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1503723<p>Post incunable: publisher not identified or Venezia: Albertino da Lessona 1502. 1503. It is bound in full seventeenth century vellum with spine label. . The first printing of the Margarita Poetica was printed by Johannes Sensenschmidt in1472 between 1472 and 1503 there appeared at least a dozen editions In this edition the marginal index letters correspond to those of 1493 Venice edition. <br />¶ Eyb went to Italy and devoted himself to humanistic study at the Universities of Pavia and Bologna. He returned to Germany in 1451 having been appointed Canon at Eichstätt and Bamberg. From 1452 to 1459 he was again a student at Bologna gaining the degree of doctor in 1459. The Margarita is named after Eyb's mother and was written in 1459.<br /><br />Fabriccius observed the "Eyb stressed two things throughout the Margarita: to be able to write well and to be disposed to live properly."<br /><br />¶ In a contrast to "Ars Dictaminis" perhaps the Middle Ages version of TEXTING von Eyb uses this work to re-Introduce Cicero's Vetera Rhetorica. While certainly there are many late medieval texts on letter writing Eyb as can be seen in the structure of this book<br /><br />The Content are in three parts the first Epistola five Prologus is a revised and augmented version OF M.T.C. CICERO with excerpts taken from classical authors and Italian humanists and formulas for letter-writing. The first part offers style samples of Roman rhetoric poetry and epistolography. <br />¶The second part the AUCTORITATES consists of an a Florilegium Roman writer and with its third part extracts from Petrarca Terence Plautus and SenecaCicero Lactantius Macrobuius Plutarchus etc finally 30 speeches as models of humanistic eloquence.<br />¶ The third part ORATIONES: contains selections from Petrarch dramatic poets Terence <br />Seneca Plautus and a variety of humanist speeches by Renaissance copyists letter-writers and philosophers including Johannes Lamola Poggius Florentinus Galeatius Sforza and the author himself. Folio a8 B-X8 Y8 this copy is lacking the final gathering signed with numbers 1-4 only comprising a Materiarum-tabula which is not present. Gatherings a-I have printed decorated intitials; K-X have blanks some with printed guides for manuscript initials not filled in.<br /><br /><br />Panzer IX 107 4; Rare: Not in Adams VD 16 BM Geman or Italian.</p> [publisher not identified] or [Venezia: Albertino da Lessona, 1502]. Â hardcover
15256388Basel: Johannes Froben 1525. Very Good/Erasmus's edition of Pliny's Natural History conserving the notes from Ermolao Barbaro's edition of 1492 printed by Johannes Froben at the height of his powers. Froben's title page is effectively a billboard: "We give you the work of the Divine Pliny called History of the World more emaculate than any edition ever produced before starting with the annotations of erudite men first among them Ermolao Barbaro and then exemplary contributions by learned people which are still worth correcting with faith in the oldest codices from which we have restored many faults do difficult to find that no one no matter how learned could find them or had found them. We have nothing to envy. We have defeated all of our elders. And if someone now takes this prize from us we will not envy them but we will be grateful for the improvement of public education. Go reader and be fruitful. And by the way we added an index that lacks for nothing. Folio 37 cm; 18 leaves 671 143 pages. Woodcut printer's device the double-headed caduceus designed by Holbein on title page on verso of p. 671 on the title page of the index and on the final page. Holbein's detailed chiaroscuro woodcut initials throughout. Bound in vellum over boards titled in manuscript on spine. Old jottings in manuscript on upper board apparently an Italian and Latin vocabulary list including the names of foodstuffs. Portion of vellum near head of spine replaced. Erasmus's name on running head of dedicatory letter aggressively inked over! Occasional scattered very light foxing in a generally bright and unblemished text. References; Adams P-1560; van der Haeghen Biblioteca Erasmiana p. 45. For the initials among Holbein's largest see Schneeli and Heitz table V #II and table LXXXIII #XL. Johannes Froben hardcover books
1550L7NAYKM7EWW1Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé colophon: printed by Philibert Rollet 1550. 19th-century marbled boards manuscript spine label. 8vo. With Rouillés woodcut device on the title-page eagle on a globe flanked by 2 snakes numerous woodcut decorated initials and an arabesque decoration below the colophon. Well-made but popularly priced Lyon 8vo edition of Mesues three seminal pharmacological works including his great pharmacological handbook the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius 1478-1555 who taught anatomy at Paris his students including Vesalius and Gesner. Dubois first published it in a Paris folio edition in 1542. Speaking of the artisanal epistemology crucial to the European scientific revolution De Vos calls Mesues present works a conduit for the Arabic contributions to that epistemology and its subsequent development and impact describing them as the most dominant source of pharmaceutical writings and by far the most influential in the subsequent development of European pharmacy with Duboiss new Latin translation of particular note pp. 668 670 673. It is by far the most detailed and extensive mediaeval book of pharmacological recipes far surpassing the 12th-century Antidotarium Nicolai which had been the standard work in Europe. Not only does it include 432 recipes for compound medications compared with Nicolais 85 it arranges them by the kind of medicine rather than alphabetically and unlike Nicolai it gives detailed instructions for their preparation. It largely superseded Nicolai in Europe in the late 1300s and early 1400s. Although Mesue and his present works have fallen into undeserved obscurity in the general public they went through more editions than Ibn Sina Avicenna Galen or Discorides.If the attribution to Joannis Mesuae Damasceni is correct the author must be Yahya = Yuhanna ibn Masawaih al-Mardini ca. 925-1015 known in the West as Mesue the younger.Provenance: 1 owners inscription in ink dated 1636 struck through and difficult to decipher on front paste-down; 2 another dated 21 August 1818 on back paste-down also difficult to read; 3 19th-century ink owners inscription of Arthur Rénaux on front paste-down. Occasional browning; an owners inscription erased on the title-page with slight loss to authors name. Binding rubbed; hinges cracked and minor chips in the spine.l Baudrier IX 176; Durling 3144; USTC 150499; Wellcome 4280; cf. Hirsch I 171f; not in BMC STC French; for Mesue and the present works: Paula De Vos The Prince of Medicine: Yuhanna ibn Masawayh and the foundations of the Western pharmaceutical tradition in: Isis 104 2013 pp. 667-712; Prioreschi History of medicine IV Byzantine and Islamic pp. 290-291. Guillaume Rouillé (colophon: printed by Philibert Rollet), hardcover
159950394(Oldenburg, Warner Berendts Erben), 1599. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel gone. Engraved ornamental title-page. (86),494,(18) incl. (2) blank. Profusely textillustrated with engravings and woodcuts among them the full-page portrait of the author, a full-page view of Oldenburg, 3 folded genealogical tables and the double-page engraved elevated plan of Oldenburg. Internally clean and fine.
