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FINE, Oronce [1494-1555] Quadratura Circuli
Paris: Simon de Colines, 1544., 1544. folio. pp. 6 p.l., 107. crible title border of strapwork ornament & 42 woodcut text illus. & diagrams decorated with florets. crible initials & headpieces. modern decorated bds. (few small holes in title & last leaf, some light foxing, but a crisp copy with good margins). the Philip Hofer-Harvard Library copy (discreet release stamp on Hofer's book label). First Edition of this collection of writings by French mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, Oronce Fine, regius professor of mathematics at the College Royal. The essays deal respectively with Fine's attempt to compute the ratio of circumference to diameter and solve the quadrature of the circle, with the measurement of longitude, and with the astrolabe. The splendid title border, woodcut text illustrations, dedication headpiece, and crible initial were probably all designed by Fine, the other Colines initials being attributed to Geoffroy Tory. Several of the illustrations depict scientific instruments (the 'triquetrum' and astrolabe) and their use. For a discussion of Fine's contribution to book design and examples of his work, see Mortimer, 225. and following: "[Fine's] work as a designer is closely related to his major fields of mathematics, astronomy, and geography, and his contribution is particularly interesting in extending beyond the illustration to the ornamentation of scientific texts." Adams F479. BM STC French p. 166. Gallois, Fine, pp. 76-77. Johnson, Fine, p. 109. Mortimer, Harvard French 16th Century Books, 229 (this copy). Morrison, Four Centuries of Fine Printing, p. 126. Renouard, Colines, pp. 393-95.. 1st Edition. [Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)]
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FENESTELLA, LUCIUS [pseud. of ANDREA DOMENICO FIOCCO] Il Fenestella d'i Sacerdotii, e d'i Magistrati Romani. Tradotto di latino alla lingua Toscana, ... M. Angelo Motta
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari. 1544. Circa 1800 calf rebacked with finely gilt tooled spine Small 8vo . FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of this historical description of the government and priesthood of ancient Rome by the Florentine humanist Andrea Domenico Fiocco (or Fiocchi, c. 1410-1452). The Latin text was first printed in Venice in 1473-77 and attributed by Fiocco to the Roman historiographer Lucius Fenestella. The translator, Angelo Motta, dedicates the work to Francesco Sansovino (1521-1583) who would also provide a translation of this work for Giovio for a 1547 edition. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediately a wide circulation ... and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available. Many more editions of Fiocchi's work were published all over Europe in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries" (M. Laureys). A scarce work. Not in the OCLC 43, [1] leaves. Woodcut printer's device and fine woodcut historiated initials. Some scattered foxing. Early inscription crossed out on last leaf. BM/STC Italian, p. 246; not in Adams [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Fausto da Longiano, Sebastiano. Il gentil'huomo. 40 (2 w.) Bl. Kl.-8�. Kartonage d. 19. Jahrh. (neu aufgezogen).
Venedig 1544. - Zweite Ausgabe des erstmals 1542 erschienenen Traktats �ber den Edelmann, der hier explizit als Adliger verstanden wird. Der Poligrafo und �bersetzer Fausto (ca. 1502-1565) gibt erst eine Definition des "gentil'huomo" sowie Zitate von Dante und Petrarca. Es folgen im zweiten Buch Erl�uterungen �ber den Ursprung des Adels sowie allgemeine Betrachtungen zur W�rde des Menschen und dem Ehrbegriff. Fausto verspricht ein drittes Buch, das den Edelmann n�her charakterisieren sollte, sowie ein viertes �ber die "Gentildonna". Leider sind diese beiden Teile nie erschienen, ein Vergleich mit dem 1528 erschienenen "Cortegiano" von Castiglione muss sich auf die allgemeinen Bemerkungen beschr�nken. Die erste Ausgabe erschien bei Bindoni und Pasi, die vorliegende ohne Verlegerangabe. – Wenig gebr�unt. – Adams L 1433. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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C. SUETONII TRANQUILLI. XII. Caesares. Ite Io. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, de Romanis principibus, libri III Eiusdem Annotationes in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restituta per D. Erasmum Roter.
Lugduni - Lyon, , Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1544,. 150x105mm, cartonnage papier marbr�, reliure XIXe si�cle, coins sup�rieures des 30 premi�res pages brunis, papier alt�r� au milieu de la page de titre, avec pertes de quelques lettres. Marque de l'imprimeur sur la page de titre. 1 ff., [Bookseller: Bouquinerie du Varis]
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Wursteisen Christian ( Henricpietri) Baszler Chronik ( chroniques b�loises) 1580
- in 4 reliure d'�poque avec fermoir, ex libris de W.R.StaehlinWursteisen, Christian, 1544-1628. ( photos sur demande)Bassler Chronik darinn alles was in oberen Teutsche Landen/ nicht nur in der Stadt und Bistumbe Basel. 1. Auflage 1 Band. Basel Henric Petri um 1580 4� 655 Seiten, und vielen Textholzschnitten,Titelholzschnitt ( manque la page de titre et le plan de B�le)von T.Stimmer. Einband in Blindpr�gedruck der Zeit mit Buchschliessen. Vorsatzpapier eingef�gt,einige Seiten hinterlegt,letze Seiten Wuml�cher. Textholzschnitt und Titelholzschnitt mit Besitzervermerk. Erstausgabe der ersten gedruckten Basler Chronik,komplett mit der seltenen auf drei Teilen abgezogenen Karte von Christian Wursteisen ( 1544-1588). In zehnj�hriger,eifriger und umsichtiger Arbeit wurden die Quellen zusammengetragen von Basler Historiker und Mathematiker Christian Wursteisen.Die Chronik stellt eine grossangelegte Heimatkunde des Raurakerlandes und dessen Nachbargebiete vor und ist ein H�hepunkt schweizerscher Historiographie des 16.Jahrhunderts.Von der Einsicht �berzeugt,dass Partikularhistorisches Wissen die Grundlage f�r Generalhistorien bilden m�ssen,versucht der Autor, die Ortsgeschichte in Zusammenhang mit der eorop�ischen Geschichte darzustellen. Wursteisens Kritik bleibt wach, besonders gegen�ber volkskundlicher �berlieferungen, er verfolgt z�h Aberglauben und Teufelsspuk und stellt am liebsten auf Urkunden ab. (E.Bonjour).Die grosse aus drei Teilenzusammengesetzte Karte, umrahmt von einer Wappenbord�re, zeigt rechts den Plan der Stadt Basel aus der Vogelschau und in der linken H�lfte das Gebiet des Aar-und Sundgaus, sowie das Elsass und den s�dlichen Schwarzwald. Die vom Solothurner Maler und Formschneider Gregor Sickinger (1558-?) entworfene und geschnittenen Textillustrationen zeigen historische Ereignisse, Potraits und viele Wappen, bei denen erstmals die entsprechenden Farben und Buchstaben markiert sind. [Bookseller: la librairie ancienne]
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ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE. Opera, qu� quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata, atq(u)e � qu�m paucissimis hactenus uisa, . edita. (and) Eutocii Ascalonitae in Archimedis Libros de Sph�ra et cylindro.Commentaria, .edita. (in Greek, 2 Parts).
- Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1544. Folio. (30,5 x 21 cm.). Recently bound in full vellum. A very nice and clean copy with a bit of occassional scatterd brownspotting, perhaps gently washed. Many woodcut diagrams throughout, and a fine wood-engraved initial to each section (8), 139; (4), 65 (without the final blank). First edition of the Greek text of the works of Archimedes, being the ARCHIMEDEAN PRINCIPS edited by Thomas Geschauff, called Venatorius. It includes the Greek text of Archimedes and the commentaries of Eutocios of Ascalon (ab. 500 A.D.). Simultaneously with the Greek text, Hervegius in Basel published a Latin translation of the works and a Latin translation of the commentary, but they were apparently also issued as separates, as here.This work marks the beginning of the Archimedean renaissance, there is no incunabulum-edition, and it is only preceded by small Latin selections from his works in 1503 and 1543. Archimedes was called "the God of mathematics" by Plinius, and he is without doubt the greatest mathematician, physicist and engineer of ancient times and one of the greatest geniuses of all times. "There is no one individual whose work epitomizes the character of the Alexandrian age so well as Archimedes (287-212 B.C), the greatest mathematician in antiquity". (Morris Kline). "He gave birth to the calculus of the infinite conceived and brought to perfection successively by Kepler, Cavalieri, Fermat, Leibnitz, and Newton." (Chasles).Archimedes was the first to formulate what can genuinely be called physical laws: "Law of the Lever" and "Law of floating bodies." - "in fact, from all of physics before Simon Stevin (1548-1650), the only "basic" achievements which have textbook status nowadays are the two laws by Archimedes." (Salomon Bochner); in Mechanics he worked out the principles of the subject, and he was the first to apply geometry to physical science. In geometry his works consist in the main of original investigations, and he began where Euclid left off, and in fact he performed what is equivalent to integration, in finding the area of a parabolic segment, and of a spiral, the surface and volume of a sphere and a segment etc. - He invented the whole science of Hydrastatics."This represents a sum of mathematical achievements unsurpassed by any man in the world's history" (Thomas Heath) - "There was hardly a field of mathematics (including approximation mathematics and numerical analysis) to which he did not contribute something exceptionally ingenious and original. His work in higher mathematics was almost two thousand years ahead of his time and was fully appreciated only in the nineteenth century." (Cornelius Lanczos).Among the 7 works contained in the Princeps we have also the famous Sand Reckoner (Psammites, Arenarius) dedicated to King Gelon, in which an extremely large number is introduced in arithmetics "How many grains of sand could the whole universe hold?" - a work which also contains THE FIRST PRINTED STATEMENT of the Heliocentric world picture, the COPERNICAN THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE with the sun in the centre and the planets and the earth revolving around it, a theory first put forward by ARISTARCHUS in a lost work and here (in the Sand Reckoner) referred by Archimedes : "Aristarchus brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the "universe" just mentioned (the common conception). His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the fixed stars, situated about the same centre as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface" (Heath's translation). - The Sand Reckoner (De arenae numero, Psammites, Arenari [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]
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Albo, Joseph Sefer Ha-Ikarim
Venice: Daniel Baumberg, 304[1544]. 8vo. 171 leaves. Half vellum on leather boards. A treatise on the Jewish articles of faith. It is a reasoned presentation of Judaism and shows that the basic teachings of the Jewish religion bore the eseential character of the divine law. The work is divided into four parts. Spine torn. Missing complete title page. Second page and last few pages repaired with tape affecting text on top and side margins. Ninth leaf repaired, affecting text. Tear on page 9 and page 89 leaf near inside margin. Wormholes on first few pages. Water stains throughout. Text in Hebrew. First post incunabula edition. Book fair to good condition. [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller]
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COCHLAEUS, Johannes Sacerdotii ac sacrificii novae legis defensio, adversus Wolfgangi Musculi Augustae concionantis arrosiones
A. Wei�enhorn, Ingolstadt 1544 - Unbound 4to . ONLY EDITION, published the same year in a German translation, of Cochlaeus' "Defense of the priesthood and of the sacrifice of the new law, against the assertions of the august orator, Wolfgang Musculus," which attacked the positions of the Augsburg reformer. "This booklet by Cochlaeus defends in systematic fashion the Catholic doctrines surrounding the Mass. It is directed against two sermons preached by Musculus at Regensberg. The course of the treatise considers in turn the priesthood of the New Testament, the sacrifice of the Mass, the application of the Mass, transubstantiation, and the canon of the Mass" (Schrodt & Vogelstein, no. 38). Cochlaeus was a friend of Erasmus and many humanists however ". Cochlaeus considered it his duty to preserve the unity of the church by attacking the reformers in his writings. Although this caused him to lose many of his former friends, he soon emerged as as of Germany's leading controversialist" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, I, p. 321). The work is listed in OCLC but without locating any copies and only two copies of the German edition of the same year 50 leaves. With title woodcut. Tiny collection and duplicate stamp on verso of title. � VD 16, C 4378; IA 142.179; Stalla 148; Spahn, Cochlaeus 151. [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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Heraclides.’ Allegoriae in Homeri fabulas de diis, nunc primum � Graeco sermone in Latinum translatae: Conrado Gesnero . interprete.
