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15617610Paris: Jacobum Dupuis 1561. Second edition. Vellum. Very Good. 16mo. ff.172. BOUND WITH: Marullo Michele or Marullo Tarcaniota Michele. EPIGRAMMATA & HYMNI. Paris: Jacobum Dupuis. 1561. ff.92. Title with outer margin restoration 1/2" vertical strip of later paper with a few letters of title & imprint in manuscript. 2 pages of cont. manuscript notes in German at back. Both works bound togetherin cont. vellum soiled. Large bookplate of American classical scholar Kirby Flower Smith 1862-1918. I: The second edition of the works of Secundus. Also found with the variant imprint of A. Wechelum as in both Adams S838 and BL French STC p. 397. II: Uncommon edition of the Greek scholar and Neo Latin poet Marullo 1458-1500. Not in BL French STC. Adams T145 under "Tarchaniota" and with the variant imprint of Wechelum. Jacobum Dupuis hardcover books
15546266Venice: Ad Signum Spei 1554. First edition. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. 1696pp. Title page with a large allegorical woodcut vignette. BOUND WITH: Campeggi Tommaso. OPUS. DE AUCTORITATE & POTESTATE ROMANI PONTIFICIS & Alia Opuscula Quae Indicantur in Sequenti Pagina. Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F. 1555. Sm. 8vo. ff.12223. Lg. woodcut anchor & dolphin printer's device on title. Both works nicely bound together in 19th century brown morocco gilt decorated spine over marbled boards. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox on front pastedown. First editions of two of Campegii's main works. The first is his tract on celibacy the second is his treatise on the power of the Pope ff.1-116 followed by 19 other theological treatises. I. BM STC Italian p. 142. Not in Adams. II. BM STC Italian p. 142. Adams C477. Renouard ALDUS p. 164. Ad Signum Spei hardcover books
15616593Basil: Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam 1561. First collected edition. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 each with its own title page see below. 16240;18010pp. With the final leaf of errata and colophon. Orig. limp vellum inner hinges reinforced with linen cloth strips. Later endpapers. The first part is a description of England Scotland Ireland the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands with a long English historical chronicle. The second part separately collated is the author's "Moschovia in qua Situs Regionis Antiquis Incognitus." a description of Moscow but it also includes his description of Lake Como the place of the author's birth and a text on Italian fish. VD 16 G2058; BL German STC p. 360; not in Adams. Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam hardcover books
15254627Vinegia Venice: Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino 1525. Very Good. Bound in period vellum with title and intricate symbol on spine. Covers have moderate and common aging to vellum. Partially separated from binding and some loose pages; all pages present - there is a jump in pages from LVII to LXI but text appears complete and same issue with other copies currently/recently available. Some minor spotting inside. Contains 30 engravings including allegorical scenes surrounding title page intricate capital lettering in text image on final page and 27 images related to the dialogue throughout. Type is all in italics except where names are in capital characters. Comprising the works of Lucian this is the first Italian translation. Comes with a cardboard slipcase for stability in shipping.<br /> <br /> Pages: 488<br /> Dimensions: 4 x 6 x 1¼. Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino unknown
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
15557297Strassburg: Wendelinus Rihelius 1555. First edition. 17th century boards. Very Good. Folio. ff.44691. Final leaf a blank. Colophon at bottom of f.469. Large woodcut device on title page. 18th century red boards morocco spine label spine and extremities somewhat rubbed but quite sound. Front free endpaper lacking. Old rubber stamp at lower blnk margin of title. Some minor marginal worming. Some early marginal annotations in a few sections. The scarce first edition of this famous history of the German Reformation. It was immediately controversial. The Schaff-Herzog RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA states "Storms of protest arose against it on every side both Roman Catholic and Protestant." There are 2 issues of this work VD S6668 ours and VD S6669 which differs in having the last leaf numbered 470 and leaf 463 has an errata printed on the recto. In VD S6668 there are 469 numbered leaves and leaf 463 is blank without errata and not numbered. Wendelinus Rihelius hardcover books
15526331Venice: Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari 1552. First edition. Very Good/The title promises four sets of "questions and their solutions" and indeed that was the plan. Lando wrote Q&A on four topics: medical questions including dietary and aging functions ethical questions questions about religion and questions about love and sex. It was the love and sex part that raised the eyebrows of the censors and neither Lando or his publisher Giolito could get permissions to print it as the book was going to press. As Giolito himself declares in a postscript to the reader: "I promised you four books of doubts but since I haven't yet been granted a license for the doubts about love I'm forced to give you only three. Be well and enjoy as much of the book as I could give you." The license came later and the text appeared in later editions. This unfinished text with its publisher's apology represents a fascinating birthmark on the 16th-century book trade. The Q&A ranges over hundreds of topics calling upon the author's medical training much involved with the humors and temperaments associated with various organs objects and creatures his classical erudition and his training in the Augustinian order. The three sections together provide comprehensive insight into 16th century medicine and popular religious