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(CHYTRÄUS, DAVID der Ältere)
Onomasticon theologicum .. a Theophilo Lebeo.
Wittenberg, ex officina Ioannis Cratonis, 1560. 8vo. 677,(10) p. 19th cent.half-calf. (library stamp on fly-leaf and verso title, a very good copy). - 2nd printing of this popular word-list. Chyträus (1530-1600) was a close student of Melanchton, and later rector of Rostock university.
Item no: 104795
€ 450.00
Wittenberg, ex officina Ioannis Cratonis, 1560. 8vo. 677,(10) p. 19th cent.half-calf. (library stamp on fly-leaf and verso title, a very good copy). - 2nd printing of this popular word-list. Chyträus (1530-1600) was a close student of Melanchton, and later rector of Rostock university.
Item no: 104795
€ 450.00
ADRIANUS VI: GIOVIO, PAULO.
De vita Leonis Decimi Pont.Max. libri quatuor. His ordine temporum accesserunt Hadriani Sexti Pont.Max. et Pompeii Columnae cardinalis vitae.
Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, February 1549. Folio. (34,5x21,5 cm.). [viii],205,(1 blank) pp. With title-page & title-vignette (Medici arms). New old-style overlapping vellum, new endpapers. (Title page stained, a bit frayed, a few small holes in title-page, without loss. Old stamp on title-page. Edges slightly foxed. Some moulding in the margin of the first part. Last blank missing. Copy with ample margins)
¶ The Life of Hadrian VI covers pages 113-152. First edition of this VERY EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF THE DUTCH POPE. Paolo Giovio wrote this Life at the instigation of cardinal William of Enckenvoirt, executor of Hadrians testament. ¶ Adams G689.
Item no: 137244
€ 950.00
Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, February 1549. Folio. (34,5x21,5 cm.). [viii],205,(1 blank) pp. With title-page & title-vignette (Medici arms). New old-style overlapping vellum, new endpapers. (Title page stained, a bit frayed, a few small holes in title-page, without loss. Old stamp on title-page. Edges slightly foxed. Some moulding in the margin of the first part. Last blank missing. Copy with ample margins)
¶ The Life of Hadrian VI covers pages 113-152. First edition of this VERY EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF THE DUTCH POPE. Paolo Giovio wrote this Life at the instigation of cardinal William of Enckenvoirt, executor of Hadrians testament. ¶ Adams G689.
Item no: 137244
€ 950.00
ADRIANUS VI: PLATINO, B.. PANVINIO, O.
Vitae romanorum pontificum a D. Petro usque ad Clementem VIII. Ex Platinae Historia in epitomen redactae, ac iuxta Onufrij Panuinij. Hic praeter alia accesserunt eorundem pontificum imagines ad vivum expressae, labore et industria Ioannis Glano.
Leodii (Liège), Henricus Hovius, 1597. 8vo. [xlviii],499,[1] pp. With 240 woodcuts (239 portraits) in the text. Full vellum with turned edges; 2x (faded) triple gilt fillets. (lacking the ties; vellum a bit soiled; hinges sl.worn; some worming in flyleaves; a few (ink) spots; one quire sl.loosening; some 'Abklatsch')
¶ Provenance: handwritten year (1597) on title page erased; 'sum Bernardi Cappelier Tornac. sacerd. ab anno 1691. Ex auctione D. Laurentij de Lausnoit [??] quendam capellam in B.U.'
¶ Rare Liege edition of these biographies of the popes, in a nice ivory vellum binding. The biography of Adrian VI covers pages 453-454. "Les portraits, accompagnés d'un petit écusson avec ou sans armoiries, sont, en grande partie, de pure fantaisie... La dédicace contient un passage qui pourrait faire croire que le signataire Jean le Glen, le graveur de la figure et des portraits, est aussi l'auteur du texte... L'extrait suivant de la préface prouve ou contraire que le texte est dû à une autre personne .. probablement Jean-Baptiste de Glen, frère du graveur." Bibl.Belgica III.224/25; Brunet II.1626 (autre éd.); De Theux, Bibliographie liégeoise ...I, p.14)
Item no: 137771
€ 950.00
Leodii (Liège), Henricus Hovius, 1597. 8vo. [xlviii],499,[1] pp. With 240 woodcuts (239 portraits) in the text. Full vellum with turned edges; 2x (faded) triple gilt fillets. (lacking the ties; vellum a bit soiled; hinges sl.worn; some worming in flyleaves; a few (ink) spots; one quire sl.loosening; some 'Abklatsch')
¶ Provenance: handwritten year (1597) on title page erased; 'sum Bernardi Cappelier Tornac. sacerd. ab anno 1691. Ex auctione D. Laurentij de Lausnoit [??] quendam capellam in B.U.'
