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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1581#BIBLIO-1187<p>Ioan. Ravisii Textoris Nivernen: dialogi aliqvot festiuissimi studiosæ iuuentuti cum primis vtiles: Item eivsdem epigrammata non pavca vt dictissima ita & lepidissima. Omniarecens diligenter recognita & emendata</p><p><em>John Ravisius or Johannes Ravisius Textor or Jean Tixier de Revisi the writer of Nivernen Nivernais: dialogues somewhat festive studious and very useful: also epigrams not very plain as very eloquent and very delightful. All recently diligently revised and amended.</em> Londini London: Ex officina H. Bynnemani Typographi Anno Domini. 1581. Hardback greyish-brown leather binding probably 18th or more likely 19th century with maroon title label gilt-blocked title and raised bands to spine. Blind-stamped design to boards and spine. Octavo/8vo collation but small measures around 3 1/8" x 4 7/8" x 1 1/4" circa 400-500 pages see below for explanation of unusual pagination and collation</p><p>Scuffing and wear to binding some discolouration but reasonably clean. Bumping and a little tearing to corners and to head of spine. Otherwise binding firm. A little cracking to title label but intact with some discolouration. Deckled page edges which are very browned scuffed and otherwise marked. small bookseller label to front pastedown. Some marking a little staining and foxing around pastedowns and endpapers. Toning staining a little light foxing and other marking throughout. Some creasing dog-eared corners and the odd tear with loss to a few leaves including to title leaf which is missing a few characters of text at bottom left-hand corner and is quite fragile and only attached at top. Heavy ink staining to several leaves towards end of book. Occasional underlining marginalia and a little text scored out in several latter pages.</p><p>Very unusual and defective page numbering. Firstly the numbering is of each leaf not each page and the print is a little unclear for some figures. It appears to run after the initial three blank endpapers and preliminary pages that could presumably be numbered i - vi being the tile page to end of 'epistole' from leaf 1 - 20 13 or 18 25 23 - 25 iB 27 blank 20 - 35 6 64 - 72 74 74 repeating 76 76 repeating - 92. However the leaves do not appear to be pages out of order nor duplications and the pages do all seem to be in correct sequence so it appears to be a printing fault rather than a binding one. The order of the page collation is more accurate sequentially though even then there are a few oddities running after the first three blank endpapers on the basis of numbers denoted on leaves as i-v then vi-viii blank from A i - F viii then G ii G G iv G iii blank G v - T viii no use of U V no use of W X - Z viii Aa i - Ff ii Gg ii-Gg iii Ff iv Gg ii Gg iv Gg iii Gg v - Ii v with blank leaves Ii vi-vii removed and three blank endpapers. See pictures for further information. About the author: <em>John Ravisius or Johannes Ravisius Textor or Jean Tixier de Revisi</em><em> c. 1470–1542 was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and professor of rhetoric. He was born in Ravisi which is near the commune of Saint-Saulge in the central province of Nivernais. His works which are mostly on the topic of education were widely accepted and employed by French academia. Tixier eventually adopted the Latinised name Johannes Textor Ravisius Nivernensis. Per the epitaph on his headstone Tixier was born in 1470 and died on 3 December 1542. According to Victor Gueneau other scholars pretend that he died on 13 December 1524 and that his brother Jacques completed Jean's book l'Origine de l'imprimerie "The Origin of Printing". Similarly some authors report his year of birth to be approximately 1480. Tixier studied humanities at the College of Navarre. When he graduated he accepted a position in the college's rhetoric department; there he impressed faculty and students alike. In 1520 he accepted a position as rector of the University of Paris. He held the position until 1525 succeeded by William Manderstown. More than thirty editions of his principal work Officina were published as he continued to expand it. Source: Wiki</em></p> H. Bynnemani Typographi hardcover
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
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