and moral thought. The odd matter of two versions of the dedication page leaf A ii is not easily explained. We suspect with some justification that Lando sought patronage for the same work in different locations knowing that Protestant Germany rarely spoke with Catholic Italy and vice versa. He might have found different backers in different markets. We know that to be the case with at least one other book of Lando's the "Sermoni Funebri" 1549 where some copies are dedicated to Fugger and others to Niccolo degli Alberti. That case is known and recorded. We find no recorded instance of the alternate dedication of "Quattro libri dei dubbi" to Fugger and no record of the author being identified by signing the dedication letter in any other copy. The "Quattro libri de dubbi" was quickly translated into French Lyon 1558 and by William Painter into English entitled "Delectable demaundes and pleasaunt questions with their severall aunswers." 1566 and again 1640. . Octavo 16 cm; 318 2 pages. Woodcut device on title page and on last page. Woodcut initials. Bound in recent vellum in period style yapp edges titled in ink on spine. Early 20th-century bibliographical note bound in. Marginal annotations in contemporary hand. Leaf a ii the dedicatory letter present in two states the cancel addressed to Johann Jakob Fugger closing with Lando's name and the original leaf addressed to Christoph Mielich and not signed as usual. Small perforation in the cancel affecting a word. Occasional light stains darker on last leaf. References: Bongi I 368; Melzi II 391; BM Italian 377 1556 ed.; Fontanini II 117. Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari hardcover books
1600M13168Verona: Societatis Aspirantium cura 1600. 1600. Two parts in 1. Small 4to. xxiv 118 1 pp. Printer's woodcut device 5 snakes over landscape woodcut initials and tailpiece rear errata & colophon; old ink marginalia p.36 underlining pp. 97-99. Original vellum; lacks ties. Ownership inscription on title: Hugo De Salins Belnensis Doct. Med. d.1659 and another signature obscured. Bookplate of Château de Montrevost Cuisery France. EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON GOUT & RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: : HUGUES DE SALINS' COPY. First edition of this rare work on the nature cause and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The status of gout in the late sixteenth century was such that gout was said by Turberville to be found in "horses capons and falcons." p. 64. John Gerard's Herball 1597 stated that Gout-wort or Herba Gerardi was a native herb that could be used with some benefit supported further by Culpeper. According to Copeman Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 suffered from gout and wrote the classic description of the disease and was the first to be able to differentiate between rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The present work was written decades earlier. Francesco India cites Galen Chap. 1 Ambroise Pare Chap. 12 and Jean Fernel Chapters 5 7 8. India makes two 15-page tables of causes which he uses to organize his data. <br /><br /> PROVENANCE: Hugues de Salins: The British Library catalogue lists a "Hugues de Salins; see: Jean Baptiste de Salins Defense du vin de Bourgogne 1704." This may be a descendent. See: Societe d'Histoire d'Archeologie et de Litterature de l'arrondissement de Beaune Memoires annee 1890 Volumes 15-16 Beaune 1891 pp. 75 177. Mentions the wife of Hugues de Salins as buried in 1626 and Hugues de Salins buried in 1659. <br /><br /> Francisci Indiae an Italian philosopher and physician who is little known wrote the present work and two others: Hygiphylus: sive de febre maligna dialogus 1593. Hygiophilvs Tertivs Vel De Symptomatvm Febri Malignae Svper 1599. See: Frederic Paulhan Catalogue des legs Gide & Teissier-Rolland 1892 p. 212. Showing a copy of Strabo's Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII 1571 with the same provenance inscription is this book. This inscription must date prior to 1892. <br /><br /> Copeman W.S.C. A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatics Diseases pp. 53 64. Locations: British Library; Edinburgh University; Middle Temple Library; Wellcome Library. Societatis Aspirantium cura, 1600. hardcover books
155132892-1119Florence Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. With large historiated woodcut initial at the beginning. 90 pp. 1 blank leaf. Sm.-4to 193 x 138 mm. 17th-century polished calf gilt panelled spine red edges blind library stamps on first and last leaves back rep. From the collection of Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland lot 10608 in his sale 1882. Florence Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. First edition. Probably originally published and later reprinted Palau: Se reimprimio en coleccion en la obras. as part of the larger work by the Spanish born Jesuit Torres 1509-1584 "De summi pontificis supra concilia auctoritate libri tres" 1551 against Ambrosius Catharinus Archbishop of Conza 1484-1553. Torres was professor at the Roman College and wrote more than seventy books principally polemical mainly against Protestants. "Can also exist independently": State Library Berlin transl. - Palau 33697 knows only the BN copy; FRBNF31481832; CNCE 48142 no copy in Florence; cf. Adams 1192; not in EDIT 16; not in STC Italian but cf. p. 687. Florence, (Lorenzo Torrentino) unknown
153612039Antwerp: Simon Cock Cocus. Good with no dust jacket. 1536. First Edition. Vellum. 44 ff. Small octavo. Newer vellum binding over card. Vellum has some light wear some browning to the rear. Newer end papers. Title page a bit grubby. Some occasional small staining/thumbing but otherwise very nice. Recto of last leaf has a full-page woodcut of the crucifixion verso has an errata and a neat older owner name in ink. A very scarce copy only 5 recorded in World Cat of a collection of religious verse hymns elegies and prayers by three Neolatin poets. The first is "Cornelius" which may refer to Cornelius Crocus Kroock 1500-1550 a Dutch theologian and educator; then Joannes Fernandus and Rodolphus Langius. There is an introductory poem by Faustus Andrelinus and a final poem by J. B. Cantalicius. Printed in March 1536. OCLC 69408729 NK 1631. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages . Simon Cock (Cocus) hardcover
