Asher Rare Books

Three editions of humanist works, two from Antwerp known only from 1 other copy each, in contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf with 6 animals in foliage plus an unusually detailed peacock

[FIOCCO, Andrea Domenico] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Rom[anorum]. Item Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum.
Including: POMPONIO LETO, Giulio. De Ro[manorum]. magistratibus, ...
Basel, (colophon: Valentino Curio, May 1523). With the general title in a woodcut border, Curio's large architectural woodcut device on the otherwise blank final page.
With:
(2) LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures ... dialogi à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo ... in Latinum conversi, & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati, additis Fabularum & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1524).
(3) MOSELLANUS, Petrus (Peter SCHADE). Paedologia ..., in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII. Dialogi pueriles Christophori Hegendorphini. XII. ...
Including: HEGENDORF, Christoph. Dialogi pueriles ... XII. ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523).
3 editions in 1 volume. 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary panel-stamped calf, each board with the same 3 panel stamps: 2 virtually identical panels with 6 animals in 2 grape vines (the animals from head to foot in the left vine: a monkey, dog and wyvern; and in the right vine: a squirrel, hare and lion) in a border of a diaper of quatrefoils in lozenges, the two separated by a small panel stamp sith a peacock, paste-downs made from a leaf from an Aristotle manuscript on vellum. 91, [1]; 26, [2]; [40] ll. Full description

€ 12,000

Bindings Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Greek & Roman Classics Religion (16th Century)

Sixteenth century commentary on psalms by the Italian humanist Marcus Antonius Flaminius
in an attractive binding

FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii in Librum Psalmorum Brevis Explanatio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Cardinalem amplissimum ...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
With: (2) FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii De Rebus Divinis Carmina ad Margaritam Henrici Gallorum Regis sororem.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.
2 works in 1 volume. 16mo (11.4 x 7.7 cm). With woodcut printer's device on both title pages: "Labore et constantia" and a different one on the verso of the final blank page of the second work: "Christus vera vitis". Ruled in brown/red throughout, 2 decorated initials at the beginning of the first work and 3 in the second work. Contemporary brown leather, gold-stamped frame and ornamental centrepieces on both covers, gold-tooling on spine, gold edges with blind-tooled arabesques. 365, [3]; [24] ll. Full description

€ 3,450

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Plantin Press

A rare 16th-century Dutch devotional work printed in Antwerp

[FLORIS VAN HAARLEM]. Den wech des levens. Een gheestelijc boecxken leerende hoe dat ee[n] goet kerste[n] mensch moet beginne[n] en[de] voortgaen in duechden, met veel devote ghebede[n] en[de] gheestelike corte vermaninghe[n] om tot een warachtich gheestelijc leven te comen.
[Antwerp, Heyndrick Peetersen van Middelburg, 1547?]. 8vo. With title printed in black and red, within woodcut borders. Contemporary slightly overlapping parchment, remnants of ties. [200] ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

Response to French lawsuits against the Jesuits in the late 16th century

FON, René de la (pseudonym of Louis RICHEOME). Response de Rene de la Fon pour les religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus. Au playdoyé de Simon Marion en l'arrest donné contre iceux le 16. Octobre 1597.
Villefranche, Guillaume Grenier, 1599. 8vo. With a small vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments and 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with leather ties. "238" [= 239], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Early Printing - 16th century Jesuits Law & Politics Religion (16th Century)

Tolerant comparison of world religions

FRANCK, Sebastian. Werelt-boeck, spieghel ende beeltenisse des gheheelen aerdtbodems, ...
The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz., 1595. Folio. 17th-century parchment, new endpapers. CXXXIIII, [4] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Islam & Qurans Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

Early 16th-century collection of Lutheran works the press of Simon Corver in Zwolle,
featuring works of Wessel Gansfort and early Netherlandish reformers

