that contemporary geographical discoveries inspired among western Europeans, and one might go so far as to say that Holbein inflected his rendering with a distinctly medieval sensibility. In another sense, however, the map was progressive, even groundbreaking, for it was one of the first world maps to reflect the Copernican theory of a heliocentric universe. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish astronomer who famously argued that the earth orbited around the sun and rotated once daily on its own axis, was Münster's contemporary. Although Copernicus's groundbreaking book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) was not published until 1543, his ideas-- spread through lectures, circulated in written pamphlets and via word of mouth-- were gaining currency among geographers and astronomers when Münster published this map. Before Copernicus, most scholars had upheld the Ptolemaic conception of a stationary earth at the center of the universe. Ultimately, the theories of the Polish astronomer proved too radical to escape controversy and were rejected by the Church. (Later scholars, most notably Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno, were ultimately put to death for upholding and expanding upon Copernicus’s theories.) In the 1530s, however, the controversy had yet to crystallize, and Münster and Holbein's map demonstrates an adherence to the Copernican model with the inclusion of two angels vigorously turning crank handles at the north and south poles, as though physically rotating the planet on a giant spit. The significance of this map, therefore, is not just aesthetic, for it also visualizes a key moment in the history of science and a turning point in knowledge about the workings of the universe.. [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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CALLIMACHUS [Greek text: Kallimachou Kyrenaiou Hymnoi, meta ton scholion. Gnomai ek diaphoron trieton philosophon syllegeisai] Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, cum scholijs nunc primum ?tis. Sententiae ex diuersis po?s oratoribusq[ue] ac philosophis collect?non ante excus?
Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius). 1532. 18the century Spanish mottled sheep with gilt spine (rubbed; very minor damage to base of spine) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this important new recension of the original Greek text which Brunet notes includes much that has been added and improved over any previous editions including the Aldine of 1513. "To the Hymns of Callimachus are subjoined the Gnomologia, which is a singular production form a certain ancient MS. specified in Harles, Fabr. B.G. t. i. 725. The Scholia and Preface of Gelenius adorn this correct edition, which is far preferable to the Aldine, and which supplies some lacunae." (Dibdin, Intro. Classics, I, p. 366). The eminent Greek poet, Callimachus (b. ca. 300 B.C.), had been the head of the great library at Alexandria where he compiled a catalogue of its holdings of which only a few fragments survived.Edited by the eminent Greek scholar and Bohemian humanist. Sigmund Gelen (Zikmund Hruby z Jeleni: 1497-1554) of Prague. Hruby z Jeleni, "better known as Gelenius, was born into a family of Bohemian nobles. He translated Erasmus's Moria into Czech as well as works by Petrarch and Cicero. Gelenius at one time studied Greek under Marcus Musurus and visited Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and France before returning to Prague, where he lectured privately on Greek authors and entered into correspondence with Melanchthon. ... Probably in 1524 he moved to Basel, where he lived in Erasmus' household. He spent the remainder of his life working for the Froben press as a scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek, even declining a position as professor of Greek at Nuremberg for which he was recommended by Melanchthon in 1525 and 1526. ... in his day there cannot have been many major productions of the Froben press which did not benefit from his selfless scholarly devotion. ... There is also evidence that he collaborated on a number of editions by Erasmus ... [also] Erasmus held Gelenius in high regard as is attested to by himself and others" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, pp. 84-85).A very handsome, large paper copy, of this fine example of Basel Greek printing 245, [3] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end; large woodcut initials and headpiece. Introduction in Latin with text in Greek. Contemporary ownership inscription, in Greek, on title as well as a later inscription dated "1640." � VD16, C270; Ebert 339; Brunet I, 1479; Graesse II, 17 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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MACROBIUS A. A. Theodosius IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS LIB. II - SATURNALORUM LIB. VII. Nunc denuo recogniti, & multis in locis aucti. Seb. Griphius Germ. exud. Lugduni, 1532.
In 8� (cm. 16,2) cc. 24 n.n. + pp.590 + 1 c.b. con impresso al recto la marca tipogr. dello stampatore (un grifone con una zampa alzata, in un prato fiorito). Diversi capilett. e fig. inc. n.t. con il ben noto mappamondo a fasce climatiche inc. a pag.148. Ben legato in mz. perg. di fattura recente, ma utilizzando materiali antichi. Una macchia di "antica zuppa di verdure" alle pagg. 580 e 581, laddove si discute per l'appunto, del banchetto dei "Saturnalia", con danneggiamenti del margine bianco esterno delle ultime carte, senza interessare il testo; lievissimo alone all'angolo sup. destro di alcune carte, altrimenti fresco esemplare nitidamente impresso. - Bell'edizione delle due pi� celebri opere del Macrobio col testo ricco di numerose citazioni in greco ed un importante indice. Adams, vol.I pag. 693, n�63. [Bookseller: Maria Calabrò Studio Bibl. di A. Ch]
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Durer, Albrecht; (Translator) Camerarius, Joachim De Symmetria Partium In Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum, Libri In Latino Conuersi [with] De Varietate Figurarum Et Flexuris Partium Ac Gestib Imaginum Libri Duo
IN AEDIB. VIDUCE DURERIANAE 1532 - Rare. Two volumes (comprising 4 parts) bound as one. (1532, 1534). 4to. 1st edition in Latin. With 138 leaves (including 4 folding). With full and partial page woodcuts throughout. Brunet II, 914. Graesse II, 452. Each volume lacking the final blank (O4 and K6). Bound in full early armorial calf, stamped in blind. Rebacked, with most of original spine laid-down. Offsetting to verso of A3. K5 repaired at gutter. Five leaves with outer edge of diagram shaved. Traces of old label removal to title page. A very nice copy, housed in cloth slipcase. VG.RARE-Art-Northern European [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Strand Book Store, ABAA]
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Raj Kumar Singh Encyclopaedia of Tulsidas Literature 2 Vols Set
New Delhi : Anmol. Hardbound. As New. Contents Vol. 1. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Spotlights on the Ramayana. 3. Poetry of Tulsidas. 4. The Manas Katha tradition. 5. Qualifications of a performer (i). Vol. 2. 6. Qualifications of a performer (ii). 7. Goswami Tulsidas the poet. 8. Darshan of Lord Hanuman and Lord Ram. Bibliography. Index. Tulsidas was a legendary poet and philosopher. Tulsidas is the author of the Ramcharitmanas one of the greatest epics ever written. His full name was Goswami Tulsidas and he was born in 1532 A.D. in Rajpur in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh India during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar. Beginning his work in 1574 Tulsidas went on to pen down several other works of great literary merit however his greatest masterpiece is the epic titled Ramcharitmanas (The Lake of the Deeds of Rama) which contains sweet couplets in beautiful rhyme known as chaupai solely devoted to Lord Rama. The literary worth of Tulsidas has been highlighted by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla in his critical work Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihaas. Acharya Shukla has elaborated Tulsi's Lokmangal as the doctrine for social upliftment which made this great poet immortal and comparable to any other world litterateur. The book contains the literary work of Tulsidas. [Bookseller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd]
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CALLIMACHUS Greek text: Kallimachou Kyrenaiou Hymnoi meta ton scholion. Gnomai ek diaphoron trieton philosophon syllegeisai Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni cum scholijs nunc primum ditis. Sententiae ex diuersis poetis oratoribusque ac philosophis collect non ante excus
Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius). 1532. 18the century Spanish mottled sheep with gilt spine (rubbed; very minor damage to base of spine) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this important new recension of the original Greek text which Brunet notes includes much that has been added and improved over any previous editions including the Aldine of 1513. "To the Hymns of Callimachus are subjoined the Gnomologia, which is a singular production form a certain ancient MS. specified in Harles, Fabr. B.G. t. i. 725. The Scholia and Preface of Gelenius adorn this correct edition, which is far preferable to the Aldine, and which supplies some lacunae." (Dibdin, Intro. Classics, I, p. 366). The eminent Greek poet, Callimachus (b. ca. 300 B.C.), had been the head of the great library at Alexandria where he compiled a catalogue of its holdings of which only a few fragments survived.& Edited by the eminent Greek scholar and Bohemian humanist. Sigmund Gelen (Zikmund Hruby z Jeleni: 1497-1554) of Prague. Hruby z Jeleni, "better known as Gelenius, was born into a family of Bohemian nobles. He translated Erasmus's Moria into Czech as well as works by Petrarch and Cicero. Gelenius at one time studied Greek under Marcus Musurus and visited Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and France before returning to Prague, where he lectured privately on Greek authors and entered into correspondence with Melanchthon. ... Probably in 1524 he moved to Basel, where he lived in Erasmus' household. He spent the remainder of his life working for the Froben press as a scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek, even declining a position as professor of Greek at Nuremberg for which he was recommended by Melanchthon in 1525 and 1526. ... in his day there cannot have been many major productions of the Froben press which did not benefit from his selfless scholarly devotion. ... There is also evidence that he collaborated on a number of editions by Erasmus ... [also] Erasmus held Gelenius in high regard as is attested to by himself and others" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, pp. 84-85).& A very handsome, large paper copy, of this fine example of Basel Greek printing 245, [3] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end; large woodcut initials and headpiece. Introduction in Latin with text in Greek. Contemporary ownership inscription, in Greek, on title as well as a later inscription dated "1640." § VD16, C270; Ebert 339; Brunet I, 1479; Graesse II, 17 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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LIVIO Latinae Historiae... Cum Chronologia Henrici Glareani....
Venezia, Lucantonio Giunta, 1532. In folio, c.nn. 4, numerate 312 (col registro), 16. Seguono, con la Chronologia di Glareano e gli indici, 40 c.nn., con il loro registro in fine. Al verso dell'ultima carta, grande marchio tipografico. Importante edizione in buon esemplare, fra le prime a comprendere i cinque libri della quinta decade. Qualche macchia marginale nelle prime carte e in alcune altre. Buoni margini. Legatura ottocentesca in pergamena con nervature al dorso. (Adams, L 1328; Renouard, XXVIII, 108). [Bookseller: Il Caff� Studio Bibliografico]
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FINƒ, Oronce. Protomathesis.
- Paris, [Gerardi Morrhij and Ioannis Petri], 1532. FIRST EDITION. Folio. ff. (viii) 207 (but 209) (i). Roman letter. General title with elaborate woodcut frame after a design by FinŽ, showing Hercules fighting the Lernean hydra at head and a sleeping dog at tail within architectural border by Lassere after FinŽ's design. Handsome full-page woodcut frontispiece showing Urania and the author beneath a celestial sphere on a criblŽ background, and 280 other woodcut illustrations, of tools and methods of measurement, celestial globes and a clepsydra (water-clock), figures in landscape demonstrating scientific instruments and geometric principles; woodcut headpieces (one enclosing a self-portrait) and initials also designed by FinŽ, typographic tables, some full-page, printer's device (Renouard 819) on penultimate leaf. A few leaves browned, a little occasional light foxing, including margins of title, old paper repair to edge of blank outer margin of one leaf, two small repairs to gutters of a few gatherings, not touching text. A very good, clean, fresh and well-margined copy in polished half sheep gilt, patterned boards c. 1700, spine in seven compartments, morocco lettering labels in second and third, a few very minor wormholes to spine. Marginalia c. 1700 (Riccati's?) on a few leaves, ex libris of the Bolognese Jesuit College (a great mathematical school) on tp., Co: Riccati's 18thC armorial bookplate on upper pastedown. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of FinŽ's works in a very handsome copy with a distinguished provenance, and the FIRST EDITION OF ALL THE TEXTS except the 'Cosmographia', which had been published in Paris two years previously. The verses at the end of the preliminaries are by the printer, Gerard Morrhe; the work is dedicated to Francis I. FinŽ (1494-1554), the son and grandson of physicians, was trained as a doctor (graduating in Paris in 1522) but was to become the foremost mathematician of the French Renaissance, producing important work on the measurement of time, particularly by solar and planetary means. Although made Regius Professor of Mathematics in 1531 (a post he held until his death), he supplemented his income by building the most remarkable clocks, including one for the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1553, which was the technical marvel of its day. His work did much to popularize horology. FinŽ was considered by his contemporaries to be "as well versed in art as in the sciences" (Mortimer), and himself produced many of the elements of decoration in this work. The woodcuts throughout, with the exception of the title page border, are by FinŽ. "His work as a designer is closely related to his major fields of mathematics, astronomy, geography, and his contribution to book production is particularly interesting on extending beyond the illustration to the ornamentation of scientific texts" (ibid.). This work is very broad-ranging and treats arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, including FinŽ's theory of spheres, and sundials, with descriptions of the astronomic quadrants. The first two parts deal with arithmetic and geometry, the third with cosmography and the fourth with gnomonics. [Commendatore] Jacopo Francesco Riccati (1676-1754), was a prominent Italian mathematician who is best remembered for the differential equation named after him. Peter the Great asked him to become the head of the St Petersburg Academy of Science, but Riccati refused and remained in Italy. He was a notable influence on such great mathematicians as Euler. BM STC Fr. p. 166; Adams F-477; Mortimer, Harvard Fr. 225; Houzeau and Lancaster, 2380; Smith, Rara Arithmetica I pp. 160-62; A.F. Johnson, 'Oronce FinŽ as illustrator of books' in Selected Essays (1970), pp. 190-195. L613 [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB]
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MOSELLANUS, PETRUS - QUINTILIANI RHETORICAS INSTITUTIONES, ANNOTATIONES. IOACHIMI CAMERARII IN DUOS PRIORES EIUSDEM QUINTILIANI LIBROS, ANNOTATIONES. Coloniae, apud Iohannem Soterem, mense Maio, anno, MDXXXII (1532).
- 16mo picc. (pp. 247+ (1). Leg. coeva tutta perg., tit. call. al ds., tagli col., margini sufficienti, bella marca tip. inizio e fine, ottimo esemplare di una rara edizione. Adams (1852). "Mosellano Pietro, nato a Protog sul finire del XV sec. (.) a soli 20 anni fu fatto professsore di lingua greca all'accademia di Lipsia, e bench fosse travagliato da continue infermitˆ (mor" all'etˆ di 31 anni) tenne la cattedra con uno zelo strarodinario." (Diz. biogr. Univ.) [Bookseller: Amuletum Studio Bibliografico]
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AULUS GELLIUS. Edited by Josse Badius with the notes of Gilles de Maizieres. PETER SCHADE Petrus Mosellanus. PIETRO CRINITO.: NOCTES ATTICAE. AULI GELLII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM LIBRI UNDEVIGINTI
(Parisiis), apud Jodocum Badium Ascensium. Mense Septembri, 1532.. (nam octavus praeter capita desideratur) pluribus locis restitutis q[uae] antehac integriores. Cum Ascensianis scholiis, collectis fere ex annotatis sane docti hominis Aegidii Maserii, Parisien[sis]. Colophon states Parisiis, Excudebat Joannes Lodovicus Tiletanus, 1536, mense septemb. Bound with 2 other works: ANNOTATIONES PETRI MOSELLANI PROTOGENSIS IN CLARISSIMAS AULI GELLII NOCTES ATTICAS and PETRI CRINITI ... DE HONESTA DISCIPLINA, DE POETIS LATINIS, ET POEMATON both also from the printing shop of Josse Badius, all 3 in Latin. Small folio in eights, 315 x 215 mm, 12¼ x 8½ inches, title page printed red and black, large architectural pictorial border, large device of Badius at the centre below title showing men working on the press, leaves 14, 147, ruled throughout in red, bound in full antique calf, blind ruled border to covers with small gilt ornament at corners and another at the centre, rebacked with original worn backstrip laid down (missing top compartment), raised bands and small gilt motifs in compartments, gilt lettered morocco label, original endpapers retained. Covers worn, some scrapes to surface, with neat repairs to corners, small repair to upper cover next to outer corner, armorial bookplate of George Simon, Earl of Harcourt, neat old inscription at foot of title page, very small closed tear to margin of one prelim leaf, a few small ink marks, mainly to margins, not obscuring text, one or two small pale stains, small worm track to inner margin of 45 leaves, piece missing from 1 fore-edge margin, not affecting text, small piece missing from 1 lower corner, no loss of text, early neat paper repair to 1 margin. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy. Our edition is not in Adams, Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600, but Volume I, G352 is very similar, foliation and signatures are the same, the printer is the same but the publisher is not Badius but Roigny. Bound with ANNOTATIONES PETRI MOSELLANI PROTOGENSIS IN CLARISSIMAS AULI GELLII NOCTES ATTICAS, (Parisiis), vaenundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio cum ipso Gellio etiam aliis elucidationibus illustrato. Rursus Anno 1534, 25 leaves ruled in red, title page decorated and with printer's printing press device as for previous work, decorated initials. Title page and initials have all been partially coloured in with a light brown water colour, otherwise contents clean. Adams, Volume I, M1844. Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 AD—after 180 AD), was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today. Gilles de Maizieres or Aegidius Maserius was rector of the Sorbonne around 1514. Petrus Mosellanus or Peter Schade (1493-1524) was a German humanist scholar born in Leipzig. He gave the opening Latin oration at the important 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther. First published in Basle in 1526 Schade's notes on Gellius were first printed by Badius in 1528 and from 1531 were included with editions of Gellius. Bound with PETRI CRINITI ... DE HONESTA DISCIPLINA LIB. XXV. DE POETIS LATINIS LIB. V, ET POEMATON LIB. II. Cum indicibus seu capitibus singulorum operum. Cumque tabellis alphabeticis rerum, dictorumque insignium ad finem capitum De Honesta Disciplina, ab Ascensio collectis & appositis. (Parisiis) Vaenundantur ab eodem Ascensio, colophon: Rursus ex aedibus Asensianis ad eidus Octob. Anno 1525, architectural pictorial border to title page, the author writing at the top, 2 musicians at the lower corners, 2 horsemen sounding horns in between and various other figures and animals, with Josse Badius's large device in the centre showing printers at work, ruled in red throughout, numerous decorated initials, leaves (8), CIX, (1). 1 leaf with some very pale staining, otherwise contents clean. Pietro Crinito (1476 – 1507 ), was an Italian humanist, a member of Lorenzo de' Medici's circle of artists and men of letters. This is his main work, a collection of erudite notes on language and ancient civilisations. Adams, C2951. Josse Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) was a humanist scholar and a pioneer of the printing industry. He set up his printing business in Paris in 1503 and specialised in editions of classical texts, often with his own annotations and commentary for the student market, and also Latin works by contemporary humanist writers. 775 editions printed by him are listed in the bibliography in Philippe Renouard's Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle. [Bookseller: roger middleton]
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ARISTOFANE Comoediae undecim.
