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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
1513L85CQLCOIXI5Colophon: Venice: Gregorio de Gregori 1513. Early 20th-century vellum possibly incorporating older materials sewn on 3 recessed supports red spine label. Folio 30.5 x 21 cm. With 13 woodcut decorated initials 6 series plus 8 repeats 4-line typographic Lombarbic initials. Set in rotunda gothic types in 2 columns with a preliminary note in roman type. With contemporary pen decorations in brown ink added to about half of the initials and occasional similar pen decorations in the margins an occasional manuscript paragraph mark some rubrications in brown ink and some initials coloured with a transparent ochre wash. Seventh known copy of an early edition of an important treatise on pharmacology and medical botany by Giovanni Giacomo Manlio di Bosco fl. 1490-post 1500. It is a commentary on ancient Arabic and Greek pharmacological works especially the Arabic treatises of Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh ca. 777-857 a Nestorian Christian physician from Assyria who taught at the academy in Gundeshapur Iran and was personal physician to four caliphs. It gives instructions for preparing numerous medicines indicating the quantities of the ingredients simples each derived from a single plant and describing each ingredient. The present edition includes Manlio's preliminary note addressed to Bernardinus Niger.The title-page indicates that the book also contains Lumen apothecariorum a work by Quirico de Augustis de Tortona of Milan fl. 1486-1497. But it is not present here or in any of the other seven copies we have traced. With contemporary and later marginal manuscript notes. With the text area of B2.7 somewhat browned an occasional small and unobtrusive stain and a few small worm holes in the last few leaves but generally in very good condition. Some of the manuscript notes have been shaved. The binding is slightly dirty and the boards slightly bowed but the binding is still good.l Durling 2938; ICCU 29621 same copy; KVK & WorldCat 5 copies; Emiliano Sordano Il Luminare maius di Manlio del Bosco thesis University of Torino 2010 p. 41; USTC 840112 2 copies; cf. Schelenz Geschichte der Pharmazie p. 414; Wellcome 4017. Gregorio de Gregori, hardcover
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
1576393Lyons: J. Quadratius for A. de Harsy 1576. Sm. 8vo. 80424pp. With the final 2 blank leaves. Index. Cont. vellum soiled. One leaf with a marginal repair touching a shoulder note. The 12 books of medicine of Alexander of Tralles was a 6th century classic and was often reprinted in both Greek and Latin. Our Latin translation by Johann Gunther first appeared at Strasbourg in 1549. Wellcome Medical Library I #214. See Stillwell. AWAKENING INTEREST IN SCIENCE 1450-1550 III #265. BL French STC p. 10. (J. Quadratius, for) A. de Harsy hardcover books
1552186771552 broché - 15,5 x 24 - 255 pp - année 1989 - éditions France Empire - illustrations -
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
1596412Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Viduam & Joannem Moretum 1596. 2 parts in one. 8vo. 1973pp. Complete with the final leaf with the large woodcut printer's device. 19th century mottled calf. Preliminary leaves with an old faded waterstain. Some repairs to worm ing at lower margins of a number of leaves aff ecting just a few letters. Adams B505. Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Viduam, & Joannem Moretum unknown books
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
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
160019698Louvain 1600. 8vo. Gerardus Rivius Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine remnants of ties. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page. 8 197 9 3 14 299-250 6 pp. Extremely rare edition containing several works most notably an important account of the New World and its discovery by Christopher Columbus: De Ophira Regione written by the Portuguese geographer Gaspar Barreiros = Caspar Varrerius d. 1574 first published in his Chorographia Coimbra 1561.The first two works by the Italian philologist Angelo Canini 1521-1557 and the Spanish classical scholar Antonio de Nebrija 1444-1522 reflect on the names of places also of people and animals etc. of Hebrew origin in the New Testament. The collection also contains Barreiros's letters including one to the King of Portugal and other short works. The collection was simultaneously printed in Antwerp by the Heirs of J. Bellerus and in Louvain. The present Louvain printing is of the utmost rarity.Some slight browning in a few quires. Good copy of an extremely rare collection of works including an early Americanum.l Alden & Landis 600/28; Belg. Typ. 548; Index Aureliensis 131.043; Leclerc 414; USTC 414149 3 copies; cf. Adams C-507 Antwerp ed.; Machiels C-85 Antwerp ed.; Sabin 3596 Antwerp ed.; not in KVK; STCV; WorldCat. ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks 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
