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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/>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 books
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
15931317599Köln, H. Falckenburg, 1593 (irrig: 1293). 24 Bl., 288 S., 8 Bl. (das letzte weiß). Neuer Ppbd (gleichmäßig leicht gebräunt, Titel angestaubt u. mit Stempel auf Rückseite, die 2 Bl. Namensregister statt am Anfang hier in der letzten Halbdekade eingebunden).
1512250826035Real Gone Music 2015-12-04. audioCD. Very Good. 5x4x0. 40th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded Edition RGM-0411; bonus tracks & outtakes; tiny ding to booklet; otherwise jewel case and rear cover art are in excellent condition; disc is mint/near mint; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment Real Gone Music unknown
1544321627Wittenberg Germany: Veit Kreutzer 1544. Hardcover. Very Good. Wittenberg: Veit Kreutzer 1544 German edition of Melanchthon's Loci Communes first published in Latin in 1521 as "Loci communes or Loci communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes. Very good. Pages of the text are numbered entirely in roman numerals to page CCCLIII. With an unnumbered register index of 23 pages. Beautiful contemporary stamped ivory vellum veneer boards with a set of elegant silver clips. No front endpaper. The copy bears an early bookplate "Ex bibliotheca Gust. Ad. Hauseri theol et philos. stud. Cl nr" inside the front board. Light pencil signatures from the 19th century trace the stewardship of Ole Lokensgaard 1854-1931 Granite Falls Minnesota who came to the US in 1857. The family was associated through his son Gerhard W. Lokensgard with St. Olaf College in Northfield. It has been held by the family through 3 generations. The Loci Communes evolved with the reform movement. This 1544 edition is translated by Justus Jonas into German based on Melanchthon's 1542 revision. Title in English: "The Heubtartike Christian Literature/ drawn together/ By Philippum Melanthon/ called in Latin/ Loci Communes Theologici. Germanized by Justum Jonam/Doctor/ and in the 1542nd year/ By Philip. Melanth. checked again and improved." The Loci Communes evolved with the movement. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560 was a German reformer a collaborator with Martin Luther and part of the Wittenberg team that established the foundation of the Protestant Reformation. Melanchthon was its first systematic theologian and an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation who with Luther was a primary founder of Lutheranism. Loci Communes was Melanchthon's Magnum Opus. "Melanchthon points out that he wrote the Loci Communes to encourage people to bypass extra-biblical sources and go straight to scripture. He does not believe it makes sense to try to integrate philosophy with the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Melanchthon berates the scholastic methodology of dialectic. He discusses the skewing of scripture that those who employ such methodology foisted upon the interpretation of scripture". The colleagues that Luther assembled in Wittenberg’s theological faculty formed the nucleus of his team. This included Justus Jonas 1493 –1555 who served in addition to roles as advisor and legal expert as translator of the works of Luther and Melanchthon from Latin into German or German into Latin. In the 16th century intellectuals across Europe spoke Latin. To spread the Wittenberg message this process of translation and revision was essential to the maturing of the movement. The later editions were published from 1543-1559 with the final edition being published just one year before Melanchthon’s death in 1560. The 1560 edition is four times the size of the original 1521 edition. "The German text of the third generation remains close to the second generation of the Latin Loci; the text is a revision by Melanchthon of the translation of Jonas.He once confessed that he found the final revision of this German translation better than the Latin Loci CR 22 31/32." We believe that this 1544 Jonas translation may be the one to which Melanchthon refers. But that is a matter for further scholarly investigation. The simple beauty of the copy with its silver clasps is exceptional. Veit Kreutzer hardcover