Basel: [Ex officina Ioannes Oporini.] , 1544 - two wormholes in the last 5 leaves touching a character or two each, light browning in places, title toned and dusty, a few ink blotches, last leaf frayed at corner, pp. [xvi], 368 [i.e. 168], [48], sm. 4to., modern plain brown buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, new endpapers, good The first separate printing of this text on allegorical interpretation of Homer, attributed (spuriously) to Heraclides. It had earlier appeared attached to the 1505 Aldine Aesop. The text was influential in the understanding of Homer through the early modern period; indeed, Milton owned a copy of this edition (now in Illinois) and annotated it extensively in Greek. Scarce in the UK: although Worldcat lists eight copies in the USA, COPAC locates only three copies, in the BL, Oxford, and Aberdeen. VD16 records only one non-German location (Budapest). (VD16 H2191) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Blackwell Rare Books ABA ILAB BA]
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Mosellanus, Melanchthon u. Erasmus Tabulae de schematibus et tropis, Petri Mosellani. Item Rhetorices Phillippi Melanthonis tabulae. Item Libelli Erasmi de duplici copia, scilicet rerum & verborum, tabulae.
N�rnberg, Johannes Petreius, 1544. - 8�. 28 Bll., mit Titelbord�re Broschur VD 16, S 2197; nicht bei Adams und im BMC. Seltene Zusammenstellung der wichtigsten rhetorischen Stilfiguren in einer Synthese nach Petrus Mosellanus, Melanchthon und Erasmus. Das Vorwort des Humanisten Mosellanus erkl�rt, erst die Figuren und Tropen g�ben der Rede ihren Reiz, sie seien gleichsam die Farben f�r das Gem�lde. Am Ende des kleinen Handbuches findet sich ein Gedicht des Jakob Micyllus und ein Gruss an die Stundenten von Georg Maior, der vermutlich auch als Herausgeber anzusehen ist. - Gut erhalten, kleiner Randfleck oben, Titelblatt mit kleinem Knick unten (dadurch unauff�llige Unterbrechung im Druck der Bord�re), sonst sauber. [Attributes: Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek]
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Antonio Augustin Emendationum, et Opinionum, Libri Quatvor. Ad Modestinum; Siue, De Excusationibus, Liber Singularis. His Libris Maxima Iuris Ciuilis Pars Ex Florentinis Pandectis Emendatur, & Declaratur.
Lyon: Sebastianum Gryphium, 1544. Second edition. 8vo (105x175mm), 19th century vellum, morocco title label and gilt decorations on spine, 372, (43)pp. Engraved title, colophon and historiated initial letters. Early owner's names on title. Very good condition. Antonio Agustin, Archbishop of Tarragon published this first critical study of Gratian in Venice in 1543. His later writings on Gratian were not published until after his death in 1587. BH/jam [Publisher: SEB. GRYPHIUM] [Bookseller: amazon.com]
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document manuscrit R�capitulatif des revenus du roi en la ville et viguerie de Sommi�res (Gard).
- Nombre de document : 1 parchemin 57 x 30 cm 21/12/1544 Parchemin roul�. bon D�claration par Charles de Crussol, s�n�chal de Beaucaire et de N�mes et Jehan Boyleane (qui a sign� le document) des revenus du roi en la ville et viguerie de Sommi�res, sur dix ans finissant � la St-Jean-Baptiste 1543 : "Estat de la valleur des revenuz et emolumens que le Roy prend en domaine es ville et viguerie de Sommi�res en la s�n�chauss�e de Beaucaire [.]�. Pour chaque ann�e, d�tail des recettes, des d�penses et ce qui est d� au roi, soit 1534 : 84 livres 11 sous 6 deniers ; 1535 : 68 livres 9 sous 10 deniers ; 1536 : 49 livres 3 sous 6 deniers ; 1537 : 47 livres 9 sous 6 deniers ; 1538 : 89 livres 18 sous 11 deniers ; 1539 : 104 livres 5 sous 6 deniers ; 1540 : 82 livres 18 sous 9 deniers ; 1541 : 72 livres 12 sous 9 deniers ; 1542 : 77 livres 0 sou 3 deniers ; 1543 : 86 livres 18 sous 10 deniers. [Bookseller: Traces Ecrites]
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Estienne, Robert (ed.) Biblia Hebraica
Paris: Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus), 1544-1546. First edition. 16vo. 17 volumes in 10. Modern full vellum binding with embossed gilt lettering to spines. Seated in modern blue cloth slipcase. All page edges gilt. Complete Hebrew Bible- TaNaKh: Torah, Neviim Ketuvim (Pentateuch, Prophets, Writings), Darlow and Moule #5089 (see additional paragraph at end of their entry). Complete with all blank leaves. One of the most elegant printed Hebrew editions of its time, produced by Robert I Estienne (Robertus Stephanus, sometimes anglicized as Robert Stephens), the royal typographer to the French crown in the 16th century. Each original part's title page contains an image of Estienne's device- an olive tree with an old man standing underneath, and the slogan: "noli altum sapere" (Romans 11:20). The following title pages contain an imprint, written in Rashi script: Genesis, Iosoe & Iudices, Isaiae, Ieremiae, Ezechielis, Duodecim Prophetae, Psalterium, Prouerbia Solomonis & Iob, Canticum Canticorum, Daniel & Esras. The remaining parts contain Estienne's device, but no imprint. Psalterium (vol. 8 in our set) contains Latin imprint at the back and is the oft-found second printing of this volume dated 1565. All Hebrew titles set within cartouche headpieces of text. Printed throughout in Hebrew type. Tight, clean modern vellum binding, ink notes and worn-off gilt page edges to several volumes. Overall clean set, in very good condition. [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller]
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COCHLAEUS, Johannes Sacerdotii ac sacrificii novae legis defensio, adversus Wolfgangi Musculi Augustae concionantis arrosiones
A. Wei�enhorn, Ingolstadt 1544 - Unbound 4to . ONLY EDITION, published the same year in a German translation, of Cochlaeus' "Defense of the priesthood and of the sacrifice of the new law, against the assertions of the august orator, Wolfgang Musculus," which attacked the positions of the Augsburg reformer. "This booklet by Cochlaeus defends in systematic fashion the Catholic doctrines surrounding the Mass. It is directed against two sermons preached by Musculus at Regensberg. The course of the treatise considers in turn the priesthood of the New Testament, the sacrifice of the Mass, the application of the Mass, transubstantiation, and the canon of the Mass" (Schrodt & Vogelstein, no. 38). Cochlaeus was a friend of Erasmus and many humanists however ". Cochlaeus considered it his duty to preserve the unity of the church by attacking the reformers in his writings. Although this caused him to lose many of his former friends, he soon emerged as as of Germany's leading controversialist" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, I, p. 321). The work is listed in OCLC but without locating any copies and only two copies of the German edition of the same year 50 leaves. With title woodcut. Tiny collection and duplicate stamp on verso of title. � VD 16, C 4378; IA 142.179; Stalla 148; Spahn, Cochlaeus 151. [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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FENESTELLA, LUCIUS [pseud. of ANDREA DOMENICO FIOCCO] Il Fenestella d'i Sacerdotii, e d'i Magistrati Romani. Tradotto di latinoalla lingua Toscana, ... M. Angelo Motta
Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari Venice 1544 Circa 1800 calf rebacked with finely gilt tooled spine Small 8vo . FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of this historical description of the government and priesthood of ancient Rome by the Florentine humanist Andrea Domenico Fiocco (or Fiocchi, c. 1410-1452). The Latin text was first printed in Venice in 1473-77 and attributed by Fiocco to the Roman historiographer Lucius Fenestella. The translator, Angelo Motta, dedicates the work to Francesco Sansovino (1521-1583) who would also provide a translation of this work for Giovio for a 1547 edition. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediately a wide circulation ... and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available. Many more editions of Fiocchi's work were published all over Europe in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries" (M. Laureys). A scarce work. Not in the OCLC 43, [1] leaves. Woodcut printer's device and fine woodcut historiated initials. Some scattered foxing. Early inscription crossed out on last leaf. BM/STC Italian, p. 246; not in Adams [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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Hebrew Bible/ Tanakh [Torah Neviim u-Khetuvim]. 4 volumes
Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1544/5. 4 volumes:#11;1) Pentateuch [5 Books of Moses]. 5 Megillot.#11;2) Former Prophets#11;3) Later Prophets#11;4) Hagiography/ Writings#11;[Hence, containing all the 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible]#11;#11;Bomberg's fifth quarto edition, following the third quarto edition. The colophon at the end of the fourth volume reads: "Nidpas revi'ith". Thus, Adel-Kind identifies this as the Bomberg's fourth Bible edition. However, the title page of the first volume [here missing] reads "nidpas hamishith", i.e. the fifth edition. As indicated by Steinschneider, this contradiction is reconciled by the fact that Bomberg printed the Pentateuch separately from the other books. Haberman also alludes to this, stating that this Bible issued by Bomberg is indeed the fifth edition, however he utilized portions left from the fourth edition.#11;Resembles the second quarto edition closely in its appearance. The text, however, is a fusion between that of Felix Pratensis (Darlow and Moule # 5083) and that of Jacob b. Chayim (Darlow and Moule #5085) This edition had great popularity among the divines of the Reformation.#11;#11;4 volumes. 4to. Bound in contemporary rubbed calf, with the original metal clasps. Ex libris, except for vol. 1. Printers devices. Illustrated initials. The work is annotated throughout at margins in various earlier hands in Hebrew, Russian and French. #11;#11;Title page of vol. 1 missing. Age wear to binding. Hinges. Browning, foxing and some worming to pages, not affecting text. Damages and repair to some pages at end of vol. 4, not affecting text. Inside margins of last three pages of vol. 4 stuck together. In Hebrew. Very good condition.#11;#11; Darlow and Moule, #5086 [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller]
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SALLUSTIUS, Caius Crispus C. Crispi Sallustii de coniuratione catilinae historia. Eiusdem de bello iugurthino [etc.]
