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1587033342<p>At London printed in Aldergate Street at the signe of the Starre: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587 A good copy of the 2nd edition of Holinshed's Chronicles bound in 3 volumes. This edition is particularly known for its association with William Shakespeare who used it for historical background for example in Macbeth. It lacks the extensive woodcuts found in the 1st but has ornate initial capitals and head and tailpieces. This set was rebound in full morocco leather in the 1800's. The bindings have flat spines with gilt titles and volume numbers and gilt lining. The boards have gilt lining around the edges and gilt dentelles on the inner edges. Endpapers are marbled and all volumes have silk bookmarks. The leather is worn on the edges spine joints spine ends and corners but the bindings are currently sound. Vol I has a small closed tear at the top spine end. Vol II has a scuff across the front board. All page edges are gilted. The 2nd edition brings the history up to the date of publication and as such attracted the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth I who had clear views on how her reign and actions should be recorded. The Archbishop of Canterbury was required by the Privy Council in February 1587 to recall the work and reform it. The process of printing large works was very different to that of our digital world and the censorshjp and revision process must have caused chaos at the printers. Sections of the work on Scotland in Vol I and parts of the Chronicles of England are affected and all copies reflect the censorship mess to some extent with odd pagination cancels substitution and gaps in some copies. This set is largely complete lacks title to Chronicles of England and the colophon. Very different thicknesses and colour of the paper suggest where sections have been substituted and there are several instances of mispagination. Contents - Vol I: title and prelims viii; text 250 pp; Historie of England in 8 books; iv; 202 pp; title The Second Volume of Chronicles containing Ireland and Scotland viii; Ireland pp 9-61 blank verso; title Irish Historie xii; 183 pp with blank verso; title - Description of Scotland 2; text pp 3-23 blank verso; title Historie of Scotland blank verso; preface 2pp; text 29-404; Annals of Scotland pp 405-464 ; table alphabeticall First to Fourth 53 pp; Colophon January 1597 1p. Vol II: lacks title - text covers William I to Henry VII- vi; text 1-798. Vol III: text from Henry VIII pp 799 - 1267; Continuation - preface 1268-9 text 1270-1592; third table 58pp; lacks colophon. The contents generally bright clean and sound. There are some minor areas of staining or marking some paper repairs and some mispagination. Please enquire if you would like to see the details on each volume and/or further images.</p> John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke hardcover
157963961Frankfort & Wechelus: Francofurti Ad Moenum Apud and Wechelum 1579. Around 1961 a previous owner writes "According to the recent national archives survey this is the second oldest book in the State of Florida." Ask for scanned images of this rare volume and the laid-in notes of early researcher. "THIS CONSISTS OF ORATIONS AND COMMENTS OF FAZELLUS or FAZELUS WHO WAS PROFESSOR OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE SICILIAR AND SACRED HERITAGE OF THE PREACHER.". First Edition 1st Edition. Hardback LEATHERBOUND. Good Used Antique Condition. 13 3/4 Inches X 8 1/5 Inches X 2 1/4 Inches. Francofurti Ad Moenum Apud and Wechelum Paperback
1505000423bGENOA ITALY. Good with no dust jacket. 1505. Original Vellum. One hundred and eighty four hand numbered pages in this remarkable 500 year old handwritten manuscript ledger journal and diary : " 1505 Gendenze di Saviz - gnano" as stated on the cover. The first page begins: "Libro de tuto _____ quale so tato asan__giano ala venuta mia. To Alexandro salueto schrise e soto schrise de mia gnovia mar." Not written by a scribe this is a working journal and ledger containing hundreds of business entries purchases loans and repayments. There are long lists of foods and prices for what is assuredly shopping lists for parties and feasts. There are also what appears to be observations and business maxims and poetry in a number of entries. Certainly this fascinating book requires more research. The original vellum cover is in somewhat rough shape with tears rubbing and bumping and is barely attached to the text block though still held by the rear binding cords. Interior is in excellent shape save for the odd and to be expected ink blot age-toning and light soiling. Please email for pictures of this rare manuscript.; Italian Spanish Latin; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF ANCIENT ITALIAN GENOA VENICE MANUSCRIPT COMMERCE HANDWRITTEN HAND WRITTEN JOURNAL LEDGER MEMOIR PERSONAL LOG HOLOGRAPH AUTOGRAPH SPAIN SPANISH DIARY DIARIES ANCIENT ANTIQUE MEDIEVEL RENAISSANCE antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . hardcover