¶ Rare Liege edition of these biographies of the popes, in a nice ivory vellum binding. The biography of Adrian VI covers pages 453-454. "Les portraits, accompagnés d'un petit écusson avec ou sans armoiries, sont, en grande partie, de pure fantaisie... La dédicace contient un passage qui pourrait faire croire que le signataire Jean le Glen, le graveur de la figure et des portraits, est aussi l'auteur du texte... L'extrait suivant de la préface prouve ou contraire que le texte est dû à une autre personne .. probablement Jean-Baptiste de Glen, frère du graveur." Bibl.Belgica III.224/25; Brunet II.1626 (autre éd.); De Theux, Bibliographie liégeoise ...I, p.14)
Item no: 137771
€ 950.00
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS.
Rerum gestarum libri XVIII, à decimoquarto ad trigesimum primum, nam XIII desiderantur. ... Librum trigesimumprimum, qui in exemplari Frobeniano non habitur, adiecimus ex codice Mariangeli Accursii.
Paris, Ex officina Rob.Stephani, 1544. 8vo. (16,7x9,8cm). 513 (= 543) pp. With printer's device on title-page. Later calf. (erratic pagination but complete; slightly undulating; clipping from bookseller's cat.tipped in; some contemporary underlinings; 19th-cent.annotation in pencil on flyleaf)
¶ Provenance: contemporary ms.entry on title-page: "Francisci Tartarelii"
¶ "This edition follows Froben's Gelenius edition of 1533, with his introduction. The last part of book 30 and book 31, omitted in Frobenius (as the title reads), is added here. "Der Text scheint Eigenes zu haben." Schweiger II/2. Jenkins, Ammianus Bibliography p.15
Item no: 133060
€ 750.00
Paris, Ex officina Rob.Stephani, 1544. 8vo. (16,7x9,8cm). 513 (= 543) pp. With printer's device on title-page. Later calf. (erratic pagination but complete; slightly undulating; clipping from bookseller's cat.tipped in; some contemporary underlinings; 19th-cent.annotation in pencil on flyleaf)
¶ Provenance: contemporary ms.entry on title-page: "Francisci Tartarelii"
¶ "This edition follows Froben's Gelenius edition of 1533, with his introduction. The last part of book 30 and book 31, omitted in Frobenius (as the title reads), is added here. "Der Text scheint Eigenes zu haben." Schweiger II/2. Jenkins, Ammianus Bibliography p.15
Item no: 133060
€ 750.00
APULEIUS.
Apologia. I. Casaubonus recensuit, graeca supplevit, & Castigationum libellum adiecit. Ad virum ilustrem J. Scaligerum.
[Heidelberg], Commelin, 1593. 4to. (20,8x15,8cm). [viii],182,[2=index] pp. Vellum. (vellum discoloured and repaired; name removed from title-page: paper damaged; a bit foxed)
¶ VD16 A 3173 ¶ "In den frühern Ausg. wurde dieses Werk in 2 Bücher getheilt. Diese [wiederrechtlich gemachte] Eintheilung hob Casaubon. [zuerst] auf. Er benutzte bes.die Princeps v.1469." (Schweiger I.12. See also: Hamberger 1758 p. 347) ¶ Adams A1370.
Item no: 132080
€ 420.00
[Heidelberg], Commelin, 1593. 4to. (20,8x15,8cm). [viii],182,[2=index] pp. Vellum. (vellum discoloured and repaired; name removed from title-page: paper damaged; a bit foxed)
¶ VD16 A 3173 ¶ "In den frühern Ausg. wurde dieses Werk in 2 Bücher getheilt. Diese [wiederrechtlich gemachte] Eintheilung hob Casaubon. [zuerst] auf. Er benutzte bes.die Princeps v.1469." (Schweiger I.12. See also: Hamberger 1758 p. 347) ¶ Adams A1370.
Item no: 132080
€ 420.00
ARISTOTELES.
De mundo, graece: Cum duplici interpretatione latina. priore quidem L.Apulei; altera verò Guilielmi Budaei. Cum scholiis & castigationibus Bonaventuaræ Vulcanii. Accessit Gregorii Cyprii, Encomium Maris. & Pauli Silentiarii Iambica.
Leiden, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1591. 8vo. (16x10,6 cm.). [xvi],304 & 23 pp. With Plantin printers device on title page (Voet 42) and variant Plantin device (Voet 43) on the title page of Gregorius Cyprius. Laced vellum. (some old, 17th-18th century, annotations in the margin; some wear and a tear in the pastedown covering the gutter, but a good and clean copy)
¶ Provenance: ms.owners entry of M.Tydeman; bookplate of W.J.F.Meiners.
¶ First published in 1587, Vulcanius used this text in his Greek lectures at the newly founded University of Leiden. The greek text of this pseudo-Aristotelian tract is followed by the latin translation of Apuleius and a variant translation by Guillaume Budé. Vulcanius dedicates this edition of Aristotle to prince Maurice of Orange, and the Gregorius Cyprius to Henri Estienne. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Gregorius Cyprius' Encomium maris. Vulcanius concludes this volume with the 'In Thermas Pythias', on the warm baths of Pythia in Bithynia, by the 6th century Byzantine epigrammist Paulus Silentiarius. According to Hoffmann Vulcanius re-established the correct order of this poem. ¶ Laudatory poems by Janus Dousa the younger, Raphael Thorius, and Theob.Teellingius. ¶ Typographia Batava 292. Hoffmann I,p.285, II,p.172 & III,p.47.
