Venezia, MDXXXVIII. (Andrea Arrivabene, 1538). in-12 (mm 110x80), ff. 30 n.n. (a-c8, d6), carattere romano. Ottima legatura moderna ad imitazione cinquecentesca, in pelle con decorazioni in oro ai piatti. Sul titolo grande impresa di Arrivabene silografata con bella figura della Samaritana al Pozzo che offre da bere a Gesù con scritta ''Qui biberit ex hac aqua, non sitiet in Aeternum'', utilizzata dal tipografo veneziano tra 1534 e 1570. Edizione originale, apparsa anonima, apparentemente non censita in nessuna biblioteca pubblica italiana e sconosciuta alle bibliografie consultate, di questo trattatello moraleggiante, ripubblicato a partire dagli anni ottanta del XVI secolo con il nome di S. Lorenzo Giustiniani quale autore. Il Giustiniani (1381-1455) fu vescovo di Venezia e Patriarca della medesima città, venne canonizzato nel 1690. Bell' esemplare.. Manca a STC, Adams e Gamba..

JUGGE. 1538 THE COVERDALE BIBLE: EARLY OCTAVO NEW TESTAMENT MARTYRS NEW TESTAMENT VERY RARE HERBERT 40: "SOME HOLD THIS EDITION TO BE THE EARLIEST SEPERATE ISSUE OF COVERDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT" BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF THE COVERDALE SEPERATELY PRINTED NEW TESTAMENT IN ALL "ABOUT 200 CUTS" (FROM HERBERT) FILLED WITH AMAZING ENGRAVINGS GENERAL TITLE IS FACS FROM CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY UK ORIGINAL TITLE PAGE STARTS WITH MATTHEW CH 8 LACKS PRELIMS AND A FEW SCRIPTURE PAGES LACKING MISSING TOTAL OF 12 REMARKABLY COMPLETE FOR A BIBLE OF THIS ERA! THIS IS AS RARE AS IT GETS PRINTED ONLY 3 YEARS AFTER THE 1ST ed COVERDALE THE 1ST BIBLE IN ENGLISH! INCREDIBLY COMPLETE FOR SUCH A SCARCE EDITION AND HAS THANKFULLY THE 1538 COLOPHON DATED "IMPRINTED AT ANTWERPE/BY MATTHEW CROM/IN THE YEARE OF OUR LORDE MDXXXVIII.

Basel: Robert Winter, 1536; Basel: Thomas Platter, 1538. 185 x 105 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). 24 p.l., 407 pp.; 18 p.l., 357 [i.e., 257]. EXCELLENT CONTEMPORARY BLIND-STAMPED CALF OVER BEVELLED WOODEN BOARDS, BY THE BRESLAUER MASTER H. B. (rolls initialed and dated 1540), covers framed by roll featuring Christ with the Arma Christi, Christ as Salvador Mundi, and the Crucifixion with a kneeling figure, central panel with roll showing the four Evangelists, upper cover with author name above the central panel and the date [15]40 below, raised bands, spine panels with foliate roll, remnants of brass clasps. Front pastedown with early ink owner inscription; title page with ink inscription of the Breslau Cathedral crossed out. First work: VD16 M 2317; Adams M-1061; Schweiger II, 608; Graesse V, 401. Second Work: VD16 P 4177, not in Adams or Graesse. For the binding: Haebler I, 39, no. 2 and 6. One corner chipped, tiny chip to head of front joints, extremities a little rubbed, leather on spine a bit crackled, a couple of tiny holes and a small patch of lost patina from insect activity, isolated faint foxing, otherwise a very pleasing copy, quite clean and fresh internally in a sound, unsophisticated binding with rolls showing in high relief.This collection of classical and humanist geographical texts was bound by the artisan who is known as H. B., someone active in Breslau in the second quarter of the 16th century who bound books for the library of the Protestant reformer Johann Hess. Haebler first finds evidence of H. B.'s activity in 1525, and he notes that the binder used stamps dat … [Click Below for Full Description]

Basel: Robert Winter, 1536; Basel: Thomas Platter, 1538. This collection of classical and humanist geographical texts was bound by the artisan who is known as H. B., someone active in Breslau in the second quarter of the 16th century who bound books for the library of the Protestant reformer Johann Hess. Haebler first finds evidence of H. B.'s activity in 1525, and he notes that the binder used stamps dated 1536 or 1540, which he speculates were important years in H. B.'s life. Scholars have been unable to determine the identity of H. B., beyond his work for Hess and the Saxon State Library. According to Haebler, H. B. often added the date of the binding to the front cover, as he has done here. H. B. seems to have ceased work by 1559; Haebler notes that another binder added his own initials (P. L.) to one of H. B.'s rolls, and changed its date from 1536 to 1559. Written in the first century A.D. by the first Roman geographer, the first treatise here is the only work in classical Latin wholly on geography. The text is largely a list of place names, but it is enlivened by occasional details, such as the information that the Thracians do not know the use of wine, but sit about the fire, eating seeds that induce a certain hilarity. The author Pomponius, a flat earth proponent, postulated the theory of a vast ocean stretching southward from Egypt, thus dividing the world-disc into two, the southern portion containing an undiscovered continent. The book was printed as early as 1471, but the first well-edited version was by Vadianus (published originally in Basel in 1522). In add … [Click Below for Full Description]

THE NEW TESTAMENT - WILLIAM TYNDALE FIRST EDITION London, 1538 Excellent Copy of Tyndale's Translation of the New Testament [THE NEWE TESTAMENT IN ENGLYSHE AND LATYN ACCORDYING TO THE TRANSLACYON OF DOCTOUR ERASMUS OF ROTERODAM]. LONDON: ROBERT REDMAN, 1538. Bible in English and Latin. New Testament [Tyndale Diglot] Item Description: This is the first editionof Tyndale's New Testament in Latin and Greek. 4to (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.; 216 x 159 mm). Title ("The Newe Testament in Englyshe & in Latin. Novum Testamentum Anglice et Latine") within woodcut border bearing the initials HH and depicting the story of Mutius and Porsena at the bottom, black letter text printed in two columns, with English on the inside and Latin on the outside in a smaller point size, two woodcuts each of the Evangelists at the beginning of each Gospel, numerous woodcut initials; lacking first four leaves of preliminaries, (including general title), second title remargined with minor loss to woodcut border and text on verso, lower outer corners of quires A-C frayed with some loss to Latin text in A-B, slightly affecting text in C, upper corner of M2 torn and long closed tear on X2 slightly affecting text, small hole on EE4 costing a few letters in Latin, occasional dampstaining, colophon page age-darkened. Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered gilt. __________________________________________ Rare Bibles specializes in early printed English Bibles, books, manuscripts, and objet d'art. Items listed on eBay are merely representative of our broader inventory. Please do not hesitate to enquire reg … [Click Below for Full Description]

Basel: Robert Winter, 1536; Basel: Thomas Platter, 1538. 185 x 105 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). 24 p.l., 407 pp.; 18 p.l., 357 [i.e., 257]. EXCELLENT CONTEMPORARY BLIND-STAMPED CALF OVER BEVELLED WOODEN BOARDS, BY THE BRESLAUER MASTER H. B. (rolls initialed and dated 1540), covers framed by roll featuring Christ with the Arma Christi, Christ as Salvador Mundi, and the Crucifixion with a kneeling figure, central panel with roll showing the four Evangelists, upper cover with author name above the central panel and the date [15]40 below, raised bands, spine panels with foliate roll, remnants of brass clasps. Front pastedown with early ink owner inscription; title page with ink inscription of the Breslau Cathedral crossed out. First work: VD16 M 2317; Adams M-1061; Schweiger II, 608; Graesse V, 401. Second Work: VD16 P 4177, not in Adams or Graesse. For the binding: Haebler I, 39, no. 2 and 6. One corner chipped, tiny chip to head of front joints, extremities a little rubbed, leather on spine a bit crackled, a couple of tiny holes and a small patch of lost patina from insect activity, isolated faint foxing, otherwise a very pleasing copy, quite clean and fresh internally in a sound, unsophisticated binding with rolls showing in high relief. This collection of classical and humanist geographical texts was bound by the artisan who is known as H. B., someone active in Breslau in the second quarter of the 16th century who bound books for the library of the Protestant reformer Johann Hess. Haebler first finds evidence of H. B.'s activity in 1525, and he notes that the binder used stamps … [Click Below for Full Description]

