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100 FOLIO COSTUME PLATES BY CASPAR LUYKEN AFTER CHR. WEIGEL WITH 2 WEST INDIANS 1. ABRAHAM A SANCTA CLARA. Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria, Worinnen sehr curios und begnügt unter die Augen kommen allerley Aufzüg und Kleidungen unterschiedlicher Stände und Nationen: Forderist aber ist darinnen in Kupffer entworffen die Kayserl. Hoffstatt in Wien. Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, (ca. 1721). Folio, [4] pages of text. With 100 etched costume plates by Caspar Luyken after Christian Weigel. The letterpress text printed on slightly shorter paper than the plates. Some hand soiling to blank corners of first few leaves and occasional marginal smudges. A few clean tear repairs to mostly blank margins. Wide margined copy. Modern calf backed decorated boards in a style of the period. $3850 Later, undated of this popular work first published in 1703 with the preliminary text by Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709). The magnificent etched plates by Caspar Luyken show members and court of the imperial family as well as traditional costumes from different countries and places, including from Poland, Turkey, Persia and Hungary as well as from Nuremberg, Regensburg and Frankfurt (including "Frankfurther Jud und Jüdin"), King George I and the English Admiral Mathews with a sea battle in the background. "Portraits of the imperial family and of the highest officials, and cuts of all sorts of people seen in Vienna. The cuts, prepared by Caspar Luyken for the Weigel firm, represent a veritable compendium of Viennese culture about the year 1700." (Faber du Faur). The work is also of American interest with two fine illustrations of West Indians at the end of the : "Ein West-Indianischer König" and "Tanzende West-Indianische Königen." [See above] Dating this undated edition can be aided from the slight retouching of plate I which now depicts Pope Innocent XIII who became Pope in 1721 and died in 1724. The plates appear in fine dark impressions. § Lipperheide Ac 2; Dünnhaupt 150, 39.2; Bauer, Weigel no. 20.6 &. cf. col. 909 ff.; Bertsche 42.2; Colas 2189; Brunet V, 1429; Faber du Faur 1123 (1703 ed.); Landis, European Americana 703/2 (1703 ed. 1 copy at Yale). [Note the plates are folio sized. These are greatly reduced]

GREEK/LATIN AESOP WITH 52 FINE WOODCUTS 2. AESOP. Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus Gabriae Graeci fabellae XLIII. Batrachomuomachia Homeri, hoc est, ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomuomachia, hoc est, felium et murium pugna. Tragoedia Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Accesserunt Auieni antiqui auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, caeteris omnibus castigatior. Lyon: Sumptibus Thomae Soubron, & Mosis a à Pratis, 1596. 16mo, 288, 293-412, [8] pp. (the last 2 pages blank). With woodcut printer's device on title-page and 52 text woodcuts. Greek and Latin parallel text. Light to moderate browning and foxing; few faint damp marks and minor wrinkling; early engraved bookplate. Contemporary owner's inscription on front flyleaf “Ex libris Alex. Jouÿ”. Old vellum with 2 sets of linen ties. $2250 Scarce parallel Greek-Latin edition of Aesop's fables illustrated with a series of beautifully detailed woodcuts which appear to be either by Bernard Solomon or based on his earlier versions. As usual including the related texts and fables by 1

Maximus Planudes, Babrius, Avianus, Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Theodore Prodromus' Galeomyomachia, etc. Scarce edition with the OCLC locating copies at the JCBL and University of Illinois in North American . § Adams A-290; Pettegree & Walsby, French Books III & IV, no. 51971; not in IA or Baudrier.

A CULINARY CLASSIC 3. ATHENAEUS. Dipnosophistarum sive coenae sapientum libri XV. Natale de Comitibus nunc primum é Graeca in Latinam linguam vertente. Venice: Andrea Arrivabeni, 1556. Folio, [12], 288, [12] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and woodcut historiated initials; italic type except for title which is in Roman. Early, dime size, circular owner's stamp on title; small clean tear repair to title-page blank margin; as in all copies folios Kiii/iv & Hii has browned, otherwise a very handsome copy. 18th century vellum back and corners. $1750 FIRST EDITION of this important Latin translation by noted Italian historian, poet and humanist, Natale Conti (1520–1582), of Athenaeus' work which deals extensively with wine and food. The original Greek text first appeared in 1514 (Venice). Very little is known about Athenaeus (fl. A.D. 200), a Greek writer born in Egypt, however his Deipnosophists ("Banquet of the Learned") is the oldest cookbook to come down to us (predating the De re culinaria of Apicius). It is an account of the conversations of 23 learned men whose conversations revolve on a number of topics but with emphasis on wine and food. Some of the diners have names of real people, such as Galen and Ulpian. " 1 dealt with the literature of food, food and drink in Homer, and wine; books 2- 3 hors d'oeuvres, bread; book 4 the organization of meals, music; book 5 lavish display and luxury; book 6 parasites, flattery; books 7-8 fish; book 9 meat, poultry; book 10 gluttony and more wine; book 11 cups and dishes; book 12 social behavior; book 13 love, women; book 14 more music, desserts; book 15 perfumes ... The Deipnosophists survived the medieval period in one 10th-century manuscript now in Venice - but the whole of books 1-2 and a few other pages were long ago lost." (Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, pp. 38-39). A Lyon reprint appeared the same year in a small octavo format which incorrectly reprints the "nunc primum" claim. A very nice copy of an important gastronomy text. The binder has included duplicates of sheet E2/5 (pp. 51/52 & 57/58). § Cagle, A Matter of Taste, no. 1111; Oberle, Bibl. Bachique, no. 3; Wheaton and Kelly, Bibl. of Culinary History, no. 304; Hoffmann I, 398; Sarton I, 326-27.

POCKET INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR A YOUTH'S CONDUCT IN LIFE / & COMFORT THE DYING AND THOSE CONDEMNED TO DEATH 4. BALDESANO, Guglielmo. Stimuli virtutum adolescentiae christianae dicati, libri tres. Conscriptum primum lingua Italica. Nunc recens... Latinè redditi à quodam Societatis Iesu. Cologne: Sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, 1595. 12mo, [48], 642 pp. Woodcut on title-page (Jesuit emblem). With 2 early owner's inscriptions on title-page and 2 early inscriptions on front paste-down. Occasional foxing and light browning. Contemporary blind stamped pigskin with two clasps. BOUND WITH ISELLA, Franciscus. Brevis Instrvctio Ad Corroborandos Ac Ivvandos Moritvros, Eos Praesertim qui ob flagitia sua publica Iudicum sententia morti addicti sunt. Addita Brevi Regvla spirituali, in vsvm eorum, qui se sancto illi operi dediderunt. A R.P. Francisco Isella, Cathedralis Ecclesiae Lodiensis canonico ... primum Italice conscripta, & nunc in Latinam linguam conuersa ab D. Michaele Ab Isselt Amorfortio. Cologne; Birckmann for A. Mylius, 1588. [4], 124 pp. Light browning and foxing. Some early margin annotations. $675 I. Second Latin edition of this popular work for the edification book for Christian youth which had first appeared in Italian in 1592. The text is partly attributed to the Turin Jesuit, Bernardino Rossignoli, since Baldesano had been thought to be his pseudonym. The Latin translation was done by the Dutch Jesuit Jean de Buys (Busaeus: 1547-1611) and to whom the authorship has also been attributed to. OCLC note: "Also attributed to Jan Buys. This translation has been attributed to both Aubert Le Mire and Bernardino Rosignoli (Cf. Backer-Sommervogel). Baldesano is sometimes regarded as a pseudonym of Rosignoli. F. Chiaovara (1967) concludes this is by Rosignoli, though perhaps only the Latin version. Sommervegel quoting Melzi (iii, 100) attributes this to Aubert Le Mire." II. A pocket manual to provide comfort and strength to those who are dying and especially those whose vices had led them to execution through a court's decision. In addition, there is a short of rules for the spiritual who surrender themselves to holy work. The work was first 2

published in Italian and appears here in the Latin translation by Michael von Isselt (1550-1597). The author, Franciscus Isella, is identified as a canon at cathedral in Liège. This is the only edition listed in the OCLC. § VD 16, R 3169; IA 111.856; de Backer-Sommervogle II, col. 420, no. 12 (under Busaeus); not in Adams. VD 16, I 344.

