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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
15182304190005Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Soceri 1518. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. First collected edition of Pontano's works - Aldine Imprint Later leather binding. Rebacked. Red leather spine label gilt. 4 326 pages. Early ink inscription on title page acid stain. Colophon page lacking bottom third blank park. Aldine printer's device dolphin and anchor on title. Brunet IV 808; Riccardi I 303; Olschki 12243; Ahmanson-Murphy 168; Adams P1860. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Soceri hardcover
159650569Francofurti Frankfurt: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes heirs of Andreas Wechelus Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium 1596. 8vo. 16 1137 54 1138-1193 1 pp. Early full vellum with yapp edges lacking ties spine with gilt ruled bands contemporary hand written title to upper panel a gilt device with the motto "Rinasce piu Gloriosa" to the foot of the spine decorative gilt centrepieces and double gilt ruled borders to the boards 18th century armorial bookplate "Sinclair" - "Fide Sed Pugna" to the front pastedown an earlier inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. Leaf O4 pp. 215-6 with some marginal loss mostly mild dampstaining at intervals some soiling and light wear to the vellum but a decent copy overall. First published in Venice in 1567 the work came to be known as one of the standard Renaissance works on the study of classical mythology. It went through a number of editions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries with additions to the original text being incorporated in the 1580s. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes [heirs of Andreas Wechelus], Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium unknown
1586250702001Mantoua Italy: Francesco Osano 1586. Soft cover Ars Rustica. Very Good. Two works published separately in 1586 bound together: <br /> 1. La Bucolica et la Georgica di Vergilio<br /> <br /> The Bucolics and the Georgics of Virgil translated into blank verse. One by M. Andrea Lori: the other by M. Bernardino Danielli with the arguments. Newly corrected and reprinted. <br /> <br /> 2. L'Eneide di Virgilio del Commendatore Annibal Caro Virgil's Aeneid translated by and with commentary from Annibal Caro.<br /> <br /> A 435-year-old edition of Virgil's complete works in 17th to 18th century carta rustica thick paper binding. Collated and complete including most of the original blank flyleaves. Italian text. In VERY GOOD 16th century antiquarian condition. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE <br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of antiquarian Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999 which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid accessed in both Latin and Italian editions contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication according to reviewer Diana Robin Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 2002 p. 1394 Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK <br /> <br /> Published in 1586 by Francesco Osana in Mantua modern Italy. Italian text. Rebound in 17th to 18th century carta rustica with its characteristic thick paper binding exposed cords on the joints and antiquarian spine writing. Wide-margined untrimmed paper. Octavo 6 1/8" x 3 1/2". Collated and complete: Book 1: 4 163 1 pp; Book 2: 4 original blank preliminary leaves for the Aeneid then 8 472 pp. followed by four original blank flyleaves. Woodcut printer's device on both Book 1 and Book 2 title page. Decorated woodcut initials. <br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT: VERY GOOD <br /> <br /> Endpapers refreshed and without front blank flyleaf for Book 1. Both works are textually collated and complete. The Aeneid retains all of its original blank flyleaves scarce during a rebind. Exterior and binding - rubbed and soiled carta rustica thick antiquarian paper binding. Spine sun-darkened with the remnants of small round sticker adhered to it and what appears to be a tape stain. Rear board with some antiquarian ink writing. Bumped corners. Toned edges. Uncut/irregularly cut pages. Binding strained in a few areas with exposed cords in gutters and the text block pulling away from spine. Overall in remarkably good condition for a thick paper binding hundreds of years old. I<br /> <br /> Interior is VERY GOOD for a 435-year-old binding. Most of the text block is clean and bright white with mostly light foxing to margins. About 20% of text block shows a bit heavier foxing and/or is darkened. Pages are untrimmed and inconsistently cut with rough edges. Raggedy edges and a few leaves with tears or loss of margin corners not affecting text. A few old paper restoration repairs. Minimal worming mostly a few small holes to margins of first and last few leaves and pastedowns. Fore-edge margins browned in multiple places. A bit grubby and soiled endpapers. Former owner ink writing on title page for the Bucolic and Georgics and Kallendorf's ex libris sticker on FFEP. Francesco Osano unknown
