![Phonurgia Nova sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & naturae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúm[que] prodigiosorum causæ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur : instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúm[que] ad naturæ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámue sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singurlaris hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per nouam phonologiam describitur](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/315/1601315838.16.l.jpg)
Phonurgia Nova sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & naturae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúm[que] prodigiosorum causæ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur : instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúm[que] ad naturæ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámue sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singurlaris hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per nouam phonologiam describitur
by ACOUSTICS. PHYSICS. Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (small repairs to foot of the spine, re-cased, endpapers renewed.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled, small wormholes in first four lvs., a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf. Marginal hole (not affecting text) to leaf B3, margins of portrait leaf foxed and with light stain at foot.... Read More
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Les Emblemes
by Alciati, Andrea (1492-1550); Jollat, Jean Mercure (1490-1550), translator
Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1540. FOURTH EDITION IN FRENCH (1st and 2nd eds 1536; 3rd 1539). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. citron Morocco, gilt. A nice copy, lightly washed, with 16th c. annotations (faded and in some cases irretrievable due to the washing). The washing of the annotations has resulted in some light staining, with occasional shine-through to the image on the verso of the sheet. Very small hole in one leaf. Provenance: Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963), bookplate. Text... Read More
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![Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron epigrammaton](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/576/393/1514393576.16.l.jpg)
Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron epigrammaton
by Aldine Greek Anthology, Planudes, Manuel (later Maximus) (1255-1305)
Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503. FIRST ALDINE EDITION (the first ed. of the text was published in 1494). Also includes the EDITIO PRINCEPS of the 6th-century Byzantine poem “In Thermas Pythias et aquarum miracula”(on the warm baths of Pythia in Bithynia) attributed to Paulos Silentiarius. Hardcover. Fine. Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very... Read More
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Ein sendbrieff Hans Huthe(n) etwa ains furnemen Vorsteers im widertauffer ordenn. Verantwort durch Urbanum Rhegium
by ANABAPTISTS. Hut, (also Huth Huet), Hans. (1490-1527); Rhegius, Urbanus (1489-1541)
Augsburg: Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1528. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern wrappers. Top margin of title cut close but not affecting the woodcut border. Several underscores in red pencil, tiny wormhole in blank lower margin. The book is extremely rare. No copies traced in North America. Urbanus Rhegius' point-by-point refutation of an unpublished pastoral letter by the radical Anabaptist preacher Hans Hut, a follower and successor of Thomas Müntzer (whom he joined in the Peasants' Revolt), who represented... Read More
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![Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica Intenta, nominata l'Accesa. Aggiuntovi di nuovo li Ragionamenti Piacevoli dell'istessa. Con due Tauole vna delle Lettere, e l'altra de' Ragionamenti, che nell'Opera si contengono. Di nuovo ristampate, & con ogni diligenza ricorrette. [With:] Fragmenti](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/930/718/1358718930.0.l.jpg)
Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica Intenta, nominata l'Accesa. Aggiuntovi di nuovo li Ragionamenti Piacevoli dell'istessa. Con due Tauole vna delle Lettere, e l'altra de' Ragionamenti, che nell'Opera si contengono. Di nuovo ristampate, & con ogni diligenza ricorrette. [With:] Fragmenti
by Andreini, Isabella (1562-1604)
Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638. TWELFTH EDITION of the LETTERS, EIGHTH EDITION of the "FRAGMENTI. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense. The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in 1607, four years after the author's death, edited by... Read More
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![Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/971/969/1517969971.23.l.jpg)
Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]
by ARCHITECTURE. LePautre, Antoine (1621-1679); Perelle, Gabriel (1603-1677); Asselijn, Jan (ca. 1610-1652)
Paris: No printer stated, 1652. Hardcover. Fine. A superb album OF NINETY-ONE PLATES IN RICH EARLY IMPRESSIONS presents the work of three French and one Dutch artists, including the Parisian architect Antoine Le Pautre’s ideal and realized designs for exteriors and interiors at the height of the French Baroque. All eight suites are in excellent condition. Bound in contemporary vellum over stiff boards, four green ties. The first two suites (fifty-eight plates) are essentially the complete works of... Read More
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La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele Re di Sardegna e di Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena
by FESTIVALS. ARCHITECTURE
Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by Prenner with the arms of the house of Savoy. Fourteen etched and engraved plates, including the folding fireworks plate.... Read More
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![Architectura Recreationis… [and] Architectura Civilis…. [and] Architectura Privata](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/036/454/1601454036.23.l.jpg)
Architectura Recreationis… [and] Architectura Civilis…. [and] Architectura Privata
by ARCHITECTURE. Furttenbach, Joseph (1591 - 1667)
First and third works: Augsburg: Durch Johann Schultes, 1640 and 1641. Second work: Ulm: Durch Jonam Saurn, 1628. FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. Hardcover. Fine. A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's major architectural treatises. With 3 engraved frontispieces, printed titles in red and black, and a total of 89 folding plates of various sizes (the largest of them 370 x 300 mm.) showing residences, civic structures, palaces, churches, elaborate gardens and grottoes, pavilions, and theaters. All works... Read More
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Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia nella chiesa di S. Ninfa
by ARCHITECTURE. SPLENDID CEREMONIES. Liuzzo, Pietro (18th c.)
Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo after a drawing by Pietro Giaconia. The 2 foldings plates (see below) were also etched by Garofalo.... Read More
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Ain fast nutzlich Büchlin zü diser Zeit, zülesen/ Von dem Sindtfluß oder grossen wasser: das solchs durch den einfluss des hymels nit berzaichent/ wie etlich Astrologi ungeschicklich davon geschriben/ auch sich niemant des besorgen soll/ durch den hochberümten ... Paulum Bischoffen Forosempronieñ an Bapst Clementē den sibenden aussgangen uñ zü trost den förchtigen zü teütschem bracht
by ASTROLOGY. PORTENTS. Paul of Middelburg (1446-1534)
Augsburg: Simprecht Ruff, 1524. FIRST GERMAN-LANGUAGE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern boards. A fine copy. First German edition of a book written to quell the growing hysteria around the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of Pisces in February 1524, which was rumored to herald a catastrophic flood. Written by Paul of Middelburg, renowned astrologer, professor of astronomy at the University of Padua, and personal physician to the Duke of Urbino, the book,... Read More
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![Introductorium Compendiosum in Tractatum Spere Materialis magistri Joannis de Sacrobusto. Quem abbreviavit et almagesti Sapientis Ptholomei Claudii philosophi Alexandrini ex Pheludio progeniti a magistrum Joannem Glogoviensem feliciter recollectum. [With a table of the declination of the Sun, with canon, on m6 recto]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/470/133/1674133470.0.l.jpg)
Introductorium Compendiosum in Tractatum Spere Materialis magistri Joannis de Sacrobusto. Quem abbreviavit et almagesti Sapientis Ptholomei Claudii philosophi Alexandrini ex Pheludio progeniti a magistrum Joannem Glogoviensem feliciter recollectum. [With a table of the declination of the Sun, with canon, on m6 recto]
by ASTRONOMY. Johann von Glogau (Głogów) (1445-1507)
Krakow: [Jan Haller], 28 April, 1506. FIRST EDITION of Johann of Głogów’s commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on the verso of the title page and another large woodcut on B1 recto, showing the spheres of Earth, the elemental zones, the spheres of the planets, and above them, the zodiac. This diagram of Creation is overseen by Christ as Pantocrator flanked by saints. Other, smaller diagrams (including... Read More
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![Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/713/287/1374287713.0.l.jpg)
Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]
by AUGSBURG CONFESSION. Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Melanchthon, Philip (1497-1560)
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf E5, no loss). With a historiated woodcut title border to the “Apologia”. Woodcut coat-of-arms to verso of final leaf of the... Read More
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Breve racconto della trasportatione del corpo di Papa Paolo V dalla Basilica di San Pietro a quella di Santa Maria Maggiore
by BAROQUE ROME. Lelio Guidiccioni (1582-1643)
Rome: Appresso l'Erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1623. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in early parchment, re-cased, endpapers renewed, repairs to spine, some abrasions and light soiling. Title foxed and with early repair. Possibly an early stamp removed (but this is unclear.) Seventeenth-century (1660) ownership inscription on title. Some plates with mild foxing. Closed tear with discoloration in blank margin of final leaf. Very rare. 7 North American copies traced: Getty, Yale, Illinois, Princeton, Harvard, Emory, The Met. Sole... Read More
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![[De Architectura libri decem], M. Vitruuius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/983/744/1617744983.33.l.jpg)
[De Architectura libri decem], M. Vitruuius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit
by Vitruvius [Marcus Vitruvius Pollio] (ca. 80 – 15 BCE)
Venice: Giovanni Tacuino da Trino, 1511. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VITRUVIUS, edited by the architect Fra Giovanni Giocondo. Hardcover. Fine. Text printed in Roman type, with a few words in Greek. The publisher’s orb and cross device appears on the penultimate leaf and in the illustration on leaf H5 verso. The text is illustrated with 136 woodcuts measuring from 52 x 128 mm. to 230 x 132 mm. These are diagrams, plans, architectural details, and illustrations of... Read More