Paris: Rob. Stephani, 1544. First and only Estienne edition. 8vo. pp. 208, [32]. Title page with Estienne device [Renouard Typographiques #294]. Text in italic. Pages are clean and crisp with some mild spotting to the title page. A faint monogram signature in an old hand is present on either side of the printer's device. Bound in early 19th century straight grained red morocco; rubbing to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. This copy was owned by the great book collector Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) and contains his heraldic book plate [labeled "Syston Park"] as well as his monogrammed ticket on the inside front cover. [See De Ricci, "English Collectors!" plate VIII, also pp. 159-160]. Another heraldic plate is located on the marbled fly-leaf - "Peter Hall." Contains "De conjuratione Catilinae" (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino" (On the Jugurthine War) as well as various fragments. [Renouard, Estienne, 14; Adams S-155; Schweiger III, p. 873; Graesse VI, p. 238]. [Bookseller: Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books]
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Romano Ruggiero e Vivanti Corrado (coordinatori) Storia d'Italia I.I caratteri originali - II. Dalla caduta dell'Impero romano al secolo XVIII (2 Tomi in unico cofanetto)-III.Dal Primo Settecento all'Unit� - IV.Dall'Unit� a oggi: 1Tomo La storia economica, 2 Tomo, La cultura, 3 Tomo, La storia politica e sociale - V. I documenti (2 Tomi) - VI. Atlante
Einaudi 16239, Torino - storia nazionale, italica, Impero romano, prime edizioni Presentazione dell'Editore - Note alle illkustrazioni - Illustrazioni realizzate con il sistema dell'aerofotografia - Elenco abbreviazioni - Premessa dell'editore 20,7x14,7 cm., legatura in piena tela, sovraccoperta con illustrazioni a colori al centro ripetute sulle due facciate dei cofanetti, taglio superiore in colore, pagg. XXXVI+1064; XXI+XVIII+2361; XX+1544; XI+XII+XIV+2832; XXVI+XIII+2172; XIV+873; circa 600 illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori fuori testo, 25 carte geografiche, 116 illustrazioni d'arte, 66 mappe, 106 tavole visive, 94 tabelle statistiche, prima edizione, in italiano, come nuovo. � un'Italia mutata, nelle sue strutture e nei suoi ideali, � un Paese giunto al livello dei Paesi pi� sviluppati, uno Stato che si � dato istituzioni politiche fra le pi� avanzate.l'opera ha l'ambizione di aiutarci a capire chi siamo e quali radici e presupposti abbia la nostra societ�. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: ALFEA Rare Books]
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PATRIZI Senese, Francesco /AURIGNY, Gilles D! Le livre de Police Humaine, contenant brieve description de plusieurs choses dignes de memoire: si comme d!un gouvernement d!un Royaume, et de toute administration de la Republique, ou sont assemblees par un recueil succinct, maintes bell
Paris: Charles l!Angelie, 1544. Extremely rare of the first French edition of this digest of the two political works by Francesco Patrizi (1413-1494) marking the first appearance in French ! and in any vernacular ! of passages from his work on monarchies. Patrizi!s treatises on governments are considered precursors of Macchiavelli!s Prince and have been proven to have served as models for Thomas Elyot!s Governor (1531), yet Patrizi remains a curiously understudied figure.Born in Siena, Patrizi studied alongside Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, and entertained friendships with humanists like Panormita, Filolfo, Tranchedini and Battista Guarino. He entered political life in his native city and served as ambassador to Florence, Rimini, Emperor Frederick III and the Holy See. Implicated in a charge of treason, he was imprisoned, tortured and then exiled. He took on ecclesiastic robes and, when Piccolomini became pope, was pardoned and made Bishop of Gaeta in 1461.Patrizi is !a man of wide interests and broad attainments [who] has never been studied comprehensively.! (Schmitt) His literary output is virtually unstudied. In politics, his two main works are De institutione reipublicae, finished between 1465 and 1471, and its counterpart on monarchies, De regno et Regis institutione, written between 1481 and 1484. His political works show off the encyclopedic scope of his studies, covering the arts, sciences, agriculture, commerce, architecture and town planning, gymnastics, horse-riding and hunting, games and theater. Throughout, Patrizi!s approach is practical, investigating the effects these pursuits have on the citizens and rulers of a state, and how they can be employed to maximize the public good. Although the two works appear contradictory, Patrizi!s vote ultimately comes down on the side of republics, and his work on princes is above all a cautionary manual on how to avoid the pitfalls of absolute power. Even in De regno, Patrizi defends freedom and the freedom of opinion.Patrizi!s individualism is tempered by a strong social conscience. He attacks usury and defends the !middle class,! as well as servants, whom he writes one should not regard as slaves: no man may enrich himself at the expense of another. His rationalist and pragmatic approach leads to arguments that appear to be well ahead of their time, such as his defense of the right to abortion and contraception. In the judgment of one scholar, he is !typical of the passage from the transcendental medieval world to the naturalism and voluntarism of the Renaissance. Patrizi announces Macchiavelli in many points, who will be better understood when his precedents are illuminated.! (Battaglia, p.x) De Reipublicae was widely disseminated in France throughout the sixteenth century, but curiously not in Italy, where it was never published in its entirety. Domenico Bassi suggests that both works were used in schools in France. The first edition of De Reipublicae came out in 1494 and was followed by nine others between 1518 and 1594. The manuscript of De Regis was brought over to France by Jean Prevost, counselor in the Paris parliament, and first published in 1519. French editions of De Reipublicae appeared in 1520 and 1532, but it was not until 1577 that De Regis saw a vernacular edition. The present work, drawn from both of Patrizi!s texts, is therefore the first appearance of his writings on monarchies in the vernacular. The first English edition appeared in 1576, meaning that Thomas Elyot, whose Book named The Governour is directly modeled on De Regis, must have read Patrizi either in Latin or French. The editor, Gilles d!Aurigny (d. 1553), was a French poet, !who tends to work like a parasite on others ! he contributed to the edition of Martial d!Auvergne!s Arrests d!Amours, adapts Erasmus to monarchist ends in his edition of the Institution du Prince, dabbles in religious verse [!] d!Aurigny is a late rhetoriqueur.! (A Literary History of France, II, pp. 121-2) The work appeared in a variant issue by the same publisher the same year under the title: Le guido[n] de police humaine and was reissued in 1546, 1549, 1550, and 1553. OCLC locates only one copy (LC) of any edition of this work (the variant, either issue, Le guido[n] de police humaine); we have also located copies at the Harvard Law School and Yale. OCLC : LC (Le guidon de police humaine). For earlier French editions of De Reipublicae, OCLC lists LC (1520) and Chicago (1532). For earlier Latin editions of either De Reipublicae or De Regis, OCLC lists Chicago (1519), UCSD (1520), Newberry, Duke, Georgetown (1531), Duke (1534), Newberry (1534), Maryland (1543).Adams P-450; Graesse I.257 ; Brunet I.571Bassi, Domenico, !L!Epitome di Quintiliano di Francesco patrizi Senesi,! Rivista di Filologia d!istruzione classica, XXI (1894), pp. 385-470; Battaglia, Felice, Enea Silvio Piccolomini e Francesco patrizi : due politici senesi del quattrocento. Florence, Olschki, 1936; Schlotter, Joseph, Thomas Elyot!s !Governour! in seinem Verhaltnis zu Francesco Patrizi, Kaiserstuhl, Wild, 1938; Schmitt, Charles B., Cicero Scepticus: A study of the influence of the Academia in the Renaissance, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1972.. 8vo [16 x 10.5 cm], (8), 101, (11) ff. with 3 woodcuts and numerous woodcut initials. Bound in 18th-century? polished calf, spine gilt with black morocco title label, joints and corners worn. Ex libris of J.E. on front end pastedown, and library stamps on fly-leaf and title. Some spotting and dampstaining on scattered leaves; but overall good. [Bookseller: Martayan Lan, Inc.*]
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FELIBIEN (Michel);LOBINEAU (Guy-Alexis); Histoire de la Ville de Paris. Revue, augment�e et mise � jour par D. Guy-Alexis Lobineau, tous deux pr�tres religieux benedictins de la Congr�gation de Saint Maur.
chez Guillaume Desprez et Jean Desessartz 2736, A Paris - 5 forts vol. in-folio ; tome I, (20)-CC-675-(1) pp. 1 front. 6 pl. et 1 carte h.t. [note : f. LXXV* (bis)] ; tome II, (2)-(677) � 1544-LVI pp., 25 pl. ; tome III, VIII-CII-819 pp. ; tome IV, (2)-839-(1) pp. ; tome V, (2)-862-(2) pp. (861) � 944 pp., veau brun, dos � nerfs orn�, triple filet dor� d'encadrement sur les plats, fleurons d'angles, armes frapp�es au centre, tranches rouges (reliure de l'�poque). Edition originale de cet important travail historique et topographique. � La mort surprit D. F�libien avant qu'il ait pu terminer cette grande entreprise � (Qu�rard, La France litt�raire) ; Lobineau acheva la publication. Le � F�libien � est le plus beau des livres sur Paris publi� au XVIIIe si�cle. Il est illustr� d'1 frontispice grav� par Simonneau d'apr�s Hall�, de 3 vignettes grav�es par Cochin, d'1 grand plan d�pliant par Coquart et de 32 planches hors texte grav�es. Les deux premiers volumes contiennent l'histoire de Paris proprement dite ; les tomes III � V renferment les pi�ces justificatives. Exemplaire reli� aux armes d'Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully (1725-1779). Fils d'un fermier g�n�ral et diplomate de carri�re, c'�tait aussi un remarquable graveur, membre de l'acad�mie de Peinture. Bel exemplaire provenant de la biblioth�que Mareuse (ex-libris grav� par Lalauze), homme de lettres membre de la soci�t� historique du XVIe arrondissement. Il avait r�uni une importante collection de livres sur Paris vendus en 1928 et 1929 (n� 42 du catalogue). Brunet, II, 1203 ; Paris, Capitale des livres, 117 ; Olivier-Hermal-Roton, pl. 1095, fer n�1. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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FENESTELLA, LUCIUS [pseud. of ANDREA DOMENICO FIOCCO] Il Fenestella d'i Sacerdotii, e d'i Magistrati Romani. Tradotto di latino alla lingua Toscana, . M. Angelo Motta
Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, Venice 1544 - Circa 1800 calf rebacked with finely gilt tooled spine Small 8vo . FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of this historical description of the government and priesthood of ancient Rome by the Florentine humanist Andrea Domenico Fiocco (or Fiocchi, c. 1410-1452). The Latin text was first printed in Venice in 1473-77 and attributed by Fiocco to the Roman historiographer Lucius Fenestella. The translator, Angelo Motta, dedicates the work to Francesco Sansovino (1521-1583) who would also provide a translation of this work for Giovio for a 1547 edition. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediately a wide circulation . and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available. Many more editions of Fiocchi's work were published all over Europe in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries" (M. Laureys). A scarce work. Not in the OCLC 43, [1] leaves. Woodcut printer's device and fine woodcut historiated initials. Some scattered foxing. Early inscription crossed out on last leaf. BM/STC Italian, p. 246; not in Adams. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.]
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ROSEO MAMBRIN da Fabriano Le Vite dei Diece Imperatori, incominciando dal fine di Svetonio, nella lingua italiana tradotte.
Venezia, per Michel Tramezzino, 1544, in-8, ff.(8), pp.231, (3), carattere corsivo, figura emblematica in silografia sul titolo. Legatura coeva p.pergamena, titolo su tassello (rifatto) e fregi in oro al dorso. Roseo Mambrino fece nel XVI secolo questa libera traduzione delle Vite di Svetonio, scritte nel primo secolo d.C. Narra le vite di Traiano, Adriano, Antonino Pio, Commodo, Pertinace, Giuliano, Severo, Bassiano, Heliogabalo, Alessandro Severo. Fa anche riferimento a unidici autori "ch'an trattato di questi Imperatori" ai quali Roseo si ispir�. Bell'esemplare. BMC Sh.T. It., 588. Manca a Adams, e altre bibliografie. [Bookseller: Pregliasco Libreria Antiquaria di Umbert]
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anonyme , Le second livre des chansons � quatre parties auquel sont contenues 31 chansons convenables tant � la voix comme ausx instruments, 1544,
Susato , Anvers , 1544 , fac simile edit� dans le Corpus of early music , editions Culture et civilisation , Bruxelles , 1970 , - 4 plaquettes cartonn�es sous emboitage blanc d'�dition chaque plaquette est une voix de l'ensemble (bassus superius tenor contratenor ) tr�s bon �tat [Bookseller: Librairie Grandchamps / Fafouille]
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GEORGIEVITZ De Turcarum ritu et Ceremoniis.
apud Gregorium Bontium sub scuto Basiliensi, Anvers 1544 - In-12 de (1) f.bl., (20) ff. et (1) f.bl. Grande marque de l'auteur grav�e sur bois au dernier feuillet. Inscription manuscrite � l'encre de l'�poque sur la derni�re garde. Reli� en plein v�lin souple de l'�poque � recouvrement, dos lisse avec le titre manuscrit en haut, restes de liens en cuir. Petit manque au bas du plat inf�rieur. Reliure de l'�poque. EDITION ORIGINALE DE CE RARE OPUSCULE CONSACRE AUX COUTUMES FUNERAIRES DES TURCS. Le pr�sent trait� contient un int�ressant vocabulaire turc en 9 pages. "Cette relation est succincte et exacte. Un vocabulaire de mots turks expliqu�s par le latin, y pr�c�de un dialogue dans les m�mes langues ; il est suivi de r�gles grammaticales et des noms de nombre de la langue turke ". Bel exemplaire conserv� dans sa pure reliure de l'�poque en v�lin souple � recouvrement. Aucun exemplaire de cette rare originale n'est r�pertori� dans ABPC depuis 1975. Brunet, II, 1541 ; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, 271 ; Biographie universelle, 164 [Bookseller: Librairie Camille Sourget]
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Le Tusculane recate in italiano. 144 num. Bl. Mit 2 Druckermarken. Pergamentbd d. Z. (kleine Randl�suren).