1599111111113633Gualtherus 1599. Vellum. Very Good. Gualtherus; Colonia 1599. Hardcover. A mirror of the concubines of priests nuns and clerics and Letter from the Bishop of the Church of Roermond to Maurice Count of Nassau. Bound with two titles: Speculum concubiniariorum sacerdotum monachorum ac clericorum 148pp and Henrici Cuickij Ruraemudensis ecclesiæ episcopi Ad Mauritium comitem Nassauium paraenetica epistola 48pp. Very uncommon book. Hendrik van Cuyk or Henricus Cuyckius was the second bishop of Roermond from 1596 until his death in 1609. Text in Latin. A Very Good full period vellum binding some age-appropriate discoloration and handling marks to vellum binding sturdy still sturdy and intact previous owner bookplate affirmed to front and rear pastedown ink notation front free endpaper and rear pastedown age toned text block with some age spotting/foxing throughout some warping to vellum binding and bowed boards without Dust wrapper. A nice overall clean and uncommon copy. 18mooctodecimo or approx. 4 x 6.5 inches. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Gualtherus hardcover
1595V67175Venice: Haeredem Hieronymi Scotus 1595. Hardcover. Very Good. Large woodcut portrait Aristotle over 50 diagrams in the text historiated woodcut intial capitals . Folio modern cream linen with red leather label with gilt title tips rubbed 16pp 316pp Tideline from waterstaining at the front but becoming marginal & faint by text page 13. Some gatherings with more or less paper tanning but paper always supple and strong. Part of an 18 volume collected edition of Thomas Aquinas. It is printed in double columns with side-notes and deals with Aristotelian physics not in Adams or STC. Haeredem Hieronymi Scotus hardcover
1540250506002Venice Venezia: Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino 1540. Hardcover. Very Good. I sei primi libri del Eneide di Vergilio tradotti piu illustri & honorate donne.Et tra l'altre la nobilissima & divina madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi cui ancho indirizzato tutto il presente volume<br /> <br /> The first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil translated to the most illustrious and honored ladies. And among others to the most noble and divine Madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi to whom also the present volume is addressed. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Incomplete. Missing Title page Book 1 and first 8 leaves of Book 2. Normally this scarce edition typically sells between $2000-2500 when found complete. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999 which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid accessed in both Latin and Italian editions contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication according to reviewer Diana Robin Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 2002 p. 1394 Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Post-Incunable edition of the first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil. In Italian. Published in 1540 by Comin da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino in Venice. Each book translated into Italian from Latin by a different individual: A2 Hippolito de Medici A3 Bernardino Borghesi A4 Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini A5 Aldobrando Cerretani and A6 Alessandro Piccolomini. Rebound in modern 1/4-calf over marbled paper and gilt tooled spine bordering lettering and compartment devices. Marbled endpapers. Six parts in one volume. Octavo 6 1/2" x 4 1/8". Foliation in leaves: 15 20; 19 1; 27 1; 25 7. Fifteen vignette woodcuts and separate engraved title pages for Books 3-6. <br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing Title page Book 1 leaves and first 8 leaves of Book 2 including its title page. 15/22 woodcuts.<br /> <br /> The exterior is in FINE condition. Fresh supple unfaded leather and unblemished marbled paper. A few areas of light dust. Square spine very firm hinges and joints sharp corners and tight pages. Foxing to text block edges. <br /> <br /> The interior condition - refreshed endpapers and blank flyleaves. Trimmed pages. Light foxing to margins. Heavier foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves of the volume. Signs of handling - a few smudges bent corners and some creasing. No marginalia or underlining. One corner clipped. A few minor spots of worming in the margins. Rear blank flyleaf with period one-line Latin inscription in faded antiquarian ink claiming that the possessor of the book was a heteronymous eunuch! Front pastedown with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." <br /> <br /> In excellent shape for a nearly 500-year-old book - a beautifully bound and scarce post-incunable mostly complete edition of the first 6 books of The Aeneid by Virgil. Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino hardcover