Basileae, Cratander, 1532. In 4�, c. nn. 4, p. 514. Si tratta della prima edizione che comprende undici commedie (Pluto, Le Nuvole, Le Rane, I Cavalieri, Gli Acarnesi, Le Vespe, Gli Uccelli, La Pace, Le Donne a parlamento, Tesmoforiazuse, Lisistrata). Le edizioni precedenti ne comprendevano nove. Bella edizione in caratteri greci. Capilettera xilografici. Bella legatura moderna di tipo monastico in pelle, con titoli in oro al piatto superiore, 4 nervature al dorso e impressioni a secco ai piatti. (Adams, A 1708). [Bookseller: Il Caff� Studio Bibliografico]
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Greenaway, Kate Language of Flowers
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AULUS GELLIUS. EDITED BY JOSSE BADIUS WITH THE NOTES OF GILLES DE MAIZIERES. PETER SCHADE (PETRUS MOSELLANUS). PIETRO CRINITO.: NOCTES ATTICAE. AULI GELLII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM LIBRI UNDEVIGINTI,
(Parisiis), apud Jodocum Badium Ascensium. Mense Septembri, 1532. (nam octavus praeter capita desideratur) pluribus locis restitutis q[uae] antehac integriores. Cum Ascensianis scholiis, collectis fere ex annotatis sane docti hominis Aegidii Maserii, Parisien[sis]. Colophon states Parisiis, Excudebat Joannes Lodovicus Tiletanus, 1536, mense septemb. Bound with 2 other works: ANNOTATIONES PETRI MOSELLANI PROTOGENSIS IN CLARISSIMAS AULI GELLII NOCTES ATTICAS and PETRI CRINITI ... DE HONESTA DISCIPLINA, DE POETIS LATINIS, ET POEMATON both also from the printing shop of Josse Badius, all 3 in Latin. Small folio in eights, 315 x 215 mm, 12� x 8� inches, title page printed red and black, large architectural pictorial border, large device of Badius at the centre below title showing men working on the press, leaves 14, 147, ruled throughout in red, bound in full antique calf, blind ruled border to covers with small gilt ornament at corners and another at the centre, rebacked with original worn backstrip laid down (missing top compartment), raised bands and small gilt motifs in compartments, gilt lettered morocco label, original endpapers retained. Covers worn, some scrapes to surface, with neat repairs to corners, small repair to upper cover next to outer corner, armorial bookplate of George Simon, Earl of Harcourt, neat old inscription at foot of title page, very small closed tear to margin of one prelim leaf, a few small ink marks, mainly to margins, not obscuring text, one or two small pale stains, small worm track to inner margin of 45 leaves, piece missing from 1 fore-edge margin, not affecting text, small piece missing from 1 lower corner, no loss of text, early neat paper repair to 1 margin. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy. Our edition is not in Adams, Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600, but Volume I, G352 is very similar, foliation and signatures are the same, the printer is the same but the publisher is not Badius but Roigny. Bound with ANNOTATIONES PETRI MOSELLANI PROTOGENSIS IN CLARISSIMAS AULI GELLII NOCTES ATTICAS, (Parisiis), vaenundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio cum ipso Gellio etiam aliis elucidationibus illustrato. Rursus Anno 1534, 25 leaves ruled in red, title page decorated and with printer's printing press device as for previous work, decorated initials. Title page and initials have all been partially coloured in with a light brown water colour, otherwise contents clean. Adams, Volume I, M1844. Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 AD�after 180 AD), was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today. Gilles de Maizieres or Aegidius Maserius was rector of the Sorbonne around 1514. Petrus Mosellanus or Peter Schade (1493-1524) was a German humanist scholar born in Leipzig. He gave the opening Latin oration at the important 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther. First published in Basle in 1526 Schade's notes on Gellius were first printed by Badius in 1528 and from 1531 were included with editions of Gellius. Bound with PETRI CRINITI ... DE HONESTA DISCIPLINA LIB. XXV. DE POETIS LATINIS LIB. V, ET POEMATON LIB. II. Cum indicibus seu capitibus singulorum operum. Cumque tabellis alphabeticis rerum, dictorumque insignium ad finem capitum De Honesta Disciplina, ab Ascensio collectis & appositis. (Parisiis) Vaenundantur ab eodem Ascensio, colophon: Rursus ex aedibus Asensianis ad eidus Octob. Anno 1525, architectural pictorial border to title page, the author writing at the top, 2 musicians at the lower corners, 2 horsemen sounding horns in between and various other figures and animals, with Josse Badius's large device in the centre showing printers at work, ruled in red throughout, numerous decorated initials, leaves (8), CIX, (1). 1 leaf with some very pale staining, otherwise contents clean. Pietro Crinito (1476 � 1507 ), was an Italian humanist, a member of Lorenzo de' Medici's circle of artists and men of letters. This is his main work, a collection of erudite notes on language and ancient civilisations. Adams, C2951. Josse Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) was a humanist scholar and a pioneer of the printing industry. He set up his printing business in Paris in 1503 and specialised in editions of classical texts, often with his own annotations and commentary for the student market, and also Latin works by contemporary humanist writers. 775 editions printed by him are listed in the bibliography in Philippe Renouard's Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe si�cle. [Bookseller: Roger Middleton]
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Almanni, Luigi Opere Tosca Ne Di Luigi Alamanni Al Christianis Simo Re Francesco Primo. Elegi.
LUGDUNI Sebastian Gryphius 1532. - Very Good condition, in later binding. [Bookseller: Abracadabra Bookshop]
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ARISTOTLE Das aller edelst und bewertest Regiment der gesundthait Auch von allen verborgnen knsten und Knigklichen Regimenten Aristotelis das er dem grossmechtigen Knig Alexandro zu geschriben hat. Au Arabischer sprach durch Meister P
Augsburg: H. Steiner. 22. April 1532. Modern vellum covered boards 8vo . German translation of the collection of secrets (Secreta secretorum), largely dealing with health, that has been attributed to Aristotle. This is the third appearance of this translation; Steiner published all three with the first appearing in 1530. The work deals, in seventy-one chapters, with diet, health, diseases, medicines, etc. In addition it has political advice for rulers, on life in general and making intelligent decisions in life; such as how to recognize the best wines, advice on drunkenness and recipes for hangovers, etc. The title woodcut depicts the translator dedicating the book to the king. The full-page woodcut is of Alexander the Great standing in the royal military dress of a renaissance warrior.& Ferguson in his Bibliographical notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (third suppl. pp. 6-7, no. 5) describes Steiner's 1531 edition, noting the works rarity and also that although a few supplementary texts have been left out that appeared in the Latin Secreta Secretorum of 1520, the present work "has not however been disemboweled like the English translation of 1702" [4], 48 leaves. With title woodcut and 1 full-page woodcut. Running heading on a few leaves is slightly cropped. Small tear repaired (covering up a few letters but no loss). § VD 16, A 3629; IA (= Cranz) 107.931; Durling 300; cf. Wellcome I, 458 & Dodgson II, 112, 11 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Cort�s De Monroy Y Pizarro, Hernan (1485-1547) De Insulis Nuper Inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii Ad Carolum V...Narrationes, Cum Alio Quodam Petri Martyris Ad Clementem VII...Libello. His Accesserunt Epistolae Duae De Felicissimo Apud Indos Evangelii Incremento...Item Epitome De Inventis Nuper Indiae...
. Cologne: ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, September 1532. Small folio, signed in 4s and 6s. (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches). [82] ff. Text in latin. Woodcut title-portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1, large ornamental woodcut initials and border-pieces in text, woodcut printer's device at end. Numerous manuscript marginal notes. (Marginalia and ownership inscription on title shaved). Later limp vellum, manuscript ink titling to spine. Second Latin edition of the second and third letters of Cort�s to Emperor Charles V and the first to contain missionary reports from Yucatan and Mexico Cort�s gave his personal account of the conquest of Mexico in a series of five letters, or cartas de relaci�n, which he addressed to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. The famed first letter was lost, making the second letter the earliest account by Cortes himself, describing the events in Mexico after his departure from Vera Cruz. The third letter continues the narrative, describing Mexican events from October 1520 to May 1522. The present work includes the second editions in Latin of the second and third letters (translated by Petrus Savorgbabus), as well as Peter Martyr's De Insulis (a condensed version of the lost first Cort�s letter); a letter from Mexico by Martin de Valencia, dated June 12, 1531, which is the first printed report from the Yucatan; a letter from Bishop Zumarraga giving an account of the Franciscan schools in Mexico, their teachers and the Indian converts; and a letter from Nicholaus Herborn dated 1532. These last three sections appear here in this edition for the first time. A rare edition, with only two other copies appearing in the auction records over the last thirty-five years. Church 63; Harisse 168; H.V. Jones 21; Sabin 16949; Medina I, 86; Palau 63192; JCB I, 103-104. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Tucca, Paolo De observamtia curationis febrium iuxta preceptorum suorum decreta libellus.
- Neapoli, Ioannes Sulsbacchius, 1532. 4to. Perg. recente con materiale antico. 1 c.b., 71 cc.nn. - Manzi Annali di Giovanni Sultzbach n.21: "Paolo Tucca fu filosofo e medico espertissimo. Fu pubblico lettore di medicina nell'Universit� di Napoli". Edizione originale molto rara, non nel Censimento. Il Manzi la descrive assieme alla Practica neapolitana de febribus dello stesso autore, ma dai quinterni appare come edizione a se stante. [Bookseller: belvederebooks]
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Geomancy Koebel Jacob? Geomantia: Eyn kunst des warsagens die bey den allten in geheyn und grossen wirden gehalten ist worden durch welche auch vil zknsstigerding es fey z glck odder z unsal erffnet werden Unnd das alles leychtlich durch r
Mainz:: Peter Jordan,, 1532.. Modern limp vellum with ties, repaired tear on t.p., old owner's stamps removed, foxing, occ. old stains.. Full-page fine engraving of planetary and emblematic figures signed "MF" Nagler IV,1776 a Strassburg master of unknown name.. 4to.. First Edition. Extremely rare first edition of this work on planetary divination. OCLC only finds copies of the second edition at the Warburg Institute and the Wellcome Library and none in the US. Jordan printed this second edition in 1534 with a new title "Geomantia: KŸstlicher und rechtshaffner gebrauch der alten kleynen Geomancey mit welcher durch hilff der Rechnung und der merschen Tauffnamens sampt der Planeten..." Which may textually agree with this but, again, may be a separate work. [See the copy of the illustration in the 1534 book shown in Olschki's Choix 3424 which is completely different from this.] This researcher would like to offer that the author might be Jacob Koebel (1470-1533) who authored numerous books on astrology, mathematics, etc. and, according to Thorndike issued an annual prediction for 1523 (Thorndike V,330-1) Moreover, in 1535 Jordan issued his work on astrolabes and in 1522 his "Von urspu(n)g der Teylu(n)g (which he also published anonymously). The anonymity of these work could be because of the disrepute divinatory sciences were held (eventually ending on the Index). Thorndike notes that these sort of books often are in vernacular languages for that reason. VD 16 G1314. Wellcome I,2746 (1534 ed.) Graesse III,52 (1534 ed.) Kloss Sale 4094. This work is lacking from all our occult bibliographies; astronomical works-- Zinner & Houzeau/ Lancaster; and from standard collections--Adams and the BM STC; etc. [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]
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CHEVALLON, Claude (ed.) Vocabulari[us] vtriusq[ue] iuris, difficillimas quasq[ue] voces iuxta receptos iuris interpretes ediffere[n]s, iterum exactissima cura recognitus, co[n]iectis in suum ordinem dictionibus: i non paucis vocabulis elegantissimis hoc signo * prenotatis locupletatus
C. Chevallonium,, Paris 1532 - Modern calf tooled in blind in an appropriate style of the period (back and front cover faded; title on fore-edge).BOUND WITHWERNERUS SOROTENSIS (Wernherus of Schussenried). Modus legendi abbreviaturas passim in utroq[ue] iure occure[n]tes. Paris: Chevallionium, 1531 (colophon: 1532). 36 leaves (Roman numerals). Metal cut printer's device on title-page, initials 8vo . I. A popular dictionary of both canon and Roman laws appeared 1431-32: "Returns to the Roman and canon law an alphabetical factual explanation of the legal terms and often a discussion of the matters covered by the same" (Schulte, trans.). It appears here edited by the Parisian printer Claude Chevallon (1497-1537) who was married to and worked with the equally eminent printer, Charlotte Guillard.Two other related works are also included: "Breve Compendiolum de orthographia" by Albericus de Rosate (1290-1360) on leaf four and "De modo studendi et vita doctorum" by Giovanni Battista Caccialupi (d. 1496) on leaves 225 to 240.II. Scarce work on legal sources and abbreviations used in legal manuscripts. "This small book contains first an overview of all sources of Roman and canon law, then an explanation of the most common abbreviations in the manuscripts, and finally track lists for each piece of the sources of law" (Savigny, trans.).The author, Wernherus of Schussenried, had embedded his name in an acrostic that appeared in the first edition (ca. 1475; Strassburg) which after editing or corruption of the original text has destroyed all meaning. Cf. Victor Scholderer's "The author of the 'Modus legendi abbreviaturas," in the Library (London), 3rd ser., v. 2 (1911), p. 181-182 [4], 240 leaves (Roman numerals). Metal cut printer's device on title and at end, initials, gothic type. Early Jesuit owership inscription on title-page (one erased); annotations in early hand mostly at the beginning of text; some light damp stains. � I. Cf. Schulte II, p. 488, d & Stintzing, Pop. Lit. 129ff.; not in Adams. II. Cf. Savigny VI, 499 [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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BRUNSCHWIG Hieronymus Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen Ding: Composita genant: durch die einzigen Ding u das buch Thesaurus pauperum genant fr die armen yetz von newem wider getruckt und von unzalbarn irrthumen gereynigt unnd gebessert
Fine large woodcut on title, several other large woodcuts & about 125 woodcuts in the text. 8 p.l., 280 leaves. Small folio, cont. blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (a few unimportant wormholes to first fifty leaves, occasional minor stain), orig. clasps & catches. Strasbourg: H. Grüniger, 1532. Third edition (1st ed.: 1512) of the “Grosse Distillierbuch,” the most extensive early handbook of pharmacology, which remained an authority throughout the 16th century. The special purpose of this book was to apply the methods of distillation with steam to separate the active principles of medicinal agents from the nonessential matter. This is a richly illustrated work with more than 125 handsome woodcuts depicting distillation equipment, furnaces, and anatomical subjects. The text describes the distillation of spirits from wine, mead, and fermented fruit juices, and the distillation of plants, roots, and flowers. There are sections on aromatic and empyreumatic oils, distilled vinegar, and other products of distillation. There are particularly good descriptions of the technique of distillation. For each plant, Brunschwig has provided its synonyms, indications, and valuable parts. Brunschwig (ca. 1450-ca. 1512), after receiving an education in surgery, traveled extensively through Alsace, Swabia, Bavaria, and the Rhineland as far as Cologne, practicing surgery and acquiring experience in the preparation of medicines, specifically in the technique of distillation. He finally settled in his native city of Strasbourg where he practiced medicine and became a writer on medical and pharmacological subjects. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. Two leaves — P6 and Q1 — carefully remargined at head and foot with several neat repairs (from another copy?). ❧ D.S.B., II, pp. 546-47. Durling 749. . [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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PAULUS AEGINETA, . Opus de re medica, nunc primum integratum latinitate donatum, per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum.
Paris, Simon de Colines, 1532. - In-folio (335 x 217 mm) de (40), 47, (9), 39, (9), 127, (9), 48, (8), 24, (8), 83, (9), 158 pp., 1 f. bl. Premi�re �dition de la traduction de Johannes Guinterius (Guinter von Andernach), le professeur de V�sale. Le "De Re medica", divis� en 7 livres, traite d'hygi�ne, de di�t�tique, de pathologie, des maladies de la t�te, de la l�pre, des maladies de la peau, des poisons, de pharmacologie et de chirurgie. Le plus grand m�decin de l'�poque byzantine �tait aussi un remarquable chirurgien. Son ouvrage est le meilleur manuel de m�decine op�ratoire de l'Antiquit�. Paul d'Aegine y enseigne plusieurs m�thodes d'op�ration de la face, ce qui en fait un des premiers livres de chirurgie plastique. "The extreme practicality of the text and its consequent use doubtless accounts for its rarity today. Its section on surgery, Book VI, has been called the principal medical work of the Byzantine era." Stillwell 473. Cet ouvrage n'avait �t� jusqu'ici publi� qu'en grec par Alde Manuce. Il a �t� publi� la m�me ann�e � Basle, dans une traduction d' Alban Thorer. Belle marque d'imprimeur sur le titre. Schreiber, S. de Colines 89 : "The first to publish a complete translation was therefore Johannes Guinterius, who . states that he used three Greek texts : the Aldine princeps, an ancient manuscript belonging to Janus Lascaris and a "codex of marvelous antiquity" belonging to Jean Ruel." Coins et coiffes us�s. Petit trou de ver traversant tout le volume, un autre trou de ver avec perte d'une ou deux lettres sur les premiers 18 feuillets et qui se poursuit dans la marge. Durling 3551. Pas dans Adams. Veau marbr�, dos � nerfs orn�, tranches rouges. (Reliure du XVIIIe.) [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Hugues de Latude]
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Nicolo Leoniceno OPUSCULA: QUORUM CATALOGUM VERSA PAGINA INDICABIT. [Edited by] Andream Leennium, Medicum.
This book is sold by Kenneth Karmiole, shipping from Santa Monica, CA - Seller on AbeBooks Marketplace. Folio. ff.(4),175,(1). Woodcut printer�s device on title and on the verso of the final leaf. Early vellum with blind-stamped arms on both covers. Morocco spine label. Vellum somewhat soiled & with a small gouge to the front cover. Neat inscription of a previous owner on the title page and small blind stamp of the same on the margins of some leaves. The first edition of the collected works of the physician Leoniceno (1428-1524), which includes his medical writings on Galen, Pliny the Elder, snake venom, syphilis, etc. Wellcome #3743; Durling #2788. See Garrison and Morton #1798 and #2363. The first edition of the collected works of the physician Leoniceno (1428-1524), which includes his medical writings on Galen, Pliny the Elder, snake venom, syphilis, etc. Wellcome #3743; Durling #2788. See Garrison and Morton #1798 and #2363. [Publisher: And. Cratandrum et Jo. Bebelium] [Bookseller: amazon.com]
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Leoniceno Nicolo OPUSCULA: QUORUM CATALOGUM VERSA PAGINA INDICABIT. Edited by Andream Leennium Medicum
Basel: And. Cratandrum et Jo. Bebelium. 1532. First edition. Folio. ff.(4),175,(1). Woodcut printerís device on title and on the verso of the final leaf. Early vellum with blind-stamped arms on both covers. Morocco spine label. Vellum somewhat soiled & with a small gouge to the front cover. Neat inscription of a previous owner on the title page and small blind stamp of the same on the margins of some leaves. [Bookseller: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.]