1538. Very Good Condition for this antique leather-bound hdbk. Cover shows only very little wear...no cracking of leather, and gold imprint still clear. Corners show vellum. Leather cover and binding are so good, that the book was surely rebound since its original publishing date of 1538. Binding/hinges are tight/strong. No owner name inside, but there are a few penciled notes inside front. Inside, most pages show a few age-tanning spots and/or very light foxing, neither of which are significant enough to detract. This is exceptional condition for a book of this age. More photos will be furnished for serious buyer inquiries. Very Collectible. Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae- Græce et Latinè, 1538, (cum alijs opusculis, quorum, index proxima refertur pagella), Basileæ in Officina Hervagiana. - Aesops Fables, in Greek and Latin languages. Condition: Very Good Condition for this antique leather-bound hdbk. Cover shows only very little wear...no cracking of leather, and gold imprint still clear. Corners show vellum. Leather cover and binding are so good, that the book was surely rebound since its original publishing date of 1538. Binding/hinges are tight/strong. No owner name inside, but there are a few penciled notes inside front. Inside, most pages show a few age-tanning spots and/or very light foxing, neither of which are significant enough to detract. This is exceptional condition for a book of this age. More photos will be furnished for serious buyer inquiries. Very Collectible.

"Cyri Paediae (Cyropaedia)" by Xenophontis [Xenophon]. The "Cyropaedia" (or Cyropedia) is a biography of Cyrus the Great, originally written in the early 4th century BC by the gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The Latinized title "Cyropaedia" derives from the Greek "Kúrou paideía" (Κύρου παιδεία), meaning "The Education of Cyrus". Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes. In turn it was a strong influence upon the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli's The Prince, which was an important influence in the rejection of medieval political thinking, and the development of modern politics.~ wikipedia Published in its original Greek text in 1538, this copy is quite rare. It contains two volumes (bound as one) and is comprised of "quatuor priores" (the first four parts) printed in 1538, and "quatuor posteriores" (the last four parts) printed in 1539. Bound in calf with embossed decoration on the covers. Restoration work to the spine and joints. Wear and soiling to the covers and edges. Moisture stains to the entirety of the gutters which spreads into the textblock and boards. The front endpaper is missing. Ink signatures and notations on the front paste-down, title page, leaf in between volumes, and rear endpaper. A rare copy of this important and influential work. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. [Attributes: First Edition]

1538 Greek New Testament; Platter's First Edition. Received Text, as such, a source text for the King James Bible. Textually Complete with Title. Original Vellum binding. Title in Greek] Novi testamenti omnia. Basel: Thomas Platter, March 1538 Cesar De Missy's copy with his ink inscription to title. De Missy was chaplain to King George III and a scholar of the New Testament. This is Platter's first edition of the Greek New Testament, and his second edition followed two years later. [Adams B-1654; Darlow Moule 4611 Please note that the 2nd Ed is listed with another dealer at $16,000. This is the first edition and an important association copy. [Attributes: First Edition]

Augustae Vindelicorum Alexander Weissenborn excudat 1538.4to. Recent blind-tooled period style calf. With full-page woodcut of the Duke Friedrich in full armour on horseback (by Michael Ostendorfer?) and 6 large woodcut initials. (71) lvs. (old manuscript numbering on upper outer corner ). First edition; with the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. Reprinted in 1673 and 1744 in the corpus of the Hungarian historians. Melchior Soiter was a lawyer born in Windau (Curland), who covered several dignities in the organization of the Holy Roman Empire and participated personally to the campaign he describes in this book. The second section of the book, written by the jurist Johannes Schnotenbeck, is an accurateexcursus on the military grades of the Turkish army, with several details on the tasks of every officer and a final economical statistics of the Turkish Empire, considering both its European and Asiatic territories. Apponyi I, 269; Atabey 1152; Göllner 626; not in Blackmer.

Augustae Vindelicorum Alexander Weissenborn excudat 1538.4to. Recent blind-tooled period style calf. With full-page woodcut of the Duke Friedrich in full armour on horseback (by Michael Ostendorfer?) and 6 large woodcut initials. (71) lvs. (old manuscript numbering on upper outer corner ). First edition; with the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. Reprinted in 1673 and 1744 in the corpus of the Hungarian historians. Melchior Soiter was a lawyer born in Windau (Curland), who covered several dignities in the organization of the Holy Roman Empire and participated personally to the campaign he describes in this book. The second section of the book, written by the jurist Johannes Schnotenbeck, is an accurate excursus on the military grades of the Turkish army, with several details on the tasks of every officer and a final economical statistics of the Turkish Empire, considering both its European and Asiatic territories. Apponyi I, 269; Atabey 1152; Göllner 626; not in Blackmer. [Attributes: First Edition]

1538-1539. 'Ciceronis Opera..' FINE PERIOD BINDING. Stephanus Imprint. Paris 1538-1539. 'Ciceronis Opera..' FINE PERIOD BINDING. Stephanus Imprint. Paris Click images to enlarge Description 'M.T.Ciceronis Opera Ex Petri Victorii Codicibus Maxima Ex Parte Descripta, Viri Docti Et In Recensendis Authoris Huius Scriptis Cauti & Perdiligentis: Quem Nos Industria, Quanta Potuimus, Cosequuti, Quasdam Orationes Redintegratas, Tres Libros De Legibus Multo Quam Antea Meliores & Reliquias De Commentariis Qui D Republica Inscripti Erant, Magno Labore Collectas Undique, Descriptasque Libris, Vobis Exhibemus. Eisdem Victorii Explicationes Suarum In Ciceronem Castigationum. Index Rerum Et Verborum' Cicero [106-43BC] Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani. Dated: M.D.XXXIX [1539] Large, thick folio [16.00'' tall x 10.50'' wide x 5.00'' thick]. Five parts bound together in this single folio volume. [Orationes, Epstolae, Rhetorica, Philosophica & Explicationes]. Each part with its own dated title page. General title page with large printer's device. General title dated 1539, further titles to the various parts dated 1538 & 1539. Collates complete as per Worldcat. [*1-8], 288, 640, [6], 416, 450, [2], 158, [100]p. A very good, crisp and solid copy. Very clean in the main. Minimal light marks, blemishes or insignificant reading wear otherwise a very nice copy indeed. Bound in full early/contemporary calf binding. Re-backed in a matching style with raised bands and a hand-tooled gilt lettered label. A solid and rather attractive restored period binding. Get images that make Supersized seem small. … [Click Below for Full Description]

1538. Extremely rare XVIth century book with amazing xylographies! In C Iulii Caesaris Clariss. Roman Imperatoris Commentarios de Bello Gallico ac Ciuili - Enarrationes Bartholomaei Latomi in Topica Ciceronis Henrici Glareani - Bartholomaei Latomi Masson 1538, Gryphius - Mylium First edition: Yes Format: 16mo 4" x 6 ¾ " (102x172 mm) Binding type: Half Vellum Condition: Fine - insignificant defects Illustrations: Xylographies Item code: 51-0108CNQ- EI Descrizione Very rare Cinquecentina consists of two volumes bound in a single tome. Vol I - In C Julii Caesaris Clariss. Roman Imperatoris Commentarios de bello Gallico, ac Ciuili, Henrici Glareani Poet Laureates ae Annotationes - Apud Seb. Gryphium Lugduni 1538 The precious volume is enriched by beautiful decorated initials and the unmistakable editoria lbrand of Sebastian Gryphius, bookseller and German printer who worked in Lyon, where after 1528 he printed more than three hundred works in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Griffin on the sides of a box on winged globe, stands the Ciceronian motto Virtute Duce Comite Fortuna. With virtue as a guide and fortune as a companion. Henry Glareano was a Swiss humanist, poet and theorist of the music, also known as Heinrich Loris. He was one of the greatest Renaissance scholars, and taught in Paris, Basel and Freiburg. Author, as well as mathematical and musical treatises, including commentaries on the great Greek and Roman writers. Vol II - Enarrationes Bartholomaei Latomi in Topica Ciceronis, iam recens conscriptae et in lucem editae - Argentorati apud Cratonem Mylium MDXXXIX This volume is … [Click Below for Full Description]

