Highlights 18-Apr-2013
 | 3RD COPY LOCATED OF 1517 DEVENTER ED. OF EDUCATIONAL STORIESBEROALDO, Filippo.Heptalogus septem sapientium Gr[a]eci[a]e, sententias pr[a]estantiores explicans.(Colophon:) Deventer, Albertus Pafraet, May 1517. 4to. With a woodcut of a haloed knight on title, with a falcon on his gloved right hand and a raised sword in his left. With 1 printed uncial initial and one space with a guide letter intended for a manuscript initial that has not been added. Set in rotunda gothic types, with a few headings in textura and occasional words in a Greek type in the pre-Aldine style. Brown half morocco (ca. 1900). Full description »
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 | 1ST EDITION OF 2 LETTERS FROM JESUIT MISSIONARY GIVING MANY EUROPEANS THEIR FIRST ACCOUNT OF INDIA BERSE (BELGA, BARZEE, BARTZ.), Gaspar.Epistolae Indicae in quibus luculenta extat descriptio rerum nuper in India Orientali praeclarè gestarum à theologis societatis Jesu: …(Colophon: Dillingen, Sebald Mayer, 1563). Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials (and 1 repeat) showing scenes with people, including a martyr being thrown into a well. Contemporary limp vellum (given a reddish-brown surface stain), leather thong ties. Full description »
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 | LOUVAIN BIBLE BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY PLANTIN IN A TINY ROMAN TYPE[BIBLE - LOUVAIN - PLANTIN].Biblia ad, vetustissima exemplaria castigata. Quid in horum Bibliorum castigatione praestitum sit, subsequens praefatio latiùs indicabit.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With title-page in richly decorated woodcut border made from 4 blocks, with Plantin's printer's device, woodcut initials and woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled limp vellum, traces of leather thong ties. Full description »
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 | INFLUENTIAL TREATISE ON HISTORICAL METHOD AND CRITICISMBODIN, Jean.Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem: accurate denuo recuses[.] Subiecto rerum indice.[Heidelberg], Jean Marechal, 1583. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and several woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initial letters. Early 18th-century calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Full description »
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 | INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW SHOWING ALPHABETS OF ESTIENNE'S BEST MERUBA & RABBINICAL TYPES ESTIENNE, Robert.Alphabetu[m] Hebraicum. Cum privilegio Regis.Paris, Robert Estienne, 1550. 8vo. With Estienne's woodcut tree device on title-page. Set in Hebrew (meruba and rabbinical), roman and Greek types. Early sheepskin parchment wrappers. Full description »
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 | 1ST EDITION OF NEARLY ALL EURIPIDES PLAYS, IN ALDUS'S BEST & LAST GREEK TYPE THOMAS MORE'S FICTIONAL HERO GAVE A COPY TO THE UTOPIANS IN 1516! EURIPIDES.[Title in Greek then Latin:] Tragoediae septendecim [recté octodecim], ex quib[us]. quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba[,] Orestes[,] Phoenissae[,] Medea[,] Hippolytus[,] Alcestis[,] Andromache[,] Supplices[,] Iphigenia in Aulide[,] Iphigenia in Tauris[,] Rhesus[,] Troades[,] Bacchae[,] Cyclops[,] Heraclide[,] Helena[,] Ion[, Hercules furens].(Colophon to each volume: Venice, Aldus Manutius, February 1503). 2 volumes. 8vo. With Aldus's anchor device on the last page of each volume, printed in Aldus's beautiful Greek type. The title and part-titles for the individual plays are in Greek and Latin and colophons in Latin only. Spaces with guide letters have been left for the rubricator to add manuscript decorated initials, but they have not been added, showing the book as it came from the press. Matching limp vellum (made from 2 leaves from a ca. 1560/70? Spanish legal manuscript), constructed or reconstructed ca. 1900, each volume with "Euripides" written on the spine, blue edges. Full description »
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 | ON THE ABUSE OF ALCOHOL, BY A GREAT GERMAN CHRONICLER AND POPULAR HISTORIOGRAPHER OF THE 16TH CENTURYFRANCK, Sebastian.Von dem greüwlichen Laster der Trunckenhayt ...[Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1533?]. 4to. With large and unusually detailed woodcut (10 x 12 cm) on title-page showing an elaborate banquet and a vomitting man, by H. Weiditz (the Petrarca master), decorated woodcut initials. Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur. Early 19th-century shell-marbled boards. Full description »
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 | CORRECTED EDITION OF THE FIRST GERMAN WORK ON INTERNAL MEDICINEFRIES, Lorenz.Spiegel der Artzney gemacht durch den hochgelerten Laurentium Phriesen, der Philosophey und Artzney Doctore gezoge usz den fürnemsten Büchern der alte diser Kunst.(Colophon: Strasbourg, printed by Balthasar Beck, 1529). Folio. Woodcut title with portraits of Galienus and Aesculapius and full-page woodcut. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf. Full description »