1592026339Frankfurt am Main 1591 1592. Original Antique Map . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Laid Paper. Size: Image And Border Approximately 17 7/8 Inches X 1M.5 Inches 45.2 Cm X 36.75 Cm. Debry Printed His Voyage To Virginia In 1590 As Part I Of His Works But Burden Mapping Of North America Provides No Record That A 1592 Printing Exists. This Map Has No Center Fold But Contemporary Engravings Exist Of The Offices Of The Great 17Th Century Cartographic Publishers With Row Upon Row Of Flat Drawers For Storage Of Single Maps; It Would Be Unreasonable To Believe That None Of These Unbound Maps Survived. This Appears To Be One Of Them Although The Consensus Of Modern Dealers Is That No Unfolded Large Map First Published In A Book Can Exist. Although We Have Been Unable To Locate A 1592 German Edition Of Debry We Believe This Is A Map As Issued In The 1592 German Edition Of De Bry Which Was First Published In 1591 And Subsequently Reprinted In 1592 And 1594 And In The Seventeenth Century. Small Cartouche At Lower Left Monogram With Text "Caesavece Matis. Privilegio Mdxcii" In The Plate Added After Original 1591 Printing. This Is An Unfolded Sheet Which Was Never Bound In A Book; A Strong Impression Without Damage And With Old Light Partial Coloring. Once Quite Aged Then Professionally Cleaned De-Acidified And Mounted Loosely With Archival Materials By A Museum-Experienced Conservator In About 2000. Scarce. And Now 430 Years Later It's Depicting A Hangout For Orangutans. <br/> <br/> unknown
1522032982Coloniae: Heronem Alopeciu 1522 An extremely scarce early edition published in September 1522 - a month after the authorised Basel edition - by Hero Alopecius in Cologne. We have only been able to find one reference to it University of Toronto. Erasmus arranged publication of the Basel edition in August 1522 in response to the appearance of an unauthorised version in Cambridge in 1521. He had originally worked on the content in 1509-1511 and this work developed from his earlier writing and lectures became a popular and important text book on the writing of letters. It was much reprinted. This copy is newly rebound in full calf with panelled design to boards and gilt titles to spine. The page edges are red although this may not be contemporary. New endpapers. Contents with 2 initial blanks - the first with ink notation on the edition - this looks likely to be 1800's in date and the paper does not look contemporary. Title with elaborate design including 2 cherubs holding a shield with 3 crowns with contemporary latin note at the top; letter from Erasmus to Nicolao Beraldo pp 2-4; text with beautiful decorative initial capitals pp 5-414 Finis. No final blanks. There is some scholarly annotation in latin and gentle underlining - this could be contemporary. There are a number of mispaginations but the ties work in all cases: 47-74-75-50; 51-78-79-54; 55-82-83-58; 59-98-87-62-63-90-65; 170-117-172; 177-168-179; 192-191-192-193. There are a number of professional paper repairs: to the side of the title page and page 13/14; from p 357 onwards where the top corner tips had been burnt out - this begins with the just the tip but towards the end of the work includes some page numbers and just clips a couple of margin notes - the final 2 leaves have repair to sides. These corners do not have the red edges. Towards the end of the work there are a few pages with some grubbiness at the bottom corners. Otherwise the work is very clean with high quality paper. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images Heronem Alopeciu hardcover
1588044443Seville: Fernando Diaz 1588. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Later tree calf worn front hinge split rear starting front endpaper torn at the top corner as is the title with an old repair and manuscript UZIA in the title to replace the missing letters. A few paper repairs in the margins touching a few letters a few short tears with no real loss scattered pencil marks and a few minor marginal marks in an old hand. One group of pages trimmed a little close with loss of some text to the table on leaf 53 of the genealogy of the Kings of Austria. Generally minor scatterd foxing browning and staining - mostly quite clean. Magnificently illustrated throughout with armorial devices - first and only edition of an outstanding work on the Andalusian aristocracy. 10 348 ff.<br /> <br /> Argote de Molina great humanist and librarian also edited the first Spanish book on hunting 1582 and a history of the embassy sent by Henry III of Castille in 1403--1406 to the Court of Tamerlaine at Samarkand 1582. Graesse A195 noting that the title page is often lacking. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044443. Fernando Diaz hardcover