1562710271562. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Interleaved Copy Annotated by a French Nobleman Justinian I 485-565 CE Emperor of the East. Hotman Francois 1524-1590 Editor. Digestorum seu Pandectarum Libri Quinquaginta ex Pandectis Florentinis Nuper in Lucem Emissis Quoadeius Fieri Potuit Repraesentati & In Septem Partes Justiniani Sententia Distincti Adjectis Brevibus Francisci Hotomanni Parisiensis I.C. Clarissimi Summariis. Paris: Apud Guilielmum Merlin in ponte nummulariorum et Guilielmum Desboys 1562. civ 258 pp. Interleaved. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Contemporary vellum armorial devices to boards lettering piece to spine. Soiling and a few stains and minor nicks some wear to spine ends pastedowns loose a few chips to vellum along fore-edge of front board early owner bookplate to front pastedown early owner signature dated 1729 to front free endpaper crack in text block between front free endpaper and title page. Moderate toning to text light foxing to a few leaves occasional faint dampstaining to foot of text block. Annotations in neat contemporary hand some quite extensive to several leaves and about a third of the interleaves occasional early underlining. $750. This volume is first of a seven-volume edition of the Novels one of the four components of the Corpus Juris Civilis. It belonged to a French noble Charles Du Ruisseau "in supremo senatu Patroni." Excepting one page in Latin in a different hand the annotations most likely by Du Ruisseau are in French. Mostly analytical they reflect considerable engagement with the text. Several include cross-references and references to other sections of the Corpus Juris Civilis. unknown books
1551V73009Paris Lutetiae: Robertus Stephanus Cum privilegio Regis 1551. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice Estienne printer's device on titlepage of basilisk wound round vine and floral headpiece and initial on first page of life of Pompey the Great. Small quarto 23.5x14mm half 19th century morocco on 5 bands gilt ruled with Greek title and brown marbled boards marbled endpapers with neat Greek Athens bookseller's label 357pp 3pp Variae Lectiones & Errata. Beautifully clean and crisp handsome Greek typography. Editio princeps of the epitome of Dio's Roman history abridged in the 11th century by Joannes Xiphilinus the only source for Dio's lost books 61-80 dealing with events from 47 B.C. to 235 A.D. Robert Estienne issued this epitome to compliment his folio edition of Dio Cassius of 1548. Printed in the gros-romain font of the "grecs du roi" cut by Claude Garamond. Robertus Stephanus Cum privilegio Regis hardcover
157541312Paris at William Julian's in the Garden of Friendship near the College of Cameracenfe 1575. Vellum. Very Good. 32 mo aged vellum boards with what appears to be the title stamped on the spine though very faded. Rough translation - All the extant works of the great philosopher and martyr of Ivstin Justin passed down translated into Latin by Sigismund Celenius. Includes an addition/addendum trans from D. Hippolyi Epifcopi. The condition of the book is Very Good for it's age binding of the text block intact; general aging to the vellum; fading on the spine as noted prior; text block separating some from the boards but the exposed bands on the spine are intact. 440pgs roughly100pg index. <br/> <br/> 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
1572EE4911Haeredum Iohannis Quentel / Viduam Mauricii a Porta / et al 1572. ~DATE RANGE: 1547-1572 ~FULL TITLES: D. Dionysii Carthusiani Enarrationes piae ac eruditae in quatuor prophetas quos vocant maiores. Imprint: Coloniae : Ex Officina Haeredum Iohannis Quentel. M.D. LVII. BOUND WITH: D. Dionysii Carthusiani Enarrationes piae ac eruditae in duodecim prophetas quos vocant minores. IMPRINT: Coloniae Apud Geruuinum Calenium & haeredes Iohannis Quentel. M. D. LXVIII. 2 VOLS IN 1. / D. Dionysii Carthusiani Insigne commentariorum opus in Psalmos omnes Davidicos. Imprint: Parisiis Apud Dionysiam & Hieronymum de Marnes viduam spectabilis viri Ambrosii Girault. M.D. XLVII. BOUND WITH: D. Dionysii Carthusiani Enarrationes piae ac eruditae in quinque libros Sapientiales. IMPRINT: Coloniae ex officina Haeredum Ioannis Quentel. M. D. LV. 2 VOLS IN 1. / D. Dionysii Carthusiani Enarrationes piæ ac eruditæ in quinque Mosaicæ legis libros. Imprint: Coloniae : Apud haeredes Joannis Quentel et Geruuinum Calenium M.D. LXVI. / D. Dionysii Carthusiani enarrationes piae ac eruditae in libros Iosue Iudicum Ruth Regum Primum secundum tertium & quartum item Paralipomenon primum & secundum . Coloniae Ex Officina Haeredum Ioannis Quentel. M.D.LII. BOUND WITH: D. Dionysii Carthusiani eruditae ac piae enarrationes in Librum Iob Tobiae Iudith Hester Nehemiae Machabaeorum primum & II. IMPRINT: Coloniae. Impensis Geruini Calenii & haeredum Iohannis Quentel. Anno M. D. LXXII. 2 VOLS IN 1. / D. Dionysii Carthusiani in quatuor Evangelistas enarrationes. Paris. Apud Viduam Mauricii a Porta. M.D.LII. BOUND WITH: D. Dionysii Carthusiani in omnes B. Pauli epistolas commentaria. IMPRINT: Parisiis Apud spectabilem viduam Maruicii a Porta. 