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Displayed below are selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1575 THEVET, Andr�; La Cosmographie Universelle.Illustr�e de diverses figures des choses les plus remarquables veu�s par l'Auteur, & incongneu�s de nos Anciens & Modernes.       Paris Pierre l'Huilier 1575 2 forts volumes in-folio de 20 ff.n.ch., 467 ff.ch., 12 ff.n.ch. de table, 2 cartes grav�es hors texte, chacune sur deux feuilles (Afrique & Asie), 88 bois grav�s dans le texte. pour le tome 1; 8 ff.n.ch., [622] ff., soit ff. 469 � 1062 (mal ch. 1025 : la pagination retroc�de sans lacune de 914 � 912 et de 936 � 903), 1 f. blanc, 17 ff.n.ch. de table (sans le dernier f. blanc), 2 cartes grav�es hors texte, chacune sur deux feuilles (Europe & Am�rique), 133 bois grav�s dans le texte pour le tome 2; veau fauve, dos � six nerfs orn�s de fleurons, filet dor� en encadrement sur les plats, plaque azur�e au centre. (Reliure de l'�poque). Lestringant, Andr� Thevet, p. 374-376, n� 14; Sabin 95335; Atkinson 249n; Borba de Moraes II, pp. 859-860; Arents, I, 8 & 21; Adams T/623; Mortimer French, 517; JCB (3) I:261; Brun p. 312 (titre � l'adresse de G. Chaudi�re); Alden, 575/32. EDITION ORIGINALE, TR�S RARE, DE L'UN DES GRANDS TEXTES G�OGRAPHIQUES DU SEIZIEME SI�CLE. Il existe des exemplaires � l'adresse de Guillaume Chaudi�re, qui partageait le privil�ge avec Pierre L'Huillier (20 octobre 1574). L'illustration, grav�e sur bois, comporte 4 grandes cartes sur deux feuilles (Afrique, Asie, Europe & Am�rique)colori�es � l'�poque et 228 bois grav�s dans le texte (dont le frontispice r�p�t� sept fois). Les figures � mi-page, fort suggestives, mettent souvent en sc�ne les "sauvages" des pays visit�s ou r�cemment d�couverts, leurs danses et c�r�monies, la flore et la faune, etc. Onze bois sont sign�s : trois portent le monogramme de Jean Rabel, deux celui de Jean de Gourmont et deux le monogramme CVS analogue � celui de Christoffel van Sichem l'a�n�. La sc�ne de d�pe�age de la baleine au f. 1017 r� est sign�e en haut � gauche de l'initiale D. Trois planche du tome II, repr�sentant l'ananas, le "manihot" et l'oiseau "maroli", comportent une croix de Lorraine o� l'on a parfois reconnu la marque de Claude Woeriot. Ces trois bois, ainsi que dix-sept autres, sont repris des Singularit�s de la France Antarctique du m�me auteur (1557). Une inscription en capitales, "PI./RAEFUS.", figurant sur un obelisque dans la vue fantaisiste des antiquitez d'Athenes (II, f. 795 v�) a �t� lue par Jean Adh�mar comme la signature du graveur flamand Pierre Raefe. Le portrait d'Henri II (t. II, f. 628 r�) est copi� d'Etienne Delaune. Les feuillets liminaires contiennent des po�mes et compliments en vers compos�s par Cinquarbres, G�n�brard, Dorat, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Ba�f, Jodelle, Le F�vre de La Boderie, Forcadel, Dicoeologus, Bergeron et Bauduin. Mortimer commente : "Thevet, much maligned by his contemporaries for his inaccuracies and exaggerations, solicited as royal cosmographer an impressive array of commendatory verses for these two volumes". Le m�me bibliographe rappelle que dans la partie consacr�e � l'Am�rique, Thevet s'attribue l'introduction du tabac en France. Borba de Moraes souligne l'int�r�t de l'ouvrage en ce qui concerne le Br�sil : "The map of America bears near the region of Rio de Janeiro the indication 'France Antarque' and the names 'Cap de Frie' and 'Rio de Janeiro'. On the verso of the leaf 908 is a plate of Guanabara Bay and on leaf 925 a dominical prayer in Tupi (.) The Brazilian section of the Cosmographie is very important ; in a sense it is more complete than the Singularitez. The description of the Indians' attire, the informations about the Tupinamb�, their beliefs, etc., are much more complete and among the best existing. The Singularitez was published immediately after Thevet returned to France in 1557, and the Cosmographie appeared only in 1575, which afforded him more time to deliberate on the matter and perhaps to consult people who knew Brazil better. Ferdinand Denis, who based his information on a letter from Richer, claims that Thevet consulted Villegagnon. On reading the Cosmographie one does not gain the impression that Thevet 'lied cosmographically' in the words of Jean de L�ry". Andr� Thevet (1504-1592), cadet d'une famille de ch [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]       [Bookseller: thomas-scheler]  1.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BESSARD, T(oussaint) de Dialogue, de la longitude: est-oueste, De T. Bessard d'Auge en Normandie. Qui est, la premiere partie du miroer du monde: contenant, tous les moyens, que l'on pourroit avoir tenues, en la naviguation, iusqu'� maintenat: que, les deux filles de cosmographie, as�avoir, geo-graphie, & hydro-graphie, en mettent un nouveau, & plus-seur, en avant: touchant le fait de cette longitude, tant par mer, que par terre.       Rouan: Martin le mesgissier, 1575. FIRST EDITION. 4to. [xvi], 111, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of author facing impressive full-page woodcut coat-of-arms. With 20 text woodcuts, including illustrations of instruments, and 3 tables. Nineteenth-century vellum; small repairs to title-page and to lower corner of coat-of-arms. First edition of this extremely rare treatise, the first work printed in France on navigation and one of the earliest attempts to determine longitude at sea. As a mathematician and instrument-maker, Bessard believed this could be accomplished by fixing one's position vis-a-vis the stars; his instruments, which are illustrated here, support this conclusion. Notwithstanding, he was well aware of the needs of seamen, and his methods for determining longitude at sea were successfully followed by navigators and seamen. An early description of South America is also included, undoubtedly drawn from Bessard's first hand experience. Bessard (also Bossard), born in Putot-en-Auge, became an accomplished mathematician and designer of navigational instruments, publishing in 1572 L'aigle-compas de T. de Bessard, d'auge en Normandie. However, most of his life was passionately spent in travel, both at sea and by land, and Bessard is remembered as one of the most renowned voyagers in sixteenth-century France. We could locate only three other copies of this work: British Library (STC-French, 51), the Bibliotheque Nationale (12,647) and the Crone Collection of the Scheepvaart, the Dutch Maritime Museum (Crone Library, 77), which copy appears incomplete.       [Bookseller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA]  2.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Atlas - Porcacchi, Thomaso L'isole piu famose del mondo. 2. Ausgabe.       Venedig (Venezia), Giorgio Angelieri f�r Simon Galignani & G. Porro, 1576 (am Schlu� 1575. 14 Bll., 201 S.. Mit gest., fig�rl. Titel, 47 Kupferstich-Karten von Girolamo Porro, 51 fig�rlichen Initialen und Holzschnitt-Druckermarke. Kl.-Folio. Weinroter Maroquinband um 1800 auf 5 B�nden, mit reicher R�cken-, Innenkanten- und Stehkanten-Vergoldung, dreiseitigem Goldschnitt, doppelten Goldfileten und Rollstempelpr�gung sowie goldgepr. Wappen-Supralibros auf beiden Deckeln. Gering berieben; Vergoldungen gering oxydiert; erste Bll., S. 35-45, S. 171-201 mit schwachem Wasserrand; Bl. 69/70 mit braunem Fleck.. Gegen�ber der EA von 1572 um 17 Karten erweitert; die Karten zeigen die Welt in einer Reihe der ber�hmtesten Inseln: Island, Hebriden, Gotland, Irland, England, Schottland, Holland, Zeeland, Mallorca, Menorca, Korsika, Elba, Sizilien, Malta, Venedig, griech. Archipel, Korfu, Curzolari, die Seeschlacht bei Curzolari, Kefalonia, Zante, Morea, Cerigo (= Kythera), Candia, Scarpanto, Rhodos, Santorini, Milo, Niscia, Scio, Metellino, Konstantinopel, Stalimene, Negroponte, Zypern, Temistitan (Mexiko), die Neue Welt (Nord- und Mittelamerika), Spagniola (= Haiti), Cuba, S. Iacomo (= Jamaica), S. Lorenzo, S. Giovanni, Taprobana, Molukken, Weltkarte (in Gastaldi-Projektion), Welt-Seekarte (in Mercator-Projektion). Die Karten (10,3 x 14,2 cm) in guten, kr�ftigen Abbdrucken; sie zeigen neben ihrem Hauptgegenstand h�ufig auch Seemonster, Schiffe und immer die Windrose. Das Werk erlebte bis 1713 zahlreiche Auflagen, die sich in Tafelanzahl, Satz und Ziervignetten unterscheiden. Adams P 1905; Alden L. 575/24; BM STC Italian Books p. 534; Sabin 64149, vgl. Thieme/b. 27, 275 (Porro). Provenienz: Aus der Bibliothek von Karl IV (1748-1819), K�nig von Spanien, mit dessen goldgepr�gten Wappen-Supralibros auf beiden Deckeln.       [Bookseller: Antiquariat am Moritzberg]  3.   Check availability:     prolibri   Link/Print   WIERIX, Hieronymus (or Wierx). Passio Domini Nostru Iesu Christi.       (No place), Hieronymus Wierx invenit, incidit, excudit. Cum gratia et privilegio Buschere, (ca. 1575). . 12mo. 19th century olive green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with gilt title, single fillet border on sides, inner dentelles with double gilt fillet border, g.e. Engraved title, series of 16 engraved plates depicting the Passion of Christ and one added engraved plate depicting Christ bearing his cross under a large press. Size of all 18 plates is ca. 85x53 mm. All plates are executed and signed by Wierix. . Series of 18 extremely rare and exquisitely executed engravings in the first state by one of the most famous Flamish engravers of the 16th century. The first 17 engravings (title and series of 16) depict the Passion of Christ. Though rather small the engravings are very detailed from the aspects of clothing, expressions, shadows and light, backgrounds, like villages and buildings, and other ornamental details. On many of them the somewhat grotesque figures can be seen, which are so characteristic for the Flamish school. The 18th engraving is extra and added before the last engraving of the series and depicts a detailed scene of Christ bearing his cross while under a large (book)press. All engravings have a caption in Latin. They are cut with a small margin around the frame, except for the title which is cut directly around the frame, and mounted on strong paper, with a blank leave between each engraving.Wierix (1553-1619) was together with his 2 brothers Antoine and Johan one of the greatest flamish artists of the 16th century and their work takes a considerable place in the artistical history of that age. The 3 of them produced many works and it is not always clear who made what when it is about not signed pieces. Their style was in many ways identic. Hieronymous Wierix is best known for his engravings of devotional subjects, allegories and portraits of saints and churchfathers. In the catalogue of Firmin-Didot is said about this copy: "(...) d'une extreme finesse et superbes d'epreuve. Recueil d'une rarete extreme." Beautiful copy with bookplates of Le M.is de Biencourt (18th century), Biencourt-Poncins (19th century) and Firmin-Didot (1850). Mauquoy-Hendrickx, M., Les estampes de Wierix (Brussels, 1978) nrs. 167-183; Catalogue Firmin-Didot (june 1883) 163.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  4.   Check availability:     ZVAB   Link/Print   LE GRAND KALENDRIER & COMPOST DES BERGERS.       1575 Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, s.d. (1575). Petit in-4 de 116 feuillets non chiffr�s. Maroquin vert jans�niste, triple filet � froid encadrant les plats, dos � nerfs, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette int�rieure dor�e, tranches dor�es. Koehler. 204 x 148 mm. BELLE EDITION GOTHIQUE PARISIENNE DE CET OUVRAGE TR�S ILLUSTR� QUI CONNUT UN EXTRAORDINAIRE SUCC�S AU XVI� si�cle. Brunet, II, 206. L'illustration, de grand int�r�t, se compose de 80 gravures sur bois d'inspiration tr�s vari�e. Un cycle de 8 grandes gravures sur bois (105 x 97 mm) pr�sente un int�r�t iconographique tout particulier. BEL EXEMPLAIRE D'UN ILLUSTR� MYTHIQUE.       [Bookseller: Librairie Sourget]  5.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   WIERIX, Hieronymus (or Wierx). Passio Domini Nostru Iesu Christi.       (No place), Hieronymus Wierx invenit, incidit, excudit. Cum gratia et privilegio Buschere, (ca. 1575). 12mo. 19th century olive green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with gilt title, single fillet border on sides, inner dentelles with double gilt fillet border, g.e. Engraved title, series of 16 engraved plates depicting the Passion of Christ and one added engraved plate depicting Christ bearing his cross under a large press. Size of all 18 plates is ca. 85x53 mm. All plates are executed and signed by Wierix. Series of 18 extremely rare and exquisitely executed engravings in the first state by one of the most famous Flamish engravers of the 16th century. The first 17 engravings (title and series of 16) depict the Passion of Christ. Though rather small the engravings are very detailed from the aspects of clothing, expressions, shadows and light, backgrounds, like villages and buildings, and other ornamental details. On many of them the somewhat grotesque figures can be seen, which are so characteristic for the Flamish school. The 18th engraving is extra and added before the last engraving of the series and depicts a detailed scene of Christ bearing his cross while under a large (book)press. All engravings have a caption in Latin. They are cut with a small margin around the frame, except for the title which is cut directly around the frame, and mounted on strong paper, with a blank leave between each engraving.Wierix (1553-1619) was together with his 2 brothers Antoine and Johan one of the greatest flamish artists of the 16th century and their work takes a considerable place in the artistical history of that age. The 3 of them produced many works and it is not always clear who made what when it is about not signed pieces. Their style was in many ways identic. Hieronymous Wierix is best known for his engravings of devotional subjects, allegories and portraits of saints and churchfathers. In the catalogue of Firmin-Didot is said about this copy: "(.) d'une extr�me finesse et superbes d'�preuve. Recueil d'une raret� extr�me. Beautiful copy with bookplates of Le M.is de Biencourt (18th century), Biencourt-Poncins (19th century) and Firmin-Didot (1850). Mauquoy-Hendrickx, M., Les estampes de Wierix (Brussels, 1978) nrs. 167-183; Catalogue Firmin-Didot (june 1883) 163. [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  6.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   LE GRAND KALENDRIER & COMPOST DES BERGERS.       Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, s.d. (1575). Petit in-4 de 116 feuillets non chiffr�s. Maroquin vert jans�niste, triple filet � froid encadrant les plats, dos � nerfs, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette int�rieure dor�e, tranches dor�es. Koehler. 204 x 148 mm. BELLE EDITION GOTHIQUE PARISIENNE DE CET OUVRAGE TR�S ILLUSTR� QUI CONNUT UN EXTRAORDINAIRE SUCC�S AU XVI� si�cle. Brunet, II, 206. L'illustration, de grand int�r�t, se compose de 80 gravures sur bois d'inspiration tr�s vari�e. Un cycle de 8 grandes gravures sur bois (105 x 97 mm) pr�sente un int�r�t iconographique tout particulier. BEL EXEMPLAIRE D'UN ILLUSTR� MYTHIQUE. 28082007054       [Bookseller: Librairie Sourget]  7.   Check availability:     Livre-Rare-Book   Link/Print   WIERIX, Hieronymus (or Wierx). Passio Domini Nostru Iesu Christi.       (No place), Hieronymus Wierx invenit, incidit, excudit. Cum gratia et privilegio Buschere, (ca. 1575). . 12mo. 19th century olive green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with gilt title, single fillet border on sides, inner dentelles with double gilt fillet border, g.e. Engraved title, series of 16 engraved plates depicting the Passion of Christ and one added engraved plate depicting Christ bearing his cross under a large press. Size of all 18 plates is ca. 85x53 mm. All plates are executed and signed by Wierix. . Series of 18 extremely rare and exquisitely executed engravings in the first state by one of the most famous Flamish engravers of the 16th century. The first 17 engravings (title and series of 16) depict the Passion of Christ. Though rather small the engravings are very detailed from the aspects of clothing, expressions, shadows and light, backgrounds, like villages and buildings, and other ornamental details. On many of them the somewhat grotesque figures can be seen, which are so characteristic for the Flamish school. The 18th engraving is extra and added before the last engraving of the series and depicts a detailed scene of Christ bearing his cross while under a large (book)press. All engravings have a caption in Latin. They are cut with a small margin around the frame, except for the title which is cut directly around the frame, and mounted on strong paper, with a blank leave between each engraving.Wierix (1553-1619) was together with his 2 brothers Antoine and Johan one of the greatest flamish artists of the 16th century and their work takes a considerable place in the artistical history of that age. The 3 of them produced many works and it is not always clear who made what when it is about not signed pieces. Their style was in many ways identic. Hieronymous Wierix is best known for his engravings of devotional subjects, allegories and portraits of saints and churchfathers. In the catalogue of Firmin-Didot is said about this copy: "(...) d'une extreme finesse et superbes d'epreuve. Recueil d'une rarete extreme." Beautiful copy with bookplates of Le M.is de Biencourt (18th century), Biencourt-Poncins (19th century) and Firmin-Didot (1850). Mauquoy-Hendrickx, M., Les estampes de Wierix (Brussels, 1978) nrs. 167-183; Catalogue Firmin-Didot (june 1883) 163.