Venedig, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1544. - – Beigebunden: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Opere tradotte in lingua volgare, di nuovo impresse et corrette. 165 num. Bl., 3 Bl. Mit Portr�t Ciceros auf dem Titel und Druckermarke am Schluss. Venedig, Giovanni da la Chiesa, 1544. I. Erste Ausgabe dieser �bersetzung der 'Tusculanae disputationes' Ciceros durch Sebastiano Fausto da Longiano (ca. 1502-1565). Von Gamba als selten, aber "roh" ("incondita versione") bezeichnet, wobei der Bibliograph offenbar kein Exemplar gesehen hat, da er sich auf Informationen anderer beruft und Fausto nur als angeblichen Herausgeber nennt, w�hrend die Widmung und ein Hinweis an die Leser eindeutig mit seinem Namen gezeichnet sind. Fausto �bertrug zahlreiche antike Schriftsteller in das Italienische und gab auch einen Dialog �ber die Kunst des �bersetzens heraus. Ber�hmt, jedoch wenig schmeichelhaft ist das Urteil von Girolamo Muzio, wonach Fausto von der italienischen Sprache soviel verstehe wie ein Esel vom Spielen auf der Leier (zitiert bei Gamba 1389). – Wenig fleckig. – Gamba 2568. Graesse II 185. – II. Erste Ausgabe dieser �bersetzung von Ciceros 'De officiis' und kleineren Schriften durch den Humanisten und Theologen Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566), dessen wichtigstes Werk seine reich kommentierte italienische Bibel�bersetzung ist, die in vielen Anmerkungen die Institution der katholischen Kirche kritisiert. Auf Reisen nach Frankreich und Deutschland lernte Brucioli die Ideen der Reformation kennen, die er zeitlebens in vielen Punkten vertrat, ohne je f�rmlich dem Katholizismus zu entsagen. Angeblich las er sogar �ffentlich aus Luthers Werken, notorisch waren seine republikanische Einstellung sowie seine sehr kritische Haltung gegen�ber dem Klerus. Nachdem er Florenz verlassen musste, geriet er auch in Venedig mehrfach in Konflikt mit der Inquisition, trotz der Protektion einflussreicher G�nner, die ihm seine beliebte Bibel�bersetzung eingebracht hatte. Alle seine Werke kamen auf den 'Index librorum prohibitorum', 1558 musste er �ffentlich seinen Ideen abschw�ren, aber auch danach verh�rte ihn die Inquisition erneut. Er starb nach Kerkerhaft in sehr �rmlichen Verh�ltnissen. – ICCU 14606. Graesse II 185. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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Aach. Holzschnitt aus Sebastian M�nster Cosmographie. Auf dem vollen Blatt.
- Ca 12.4 x 15.6 cm. Oberh. (neben 'Aach'): 'Cap. CVCIV.' Burmeister weist von 1544 bis 1575 36 Ausgaben der Cosmographia nach. - Abb. auch bei Hermanns, 4000 Jahre, S. 25. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Schmetz Am Dom]
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Guevara A., de]. Aviso de favoriti et dottrina de cortigiani con la commendatione de la villa, opera non meno utile che deletevole, tradotta novamente di Spagnolo in italiano per Vicenzo Bondi mantuano.
- In Venetia, col privilegio del summo Pontefice Paulo III et dello Illustriss. Senato Venetiano per anni dieci, [Michele Tramezzino], 1544, in-8, leg. settecentesca in mezza pergamena con punte, titolo manoscritto al dorso, cc. [20], 180. Con marca tipografica sul frontespizio. Minima mancanza dovuta a tarlo alle prime due carte. Circoscritto alone di grasso a 6 carte. Prima edizione in lingua italiana di questo trattato di norme e precetti da seguire nelle corti del Cinquecento. Segnaliamo notizie gastronomiche e sul comportamento a tavola. [Bookseller: Libreria Oreste Gozzini snc]
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RORE, Cipriano de 1515/16-1565 Il secondo libro de madregali a cinque voci [Subtitle]: insieme alcuni di M. Adriano et altri autori a misura comune novamente posti in luce a cinque voci. [Cantus part only]
Venice:: Antonio Gardano ,. 1544.. Oblong octavo. Modern patterned paper wrappers. [i] (title incorporating vignette of a lion and a bear), xxxviii, [i] (index) pp. With historiated woodcut initials throughout. Music printed in diamond-head notation. Wrappers slightly worn and torn. Minor soiling and browning; two small embossed collector's stamps to modern endpaper. . First Edition in this form. Very rare. Lewis I 58. New Vogel 2401. RISM 1544/17 (no holdings in the U.S.).#11;#11;"De Rore was one of the most important composers of the middle decades of the 16th century. Although he lived to be only 49 years old, his music, particularly his Italian madrigals, underwent profound changes in style from his early to his late works. His innovations both in harmonic language and in texture created a dramatic style intensely expressive of the text and very important for later developments in the madrigal." Grove online#11;#11;"In all, there were six editions entitled Il secondo Libro of Rore, this one being the first. However, only eight of the madrigals it contains are by Rore. The later editions are 1551/15 and 1552/24 (both issued by Gardano), 1562/20 (Scotto), 1563/14 (Gardano) and an edition of 1593 by Angelo Gardano (not in RISM). Eight of the madrigals in this first edition had appeared in that same year (1544) in Scotto's enlarged collection of Rore's five-voice madrigals... To those eight pieces, of which six were by Rore, Gardano here added nineteen others - two by Rore, the rest by other members of the Willaert circle. The editions of 1551, 1552, and 1563 retained the contents of 1544/17. Scotto's 1562 edition omitted six of the madrigals from 1544/17, while the 1593 edition by Angelo Gardano is really a conflation of Rore's second and third books, retaining only six madrigals from Il Secondo Libro." Lewis I, p. 436. [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC]
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FENESTELLA, LUCIUS [pseud. of ANDREA DOMENICO FIOCCO] Il Fenestella d'i Sacerdotii, e d'i Magistrati Romani. Tradotto di latinoalla lingua Toscana, ... M. Angelo Motta
Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari Venice 1544 Circa 1800 calf rebacked with finely gilt tooled spine Small 8vo . FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of this historical description of the government and priesthood of ancient Rome by the Florentine humanist Andrea Domenico Fiocco (or Fiocchi, c. 1410-1452). The Latin text was first printed in Venice in 1473-77 and attributed by Fiocco to the Roman historiographer Lucius Fenestella. The translator, Angelo Motta, dedicates the work to Francesco Sansovino (1521-1583) who would also provide a translation of this work for Giovio for a 1547 edition. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediately a wide circulation ... and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available. Many more editions of Fiocchi's work were published all over Europe in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries" (M. Laureys). A scarce work. Not in the OCLC 43, [1] leaves. Woodcut printer's device and fine woodcut historiated initials. Some scattered foxing. Early inscription crossed out on last leaf. BM/STC Italian, p. 246; not in Adams [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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Ficino, Marsilio. (Sopra lo amore o ver' convito di Platone). 19 (statt 20, l. w.) Bl., 251 S., 22 S. Neuer Halblederbd (unter Verwendung �lterer Deckel) mit R�ckenvergoldung.
Florenz, Neri Dortelata, 1544.. . Erste italienische Ausgabe in der von Ficino (1433-1499) selbst besorgten �bersetzung, herausgegeben von Cosimo Bartoli, von dem wohl auch die Anmerkungen zur Orthographie und korrekten Aussprache des Toskanischen in der Einleitung stammen. Die lateinische Originalausgabe war 1496 erschienen. Ficinos Versuch einer Synthese neuplatonischer Philosophie mit dem Christentum hatte enormen Einfluss auf Literatur, Philosophie und auch Kunst des 16. Jahrhunderts. Hier findet sich das oft missverstandene Konzept der sogenannten 'platonischen Liebe', mit der eine Liebe f�r den Widerschein des G�ttlichen in Menschen und Dingen gemeint ist, sozusagen als Vorstufe der Liebe zu Gott. "This conception of Platonic love was to exercise a strong influence on Italian and European literature throughout the sixteenth century. Many lyric poets spoke of their love in terms that reflected the influence of Ficino, as well as that of the old Tuscan poets and Petrarch; and there was a large body of treatises and lectures on love that derived much of their inspiration, directly and indirectly, from Ficino's commentary on the Symposion" (Kristeller in 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy'). - Fehlender Titel ist in Kopie beigebunden. Wenig fleckig. - Brunet II 1245. Gamba 960. Nicht bei Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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VIRGILE, Polydore; Pollidore Vergile hystoriographe nouvellement traduict de Latin en Francoys, declairant les inventeurs des choses qui ont estre (sic).
Paris Jehan Longis & Vincent Sertenas 1544 - In-8 de 4 ff.n.ch. et CXXXIII ff.ch.; veau blond glac�, dos � nerfs orn�, triple filet dor� encadrant les plats, dentelle int�rieure (Thouvenin). Brunet, V, 1137, manque � la NLM et � Waller; cf. Simon, Bacchica 186-88 (qui ne conna�t pas cette �dition) et Caillet, 11087 pour l'�dition latine. Deuxi�me �dition en fran�ais. Elle contient les trois premiers livres des Inventions de Polydore Virgile (Urbino 1470-1555), v�ritable encyclop�die des sciences, des jeux et f�tes, de la chiromancie, etc. Le livre III concerne plus particuli�rement le labour, le bl�, les fruits, les viandes, les gibiers, etc. Un chapitre est consacr� aux Inventeurs des vignes, de l'usaige du vin, & du fruit des arbres, & autres liqueurs. Annotations effac�es sur le titre; dos de la reliure refait. Ex-libris Am. Bertou et Dr. Maurice Villaret. [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]
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DANTE DIVINA COMMEDIA. LA COMEDIA DI DANTE ALIGHIERI CON LA NOVA ESPOSITIONE DI ALESSANDRO VELLUTELLO. (IN FINE) IMPRESSA IN VINEGIA, PER FRANCESCO MARCOLINI, 1544,
in-4 (230x155 mm), ff. 442 n.n. (ultimo bianco), testo in elegante carattere corsivo, racchiuso dal commento in corpo minore. Illustrata da 3 figure a piena pagina e 84 altre su 1/3 o 1/2 pag. in silografia, attribuite allo stesso Marcolini, ottimo disegnatore amico del Tiziano e del Sansovino. E' giudicata la prima illustrazione moderna della Commedia, che servi' da esempio per tutte le edizioni cinquecentesche. Celebre edizione, tra le piu' ambite di Dante, la prima con il commento del Vellutello. Esemplare freschissimo, con grandi margini, proveniente dalla biblioteca del conte Francesco Melzi d'Eril, nominato da Napoleone nel 1802 vicepresendente della Repubblica Cisalpina. Ottima rilegatura dei primi anni del XIX secolo, in piena pergamena con larga biordura in oro ai piatti, dorso liscio con finte nervature in rosso, fregi e titolo in oro, tagli dorati. De Batines I, p. 82: "bella e rara edizione annoverata fra le rare". Mambelli n. 30: "Ediz. Originale e ricercatissima della esposizione del Vellutello". Sander 2823. Fiske I, p. 8. Casali, Annali, n. 72. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria PREGLIASCO�]
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AMMIEN M. AMMIANI MARCELLINI. Rerum gestarum libri XVIII, � decimoquarto ad trigesimun primum, nam XIII priores desiderantur. Quanto vero castigatior hic Scriptor nunc prodeat, ex Hieronymi Frobenii epistola, quam hac de causa addidimus, cognosces. Librum trigesimum primum qui in exemplari Frobeniano non habetur, adjecimus ex codice Mariangeli Accursii.
Parisiis Ex officina R. Stephani 1544 - in-8, 513 pp., cartonnage � la Bradel, papier simili parchemin, reliure post�rieure Renouard A. A., Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne : p. 61 -(17) Brunet : 237 Adams (Cambrige Library) : 944 Exemplaire annot� dans les marges au seizi�me si�cle31 lignes par pageAmmianus Marcellinus (340-400), historien latin, accompagna l empereur Julien en Perse, poursuivit sa carri�re militaire sous Valentinien et Th�odose, puis vers 390, s �tablit � Rome, o� il composa sous ce titre rerum gestarum, libri XXXI, une histoire romaine de la mort de Donitien (96), � celle de Valens (378). L ouvrage commence au livre XIV, le manuscrit des 13 premiers livres ayant �t� perdu [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Librairie Sainte-Marie]
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Ficino, Marsilio. Sopra lo amore o ver' convito di Platone). 19 (statt 20, l. w.) Bl., 251 S., 22 S. Neuer Halblederbd (unter Verwendung �lterer Deckel) mit R�ckenvergoldung.