155133109-74Augsburg Philip Ulhard October 1551. Diagrams showing eclipses and celestial positions in the format of astrological squares. 346 leaves author's name crossed out on title. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Augsburg Philip Ulhard October 1551. First edition of a little known work by Cyprian Leowitz 1524-1574. The celebrated Bohemian astronomer was professor of astronomy and appointed mathematician to Elector Palatine Otho Henry German: Ottheinrich 1502-1559 and acquired a high reputation at the time of the reception of the Copernican theory. It is well known that the cosmological elements of the Copernican theory i.e. the "centrality" of the Sun and the Earth's revolution about it were not widely accepted for nearly a century after the publication of the "De Revolutionibus". Leowitz played a central role in facilitating conjunctionist theory and the actual contents of the "Tabulae" are in line with those by Stöffler. From the end of the 15th century onwards many editions of the tables of Regiomontanus were produced with commentaries and additions i.e. by Erasmsus Reinhold Luca Gaurico Leowitz with participation of Melanchthon etc. The present huge work by Leowitz appeared without introduction and without explanation. It contains so-called position plates for the places from the 33rd to the 60th latitude the pole height of the places gradus latitudinis. A final short "secundes pars" with plates up to the 66th latitude appeared in November 1551 and is not present here as in a microfiche copy stored in the Herzogin Anna Amanlia Bibliothek Weimar. . "Position" is not be taken here in the sense of modern astronomy. It is well known that the cosmological elements of the Copernican theory was not widely accepted for a long time after the publication of the "De Revolutionibus" see Burmeister Magister Rhecicus 2015. A current subject of investigation is the variety in response to the theory in the various countries of Europe. Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 visited Cyprian Leowitz in 1569. According to Tycho Leowitz told him that in his opinion the predictions of Copernicus agreed better with observations of the superior planets and solar eclipses while Ptolemy's predictions were more accurate for lunar eclipses and the positions of the inferior planets. Leowitz was correct about the relative superiority of the two theories in predicting the longitudes of the planets.- Good copy. _ _ - Adams L-520; Zinner 2018; NBG 30 814; not in Houzeau & Lancaster; cf. VD 16 L 1276. SCIENCE:ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY ; Augsburg, Philip Ulhard hardcover
155252798<p>Lugduni apud Joan. Tornaesium 1552. TITLE CONTINUED: Accesserunt Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii civis Romani annotationes castigatiores & plus tertia parte locupletiores. Adiecta est Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolae de mensuris & ponderibus libros eodem autoter cum Graeco pariter & Latino indice lucupletissimo. FIRST JEAN DE TOURNES EDITION OF VITRUVIUS 1552 Latin text. 4to approximately 235 x 155 mm 9¼ x 6¼ inches printer's device of vipers on title page a different De Tournes device on verso final page 83 woodcut illustrations 1 folding plate of an inscription portrait of Philandrier the editor on final page of prelims arabesque headpieces to the 10 books and historiated initials throughout pages: 16 447 57 - including index errata and Extrait du Privilege with last line: Achevé d'imprimer le huitieme février 1552 the last leaf with printer's device on verso bound in modern full blind panelled calf raised bands blind rules and gilt lettered morocco label to spine all edges red new endpapers. Small repair to inner edge of title page plus 2 ink names pages lightly age-browned tiny chip to fore-edge of 1 prelim page small closed tear to 1 margin repaired neatly some early mostly neat ink marginal notes some small corrections to text and a little neat underlining a couple of small ink stains and smudges text still easily legible very light foxing to a few margins. A good tight copy. This edition published in Lyon by Jean de Tournes was the second edited by Guillaume Philandrier the first was published in Strasbourg in 1550 as a 16mo. As the secretary to the bishop of Rodez the French humanist Philandrier friend of Rabelais had spent 10 years in Italy in Venice and Rome many of them studying Vitruvius and in 1544 he published his illustrated annotations separately in Rome. See: Laurence Hall Fowler The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University pages 318-319; Adams Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600 Volume II V908; Harvard French 16th Century Books Volume II No. 550. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> Lugduni, apud Joan. Tornaesium, 1552. hardcover