1531049721Basel: Officina Frobeniana Froben 1531. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary rolled pigskin worn and discolored with old repairs to spine ends and edges but quite sound. Clasps intact. Early notes and an old bookseller catalog entry to front pastedown. The notes appear to be in two hands one contemporary in the same or similar ink to Chripstoph Binder's signature to the title and the other a little later. Title page printer's device with early coloring. Neat marginal notes and underlining throughout heavier early on and at the end neat interlinear notes and notes to the Erasmus letter. Many of the later notes written in triangular format. Scattered stains tiny wormtrails heavier early on some marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. A nice copy. Separate title page for the Chronologia.<br /> <br /> 8 244 243 210 91 74 45 1 p.<br /> <br /> Provenance: With the signature on the ttitle page of Württemberg theologian Christoph Binder 1519-1596 the first Protestant abbot of Adelberg Abbey. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 049721. Officina Frobeniana (Froben) hardcover
1586046648Paris: Nicolas Bonfons 1586. Early Edition. Two parts bound as one dated 1586 and 1588 in modern ca. late 19th c. full red morocco gilt rules spine decorated in gilt in compartments gilt turn ins edges gilt; faint dulling to spine bookplate of E. Delicourt - a lovely binding in a matching leather trimmed slipcase. Fifth Bonfons edition first appearance of the second book with the woodcuts by Rabel. 16 212; 4 119 3 leaves. 56 woodcuts of tombs in the second part. Lightly washed faint occasional foxing neatly trimmed when rebound. Adams C 2695 Brunet II 307 Graesse II 276 Mortimer 156 Nicolas Bonfons hardcover
1588E05544-5702 blank28 pages with woodcut device on title woodcut historiated initials and decorations. Folio 12 1/2" x 8 1/4" bound in contemporary vellum. European Americana 588/57; Palau 146976; Sabin 146976 <i>Western Travellers in China</i> 11 First edition of Maffei's great history of India.<br /><br />Ten Latin editions two in Italian and two in French appeared before 1621. Based on primary material it still remains a valuable account today. The work is divided into 16 books. Most of it deals with the Portuguese conquests and Jesuit missionary work in the East Indies and India up to about 1557 Borba de Moraes page 508 "a classic work on the subject . writes extensively about Brazil describing it very accurately"; Maffie was the firs author to use Jesuit letters extensively as well as many secular sources including Fernando Mendes Pinto.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Contemporary velum with moderate wear re-backed in vellum with original spine label laid down; minor worming and foxing intermittent moderate damp staining pages 410 and 419 blank due to a printing error; early inscription and inked stamped on title page new end papers and paste-downs else a good to very good copy. Apud Philippum Juncatam hardcover
1587033313<p>London : Holinshed Harrison Jooker et al 1587 A good copy of the Scottish part of Holinshed's Chronicles. First published in 1577 this work was revised and reissued after censorship in 1587. This is the 1587 reissue - said to have been used by Shakespeare in writing Macbeth. This copy is in a recent full calf binding with a panelled design to the boards with gilt titles and date. It has minimal wear. New endpapers and intial and final blanks have been added. Contains: decorative title page dated 1585 with some professioanl repair to the side edge; dedication pp 3-4; Contents list p5; authorship p6; The description of Scotland pp7-23 blank verso; title page - The Historie of Scotland dated 1585; dedication p 27-28; The Historie of Scotland pp 29-464; first table alphabeticall 12 pp; second table alphabeticall 15pp; finis. These two index sections do not cover Scotland - the third and fourth tables are missing together with the Colophon. There are 2 problems with the collation. The leaf with 325/6 is missing and has been replaced with a blank sheet. A fascimile of this leaf is loose in the book. There is considerable mispagination with pp 430-439 - part of the havoc created by censorship of the work at the time. The pagination is: 430-436 tie works 437-432 tie does not work - pp 438/431 should be after 437 and are missing but supplied loose in facsimile - 433-439 tie works. Overall the contents are in very good clean condition with the occasional small stain or mark ink drink at 98/9. However pp 419-424 are in much more fragile condition suggesting that they were added in from another volume. There is a large ink splatter affecting the gutter and some of the text in the lower part on pp 419-424 although all the text is readable. Side edges are browned and fragile in this section and there are some paper repairs on pp 421/2. There is a small burn hole in the text at pp 389/90 and tiny burn holes in the gutter of pp 401/2. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.</p> Holinshed, Harrison, Jooker et al hardcover