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The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus
by Béatrizet, Nicolas (Lunéville ca. 1515- Rome ca. 1565), attrib
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552. Hardcover. Fine. First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, founders of the city, on the Campidoglio). Signed “ANT. LAFRERII FORMIS ROMAE MDLII”. An icon of central importance to the mythology... Read More
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Elle
by Besnard, Albert (1849-1934)
N.p. [France]: No printer [by the artist], 1900. FIRST STATE (of two), before the addition of the artist’s signature in the plate. Hardcover. Fine. All plates in fine condition, with some glue residue on the versos at the upper corners (probably from earlier mounting), far from the images. One sheet lightly spotted. Housed in a modern custom, chemise-lined black Morocco box (41.5 x 29 cm.). A complete set of Albert Besnard’s striking suite of 26 etchings on the... Read More
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Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)
by BIBLE
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480. FIRST BIBLE PRINTED AT ULM. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf ll9) is visible, with instructions to the binder. With numerous blue fabric tabs, each marking... Read More
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![Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/472/744/1326744472.0.l.jpg)
Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte
by Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480-525 A.D.); Coleville, George, translator (fl. 1556)
London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556. FIRST EDITION of Coleville’s translation. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in... Read More
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Aff-ghebeelde Narren Speel-schuyt, verciert met meer als hondert schoone figueren nae den aert van veelderley Sotten die op aerden zijn. Bewesen met stichtelijcke exempelen, soo uyt de H. Schrift als oock uyt de kerckelijcke Oudt-Vaders ende andere schrijvers ... Beschreven int Latijn ende Hooch-Duytsch door Sebastian Brant getrouwelick overgheset in onse Nederduytsche sprake door A. B.
by Brant, Sebastian (1457-1521)
Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1635. SECOND EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION (1st ed. 1610). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, corners bumped.) Title lightly soiled, small collector’s mark (Lugt 585), with artist’s tools and monogram “CK”, of the Dutch painter, architect, and art historian Christiaan Kramm (1797-1875). Text with scattered light browning and foxing, some spotting (impurities in the paper), light soiling, insignificant worm-trail in margin of last few leaves. With annotations in Dutch, likely by... Read More
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![La Grande Danse macabre des hommes et des femmes ; Historiée et renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps [...] Avec Le débat du Corps & de l'Ame, La Complainte de l'Ame d'amnée, l'Exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir, La Vie du mauvais Ante Christ, Les quinze signes du Jugement](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/598/306/1768306598.0.l.jpg)
La Grande Danse macabre des hommes et des femmes ; Historiée et renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps [...] Avec Le débat du Corps & de l'Ame, La Complainte de l'Ame d'amnée, l'Exhortation de bien vivre & de bien mourir, La Vie du mauvais Ante Christ, Les quinze signes du Jugement
by [DANCE OF DEATH; SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR]
Troyes: chez Jean-Antoine Garnier, ca. 1766 to, 1773. Hardcover. Fine. Bound with: Le Grand Calendrier et Compost des bergers, composé par le berger de la Grande Montagne, Avec le Compôt naturel reformé selon le retranchement des dix jours, par le Pape Gregoire III. Ensemble la manière comme se doit gouverner le Berger pour empêcher qu'aucun Sorciers ne fassent mourir leurs troupeaux, avec toutes choses nécessaire pour se régler en leur art. Troyes: Chez Jean-A. Garnier, Imp.... Read More