158273<p>COPY CONTAINING THE MINUTE OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY GIORGIO RAGUSEO TO HIS COLLEAGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA GIROLAMO PALLANTIERI</p><p>8vo 153x93 mm. 16 327 1 pp. and 1 folding plate with the movable parts to be cut out and the instructions on how to assemble them. Collation: †8 A-V8 X4. Printer's device on title page and several woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. On the front pastedown label with the shelf mark "Scansia N. G10 Palchetto N.". On title page is the ownership's entry "Della libraria di Brisighella" and an old faded stamp. Contemporary binding made with a manuscript vellum leaf datable to the 12th-13th century inked title on spine and on the upper edge round worm holes and small losses to the panels heavier loss to the bottom part of the spine lacking ties and front flyleaf. Leaves †6 and †7 stained and with minor losses of paper and occasionally also of text small hole in the middle of quire M affecting a few letters other hole in the lower blank margin of ll. V3-X4 with no loss of text uniformly browned throughout first quire slightly loose. A genuine copy.</p><p>On back flyleaf recto is a manuscript note containing the minute of a letter presumably autograph by Giorgio Raguseo d. 1622 dated "Patavi ex academia nostra V. Non. Marti 94" 3 March 1594 and addressed to the "Admodum Rev.do ac Ecellentiss.o Patri Magistro Hieronimo Palanterio in almo Patavino Gimnasio theologiam publice proficienti" in which Raguseo thanks his colleague and professor of theology Girolamo Pallantieri 1533-1619 and asks his permission to print some not better specified academic "conclusiones ex variis doctoribus scholasticiis" which he thinks are worth publishing. It is also not clear which academy he is referring to in the letter.</p><p>On the verso of the same leaf is another note by the same hand quoting as a reminder the 1566 Giovanni Battista & Marchiò Sessa edition of <i>Le nuove teoriche de i pianeti</i> by Georg Peurbach in the translation by Orazio Toscanella.</p><p>RARE EDITION published in Antwerp of Sacrobosco's famous astronomical treatise accompanied by notes of Francesco Giuntini 1523-1590 Elie Vinet 1509-1587 and Albert Hero d. 1589 which appeared for the first time in the Lyon edition of 1562.</p><p>"Sacrobosco's <i>Sphaera</i> written in Paris around 1220 enjoyed a long popularity as the leading introduction to spherical astronomy. First printed in 1472 it went through at least a score of editions in the fifteenth century and something over 100 in the sixteenth … Publishing Sacrobosco entered a new and different phase in Wittenberg in 1531. Prior to that year all the editions were folio or quarto that is large often quite beautiful and presumably expensive volumes. In 1531 the Lutheran University of Wittenberg apparently sponsored a version cheap enough to become a required textbook for the astronomy course. It is fully illustrated with didactic figures and comes with a preface in praise of astronomy by Philipp Melanchthon … Demand for the small Sacrobosco textbook remained high at Wittenberg and a new edition was issued every few years. In 1538 a revised revision appeared: for the first time three of the diagrams incorporated moving parts. This proved to be such a popular feature that virtually every octavo Sacrobosco from the 1540s on – regardless of whether it was printed in Paris Antwerp Cologne or Venice – included these same identical volvelles. Incidentally these volvelles were not pre-cut and pasted by the printer. They were issued on ancillary sheets together with instructions for assembling them. Hence it is possible to find copies of these text books with no sign that the volvelles were ever in place and very occasionally the original sheet with the instructions and cutouts can still be found with the book" O. Gingerich <i>Sacrobosco as a Textbook</i> in: "Journal of History of Astronomy" 19 no. 4 Nov. 1988 pp. 269-273.</p><p>The letter contained in the present copy is particularly interesting as it connects two prominent figures of the University of Padua at the end of the 16th century highlighting their academic and professional ties. It is also worth noting that Raguseo wrote a commentary on Sacrobosco's <i>Sphaera</i> <i>Expositio super spheram Ioannis de Sacrobosco</i> Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana manuscript N.207 sup. which has remained unpublished.</p><p>Giorgio di Ragusa or Raguseo as he was called after the name of his hometown today's Dubrovnik in Dalmatia was born on an unspecified date in the second half of the 16th century. He spent his youth in Venice where he was educated in mathematics by his father in the letters by L. Natali and in astrology his favourite discipline by Osvaldo da Gent and F. Barozzi. He then studied and graduated at the Studio of Padua first in the arts the exact date is not known then in 1592 in theology and in 1601 in medicine. In the meantime he took the minor orders and gained a certain reputation as an expert in Lull's art taking part in two public disputes over theological conclusions exposed according to R. Lull's method one in Venice in 1594 and the other in Padua in 1595. In 1599 he set off on a journey that kept him away from Venice for two years. In Pisa he met G. Mercuriale while in Naples he made the acquaintance of G. Della Porta. When he returned to Padua in the spring of 1601 he was appointed to the second ordinary chair of natural philosophy at the local Studio replacing C. Cremonini recently promoted to the first chair. In the following years he was deeply involved in all academic activities not only in teaching. His name in fact is one of those that most often appears in the commission that conferred the doctorate titles according to the practice of the Palatine counts and in this capacity on April 25 1602 he conferred the title of doctor in philosophy and medicine to W. Harvey. In 1613 in Venice he published twenty-four Aristotelian disputes under the title of <i>Peripateticae disputationes</i>. Around 1618 Raguseo took part in the discussions raised by the appearance of a comet. Despite his academic Aristotelianism he expressed an original position in the debate supporting the need for critical scrutiny by the senses and experience. From a letter of 1611 we also know that he used the telescope to verify some of discoveries announced by Galileo in the <i>Sidereus nuncius</i>. Raguseo died in Padua on 13 January 1622 cf. C. Preti <i>Giorgio da Ragusa</i> in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" LV 2001 s.v.; see also L. Thorndike <i>A history of magic and experimental science</i> VI New York 1941 pp. 198-202; M. Josipovic <i>Il pensiero filosofico di G. Raguseo</i> Milan 1985; and G.F. Tomasini <i>Gymnasium Patavinium</i> Udine 1654 pp. 309 and 445 for Ragueseo and p. 284 for Girolamo Pallantieri professor of theology from 1580 to 1603.