15672733Basileae : Apud haeredes Nicolai Brylingeri M. D. LXVII. 1567 1567. Hardcover. Good. 26 643 1 p. the last page blank ; 17 cm. 8vo ; References: Adams; T-361; VD16; T-466 ; OCLC: 35196231 ; preface by Desiderius Erasmus dated 1532 ; includes commentary on each play by Giovanni Calfurnio ; Title vignette; initials ; Signa tures: a-z8 A-T8 Nota Bene: incomplete volume : A-B are missing pages 339-375 comprising Actus II Scena I - Actus III Scena II of Adelphi ; Contemporary panel-stamped cream/butter-colored pig-skin binding ; raised bands ; green speckled fore-edg e ; two-tone silk headband ; bookplate "E Bibliotheca Collegii Cremsensis" dated 1818 with ownership written in ink across title page ; large crayon pencil mark in red "LVIII29" on lower portion of title page ; text in Latin italic type font f or the text of the plays ; only one other known institution copy held by the Newberry Library ; slight worm damage to top of spine ; soiling ; marginalia on some pages in a contemporary humanist hand on pages 2-5 17-19 439-40 445 478-79 491-92 529-30 615 640-42; name and text on back ep in a German hand writing Frakturschrift consisting of a paraphrased quote from the Psalms ; Contents : Terentii Vita -- Andria -- Evnvchvs. Eunuchus -- Heavtontim. Heautontimorumenos -- Adelph. A delphi -- Hecyra. -- Phormio. ; also contains a poem in Latin iambs by Erasmus printed on the reverse of title page ; G <br/> <br/> Basileae : Apud haeredes Nicolai Brylingeri, M. D. LXVII. (1567) hardcover
1600032381Paris: Marc Orry 1600 A good copy of the 2nd French edition of Joseph Acosta's important work on the New World first published in Spanish in 1590. Acosta was a Jesuit who spent 17 years in South America and Mexico. His work based on careful observation formed one of the first accounts of the New World. This copy is in probably contemporary full vellum binding with yapp edges. The original ties have gone. It is difficult to say if the binding was hard or soft cover because at some point in its history it has had an old stiff embossed wallpaper with gilt birds and flowers used to form new endpapers. There are no pages before the title page which has had a strip added at the bottom and which is coming loose. Contents: title page; dedication pp ii-iv; advert; poems 4pp; Extrait du Privilege du Roi 1p; Text in 7 books pp 1-375; table of contents 34 pp. The text pages are numbered on the recto only. With decorative head pieces and initial capitals. The text is very clean with just the occasional mark and some light underlining at p 238 but p 58 is missing. P 31 is mispaginated as p 13; p 267 is un-numbered and p 97 is very thin with a hole in the bottom margin. The final third of the book is quite difficult to open fully - probably because of the way the endpapers have been added. Marc Orry hardcover
1594001023Venice: Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi 1594. Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. 32 383 25. With a 2 page engraved map. Text is printed in Italic type with decorative woodcut initials and head and tail pieces. Bound in modern quarter leather over 19th century marbled boards. Remnants of an early spine label are preserved. End papers are renewed in quality laid paper. Interior pages are generally clean but show occasional light toning wear and scattered spotting/staining. The title page contains mild discoloration; the inner margin is neatly strengthened hardly noticeable; M. Maturins name is written in a miniscule hand on the upper margin. The map reveals mild spots of discoloration; a small chip and a neatly sealed tear 1 cm are present on the outer margin; another sealed tear 2.5 cm on the lower edge is accompanied by a couple tiny worm holes slightly affecting the printed border area. Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi 1545-1618 served as personal physician to Teodoro Balbi the Venetian consul in Syria. While in Aleppo Minadoi witnessed the outbreak of the Ottoman-Safavid War 1578-90 fought between the Turkish Sultan Murad III and the Persian Shah Mohammad Hodabanda the Blind. His book recounting the conflict first published in Rome 1587 and again in 1588 also records many interesting details of Persian culture See Dizionario Biografico Vol. 74 2010. Adams M-1456; Edit16: CNCE 31430. Provenance: an earlier front paste-down is retained with the armorial bookplate of Maturin L. Delafield a merchant from a respected New York family. According to "The N.Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record" Vol. 47 Delafield did confidential work for Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet during the Civil War. Above the plate a much faded note in pencil concerning G. Minadoi is attributed by another penciled note to Major Joseph Delafield Maturins father. Joseph Delafield served in the War of 1812. <br/> <br/> Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi hardcover
