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SOKOL BOOKS Catalogue LXXI SOKOL BOOKS SOKOL BOOKS LTD Specialists in rare and early books & manuscripts CATALOGUE LXXI Correspondence address: POB 2409 London W1A 2SH Visit our shop at: 239a Fulham Road London SW3 6HY Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 7pm [email protected] Tel: 0207 499 5571 or 0207 351 5119 www.sokol.co.uk IMAGE ON FRONT COVER IS NO. 25 - BOTONE SOKOL BOOKS LTD CATALOGUE 71 A ROYAL COPY homeland are now clear. His main objective was to try to align 1. ADAMSON, John. Ta ton̄ Mouson̄ eisodia: The the Church of Scotland more to the Anglican Church, evident Muses vvelcome to the high and mighty prince Iames ... At in his passing of the Five Articles of Perth in the year His Majesties happie returne to his olde and natiue kingdome following. During James’s visits to the cities, towns, villages of Scotland, … and boroughs of Scotland many formal presentations of verse and addresses were given to the King. In 1618, a collection Edinburgh, [s.n.], 1618; Edinburgh, Excudebat of these poems, addresses, and a record of where the King and Andreas Hart, anno 1618. his entourage visited, was printed in Edinburgh. The first £29,500 work is a collection of poems, speeches, and philosophical discussions, mostly in Latin. It is FIRST EDITION, second found in various states and it is issue. Folio. 1) [viii], 44, [ii], frequently accompanied by the second 45-[138], 137-289, [i]. 2). Italic work, a further collection of Latin letter, some Roman and Greek, poems written by Scottish authors text within box rule. Woodcut including David Hume of Godscroft portrait of James I with his arms and David Wedderburn on the below as frontispiece, large occasion of James's return to England. historiated initial on first leaf, It was edited by John Adamson who large grotesque headpiece with refers to the work in the dedication to James I arms above, woodcut the first work. floriated initials many grotesque and floriated woodcut head and “With over sixty individual tail-pieces and typographical contributors, it includes many more ornaments, “A reissue of STC Latin poets that the Delitae 140 (Edinburgh: Thomas Poetarum Scotorum, and all of them Finlason, 1618) with cancel write at the same point in time and in title page and dedication the same context, namely the return printed by A. Hart; three of King James VI and I to Scotland, preliminary leaves cancelled after fourteen years, in 1617. Its and replaced by two. In this acclamations are delivered with reissue line 3 of title reads "to considerable ingenuity and skill in the high and mighty prince". more than 130 poems, which range Pages 109-12 are a cancel in length from short epigrams to much bifolium printed in London by longer hexameter panegyrics. Such the Eliot’s Court Press. ... an assembly of verso to celebrate an Quire M also a different setting to STC 140. In this itinerant sovereign has few if any parallels in any neo-Lain setting signature "M2" is below the "frugi" of context. Moreover the Muses Welcome is presented as a “frugibus”." ESTC. “Lord in thy roth is” in a travelogue: a record, with precise dates, of the king’s journey contemporary hand on pastedown, two early shelf or ‘progress’ through some fifteen towns and other places in marks above and below, engraved bookplate of his northern realm, from Dundee to Drumlanrig (two visits Robert Pirie at side. Very light age yellowing, very are noted for Stirling and at least two for Edinburgh). … The rare marginal marks. A fine copy, absolutely fresh, in Muses Welcome is a snapshot of Scotland in a particular excellent contemporary calf, covers double blind and summer, or rather a group photograph (one of the livelier single gilt ruled to a panel design, large fleurons gilt to kind). A real work of cerebration as well as celebration by corners of outer panel, arms of James I gilt at centre, Scottish towns and cities The Muses Welcome is testimony spine double gilt ruled in compartments, all edges red, to Scotland’s cultural and educational achievements, at a spine a little sunned. moment which coincides with the zenith of Scottish Latin verse. Finally ... The Muses Welcome is a delight to handle First edition, second issue, with the portrait of James I, of this and peruse, because of its generous dimensions its use important collection of neo-latin poems, epigrams, and throughout of a large Italic font, its ample spacing...This fine panegyrics, all dedicated to James I on his return to Scotland appearance is hardly surprising, for it was commissioned by in 1617. On the 15th of May, 1617, King James VI & I the King himself … and entrusted by him to Edinburgh’s landed at Port "Seatown" (now Seton) to begin what would leading printers. He also made careful provision for the be his only homecoming tour, since leaving Scotland 14 years distribution of eighty copies, which may or may not comprise earlier. James stayed until the beginning of August and, the whole print run.” Roger P.H. Green. The King although primarily resident in