1538. Prestigieux exemplaire provenant des bibliothèques Charles Nodier, Robert Samuel Turner, Jean-Claude Delauney et E. Nourry. Paris, Anthoine Bonnemère, 1538. Petit in-8 de (43) ff. et 1 f. bl. Maroquin rouge, trois filets en encadrement sur les plats avec fleurons d'angle, dos lisse avec titre en long, petits fers en tête et en pied, roulette dorée sur les coupes, roulette intérieure, tranches dorées. Koehler.127 x 85 mm. / Prestigious copy coming from the libraries of Charles Nodier, Robert Samuel Turner, Jean-Claude Delauney and E. Nourry. Paris, Anthoine Bonnemère, 1538. Small 8vo [127 x 85 mm] of (43) ll. and 1 bl.l. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers with gilt fleurons in the corners, flat spine with gilt title lengthwise, small fleurons at the head and foot, inner gilt border, gilt edges. Koehler. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Basel, Froben, 1538.4to. Modern boards. With 2 woodcut printer's devices. 18 lvs. First Latin translation of "Oration, Anred und Vermanung Herrn Ferdinandum zu Ungern" (Nuremberg, Peypus, 1531), an pamphlet on the Turkish wars in Hungary which began with the siege of Vienna in 1529. "Agricola gives a long-winded account of the Turks' cruelties and warns that Germany is now threatened by the Turkish forces. Hungary must be given every assistance." No writer has so praised the superiority of the Imperial armaments over the apparently weak Turkish weaponry. He stressed the superior arms of the German mercenaries, while the Turks had but flimsy pikes. Victory over a so poorly equipped enemy is nothing less than certain. His oration was written a few months after the siege of Vienna, which may explain his excessive optimism" (Kertbeny, p. 89 etc.). With preface by Georg Fabricius dedicated to Chemnitz and at the end a letter of Laurentius Bermannus to king Ferdinand, ex valle Joachimi April, 1530. A catholic with a broad humanistic education, George Agricola spent most of his life in Saxony as an educator, physician, scientist, and expert on mining and metallurgy. His outlook was more secular than that of the other pamphleteers. He viewed the Turkish question primarily as a militair and economic problem rather than as a divine visitation. In one respect his views resembled those of the other Catholic writers: he envisaged the eventual extirpation of the Islamic religion at the point of the sword. (Bohnstedt 1968 / p/ 14). - (3 blank corners restored).Göllner 617; Apponyi I, 26 … [Click Below for Full Description]

Parisiis: Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, 1538. 8vo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). [24] ff. Rare Parisian edition of this popular letter writing guide first published in 1526 and presented in numerous editions in the 16th century. Hegendorff, a Protestant scholar and "travelling salesman of humanism and reform," was inspired by Erasmus' De conscribendis epistolis to produce it, incorporating examples from classical authors as well as his own correspondence, following his earlier work Ratio epistolarum conscribendarum compendiaria. Though the text is mostly of a secular nature, Hegendorff does show his Protestant leanings by choosing to omit a list of positive Catholic clergy epithets found in the earlier guides that he used as his template (Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, p. 155).    This edition appears to be previously unrecorded, with searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC Pre-1956 revealing no copies held by any institution. The text is printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman with a handful of passages in Greek; it is enhanced by one decorative woodcut initial and curly brackets spanning several lines, with Wechel's printer's device appearing on the title-page and final page. A select few pages are paginated.    Evidence of Readership: An early reader has added one word to the text and filled the page bearing the printer's device with two poems and penmanship practice, which makes sense given the content.    Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.         Not in … [Click Below for Full Description]

Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, Parisiis, 1538. Rare Parisian edition of this popular letter writing guide first published in 1526 and presented in numerous editions in the 16th century. Hegendorff, a Protestant scholar and "travelling salesman of humanism and reform," was inspired by Erasmus' De conscribendis epistolis to produce it, incorporating examples from classical authors as well as his own correspondence, following his earlier work Ratio epistolarum conscribendarum compendiaria. Though the text is mostly of a secular nature, Hegendorff does show his Protestant leanings by choosing to omit a list of positive Catholic clergy epithets found in the earlier guides that he used as his template (Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, p. 155). This edition appears to be previously unrecorded, with searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC Pre-1956 revealing no copies held by any institution. The text is printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman with a handful of passages in Greek; it is enhanced by one decorative woodcut initial and curly brackets spanning several lines, with Wechel's printer's device appearing on the title-page and final page. A select few pages are paginated. Evidence of Readership: An early reader has added one word to the text and filled the page bearing the printer's device with two poems and penmanship practice, which makes sense given the content. Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear. 8vo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). [24] ff. Not in Adams nor Green, … [Click Below for Full Description]

Venice, 1538. First edition. 4to (20x 14 cms).4 folios and 78 (misfoliated 73). Woodcut portrait of Fracastoro on verso of 4 preliminary leaf. There are numerous woodcut diagrams in text.there are two restorations affecting right margin of folium 3 and 10 slightly touching letters ( phtos of these two folios are included in this file.Middle XX century brown leather with gilt title on spine. Internally a very good copy. This book contains the first printed description of a telescope illustrated with a woodcutrepresenting two lenses and rays of light. Fracastoro studied at the university of Padua later becoming professor of logic from 1501 to 1508.There he coincided most probably with Copernicus because he studied there several years from 1501. Fracastoro went back to Verona and died there in 1553 dedicated to astronomy,medicine and poetry. Homocentrica is based in the cooperation between Fracastoro and Giovanni Battista Della Torre in order to develop a new astronomical system. Fracastoro followed the homocentric model of the greek astronomers Eudoxus and calippus he carried out modifications in the spheres so that all the spheres have their axes at right angles of each other. A good copy of the first edition of one of the rare books on telescopes. Ref: Adams F825 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Lugduni, Apud Hugonem à Porta [Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel pour Hugues de La Porte], 1538. In-folio (331 x 238 mm), plein cartonnage vélin ivoire à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées rouges, (reliure moderne Honegger), (1) f. de titre, (6), 569, (46) p. Première édition de cette Bible illustrée des célèbres vignettes sur bois de Hans Holbein le jeune en premier tirage. Le texte, celui de la Vulgate, reprend l'édition soigneusement établie par Robert Estienne à Paris (1528, 1532, révisée en 1534). 95 vignette (60 x 86 mm), dont la suite des 86 vignettes d'après les dessins d'Hans Holbein le Jeune, gravées par Hans Lützelburger (1495-1526), l'un des meilleurs graveurs de son temps. Grande marque des Trechsel sur la page de titre et au colophon. "Biblia" dans un cartouche, lettrines sur fond criblé, ornements typographiques. Texte sur deux colonnes. Henri Baudrier fut le premier à affirmer que ces vignettes apparaissent en premier tirage dans cette Bible et non dans 'Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones Biblicae', paru la même année, comme on l'avait cru jusqu'alors. La question de cette antériorité a été définitivement tranchée par Jean Vial, 'Destinée de quelques dessins d'Holbein' in : "Gutenberg Jahrbuch", 1957, p. 238 sq. Le succès et l'influence de ces bois de Holbein ont été considérables. Ils servirent d'inspiration et de modèles à des générations d'illustrateurs. Copies, imitations et reproductions eurent cours jusqu'au XIXe siècle. "Les compositions de ce chef-d'œuvre sont du plus haut style (...), les expressions des figures son … [Click Below for Full Description]

Lugduni, Apud Hugonem à Porta [Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel pour Hugues de La Porte], 1538. In-folio (331 x 238 mm), plein cartonnage vélin ivoire à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées rouges, (reliure moderne Honegger), (1) f. de titre, (6), 569, (46) p. Première édition de cette Bible illustrée des célèbres vignettes sur bois de Hans Holbein le jeune en premier tirage. Le texte, celui de la Vulgate, reprend l'édition soigneusement établie par Robert Estienne à Paris (1528, 1532, révisée en 1534). 95 vignettes (60 x 86 mm), dont la suite des 86 vignettes d'après les dessins d'Hans Holbein le Jeune, gravées par Hans Lützelburger (1495-1526), l'un des meilleurs graveurs de son temps. Grande marque des Trechsel sur la page de titre et au colophon. "Biblia" dans un cartouche, lettrines sur fond criblé, ornements typographiques. Texte sur deux colonnes. Henri Baudrier a été le premier à affirmer que ces vignettes apparaissent en premier tirage dans cette Bible et non dans 'Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones Biblicae', paru la même année, comme on l'avait cru jusqu'alors. La question de cette antériorité a été définitivement tranchée par Jean Vial, 'Destinée de quelques dessins d'Holbein' in : "Gutenberg Jahrbuch", 1957, p. 238 sq. Le succès et l'influence de ces bois de Holbein ont été considérables. Ils servirent d'inspiration et de modèles à des générations d'illustrateurs. Copies, imitations et reproductions eurent cours jusqu'au XIXe siècle. "Les compositions de ce chef-d'œuvre sont du plus haut style (...), les expressions des figures … [Click Below for Full Description]