1598001041London: Thomas Creede 1598. First English language edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small folio. Lacking preliminary blank leaf thus pp. 10 310 292 4. Page numbering is erratic. Leaf Ee3 is mis-signed as F3 but all leaves are present and in order. The title page contains a woodcut vignette/device. Each chapter begins with a woodcut decorative head piece and an initial. Bound in full dark brown modern calf with blind tooled borders and stamps after an early period style. The upper part of the title page is age-toned / tanned; a professionally sealed 7 cm. tear runs from the gutter part way across the upper portion of the title and is difficult to detect on first sight; a couple of tiny chips on the top edge are restored. Interior pages are generally attractive but with occasional mild age-toning and periodic faint marginal damp staining. A small repair patch is present on the inner margins of leaves A6 and V6. A tear on leaf V6 also carefully sealed extends vertically about 8.5 cm from the lower gutter and part way into the text but causing almost no obscuration. Printed by Thomas Creede who is best known for issuing dramatic works including some of Shakespeares plays. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a translation of "Recueil des choses mémorables avenues en France sous le règne de Henri II François II Charles IX Henri III et Henri IV." This work is generally attributed to either Simon Goulart or Jean de Serres and was first printed in French no place or publisher in 1595 and again in 1598 expanded to include the reign of Henri IV up to the year 1597. See Brunet IV 1161-1162. The second part with new pagination provides translated selections from Pierre Matthieus 4 part "Histoire des derniers troubles de France" first published in Lyons 1594-95. A section at the end is titled "a brief recitall of the most memorable things which came to passé in Fraunce under the raigne of Henry the fourth until the middle of the Yeare 1598" which if written by Matthieu may possibly represent the first printing of some amendments which Matthieu later added to the second edition of his "Histoire" printed in 1600. This collection provides interesting testaments to the wars of religion in France during the 16th century. A separate 4 page tract at the end is titled: "A true discourse concerning the deliverie of Brittaine in the yeare 1598." ESTC S121331; USTC 513796; Lowndes p. 831; Hazlitt Biblio. Collections 2nd Series p. 231. <br/> <br/> Thomas Creede hardcover
1552000525Lugduni: Sebastianum Gryphium 1552. Limp Vellum. See Description. Folio. pp. 36 Cols. 1-1218 pp. 3. With printers device on title page. The colophon verso of final leaf reads "Sebastianus Gryphius excudebat Lugduni anno M.D.LII." and contains a large woodcut griffin device. Dual column text with fine decorative initials. Several diagrams are included with the text illustrating Bound in full period vellum rubbed. Title and shelf number are written on the spine in an early hand. An old ownership or institutional stamp is present on the title page the second leaf leaf T5 and also on the colophon page. Interior pages contain mild to moderate age-toning and periodic scattered foxing and spotting. Some pages are more uniformly toned. Raffaelo Maffei 1451-1522 was an Italian humanist historian and theologian. His "Commentariorum urbanorum" first published in 1506 is an encyclopedia of all subjects known at the time. The work is particularly notable for the importance given to geography and to biography. Maffei writes extensively on the discoveries of the Spanish and the Portuguese explorers including Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World in this edition mentioned in column 368. The encyclopedia is divided into three parts: Part I. Geographica in 11 books; Part II. Anthropologia biography in 11 books including lives of illustrious men popes and emperors; Part III. Philologia in 15 books which discusses natural science animals plants metals gems stones grammar and rhetoric mathematics geometry optics astronomy astrology Aristotelian thought etc. See Catholic Encyc. and EB11. Shaaber p. 337; Baudrier VIII p. 259; Harrise 67 & 161 listing 1511 and 1530 editions; Sabin 43765 listing the 1511 edition; this edition not in Adams. <br/> <br/> Sebastianum Gryphium hardcover