1575ABC_46067Antwerp: Hans van Luyck 1575. Modern red half cloth marbled sides. Oblong folio album 24.5 x 35.5 cm. Series of 24 engravings plate size ca. 20 x 14 cm with views of landscapes around Brussels by Hans I Collaert possibly after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer each with a caption in the plate plates 8 and 20 also with Van Luyck and Collaert's monograms "H.V.L.EXcudit" and "H.C.Fecit". Trimmed down to the plate edge and mounted on album leaves numbered in pencil on the album leaves next to the engravings. Album with the complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels here in its first unnumbered state published by Hans van Luyck in Antwerp. Hans I Collaert ca. 1525/30 - 1585 was a painter-draughtsman who founded the influential Collaert dynasty of engravers and print publishers. The views show villages castles and abbeys in the vicinity of Brussels engraved in a very naturalistic way. The series includes a view of the cloister of Zevenborren south of Sint-Genesius-Rode views of Schaarbeek Elsene Etterbeek Stal Eggevoort and Bosvoorde and views of the some castles including those of Brussels Coensborg south of Laken and Carloo. Some references attribute the drawing of the views to Hans Bol because of an inscription added to the first plate of the later Visscher edition but the "related drawings are not consistent with Bol's style" New Hollstein. Others name Jacob Grimmer as an alternative candidate for the artist who drew the views.With a 20th-century manuscript inscription on the first free endleaf mistakenly identifying the series as the second state published by Visscher which is however numbered in the plates in contrast to the present series in an unnumbered first state. Binding slightly worn around the edges some slight marginal foxing stains browning and soiling but overall a beautiful album complete and therefore rare with all the plates of Collaert's views around Brussels here in its first state.l Hollstein IV 149-172; New Hollstein The Collaert dynasty V 1229-1252; cf. New Hollstein The Collaert dynasty I pp. xlix-liii. Hans van Luyck, hardcover
1579B6621A Lyon: Par Barthelemy Vincent M.D. LXXIX. 1579. . A near fine example reinforcement on margin of leaf B4. Plates are clean and crisp. Binding: Full embossed cotemporary pigskin with central medallion; spine expertly rebacked saving the original with six 6 raised bands gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; all edges sprinkled red. Notes: Text in Middle French. <br>Second French edition after its first of 1578; first Lyon French edition with commentaries to illustrations by Beroald de Verville. <br>"In 1578 after the death of Besson c. 1572 the Theater of Mathematical and Mechanical Instruments was published in Geneva a work in which we note an evolution in turning techniques with the appearance of the first mandrels and first fixed glasses. Other Geneva editions will follow in French Latin Italian German and finally Spanish until 1602. in rue de la Harpe opposite Saint-Cosme presented twenty-one models of machines eleven of which were executed from the plates of Jacques Besson. … The work belongs to … a genre consisting of presenting series of engravings of instruments and machines often newly invented. These printed writings are used by the inventors in order to protect their invention and to guarantee their right in an irrefutable way. These printed ‘machine’ books appeared in France at the end of the 16th century when the formation of the intermediate class of technicians crystallized grouped together today under the name of engineers. These engineers first appeared in Italy in the 15th century then in Germany and finally in France. … Besson's book which is unanimously considered to be the first true "machine theatre" marks a break with its passage to print. There are sixty figures in all each occupying a full page. Each engraving is accompanied by a legend indicating the manner of construction and its function. … Besson presents four major series of machines: machines for raising water mills cranes and winches. He often suggests ways to multiply the force in order to be able to replace two or three workers with one." <br>“When King Charles IX of France made a royal visit to Orléans in 1569 Besson presented to the King a draft of his new treatise what was to become the Theatrum Instrumentorum. and returned with him to Paris as "master of the King's Engines". Charles gave Besson exclusive rights to his designs in that same year. While employed by the court Besson also created an ingenious screw-cutting lathe that was semi-automatic in that the operator only needed to pull and release a cord. … Besson's Theatrum Instrumentorum Theater of Machines was completed and published in 1571 or 1572. It was a unique work; previously works on engineering and technology such as Valturio's De re militari 1472 Biringuccio's Pirotechnia 1540 and Agricola's De re metallica 1556 had had only limited descriptions of new inventions or recounted inventions of the past without much detail. In contrast Besson's work was a collection of his own new inventions with detailed illustrations of each engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau to his specifications. Some of his designs suggested important improvements to lathes and the waterwheel. The Latin captions to the highly detailed drawings were sparse however which would seem to indicate that the text was probably produced in a hurry. Even the title page does not give the name of the printer or the date of publication. The rush in publishing the book may have been due to the crackdown on French Protestants that culminated in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572. … Although Besson was favoured by King Charles IX he feared the increasing anti-Protestant sentiment in France and emigrated to England shortly after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 where he died in 1573. … The Theatrum Instrumentorum had proved so popular that a second edition appeared in 1578 with more detailed descriptions of the instruments and machines by François Béroalde de Verville. The copper plates from the original edition were reused except for four which were replaced by new engravings produced by René Boyvin.â€<br><br> Size: Folio 342x238mm. Illustration: Illustrated allegorical wood engraved title; large ornamental and floral woodcut initials head- and tailpieces; moreover sixty 60 insert wood engraved plates depicting mathematical and mechanical instruments and inventions. Provenance: Upper pasted endpaper with a bookplate black ink manuscript ownership note dated 1588. Pages: Ll: bl. 20 60 ill bl.; collation: bl. illustrated title A2-E4 engraved plates numbered 1-60; bl. Category: Book Early Printed 1500; Book Plate Books General; Book Science & Technology; Par Barthelemy Vincent, M.D. LXXIX. 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