</p><p>Bernardino Pallantieri was born in Castel Bolognese in 1533. In 1547 at the age of fourteen he entered the order of friars minor conventual taking the name of Girolamo. In Ferrara he studied philosophy with the theologian Filippo Braschi and the famous philosopher Vincenzo Maggio. He then continued his studies in Bologna under the guidance of Giovanni Antonio Delfini and Franceschino Visdomini. At first appointed regent of the Studio of Pavia in 1566 Pallantieri took up the chair of theology at that university. In 1568 he was called to Milan by St Charles Borromeo archbishop of that city who appointed him as preceptor of the candidates for priesthood and as his personal theologian. Pallantieri remained in Milan for 5 years then in 1573 he resumed his teaching in Pavia. Between 1575 and 1581 he was in Rome at the service of Cardinal Felice Peretti as his personal advisor and theologian. In 1581 he was called back to Bologna and in 1582 he was elected minister provincial of the friars minor of the province of Bologna. He was also a member of the Accademia degli Infiammati of Parma with the name of "Solingo". When his three-year mandate in Bologna expired in 1585 Pallantieri was called by the Reformers of the Studio of Padua to occupy the chair of theology and at the same time he was appointed superior of the convent of the Saint Anthony the patron of the city. Girolamo remained in Padua for ten years until about 1595. In 1603 he was appointed bishop of Bitonto by Pope Clement VIII but he moved to his diocese only in 1605. Pallantieri died in Bitonto in 1619 at the age of eighty-six cf. E. Papagna <i>Pallantieri Bernardino</i> in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" LXXX 2014 s.v.</p>Houzeau-Lamcaster no. 1658; L. Desgraves <i>Elie Vinet</i> Genève 1977 no. 125. Jean Bellère books
15416509Luguduni sic: Lyon: Seb. Gryphium Sebastian Gryphius 1541. Early reprint. Leatherbound. Good. 12mo. Pp. 314 13. Early 18th-C. tree calf five raised bands with gilt tooled decorations and lettering piece edges trimmed and dyed red. Decorative initial caps italic text with roman titles table of Latin and Greek chapter titles marginal notes index following text followed by a tail-piece that of a gryffin in reference to printer Gryphius. Includes Appendicula de condituris varijs ex Ioanne Damasceno a section of fourteen recipes for “condimenta†and “condituræ†between De Re Culinaria and Facultatibus alimentorum. Spine ends chipped edges rubbed endpapers stained marginal annotations in ink tight binding. Presents four culinary and health texts as called for appearing together with Torinus' introduction the same year as a nearly identical Basel edition but in smaller format for a different market. <p>The collection of Roman recipes De Re Culinaria attributed to Apicius first appeared in this form in the fifth century AD. Torinus' sources were "codexes" found in Maguelone and Transylvania. Bartolomeo Sacchi Platina's De Honesta Voluptate given an alternate title by Torinus was the first movable-type cookbook based on Maestro Martino da Como's recipes. Paul of Aegina was a Byzantine Greek physician.</p> <p>Gryphius learned printing from his father in Germany then in Venice moving to Lyon around 1520. By the 1540s he had the city's largest printing establishment and reputation for a high standard of editing and impression specializing in Humanist works in small format modeled on Aldus Manutius. DURLING Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine 232.</p> . Seb. Gryphium [Sebastian Gryphius] unknown
15384474Venice: Per Agostino de Bindoni 1538. Sm. 8vo. 344pp. Illustrated with a large woodcut vignette on title page verso of title and colophon with devices and 78 woodcuts of hands keyed to the text. Nicely rebound in faux period calf gilt tooled spine in 3 compartments. Small chip and tear into blank upper margin of B1 and small printing flaw at bottom corner of A2 verso. An early Italian language edition of one of the most popular works on chiromancy of the 16th century. Tricasso 1491-c.1550 was a disciple of Barthelemy Cocles. At variance with Cocles on a number of points he set out in this work to analyze the significance of 78 configurations of hands as well as to outline the supposed astrological implications. His work is frequently cited by many later writers on the subject. As with other copies cited in OCLC the date at the conclusion of the author's preface is misprinted "1635" it should be "1535" the date of the first Italian edition of this title. Brunet V:945; STC of Italian Books p. 680. Caillet 10830. Per Agostino de Bindoni unknown books
154388<p>8° mm 151x104; cc. 32. Marca tipografica al frontespizio. Margine superiore un poco rifilato. Pergamena posteriore.</p><p>Seconda edizione del dialogo albertiano - meglio conosciuto sotto il titolo di <em>Theogenius</em> - dopo quella che priva di dati tipografici ISTC cataloga come: "Florence 1500" cfr. L.B. Alberti <em>Opere volgari</em> II <em>Rime e trattati morali</em> a cura di C. Grayson Bari 1966 p. 409.</p><p>Il <em>Theogenius</em> rappresenta un capitolo poco noto della fortuna e dell'influsso dell'epicureismo nel Quattrocento. In questo dialogo infatti l'Alberti illustra diversi temi dell'etica epicurea e <strong>traduce alcuni versi del <em>De rerum natura</em> di Lucrezio </strong>S. Gambino <em>Alberti lettore di Lucrezio: motivi lucreziani nel "Theogenius"</em> "Albertiana" IV 2001 pp. 69-84.</p><p>Leon Battista Alberti's <em>Theogenius</em> revived and revised the ancient view developed in the Hellenistic age according to which philosophy aims to form rather than inform people showing them how to cultivate a specific attitude towards existence through a rational comprehension of the nature of humanity and its place in the cosmos. This view of philosophy as a way of life was challenged by the development of scholastic philosophy seen as a body of speculative doctrines and professional skills ancillary to the superior wisdom of theology. Nevertheless it survived thanks to Renaissance humanists like Petrarch Alberti Erasmus and Montaigne. <strong>On the influence of Lucretius on Italian Humanism after Poggio Bracciolini's discovery of the only surviving manuscript of <em>De rerum natura</em> 1417</strong> cf. A. Brown <em>The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence</em> Harvard University Press 2010 and S. Greenblatt <em>The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began</em> London 2011.</p> Appresso Paulo Girardo, [colophon:] per Venturino Rosinello