1598955341598. 1598. Fair. - An original holograph document attractively penned in an unknown hand on 13-1/4 inch high by 15-5/8 inch wide cream paper. Fifteen lines boldly penned with several flourishes signed "Christophorus Popel Barro a Lobcowicz" by Christoph Popel Baron of Lobkowicz who was Chief Steward of Bohemia under the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The document is further annotated with 8 lines penned across the center of the verso with an unidentified signature and another 8 lines penned vertically on the verso above the center panel also with an unidentified signature. The faint remnants and outline of a red wax seal are centered at the top and bottom edges of the verso. Folded twice vertically and four times horizontally with several tears along the folds. There is some foxing present especially at the top and bottom. Good. <p>The Chief Steward of Bohemia under Emperor Rudolf II Christoph Popel Baron of Lobkowicz 1549-1609 was a close friend of the celebrated court painter Hans von Aachen. Lobkowicz who was known for his language and diplomatic skills was tasked with welcoming visitors from within and without the Holy Roman Empire to the Emperor's Court and for negotiating alliances in the war against the Turks. Lobkowicz was responsible for the peace negotiations with the Polish King Sigismund. Lobkowicz spent considerable sums on art work for his residence and commissioned jewelry precious watches and valuable objects. He was buried in the chapel in the Prague Cathedral. [1598]. unknown
156298780Milan 1562. 1562. - Folio 12 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. 1-page on bifolium with a red paper seal. On the 4th leaf with the seal the letter is addressed "APRmo 5 Mons : Vescovo di Cremona". The letter realized in a secretarial hand is dated April 5 1562 from Milan and is boldly signed by Francesco Fernando dÁvalos d'Aquino d'Aragona.<p>Philip II King of Spain and Duke of Milan chose Francesco Fernando dÁvalos to be his envoy at the Council of Trent. He arrived in Trent on March 14 1562 and attended the sessions of the council. He pressed the Spaniards to not offer up anything against the interests of the Holy See. Upon his return to Milan he charged his secretary Ercole Pagnano with the task of generating a report. As the Governor's agent Pagnano had defended the privileges of the Sicilian monarchy and worked with the Spaniards to quell the controversy regarding the jurisdiction of bishops. In this letter to the Bishop of Cremona the Governor is offering Pagnano's report to him. Loosely translated he states that Pagnano is well informed about these things and that "V.S." Your Excellency should be given his account.<p>The letter was once folded into 4 panels and there very minor breaks along 3 of the folds. There is some minor browning especially to one of the folds. <p>An advisor to King Philip II of Spain Francesco Fernando dÁvalos c.1530-1571 took command of the Spanish army in Lombardy and Piedmont succeeding the 3rd Duke of Alba who had become the Governor of Milan. From 1560 to 1563 Francesco Fernando served as the Governor of the Duchy of Milan. He was the viceroy of Sicily from 1568 to 1571.<p>The Bishop of Cremona was born Niccolo Sfondrati in 1535 in the Duchy of Milan. Philip II of Spain appointed him to be a senator in Milan in 1552 and at the urging of the Spanish government the Pope appointed him Bishop of Cremona in 1560. He participated in some of the sessions of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563. In 1590 he was one of seven cardinals that were acceptable to be pope by Philip II of Spain. He was elected Pope and took the name Gregory XIV. He died less than a year later in October 1591. Milan, 1562. unknown
1595044181Paris: Pierre Mettayer 1595. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes bound in 2 rebound in modern half red leather over decorative paper in an antique style. Old library stamps to title index and occasionally to the top right corner. Slight soiling to title quite clean otherwise and an attractive and attractively printed copy. 12 328 3 leaves; 8 195 10 130 124 10 leaves. <br /> <br /> Monstrelet meant to carry on the work of Froissart and extended the Chronicles from 1400-1444. Additions were pieced together and tacked onto the end of his work extending it to 1515. Monstrelet who was present when Joan of Arc was interrogated by Philip the Good includes a great deal of primary source material that otherwise would have been lost to history. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044181. Pierre Mettayer hardcover