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  8.   Check availability:     Maremagnum    ILAB   Link/Print   NICOLAY Nicolas de Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella turchia       In-folio maroquin rouge, double filet � froid encadrant les plats, dos � nerfs, roulette dor�e int�rieure. Reliure du XX� si�cle. 310 x 210 mm. PREMI�RE �DITION ITALIENNE AU FORMAT IN-FOLIO, EN PARTIE ORIGINALE, CONTENANT 7 GRAVURES DE COSTUMES TURCS ET ORIENTAUX � PLEINE PAGE DE PLUS QUE LES �DITTIONS PR�C�DENTES. POUR CE MOTIF ET POUR SON FORMAT, CETTE �DITION, DEVENUE RARE, EST L'UNE DES PLUS RECHERCH�ES. Collation : 1 ff (titre), 1 ff. non chiffr�s (d�dicace � Giacopo Boncompagno), 4 ff. non chiffr�s (table), 4 ff. non chiffr�s (pr�face � la louange des p�r�grinations...), 192 pp. (Texte orn� de 67 planches grav�es sur cuivre tir�es � pleine page). VOICI LA LISTE DES GRAVURES SUPPL�MENTAIRES : 1 planche pagin�e 154 sans l�gende repr�sentant 3 personnages. 1 planche pagin�e 182 : Capitano d'Arabie. 1 planches pagin�e 184 : Donna turca standi in casa. 1 planche pagin�e 186 : Sposa di Costantinopoli. 1 planche pagin�e 188 : Patriarca di Costantinopoli. 1 planche pagin�e 190 : Calidesquer a piedi. 1 planche pagin�e 192 sans l�gende portant 4 costumes de femmes. EXEMPLAIRE A BONNES MARGES, avec l'ex-libris L. Gonnelli, Firenze 1575. Colas, 2204. Adams, N 253 ; Cicognara, 1731 ; Lipperheide, 1399b. 30082007135       [Bookseller: Librairie Sourget]  9.   Check availability:     Livre-Rare-Book   Link/Print   Maurolico, Francesco, OSB. Opuscula mathematica.       Venedig, Francesco de Franceschi, 1575. (20), 285, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und zahlr. Textholzschnitten. (Dabei) Ders. Arithmethicorum libri duo. Ebd., 1575. (8), 175, (15) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und anderer Druckermarke am Schlu� des Textes. Flexibler Pergamentband der Zeit mit hs. R�ckentitel. Bindeb�nder fehlen. 4to Erste Ausgabe des Hauptwerks. - Der Benediktinerabt und Universalgelehrte Francisco Maurolico (1494-1575) aus Messina entstammte einer griechischen Familie (Mavrolykos; "Schwarzwolf"), die nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels nach Sizilien gefl�chtet war. Sein Vater war Arzt am byzantinischen Kaiserhof gewesen (in Sizilien �bte er das Amt des M�nzmeisters aus). Maurolico galt als gr��ter Geometer seiner Zeit; ab 1569 war er Professor an der Universit�t Messina. "Only a few of his works were printed, although these are enough to show him as an outstanding scholar" (DSB). Der Astronom, Architekt und Historiker gab die Werke antiker Mathematiker (Archimedes, Euklid, Apollonios von Perge) heraus und stellte auch eigene astronomische Beobachtungen an. Insbesondere beobachtete er dieselbe Supernova, die Tycho Brahe 1572 im Sternbild der Kassiopeia wahrnahm. Anders als Tycho publizierte er seine Entdeckung jedoch nicht; seine Notizen wurden erst 1960 entdeckt. - In seinem gro�en Hauptwerk, den "Arithmeticorum Libri Duo", f�hrte er erstmals einen Beweis mit Hilfe der vollst�ndigen Induktion. Das Verfahren findet sich dann erst wieder 1654 bei Blaise Pascal und 1659 bei Pierre de Fermat und wurde durch Gottlob Frege zum allgemein g�ltigen Beweisverfahren in der Mathematik. "Shows considerable originality in the treatment of figurate numbers" (Smith). Die vorangestellten "Opuscula mathematica" umfassen sieben kleinere Schriften, die Maurolico in seiner Vielseitigkeit zeigen, darunter �ber die Musik, Gnomonik, astronomische Instrumente, Astronomie (mit einer Kritik des Kopernikus), Chronologie und Komputistik etc. Die selbst�ndig paginierten "Arithmethicorum libri duo" mit eigenem Titelblatt werden im Inhaltsverzeichnis als Folgeband angek�ndigt und bilden somit den zweiten Teil. - Selten; seit 1950 nicht auf deutschen Auktionen. Sehr sch�nes Exemplar aus der ber�hmten Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts Kremsm�nster (O�) mit entspr. altem hs. Besitzvermerk am Titel und kl. Etikett am Vorderdeckel. Abt Alexander Fixlmillner, ein F�rderer von Kunst, Wissenschaft und auch der Stiftsbibliothek, lie� 1748-58 im Kloster einen "Mathematischen Turm" mit Sternwarte errichten, der bis heute eine wesentliche naturwissenschaftliche Arbeitsst�tte darstellt. Edit 16, CNCE 28131. Smith 348 und 350. Riccardi I (2), 141. Adams M 919. BM-STC Italian 428. DSB IX, 191. Kat. Dt. Museum, Libri rari, 186. Honeyman 2182. Macclesfield 1344 (Sotheby's, 14. 4. 2005, �8,000).       [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]  10.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Gessner, C. Thierbuch, das ist ein kurze Beschreybung aller vierf�ssingen Thieren; Vogelbuch; Fischbuch, vollkomne Beschreybung aller Fischen so in dem Meer und s�ssen Wasseren; Schlangenbuch; De Scorpione, kurze Beschreybung des Scorpions. (The complete Gesner, all in early editions).       - Z�rich, Froschauer, 1575-1589. Five books in two. Folio (38.5 x 23.5 cm) text with about 1,275 fine woodcuts in the text (several full page). Good recent calf binding in old style with new flyleaves. *A very good set of the German language edition of Gesner's animal omnibus. These volumes are all early imprints. The Historiae animalium first appeared in 4 folio volumes printed in Zurich by Christoffel Froschouwer. A German translation, also printed by Froschouwer, followed in 1563 and was reprinted several times. This set contains the following: Thierb�ch (1583, 3rd); Vogelb�ch (1582, 3rd); Fischb�ch (1575, 2nd); Schlangenb�ch (1589, 1st); De Scorpione (1589, 1st). The Fischb�ch contains invertebrates as well, including many Mollusca. It is rare to see such a mixed set. This important work may be seen as the starting point of modern zoology. The first few leaves of the Thierbuch have been restored in the lower corner and there is a little thumbing in corners as usual in all 5 books. A few repaired tears and a vague library stamp on 2 titles. Some handwritten notes in an old hand. In the "Vogelbuch" several marginal annotations in an old hand, the last 40 ll. have a large waterstain. In all a very good and collectible set with broad margins and strong imprint of the woodcuts. Nissen ZBI, 1552, 1555, 1557; Nissen IVB, 350.       [Bookseller: DIETER SCHIERENBERG BV]  11.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   BRAHE, TYCHO. Original hadwritten signature, in full.       - (Uranienborg, Denmark, between 1575 and 1600). The signature is written on 16th cent. paper, cut out from one of Brahe's books, measuring 8,3 x 14,4 cm. This piece of paper is mounted on a 19th cent. piece of paper, measuring 17,4 x 21,9 pp., on which is written in 18th cent. hand in German: ". (?) Unterschrift der hochber�hmten Astronom T�cho Brahe-/ vorn in einer von seine auf Uranienburg gedr�ckte Schriften, die er jemand �berreicht hat, stand obenstehender EIGENH�NDIG von ihm geschrieben -/ es sit/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe" (".(?) signature of the highly famous astronomer Tycho Brahe-/ at the front of one of his works printed at Uranienburg, which he has given to someone, the above was written by him in HIS OWN HAND -/ that is/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe").Over the signature, "Tycho Brahe", Brahe has written d:dt: (i.e. d[ono] d[edit], meaning "[Tycho Brahe] gave [this] as a gift). Exceedingly scarce original handwritten dedication with signature by the illustrious Danish astronomer, the founder of modern observational astronomy, taken out from one of Brahe's works printed at his printing press located at his observatory Uranienborg on the island of Hven.Signatures by Brahe are of the greatest scarcity.       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  12.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   WIERIX, Hieronymus (or Wierx). The Passion of Christ exquisitely executed by one of the most famous Flamish engravers Passio Domini Nostru Iesu Christi.       (No place), Hieronymus Wierx invenit, incidit, excudit. Cum gratia et privilegio Buschere, (ca. 1575).. 12mo. 19th century olive green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt with gilt title, single fillet border on sides, inner dentelles with double gilt fillet border, g.e. Engraved title, series of 16 engraved plates depicting the Passion of Christ and one added engraved plate depicting Christ bearing his cross under a large press. Size of all 18 plates is ca. 85x53 mm. All plates are executed and signed by Wierix.. Series of 18 extremely rare and exquisitely executed engravings in the first state by one of the most famous Flamish engravers of the 16th century. The first 17 engravings (title and series of 16) depict the Passion of Christ. Though rather small the engravings are very detailed from the aspects of clothing, expressions, shadows and light, backgrounds, like villages and buildings, and other ornamental details. On many of them the somewhat grotesque figures can be seen, which are so characteristic for the Flamish school. The 18th engraving is extra and added before the last engraving of the series and depicts a detailed scene of Christ bearing his cross while under a large (book)press. All engravings have a caption in Latin. They are cut with a small margin around the frame, except for the title which is cut directly around the frame, and mounted on strong paper, with a blank leave between each engraving.Wierix (1553-1619) was together with his 2 brothers Antoine and Johan one of the greatest flamish artists of the 16th century and their work takes a considerable place in the artistical history of that age. The 3 of them produced many works and it is not always clear who made what when it is about not signed pieces. Their style was in many ways identic. Hieronymous Wierix is best known for his engravings of devotional subjects, allegories and portraits of saints and churchfathers. In the catalogue of Firmin-Didot is said about this copy: "(...) d'une extreme finesse et superbes d'epreuve. Recueil d'une rarete extreme." Beautiful copy with bookplates of Le M.is de Biencourt (18th century), Biencourt-Poncins (19th century) and Firmin-Didot (1850). Mauquoy-Hendrickx, M., Les estampes de Wierix (Brussels, 1978) nrs. 167-183; Catalogue Firmin-Didot (june 1883) 163.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  13.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   NICOLAY Nicolas de Le navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella turchia       In-folio maroquin rouge, double filet a froid encadrant les plats, dos a nerfs, roulette doree interieure. Reliure du XXe siecle.310 x 210 mm. PREMIERE eDITION ITALIENNE AU FORMAT IN-FOLIO, EN PARTIE ORIGINALE, CONTENANT 7 GRAVURES DE COSTUMES TURCS ET ORIENTAUX A PLEINE PAGE DE PLUS QUE LES eDITTIONS PReCeDENTES. POUR CE MOTIF ET POUR SON FORMAT, CETTE eDITION, DEVENUE RARE, EST L'UNE DES PLUS RECHERCHeES.Collation : 1 ff (titre), 1 ff. non chiffres (dedicace a Giacopo Boncompagno), 4 ff. non chiffres (table), 4 ff. non chiffres (preface a la louange des peregrinations...), 192 pp. (Texte orne de 67 planches gravees sur cuivre tirees a pleine page).VOICI LA LISTE DES GRAVURES SUPPLeMENTAIRES : 1 planche paginee 154 sans legende representant 3 personnages. 1 planche paginee 182 : Capitano d'Arabie. 1 planches paginee 184 : Donna turca standi in casa. 1 planche paginee 186 : Sposa di Costantinopoli. 1 planche paginee 188 : Patriarca di Costantinopoli. 1 planche paginee 190 : Calidesquer a piedi. 1 planche paginee 192 sans legende portant 4 costumes de femmes.EXEMPLAIRE A BONNES MARGES, avec l'ex-libris L. Gonnelli, Firenze 1575. Colas, 2204. Adams, N 253 ; Cicognara, 1731 ; Lipperheide, 1399b.30082007135       [Bookseller: Librairie Sourget]  14.   Check availability:     livre-rare-book   Link/Print   Gessner, C. Thierbuch, das ist ein kurze Beschreybung aller vierf�ssingen Thieren; Vogelbuch; Fischbuch, vollkomne Beschreybung aller Fischen so in dem Meer und s�ssen Wasseren; Schlangenbuch; De Scorpione, kurze Beschreybung des Scorpions. (The complete Gesner, all in early editions).       Z�rich, Froschauer, 1575-1589. Five books in two. Folio (38.5 x 23.5 cm) text with about 1,275 fine woodcuts in the text (several full page). Good recent calf binding in old style with new flyleaves. *A very good set of the German language edition of Gesner's animal omnibus. These volumes are all early imprints. The Historiae animalium first appeared in 4 folio volumes printed in Zurich by Christoffel Froschouwer. A German translation, also printed by Froschouwer, followed in 1563 and was reprinted several times. This set contains the following: Thierb�ch (1583, 3rd); Vogelb�ch (1582, 3rd); Fischb�ch (1575, 2nd); Schlangenb�ch (1589, 1st); De Scorpione (1589, 1st). The Fischb�ch contains invertebrates as well, including many Mollusca. It is rare to see such a mixed set. This important work may be seen as the starting point of modern zoology. The first few leaves of the Thierbuch have been restored in the lower corner and there is a little thumbing in corners as usual in all 5 books. A few repaired tears and a vague library stamp on 2 titles. Some handwritten notes in an old hand. In the "Vogelbuch" several marginal annotations in an old hand, the last 40 ll. have a large waterstain. In all a very good and collectible set with broad margins and strong imprint of the woodcuts. Nissen ZBI, 1552, 1555, 1557; Nissen IVB, 350.       [Bookseller: Dieter Schierenberg bv]  15.   Check availability:     AntiQbook    ILAB   Link/Print   FURMER, Bernard G. (=Dirck Volkertsz Embarrassment of riches Emblematum liber.       Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1575. . 4to. Contemporary vellum. Motto in Latin on the title within fine ornamental borders and 25 large numbered engraved emblems by Wiericx, one signed I.H.W. 27, (1 blank) lvs. . First edition of a rare and most beautiful emblem book on the use and abuse of riches. The fine artistic engravings were produced in the atelier of the talented Wierix brothers who were among the most prolific printmakers in the Low Countries of their time after the designs by Gerard Groenning. In their long association with Plantin they contributed engravings to many of his important productions. The emblems all centre on humans engaged in rich and sumptuous scenes of dinner and drinking parties, money transactions, scenes of elegant and luxurious life, etc., with a strong architectural background, but they also include a fine emblem on a farmer working in the cornfield and a woman offering him food while another woman is bending over her purse. The last emblem presents a lively scene of the Last Judgment. All emblems have a caption and quotation from the bible above and a four-line Latin verse underneath. The explanatory Latin text is printed on the opposite pages. Only the second emblem has the monogram I.H.W. of Joannes Wierix, on the other plates monograms must have been erased according to Mauquoy-Hendrickx because of Joannes's and Hieronymus' sympathy with the protestants. The publication was a joint venture of Christopher Plantin and Phillip Galle, each taking 250 copies and sharing expenses. The text is by the famous Dutch humanist and - with respect to religion - controversal Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (1522-1590) and was published just before he returned to Holland from exile in 1576. He settled in Haarlem again in 1577. Coornhert was befriended with Hendrik Niclaes and other members of the "Huis der Liefde' in Antwerp and the moral issues discussed in De rerum usu et abusu are entirely in keeping with Coornhert's opinions. Probably to avoid potential conflicts with the authorities on account of publishing a work of an author in exile, Galle and Plantin issued the book under the name of the Frisian humanist Bernard Furmer(ius) (1542-1616), born at Leeuwarden in the Northern Netherlands, and historiographer of the States of Friesland since 1597. A Dutch translation under the title Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck van tydlycke have was published by Plantin at his Leyden office in 1585. An adaptation in Latin by Richard Lubbaeus was published by Johan Jansonius at Arnhem in 1609. The book is of the utmost rarity. Fine copy, with the book plate of Sylvain S. Brunschwig.- (Title sl. dam. at inner margin because of having been pasted to the opposite blank, and with small tear in lower margin). M. Sellink, Philips Galle, I, p. 96-97; H. Puhlmann, De rerum usu et abusu (Antwerpen 1575). Wort und Bild in einem moralphilosophischen Emblembuch des Dirk Volckertszoon Coornhert (Bonn, 1992); Voet, Plantin Press, 1228 and ill. no. 52; Praz p. 344; Landwehr 241; Funck p. 314; Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Wierix, 2289-2314; Bibl. Silvain S. Brunschwig 146; NUC lists one copy.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  16.   Check availability:     ZVAB   Link/Print   BRAHE, TYCHO. Original hadwritten signature, in full.       - (Uranienborg, Denmark, between 1575 and 1600). The signature is written on 16th cent. paper, cut out from one of Brahe's books, measuring 8,3 x 14,4 cm. This piece of paper is mounted on a 19th cent. piece of paper, measuring 17,4 x 21,9 pp., on which is written in 18th cent. hand in German: ". (?) Unterschrift der hochber�hmten Astronom T�cho Brahe-/ vorn in einer von seine auf Uranienburg gedr�ckte Schriften, die er jemand �berreicht hat, stand obenstehender EIGENH�NDIG von ihm geschrieben -/ es sit/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe" (".