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Almanni, Luigi Opere Tosca Ne Di Luigi Alamanni Al Christianis Simo Re Francesco Primo. Elegi
LUGDUNI: Sebastian Gryphius, 1532. Very Good condition, in later binding [Bookseller: Alibris]
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LUILLIER (J.). Inventaire des titres du comté de Forez fait en 15
- Inventaire des titres du comt� de Forez fait en 1532, lors de la r�union de ce comt� � la couronne de France, suivi d'un appendice contenant plusieurs pi�ces in�dites et des fragments de l'inventaire des titres du Forez dress� en 1473 par Perrin Gayand, publi� par Aug. Chaverondier. Roanne, Impr. Sauzon, 1860, 2 tomes en un vol. in-8, demi-chagrin bleu nuit � coins, dos orn� de filets � froid, tranches mouchet�es, XX-695 pp. (l.115) [Bookseller: Chapitre librairies]
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Alaghieri Alighieri Dante; M. Cino da Pistoia; Cavalcanti Guido; da Maiano Dante; D'Arezzo Fra Guittone Rime di Diversi Antichi Autori Toscani in Dieci Libri Raccolte
Io. Antonio e Fratelli da Sabio Io. Antonio, e Fratelli da Sabio, Vinegia (Venice), 1532. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Full contemporary or early vellum, lightly soiled and rubbed, title penned to spine. Scarce collection of Tuscan poetry, including the sonnets and canzoni of Dante from his Vita Nuova - Dante's section is from leaf 4 through 49 (90- pages), in 4 books. It begins with Dante's earliest known work which begins "ciascun'alma presa è gentil core" and was written in a flood of joy after having been saluted publicly by Beatrice. The poems here are all extracted from the Vita Nuova where Dante discussed them in prose as a sort of memoir in the style of Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy - the poems themselves typically deal with his love for Beatrice and are in the courtly love tradition. & & Also included is Dante's great good friend Guido Cavalcanti, who also answers a Dante poem at the rear of the volume with other "rispostas".& & Previous owner's names to title page, one inked out, scattered light staining, a few marks to endpapers, but a generally lovely copy. 148 leaves. Of the first edition of 1527, Brunet says "Receuil recherché et difficile a trouver" (Brunet 438) and notes this Second Edition as more correct but less attractive. Sander, Max. (Le Livre a figures italien, depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530) notes only the 1532 edition (6489)& Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry. Inventory No: 036230. . [Bookseller: Pazzo Books]
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Dante; M. Cino da Pistoia; Cavalcanti, Guido; da Maiano, Dante; D'Arezzo, Fra Guittone Alaghieri (Alighieri) Rime di Diversi Antichi Autori Toscani in Dieci Libri Raccolte
Condition: Very Good. Edition: First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Vellum). Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Full contemporary or early vellum, lightly soiled and rubbed, title penned to spine. Scarce collection of Tuscan poetry, including the sonnets and canzoni of Dante from his Vita Nuova - Dante's section is from leaf 4 through 49 (90- pages), in 4 books. It begins with Dante's earliest known work which begins "ciascun'alma presa � gentil core" and was written in a flood of joy after having been saluted publicly by Beatrice. The poems here are all extracted from the Vita Nuova where Dante discussed them in prose as a sort of memoir in the style of Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy - the poems themselves typically deal with his love for Beatrice and are in the courtly love tradition. Also included is Dante's great good friend Guido Cavalcanti, who also answers a Dante poem at the rear of the volume with other "rispostas". Previous owner's names to title pag [Publisher: Io. Antonio, e Fratelli da Sabio] [Bookseller: amazon.com]
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Alaghieri (Alighieri), Dante; M. Cino Da Pistoia; Cavalcanti, Guido; Da Maiano, Dante; D'Arezzo, Fra Guittone Rime Di Diversi Antichi Autori Toscani in Dieci Libri Raccolte
Vinegia (Venice): Io. Antonio, e Fratelli da Sabio, 1532. Very Good Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Full contemporary or early vellum, lightly soiled and rubbed, title penned to spine. Scarce collection of Tuscan poetry, including the sonnets and canzoni of Dante from his Vita Nuova-Dante's section is from leaf 4 through 49 (90-pages), in 4 books. It begins with Dante's earliest known work which begins "ciascun'alma presa � gentil core" and was written in a flood of joy after having been saluted publicly by Beatrice. The poems here are all extracted from the Vita Nuova where Dante discussed them in prose as a sort of memoir in the style of Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy-the poems themselves typically deal with his love for Beatrice and are in the courtly love tradition. Also included is Dante's great good friend Guido Cavalcanti, who also answers a Dante poem at the rear of the volume with other "rispostas". Previous owner's names to title page, one inked out, scattered light staining, a few marks to endpapers, but a generally lovely copy. 148 leaves. Of the first edition of 1527, Brunet says "Receuil recherch� et difficile a trouver" (Brunet 438) and notes this Second Edition as more correct but less attractive. Sander, Max. (Le Livre a figures italien, depuis 1467 jusqu'� 1530) notes only the 1532 edition (6489) Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry. Inventory No: 036230. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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PLUTARCHUS VITAE GRAECORUM ROMANORUMQUE ILLUSTRIUM AUTHORE PLUTARCHO CHERONEO DILIGENTIUS EX COLLATIONE REPOLITAE. ACCESSIT INDEX UTILIS & COPIOLUS
Parisiis: Apud Iodocum Badius Ascesium, 1532. Bound in old full brown leather. Cover panels with blind-stamped designs. Rebacked in leather with leather spine label. Corners are worn. Hinges have been professionally repaired and re-inforced. Title-page has been supplied to us by the Rare Book Library at Ohio State University. The text block is remarkably crisp and clean with exception of a water-stain involving the fore-edge from aii-d only. Mestrius Plutarch (c.45-120 A.D.) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. He was born in Chaeronea, probably during the reign of Roman Emperor Claudius. He travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, but spent most of his life in his hometown with his wife and family. For many years he served as one of the two priests at the temple of Apollo at Delphi (the site of the Delphic Oracle), which was 20 miles from his home. He also was a magistrate in Chaeronea. He was sponsored by a friend who was a Roman consul, as a Roman citizen, and later in life the Emperor Trajan appointed him procurator of Achaea which entitled him to wear the vestments and ornaments of a consul. His best-known work is "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans", a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illustrate their common virtues or failings. The surviving "Parallel Lives", as they are also called, contain 23 pairs of biographies, one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired single lives. Plutarch was more interested in exploring the influence of character than of simply writing histories. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals, but also about the times in which they lived. His "Life of Alexander" is one of five surviving tertiary sources about Alexander the Great. His portrait of Numa Pomplius, an early Roman king, contains unique information about the early Roman calendar. This 1532 edition has not sold in the past 25 years according to ABPC. OCLC lists only two libraries worldwide that own a copy, Ohio State University and SMU. Our copy has been kindly restored. 465 leaves of which 435 are numbered. Text is in Latin. Information sources-Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition. . General Moderate Wear. Folio . 13" x 8 1/2". [Bookseller: Glenn Books]
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Alaghieri (Alighieri), Dante; M. Cino da Pistoia; Cavalcanti, Guido; da Maiano, Dante; D'Arezzo, Fra Guittone Rime di Diversi Antichi Autori Toscani in Dieci Libri Raccolte
Io. Antonio, e Fratelli da Sabio, Vinegia (Venice) 1532 - Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Full contemporary or early vellum, lightly soiled and rubbed, title penned to spine. Scarce collection of Tuscan poetry, including the sonnets and canzoni from Dante's Vita Nuova - Dante's section is from leaf 4 through 49, in 4 books. It begins with Dante's earliest known work which begins "ciascun'alma presa � gentil core" and was written in a flood of joy after having been saluted publicly by Beatrice. The poems here are all extracted from the Vita Nuova where Dante discussed them in prose as a sort of memoir in the style of Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy - the poems themselves typically deal with his love for Beatrice and are in the courtly love tradition. Also included is Dante's great good friend Guido Cavalcanti, who also answers a Dante poem at the rear of the volume with other "rispostas".Previous owner's names to title page, one inked out, scattered light staining, a few marks to endpapers, but a generally lovely copy. 148 leaves. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry. Inventory No: 036230. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Pazzo Books]
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MENOCHIO, GIACOMO De Arbitrariis Iudicum Quaestionibus et Causis, Libri Duo...
Menochio, Giacomo [1532-1607]. De Arbitrariis Iudicum Quaestionibus et Causis, Libri Duo. Varia, Recondita, Perfectaque Eruditione Referti, & Omnibus, Iudicia Prefertim Exercentibus, Oppido Quam Necessarii; Universam Enim Iuris Tractationem Quae a Iudicum Arbitrio Atque Potestate Pendet, Complectuntur. Nunc Demum Multis in Locis Restituti, & A Quamplurimis Mendis Vindicati: Hacq; Omnium Postrema Auctoris Recognitione, Multarum Rerum Auctione Illustrati, & Locupletati Quas his Notis [Pointing Hand] Inclusimus. Accessit Praeterea Libro Secundo Centuria Quinta, Eiusdem Authoris Solertia Recens Conscripta, Centum Cases Iudicibus Arbitrarios Continens, In Qua Multa, Quae ad Quotidianum Usum Forensen Spectant, Dilucidissime Pertractantur. Venice: Ad Signum Concordiae, [Apud Franciscum de Franciscis], 1590. [lxx], 352 ff; [xxxii], 139 pp. Two volumes in one. Main text printed in parallel Columns. Folio (12-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Later calf, gilt double frames with corner fleurons to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing, chipping to spine ends, boards beginning to separate but secure. Large woodcut printer devices to title pages. Toning. light soiling to first title page, minor worm holes to margins of a few leaves with no loss to text. Ex-library. Early location labels to spine, small blindstamp to title page and a few other leaves. A nice copy. $1,500. * Final edition, corrected. With index. Editorial changes noted with pointing hands (manicules) in margins. Highly regarded in his time, Menochio was a professor of law at the University of Padua. This volume is a collection of writings dealing with judges, judicial discretion and civil procedure, actions and defenses in Roman law. It was first published in 1569 and went through seven subsequent editions. OCLC locates 3 copies of this imprint (at Harvard and UC-Berkeley Law Schools and the University of Kansas). Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16) CNCE 24943. [Bookseller: Lawbook Exchange]
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DRER Albrecht Institutionum Geometricarum
Paris: Christian Wechel, 1532. First Latin edition of Dürer’s first book on the theory of art, the Unterweisung der Messung, bound with the first Latin edition of his treatise on fortification, “strictly speaking the first treatise dealing exclusively with this subject” (Krufft), with important material on urban planning and utopianism.1) Illustrated by Dürer himself, the Institutionum Geometricarum outlines the artist’s theory of “the work of art as a natural object”, which became an accepted aesthetic dogma until the 19th century. Far more than the German original of 1525, this translation by the humanist Camerarius brought the treatise to the attention of the whole of Europe. As a theoretical statement by “the last major painter to be counted a significant geometer” (Kemp), the work is naturally of interest for applications in Dürer’s own oeuvre as well as for the history of perspective. After his encounter with Luca Pacioli in Italy, Dürer became convinced of how close the links are between art and mathematics and devoted himself to the study of form through the resources offered by arithmetic and geometry. The result was the present work. In this work Dürer teaches the principles of perspective and explains the application of practical geometry to drawing and painting. It became a very influential text as its audience broadened from artists to architects, sculptors, and different craftsmen and was translated and reprinted several times.Panofsky describes the treatise’s importance as three-fold: for the technical innovation in the construction of a perspective apparatus in which the eye of the observer is dispensed with entirely; for being the first literary document “in which a strictly representational problem received a strictly scientific treatment at the hands of a Northerner”; and for emphasizing that “perspective is not a technical discipline destined to remain subsidiary to painting or architecture, but an important branch of mathematics, capable of being developed into what is now known as general projective geometry” (Panofsky, p. 252).Book Three contains Dürer’s famous treatise on the just shaping of Roman capital letters and gothic or ‘Textur’ letters built up by means of small geometrical forms, a method original with Dürer. (This text was translated into English by R.T. Nichol for publication by the Grolier Club, Of the Just Shaping of Letters, New York, 1917.)2) Inspired by the artist’s witnessing the siege of Hohenasperg in 1519 and by fear of the advancing Turkish armies, Krufft writes, De Urbibus “employs a dual approach. On the one hand Dürer develops various alternatives for the construction of bastions to defend existing cities; this is the contemporary aspect. At the heart of the treatise, he outlines a utopian city, in which the nature of fortification merely serves as a spur to the depiction of a social structure organized on the ground... Related trades are placed side by side; smiths are to be housed near foundries, etc. The town hall and the houses of the nobility are sited near the royal palace. The whole system of organization is hierarchical and functional. Dürer thinks of every function of the city, right down to the taverns” (Krufft, History of Architectural Theory, p. 110 ). Elsewhere Krufft suggests that Serlio employed the present treatise in book VI.According to Mortimer, the woodblocks are close copies of the 1527 German original.* 1)Mortimer, French I.182; Vagnetti E II.b7; Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Chapter 8, “Dürer as a theorist of Art”, esp. 247-60; Kemp, The Science of Art, 53ff.; 2) Mortimer, French I.184; Fowler 113 (1527 German); Krufft, History of Architectural Theory, 110-111.. (4) ff., recto of last leaf blank, woodcut of man with lute on verso, 185 pp., (verso blank), (1) f. (printer’s device on verso, recto blank); folding extensions on P6 & Q1 as required by Mortimer. Bound in 18th-century calf over boards, spine with raised bands re-backed, later red morocco title label. Title dusty; occasional toning; small wormtrack through much of volume, generally in blank margin but occasionally grazing a partial letter or printed border on plates. Withal a fresh copy, very good.[Bound with:]DÜRER, Albrecht. De Urbibus, Arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati accomodatissimae ... Paris, Christian Wechel, 1535. (40) ff., including 10 double-page/extended leaves as described by Mortimer. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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Menochio, Giacomo De Arbitrariis Iudicum Quaestionibus et Causis, Libri Duo
Menochio, Giacomo [1532- - 1607]. De Arbitrariis Iudicum Quaestionibus et Causis, Libri Duo. Varia, Recondita, Perfectaque Eruditione Referti, & Omnibus, Iudicia Prefertim Exercentibus, Oppido Quam Necessarii; Universam Enim Iuris Tractationem Quae a Iudicum Arbitrio Atque Potestate Pendet, Complectuntur. Nunc Demum Multis in Locis Restituti, & A Quamplurimis Mendis Vindicati: Hacq; Omnium Postrema Auctoris Recognitione, Multarum Rerum Auctione Illustrati, & Locupletati Quas his Notis [Pointing Hand] Inclusimus. Accessit Praeterea Libro Secundo Centuria Quinta, Eiusdem Authoris Solertia Recens Conscripta, Centum Cases Iudicibus Arbitrarios Continens, In Qua Multa, Quae ad Quotidianum Usum Forensen Spectant, Dilucidissime Pertractantur. Venice: Ad Signum Concordiae, [Apud Franciscum de Franciscis], 1590. [lxx], 352 ff; [xxxii], 139 pp. Two volumes in one. Main text printed in parallel Columns. Folio (12-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Later calf, gilt double frames with corner fleurons to boards, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing, chipping to spine ends, boards beginning to separate but secure. Large woodcut printer devices to title pages. Toning. light soiling to first title page, minor worm holes to margins of a few leaves with no loss to text. Ex-library. Early location labels to spine, small blindstamp to title page and a few other leaves. A nice copy. * Final edition, corrected. With index. Editorial changes noted with pointing hands (manicules) in margins. Highly regarded in his time, Menochio was a professor of law at the University of Padua. This volume is a collection of writings dealing with judges, judicial discretion and civil procedure, actions and defenses in Roman law. It was first published in 1569 and went through seven subsequent editions. OCLC locates 3 copies of this imprint (at Harvard and UC-Berkeley Law Schools and the University of Kansas). Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16) CNCE 24943. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]
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LIVIUS, Titus. [PERION, Joachim]. Conciones cum argumentis et anotationibus Joach. Perionii.
Paris : Simon de Colines, 1532 - In-8, (40)-1 ff. blanc-544 pages. Veau, dos � nerfs orn�, tranches dor�es et cisel�es avec lettres M.D.A. Exemplaire r�gl�. Reliure de veau refaite sur des plats plus anciens. Erudit fran�ais, n� en 1499, mort en 1559, P�rion entra dans l'ordre des Dominicains en 1527, puis se rendit � Paris, o� il prit le grade de docteur en th�ologie et retourna dans son pays natal en 1547. P�rion �tait tr�s vers� dans la connaissance des langues anciennes. Il professait pour Cic�ron et pour Aristote une admiration qu'on peut qualifier de superstitieuse, et il �crivit trois discours pleins d'invectives contre Ramus, qui avait attaqu� l'autorit� d'Aristote. (Larousse du XIX�) Schreiber 83. [Bookseller: Librairie Michel Bouvier]
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CORTS de Monroy y Pizarro Hernan 1485 1547 De Insulis Nuper Inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum V ... Narrationes cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII ... libello. His accesserunt Epistolae duae de felicissimo apud Indos Evangelii incremento ... Item Epitome de inventis nuper India
Cologne: ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, September 1532. Small folio, signed in 4s and 6s. (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches). [82] ff. Text in latin. Woodcut title-portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1, large ornamental woodcut initials and border-pieces in text, woodcut printer's device at end. Numerous manuscript marginal notes. (Marginalia and ownership inscription on title shaved). Later limp vellum, manuscript ink titling to spine. Second Latin edition of the second and third letters of Cortés to Emperor Charles V and the first to contain missionary reports from Yucatan and Mexico Cortés gave his personal account of the conquest of Mexico in a series of five letters, or cartas de relación, which he addressed to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. The famed first letter was lost, making the second letter the earliest account by Cortes himself, describing the events in Mexico after his departure from Vera Cruz. The third letter continues the narrative, describing Mexican events from October 1520 to May 1522. The present work includes the second editions in Latin of the second and third letters (translated by Petrus Savorgbabus), as well as Peter Martyr's De Insulis (a condensed version of the lost first Cortés letter); a letter from Mexico by Martin de Valencia, dated June 12, 1531, which is the first printed report from the Yucatan; a letter from Bishop Zumarraga giving an account of the Franciscan schools in Mexico, their teachers and the Indian converts; and a letter from Nicholaus Herborn dated 1532. These last three sections appear here in this edition for the first time. A rare edition, with only two other copies appearing in the auction records over the last thirty-five years. Church 63; Harisse 168; H.V.Jones 21; Sabin 16949; Medina I, 86; Palau 63192; JCB I, 103-104. [Bookseller: Donald Heald Rare Books]
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Valla Lorenzo. Lucubrationes aliquot Laurentii Vallae, ad linguae Latinae restauratio nem spectantes. Quarum catalogum sequenti pagina reperies.
apud Gryphium,, Lugduni, 1532 - 8� (cm. 17,5), cart. rustico coevo (lievi segni d'uso, etichetta antica al dorso); pp. 809, [31] in ottimo stato, con marca tipografica (grifone) al front. e in fine; una lieve brunitura uniforme, un alone d'umido alle sole prime cc., una traccia di tarlo al margine del front. senza alcun fastidio. Edizione originale a cura di Christoph von Carlowitz (1507-1578) della raccolta di alcuni scritti filologici spiccatamente polemici e personali del noto umanista, nella battaglia per la purezza della lingua latina (antidoti contro Poggio Bracciolini, note contro Antonio Raudense, lettera al Re Alfonso V d'Aragona, recriminazioni a Bartolomeo Facio, etc.). Cfr. Adams V, 195. Genuino, ottimo esemplare. [Bookseller: Gabriele Maspero Libri Antichi]
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Casarrubios, Alphonse De. COMPENDIUM Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum: Necnon Aliorum Fratrum Mendicatius Ordine Alphabetico Congestu..
