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2 Vols., folio, xvi,404; viii,427pp., numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth richly decorated in gilt and black, re-backed with the majority of the orig. spines laid-down. First Edition of this comprehensive history of printing in Vienna. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
Small 4to, 25.3cm. Pp. viii,154,[4],blank,131,[1], 129 full-page facsimiles and photos in second section, indexes. - Listing 319 items mostly with extensive descriptions and annotations. Scarce and valuable catalogue of incunabula.
4to. (36) pp. Modern marbled boards. Very rare treatise: a report from the dean and medical faculty to the magistrate of Vienna, stating that they had inspected the city's pharmacies by order of the government, since "astrology" had predicted a plague epidemic for this year. Their evaluation is followed by a discussion of the nature of the plague, its causes (including eclipses and comets), and methods to prevent and to cure the disease (cf. Denis). - Possible authors are Crato von Krafftheim (1519-85) and Franz Emrich (1496-1560). Crato had developed an "Electuarium salutis Cratonis" against the plague, a popular mixture of theriac, mithridate, terra sigillata, bolus armenus, bezoar, and other remedies. That the use of "Thyriackh" is discouraged (fol. E2v) reinforces the case for Emrich's authorship: after the university reforms of 1537 he was the standard bearer of the modern hippocratic-galenic school of medicine, which disapproved of the previously favoured Arabic authorities. Indeed, the chapter on food and drink begins with a praise of Galen. In 1554 he published, under his own name, a treatise on plague prevention entitled "Ratschlag zu Verhüetung pestilentzischer Ansuechung". - Some browning and fingerstaining; trimmed rather closely in some places. VD 16, ZV 28156. BNHCat W 177. Denis, p. 398, no. 416. Lesky 710. Not in Durling, Adams, or BM-STC German.
(8), LXXIII Bll. Mit großer Holzschnittillustration am Titel (am Schluss des Registers wiederholt). Moderner marmorierter Pappband. 4to. Frühe Ausgabe von Vogtherrs zweitem volksmedizinischen Werk; Steiner hatte schon 1531 die Erstausgabe besorgt. "A very rare book on distilling" (Duveen) mit entsprechendem Holzschnitt. Bartholomäus (oder Balthasar) Vogtherr (oder Vogter) war Augenarzt in Dilingen und beim Bischof von Augsburg. - Durchgehend etwas gebräunt bzw. wasserrandig; teils knapp beschnitten. Selten. VD 16, V 2156. Durling 4690. Wellcome 6667. Neu 4246. Vgl. Duveen 606; Rosenthal 3269 (Ausg. 1541). Nicht bei Waller, BM-STC German oder Adams.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name label inside. Stated First Printing. 208 pages. Price-clipped dust jacket.
This is a very good copy in a plastic comb binding (intact), stiff paper covers printed in color with Weyerhaeuser paper sample names: 'Weycroft', 'Louvain', 'Carousel', 'Kashmir', 'Gainsborough', etc. No date but ca. 1970's. Each of the 10 paper sample sections has a color printed title page with the different paper weights and characteristics available in that sample, followed by a number of blank sheets in different colors that are available with that sample. A typical early to mid 1970's Weyerhaeuser trade catalog. 11" high X 10" wide. All printing in offset lithography. Publisher's 'Complimentary Copy' business reply card laid in. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Fourth edition, 12mo, 122, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, large folding pedigree creased with a couple of closed tears, cont. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt tooled, a nice copy. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature of John Hammond of Weston Runton.