Florenz, Neri Dortelata, 1544. - Erste italienische Ausgabe in der von Ficino (1433-1499) selbst besorgten �bersetzung, herausgegeben von Cosimo Bartoli, von dem wohl auch die Anmerkungen zur Orthographie und korrekten Aussprache des Toskanischen in der Einleitung stammen. Die lateinische Originalausgabe war 1496 erschienen. Ficinos Versuch einer Synthese neuplatonischer Philosophie mit dem Christentum hatte enormen Einfluss auf Literatur, Philosophie und auch Kunst des 16. Jahrhunderts. Hier findet sich das oft missverstandene Konzept der sogenannten 'platonischen Liebe', mit der eine Liebe f�r den Widerschein des G�ttlichen in Menschen und Dingen gemeint ist, sozusagen als Vorstufe der Liebe zu Gott. "This conception of Platonic love was to exercise a strong influence on Italian and European literature throughout the sixteenth century. Many lyric poets spoke of their love in terms that reflected the influence of Ficino, as well as that of the old Tuscan poets and Petrarch; and there was a large body of treatises and lectures on love that derived much of their inspiration, directly and indirectly, from Ficino's commentary on the Symposion" (Kristeller in 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy'). – Fehlender Titel ist in Kopie beigebunden. Wenig fleckig. – Brunet II 1245. Gamba 960. Nicht bei Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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UNKNOWN 1544 VIA CRUCIS - ANCIENT LATIN BOOK - THE TWELVE STATIONS OF THE CROSS - BOOK OF THE CRUXIFICTION WITH EXTENSIVE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTES
1544. On offer is a superb ancient book VIA CRUCIS [Way of the Cross; Twelve Stations of the Cross]. "Domini Redemptoris ac Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christim." Twenty-nine [29] printed pages detail the 12 stations of the Cross in the Cruxifiction of Jesus. Pagination begins at page 3 through page 32. Original binding, 4 bands, 5 compartments and while the original title page has been removed there are four [4] manuscript pages including a simple but beautifully handwritten new title page with the word Via rubricated leading to the Oratio. There are seven [7] pages in more lovely calligraphy at the end titled "Officium S. Spiitus". Followed by a number of blank pages. Seems like an ideal book for a pilgrim to record his own journey to the Holy Land. Handwritten is an 'ex libris' noting Ferdinandi de Graes [?] as the owner. The full leather binding is well attached, no cracks, but some small worm holes in the endpaper. Old pencil note dates the book at 1544. All indications agree. Sensational early religious book with elegant manuscript calligraphy.. Full-Leather. Good+. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Latin. [Bookseller: M. Benjamin Katz, Fine Books/Rare Manusc]
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Contarini, Gasparo. La republica, e i magistrati di Vinegia, novamente fatti volgari. 72 num. Bl., 2 Bl. Mit Druckermarke und einigen Holzschnittinitialen. Halblederbd auf 5 B�nden im Stil d. Z. mit R�ckentitel und R�ckenvergoldung.
Venedig, Girolamo Scotto, 1544. - Erste italienische Ausgabe, �bersetzt von Lodovico Domenichi (unter dem Pseudonym: Eranchirio Anditimi). Die lateinische Ausgabe war im Vorjahr erschienen, wurde mehrfach nachgedruckt, sp�ter in die Reihe der Elzevir-Republiken aufgenommen und gilt als einer der wichtigsten Texte f�r die Verbreitung des besonderen Rufs, den Venedig als einzigartige Staatsform genoss. Der venezianische Diplomat und Kardinal Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) war einer der bedeutendsten "Spirituali", einer Gruppe hoher W�rdentr�ger, die sich f�r eine Reform der Kirche und eine Ann�herung an das protestantische Lager einsetzten. 1541 war Contarini noch als p�pstlicher Legat in Regensburg, bald wurde er jedoch der Sympathie f�r Luther verd�chtigt und Paul IV. setzte einige seiner Schriften auf den Index. ? Kaum gebr�unt, sch�nes Exemplar. ? Brunet II 242 (nicht ganz korrekt). Graesse II 255. Bei Adams als fr�heste italienische Ausgabe erst die von 1548 (C 2570). Vacarro S. 336. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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GUIDI (Guido)] Ou VIDIUS (Vidus). Chirurgia � Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete, cum nonnullis eiusdem Vidii com[m]entariis. Indicem auctorum & operum sequenti pagin� quaerito
Lutetiae Parisiorum, Petrus Galterius, 1544 - in-folio, 35, (1bl), 533, (1)pp. veau brun, dos � nerfs orn�, encadrement de deux filets dor�s sur le plats, roulettes int�rieures, tranches dor�es (Saulnier rel.) PREMIERE EDITION d'un des plus beaux livres de Chirurgie du XVIe si�cle, contenant pour la premi�re fois les textes de la Chirurgie grecque d'Hippocrate, de Galien et d'Oribase, en traduction latine. Il est illustr� de 210 magnifiques gravures sur bois, certainement inspir�es par des dessins de mod�les classiques grecs qui nous sont parvenus par les gr�co-byzantins, repr�sentant des op�rations de chirurgie, des instruments, et des bandages. On compte parmi elles 30 remarquables figures � pleine page montrant l'utilisation de machines �labor�es pour r�duire les fractures. L'auteur (1500-1569) n� � Florence, fut le m�decin de Fran�ois Ier. Le texte s'appuie sur un ancien manuscrit grec de la Biblioth�que de Laurent de M�dicis, � Florence. On a longtemps attribu� les dessins des bois de cet ouvrage au Primatice, mais depuis l'article de Michel Hirst "Salviati illustratuer de Vidius" (Revue de l'Art, 1969, no. 6) ils ont �t� restitu�s � Francesco Salviati. Certains des bois portent la croix de Lorraine, d'autres les initiales F. ou ARF. On les donne fr�quemment comme �tant de Fran�ois Jollat. Tr�s bel exemplaire soigneusement lav� et conserv� dans une belle reliure Saulnier de la premi�re partie du XXe si�cle. Huit figures sont rogn�es � peu pr�s de un centim�tre et demi. Quelques interventions et notes manuscrites anciennes WELLCOME I-6596; WALLER 1960 [Bookseller: Librairie Alain Brieux]
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[TREASURE] Here begynneth a good booke of medecines called the Treasure of pore men.
[colophon:] London, William Myddylton, 13 December 1544 8vo (128 x 86 mm), ff [4] 80, woodcut border beneath title, black letter; some light marginal waterstaining, upper margins of last third strengthened on some leaves, affecting a few letters, bound in dark brown crushed morocco. �8500 One of several early editions (first ca 1526; 15 up to 1575) of this rare work, an anonymous popular compendium describing diseases and the appropriate remedies. It is an important source for knowledge of Tudor medical practices, diet, and food plants. All editions are rare; there is only one auction record for any edition, a poor copy, in 1981 (�1500). STC 24203 (four locations, British Library, Oxford, and Rylands Library Manchester; Stephen Cox, imperfect); OCLC lists for North America the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and Ohio State (lacing all before C2, the imperfect copy in STC) [Bookseller: W P Watson Antiquarian Books]
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RORE, Cipriano de 1515/16-1565. Il secondo libro de madregali a cinque voci [Subtitle]: insieme alcuni di M. Adriano et altri autori a misura comune novamente posti in luce a cinque voci. [Cantus part only]
Antonio Gardano ,, Venice: 1544 - First Edition in this form. Very rare. Lewis I 58. New Vogel 2401. RISM 1544/17 (no holdings in the U.S.). "De Rore was one of the most important composers of the middle decades of the 16th century. Although he lived to be only 49 years old, his music, particularly his Italian madrigals, underwent profound changes in style from his early to his late works. His innovations both in harmonic language and in texture created a dramatic style intensely expressive of the text and very important for later developments in the madrigal." Grove online "In all, there were six editions entitled Il secondo Libro of Rore, this one being the first. However, only eight of the madrigals it contains are by Rore. The later editions are 1551/15 and 1552/24 (both issued by Gardano), 1562/20 (Scotto), 1563/14 (Gardano) and an edition of 1593 by Angelo Gardano (not in RISM). Eight of the madrigals in this first edition had appeared in that same year (1544) in Scotto's enlarged collection of Rore's five-voice madrigals. To those eight pieces, of which six were by Rore, Gardano here added nineteen others - two by Rore, the rest by other members of the Willaert circle. The editions of 1551, 1552, and 1563 retained the contents of 1544/17. Scotto's 1562 edition omitted six of the madrigals from 1544/17, while the 1593 edition by Angelo Gardano is really a conflation of Rore's second and third books, retaining only six madrigals from Il Secondo Libro." Lewis I, p. 436. Oblong octavo. Modern patterned paper wrappers. [i] (title incorporating vignette of a lion and a bear), xxxviii, [i] (index) pp. With historiated woodcut initials throughout. Music printed in diamond-head notation. Wrappers slightly worn and torn. Minor soiling and browning; small embossed collector's stamp to modern endpaper. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover] [Bookseller: J & J LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS LLC]
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Vasse, Louis. In anatomen corporis humani tabulae quatuor, nunc denuo accuratius recognitae, una cum copiosissimo, qui antea non erat, indice. Ebd., 1544.
Venedig, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1544.. 117, (11) Bll. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und am letzten Bl. verso gr��er wdh. (Vorgebunden) II: Dubois, Jacques. In Hippocratis elementa Iacobi Sylvii medici commentarius. Ebd., 1543. 24 Bll. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und am letzten Bl. verso gr��er wdh. L�dierter flexibler Pergamentband der Zeit. 8vo.. Anatomische Hauptschrift des Louis Vasse (1500-80). Vorgebunden der Kommentar zu den "Elementa" des Hippokrates vom franz�sischen Humanisten und Anatomen Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius, 1478-1555), Lehrer sowohl des Vasse als auch des Vesalius. - Einband mit gr��eren Fehlstellen am Hinterdeckel und Nagespuren am Vorderdeckel oben; die erste Lage der Vorbindung verbunden. - I: Edit 16, CNCE 36097. Adams V 301. Nicht bei BM-STC Italian. - II: Edit 16, CNCE 17797. Nicht bei BM-STC Italian oder Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]
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SALLUSTIUS, Caius Crispus C. Crispi Sallustii de coniuratione catilinae historia. Eiusdem de bello iugurthino [etc.]
Paris Rob. Stephani 1544. First and only Estienne edition. 8vo. pp. 208, [32]. Title page with Estienne device [Renouard Typographiques #294]. Text in italic. Pages are clean and crisp with some mild spotting to the title page. A faint monogram signature in an old hand is present on either side of the printer's device. Bound in early 19th century straight grained red morocco; rubbing to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. This copy was owned by the great book collector Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) and contains his heraldic book plate [labeled "Syston Park"] as well as his monogrammed ticket on the inside front cover. [See De Ricci, "English Collectors " plate VIII, also pp. 159-160]. Another heraldic plate is located on the marbled fly-leaf - "Peter Hall." Contains "De conjuratione Catilinae" (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino" (On the Jugurthine War) as well as various fragments. [Renouard, Estienne, 14; Adams S-155; Schweiger III, p. 873; Graesse VI, p. 238].. [Bookseller: Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books]
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TRICASSO MANTUANO, Paride Ceresara, dit; Chyromantia. ingeniosament estrata da i libri di Aristotile, & altri Philosophi naturali. Nuovamente revista, & con somma diligentia corretta & ristampata.