(?) signature of the highly famous astronomer Tycho Brahe-/ at the front of one of his works printed at Uranienburg, which he has given to someone, the above was written by him in HIS OWN HAND -/ that is/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe").Over the signature, "Tycho Brahe", Brahe has written d:dt: (i.e. d[ono] d[edit], meaning "[Tycho Brahe] gave [this] as a gift). Exceedingly scarce original handwritten dedication with signature by the illustrious Danish astronomer, the founder of modern observational astronomy, taken out from one of Brahe's works printed at his printing press located at his observatory Uranienborg on the island of Hven.Signatures by Brahe are of the greatest scarcity.       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  17.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   FURMER, Bernard G. (=Dirck Volkertsz Emblematum liber.       Embarrassment of riches Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1575. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Motto in Latin on the title within fine ornamental borders and 25 large numbered engraved emblems by Wiericx, one signed I.H.W. 27, (1 blank) lvs. First edition of a rare and most beautiful emblem book on the use and abuse of riches. The fine artistic engravings were produced in the atelier of the talented Wierix brothers who were among the most prolific printmakers in the Low Countries of their time after the designs by Gerard Groenning. In their long association with Plantin they contributed engravings to many of his important productions. The emblems all centre on humans engaged in rich and sumptuous scenes of dinner and drinking parties, money transactions, scenes of elegant and luxurious life, etc., with a strong architectural background, but they also include a fine emblem on a farmer working in the cornfield and a woman offering him food while another woman is bending over her purse. The last emblem presents a lively scene of the Last Judgment. All emblems have a caption and quotation from the bible above and a four-line Latin verse underneath. The explanatory Latin text is printed on the opposite pages. Only the second emblem has the monogram I.H.W. of Joannes Wierix, on the other plates monograms must have been erased according to Mauquoy-Hendrickx because of Joannes's and Hieronymus' sympathy with the protestants. The publication was a joint venture of Christopher Plantin and Phillip Galle, each taking 250 copies and sharing expenses. The text is by the famous Dutch humanist and - with respect to religion - controversal Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (1522-1590) and was published just before he returned to Holland from exile in 1576. He settled in Haarlem again in 1577. Coornhert was befriended with Hendrik Niclaes and other members of the `Huis der Liefde' in Antwerp and the moral issues discussed in De rerum usu et abusu are entirely in keeping with Coornhert's opinions. Probably to avoid potential conflicts with the authorities on account of publishing a work of an author in exile, Galle and Plantin issued the book under the name of the Frisian humanist Bernard Furmer(ius) (1542-1616), born at Leeuwarden in the Northern Netherlands, and historiographer of the States of Friesland since 1597. A Dutch translation under the title Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck van tydlycke have was published by Plantin at his Leyden office in 1585. An adaptation in Latin by Richard Lubbaeus was published by Johan Jansonius at Arnhem in 1609. The book is of the utmost rarity. Fine copy, with the book plate of Sylvain S. Brunschwig.- (Title sl. dam. at inner margin because of having been pasted to the opposite blank, and with small tear in lower margin). M. Sellink, Philips Galle, I, p. 96-97; H. Puhlmann, De rerum usu et abusu (Antwerpen 1575). Wort und Bild in einem moralphilosophischen Emblembuch des Dirk Volckertszoon Coornhert (Bonn, 1992); Voet, Plantin Press, 1228 and ill. no. 52; Praz p. 344; Landwehr 241; Funck p. 314; Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Wierix, 2289-2314; Bibl. Silvain S. Brunschwig 146; NUC lists one copy.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  18.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   FURMER, BERNARD G. (=DIRCK VOLKERTSZ EMBLEMATUM LIBER. ANTWERP, CHR. PLANTIN, 1575.       4to. Contemporary vellum. Motto in Latin on the title within fine ornamental borders and 25 large numbered engraved emblems by Wiericx, one signed I.H.W. 27, (1 blank) lvs. First edition of a rare and most beautiful emblem book on the use and abuse of riches. The fine artistic engravings were produced in the atelier of the talented Wierix brothers who were among the most prolific printmakers in the Low Countries of their time after the designs by Gerard Groenning. In their long association with Plantin they contributed engravings to many of his important productions. The emblems all centre on humans engaged in rich and sumptuous scenes of dinner and drinking parties, money transactions, scenes of elegant and luxurious life, etc., with a strong architectural background, but they also include a fine emblem on a farmer working in the cornfield and a woman offering him food while another woman is bending over her purse. The last emblem presents a lively scene of the Last Judgment. All emblems have a caption and quotation from the bible above and a four-line Latin verse underneath. The explanatory Latin text is printed on the opposite pages. Only the second emblem has the monogram I.H.W. of Joannes Wierix, on the other plates monograms must have been erased according to Mauquoy-Hendrickx because of Joannes's and Hieronymus' sympathy with the protestants. The publication was a joint venture of Christopher Plantin and Phillip Galle, each taking 250 copies and sharing expenses. The text is by the famous Dutch humanist and - with respect to religion - controversal Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (1522-1590) and was published just before he returned to Holland from exile in 1576. He settled in Haarlem again in 1577. Coornhert was befriended with Hendrik Niclaes and other members of the `Huis der Liefde' in Antwerp and the moral issues discussed in De rerum usu et abusu are entirely in keeping with Coornhert's opinions. Probably to avoid potential conflicts with the authorities on account of publishing a work of an author in exile, Galle and Plantin issued the book under the name of the Frisian humanist Bernard Furmer(ius) (1542-1616), born at Leeuwarden in the Northern Netherlands, and historiographer of the States of Friesland since 1597. A Dutch translation under the title Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck van tydlycke have was published by Plantin at his Leyden office in 1585. An adaptation in Latin by Richard Lubbaeus was published by Johan Jansonius at Arnhem in 1609. The book is of the utmost rarity. Fine copy, with the book plate of Sylvain S. Brunschwig.- (Title sl. dam. at inner margin because of having been pasted to the opposite blank, and with small tear in lower margin). M. Sellink, Philips Galle, I, p. 96-97; H. Puhlmann, De rerum usu et abusu (Antwerpen 1575). Wort und Bild in einem moralphilosophischen Emblembuch des Dirk Volckertszoon Coornhert (Bonn, 1992); Voet, Plantin Press, 1228 and ill. no. 52; Praz p. 344; Landwehr 241; Funck p. 314; Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Wierix, 2289-2314; Bibl. Silvain S. Brunschwig 146; NUC lists one copy.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV�-�'t Goy-Houten�-�]  19.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   Lemnius, Levinus: Das dritte [+ vierde] Teil Von den wunderbarlichen Geheimnissen der Natur/ vnd derselben fruchtbarlichen betrachtung/ nicht allein n�tzlich/ sondern auch lieblich zulesen/ Mit angehengter lere von dem rechten gebrauch der verborgenen Geheimnissen der Natur/ Sampt wiederlegung alles dessen/ so darwieder von b�sen vnartigen leuten auffgebracht werden mag. ... in die Deutsche Sprach gebracht/ vnd etwas vermehret/ Durch Jacobum Horscht/ der Artzney Doctor/ vnd der Ritterschafft im Schweydnischen vnd Jawrischen F�rstenthumb bestalten Medicum Physicum. ...       (Leipzig, Hansz Steinman, typis Voegelianis, 1575). 8�. A8-G8, H4, J8-S8 (= 140 Bl., fol. H4 u. S8 wei�). Erster Titel rot-schwarz, hinter fol. D4 doppelblgr. "Figur der zw�lff Winden", fol. S7 mit Holzschn.-Druckermarke u. Impressum. Pgt. d. Zt. Einb. stark beschmutzt, Stehkanten u. untere Ecken rissig; durchg. wasserr�ndig, fol. C8-D1 m. Marginalien alter Hand, fol. K7-M3 mit kl. Wurmstich an d. R�ndern. - 3. u. 4. Teil des Hauptwerkes Lemnius' (auch Lemmens, niederl�ndischer Arzt, 1505-1568) "Occulta naturae miracula" in der ersten deutsche �bersetzung (EA Antwerpen 1559 in 2 B�chern). - Durling 2778. [] [Medizin/Medicine] [OrderNr. 1662][B14]       [Bookseller: Antikvari�t a Galerie Ztichl� Klika]  20.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   BRAHE, TYCHO. - [TYCHO BRAHE'S ORIGINAL Original hadwritten signature, in full.       (Uranienborg, Denmark, between 1575 and 1600). The signature is written on 16th cent. paper, cut out from one of Brahe's books, measuring 8,3 x 14,4 cm. This piece of paper is mounted on a 19th cent. piece of paper, measuring 17,4 x 21,9 pp., on which is written in 18th cent. hand in German: "... (?) Unterschrift der hochber�hmten Astronom T�cho Brahe-/ vorn in einer von seine auf Uranienburg gedr�ckte Schriften, die er jemand �berreicht hat, stand obenstehender EIGENH�NDIG von ihm geschrieben -/ es sit/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe" ("...(?) signature of the highly famous astronomer Tycho Brahe-/ at the front of one of his works printed at Uranienburg, which he has given to someone, the above was written by him in HIS OWN HAND -/ that is/ d:dt:/ T�cho Brahe").Over the signature, "Tycho Brahe", Brahe has written d:dt: (i.e. d[ono] d[edit], meaning "[Tycho Brahe] gave [this] as a gift). � Exceedingly scarce original handwritten dedication with signature by the illustrious Danish astronomer, the founder of modern observational astronomy, taken out from one of Brahe's works printed at his printing press located at his observatory Uranienborg on the island of Hven.Signatures by Brahe are of the greatest scarcity.       [Bookseller: Herman H. J. Lynge & S�n A/S]  21.   Check availability:     antikvariat    ILAB   Link/Print   Theatrum Diabolorum, Das ist: Warhaffte eigentliche vnd kurtze Beschreibung, Allerley grewlicher, schrecklicher vnd abschewlicher Laster, so in diesen letzten, schweren vnd b�sen Zeiten, an allen orten vnd enden fast br�uchlich, auch grausamlich im        schwang gehen � Frankfurt, Peter Schmidt 1575. 34 cm. (6), 568, (12) Blatt mit Titelholzschnitt und Druckermarke (am Schluss) von Jost Amman. Blindgepr. Schweinsldr.-Bd. der Zeit auf Holzdeckeln mit Messingschliessen. � - VD16 F905 (nur unvollst.) - Goed. II, 482, 23 - Grimm, Teufelb�cher S. 1751 Nr. 2 - Hayn / Gotendorf VII, 617 - Zweite Ausgabe der Frankfurter Sammeldrucke der Teufelb�cher, deren Erstausgaben "heute meist zu den gr�ssten Seltenheiten der deutschsprachigen Literatur geh�ren" (Grimm). Diese Ausgabe ist gegen�ber der Erstausgabe um 4 Traktate erweitert. Mit dem eigens f�r dieses Werk angefertigten Titelholzschnitt von Jost Amman. Enth�lt und a.: Musculus: von des Teufels Tyrannei; Milichius: der Zauberteufel; Florian Daul: Tantzteufel; Matth. Friderich: Saufteufel; Andreas Hoppenrod: Hurenteufel; Joachim Westphal: Hoffartsteufel; Eustachius Schildo: Spielteufel. Neu in diese Ausgabe sind aufgenommen: Musaeus: Melancholischer Teufel; Caspar Faber: Sabbatsteufel; Andreas Lanng: Sorgenteufel; Christoph Obenhin: Eidteufel. Einband etwas nachgedunkelt und an den Kanten berieben, unteres Kapital abgestossen, Schliesshaken entfernt, Blattr�nder und stellenweise im Text leicht fleckig, erste Blatt Feuchtigkeitsr�nder, Blatt 286 durch Kopie auf altem Papier ersetzt. -       [Bookseller: H.Th. Wenner Antiquariat]  22.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   Maurolico, Francesco, OSB Opuscula mathematica.       Venedig, Francesco de Franceschi 1575. (20), 285, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und zahlr. Textholzschnitten. (Dabei) Ders. Arithmethicorum libri duo. Ebd., 1575. (8), 175, (15) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und anderer Druckermarke am Schlu� des Textes. Flexibler Pergamentband der Zeit mit hs. R�ckentitel. Bindeb�nder fehlen. 4to Erste Ausgabe des Hauptwerks. - Der Benediktinerabt und Universalgelehrte Francisco Maurolico (1494-1575) aus Messina entstammte einer griechischen Familie (Mavrolykos; "Schwarzwolf"), die nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels nach Sizilien gefl�chtet war. Sein Vater war Arzt am byzantinischen Kaiserhof gewesen (in Sizilien �bte er das Amt des M�nzmeisters aus). Maurolico galt als gr��ter Geometer seiner Zeit; ab 1569 war er Professor an der Universit�t Messina. "Only a few of his works were printed, although these are enough to show him as an outstanding scholar" (DSB). Der Astronom, Architekt und Historiker gab die Werke antiker Mathematiker (Archimedes, Euklid, Apollonios von Perge) heraus und stellte auch eigene astronomische Beobachtungen an. Insbesondere beobachtete er dieselbe Supernova, die Tycho Brahe 1572 im Sternbild der Kassiopeia wahrnahm. Anders als Tycho publizierte er seine Entdeckung jedoch nicht; seine Notizen wurden erst 1960 entdeckt. - In seinem gro�en Hauptwerk, den "Arithmeticorum Libri Duo", f�hrte er erstmals einen Beweis mit Hilfe der vollst�ndigen Induktion. Das Verfahren findet sich dann erst wieder 1654 bei Blaise Pascal und 1659 bei Pierre de Fermat und wurde durch Gottlob Frege zum allgemein g�ltigen Beweisverfahren in der Mathematik. "Shows considerable originality in the treatment of figurate numbers" (Smith). Die vorangestellten "Opuscula mathematica" umfassen sieben kleinere Schriften, die Maurolico in seiner Vielseitigkeit zeigen, darunter �ber die Musik, Gnomonik, astronomische Instrumente, Astronomie (mit einer Kritik des Kopernikus), Chronologie und Komputistik etc. Die selbst�ndig paginierten "Arithmethicorum libri duo" mit eigenem Titelblatt werden im Inhaltsverzeichnis als Folgeband angek�ndigt und bilden somit den zweiten Teil. - Selten; seit 1950 nicht auf deutschen Auktionen. Sehr sch�nes Exemplar aus der ber�hmten Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts Kremsm�nster (O�) mit entspr. altem hs. Besitzvermerk am Titel und kl. Etikett am Vorderdeckel. Abt Alexander Fixlmillner, ein F�rderer von Kunst, Wissenschaft und auch der Stiftsbibliothek, lie� 1748-58 im Kloster einen "Mathematischen Turm" mit Sternwarte errichten, der bis heute eine wesentliche naturwissenschaftliche Arbeitsst�tte darstellt. - Edit 16, CNCE 28131. Smith 348 und 350. Riccardi I (2), 141. Adams M 919. BM-STC Italian 428. DSB IX, 191. Kat. Dt. Museum, Libri rari, 186. Honeyman 2182. Macclesfield 1344 (Sotheby's, 14. 4. 2005, �8,000).       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]  23.   Check availability:     prolibri    ZVAB   Link/Print   REYNIKE VOSZ DE OLDE, nyge gedr�cket, mit sydlikem Vorstande, und Sch�nen Figuren, erl�chtet und vorbetert.       Reynard the Fox in 16th century Germany Frankfort am Meyn, Niclas Bassee, 1575. Sm.8vo. Modern marbled calf, spine gilt, with red title-label. With title printed in red and black, woodcut on title showing Reynard the Fox sitting in the foreground next to a broken tree with a small fox standing behind against a background full of clouds, and 36 woodcut illustrations in text by Virgil Solis. (12), 334, (5) lvs. Very rare sixteenth century German edition of Reynard the Fox, published by Nicolas Basse at Frankfurt. The book is nicely printed in several different types, mainly in Gothic, with legenda in the margins, and lively illustrated with the popular woodcuts after Virgil Solis. The text, in Lower German, follows the Rostock edition of 1539, with the protestant glosses. Good copy.- (Small stamp on title and blank verso of title; traces of removal of another stamp on title, but without actual damage; only sl. browned). Menke VI, 16; Goedeke I, p. 482; Prien A, II, 8; Maltzahn p. 1, 4; Borchling-Claussen 2115 (other pagination); Kirmse 6; STC German 735; this edition not in NUC.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  24.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   Albertus Magnus Weiber geheymnuß. …, von Weibern, vnd Geburten der Kinder, Sampt jhren Artzneyen. Auch von tugenten etlicher fürnemer Kräuter. Vnd von krafft der Edlen Gesteyn. von art vnd natur etlicher Thier. Mit sampt einem bewerten Regiment f&uum       Frankfurt, Egenolffs Erben 1575. 16 cm. (2), 215, (7) Seiten mit 116 Textholzschnitten. Pergament-Band des 18. Jahrhunderts - VD16 kein Exemplar - Richter, Egenolff nicht verzeichnet - Seltene Egenolff'sche Ausgabe. "Was vber vorige Edition hinzu gethan ... Vnderricht des Aderlassens ... von Regiment, wie man sich in jeglichen Monat halten sol. von eygenschafft der zwoff(!) Zeychen vnd der sieben Planeten, vnd der vier Zeiten des Jars." Titel in Rot und Schwarz gedruckt. Mit den hubschen Holzschnitten: Kindeslagen vor der Geburt, Arzneipflanzen, Tiere, Symbole der Tierkreiszeichen und Planeten, etc. Stellenweise stockfleckig, Blattrander teils fingerfleckig bzw. Feuchtigkeitsrander, Seite 101/102 untere Ecke erganzt, vereinzelt Randnotizen. -       [Bookseller: Wenner Antiquariat]  25.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Maurolico, Francesco, OSB Opuscula mathematica.       