Item no: 140818
€ 980.00
Leiden, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1591. 8vo. (16x10,6 cm.). [xvi],304 & 23 pp. With Plantin printers device on title page (Voet 42) and variant Plantin device (Voet 43) on the title page of Gregorius Cyprius. Laced vellum. (some old, 17th-18th century, annotations in the margin; some wear and a tear in the pastedown covering the gutter, but a good and clean copy)
¶ Provenance: ms.owners entry of M.Tydeman; bookplate of W.J.F.Meiners.
¶ First published in 1587, Vulcanius used this text in his Greek lectures at the newly founded University of Leiden. The greek text of this pseudo-Aristotelian tract is followed by the latin translation of Apuleius and a variant translation by Guillaume Budé. Vulcanius dedicates this edition of Aristotle to prince Maurice of Orange, and the Gregorius Cyprius to Henri Estienne. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Gregorius Cyprius' Encomium maris. Vulcanius concludes this volume with the 'In Thermas Pythias', on the warm baths of Pythia in Bithynia, by the 6th century Byzantine epigrammist Paulus Silentiarius. According to Hoffmann Vulcanius re-established the correct order of this poem. ¶ Laudatory poems by Janus Dousa the younger, Raphael Thorius, and Theob.Teellingius. ¶ Typographia Batava 292. Hoffmann I,p.285, II,p.172 & III,p.47.
Item no: 140818
€ 980.00
ARISTOTELES.
Omnem logicam, rhetoricam, et poeticam disciplinam continens. Tomus I. (Graece, studio Joh. Baptistae Camotii.)
Venice, Aldi filii (Paulus Manutius), 1551. 8vo. (17x11cm). [xx],678 pp. Aldine device on title-page. Later diced calf with blind-stamped decorative borders, gilt coat of arms on both boards; spine with morocco title-piece; speckled edges. (hinges strengthened unobtrusively; lower margin torn from title-page; some light marginal waterstains; (traces) of (old) annotations in margine; lacking the last leaf with the Varia lectio in topicis V-VII and the Aldine device)
¶ Provenance: gilt arms of James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury on both boards.
¶ Brunet I.45; beautiful and rare edition. (Schweiger 51); Adams A.1733 (six volumes); Renouard (Aldus) 150. ¶ Edit16: 2936. This edition was printed at the expense of Federicus Turrisanus, with his short preface, "qui y parle beaucoup de son zèle pour la publicaton des bonnes éditions grecques." (Renouard).
Item no: 132582
€ 950.00
Venice, Aldi filii (Paulus Manutius), 1551. 8vo. (17x11cm). [xx],678 pp. Aldine device on title-page. Later diced calf with blind-stamped decorative borders, gilt coat of arms on both boards; spine with morocco title-piece; speckled edges. (hinges strengthened unobtrusively; lower margin torn from title-page; some light marginal waterstains; (traces) of (old) annotations in margine; lacking the last leaf with the Varia lectio in topicis V-VII and the Aldine device)
¶ Provenance: gilt arms of James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury on both boards.
¶ Brunet I.45; beautiful and rare edition. (Schweiger 51); Adams A.1733 (six volumes); Renouard (Aldus) 150. ¶ Edit16: 2936. This edition was printed at the expense of Federicus Turrisanus, with his short preface, "qui y parle beaucoup de son zèle pour la publicaton des bonnes éditions grecques." (Renouard).
Item no: 132582
€ 950.00
ASCONIUS.
In orationes Ciceronis enarrationes nuper qua licuit cura ac diligentia collatis adhibitis variis exemplaribus recognitae ac locis innumeris restitutae cum Georgii Trapezuntii, in eiusdem Ciceronis Orationem pro Q.Ligario docta ac pereleganti interpretatione, adnotationisbusque ac commentariis Antonii Lusci Vincentini, in reliquas Ciceronis Actiones.
Paris, Conrat Resch (impr. P. Vidoué), sub Scuto Basiliensi, 1520. Folio, mostly in-6. (28,3x19,6cm). [viii],339 pp. With woodcut title-borders and printer's device. Modern half morocco binding with marbled boards (tiny wormhole in first 5 leaves (no text loss); marginal tear in page 254; erratic pagination but complete). A fresh copy with ample margins.
¶ Title-page partly coloured by hand, some old marginal annotations. The woodcut title-border depicting Pyramus and Thisbe, the Judgement of Paris and Aristotle and Phyllis; also with playing putti and a flatulent woman, signed VG (Urs Graf?).
¶ Provenance: owner's annotation in ink on title-page: College of Oratorians in Saumur.
¶ "Von Nic. Beroaldus herausgegeben." (Schweiger II.17) L'editio Beraldina (Paris, 1520) a été peu vue. Madvig la connaissait de seconde main et seul Baiter l'a utilisée. ... Le texte de Bérauld se fonde, lui aussi, sur l'édition princeps qu'il améliore légèrement. L'édition de 1520 fut largement diffusée, puisque ce fut elle que reprit Mélanchton quelques années plus tard." (Flambard, Notes sur l'histoire du texte d'Asconius à l'époque moderne, p. 388-89). ¶ Adams A. b2053.