1586250509002Venice Venezia: Appresso Giacomo Cornetti 1586. Hardcover. Good. The works of Vergil namely the Bucolic Georgic & Aeneid again translated into blank verse by various most excellent authors.<br /> <br /> Uncommon copy. Missing the final leaf of the Aneid otherwise complete. <br /> <br /> RECENT PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighty-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. <br /> <br /> HISTORIC PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> Federico Caproni Born in Massone Italy a hamlet of the Trentino municipality of Arco and died in Vizzola Ticino a municipality in the Varese area. Founder together with his younger brother Giovanni Battista of the Caproni Aeronautical Industries. He was a scholar of agricultural sciences. In the 1930s he purchased a large estate near Vizzola Ticino undertaking an intense reclamation project that changed the uncultivated nature of the territory and allowed the construction of a modern agricultural company. His private library consisted of approximately 85000 works divided by subject. Caproni Aeronautical Industries 1908 - 1950 was a pioneering Italian aircraft manufacturer. Caproni was responsible for completing the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. During 1927 the Caproni Museum was established in Taliedo by Giovanni Caproni and his wife Timina Caproni. It is the oldest aviation museum in Italy. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Published in 1586 by Appresso Giacomo Cornetti in Venice. Text in Italian and in italic type. The Eclogues Bucolics are translated by Andrea Lori; the Georgics by Bernardino Daniello; each of the twelve books of the Aeneid has a different translator: Alessandro Sansedoni Cardinale Hippolito de' Medici Bernardino Borghesi Lodovico Martelli Thomaso Porcacchi Alessandro Piccolomini Giuseppe Betussi Leonardo Ghini Bernardetto Minerbetti Lodovico Domenichi Bernardino Daniello and Paolo Mini. Bound in 19th century 1/4 mottled calf over mottled paper covered boards. Five compartment spine with smooth gilt bands with a gilt lettered black morocco spine label in compartment two and tooled gilt fleurons in the other compartments. All edges stained red. Octavo 5.5" x 4" foliated 8 28; 67 1; 279 leaves. 25 half-page woodcuts some repeats. Cornetti's rose device on title page within scrolled cartouche encircled with motto "Dabo omnibus gratum odorem"; ornamental initials; head- and tail-pieces.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing the final leaf of the Aeneid otherwise textually complete. Renewed endpapers. Multiple leaves numbered incorrectly and a few leaves sans number by the printer as it is with other copies. <br /> <br /> Margins trimmed. Spine is square firm hinges and joints. Offsetting and darkened areas on board paper. Some minor rubbing and a nick along joints. Dusty top edge. Rubbed boards and edges. Corners gently bumped. An old cataloguing sticker at heel of spine. A few pages with professional paper restoration to a corner. Quite a bit of water dampening throughout with staining. Heavily darkened title page. Only a few pages with antiquarian marginalia. Signs of handling- a few pages with margin tears some smudges some creasing and a few bent corners. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Federico Caproni. FFEP affixed with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." Some pencil writing on the front endpapers. Appresso Giacomo Cornetti hardcover
157033006-178Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Title printed in red and black within woodcut-border. 16 232 8 leaves. 8vo. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum 1 of 2 metal claps small old library stamp and owner's ms. entry on title. Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Fourth issue of one of the many polemics written by Johann Nas 1534-1590 a Franciscan monk and counter-reformation preacher and controversialist notably at the court of the Archduke Ferdinand in Innsbruck where he followed Petrus Canisius. In 1580 he became Bishop of Brixen. - VD 16 N 102; STC German 643. GERMANY ; RELIGION ; Ingolstatt, Alexander Weissenhorn hardcover
15737394Bologna: Ex Typographia Joannis Rosii 1573. First edition. Vellum. Very Good . 4to. 864pp. Woodcut device on title. Modern vellum lightly soiled hand lettered spine. A work on oratory inspired by orations of Demosthenes. All that is known of Carlo is that he was Professor of Greek at Bologna University between 1571 and 1582. Not in Adams or BL Italian STC. OCLC records 1 copy in the U. S. Ex Typographia Joannis Rosii hardcover books
15876166Cologne: Joannem Gymnicum 1587. 8vo. 16430pp. With the final blank. Small woodcut device on title. Cont. vellum. Minor worming to blank margin of a few final leaves. An uncommon edition. Not in Adams or BL German STC. VD16 #C1481. Joannem Gymnicum hardcover books
15779612Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari 1577. Firdt Italian trans. 2nd issue. Vellum. Very good -. 4to. 202671pp. Large woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf. Text illustrated with 28 text woodcuts most within a decorative woodcut border. Cont. vellum part of the bottom edge and one corner rat gnawed exposing the boards under the vellum; some light text soiling. Still a decent copy. The first Italian translation second issue with the 1577 date rather than 1576 of contemporary theologian Luis de Granada 1504-1588. See Bonghi. GIOLITO DE'FERRARI II pp. 357-358. Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari hardcover books