1548. BOUND WITH: D. Dionysii Carthusiani in Catholicas septem epistolas piae ac eruditae admodum enarrationes. Eiusdem Commentarii doctissimi in Acta Apostolorum Apocalypsim ac Hymnos ecclesiasticos. IMPRINT: Parisiis. Apud Viduam Maruitii a Porta. 1548. 3 VOLS IN 1. ~PAGINATION: 16 814 2 12 358pp. 12 327ff. 28 593 2pp. 12 1015pp. 12 611 4 501pp. 10 348 4 130 5 170ff. ~Full uniform 18th-century mottled calf bindings raised bands to spines. Spines decorated in gilt with small tools. Blind triple fillets to boards. Gilt decor to board edges much rubbed. Two brown gilt labels per spine intact only on 'libros Iosue .'. Other vols have single label remaining or none 'Prophetas'. All edges red. Endpapers marbled in Placard pattern. Folios 21 x 31.5cm. Library markings to prelims including Pusey Library markings to all vols. Owner's signature of E. B. Pusey to vols I & II. Loss to spines of 'Prophetas' & 'Pentateuch'. Headbands loose. Splitting over all outer hinges but all hinges holding. Decorated initials throughout to all vols. Publisher's devices to all title pages. Dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII dated 1532 to 'in quatuor Evangelistas enarrationes'. A little sidelining and annotation in old hand especially to final vol. with some more recent pencil sidelining throughout. Text printed in double columns. Some age-browning and foxing mostly to vol. I & 'enarrationes in Librum Iob .'. Tiny amount of worm damage to inside front board of 'Psalmi'. Tear 7cm to p. 1015 of 'Pentateuch' minor effect to text. With tickets from 2005 Christie's sale. 19th-century bookmarks to vols I & II one with Pusey's name on part of ironmonger's bill. 5 striking identical woodcuts 12.5 x 16.2cm of Denis with the Virgin and Child to verso of some tps in vols I-IV. Woodcut of Denis triumphing over devil 12.7 x 17cm to final page of vol. I. All woodcuts signed with monogram 'A W' i.e. Anton Woensam c.1493/1496 - c.1541 a frequent collaborator with the Quentel publishing house. Denis the Carthusian 1402-1471 theologian and mystic. Collection of 16th century editions of his influential Biblical commentaries with close association with E. B. Pusey 1800-1882 leading figure in Oxford Movement. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Hardback. Hardback. Good/Fine. c. 500pp. per vol. Haeredum Iohannis Quentel / Viduam Mauricii a Porta / et al 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
1600046524Geneva: Paulus Stephanus Paul Estienne 1600. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early paneled calf rebacked ca. 19th c. endpapers refreshed hinges worn and cracked held by cords corners bumped wear at edges title foxed scattered mostly light foxing and browning - generally quite clean internally and an attractively printed Estienne edition of Pliny's letters. 28 646 blank 28 8 168 151 pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046524. Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne) hardcover
1518elala713Colophon on kk7r: Venice: In Aedib. Aldi Et Andreae Asulani Soceri June 1518. 1518. 8vo. pp. 26 p.l. 525 1 leaf. Aldine anchor device on title & at end. 19th century red morocco Aldine anchor device in gilt on covers all edges gilt rubbed title lightly toned & with small paper repair in lower margin x in colophon date erased with tiny hole. probably from the Syston Park Library of Sir John Thorold. Second Aldine Edition. The letters of the consul and Governor of Biyhinia friend of Tacitus and Suetonius provide an interesting view of the varied interests of a cultivated Roman gentleman. "The etiquette of the imperial circle scenes from the law-courts and the recitation-room the reunions of dilettanti and philosophers the busy life of the capital or of the municipal town the recreations of the seaside and of the country all these he brings vividly before our eyes". Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. Topics range from his Tuscan villa happy memories of Lake Como love for his wife Calpurnia dreams ghost-stories the beauties of the Clitumnus and the floating islands of the Vadimonian lake the eruption of Vesuvius in connection with the last days and death of Pliny the Elder the deaths of Silius Italicus and Martial the principles that should guide a Roman governor in Greece the government of Bithynia and the relations between the governor and the Emperor. "The Letters are models of graceful thought and refined expression each of them dealing with a single topic and generally ending with an epigrammatic point." Ibid. The whole of Book 8 was first published in its proper place by Aldus Manutius in 1508. Adams P1538. BM STC Italian p. 525. Renouard I 195.4. Dibdin 4th Edn. II p. 330. Moss II pp. 493-94. Hardcover. Very Good. [Colophon on kk7r:] Venice: In Aedib. Aldi, Et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June 1518. Hardcover