159950394Oldenburg Warner Berendts Erben 1599. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel gone. Engraved ornamental title-page. 8649418 incl. 2 blank. Profusely textillustrated with engravings and woodcuts among them the full-page portrait of the author a full-page view of Oldenburg 3 folded genealogical tables and the double-page engraved elevated plan of Oldenburg. Internally clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Hamelmann's Chronicon is the first book to be printed in Oldenburg Brunet and it is the historical source work for the "House of Oldenburg" whose descendents became kings of Denmark and emperors of Russia. -Adams H 30. </em> unknown
15741412080047Parisiis : Apud Galeotum a Prato & Ioannem Ruellium 1574-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 8 107 frontis 196 ill. Parallel Latin and French. Quarter bound in fine early 20th century quarter green Moroccan. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. Speckled boards. Marbled end pages. Silk ribbon. Printers device on final blank. Clean unmarked pages with minimal tanning. Inlaid auctions slips from 1936 and 1940 of this book at auction and the 1551 edition. Harvard Mortimer French 316; Brunet III 343; Adams H852. <br><br> Hieroglyphica is a text extant from the early medieval period ascribed to Horapollo Horus Apollo but it may be a pseudepigraph. The text of the Hieroglyphica consists of two books containing a total of 189 explanations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The books profess to be a translation from an Egyptian original into Greek by a certain Philippus of whom nothing is known. The text was discovered in 1419 on the island of Andros and by the end of the 15th century the text became immensely popular among humanists. <Br>The Greek text is not in this edition which reproduces the engravings from the 1551 edition with some additions and a nice frontispiece Brunet. The frontispiece is attributed by Didot in his essay on the woodcut gives it as the most elegant woodcut that surrounds the title page and attributes the work to Jean Cousin. Papillion adds further that all the figures of this book are from the same artist. from auction slip. Parisiis : Apud Galeotum a Prato, & Ioannem Ruellium hardcover
157656695(Colophon:) Kiøbenhaffn (Copenhagen), Matz Wingaardt, 1576. 4to. Pragtfuldt samtidigt hellæderbind af kalveskind over træ med skråtskårne kanter og 2 lukkestroppe med messingbeslag (det ene hængsel løst), antageligt udført af en dansk bogbinder. 3 ophøjede ægte bind på ryggen og med blindtrykte stregbordurer. Permer med dobbelte stregrammer og 2 brede rammer udført med ruller og stempler. Midtfelterne med stort pladetrykt billede af Justitia, på bagpermen et billede af Justinian ?. Kapitæler med mindre reparationer. Titelbladet med en træsnit illustration af den danske konge med rigsvåbnet. Kolofon med Gotfred af Ghemens trykkermærke i træsnit. 111 unummerede blade. Indersiden af forpermen har notater i gl. hænder vedrørende bogens indhold. Fra Oscar Wandels bogsamling med hans exlibris. Da bogen ikke er ombundet foreligger den her i dens opsrindelige størrelse med pænt brede marginer. Få spredte brunpletter. Nogle blade med en svag skjold nederst på siderne. De første 6 blade (incl. titelbladet) er noget restaurerede med senere omkantning. Titelbladet har en smule tab af stregrammen omkring kongen, blad 2 recto har tab af et ord i nederste linie (tagher). Trykt på svært papir.
157656695Colophon: Kiøbenhaffn Copenhagen Matz Wingaardt 1576. 4to. Pragtfuldt samtidigt hellæderbind af kalveskind over træ med skråtskårne kanter og 2 lukkestroppe med messingbeslag det ene hængsel løst antageligt udført af en dansk bogbinder. 3 ophøjede ægte bind på ryggen og med blindtrykte stregbordurer. Permer med dobbelte stregrammer og 2 brede rammer udført med ruller og stempler. Midtfelterne med stort pladetrykt billede af Justitia på bagpermen et billede af Justinian . Kapitæler med mindre reparationer. Titelbladet med en træsnit illustration af den danske konge med rigsvåbnet. Kolofon med Gotfred af Ghemens trykkermærke i træsnit. 111 unummerede blade. Indersiden af forpermen har notater i gl. hænder vedrørende bogens indhold. Fra Oscar Wandels bogsamling med hans exlibris. Da bogen ikke er ombundet foreligger den her i dens opsrindelige størrelse med pænt brede marginer. Få spredte brunpletter. Nogle blade med en svag skjold nederst på siderne. De første 6 blade incl. titelbladet er noget restaurerede med senere omkantning. Titelbladet har en smule tab af stregrammen omkring kongen blad 2 recto har tab af et ord i nederste linie tagher. Trykt på svært papir. <br/><br/><em>Extremely rare first printing of what is arguably the world's first facsimile namely Mads Vingaard's 1576 reproduction of the first printing of the Law of Sealand originally printed by Ghemen in 1505 and here re-issued in exact reproduction. This wonderful print is not merely a "line to line word to word"-reproduction but a facsimile making use of the same types and exact reproductions of the woodcuts. It is generally believed that "the first facsimile in the history of the book was a manuscript of Austrian provenance - the Goldene Bulle - reproduced in 1697 by the Frankfurt law historian Heinrich Günther Thülemeyer and Johann Friedrich Fleischer" from "Imagination Almanach" 1986-1993 Sammelheft. 1993; 2006. The present reproduction predates that work otherwise hailed as the first "facsimile" in the history of the book by more than a century!Some credit Plantin in the 17th century with being the first to produce a facsimile. This is also about a century after Mats Vingaard's facsimile of the Law of Sealand. Like the laws of Sealand and The Law of Scania The Law of Jutland" constitutes a law book "Rechtsbuch" in German in the sense of a private collection of those common laws pertaining to inheritance ownership marriage measurement of land murder theft vandalism etc. that were commonly applicable in the region.The medieval Danish regional laws possess an immense importance both linguistically and legally and the influence is evident even today both in the development of our legal system and of our written language. At the time of their foundation the Danish kingdom was divided into jurisdictional areas lands that in turn were divided into townships. Each land had a county council which also served as a judicial court. It quite quickly became standard for the township court to be able to refer verdicts and rulings to the county/land council. In the 13th century there were three main lands namely Jutland Sealand and Skåne. With time these three lands came to rule over all townships and thus we find three ruling legal books from the 13th century namely the three earliest Danish law books - Jyske Lov the Sealandic Laws and Skånske Lov. They were all printed for the first time in 1505 and 1505 respectively. It is not until 1683 with "Danske Lov" that Denmark gets a law that covers the entire kingdom. The 1576 facsimile is scarce and Thesaurus estimates that only ab. 10 copies still exist on private hands. </em> unknown