Venetis: Joan. Antonium Fratres De Sabio, 1532.. Second Edition, Hardcover, 24mo 5" - 6" tall, Very Good- with no dust jacket.. 247 leaves pages; Ex library with label removed from back strip, pocket in back, ownership emboss base of title page. Rebound in simulated vellum, little soiling, rubbed. Was somewhat close trimmed when rebound but no text missing. Last several pages have worm holes at bottom, but no text obliterated. First published in 1526, this 1532 Venetian printing is a variant from those found in libraries, with different printer and a few more leaves. Author's name is also found spelled with one 'r' but with two in this work.. [Bookseller: Noah's Ark Book Attic]
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CALLIMACHUS [Greek text Kallimachou Kyrenaiou Hymnoi meta ton scholion. Gnomai ek diaphoron trieton philosophon syllegeisai] Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni cum scholijs nunc primum �ditis. Sententiae ex diuersis po�tis oratoribusq[ue] ac philosophis collect&
Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius). 1532. 18the century Spanish mottled sheep with gilt spine (rubbed; very minor damage to base of spine) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this important new recension of the original Greek text which Brunet notes includes much that has been added and improved over any previous editions including the Aldine of 1513. "To the Hymns of Callimachus are subjoined the Gnomologia, which is a singular production form a certain ancient MS. specified in Harles, Fabr. B.G. t. i. 725. The Scholia and Preface of Gelenius adorn this correct edition, which is far preferable to the Aldine, and which supplies some lacunae." (Dibdin, Intro. Classics, I, p. 366). The eminent Greek poet, Callimachus (b. ca. 300 B.C.), had been the head of the great library at Alexandria where he compiled a catalogue of its holdings of which only a few fragments survived.& Edited by the eminent Greek scholar and Bohemian humanist. Sigmund Gelen (Zikmund Hruby z Jeleni: 1497-1554) of Prague. Hruby z Jeleni, "better known as Gelenius, was born into a family of Bohemian nobles. He translated Erasmus's Moria into Czech as well as works by Petrarch and Cicero. Gelenius at one time studied Greek under Marcus Musurus and visited Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and France before returning to Prague, where he lectured privately on Greek authors and entered into correspondence with Melanchthon. ... Probably in 1524 he moved to Basel, where he lived in Erasmus' household. He spent the remainder of his life working for the Froben press as a scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek, even declining a position as professor of Greek at Nuremberg for which he was recommended by Melanchthon in 1525 and 1526. ... in his day there cannot have been many major productions of the Froben press which did not benefit from his selfless scholarly devotion. ... There is also evidence that he collaborated on a number of editions by Erasmus ... [also] Erasmus held Gelenius in high regard as is attested to by himself and others" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, pp. 84-85).& A very handsome, large paper copy, of this fine example of Basel Greek printing 245, [3] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end; large woodcut initials and headpiece. Introduction in Latin with text in Greek. Contemporary ownership inscription, in Greek, on title as well as a later inscription dated "1640." § VD16, C270; Ebert 339; Brunet I, 1479; Graesse II, 17 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen ding:: Composita genannt, durch die einzigen ding, un(d) das buch Thesaurus pauperum genant, für die armen yetz von neuwem wider gedruckt.
Strassburg, B Gr�ningen, 1532 - Kl.-Fol. 5 (von 8) nn., 271 (v.280) num. Bl., mit mehr als 120 Textholzschnitten. Etwas sp�terer Lederband mit R�ckenbemalung, (berieben, R�cken mit einigen Wurml�chern, Ecken leicht gestaucht). Dritte Ausgabe des sogenannten "Gro�en Destillierbuches". - VD 16, B 8700; IA 125.956; Choulant, Graph. Inkunabeln 85, Wellcome I, 1115, Duveen 107. - Gilt als eines der ersten Werke �ber die Destillierkunst und die Verwendung der Produkte in der Pharmazie. - Mit den ber�hmten Holzschnitten aus dem Umkreis bzw. teils selbst von Hans Baldung Grien. Diese zeigen verschiedene Destillierapparate, Apotheken, Dampfb�der, anatomische Darstellungen usw. - Es fehlen folgende Seiten: Titelblatt, Blatt 7 und 8 des Registers, sowie die nummerierten Blatt 1, 24-28, 67, 68 und 71 (alle durch Kopien erg�nzt). - Im Bug teils etwas wasserfleckig, teils braun- und fingerfleckig, R�nder der Registerseiten alt angesetzt, Blatt 221-231 mit alt restauriertem Wurmgang dadurch Buchstabenverlust. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Tresor am Roemer]
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Biblia. Breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctiss. interpretationibus, & Hebraeorum commentaris. Interpretatio propriorum nominum Hebraicorum. Index copiosissimus rerum & sententiarum vtriusque testamenti.
ex officina Roberti Stephani, Parisiis 1532 - 4 parties en 1 vol grand in-folio (280 x 400 mm) de (10)-388-94-37-57-1 ff., maroquin jans�niste, doubl� de maroquin rouge, filets, large encadrement de rosaces entrelac�es, gardes de moire brune, tranches dor�es sur marbrure (Chambolle-Duru). Deuxi�me �dition de la Vulgate de 1528 de Robert Estienne qui a ajout� en marge des sommaires et des variations textuelles. � Quatre ann�es avaient suffi pour l'entier �coulement de l'�dition in-folio de 1528 � laquelle celle-ci est de beaucoup pr�f�rable � (Renouard). Exemplaire L�on Gougy (II, 642). Renouard, 35 ; B. Moreau, Inventaire, IV 341 ; Bibles imprim�es du XVe au XVIIIe si�cle conserv�es � Paris, 825. [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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Boccaccio Jo Genealogibus Deorum Libri XV. Cum Annot. Jac. Micylli. Eiusdeum De Montium Sylvarum Fontium
Basel: Jo. Hervagius, 1532. [34] leaves +504 pages + 1l eaf in rear, missing the last leaf. Numerous initials and 13 full-page wood engravings throughout. Half vellum over boards, with a bishop's arms in gold on the sides. Boccaccio's treatise on the Gods of Hellas and Rome. composed about 1350 remained for a century and more the authoritative handbook on ancient mythology. The importannce of this text for any student of literature cannot be exaggerated; all the poets of Europe derive their notions of the Gods of antiquity more or less directly from this book (e.g Shelley's Demogorgon is unknown to the ancients and cannot be traced back beyond this work.) Scarce in any form. Title page a tad stained in bottom left corner, otheriwise fine and fresh textblock. Boards modestly worn about edges, original gutstring binding fully extant. . Half Vellum Over Boards. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. [Bookseller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB]
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PLATO Omnia Opera Tralatione Marsilii Ficini Emendatione Et Ad Graecum Codicem Collatione Simonis Grynaei Nunc recens summa diligentia repurgata
Basel: In Officina Frobeniana, [Apud Hieronymum Frobenium & Micolaum Episcopium, August], 1532., 1532. folio. pp. 6 p.l., 959, [1]. woodcut printer’s device on title & at end. woodcut initials. several text diagrams. A nice wide-margined copy in contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden bds., 1 brass catch, lacking clasps (covers scuffed, rear cover with a few small round wormholes, spine ends & corners worn, paper label on upper spine, tear in Tt4-6 – no loss). Sixth Edition of the Latin Translation by Marsilio Ficino, the first to contain the careful revisions of distinguished Protestant theologian Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541]. Grynaeus, a friend of Melanchthon and Erasmus, and professor of Greek at Heidelberg (1523) and Basel (1536), was also the editor of the second Greek edition of Plato, published at Basel in 1534. Ficino’s translation, begun in 1466 and first published in 1484-85, made his name famous in the history of scholarship and has been called "the best translation of that author Italy can boast." (Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.) The manuscripts on which he worked were supplied by his patron Cosimo de’ Medici and by Americo Benci. While the translation was in progress, Ficino periodically submitted its pages for discussion and revision to Angelo Poliziano, Christoforo Landino, Demetrios Chalchondylas, and other fellow scholars who were members of the Platonic Academy. "Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the most influential representative of Renaissance Platonism. Together with Alberti, Pico della Mirandola, Cosimo de’ Medici, Politian, and Landino, he founded the Platonic Academy in Florence. Although several works of Plato had been available in Latin translations prior to the fifteenth century, Ficino made the first complete translation of the Platonic corpus into a Western language (1484). This publication marks a major point in the intellectual history of Europe. The work was of such high quality that it remained in general use until the eighteenth century. (Univ. of Chicago, Berlin Collection) A fine early edition from a notable sixteenth century press. Adams P1445. Graesse V 320. cfBM STC German p. 702 (1546). cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 27.. [Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)]
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CALLIMACHUS [Greek text Kallimachou Kyrenaiou Hymnoi meta ton scholion. Gnomai ek diaphoron trieton philosophon syllegeisai] Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni cum scholijs nunc primum �ditis. Sententiae ex diuersis po�tis oratoribusq[ue] ac philosophis collect&
Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius). 1532. 18the century Spanish mottled sheep with gilt spine (rubbed; very minor damage to base of spine) 4to . FIRST EDITION of this important new recension of the original Greek text which Brunet notes includes much that has been added and improved over any previous editions including the Aldine of 1513. "To the Hymns of Callimachus are subjoined the Gnomologia, which is a singular production form a certain ancient MS. specified in Harles, Fabr. B.G. t. i. 725. The Scholia and Preface of Gelenius adorn this correct edition, which is far preferable to the Aldine, and which supplies some lacunae." (Dibdin, Intro. Classics, I, p. 366). The eminent Greek poet, Callimachus (b. ca. 300 B.C.), had been the head of the great library at Alexandria where he compiled a catalogue of its holdings of which only a few fragments survived.& Edited by the eminent Greek scholar and Bohemian humanist. Sigmund Gelen (Zikmund Hruby z Jeleni: 1497-1554) of Prague. Hruby z Jeleni, "better known as Gelenius, was born into a family of Bohemian nobles. He translated Erasmus's Moria into Czech as well as works by Petrarch and Cicero. Gelenius at one time studied Greek under Marcus Musurus and visited Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and France before returning to Prague, where he lectured privately on Greek authors and entered into correspondence with Melanchthon. ... Probably in 1524 he moved to Basel, where he lived in Erasmus' household. He spent the remainder of his life working for the Froben press as a scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek, even declining a position as professor of Greek at Nuremberg for which he was recommended by Melanchthon in 1525 and 1526. ... in his day there cannot have been many major productions of the Froben press which did not benefit from his selfless scholarly devotion. ... There is also evidence that he collaborated on a number of editions by Erasmus ... [also] Erasmus held Gelenius in high regard as is attested to by himself and others" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, pp. 84-85).& A very handsome, large paper copy, of this fine example of Basel Greek printing 245, [3] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end; large woodcut initials and headpiece. Introduction in Latin with text in Greek. Contemporary ownership inscription, in Greek, on title as well as a later inscription dated "1640." § VD16, C270; Ebert 339; Brunet I, 1479; Graesse II, 17 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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HOGENBERG Nicolaus (c.1500 39) Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati. Caesareas sanctique patris longo ordine turmas aspice
[?Antwerp: 1532.] 8 friezes, each consisting of four folios joined, float mounted in pairs and framed (frieze size 15 x 60 inches). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved frieze totaling more than 40 feet in length. Provenance: Early manuscript colophon; with the large engraved armorial bookplate of Antoine de la Mare, Sieur de Chesnevarin, councilor to the King Henry IV (ennobled 1590); late 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate with count's crown and manuscript motto 'semper juncti', and ownership inscription "Picquot fils"; early 20th-century bookplate with cipher 'LR'. 'this is undeniably one of the most interesting and splendid works representing public processions in the 16th century' (Vinet). THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED FETE ENGRAVINGS EVER PRODUCED, this issue with the space above the plates showing engraved arms of the noble processors, and captions in French within frames. Recording the triumphal and majestic procession of Charles V (1500-1558), Clement VII, and all the Princes and Dukes of the Spanish empire, after Charles's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor at Bologna in 1530. Charles V was the last Emperor to receive a papal coronation, and since he and Clement VII had often been on opposing sides of the complicated political divides of early 16th-century Europe, it was an event of tremendous historical significance. As early as 1524, the year after Clement became Pope, Francis I of France's conquest of Milan prompted him to change his allegiance from Imperial Spain and to ally himself with other Italian princes (including the Republic of Venice) and France in the January of 1525. This alliance acquired Parma and Piacenza for the Papal States, the rule of Medici over Florence and the free passage of the French troops to Naples. However at the Battle of Pavia in February of 1525 Francis was captured by his bitter enemy Charles V and held captive in Madrid. So Clement re-affirmed his loyalty to Charles, signing an alliance with the viceroy of Naples. Once Francis was freed after the Treaty of Madrid in 1526 Clement changed sides again, and entered into the League of Cognac together with France, Venice, Florence, and Francesco Sforza of Milan. Then he issued an invective against Charles, who in reply defined him a "wolf" instead of a "shepherd", menacing the summoning of a council about the Lutheran question. Meanwhile troops loyal to Charles, led by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna pillaged the Vatican City and sacked Rome in 1527; Clement was held prisoner in Castel Sant'Angelo. The Pope was forced to change sides for one last time. On June 6, Clement VII surrendered, and agreed to pay a ransom of 400,000 ducati in exchange of his life. He conceded Parma, Piacenza, Civitavecchia and Modena to the Holy Roman Empire. In June of 1528 the warring parties signed the Peace of Barcelona. The Papal States regained some cities and Charles V agreed to restore the Medici to power in Florence. And, at last, in1530 Pope Clement VII crowned Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor: the pinnacle of Habsburg power, when all the family's far flung holdings were united under one ruler. After Charles's reign, his realms were split between his descendants, who received the Spanish possessions and the Netherlands, and those of his younger brother, who received Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. This copy of "Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati …" was formerly in the possession of the eminent de la Mare family of Normandy. Antoine de la Mare was ennobled by Henry IV in March 1590. Formerly a protestant King of Navarre, and then first Bourbon King of France, Henry IV very publically attended mass in order to secure the throne. During Henry IV's reign a number of prominent families who had supported his coronation and fought on behalf of the Protestant cause were ennobled under the edict of Nantes (or Toleration). During the reign of Louis XIV, however, many of these families had their patents examined in the 1660s; the implication being that their loyalty to a Catholic King was in question. It is recorded that the nobility of the de la Mare family survived this inquisition in November of 1668, and their Catholic descendants still live in Normandy today. However it is likely that some of Antoine's descendents were put to Louis's ultimate test: he built an army of similar families of protestant descent to invade the Netherlands and Flemish cities (with which Normandy had generally been on good trading terms). In 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes and barred Protestants from holding titles, and even being citizens. Those who would not convert to Catholicism were forced to leave, could face complete ruin, pay heavy fines, and suffer imprisonment. The four Antwerp issues of "Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati …" are generally considered first edition, while Hondius's very inferior 17th-century edition is thought of as the second. The present copy agrees with what Brunet described as the fourth issue. All Antwerp issues are rare, and were unseen even by Brunet who quoted from the Paelinck sale. ABPC records no copy of any issue at auction since 1983. Brunet III, 250; Lipperheide Si4; Mitchell, Italian Civic Pageantry in the High Renaissance, p.21 ('none of the early editions seen'); Vinet 553. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter. . [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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DEMOSTHENES Demosthenous Logoi duo kai hexekonta [in Greek] Habes lector Demosthenis Graecorum oratorum omnium facile principis orationes duas et sexaginta et in easdem Vulpiani Commentarios quantum extat Libanii Argumenta Tum collectas � studioso quodam
Woodcut printer’s device on title & repeated on verso of final leaf. Printed throughout in Greek. 12 p.l., 532, 507 (i.e. 207) pp., [28] leaves. Folio, 17th-cent. English sheep (a few scars, title a bit stained & soiled, final five leaves with a small & unimportant burn hole in margin), spine gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt “B.C.R.” Basel: J. Herwagen, Sept. 1532. First edition of Erasmus’ important edition of Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.), the great Attic orator and statesman, whose fame as an orator can be compared only with the fame of Homer as a poet. This copy bears the signature on the title of John Lumley, first Baron Lumley (ca. 1533-1609), “one of the great Elizabethan collector-patrons. His collections, which included books, paintings, and marbles, were catalogued during his lifetime and transcriptions of the manuscripts published during the twentieth century. The significance of these inventories cannot be underestimated — they provide a unique illustration of his particular interests and intellectual pursuits as well as a more general picture of aristocratic taste in Elizabethan England…Lumley’s library was one of the largest in Elizabethan England. It was housed at Nonsuch and contained nearly 3000 books…The books are inscribed with the original purchaser’s name.”–ODNB. The majority of Lumley’s books passed from Lumley to Henry, Prince of Wales, and then to the Royal Library and now survive in the British Library. This copy remained in private hands and bears the bookplate of J.P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), the book collector and founder of the Lyell Lectures at Oxford. This edition, while based on the 1504 editio princeps of Aldus, is the first to contain the commentaries of Erasmus, Budé, and others. It contains all the speeches and Ulpian’s Scholia. Erasmus contributed a preface as well. Dibdin wrote of it: “there are many preferable readings to be found. It is a beautiful and excellent work, according to Fabricius, containing the commentaries of Ulpian in the margin of each page; and at the end, the various readings collected by Danesius; also the commentaries of Budaeus, Erasmus, and other learned men, on certain passages of Demosthenes.” Fine and fresh copy. ❧ Brunet, II, 587–“Cette belle édition…elle est rare.” British Museum, John Lumley (1956), number 1709–“Lumley copy now privately owned.” . [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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HUTTICH Johann (ca 1480 1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493 1541) Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum
Basel: Hervagius, 1532. Folio (12 x 8 2/8 inches). Woodcut printer's device on title-page and last leaf, LARGE WOODCUT FOLDING MAP (a bit spotted, one or two small holes at creases), woodcut illustrations in the text (early gatherings lightly browned, a few mostly marginal pale stains and one or two spots). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden bevelled boards, each panel decorated in panels with broad fillets of alternating roll tools of portraits of "Venus" and "Lucretia" with the date 1532, and a heads in medallion roll, filled in with tudor rose and thistle tools, spine in five compartments with four raised bands, with early paper library labels in two, brass clasps and catches (extremities scuffed with some minor loss); quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: The near contemporary ownership inscriptions of Johannes Craesselius on the title-page, whose name appears in a copy of Rithaymer's "De orbis terrarum situ com- pendium" 1532, now at the University of Graz; manuscript library catalogue designation of the Society of Jesus, Graz dated August 1633 on the title-page; and a later inscription placing the book in their Mathematical library dated 1674 also on the title-page; Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006) (Collection of Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography and Science). First edition, with the celebrated world map "Typus cosmographicus universalis", the issue with "Asia" printed in large letters, but "Tropicus Capricorni" printed above the tropical line. Shirley attributes the cartography of this map to Münster and the border decoration to Holbein, who was working with several Basel publishers at the time. It is of particular interest especially for its "richness of artistic decoration" (Shirley). The work contains accounts of the voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucius, Cabral, and part of the Fourth Decade of Peter Martyr, "also many other pieces which do not relate to America" (Sabin). Adams G-1334: Sabin 34100; Shirley 67 (world map). Purchased at Christie's 16th April 2007, lot 273. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter. . First Edition. [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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Vegetius Flvius Renatus.; Scriptores rei militaris DE RE MILITARIA Libri Quatuor Ed. G. BudŽ
Paris: C. Wechel, 10 cal. September, 1532. First edition printed in France, the First Wechel Edition, (the 1534 edition was the earliest known to Brunet (V.1162)). Beautifully illustrated with engraved title-page and one half-page diagram and 119 large engraved plates. Folio, bound in full vellum sometime later with morocco lettering label gilt. 144 leaves including the 59 leaves with engraved illustrations. Collation: a4, A-Y6, Z8. A very handsome copy, very well preserved, the binding in excellent condition and clean, some minor and early edge restoration at the initial leaf, occasional evidence of age, the plates and textblock crisp.. RARE. A VERY EARLY PRINTING, THE FIRST IN FRANCE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS ON THE MILITARY ARTS THAT HAS EVER BEEN PENNED. This printing of Vegetius contains a wonderful suite of woodcuts carved with considerable vitality and imagination. The 118 illustrations depict various weapons and machines of war. Some of the cuts hearken back to the very first military woodcuts, which appeared in the 1472 Valturius, while others are famous for Òpre-figuringÓ later inventions, such as diving suits and air mattresses. ÔThe title-page contains a woodcut of a military council before a tent and a cut of a man loading a cannon on the verso. On leaf a4v, facing the first page of the text, is a full-page woodcut of a lansquenet, with the title, ÒVegetius De re militariÓ on a tablet in the lower left-hand corner of the cut. The block is repeated on leaf Q1v at the end of VegetiusÕ text. Illustrating the text are one half-page diagram and one hundred nineteen full-page cuts, printed as groups of plates, recto and verso of each leaf, included in the pagination, at the end of each of the four books. These are from the Steiner German text of 1529. The Vegetius subjects are in some cases the same as those in editions of Valturio. The Wechel Valturio was completed in July of 1532. All early illustrated military works are rare, and this work is one of the earliest obtainable. [Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc.]