15386173Venice: Per Agostino de Bindoni 1538. Sm. 8vo. 344pp. Illustrated with a large woodcut vignette on title page verso of title and colophon with devices and 78 woodcuts of hands keyed to the text. Cont. vellum with manuscript spine lettering. Light browning and soiling including title page but overall a very nice copy in a contemporary binding. An early Italian language edition of one of the most popular works on chiromancy of the 16th century. Tricasso 1491-c.1550 was a disciple of Barthelemy Cocles. At variance with Cocles on a number of points he set out in this work to analyze the significance of 78 configurations of hands as well as to outline the supposed astrological implications. His work is frequently cited by many later writers on the subject. As with other copies cited in OCLC the date at the conclusion of the author's preface is misprinted "1635" it should be "1535" the date of the first Italian edition of this title. Brunet V:945; STC of Italian Books p. 680. Caillet 10830. Per Agostino de Bindoni hardcover books
15641907280011Genevae : Ex officina Francisci Perrini M.D. LXIIII 1564. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Calvin's 16th century commentary on the book of Joshua and Beza'z Biography of Calvin Bound in contemporary vellum. Some soiling to cover. Octavo. 32 316 p. Printer's woodcut device on title-page. Slight worming in inner margin towards beginning not affecting text. Bookplate of Duncan Shaw and early inscription of Franciscus Saluardus. Calvin's last work. Includes the Latin translation Theodore de Besze's Life of Calvin. Adams C280. The French edition was printed in 1565. Genevae : Ex officina Francisci Perrini, M.D. LXIIII hardcover
1585B6597Paris: Apud Dionysium Duvallium sub Bucephalo in vico Bellouasco; c. April 1585 colophon . A very nice copy of this rarely found work; old minor marginal repair tape of title slight marginal stains and very small in-text and marginal oxidation spots none affecting legibility; light damp staining of the lower margin. Endpapers watermarked. Binding: 17th century mottled calf spine with six 6 raised bands with gilt lettered title on two and remainder of compartments ornamented in floral gilt; all edges speckled red. Notes: This medical work on gynaecology attributed to or by Hippocrates and his school is accompanied by the commentary in French of French Renaissance physician Maurice de La Corde; it is rare with three known exemplars incl. Yale & Oxford. <br> <br> Size: Folio 311x201mm Illustration: Text in Latin and Greek. Text in two columns of Latin and Greek respectively with accompanying Latin commentary in one; except index printed in three columns.<br>Illustrated title depicting determined/ inspired Hippocrates riding on horseback through crises or critical times toward the sun – this with marginal text in Latin and Greek; each major section opens with an elaborate headpiece and initial. <br> References: Pasquale Sfameni in Enciclopedia Italiana 1933; Adams H-615; Choulant 31; Durling 2412. Graesse III 283; Hirsch II 76; Renouard Marques 287; STC French 227. Not in Osler. Pages: Ll: bl. 10 pp. 1-361 6 bl.2. Collation: bl. a1-4 e1-6 A1-Z6 Aa1-Gg6 Hh1-7 bl.2. Category: Book Medical; Book Early Printed 1500; Apud Dionysium Duvallium, sub Bucephalo, in vico Bellouasco; hardcover
1510B6471Paris: Bertholdus Rembolt printer at Rue St. Jacques August 13 1510. . A superb example of fine and decorative early printing. Title is missing as usual otherwise in near fine condition text is clean and vibrant.<br><br>. Edition: Paris Edition. Binding: Contemporary full mottled calf on wooden boards boards with blind-ruled panels and floral corner pieces. Nineteenth century rebacking with raised blind bands gilt title on morocco label on two. Notes: colophon: “In Sole aureo uici Diui Jacobi Par=//rhisiensis.terminatum est hoc solenne Decreta=//lium volumen Per magistrum Bertholdum Rembolt. . anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo decimo die vero XIII. augusti.<br><br>As trained lawyer Pope Gregory edited and systematised the numerous compilations of early legal pronouncements or decisions codifying them while excising portions or “Exravagantes†thereby creating the 1234 Decretalium or Decretals. The work was published by Pope Bonifacius vii. <br>In the present legal example the Decretals are accompanied by flanking commentaries by Bernardus Bottoniensis and Johannes Andreas; the work also includes Dr. Lodovico Bolognini’s legal tables. <br>This body of canonical law would form the basis of canon law until in 1917 the law was further elaborated. Posterity would remember Pope Gregory for his Decretales Papal Inquisition ultimately with devastating long-term effects on Europe and his call for the Crusade of 1239 to retake Jerusalem. In 1233 Gregory IX would institute the Papal Inquisition to bring order and to deal with heresy appointing papal inquisitors - Inquisitores haereticae pravitati – in 1231. A consequence of the Decretals would become the suppression of followers of Judaism. The doctrine of servitus camerae imperialis or servitude immediately subject to the Emperor's authority promulgated by Frederick II directly proceeded from and built on the Decretals. The prevention of Jews to participate in the political life of Christian states continued well into the 19th century. Other population would experience similar suppression or persecution either directly by popes or indirectly their emperors or vassal s kings.