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1590ABC_46070Antwerp 1590. Folio 7 of 8 plates trimmed. Adriaen Collaert 7 plates with the Acts of Mercy & Johannes Galle the Last Judgement Loose prints. 8 engravings ca. 17.5 x 20.5 cm on laid paper by Crispijn de Passe I the elder after Maarten de Vos with the central scene framed by an exquisite ornamental border showing crafts tools and scenes relating to the subject. All engravings captioned with engraved Latin text in a cartouche below the images. Complete series of the Acts of Mercy including the plate of the Last Judgement engraved by the engraver illustrator and publisher Crispijn de Passe I ca. 1564-1637 after Maarten de Vos 1532-1603 one of the most prolific and influential print designers of his generation. They were first published by the engraver Crispijn de Passe the elder I and subsequently by Adriaen Collaert Theodoor Galle and Johannes Galle. Our set shows the 7 prints of the Acts of Mercy in their second state of 4 by Collaert with his monogram "AC" in the plates. The eighth print showing the Last Judgement is in its third state published by Johannes Galle. The acts of mercy depicts feeding the hungry giving drink to the thirsty clothing the naked in a dress shop housing the homeless tending the sick visiting prisoners and burying the dead.One print feeding the hungry untrimmed. The 7 trimmed prints are reinforced with two small white paper slips in the head margin the Last Judgement very slightly toned and with a few spots. Otherwise in good condition with very sharp and dark impressions of the plates. The complete series of the Acts of Mercy including the Last Judgement.l Hollstein XV 471-477; New Hollstein Maarten de Vos 613.3; 614-620.2. ABE CAT Art History ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks hardcover
1541357266Basileae.: No publisher. 1541. 1st Edition. 8vo. Ancient brown leather boards with an old leather replacement spine edges stained red. Good. Moderate dampstains throughout scattered ink notes boards bowed. 14.3x10x2.5 cm. Latin text. Four short works in one volume â€On the best Emperor and his office a work no less learned than pleasant†“On the office of princes dukes and the ancient militia Book One very learned and useful†“On the office of the king to Justinian Caesar a small work filled with very salutary aphorisms†and “On the doctrine of princes Book Iâ€. Scarce. Woodcut headpieces historiated initials. weight: 0.4 lb. Nicolas of Saguntum; Alban of Turin; Erasmus of Rotterdam translators No publisher. hardcover
1591BOSTONVB11<br />MOREA OTTOMAN GREEK TURKISH PRISONERS Entire Letter writen from Chlonmontsi to "Lord David di Bembo Lord of Cephelonia" acknowledging receipt of nine Turkish Prisoners who are listed sent by the Lord of Cephalonia to "our Lord Bairakbasha Governor of the Morea". A very interesting and early letter during the period that Morea was under Ottoman rule expressing gratitude for the lenient treatment of Turkish prisoners. Surviving Ottoman letters in Greek are extremely rare. in commerce. A full translation and transcription is included.