1559046914Venice: Paul Manutium Aldus 1559. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 18th century vellum backed boards worn at corners and a bit soiled title page stained an torn with loss in a few spots and a paper repair in the gutter; scattered staining and foxing elsewhere but generally clean small wormtrail in the lower margin at the end of the index touching a few letters. Still about very good overall - two volumes bound as one separate title for part two the index. 28 1-976 numbered columns i.e. 488 pages 36 132 pp. Index volume dated 1558; Ahmanson-Murphy 575<br/><br/>Pliny both compiled current knowledge of the world citing over 400 authorities and added to it himself . Not just the model for all encyclopedias to follow it is the ur-book of reference the model for an eclectic boundlessly useful assortment of human knowledge. "Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny Printing and the Mind of Man 5 Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046914. Paul Manutium (Aldus) hardcover
1594019300Paris: Chez Abel L'Angelier 1594. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo 10. X 16cm. Two vols bound in one: title page to both vols both with engraved vignettes and both dated 1594; several engraved headpieces; pp. viii 1-342; ii 343 - 628 26 Blasii Monluci Franciae Mareschalli Tumulus. 17th c. binding of full calf with 5 raised bands to the boards with gilt decroation between and burgundy title label; marbled end papers tihe front end paper with the engraved bookplate of the Earl of Roden all edges tinted red. Binding good and strong with some general wear and rubbing leather chipped to the head/tail of the spine and rubbed through to the boards to the bottom edges partially to the front fore-edge and the corners joints with partial cracks at the head/tail but the binding remains firm and the boards strongly attached. Contents generally very good clean and complete with a few small faults: the title page to vol. I a little worn and marked with the lower corner tip missing but not affecting any lettering a few pages very lightly stained; pp. 18-32 with a tear/chip at the base of the gutter with slight loss of a few letters; but lost letters replaced in contemporary autograph this may have been a binding fault as these pages are not quite straight with a few marginal notes slightly shaved. Generally margins are very good with marginal notes present slight worming to the head of pages 590-620 slightly affecting running title only top corners/top foreedge of pages 113-116 singed slightly affecting a couple of marginal notes. A very good copy of this very early reprint: the first edition was published 2 years earlier and was soon coined the "soldiers' bible". For extra information please do not hesitate to contact us. Chez Abel L'Angelier Hardcover
1595000745Antverpiae: Ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam & Ioannem Moretum 1595. Hardcover. See Description. Second edition corrected. Small 8vo. pp. 137 7. With 22 engravings accompanying the text. Title page contains the Plantin device. Bound in a fine unsigned modern full calf binding with blind stamped and gilt boards and an extra-gilt spine. Interior pages are clean and fresh with an occasional spot. Edges are trimmed a bit closely on some leaves. A very attractive copy. The engravings which mostly depict different forms of crucifixion are ascribed to the Dutch engraver Peter van der Borcht. Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 was a Belgian antiquarian who specialized in the study of ancient and classical history. His work "De cruce libri tres" first printed in 1583 is an important scholarly study on crucifixion in antiquity. Bibliographie Lipsienne I pp. 189-190; Adams L-778. <br/> <br/> Ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum hardcover
1556000567Paris: Ex typographia Matthaei Davidis 1556. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 4to. pp. 12 250 14. Title page with woodcut printers device. Text printed italic font with sectional decorative initials. Interior pages are generally clean. A miniscule marginal tear is neatly sealed on the title page. A small pair of initials are lightly written in an old hand on the verso of the title. Bound in modern full calf with panels in blind after an early period style. Jean Picards "De Prisca Celtopaedia" discusses the development of language arts and science in ancient Gaul. The author uses place names ancient sources and epigraphic evidence to argue that the Greek language had originated in Gaul and that the Gallic Druids and Bards were developing philosophy science and poetry long before other cultures. Picard claims that the Greek language was first brought to Greece by the Gauls as they travelled through those lands on the way to found new settlements in Asia Minor i.e. Galatia paraphrased from Le Long Bib. Hist. I 3797. The work contains much discussion of Druids and other lore. Adams P1088; Shaaber p. 406; Brunet IV 30; Graesse V p. 280; Black Druids p. 13; Le Long "Bib. Hist. de la France" 2nd ed. I 3797. <br/> <br/> Ex typographia Matthaei Davidis hardcover