LAWS OF INHERITANCE AND SUCCESSION 5. BARDI, Marco Antonio. Tractatus de tempore utili, et continuo, ad appellandum, & prosequendum, ac de continuatione dominii, & possessionis de una in alteram personam, nec non aliis continuationibus iudiciariis ... Cum summariis, & indice locupletissimo. Venice: (apud Ioann. Antonium Bertanum), 1573. 8vo, [32], 182 pp. 1 blank leaf. Woodcut printer's device on title-page; Roman type with shoulder notes in Italic; fine copy. Contemporary limp vellum (traces of leather ties; ms title on front cover in a contemporary hand). $475 An important treatise on the laws dealing with contracts that have an aspect of time and continuation (1st. ed.: 1563) which includes the important subjects of inheritance, succession, wills, and other contracts that have a temporal aspect by Marco Antonio Bardi, a Doctor of Law from Siena. A very nice copy in its original limp vellum binding. § IA 113.003; Edit16 CNCE 4194; not in Adams or the BM/STC Italian.

COOKBOOK AND MEDICAL RECIPES, COSMETICS, ETC. 6. COOKBOOK. GERMAN MS. ON PAPER. South German ca. 1780 ff., ca. 1780. 4to, Paginated 1-67 and 273 leaves (50 blank). Mostly in neat italics by 3 or 4 different hands in brown inks on a high quality, thick writing paper. Some foxing with traces of use, worm hole in bottom blank margins of few leaves in center of volume. Three folded leaves of recipes folded and loosely tipped in the volume. Contemporary morocco over wooden boards with gilt spine and 2 brass clasps, all edges gilt (early owner excised previous owner's coat of arms from front cover). $1500 Very detailed and wide-ranging cookbook without a title of middle-class to upscale cuisine, the majority from a single source, continued until approximately 1815. Includes numerous detailed desserts and main course. Treatments for various stomach problems and for lung and coughs. A long section on making flavored spirits (aquavit) using herbs, and spices. Foods for a pregnant woman. A later entry from another hand relates, among other things, to a remedy, described in the "Reichsanzeiger" from 1801, another to the Bayerische Intelligenzblatt (Bavarian Intelligence Gazette) from 1791. Recipes for desserts, breads, pastries, cakes, cakes, preserves are represented in numerous ways. Furthermore, fish and meat dishes, soups, salads etc. as well as instructions for home remedies, oils,

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special "waters" (for gargling and drinking). Included are recipes for toothpaste and cosmetics, various medicines and powders and balms for various diseases, wound treatments, etc. The latter half of the volume again becomes a cookbook but with more middle-class cuisine with cheese and egg recipes and baked dishes as well as fruit desserts. Recipes for making various healthy drinks with detailed measures provided, e.g. measures of aloe, lemon, pomegranate, cinnamon, etc. Towards the end in a later hand are directions for treating dysentery ("Vorbauungs und Diaets Regeln bey grassirender Ruhr") with very detailed diet regimen provided. At the end there is a very detailed alphabetical index. The volume no doubt came from a wealthy, possibly nobility since a later owner has excised a piece of leather from the front cover where a coat of arms would have been.

7. COOKBOOK; GERMAN MS ON PAPER. German manuscript cookbook. ca. 1800. 8vo, Written by several hands in brown inks in German italics. first 229 pages in a fine, very clear and uniform italic; pages 230 to 266 in 2 less legible hands, [11] pp. 29 blank leaves, [26] pages of index in the original neat hand. Lightly browned laid paper. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards (rubbed). $550 Healthy middle class German cookbook with recipes for noodles, dumplings, potato dishes and tasty desserts: "Nudeln-Bowding", "Belgrader Brot", "Blätter-Teich", "Johannistrauben Creme", "Mailändischen Kuchen", "Erdäpfel-Auflauf", "Plump-Buding", "Schwanen-Boding", but also for numerous meat dishes etc. Potatoes were just getting a foothold in and the volume includes numerous variations on that theme. Also a series of bread recipes, etc. The first 229 pages are executed in a very legible italic script. The next 10 pages or so are less clear but improve in the next 50 improve a bit. At the end the original creator has made a very neat and clear index for the first 229 pages.

A MONUMENTAL GREEK-LATIN EDITION "MOST BEAUTIFUL AND ACCURATE OF ALL WOLF'S EDITIONS" 8. DEMOSTHENES; AESCHINES. Demosthenis et Aeschinis principum Graeciae oratorum opera cum utriusque autoris vita & Ulpani commentariis, nouisq[ue] scholiis, ex quarta eaq[ue] postrema recognitione, Graecolatina sex codicum impressorum, & inter hos Parisiensis nuper editi, duorum manuscriptorum, alterius Pannonii, alterius ex Augustana bibliotheca fidelissimi collatione, à mendis repurgata, variis lectionibus adaucta, annotationibus illustrata ... per Hieronymum Wolfium Oetingensem ... his recens accedit vita Demosthenis ex parallelis Andreae Schotti ... catalogum operum praefationi subiecimus, indicem ... adiecimus. Frankfurt: Apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Iohannis Aubrii, 1604. Large folio (41 x 27 x 10 cm), [68], lxxiiii, [6], 1464, [44] pp. With woodcut printer's device (Wechel's Pegasus) on title-page and verso of last leaf, 2 text woodcuts (portrait and coat of arms) and 1 engraved portrait in text; woodcut head and tailpieces and initials; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. Contemporary gift inscription on title and a later owner's inscription dated "1725". Contemporary vellum over boards. 4

$975 A monumental edition of the Greek-Latin text of Demosthenes and Aeschines: "The edition of 1604 is the most beautiful and accurate of all Wolf's editions and is universally acknowledged to be a magnificent and truly critical performance." (Dibdin, Greek and Latin , I, p. 479). The translation was by Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), a former pupil of Melanchthon, who had settled in Augsburg "first as the secretary and librarian to the wealthy merchant Johann Jakob Fugger, and next as Rector of the newly founded gymnasium.... He made his mark by his repeated editions of Isocrates (1570 etc.), and Demosthenes (1572 etc.), with Latin translations and explanatory notes. For his Demosthenes, ... he used a valuable MS in the Augsburg , the codex Augustanus primas, now at Munich." (Sandys II, p. 267). Also included are the Greek commentaries and scholia on Demosthenes written by Ulpian of Emesa (4th cent.) and for the first time the Latin biography of Demosthenes by the Jesuit scholar, Andreas Schottus (1552-1629), who included a preface/dedication to the Augsburg banker Marcus Welser dated September 1603 at Antwerp. The work is illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Wolf along with his woodcut coat of arms and an astrological chart (in Greek) appearing above. There is also a small, engraved portrait of Demosthenes. A very nice copy of this enormous work which was printed on surprisingly good paper for German houses of this period. § VD 17 3:015817L; BL German, 1601-1700, D314; Brunet, II, col. 588; Graesse II, p. 358; Heitz, Frankfurter und Mainzer Drucker, no. 102. [This is a very large, heavy volume. Note Aesop by printer’s device for comparison]

THE FATHER OF ITALIAN AGRICULTURE WITH 19 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS 9. GALLO, Agostino. Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura et de' piaceri della villa di M. Agostino Gallo ... Nuouamente ristampate, & ricorrette: con le figure de gli istrumenti, che s'appartengono all'essercitio d'vn vero, & perfetto agricoltore. Et con due tauole copiosissime: una delle dichiarationi di molti uocaboli bresciani: & l'altra delle cose piu notabili, che nell'opera sono sparse. Venice: D. Imberti, 1610. 4to, [20], [16], 434, [20] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page and 19 full-page woodcuts on last 10 leaves. Early collection stamp on title-page ("Libreria di L. N."). Some foxing and light toning of paper. Contemporary vellum over boards (recased). $1400 Early edition of this classic of agricultural literature which was first published in 1559. The text, presented in the form of a dialogue and divided into twenty days, is an agricultural manual in which the various aspects of farming activities are shown, such as dealing with the quality of the land, cultivation of the vine, harvesting, wine making, the vegetable garden, farm animals, beekeeping, silkworms, etc. Agostino Gallo (1499 – 1570) contributed greatly to the store of written agricultural knowledge of his time. He personally dedicated himself to the pleasures of country life, dealing directly with his own lands. The agriculture described here is radically different from that of the Latin world; it is the new irrigated agriculture of the Po valley. Gallo introduced improved methods of cultivating Italian land, as well as introducing new crops, such as alfalfa and rice. For these reasons, he is considered the father or restorer of Italian agriculture. The European agronomy of the Renaissance begins with Gallo, who personally dedicated himself to the pleasures of country life, dealing directly with his own lands. The work is illustrated with 20 large woodcuts at the end depicting farming equipment, apiaries, hand tools and wine and oil barrels, etc. § Ceresoli 264; cf. Bagnasco 882-83 (eds. 1607 & 1615 by Imperti).