155328<p>C. Plinii Secundi Historiae mundi libri XXXVII majore quam hactenus unquam studio fide religione emedati adjectis ad marginem succinctis . . . una cum indice totius operis copiosissimo.<em> Lugduni Apvd Ioannem Frellonivm. M.D.L.III.</em></p><p>Pliny's <em>Natural History</em> is Shakespeare's source for the famous description in <em>Othello</em> of "men whose heads grow beneath their shoulders." See Kenneth Muir <em>Shakespeare's Sources </em>London 1957 p. 127.</p><p>Although there were translations of Pliny into French and English some scholars have argued that Shakespeare read Pliny in Latin. See T. W. Baldwin "A Note upon William Shakespeare's Use of Pliny" in <em>Essays in Dramatic Literature </em>London 1935 pp. 157-82.</p><p>Folio. 3 parts in one vols. A2-A4 B-C4 a-z5 A-Z5 AA-ZZ4 Con2 m4; l.; 34 679 236 p. Title-page vignette. Medium brown calf blindtooled border on both boards.</p><p>Provenance: Inverchapel bookplate.</p><p>The <em>National Union Catalog of Pre-1956 Imprints</em> lists only two known copies not including the present one.</p><p>References: NUC: 461 671-90 NP 0424260. Not in USTC.</p> John Frellonium
16001745Original printing plate: Johannes Galle. c.1600-1650. Engraved copper printing plate depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by all manner of creatures with Adam sitting at the foot of the tree of knowledge about to take a bite from an apple whilst Eve takes another from the hand of a serpentine creature coiling around the branches above. 22.7 x 19.1cm. The plate incorporating text to the foot from Genesis 3. Signed at the foot "M. de Vos invenit / Corn. Galle Sculp. / Io. Galle excudit". The plate with some old fine scratches is otherwise in very good order. WITH: A later mid nineteeth-century and somewhat weak impression of the plate on paper. This laid down to board with manuscript French labels dated 1851 to the reverse apparently gifting the item from Mademoiselle C. Thyes of Brussels to "Monsieur Delpy"; the print with two pin holes to the blank lower margin and a few spots of faint foxing. A beautifully-executed original engraved copper printing plate by the Flemish engraver Cornelis Galle the Elder 1576-1650 forming a typically busy depiction of the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve sealing their fate amidst a varied menagerie of peaceable beasts including an elephant camel bear porcupine ostrich and rearing unicorn amongst others.</p><p>Cornelis Galle was first taught engraving by his father the engraver and publisher Philip Galle 1537-1612. He subsequently resided in Rome for several years where he acquired an accuracy of design and freedom of style which marked him out as a master of his art form. Following his return to Antwerp he continued to engrave numerous plates after the works of his countrymen as well as his own designs becoming a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1610.</p><p>The present engraving was made after an original painting by the prominent Flemish artist Maerten de Vos 1532-1603. A prolific draughtsman de Vos produced numerous designs for the engravers of Antwerp the resulting prints of which circulated widely in Europe and the Spanish colonies significantly contributing to his international reputation and influence.</p><p>Hollstein XLIV.61.243. [Original printing plate]: Johannes Galle. unknown
1596F75BBB01U79OBrescia 1596. Small 8vo 14.5 x 10 cm. Pietro Maria Marchetti Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment sewn on 3 alum-tawed thongs with manuscript title on smooth spine. With Marchetti's woodcut anchor and dolphin device imitating Aldus's on the title-page 16 numbered engraved emblematic illustrations plate size 8.5 x 6.5 cm woodcut headpieces tailpieces and decorated initials 3 series and decorations built up from cast fleurons. With the Latin text set in italic and the Italian translation in roman. 106 6 blank pp. First edition of the so-called Oracles of Leo the Wise with a bilingual Latin an Italian text and 16 lovely and rather surreal engravings: an emblematic book of prophecies traditionally attributed to Leo VI 866-911/12 Emperor of Byzantium from 866 to his death and at least here also to Antonius Severus 188-217 sole Emperor of Rome from his murder of his brother in December 211 to his death the book does not indicate which Severus is intended but the preface notes that he reigned from 212. The Latin text was circulated already attributed to Leo the Wise in the 12th century but Christians revived it in the 16th century and interpreted it as a prophecy that the Ottoman Empire would fall in 1622. These oracles remained popular in the 17th century when they were presented as having predicted the setbacks that the Ottomans suffered in Europe in that period.Owner's inscriptions on the title-page further with a bookplate. With a water stain in the first quire but otherwise in very good condition with only very minor foxing. The sewing supports have broken at the back hinge the thong ties are lost and the vellum is slightly wrinkled but the binding is still in good condition.l BMC STC Italian p. 622; Caillet 11042; Edit16/ICCU CNCE 28586; Mortimer Italian 254. hardcover
1532K7GAXLMCHM25Paris 1532. Folio. Jean Parvum index: Jean Petit 18th-century cat's paw calf richly gold-tooled spine with red title-label red edges. With a woodcut printer's device on the individual title-page for the index. 36 671 188 pp. Praised 1532 edition of Pliny's Naturalis historia: "Cette édition citée avec éloge par Ernesti et par Rezzonico." Brunet. Pliny's Natural history is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge based on the best authorities available at the time. It encompasses the fields of botany zoology astronomy geology and mineralogy as well as the exploitation of those resources. It remains a standard work for the Roman period and the advances in technology and understanding of natural phenomena at the time. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf Pliny identifies Tylos Bahrain as a place famous for its pearls He attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society and that those from the Gulf were specially praised The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire the Persian Empire India and South Arabia'' Carter.With bookplate on paste-down some ink notes on the title-page the first page and occasionally in the margins; title-page a bit soiled; some wormholes near the end of the book mostly in the margins. Binding slightly worn along the extremities. Overall in good condition.l Brunet IV col. 715; Carter ''The history and prehistory of pearling in the Persian Gulf'' in: Journal of the economic and social history of the orient 48 2005 pp.139-209; Graesse V p. 339 "Excellente édition"; for Pliny: DSB XI pp. 38-40. unknown