Venise per gli heredi di Pietro Ravano 1544 - Petit in-8 de 96 ff.ch. titre compris ; basane brune, dos � nerfs, compartiments orn�s de fleurons, roulette sur les coupes (reliure du XVIIe si�cle). Cf. Caillet, pp. 630-631 (autres �ditions) ; Edit16 cite un seul exemplaire (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), apparamment incomplet du titre. Rare �dition v�nitienne de ce trait� de chiromancie. L'auteur, n� � Mantoue en 1466 et mort en 1532, �tait jurisconsulte, humaniste et astrologue. Sa Chiromancie, condamn�e comme la plupart de ses ouvrages par la cour de Rome, a connu un vif succ�s dans la premi�re moiti� du XVIe si�cle. D'apr�s le recensement d'Edit16, la premi�re �dition latine aurait vu le jour en 1522 et la premi�re version italienne en 1534. Entre ces deux publications, Tricasso avait donn� aux presses un commentaire de la chiromancie de Bartholomaeus Cocles (Venise, Sessa, 1531) qui semble �tre le dernier livre qu'il ait fait imprimer de son vivant. L'illustration, grav�e sur bois, comporte un titre orn� d'un encadrement architectural incorporant la marque � la sir�ne et 49 figures � pleine page, l�gend�es, montrant les lignes de la main. Marque typographique r�p�t�e au dernier feuillet (diff�rente). Agr�able exemplaire, sobrement reli� au dix-huiti�me si�cle ; petites restaurations aux coins et aux coiffes. Note manuscrite en italien et � l'encre sur la premi�re garde (XVIIIe si�cle) - Ex-libris Robert Garrisson, avec la devise "Rerum Cognoscere Causas". [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]
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VITTORI, Leonello Faventini De Aegritudinibus Infantium Tractatus Admodum Salutifer. De Eadem Tractatione Appendicula, priore haud minus frugifera, per D. Georgum Khufnerum Juniorum exarata
(Ingolstadt): (Alexandri Weissenhorn). 1544. Title and several leaves with contemp. ms. notes. With the bookplate. of the Kings County Medical Society on the front pastedown. A fine. copy of the first edition.. Modern patterned boards, (8), 91 (i.e. 93), (18) ll. Large woodcut printers device on verso of leaf Aa8. Sm. 8vo. One of the earliest textbooks of its kind, and unique in that it is a handbook of treatment rather than a treatise on diseases, hence its importance in understanding the medical pediatric practices of the era. "Leonelli's book consists of 33 chapters mostly on common diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, earache, abscesses of the head, weak stomach, disturbed sleep. His method is simple. He names the disease, gives its cause and then proceeds to its cure. It is really a handbook of pediatric therapeutics and he makes much of fomentations, inunctions, and the external use of oils."--Ruhrah, pp. 139-141. Still, pp. 104-107. Grulee 496. Durling 4668. [Bookseller: Edwin V Glaser Rare Books]
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"VIRGILE, Polydore;" Pollidore Vergile hystoriographe nouvellement traduict de Latin en Francoys, declairant les inventeurs des choses qui ont estre (sic).
Paris Jehan Longis & Vincent Sertenas 1544 "In-8 de 4 ff.n.ch. et CXXXIII ff.ch.; veau blond glac�,dos � nerfs orn�, triple filet dor� encadrant les plats, dentelle int�rieure (Thouvenin)." "Brunet, V, 1137, manque � la NLM et � Waller; cf. Simon, Bacchica 186-88 (qui ne conna�t pas cette �dition) et Caillet, 11087 pour l'�dition latine. Deuxi�me �dition en fran�ais. Elle contient les trois premiers livres des Inventions de Polydore Virgile (Urbino 1470-1555), v�ritable encyclop�die des sciences, des jeux et f�tes, de la chiromancie, etc. Le livre III concerne plus particuli�rement le labour, le bl�, les fruits, les viandes, les gibiers, etc. Un chapitre est consacr� aux Inventeurs des vignes, de l'usaige du vin, & du fruit des arbres, & autres liqueurs. Annotations effac�es sur le titre; dos de la reliure refait. Ex-libris Am. Bertou et Dr. Maurice Villaret." [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]
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TERENZIO. Commedie di Terentio nuovamente di latino in volgare tradotte.
per Giovan'Padoano. 1544., In Venetia, - In 8� (165x110); carte numerate 168. Frontespizio entro fregio decorativo di carattere architettonico in silografia. Pergamena rigida moderna con unghie, titolo su tassello in oro al dorso. Ristampa della prima edizione del Borgofranco del 1533. Bell'esemplare che presenta lievissime saltuarie ossidazioni, annotazioni manoscritte al frontespizio ed al recto dell'ultima carta. Graesse, VII, pag 67 in nota. Non in Adams. [Bookseller: libreria antiquaria perini]
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VOLATERRANI,Urbanorum Raphaelis.- Commentariorum/...,octo & triginta libri,/accuratius qu�m antehac excufi,cum dupli=/ci eorundem indice fecundum/Tomos collecto./Item Oeconomicus Xenophontis,ab eodem Latio donatus.
Folio (32,8 x 21,5cm). XLII-468pp. Basile�, Apud Hieronimum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium, 1544. Encuadernaci�n algo cansada en plena piel con superlibris en oro en ambos planos. Graesse,Tomo 7�pp.388.Rar�sima obra. [Bookseller: Llibrer�a Antiqu�ria Els Gnoms]
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FENESTELLA, LUCIUS [pseud. of ANDREA DOMENICO FIOCCO] Il Fenestella d'i Sacerdotii, e d'i Magistrati Romani. Tradotto di latinoalla lingua Toscana, ... M. Angelo Motta
Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari Venice 1544 Circa 1800 calf rebacked with finely gilt tooled spine Small 8vo . FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of this historical description of the government and priesthood of ancient Rome by the Florentine humanist Andrea Domenico Fiocco (or Fiocchi, c. 1410-1452). The Latin text was first printed in Venice in 1473-77 and attributed by Fiocco to the Roman historiographer Lucius Fenestella. The translator, Angelo Motta, dedicates the work to Francesco Sansovino (1521-1583) who would also provide a translation of this work for Giovio for a 1547 edition. "The treatise enjoyed almost immediately a wide circulation ... and at the close of the 15th century there were already seven printed texts available. Many more editions of Fiocchi's work were published all over Europe in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries" (M. Laureys). A scarce work. Not in the OCLC 43, [1] leaves. Woodcut printer's device and fine woodcut historiated initials. Some scattered foxing. Early inscription crossed out on last leaf. BM/STC Italian, p. 246; not in Adams [Bookseller: Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc.]
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Le Tusculane recate in italiano. 144 num. Bl. Mit 2 Druckermarken. Pergamentbd d. Z. (kleine Randl�suren).
Venedig, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1544.. - Beigebunden: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Opere tradotte in lingua volgare, di nuovo impresse et corrette. 165 num. Bl., 3 Bl. Mit Portr�t Ciceros auf dem Titel und Druckermarke am Schluss. Venedig, Giovanni da la Chiesa, 1544.. I. Erste Ausgabe dieser �bersetzung der 'Tusculanae disputationes' Ciceros durch Sebastiano Fausto da Longiano (ca. 1502-1565). Von Gamba als selten, aber "roh" ("incondita versione") bezeichnet, wobei der Bibliograph offenbar kein Exemplar gesehen hat, da er sich auf Informationen anderer beruft und Fausto nur als angeblichen Herausgeber nennt, w�hrend die Widmung und ein Hinweis an die Leser eindeutig mit seinem Namen gezeichnet sind. Fausto �bertrug zahlreiche antike Schriftsteller in das Italienische und gab auch einen Dialog �ber die Kunst des �bersetzens heraus. Ber�hmt, jedoch wenig schmeichelhaft ist das Urteil von Girolamo Muzio, wonach Fausto von der italienischen Sprache soviel verstehe wie ein Esel vom Spielen auf der Leier (zitiert bei Gamba 1389). - Wenig fleckig. - Gamba 2568. Graesse II 185. - II. Erste Ausgabe dieser �bersetzung von Ciceros 'De officiis' und kleineren Schriften durch den Humanisten und Theologen Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566), dessen wichtigstes Werk seine reich kommentierte italienische Bibel�bersetzung ist, die in vielen Anmerkungen die Institution der katholischen Kirche kritisiert. Auf Reisen nach Frankreich und Deutschland lernte Brucioli die Ideen der Reformation kennen, die er zeitlebens in vielen Punkten vertrat, ohne je f�rmlich dem Katholizismus zu entsagen. Angeblich las er sogar �ffentlich aus Luthers Werken, notorisch waren seine republikanische Einstellung sowie seine sehr kritische Haltung gegen�ber dem Klerus. Nachdem er Florenz verlassen musste, geriet er auch in Venedig mehrfach in Konflikt mit der Inquisition, trotz der Protektion einflussreicher G�nner, die ihm seine beliebte Bibel�bersetzung eingebracht hatte. Alle seine Werke kamen auf den 'Index librorum prohibitorum', 1558 musste er �ffentlich seinen Ideen abschw�ren, aber auch danach verh�rte ihn die Inquisition erneut. Er starb nach Kerkerhaft in sehr �rmlichen Verh�ltnissen. - ICCU 14606. Graesse II 185. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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QUEEN ELIZABETH THE MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL, A Prose translation from the French
- of a Poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1544 by Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth then 11 years of age. Edited by Percy W. Ames. London, Asher, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. iv, + 45 followed by Elizabeth's 1544 poem reproduced in facsimile (124 pages on hand-made paper). Frontis. portrait of Princess Elizabeth and reproduction of the embroidered cover of the original manuscript. Half-calf, marbled endpapers, with the coat of arms of the Royal Society of Literature stamped in gilt on the front cover. Some heavy foxing to the blanks and spotting to the uncut foredges, a very good copy. Percy Ames was the librarian and Secretary of The Royal Society of Literature and this copy is inscribed by him to Victor Leuliette Esq. [Bookseller: Simon Finch Norfolk (U.K.)]
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"TRICASSO MANTUANO, Paride Ceresara, dit;" Chyromantia... ingeniosament estrata da i libri di Aristotile, & altri Philosophi naturali. Nuovamente revista, & con somma diligentia corretta & ristampata.
Venise per gli heredi di Pietro Ravano 1544 "Petit in-8 de 96 ff.ch. titre compris ; basane brune, dos � nerfs, compartiments orn�s de fleurons, roulette sur les coupes (reliure du XVIIe si�cle)." "Cf. Caillet, pp. 630-631 (autres �ditions) ; Edit16 cite un seul exemplaire (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), apparamment incomplet du titre. Rare �dition v�nitienne de ce trait� de chiromancie. L'auteur, n� � Mantoue en 1466 et mort en 1532, �tait jurisconsulte, humaniste et astrologue. Sa Chiromancie, condamn�e comme la plupart de ses ouvrages par la cour de Rome, a connu un vif succ�s dans la premi�re moiti� du XVIe si�cle. D'apr�s le recensement d'Edit16, la premi�re �dition latine aurait vu le jour en 1522 et la premi�re version italienne en 1534. Entre ces deux publications, Tricasso avait donn� aux presses un commentaire de la chiromancie de Bartholomaeus Cocles (Venise, Sessa, 1531) qui semble �tre le dernier livre qu'il ait fait imprimer de son vivant. L'illustration, grav�e sur bois, comporte un titre orn� d'un encadrement architectural incorporant la marque � la sir�ne et 49 figures � pleine page, l�gend�es, montrant les lignes de la main. Marque typographique r�p�t�e au dernier feuillet (diff�rente). Agr�able exemplaire, sobrement reli� au dix-huiti�me si�cle ; petites restaurations aux coins et aux coiffes. Note manuscrite en italien et � l'encre sur la premi�re garde (XVIIIe si�cle) - Ex-libris Robert Garrisson, avec la devise ""Rerum Cognoscere Causas""." [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]
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CESARE Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii + EUTROPIO - Epitome belli gallici ex Svetonii Tranquilli monumentis quae desiderantur
Parigi, Ex Officina Rob. Stephani, 1544. In 8�, c.nn. 16, p. 523,b; c.nn. 54 + p. (2)134, c.nn. 9. 2 carte geografiche a doppia pagina e 4 tavole a piena pagina. Riprodotta la prefazione di Aldo Manuzio del 1513. Antichi timbri di biblioteca ed ex-libris. Splendido esemplare ad ampi margini. Bella legatura coeva in pelle con impressioni a secco e in oro ai piatti. Il dorso � stato rifatto in epoca successiva riprendendo le stesse decorazioni. (Adams, C 38, E 1133). [Bookseller: Il Caff� Studio Bibliografico]
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[BIBLE HEBRAIQUE]. Daniel. (A la suite:) Esdras. (A la suite:) Liber Paralipomenum. [en h�breu].