Item no: 132207
€ 4800.00
Paris, Conrat Resch (impr. P. Vidoué), sub Scuto Basiliensi, 1520. Folio, mostly in-6. (28,3x19,6cm). [viii],339 pp. With woodcut title-borders and printer's device. Modern half morocco binding with marbled boards (tiny wormhole in first 5 leaves (no text loss); marginal tear in page 254; erratic pagination but complete). A fresh copy with ample margins.
¶ Title-page partly coloured by hand, some old marginal annotations. The woodcut title-border depicting Pyramus and Thisbe, the Judgement of Paris and Aristotle and Phyllis; also with playing putti and a flatulent woman, signed VG (Urs Graf?).
¶ Provenance: owner's annotation in ink on title-page: College of Oratorians in Saumur.
¶ "Von Nic. Beroaldus herausgegeben." (Schweiger II.17) L'editio Beraldina (Paris, 1520) a été peu vue. Madvig la connaissait de seconde main et seul Baiter l'a utilisée. ... Le texte de Bérauld se fonde, lui aussi, sur l'édition princeps qu'il améliore légèrement. L'édition de 1520 fut largement diffusée, puisque ce fut elle que reprit Mélanchton quelques années plus tard." (Flambard, Notes sur l'histoire du texte d'Asconius à l'époque moderne, p. 388-89). ¶ Adams A. b2053.
Item no: 132207
€ 4800.00
AUGUSTINUS, Antonius.
Emendationum, et opinionum libri quatuor. Ad Modestinum, sive De excusationibus, liber singularis. His libris maxima iuris civilis pars ex Florentinis Pandectis emendatur, & declaratur.
Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1544. 8vo. 372,[44] pp. With printer's device on title and last leaf. Rebacked vellum (new flyleaves; titlepage repaired and strengthened; first leaves sl. water stained; a few annotations, 1 marginal tear)
¶ Adams A2238. The second edition. ¶ Antonio Agustín y Albanell (1516-1586), also referred to as Augustinus, was a Spanish Humanist historian, jurist and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona. now principally remembered as the first canon law historian. His first main work, Emendationum et opinionum libri IV, proposed the now widely accepted thesis that the Littera Florentina manuscript was the source for all other copies of the Pandects. This undermined the authority, fundamental to medieval Roman law, of the Latin Vulgate text of the Pandects. (Wikipedia).
Item no: 133444
€ 320.00
Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1544. 8vo. 372,[44] pp. With printer's device on title and last leaf. Rebacked vellum (new flyleaves; titlepage repaired and strengthened; first leaves sl. water stained; a few annotations, 1 marginal tear)
¶ Adams A2238. The second edition. ¶ Antonio Agustín y Albanell (1516-1586), also referred to as Augustinus, was a Spanish Humanist historian, jurist and Roman Catholic archbishop of Tarragona. now principally remembered as the first canon law historian. His first main work, Emendationum et opinionum libri IV, proposed the now widely accepted thesis that the Littera Florentina manuscript was the source for all other copies of the Pandects. This undermined the authority, fundamental to medieval Roman law, of the Latin Vulgate text of the Pandects. (Wikipedia).
Item no: 133444
€ 320.00
AUSONIUS.
Opera, a Josepho Scaligero, & Elia Vineto denuo recognita, disposita, & variorum notis illustrata: cetera epistola ad lectorem docebit. Jacob Stoer, 1588. ET: Ausoniarum lectionum libri duo. Adjectis praeterea, doctissimorum id genus athorum: utpote A. Turnebi, Hadr. Junii, Guil. Canteri, I. Lipsii, & Eliae Vineti notis.
[Geneva,] Jacob Stoer, 1588. 16mo. 2 vol.in 1. xxxii,350-247,[14] pp. Roan. (binding a bit worn/chafed; tiny marginal worm holes throughout; somewhat water stained; some contemporary annotations (partly trimmed))
¶ Schweiger II.21. Adams A2285.
Item no: 134788
€ 350.00
[Geneva,] Jacob Stoer, 1588. 16mo. 2 vol.in 1. xxxii,350-247,[14] pp. Roan. (binding a bit worn/chafed; tiny marginal worm holes throughout; somewhat water stained; some contemporary annotations (partly trimmed))
¶ Schweiger II.21. Adams A2285.
Item no: 134788
€ 350.00
BARLANDUS, Hadrianus.
Hollandiae comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis scholiis ad lectoris lucem. + Caroli Burgundiae ducis vita. + Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.
Frankfurt, Ioannes Wechel (impensis Sigismund.Feyerabend), 1585. 8vo. (15,2x9,8 cm.) [xvi],393 (=391)-110 pp. With woodcut armorial vignettes, lampoons, portrait of Gertrud of Saxonia on title, large printers device on last page, and 36 large woodcut portraits of the counts of Holland in the text. Contemporary limp vellum. (corner cut from one leaf without loss; a few pages age-toned; spine severely damaged; the preliminaries waterstained in bottom corner)
¶ Note in old handwriting on upper pastedown: "David Clément en sa Bibl.Curieuse dit que cette édition 1585 est fort rare". Indeed a rare German edition of this history of the counts of Holland and catalogue of the deeds of the Utrecht bishops.