156821281Augsburg: Johann Jacob Schönig 1568. Vellum ca. 1985 with each leaf attached to a stub and the stubs side stitched in a cloth slipcase. Oblong folio 21 x 34 cm. With a richly calligraphic woodcut title-page 18 x 28 cm with text in white fraktur lettering on black with a white panel at the foot with the letterpress imprint in a fraktur type; and 9 of 10 full-page woodcuts about 17 x 25.5 cm showing alphabets in white on black one dated 1568: 8 with decorated gothic capitals versals: 22-150 mm and 1 with textura capitals textura lowercase and roman capitals all versos blank. Lacking 1 leaf. With a small and perhaps fragmentary manuscript on parchment 2 ll. 11.5 x 13.5 cm written on both sides: a Protestant copybook written soon after 1557 probably in Basle or vicinity with 7 writing samples including alphabets of capitals and minuscules the first two pages in fraktur gothic styles and the last two in humanistic styles. Sixth known copy of Johann Jacob Schönig's edition of a stunningly decorative Augsburg writing master's woodcut copybook devoted primarily to decorated gothic capitals versals printed in the period 1680-1694 from the original woodblocks of the first edition of 1568. Hans Rogel the elder 1532-1592 writing master school teacher poet wood-block cutter engraver printer and publisher at Augsburg cut the woodblocks and probably executed the lettering himself. All the lettering examples and the title-page are printed from large richly calligraphic woodcuts with their lettering in white on black. Nine of the ten examples display versals the missing leaf supplied in reproduction including complete alphabets in three sizes. The final leaf displays alphabets of textura capitals textura minuscules and roman capitals. As early as 1779 Paul von Stetten described Rogel's Capital und Versal Buech as "besonders fein geschnitten" and said that if Rogel executed the lettering himself he "ist er billig den zierlichsten Schreibmeistern beyzuzählen". He thought it good enough to be the work of Caspar Brinner 1565-1610 the greatest Augsburg writing master of the second half of the century apparently not knowing Brinner was only about three years old in 1568.All editions should apparently contain 11 leaves but many contain only 10 and some fewer. Some have also been bound with additional leaves that do not belong to the edition. There appear to be only 3 complete copies of the present edition.An early owner skilfully wrote out alphabets in the fore-edge margins of 2 leaves and phrases at the foot of one. It seems likely to be the copy owned by Jan Willem Six van Vromade 1872-1936. Lacking leaf "2" as noted professionally and unobtrusively restored in 1984 and probably rebound soon after: the tattered fore-edge margins of several leaves were restored and a couple gaps in the right border of the title-page filled in with black ink. A small brown smudge in the unnumbered first page of versals 22 mm slightly affects small bits of 4 letters but in general the woodcuts remain in good condition.l Berlin Kat. 4799; Bonacini 1548 Berlin copy; Doede 21 note; Hollstein German 34 KVK & WorldCat 4 copies: 2 lacking 1 leaf; Van Stockum Cat. bibl. J.W. Six de Vromade part 1 16-21 November 1925 lot 407 the present copy; cf. Paul von Stetten Kunstgewerbe und Handwerksgeschichte . Augsburg 1779 vol. 1 p. 23 1655/68 ed. Johann Jacob Schönig, hardcover
1563254015Basileae i.e. Basle: Per Joannem Hervagium 1563. First collected edition. Title within architectural border with device of Johann Herwagen. Profusely illustrated with iwoodcut maps music tables diagrams. Text in two columns; with Index. 4 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf rebacked new leather spine labels labels misnumbered later endpapers; covers worn but sound one joint starting but firm. Text show various degrees of slight worming and scattered light foxing but overall a very good sound set of this massive collected edition complete except for the final blank leaf of Volume VI. First collected edition. Title within architectural border with device of Johann Herwagen. Profusely illustrated with iwoodcut maps music tables diagrams. Text in two columns; with Index. 4 vols. Folio. The Father of English History. This is the first of three continental editions of the works of Bede the others being from Cologne in 1612 and 1688. Johann Herwage  a printer originally from Strassburg  married  the widow of the great Basel printer Johann Froben and for a while collaborated with his stepson Hieronymus Froben. From 1532 however he again started printing under his own name.<br/><br/>RARE ON THE MARKET. Adams B-477 Per Joannem Hervagium unknown books
1563254015Basileae i.e. Basle: Per Joannem Hervagium 1563. First collected edition. Title within architectural border with device of Johann Herwagen. Profusely illustrated with iwoodcut maps music tables diagrams. Text in two columns; with Index. 4 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf rebacked new leather spine labels labels misnumbered later endpapers; covers worn but sound one joint starting but firm. Text show various degrees of slight worming and scattered light foxing but overall a very good sound set of this massive collected edition complete except for the final blank leaf of Volume VI. First collected edition. Title within architectural border with device of Johann Herwagen. Profusely illustrated with iwoodcut maps music tables diagrams. Text in two columns; with Index. 4 vols. Folio. This is the first of three continental editions of the works of Bede the others being from Cologne in 1612 and 1688. Johann Herwage a printer originally from Strassburg married the widow of the great Basel printer Johann Froben and for a while collaborated with his stepson Hieronymus Froben. From 1532 however he again started printing under his own name.<br /> <br /> RARE ON THE MARKET. Adams B-477 Per Joannem Hervagium unknown