Innsbruck 26 8. 1 Seite, quer-folio. - Erinnerung an die Stände von Tirol, neben einer zugesagten sechsjährigen Unterstützung in der Höhe von 30.000 Gulden rheinisch "zü vnderhaltung vnnserer geliebsten Künigklichen Kinder, auch vnnsers Stats vnnserer Regierung, und Camer, vnnserer Oberösterreichischen Lannden, vnd des Pergkwerchs zu Swatz" auch eine weitere zugesagte Hilfe in der Höhe von 36.000 Gulden "zu widerstannd vnnsers heyligen Christlichen glaubens vnd Namens Erbfeind des Türcken" fristgerecht zu bezahlen. "Welche Summa der yetzt berürten Sechsvnddreissig Tausent guldin bewilligter Türckenhilff . vnnser Regierung, vnd Camer, on verzug, anticipieren vnd aufpringen sollen, . Auff das . an sollichem Gellt nit mangel seye . Darauff auch dieselb vnnser Regierung vnd Camer Rät . die Summa bewilligter Türckenhilff, gleichwol nit mit klainem interesse, vnd verzinsung auffgebracht, vnd sich darumben, als für jr aigen Schuld verobligiert, vnd verschriben haben, Weliche Türckenhilff, vnns dann yetzt auff vnderhaltung des Spanischen Kriegs volcks dargeben wirdet ." Papiergedecktes Siegel, drei Gegenzeichnungen. - Etwas gebräunt und geringfügig fleckig, kleine Bug- und Randmängel. Ferdinand war im September 1537 erfolglos gegen die Türken gezogen, um seine Stellung als König von Ungarn gegenüber Johann Zápolya von Siebenbürgen zu festigen; seine wiederholten Bemühungen um stärkere finanzielle Unterstützung durch die Stände wurden teilweise durch die konfessionellen Konflikte im Reich erschwert. Im September 1538 siegten die Osmanen in der Seeschlacht von Preveza über eine europ … [Click Below for Full Description]

Basel, Froben, 1538.4to. Modern boards. With 2 woodcut printer’s devices. 18 lvs. First Latin translation of "Oration, Anred und Vermanung Herrn Ferdinandum zu Ungern" (Nuremberg, Peypus, 1531), an pamphlet on the Turkish wars in Hungary which began with the siege of Vienna in 1529. "Agricola gives a long-winded account of the Turks' cruelties and warns that Germany is now threatened by the Turkish forces. Hungary must be given every assistance." No writer has so praised the superiority of the Imperial armaments over the apparently weak Turkish weaponry. He stressed the superior arms of the German mercenaries, while the Turks had but flimsy pikes. Victory over a so poorly equipped enemy is nothing less than certain. His oration was written a few months after the siege of Vienna, which may explain his excessive optimism" (Kertbeny, p. 89 etc.). With preface by Georg Fabricius dedicated to Chemnitz and at the end a letter of Laurentius Bermannus to king Ferdinand, ex valle Joachimi April, 1530. A catholic with a broad humanistic education, George Agricola spent most of his life in Saxony as an educator, physician, scientist, and expert on mining and metallurgy. His outlook was more secular than that of the other pamphleteers. He viewed the Turkish question primarily as a militair and economic problem rather than as a divine visitation. In one respect his views resembled those of the other Catholic writers: he envisaged the eventual extirpation of the Islamic religion at the point of the sword. (Bohnstedt 1968 / p/ 14). - (3 blank corners restored).Göllner 617; Apponyi I, 268; … [Click Below for Full Description]

(Augsburg), Augustae Vindelicorum Alexander Weissenborn excudat, 1538.4to. Recent blind-tooled period style calf. With full-page woodcut of the Duke Friedrich in full armour on horseback (by Michael Ostendorfer?) and 6 large woodcut initials. (71) lvs. (old manuscript numbering on upper outer corner ). First edition; with the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. - Melchior Soiter was a lawyer born in Windau (Curland), who covered several dignities in the organization of the Holy Roman Empire and participated personally to the campaign he describes in this book. The first section gives an account of the Turkish invasion into Hungary in 1529-30, and the unsuccessful siege of Vienna. The second section, written by the jurist Johannes Schnotenbeck, is an accurate explanation of the Ottoman military functionaries with several details on the tasks of every officer and a final economical statistics of the Turkish Empire, considering both its European and Asiatic territories. Apponyi I, 269; Atabey Collection 1152; Göllner 626; not in the Blackmer Collection. [Attributes: First Edition]

(Venezia), s.n.t., 1538. In-8 (15,2 x 9,1 cm.). Bella legatura inglese del tardo '800 in marocchino color tabacco, piatti con filetti dorati che racchiudono intarsi di pelle nera, rossa e verde; dorso con nervi, decorazioni in oro e intarsi in pelle rossa e verde; merletto dorato interno, sguardie in marocchino verde scuro, tagli dorati. Grande ritratto di Aretino inc. in legno sul frontespizio. 218, (6, ultimo bianco) ff.; A-2E8; ottimo esemplare in un'elegante legatura d'amatore eseguita da Chatelain. Rara edizione della prima raccolta di lettere in lingua volgare, pubblicata lo stesso anno e con le stesse lettere dell'edizione originale (Venezia, Marcolini, 1538). Le lettere sono indirizzate a varie personalità (Bembo, Cosimo de' Medici, il Re di Francia, Iacopo Sansovino, Ludovico Dolce, Paolo Manuzio, Vasari, Tiziano, Michelangelo ecc.), e contengono pettegolezzi, indiscrezioni, vivaci polemiche, considerazioni sull'arte e la letteratura, brevi racconti di avvenimenti familiari e confessioni personali, che ne fanno un notevole documento della vita politica e culturale del tempo. La raccolta ebbe un inaspettato e straordinario successo, consacrò l'Aretino a precursore del giornalismo moderno, e diede inizio a un nuovo e fortunato genere letterario. Mazzucchelli, Marcolini, pp.69-72. Basso, Le genre épistolaire en langue Italienne, I, 39. Edit 16, 2394 (solo tre esemplari). Per edizioni successive, cf. Ars Epistolica, pp.5-30. An early and rare edition of the first letter collection in a modern language; the first edition was published the same year. Aretino's lively l … [Click Below for Full Description]

1538In-folio (331 x 238 mm), plein cartonnage vélin ivoire à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées rouges, (reliure moderne Honegger), (1) f. de titre, (6), 569, (46) p. Lugduni, Apud Hugonem à Porta [Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel pour Hugues de La Porte], 1538. Première édition de cette Bible illustrée des célèbres vignettes sur bois de Hans Holbein le jeune en premier tirage. Le texte, celui de la Vulgate, reprend lédition soigneusement établie par Robert Estienne à Paris (1528, 1532, révisée en 1534). 95 vignette (60 x 86 mm), dont la suite des 86 vignettes d'après les dessins d'Hans Holbein le Jeune, gravées par Hans Lützelburger (1495-1526), lun des meilleurs graveurs de son temps.Grande marque des Trechsel sur la page de titre et au colophon. "Biblia" dans un cartouche, lettrines sur fond criblé, ornements typographiques. Texte sur deux colonnes. Henri Baudrier fut le premier à affirmer que ces vignettes apparaissent en premier tirage dans cette Bible et non dans Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones Biblicae, paru la même année, comme on lavait cru jusqualors. La question de cette antériorité a été définitivement tranchée par Jean Vial, Destinée de quelques dessins d'Holbein in : "Gutenberg Jahrbuch", 1957, p. 238 sq.Le succès et linfluence de ces bois de Holbein ont été considérables. Ils servirent dinspiration et de modèles à des générations dillustrateurs. Copies, imitations et reproductions eurent cours jusquau XIXe siècle. "Les compositions de ce chef-d'uvre sont du plus haut style (), les expressions des figures sont justes et of … [Click Below for Full Description]