Venedig, Francesco de Franceschi 1575. (20), 285, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und zahlr. Textholzschnitten. (Dabei) Ders. Arithmethicorum libri duo. Ebd., 1575. (8), 175, (15) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit Holzschnittdruckermarke am Titel und anderer Druckermarke am Schlu� des Textes. Flexibler Pergamentband der Zeit mit hs. R�ckentitel. Bindeb�nder fehlen. 4to Erste Ausgabe des Hauptwerks. - Der Benediktinerabt und Universalgelehrte Francisco Maurolico (1494-1575) aus Messina entstammte einer griechischen Familie (Mavrolykos; "Schwarzwolf"), die nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels nach Sizilien gefl�chtet war. Sein Vater war Arzt am byzantinischen Kaiserhof gewesen (in Sizilien �bte er das Amt des M�nzmeisters aus). Maurolico galt als gr��ter Geometer seiner Zeit; ab 1569 war er Professor an der Universit�t Messina. "Only a few of his works were printed, although these are enough to show him as an outstanding scholar" (DSB). Der Astronom, Architekt und Historiker gab die Werke antiker Mathematiker (Archimedes, Euklid, Apollonios von Perge) heraus und stellte auch eigene astronomische Beobachtungen an. Insbesondere beobachtete er dieselbe Supernova, die Tycho Brahe 1572 im Sternbild der Kassiopeia wahrnahm. Anders als Tycho publizierte er seine Entdeckung jedoch nicht; seine Notizen wurden erst 1960 entdeckt. - In seinem gro�en Hauptwerk, den "Arithmeticorum Libri Duo", f�hrte er erstmals einen Beweis mit Hilfe der vollst�ndigen Induktion. Das Verfahren findet sich dann erst wieder 1654 bei Blaise Pascal und 1659 bei Pierre de Fermat und wurde durch Gottlob Frege zum allgemein g�ltigen Beweisverfahren in der Mathematik. "Shows considerable originality in the treatment of figurate numbers" (Smith). Die vorangestellten "Opuscula mathematica" umfassen sieben kleinere Schriften, die Maurolico in seiner Vielseitigkeit zeigen, darunter �ber die Musik, Gnomonik, astronomische Instrumente, Astronomie (mit einer Kritik des Kopernikus), Chronologie und Komputistik etc. Die selbst�ndig paginierten "Arithmethicorum libri duo" mit eigenem Titelblatt werden im Inhaltsverzeichnis als Folgeband angek�ndigt und bilden somit den zweiten Teil. - Selten; seit 1950 nicht auf deutschen Auktionen. Sehr sch�nes Exemplar aus der ber�hmten Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts Kremsm�nster (O�) mit entspr. altem hs. Besitzvermerk am Titel und kl. Etikett am Vorderdeckel. Abt Alexander Fixlmillner, ein F�rderer von Kunst, Wissenschaft und auch der Stiftsbibliothek, lie� 1748-58 im Kloster einen "Mathematischen Turm" mit Sternwarte errichten, der bis heute eine wesentliche naturwissenschaftliche Arbeitsst�tte darstellt. - Edit 16, CNCE 28131. Smith 348 und 350. Riccardi I (2), 141. Adams M 919. BM-STC Italian 428. DSB IX, 191. Kat. Dt. Museum, Libri rari, 186. Honeyman 2182. Macclesfield 1344 (Sotheby's, 14. 4. 2005, �8,000).       [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]  26.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   REYNIKE VOSZ DE OLDE, nyge gedr�cket, mit sydlikem Vorstande, und Sch�nen Figuren, erl�chtet und vorbetert.       Reynard the Fox in 16th century Germany Frankfort am Meyn, Niclas Bassee, 1575. Sm.8vo. Modern marbled calf, spine gilt, with red title-label. With title printed in red and black, woodcut on title showing Reynard the Fox sitting in the foreground next to a broken tree with a small fox standing behind against a background full of clouds, and 36 woodcut illustrations in text by Virgil Solis. (12), 334, (5) lvs. Very rare sixteenth century German edition of Reynard the Fox, published by Nicolas Basse at Frankfurt. The book is nicely printed in several different types, mainly in Gothic, with legenda in the margins, and lively illustrated with the popular woodcuts after Virgil Solis. The text, in Lower German, follows the Rostock edition of 1539, with the protestant glosses. Good copy.- (Small stamp on title and blank verso of title; traces of removal of another stamp on title, but without actual damage; only sl. browned). Menke VI, 16; Goedeke I, p. 482; Prien A, II, 8; Maltzahn p. 1, 4; Borchling-Claussen 2115 (other pagination); Kirmse 6; STC German 735; this edition not in NUC.       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  27.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   94SICILIA - INGRASSIA GIOVANNI INFORMATIONE DEL PESTIFERO E CONTAGIOSO MORBO IL QUALE AFFLIGGE ET HAVE AFFLITTO QUESTA CITTA' DI PALERMO, E MOLTE ALTRE CITTA' E TERRE DI QUESTO REGNO DI SICILIA NELL'ANNO 1575 E 1576. PALERMO, APPRESSO GIOVAN MATTHEO MAYDA, 1576, IL DI ULTIMO DI AGOSTO.       In-4; 4 cc. (compreso frontespizio inciso e una incisione in rame a piena pagina), 312 pp., 16 cc., 205 pp., 7 cc.; legatura coeva in tutta pergamena morbida (sguardie rinnovate). Frontespizio inciso con allegoria della Giustizia tra roghi e scene di tortura. Inoltre una raffigurazione a piena pagina di Palermo e un'altra con la pianta del lazzaretto. Ottimo esemplare." "Prima edizione rara. L'autore (1516-1580), valente medico palermitano, si batte' durante la pestilenza che colpi' l'isola nel 1575-76 per fronteggiare l'epidemia non con pratiche superstiziose ma con cure adeguate e con l'istituzione di lazzaretti, tanto da essere considerato il fondatore della medicina sociale e da meritarsi il titolo di Ippocrate siciliano. Oltre a questa opera di epidemiologia, che e' in assoluto il primo codice sanitario con la costituzione dei primi consigli di pubblica sanita', l'Ingrassia resta famoso nella storia della medicina per le sue scoperte nel campo dell'anatomia e della osteologia: dimostro' tra l'altro come Galeno avesse descritto le ossa della scimmia anziche' quelle umane; notevoli inoltre furono i suoi studi sull'anatomia del cranio e delle cellule mastoidee. Cfr. in proposito ad esempio Capparoni, Medici e naturalisti italiani, p. 42 sgg." "Mortimer 214. Moncada 1119. Durling 2547. Lozzi 3305. Dura 7302: ""estremamente raro"".       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria MEDIOLANUM�-�Milano�]  28.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   Belle-Forest, Fran�ois de La Ville, Cit�, Universit�, et Fauxbourgs de Paris From Cosmographie Universelle       M. Sonnius, Paris 1575 A MAGNIFICENT 16TH-CENTURY VIEW OF PARIS Woodcut: paper size 165/8" x 221/2" In 1544, the important German scholar and geographer Sebastian Munster published his landmark work on the universe. Entitled the "Cosmographia," it was a 16th century best-seller which was re-issued over many years. In 1575, the Paris publisher Fran�ois de Belle-Forest issued a French edition of the work which contained this large-scale woodcut view of Paris. Rather than reproducing Munster's view of the city, Belle-Forest compiled and engraved this much larger scale, more detailed and embellished version, based on his own profound knowledge of the city, its layout and monuments. Munster's much more schematic view, which did not, for example, include a monument of such prominence as the cathedral of N�tre-Dame, was superseded by Belle-Forest's magnificent rendering. The view gives an excellent understanding of Paris as it appeared in the late 16th century, and it identifies and lists more than a hundred notable sites, including churches, streets, plazas, bridges, notable buildings, and city gates. Among these are the Bastille, then a prison; the Louvre, then a recently inaugurated palace of relatively humble dimensions; the Sorbonne; N�tre-Dame; Montmartre; St. Sulpice; and many more. The urban developments of Henri IV, such as the building of the Pont-Neuf and the creation of open public spaces like the Place des Vosges and the Place Dauphine, were still several decades away (not to mention the extensive changes to the urban fabric that were to take place under Baron Hausmann in the 19th century, with the imposition of a sweeping system of broad boulevards). Belle-Forest's view is one of the best records of Paris as it was in the Renaissance, before the successive campaigns of urban development would profoundly transform the city into the form it assumes today. Belle-Forest's view is of considerable rarity, and this example is in particularly good condition.       [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader III gallery]  29.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Belle-Forest, Francois de La Ville, Cité, Université, et Fauxbourgs de Paris From Cosmographie Universelle       Paris: M. Sonnius, 1575 A MAGNIFICENT 16TH-CENTURY VIEW OF PARIS Woodcut: paper size 165/8" x 221/2" .       [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]  30.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Belle-Forest, Fran�ois De La Ville, Cit�, Universit�, Et Fauxbourgs De Paris From Cosmographie Universelle       M. Sonnius, 1575. A MAGNIFICENT 16TH-CENTURY VIEW OF PARIS Woodcut: paper size 165/8" x 221/2" In 1544, the important German scholar and geographer Sebastian Munster published his landmark work on the universe. Entitled the "Cosmographia, " it was a 16th century best-seller which was re-issued over many years. In 1575, the Paris publisher Fran�ois de Belle-Forest issued a French edition of the work which contained this large-scale woodcut view of Paris. Rather than reproducing Munster's view of the city, Belle-Forest compiled and engraved this much larger scale, more detailed and embellished version, based on his own profound knowledge of the city, its layout and monuments. Munster's much more schematic view, which did not, for example, include a monument of such prominence as the cathedral of N�tre-Dame, was superseded by Belle-Forest's magnificent rendering. The view gives an excellent understanding of Paris as it appeared in the late 16th century, and it identifies and lists more than a hundred notable sites, including churches, streets, plazas, bridges, notable buildings, and city gates. Among these are the Bastille, then a prison; the Louvre, then a recently inaugurated palace of relatively humble dimensions; the Sorbonne; N�tre-Dame; Montmartre; St. Sulpice; and many more. The urban developments of Henri IV, such as the building of the Pont-Neuf and the creation of open public spaces like the Place des Vosges and the Place Dauphine, were still several decades away (not to mention the extensive changes to the urban fabric that were to take place under Baron Hausmann in the 19th century, with the imposition of a sweeping system of broad boulevards). Belle-Forest's view is one of the best records of Paris as it was in the Renaissance, before the successive campaigns of urban development would profoundly transform the city into the form it assumes today. Belle-Forest's view is of considerable rarity, and this example is in particularly good condition.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  31.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Antonio Salamanca Algeri       Lafreri, Venice 1575 - A 16th century engraved map that hows the North African city of Algiers and Italy, and the southern coast of Spain below the city view of Algiers.       [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader Gallery San Francisco]  32.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Belle-Forest, Francois de La Ville, Cit�, Universit�, et Fauxbourgs de Paris From Cosmographie Universelle       Paris: M. Sonnius, 1575 A MAGNIFICENT 16TH-CENTURY VIEW OF PARIS Woodcut: paper size 165/8" x 221/2" .       [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]  33.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   Paulo Giovio / Tobias Strummer Elogia Virorum Bellica Virtute Illustrium and Elogia Virorum Literis Illustrium 2 Volumes Bound in One       PETRI PERNAE LEATHER Basil: Petri Pernae, 1575 & 1577. Two volumes bound as one. Rebacked retaining contemporary boards, front & rear paste downs. Folio in sixes: [4], a-Ll6; (*)-t6, [4]. Woodcut portraits in ornamental borders; 10 of the borders are empty. Historiated initials. Boards worn & scuffed, corners repaired. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Browning to edges of paper, some foxing. Notes & underlining in old hand throughout entry for Caesar Borgia. Very good condition. OCLC 3195540. RARE BOOKS, Standard.       [Bookseller: Powell's Books]  34.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Pagninus Sir Thomas Peckitt's Personal Copy: Hebrew Grammar: Thesaurus Lingu� Sanct�       LUGDUNI, 1575. Very Good+ in None jacket Latin, Hebrew. Elephant Folio-over 15"-23" tall. ROYAL FOLIO. PRINTED 1575. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HEBREW GRAMMARS EVER COMPILED AND AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE TRANSLATORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE From the esteemed 18th century library of Thomas Peckitt, himself the author of Hebrew Grammar and other theological works, with his fine bookplate and signature. It should be noted that this is a very important volume in the Biblical Studies; The Trinitarian Bible Society in their April-June 1979 Quarterly Record cites this volume as being at the disposal of the translators for the KING JAMES BIBLE. The Book: Pagninus, "Thesaurus Lingu� Sanct�", Lugduni, 1575. Large Folio Orginal soft calf with blindstamping, sympathetically rebacked, internally clean. From the famed library of Henry Peckitt, well known 18th century scriptural scholar with his siganture and handsome bookplate. Pagninus was perhaps the greatest of Christian Lexicographers and whose work was fundamental as an aid to 16th-century scriptural translators. A highly important work, only one copy of this 1575 edition in 30 years of auction records and that copy was a very poor one lacking a leaf. (A Finer 1548 Edition of this work Christies June 26, 1996, lot 113 $9240.00) As a measure if Pagninus' importance, it should be noted that that the first printed Bible divided into verses was an Old Testament Latin edition by Pagninus.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  35.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS: Den danske Kr�nicke       1575 1575 - som Saxo Grammaticus screff, halfffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu f�rst aff Latinen uds�t, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders S�ffrinss�n Vedel. K�benhaffn: Hans St�ckelmann oc Anders Gutterwitz 1575. Med det danske rigsv�ben p� titelbladet samt portr�t af kong Frederik II p� bagsiden, sk�ret i tr�. Folio. (36) + DXLVII + (32) s., ialt 308 blade. Samt. helperg. med stofb�nd. Gl.n.p.fbl. Nogle blade smukt rep. Titlepage with print of the Danish coat-of-arms and on verso a woodcut of King Frederich II. 308 leaves. Contp. full vellum. Old name on flyleaf. Some leaves nicely restored. * Originaludgaven af den f�rste dansksprogede Saxo-udgave, en milep�l i dansk litteratur. F�rst med Anders S�rensen Vedel n�ede den danske Kr�nike frem til den almene l�ser. Da bogen skulle trykkes var papir n�sten ikke til at opdrive, og Tycho Bahe s�gte at f� befolkningen til at bidrage. �En tidligere ejer, Breuning-Storm, har p� fribladet anf�rt, at eksemplaret er k�bt p� auktionen over ( N.F.S.) Grundtvigs b�ger.1st edition in the Danish language; a very important step as it made it possible to be reached by common people. Thesaurus 205. Lauritz Nielsen 1451. Bibl. Dan. II,10. Birkelund 30. [Attributes: First Edition]       [Bookseller: Peter Grosell, Antiquarian Bookseller]  36.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   ERASMUS De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarii duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti, & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. Strassburg, Matthias Sch�rer, Oct. 1516. [Bound with]: HUTTEN (Ulrich von). [Greek title]: OUTIS. Nemo. Augsburg, in officina Millerana, 9 Sep. [1518]. [and]: BURLEY (Walter). Vita philosophorum et poetarum: cum auctoribus et sententiis aureis eorundem annexis. Strassburg, Joannes Knobloch, June       Title-page of Erasmus printed within superb historiated woodcut border which shows two jesters, architectural columns, and two putti holding a shield with the initials "M. S."; title of Hutten with superb full-page woodcut (160 x 112mm.) by Hans Weiditz, the Petrarch Master.3 works in one vol. [6], LXXIII, [5]ff.; [12]ff.; [8], LII ff. 16th century blind-panelled pigskin with outer historiated roll with initials "HW" (see Haebler I, pp. 486/8) and inner ornamental one, stamped" SKE 1575" on upper cover (covers rubbed and soiled). 