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158206611070110Francoforti ad Moenum Frankfurt 1582. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Title: De arte bibendi libri tres autore Vincentio Obsopoeo Germano. Quibus adiunximus De arte iocandi libros quatuor Matthaei Delij Hamburgiensis cum luculenta in eosdem praefatione ; D. Sebastiani Hamaxurgi apud fontes salutares frumentatoris hexastichon. The Art of Drinking and the Art of Joking. Leather blind-printed covers with linen covering only on spline covers are well-rubbed with worn corners. There are splits on the front and rear hinges at both the head and base of the spine cut red blocks. Sound internal binding with brown end-papers with bookplate Samuel Bradshaw on inside front cover. Red and black title-page is damaged on lower leading edge and corner is well-rubbed leading to the loss of small areas of text and has been re-backed. Initial pages before the Praefatio are a little darkened and there is a sort tear and crease in the upper corner of the margin of the first page of the Paraefatio pages are otherwise clean and free from tears but there is some very light transference of the red from the blocks onto occasional pages. The last short piece "In Ebrietatem" which follows the fourth book of De Arte Iocandi may have a pages missing as there is a trailing word Vta at the end the last two lines are "Sic armis illud vestris circundate monstrum Caedeq prostrata tingite tela ferae". The page facing this has a reverse image of part of a handwritten document with an apparent renaissance signature. Text is in Latin. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 06611070110. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Francoforti ad Moenum hardcover
1552NL8214Lugduni: Apvd. Seb. Gryphium 1552. HB. Full leather gilt lettering on gilt panel on spine with three raised bands 8 vo 701 pp. Early edition of Pietro Vettori's 1499-1585 translations of Cicero this title mainly dealing with the letters of Cicero. Covers show minor edge wear small hole in leather on spine. No marks in text binding solid. Some foxing to preliminaries text clean. Printed by Sebastianus Gryphius 1493-1556 with his printers device on title page. Book condition VG. Apvd. Seb. Gryphium 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
1582045463Geneva: Jacob Stoer 1582. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled calf over wooden boards. Calf dry and degraded missing in spots wood worn at the edges with some loss. Remains of clasps; binding still quite sound. Light age toning to pages scattered creases and minor flaws generally very clean internally. Attractively printed with historiated initials head and tail pieces and a vignette portrait of Livy. 14 623 29 leaves. Adams 1355 Graesse IV 234.<br /> <br /> The first French edition of the complete Livy and a monumental work of Renaissance scholarship. It was also printed in an octavo edition by Stoer in 3 volumes also 1582 and reprinted in folio by Chouet in 1607. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045463. Jacob Stoer hardcover
1519ZB506445Austin: The University of Texas 1915-1927 passim. ex library in 7 later bindings card sides with cloth tape spines most softcover retained but some chipped some have text browned but not fragile an overall good group; emphasis is on teaching and not Texas history itself. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Austin: The University of Texas, paperback
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
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
1544000238Paris: Rob. Stephani 1544. Hardcover. See Description. First and only Estienne edition. 8vo. pp. 208 32. Title page with Estienne device Renouard Typographiques #294. Latin text printed in italic. The title page shows some mild spotting; a faint monogram is also written in an old hand on either side of the printers device. Interior pages are clean and crisp. Bound in early 19th century straight grained red morocco with spots of rubbing to the extremities. The outer joints are professionally strengthened. The upper corner tip to the front cover is neatly patched. All edges are gilt. The inside front cover contains the heraldic book plate and the monogrammed ticket of English book collector Sir John Hayford Thorold 1773-1831 See De Ricci "English Collectors " plate VIII also pp. 159-160. An additional heraldic plate from another owner is located on the marbled fly-leaf. Contents include the extant historical works of the Roman statesman and author Caius Crispus Sallustius 86-35 b.c.e 1. "De conjuratione Catilinae" On the Catiline Conspiracy describes events surrounding Lucius Sergius Catilinas attempts between 65 and 62 b.c.e. to forcefully take over the Roman government 2. "De bello Jugurthino"On the Jugurthine War narrates the war of succession in Numidia 111-104 b.c.e. where Roman forces sought to intervene in the power struggle between King Jugurtha and his brother Adherbal. 3 Fragments of other historical writings. This edition of Sallustius was printed by Robert Estienne the French printer-scholar best known for fine typography and quality editions of the classics. Renouard Estienne p. 60; Adams S-155; Schweiger III p. 873; Graesse VI p. 238. <br/> <br/> Rob. Stephani hardcover