1519ZB393224Macmillan Co. 1915-1937. Volumes 15-39 lacking vol. 26#6; partly bound minor ownership markings else texts clean and bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Macmillan Co. unknown
1581ABC_46255Venice: Lucantonio Giunta 1581. Near-contemporary vellum black morocco spine label with title in gold. Folio 23 x 34 cm. With 39 woodcut illustrations in the text. 2 parts in 1 volume. Second illustrated edition the first with the commentary of Costaeus of the collected works of the Arabic physician Mesue the younger also known as Masawaih al-Mardini in Latin with commentaries by Mondino de Liuzzi Christoph de Honestis Jacobus Sylvius Giovanni Mardi and Johannes Costaeus. It includes the "Canones universalis" dealing with treatment regimens; the second part "De simplicibus" about the properties of various pharmaceutical drugs; and the Grabadin "the most popular compendium of drugs in medieval Europe and . used everywhere in their preparation" Garrison. "The esteem in which these works were held is shown by the fact that a Latin translation of both was one of the first medical works to be printed Venice 1471" ibid.With the bookplate of the American botanist Edward Sandford Burgess 1855-1928 on the front paste-down. Also with the bookplate of the Horticultural Society of New York on the first free endpaper identifying this volume as part of the bequest of the American attorney and plant collector Kenneth Kent MacKenzie 1877-1934. Binding stained rubbed and chipped at the extremities. Interior shows occasional brown stains modern endpapers a little browned and brittle but overall in good condition.l Adams Y10; BM STC Italian p. 739; Durling 3131; EDIT 16 CNCE 27626. Lucantonio Giunta, hardcover
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
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
15821906030028Venetiis apud Aldum colophon: ex typographia Georgii Angelerii sumptibus Mag. D. Aldi Mannuccii M.D. LXXXI 1582. Hardcover. Acceptable. Aldine edition of the Works of Cicero 7 volume set bound in 3. The first 7 of 10 books. Originally issued separately 1578-83. Folios 33 cm. Rebound in 17th century calf. Binding worn boards detached. Institutional stamps and book plates renewed end pages. All edges red. Engraved title page with Aldine device. Woodcut titles for vols. III & VI. An important edition: "Ces volumes . sont toujours consideres comme une des plus importants editions de Cicero . Un exmeplaire d'une parfaite conservation est un livre fort rare et toujours digne de toute l'attention des amateurs." - Renouard. Renouard 232. Adams C 1660. Brunet II p. 8. Venetiis, apud Aldum [colophon: ex typographia Georgii Angelerii sumptibus Mag. D. Aldi Mannuccii M.D. LXXXI hardcover
1576304748Venice: Aldus Manutius 1576. First edition. viii 125 3 blank; 106 6 blank; 103 pp. 8vo. 17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin red edges. First edition. viii 125 3 blank; 106 6 blank; 103 pp. 8vo. This work on questions of antiquity written by Aldus the Younger son of Paulus Manutius esteemed Cicero scholar and grandson and namesake of the famous Venetian printer Aldus Manutius covers astronomy the Ptolemies and questions of the liberal arts. <br /> <br /> Aldus the Younger was the last member of the Manutius family to be active with the family's renowned press in Venice. Ahmanson-Murphy 898; Renouard 223:13. Provenance: early canceled ownership inscription at base of title "Paulus Johanne Patavii MDLXXVII"; Earls of Maccelsfield North Library bookplate embossed stamp to title and following leaf [Aldus Manutius] unknown
1566292430Venetiis: Aldus 1566. Hardcover. Very Good. Early vellum over boards red and blue morocco spine labels gilt. 800 167 7 30pp. A small horizontal tear and a small shelf label on the spine bookplate removed a tiny nick at the corner of the first several leaves very good. Contains commentary and letters from Aldus the Younger to Francsco Morandi and Aurelio Porcellaga Portulaca. The Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection at UCLA cites a copy and references Renouard 201:12 Adams M453; BMSTCI 412; HRHRC 458. Aldus hardcover