pp. vii, 280 + Photo frontis. Uncut. Top edge gold. Newspaper clipping on end paper. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered. Hardbound. Very nice copy. SET/W47
259p. Inked ownership of F. K. Richter, Chicago on title page. A few pink penciled underlinings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding with original spine and front board title labels. Binding slightly worn. Hardbound. First Printing. LIT BOX 2
87p. + Plus full page color plates. Full page text illustrations in black and white. Some of the color plates have browned the text. XLib stamp on title page and endpapers. 8vo. Original red cloth backed color pictorial paper binding. Nice copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W69
pp. vi, 233 + Photo frontis. Uncut. Top edge gold. Inked ownership of Marion Fox Dippell. Front endpapers stained by old newspaper clipping. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered. Hardbound. Nice copy. SET/W47
Folio (275 x 175 mm). 2 ff., 12 ff. Recently bound using an old musical manuscript on vellum. Extremely rare account of Cornelis de Houtman's voyage to the East Indies, undertaken in 1595-97: a pioneering enterprise that initiated Dutch presence in the East Indies and set the standard for Dutch exploration, being organized by the "Company of Distant Lands", the immediate predecessor to the more famous Dutch East India Company (VOC), established in 1602. - This anonymous, first-hand journal, originally published in Dutch as "Verhael vande Reyse de Hollandtsche schepen ghedaen naer Oost Indien" (Middelburg, Barent Langenes, 1597), was the first printed account of the voyage. Two versions of the text appeared, of which the "Verhael" was the shorter, but also the earlier (cf. Rouffaer). Two editions of the German translation, by Conrad Löw, were printed in Cologne in 1598. No priority has been established, but both are now extremely rare: four copies of the edition published by Peter Reschedt are listed in USTC, while none of this Bertram Buchholtz imprint are recorded in USTC or elsewhere. - Houtman's voyage was motivated by the precariousness of Dutch access, as a result of the Dutch Revolt, to the largely Iberian-controlled spice and bullion markets. The Dutch therefore examined the possibility of sailing directly to the East in their own ships, and Houtman was first sent to Portugal in 1592 to investigate the spice trade. He returned two years later, urging direct voyages to the East, and in 1595 led the first such venture. - Houtman's fleet crossed the Atlantic to Brazil before rounding the Cape of Good Hope on 7 February 1595, then sailing across the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to the Sunda Straits. En route they touched on Sumatra, traded for a time in Bantam, a famously wealthy spice port, and made several other stops on the north coast of Java and on Bali. On the homeward journey, the fleet sailed along the south of Java. Houtman's brother Frederick, a talented astronomer who also participated in the voyage, greatly contributed (along with the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser) to mapping the southern skies, recording a great number of new constellations. "The voyage was not a financial success, and barely recovered its expenses. The nearly empty holds held only 245 bags of pepper, 45 tons of nutmeg, 30 bales of mace, and a selection of Chinese porcelain. The backers were aghast at the terrible loss of life [only 87 out of 249 men returned, and those who survived were too weakened even to bring their ships into anchorage]. But the voyage was, in another sense, a resounding success in that it showed to the Dutch that they might successfully reach the Indies. In the following year no fewer than 22 ships distributed over six expeditions ventured out, and the rush to the East had begun" (F. Swart, "Lambert Biesman (1573-1601) of the Company of Trader-Adventurers, the Dutch Route to the East Indies, and Olivier van Noort's Circumnavigation of the Globe", Journal of the Hakluyt Society, Dec. 2007). The Compagnie van Verre, which Houtman helped create, merged to form the Dutch East India Company. Houtman's voyage is now known for providing the initial impetus for the Dutch spice trade and colonization of Indonesia. - Lach notes that "firsthand reports of insular Southeast Asia arrived in the Netherlands with Cornelis de Houtman's fleet in August 1597. An anonymous 'Verhael vande reyse' was published [...] in 1597; it went through six editions in that year and the next, including translations into French, German, English and Latin". The published journals of the voyage "provided European readers with the most detailed descriptions of Java to date and with the first continuous description of Bali in any language. By sailing around Java, De Houtman's men were able to ascertain its true size and shape. They discovered that it was not nearly as wide from north to south as it appeared on Portuguese maps, and this was reported in the 'Verhael vande reyse'. This work also contains a detailed description of Bantam, its harbor, fortifications, buildings, people, and trade, the prices of products, and the foreigners who traded there" (Lach). The author of this account is an unidentified shipmate of Houtman's who describes in his own words what was the first incursion into the spice trade by the Dutch. - "The failure of the Barents expedition to open up a route to the East by way of the North East Passage led the Dutch to attempt reaching the East by way of the Cape Route. The Expedition consisting of 4 ships under the command of Cornelis Houtman arrived at Bantam in Java in 1596, where they tried to get a cargo of spices. But hostilities with the Portuguese arose and the fleet was compelled to sail on. The circumnavigation of Java was the first recorded attempt of this kind by any European vessel. Much knowledge of the regions later to become the exclusive territory of the Dutch resulted from the voyage" (Cox I, 262). - Rare institutionally, no copy of this edition is listed in any institution. Of the Reschedt edition, there are four copies, according to USTC (Staatsbibliothek Berlin; BSB Munich; Austrian National Library; New York Public Library). - A tall copy with light toning. In excellent condition. Tiele 122. G. P. Rouffaer, ed., De eerste schipvaart der Nederlanders naar Oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman ('s-Gravenhage, 1915-29) II, pp. [xix-xx], 106-109. D. F. Lach, "Asia in the Making of Europe" (Chicago, 1993) II.1, p. 437f.