Innsbruck 26 8. 1 Seite, quer-folio. - Erinnerung an die Stände von Tirol, neben einer zugesagten sechsjährigen Unterstützung in der Höhe von 30.000 Gulden rheinisch "zü vnderhaltung vnnserer geliebsten Künigklichen Kinder, auch vnnsers Stats vnnserer Regierung, und Camer, vnnserer Oberösterreichischen Lannden, vnd des Pergkwerchs zu Swatz" auch eine weitere zugesagte Hilfe in der Höhe von 36.000 Gulden "zu widerstannd vnnsers heyligen Christlichen glaubens vnd Namens Erbfeind des Türcken" fristgerecht zu bezahlen. "Welche Summa der yetzt berürten Sechsvnddreissig Tausent guldin bewilligter Türckenhilff . vnnser Regierung, vnd Camer, on verzug, anticipieren vnd aufpringen sollen, . Auff das . an sollichem Gellt nit mangel seye . Darauff auch dieselb vnnser Regierung vnd Camer Rät . die Summa bewilligter Türckenhilff, gleichwol nit mit klainem interesse, vnd verzinsung auffgebracht, vnd sich darumben, als für jr aigen Schuld verobligiert, vnd verschriben haben, Weliche Türckenhilff, vnns dann yetzt auff vnderhaltung des Spanischen Kriegs volcks dargeben wirdet ." Papiergedecktes Siegel, drei Gegenzeichnungen. - Etwas gebräunt und geringfügig fleckig, kleine Bug- und Randmängel. Ferdinand war im September 1537 erfolglos gegen die Türken gezogen, um seine Stellung als König von Ungarn gegenüber Johann Zápolya von Siebenbürgen zu festigen; seine wiederholten Bemühungen um stärkere finanzielle Unterstützung durch die Stände wurden teilweise durch die konfessionellen Konflikte im Reich erschwert. Im September 1538 siegten die Osmanen in der Seeschlacht von Preveza über eine europ … [Click Below for Full Description]

Lugduni, Apud Hugonem à Porta [Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel pour Hugues de La Porte], 1538. In-folio (331 x 238 mm), plein cartonnage vélin ivoire à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées rouges, (reliure moderne Honegger), (1) f. de titre, (6), 569, (46) p. Première édition de cette Bible illustrée des célèbres vignettes sur bois de Hans Holbein le jeune en premier tirage. Le texte, celui de la Vulgate, reprend l'édition soigneusement établie par Robert Estienne à Paris (1528, 1532, révisée en 1534). 95 vignettes (60 x 86 mm), dont la suite des 86 vignettes d'après les dessins d'Hans Holbein le Jeune, gravées par Hans Lützelburger (1495-1526), l'un des meilleurs graveurs de son temps. Grande marque des Trechsel sur la page de titre et au colophon. "Biblia" dans un cartouche, lettrines sur fond criblé, ornements typographiques. Texte sur deux colonnes. Henri Baudrier a été le premier à affirmer que ces vignettes apparaissent en premier tirage dans cette Bible et non dans 'Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones Biblicae', paru la même année, comme on l'avait cru jusqu'alors. La question de cette antériorité a été définitivement tranchée par Jean Vial, 'Destinée de quelques dessins d'Holbein' in : "Gutenberg Jahrbuch", 1957, p. 238 sq. Le succès et l'influence de ces bois de Holbein ont été considérables. Ils servirent d'inspiration et de modèles à des générations d'illustrateurs. Copies, imitations et reproductions eurent cours jusqu'au XIXe siècle. "Les compositions de ce chef-d'œuvre sont du plus haut style (...), les expressions des figures … [Click Below for Full Description]

Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, 1538. Rare Parisian edition of this popular letter writing guide first published in 1526 and presented in numerous editions in the 16th century. Hegendorff, a Protestant scholar and "travelling salesman of humanism and reform," was inspired by Erasmus' De conscribendis epistolis to produce it, incorporating examples from classical authors as well as his own correspondence, following his earlier work Ratio epistolarum conscribendarum compendiaria. Though the text is mostly of a secular nature, Hegendorff does show his Protestant leanings by choosing to omit a list of positive Catholic clergy epithets found in the earlier guides that he used as his template (Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, p. 155). This edition appears to be previously unrecorded, with searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC Pre-1956 revealing no copies held by any institution. The text is printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman with a handful of passages in Greek; it is enhanced by one decorative woodcut initial and curly brackets spanning several lines, with Wechel's printer's device appearing on the title-page and final page. A select few pages are paginated. Evidence of Readership: An early reader has added one word to the text and filled the page bearing the printer's device with two poems and penmanship practice, which makes sense given the content. Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.

First edition, the first printed statutes of any Hispanic University, to-date the oldest standing Spanish University. A fascinating insight to the first rules ever printed about the governing of a Spanish University, which at the same time is the oldest-standing University of Spain -and the Hispanic World; the contents are varied in nature, they include both the administration of the institute and instructions to the members of the academia, with specifics notes on the faculty (some peculiarities being the teacher could not make use of any aids, the students couldn't turn their backs on the teacher, and on the case when they had butlers, they were still required to carry their own books, without help). The University of Salamanca was founded in 1134 after being given the Royal Charter by King Alfonso IX in 1218, besides being the oldest such institution in Spain, it is also the third oldest in the World in continuous operations. The reputation of the University grew rapidly, and became a symbol of excellency and academia across Europe, throughout the centuries, people as Miguel de Cervantes, Hernan Cortes, Antonio de Nebrija, Miguel de Unamuno, Adolfo Suarez, Simon de Rojas, and Francisco de Vitoria, amongst many others, studied there. An extremely rare book, we find copies at: Universidad de Salamanca calling for 30 ff. and 2 blanks (making it incomplete against this copy), Biblioteca Nacional de Espana and BNF, both collating 32 ff. of which E5v and E6 are blank. Rare in the market, no copy has ever appeared for sale according to RBH. Palau, 83 … [Click Below for Full Description]

VENEZIA, GIOVANNI ANTONIO NICOLINI DA SABBIO, 1538. "In-8; 12 cc., 212 cc.num., 60 cc., 24 cc. (ultima bianca); legatura originale in tutta pergamena morbida con unghie (piccola mancanza al dorso). Frontespizio inscritto in bella ed inusuale bordura xilografica. Macchietta sulla penultima e ultima carta bia

Straßburg, Heinrich Vogtherr 1538. Kl.-4to. Mit 1 blattgr. Holzschn. Titel verso sowie einer Holzschnitt-Druckermarke, die Heinrich Vogtherr darstellt.12 nn. Bll. Schlichter Pappband des 19. Jhdts., etwas abgegriffen. Im Text frisch und nur gering gebräunt. "VD 16, N 1189; Hohenemser 703; Muller 436, 7; Ritter 319; Durling 3336. Nicht bei Becker, Bird, Waller, Welcome, Slg. Hirschberg. Seltene kleine Abhandlung über Augenkrankheiten, ...mit anzeigung viler nutzlicher und bewerter hülff, als Purgation, Pflaster, Collirien, Sieff, Pulver, Salben und augen wassern... Die Holzschnitt-Tafel zeigt einen Querschnitt durch das menschliche Auge." Versand D: 15,00 EUR Alte Drucke, Alte Medizin, Ophtalmologie, Augenkrankheiten, Augenheilkunde, Volksmedizin