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Opus Martiani. Capellae de Nuptiis Philologiae & Mercurii libri duo. De Grammatica. Liber. Tertius. De Dialectica. Liber. Quartus. De Rhetorica. Liber. Quintus. De Geometria. Liber. Sextus. De Arithmetica. Liber. Septimus. De Astronomia. Liber. Octavus. De Musica. Liber. Nonus
by Capella, Martianus Minneus Felix. (circa 420-490), Edited by Franciscus Vitalis Bodianus
Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 15 May, 1500. SECOND EDITION (1st 1499) of the Capella, FIRST HERWAGEN EDITION of the Hyginus. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 16th c. limp vellum. Fine, broad-margined copies on thick paper with just some occasional light soiling and a few instances of foxing in the Hyginus and a dampstain to the upper, inner corner of opening leaves. Bound with: Hyginus, C. Julius (1st century A.D.); Aratus, of Soli. (c. 315-c. 245 B.C.); Proclus Diadochus (ca. 410-484)... Read More
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Opus aureum ac novum, et a doctis viris diu expectatum, domini Victoris de Carben, olim judei, sed modo christiani et sacerdotis, in quo omnes Judeorum errores manifestantur qui hactenus nobis ignoti fuere. Declarantur etiam in hoc opere omnes Judeorum mores, quos circa quecunque opera exercere consueverunt, ac tandem (id quod inauditum est) ex Veteri tantum Testamento convincuntur. G. Ortwini Gratii bonarus artium professoris in emendationem huius pulcherrimi operis epigramma luculentum
by Carben, Victor von (1442-1515)
Cologne: Henricus de Nussia, 1509. FIRST LATIN EDITION, one of two issues (In 1508, De Nussia also printed an edition in German). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern morocco. Illustrated with 2 full-page woodcuts. A fine copy. Small tab on margin of title. Very rare. OCLC locates 4 copies in the U.S. (NYPL, Hebrew Union, Austin, and Princeton) and 2 copies of the German edition (Cornell, NYPL). A rare antisemitic work, representing a new genre in the polemic of... Read More
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Ars curandi parva, quae est absolutiss. medendi methodus, & alia, nunc primum aedita, opera, in duos tomos divisa
by Cardano, Girolamo (1501-1576)
Basel: ex Offic. Henricpetrina, 1566. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with:] De methodo medendi, sectiones quatuor. Paris: in aedibus Rouillij, 1565 Octavo: 15.6 x 10.5 cm. 2 works in one volume. 1. “Ars curandi parva” (in 2 vols): Vol. I: (96), 1-720 pp. Vol. II: (2), 1003-1621 (3) pp. (as numbered by the publisher, instead of using 1-619 for the numbering. The work is complete). Collation: Vol. I: alpha-zeta8, A-Z8, Aa-Yy8. Vol II.: aaa-zzz8. 2. “De methodo... Read More
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![Catvllvs cvm commentario Achillis Statii Lvsitani [Bound with]: Tibvllvs cvm commentario Achillis Statii Lvsitani](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/773/599/1691599773.0.l.jpg)
Catvllvs cvm commentario Achillis Statii Lvsitani [Bound with]: Tibvllvs cvm commentario Achillis Statii Lvsitani
by Catullus, Gaius Valerius (ca. 84-54 BC); Tibullus (ca. 50-18 BC)
Venice: In aedibus Manutianus, 1566 and, 1567. WITH THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF AQUILES ESTAÇO’S COMMENTARIES. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (soiled, minor losses to vellum, lacking ties). Internally very good copies with a minor worm-trail in the blank gutter. Two small wormholes in the text. Minor soiling, a few marginal damp-stains, one gathering lightly browned (in Tibullus). All three Aldine devices nicely colored in a contemporary hand. Edited by the Portuguese humanist Aquiles Estaço (1524-1581), known... Read More
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Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius
by Catullus, Gaius Valerius (ca. 84- ca. 54 BCE); Tibullus (ca. 50- ca. 18 BCE); Propertius, Sextus (ca. 49- ca. 16 BCE)
Venice: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1515. SECOND ALDINE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum (binding lightly soiled, remains of ties, small splits on spine). Very fresh and bright, with generous margins and only some very minor ink marks or the occasional blemish. Title lightly soiled and with early note deleted in ink. An early reader (possibly two) has made comments, offered alternate readings, and supplied the occasional line in the longer... Read More
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