Item no: 143098
€ 850.00
Frankfurt, Ioannes Wechel (impensis Sigismund.Feyerabend), 1585. 8vo. (15,2x9,8 cm.) [xvi],393 (=391)-110 pp. With woodcut armorial vignettes, lampoons, portrait of Gertrud of Saxonia on title, large printers device on last page, and 36 large woodcut portraits of the counts of Holland in the text. Contemporary limp vellum. (corner cut from one leaf without loss; a few pages age-toned; spine severely damaged; the preliminaries waterstained in bottom corner)
¶ Note in old handwriting on upper pastedown: "David Clément en sa Bibl.Curieuse dit que cette édition 1585 est fort rare". Indeed a rare German edition of this history of the counts of Holland and catalogue of the deeds of the Utrecht bishops.
Item no: 143098
€ 850.00
BLONDUS, FLAVIUS.
De Roma triumphante libri decem, priscorum scriptorum lectoribus utilissimi, ad totiusque Romanae antiquitatis cognitionem pernecessa rii. Romae instauratae libri III. Italia illustrata. Historiarum ab inclinato Rom. imperio Decades III. Omnia multo quam ante castigatiora.
Basel, Froben, 1531. First part only. Folio. (33,1x22,6cm). [xii],422,[1 printer's mark] pp. Later old-style basane, blind-stamped boards, spine with raised bands. (new paste-downs loose; title-page strengthened at hinge; some moulding; first pp. slightly deteriorated in lower corner; small hole in p. 159: a few letters text loss; strong paper copy)
¶ Lacking the second part: Decades.
¶ Provenance: ex libris of P.A.H. Muschamp; armorial stamp of the Sewell family on wooden board.
¶ Biondo "virtually founded the field of archaeology" with these works. Our copy contains: De Roma instaurata (reconstruction of ancient Roman topography); De Roma triumphante (a discussion of pagan Rome as a model for new reform in contemporary institutions); De Gestis Venetorum; and De Italia illustrata (geography and history of 18 Italian provinces). . ¶ Adams B 2067 (including the Decades) ¶ "The Italia illustrata has naturally been given more attention than the other, for in it Biondo achieved a new and fruitful combination of geography and history, of antiquities and contemporary observation ... they stimulated a host of other topographers and antiquaries who were better equipped." (Renaissance Essays 1951, p.40; see also: A new sense of the past: the scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)
Item no: 132614
€ 1400.00
Basel, Froben, 1531. First part only. Folio. (33,1x22,6cm). [xii],422,[1 printer's mark] pp. Later old-style basane, blind-stamped boards, spine with raised bands. (new paste-downs loose; title-page strengthened at hinge; some moulding; first pp. slightly deteriorated in lower corner; small hole in p. 159: a few letters text loss; strong paper copy)
¶ Lacking the second part: Decades.
¶ Provenance: ex libris of P.A.H. Muschamp; armorial stamp of the Sewell family on wooden board.
¶ Biondo "virtually founded the field of archaeology" with these works. Our copy contains: De Roma instaurata (reconstruction of ancient Roman topography); De Roma triumphante (a discussion of pagan Rome as a model for new reform in contemporary institutions); De Gestis Venetorum; and De Italia illustrata (geography and history of 18 Italian provinces). . ¶ Adams B 2067 (including the Decades) ¶ "The Italia illustrata has naturally been given more attention than the other, for in it Biondo achieved a new and fruitful combination of geography and history, of antiquities and contemporary observation ... they stimulated a host of other topographers and antiquaries who were better equipped." (Renaissance Essays 1951, p.40; see also: A new sense of the past: the scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)
Item no: 132614
€ 1400.00
BOLZANIUS, Urbanus.
Grammaticae institutiones ad graecam linguam, a mendis quamplurimis, quae paulatim ex impressorum irrepserant incuria, vindicatae.
Venice, Paul Manutius, 1557. 8vo.(15,1x9,9cm). 322 leaves. With the Aldus device on title-page. Simple half parchment. (lower half of spine renewed; binding sl.wormholed/chafed; first quire (esp. title) waterstained; 1 annotation in old hand)
¶ Provenance: "P. Francisci Macharij Ang. F." crossed out on title-page.
¶ Urbano Bolzanio (1442-1524) was follower of Constantine Lascaris, friend of Pietro Bembo, and collaborator of Aldo Manuzio, for whose circle he published a grammar of Ancient Greek in 1497. Edit16: CNCE 6786 ¶ "Quoique cette édition (faite sur celle de 1545) soit et beaucoup plus complète, et plus correcte que celle de 1497, il s'en faut de beaucoup qu'elle ait la même valeur." (Brunet V.1013). ¶ (Renouard p.171).