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
15873021Antverpiae Antwerp: Antverpiae Antwerp 1587. First edition a variant with 246 pages in the second part was published in the same year by the same publisher; no priority has been established. In 17th-century limp vellum. Title lettered in ink on spine. Occasional annotations and underlines by a 17th-century hand in ink. Binding restored new endpapers and thongs. Pages restored throughout heavily in the first third at some places affecting the text few leaves over trimmed. Overall in very good condition. First edition a variant with 246 pages in the second part was published in the same year by the same publisher; no priority has been established. In 17th-century limp vellum. Title lettered in ink on spine. Occasional annotations and underlines by a 17th-century hand in ink. 78 =98 4; 234 pp. The first book devoted entirely to tobacco.<br> <br /> <br /> “This little work produced by a physician who is said to have practiced with distinction in Antwerp appears to have been the first published entirely devoted to the subject of tobacco . a neat compendium of much of the information then available. It was consequently popular.†Arents <br /> De herba panacea concerns with the beneficial medicinal properties of tobacco and describes most of what was then known of this New World plant including its origin native methods of curing and cultivation and lore surrounding tobacco. Everard gives numerous recipes depending on tobacco for ailments to all kinds of illnesses. The book also contains texts by Castore Durante Gérard van Bergen Galen Jean de Jonghe and Andrés de Laguna.<br> <br /> <br /> The book was included in the John Carter Brown Library’s 1974-published Rare Americana list A Selection of One Hundred & One Books Maps & Prints not in The John Carter Brown Library.<br /> Ref.: Sabin 23218; Adams E1150; Alden 587/15; Arents 32; Books not in JCB 21. Antverpiae [Antwerp] unknown
15679576Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1567. Vellum. good . 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum. Front & rear free-endpapers lacking. Modern ink ownership inscription on blank portions around the imprint on title. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. P. Perna suis & H. Petri hardcover books
15679512Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1567. Vellum. Very good. 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum hand lettered spine. Small portion of top edge of front cover 1/4" x 2" chipped. Tipped in ahead of the title are 3 pages of a previous early owner's manuscript biographical notes on Facius. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. (P. Perna suis & H. Petri) hardcover books
1566160Basel: P. Perna suis & H. Petri 1566. 62050pp. Index. Contemporary vellum. Front & rear free-endpapers lacking. Modern ink ownership inscription on blank portions around the imprint on title. Note: the colophon is dated 1567. Historical work on the Kingdom of Naples with 2 texts one by Facius and another by J.J. Pontanus. B.L. German p.297. Adams F207 under "Fazio". VD16 #F545. (P. Perna suis & H. Petri) hardcover books
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
15517506Venice: Per Giovanmaria Bonello 1551. First edition thus. Vellum. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. ff.8239. Lacking the final blank leaf. Title page with a large woodcut printer's device with initials Z.M./B.V. at bottom. Cont. vellum a bit soiled a few minor chips ties lacking. Some old soiling including some discoloration to blank fore-edge of a few final leaves. A collection of aphorisms and apothegms selected chiefly from Cicero's correspondence. Per Giovanmaria Bonello hardcover books
154255061542. 4 p.l. 162 leaves. Small 4to cont. blindstamped panelled pigskin remains of two deerskin ties. Zurich: C. Froschauer 1542.<br/> <br/> First edition of a very rare book on the market; this is a lovely fresh copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin. This Gesner’s second botanical work is “an alphabetically arranged catalog of plant names in four languages the first of its kind and an indication of the growing interest in botany beyond purely philological investigations into the writings of the classics. The Greek names are based on the works of Dioscorides. This early work is already characteristic of Gessner’s life-long endeavour to arrange scientific topics in alphabetical or systematic order; it also show his proficiency in languages and his interest in their comparative treatment.â€â€“Wellisch 8.1.<br/> <br/> A fine copy. Signature at foot of title of “Lucas Schröck M.D.†Schröck 1646-1730 was a professor of medicine at Jena and president of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher see Hirsch V pp. 139-40. Early inscription on front free endpaper stating this is a duplicate from the Royal Library of Munich. Engraved armorial bookplate dated 1744 of Franziskus Topsl 1711-96 prior of the Polling Abbey in Upper Bavaria. Modern booklabel of D. Henry. Some minor worming to upper inner corner of first seven leaves touching a few letters of the first two leaves.<br/> <br/> ⧠Pritzel 3298. unknown
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
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