15092751509. Woodcut. <b>Hollstein VI.10.1; Bartsch XI.319.1; Dodgson II.294.57. </b>Later impression. Provenance: King Friedrich August II of Saxony Lugt 971. 13 5/8 x 9 3/4. Trimmed just outside the platemark. With some minor repairs. books
1519702L19Kobe: Kobe Herald 1915-1924. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6.5". None. A very scarce collection of recollections regarding the mountains of Rokko-san. Compiled by 'The Bell Goat' a member of the Japan Alpine Club. Comprising of volumes I-XIII and XV-XVIII of this very scarce set. It is extremely scarce to have so many volumes together. An important account of mountaineering during the Golden Age of this sport and at a time where mountaineering in Japan was becoming a popular activity. A charming work written in English which provides a detailed description of journeys on Mount Rokko in the Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. Volumes IV to X are signed by the author with an association to one of their fellow 'mountain goats'. There is no volume XIV to this set. Volume IV is signed by the author with an inscription to the recto of front endpaper. 'J G S Gausden The flying Goat with the author's best compliments Kobe July 8th 1916'. Volume V is also signed by the author with the inscription 'To the flying goat with the Bell Goat's best compliments Kobe Xmas 1916'. Author's inscription to volume VI reads 'With the author's compliments'. Inscription to volume VII reads 'J G S Gausden The flying goat with the Bell Goats' Compliments Kobe Xmas 1916'. Inscription to volume VIII reads 'To the flying goat with the Bell Goats' best Compliments Kobe Japan May 1918'. Author's inscription to volume IX reads 'J G S Gausden from . Kobe New Years Day 1919'. Inscription to volume X reads 'With the Editors' best compliments and Thanks Kobe June 30th 1919'. Inscription to the recto of front endpaper to volume XV 'With love from Jim'. To the start of volume I there is a dedication to Arthur Groom who had a home at Mount Rokko and opened the first golf course in Japan Kobe Golf Club. Rokko-san was also the first place that rock climbing was introduced in Japan. Forty-four illustrations to volume I thirty-four illustrations to volume II fifty illustrations to volume III fifty illustrations to volume IV fifty-five illustrations to volume V fifty illustrations to volume VI VII thirty-five illustrations to volume VIII with thirty seven illustrations to volume IX forty-one plates to volume X thirty plates to volume XI twenty-five plates to volume XII twenty-five illustrations to volume XIII twenty-five illustrations to volume XV twenty-five illustrations to volume XVI twelve illustrations to volume XVII with thirteen plates to volume XVIII. With the colophon in Japanese. With poems and diary entries anecdotes and transcripts this work is a thorough account of many mountaineering expeditions over the course of several years. A delightful examination of Rokko-san. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally generally smart. Loss to the spine of volume I and II. Bumping to the head and tail of all spines. Damp staining to the bottom of boards to all volumes. Gilt to the front board of volume X is fading. Author's inscription to the recto of front endpaper to volumes IV to X inclusive. Further inscription to the recto of front endpaper to volumes XII and XV. Internally most volumes are firmly bound. Volume XIII has a tender binding. Pages 75-78 of volume XIII are detached but present. 'The Bessan Ridge' plate is detached but present to volume X. 'The sword peak' plate to volume VIII is detached but present. Pages are bright with occasional scattered spots. Good Kobe Herald hardcover
1598WRCAM41697Cologne 1598. Approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. An excellent sharp crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase. This rare portrait of Drake by Crispin van de Passe comes from an early volume of engraved portraits EFFIGIES REGUM AC PRINCIPUM EORUM SCILLICET Cologne 1598. Drake who circumnavigated the globe in 1577-80 appears under the title "most noble English knight very experienced in all things nautical and military." "The portrait of Drake is of especial interest: it is a close copy of the smaller Hondius Drake portrait which in its first state exists in only two copies Royal Geographical Society and Huntington Library. It depicts him in bust with a shield and with a two-hemisphere terrestrial map displaying the track of his circumnavigation" - Kraus. De Passe's stylized monograph appears near the bottom of the portrait. Epigrammatic verses in Latin by Matthias Quad appear beneath the portrait. KRAUS DRAKE 59. SABIN 58995. GRAESSE V:154. BRUNET IV:414. unknown books
1598235791598. Engraved portrait approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. An excellent sharp crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase. The very rare Crispin van de Passe portrait of Drake.<br/> <br/>This rare portrait of Drake by Crispin van de Passe comes from an early volume of engraved portraits Effigies Regum Ac Principum Eorum Scillicet Cologne 1598. Drake who circumnavigated the globe in 1577-1580 appears under the title "most noble English knight very experienced in all things nautical and military." "The portrait of Drake is of especial interest: it is a close copy of the smaller Hondius Drake portrait which in its first state exists in only two copies Royal Geographical Society and Huntington Library. It depicts him in bust with a shield and with a two-hemisphere terrestrial map displaying the track of his circumnavigation" - Kraus. De Passe's stylized monograph appears near the bottom of the portrait. Epigrammatic verses in Latin by Matthias Quad appear beneath the portrait.<br/> <br/>Kraus Drake 59; Sabin 58995; Graesse V:154; Brunet IV:414. unknown books
1583WRCAM47035Paris 1583. Engraved portrait oval with surrounding legend and text beneath on laid paper 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Cut to just within plate mark and inlaid into later wove paper sheet. Later ink inscription on verso reading: "from Holland / 1809." Minor wear and soiling. Matted. Very good. A clean impression of the second state of this famous portrait of Sir Francis Drake at age forty-three shortly after he returned from circumnavigating the globe the basis for most of the later images of him. The image is taken from a portrait purportedly painted from life by Jean Rabel the Elder and is said to be a credible likeness of the famed navigator. The legend beneath the portrait indicates the dates of Drake's circumnavigation listing Rabel as the painter and Thomas de Leu as the engraver. Thomas de Leu 1560-1612 a pupil of Rabel moved to Paris around 1576 and became one of the most noted portrait engravers of his time. This engraving of Drake was the basis for many later images of him including the well-known engravings by Jodocus Hondius and Crispin van de Passe. <br> <br> The earliest graphic image of one of the greatest figures in maritime history. Marianne Grivel "Au Sieur Rabel Parangon du la 'pourtraicture'." in H. Zerner and M. Bayard's RENAISSANCE EN FRANCE Paris 2009 pp.227-92 2d state. unknown books