Iacobus Iuntas Venetis, 1538. In-8. 251,(1 blank),(8) index. Woodcut printer's device on title page and woodcut initial letters. Some light browning and marginal waterstains, but overall in good condition. Bound in half green calf and brown paperboards; gilt on spine. Some minor wear to the extremities. Bookplate on inner cover Qua Nocent Docent. Rare and early Lyonese edition of this influential Latin translation, published for the first time the year before in Venice. The humanist Andreas Divus came from Capodistria [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Nicolini da Sabbio Giovanni Antonio per Melchiorre Sessa / Venetiis per Ioan. Anto. de Nicolinis de Sabio: sumpto vero & requisitione Melchioris Sessae, 1538. In 16, pp (LXI) 310, tutta pergamena molle (brunita), bella impresa xilografica al frontespizio di Melchiorre Sessa(gatto con topo in bocca in cornice figurata) e in fine (gatto che cattura topo in cornice figurata e motto che tradotto e' 'La compagnia dei dissimili e' infida'), qualche capolettera inciso. RARISSIMO ESEMPLARE: 2 copie conosciute in Italia secondo il catalogo Cinquecentine dell'OPAC ICCU. 5689 Gora di umidita' che prende la parte inferiore del volume. Contraffazione veneziana della prima edizione di Lione. Cancellature ad inchiostro relative ai nomi di Erasmo, Latomi e Corradi. /CICERO - CICERONE - DE OFFICIS - DE SENECTUTE - SOMNIO SCIPIONIS - ERASMO DA ROTTERDAM)

depuis l'an de J.C. 614, époque de l'établissement du Mahométisme en Arabie, par le faux prophète Mahomet ; jusqu'à l'extinction totale du Califat, en 1538. Paris, Vincent, 1772, in-8, veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs cloisonné et fleuronné, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, tranches marbrées [Rel. de l'époque]. vj pp., 733 pp., un f. n. ch. de permission. Cioranescu, XVIII, 34 176. Edition originale. Il s'agit de la deuxième des trois compilations intitulées "Anecdotes" et composées par Antoine Hornot, après les Anecdotes du Nord (1770) et les Anecdotes américaines (1776). Les histoires rapportées sont disposées par ordre chronologique (et suivent le calendrier grégorien, il n'y a aucune mention des années de l'Hégire).

1538. Carta ejecutoria escrita en pergamino y sellada con el sello Real de plomo. Librada de los alcaldes e hijosdalgo notorios de Andalucia. Encuadernación en terciopelo rojo con cierres de lazo. 1 hoja miniada representando a la Inmaculada Concepción y la primera hoja con motivos florales en márgenes, escudo iluminado y capitular iluminada. 27 folios con capitulares miniados. Sello de plomo. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Basileae: Per Henricum Petrum mense Augusto anno M. D. XXXVIII, 1538. causaque & vires rerum ita explicatae, ut confidamus non solum oeconomiae studioso, & medico, verumetiam philosopho aliquid hinc accessurum. Autore optimo agricola & philosopho Petro Crescentiensi. Qui haec senator Bononiae, multis legationibus functus, rogatu regis Siciliae Caroli, ante AN. CXX literis mandavit. Nunc autem tandem castigata ad exemplaria, autoris tempore scripta. Early Swiss edition 1538, dated from colophon, Latin text, small 4to, approximately 195 x 135 mm, 7¾x 5½ inches, publisher's pictorial device on title page and verso of final page (anvil, hammer, flames fanned by wind), pictorial initials, pages: [40], 1-574, [2], (last page misnumbered 564), collation: a-e4, A-Z4, 2a-2z4, Aa-Zz4, AA-CC4 (e4 is a blank leaf, CC4r is blank). Bound in contemporary blind panelled calf, decorative blind borders to covers with central floral decorated lozenge, rebacked by amateur, raised bands, no lettering or label, all edges red, original endpapers. Covers slightly worn, spine slightly crinkled, upper cover slightly rubbed, tiny surface tear on upper cover, hinges very neatly repaired, tiny strip of leather missing at tail of spine, corners slightly worn with cardboard showing at tips, front pastedown slightly chipped, armorial bookplate of the Harcourt family on the pastedown, ink stamp of Royal Agricultural college library on front endpaper, no other library signs, a couple of old numbers on reverse, 1 small pale ink smudge and a small faint water stain in lower margin of title page, lower outer c … [Click Below for Full Description]

First edition, the first printed statutes of any Hispanic University, to-date the oldest standing Spanish University. A fascinating insight to the first rules ever printed about the governing of a Spanish University, which at the same time is the oldest-standing University of Spain -and the Hispanic World; the contents are varied in nature, they include both the administration of the institute and instructions to the members of the academia, with specifics notes on the faculty (some peculiarities being the teacher could not make use of any aids, the students couldn't turn their backs on the teacher, and on the case when they had butlers, they were still required to carry their own books, without help). The University of Salamanca was founded in 1134 after being given the Royal Charter by King Alfonso IX in 1218, besides being the oldest such institution in Spain, it is also the third oldest in the World in continuous operations. The reputation of the University grew rapidly, and became a symbol of excellency and academia across Europe, throughout the centuries, people as Miguel de Cervantes, Hernan Cortes, Antonio de Nebrija, Miguel de Unamuno, Adolfo Suarez, Simon de Rojas, and Francisco de Vitoria, amongst many others, studied there. An extremely rare book, we find copies at: Universidad de Salamanca calling for 30 ff. and 2 blanks (making it incomplete against this copy), Biblioteca Nacional de Espana and BNF, both collating 32 ff. of which E5v and E6 are blank. Rare in the market, no copy has ever appeared for sale according to RBH. Palau, 83 … [Click Below for Full Description]

[8]-727-[3] pages Basilae [Bâle], (Andreas Cratander), 1538, in-folio, [8]-727-[3] pages, basane jaspée, dos refait, Signatures : [Mars]4, aaaaa-zzzzz8, AAAAA-ZZZZZ8 (dernier feuillet blanc). Au colophon [en grec] : "houtos ho pemptos tomos meta prôtou kai deuterou, etypôthê en Basileia ponôkai dexiotêti kai epimeleia Michaêl Isingriniou, analômasi de Andreou Kratandrou kai Iôannou Bebeliou, etei tôapo tês ensarkou oikonomias tou Kyriou Hêmôn Iêsou Christou, chiliostô pentakosiostô triakostô ogdoô, pemptê elaphobêliônos histamenou [5 mars 1538]". Cinquième et dernière partie des très rares Oeuvres complètes de Galien en grec, parues à Bâle en 1538 (Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam . Opera omnia, 5 vol), publiées sous l'égide de plusieurs savants et humanistes : Leonhart Fuchs, Joachim Camerarius, Hieronymus Gemuseus, etc. La préface est en latin, ainsi que le traité final, Galeni. de ossibus ad tyriones, traduit par Fernandino Balami ; ce dernier est illustré de 2 figures bois à pleine page, l'une figurant le dessous d'un crâne, l'autre un squelette vu de face et de dos. L'ensemble est orné de jolies lettrines historiées. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque du professeur d'histoire médicale Jean Goulin (1728-1799), avec deux annotations latines manuscrites sur la première garde blanche, l'une à l'encre brune et l'autre à l'encre rouge, accompagnées d'un cachet de cire rouge ; toutes les deux sont signées "J. GOULIN EMON", le nom de la mère étant accolé à celui du père, et sont datées de 1782 (juillet et août). L'exemplaire comp … [Click Below for Full Description]

Vinegia: PIETRO DI NICCOLINI DA SABBIO a Di XXVI Di Settembrio 1538(1538). [ROMANZO VOLGARE] (CM 15,6) Pieno vitello maculato recente, nervi filetti e fregi in oro al dorso e ai piatti in stile cinquecentesco. Tagli rossi, sguardie policrome antiche. -cc 8 nn., cc.271 + 1 c. bianca Frontis entro ricca bordura architettonica figurata a carta 1 con satiri musicanti e il motto "ancora spero sover me amor". Nel testo, in elegante corsivo, altre tre xilografie di cm. 7x 4,5. Dedica a Lucrezia Borgia di Ferrara. Importante romanzo in volgare di carattere fantastico sullo stile della celeberrima "HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI" e del "FILOLOCO" del Boccaccio. Può essere considerato IL PRIMO ROMANZO SOCIALE ITALIANO, apparso nel 1508 a parma, ebbe successo e le numerose ristampe provano quanto incontarsse il gusto popolare. Fu tradotto a stampato anche all'esetero e l'edizione di Siviglia del 1515 fu condannata dall'inquisizione Spagnola nel 1559 e poi anche da quella Portoghese. Questa nostra rara, manca anche alle imponenti raccolte del PAPANTI, RANIERI-BISCIA, CAVALIERI E CHOIX; è presente invece nel catalogo dei libri italiani (1899) di Fairfax Murray. Lievi restauri angolari alle prime cc.4nn. e a c.7 e 8. Macchie e restauri con minimi danni alla xilografia a c.1 Altrimenti esemplare molto bello fresco e nitidissimo. * ESSLING 1894, SANDER 1880 IN NOTA, * ADAMS C 1190, * BM.STC. 163; *FAIRFAX MURRAY N° 442.[f35]. Libro. Book Condition: ottimo. Binding: Rilegato