Item no: 132977
€ 640.00
Venice, Paul Manutius, 1557. 8vo.(15,1x9,9cm). 322 leaves. With the Aldus device on title-page. Simple half parchment. (lower half of spine renewed; binding sl.wormholed/chafed; first quire (esp. title) waterstained; 1 annotation in old hand)
¶ Provenance: "P. Francisci Macharij Ang. F." crossed out on title-page.
¶ Urbano Bolzanio (1442-1524) was follower of Constantine Lascaris, friend of Pietro Bembo, and collaborator of Aldo Manuzio, for whose circle he published a grammar of Ancient Greek in 1497. Edit16: CNCE 6786 ¶ "Quoique cette édition (faite sur celle de 1545) soit et beaucoup plus complète, et plus correcte que celle de 1497, il s'en faut de beaucoup qu'elle ait la même valeur." (Brunet V.1013). ¶ (Renouard p.171).
Item no: 132977
€ 640.00
BUDAEUS, G.
Commentarii linguae graecae. Ab eodem accurate recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1548. Folio. (34x20,6cm). 1112,[38 indices],[1 colophon] pp. Modern half morocco. (a few catalogue entries on paste-down; one small marginal wormhole in ca. the first 200 pp; a few pages with light marginal waterstain; very nice copy)
¶ Provenance: ms. owner's entries: "Ex libris Theodori Duntij (?) Venlonensis", and "B. Wolde".
¶ `The first full-scale analysis of Greek prose usage based on direct study of the whole range of accessible ancient sources". (Anthony .Grafton).Considered to be the most beautiful and best edition. Augmented greatly in comparison to the first editions (1529 and 1530), this work was used as a basis for Estienne's Thesaurus linguae graecae. Primarily meant to elucidate the legal terminology of Greece and Rome, the Commentarii soon became a veritable text book and common storehouse for succeeding lexicographers. Guillaume Budé thus gained a commanding reputation by this book. Budaeus was, beyond question, the best Greek scholar of his day in Europe. (Sandys II/ 170-171; The Quarterly Review 22, p.313; Cambridge Modern History I.612). "Edition la meilleure de ces disquisitions très savantes, qui ont été fort utiles à la science, mais dont on fait maintenant peu d'usage." (Renouard, Estienne 71/72.7). ¶ Adams B3096; Ebert 3115; Brunet I.1374; Graesse I.565.
Item no: 132244
€ 2200.00
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1548. Folio. (34x20,6cm). 1112,[38 indices],[1 colophon] pp. Modern half morocco. (a few catalogue entries on paste-down; one small marginal wormhole in ca. the first 200 pp; a few pages with light marginal waterstain; very nice copy)
¶ Provenance: ms. owner's entries: "Ex libris Theodori Duntij (?) Venlonensis", and "B. Wolde".
¶ `The first full-scale analysis of Greek prose usage based on direct study of the whole range of accessible ancient sources". (Anthony .Grafton).Considered to be the most beautiful and best edition. Augmented greatly in comparison to the first editions (1529 and 1530), this work was used as a basis for Estienne's Thesaurus linguae graecae. Primarily meant to elucidate the legal terminology of Greece and Rome, the Commentarii soon became a veritable text book and common storehouse for succeeding lexicographers. Guillaume Budé thus gained a commanding reputation by this book. Budaeus was, beyond question, the best Greek scholar of his day in Europe. (Sandys II/ 170-171; The Quarterly Review 22, p.313; Cambridge Modern History I.612). "Edition la meilleure de ces disquisitions très savantes, qui ont été fort utiles à la science, mais dont on fait maintenant peu d'usage." (Renouard, Estienne 71/72.7). ¶ Adams B3096; Ebert 3115; Brunet I.1374; Graesse I.565.
Item no: 132244
€ 2200.00
CAESAR,
Commentarii di Gaio Giulio Cesare, tradotti di latino in volgar lingua per Agostino Ortica della Porta Genovese. Con la tavola.
Venice, Girolamo Calepino, 1552. [ii],255 [=257] leaves (lacking the last (blank) leaf). With printer's device on title-page, 5 fullpage woodcuts, and 2 doublepage Ptolemy maps (Iberic Peninsula & Gaul). Modern vellum with morocco title-piece, gilt & gauffered edges.
¶ Provenance: "Michael Dormer" on title-page, and "F.Pollock 1889." on upper paste-down
¶ Edit16: CNCE 8170. Michael Dormer was a gentleman from Buckinghamshire. He donated 63 books to the Bodleian in 1603.
Item no: 132970
€ 950.00
Venice, Girolamo Calepino, 1552. [ii],255 [=257] leaves (lacking the last (blank) leaf). With printer's device on title-page, 5 fullpage woodcuts, and 2 doublepage Ptolemy maps (Iberic Peninsula & Gaul). Modern vellum with morocco title-piece, gilt & gauffered edges.
¶ Provenance: "Michael Dormer" on title-page, and "F.Pollock 1889." on upper paste-down
¶ Edit16: CNCE 8170. Michael Dormer was a gentleman from Buckinghamshire. He donated 63 books to the Bodleian in 1603.
Item no: 132970
€ 950.00
CAPILUPI, L.