1574001927<p>Paris: pour Galliot du Pre 1574. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. French translation from the 1st edition in Latin Occulta Naturae Miracula published 1559. 12mo collated as Title page with woodcut of viking ship pp2 pp213 plus 30 pages of alphabetical index to rear. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Slightly later rebind of full leather with 5 raised bands and leather title label to spine and half of the "Gen de Paris" stamp to front cover. Binding in good condition with some rubbing to all edges and boards and a little chipping to top of back board. Inside except for the very odd mark all pages with all edges dyed red in excellent clean and bright condition with no foxing waterstains fingermarks etc. . For added interest the bookplate of Baron Hyacinthi Theodori dean of the Faculté de médecine de Paris circa 1720s is pasted to front pastedown. Levinus Lemnius was a celebrated Dutch physician whose medical writings were much translated. He studied under the famous Swiss botanist and bibliographer Konrad Gesner at the University of Louvain and under the famous Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius at the University of Padua. This Renaissance treatise on natural philosophy and medicine draws on classical sources particularly Aristotle with Lemnius being influenced by the "airs waters places" doctrine from the Hippocratic Corpus. This important work includes explanations of demonology somnambulism and the physical causes of mental illness the properties and healing virtues of herbs and gemstones alongside oddities like hermaphrodites. An superb copy of a very scarce early work with an interesting provenance. <br /><br /></p> pour Galliot du Pre hardcover
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
15695032541569. Book. A lengthy series of royal edicts / decrees / writs produced by the court under Philippe's close scrutiny in 1569 regarding financial and other obligations on the part of the persons in the area of Castro del Rio and elsewhere. 49 vellum leaves 98pp of manuscript 4 blank pages. The last page of which bears the date 18 November 1569 and the elaborate signatures and marks of the King and a number of his courtiers. Each page of the text bears 2 flourishes ie initials likely by the King and by the person responsible for the production of the document. In the original leather covers much rubbing and wear with remnants of the binding ribbons but the document still well-bound and with we think the original tri-coloured spine-cord binding the text to the cover. The first page with ornate decoration and illustrations in ink embellished with gold detailing and flourishes. Exquisite calligraphy throughout on well-preserved vellum. No seals present. 14" x 10". hardcover
159355259Slesvig Nicolai Wegener 1593. 4to. Helpergamentsbind fra 1600-taller. Ved ombindingen er bagerst indsat ca. 100 blanke blade. Forgyldt titeletiket i skind på ryg. Etiketten med lidt tab. Gl. ejernavn Bille Brahe Hvedholm. 129 blade. På titelbladet er 2 linier som var trykt med rødt overskrevet med sort. Blad 1b med stort træsnit af Danmarks våben. Blad 2a med helsides træsnit Christian IV's portræt. Gl. ejernavn på titelbladet. Rent eksemplar trykt på kraftigt skrivepapir og med talrige samtidige tilskrifter i en net hånd. <br/><br/><em>Yderst sjældent forekommende anden udgave den første trykt af Brandis 1486 af den plattyske oversættelse af Jyske Lov ved Blasius Eckenberger. Der eksisterer kun en lille håndfuld bevarede eksemplarer i privat ejerskab. Det foreliggende eksemplar er en af varianteksemplarerne som er beskrevet af Lauritz Nielsen Dansk Bibliografi p.348 no.1072 og som gør sig bemærket ved flere udeladelser. Således er udeladt oversætterens eneretsprivilegium dedikationen fra oversætteren Chr. IV's autorisation m.v. = læg 2 og 3. I dette eksemplar starter teksten med "Vörrede" som har arksignatur D og slutter med blad 139 b som er et helsides træsnit af oversætterens bomærke. Repertoriet som Eckenberger udgav 1594 sammen med loven er heller ikke tilstede.Lauritz Nielsen 1072. - Thesaurus I 167. </em> unknown
1501mon0000081633Baldwin Cradock & Joy 1815-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. pocket edition printed by scott webster 7 geary a new edition in one volume with 195 wood cuts on green rather worn cloth some looseness Baldwin Cradock & Joy hardcover
1600957544 Vols. 1979. Near Fine. 1600. First Edition. Softcover. Glossy pictorial softcovers. First editions. Books are in near fine condition crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Historic photos color illustrations and crew info as well as technical specs throughout. 4tos . paperback
1543IB7BGV3WR8OIBasel: Heinrich Petri 1543. 