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PETRARCHA Franciscus Von der Artzney Bayder Gl�k/ des Guten und Widerwertigen / Herausgegeben und Kommentiert von Manfred Lemmer
Edicón facsimil de la original de "Keyserlichen statt Ugspurg/durch Heynrichen Steyner / Um IX. tag februarii/im jar M. D. XXXII. (1532)".- Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1983.- [1 h.] + 11 h., CXLIIII folios, 10 h., CLXXVIII folios + [179-209 p.]: con preciosas ilustraciones que reproducen los grabados xilográficos de la obra original; clara impresión en caracteres góticos sobre excelente papel ahuesado; 4º mayor (30 cm.); Pleno Cartoné Ed. en imitación pergamino, lomera lisa, tapas recuadradas con orla de color rojo ladrillo, estuche editorial.- Bonita edición facsimil de esta rarísima edición alemana de Petrarca bellamente ilustrada.* [Bookseller: Libreria Miguel Miranda, AILA ILAB]
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BARTOLOMEO DA SALICETO, SALICETI BARTOLOMEO, BARTHOLOMEI DE SALYCETO ( META' XIV SEC. - 1411 ) REPERTORIUM BARTHOLOMEI DE SALYCETO SUPER CODICE JUSTINIANO. BARTHOLOMEI DE SALYCETO PRIMA IN PRIMU & SECUNDUM CODICIS.
JACOBUS GIUNTI - STAMPATORE MOYLIN JEAN - JOANNIS DE LAMBRAY, LUGDUNI (LIONE LION) 1532 - Pagine: 63 + 155 folii Illustrazioni: Due splendidi frontespizi in rosso e nero Formato: in folio Rilegatura: Cartonato coevo con pelle vellutata. Stato: Buono Caratteristiche: SEGUE AL PRIMO FRONTESPIZIO: REPERTORIUM AUREUM & SUBSTILE SUPER LECTURA CLARISSIMA IURIUM MONARCHE BARTHOLOMEI DE SALYCETO DOCTORIS CELEBERRIMI IN CODICE JUSTINIANUM EDITA: IN QUO MATERIAS OMNES NOTATU DIGNAS COMPREHEDENS: REMITTIT AD TITULOS LEGES Q. E NUMEROS AC FOLIA CERTA: PER NOTA CIFFRE CUILIBET VERSICULO PREPOSITAM QUOTO RES VOLUMINE PONATUR SIGNIFICANS: SED LONGE SUBTILIUS QUA ACTENUS: ADEO UT NIL FRUGI IN EO OMISSUM FIT. [Bookseller: Libreria Scripta Manent]
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HUTTICH Johann (ca 1480 1544) and Simon GRYNAEUS (1493 1541) Novus Orbis Regionum ac insularum verteribus incognitarum
Paris: Antoine Augerelle, for Jean Petit, 8 Nov 1532. Folio (12 x 8 inches). Title-page with woodcut printer's device of Jean Petit, folding woodcut map of the world by Oronce Fine (1494-1555), 1531 (lower margin of map close cut, left blank margin slightly shaved and with extended margin, occasional light spotting to text). 18th-century vellum over paste-board, lettered in ink on spine "Variorum Geographia" and "Grynaeus Novus Orbis 94"; modern quarter brown morocco clamshell box. Provenance: Near contemporary ownership inscription of Carolus Bartolomeus Ranasius Cremonensis at the foot of the title-page; 18th-century inscription "No 94 Variorum Auctorum" in the upper right-hand margin of the title-page. The first appearance of Magellan's name on a map First published in Basel the same year, this is an exceptionally fine copy with the RARE WORLD MAP BY ORONCE FINE, the most prominent French cartographer of the 16th-century. Fine's double-cordiform (or heart-shaped) projection of the world is a modification of Werner's cordiform, but first employed by Fine in his world map of 1519. This new form which shows both the north and south poles went on to be used by Mercator in his 1538 world map and by Lafreri in 1560 and is a logical departure from the speculative geography of Waldseemüller and Ruysch. Fine names the lower Pacific "Mare Magellanium", which is the first appearance of Magellan's name on a map. The definition of the Antarctic land mass is surprisingly accurate given the lack of any knowledge of the region. The definition of the west coast of Mexico is one of the earliest to show the discoveries of Cortes. The work contains accounts of the voyages of Cadamosto, the three voyages of Columbus, Nino, Pinzon, Vespucius, Cabral, and part of the Fourth Decade of Peter Martyr, and Marco Polo. Shirley 66 (world map); Adams G1336. Purchased at Christie's 16th November 2005, lot 180. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter.. [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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VALERIUS FLACCUS. Argonauticon libri octo, a Philippo Engentino emendati, et ad vetustissima exemplaria recogniti.
- Paris, Simon Colines, 1532; petit in-8, plein maroquin citron, encadrement de fil. dor�s, dos nerfs, fleurons et ornements dor�s, pi�ce de titre de maroquin brun, guirlande int. dor�e, tranches dor�es. (Reliure du XVIII e s.). [Bookseller: Chapitre librairies]
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Petrus Apian / text is Only in Latin / Petrus Apianus 1495 to 1552 / Quadrans Apiani Astronomicus Qvadrans Apiani Astronomicvs Et Iam Recens Inventvs Et Nvnc Primvm Editvs Huic adiuncta sunt + alia instrumenta obseruatoria perinde noua adcommodata horis discernendis nocturnis simul + diurnis ... Deinde altitudinis etiam distantiae profunditatisque
A Bound / Flex Cover / REPRINT: Ingolstadii 1532 / Modern Reprint / Privately Published, No Reprinted Date 55 pages. Softcover reprinted edition in very good condition, this book has card covers with cloth spine. Very slight wear to edges. Modern facsimile replica of the original text / work / manuscript / book. Privately published. Archival reprint. This book is not old, however, there is no other publication date other than of the original text. Most likely produced for research purposes since the original text is fragile or very rare. Both book and text are clean and unmarked. Overall a very good copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading resource, research or study. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. This is NOT a mass market paperback, or mass produced book. Text of title page: Qvadrans Apiani Astronomicvs Et Iam Recens Inventvs Et Nvnc Primvm Editvs Huic adiuncta sunt and alia instrumenta obseruatoria perinde noua, adcommodata horis discernendis nocturnis simul and diurnis ... Deinde altitudinis etiam, distantiae, profunditatisque Puteorum Turriumeque seu aeditictorum adnexae sunt dimensiones : His omnibus accedit, quo pacto per speculum altitudines structurarum uarijs modis cognosci queant.... Excerpt from wikipedia about the author: Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 to April 21, 1552; also known as Peter Apian) was a German humanist, famous for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. The crater Apianus on the Moon is named in his honour. He was born as Peter Bienewitz or Bennewitz in Leisnig in Saxony; his father was a shoemaker. The family was relatively well off, belonging to the middle class citizenry of Leisnig. Apianus was educated at the Latin school in Rochlitz. From 1516 to 1519 he studied at the University of Leipzig ; during this time, he Latinized his name to Apianus ( lat. apis means "bee"; "Biene" is the German word for bee ). In 1519, Apianus moved to Vienna and continued his studies at the University of Vienna, which was considered one of the leading universities in geography and mathematics at the time and where Georg Tannstetter taught. When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut. In Landshut, he produced his Cosmographicus liber (1524), a highly respected work on astronomy and navigation that was to see at least 30 reprints in 14 languages and that remained popular until the end of the 16th century. He married the daughter of a councilman of Landshut, Katharina Mosner, in 1526. They would have 14 children together, five girls and nine sons, one of which was Philipp Apian. In 1527, Peter Apian was called to the University of Ingolstadt as a mathematician and printer. His print shop started small. Among the first books he printed were the writings of Johann Eck, Martin Luther's antagonist. Later, his print shop soon became well-known for its high-quality editions of geographic and cartographic works. Through his work, Apian became a favourite of emperor Charles V. Charles had praised his work (the Cosmographicus liber) on the Reichstag of 1530 and granted him a printing monopoly in 1532 and 1534. In 1535, the emperor made Apian an armiger, i.e. granted him the right to display a coat of arms. In 1540, Apian printed the Astronomicum Caesareum, dedicated to Charles V. Charles promised him a truly royal sum (3,000 golden guilders) , appointed him his court mathematician, and made him a Reichsritter and in 1544 even a Hofpfalzgraf. All this furthered Apian's reputation as an eminent scientist. Despite many calls from other universities, including Leipzig, Padua, Tübingen, and Vienna, Apian remained in Ingolstadt until his death. Although he neglected his teaching duties, the university evidently was proud to host such an esteemed scientist. Apian's work included in mathematics—in 1527 he published a variation of Pascal's triangle, and in 1534 a table of sines— as well as astronomy. In 1531, he observed a comet and discovered that a comet's tail always point away from the sun. (Girolamo Fracastoro also detected this in 1531, but Apian's publication was the first to also include graphics.) He designed sundials, published manuals for astronomical instruments and crafted volvelles ( Apian wheels ), measuring instruments useful for calculating time and distance for astronomical and astrological applications. Reprint of Quadrans Apian Astronomics / Quadrans Apiani astronomicus, Ingolstadt 1532.. Clean and Unmarked Text. ~ SCARCE EDITION ~. Illus. by Fully Illustrated. Facsimile Bound Reprint Edition. Astrology, Horoscope, Zodiac. [Bookseller: Great Pacific Book Co.]
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HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (with Iamlichus & Proclus trans. by Marsilio Ficino) MERCURII TRISMEGISTI PYMANDER De Potestate et sapienta Dei. Eiusdem Asclepius De voluntate Dei... Iamblichus De mysteriius Aegyptiorum... Proclus in Platonicum Alcibiadem... De sacrificio & magia
Basle: Mich. Isingrinium, August,, 1532.. Sm. 8vo, 480 [i.e. 460], (4)pp. Contemp. boards covered in vellum (with ms on inside), old library stamps on title, occasional staining and worming (not affecting text).. Early Edition of the Pymander and Asclepius, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, together with texts by Proclus, Iamblichus and Porphyry. The Asclepius of Hermes was translated by Apuleius and the other works by Marsilio Ficino. Adams H-345. STC, German, 398. Rosenthal, Bib. Magica, 445. VD16 H-2462. Not in Bib. Esoterica; Caillet; De Guaita; Durling; Duveen; Ferguson; Manly P. Hall Catalogue. OCLC notes 2 copies in the US and 3 abroad. One of the most influential works on philosophy ever printed, the 'Pymander of Hermes' is the foundation stone of an intellectual movement which was to have profound influence in the European Renaissance. It is neither an alchemical, astrological or magical text and has nothing to say about ways of operating in the physical world. It is, rather, a philosophical mystical text whose object is enlightenment rather than power. The manuscript, known as the 'Corpus Hermeticum,' was brought to Florence from Macedonia about 1460 by a monk named Leonardo da Pistoia. The mansucript was presented to Cosimo de Medici who engaged Marsilio Ficino to translate it from the Greek into Latin. The first edition was printed at Treviso in 1471. Ficino titled his translation of the 14 treatises 'Pimander,' but actually that is the title of only the first treatise of the corpus, which gives an account of the creation of the world. Hermes, a mythical name associated with a class of gnostic revelations, was for the Renaissance scholars a real person, an Egyptian priest who had lived in remote antiquity. Like the Hellenic Greeks, they looked to the past for the foundation of truth. Thus Ficino, finding traces of Platonic thought, saw Hermes as the source, while in fact the writings probably date from early Christian times. In 1614 Isaac Casaubon proved the hermetic writings date from the first through third centuries A.D. as the Greek is late Hellenic and the doctrine is drawn directly from Plato, the Stoics and Persian thought. See: Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. [Bookseller: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA]
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DURER Albrecht [Institutiones Geometricae] or (Underweysung der Messung)
Paris:: Christian Wechel,, 1532.. FIRST LATIN EDITION.. Folio.. Title with Wechel's tree device (Renouard 1114), repeated on verso of last printed leaf. With 9 full-page and 3 half-page woodcuts, approximately 175 text drawings of geometrical diagrams, architectural figures, and designs for letters. Complete with the 2 pasted slips on pages 179 and 181(lacking in many copies). Small repair to title, A few unobtrusive spots on the lower blank margin of the preliminary leaves and a few leaves lightly browned, otherwise a large handsome copy in modern vellum with the inscription "Signum Alberti Düreri" and his monogram written in ink in a contemporary hand above the first woodblock illustration. PMM 54. First Latin edition of Dürer's Unterweisung der Messung (Nuremberg, 1525), his masterpiece of perspective and art theory. He here demonstrates the application between mathematics (geometry) and art by his depictions of architecture, lettering and ornamental forms. With this translation by his good friend Camerarius, Dürer introduces to the rest of Europe the renaissance approaches to design and artistic creation. He treats construction of plane curves and helices by means of Euclidian geometry; construction of polygons and their uses in architectural ornamentation, parquet floors, and finally polyhedra, stereometry and perspective. The woodcuts and diagrams are executed with great precision; they include the famous illustrations of the two figures demonstrating a drawing instrument, signed with Dürer's monogram (dated 1530 for this edition) as well as one of an artist drawing a seated man with the aid of Dürer's machine. The text of Book Three contains his famous original treatise on the shaping of Roman capital and Gothic letters and Gothic letters built up by means of small geometrical forms.& [Bookseller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscript]
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DURER Albrecht; DUERER Albrecht; Durer Institutiones geometricae [translation of Die Unterweisung der Messung
1532. DÜRER, Albrecht. Institutiones Geometricae (Latin translation of Die Unterweysung der Messung by Joachim Camerarius). Collation: a4 A-P6 Q4 = 98 ff., including 9 plates on 5 leaves. Illustrated with 148 woodcuts in the text (9 full-page), closely copied from the 1525 German edition; two folding extention plates pasted on pp. 179 & 181, woodcut geometrical diagrams and figures throughout. Small folio, 330 x 220 mm, bound in eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked. Paris: Christian Wechsel, 1532. \|~\|\|~\|\|~\|\|~\|\|~\| First Latin Edition of Die Underweysung der Messung ("A Course in the Art of Measurement"), the first of Dürer's writings on art theory; it presented to northern Europe the completely new attitude to artistic creation which had crystallized in Italy during the Renaissance. "Its immediate object was to explain the application of practical geometry to drawing and painting and to teach the principals of perspective. These methods were to be applied to architecture, painting, lettering (Dürer designed both Roman and Gothic letters) and ornamental forms in general, and his book is therefore addressed not only to artists but also to sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, stonemasons and other craftsmen" (PMM). In order to explain complex mathematical symbols to his German readers, Dürer had to invent many new mathematical terms, and thus was influential in the development of German scientific prose. This Latin translation by the humanist Camerarius brought the treatise to a much wider audience than the original German edition of 1525. In the Preface Dürer states: "I have decided to teach geometry's rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art... it may benefit not only painters but also goldsmiths, sculptors, stonemasons, carpenters and all those who have to rely on measurement." Therefore the work remains a book for practical use, and not a treatise on pure mathematics. Panofsky stresses the work's three-fold importance: for Dürer's technical innovation in his construction of a perspective apparatus; for being the first literary document "in which a strictly representational problem received a strictly scientific treatment at the hands of a Northerner"; and for emphasizing that "perspective is not a technical discipline destined to remain subsidiary to painting or architecture, but an important branch of mathematics, capable of being developed into what is now known as general projective geometry" (Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, pp. 247-260). Liber III contains Dürer's famous treatise on creating Roman capital letters and Gothic or "textura" letters, all constructed by means of small geometrical forms. Lower corner margins of first 2 ff. extended without loss. A crisp copy. PMM 54. Mortimer, French 183. Bohatta 6. Meder 286. [Bookseller: Ursus Rare Books]
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DURER Albrecht Institutionum Geometricarum
Paris: Christian Wechel, 1532. First Latin edition of Dürer’s first book on the theory of art, the Unterweisung der Messung, bound with the first Latin edition of his treatise on fortification, “strictly speaking the first treatise dealing exclusively with this subject” (Krufft), with important material on urban planning and utopianism.1) Illustrated by Dürer himself, the Institutionum Geometricarum outlines the artist’s theory of “the work of art as a natural object”, which became an accepted aesthetic dogma until the 19th century. Far more than the German original of 1525, this translation by the humanist Camerarius brought the treatise to the attention of the whole of Europe. As a theoretical statement by “the last major painter to be counted a significant geometer” (Kemp), the work is naturally of interest for applications in Dürer’s own oeuvre as well as for the history of perspective. After his encounter with Luca Pacioli in Italy, Dürer became convinced of how close the links are between art and mathematics and devoted himself to the study of form through the resources offered by arithmetic and geometry. The result was the present work. In this work Dürer teaches the principles of perspective and explains the application of practical geometry to drawing and painting. It became a very influential text as its audience broadened from artists to architects, sculptors, and different craftsmen and was translated and reprinted several times.Panofsky describes the treatise’s importance as three-fold: for the technical innovation in the construction of a perspective apparatus in which the eye of the observer is dispensed with entirely; for being the first literary document “in which a strictly representational problem received a strictly scientific treatment at the hands of a Northerner”; and for emphasizing that “perspective is not a technical discipline destined to remain subsidiary to painting or architecture, but an important branch of mathematics, capable of being developed into what is now known as general projective geometry” (Panofsky, p. 252).Book Three contains Dürer’s famous treatise on the just shaping of Roman capital letters and gothic or ‘Textur’ letters built up by means of small geometrical forms, a method original with Dürer. (This text was translated into English by R.T. Nichol for publication by the Grolier Club, Of the Just Shaping of Letters, New York, 1917.)2) Inspired by the artist’s witnessing the siege of Hohenasperg in 1519 and by fear of the advancing Turkish armies, Krufft writes, De Urbibus “employs a dual approach. On the one hand Dürer develops various alternatives for the construction of bastions to defend existing cities; this is the contemporary aspect. At the heart of the treatise, he outlines a utopian city, in which the nature of fortification merely serves as a spur to the depiction of a social structure organized on the ground... Related trades are placed side by side; smiths are to be housed near foundries, etc. The town hall and the houses of the nobility are sited near the royal palace. The whole system of organization is hierarchical and functional. Dürer thinks of every function of the city, right down to the taverns” (Krufft, History of Architectural Theory, p. 110 ). Elsewhere Krufft suggests that Serlio employed the present treatise in book VI.According to Mortimer, the woodblocks are close copies of the 1527 German original.* 1)Mortimer, French I.182; Vagnetti E II.b7; Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Chapter 8, “Dürer as a theorist of Art”, esp. 247-60; Kemp, The Science of Art, 53ff.; 2) Mortimer, French I.184; Fowler 113 (1527 German); Krufft, History of Architectural Theory, 110-111.. (4) ff., recto of last leaf blank, woodcut of man with lute on verso, 185 pp., (verso blank), (1) f. (printer’s device on verso, recto blank); folding extensions on P6 & Q1 as required by Mortimer. Bound in 18th-century calf over boards, spine with raised bands re-backed, later red morocco title label. Title dusty; occasional toning; small wormtrack through much of volume, generally in blank margin but occasionally grazing a partial letter or printed border on plates. Withal a fresh copy, very good.[Bound with:]DÜRER, Albrecht. De Urbibus, Arcibus, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati accomodatissimae ... Paris, Christian Wechel, 1535. (40) ff., including 10 double-page/extended leaves as described by Mortimer. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.]