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 | 1ST LATIN TEXT & PROBABLY 2ND BOOK PRINTED IN 1ST CIVILITÉ TYPEGALTHERUS, Philippus.Alexandreidos libri decem, nunc primùm in Gallia Gallicísque characteribus editi.Lyon, Robert Granjon, 1558. Small 4to (19 x 13 cm). With Granjon's large woodcut cattail-and-snake device on title-page, a woodcut flourish as tailpiece, and 1 Granjon fleuron, frequently repeated. Except for a few words in roman capitals, the book is set entirely in the first Civilité type, cut by Robert Granjon for his proprietary use, with its accompanying flourished gothic initials in 2 sizes. Dark brown gold-tooled goatskin morocco by one of the best binders of the mid-19th century Charles-François Capé in Paris, ca. 1865, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Full description »
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 | OCCULT PHILOSOPHY ON STUDY OF ANCIENT SECRETSJESSEN, Johann.Zoroaster nova, brevis, veraq[ue] de universa philosophia.Wittenberg, Ex officina Cratoniana (Johann Krafft), 1593. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With an arabesque woodcut decoration on the title-page, 3 woodcut tailpieces (2 arabesque and 1 with a mask and scrolls) plus 1 repeat, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type, with the dedication in italic. Late 17th- or early 18th-century stiff marbled-paper wrappers. Full description »
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 | JESUIT LETTERS FROM JAPAN[JESUITS - JAPAN].Cartas que los Padres y Hermanos de la Compañia de Jesus, que andan en los Reynos de Japon[,] escrvieron a los dela misma Compañia, desde el año de mil y quinientos y quare[n]ta y nueve, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno.Alcala, Juan Iñiguez de Lequerica, 1575. 4to in 8s. With woodcut of the Crucifixion on the back of the colophon, charming woodcut initials, and 1 page (p. 72) with woodcut Japanese characters for 12 words in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, reinforced with 2 pieces from a 16th-century(?) manuscript, remains of leather ties, later manuscript title label. Full description »
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 | 2ND COPY LOCATED OF 1524 EDITION OF ERASMUS'S TRANSLATION OF LUCIANUS'S DIALOGUESLUCIANUS Samosatensis.Complures Lucani dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo utriusq[ue] linguae doctissimo in latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus. cum tabula. Distichon ab Hadriano Barlando lusum Graecia me genuit, nuper facundus Erasmus trastulit in latium, munere plaude puer. Levini Linii Endecasyllabon ad pueru[m] emptore[m].(Colophon: Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With 2 decorated woodcut initials. With the main text set in an Aldine-style italic, the long commentary following each dialogue in a "Basel"-style roman and 2 words in Greek. 18th-century half vellum, marbled sides. Full description »
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 | 2 EARLY SCIENTIFIC TEXTS WELL-PRINTED BY SON OF GUTENBERG'S ASSISTANT WHO ALSO CUT MANY OF ITS TYPES LULL (LULLIUS), Raymond.De secretis naturae sive quinta essentia libri duo.Including: ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque. Quae omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturae studiosis recens publicata sunt per … Gualtherum H. Ryff, … Venice, Peter Schoeffer the younger, 1542. 8vo. With 1 full-page and 7 half-page woodcut illustrations in text, showing an oven, distilling equipment and other chemical apparatus. 18th-century sheepskin parchment, marbled pastedowns. Full description »
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 | HERALDS OF A NEW AGE: 3 FIRST EDITIONS INCL. THE FIRST RENAISSANCE NARRATIVE POETICAL WORKS IN DUTCH WITH 17 COORNHERT ILLUSTRATIONS NOOT, Jan van der.Cort begryp der XII. boeken Olympiados. ... Abregé des douze livres Olympiades.Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1579. With 1 engraved plate (portrait of the author), 17 full-page engravings (ca. 16 x 11.5 cm.) by Dirk Volkertsz. Coornhert after designs of the monogrammist CVSK and a full-page woodcut of an obelisk at the end, signed with the monogram 'HE'. With: (2) NOOT, Jan van der. Lofsang van Braband. ... Hymne de Braband. Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1580. With 4 full-page woodcuts (portrait of the author, allegorical illustration, arms of Brabant and the other 16 provinces, and an obelisk). (3) NOOT, Jan van der. Verscheyden poeticsche werken. ... Divers oeuvres poetiques. Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1581. With full-page woodcut portrait of the author, and a full-page woodcut obelisk at the end. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. All 3 works with text in Dutch and French. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. Full description »
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 | "THE LANDS DISCOVERED IN OUR AGE ... NOT MENTIONED BY THE ANCIENT WRITERS": ONE OF THE EARLIEST ALLUSIONS TO AMERICA (1508) PERIEGETES, Dionysius.Situs orbis Dionysii Ruffo Avieno interprete.(Colophon: Vienna, Johann Winterburger, 1508). 4to (21 x 15.5 x 1 cm). With a guide letter for a 3-line initial (no initial has been added in the present copy), an occasional paragraph mark to indicate the beginning of a new part of the text. With the text, dedication and their headings set in a single roman type with 28 lines to a page, the title in a large rotunda gothic and the colophon in a small one. Late 19th-century gold-tooled red goatskin morocco by Emilé Rouselle (active ca. 1875 or earlier to 1895) in Paris, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Full description »
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