15556824Padova: Gratioso Perchacino 1555. Original edition. Very Good. Quarto 20 cm; 12 leaves signed a-c4 last leaf blank. Printer's device a crowned salamander ensconced in flames on title page. Woodcut initial at start of text. Bound in recent half morocco over marbled boards. Trimmed close to top edge. Gutters guarded. Some spotting on title page but generally clean. <br /> <br />Reference: EDIT 16 CNCE 57958; For attribution to Lando see Silvana Seidel Menchi Chi fu Ortensio Lando "Rivista storica italiana" #106 1994 501-564. Not in Grendler. <br /><br />This is an essay about death. In particular it is a eulogy on the death of young Elizabetta Dotta who it is stated in the text died recently married at the age of 16 years 8 months 24 days and 12 hours. The cause of her death is not given. It does not indulge in a moment's sorrow over the young woman's early demise. Instead it is an extended encomium of death itself praising death as liberation from the essential misery of life in this corrupt and depraved world. As such it is an eloquent statement of philosophical pessimism the tradition which views life as the soul's exile as suffering and sees death as a preferable alternative. While the text is not signed the author is presumed to be Ortensio Lando the uncomfortable peripatetic humanist who never stayed in one place for very long either physically or philosophically. "What is life" Lando asks. "Smoke a dream a running shadow a ship that leaves no trace an arrow shot to its destination. Gratioso Perchacino 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
1581ABC_47414Antwerp 1581. Large folio. Christoffel Plantin Later 17th-century blind tooled vellum with a single fillet frame and a large ornamental centre piece sewn on 5 supports corresponding with the 5 raised bands on the spine creating 6 compartments with a manuscript title in the first compartment at the head of the spine. With an engraved title-page the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf 6r approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text 8 woodcut decorated sometimes interlaced initials plus repeats 6 series and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. 2 volumes bound as 1 the second in 3 parts. 10 994 2 blank "312"= 312 294 2 blank 2 blank 15 1 blank 67 1 blank pp. First Dutch edition with approximately 435 more woodcuts than Plantin's Latin edition of 1576 of one of the greatest herbals. Besides the expected herbs medical plants etc. it illustrates and discusses mushrooms a coconut corals petrified wood and what may be a fossil fern. Matthias de Lobel 1538-1616 a Flemish botanist and physician published his Stirpium adversaria nova in London in 1571 but greatly expanded it after his return to the Low Countries. Plantin bought 800 copies of the London edition and reissued it in 1576 cancelling a few leaves but printing extensive supplementary material to incorporate Lobel's further work. Lobel further expanded it for the present first edition in Dutch evidently his own translation giving the work its definitive form. The 1571 Latin edition had included about 275 woodcuts. Plantin acquired 120 of them but also added many more for his editions including many he had used for his editions of Dodoens and Clusius. The number of woodcuts therefore grew to about 1750 in the 1576 Latin edition and about 2185 in the present Dutch edition but Plantin appears to have had some new blocks cut as well. Many blocks were cut by Antoon van Leest and Gerard Janssen van Kampen after drawings by Pieter van der Borcht.With a clear purple owner's stamp "Jan Veth" and a clear 18th-century inscription "Cost 2800" on the front pastedown and some additional inscriptions on the rectos of the blank flyleaves engraved title-page and the back pastedown. With some occasional annotations in brown ink in the margins and some discrete additional manuscript shading to a few illustrations. The binding is somewhat soiled and the head and foot of the spine are slightly damaged all without affecting the structural integrity of the binding. The margins of the preliminary leaves including pastedown and flyleaves final blank flyleaves and back pastedown are somewhat water stained and have been restored. Somewhat browned throughout but the impressions of the woodcut illustrations remain clear. With some minor defects to several leaves only occasionally slightly affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Arber Herbals p. 278; Belg. Typ. vol 1 1974; Bibl. Belgica L119; BM NH vol. 3 p. 1160; Carter & Vervliet 199; Nissen BBI 1219; Plesch mille et un livres botaniques p. 314; Stafleu & Cowan 4908; STCN 344385353 5 copies; STCV 12914575 9 copies incl. 4 incomplete; Voet the Plantin press 1579; Wellcome 3829; WorldCat 833674408 2 copies. hardcover
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
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
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