HANDSOMELY BOUND STUDENT'S TEXT 10. GELLIUS, Aulus; MOSELLANUS, Petrus. Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes atticae. Accesserunt eruditissimi uiri Petri Mosellani in easdem per doctae annotationes, suis quaeq[ue] locis, tum in margine, tum post capitis cuiusq[ue] finem, conuenienter appositae. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1537. 8vo, [48], 729, [39] pp., with last blank. With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Early owner's inscription on title ("Johannes Engelmann?"); early collection stamp on title-page (Stargard, Pommerania). Some occasional light toning; contemporary owner's notes on front paste-down, and notes in same hand on pages 165, 324, 585, and 586; 2 small 5

early collector's lables. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards, decorated with biblical scenes and ornamental tools, with original brass clasps rehung (Conservator's printed notes pasted on rear flyleaf, dated 1999). BOUND WITH MOSELLANUS, Petrus. Annotationes in Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae. Cologne, J. Soter, 1533. [96] leaves. Woodcut printer' device on title-page and larger version on last leaf. $950 A very handsome early student's pocket edition of the Noctes Atticae edited by Petrus Mosellanus and bound here with an additional copy of his commentaries on Gellius taken from a 1533 Cologne edition of the work. The volume is preserved in its original blind tooled binding which had a few skillful repairs such as preserving the original brass clasps on new leather straps. Petrus Mosellanus (Peter Schade: 1493-1524), "who succeeded Richard Croke as the teacher of Greek at Leipzig (1517), distinguished himself as an expositor of Quintilian and of Gellius" (Sandys, II, p. 265). Erasmus greatly esteemed Mosellanus' learning and writings. The Attic Nights (Noctes Atticae) was composed by the Latin author and grammarian, Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 AD—after 180 AD), who had been educated in Athens before returning to his native Rome. His fame is based on the present work which is a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works which otherwise might be unknown today. The title, Attic Nights, originates from his having started the work during the long winter nights that he had spent in Attica. It is a collection of everything that he thought of particular interest, whether heard in conversation or read in books, and includes notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects. The story of Androcles appears (p. 214f) here which is often included in collections of Aesop's fables. The work is important for the insight it provides into the nature of the society and pursuits of the author's period as well as the many excerpts he includes by ancient authors whose works are otherwise unknown. § I. VD 16, ZV 6483; Schweiger II, 377; Adams G-354; not in BM/STC German. II. VD 16, G 1040; BM/STC German, p. 336 (both parts).

ILLUSTRATED NUMISMATIC EDICTS / MS SIGNED AT END BY THE MINISTER OF FINANCE "NABERAT' / BY PARISIAN WOMAN PRINTER 11. HENRI, IV, roi de France; NABERAT. Ordonnance du Roy sur le faict & reglement de ses Monnoyes. Paris: Chez la veuve Nicolas Roffet, 1601. 8vo, 26 pp. 1 blank leaf. With title woodcut of a rose, 28 coin woodcuts, woodcut initial and headpiece. The date "24 May 1601" on title-page in a contemporary hand. Signed at end by author of preface and registration "Naberat" with elaborate flourish. Several woodcut coins trimmed along outer edge: some contemporary underlining and light toning. Modern stiff marble wrappers. $1250 Very rare coin ordinance decree by the French King, Henry IV (1553-1610), on certain facts on the regulation of his currency. The work has been signed in manuscript on the last page along the bottom margin by "Naberat" the 'Procureur general du Roi'. His name also appears in the text at the end of the long preface (pp. 1-13) and to the "Extraict des Registres de la Cour des Monnoies" (pp. 14 - 16). The OCLC locates two copies in Swiss and French libraries. The copy at the BN also has the date "24 May 1601" written on the title-page in a contemporary hand. This work was printed by the Parisian printer, Jeanne Le Roy (active 1581-1628), who was the widow of Nicolas Roffet. This volume has an early example of her new printer's device consisting of an elegant woodcut rose which she had prepared for use in the new century (see Renouard p. 326; 2 earlier rose devices). Her relatively long career has been overlooked by both Susan Broomhall's Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France and the women printer index in Erdmann's My Gracious Silence. § Not in Lipsius-Leitzmann, Bibliotheca Numeria, Kress Cat., or BL, French 17th. cent. STC.

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WENCESLAUS HOLLAR'S WOMEN'S COSTUME ETCHINGS 12. HOLLAR, Wenceslaus. Theatru[m] mulierum sive varietas atq[ue] differentia habituum foeminei sexus, diversorum Europae nationum hodierno tempore vulgo in uso a Wenceslao Hollar ... delineatæ et aqua forti aeri sculptae Londini ao. 1643. Advertisement: This sett contains 48 prints, price 4s. London: Published by Laurie & Whittle, 1643(-63) [i.e. 1790s]. 8vo, Engraved title-page and 48 etched plates by Hollar; plate 24 is by Hollar after I. van Graenhals. Fine impressions, printed on a fine, thick laid paper with very wide margins. Some light marginal dust soiling. Tiny brown spot in out blank margins of a few plates. Very nice copy. Newer marbled boards. $2850 A very attractive set of Hollar's forty-eight delicate etchings depicting European women in full-length fashionable costumes - except for three plates at the end (nos. 45, 47 and 48) that depict men of religious orders. The first edition was published by Henry Overton in 1643, included 36 plates, all dated between 1642 and 1643 and signed W. Hollar, with the caption in Latin only. In 1663 the edition was enlarged to 48 plates. The etchings 1 to 13 depict the costumes of English women with numbers 14 to 44 those of women from other European countries. Plates 45-48 are from a later set of monks and nuns and are dated 1663 in the plate. The plates were obtained by eighteenth-century print seller Robert Sayer, who issued them several times (with captions in English added overhead). His business and stock were taken over by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, who reissued the present set. Fine, fresh impressions of one of the best sources for seventeenth-century lay female dress, especially for the English subjects (A Noble Woman, a Merchant's Wife of London, an English Gentlewoman, A Merchant's Daughter, Lady of the Court, a Countrywoman etc), together with women of France, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Austria. § Colas, Bibl. du costume, no. 1466; Hiler, Bibl. of costume, p. 443; cf. Lipperheide Ab 5 (collected volume of different eds.) & Parthey 1804 ff.