Centones ex Virgilio.
Roma, Valerius Doricus imprimebat, ca.1555-60?]. 4to. (19,5x13,7cm). [iv],64,[4] pp. Late 19th cent.half calf with marbled boards. (a few old annotations (editorial corrections? See Tucker p.284), slight marginal worming throughout; very slightly foxed, a few light waterstains)
¶ Dedicated to Joachim du Bellay by the editor Antonio Possevino. Possevino might have played a rather dubious role in re-issues of the Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachum (see Tucker p. 284 and further)
¶ With an emblematic woodcut on the title-page.
EARLY EDITION OF LELIO CAPILUPI'S 'PATCHWORK POETRY'. ¶ Early, rare edition of these (satirical) poems made up of verses of another poem, a sort of 'patchwork'. ¶ Mantuan poet Lelio Capilupi (1497-1560) seems to have been very reluctant to have these centones published at all, not in the least "through anticipation of the moral and religious reaction this ... would provoke." Indeed, his 'Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachorum' - a pastiche of verses from Virgil made up to attack monks; Cento II in our copy - was put on the Index in 1557 (G. Tucker in: Ut Granum Sinapis, pp.285-86). ¶ Early gatherings of this collection of 13 centones (including this one) still remain a "bibliographical and historical puzzle". According to Tucker, this would be a collection printed in "Stage 1.B" (very shortly after the death of Julius III in March 1555; see copies in the Vatican Library and Siena). (Tucker pp.267, 282-83, 285) ¶ Other issue of Rhodes IV (Rhodes, Lelio Capilupi and the 'Centones ex Virgilio' in: The Library 1994, pp. 208-218) ¶ Same title-page as Edit16: CNCE 9139 but different collation. ¶ Only 4 real copies in Worldcat
Item no: 132281
€ 1100.00
Roma, Valerius Doricus imprimebat, ca.1555-60?]. 4to. (19,5x13,7cm). [iv],64,[4] pp. Late 19th cent.half calf with marbled boards. (a few old annotations (editorial corrections? See Tucker p.284), slight marginal worming throughout; very slightly foxed, a few light waterstains)
¶ Dedicated to Joachim du Bellay by the editor Antonio Possevino. Possevino might have played a rather dubious role in re-issues of the Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachum (see Tucker p. 284 and further)
¶ With an emblematic woodcut on the title-page.
EARLY EDITION OF LELIO CAPILUPI'S 'PATCHWORK POETRY'. ¶ Early, rare edition of these (satirical) poems made up of verses of another poem, a sort of 'patchwork'. ¶ Mantuan poet Lelio Capilupi (1497-1560) seems to have been very reluctant to have these centones published at all, not in the least "through anticipation of the moral and religious reaction this ... would provoke." Indeed, his 'Centones ex Virgilio de vita monachorum' - a pastiche of verses from Virgil made up to attack monks; Cento II in our copy - was put on the Index in 1557 (G. Tucker in: Ut Granum Sinapis, pp.285-86). ¶ Early gatherings of this collection of 13 centones (including this one) still remain a "bibliographical and historical puzzle". According to Tucker, this would be a collection printed in "Stage 1.B" (very shortly after the death of Julius III in March 1555; see copies in the Vatican Library and Siena). (Tucker pp.267, 282-83, 285) ¶ Other issue of Rhodes IV (Rhodes, Lelio Capilupi and the 'Centones ex Virgilio' in: The Library 1994, pp. 208-218) ¶ Same title-page as Edit16: CNCE 9139 but different collation. ¶ Only 4 real copies in Worldcat
Item no: 132281
€ 1100.00
CARION, Johann.
Chronica Carionis: van den beghinne der werelt aen tot op keyser Carolum, den vijfden van dien name. Op nieu in de latijnsche sprake beschreven ende met menigerley oude en nieuwe historien, oock met beschrijvinghe van vele oude conincrijcken ende volcken [..] door Ph. Melanchtonem ende C. Peucerum. UUt de hooch-duytsche sprake getrouwelicken overghesett in de neder-duytsche tale door W.v.N. [= Willem van Zuylen van Nyevelt].
Dordrecht, Jan Canin, 1586. (2e verm.druk). Folio. [iv],784,[24 van 54] pp. Met 1 kaart (houtsnede; oostelijk deel van de Middelandse Zee) in de tekst. Titelpagina in rood en zwart. Contemporain blindbestempeld perkament. (band zeer beschadigd en her en der overplakt met plakband; dek- en schutbladen ontbreken; papier eerste 3 bladen en registerbladen in marge beschadigd en 'moe'; wat watervlekkig ex., waarivan 30 pp.in het register ontbreken)
¶ Valkema Blouw 956.
Item no: 143139
€ 400.00
Dordrecht, Jan Canin, 1586. (2e verm.druk). Folio. [iv],784,[24 van 54] pp. Met 1 kaart (houtsnede; oostelijk deel van de Middelandse Zee) in de tekst. Titelpagina in rood en zwart. Contemporain blindbestempeld perkament. (band zeer beschadigd en her en der overplakt met plakband; dek- en schutbladen ontbreken; papier eerste 3 bladen en registerbladen in marge beschadigd en 'moe'; wat watervlekkig ex., waarivan 30 pp.in het register ontbreken)
¶ Valkema Blouw 956.