Paris, Histoires & Collections, 2002. In-4, cartonnage éditeur illustré en couleurs, 120 pp. Importante iconographie en noir et en couleurs hors-texte. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
82p. 35 illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original red cloth binding. A very useful Gilbert & Sullivan Bibliography. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF5
(4), CXXV, (1) Bll. With two-part armorial woodcut on title-page and 27 woodcuts in the text (8 by H. Schäufelein, 15 (?) by H. Weiditz). Modern marbled boards. Folio (212 x 304 mm). First German edition of "the first systematic study to address explicitly and exclusively the universal education of women", at the same time a fine and rare woodcut book. Commissioned by the wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, who was at the time rearing her own daughter, Mary Tudor, Vives' treatise was translated and adapted by numerous followers (here by the Bavarian Humanist Christopher Bruno) and thus was read in almost every European vernacular, often by women themselves. The present translation is dedicated to Maria Jacobaea of Baden-Sponheim (1507-80), duchess consort of Bavaria, and to her daughter Mechthild of Bavaria (1532–65). - Vives' work consists of 3 books, one for each stage of woman's life: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood. Although the author specifically adapted his prose style for a female readership, the treatise is hardly pro-woman: "the 'Education' is determined to be both a reference book for men on how to control their women, as well as an edifying treatise for women to absorb as a source of proper behaviour" (Kolsky). Nevertheless, Vives' praise of women's intellectual capacity and his advocation of some form of universal learning for females are viewed as landmarks for modern historians of women and gender. According to Pollie Bromilow, the dozens of vernacular translations were partly aimed at women themselves, who had no knowledge of Latin; and thus a large segment of its readership during the 16th century was in fact female. - Even browning and brownstaining throughout due to paper stock; some light waterstains. A few leaves show repairs in the lower margin and occasionally beyond, and a single leaf has a larger part torn out from the outer margin (no loss to text). - A fundamental document for the role of women in Early Modern society; only two copies in the trade since 1935. VD 16, V 1867. BM-STC German 899. Hayn/G. VIII, 135. Muther 1126. Musper L 181. Oldenbourg L 215. Not in Adams. Cf. Kolsky, Making Examples of Women: Juan Luis Vives' The Education of a Christian Woman. Bromilow, "An Emerging Female Readership of Print in Sixteenth-Century France?", French Studies (2013) Vol. 67, pp. 155-169.
THIS VOLUME ONLY - 1.Band (erste bis vierte Zelle). [ERSTE ZELLE]: Volksprediger, Moralisten und frommer Unsinn. [ZWEITE, DRITTE UND VIERTE ZELLE]: I.Sebastian Brandt (Narrenschiff); II.Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (Predigen darüber. III.Thomas Murner (Schelmenzunft). . Zur Kultur- und Sittengeschichte in Wort und Bild. Contains numerous b&w plates and illustrations. 155x115mm. XVI+908 pages [+3]. Half-leather brown Hardcover with embossed spine. Cover and spine rubbed. Small light stain on front cover. Cover corners/edges and spine edges rubbed. Spine faded. Some plates and pages age-stained. Pages yellowing and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare, lavishly illustrated 19th-century anthology of German folklore, satire and sermons is overall in good condition.
Based on an exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, 3 February - 2 May, 2003. and of essays presented at the 2002 conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing [SHARP] in London, which resulted in a fascinating examination of a Victorian publishing dynasty and of the controversial publication of the works of Emil Zola. 140p. illus (some col.) bibliography. A four page Guide to the exhibition cases laid in Book
13p. Frontis plus photo illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. STA Keepsake. Printed by The Thistle Press. Limited to 800 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF2
290x210 mm. V+90 pages. Softcover. Cover corners slightly wrinkled. Page I/II missing. Inner cover slightly stained. Else in good condition.
223p. Highly illustrated. Oblong 4to. Original gold stamped cloth binding. 210 examples of images depicting people, places and events from the 1700's to the present day. Includes works of Paul Revere, Degas, Kollwitz, Daumier, Gordon Parks, Ben Shahn, Disney, and many others. REF 6
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and jacket clean, lightly, evenly toned. 8 color plates + 64 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 6" wide, 182 pages.
Biblioteca Cominiana, gennaio 2001. A cura di Pier Luigi Rebellato. Introduzione di Enzo Dematt?. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Soft cover in fine conditions, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
Vallecchi Editore, novembre 1985. Rilegato con sovraccoperta editoriale. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
First Edition, 4to, [iv], 17, [1]pp., without half-title, title and last leaf soiled, disbound, enclosed in custom-made folder. Johnson, Provincial Poetry. 124.
Broadsheet, c. 385:520 mm. Traces of folds. Mounted on red satin. Rare Vienna meat statutes dated 24 March 1600, regulating the prices of meat in Vienna, the suburbs, and Lower Austria. - Occasional paper defects, otherwise clean and well-preserved.