ILLUSTRATED FUNERAL FESTSCHRIFT OF EMMERICH JOSEPH, ELECTOR & ARCHBISHOP of MAINZ 13. HONORAT of Mainz, Father; EMMERICH JOSEPH, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz. Lob- und Trauerrede auf den Höchstseligen Hintritt des Hochwürdigsten Fürsten und Herrn Herrn Emerich Josephs, des Heiligen Stuhles zu Mainz Erzbischofen, des Heiligen Römischen Reiches durch Germanien Erzkanzlers und Churfürsten ... aus dem Reichsfreyadelichen Geschlechte von Breidbach zu Bürresheim; da Höchstderselben Leichenbegängnis mit dreytägigem großen Ehrengepränge in der hiesigen Erzhohen Domkirche den 28 29 und 30sten des Julius 1774. gehalten wurde. verfasset und vorgetragen von Pater Honoratus, des mindern Capucinerordens Priester, weiland Seiner Churfürstl. Gnaden zu Mainz geistlichen Rath, Beichtvater und gewöhnlichen Hofprediger. Mainz: Gedruckt in der churfürstl. privilegirten St. Rochus Hospitals-Buchdruckerey, durch Johann Bernard Sichler, 1774. Folio, [44] pp. With 3 engraved plates (1 folding) designed and engraved by W.C. Rücker; title-page and text printed within thick black framed borders; large woodcut headpiece, woodcut

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vignette at end and woodcut initials. Small spill stain on leaves h1 and h2; small brown spot in bottom corner of last 3 leaves; foxing and light browning. Modern cloth backed boards. $750 FIRST EDITION and only of this festschrift on the funeral of Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (1707 – 1774) who had served as the archbishop-elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774. His rule is particularly notable for introducing reforms inspired by the Enlightenment in he modernized the schools and monasteries in the archbishopric. He removed education from the care of the church and started an independent teacher's academy on May 1, 1771 and was responsible for significant building activity in the city. He was also responsible for enforcing the annulment of the Jesuit order in Mainz following the 1773 papal brief Dominus ac Redemptor of Pope Clement XIV that resulted in the suppression of the Society of Jesus. Since the Jesuits had run Mainz's system of higher education before their expulsion this fitted in with Emmerich's secularization of the schools. The work is beautifully illustrated with three engraved plates, including one folding, drawn and engraved by the Mainz artist Wilhelm Christian Rücker (d. 1774), which appears also to have been his last work. The large folding engraved plate depicts the archbishop-elector laying in state surrounded by both the religious and secular symbols of his office along with an honor guard of four soldiers with muskets pointing to the ground. The other two plates depict his very ornate baroque tomb and the monument in the Mainz Cathedral. The work was printed at the Elector-Bishop's private press at St. Rochus Hospitals (Mainz's hospital for the poor and orphanage) which was run by the Mainz printer Johann Bernard Sichler. The OCLC locates only copies in German libraries. § VD18 14708329-001; ADB VI, 85.

FINE SAMMELBAND OF JUVENAL & PERSIUS COMMENTARIES WITH AN EMBLEM TEXT 14. JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius; PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus; AUTOMNE, Bernard (ed.). Satyrae ex manuscriptis restitutae et in eas commentationes, observationes et paralipomena Bernardi Autumni ... Opus ornatum sententiis & opinionibus criticorum, ac notis, quibus loca obscuriora Persii perperam explorata ab aliis interpretibus, illustrantur. Paris: Chez Robert Foüet, 1607. 8vo, 4 parts in 1. [12], 440 pp.; [56] pp.; 199, [21] pp., 2 blank leaves, 22 pp., 1 blank; woodcut printer's devices on 2 title-pages and woodcut ornament on 3rd; "Index" to first part with separate title-page as does Persius’ section as part 3, with half-title to last part; first title printed in red and black; small duplicate stamp on paste-down of "Jena Univ. Bibl." (no other library marks); early owner's signature crossed out on first title. Contemporary vellum. BOUND WITH II. PERSIUS FLACCUS. Satyrarum sex liber singularis ... à St. Claverio ... redditus, et explanatus. Paris, Foüet, 1607. [16], 288, [16] pp. With woodcut ornament on title-page and 2 text woodcuts. BOUND WITH III. CLAVIERE, Étienne. D. Jun. Juvenalis periphrases prope aenigmaticae. A St. Claverio Enodatae. Quibus adjucta est magni illius Jos. Scaligeri, ac Justi Lipsii & aliorum, in quendam locum diversa explicatio. Paris, Foüet, 1607. 26, [6] pp. BOUND WITH IV. CLAVIERE, Étienne. Figure emblématique en trois langues, et seulement en une visible de soy. Ou se peut voir une fleur de louanges du roy tres-chrestien, de la royne, de monseigneur le dauphin & de Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans. Ouvrage dont le vray artififce & secret n'a esté jusques icy bien recogneu. A Monseigneur le duc de Sully ... Plus un panegyric & traicté de l'institution d'un jeune prince. Paris; Foüet, 1607. 54, [2] pp. With woodcut printer's device. $975 An interesting collection of Foüet texts all published in the same year and all except for the last text on the same subject; the satires of Juvenal and Persius, most appearing for the first time. The first work is in two volumes (with separate title-page to second work) and each of the other texts have their own title-pages, pagination and collations which indicates that they were offered

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for sale separately which is how the usual catalogue them. The final work is an emblem text and is also treated as an individual work by the emblem bibliographies. I. FIRST EDITION of this recension of the satires of Juvenal and Persius. The Juvenal is edited by Bernard Autumne (1587-1666) who also wrote the Persius annotations. The Persius has its own title-page with Morgan noting this is the second appearance of the commentary by Autumnus (1st: 1699: Morgan 208). The last 22 page section, following the commentary, has its own half-title "Notae Bernardi Autumni .., quibus loca obscuriora Persii, non satis explorata a Casuabonon, illustrantur" as well as a royal privilege printed on verso of the half-title, dated 14 March 1607, would seem to indicate its first appearance here. II. FIRST EDITION of this Persius commentary by Étienne de Clavière (d. -1622) who dedicates the work to King James I of Great Britain. Schweiger notes he used a fine old manuscript; "Cl. will einen guten u. alten Codex benutzt haben." III: FIRST EDITION of the author's commentary Juvenals' use of periphrasis as examined by Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) and others in the satires of Juvenal. Appended is a short medical text consisting of the author's Latin translation of Hippocrates "De medicamentis purgantibus" (also including the original Greek). IV. FIRST EDITION of this curious work on emblems dedicated to the Duc de Sully. "The 'Figure Emblematique' is an anagram written on the occasion of the birth of the Duke of Oleans." (Landwehr, Romanic, no. 228). Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607-1611) was the second son and fourth child of Henry IV of France and his Italian queen Marie de' Medici. He died at the age of four as a result of an epileptic attack. The text includes explanatory text on the composition of the anagram followed by panegyrics, elegies and an address to Louis, dauphin of France. A very handsomely preserved volume in its original vellum binding. § I: Graesse III, 520 & V, p. 212 (Persius); Morgan, Persius, 223; Schweiger I, 510. II: Graesse V, p. 212 "Clavier se vante d'avoir consulté un bon man"; Morgan, Persius, 224; Schweiger II, 711. III: Schweiger I, 520. IV: Praz, Emblems, p. 306; Landwehr, Romanic, no. 228.

THE MARITIME LAWS OF THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE 15. KURICKE (or CURICKE), Reinhold. Jus maritimum hanseaticum olim germanico tantum idiomate editum, nunc vero etiam in Latinum translatum, & ad singulos titulos eorumque articulos commentariis & differtationibus juridicis, politicis, historicisque illustratum, nec minus cum legibus antiquis Rhodiorum, Romanorum, Wysbicensium, Caroli V. & Philippi II. Hispaniarum regum, variorum deniq: regnorum civitatumq; statutis, juribus & plebicitis collatum, ac firmatum. Accesserunt diatriba de assecurationibus: item variae illustres quaestiones ad jus maritimum pertinentes. Hamburg: Sumptibus Zachariæ HertelI, bibliopolæ, 1667. 4to, 4 parts in 1. [8], 248, 120 pp. Title-page in in red and black; printed in double columns of German and Latin parallel text; foxing with mild to moderate browning common in German books of this period; early ownership inscription on title dated ("1702"). Recent full calf in the style of the period. $1250 FIRST EDITION of this important codification of the Hanseatic maritime laws presented in parallel Latin and German. This is followed by essays on Hanseatic maritime law and marine insurance in Latin (Diatriba de assecurationibus and the Resolutio quæstionum illustrium ad jus maritimum pertinentium) by Reinhold Kuricke (1610?-1667), lawyer and secretary of the city of Danzig (Gdansk). The last two parts, with half titles, consist of works on marine insurance and the legal structure for the resolution legal disputes and jurisdiction for problems of marine law (Diatriba de Assecurationibus and Resolutio Quaestionum Illustrium ad Jus maritimum pertinentium). The jurist and historian from Danzig (Gdańsk), Reinhold Curicke (1610–1667), specialized in the history of his city, especially during the period it served as the principal city of the province of Royal Prussia during the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth and its connections to Hanseatic merchant organization. He published in 1645 a comprehensive four-volume history of Danzig (Der Stadt Danzig historische Beschreibung), covering its origins, government, wars, and religious history. § Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01843; VD 17 1:020124N.