Item no: 143139
€ 400.00
CARMINA.
Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum quorum nomina in sequenti pagina continentur. Secunda editio longe copiosior prima.
Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1549. 8vo. (17,3x10,3cm). 318 pp. Later parchment. (a few pages waterstained; board edges partly stained; upper corner of the last 50 pp. a bit chafed; verso title partly doubled; lacks last blank)
¶ Represented are Bembo, Naugerio, Castiglione, Cotta and Flaminio. The second part of Flaminius, Paraphrasis in triginta psalmos, with own title-page. The first edition of this collection was published a year earlier by Valgrisi in Venice. This one, enlarged with three poems by Cotta and thirty three by Flaminio, is the first Torrentino edition. Flaminio died a year later. ¶ Not in Adams.
Item no: 132947
€ 950.00
Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1549. 8vo. (17,3x10,3cm). 318 pp. Later parchment. (a few pages waterstained; board edges partly stained; upper corner of the last 50 pp. a bit chafed; verso title partly doubled; lacks last blank)
¶ Represented are Bembo, Naugerio, Castiglione, Cotta and Flaminio. The second part of Flaminius, Paraphrasis in triginta psalmos, with own title-page. The first edition of this collection was published a year earlier by Valgrisi in Venice. This one, enlarged with three poems by Cotta and thirty three by Flaminio, is the first Torrentino edition. Flaminio died a year later. ¶ Not in Adams.
Item no: 132947
€ 950.00
CATULLUS. TIBULLUS. PROPERTIUS.
Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. A. Mureti. Ab eodem correcti, & scholiis illustrati, Tibullus, et Propertius.
Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1558. 8vo. (15,6x9,9cm). 147,[1]-57,[1]-[ii],93,[2] leaves. Later diced half calf. (hinges expertly strengthened, title-page browned a bit (due to provenance-removal), a few old (but not contemporary) annotations; slightly foxed)
¶ Edit16: CNCE 10365; "Catull. ist nur Nachdr. der Ausg. des Muret. v.1554. Auch der Text des Tib. u. Prop. ist sehr verbessert." (Schweiger I.79); "Neue u. sehr scharfsinn. Rec." (Ebert 3758). Renouard 174, no.11. ¶ Adams C 1146; Brunet I.1678-79.
Item no: 132580
€ 1100.00
Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1558. 8vo. (15,6x9,9cm). 147,[1]-57,[1]-[ii],93,[2] leaves. Later diced half calf. (hinges expertly strengthened, title-page browned a bit (due to provenance-removal), a few old (but not contemporary) annotations; slightly foxed)
¶ Edit16: CNCE 10365; "Catull. ist nur Nachdr. der Ausg. des Muret. v.1554. Auch der Text des Tib. u. Prop. ist sehr verbessert." (Schweiger I.79); "Neue u. sehr scharfsinn. Rec." (Ebert 3758). Renouard 174, no.11. ¶ Adams C 1146; Brunet I.1678-79.
Item no: 132580
€ 1100.00
CATULLUS. TIBULLUS. PROPERTIUS.
[Opera.] Nova editio. Jos. Scaliger Jul. Caesaris F. recensuit. Eiusdem in eosdem castigationum liber.
Paris, Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. 8vo. (16,4x9,2cm). 2 parts in one vol. [xvi],274,[2 blank],252,[14 index] pp. Modern black morocco, with raised bands and red morocco title-piece. (ca.200 pages with worming in the lower margin; a few pages waterstained)
¶ Schweiger II.1.79; ¶ Adams C.1154. ¶ Renouard p.179. ¶ "Aldus I liegt zum Grunde ... hat durch seine eignen Aendd. den Text mehr entstellt. Leider ist der Text gewöhnlich nach ihm wiedergedr. word." (Ebert 3760) ¶ First Scaliger edition. Has been the standard edition for long (although not entirely justified by the quality of the text). "His transpositions in Propertius and Tibullus are severly criticised in Haupts Opusc. iii,34-36. (Sandys II/201)
Item no: 132060
€ 550.00
Paris, Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. 8vo. (16,4x9,2cm). 2 parts in one vol. [xvi],274,[2 blank],252,[14 index] pp. Modern black morocco, with raised bands and red morocco title-piece. (ca.200 pages with worming in the lower margin; a few pages waterstained)
¶ Schweiger II.1.79; ¶ Adams C.1154. ¶ Renouard p.179. ¶ "Aldus I liegt zum Grunde ... hat durch seine eignen Aendd. den Text mehr entstellt. Leider ist der Text gewöhnlich nach ihm wiedergedr. word." (Ebert 3760) ¶ First Scaliger edition. Has been the standard edition for long (although not entirely justified by the quality of the text). "His transpositions in Propertius and Tibullus are severly criticised in Haupts Opusc. iii,34-36. (Sandys II/201)
Item no: 132060
€ 550.00
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