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Munster Sebastian (1488 1552) cartographer and Holbein Hans the Younger (1497 15430 Draftsman "Typus cosmographicus universalis" from Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus Novis orbis Regionum
Basel: Hervagius, 1532 THE FIRST WORLD MAPS TO DEPICT THE THEORIES OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Woodcut: 143/4" x 22" References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 65; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 67. While the Paris edition of Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus's 1532 Novus orbis regionum included Oronce Finé's double-cordiform map (see above, n. 9), the Basel edition of the same year included this very different cartographic treatment of the world on an oval projection. With the cartography ascribed to prominent cartographer Sebastian Münster and the execution to the celebrated German artist Hans Holbein the Younger, the map is particularly fine from an artistic standpoint, with sea monsters adorning the waves of the oceans, exotic animals and landscape views with curious classical architectural structures around the margins, along with less benign scenes depicting acts of cannibalism and animal sacrifice. These nightmarish fantasies of terrible creatures and terrifying customs in distant places surely reflect the flights of imagination that contemporary geographical discoveries inspired among western Europeans, and one might go so far as to say that Holbein inflected his rendering with a distinctly medieval sensibility. In another sense, however, the map was progressive, even groundbreaking, for it was one of the first world maps to reflect the Copernican theory of a heliocentric universe. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish astronomer who famously argued that the earth orbited around the sun and rotated once daily on its own axis, was Münster's contemporary. Although Copernicus's groundbreaking book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) was not published until 1543, his ideas-- spread through lectures, circulated in written pamphlets and via word of mouth-- were gaining currency among geographers and astronomers when Münster published this map. Before Copernicus, most scholars had upheld the Ptolemaic conception of a stationary earth at the center of the universe. Ultimately, the theories of the Polish astronomer proved too radical to escape controversy and were rejected by the Church. (Later scholars, most notably Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno, were ultimately put to death for upholding and expanding upon Copernicus’s theories.) In the 1530s, however, the controversy had yet to crystallize, and Münster and Holbein's map demonstrates an adherence to the Copernican model with the inclusion of two angels vigorously turning crank handles at the north and south poles, as though physically rotating the planet on a giant spit. The significance of this map, therefore, is not just aesthetic, for it also visualizes a key moment in the history of science and a turning point in knowledge about the workings of the universe.. [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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ARISTOTLE Das aller edelst und bewertest Regiment der gesundthait Auch von allen verborgne[n] k�nsten un[d] K�nigklichen Regimenten Aristotelis das er dem grossmechtigen K�nig Alexandro zu geschriben hat. Au� Arabischer sprach durch Meister P
Augsburg: H. Steiner. 22. April 1532. Modern vellum covered boards 8vo . German translation of the collection of secrets (Secreta secretorum), largely dealing with health, that has been attributed to Aristotle. This is the third appearance of this translation; Steiner published all three with the first appearing in 1530. The work deals, in seventy-one chapters, with diet, health, diseases, medicines, etc. In addition it has political advice for rulers, on life in general and making intelligent decisions in life; such as how to recognize the best wines, advice on drunkenness and recipes for hangovers, etc. The title woodcut depicts the translator dedicating the book to the king. The full-page woodcut is of Alexander the Great standing in the royal military dress of a renaissance warrior.& Ferguson in his Bibliographical notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (third suppl. pp. 6-7, no. 5) describes Steiner's 1531 edition, noting the works rarity and also that although a few supplementary texts have been left out that appeared in the Latin Secreta Secretorum of 1520, the present work "has not however been disemboweled like the English translation of 1702" [4], 48 leaves. With title woodcut and 1 full-page woodcut. Running heading on a few leaves is slightly cropped. Small tear repaired (covering up a few letters but no loss). § VD 16, A 3629; IA (= Cranz) 107.931; Durling 300; cf. Wellcome I, 458 & Dodgson II, 112, 11 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Aelianus (Eliano) De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more graecorum liber a Francisco Robortello utinensi. In latinum sermonem versus et ab eodem picturis quam plurimis illustratus
Venetiis: Andream et Iacubum Spinellos. Mense Julii. [Fig. Militaria] (cm. 23,5) buona mz. pergamena antica, restaurata, sguardie e piatti antichi.-- cc. 4 nn., pp. 73 (mal numerate 77),al verso colophon e marca tipografica, 1 c. bianca, e cc. 12 nn. che contengono il " De Instruendis Aciebus Opus ". Magnifico frontis architettonico profusamente ornato in xilografia. Nel testo molte figure e schemi di battaglie, uno dei quali a doppia pagina. Prima edizione separata apparsa a Parigi nel 1532 col testo anche in greco; vedi la ampia nota in Brunet. Lieve restauro al margine bianco della prima e ultima carta e all' angolino di alcune altre. Qualche leggera macchiolina altrimenti esemplare molto bello, nitido e a grandi margini con annotazioni coeve ai margini. * Brunet I 63: " Prima Edizione separata...".; * Graesse I 24: " La traduction latine manque dans beaucoup d' exemplaires".; * Choix 3984: " Le premier contient le texte grece".; * Bm. Stc. 7; * Adams A 217. . in ottime condizioni. Rilegato. prima edizione. 1552. [Bookseller: Libri antichi e rari Francesco e Claudia]
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Alamanni Luigi Opere Toscane di Luigi Alamanni al Christianissimo Re Francesco Primo
Firenze & Vinegia: [Bern. Berned. Giunta] & per Pietro Niccolini da Sabbio, ad istanza di M. Marchio Sessa, 1532-1533. Octavo. Two volumes. I: [4]ff., 436 pages, [6]ff.; II:146 [i.e. 144] pages , [4]ff. First edition. Printer's device on the title-page and at the end. Volume one in a modern full calf binding and volume two in a contemporary limp vellum binding. First edition of both parts.. [Bookseller: Sam Gatteno Books]
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WIDUKIND (or WITTEKINDUS of Corvey) Rerum ab Henrico et Ottone I imp(eratores) gestarum libri III un� cum alijs ... historijs ab anno salutis D.CCC. usque ad praesentem aetatem ... huc accessit ... index. [Motto in Greek and Latin]. (Ed. by Martin Frecht)
Basel, Johannes Herwagen, March 1532. With Herwagen's woodcut device on title and on last leaf verso, and several fine large white on black figured woodcut initials. 14 unn. leaves, 394 pp., 1 leaf. Folio. Contemp. roll-tooled calf over five raised bands (slightly rubbed, corners somewhat bumped, top and lowest compartment of spine restored). Basel, Johannes Herwagen, March 1532. (Bound before:) RHENANUS (i.e. BILDIUS), Beatus. Rerum Germanicarum libri tres ... Quibus praemissa est Vita Beati Rhenani, à Ioanne Sturmio eleganter conscripta. With Froben's woodcut device on title and last leaf verso, and with some figured woodcut initials. 24 unn. leaves, 206 pp., 1 leaf. Basel, (Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, March) 1551. (Bound after:) HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von. Rerum Moscouitarum Comentarij ... In his ... contenta ... Russiae, et ... Moscoviae ... descriptionem. De religione ... et quae nostra cum religione non conveniunt. Chorographiam denique totius imperij Moscici ... Quis denique modus ... oratores ... Itineraria quoque duo in Moscoviam ... Accessit ... index. With 2 splendid full-page woodcuts, woodcut printer's device on last leaf verso, and some figured woodcut initials. 4 leaves, 176 pp., 6 leaves. Basel, Johannes Oporinus, (July 1551). Sammelband of historiographic sources, all in fine Basel editions. Ad I: First edition of the Chronicle of the Saxon historian Widukind, monk at the Abbey of Corvey (died c. 1004), his "Res Gesta Saxonicae", edited and annotated by the Ulm reformer Martinus Frecht. It covers the period from 919 to 973, i.e. from Emperor Heinrich I to his son Otto I, much of it written during the latter's lifetime, and is dedicated to his daughter Mathilde, abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery. Other sources included are: The history of Emperor Heinrich VII by Conrad Vecerus, the life of Carolus Magnus by Eginhart, the Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Sylvius, Liutprandus' chronicle, and the Mainz chronicle by bishop Conrad. - Adams W-215; STC, (German), 920; Potthast I, LXXI and II, 1113 ("eine der vorzüglichsten Quellen des Mittelalters"); Panzer VI, 287, 869; VD 16 ZV 7827. Ad II: Beatus Rhenanus' (1485-1547) opus magnum, the first edition to include his biography written by Iohannes Sturm, the first ever written. The "Rerum Germanicarum libri tres" were initially published in 1531; the work was much appreciated by contemporary and later historians for the impartial and critical attitude of the author. - VD 16 R 2065; STC, (German), 126 (under Bildius); Adams R-439. Ad III: Second enlarged edition, but the first by Oporinus, of Herberstein's (1486-1566) historio-geographical description of the Russian Empire, first published at Vienna in 1549, corrected and edited here by Wolfgang Lazius. Herberstein's wide-ranging knowledge about the land and peoples of Russia is the result of two diplomatic missions on behalf of Emperor Maximilian in 1516-1518 and 1526-1527. The aim of his mission to the Muscovite Tsar Wassilij Ivanovitch was to mediate in the Russian-Polish war. Herberstein's work is to be considered the first Western eyewitness account of Russia, and it is of important cultural value still today. The full-page woodcut at the beginning shows Tsar Wassilij Ivanovitch III with his coat of arms; at the end full-page woodcut of the author's coat of arms within decorative borders. - Lacking the map of Russia. - VD 16 H 2203; STC, (German), 397; Adams H-299; Adelung I, 166, no. 2; ADB XII, 38 (in great detail); cf. Lipperheide Kaa 3 (ed. of 1556) With two engr. armorial bookplates on first paste-down, one of George Edwards, librarian in London. First leaves of the Rhenanus somewhat stained, occasional small waterstain to top margin, altogether a very good and clean copy. HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ; CHRONICLES / CHRONIKEN ; [Bookseller: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat]
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Ruland Martin the Elder Lexicon Alchemiae Sive Dictionarium Alchemisticum Cum obscuriorum Verborum & Rerum Hermeticarum tum Theophrast-Paracelsicarum Phrasium Planam Explicationem continens
):(4, A-3P4.: [8],471,[1]pp. Pagination errors., Frankfurt am Main:. First Edition.. Contemp. German calf-backed paste-paper boards, rear hinge cracked, rubbed; old label on front paste-down, ownerÕs name ÒGodfridus Vogler,Francof,Ó leaf M1 creased so it would not be cut short in binding; wormtrack in later part of volume (no affecting text); light browning (much better than the usual copies).. Zacharias Palthenius,. Alchemical symbol on t.p.,2 marginal woodcuts; head-pieces, decorated initials. Ruland (1532-1602) physician at Lauingen in Swabia Òwhere he is said to have taught medicine in the gymnasium, and he was physician of the Pfalzgraf Philip Ludwig, and of the Emperor Rudolph II... He was in favour of ParacelsusÕ reforms but he dealt greatly in secret remedies..Ó [Ferguson]& "This lexicon is very full, less mystical and more practical than some later ones. Useful in explaining early terminology" [Bolton]. VD17 23:292766X. Bruning 1040. Ferguson II,303. Ferguson, Glasgow, 613. Duveen 592. Bolton I, 1041. Rosenthal, Magica, 8873 Òfort rare.Ó Sudhoff, Paracelsica, 291. Neville II,405. [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]
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Casarrubios Alphonse De COMPENDIUM Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum: Necnon Aliorum Fratrum Mendicatius Ordine Alphabetico Congestu
Venetis: Joan. Antonium Fratres De Sabio. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1532. Second Edition. Hardcover. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. 247 leaves pages; Ex library with label removed from back strip, pocket in back, ownership emboss base of title page. Rebound in simulated vellum, little soiling, rubbed. Was somewhat close trimmed when rebound but no text missing. Last several pages have worm holes at bottom, but no text obliterated. First published in 1526, this 1532 Venetian printing is a variant from those found in libraries, with different printer and a few more leaves. Author's name is also found spelled with one 'r' but with two in this work. . [Bookseller: Noah's Ark Book Attic]
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CRINITUS PETRUS (CRINITO PIETRO) DE HONESTA DISCIPLINA; DE POETIS LATINIS EIUSDEM; POENATUM QUORUM ILLIUS. ADHAEC PRAETER SINGULORUM CAPITUM..ET RERUM ET SCIENTIARUM ABECEDARIO ORDINE AC IUXTA CHARTARUM FERIEM ELENCHUM PRAESTET
Basileae: HENRICUS PETRUS. (IN FINE): MENSE AUGUSTO 1532. [CLASSICI-ENCICLOPEDICO] (cm. 19,5) bella piena pergamena del XVII sec., titolo al dorso.-- cc. 30 nn., pp. 575 + 1p. nn. con registro e colophon + 1 carta con al verso grande marca tipografica. Carattere rotondo e corsivo, molti capolettera ornati e figurati conferiscono a questa edizione notevole eleganza e bellezza. Dopo l' edizione del 1504 l' opera ebbe tantissime ristampe e questa nostra è fra le migliori. Sono citati centinaia di illustri personaggi dell' antichità su ogni disciplina; tratta di storia, filosofia, malattie, amore, magia, astrologia e molti altri argomenti che conferiscono all' opera un carattere veramente vasto. Antiche annotazioni al margine di poche carte interne, vecchi timbretto al frontis, peraltro esemplare molto bello, fresco e nitido impresso su ottima carta. NEGRI "SCRITTORI FIORENTINI" p. 462; BM. STC. GERMAN 228; ADAMS C 2952; GRAESSE II 301. . in ottime condizioni. Rilegato. 1532. [Bookseller: Libri antichi e rari Francesco e Claudia]
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Fine Oronce (1494 1555) "Nova et integra universi orbis descriptio" ("New Map of the Entire World")From Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus Novis orbis Regionum
Paris: Galliot Du Pré, 1532 THE MOST SPECTACULAR FRENCH RENAISSANCE DOUBLE-CORDIFORM MAP OF THE WORLD, DESIGNED BY A MATHAMATICAL GENIUS Woodcut: 13” x 16 7/8” References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 64; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 66; R. V. Tooley, Maps and Map-makers (New York, reprint 1990), 38. Oronce Finé, the most eminent French cartographer of the sixteenth century, is celebrated for having employed a distinctive and influential cordiform (or heart-shaped) projection for world maps. This striking example, the first double-cordiform map ever published, was subsequently much imitated. Drawn in 1531, it first appeared in the 1532 Paris edition of Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus's Novus orbis regionum, a collection of travel accounts that had also been published in Basel several months before. As a double-cordiform representation, it shows the world divided into separate hemispheres, north and south, each depicted in the form of a heart or cordum that mirrors the other, with the two meeting at a central point on the Equator. The left or northern cordum encompasses Asia, Europe, part of Africa and America, while the right includes those parts of Africa and the New World that lay south of the Equator as well as "Terra Australis," the southern continent that was then little more than speculative. Based on sophisticated geometric principles for reducing the spherical earth to a two-dimensional image, Finé's delineation of the world was much copied throughout the sixteenth century. Oval formats, double-hemispheric maps, and ultimately Mercator's projection won out, but few of these other solutions to the problem of creating a world picture matched the aesthetic quality of Finé's heart-shaped image. In addition to the decorative nature of the double-cordiform projection itself, there are ornamental elements surrounding the margins: elaborate foliate patterning, putti bearing strapwork crests, allegorical figures, mermaids and so on. According to the scholar Rodney W. Shirley, moreover, the map was "a rendering considerably in advance of any others printed earlier." Remarkably, Finé showed the landmass of the South Pole to the exact mathematical delineation, a feat way in advance of his time. It is still unknown as to how he achieved it. The map also boasts several geographic developments, such as the naming of the Pacific Ocean beneath the tip of South America "Mare Magellanicum," while Central America incorporates place names that reflect the latest conquests and explorations of Cortez in that region. As with many earlier maps, the North American continent is depicted as an extension of eastern Asia, but Florida appears in its peninsular form and the rendering of the Gulf Coast is also recognizable. Overall, Finé's accomplishment was such that none other than Gerard Mercator, arguably the greatest cartographer of the sixteenth century, looked to this map when compiling his own landmark representation of the world in 1538. . [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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Brunfels Otto 1488? 1534 Contrafayt Kreueterbuch nach rechter vollkommener art.... First Part of Two
Strassburg: J Schott, 1532. Bound in modern somewhat odd, full cream pigskin (or possibly ostrich) with gilt spine titles on a red morocco spine labels. Boards bowing in a bit with slight shelfwear. Starts at leaf XXVII (Cii). Cii and next five leaves with minor restoration to corners. Closed tear of 1 1/2 inches to D1. Some waterstaining to corners. Small repair to bottom margin of D6 and repaired closed tear of 4 inches to E1. Repaired closed tear of 2 inches to Lii, Liiii, Nii, X1. Repaired closed tear of 5 inches to P4-6, Some woodcuts with later light ink names in Latin added. Some foxing and minor blemishes. Waterstaining to fore margin from gather V onwards. C2-C6, D-Dd6, Ee-Gg4. Gg4 blank. The first part only of the two part Kreuterbuch published from 1532-1537, this copy missing all before C2. Nevertheless this is a very scarce early herbal in German. Besides his numerous theological works, Brunfels published treatises on pedagogics, Arabic language, pharmaceutics, and botany. He is often called a father of botany, because, in his botanical writings, he relied not so much on the ancient authors as on his own observations and described plants according to the latter. In his Herbarium vivae icones (1530 and 1536, in three parts) and Contrafayt Kräuterbuch (1532-1537, in two parts), the German plants he himself found during his botanical studies are represented with woodcuts (by Hans Weiditz) under their German vernacular names. However, Duane Isely attributes much of Brunfels' popularity to Weiditz, whose woodcuts set a new standard technically, and were done from life, rather being copied from previous works. Brunfels also introduced information about German plants not found in Dioscorides, and described them independently of their medical values, although the descriptions are often poorly-written. A plant genus Brunfelsia (Solanaceae) is named after him. . First Thus. Pigskin. Good/No Jacket. Folio 12 1/2 Inches. [Bookseller: Adrian Greenwood Rare Books]
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SANNAZARO JACOPO. Le Rime. Con la Gionta, dal suo proprio originale cavata nuovamente, et con somma diligenza corretta et stampata.
Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, s.a. [1532- 1533]., s.l. [Toscolano], - In 8� ant. (mm.151x93), leg. in perg. settecentesca rimontata, cc.53,(3); car. corsivo; ottimo es., con interessanti postille filologiche di dotta ed accurata mano coeva; buona ed. delle Rime del Sannazaro, che fa parte della preziosa Collezione in ottavo dei Paganini, della quale reca il celeberrimo colophon, inquadrato entro doppio filetto (cfr. NUOVO, Alessandro Paganino, 195-196). [Bookseller: Il Muro di Tessa sas Studio bibl. di M.]
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BRUNSCHWIG Hieronymus Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen Ding: Composita genant: durch die einzigen Ding u� das buch Thesaurus pauperum genant f�r die armen yetz von ne�wem wider getruckt und von unzalbarn irrthumen gereynigt unnd gebessert…
Fine large woodcut on title, several other large woodcuts & about 125 woodcuts in the text. 8 p.l., 280 leaves. Small folio, cont. blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (a few unimportant wormholes to first fifty leaves, occasional minor stain), orig. clasps & catches. Strasbourg: H. Gr�niger, 1532. Third edition (1st ed.: 1512) of the “Grosse Distillierbuch,” the most extensive early handbook of pharmacology, which remained an authority throughout the 16th century. The special purpose of this book was to apply the methods of distillation with steam to separate the active principles of medicinal agents from the nonessential matter. This is a richly illustrated work with more than 125 handsome woodcuts depicting distillation equipment, furnaces, and anatomical subjects. The text describes the distillation of spirits from wine, mead, and fermented fruit juices, and the distillation of plants, roots, and flowers. There are sections on aromatic and empyreumatic oils, distilled vinegar, and other products of distillation. There are particularly good descriptions of the technique of distillation. For each plant, Brunschwig has provided its synonyms, indications, and valuable parts. Brunschwig (ca. 1450-ca. 1512), after receiving an education in surgery, traveled extensively through Alsace, Swabia, Bavaria, and the Rhineland as far as Cologne, practicing surgery and acquiring experience in the preparation of medicines, specifically in the technique of distillation. He finally settled in his native city of Strasbourg where he practiced medicine and became a writer on medical and pharmacological subjects. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. Two leaves — P6 and Q1 — carefully remargined at head and foot with several neat repairs (from another copy?). ❧ D.S.B., II, pp. 546-47. Durling 749. . [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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Almanni, Luigi Opere Tosca Ne Di Luigi Alamanni Al Christianis Simo Re Francesco Primo. Elegi.
1532 LUGDUNI Sebastian Gryphius. Very Good condition, in later binding. [Bookseller: Abracadabra Bookshop]
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MACROBIUS A. A. Theodosius IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS LIB. II - SATURNALORUM LIB. VII. Nunc denuo recogniti, & multis in locis aucti. Seb. Griphius Germ. exud. Lugduni, 1532.
In 8� (cm. 16,2) cc. 24 n.n. + pp.590 + 1 c.b. con impresso al recto la marca tipogr. dello stampatore (un grifone con una zampa alzata, in un prato fiorito). Diversi capilett. e fig. inc. n.t. con il ben noto mappamondo a fasce climatiche inc. a pag.148. Ben legato in mz. perg. di fattura recente, ma utilizzando materiali antichi. Una macchia di "antica zuppa di verdure" alle pagg. 580 e 581, laddove si discute per l'appunto, del banchetto dei "Saturnalia", con danneggiamenti del margine bianco esterno delle ultime carte, senza interessare il testo; lievissimo alone all'angolo sup. destro di alcune carte, altrimenti fresco esemplare nitidamente impresso. - Bell'edizione delle due pi� celebri opere del Macrobio col testo ricco di numerose citazioni in greco ed un importante indice. Adams, vol.I pag. 693, n�63. [Bookseller: Maria Calabr� Studio Bibl. di A. Chello]
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Stephanie Buck, Jochen Sander, Thames, Hudson Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII
UK: THAMES AND HUDSON LTD. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Hans Holbein's psychological insight, magisterial compositions, and cool palette ensure his status as one of the greatest European painters. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the book concentrates on the period beginning in 1532, when Holbein settled in England. From 1536 Holbein was court painter to King Henry VIII and immortalized not only the king himself but also several of Henry's prospective spouses, actual wives, and children. Holbein also drew and painted other prominent figures, including German merchants in London, ambassadors, and members of the English court. After almost 400 years, these portraits have lost none of their profoundly expressive power: Holbein was among the first artists to portray people as flesh and blood, as strong and decisive personalities who continue to intrigue and move us. In her introductory essay, Stephanie Buck discusses Holbein's activities as a portraitist. She explores the pivotal role Erasmus played in Holbein's early career, and the later English period during which he portrayed the royals and their circle. Jochen Sander's essay sheds new light on the creation of the Darmstadt Madonna. The book is completed by a Who's Who that explains figures and essential ideas and movements necessary for a complete understanding of Holbein's milieu. ISBN10: 0500093180. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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ARISTOTLE Das aller edelst und bewertest Regiment der gesundthait Auch von allen verborgne[n] k�nsten un[d] K�nigklichen Regimenten Aristotelis das er dem grossmechtigen K�nig Alexandro zu geschriben hat. Au� Arabischer sprach durch Meister P
Augsburg: H. Steiner. 22. April 1532. Modern vellum covered boards 8vo . German translation of the collection of secrets (Secreta secretorum), largely dealing with health, that has been attributed to Aristotle. This is the third appearance of this translation; Steiner published all three with the first appearing in 1530. The work deals, in seventy-one chapters, with diet, health, diseases, medicines, etc. In addition it has political advice for rulers, on life in general and making intelligent decisions in life; such as how to recognize the best wines, advice on drunkenness and recipes for hangovers, etc. The title woodcut depicts the translator dedicating the book to the king. The full-page woodcut is of Alexander the Great standing in the royal military dress of a renaissance warrior.Ferguson in his Bibliographical notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (third suppl. pp. 6-7, no. 5) describes Steiner's 1531 edition, noting the works rarity and also that although a few supplementary texts have been left out that appeared in the Latin Secreta Secretorum of 1520, the present work "has not however been disemboweled like the English translation of 1702" [4], 48 leaves. With title woodcut and 1 full-page woodcut. Running heading on a few leaves is slightly cropped. Small tear repaired (covering up a few letters but no loss). � VD 16, A 3629; IA (= Cranz) 107.931; Durling 300; cf. Wellcome I, 458 & Dodgson II, 112, 11 [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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(BRY, CONLEGIENSIS) HIPPOCRATE, RABELAIS (Fran�ois) Hippocratis ac Galeni libri aliquot, ex recognitione Francisci Rabelaesi, medici omnibus numeris absolutissimi
Lugduni, Apud Gryphium, 1532 in-16, 427pp., (2)ff. (dont un blanc), (40)ff. maroquin rouge � la Du Seuil, dos orn� aux petits fers, tranches dor�es, roulette int�rieure dor�e (reliure du XVIIe si�cle) PREMI�RE �DITION PUBLI�E PAR RABELAIS. En 1531, Rabelais, bachelier en m�decine � Montpellier, avait choisi pour sujet de le�on l'explication des "Aphorismes" d'Hippocrate et de l'"Ars parva" de Galien, dont il avait �tabli le texte d'apr�s un manuscrit en sa possession. Devant le succ�s qu'il remporta, Rabelais en fit un petit livre qui parut, en 1532, avec des notes en grec et en latin. L'ouvrage comporte une �p�tre � son ami et protecteur Geoffroy d'Estissac, �v�que de Maillezais. Le texte grec des "Aphorismes" est ici plac� en fin de volume. "The very wide diffusion of this work, together with the frequent presence of copious and scholarly manuscript notes, show the esteem in which Rabelais was held as a humanist doctor and emphasise that his edition was used as a textbook for university students... It was the first accessible reprint of the new humanist versions of what were the standard medical texts in the curriculum - a publisher's dream in its combination of tradition and modernity" (Rawl & Screech). Petite mouillure dans la marge inf�rieure du volume ; tache d'encre et restauration de papier dans la marge du titre. Waller, 4508 ; Wellcome, 3194 ; NLM, 2347 ; Baudrier, VIII, p. 64 ; Plan, p. 233 ; Bruni Celli, 3522 ; Rawles & Screech, 105. Reli� avec : MONDINO DEI LUZZI. Anatomia quam de partibus humani corporis inscripsit. S.l. [Paris, Simon du Bois], 1527. In-16 de 95 ff.n.ch. et un f. blanc (mutil� et doubl�). Rarissime �dition "de poche" de l'"Anatomie" de Mondino dei Luzzi. Elle fait d�faut � presque toutes les bibliographies sp�cialis�es, et semble n'�tre connue qu'� trois exemplaires hormis le n�tre (British Library, Upsala Library et Biblioteca nacional de Portugal). L'ouvrage a �t� copieusement annot� par un lecteur contemporain de l'�dition. Signature ancienne Richard Conlegiensis sur la garde ; ex-libris Michel De Bry. Bon exemplaire. Mouillures dans la marge inf�rieure droite des cinq derniers feuillets, maculatures et taches d'encre marginales au verso du dernier feuillet. Brigitte Moreau, III, 1286 ; Waller, 6744. [Bookseller: Librairie Alain Brieux]
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BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen Ding: Composita genant: durch die einzigen Ding u� das buch Thesaurus pauperum genant, f�r die armen yetz von ne�wem wider getruckt und von unzalbarn irrthumen gereynigt unnd gebessert�
Fine large woodcut on title, several other large woodcuts & about 125 woodcuts in the text. 8 p.l., 280 leaves. Small folio, cont. blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (a few unimportant wormholes to first fifty leaves, occasional minor stain), orig. clasps & catches. Strasbourg: H. Gr�niger, 1532. Third edition (1st ed.: 1512) of the "Grosse Distillierbuch," the most extensive early handbook of pharmacology, which remained an authority throughout the 16th century. The special purpose of this book was to apply the methods of distillation with steam to separate the active principles of medicinal agents from the nonessential matter. This is a richly illustrated work with more than 125 handsome woodcuts depicting distillation equipment, furnaces, and anatomical subjects. The text describes the distillation of spirits from wine, mead, and fermented fruit juices, and the distillation of plants, roots, and flowers. There are sections on aromatic and empyreumatic oils, distilled vinegar, and other products of distillation. There are particularly good descriptions of the technique of distillation. For each plant, Brunschwig has provided its synonyms, indications, and valuable parts. Brunschwig (ca. 1450-ca. 1512), after receiving an education in surgery, traveled extensively through Alsace, Swabia, Bavaria, and the Rhineland as far as Cologne, practicing surgery and acquiring experience in the preparation of medicines, specifically in the technique of distillation. He finally settled in his native city of Strasbourg where he practiced medicine and became a writer on medical and pharmacological subjects. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. Two leaves � P6 and Q1 � carefully remargined at head and foot with several neat repairs (from another copy?). ❧ D.S.B., II, pp. 546-47. Durling 749. [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.]
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Barros, Braz De Livro Das Constitvicoens E Costvmes Q Se Guard� Em Os Moesteyos Da Cogregacam De Sancta Cruz De Coibra, Dos Canonicos Regulares Da Ordem De Nosso Padre Sancto Augustinho
Coimbra, 1558; 1561. Lvi ff. Dec. title, with large woodcut illus. of angels bearing the Crucifix within a tabernacle frame; woodcut frontis., 43 woodcut lettrines (of multiple origins). Sm. 4to. Contemporary binding utilizing a vellum manuscript music leaf. Modern clamshell box (cloth, 1/4 calf). Seventh edition; Peter Wick notes that six copies are recorded in Portuguese libraries; of the prior editions (first 1532), he locates a total of five copies (of the sixth edition, no copies are known). Rarissime. The frontispiece of this copy is illustrated in Jos� V. de Pina Martins's �Sobre o conceito de humanismo e alguns aspectos hist�ric-doutrin�rios da cultura renascentista� (Paris: Funda��o Calouste Gulbenkian, 1970). Bound with: Regra do bemaventvrado nosso padre sancto Augustinho Bispo & Doutorda ygreia & constituy��es & estatutos dos Canonicos regulares da sua cogrega�a� de sct� Cruz de coimbra. (14)pp. Title with dec. wood-engraved border. 7 woodcut lettrines. First edition. Wick notes three copies recorded in Portuguese libraries. Occasional contemporary annotations; 2 small iron-gall ink losses in inscriptions at foot of title-page of the first work; intemittent waterstaining and marginal tears, and other wear; several leaves loose. Ex-libris Peter A. Wick. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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McGrath, Anne F. Bookman's Price Index, Volume 89: A Guide to the Values of Rare and Other Out of Print Books
Gale, Farmington Hills, MI 2009 - Ex-library markings, but otherwise in an almost unread [as new] condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Boards are clean. 1532 pages. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: C. B. Petty, Bookseller]
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Almanni, Luigi Opere Tosca Ne Di Luigi Alamanni Al Christianis Simo Re Francesco Primo. Elegi.
LUGDUNI Sebastian Gryphius 1532. - Very Good condition, in later binding. [Bookseller: Abracadabra Bookshop.]
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SANNAZARO JACOPO. Le Rime. Con la Gionta, dal suo proprio originale cavata nuovamente, et con somma diligenza corretta et stampata.
Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, s.a. [1532- 1533]., s.l. [Toscolano], - In 8� ant. (mm.151x93), leg. in perg. settecentesca rimontata, cc.53,(3); car. corsivo; ottimo es., con interessanti postille filologiche di dotta ed accurata mano coeva; buona ed. delle Rime del Sannazaro, che fa parte della preziosa Collezione in ottavo dei Paganini, della quale reca il celeberrimo colophon, inquadrato entro doppio filetto (cfr. NUOVO, Alessandro Paganino, 195-196). [Bookseller: Il Muro di Tessa sas Studio bibl. di M.]
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ANON.: Complexion Natür un eigenschafft eines yeden menschen zu Erfaren
Mainz, bey Peter Jordan, 1532, First Edition. Hard Cover, Small 4to, 12 Leaves. Ill.: "MF". Very Good, with Repair/No Jacket.¶ A, A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, C2, C3, C4. 24 Pp. [12 leaves] Small flaw at the bottom of B1 affecting a few words on a line on one side, and words in 3 lines on the other. Verso of the title page has the full-page astrological and pictorial woodcut showing Mars, Venus and Saturn with a star bearing their symbols in front of their pubes. This woodcut is repeated from the publication "Geomantia" where it appears, signed in the wood by "MF." The god/planets stand behind a cow and a ram is in the sky behind them. Here the initials have been removed, but the plate is the same. Christian Egenolph, printer of Geomantia probably sold the block to Peter Jordan. The large emblematic woodcut on the title page is repeated on the recto of the last leaf as a part of the colophon together with the phrase "Zu Mainz zuer Buelden Lederhosen." This astrological work is unnoted in Houzeau & Lancaster, not at KVK, Caillet, Dorbon, Ernst Weil, Biblioteca Astrologia, and is rare. Modern Vellum, A clean, bright copy with the woodcuts beautifully printed, with the flawed page completed. Later vellum.. [Bookseller: Zita Books]
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Brunfels Otto 1488? 1534 Contrafayt Kreueterbuch nach rechter vollkommener art.... First Part of Two
Strassburg: J Schott, 1532. Bound in modern somewhat odd, full cream pigskin (or possibly ostrich) with gilt spine titles on a red morocco spine labels. Boards bowing in a bit with slight shelfwear. Starts at leaf XXVII (Cii). Cii and next five leaves with minor restoration to corners. Closed tear of 1 1/2 inches to D1. Some waterstaining to corners. Small repair to bottom margin of D6 and repaired closed tear of 4 inches to E1. Repaired closed tear of 2 inches to Lii, Liiii, Nii, X1. Repaired closed tear of 5 inches to P4-6, Some woodcuts with later light ink names in Latin added. Some foxing and minor blemishes. Waterstaining to fore margin from gather V onwards. C2-C6, D-Dd6, Ee-Gg4. Gg4 blank. The first part only of the two part Kreuterbuch published from 1532-1537, this copy missing all before C2. Nevertheless this is a very scarce early herbal in German. Besides his numerous theological works, Brunfels published treatises on pedagogics, Arabic language, pharmaceutics, and botany. He is often called a father of botany, because, in his botanical writings, he relied not so much on the ancient authors as on his own observations and described plants according to the latter. In his Herbarium vivae icones (1530 and 1536, in three parts) and Contrafayt Kr�uterbuch (1532-1537, in two parts), the German plants he himself found during his botanical studies are represented with woodcuts (by Hans Weiditz) under their German vernacular names. However, Duane Isely attributes much of Brunfels' popularity to Weiditz, whose woodcuts set a new standard technically, and were done from life, rather being copied from previous works. Brunfels also introduced information about German plants not found in Dioscorides, and described them independently of their medical values, although the descriptions are often poorly-written. A plant genus Brunfelsia (Solanaceae) is named after him. . First Thus. Pigskin. Good/No Jacket. Folio 12 1/2 Inches. [Bookseller: Adrian Greenwood Rare Books]
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BRUNFELS, Otto Herbarum vivae eicones ad naturae imitationem.