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544-1546. 3 parties en 1 volume in-16. Veau brun, dos lisse orn� (Reliure du XVIIIs.). Ce volume contient trois parties de la tr�s rare et c�l�bre Bible H�bra�que "de poche" de Robert Estienne. "Cette petite �dition... est vraiment un bijou typographique et peut-�tre ce qui a jamais �t� imprim� de plus beau en langue h�bra�que" (Renouard). On trouve rarement cette Bible H�bra�que compl�te des 17 parties parues entre 1544 et 1546. Bon exemplaire reli� sans tomaison au XVIIIs. (petits manques � un plat). [Bookseller: L' Ile Enchant�e]
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(Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius). Della nobilta et eccellenza delle donne, nuovamente dalla lingua francese nella italiana tradotto. 29 num. Bl., 1 Bl. Mit 2 Druckermarken. Pappbd um 1900.
Venedig, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1544.. . Seltene italienische �bersetzung der fr�hen feministischen Grundschrift. Die Aufsehen erregende Schrift, zuerst 1529 lateinisch ver�ffentlich, wurde umgehend ins Franz�sische, Englische, Deutsche und Italienische �bersetzt. Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) verbindet in seiner bereits 1509 entstandenen Abhandlung - er war gerade 23 Jahre alt! - h�chst widerspr�chliche Ans�tze: die radikal-feministische Position von der nat�rlichen �berlegenheit der Frauen mit der �berzeugung von der Gleichwertigkeit der Geschlechter. In einer Art Gedankenexperiment verkn�pft er unterschiedliche esoterische Quellen aus Kabbala, Hermetik und Neoplatonismus mit feministischer biblischer Exegese. "Agrippa's subversive reversal of traditional hierarchies won wide acceptance by the partisans of the 'querelle des femmes'. Using formal rhetorical proofs and traditional sources, Agrippa arrived at very new conclusions ... By presenting the extreme notion that women are superior to men, he seriously undermined established notions about the relationship between the sexes" (D. S. Wood, In Praise of Women's Superiority ..., in: Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts, Albany, 1997, S. 201f). Es verwundert nicht, dass nicht nur Agrippas Zeitgenossen diese Arbeit teils als Satire auffassten, teils als Ausdruck eines Renaissance-Paradoxon. - Ohne das letzte wei�e Blatt. - Erdmann, My gracious silence, 26. Bongi, Giolito, I 76 f. Vgl. BM STC 468 (A. 1549) und Adams A 385 (lat. A. 1567). * Rare Italian translation of Agrippa's feministic pamphlet. Lacking final blank leaf. Boards ca. 1900. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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SUETONIO, C. SUETONII TRANQUILLI. XII CAESARES. Item, Io. Baptiste Egnatii Veneti, de Romanis Principibus, libri III. Eiusdem Annotationes in Seutonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restituta per Erasmus Roterdamus.
Lugduni. Apud Seb. Gryphium. 1544. 8vo. 473 p.,inc portada, [23] p. Sign: a-z8, A-H8. Pergamino de �poca. La portada con grabado tipogr�fico. El nombre de Erasmo aparece tachado de �poca pero se aprecia. Lleva limpias anotaciones en algunas hojas en el margen. Seutonio ahond� en las vidas de los C�sares del primer siglo del Imperio, desde Julio C�sar hasta Domiciano. Muy buen ejemplar. [Bookseller: Libreria Boulandier ]
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Barbaro, Ermolao. Compendium ethicorum librorum Hermolai Barbari p. V.
Venedig, Comin da Trino, 1544. 40 Bll. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel. (Beigebunden) II: Ders. Compendium scientiae naturalis ex Aristotele. Ebd., 1545 (Kolophon: 1544). 75, (4) Bll., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel. Pappband. 8vo. Ermolao Barbaros Zusammenfassung der Nikomachischen Ethik des Aristoteles bzw. der aristotelischen naturphilosophischen Schriften. - Die ersten beiden Lagen von I mit Nagespuren am oberen Rand (minimaler Buchstabenverlust); unbedeutende Wurmspur im w. Rand von II. I: Edit 16, CNCE 4136. BM-STC Italian 46. Nicht bei Adams. - II: Edit 16, CNCE 4137. BM-STC Italian 71. Nicht bei Adams. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris GmbH]
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"VESALIUS, Andreas;" "Epistola, docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam ; & melancholicum succum ex ven� port� ramis ad sedem pertinetibus, purgari."
Venise Comin da Trino 1544 "Petit in-8 de 64 pp.ch. ; plac� dans une reliure du XVIIe si�cle en v�lin souple � d�cor dor� : filet et guirlande en encadrement sur les plats, fleurons d'angle et grand fleuron central." "Cushing, p. 58, IV-2 : ""exceedingly rare"" ; Wellcome, 1544 ; cf. Waller, 9898 et NLM, 4586 pour l'�dition de 1539. Seconde �dition, d'une grande raret�. Cette lettre de V�sale concernant, entre autres, l'incision de la veine azygos en cas de pleur�sie a �t� publi�e pour la premi�re fois � B�le en 1539. L'ouvrage est illustr� d'une figure grav�e sur bois � pleine page montrant le syst�me veineux du thorax (page 41). ""V�sale wrote this letter to Nicolas Florenas, a friend and professor of medicine at Louvain, in response to Florenas' request for additional information concerning the marginal notes printed with the vena cava table of the Tabulae anatomicae sex. The particular note that interested Florenas was the one concerning the azygos vein and its relation to the question of bloodletting in cases of pleuresy. Vesalius responded by giving his views, methods, and treatment regimen and continued with a long discussion in answer to Florenas' query as to where and how one should draw blood from the hemorrhoidal vessels"" (cf. Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 110). Notes marginales anciennes � l'encre brune, en latin ; signature en bas du titre : Herophili Saphinij. Bel exemplaire de ce volume dont Cushing souligne l'extr�me raret�. Gardes renouvel�es, habile r�paration dans la marge int�rieure du titre, petites fentes au dos." [Bookseller: Librairie Thomas-Scheler]
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VIRGILE, Polydore; Pollidore Vergile hystoriographe nouvellement traduict de Latin en Francoys, declairant les inventeurs des choses qui ont estre (sic).
Paris Jehan Longis & Vincent Sertenas 1544 - In-8 de 4 ff.n.ch. et CXXXIII ff.ch.; veau blond glac�, dos � nerfs orn�, triple filet dor� encadrant les plats, dentelle int�rieure (Thouvenin). Brunet, V, 1137, manque � la NLM et � Waller; cf. Simon, Bacchica 186-88 (qui ne conna�t pas cette �dition) et Caillet, 11087 pour l'�dition latine. Deuxi�me �dition en fran�ais. Elle contient les trois premiers livres des Inventions de Polydore Virgile (Urbino 1470-1555), v�ritable encyclop�die des sciences, des jeux et f�tes, de la chiromancie, etc. Le livre III concerne plus particuli�rement le labour, le bl�, les fruits, les viandes, les gibiers, etc. Un chapitre est consacr� aux Inventeurs des vignes, de l'usaige du vin, & du fruit des arbres, & autres liqueurs. Annotations effac�es sur le titre; dos de la reliure refait. Ex-libris Am. Bertou et Dr. Maurice Villaret. [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]
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Contarini, Gasparo. La republica, e i magistrati di Vinegia, novamente fatti volgari. 72 num. Bl., 2 Bl. Mit Druckermarke und einigen Holzschnittinitialen. Halblederbd auf 5 B�nden im Stil d. Z. mit R�ckentitel und R�ckenvergoldung.
Venedig, Girolamo Scotto, 1544.. . Erste italienische Ausgabe, �bersetzt von Lodovico Domenichi (unter dem Pseudonym: Eranchirio Anditimi). Die lateinische Ausgabe war im Vorjahr erschienen, wurde mehrfach nachgedruckt, sp�ter in die Reihe der Elzevir-Republiken aufgenommen und gilt als einer der wichtigsten Texte f�r die Verbreitung des besonderen Rufs, den Venedig als einzigartige Staatsform genoss. Der venezianische Diplomat und Kardinal Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) war einer der bedeutendsten "Spirituali", einer Gruppe hoher W�rdentr�ger, die sich f�r eine Reform der Kirche und eine Ann�herung an das protestantische Lager einsetzten. 1541 war Contarini noch als p�pstlicher Legat in Regensburg, bald wurde er jedoch der Sympathie f�r Luther verd�chtigt und Paul IV. setzte einige seiner Schriften auf den Index. - Kaum gebr�unt, sch�nes Exemplar. - Brunet II 242 (nicht ganz korrekt). Graesse II 255. Bei Adams als fr�heste italienische Ausgabe erst die von 1548 (C 2570). Vacarro S. 336. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein]
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Eutropio - Di�cono, P. Le vite, i costumi, et fatti de gl'Imperatori Romani, parte tratte da Sesto Aurelio Vittore. Novellamente dal la Latina alla Italiana lingua tradotti
Vinegia Comin de Trino di Monferrato 1544 12vo 135 pp Boards Good copy italy italian books italia [Bookseller: LIBRERIA DE ANTA�O]
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VESALIUS, Andreas; Epistola, docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam ; & melancholicum succum ex ven� port� ramis ad sedem pertinetibus, purgari.
Venise Comin da Trino 1544 - Petit in-8 de 64 pp.ch. ; plac� dans une reliure du XVIIe si�cle en v�lin souple � d�cor dor� : filet et guirlande en encadrement sur les plats, fleurons d'angle et grand fleuron central. Cushing, p. 58, IV-2 : "exceedingly rare" ; Wellcome, 1544 ; cf. Waller, 9898 et NLM, 4586 pour l'�dition de 1539. Seconde �dition, d'une grande raret�. Cette lettre de V�sale concernant, entre autres, l'incision de la veine azygos en cas de pleur�sie a �t� publi�e pour la premi�re fois � B�le en 1539. L'ouvrage est illustr� d'une figure grav�e sur bois � pleine page montrant le syst�me veineux du thorax (page 41). "V�sale wrote this letter to Nicolas Florenas, a friend and professor of medicine at Louvain, in response to Florenas' request for additional information concerning the marginal notes printed with the vena cava table of the Tabulae anatomicae sex. The particular note that interested Florenas was the one concerning the azygos vein and its relation to the question of bloodletting in cases of pleuresy. Vesalius responded by giving his views, methods, and treatment regimen and continued with a long discussion in answer to Florenas' query as to where and how one should draw blood from the hemorrhoidal vessels" (cf. Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 110). Notes marginales anciennes � l'encre brune, en latin ; signature en bas du titre : Herophili Saphinij. Bel exemplaire de ce volume dont Cushing souligne l'extr�me raret�. Gardes renouvel�es, habile r�paration dans la marge int�rieure du titre, petites fentes au dos. [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]
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ELYOT, Sir Thomas The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented...