1516. I. An early edition of De duplici copia. Erasmus was working for a number of years on a treatise on Latin composition, begun while in Italy, but completed only in 1512 during his third stay in England at the request of John Colet for use in the latter's newly founded school in St. Paul's churchyard. This treatise was designed to help the young student in acquiring an elegant and copious style and to provide abundant examples of how to say the same thing in different ways. It was first printed in Paris by Badius in 1512, but was soon reprinted several times, becoming a standard textbook in schools throught Western Europe. This edition contains Erasmus' long letter to the Alsatian humanist Jakob Wimpfeling (1450-1528), dated 21 September 1514, in which he relates his previous journey to Basle, mentioning all the humanist scholars he had met from Alsace and Basle, where Erasmus had just taken up residence. Erasmus had first become acquainted with Wimpheling in August 1514 when he stopped in Strassburg on his way to Basle, and was officially welcomed by the members of the recently founded literary society which included Sebastian Brant and Joannes Sturm. The work concludes with three poems by Erasmus addressed to Sebatian Brant, Joannes Sapidus and Thomas Didimus, together with the latter's reply.VD16 E2647. Knaake II, 144.II. The first printing of Hutten's revision of his first work Nemo I, (1510), a speech in verse with proverbs and puns on domestic matters, here enlarged by about 30 distichs. Also added is a long preface to Crotus Rubeanus in which Hutten attacks both theologians and lawyers while at the end is a letter to Julius Pflug concerning the Reuchlin controversy and mentioning among others, Erasmus and Melanchthon.Hans Weiditz's excellent woodcut is dominated by the figure of Nemo in the foreground as a bearded man in Roman military dress, with the boat of Ulysses behind him and to the left the figure of Polyphemus carrying a rock to the edge of the cliff. The area around Nemo's feet is littered with objects such as a jug, a ladle, a book, an upturned table, an axe, playing cards, a lute, a backgammon board and counters, and spectacles.Benzing, Hutten, 62. Musper, Petrarka Master .L7. Fairfax Murray 211.III. Important medieval treatise by the Englishman Walter Burley (1275-1345?), the first attempt in modern times to write a history of ancient philosophy, first published in Cologne in 1470. According to Sandys the work was marred by strange mistakes in matters of literary history with the two Plinies and the two Senecas treated as one, while Statius Caecilius was confused with Papinius Statius and Livy with Livius Andronicus.Not in Adams.       [Bookseller: Maggs Bros Ltd.]  37.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS: Den danske Kr�nicke       som Saxo Grammaticus screff, halfffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu f�rst aff Latinen uds�t, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders S�ffrinss�n Vedel. K�benhaffn: Hans St�ckelmann oc Anders Gutterwitz 1575. Med det danske rigsv�ben p� titelbladet samt portr�t af kong Frederik II p� bagsiden, sk�ret i tr�. Folio. (36) + DXLVII + (32)�s., ialt 308�blade. Samt. helperg. med stofb�nd. Gl.n.p.fbl. Nogle blade smukt rep. Titlepage with print of the Danish coat-of-arms and on verso a woodcut of King Frederich II. 308�leaves. Contp. full vellum. Old name on flyleaf. Some leaves nicely restored.       [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]  38.   Check availability:     choosebooks    antikvariat    ILAB   Link/Print   PARACELSUS. Volumen Medicinae Paramirum...de Medica Industria, von des Artzt geschickligkeyt.       Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. 8 p.l., 141 (i.e. 139), [1] pp., 2 blank leaves. Small 8vo, antique panelled calf (title with two patches to blank portions of leaf), richly blindstamped by Aquarius. Strasbourg: C. M�ller, 1575. First edition and very rare. "The Volumen Paramirum...is one of the first works of Paracelsus. It is also one of the most important ones in that it exhibits clearly both the medical and ethical thinking of this great philosopher-physician...[it] strikes us almost as a propaedeutic to his vast conceptions."�Kurt F. Leidecker in his "Preface" to Volumen Medicinae Paramirum of Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949). Apart from the early repairs to blank portions of the title, a fine copy. A4 Sudhoff 163       [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]  39.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   FALLOPIO, Gabriele / Ed. COITER, Lectiones de partibus similaribus humani corporis, ex diversis exemplaribus a Volchero Coiter.       Nuremberg Theodor Gerlach 1575. First edition. A series of anatomical lectures by Falloppio in their first published appearance, including 2 tracts by Coiter on the comparative osteology of quadrupeds and birds, the first study of developmental osteology. The Lectiones is illustrated with 5 large engraved plates, pronounced by Herlinger "far superior in quality to the zoological illustrations of Aldrovandi[;] they occupy a prominent position in the history of zoology and comparative anatomy.".       [Bookseller: Martayan Lan]  40.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS: Den Danske Kr�nicke       . som Saxo Grammaticus screff, halffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu f�rst aff Latinen udsaet, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders S�ffrinss�n Vedel. Kbhvn.: Hans St�ckelman oc Guttervitz 1575. Med det danske rigsvabenpa titelbladet samt portraet af kong Frederik II pa bagsiden, skaret i trae. Fol. (36) + DXLVII + (32) s., ialt 308 blade. Senere helldr. (18. arh.) med rygforgyldning og lyst skindtitelfelt. Titelbl. naensomt restaureret. 24 blade forstaerket i margin, med ubetydeligt teksttab. Gl. n.p.t. Med enkelte gl. noter i margin. En del blade med vandskjold. Smaskavanker rep. Titlepage with print of the Danish coat-of-arms and on verson a woodcut of King Frederich II. 308 leaves. Later full leather (18th cent.), spine gilt and light brown leather label. Title page carefully restored. 24 leaves strengthened in margin, with insignificant loss of text. Old name on titlepage. With a few old notes in margin. Some leaves waterstained. The binding carefully rep. * Den mest sjaeldne Saxo-udgave. F�rste trykte oversaettelse til dansk - Anders S�rensen Vedels oversaettelses-arbejde gjorde, at Den danske Kr�nike naede ud til et bredt publikum. Christiern Pedersen havde tidligere lavet en oversaettelse, men hans manuskript blev aldrig trykt og braendte i 1728 sammen med resten af universitetsbiblioteket i K�benhavn. Kun ca. 40 ekspl. eksisterer i dag af bogen, og de fleste af dem er ukomplette, idet den er blevet grundigt laest gennem mange generationer og saledes slidt op. The most rare of Saxo editions. The first printed translation into Danish - Anders S�rensen Vedels great work with the translation made the book reach a larger amount of readers. Christiern Pedersen had made an earlier translation but his manuscript was never printed and burned in 1728 with the rest of the University Library in Copenhagen. Only about 40 copies of the book exists today, and most of them are not complete, since it was so thoroughly read through generations that it fell apart. Bibl. Dan. III, 10. Thesaurus 205. Lauritz Nielsen 1451. Birkelund 30..       [Bookseller: Peter Grosell, Antiquarian Bookseller]  41.   Check availability:     ILAB    choosebooks   Link/Print   Pijpers, Pieter Eemlandsch Tempe, of Clio op Puntenburgh, landgedicht, 2 delen, Amsterdam: P.J. Uylenbroek, 1803       Gebonden in ��n halfleren band, 12 + 224 + 12 + 8 p., ill. Mooi exemplaar. Lit: Van der Aa, Biogr. wdbk XV p.512-514; Saalmink p.1575 Beroemd en zeldzaam boek van de tabakshandelaar en controleur convoyen en licenten Pieter Pijpers (1749-1805). Pijpers woonde op zijn landhuis Puntenburgh bij Amersfoort en was tevens (toneel)dichter, dit laatste mede door zijn contacten met de beroemde P.A. Bolongaro Crevenna. Zijn belangrijkste werk is �Eemlands Tempe�. Het bevat een denkbeeldige wandeling in 1802 door Eemland, in dichtvorm., Het boek is fraai ge�llustreerd met gravures: portret Pieter Pijpers; graf van zijn broer Jan Pijpers; Puntenburgh; het dorp Baere (Baarn); Baeren (Baarn); Eemnes; portret Louise Ch. de Neufville-Ritter; �aan de vriendchap�; haven en koppelpoorten te Amersfoort; schuttersdoelen te Amersfoort; L.V. kerk en toren te Amersfoort; stadswal en blekerijen te Amersfoort; de Hof, Koornmarkt, stadhuis en St. Joriskerk te Amersfoort; Spui, Pietersgasthuis en St. Aagtenklooster te Amersfoort; Amersfoort van de Bergkant; Zeist; Laren; Nieukerk (= Nijkerk); De Treek; tabaksplanterijen buiten Amersfoort; portret Alida Pijpers-Hollingerus. In 1804 verscheen een �vuilaardig schimpschrift� op zijn �Eemlandsch Tempe�, wat zijn dood veroorzaakte (Van der Aa).       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat A.G. van der Steur]  42.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   TETI CARLO DISCORSI DELLE FORTIFICATIONI DIUISI IN LIBRI QUATTRO.       Venetia, Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575 e Nicolo Moretti, 1588, un vol. in-8 ed uno in-folio, che contengono la ristampa del primo libro (apparso nel 1569) e l�edizione originale dei libri II-VI. La prima edizione completa degli otto libri del Teti (Nola 1529 - Padova 1589) venne pubblicata soltanto nel 1589. Importante trattato di architettura militare e fortificazioni, dal notevole successo editoriale. I) Discorsi delle Fortificationi� ove diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle Fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli &altre cose a' loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. pp. (6)+1 c.b.+119+(9). Segnatura: �4, A-Q4. Marca tipografica al front. con nota di appartenenza manoscritta �Di me Ercole Maria Pantaleoni�. Con numerose figure e diagrammi n.t. e 4 tavole ripiegate f.t., tutte xilografiche. Un quinterno un poco brunito, minimi aloni marginali a pochissime carte, comunque esemplare molto bello in legatura piena pergamena floscia coeva. II) Discorsi delle fortificationi diuisi in libri quattro. pp. (4), 86, legatura antica in pergamena. (Difetti alla leg, piccoli lavori di tarlo n.t., quaderni con tavv. f.t. da cucire.). Con 98 illustraz. n.t. e 10 tavole silogr. su doppio foglio f.t., il tutto in silografia. Grande impresa tipogr. al tit. Dedica dell'a. a Ferdinando Medici �Cardinale Gran Duca di Toscana�. Esemplare con piccoli aloni. Le due edizioni, seppur di diverso formato, costituiscono l'importante prima edizione collettiva dei 6 primi libri Breman 309 e 312. Cockle 776.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria PREGLIASCO�-�Torino�]  43.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   GIOVIO, Paolo; Giovio, Paulo; TOBIAS Elogia Virorum Bellica Virtute Illustrium       1575 STIMMER, Tobias. GIOVIO, Paolo. Elogia Virorum bellica virtute illustrium. [6], 391, [15] pp. Includes an architectural woodcut title-page, and 127 woodcut portraits, all by Tobias Stimmer, plus 10 borders without portraits. BOUND WITH: -----. Elogia Virorum literis illustrium. [12], 232 (i.e. 228), [4] pp. Includes an architectural woodcut title-page and 63 portraits. Folio, 325 x 210 mm, bound by Birdsall in nineteenth-century olive morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Basel: Petri Pernae, 1575. First Edition with the famous Stimmer portraits. Jakob Burckhardt describes these Stimmer woodcuts as "the first comprehensive and generally accessible source for the likeness of persons in whom the contemporary learned public was interested." The portraits themselves measure 110 x 85 mm, and are inset into large figurative ornamental frames, the whole measuring 160 x 150 mm. There are six different frames for the 200 portraits, one of them with a large figure of an American Indian. The printer, Peter Perna, commissioned the renowned Swiss artist to travel to Como and make the original portrait sketches based on models in Giovio's own collection. This museum was the most renowned portrait collection of the Renaissance. The biographies and portraits in the first work include a number of Sforza and Visconti dukes, Romulus, Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Tammerlane, Cosimo de'Medici, the explorers Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Cortez, the humanists Scanderberg and Scaliger, plus fine portraits of Henry VIII of England, James V of Scotland, Fran�ois I of France, Charles V of Germany, and several portraits of Turkish rulers and emperors. The second work includes biographies and portraits of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de'Medici, Andreas Naugerius, Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, and many others. Although the authors of the laudatory poems are not credited in the text proper, the "Index Poetarum" lists, i.a., Aldus Manutius, Bembo, Julius Gonzaga, Plantin, Ariosto, and other famous Renaissance scholars. Although this copy lacks the second preliminary leaf (A2), containing a 28-line dedication by the printer to Francesco I (Grand Duke of Tuscany), and a woodcut portrait of the author, this same woodcut reappears later in the volume, opposite page 1 of the Elogia Virorum literis illustrium. Interestingly, Houghton Library possesses two copies of the work, one with, and one without, the above mentioned leaf. A washed copy. Lipperheide 484. Adams G-644. Th�ne, Stimmer 30-37. Brunet III, 584. Bietenholz, Der Italienische Humanismus...in Basel 85. See Mortimer, Italian 213.       [Bookseller: Ursus Rare Books]  44.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Martin De Azpilcueta, Called Enchiridion, Sive Manuale Confessariorum Et Poenitentium...Iampridem Sermone Hispano Compositum & Nunc Latinatate Donatum       Lugduni, apud Guliel. Rouillium, sub scuto Veneto, 1575. 1150pp, decorated initials, last leaf dedication. Original limp lettered vellum. Backstrip loosening revealing incunable under spine. Some contemporary ink mss notes to blank eps. Five raised bands. Fine. * Martin de Azpilcueta was "an outstanding figur.       [Bookseller: Alibris]  45.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   SADELER, Aegidius & Marcus Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzuolo et altri luochi - Prague, Aegidius Sadeler, 1606       Un volume in-quarto oblong. Une page de titre frontispice et 50 planches grav�es num�rot�es. Reliure de l'�poque en plein veau, dos � nerfs orn�, pi�ce de titre en maroquin rouge - Exemplaire bien complet de la premi�re �dition. 36 planches ont �t� dessin�es par Aegidius Sadeler d'apr�s "I Vestigi dell' antiquit� di Roma" de Duperrac (Rome 1575), les autres d'apr�s Jan Breughel l'Ancien et Pieter Stevens. Les planches ont �t� grav�es par Marcus Sadeler, neveu d'Aegidius, et imprim�es � Prague. Une deuxi�me �dition sera r�alis�e par Giacomo Rossi � Rome en 1660. Les planches de cette seconde �dition sont faciles � reconnaitre car les l�gendes sont r�alis�es avec une fonte diff�rente l�g�rement plus grande.       [Bookseller: Librairie Moorthamers]  46.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   TETI Carlo Discorsi delle fortificationi diuisi in libri quattro.       Venetia, Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575 e Nicolo Moretti, 1588, un vol. in-8 ed uno in-folio, che contengono la ristampa del primo libro (apparso nel 1569) e l�edizione originale dei libri II-VI. La prima edizione completa degli otto libri del Teti (Nola 1529 - Padova 1589) venne pubblicata soltanto nel 1589. Importante trattato di architettura militare e fortificazioni, dal notevole successo editoriale. I) Discorsi delle Fortificationi� ove diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle Fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli &altre cose � loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. pp. (6)+1 c.b.+119+(9). Segnatura: �4, A-Q4. Marca tipografica al front. con nota di appartenenza manoscritta �Di me Ercole Maria Pantaleoni�. Con numerose figure e diagrammi n.t. e 4 tavole ripiegate f.t., tutte xilografiche. Un quinterno un poco brunito, minimi aloni marginali a pochissime carte, comunque esemplare molto bello in legatura piena pergamena floscia coeva. II) Discorsi delle fortificationi diuisi in libri quattro. pp. (4), 86, legatura antica in pergamena. (Difetti alla leg, piccoli lavori di tarlo n.t., quaderni con tavv. f.t. da cucire.). Con 98 illustraz. n.t. e 10 tavole silogr. su doppio foglio f.t., il tutto in silografia. Grande impresa tipogr. al tit. Dedica dell'a. a Ferdinando Medici �Cardinale Gran Duca di Toscana�. Esemplare con piccoli aloni. Le due edizioni, seppur di diverso formato, costituiscono l'importante prima edizione collettiva dei 6 primi libri Breman 309 e 312. Cockle 776.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]  47.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Ortelius, Abraham Asiae Nova Descriptio       Antwerp, 1575 37 by 48.5 cm. Coloured; split of 5cm lower part centerfold. The rarer first plate of Ortelius' map of Asia, with "Farfana" capitalized in the lower right hand corner. One of only approximately 1575 copies printed from the first plate. An important depiction of the expansion of European power in the Far East. The map was based on Ortelius' own 1567 wall map of Asia, which drew on Gastaldi and Albufeda. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian Peninsula are easily recognizable. Ceylon and Sumatra are correctly placed, though their shape leaves something to be desired. The Philippines are distorted and Japan is too far to the north and incorrectly oriented, with the embryonic outline of the three main islands and with the Rykus and Taiwan appearing as a tail of islands to the south of the archipelago. Cortazzi, plate 19; OAG, plate 10c; Broecke, Ortelius 7; Tibbetts (1978) map 34, p.48..       [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]  48.   Check availability:     Biblio   Link/Print   VERDIZOTTI GIOVANNI MARIO CENTO FAVOLE MORALI DE I PIU ILLUSTRI ANTICHI, & MODERNI AUTORI GRECI, & LATINI       In Venezia, appresso Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575, in-8, pp. 302, (8, con indice), legatura coeva in pergamena floscia, titolo ms. parzialmente leggibile al piatto anteriore (restauri alle cerniere e al piede del dorso). Titolo entro raffinata cornice vegetale e grande impresa dello stampatore; iniziali istoriate, completo di 100 silografie eseguite dall'a. stesso, alcune su disegno di Tiziano di cui il Verdizzotti fu allievo. Raccolta di 100 celebri favole dell'antichita', ognuna accompagnata da un legno a piena pagina. Precede il testo dedica dell'a. al veronese Alberto Lavzuola. Seconda edizione (prima 1570) di quello che a ragione e' considerato uno dei piu' bei libri illustrati della seconda meta' del XVI secolo. Buon esemplare (lievi tracce di polvere), in considerazione soprattutto dell'uso pratico di questo genere di libro. STC 719. Cicognara 1129, edizione del 1570: �Prima edizione e la piu' rara di questa libretto elegante, a cui contribui molto co�suoi disegni lo stesso Tiziano grande amico del Verdizotti. . .