15705934b<b>GHEERAERTS THE ELDER'S GROTESQUE SUITE OF ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING SCENES OF CHRIST'S PASSION</b><br /><br />8vo 1 engraved title page and 13 full-page engravings and extra illustrated with additional 4 engravings from other suites. Quarter bound in 19th-century calf and marbled paper boards gold-stamped lettering piece laid to spine marbled end papers. Only minor edge wear to boards joints tender. The suite of engravings in fine dark strikes with only the occasional minor stain; two of the additional engravings Labors of Hercules are trimmed laid down and carry later annotations in pencil.<br /><br /><p>Rare first and only edition only state of a suite of 14 full-page 16th-century engravings which ingeniously refigure the traditional subjects of Christ's Passion in a manner at once timely/fashionable and archaizing/antique. The <i>Passio verbigenae</i> published by Jan Sadeler I 1550-1600 after the designs of Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder c. 1520-c. 1590 depicts scenes occurring between Christ's meditation on the Mount of Olives and his Resurrection each presented in the manner of ancient Roman <i>grottesche</i> a form widely popular in Renaissance and Mannerist art following the rediscovery in the late 15th-century of grotesque frescos at Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome. The symmetrical exquisite obscure delicate and often bizarre nature of this style suited the Mannerist tastes of Flemish printmakers in the late 16th century. Here however Gheeraerts and Sadeler use the style not for weird or frivolous ancient iconography but instead to recount the most central and important story of Christianity the Crucifixion of Jesus and his triumph over death. In this case it is likely that Gheeraerts and Sadeler saw the grotesque mode as a historical form dating from the time of Christ which conferred authenticity to the subject matter. In this way the suite of engravings is both a fine curio and a document participating in the new movement of Early Christian archeology which rose to prominence in the decades before 1600.</p><p>The suite's engraved title page and 13 full-page engravings are arranged in an oval frame as quasi-symmetrical compositions with a principal iconographic moment from the Passion in the upper-middle register and an ancillary scene below. The title page shows the <i>Arma Christi</i> or Instruments of the Passion surmounting death/demons with Latin verse by Favolius at the bottom the attribution to Favolius "D. Favol: canebat" has been abraded in the present example. The principal plates depict the Last Supper with as the ancillary scene Judas receiving thirty pieces of sliver Agony in the Garden Judas and soldiers enter garden Judas embracing Jesus leading to his arrest Simon Peter cuts off ear of Malchus Christ before Caiaphas the Denial of Peter the Flagellation tormentors bind sticks for flogging Crowning with Thorns Christ given reed <i>Ecce Homo</i> mocking of Christ; Christ carrying Cross Instruments of the Passion Soldiers take Christ's cloak and prepare him for Crucifixion soldiers dig post hole for Cross Crucifixion soldiers roll dice over cloak Descent from Cross tomb sealed Harrowing of Hell demons in Hell and the Resurrection soldiers at tomb.</p><p>The present volume was extra illustrated by an early collector with 4 further grotesque plates designed by Gheeraerts. These are 1 the <i>Ignis</i> Fire plate from the Four Elements series published by Philips Galle 2-3 Hercules fighting Hydra and Hercules afflicted by the Cloak of Nessus from Gheeraerts' suite of the Twelve Labors of Hercules and 4 Hercules drawing his bow against the Centaur Nessus who is absconding with Deianeira from the 'Ornaments for goldsmiths in squares octagons and lozenges' suite by Gheeraerts and Galle.</p><p>Complete suites of the <i>Passio verbigenae </i>are very rare with OCLC locating U.S. examples only at the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Blanton Museum of Art Texas holds a partial suite.</p><p><i>Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet</i> 85; Hollstein <i>Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts c. 1450-1700</i> v. 7 p. 102 nos. 87-99; SKB 230; Foulc 544; Jessen 289; E. Hodnett <i>Marcus Gheeraerts the elder of Bruges</i> pp. 60-61 72.</p> hardcover books
150437063Campeche Merida: Various publishers 184243. Folio and slightly smaller 31 cm; 12.25"; and slightly smaller. 38 pp. 11 blank. <br><br>The culture and politics of central Mexico in the 19th century often did not coincide with those of the Yucatan especially after the dissolution of the constitution of the First Empire. The long-smoldering discontent that the post-Empire constitutions engendered reached the breaking point for the Yucatecans in March of 1841 and on the 16th of that month => the peninsula declared its independence from the rest of Mexico.<br>Â Â Â Â The Yucatecans were perhaps encouraged by the Tejanos and their successful separation from Mexico in 1836.<br>Â Â Â Â The four manuscript documents two broadsides and nine newspapers in this collection date from the period of the first Mexican invasion of the peninsula and the central government's failed attempt to quell what it saw as a rebellion an invasion that was not repelled until April 1843. Included here are: 1 A pair of letters dated Merida 17 and 24 January 1843 from Juan de Regil to Mauricio de Santelices of Havana regarding the political situation. 2 A printed broadside proclamation by President Miguel Barbachano Mérida 2 December 1842 imposing a heavy tax on and forced loans from the nation's industrialists merchants and professionals. 3 A manuscript extract from a letter Merida 21 December 1842 from an unknown Spanish national to Santelices requesting assistance in leaving Yucatan due to the oppressive new tax but also giving first-hand information about => military operations. 