1542049716Cologne: Iasparis Gennepaei 1542. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary limp parchment title penned to spine lining to parchment possibly from an old decoration. A bit of wear to edges uniform light age toning to pages heavier in a few spots. Flaws small tears in the margins here and there -- generally quite clean and very good internally with wide margins. 32 516pp.<br /> <br /> A student of Augustine who collaborated on City of God he traveled to Palestine in 415 to confer with the intellectuals there. Adversus Paganos was an enormously influential work for over 1000 years shaping Western historiography in the ancient and medieval periods. It details the pagan peoples history from the earliest times up to the time of Orosius. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 049716. Iasparis Gennepaei hardcover
1592013110Wircebvrgi. Wurzburg Germany: Wircebvrgi Apud Viduam Henrici Aquensis Episcopalis Typographi. Anno M. D. XCII. Henry Aquensis 1592. Full calf. Good. An exceptionally Rare Catholic Theological work by Nicholas Sanders printed in Wurzburg Germany in 1592: "De Visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae Libri VIII.Auctore Nicholas Sandero Sacrae Theo-Logiae Professore. Accesserunt Eisudem Auctoris De Clave David Seu De Regno Christi Libri Sex Quibus Continentur Huius De Visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae Operis Contra Quosdam Oppugnatores Necessaria Defensio Romae Primum Nunc Etiam In Germania Excuse. Cum Indice Rerum & Personarum Locuplete. Singulorum Librorum Argumenta Sequens Pagina Indicabit. Wircebvrgi Apud Viduam Henrici Aquensis Episcopalis Typographi. Anno M. D. XCII." Size Folio 13.25" x 8.5". 808 pages plus Indices. Also bound with: "De Clave David Sev Regno Christi Libri Sex Contra Calvmnias Acleri Pro Visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia Avctore Nicolao Sandero Anglo Sacrae Theologiae Professore. Vvircebvrgi Apud Viduam Henrici Aquensis Episcopalis Typographi. Anno M. D. XCII." 153 pages plus index. Recently professionally rebound in full tan calf with blind tooled border and central vignettes to each cover six raised bands to the spine with red leather and gilt title label in the second compartment new end-papers original end-papers at front retained title page has been laid down to aid preservation. Condition good the binding is in new fine condition internally the end-papers are frayed at bottom with loss fraying with loss of paper but not text to lower and lower outer right margin of title light water mark to top edge of first 100 pages. Old minor worm track to lower margin of about 40 pages. Other than this the pages are pretty clean slightly toned and dust marked no foxing the texts still crisp and sharp. Nicholas Sanders c.1530-1581 Roman Catholic agent and historian ordained c.1550 exiled in Augsburg in 1566. This work by Sanders "De visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae" first published in 1571 contains the first narrative of the sufferings of the English Roman Catholics. Its extreme Papalism and its strenuous defence of Pius V.'s bull excommunicating and deposing Elizabeth marked out Sanders for the enmity of the English government and he retaliated with lifelong efforts to procure the deposition of Elizabeth and the restoration of Roman Catholicism. His expectations of the cardinalate were disappointed by Pius V.'s death in 1572 and Sanders spent the next few years at Madrid trying to embroil Philip II. who gave him a pension of 300 ducats in open war with Elizabeth." The state of Christendom" he wrote "dependeth upon the stout assailing of England." His writings have been the basis of all Roman Catholic histories of the English Reformation. In this work he is deeply critical of Henry VIII even suggesting that Anne Boleyn was actually Henry VIII's own daughter. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall <br/> <br/> Wircebvrgi, Apud Viduam Henrici Aquensis Episcopalis Typographi. Anno M. D. XCII. Henry Aquensis unknown
1551046063Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Rebound in half leather over paper boards title page soiled scattered light foxing but very clean otherwise. Attractively printed with wide margins and fine initial letters. Last 40 pages with mostly light marginal dampstaining. 340 3pp. Adams G 639 Graesse III 490 Sabin 27478 for the bio of Columbus Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046063. <br/><br/> Lorenzo Torrentino hardcover
