History, Law & Philosophy / Philosophy & Humanism

[GELDENHAUER, Gerardus]. Historia Batavica, cum appendice de vetustissima nobilitate, regibus, ac gestis Germanorum.
Strasbourg, Christian Egenolph, January 1530. 4to. With an interesting woodcut by Hans Weiditz (or the Petrarch Master, 1495-1536) on the title page, not showing a Batavian Family scene as Kampinga interpreted, but being the printers device of Christian Egenolph, depicting Adam and Eve after the Fall expelled from Paradise (see the extensive description and discussion, including illustr., by H. van de Waal, Drie eeuwen Vaderl. Geschieduitbeelding (1952), I, pp. 157-159), some decorated woodcut initials. Modern half calf. 26, [1] ll. Full description

[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

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

GERTOPHIUS, Johannes and Hermann von dem BUSCHE. Recriminatio ... adversus furiosissimum Sycophantam Edoardum Leum Anglum, qui ausus est primus Erasmum candidissimum luto aspergere. Epigramma extemporale sed felicissimu[m], Hermanni Buschii, in eundem Leum.
[Basel], (colophon:) Andreas Cratander, June 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern quarter vellum in older style. 25, [3] pp. Full description

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.
[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HAGIUS, Guilielmus. Afgeparste waerheyt, ofte nodige en naeckte aenwijsinge: Hoe dankbaerlijk de magistraat, enige uyt de vroedtschap, ende alle de praesente bevelhebbers van Leeuwarden tracteren hare gecommitteerden, die sy, tot het instellen en bevorderen van de reformatoire poincten, op den 27sten. Septembris 1672. by dEd. Mog. Heeren Staten van Frieslandt gearresteert, hebben genomineert ende versocht. Ingestelt door G. Hagius.
[Leeuwarden], for Haucke Egberts Heringa, [1673]. 4to. 19th-century blue wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. Faits memorables des empereurs de la Chine, tirés des annales chinoises... gravées ... d'après les dessins originaux de la Chine ... tirés du cabinet de mr. Bertin.
Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, 1788.
With: (2) HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas. Abrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius célebre philosophe chinois, ... gravées ... d'après des dessins originaux de la Chine envoyés à Paris par M. Amiot missionaire à Pékin ...
Paris, Helman and Nicholas Ponce, [1788]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, dedication, 24 illustrations and 24 text pages, each printed on one side of a leaf. Ad 2: wholly engraved series, consisting of a title-page, 24 illustrations and 28 text pages, 8 of the text pages printed on both sides of 4 leaves, and each of the others on one side of a leaf. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, sides, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Full description

HELVETIUS, Claude Adrien. De L'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.
London [= France?], La Société Typographique, 1773. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. XXXII, 326, [2 blank]; [2 blank], 412 pp. Full description

[HEMSTERHUIS, Frans]. Aristée, ou de la divinité.
Paris [= The Hague or Haarlem], 1779. 12mo. With engraved vignette on the title-page and 3 engraved head- and tailpieces, all printed in brown. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gold-tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. [2 blank], X, 208 pp. Full description

HIERONYMUS, Eusebius Sophronius (SAINT JEROME) and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Divi Hieronymi epistolaeres ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitae, cuius & argumentis & scholiis oppidoque elegantibus sunt illustratae.
[Cologne, Johann Gymnic, 1518]. 4to. With the title set with in a frame built up from 4 (or possibly 6) woodcut illustrations including printer's initials and the date 1518, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern faux-leather-patterned paper with a grey paper label on the spine with the authors name lettered in silver ("Erasmus v. Rotterdam"). [48] ll. Full description