�. Brunet V, 1130: "�. . . recherchee a' cause des figures fort joliment gravees sur bois". Choix d'Olschki 5435.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria PREGLIASCO�-�Torino�]  49.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   HERO (HERON) OF ALEXANDRIA - FOUNDATION Spiritalium liber. A Federico Commandino Urbinate, ex Graeco, nuper in Latinum conversis. Cum Privilegio Gregorij XIII. Pont. Max.       Urbini, (D. Frisolini), 1575. Small 4to. Fine recent full vellum in old style with written title on back. Titlepage + 80 leaves (title unnumb. + F 1-80 with 4 leaves misnumb., e.g. F70 instead of 80). The dedicationleaf (unnumb.) after title missing. Text complete, fine and clean with broad margins. One large initial in woodcut and 89 large textillustrations in woodcut. First edition and the first printed work by Hero. It is Hero's main work, and it stimulated the interest and contributed substantially to the interest in pneumatics that arose suddenly in the late 16th century and led to the work of Toricelli and Boyle. The "Pneumatics" was not published in Greek until 1693. It is one of the major sources to our knowledge of the technics and mechanics of Antiquity, and the many hydraulic and mechanical inventions by Hero is here depicted for the first time in print. The work includes studies of pneumatics and mechanics and include 89 illustrations of different inventions, such as siphons, fountains, engines, an account of a small stationary steam-engine (whic is of the form now known as Avery's patent), the double-force pump etc., which "by the union of (compressed) air, earth, fire, and water, and the concurrence of.elementary principles., supply the most pressing wants of the human life, (or) produce amazement and alarm." The book describes many gadgets and magical tricks and includes the first suggestion of a steam engine (see f. 52). - Sarton, Introduction.Vol. I pp. 208 ff. - Adams H:369 - Poggendorff I: 1084.       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  50.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   PARACELSUS, Volumen Medicinae Paramirum ... de Medica Industria, von des Artzt geschickligkeyt.       Strassburg, Christian M�ller 1575. 8 Bll., 141 S. Kl.-8vo. Neuer Pp. Erste Ausgabe. - Eines der ersten Werke von Paracelsus, sehr selten. - Bll. tlw. mit Wasserspuren oder Wurmfrass.       [Bookseller: Kunstantiquariat Joachim L�hrs]  51.   Check availability:     AntiQbook    prolibri    choosebooks   Link/Print   Abraham Ortelius Asiae Nova Descriptio       Antwerp 1575 - A map of Asia by Ortelius with beautiful original color.       [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader Gallery San Francisco]  52.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Paracelsus, Volumen Medicinae Paramirum de Medica Industria, von des Artzt geschickligkeyt.       - Stra�burg, Christian M�ller 1575. 8 Bll., 141 S. Kl.-8vo. Neuer Pp. Erste Ausgabe. - Eines der ersten Werke von Paracelsus, sehr selten. - Bll. tlw. mit Wasserspuren oder Wurmfra�. Medizin,16. Jahrhundert, Paracelsus       [Bookseller: Kunstantiquariat Joachim L�hrs]  53.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   VERDIZOTTI Giovanni Mario Cento Favole Morali de i piu illustri antichi, & moderni autori Greci, & Latini       In Venezia, appresso Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575, in-8, pp. 302, (8, con indice), legatura coeva in pergamena floscia, titolo ms. parzialmente leggibile al piatto anteriore (restauri alle cerniere e al piede del dorso). Titolo entro raffinata cornice vegetale e grande impresa dello stampatore; iniziali istoriate, completo di 100 silografie eseguite dall'a. stesso, alcune su disegno di Tiziano di cui il Verdizzotti fu allievo. Raccolta di 100 celebri favole dell'antichit�, ognuna accompagnata da un legno a piena pagina. Precede il testo dedica dell'a. al veronese Alberto Lavzuola. Seconda edizione (prima 1570) di quello che a ragione � considerato uno dei pi� bei libri illustrati della seconda met� del XVI secolo. Buon esemplare (lievi tracce di polvere), in considerazione soprattutto dell'uso pratico di questo genere di libro. STC 719. Cicognara 1129, edizione del 1570: �Prima edizione e la pi� rara di questa libretto elegante, a cui contribui molto co�suoi disegni lo stesso Tiziano grande amico del Verdizotti. . .�. Brunet V, 1130: "�. . . recherch�e � cause des figures fort joliment grav�es sur bois". Choix d'Olschki 5435.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]  54.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   SALERNO, School of Regimen sanitatis Salerni       London, 1575 SALERNO, School of. Regimen sanitatis Salerni. This booke teachyng all people to governe the[m] in health is translated out of the Latine tongue into Englishe, by Thomas Paynell, whiche booke is amended, augmented, and diligently imprinted. London: Imprynted at London, by Wyllyam How, for Abraham Veale, 1575. Collation: 8vo: A8 **8 B-Y8, ff. [16] (the last blank) clxvii (i.e. clxviii). Black letter with Roman and Italic headings, the original Latin verse and shoulder notes in Roman. Title within a fleuron border, fleuron decorations, woodcut initials. Condition: 138 x 82mm. One or two shoulder notes in sig. X shaved; a little soiling but generally a good clean copy. Binding: Seventeenth-century panelled sheep. Rebacked, endleaves replaced, corners worn. Provenance: Early signature 'Albertus van Otten prae = 1s[ ]', cropped, at the head of the titlepage; another inscription, 'nottmgne'[?] further down the title; ex libris inscription of Thomas Prince in an Italic hand dated 1611 and of William Wersam dated 1651 on verso of title and a prescription in Prince's hand on the blank **8; Edwin Clarke (1919-1996). References: STC 21601; ESTC S116438; Wellcome 5390; Durling 3838; Heirs of Hippocrates 77. Sixth edition in English listed in STC (first 1528), translated by Thomas Paynell (d. 1564?), The Latin verses of the Regimen itself, attributed to John of Milan (fl. 1100) are printed with a translation of the extensive commentary attributed to Arnoldus of Villanova (d. 1311), which forms the bulk of the book. John's poem, supposed to have been written while he was head of the medical school at Salerno, is a manual of diet, hygiene and simple therapeutics. For centuries it was memorised by physicians and after the invention of printing published in nearly 300 editions. Geoffrey Eatough in Oxford DNB writes of Paynell's translation: 'A "temperate and moderate diete prolongeth man's life" is the keynote for a survey of the properties of all foods and drink, of remedies as "for parbraykynge on the sea" and of the psychology of illness. It has a clear analytical table of contents with careful instructions on how to locate a page. It was reprinted throughout the century and as late as 1634. The success of this book caused his publisher Thomas Berthelet to prompt Paynell to translate Ulrich von Hutten's De morbo Gallico (1533).' Paynell was a canon of Merton Priory in Surrey. He was educated at St Mary's College, the Austin canons' college at Oxford.       [Bookseller: Roger Gaskell ABA ILAB]  55.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   PATTEN WILLIAM]. THE CALENDER OF SCRIPTURE WHEARIN THE HEBRU CHALLDIAN ARABIAN PHENICIAN SYRIAN PERSIAN GREEK AND LATIN NAMES OF NATIONS CUNTREYS MEN WEEMEN IDOLS CITIES HILS RIUERS & OF OOTHER PLACES IN THE HOLLY BYBLE MENTIONED BY ORDER OF LETTERS AR SET AND TURNED INTO OOUR ENGLISH TOONG.       [London: Richard Jugge], 1575 - 4 p.l. 2-193 (i.e. 195) pp. [6] leaves. Some pagination anomalies but complete. FIRST EDITION. Excellent late 17th or early 18th century mottled calf raised bands spine compartments attractively gilt with four small and one large floral stamps. Historiated border on title page historiated initials. First four leaves with small embossed armorial stamp of the Macclesfield Library and front pastedown with matching armorial Macclesfield bookplate. Spine rather faded and dry (with gilt partly dulled or eroded) otherwise the original unsophisticated binding in excellent condition and quite appealing with very little wear. Title page expertly backed (with defective fore margin renewed) lower corner of first dozen gatherings with inoffensive small gray spots associated with a very light (sometimes invisible) dampstain five signatures with elongated worming right at fore edge (just barely intruding onto the leaf) minor worming at bottom of final 70 leaves (beginning as two small holes elongating slightly in six quires but always well away from the text) other insignificant imperfections but still pleasing internally the vast majority of the text clean and quite fresh. STC 19476; Lowndes III, 1803; Graesse V, 170. As the title indicates this is an annotated dictionary of persons and places appearing in the Bible and it is one of the earliest such books in English. Tabitha for example is identified as a pious woman resuscitated by Peter. Hers is a Syrian name we are told the Hebrew equivalent being Dorcas the meaning being Dama in Latin and Deer in English. The name Elizabeth provokes a long digression as she is not only the mother of John the Baptist but the sovereign of England on whose ancestors the author expatiates and whom he extols in a Latin poem. The information is culled largely from the Biblia Polyglotta of Francisco Xim�nez de Cisneros and the Dictionarium Theologicum of Joannes Arquerius. William Patten who appears in the records for the final time in 1580 was a cousin of Bishop Waynflete of Winchester. In 1548 Patten participated in the expedition into Scotland of the Duke of Somerset and his description of the campaign is the ultimate source of Holinshed's account. Subsequently he worked as a teller at the queen's exchequer in Westminster and served as a justice of the peace. The publisher R. Jugge is best known for producing the Bishops' Bible. Like many early English works from the Macclesfield library this is a very rare book: ABPC lists just one copy at auction since 1975. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]  56.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Appianus (Appian) of Alexandria & Appianus: Rom[anarum]. Historiarum. Punica. Parthica, Iberica, Syriaca, Mithridatica, Annibalica, Celticae & Illyricae fragmenta quaedam. Item, De bellis civilibius libri V.[Geneva:] Henri Estienne,1575.*-2*6,a-4a6,(2)a,e,i6 [i6 blank].[12],x,[2],767,[1],72, [34],[2]p.[bound after:]Arrianus: De Expeditione Alexandri Magni. Historiarum Libri VIII. Ex Bonavent. Vulcanii Brug. nova interpretatione.[Geneva]: Henri Estienne,1592.*6,A-Q6,R4,a-g6. [12].198,68,[10],[1]p. [54-5 repeated]       Henri Estienne [Stephanus], [Geneva:] 1575 & 1592. - Folio. 13 1/2 x 8 1/4� 2 vols. in 1. Early calf, rebacked and recornered, small split in top of front hinge,title labels; gilt arms of Gaspard Piebet de Nanlac, Seigeur de Ligny (1626-1694) on covers; repaired tear in t.p. of Arrianus. Provenance: Julio Berzuna collection of Alexander (bookplate); some minor dampstains, & foxing. Estienne device #10 on t.p.s, ornamental initials and head-pieces. Appianus: Appian (c. 95 � c. 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he went to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto. The position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian class.His work, known in English as the Roman History, in twenty-four books, written in Greek before 165, is more a number of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. In spite of its unattractive style, the work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.The Civil Wars, five of the later books in the corpus, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict based approach to history." [Wkpd]�Second, but first complete, edition of Appianus; the editio princeps had been published by Charles Estienne in 1551. In this second edition Henri Estienne incorporates the Iberica (Wars in Spain�) and Hannibalica (�Hannibalic Wars�), which had not yet been discovered when the editio princeps was published, and which he himself brought back from Italy. Estienne has also added 72 pages of very valuable Annotationes. In his preface to the Annotationes Estienne boasts that Appian owes his survival entirely to the Estienne family.� [Schreiber]Arrianus:Arrian (c. A.D.95-175), "Greek of Nicomedia in Bithynia, a successful officer in the Roman army, who became consul and legate in Cappadocia. He was the author of various extant works in Greek; a valuable Anabasis of Alexander the Great, in seven books, narrating his campaigns, with an eight book descriptive of India and Indian customs and relating the voyage of Nearchus in the Persian Gulf."[OCCL] �An important edition of Arrian�s Anabasis of Alexander the Great, and its continuation, the Indica, edited with a Latin translation by the Flemish humanist from Bruges, Bnaventura Vulcanus (De Smet, 1538-1614); following the texts of Arrian. Vulcanius has added Plutarch�s Life of Alexander (in Greek and Latin), as well as Plutarch�s essay �On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander� (Greek text with the Latin version of Guillaume Bude.� [Schreiber] Appianus: Index Aurel.106.591. Schreiber 223. Renouard 155#4. Moeckli 132. Hoffman I,214. Ebert 845 �Corrected and enlarged� Schweiger 39.Arrianus: Index Aurel. 109.037. Schreiber 195. Renouard 142:7. Moeckli 82-3. Hoffman I,377.       [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers]  57.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   HOEFNAGEL, Georg. Antverpia.       [Cologne ]. 1575 Double-page engraved bird's-eye plan, printed on two sheets, joined. Dimensions: 450 by 785mm. (17.5 by 31 inches). This breathtaking bird's-eye plan by Georg Hoefnagel shows his home-town of Antwerp, in Flanders, at the height of its splendour. Within impressive town walls are shown populated streets, bustling quaysides and numerous churches of varied styles, with the vast cathedral dominating the entire town. The town walls are seen heavily fortified with bastions and armaments, the arsenal is marked on the city's seaward side with the River Scheldt full of commercial and naval shipping. Hoefnagel was one of the main contributors to the Civitates . venture and displays his skill, as one of the finest topographical artists of the day, in this magnificent engaving. Due to the size of this engraving, and subsequent folding into a folio volume this is rarely found in such good condition, here on paper of substantial thickness. Printed from two printing plates, first published in Cologne in volume V of Braun and Hogenberg's monumental Civitates Orbis Terrarum and here re-issued with the imprint of Amsterdam publishers Covens and Mortier.       [Bookseller: Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, ABA ILAB]  58.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   GEMMA Cornelius (Lovanio 1535 - De naturae divinis characterismis: seu raris et admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II       ex Officina Christophori Plantinii Architypographi Regij, Anversa 1575 - marca editoriale ai frontespizi e 66 illustrazioni incise in xilografia n.t. di cui 5 a piena pagina, fra cui alcune di Gerard van Kampen. Riproduzioni di mostruosit� e stranezze del mondo naturale fra cui, riferite al mondo umano: aborti, ermafroditi, gemelli uniti per il torso, uomini nati senza occhi o arti, uomo con tre gambe, uomo/uccello, e altre commistioni uomo/animale. "The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, which occur in other books on the same subject, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events. His views have not been much respected by subsequent historians and biographers, but allowance must be made for the change of ideas and for the different ways of observing and interpreting phenomena which a lapse of three hundred years entails and the expositions of Cornelius must be regarded as illustrating the beliefs of his time." (Ferguson). Lievi spellature ai bordi della legatura. Esemplare in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima edizione. 17,5x11 Formato in centrimetri 17,5x11 229 (11) - 284 (36)pagine Legatura legatura ottocentesca in piena pelle in un unico volume, 5 nervi, titolo in oro al dorso e stemma dell'Officina Plantiniana inciso in oro ai piatti       [Bookseller: L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico]  59.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   [PATTEN WILLIAM]. THE CALENDER OF SCRIPTURE WHEARIN THE HEBRU CHALLDIAN ARABIAN PHENICIAN SYRIAN PERSIAN GREEK AND LATIN NAMES OF NATIONS CUNTREYS MEN WEEMEN IDOLS CITIES HILS RIUERS & OF OOTHER PLACES IN THE HOLLY BYBLE MENTIONED BY ORDER OF LETTERS AR SET AND TURNED INTO OOUR ENGLISH TOONG.       [London: Richard Jugge], 1575 214 x 156 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/8""). 