4 An Autograph Letter Signed Campeche 17 February 1843 from Geronimo Ferrer y Valls Spanish commercial agent in Yucatan to the Captain General of Cuba in Havana expressing concern for the safety of Spanish nationals in the Yucatan and containing details of => murders and summary military executions. 5 A printed broadside entitled Opinion General Verdaderas ideas y convicciones de las secciones del ejército del Estado acampadas extramuros de esta Ciudad Campeche: José M. Peralta 1843. And 6 Nine issues of the Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo dated January to June 1843 most with => excellent content on Yucatecan resistance to the invasion by Mexico.<br>Â Â Â Â The Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo published in Campeche by Jose Maria Peralta is quite scarce with only Yale reporting ownership of a very good but incomplete run. Present here are issues from 1843: 43 7 January 46 13 January 48 15 January 52 19 January 53 20 January 63 30 January 144 22 April 148 26 April and 189 6 June.<br>Â Â Â Â => Primary source material on the Republic of the Yucatan is rare. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Neither broadside is found in WorldCat CCILA or Palau. Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo is not listed in Charno Latin American Newspapers nor in CCILA. Some newspaper issues and one broadside are browned or partially so. Overall condition is good or better. Various publishers unknown books
1540ST20622Germany ca. 1540. 183 x 133 mm. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4". <br/> WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL featuring a naked Adam and Eve on the left and on the right Christ bending down to rescue John the Baptist the figures framed by a stone archway supporting a hairy creature who aims the point of a spear directly at Adam and Eve the miniature in a thin brown frame with gilt lines surrounded on two sides by the words "VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN ETERNUM" in gilt all framed in gray and red washes with double rules of black and gilt. Light soiling to frame a little flaking to the gray border and a couple of small scuffs and smudges elsewhere verso with spotting but the miniature vibrant and well preserved with only very trivial imperfections.<br/> <br/> A close copy of an early 16th century engraving by Albrecht Dürer this powerful miniature depicting the Harrowing of Hell is an intriguing artifact that ties together manuscript art print culture and the Reformation. The image depicts an apocryphal tale in the Gospel of Nicodemus in which Christ following his death but before his Resurrection descends into Limbo in order to save righteous souls who had passed away before him particularly figures from the Old Testament. Christ appears here in pale pink robes carrying a long staff with a cross and banner adorning the top. Having just brought down the gates of Hell he stoops to rescue John the Baptist here dressed in furs from its depths. A naked Adam and Eve covering their loins stand at the left of the composition--Adam now a gray-bearded old man as a reflection of sin and mortality but Eve still as she was at the Expulsion in keeping with the period's inclination to retain the classically idealized youthful feminine form. Above them is a stone arch upon which a dog-like demon perches stealthily aiming a spear directly at the oblivious couple. Another demon snaps its jaws at the feet of Christ and we can see a lick of flames below the broken gate as more captive souls clamor to escape. The painting is skillfully done showing the artist's facility with anatomy proportion and foreshortening. The bodies of Adam and Eve are particularly excellent with lovely skin tones and convincing molding. The composition is clearly based on an engraving by Dürer published in 1513 as part of a major series of 16 images known as the "Engraved Passion." In translating a black & white print into a full-color painting the artist here dispensed with a few details seen in Dürer's work such as the shadowy figure behind Adam and Eve and the stigmata on Christ's hand; however the overall composition deviates little from the original suggesting that the artist may have been working from an actual engraving. Although this leaf contains just a few words in the form of a border inscription--"Verbum Domini manet eternum" "the Word of the Lord endures forever"--they are monumentally important. This line from Isaiah 40:8 and 1 Peter 1:25 became the motto of the Lutheran Reformation appearing on art clothing coins and even armor of the 16th century. The Schmalkaldic League an influential group of allied Lutheran principalities in the Holy Roman Empire at the time also adopted it as their motto. Given the dominance of print materials during the Reformation period our hand-painted miniature--possibly produced as a frontispiece--must have been a very special commission. It is also an object that is prime for further study touching on aspects of book production religious art and the transmission of images and ideas in the early modern period. unknown
1553L7NA2E7L5WJBParis = Venice: Girolamo Scotto 1553. Contemporary vellum traces of ties. 8vo. With Scottos woodcut device on the title page showing what are probably two of the wild mares of King Abderus being devoured by the mares of King Diomedes of Thrace devouring either Abderos or Diomedes himself and about 22 woodcut decorated nearly all pictorial initials 7 series plus a few repeats. Rare Venetian edition with a false Paris imprint of Mesues three seminal pharmacological works including his great pharmacological handbook the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius 1478-1555 who taught anatomy at Paris his students including Vesalius and Gesner. Dubois first published it in a Paris folio edition in 1542. As far as we know the present edition has not previously been recognised as a false imprint but Girolamo Scotto in Venice used the woodcut device on the title-page in 1543 Bernstein Music printing p. 88 & fig. 3.16: much more artistic than most publishers devices so perhaps made to illustrate an unidentified book and the woodcut pictorial initial on r8r also appears in Lippomano Espositioni volgare Venice Girolamo Scotto 1554 A4r where some of the types match as well. Moreover the 2 initials in the largest series A on l2v and H on e2v show respectively: another Scotto device anchor with S O S and the motto in tenebris fulget: see Scottos 1554 Lippomano 1555 Aquinas and his heirs 1585 Monte Madrigali and the coat of arms of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany dexter impaled with