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JEFFREY D. MANCEVICE, INC. P.O. Box 20413, West Side Station, Worcester, MA 01602 Phone: (508) 755-7421, FAX: (508) 753-2317 E-mail: [email protected] www.mancevicebooks.com AUGUST LIST OF CONTINENTAL BOOKS 2021 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 edition 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 volume: "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 libraries. § 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. "Book 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 collection 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.