Lyon, Vincentius de Portonariis, 1538. 8°, circa 15,8 x 10,8 cm., 32 ff., 277 (recte 275) num. ff., with large woodcut device on the title, leaf 26 blank, last blank missing. 19th cent. half-calf Schweiger I, 163; Hoffmann II, 478f.; not in Adams and BMC; Baudrier V, 467: "la foliation commence avec la cote 3". Rare and early Lyonese edition of this influential Latin translation of the Ilias, published for the first time the year before in Venice. The humanist Andreas Divus came from Capodistria (today Koper in Istria / Slovenia) as his friend Pier Paolo Vergerio to whom his introduction here is dedicated. In this preface he describes a dream that urged him to translate important Greek authors and promises to supply more texts by Aristophanes, Hesiodus and Theocritus. He also adds a poem (two pages) to the scholars of ancient Greek. "His Latin translations of Homer published in 1537 (Venice) were extremely literal and ad verbum (i.e. word for word). While this was the first published version of the Iliad and Odyssey in Latin, the originality of the translation of Divus has been questioned: there are very close parallels with a much earlier translation by Leontius Pilatus... They were used by George Chapman in his translations of the Iliad and Odyssey... It has been said that Chapman's knowledge of Greek was not strong enough to resist entirely the Latin of Divus, with infelicitous results... Divus was also used more directly by Ezra Pound in his long poem The Cantos, in particular for the opening Canto I" (Wikipedia). - As always the first text leaf is numbered 3 (see Baudr … [Click Below for Full Description]

Vinegia: PIETRO DI NICCOLINI DA SABBIO a Di XXVI Di Settembrio 1538(1538). [ROMANZO VOLGARE] (CM 15,6) Pieno vitello maculato recente, nervi filetti e fregi in oro al dorso e ai piatti in stile cinquecentesco. Tagli rossi, sguardie policrome antiche. -cc 8 nn., cc.271 + 1 c. bianca Frontis entro ricca bordura architettonica figurata a carta 1 con satiri musicanti e il motto "ancora spero sover me amor". Nel testo, in elegante corsivo, altre tre xilografie di cm. 7x 4,5. Dedica a Lucrezia Borgia di Ferrara. Importante romanzo in volgare di carattere fantastico sullo stile della celeberrima "HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI" e del "FILOLOCO" del Boccaccio. Può essere considerato IL PRIMO ROMANZO SOCIALE ITALIANO, apparso nel 1508 a parma, ebbe successo e le numerose ristampe provano quanto incontarsse il gusto popolare. Fu tradotto a stampato anche all'esetero e l'edizione di Siviglia del 1515 fu condannata dall'inquisizione Spagnola nel 1559 e poi anche da quella Portoghese. Questa nostra rara, manca anche alle imponenti raccolte del PAPANTI, RANIERI-BISCIA, CAVALIERI E CHOIX; è presente invece nel catalogo dei libri italiani (1899) di Fairfax Murray. Lievi restauri angolari alle prime cc.4nn. e a c.7 e 8. Macchie e restauri con minimi danni alla xilografia a c.1 Altrimenti esemplare molto bello fresco e nitidissimo. * ESSLING 1894, SANDER 1880 IN NOTA, * ADAMS C 1190, * BM.STC. 163; *FAIRFAX MURRAY N° 442.[f35]. Libro. Book Condition: ottimo. Binding: Rilegato

Lyon: Hugues de la Porte (Merchior et Gaspard Trechsel), 1538. Fine. Hugues de la Porte (Merchior et Gaspard Trechsel), Lyon 1538, in-folio (23x32,7cm), (4f.) 569pp. (45p.) - Sig. : *4 a-z8 A-M8 N6 AA-BB8 CC6 (mal chiffr. CC4), relié. - HOLBEIN Hans Biblia utriusque Testamenti juxta vulgatam translationem et eam, quam haberi potuit, emendatissimam [...] Hugues de la Porte (Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel), Lyon 1538, in-folio 230 x 327 mm (7 7/8 x 12 7/8 "), (4f.) 569 pp (45 p.) - Sig: *4 a-z8 A-M8 N6 AA-BB8 CC6 (erroneously numbered CC4), 18th-century sheep Editio princeps of the Holbein Bible. Rare edition that followed the text of Robert Estienne's 1528 Bible, it was banned by the Inquisition and put on the Index by Rome. Text in two columns, a well-margined copy. Printer's device to title and colophon. The work, a first issue, has 95 illustrations (8.5 x 6cm), of which a series of 86 vignettes engraved after drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497?-1543), by the virtuoso Hans Lützelburger (1495-1526). 18th-century brown sheep, spine in seven compartments, all edges mottled red. Tail-piece a little rubbed with small lack, corners rubbed and slightly bumped. A few light dampstains. Provenance: manuscript ex-libris of Nicolas Tournyer (or Tournier) to title, Royal Councilor and President of the Electors of Amboise, dated 1741. From the collection of Baron Paul Harth (Cat. II, 1985, n°14). Numerous underlinings and contemporary marginalia, some a little shaved during binding. Between 1528 and 1532, when engravings were enjoying a roaring success, the Trechsel brothers … [Click Below for Full Description]

Venetiis: (Giacomo Pocatela), 1538. Un volume (10x16,3 cm) di 168-(16) carte. Frontespizio in cornice tipografica architettonica con titolo e indicazioni dello stampatore; marca tipografica e motto in latino e greco all'ultima pagina di testo. Molto interessante la legatura coeva in piena pelle (restauri all'alto del dorso e all'angolo del piatto posteriore) con grande cornice a freddo , fregi arabescati e fioroni ai lati. Esemplare in condizioni molto buone, senza difetti e in legatura coeva di notevole bellezza. Antichi scritti greci sull'agricoltura raccolti intorno al 950 per volere di Costantino Porfirogenito; la parte più antica pare sia costituita da precedente compilazione di Cassiano Basso. Raccolta di venti libri di agronomia, compilata in lingua greca durante il decimo secolo a Costantinopoli nell'Impero Bizantino sotto l'imperatore Costantino VII Porfirogenito. Il curatore di questa edizione fu Ianus Cornarius (1500-1558), medico e umanista tedesco. La raccolta contiene tutto il modo delle informazioni agricole, compresa la meteorologia celeste e terrestre, la viticoltura, l'olivicoltura, l'apicultura, medicina veterinaria, la costruzione di stagni per la piscicultura. L'opera è divisa in venti libri: 1. Dell'atmosfera e dell'aumentare e della regolazione delle stelle - 2. Dei generale generali che appartengono all'agricoltura e dei generi differenti di cereali - 3. Di varie funzioni agricole adatte ad ogni mese - 4/5. Della coltura della vite - 6/8. Del fare del vino - 9. Della coltura dell'oliva e del fare dell'olio - 10-12. Di orticoltura - 13. Degli ani … [Click Below for Full Description]

Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. "Nuovamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, et alla sua pristina integrita ridotto": an uncommon early edition of Caviceo's best-selling, often translated, and widely influential romance. The author had a complicated life which included dropping out of law school shortly before he could be expelled, becoming a court historian and diplomat in Parma, being banished from that city for seducing a nun (and possibly more than one), voyaging in the Middle East and India, and embroiling himself in various political intrigues before working his way to the post of Vicar General in cities including Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence. His classically inspired novel, first published in 1508 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, is a romance in which Peregrino tells the ghost of Boccaccio all about his globe-spanning quest to satisfy his passion for the fair Genevera -- with the plot incorporating the author's own travel experiences. In addition to the woodcut architectural border on the title-page (previously used in the printer's 1536 edition of Boccaccio's Laberinto), the text is decorated with one large and two small woodcut illustrations, the large cut showing our lovelorn hero tormented by two satyrs playing fantastical string and wind instruments, under the banner "Ancora spero solver me." WorldCat locates => only three U.S. institutional holdings of this edition. Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.