Strassburg, Johann Schott, 1532 - 1531 - 1536. En folio (310 x 200 mm). 3 obras en un volumen. (viii)-266-(6), 60 pp., las �ltimas dos blancas. -II: (2), (90) [i.e. 92], (2), 199 [i.e. 201], (7) pp. -III. 240, (4) pp. Portada de la primera parte dentro de orla aleg�rica, armas de Estrasburgo a toda p�gina. m�s de 230 grabados de plantas por Hans Weidits de los cuales 140 est�n coloreados a mano en la �poca. Pergamino del siglo diecinueve. Segunda edici�n de la primera parte y primera edici�n de las partes dos y tres. Contiene m�as de 230 grabados de plantas por Hans Widitz, la mayor�a a gran tama�o y toda p�gina, de los cuales 140 est�n coloreados a mano en la �poca.El padre de la bot�nica moderna. Una nueva �poca en la historia natural naci� con la publicaci�n del Herbarium vivae eicones; si bien este trabajo es comunmente conocido como el herbario de Brunfels, no menos importante es el ilustrador, Hans Weiditz, quien es el primero en representar las plantas tal como son, tom�ndolas de su h�bitat. Sus ilustraciones, que han sido en numerosas ocasiones atribuidas a Durero, rompen con todas las tradiciones de los herbarios antiguos que copian una y otra vez los mismos grabados inventados. Este libro goza fama adem�s de ser un alarde tipogr�fico alem�n: la tipograf�a, la disposici�n del texto, los m�rgenes, las vi�etas y encuadramiento del texto; todo es perfecto.La primera parte apareci� en 1530 y al quedar incompleta se hizo rapidamente una reimpresi�n junto a la segunda parte que completaba la obra entre los a�os 1531 y 1532. En 1536 aparece un tercer volumen con unas breves adiciones y una recopilaci�n de los dos vol�menes anteriores.Hunt: "This is an important book. Brunfels was the first great mind in modern botany, and as Sachs says, a new epoch of natural science began with Brunfels, Bock and Fuchs. They brock awy from the tradition of the old herbals wich had never represent any original thinking."Arber, Herbals, p. 52: "A new era in the history of the herbal may be said to date from the year 1530, when the first part of the Herbarium vivae eicones was published by Schott of Strasburg. This work is commonly called Brunfels' herbal, but it would be juster to associate it with the name of the artist, Hans Weiditz, who was responsible for the illustrations."Procedencia: 1 Ernest Hartland, donado a ... 2. The Hartland Library, ex-librisReferencias: Durling 725; Hunt 30; Nissen 257 Ib, IIa, 7 III Folio. Three volumes in one. Title to volume one within woodcut allegorical border, title of volume two within woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut arms of Strasbourg. Over 230 woodcuts of plant by Hans Weiditz with 140 hand-colored in a contemporary hand. Later vellum. Second edition of volume 1, first edition of volumes 2 and 3. 'A whole world separates these vigorous, well-observed drawings from even the best figures in the German herbarius of 1485. We are at once reminded of D�rer; and much of Weiditz' work has in fact been falsely attributed at one time or another to that great master, ...' (Blunt). 'Brunfels was the first great mind in modern botany' (Hunt). [Bookseller: Librer�a Jos� Porr�a Turanzas, S.A.]
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BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen Ding: Composita genant: durch die einzigen Ding u� das buch Thesaurus pauperum genant, f�r die armen yetz von ne�wem wider getruckt und von unzalbarn irrthumen gereynigt unnd gebessert
- Fine large woodcut on title, several other large woodcuts & about 125 woodcuts in the text. 8 p.l., 280 leaves. Small folio, cont. blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards (a few unimportant wormholes to first fifty leaves, occasional minor stain), orig. clasps & catches. Strasbourg: H. Gr�niger, 1532. Third edition (1st ed.: 1512) of the "Grosse Distillierbuch," the most extensive early handbook of pharmacology, which remained an authority throughout the 16th century. The special purpose of this book was to apply the methods of distillation with steam to separate the active principles of medicinal agents from the nonessential matter. This is a richly illustrated work with more than 125 handsome woodcuts depicting distillation equipment, furnaces, and anatomical subjects. The text describes the distillation of spirits from wine, mead, and fermented fruit juices, and the distillation of plants, roots, and flowers. There are sections on aromatic and empyreumatic oils, distilled vinegar, and other products of distillation. There are particularly good descriptions of the technique of distillation. For each plant, Brunschwig has provided its synonyms, indications, and valuable parts. Brunschwig (ca. 1450-ca. 1512), after receiving an education in surgery, traveled extensively through Alsace, Swabia, Bavaria, and the Rhineland as far as Cologne, practicing surgery and acquiring experience in the preparation of medicines, specifically in the technique of distillation. He finally settled in his native city of Strasbourg where he practiced medicine and became a writer on medical and pharmacological subjects. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. Two leaves ? P6 and Q1 ? carefully remargined at head and foot with several neat repairs (from another copy?). ❧ D.S.B., II, pp. 546-47. Durling 749. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]
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Brunfels, Otto, 1488?-1534 Contrafayt Kreueterbuch nach rechter vollkommener art. First Part of Two
J Schott, Strassburg 1532 - Bound in modern somewhat odd, full cream pigskin (or possibly ostrich) with gilt spine titles on a red morocco spine labels. Boards bowing in a bit with slight shelfwear. Starts at leaf XXVII (Cii). Cii and next five leaves with minor restoration to corners. Closed tear of 1 1/2 inches to D1. Some waterstaining to corners. Small repair to bottom margin of D6 and repaired closed tear of 4 inches to E1. Repaired closed tear of 2 inches to Lii, Liiii, Nii, X1. Repaired closed tear of 5 inches to P4-6, Some woodcuts with later light ink names in Latin added. Some foxing and minor blemishes. Waterstaining to fore margin from gather V onwards. C2-C6, D-Dd6, Ee-Gg4. Gg4 blank. The first part only of the two part Kreuterbuch published from 1532-1537, this copy missing all before C2. Nevertheless this is a very scarce early herbal in German. Besides his numerous theological works, Brunfels published treatises on pedagogics, Arabic language, pharmaceutics, and botany. He is often called a father of botany, because, in his botanical writings, he relied not so much on the ancient authors as on his own observations and described plants according to the latter. In his Herbarium vivae icones (1530 and 1536, in three parts) and Contrafayt Kr�uterbuch (1532-1537, in two parts), the German plants he himself found during his botanical studies are represented with woodcuts (by Hans Weiditz) under their German vernacular names. However, Duane Isely attributes much of Brunfels' popularity to Weiditz, whose woodcuts set a new standard technically, and were done from life, rather being copied from previous works. Brunfels also introduced information about German plants not found in Dioscorides, and described them independently of their medical values, although the descriptions are often poorly-written. A plant genus Brunfelsia (Solanaceae) is named after him. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Evelyn Harvey Books]
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Menochio, Giacomo Consilia Sive Responsorum
Menochio, Giacomo [1532- - 1607]. Consilia Sive Responsorum. Liber Tertius; Nunc Primum in Lucem Editus. Quorum Quidem Responsorum (Ea Sunt Argutia, Eruditione, Atque Elegantia) Velut ex Oraculo Prudenter, Sciteq; Dicta, Facile Quisque Legendo Iudicibit. Et si Quis Libri Utilitatem, Vel Scriptoris vim Ingenii Atque Solertiam Spectet, Nulle Cere Aut Pauca, Quae cum His Conferre Queat. Cum Rerum Summis, Et Indice Locupletissimo. Venice: Apud Franciscum Zilettum, 1582. [xxxvi], 381 fols. Main text printed in parallel columns. Folio (14" x 9-1/2"). Contemporary limp vellum, early hand-lettered title to spine, ties lacking. Some soiling and rubbing to extremities, vellum beginning to break through pastedowns. Large woodcut printer device to title page, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary and later signatures and annotations to preliminaries. Wear to edges of margins at ends of text block, light toning in a few places, interior otherwise fresh. * First edition. With index. Highly regarded in his time, Menochio was a professor of law at the University of Padua. Complete in itself, this book is from a three-volume collection of Menochio's writings on Roman and canon law. Volume I was issued in 1575, Volume II in 1577. Expanded editions were published in 1582, 1594, 1605 and 1676. Complete sets of any edition are quite uncommon. Adams, A Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe M1269-70. Pazzaglini and Hawks, Consilia M51-53. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]
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Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Des Hochberuemptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini/ warhafftige Hystorien/ die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]/ un[d] inn Viertzig vier Buecher aussgeteylt/ darinn er von vil k�nigreychen der welt/ wie die auff und abgang genom[m]enn/ beschriben. Die Hieronimus Boner der zeyt Schultheys zuo Colmar/ auss dem Latein inn diss volgend Te�tsch vertolmetscht hat/ welche nit allain zuo lesen lustig/ sonder einem yeden menschen zuo wissen nutzlich und not ist.
- Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1532. 4�. [4], CXIX Bll. Mit 50 grossen Holzschnitten von H�rg Breu und Hans Weiditz, Holzschnitt-Vignetten u. -Initialen. Neuer Halbleinwandband, Blattrand beschnitten (ohne Textverlust), teilw. feuchtrandig u. kleiner Wurmgang im Blattrand, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar. VD 16 T 2070. Vgl. Graesse III, 514. - Angeb.: Herodotus der aller hochberuemptest Griechische geschicht-schreyber/ von dem Persier/ und vilen andern kriegen und geschichten/ etc. Durch Hieronymum Boner/ Oberster Mayster zuo Comar/ Auss dem Latin inn das nachuolgende Te�tsch gebracht. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1535. [6], CXLVI Bll. Mit 8 grossen Holzschnitten u. Holzschnittvignetten. - VD 16 H 2519 Geschichte Antike [Bestellnr.: 61082A] [Bookseller: Antiquariat von Matt]
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Machiavelli, Niccol� Historie Fiorentine
Florence\|Bernardo di Giunta\|1532. Di Niccolo Machiavelli Cittadino, et secretario Fiorentino. Al santiss. et beatiss. Padre S.N. Clementi Settimo pontefice mass. The Bernardo di Giunta Edition MACHIAVELLI, Niccol�. Historie Fiorentine. Di Niccolo Machiavelli Cittadino, et secretario Fiorentino. Al santiss. et beatiss. Padre S.N. Clementi Settimo pontefice mass. Florence: Bernardo di Giunta, 16 March 1532. First edition(? ) The Blado edition was published just two days before the present Giunta edition, however they used different manuscripts. Although the Blado edition is dated 25 March, 1532, some copies have the Giunta edition with a colophon date of 27 March, 1532, while other copies such as our present copy has a colophon dated 16 March, 1532, possibly giving priority to this edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 208 x 136 mm). [2, blank], [1]-224, [2, blank] leaves. Leaves partly numbered 9-224 with some numbers printed in error. Lacking the rare four errata leaves found in only a few copies. Only one other copy has come up at auction since 1940 according to ABPC, which was the Chatsworth copy. Our present copy collates the same as that copy, except the Chatsworth copy has the date on the preface of 16, March 1531. Contemporary brown calf, rebacked to style. Boards decoratively ruled in blind. Spine ornamentally stamped in blind. Old printed text visible from underneath front and rear pastedowns. Some wear to corners and edges of boards. Tail of spine a bit weak. A tiny bit of worming to inner margin of signatures E-M, not affecting text. Two previous owner's old sepia ink signatures to title-page. Two small holes to title-page, not affecting text. Some spotting and dampstains to front and rear blanks. Some light tidemarks to margins throughout. Overall a very good copy of this rarity. "One of Machiavelli's most important political studies. It has long been known that the Giunta edition of the Historie followed one printed at Rome by Blado by a few days: the Blado edition is dated 25 March 1532, while Giunta's important preface to what he probably supposed was going to be the First Edition, is dated 27 March 1532 in most copies, and the colophon either 27 or 16 March. In some copies, and possibly after it was learned that Blado's printing had stolen a march on the official Giunta edition, changes were made in both the colophon and the prefatory letter, as well as some page numerals and probably quire-signatures. " (Laurence Witten Rare Books). In 1531, the printer Blado in Rome recieved previliages from Pope Clement VII to print the text of some of Machiavelli's manuscripts. "Meanwhile, back in Florence, Giunta, unaware of Blado's project, had decided, with the approval of the author's heirs, to honor Machiavelli in the city of his birth by producing printed editions of his as yet unpublished major works (the Giuntas having been the first to print the Arte della guerra in 1521). With his own printing nearly finished, the news of the Rome edition came as a shock to Giunta. Arguing that he and not Blado had been given the authorization of the authors' heirs, he immediately applied for and duly received the Pope's permission not only to publish his own edition, overriding Blado's privilege, but also (in a papal brief dated 20 December 1531) to continue the project of printing Florentine editions of the remaining works. Hence the rush of both printers to issue the first edition of each of the remaining works. Blado won in both cases, coming out well ahead with Il principe, but publishing his edition of the Historie fiorentine only two days before Giunta's. " (Christie's). HBS 65016. $10, 000. Historie Fiorentine [Bookseller: Alibris]
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HOGENBERG, Nicolaus (c.1500-39) Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati. Caesareas sanctique patris longo ordine turmas aspice
[?Antwerp: 1532.] 8 friezes, each consisting of four folios joined, float mounted in pairs and framed (frieze size 15 x 60 inches). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved frieze totaling more than 40 feet in length. Provenance: Early manuscript colophon; with the large engraved armorial bookplate of Antoine de la Mare, Sieur de Chesnevarin, councilor to the King Henry IV (ennobled 1590); late 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate with count's crown and manuscript motto 'semper juncti', and ownership inscription "Picquot fils"; early 20th-century bookplate with cipher 'LR'. 'this is undeniably one of the most interesting and splendid works representing public processions in the 16th century' (Vinet). THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED FETE ENGRAVINGS EVER PRODUCED, this issue with the space above the plates showing engraved arms of the noble processors, and captions in French within frames. Recording the triumphal and majestic procession of Charles V (1500-1558), Clement VII, and all the Princes and Dukes of the Spanish empire, after Charles's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor at Bologna in 1530. Charles V was the last Emperor to receive a papal coronation, and since he and Clement VII had often been on opposing sides of the complicated political divides of early 16th-century Europe, it was an event of tremendous historical significance. As early as 1524, the year after Clement became Pope, Francis I of France's conquest of Milan prompted him to change his allegiance from Imperial Spain and to ally himself with other Italian princes (including the Republic of Venice) and France in the January of 1525. This alliance acquired Parma and Piacenza for the Papal States, the rule of Medici over Florence and the free passage of the French troops to Naples. However at the Battle of Pavia in February of 1525 Francis was captured by his bitter enemy Charles V and held captive in Madrid. So Clement re-affirmed his loyalty to Charles, signing an alliance with the viceroy of Naples. Once Francis was freed after the Treaty of Madrid in 1526 Clement changed sides again, and entered into the League of Cognac together with France, Venice, Florence, and Francesco Sforza of Milan. Then he issued an invective against Charles, who in reply defined him a "wolf" instead of a "shepherd", menacing the summoning of a council about the Lutheran question. Meanwhile troops loyal to Charles, led by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna pillaged the Vatican City and sacked Rome in 1527; Clement was held prisoner in Castel Sant'Angelo. The Pope was forced to change sides for one last time. On June 6, Clement VII surrendered, and agreed to pay a ransom of 400,000 ducati in exchange of his life. He conceded Parma, Piacenza, Civitavecchia and Modena to the Holy Roman Empire. In June of 1528 the warring parties signed the Peace of Barcelona. The Papal States regained some cities and Charles V agreed to restore the Medici to power in Florence. And, at last, in1530 Pope Clement VII crowned Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor: the pinnacle of Habsburg power, when all the family's far flung holdings were united under one ruler. After Charles's reign, his realms were split between his descendants, who received the Spanish possessions and the Netherlands, and those of his younger brother, who received Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. This copy of "Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati …" was formerly in the possession of the eminent de la Mare family of Normandy. Antoine de la Mare was ennobled by Henry IV in March 1590. Formerly a protestant King of Navarre, and then first Bourbon King of France, Henry IV very publically attended mass in order to secure the throne. During Henry IV's reign a number of prominent families who had supported his coronation and fought on behalf of the Protestant cause were ennobled under the edict of Nantes (or Toleration). During the reign of Louis XIV, however, many of these families had their patents examined in the 1660s; the implication being that their loyalty to a Catholic King was in question. It is recorded that the nobility of the de la Mare family survived this inquisition in November of 1668, and their Catholic descendants still live in Normandy today. However it is likely that some of Antoine's descendents were put to Louis's ultimate test: he built an army of similar families of protestant descent to invade the Netherlands and Flemish cities (with which Normandy had generally been on good trading terms). In 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes and barred Protestants from holding titles, and even being citizens. Those who would not convert to Catholicism were forced to leave, could face complete ruin, pay heavy fines, and suffer imprisonment. The four Antwerp issues of "Gratae et laboribus aequae posteritati …" are generally considered first edition, while Hondius's very inferior 17th-century edition is thought of as the second. The present copy agrees with what Brunet described as the fourth issue. All Antwerp issues are rare, and were unseen even by Brunet who quoted from the Paelinck sale. ABPC records no copy of any issue at auction since 1983. Brunet III, 250; Lipperheide Si4; Mitchell, Italian Civic Pageantry in the High Renaissance, p.21 ('none of the early editions seen'); Vinet 553. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter. . [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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