GANSFORT, Wessel. De sacramento eucharistiae. Et audienda missa.
[Zwolle, Simon Corver, ca. 1521].
With:
(2) IDEM. Epistola adversus M. Engelbertum Leydensem ... et aliae epistolae. [Zwolle, S. Corver, between 30 July and the start of September 1522].
(3) IDEM. Tractatus ... De oratione & modo orandi cum luculentissima Dominicae orationis explanatione.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(4) IDEM. Farrago ... olim uulgo dicti, rarae & reconditae doctrinae, notulae aliquot & propositiones ...
[Zwolle, S. Corver, beginning of 1522].
(5) GOCHIUS, Pupper. In divine gratie et christianae fidei, commendationem, contra falsam & Pharisaicam multorum de iustifiis & meritis operum doctrinam & gloriationem, fragmenta aliquot ... nunquam excusa.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(6) GANSFORT, Wessel. De autoritate officio et potestate pastorum ecclesiasticorum.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1522]. 6 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ads 1-3 and 6 with a woodcut title frame on each of the title pages and several large woodcut decorated initials. Ads 4-5 with several large woodcut decorated initials.
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 2 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Further with brass catch- and anchor plates and one clasp, and a paper label at the head of the spine, lettered in ink referring that this is a collection of Wessel Gansforts works, dated 1520. [3536]; [32]; [4], “CX” [= XC]; [4], XCVIII; “46” [= 44 (of 46)]; [16]; [24] (belonging to ad 2) ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Early Printing - 16th century Gelderland & Overijssel Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)

Important collection of theological treatises by a forerunner of the Reformation

GANSFORT, Wessel. Farrago rerum theologicarum uberrima ... In hoc libello tractatus I. De benignissima dei providentia ... II. De causis misteriis, & effectibus dominicae incarnationis & passionis. III. De dignitate & potestaate ecclesiastica. De vera & recta obedientia. Et quantum obligent subditos mandata & statuta praelatorum. IIII. De sacramento, penitentiae, & quae sint claves ecclesiae, De potestate ligandi & solvendi. V. Quae sit vera communio sanctorum, De thesauro ecclesiae, de participatione & dispensatione huius thesauri, De fraternitatibus &c. VI. De purgatorio, quis & qualis sit ignis prugatorius. De statu & profectu animarum post hanc vitam &c.
(Colophon:) Wittenberg, [Melchior Lotter the Younger, 1522]. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Modern blind-tooled sheepskin. [4], LXXXVI ll. Full description

€ 5,000

Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)

First edition of an early Reformation pamphlet: Johann Eberlin von Günzburgs Bundesgenossen VI, referencing Erasmus

[EBERLIN VON GÜNZBURG, Johann]. Erasmus von Rotherodam ein fürst aller gelerten zu unseren zyte[n], schreibt im buch gena[nn]t Encomion morias, vom predigen der ba[e]ttel münch. Ein jeden ich hie früntlich bit, Das er mich la[e]ss und lach nit. Der. VI. bundtsgnosz.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1521]. 4to. With 1 large woodcut portrait of Erasmus on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece below the end of the text. Modern marbled calf. [5] [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

First edition of a collection of patristic writings, including Eucherius, Basil, and Jerome, with annotations by Erasmus

EUCHERIUS; Desiderius ERASMUS; Basil of CAESAREA; Petrus GERARDUS (editor). In hoc libello haec in sunt ... Intelligentiae spiritalis formulae: Instructionum libri duo ... epistola paraenetica, ad Valerianum suum ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Claude Chevallon, [ca. 1523]. 8vo. With Cevallons woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, the title is printed in red and black, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum and beige paper sides, blue sprinkled head- and fore-edge, manuscript author and title on the spine in brown ink. [6], CVII, [1] ll. Full description

€ 2,950

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

Rare edition printed under the patronage of Erardus de Marcha, prince-bishop of Liège

[GERSON, Jean]. Opus tripartitu[m] Tractans de preceptis. De confessione et de arte bene moriendi.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten), [ca. 1512]. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page, the title printed in red and black, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later vellum, red edges. [16] ll. Full description