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IMPORTANT CANON LAW COLLECTION 16. LANCELLOTTI, Giovanni Paolo; GREGORY, XIII, Pope. Corpus iuris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum: Gregorii XIII. pont. max. iussu editum. Indicibus variis, et novis, & appendice Pauli Lanceloti, Perusini adauctum cuius partes indicat auersa pagina, accesserunt nouissimè loci commvnes vberrimi, summa diligentia ex ipsis Canonibus collecti, & ordine ac methodo singulari ad vsum fori vtriusq[ue] fideliter digesti, theologis, politicis, & practicis pernecessaris [BOUND WITH] Decretales D.Gregorii Papae IX. svae integritati restitvtae...[WITH] Liber sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII ... vna cvm Clementinis et Extravagantibvs ... [WITH] Institvt. ivris canonici ius pontificium singulari methodo libris IV. Comprehenditur. a Ioan Pavlo Lancelotto ... Nunc primum reiectis ad finem cuisqu; columnae locis, unde sumpti sunt. Lyon: No printer [Thomas Guérin], 1591. 4to, 4 vols. in 1. [64] pp, 1273 (i.e. 1272) columns, [16] pp., 754 columns, [11] p., 416 columns, [6] pp., 158 columns, [42] pp. Title page in red and black; printer's device on title-pages of each volume; head and tail pieces, initials. Faint collection stamp on first title-page; light browning throughout; minor damp mark in few leaves; worm holes in ca. 8 ff. in vol. 1 (cols. 1222-1235); extensive contemporary annotations on two contents pages to first work (updating and providing more detail to canon law authors listed). Contemporary blind stamped pigskin (large arabesque central ornament; remnants of cloth ties visible). $475 Important collection of canon law texts edited by the eminent Italian jurist, Giovanni Paolo Lancellotti (1522- 1590), who was professor of canon and civil law at the University of Perugia. "Except for two short sojourns at Rome, he passed the remainder of his life in Perugia, in the study of law and belles-lettres. He owes his worldwide reputation to his "Institutiones Juris Canonici", the text of which is reproduced in most editions of the "Corpus Juris Canonici". Following the example of Emperor Justinian, who had entrusted to three professors the task of drawing up an elementary work on Roman law entitled the "Institutiones", intended for use in the schools, Lancelotti conceived the plan of a like work on canon law. Paul IV charged him officially with the execution of his plan, and for this purpose he went to Rome in 1557. To his great regret, neither Paul IV who died in 1559, nor his successor Pius IV, gave authentic and official approbation to his work, published by Lancelotti at Perugia in 1563 as an entirely private venture. The "Institutiones" are divided into four books, and treat successively of persons, things (especially marriage), judgments, and crimes. This division was inspired by the principle of Roman law: "Omne jus quo utimur vel ad personas attinet, vel ad res, vel ad actiones" (All our law treats of persons, or things, or judicial procedure.). It is a small and very simple didactic work, and may be considered a clear, convenient resume of canon law. Its divisions have been followed on broad lines by all authors of elementary treatises on canon law, and they have also borrowed its title "Institutiones". Lancelotti, however, erred when he applied to canon law the unsuitable divisions of Roman law." (Catholic Enc.). A complete set of all four parts (the index on verso of the title lists the index as a part five) with Lancellotti's Institutiones. A rare edition with OCLC locating only a copy of the first part at Harvard Law Library and University of Toronto in the Americas. § Schulte, Quellen, III, 1, 451; not in Adams or BM/STC French.

SUPERB PANEL STAMPED BINDING 17. MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. In somnium Scipionis, lib. II. Saturnaliorum, lib. VII. Lyon: Apud haered. Seb. Gryphii, 1560. 16mo, 745 pp, [59] leaves (last 3 leaves blank). With woodcut printer's device on title and a few text woodcuts including a world map. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on paste-down ("Ex donatione Joh: Üngelencks") title-page and two later on title (Johann Peter Fischer dated "1676" and Johann Conrad Langenstätter dated "1679"); light browning; bottom blank corner of title-page clipped off. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin (without endpaper) by the book binder "A, M." (Adam Müller) from Wittenberg with a plaque on front cover of Justitia and on the verso of Fortuna (EBDB w000436; Haebler I, 275, I. & II.). $1250 Students pocket edition (first: 1472) in a beautiful contemporary binding. "Macrobius' lengthy excursuses on Pythagorean number lore, cosmography, world geography, and the harmony of the spheres established him as one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West. His chapters on numbers consist largely of conventional statements about the virtues of the numbers within the sacred Pythagorean decade, but include a fine explanation of the Pythagorean doctrine that numbers underlie all physical objects ... Macrobius 10

and Martianus Capella were largely responsible for preserving Crates of Mallos' theory of an equatorial and meridional ocean dividing the earth into four quarters, each of which was assumed to be inhabited, and for the wide adoption of Eratosthenes' figure of 252,000 stades for the circumference of the earth. These concepts dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages" (DSB IX, p. 1) The work is also of interest for the version of the world map (first: 1483) that appears on page 191 (ca. 5 x 5 cm) which is described in Shirley's The Mapping of the World, no. 13. The particular interest of the present volume however is in the splendid binding by the book binder "A. M." (Adam Müller) from Wittenberg with a plaque on front cover of Justitia and on the verso of Fortuna (EBDB w000436; Haebler I, 275, panels nos. I. & II.) There is some minor discoloration to the leather but the impressions are fine and sharp.. § Adams M-70; Graesse IV, 330; Shirley, no. 13 (world map).

IMPORTANT GERMAN WOMAN PRINTER / AMERICANA 18. MARCOS DE LISBOA. Erster (- Dritter) Thail der Cronicken der eingesetzten Orden deß heiligen Vatters Francisci (pt. 3: ... der mindern Brüder). Erstlich in Portugalischer Sprach zusammen getragen Durch den Ehrwürdigen Vatter Marcum von Lißbona: Und hernach in die Castiglianische verendert Durch den Ehrwürdigen Vatter Didacum Navarrum. Volgents in die Italianische transferiert Durch Horatium Diolam von Bologna: Und an jetzo in unser Teutsche Sprach gebracht Durch Den Edlen, Gestrengen Herrn Carl Kurtzen von Senfftenau .... Munich: (Anna Berg for) Johan Hertzroy, 1620. 4to, 3 volumes bound in 2. [64], 670, [12] pp. 1 blank leaf; 506, [18] pp.: [16], 1150, [20] pp. (last page blank). With added engraved title-pages to each volume. Anna Berg's woodcut printer's device at end of first volume. Some fraying to bottom blank margins of some leaves; small 19th century collection stamp on printed titles. Small worm hole in bottom blank margin of a few gatherings. Some scattered light foxing. Contemporary calf for first 2 parts (some wear to head & tail of spine) and contemporary green vellum for 3rd part. $1250 Second German edition (1st: 1604) translated by Carl Kurtz von Senftenau. "The first major chronicle of the Franciscan Order, which was often used for the accounts by later chroniclers, and rightly so, because the author had available the original sources" (Streit, German trans.). The Portuguese original was published 1557-62 followed by translations into Spanish, Italian and French. The work contains, especially in Volumes 2 and 3, reports on Franciscan missionary activity. Marcos de Lisboa (1510-1591) had been i. a. himself a missionary in Mexico and the Philippines, where he was the first to write a dictionary of the Bicol language (see Pardo de Tavera 1533-34). References to Franciscans in Mexico appears in the third volume (see European Americana). The work was printed by one of the major houses in Germany which also happened to run by a woman. Benzing (Die Buchdrucker) notes that Adam Berg of Munich was one of the most important printers in Germany when he died in 1610 and that his second wife, Anna, vigorously continued the business until 1629. Each volume is illustrated with a detailed engraved title-page composed of numerous panels depicting Franciscan saints and symbols of the order. While the bindings vary in this set (vellum and calf) they appear, according to the spine labels and collection mark, to have together at least since the early 19th century. § VD 17 12:113948M; Aldin-Landis, European Americana 620/99; cf. Streit I, 80 (1st. ed.) & 274 (1604 German ed.); Palau 151.268-270 & Civezza 342 (both without German ed.).