17th century black vellum made from an earlier liturgical music manuscript. Folio 20.5 x 29 cm. Important Latin edition of an Arabic medical compendium first printed also in Latin in 1479 with additions by Gerard de Cremona. It provides a collection of opinions voiced by Greek and Arabic physicians on pathology and therapeutics. "No Arabic printed edition exists so far" Choulant. The ninth-century Christian physician perhaps in or near Damascus Yahya ibn Sarabiyun son of a Bagarma physician wrote his great medical work Al-Kunnas in Syriac but it was soon translated into Arabic by scholars such as Musa Ibrahim al-Haditi and ibn Bahlul. Manuscripts survive in twelve and in seven books. "The seven-book edition was frequently printed in Latin translations as 'Breviarium' and 'Practica therapeuticae methodus' or here Therapeutice methodi. Albanus Torinus the editor of the Basel 1543 edition called the author Janus Damascenus for which reason he has been confused with the well-known theologian of that name. He is also often mistaken for his younger namesake Serapio junior" GAL. Some catalogues even ascribe this work to the Baghdad physician Abu-Zakariya Yuanna Ibn-Masawaih.Minor water stains; some unobtrusive worming to front board and flyleaves. Binding rubbed; extremities bumped with chipping to spine-ends. A wide-margined copy. With a 1677 owners inscription of the pharmacist and medical student Joseph Franz König on front paste-down; later owners inscription on the title-page of Bonifacius Brix von Wahlberg 1726-1776 court physician to the Princes of Fürstenberg.l Adams I14; BM STC German p. 932; Choulant Handb. p. 347; Durling 4778; GAL I 233 & S 417; USTC 606427; VD16 Y11; not in Waller. Heinrich Petri, hardcover
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
1570801Basel: Eusebius Episcopius 1570. Hardcover. Poor. Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder. Rich provenance adorns this wonderful renaissance work capturing the myths geometry and observational data of the ancient world's heavens adorned with 48 beautiful illustrations of the constellations. Although the illustrator wasn't named scholars generally attribute the 48 woodcuts of constellations to Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder who was active in Basel at the time and shared a similar style. These blocks reflect a more modern 16th century approach to the constellations in comparison the 15th century Ratdolt illustrations of the same work. Provenance - A Latin scholar likely circa 16-17th century wrote witty Latin phrases at the front and rear. The title page has an inscription warning that roughly translated ""a fat belly does not produce subtle thoughts"". At the colophon is a lengthy indictment of the Roman Church drawing from phrases found in Graecimus by Eberhard of Bethune 13th century and Albertus de Rosate 14th century. Adding more context this book was printed in Basel at the height of the reformation. The large front ex libris plate is of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. The book is listed in his 1860 library catalogue and he wrote page 197 "".useful collection of ancient mythologists. Included here for the curious fragments of ancient lore and table-talk ana preserved in the Fabulae and the astrological traditions."" At the rear pastedown is a ticket from Stirling-Maxwell's library assigning it to the ""Ana"" section. The ex libris on the FEP is that of the noted Harvard astronomer historian bibliophile and author Owen Gingerich. Bibliographic Details - Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC number 617529 41 copies recorded in the world's finest libraries. Physical Attributes - Measures approx. 30.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 cm. Old repair to even older leather binding. Boards with faint blind fillets forming double borders with corner florets. Spine with five raised bands author/title/date/Basel in gilt in compartments/at base. Edges mostly red but along fore-edge also in green sections. USTC calls it a folio but it might be a large quarto but regardless gatherings of 6. Printer's device on title page. Some initials. 48 in-text illustrations. Pages - viii 251 1 - blank 26 - Index Collation - a4 a-y6 z7. The z7 is odd but the 13 leaves of y6 and z7 index equal the 26 pages of the USTC catalogue entry so it appears complete and not missing a blank z8. Condition - See pictures. Old repair of even older leather binding with a new spine and corners but the corners are worn through exposing and wearing on pasteboard. Original leather dried and crazed little cracks newer repairs worn through and worn also. Some rubs to binding and spine bands also and a light bump on the front board. Large ex libris applied to pastedown small ex libris ticked applied to FEP. Gutter cracked. A moisture mark occasionally from edge throughout possibly from the application of text block edge coloring. Text block with toning occasional thumbing dog-eared or chipped corner page edge chip fox mark candle ember mark errant annotation/ink mark/doodle etc. throughout. Title page with a handful of inscriptions ink and graphite; trimmed slightly different from following page. 4th leaf Index trimmed tight at top edge. Several ink smudges on b6. Moisture mark bottom corner g and h gathering. Ink drop btm margin l3. No blank z8 if ever. Writing on colophon. More ex libris marks/tickets on rear binder's endpaper. Eusebius Episcopius
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
