Early Printing & Manuscripts

EURIPIDES and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor and translator). Euripidis tragoediae duae hecuba & iphigenia in aulide, Latinae factae...
Basel, Froben Office [heirs of Johann Froben], April 1530. 8vo (10.4 x 15.4 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half brown calf and grey paper sides. 293, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

EUSEBIUS. L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.
Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties. [12], "297" [= 299], [1] ll. Full description

EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS. Die Historie diemen heet ecclesiastica ... (&c.). nu ... ouerghesedt in onser duytscher spraken.
Antwerp, Govert van der Haghen, May 1534. Small folio. With the title printed in red and black, set within an elaborate woodcut title border, 12 decorated woodcut initials, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. 17th-century vellum. [6], CLIII, [1 blank] ll. Full description

FABER, Johann and Johann HOST von ROMBERCH (editor). Malleus Joannis fabri doctoris celeberrimi, illustriss. Principis ferdinandi archiducis Austriae etc. à secretis, in haeresim Lutheranam, iam denuo vehemtiori studio et labore recognitus, in tractatus etiam et paragraphos divisus. Adiectus est triplex index.
(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Soter for Peter Quentel, 1524. Folio. With a woodcut device on the title page, bearing the arms quarterly of Cologne, Angria, Westphalia, and Arnsberg, with an escutcheon of Wied, a crest showing a screen of the arms of Cologne, and two pennons of the cross of Cologne, partly coloured in red and with some woodcut decorated initials throughout.18th-century mottled calf. [12], CLXXVI ll. Full description

FABRICI, Girolamo (Hieronymus FABRICIUS). Pentateuchos cheirurgicum.
Frankfurt am Main, [Zacharias Palthenius for] Peter Fischer, 1592. 8vo. With Palthenius's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 554, [6] pp. Full description

FALCO, Jacobus (Jaime Juan FALCÓ y SEGURA). Hanc circuli quadraturam invenit.
Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus (Peter Belaert), 1591. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut of Euclid (or possibly Archimedes) with an enormous pair of dividers in his right hand and a book in his left, and between the two legs of the dividers a sceptre passing through a crown, and 29 woodcut diagrams. 20th-century half calf. 29, [1] pp. Full description

FELICIANO, Francesco. Libro di arithmetica & geometria speculativa & praticale ... intitulato Scala Grimaldelli: novamente stampato
(Colophon: Venice, Francesco de Leno), 1563. 4to. With the title in a 5-piece woodcut border with an allusive woodcut illustration (ladder and key), and with numerous woodcut diagrams, geometric figures and other illustrations printed in the large fore-edge margin. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [80] ll. Full description

FENESTELLA, Lucius (pseudonym of Andrea Domenico FIOCCO). Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani.
Venice, apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 42 woodcut decorated initials of professions, sports and past times in ad 1, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each work. With (bound before ad 1): ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Expositio in IIII. orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem.
Venice, apud Paulus Manutius, 1553. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping for edges. 43, [1]; [8], 96 ll. Full description

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description

FILELFO, Francesco. Satyrarum hecatostichon prima decas.
(Colophon:) Milan, Christophorus Valdarfer, 13 November 1476. 4to. With most of the initial spaces filled with simple manuscript initials in brown ink. 19th-century vellum. [149] ll. Full description