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JUDICIAL LEGAL DISCRETION IN ARBITRATION 19. MENOCHIO, Giacomo. De arbitrariis iudicium quaestionibus et causis, libri duo. Nunc denuo in lucem editi, varia, recondita. Venice: Gio. Bapt. Somasco, 1576. Folio, [56] leaves (last leaf blank), 334 leaves. With woodcut printer's device on title- page. Early ownership inscription on title with other's crossed out; small ink spot on text leaf; occasional foxing and some leaves moderately browned. 19th century half vellum. BOUND WITH MENOCHIO, G. De arbitrariis iudicium quaestionibus, et caussis. Libri secundi centuria V. nuperrime edita. Venice; Fr. de Franceschi, 1583. Folio. [32], 140 pp. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. $975 New corrected editions of the most influential legal work dealing with the procedural in Roman law dealing with judicial arbitration and legal discretion. The work expands on several topics taken up in the earlier work. The first volume had first appeared in 1575 and the second work first appeared in 1577. Both works are rather scarce. Giacomo Menochio (1532-1607), eminent Italian jurist of the Renaissance, came from poor family in Pavia. His talents in teaching law were recognized and he was commissioned, in 1555, to give public lessons at the university. His reputation throughout Italy and the Duke of Savoy, Emmanuel-Philibert , called him in 1561 to occupy one of the chairs of the newly created University of Mondovi; in 1566 he was appointed first professor at Padua, where he would teach twenty-three years, with ever increasing success. Yielding to the wishes of his fellow citizens, he returned to Pavia in 1589 to fill the vacant chair following the death of Nicolas Gratiani. The King of Spain, Philippe II, later appointed him as senator, then as a president of the council of the Duchy of Milan. § Jöcher, suppl. IV, 1438; not in Adams or the BL/STC.

UTOPIAN NOVEL ON LIFE IN 2440 20. MERCIER, Louis-Sébastien. L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante Reve s'il en fut jamais. Londres [i.e. France]: No printer, 1772. 8vo, VIII, 416 pp. Ornamental title woodcut and ornamental type headpieces. Very nice copy. Contemporary calf with gilt spine and French fillet cover borders, marbled fore-edges and end papers (trace of exlibris removed). $450 Scarce edition, one of five issued in 1772 (all with different collations), of this utopian novel all with the fictitious imprint of London; the ESTC suggests German and Swiss locations for the other four but "France" for our issue. Probably because of the very fine distinctively typography and high quality of paper used. The present copy is also handsomely bound in a contemporary French, gilt tooled calf binding. Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740 –1814), a French dramatist and writer, began his literary career by writing heroic epistles. He was a prolific author publishing numerous plays, pamphlets, and novels. Mercier's keen observations on his surroundings and the journalistic feel of his writing meant that his work remained riveting despite the nature of its composition. "There is no better writer to consult," Robert Darnton notes, "if one wants to get some idea of how Paris looked, sounded, smelled, and felt on the eve of the Revolution." The present work is also considered the author's most important. Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One) was translated into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred [sic] and is a utopian novel set in the year 2440. An extremely popular work (it went through twenty-five editions after its first appearance in 1770), the work describes the adventures of an unnamed man, who, after engaging in a heated discussion with a philosopher friend about the injustices of Paris, falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. Darnton writes that "despite its self-proclaimed character of fantasy ... L'An 2440 demanded to be read as a serious guidebook to the future. It offered an astonishing new perspective: the future as a fait accompli and the present as a distant past. Who could resist the temptation to participate in such a thought experiment? And once engaged in it, who could fail to see that it exposed the rottenness of the society before his eyes, the Paris of the eighteenth century?"- Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), p. 118. Mercier's hero notes everything that catches his fancy in this futuristic Paris. Public space and the justice system have been reorganized. Its citizens' garb is comfortable and practical. 12

Hospitals are effective and based on science. There are no monks, priests, prostitutes, beggars, dancing masters (i.e. teachers), pastry chefs, standing armies, slavery, arbitrary arrest, taxes, guilds, foreign trade, coffee, tea or tobacco and all useless and immoral previously written literature has been destroyed. Mercier's future is not wholly utopian. The extremes of wealth and poverty have been abolished; nevertheless, the poor still exist. There is little economic development, and the population of France has increased only by 50%. (Darton). § ESTC N30035; Higgs, Bib. of economics, 5375 (note); Wilkie, Mercier's L'An 2440, 1772.3.

ACCOUNTS OF THE GREEK ISLANDS OF CRETE, CYPRUS, AND RHODES 21. MEURSIUS, Joannes; GRAEVIUS, Joannes Georgius. Creta, Cyprus, Rhodus sive de nobilissimarum harum insularum rebus & antiquitatibus commentarii postumi, nunc primum editi. Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 4to, 3 volumes in 1. [8], 264, [2]; [2], 175; [2], 124, [68] pp. Woodcut printer's device on each title-page. Text in Roman and parts in Greek. Fine fresh copy. Contemporary vellum over boards. $650 FIRST EDITION of these three accounts of Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes and other Greek islands as described in ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine literature. The text describes history, accounts of special events, geography, temples, cities, etc. by Joannes Meursius (Jan de Meurs:1579-1639) who was professor of history at the University of Leiden and from 1611 Historiographer for Holland (see Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship II, p. 311). The works probably were available separately since each part has its own title-page and is separately paginated. The work was posthumously published and edited with a preface by the German classical scholar and critic, Johann Georg Graevius (Greffe or Graeve:1632-1703), who studied under at Leiden (see Sandys, II, pp. 327-28). He was professor rhetoric, history, and politics at the University of Utrecht. Graevius enjoyed a very high reputation as a teacher, and his lecture-room was crowded by pupils, many of them of distinguished rank, from all parts of the world. He was visited by and honored with special recognition by Louis XIV, and was a particular favorite of William III of England, who made him historiographer royal. § Blackmer 1121; Blackmer Sale 220; Ekkekaki, I, 163; Cobham-jeffrey, p 41.

SPANISH LAWS FOR MILITARY CONSCRIPTION 22. OYA Y OZORES, Francisco de. Tratado de levas, quintas y reclutas de gente de guerra, según las reales ordenanzas y cédulas modernas, con varias reflexiones legales y politicas .... Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1734. Small 4to, [8], 551 pp. [8] leaves. Title printed in red and black. Fine copy. Contemporary mottled sheep with gilt spine (small chip on head of spine). $950 Second enlarged edition (1st: 1732) of this important Spanish miliatary treatise dealing with military conscription. Following the end of the War of the Spanish Succession the new Bourbon ruling house promulgated a series of new laws (pp. 443-66) dealing with recruitment. The reasons for the new laws are provided in great detail with legal interpretation regarding the refinements of the statutes. There are provided, for example, reason for the draft, the necessity of taking in tramps and vagabonds for the betterment of society, the importance in providing exemptions for married men and those engaged in essential trades and professions, the dealing with and replacement of deserters, etc. Among the additions for this second edition in the present copy is an eight-page addenda containing the "Ordenanza de su magestad de 31 de enero de 1734 sobre la formacion de treinta y tres regimientos de milicias" which doesn't appear to be in the other copies located by OCLC in US libraries. § Palau 207844.