<br><br> Size: Folio 385x254mm Illustration: Text in Latin. Gothic script in red and black ink.<br>Commentary in two columns flanking the central text likewise in two columns. <br><br>Illustrated by numerous rubricated ornamental initials; headings and openings mostly in red; the opening of the first of five books ornamented by a large central historiated wood-cut initial large woodcut on recto of cclvii. Provenance: Upper free endpaper and lower margin of fol.I stamped: ‘Bibl. Patr. DOM. S.J./ /IHS/V/MILLTOWN PAR.’ pertaining to an Irish Jesuite parish; few unobtrusive ink marginalia throughout i.e. fol. ccxli and verso of final leaf. References: Renouard ICP I 1510 n° 66; BP16_101501; Brunet general; Andrew Pettegree Malcolm Walsby editors: FB III & IV:Books published in France before 1601 . p.899. Pages: Ll: bl. 2 cccxxx aa1-8 bb1-6 cc1-8 dd1-9 bl.2. Category: Book Legal; Book Religious Christianity Bertholdus Rembolt, printer at Rue St. Jacques hardcover
15436296Lyon: per Gioanni Pullon da Trino" i.e. Jean Pullon dit de Trin 1543. First edition. Very Good/Exquisitely rare first printing of Ortensio Lando's most famous book his first in a modern language that in later editions and in translations became a 16th-century best seller. Lando's name does not appear on the title page or anywhere in the book except in code. His real name shows up on no edition published in the 16th century. A dedicatory leaf after the colophon attributes the text to "M.O.L.M" interpreted generally as "Messer Ortensio Landi Milanese." More cryptically there is a phrase printed after the telos "SVISNETROH TABEDVL" mirror writing for "ludebat Hortensius" Ortensio has played. It is serious play. The Paradossi undertakes in the key of popular "world upside down" folklore to prove black what is commonly accepted as white. For instance it is better to be poor than rich better ugly than handsome better drunk than sober and so on. Biographical sketches of Lando are remarkable for how little information about him is available. Peer of Aretino and Doni friend to Etienne Dolet later incinerated for heresy he was a non-believer who nevertheless took Augustinian orders and later deserted them. Member of a prestigious literary club L'accademia degli elevati he was above all an outsider. All of his books landed on the Index of Prohibited Books and "I paradossi" in particular was widely banned and copies of it were confiscated. Probably the first book printed by the obscure Italian printer working in Lyon Giovanni Pullone da Trino later called "Jean Pullon de Trin". Following Pullon's modest press run the text was quickly taken up and reprinted badly by Bindoni and others in Venice twice in 1544 1545 1563 1594 etc. and translated into Latin into French by Charles Estienne 1553 and into English 1596. If you Google "Jean Pullon" you will get dozens of pages advertising pull-on jeans. . Octavo 17cm; 112 leaves signed A-O8. Printer's device on title page Ferraris 1 showing a human-faced moon in the sky reflected on the surface of the land. Bound in later 18th-century or 19th-century dark green leather in neoclassical style with gilt central losenge within gilt borders on both boards; gilt-tooled spine with leather title label. Joints reinforced but tender; light marginal stain along bottom edge; O7 torn and repaired remains of tape. Early marginalia trimmed close. Later c19 notes in French on endleaves. Pages not bright. All in all a very good copy of a very rare book. References: Ferraris "Giovanni Pullone e altri stampatori trinesi a Lione" in "Trino e l'arte tipografica nel XVI secolo." 2014 #1; USTC 116008 BM Italian 399; Grendler "Critics of the Italian World" #8; Gültlingen "Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon." vol. X p. 7; Bongi "Catalogo delle opere di M. Ortensio Lando" p. xxxvi "eseguita in bel carattere rotonde cui la originalità e la bellezza danno il pregio sopre le ristampe"; not in Adams; not in Baudrier. per Gioanni Pullon da Trino" (i.e., Jean Pullon dit de Trin) hardcover books
153872632Basileae: Roberto Cheimerino = Winter 1538. Second edition folio pp. 8 1900 columns pp. 1; 210 index; printer's woodcut device on verso of final leaf; lightly ruled in red throughout woodcut initials and ornaments; scruffy old calf gilt spine considerably rubbed and worn joints cracked cords holding; internally clean with perhaps 100 early and informed annotations in the margins. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward W. Watkin Rose Hill Northenden the MP and railway entrepreneur. This copy includes the very extensive index which is not in all copies. Guarino ca. 1450-1537 an Italian Benedictine monk was one of the most significant 16th-century lexicographers. He was appointed bishop of Nocera in 1514 and is best known for producing the first Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. "In 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collectus a compilation which has been frequently reprinted and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations" EB. Adams P-984. [Roberto Cheimerino = Winter] unknown
1501000683<p>Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Ledbury; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: pi6 a2-8 b-y6 z8 zeta6 antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2recto redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content see below. TEXT: Double column 50 lines and headline gothic type red manuscript rubrication throughout in a contemporary hand with numerous 3 4 and 6 line capitals red paragraph markers and in-text capitals marked out in yellow. CONDITION: indecipherable contemporary manuscript ink inscriptions to title page final two leaves a little soiled new endpapers in complementary period-style paper small professional paper repairs to fore-edges of opening and closing leaves unobtrusive light stain to lower outer page corners well clear of printed text overall a beautifully clean wide-margined copy. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Rare not in Adams USTC 696770 citing 32 copies with just 3 in the UK and 2 in the US. Sebonde's Theologia was a celebrated text in its day but is mainly known now through Montaigne's attention and his French translation of the work in 1569. Its prologue asserting the ability of human reason to understand the existence and attributes of God through observation of the natural world was added to the Index Prohibitorum in 1559. A beautiful example of this rare text in an exceptionally fine binding.</p> Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris hardcover