4 p.l. 2-193 (i.e. 195) pp. [6] leaves. Some pagination anomalies but complete. FIRST EDITION. Excellent late 17th or early 18th century mottled calf raised bands spine compartments attractively gilt with four small and one large floral stamps. Historiated border on title page historiated initials. First four leaves with small embossed armorial stamp of the Macclesfield Library and front pastedown with matching armorial Macclesfield bookplate. Spine rather faded and dry (with gilt partly dulled or eroded) otherwise the original unsophisticated binding in excellent condition and quite appealing with very little wear. Title page expertly backed (with defective fore margin renewed) lower corner of first dozen gatherings with inoffensive small gray spots associated with a very light (sometimes invisible) dampstain five signatures with elongated worming right at fore edge (just barely intruding onto the leaf) minor worming at bottom of final 70 leaves (beginning as two small holes elongating slightly in six quires but always well away from the text) other insignificant imperfections but still pleasing internally the vast majority of the text clean and quite fresh. STC 19476; Lowndes III, 1803; Graesse V, 170. As the title indicates this is an annotated dictionary of persons and places appearing in the Bible and it is one of the earliest such books in English. Tabitha for example is identified as a pious woman resuscitated by Peter. Hers is a Syrian name we are told the Hebrew equivalent being �Dorcas� the meaning being �Dama� in Latin and �Deer� in English. The name �Elizabeth� provokes a long digression as she is not only the mother of John the Baptist but the sovereign of England on whose ancestors the author expatiates and whom he extols in a Latin poem. The information is culled largely from the �Biblia Polyglotta� of Francisco Xim�nez de Cisneros and the �Dictionarium Theologicum� of Joannes Arquerius. William Patten who appears in the records for the final time in 1580 was a cousin of Bishop Waynflete of Winchester. In 1548 Patten participated in the expedition into Scotland of the Duke of Somerset and his description of the campaign is the ultimate source of Holinshed�s account. Subsequently he worked as a teller at the queen�s exchequer in Westminster and served as a justice of the peace. The publisher R. Jugge is best known for producing the Bishops� Bible. Like many early English works from the Macclesfield library this is a very rare book: ABPC lists just one copy at auction since 1975.       [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscri]  60.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   Appianus (Appian) Of Alexandria & Appianus: Rom[Anarum]. Historiarum. Punica. Parthica, Iberica, Syriaca, Mithridatica, Annibalica, Celticae & Illyricae Fragmenta Quaedam. Item, De Bellis Civilibius Libri V. [Geneva: ] Henri Estienne, 1575. *-2*6, a-4a6, (2)a, E, I6 [I6 Blank]. [12], X...       Henri Estienne [Stephanus], 1575 & 1592. Henri Estienne, ed. & trans. of Appian. Bonaventura Vulcanius, ed. & trans. of Arrian. Folio. 13 1/2 x 8 1/4” 2 vols. in 1. Early calf, rebacked and recornered, small split in top of front hinge, title labels; gilt arms of Gaspard Piebet de Nanlac, Seigeur de Ligny (1626-1694) on covers; repaired tear in t.p. of Arrianus. Provenance: Julio Berzuna collection of Alexander (bookplate); some minor dampstains, & foxing. Estienne device #10 on t.p. s, ornamental initials and head-pieces. Appianus: Appian (c. 95 &endash; c. 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he went to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto. The position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian class. His work, known in English as the Roman History, in twenty-four books, written in Greek before 165, is more a number of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. In spite of its unattractive style, the work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars. The Civil Wars, five of the later books in the corpus, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict based approach to history. " [Wkpd] “ Second, but first complete, edition of Appianus; the editio princeps had been published by Charles Estienne in 1551. In this second edition Henri Estienne incorporates the Iberica (Wars in Spain” ) and Hannibalica (” Hannibalic Wars” ), which had not yet...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  61.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Euclid De gli Elementi d?Euclide Libri Quindici. Con gli schollii antichi. Tradotti prima in lingua Latina da M. Federico Commandino da Urbino & con Commentarij illustrate       Urbino: Domenico Frisolino, 1575. - First Italian edition. Large quarto. Very good in full leather with maroon red label and gilt decorations in spine panels. Marbled endpapers. Title page laid down and some water-staining. Leaf "N" restored along fore-edge. 278pp. Large pictorial initials at the beginning of each chapter. Geometric illustrations on almost every page. Bound in at rear is an original manuscript page of geometrical designs probably from the mid-18th century. Euclid?s Elements was used as a text for 2,000 years, and even today a modified version of its first few books forms the basis of high school instruction in plane geometry. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Johanson Rare Books ABAA]  62.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   PATTEN WILLIAM]. THE CALENDER OF SCRIPTURE WHEARIN THE HEBRU CHALLDIAN ARABIAN PHENICIAN SYRIAN PERSIAN GREEK AND LATIN NAMES OF NATIONS CUNTREYS MEN WEEMEN IDOLS CITIES HILS RIUERS & OF OOTHER PLACES IN THE HOLLY BYBLE MENTIONED BY ORDER OF LETTERS AR SET AND TURNED INTO OOUR ENGLISH TOONG.       [London: Richard Jugge], 1575 4 p.l. 2-193 (i.e. 195) pp. [6] leaves. Some pagination anomalies but complete. FIRST EDITION. Excellent late 17th or early 18th century mottled calf raised bands spine compartments attractively gilt with four small and one large floral stamps. Historiated border on title page historiated initials. First four leaves with small embossed armorial stamp of the Macclesfield Library and front pastedown with matching armorial Macclesfield bookplate. Spine rather faded and dry (with gilt partly dulled or eroded) otherwise the original unsophisticated binding in excellent condition and quite appealing with very little wear. Title page expertly backed (with defective fore margin renewed) lower corner of first dozen gatherings with inoffensive small gray spots associated with a very light (sometimes invisible) dampstain five signatures with elongated worming right at fore edge (just barely intruding onto the leaf) minor worming at bottom of final 70 leaves (beginning as two small holes elongating slightly in six quires but always well away from the text) other insignificant imperfections but still pleasing internally the vast majority of the text clean and quite fresh. STC 19476; Lowndes III, 1803; Graesse V, 170. As the title indicates this is an annotated dictionary of persons and places appearing in the Bible and it is one of the earliest such books in English. Tabitha for example is identified as a pious woman resuscitated by Peter. Hers is a Syrian name we are told the Hebrew equivalent being "Dorcas" the meaning being "Dama" in Latin and "Deer" in English. The name "Elizabeth" provokes a long digression as she is not only the mother of John the Baptist but the sovereign of England on whose ancestors the author expatiates and whom he extols in a Latin poem. The information is culled largely from the "Biblia Polyglotta" of Francisco Xim�nez de Cisneros and the "Dictionarium Theologicum" of Joannes Arquerius. William Patten who appears in the records for the final time in 1580 was a cousin of Bishop Waynflete of Winchester. In 1548 Patten participated in the expedition into Scotland of the Duke of Somerset and his description of the campaign is the ultimate source of Holinshed�s account. Subsequently he worked as a teller at the queen�s exchequer in Westminster and served as a justice of the peace. The publisher R. Jugge is best known for producing the Bishops� Bible. Like many early English works from the Macclesfield library this is a very rare book: ABPC lists just one copy at auction since 1975. $6000 [Attributes: Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)]  63.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Euclid De gli Elementi d?Euclide Libri Quindici. Con gli schollii antichi. Tradotti prima in lingua Latina da M. Federico Commandino da Urbino & con Commentarij illustrate       Urbino: Domenico Frisolino, 1575. - First Italian edition. Large quarto. Very good in full leather with maroon red label and gilt decorations in spine panels. Marbled endpapers. Title page laid down and some water-staining. Leaf "N" restored along fore-edge. 278pp. Large pictorial initials at the beginning of each chapter. Geometric illustrations on almost every page. Bound in at rear is an original manuscript page of geometrical designs probably from the mid-18th century. Euclid?s Elements was used as a text for 2,000 years, and even today a modified version of its first few books forms the basis of high school instruction in plane geometry. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]       [Bookseller: Johanson Rare Books ABAA]  64.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   HOEFNAGEL, Georg. Antverpia.       [Cologne 1575]. Double-page engraved bird's-eye plan, printed on two sheets, joined. Dimensions: 450 by 785mm. (17.5 by 31 inches). This breathtaking bird's-eye plan by Georg Hoefnagel shows his home-town of Antwerp, in Flanders, at the height of its splendour. Within impressive town walls are shown populated streets, bustling quaysides and numerous churches of varied styles, with the vast cathedral dominating the entire town. The town walls are seen heavily fortified with bastions and armaments, the arsenal is marked on the city's seaward side with the River Scheldt full of commercial and naval shipping. Hoefnagel was one of the main contributors to the Civitates ... venture and displays his skill, as one of the finest topographical artists of the day, in this magnificent engaving. Due to the size of this engraving, and subsequent folding into a folio volume this is rarely found in such good condition, here on paper of substantial thickness. Printed from two printing plates, first published in Cologne in volume V of Braun and Hogenberg's monumental Civitates Orbis Terrarum and here re-issued with the imprint of Amsterdam publishers Covens and Mortier.       [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]  65.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS. Den Danske Kr�nike som Saxo Grammaticus Screff, halffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu f�rst aff Latinen uds�t, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders S�ffrinss�n Vedel.       K�benhaffn, (Hans St�ckelmann oc Anders Gutterwitz), 1575. Folio. Helldrbd. fra 1700-tallet m. rygforgyldning. Kapit�l repareret. (36),547,(33) pp. Titelbladet med gammel kolorering og repareret p� bagside med gennemsigtigt pergamentspapir i nederste h�jre hj�rne. Lidt tab af rammen omkring Frederik II's tr�stukne portr�t p� titelbladets bagside. Et bladhj�rne rep.med tab af enkelte bogstaver, nogle bladkanter udbedret. Nogle gamle understregninger og tilskrifter. Originaludgaven af den f�rste dansksprogede Saxo-Udgave - et monumentalv�rk i dansk litteratur, idet v�rket f�rst med Vedels overs�ttelse n�ede frem til den almene l�ser. - The first printed Danish translation of Saxo, and extremely scarce. - Laur.Nielsen 1451. - Thesaurus 205.       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  66.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   GEMMA CORNELIUS (LOVANIO 1535 - DE NATURAE DIVINIS CHARACTERISMIS: SEU RARIS ET ADMIRANDIS SPECTACULIS, CAUSIS, INDICIIS, PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM IN PARTIBUS SINGULIS UNIVERSI, LIBRI II ANVERSA EX OFFICINA CHRISTOPHORI PLANTINII ARCHITYPOGRAPHI REGIJ 1575       2 volumi 17,5x11 legatura ottocentesca in piena pelle in un unico volume, 5 nervi, titolo in oro al dorso e stemma dell'Officina Plantiniana inciso in oro ai piatti 229 (11) - 284 (36) marca editoriale ai frontespizi e 66 illustrazioni incise in xilografia n.t. di cui 5 a piena pagina, fra cui alcune di Gerard van Kampen. Riproduzioni di mostruosita' e stranezze del mondo naturale fra cui, riferite al mondo umano: aborti, ermafroditi, gemelli uniti per il torso, uomini nati senza occhi o arti, uomo con tre gambe, uomo/uccello, e altre commistioni uomo/animale. "The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, which occur in other books on the same subject, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events. His views have not been much respected by subsequent historians and biographers, but allowance must be made for the change of ideas and for the different ways of observing and interpreting phenomena which a lapse of three hundred years entails and the expositions of Cornelius must be regarded as illustrating the beliefs of his time." (Ferguson). Lievi spellature ai bordi della legatura. Esemplare in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima edizione.       [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico ARENGARIO�-�Gussago]  67.   Check availability:     Maremagnum    choosebooks    ILAB   Link/Print   ZANCHI PAOLO Contractus datiorum Bergomi, cum indice locupletissimo.       de Turlini, Brescia 1575 In folio (327x227), pagg. (28), 384 (erroneamente 483). Marca tipografica silogr. al frontespizio, iniziali istoriate entro cornici e testatine incise in legno.Legatura in piena pergamena coeva, titolo manoscritto al dorso ed etichetta in carta con vecchia segnatura.Edizione originale edita su incarico del consiglio cittadino che raccoglie le leggi tributarie, fiscali, contrattuali volte a regolamentare gli aspetti dell'economia agricola e artigianale del territorio bergamasco. Sono trattati i prodotti alimentari con riferimento alle diverse fasi della produzione, del trasporto, della pesatura, del confezionamento e del commercio. Vi sono inoltre capitoli sulla legislazione contrattuale, sulla lavorazione del ferro, sulla normativa carceraria. Infine sono indicate le pene applicate in caso di mancato rispetto delle norme daziarie.Nota di possesso manoscritta e note marginali.Legatura con usuali tracce d'uso, tracce di lacci.Ottimo esemplare su carta forte con ampi margini.Biblioteca del Senato, Catalogo della raccolta di statuti, Roma, 1943, I, p.106.       [Bookseller: libreria antiquaria perini]  68.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   KRANTZ Albrecht Saxonia. De Saxonicae gentis vetusta origine, longinquis expeditionibus susceptis, & bellis domi pro libertate diu fortiterq[ue] gestis. Denuo, & quidem accuratius emendatiusq[ue] quam ante, edita. Cum praefatione Nicolai Cisneri (.).       Francfort sur le Main, A. Wechel, 1575, in-folio, [24]-354-[34] pp., belle marque de libraire au titre et au verso du dern. f., veau, dos � nerfs orn�, tranches mouchet�es (rel. du XVIIe). Importantes restaurations aux charni�res, coiffes et coins, mais bon exemplaire.Deuxi�me �dition latine de cette histoire de Saxe, ou plut�t des peuples saxons et de leurs migrations, d'abord parue en 1520. L'historien hambourgeois Albrecht Krantz (1448-1517), s'est essentiellement int�ress� � l'histoire des peuples germaniques et des royaumes scandinaves. Ses travaux, remarquables pour l'�poque par leur sens d�j� critique, ont joui longtemps d'une grande estime. Reli� � la suite : KRANTZ. Regnorum Aquilonarium, Daniae, Sueciae, Norvagiae, Chronica. Quibus gentium origo vetustissima, & Ostrogothorum, Wisigothorum, Longobardorum atq[ue] Normannorum, antiquitus inde profectorum, res in Italia, Hispania, Gallia & Sicilia gestae, praeter domesticam historiam, narrantur. Accessit, supplementi cuiusdam instar, Dithmarsici belli historia, Christiano cilicio Cimbro autore. Item Iacobi Ziegleri Schondia, id est regionum & populorum Septenttrionalium, ad Krantzianam historiam perutilis descriptio (.). Francfort sur le Main, And. Wechel, 1575, [20]-505-[39] pp., avec qq. fig. in-t. Deuxi�me �dition de cette chronique des peuples germaniques, dont l'originale remonte � 1546. Exemplaire du coll�ge, puis Lyc�e Louis-Le-Grand, avec cachets humides aux ff. de titre. Brunet III, 695.       [Bookseller: Librairie Historique F. Teiss�dre]  69.   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   Caesar, Caius Julius Commentarii Ab Aldo Manutio...       Venice; Aldus, 1576. 8vo. pp. [cxxiii] [i blank] 676 [lxvi] [iii blank] [lx]. Italic letter; medallion portrait of Aldus Manutius on t-p recto, imperial arms incorporating printer's device on verso, historiated woodcut initials, ornaments, head and tail-pieces, 6 full-page framed woodcuts illustrating the text, 12 half-page of animals and machines of war, 2 diagrams, double-page folding maps of Gaul and Spain. Light age-yellowing, t-p with exlibris anciently excised and repaired, dampstain affecting a few leaves of the Scholia and index, a couple of leaves foxed. Else a good copy in contemporary calf, a few small wormholes, rebacked, original spine remounted, corners repaired, calf lettering piece. 