HEBREW - LATIN - ITALIAN DICTIONARY WITH NUMEROUS MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL TERMS 23. POMIS, David (ben Isaac) de. [Semah Dawid, Hebrew] Dittionario novo Hebraico, molto copioso, dechiarato in tre lingue con bellissime annot., e con l'indice latino, e volgare, de tutti li suoi significati, Lexicon novum Haebraicum. Venice: Apud Joannem de Gara, 1587 (colophon dated: 1586). Folio, 62 (i.e. 64), 238 leaves. Woodcut arms of the dedicatee (Pope Sixtus V.) on second leaf with large woodcut initials; Hebrew (using Bomberg's Hebrew types), Latin and Italian text. Contemporary flexible vellum (recased with new end-papers). $2500

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THE SOLE EDITION of this rare of rabbinical Hebrew-Latin-Italian dictionary by the Jewish physician and grammarian David ben Isaac de Pomis (1525-1588), who, because of his medical background has included numerous medical and biological terms. "A very interesting work which gives side by side a Hebrew dictionary and a ‘Targumic’ one. In both dictionaries the lemmata are explained in Hebrew (with source reference), Latin and Italian." (Smitskamp 27). "David de’ Pomis is famous above all for the Ẓemaḥ David, a trilingual Hebrew, Latin, and Italian dictionary (Venice, 1587). The work, which is dedicated to Pope Sixtus V, contains numerous discourses of a scientific and historical nature; the preface embodies the author's genealogy and autobiography" (Jewish Virtual Library). "Largely based on Nathan ben Jehiel’s Arukh, Radak’s Sefer ha-Shorashim, and Levita’s Tishbi and Meturgeman. Entries were divided into two columns, one for Hebrew and one for foreign words in rabbinic Hebrew. Included were indexes of Latin and Italian words and a list of abbreviations. This work is the only printed Hebrew dictionary by a Jewish scholar during the 16th century" (Brisman 171). Jewish physicians had been forbidden to treat Christians by Papal edict (1555) however Pius IV (1559–65) had given de Pomis permission to attend Christians, a concession revoked by Pius V (1565–72) and later restored by Pope Sixtus V (1585–90). In a pamphlet in 1588 de Pomis refuted the charges brought against Jews and Jewish physicians in Gregory XIII's bull of 1581. He stresses that according to the Bible and Talmud a Jewish physician must give help to every sufferer and cites numerous instances of Jewish doctors who had distinguished themselves by their work and their loyalty to their patients. Hebrew printing in Venice was "resumed in 1564 by Giovanni de Gara, who took up the work of Bomberg, and between 1564 and 1569 produced more than 100 different works, making use of Christian as well as Jewish typesetters," (Jewish Enc.). "During Bomberg's life his types were sought for by the printers Dei Farri of Venice, and after his death most of his types came into the possession of Giovanni di Gara, a Venetian printer of note, from whose press many fine Hebrew books were issued" (D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew , pp. 214-15). § EDIT 16, CNCE 23086; Adams P-1823; Fürst III, 111f.; Friedenwald, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History, p. 126; BM/STC Italian p. 532; Steinschneider 4841, 1; Zaunmüller 178 "Einst sehr geschätzt."; Smitskamp 27: not in Vancil.

IMPORTANT MILITARY & ARCHITECTURE HISTORIES FROM THE ERA OF EMPEROR JUSTINIAN 24. PROCOPIUS, Caesariensis; AGATHIAS; JORDANUS; BRUNI, Leonardo. De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, una cum alijs mediorum temporum historicis, quorum catalogum sequens indicabit pagina. His omnibus accessit rerum copiosissimus index. Basel: Ex officina Ioannis Hervagii, September 1531. Folio, [48], 690 pp., 1 blank leaf, 46 (i.e. 50), [2] pp. Woodcut printer's device of Herwagen on title-page and larger version at end; fine woodcut, white on black, historiated initials; Latin text with last 50 pages in Greek. Contemporary owner's name on title-page ("Ex libris Ramondi Roedii") and later name. Title, first and last gathering with foxing with occasional light marginal foxing throughout; tiny damp mark along bottom inner corner margin towards end; typographic bookplate by the historian Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776-1858). Wide margined copy. 17th century dark red morocco with gilt spine and double gilt fillet cover borders (minor discolor mark). $1500 FIRST EDITION of this important collection of Byzantine historical texts by Procopius, "whose works are an indispensable source for his period and contain much geographical information" (Enc. Brit.). The volume was edited the German humanist, Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), who has included works from the same period to supplement the histories. Appended is Procopius's important work on Justinian architecture in the original Greek. The first history, in four books, is The Gothic War (De Bello Gothico), covering the Italian campaigns by Belisarius, and others, against the Ostrogoths. This text appears in the Latin translation by Cristoforo Persona (1416-1485) who served as the prefect of the Vatican Library from 1484 onward; then, the two books of The Persian War (De Bello Persico) by the same author, dealing with the conflict between the Romans and Sassanid Persia in Mesopotamia, here translated by Raffaelo 14

Maffei (1451 – 1522). To supplement these texts the editor has included the De Bello Gothorum by Agathias, a Greek poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558, appearing here in the translation by Persona. This is followed by the history of this period (De bello Italico contra Gothos) by the Italian humanist and historian, Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. This is rounded out with a history of the Goths (Getarum Liber) by one of their own Iordanes Gotus and his Summa Temporum. Conrad Peutinger (1465-1547) had contributed a brief Epitome (p. 687-8) and Sidonius Apollinaris' Epistola to Theodoricus. The final work, with its own pagination and presented in the original Greek, is Procopius's work on the buildings of Justinian, Liber de aedificijs Iustiniani Augusti Graecè. "The Buildings contains an account of the chief public works undertaken during the reign of Justinian down to 560. If not written at the command of Justinian (as some have supposed), it is evidently grounded on official information and is a valuable source of information." (Enc. Brit.). § VD 16 P 4983; BM/STC German, p. 716; Adams P-2149; Hoffmann III, 299; Ebert 17994; Graesse, V, 455.

CANON LAW TREATISE ON TITHES 25. REBUFFI, Pierre. Brevis, caeterum utilis et in forensi iudicio frequens tractatus de decimis; tam feudalibis, quàm aliis, noualibúsque, & quibus debeantur, atque quomodo peti, solui ac iudicari super his oporteat, & an tolli possint, et poenas contra non solventes, continens. ... Adiectus est tractatus non minus frequens de Alienatione rerum ecclesiasticaru[m], & tractatus de Congruaportione, Correcti & adaucti. Paris: Galliot Du Pré, 1551. 8vo, 3 parts in 1. [16], 152 leaves, including blank b8. Woodcut initials and with almost full-page beautiful woodcut device of Du Pré on the last page (Renouard, Les Marques Typographiques Parisiennes, no. 261); occasional light foxing, early underscoring. Contemporary vellum over boards (traces of ties). $550 Much enlarged second edition of this treatise on canon law and tithes, which first appeared in 1549, enlarged with two new tracts. The two additional tracts are continuously paginated but with separate title-pages; the first is a compendium of arrests and the second deals with the share of benefits and value of coming to trial: "Tractatus congruae portionis beneficiorum, vicariis maxime debitae brevis, & admodum utilis, ac in forensi iudicio usu veniens." The Pierre Rebuffi (or Rebuff: 1487-1557), an eminent French jurist, lectured on law at Bourges and Paris as well as well as publishing several highly regarded legal works. He was born at Montpellier and educated at the city University. He had authored a work on the legal rights of university booksellers, professors, students, and other academic figures which was published at Paris in 1540. No copies located by the OCLC in North American libraries and only two in Europe. § Not in Adams or the BM/STC French.

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MINIATURE WITH 13 FINE HAND COLORED PLATES 26. REINKE, Johann Theodor. Hamburgischer Taschen-Kalender auf das Jahr 1822. Hamburg: F. H. Nestler, (1821). 24mo. 3” 1/2 x 2” 3/16 (9 x 5.8 cm), 56 leaves (23 are blank). With 13 (1 double-page) hand-colored engraved plates. Dust and hand soiling to first few leaves. Some early penciled notes on blanks. Early marbled boards. BOUND WITH SCHILLER, Friedrich. Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer. Hamburg, Bei C.L.F. Kirchner, im Laden der St. Nicolai-Kircher. no date. Woodcut ornament on title-page. 16 pp. [See illustrations previous page] $775 The beautifully illustrated miniature pocket calendar with 13 hand-colored engravings includes a double-page view of "Adolf's Platz" in Hamburg. The other charming engravings illustration for Schiller and seasonal activities such as fishing, carnival festival, courtship, etc/ The second work bound in is a very rare miniature edition of "Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer" which was a ballad written by Friedrich Schiller as part of his 1797 ballad competition with Goethe. The publisher, Johann Theodor Reinke (1749 - 1825), was a German engineer who in addition to his engineering work served as an advisor to the city of Hamburg on canal and port construction projects. He made a perpetual calendar that he sold directly to customers as well as published these pocket calendars of which surviving examples are very rare. He was involved in the founding of the Hamburg Observatory and participated in the observation of lunar and solar eclipses during which he would loose the sight in his right eye. The examples of this calendar are rare. The OCLC only locates a copy of the 1828 edition at University of Rochester in North American libraries. § Köhring 157; cf. Welsh 3209 (1820 ed.).