Edinburgh, spent much of his Returns: The Muses’ Welcome (1618). This copy, richly time touring his northern kingdom. James visited Scotland bound with his arms is most certainly one of the copies made under the pretence of celebrating his fiftieth year as King of for distribution by the king. Scotland; however, the political motives of James’s trip to his 1 SOKOL BOOKS LTD CATALOGUE 71 The Muses Welcome is truly a treasure trove of early represents one of the earliest and broadest scientific insights seventeenth-century poetry and includes unattributed into quadrupeds’ features. The Scottish scholar Thomas dedications by Sir Francis Bacon, identified by his family’s Dampster (1579-1625) was involved in its publication as motto “Mediocria Firma” found at the foot of his dedications professor of humanities at the University of Bologna. (3rd leaf recto, pp. 115, 153, 168). A very fine copy of this Not in BM STC 17th It. Nissen ZBI, 76; Bibliotheca most important work, a presentation from James I. Osleriana, 1770; Alden, 642/3; Graesse, I, 65. 1) ESTC S126015. STC 141. 2) ESTC S106780 STC L2150 142. ONE OF THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN K58 STUDIES OF NON-WESTERN MEDICINE A PIONEERING WORK ON HOOVED AND BOTANY ANIMALS 3. ALPINI, Prospero. De medicina Aegyptiorum 2. ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Quadrupedum omnium [with] De plantis Aegyptis liber...De balsamo dialogus. bisulcornum historia. Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1591 [with] 1592. Bologna, Gian Battista Ferroni for Marco Antonio £4,950 Bernia, 1641. Two volumes in one. 4to. 1) FIRST EDITION, ff. £3,750 (12), 150, (26); 2) FIRST EDITION of first work, ff. Folio, pp. (8), 1040, (12). Roman and Italic letter, (4), 80, (8). Roman letter, little Italic; printer’s device little Greek; engraved architectural and allegorical on titles; historiated and foliated initials, initial C a title by Gian Battista Coriolano, with rampant lions, figure of Cronus; grotesque head- and tail-pieces. nude figures and putti, large historiated and decorated Volume I: three woodcuts in Book Two of Egyptian initials, some decorative head- and tail-pieces, cupping glasses; two full-page woodcuts, the first numerous detailed woodcut illustrations of animals, showing the process of scarification of the legs, the large printer’s device on final verso; a bit yellowed, second a treatment for dropsy; diagram of a leg on leaf mainly marginal light foxing, old repair to lower outer M7v. Volume II: many woodcuts of plants, mostly corner of 851. A good copy in contemporary vellum, full-page and in good clean impression; occasionally yapped edges; early shelf mark on small oval label at lightly age yellowed, slight marginal damp stain at head of rear cover; library stamp of Universitetets lower edge of final two gatherings. A very good copy Zoologiske Museums of Copenhagen and in elegant mottled calf c. 1700, gilt edges, gilt spine eighteenth-century autograph ‘F. Bollin[?]’ on front with oral compartments and title on red morocco endpaper; early duplicate stamp on title. label; red sprinkled edges; early inventory number on Second and slightly corrected edition of a ground-breaking front pastedown and pencil modern signature of ‘Dr investigation into hoofed (ungulate) quadrupeds, first Gazeau’, repeated on head of title; eighteenth-century published in 1621. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) is library stamp in blank margin of title. regarded as the father of modern natural history due to his Fine copy of three pioneering medical and botanical treatises pivotal contribution to zoology, botany and geology. An of the late Italian Renaissance. ‘Alpini, an Italian physician erudite scholar of wide-ranging interests, he was the rst and botanist, graduated from Padua and travelled through professor of natural science at Bologna University. There, he Greece, Crete and Egypt from 1580-1583. Following his established a renowned botanical garden and gathered a steady travels, he returned to Padua where he remained as professor amount of specimens and detailed drawings of faunal and of botany and director of the botanical garden until his death.’ floral rarities in his private museum. Everything was later (Heirs of Hippocrates). bequeathed to the City Senate. The majority of his extensive The volume begins with the first edition of ‘one of the earliest essays was published posthumously by his pupils with the European studies of non-Western medicine. Alpini's work support of the Bolognese Commune. dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices This vast zoological survey is not confined to scientific observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included information on ungulates, but, in the encyclopaedic style of moxibustion (the production of counter-irritation by placing the author, touches also on their occurrences in European, burning or heated material on the skin) which Alpini Egyptian and Arabic literature and figurative art, as well as introduced in European medicine.