[London, T. Berthelet] 1541 [1544] 8vo (125 x 89 mm), ff [8] 86 [recte 94, of 96, without colophon leaf or last blank], title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut arms on title verso and A8 verso, black letter, woodcut initials; a few wormholes repaired in blank margins of last few leaves, a very good copy in nineteenth-century mottled calf in an eighteenth-century style by William Pratt, gilt panels, gilt edges. �7500 First published ca 1537, Elyot�s Castell of Helth was an immensely popular Tudor handbook of domestic medicine, making accessible classical authorities to an English-speaking and reading audience. This edition contains Elyot�s own preface and defence of his work, which in the 1541 edition replaced the dedication to Thomas Cromwell. �Through More Elyot may have known Erasmus, and it is likely that he studied medicine with Thomas Linacre; the preface to Elyot's book The Castel of Helth states that when he was twenty years old �a worshypfull phisition, and one of the most renoumed at that tyme in England, perceyving me by nature inclyned to knowledge, radde unto me the workes of Galene� and Hippocrates (Elyot, Castel of Helth, sig. A4). More was probably also responsible for introducing Elyot to Hans Holbein the younger, whose drawings of both Thomas Elyot and his wife survive in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle... �...Elyot's Castel of Helth completes the trilogy of his major works. It is an attempt to summarize the teachings of the ancient Greek and Roman physicians, especially Galen, so that English men and women may understand and regulate their health accordingly. It popularized the theory of the four humours and complexions, which became a basic part of the intellectual make-up of Renaissance Britain, and suggested medicines and treatments for a variety of ailments. Probably based on Elyot's studies with Linacre, it differed from Linacre's own writings, for Linacre translated the works of Galen from Greek to Latin, hoping to make them accessible to doctors but not wishing to allow ordinary men and women to diagnose their own complaints. It was Elyot who provided an accessible handbook in the vernacular� (Stanford Lehmberg in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Provenance: bookplates of Simpson Rostron, Hubert James Cecil Rostron, John Reginald Marriott, Edna and Frank Bradlow, and Haskell Norman; Christie�s New York, The Haskell F. Norman Library part I, 18 March 1998, lot 80 STC 7646; Norman 705A [Bookseller: W P Watson Antiquarian Books]
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Muenster, Sebastian (1489-1552). Cosmographia. Beschreibung Aller Lander
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1548. Folio (12 4/8 x 8 inches). Title-page printed in red and black, 28 double-page woodcut maps with descriptive text on recto within historiated woodcut borders, illustrated throughout with fine woodcuts depicting peoples, places, historic events, customs, exotic animals etc, one or two full-page (some spotting and staining, particularly to the later leaves). Contemporary paneled pigskin over bevelled boards, each cover decorated with alternating blind fillets of heads in medallion rolls: one depicting Greek heroes "Hector" etc, and the other the virtues "Charitas", "Justicia" and "Fides" etc., surrounding finer fillets of flower and urn tools, filled in with blind stamped tudor rose and acorn tools; the spine in five compartments with four raised bands decorated with large acorn tools, brass catches and clasps (extremities a bit scuffed, stained). Provenance: Early 20th-century bookplate of Boekenrik Vangassen on the front paste-down; bookplate of Liechtensteinhaus. Third German edition, first published in Basel in 1544. Including separate sections on Africa, Asia and "Vond den neuwen inseln: wann und von wem die erfunden/wie sie heissen und was fue leut darin seind" a description of America including accounts of the voyages and explorations of Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, &c. The map of America is in Burden's state 4 with Novus Orbis removed, "Die Nuw Welt" widesly spaced, and the correct "Atlantica" rather than "Atlaitica" in South America. Sebastian Munster was to become one of "the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century" (Burden). Essentially he published Ptolemy's "Geography" with a "further section of modern, more up to date maps. He included for the first time a set of continental maps, the America was the earliest of any notes? He was one of the first to create space in the woodblock for insertion of place-names in metal type. The maps' inclusion in Munster's "Cosmography"? sealed the fate of "America" as the name for the new world. The book [Bookseller: Alibris]
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ARRIEN - LAURO, Pietro De i Fatti del Magno Alessandro Re di Macedonia, nuovamente di greco tradotto in italiano per Pietro Lauro Modonese.
Venise, ap. Michele Tramezzino, 1544 - [xvi]-179 pp. et 2 ff. (collation : 8, A-Y8, Z4), in-16, rel. post., demi-basane noire, dos lisse orn� de faux-nerfs ondul�s et petits fleurons, pi�ce de titre brique, plats v�lin - frottements au dos ; le titre remont� ; taches et traces d'usage dans les marges ; la marge sup. un peu courte. Marque � la Sybille sur le titre et au verso du dernier feuillet. [Bookseller: Librairie Portheault*]
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TURNER, William. Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis & succincta historia.
Cologne: Johannes Gymnicus, 1544. - Small 8vo, 19th century calf-backed marbled paper over boards. Without the final blank leaf. First edition of the first book devoted to birds. Written while he was in exile in Germany (after being imprisoned in England for preaching without a license), Turner�s work is an attempt to determine the identification of birds described in Aristotle and Pliny. Not surprisingly, his work contains numerous errors and misidentifications, and he was not immune to certain myths about birds � such as the spontaneous generation of the barnacle goose on pieces of driftwood, or the notion that goatsuckers suck the teats of goats at night. But most of his identifications are good, born of close observation. For instance: I think that Aristotle�s Spinus is our Grenefinc, for it lives for the most part among thorns, and feeds upon the seeds of grasses. The bird which I believe to be the Spinus in its size equals a Sparrow, and is wholly green, and in this kind the male especially, the female being somewhat pale. It feeds upon the seeds of the bigger thistles and of burdocks and it nests on the branches of the willow or wild plum. In his Peroration to the Reader Turner relates that he wrote the book in two months, and that it would have been more thorough but for lack of money: For who without great command of money can set off for distant regions, to observe the forms and habits of foreign birds, and there to stay a long time for that purpose. Be that as it may, A. H. Evans, who translated Turner�s book in 1903, writes that [Turner] produced the first book on birds which treats them in anything like the modern scientific spiritnor is it too much to say that almost every page bears witness to a personal knowledge of the subject, which would be distinctly creditable even to a modern ornithologist. Turner was an extraordinary naturalist; not only did he write the first book on birds, but his New Herball, published in three volumes between 1551 and 1568, is the first systematic attempt to describe the flora of England. A very good copy, with only a few scattered light stains. Rare: the only copies recorded in the United States are at Harvard, Cornell, Trinity College, and the University of Kansas. [Bookseller: Birdways]
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ARIST�TELES EL ESTAGIRITA. DE ANIMA LIBRI TRES, � Graeco, qu�m proxim� fieri potuit, in linguam Latinam traducti, Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprete.
Imp. Aegidium & Iacobum Huguetan. Lyon, 1544. 33 cm. 110 fol., sin paginar. Texto a dos columnas. Marca tipogr�fica en la portada. Capitulares. Enc. en pergamino reciente, cierres, lomera rotulada. Falto de las 30 �ltimas hojas. Anotaciones manuscritas antiguas en algunas hojas. * Edici�n con los comentarios de Joannes Gramaticus Philoponus. CCPB 152250-7. Ascetisme Libros antiguos anteriores a 1830 [Bookseller: Llibreria Antiqu�ria Farr�]
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ARRIEN - LAURO, Pietro De i Fatti del Magno Alessandro Re di Macedonia, nuovamente di greco tradotto in italiano per Pietro Lauro Modonese.
Venise, ap. Michele Tramezzino, 1544 - [xvi]-179 pp. et 2 ff. (collation : 8, A-Y8, Z4), in-16, rel. post., demi-basane noire, dos lisse orn� de faux-nerfs ondul�s et petits fleurons, pi�ce de titre brique, plats v�lin - frottements au dos ; le titre remont� ; taches et traces d'usage dans les marges ; la marge sup. un peu courte. Marque � la Sybille sur le titre et au verso du dernier feuillet. [Bookseller: Librairie Portheault*]
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VERMIGLI, Pietro Martire. Una semplice dichiaratione sopra gli xii articoli della fede Christiana.
B�le : [Johan Hervagius], f�vrier 1544. Petit in-4, 181-(1) pages. Veau estamp� de l'�poque, dos � nerfs. Premier plat manquant, d�coupe au titre, tache fonc�e sur les 40 premiers feuillets. Ex-libris manuscrit et cachet sur le titre. Edition originale. Pietro Martire Vermigli (1500-1562) est un th�ologien, de l'ordre des chanoines r�guliers de Saint-Augustin, converti au protestantisme. Selon Weiss, le plus grand �crivain r�form� apr�s Calvin. Imprim� en "Basle Italic". Adams M-795. [Bookseller: Librairie Michel Bouvier]
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Estienne, Robert (ed.). Biblia Hebraica.
Paris Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus) 1544-1546 First edition 8vo. 17 volumes in 10. Modern full vellum binding with embossed gilt lettering to spines. Seated in modern blue cloth slipcase. All page edges gilt. Complete Hebrew Bible- TaNaKh: Torah, Neviim Ketuvim (Pentateuch, Prophets, Writings), Darlow and Moule #5089 (see additional paragraph at end of entry). Complete with all blank leaves. One of the most elegant printed Hebrew editions of its time, produced by Robert I Estienne (Robertus Stephanus, sometimes anglicized as Robert Stephens), the royal typographer to the French crown in the 16th century. Each original part's title page contains an image of Estienne's device- an olive tree with an old man standing underneath, and the slogan: "noli altum sapere" (Romans 11:20). The following title pages contain an imprint, written in Rashi script: Genesis, Iosoe & Iudices, Isaiae, Ieremiae, Ezechielis, Duodecim Prophetae, Psalterium, Prouerbia Solomonis & Iob, Canticum Canticorum, Daniel & Esras. The remaining parts contain Estienne's device, but no imprint. Psalterium (vol. 8 in our set) contains Latin imprint at the back. All Hebrew titles set within cartouche headpieces of text. Printed throughout in Hebrew type. Tight, clean modern vellum binding, ink notes and worn-off gilt page edges to several volumes. Overall clean set, in very good condition. [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller]
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Pseud. TREBELLIUS POLLIO et al. De Imperatoribus Romanis]
- Paris; Robert Estienne, 1544. FIRST EDITION 8vo. pp. 394 [xii]. Italic letter, woodcut printer's device to t-p. A very good, clean, well-margined copy in attractive contemporary ivory vellum. Small paper library label to spine. Scraps of medieval manuscript used as stubs. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield to front pastedown (unstuck). Contemporary purchase note of Boniface de Sorge to fly, his autograph to foot of t-p. Charming and unsophisticated copy of the first and only edition of these collected histories of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Maximilian, edited by the famous Venetian scholar Joannes Baptista Egnatius.The work opens with extracts from the 'Historia Augusta' a collection of lives of the Roman emperors of the second and third centuries, now predominantly considered to be a 4th century fabrication, and the work of one rather than the advertised many hands. It has been interpreted as a conscious parody of contemporary activities. Trebellius Pollio's 'Tyranni Triginta' begins c.250, providing a fanciful chronicle of 30 usurpers in the time of Gallienus and Valerian, followed by a tract on the deification of Claudius. A second 'author', Flavius Vopiscus then discusses the deification of Aurelian, before moving onto other minor emperors, Tacitus, Saturninus and Carus i.a. The rest of the text is composed of: an epitome of Sextus Aurelius Victor's lives of the emperors from Augustus to Theodosius (d. c. 395); Julius Pomponius Laetus' history from the death of Gordian to Justin; and Joannes Baptista Egnatius' 3 books on the Roman leaders from Julius Caesar to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, concluding with editorial annotations to the other works. Sorge is a river that runs through Provence and Isle de Sorge, an elegant old town on its banks. BM STC Fr. 425. Ren 61:19. Adams T917. Not in Graesse, Dibdin or Brunet. L867 [Bookseller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB]
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Valerius Maximus. Factorum dictorumque memorabiliam libri novem..
Mainz, J. Schoeffer 1544. - Kl.8. 11 (statt 12) Bll., 574 S. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke a. d. Titel. Flexibler Pergamentband der ZeitBM, German Books 882. Nicht bei Adams. Seltene Ausgabe der "Denkw�rdigen Taten und Ausspr�che", einer nach sachlichen Rubriken geordneten Sammlung von Beispielen, die innerhalb jeder Rubrik nach r�mischen und au�err�mischen, meist griechischen, Exempeln getrennt sind. Das Buch, das dem Unterricht dienen sollte, ist aus guten Quellen, vor allem Cicero und Livius, zusammengestellt.. (Tusculum Lexikon). - Einband mit Randl�suren und fleckig. Buchblock verzogen. Einige alte Marginalien. Vorsatzpapiere gel�st. Etwas stockfleckig. Es fehlt am Anfang 1 Blatt im Index sowie das letzte Blatt mit einer weiteren Druckermarke. [Bookseller: Antiquariat M�ller Gr�ff]
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