IMPORTANT WORK IN MUSIC THEORY 27. ROUSSIER, Pierre-Joseph. Traité des accords, et de leur succession, selon le systéme de la basse-fondamentale; pour servir de principes d'harmonie à ceux qui étudient la composition ou l'accompagnement du clavecin. Avec une methode d'accompanement. Paris & Lyon: Duchesne & Dessain (De l'Imprimerie de Ballard), 1764. 8vo, XXVIII, [4],192 pp. With 3 (1 folding) engraved plates of music and 1 folding table. Early engraved book plate ("Ex Libria de Blanriez"); small library stamp on title-page and collector's note on half-title; occasional light browning. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (rubbed corners bumped). $775 FIRST EDITION and only of this important work on music theory: "Treatise on chords and their successions according to the system of the fundamental bass." by Pierre-Joseph Roussier (ca.1716-1792), a follower of Rameau, who systematized his theories in his works. "For various reasons ... Rameau [didn't get] the scientific recognition he believed he merited. A major one is that Rameau was too experienced a musician to eliminate musical practices from his theory that were irreconcilable with rigorous deductive or inductive methods. As Pierre-Joseph Roussier (c. 1716-1792), one of Rameau's followers and systematizers, put it, the "Founders of Harmony ... sometimes forgot this principle [Roussier's interpretation of fundamental bass] in his writings, substituting concepts of practice and routine from which he was unable to completely free himself, as they had been unfortunately inculcated into since early childhood" (Russierr 1765. pp. 37-38; Bessele 1989, p. 170)" (Joel Lester, Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century, p. 147. § RISM B VI, 739; MGG XI, 1018; Gregory-Bartlett I, 239; Wolffheim I, 984.

WOMEN'S FASHION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 28. SCHROEDER, Nicolaus Wilhelm. Commentarius philologico-criticus de vestitu mulierum Hebraearum ad Jesaia III, vs. 16 - 24. quo vocabulorum abstrusissimorum tenebras ad facem dialectorum discutere conatus est ... Praemissa est praefatio celebratissimi viri Alberti Schultens. Leiden: Abraham Kallewier (Ex typographia Dammeana), 1745. 4to, [32], 408, [16] pp. Title printed in red and black. With numerous passages in Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. Fine copy printed on thick paper. Neat 19th century ownership inscription on verso of title-page: "Ex Bibliotheca Hebr. Judaica Jos. H. Ader Assumption Hills. Jany, 10, 93"; fine copy. Contemporary blind tooled vellum over boards (some cracking of front hinge but very sound). $550 FIRST EDITION of this work on women's clothing fashionable during the biblical figure Isaiah's day as described in Isaiah 3:16-24 where he asserts the Lord's condemnation of vanity. He lists the various articles of clothing, all of which will be taken away by divine judgment. Schroeder carefully elucidates these terms for apparel, 16

using other Biblical texts and similar terms in other languages (including Syriac, Greek and Arabic) to bring out their meaning and provide the reader with a view into the daily life of ancient Hebrew women through their clothing and fashion. Nicolaus Wilhelm Schroeder (1721-1798), a native of Marburg, was professor of Greek and oriental languages at the University of Groningen. He was an early pioneer in the formal discipline of comparative philology, following the example of Albert Schultens who has provided a introduction. A very attractive copy in contemporary Dutch vellum. § Lipperheide Bb4; Colas p. 963.

WITH 3 FINE WOODCUTS / GERMAN COUNTER REFORMATION BEFORE THE JESUITS 29. SEIDEL, Wolfgang. Geistlicher Layenspiegel, darinn man on groß und weitschwaiffigs nachlesen kan, ob die jetzgefürten Lehren auß dem Geist Gottes seyen, oder nit. Zu verhütung geferlicher Jrrthumb, vnnd erhaltung des waren rechten Glaubens. Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1559. 4to, 3 parts in 1 volume. [8], 170, [1] leaves, (The final blank leaf used as paste-down). Fraktur type; with 3 almost full-page woodcuts, woodcut coat of arms on first page of text, 3 large woodcut initials and woodcut ornaments on colophon. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary owner's inscription "Johann Kübeck, 1564" appears twice on front paste-down. Tiny worm hole in extreme outer margins of a few leaves. Nice wide margined copy. Contemporary vellum (traces of cloth ties and few minor stains). $2,850 FIRST EDITION of this very rare and early Counter Reformation text addressed to the general public with reasoned arguments in the vernacular: "Spiritual layman's mirror, in which one can read in great detail whether the teachings (of the Reformers) now being given are outside the Spirit of God or not. To avoid dangerous errors, and to preserve the true faith (of Catholicism)." This is also an early Dillingen imprint, published by its first printer (Sebald Mayer starting in 1550). It is one of two minor variants with "groß" in title and verso of last leaf blank without errata. Dillingen and Ingolstadt would become two of the major printing centers for the Counter Reformation. In the present work Seidel vigorously upholds Catholic beliefs and attacks the Protestant attitudes on the sacraments as taught by the Catholic Church. Seidel addresses both the mainstream Reform movements of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin (and fatal relationship to Servetus), but especially radical reformers such as the Anabaptists who are especially singled out along with the writings of Thomas Müntzer, Balthasar Hubmaier, Carlstadt, and Schwenkfelt. The ducal Bavarian court preacher, Wolfgang Seidel (Sedelius: 1491-1562), a Benedictine priest: "holds an important position among the theologians who fought in speech and writings before the arrival of the Jesuits" (ADB: trans.). The subtitles of the three parts each has a beautiful, near full-page, woodcut with allegorical depictions about the aberration of faith. The text for each part also begins with a magnificent large woodcut calligraphic initial in the style of a writing master.

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Wolfgang Seidel had studied at the Latin school in Landshut and matriculated at the university in Ingolstadt in 1516. That same year he entered the Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee where he continued his studies, including Greek and possibly Hebrew. His interests and writings were diverse encompassing Latin poetry, music, and astronomy. However, it is as a preacher and Counter Reformation writer that he is best remembered during his appointment as preacher at the Augustinian church in Munich. Seidel would receive support from Duke Wilhelm IV and his son and successor, Albrecht V. In 1551 he attended the Council of Trent on behalf of Duke Albrecht. His reputation was such that he was also invited to preach in other towns in Bavaria and the wider region, including Salzburg. A very handsome copy of a rare book that was beautifully printed on a very high-quality paper with fine woodcuts and printing ornaments. The OCLC only locates one copy in North American libraries at University of California, Berkeley Law Library. § VD 16, S 5358; Bucher, Dillingen, 115; ADB, LIV, 310; not in BM/STC German or Adams.

NEW MILITARY REGULATIONS FOR SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD 30. SPAIN-LAWS & REGULARIONS; Ministerio de Hacienda. Nuevo reglamento que su Magestad se ha servido expedir para gobierno del Monte Pío Militar en España é Indias. Madrid: En la Imprenta Real, 1796. Small 4to, XX, 127 pp. With woodcut royal arms on title-page; gathering "M" out of order but complete; fine copy. Contemporary vellum. $975 FIRST EDITION of the newly reformed laws dealing with the military pension fund in Spain and the New World; it was reprinted the next year in Mexico at Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontivers' press. The work includes at the end the economic tables that would supply the specifics regarding the pensions and survivor's benefits of the soldiers and their families. § Palau 255188.

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