Bologna: Al Yede Ha-Shutafim, 1538. First edition. Hardcover. poor to g-. Large quarto. 121 leaves. Tan calf over brown leather boards, with blind-stamped ruling. Brown label with handwritten lettering in ink on the spine. The work serves as Ibn Yahya's commentary on the Five Scrolls and the other Hagiographa of the Hebrew bible (Old Testament). It is one of only known two surviving works by Ibn Yahya, the other being "Torah Or" on Jewish theology and eschatology. The layout is in a two column format in Rashi script, and includes decorative woodblock initials at the beginning of each of the sections. Text in Hebrew.Binding with rubbing, bumping and chipping to extremities, including the head and tail of the spine. Abrasions and scratches to the covers and spine. Front cover loose but attached. Boards bowed. The interior front and back cover contains with copious multi-lingual notes Hebrew and various European languages from numerous previous owners of the book. Some additional notes in ink on the title page and along the top margin of the following page. Sporadic water staining and foxing throughout. Sporadic minor worming to the margins of a few pages. Binding in poor, interior in good- overall. Joseph Ben David Ibn Yahya (1494-1534) was an Italian Jewish biblical commentator and philosopher, born in Florence. He was a member of a prominent family of Italian Jewish scholars of Portuguese origin. His father was the prominent Rabbi, grammarian and philosopher David ben Joseph Ibn Yahya (1465-1543) who was born in Lisbon, and fled with his family to Italy in the w … [Click Below for Full Description]

Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1538. In-8 de 189 et (3) pages ; vélin souple de l'époque composé de deux pièces de peau, nerfs apparents aux charnières, traces d'attaches. Très rare édition définitive, de beaucoup augmentée et en grande partie originale, du traité de Corti sur la saignée et son utilité dans le traitement de diverses maladies, en particulier de la pleurésie. Corti publia à Lyon chez Antoine Blanchard en 1532 un premier court texte de 44 feuillets intitulé Questio de pleuritide excellentissime artium medicine, puis en 1534 à Venise un second court ouvrage de 80 pages sous le nouveau titre Questio de phlobotomia in pleuresi. Ex Hippocratis, & Galeni sententia. Le texte fortement augmenté de 1538 s'ouvre sur une dédicace, datée de juin 1538, au Cardinal Guido Ascanio Sforza. Célèbre pour son commentaire approfondi sur l'Anatomia de Mondino en 1550, Matteo Corti (1475-1542), médecin de Clément VII et Côme de Medicis, l'est peut-être plus encore pour avoir été en partie à l'origine de la célèbre lettre de Vésale sur les veines et la saignée parue en 1539. Corti et Vésale se rencontrent à Bologne quelques mois avant la parution de la lettre et s'engagent dans une discussion sur la composition et la structure des veines qui entachera leur relation pour toujours. Vésale dit avoir vu à cette occasion les trois éditions du traité de Corti ; il vit par conséquent cette édition de 1538, tout juste parue. Exemplaire annoté à l'époque, vraisemblablement par un médecin étudiant les humeurs et la mélancolie. Sur la dernière garde, d'une autre main plus tardive, en français, un … [Click Below for Full Description]

Joannes Soter, 1538. 8vo. pp [284] a-r8 s6. Roman letter, occasional Italic. Woodcut initials, t.p. with printer's device of cherub within wreath, 8 woodcut diagrams of Lullian circles. Contemp. ex libris Antonius Dachselhof of Berne to Lly. Very minor damp stain and spot to t.p, woodcut circle on b5 just shaved at outer margin. A very good, clean and well-margined copy in contemporary limp vellum with 14 original blank unnumbered ll in front and 31 at end, contemp ink title to upper cover and spine, original kid ties. Second edition of Agrippa's (1486 - 1535) commentary on Raymond Lull's (1232-1316) Ars Magna or ‘Ultimate General Art', a system of logic blending in4luences from Arabic mysticism, Egyptian hermeticism, and Lull's missions to Jews and Muslims. In his preface Agrippa praises Lull's art 'as easy to learn for students young and old': in fact it is based on a confusing series of paper 'machines' Lull had developed to do his reasoning for him, comprising of circles with symbols representing key topics. When rotated together in any combination they yield only theologically ‘true' statements, such as 'Angels are Wise', and 'God is Eternal'. These so-called 'Lullian Circles' were intended as tools for debating faith with Muslims: ironically they were based from an Arabic astrological tool used to cast horoscopes known as the zairja. Agrippa breaks down each circle and its function: there are nine main subjects including God, Angels, and Man, each assigned a letter B-K. The same letters are assigned to characteristics: Goodness, Greatness, Duration, Power, Wisdom, Wil … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris, Denys Janot, 1538. LES UVRES DE JUSTIN VRAY HISTORIOGRAPHE SUR LES FAICTZ ET GESTES DE TROGE POMPEE contenant XLIIII livres traduictz de latin en françoys (par G. Michel dit de Tours). Paris, Denys Janot, 1538. In-folio gothique de (8) ff., 126 ff. et 1 f. de marque. Maroquin rouge, plats entièrement ornés d'un jeu de filets, arabesques et fleurons dorés entrelacés, dos à nerfs orné de même, double filet or sur les coupes, double filet or intérieur, tranches dorées sur marbrures. Reliure signée de Hardy. 294 x 184 mm. EDITION ORIGINALE FRANÇAISE DE L EPITOME DE JUSTIN « qui sera réimprimée par D. Janot en lettres rondes vers 1540. Nombreux bois (98), surtout concernant l'art militaire, dont 2 gds à pleine page, venant des Triomphes de Pétrarque (Vérard, 1514). Beau livre » (Guy Bechtel). Belle impression gothique de la première édition en Français de L'Epitome de Justin. Brunet, IV, 622 ; Brun, Le livre français illustré de la Renaissance, 229. Historien du Bas Empire, Marcus Justin nous livre ici une version abrégée des « Histoires Philippiques » de Troge-Pompée, un gaulois contemporain d'Auguste. Cette version était destinée à l'usage des nouvelles classes dirigeantes, souvent peu cultivées de Rome qui pourraient ainsi assimiler de façon aisée l'histoire ancienne de Rome. Cette histoire de l Empire macédonien débute par l histoire des Assyriens, des Mèdes, des Perses, des Scythes et des grecs. Les livres VII à XI étaient consacrés au règne de Philippe II, fondateur de la puissance de la Macédoine. BEL EXEMPLAIRE, A GRANDES MARGES, D UNE CHRONIQUE ANCIENNE REMARQUAB … [Click Below for Full Description]

Nouvellement imprimé à Paris par Nicolas couteau Imprimeur demourant audit lieu et fut achevé de imprimer le penultime [sic] de decembre mil. D.XXXVIII. (1538). Nouvellement imprimé à Paris par Nicolas couteau Imprimeur demourant audit lieu et fut achevé de imprimer le penultime [sic] de decembre mil. D.XXXVIII. (1538). Belle édition parisienne de la première traduction française, établie par l’humaniste Laurent de Premierfait (ca. 1375-1418) en 1409, quelques dizaines d’années seulement après la rédaction de Boccace, parue la première fois à Bruges en 1476. Elle est ornée d’un titre en rouge et noir, dans un magnifique encadrement architectural et 7 grandes vignettes, dont une répétée, provenant du fonds du libraire Antoine Vérard, parues déjà en 1494 et 1506, toutes gravures sur bois. PRECIEUX EXEMPLAIRE AUX ARMES DE NICOLAS JOSEPH FOUCAULT (1643-1721), grand bibliophile et haut fonctionnaire sous Louis XIV, intendant de Montauban, Pau, et Poitiers, chargé de l’application de la Révocation de l’Édit de Nantes après 1685, nommé conseiller de la Princesse Palatine à la fin de sa vie. L’exemplaire porte aussi son grand ex-libris gravé au premier contreplat. Il fut conservé dans les collections du premier comte de Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, dont il porte l’ex-libris armorié sur une garde et le timbre sec sur le titre (Sotheby’s Londres, 2 octobre 2008, lot 4365, adjugé $44,500 il y a presque 10 ans). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Thomas Platterus, venetiis 1538 Large in-16 de 616+475 pages, plein vélin du temps, rare édition en bel état, intérieur frais, qq traces manuscrites, manque au coin du 4e couverture.