1600046524Geneva: Paulus Stephanus Paul Estienne 1600. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early paneled calf rebacked ca. 19th c. endpapers refreshed hinges worn and cracked held by cords corners bumped wear at edges title foxed scattered mostly light foxing and browning - generally quite clean internally and an attractively printed Estienne edition of Pliny's letters. 28 646 blank 28 8 168 151 pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046524. Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne) hardcover books
154910865DBBasel, Heinrich Petri, 1549. 4°. 32 cm. Gestochener Titel, [15] Blatt, 769 [recte 766], [2] Seiten, 170 Blatt. Ganzlederband der Zeit mit erneuertem Rücken. Eusebius von Caesarea (lateinisch Eusebius Caesariensis), geboren 260/64 in Palaestina; gestorben 339 oder 340 in Caesar
158326929Paris 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 platemark and inlaid into later wove paper sheet. Later ink inscription on verso reading "from Holland / 1809." Minor wear and soiling. Very good. A very early engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake.<br/> <br/> 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's 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. The earliest graphic image of one of the greatest figures in maritime history.<br/> <br/> 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
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
1512241017074Demon/Edsel 2015-12-04. audioCD. New. 5x5x0. brand new in original shrinkwrap; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment Demon/Edsel unknown
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
1548227758Venice: Alessandro Brucioli & i Frategli 1548. First Antonio Brucioli translation. Full vellum skiver leather title and date spine labels. Deaccession library stamps title page; marginalia p. 544; .5" chip lower corner p. 768 no loss; period ink mark affecting text p.980; pps. 950-1068 faint water stain lower corners & corners curled chipped frayed with some loss to margins and one part of marginal annotation. Octavo. xvi; 24; 1-1068 numbered in roman numerals. Gathering "O" misbound out of order but complete pp. 490-490 mispaginated as 494-495. The succession of translations of Pliny's Historia Naturale from the earliest printed incunables to Cinquecento Italian editions is a complex study of the collaborative process among humanist intellectual peers. Renaissance translators of early Greek thought worked with previously published translations offering emendations and alterations to improve or correct an earlier text. Antonio Brucioli edited Cristoforo Landino's well-received translation in 1543 which he then sought to improve upon with his own edition in 1548 making corrections to the table of contents offering an extended preface and including a “Life of Pliny.†Ultimately Landino's translation was the preferred text supplanting this Brucioli edition making it the only edition of this version of Pliny's Historia Naturale. Alessandro Brucioli & i Frategli unknown
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
1557V68774Koln Cologne: apud Maternum Cholinum 1557. Hardcover. Good. Small woodcuts 40 with a few repeats mostly of biblical scenes a few historiated initials. . Folio flexible vellum with stubs of ties some wrinkles /paper spine label & large old shelfmark B Titlepage 25pp=dedication indices to reader & errata. 1pblank 5-704pp As listed on a4 the book collates !6 #4 a6 b4 c-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Mm6 Nn7 lacks Nn8=the final blank Title has stamp of the library of P.P.Capuci & early "sum ex libris Leodegarj a Meggen Can. Beron." Another "Capucinorum in Sursee" also "loci Capu. in Schyfen". Three small pin sized worm holes to TP soon diminishing to one and then none after the first few pages of text. There are two corners torn away without loss 4 marginal tears only one into text and that without loss. And p 634 has a marginal paper fault again not affecting text.Page 479/480 is bound before 477/478. There are a few gatherings that are browner and a few creases. A few ink splatters to about 6 pages and the lower edge has some faint damp marking mainly marginal but the overall condition is very good with a tight text block and clean pages. This collection was made by order of Charles the Great and until the present is still the basis of breviary readings. Although assigned to Paul the Deacon it has also been ascribed to Alcuin by Adams but as a suppositious work cf. H-819. apud Maternum Cholinum 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.