16th C autograph of Nicolo Chiocco de Calui at foot of t-p, his Latin motto from the Psalms partially excised at head "I hoped, let me never be confounded, " occasional mss in his hand. Addition to register in contemp. hand, perhaps by the publisher. Modern bookplates to front pastedown and rear fly, a.e.r. Reissue of the 1575 edition of Caesar's 'Gallic Wars', unaltered save for the date and edited by Aldus the Younger, combining related fragments with scholarly commentaries. It is one of the very few extensively illustrated productions of the Aldine press, featuring annotated diagrams of scenes from Caesar's most famous military operations, including the construction of the siege terrace at Avaricum, the dam at Uxellodunum, and the brick tower at Massilia, newly cut for this edition. The text also comprises passages on Caesar's bridge across the Rhine excerpted from various authors, including Cardanus, Guillaume Bud� and Leon Battista Alberti; lists of the Latin and vernacular names of Belgian, German, Celtic and Spanish key cities and individuals; a commentary on the divisions of Gaul, including a catalogue of places visited by Caesar; fragments of speeches and 'De Analogia' collected by Italian scholar Fulvius Ursinus; fragments about Caesar from i.a. Pliny, Cicero and Tacitus;...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  70.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   GEMMA Cornelius (Lovanio 1535 - De naturae divinis characterismis: seu raris et admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II       ex Officina Christophori Plantinii Architypographi Regij, Anversa 1575 - marca editoriale ai frontespizi e 66 illustrazioni incise in xilografia n.t. di cui 5 a piena pagina, fra cui alcune di Gerard van Kampen. Riproduzioni di mostruosit� e stranezze del mondo naturale fra cui, riferite al mondo umano: aborti, ermafroditi, gemelli uniti per il torso, uomini nati senza occhi o arti, uomo con tre gambe, uomo/uccello, e altre commistioni uomo/animale. "The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, which occur in other books on the same subject, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events. His views have not been much respected by subsequent historians and biographers, but allowance must be made for the change of ideas and for the different ways of observing and interpreting phenomena which a lapse of three hundred years entails and the expositions of Cornelius must be regarded as illustrating the beliefs of his time." (Ferguson). Lievi spellature ai bordi della legatura. Esemplare in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima edizione. 17,5x11 Formato in centrimetri 17,5x11 229 (11) - 284 (36)pagine Legatura legatura ottocentesca in piena pelle in un unico volume, 5 nervi, titolo in oro al dorso e stemma dell'Officina Plantiniana inciso in oro ai piatti       [Bookseller: L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico]  71.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   LAVATER, Ludovicus. Rare work on the apparition of phantoms De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque praesagitionibus quae plerunque obitum hominum, magnas clades, mutation�sque imporium praecedunt.       Geneva, Eustathius Vignon, 1575. 8vo. Later overlapping vellum, ms. ink title on spine. Woodcut vignette on title. (16), 272 pp. Rare edition on apparitions of ghosts, fantoms and spirits and the hearing of strange noises and happening of inexplicable events and peculiar accidents as they often occur when a - famous - person dies. The work was first published in 1570 by Jean Crespin, also in Geneva. Most probably our 1575 copy is a second issue of this first edition, because both copies have exact the same collation and our copy even has the vignette of Jean Crespin on the title-page. After this and in the next century many editions were published of this charming and very interesting book, among which were a French, a German and an English translation. Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586) was a Swiss protestant theologian who published many exegetist and pious works. Good copy. Adams L300; Caillet 6237; Dorbon 2509 ("tr�s rare").       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  72.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   Iunctino Florentino, Francisco Speculum Astrologiae, quod attinet ad iudiciariam rationem nativitatum atque annuarum revolutionum:       Lyon, 1575, Philippi Tinghi Florentini In 4 mayor, pergamino, lomo titulado, retrato con anotaci�n manuscrita haciendo referencia a la bula del Papa, Sixto V de 1586 sobre la Astrologia, bonitos capitulares, colof�n; numerosas tablas, anotaciones marginales y tachaduras de censura, aunque los textos permanecen legibles ; se�ales de humedad, 5 h.+320 fol.+103 fol.+11 h.,       [Bookseller: Hallazgo Libreria]  73.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   LAVATER, LUDOVICUS. DE SPECTRIS, LEMURIBUS ET MAGNIS ATQUE INSOLITIS FRAGORIBUS, VARIISQUE PRAESAGITIONIBUS QUAE PLERUNQUE OBITUM HOMINUM, MAGNAS CLADES, MUTATIONESQUE IMPORIUM PRAECEDUNT. GENEVA, EUSTATHIUS VIGNON, 1575.       8vo. Later overlapping vellum, ms. ink title on spine. Woodcut vignette on title. (16), 272 pp. Rare edition on apparitions of ghosts, fantoms and spirits and the hearing of strange noises and happening of inexplicable events and peculiar accidents as they often occur when a - famous - person dies. The work was first published in 1570 by Jean Crespin, also in Geneva. Most probably our 1575 copy is a second issue of this first edition, because both copies have exact the same collation and our copy even has the vignette of Jean Crespin on the title-page. After this and in the next century many editions were published of this charming and very interesting book, among which were a French, a German and an English translation. Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586) was a Swiss protestant theologian who published many exegetist and pious works. Good copy. Adams L300; Caillet 6237; Dorbon 2509 ("tres rare").       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]  74.   Check availability:     Maremagnum    ILAB   Link/Print   EUCLIDE De gli Elementi d'Euclide Libri Quindici. Con gli scholii antichi. tradotti prima in lingua latina da M. Federico Commandino da Urbino, & con Commentarij illustrati, et (...)       In Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, M.D.LXXV (1575). Con licentia de' Superiori.In-folio, cc.nn.8 (tit., dedica di Valerio Spacciouli genero del Commandino, privilegio e prolegomeni), cc.num.278. Con graziose iniz. xilogr. fig., schemi e figg. geometriche n.t.; antico timbro araldico della Biblioteca Medicea Palatina al front. Ex-libris famiglia Ricasoli-Firidolfi al recto della prima carta. Bella leg. p. pelle settec. con tit. e dec. oro impr. al dorso a 6 nervi, tagli spruzzati. Bell'esempl. a pieni margini, con qq. leggera brunitura sparsa, ma in ottimo stato di conservaz. - Prima edizione in volgare con il commento del Commandino, dopo quella celebre in latino, data alle stampe a Pisa tre anni prima, per i tipi di Camillo Franceschini.del Commandino (1509-1575), oltre ad essere il miglior risultato della sua produzione scientifica, � tuttora considerata come la migliore traduzione cinquecentesca della geometria di Euclide. Questa edizione, inoltre, rappresenta uno dei rarissimi esempi dei primordi della tipografia urbinate. Conoscono, infatti, solo uno o due incunaboli stampati ad Urbino e non pi� di quattro o cinque opere a stampa della fine del XVI� secolo (la pi� importante delle quali � la presente), tutte uscite dai torchi di Domenico Frisolino. Solo nel 1630 i duchi di Urbino concederanno particolari privilegi, che daranno definitivamente avvio allo sviluppo della tipografia nella citt�.Riccardi I, 363-64. Gamba, 1386: "Nobile edizione co' margini interlineati...". Brunet II, 1090. Graesse II, 513. Adams, E-995. Olschki-Choix, 6539. Ascarelli-Menato, 211.       [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli s.r.l.]  75.   Check availability:     ILAB   Link/Print   HOEFNAGEL, GEORG. ANTVERPIA. [COLOGNE 1575].       Double-page engraved bird's-eye plan, printed on two sheets, joined. Dimensions: 450 by 785mm. (17.5 by 31 inches). This breathtaking bird's-eye plan by Georg Hoefnagel shows his home-town of Antwerp, in Flanders, at the height of its splendour. Within impressive town walls are shown populated streets, bustling quaysides and numerous churches of varied styles, with the vast cathedral dominating the entire town. The town walls are seen heavily fortified with bastions and armaments, the arsenal is marked on the city's seaward side with the River Scheldt full of commercial and naval shipping. Hoefnagel was one of the main contributors to the Civitates ... venture and displays his skill, as one of the finest topographical artists of the day, in this magnificent engaving. Due to the size of this engraving, and subsequent folding into a folio volume this is rarely found in such good condition, here on paper of substantial thickness. Printed from two printing plates, first published in Cologne in volume V of Braun and Hogenberg's monumental Civitates Orbis Terrarum and here re-issued with the imprint of Amsterdam publishers Covens and Mortier.       [Bookseller: SHAPERO Rare Books - Stocklight Ltd.�-�L]  76.   Check availability:     Maremagnum   Link/Print   HERO (HERON) OF ALEXANDRIA - FOUNDATION Spiritalium liber. A Federico Commandino Urbinate, ex Graeco, nuper in Latinum conversis. Cum Privilegio Gregorij XIII. Pont. Max.       Urbini, (D. Frisolini), 1575. Small 4to. Fine recent full vellum in old style with written title onback. Titlepage + 80 leaves (title unnumb. + F 1-80 with 4 leaves misnumb., e.g. F70 instead of 80). The dedicationleaf (unnumb.) after title missing. Text complete, fine and clean with broad margins. One large initial in woodcut and 89 large textillustrations in woodcut. � First edition and the first printed work by Hero. It is Hero's main work, and it stimulated the interest and contributed substantially to the interest in pneumatics that arose suddenly in the late 16th century and led to the work of Toricelli and Boyle. The "Pneumatics" was not published in Greek until 1693. It is one of the major sources to our knowledge of the technics and mechanics of Antiquity, and the many hydraulic and mechanical inventions by Hero is here depicted for the first time in print. The work includes studies of pneumatics and mechanics and include 89 illustrations of different inventions, such as siphons, fountains, engines, an account of a small stationary steam-engine (whic is of the form now known as Avery's patent), the double-force pump etc., which "by the union of (compressed) air, earth, fire, and water, and the concurrence of...elementary principles..., supply the most pressing wants of the human life, (or) produce amazement and alarm." The book describes many gadgets and magical tricks and includes the first suggestion of a steam engine (see f. 52). - Sarton, Introduction...Vol. I pp. 208 ff. - Adams H:369 - Poggendorff I: 1084.       [Bookseller: Herman H. J. Lynge & S�n A/S]  77.   Check availability:     ILAB    antikvariat   Link/Print   HOEFNAGEL, Georg. Antverpia.       [Cologne 1575]. Double-page engraved bird's-eye plan, printed on two sheets, joined. Dimensions: 450 by 785mm. (17.5 by 31 inches). This breathtaking bird's-eye plan by Georg Hoefnagel shows his home-town of Antwerp, in Flanders, at the height of its splendour. Within impressive town walls are shown populated streets, bustling quaysides and numerous churches of varied styles, with the vast cathedral dominating the entire town. The town walls are seen heavily fortified with bastions and armaments, the arsenal is marked on the city's seaward side with the River Scheldt full of commercial and naval shipping. Hoefnagel was one of the main contributors to the Civitates ... venture and displays his skill, as one of the finest topographical artists of the day, in this magnificent engaving. Due to the size of this engraving, and subsequent folding into a folio volume this is rarely found in such good condition, here on paper of substantial thickness. Printed from two printing plates, first published in Cologne in volume V of Braun and Hogenberg's monumental Civitates Orbis Terrarum and here re-issued with the imprint of Amsterdam publishers Covens and Mortier.       [Bookseller: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books]  78.   Check availability:     choosebooks   Link/Print   SAXO GRAMMATICUS. Den Danske Kr�nike som Saxo Grammaticus Screff, halffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu f�rst aff Latinen uds�t, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders S�ffrinss�n Vedel.       - K�benhaffn, (Hans St�ckelmann oc Anders Gutterwitz), 1575. Folio. Helldrbd. fra 1700-tallet m. rygforgyldning. Kapit�l repareret. (36),547,(33) pp. Titelbladet med gammel kolorering og repareret p� bagside med gennemsigtigt pergamentspapir i nederste h�jre hj�rne. Lidt tab af rammen omkring Frederik II's tr�stukne portr�t p� titelbladets bagside. Et bladhj�rne rep.med tab af enkelte bogstaver, nogle bladkanter udbedret. Nogle gamle understregninger og tilskrifter. Originaludgaven af den f�rste dansksprogede Saxo-Udgave - et monumentalv�rk i dansk litteratur, idet v�rket f�rst med Vedels overs�ttelse n�ede frem til den almene l�ser. - The first printed Danish translation of Saxo, and extremely scarce. - Laur.Nielsen 1451. - Thesaurus 205.       [Bookseller: Lynge & S�n ILAB-LILA]  79.   Check availability:     AbeBooks   Link/Print   LAVATER, Ludovicus. Rare work on the apparition of phantoms De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque praesagitionibus quae plerunque obitum hominum, magnas clades, mutationesque imporium praecedunt.       Geneva, Eustathius Vignon, 1575. . 8vo. Later overlapping vellum, ms. ink title on spine. Woodcut vignette on title. (16), 272 pp. . Rare edition on apparitions of ghosts, fantoms and spirits and the hearing of strange noises and happening of inexplicable events and peculiar accidents as they often occur when a - famous - person dies. The work was first published in 1570 by Jean Crespin, also in Geneva. Most probably our 1575 copy is a second issue of this first edition, because both copies have exact the same collation and our copy even has the vignette of Jean Crespin on the title-page. After this and in the next century many editions were published of this charming and very interesting book, among which were a French, a German and an English translation. Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586) was a Swiss protestant theologian who published many exegetist and pious works. Good copy. Adams L300; Caillet 6237; Dorbon 2509 ("tres rare").       [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]  80.   Check availability:     ZVAB   Link/Print   Valeriano Bolzani, Giovanni Hieroglyphica, Sive De Sacris Aegyptiorum, Aliarumque Gentium Literis Commentarii. a Celio Augustino Curione Duobis Libris Auctii, & Multis Imaginibus Illustrati       Basel (Thomas Guarinus), March, 1575. (10)ff., 12pp., 13-441ff., 25ff. Woodcut title-page vignette, splendid full-page portrait by Tobias Stimmer in elaborate ornamental frame, and 273 woodcut illus. Lettrines and schematic figs. in text. Stout folio. Contemporary calf, handsomely blindstamped with fillets and oval device at the center of each cover; handsome seventeenth-century calligraphed paper labels on spine, lettered in red and black. A book of pivotal importance in late Renaissance iconography, first published in Basel, 1556; the present edition follows that of 1567, which was the first to contain the two additional books by Caelio Augustino Curio. Dedicated to Cosimo I de' Medici, Valeriano's �Hieroglyphica� is �a vast compilation of all the hieroglyphic knowledge of his time; it drew on Horapollo, the �Physiologus, ' the obelisks he saw in Rome, the Cabala and the Bible as sources. It was so popular that eleven editions were published in the first seventy years. At the time it was believed that hieroglyphs were a purely ideographical form of writing used by ancient Egyptian priests to foreshadow divine ideas, and that the Greek philosophers had tapped into �hieroglyphic wisdom. ' In the dedication of his �Hieroglyphica, ' Valeriano writes, �[To] speak hieroglyphically is nothing else but to disclose the true nature of things divine and human. He contributed no revolutionary ideas to the field, but his compilation was instrumental in changing the study of hieroglyphic symbols from a philosophical to a philological pursuit� (Funk). Valeriano (1477-1558) was Vasari's Latin teacher, and tutor to Giovanni de' Medici (the future Pope Leo X); in 1509, as the private secretary of Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, he travelled to Rome, where he studied the city's antiquities. The �Hieroglyphica� provided a fountain of emblematic imagery for leading artists, while the inscriptions in his historical material were utilized by humanist historians. It was unquestionably the most important source for Ripa's...       [Bookseller: Alibris]  81.   Check availability:     Alibris   Link/Print   Reinke de Vos] Reynike Voos de Olde, nyge dedrucket mit sydlykem vorstande, und schonen Figuren, erluchtet und vorbetert.       Niclas Bassee, Frankfort am Meyn 1575 8vo. A-Z, a-x in 8; [12] 334 [5] ll; 352 ll. verso of last l. blank. l.49 repeated in numbering. ll. 167-168 (Z4-5) lacking. 36 woodcut illustrations. Hinges splitting and taped, but cords sound. Spine ends worn. Lacks front endpaper. Title leaf taped on verso. Early ms. notes on verso of last leaf and on rear ep. A rare printing of the low German version. Not in Adams or NUC. From the library of William I. Paulding (son of James Kirk Paulding).       [Bookseller: Beechwold Books]  82   Check availability:     ABEBooks   Link/Print   1574 1576

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