1593CA0273<p><strong>Groundbreaking treatise on exotic botany and tropical medicine</strong></p><p>4586blank leaf pages with numerous woodcut illustrations. Duodecmo 6 1/4 x 3 3/4" octavo bound in quarter leather with five raised spine bands with spine tooled in gilt over brown boards. Translated from the Portuguese into Latin by Carolus Clusius Charles de L'Ecluse. Fourth Edition.<br /><br />Garcia de Orta's groundbreaking treatise on exotic botany and tropical medicine to which are added two other important works on the subject. Orta's contribution comprises pp. 1-2177. It is followed by:<br /><br /><em>Christophori a Costa medici et cheirurgi Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium</em>. Pp. 225-312. <br /><br /><em>Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum quorum in medicina usus est historia. descripta à d. Nicolao Monardis.</em> Tertia editio. Pp. 313-4044 <br /><br /><em>Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum quorum in medicina usus est historia. descripta à d. Nicolao Monardis</em>. Altera editio. Pp. 409-456.<br /><br />Rare combined edition of three major 16th century treatises in the history of botanical and medical knowledge of plants from India and the New World. These Latin editions had all previously been published by Plantin. Garcia da Orta's treatise originally published in 1563 in Goa in Portuguese is the first Indian materia medica written by a European and the first textbook of tropical medicine. The text of Acosta of which L'Ecluse gives an abridgment is a complement to the text of Orta. Finally the Latin translation also abbreviated of the treatises of Nicolas Monardes details the medicines and medicinal herbs of South America and describes their native uses. His text also contains the first representation of tobacco and also that of pepper and even the armadillo. A rare complete copy with the final unpaginated leaves including three privileges the colophon the large printer's device of Plantin and the final blank.<br /><br /><strong>Condition: <br /></strong><br />Some rubbing and wear to covers spine foot chipped; some minor foxing and aging within early ink underlines to the early leaves of the first work else good.</p> Ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum hardcover
15646012<p>8vo. 112 ff pages 2 and 110-112 are blank. Bound in modern paneled calf with gilt-stamped fleurons on front and back covers raised bands. Generally good.<br /></p><p>The first edition of this plague treatise by Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541 the "Luther of Medicine" and one of the key figures in the history of medicine. Written originally in Nördlingen in 1529-1530 it remained unpublished during Paracelsus' lifetime and subsequently taken up and edited for publication by the Paracelsian scholar Adam von Bodenstein 1528-1577. The latter dedicated it to Johann Rudolph Stör von Störenberg Abbot of Murbach and Luders. In addition to the study on pestilence the text includes two short works by Paracelsus: "Vom Preservatiff durch den Schwebel" and "Von der Mummia."</p><p>In the primary tract Paracelsus for the first time presents his complex theory on the origins of the plague which he believed were the result of astrological and corporeal events set in motion by human sins. "This anthropocentric view of an individual disease is in harmony with Paracelsus' whole philosophy and indeed with Renaissance philosophy in general" Pagel p. 179. Paracelsus also postulates the importance of the principle of sulphur the corresponding agent of the planet Mars in pestilence's causation. He believed that sulphur hidden in three minerals—antimony arsenic and marcasite—affected three corresponding organs: the groin the axillae and the ears.</p><p>The chapters on causation are followed by sections on remedies. The doctor must cure the agent causing the disease rather than the symptoms of the disease Paracelsus writes. Humoral pathology and its insistence on diet is of no use. "Paracelsus' plague remedies include sulphur spirit of vitriol sulphur sublimate and metals also—for external treatment of boils—toads and decoctions of beetles designed to remove the evil of magnetic attraction but herbs and drugs as prescribed by Ficino and Agrippa are greatly amplified and still appear in a prominent place" Pagel pp. 180-181 n. 151.</p><p>The editor of this volume Adam von Bodenstein was one of the key figures in the revival of Paracelsian ideas in the German lands in the middle of the sixteenth century. A son of a radical reformer he believed in transmutation of metals into gold and played a key role in the publication of over 80 works by Paracelsus. For his Paracelsianism he was excluded from the faculty and council of Basel University.</p><p>OCLC records US copies at NYAM NLM Wash. U and UMn.</p><p>Karl Sudhoff <i>Bibliographia Paracelsica</i> Berlin 1894 60; Walter Pagel <i>Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance</i> Boston 1982 2nd revised edition; Georgiana D. Hedesan "Alchemy Potency Imagination Paracelsus's Theories of Poison" in John Arrizabalaga Ole Peter Grell Andrew Cunningham eds. <i>It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History. The History of Medicine in Context Series</i> New York 2018 pp. 81-102; Peter J. Forshaw "'Paradoxes Absurdities and Madness:' Conflict over Alchemy Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath" <i>Early Science and Medicine</i> vol. 13 no. 1 2008 pp. 53-81.</p> Paul Messerschmidt hardcover