1553045324Lyon: Guillaume Rouille 1553. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum darkened worn at corners old inscription to front blank dampstain to upper right corner early on and lower margin towards the end modest browning and foxing crease to center of last 30 pages. 2 volumes in one each page with medallion portraits and a brief biography of celebrated figures from Adam to Henry II. viii 172 4pp; 247 8pp. Graesse V 458 Adams P2161 Bib. Lyon. IX 205.<br /> <br /> Rouille was an important Lyonese printer who invented the 16mo pocket format. He apprenticed in Venice and came to Lyon in 1543 to set up his press. This collection of portraits was published simultaneously in Latin French and Italian Spanish 5 years later and was hugely successful prompting decades of imitations.<br /> <br /> Provenance:Giacamo DeToma bookplate 1884 inscription of Felice Guidi Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 045324. Guillaume Rouille hardcover
1519biblio28Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. 1915 - 1919. First Edition 2 Vols. 4to. Biblioteca do Dr. Laureano Barros 5299. Avila Perez 6637. Vol I lii; 498 pp; one folding map & 5 B&W photographs hors texte. Vol II xix 563 pp. FIRST EDITION. Please contact me ramrozzi@yahoo.fr<br /><br /><br /><br /> Academia das Sciências de Lisboa paperback
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
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
159028681Venetiis: Damianum Zenarium. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1590. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Contemporary full calf binding spine in five compartments separated by raised bands blind-stamped tooling in each compartment blind-stamped borders decoration and religious medallions on each cover metal closure clasps. "Catechism by the Decree of the Sacred Council of Trent by Order of Pius V. Pontifex Maximus. Published Now first in chapters separated into sections variously fortified by the opinions and authorities of the Fathers. Two indexes added the first of which teaches by what means those things which are given in this work can be adapted to the Sunday Gospels and to some other Feasts". Very old library label in one compartment former owners' signatures on fep and title page Jacob Manghofer otherwise unmarked spine and covers rubbed hinges strong text block tight and square; one clasp missing the other still operating well. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxx-Index 704 49-Index pp . Damianum Zenarium 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
1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini 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
152041824Yardley Pennsylvania Postal History Society 20152019 paperback. Periodical issued quarterly with great "micro-history" articles such as: New Hope letters circa 1836; eight Philadelphia piano companies "from a phllatelic perspective"; illegal use of postage stamps as revenues; etc. Many illustrations. -- Softcover each 30 pages 8.5 x 11 inches. Condition: very good plus some have a little damage: in the mail !!!; closure stickers; recipient name. -- Stamp collecting; philately Pennsylvania Postal History Society paperback
1587016842: Abraham Ortelius Original 1587 But This A Reprint 1587. 5th or later Edition . No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. 19" x 17. Image Size: 18 7/8" X 13 3/4". Text "Cum Privilegio Decennali Ab. Ortelius Delineab. Et Excudeb. 1587" At Lower Right. However This Must Be A Late Eighteenth Century To Twentieth Century Reprint Printed On Wove Paper Sheet Never Placed In An Atlas. Strong Impression And Color Minor Loss Of A Millimeter Depth In A Tiny Area Of Lower Left Margin Otherwise Undamaged. Margins Irregular Up To 1" Deep. Professionally Cleaned And De-Acidified With Archival Materials By A Museum-Experienced Conservator. <br/> <br/> Abraham Ortelius (Original 1587 But This A Reprint) unknown
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
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
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
1598090168No place stated 1598. Vellum. pp. 623. 4to. Vellum. Hand-lettered spine. Engraved title page. Double page map showing the Low Countries. 22 engraved portraits some trimmed a bit at the foredge as noted on WorldCat. Portion of text block shows a tide mark across one corner. Complete. Binding sound. Latin. USTC 663028. unknown
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
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