a tree atop six mounts sinister.De Vos calls Mesues present works a conduit for the Arabic contributions to that epistemology and its subsequent development and impact describing them as the most dominant source of pharmaceutical writings and by far the most influential in the subsequent development of European pharmacy with Duboiss new Latin translation of particular note pp. 668 670 673. Though these Mesue works had been printed already in 1471 Duboiss translation became the standard De Vos counting 17 editions in less than a century. The preliminaries include the title-page Duboiss 7-page dedicatory epistle addressed to Etienne de Poncher 1446-1529 Bishop of Bayonne and chancellor of the University of Paris and an 8-page contents covering all three works. The three Mesue works follow: Methodus medicamenta purgantia simplicissima deligendi & castigandi theorematis quatuor absolutus = Canones universales ll. 1r-33v 13 chapters; De singulis medicamentis purgantibus deligendis & castigandis = De simplicibus ll. 34r-82v 30 chapters; and De antidotis = Antidotarium or Grabadin ll. 82v-239r 12 sections; followed by definitions of the technical words ll. 239v-248r and a 9-page table of contents for all three works. Duboiss version of the first work differs considerably from earlier editions where it bore the title Canones universales. It describes general techniques in the preparation of medicines and was originally closely associated with the simples in the following work but it was given a much broader application. The De simplicibus originally gave information on 49 simples mostly purgatives here expanded to 53. Although it includes many known since classical antiquity more than a fourth are additions made by the mediaeval Arabic physicians. The bulk of the book is devoted to the Antidotarium also called Garbadin after the Arabic for dispensary. It is by far the most detailed and extensive mediaeval book of pharmacological recipes far surpassing the 12th-century Antidotarium Nicolai which had been the standard work in Europe. Not only does it include 432 recipes for compound medications compared with Nicolais 85 it arranges them by the kind of medicine rather than alphabetically and unlike Nicolai it gives detailed instructions for their preparation. It largely superseded Nicolai in Europe in the late 1300s and early 1400s. Although Mesue and his present works have fallen into undeserved obscurity in the general public they went through more editions than Ibn Sina Avicenna Galen or Discorides.If the attribution to Joannis Mesuae Damasceni is correct the author must be Yahya = Yuhanna ibn Masawaih al-Mardini ca. 925-1015 known in the West as Mesue the younger. He is said to have been a Syrian Jacobite/Nestorian Christian physician from Mardin in upper Mesopotamia now on the Turkish-Syrian border who worked in Damascas may have headed the Baghdad hospital served as personal physician to caliphs in Cairo and wrote in Arabic. His present principal works are now known however from Latin translations the earliest from 1281 and De Vos even suggests they may have been compiled in Bologna after 1260 adapting several unidentified Arabic medical works of the 10th and 11th centuries to 13th-century European needs. She notes that Dubois published a new Latin translation in 1542 and emphasises its importance but she does not discuss his sources he was well-versed in Greek and Hebrew but apparently not in Arabic. In any case the writings attributed to Mesue the younger clearly derive from the mediaeval Islamic world and contain many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacology for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of mediaeval Europe. The early Paris folio editions of Duboiss translation would have been out of reach of most students and country or small town physicians or apothecaries so Lyon printers introduced 8vo editions in 1548. The present 8vo edition appears to be the first outside Lyon and Scotto may have thought a false Paris imprint would make it seem more authentic than the Lyon competitors.With faint brown stains some marginal worming near the end of the text and the corner of Aa3 lost not affecting the text.l Durling 3145; ICCU NAPE 006561 8 copies; USTC 151259 2 copies; WorldCat 9 copies in 7 entries; cf. Brockelmann GAL I 232; Hirsch I 171f; not in Adams; BM STC French; EDIT 16; Wellcome; for Mesue and the present works: Paula De Vos The Prince of Medicine: Yuhanna ibn Masawayh and the foundations of the Western pharmaceutical tradition in: Isis 104 2013 pp. 667-712; Prioreschi History of medicine IV Byzantine and Islamic pp. 290-291. [Girolamo Scotto], hardcover
1569673671569. London 1569. First edition. London 1569. First edition. Printing and the Mind of Man 89: The "Crown and Flower of Medieval Jurisprudence" Bracton Henry de d. 1268. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae Libri Quinq; In Varios Tractatus Distincti ad Diversorum et Vetustissimorum Codicum Collationem Ingenti Cura Nunc Primu Typis Vulgati; Quorum Quid Cuiq; Insit Proxima Pagina Demonstrabit. London: Apud Richardum Tottellum 1569. xvi 444 i.e. 442 ff. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-3/4". Nineteenth-century diced calf gilt rules to boards gilt fillets ornaments and title to spine gilt rules to board edges gilt inside rules marbled endpapers ribbon marker. Light rubbing to boards faint dampstain to front board moderate rubbing to extremities front joint just starting at head corners bumped and somewhat worn armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Attractive large woodcut decorated initials. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing and finger smudges to some leaves some fading to text of ff. 1 and 2. A handsome copy of a landmark work. $10000. First edition. Written between 1250 and 1256 De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae The Laws and Customs of England is the first treatise on English law. A systematic work it emphasizes the separation of procedural and substantive matters and also cites cases as sources of at least intellectual if not formal authority. The principles formulated in this work and its use of precedents determined the development of English law and established the method adopted by Littleton and Coke. In Maitland's words it is "the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence" and "by far the greatest of our medieval law books.": Maitland Collected Papers II:43. Beale Bibliography of Early English Law Books T323. Printing and the Mind of Man 89. English Short-Title Catalogue S122159. unknown books
