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MAGGS BROS. LTD. 2010 Item 195, Schreyer [8vo]. Item 211, del Torre [4to]. Front cover illustration: The arms of the first Earl of Macclesfield taken from an armorial head-piece to the dedication of Cyropaedia ed. T. Hutchinson, Oxford, 1727. BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF MACCLESFIELD AT

This selection of 240 items from the Macclesfield of languages. The works are almost all new to the Library formerly at Shirburn Castle near Watlington, market, Maggs having been privileged to have MAGGS BROS LTD Oxfordshire, mirrors the multiform interests of the received the remainder of the library not previously 50 Berkeley Square library, encompassing classical texts, works on the consigned for sale. The books, which are mostly non- military arts, a (very) few works of a scientific nature, English, range from one very uncommon incunable London W1J 5BA works of more modern literature and history, some to a few printed in the eighteenth century, but most collections of emblems, and some items on the study are of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Telephone 020 7493 7160 Fax 020 7499 2007 5 Email [email protected] 1 ABARBANEL, Isaac. Don Yitzhaq with loss of page numbers, modern half calf. [email protected] Abravani’el... & R. Mosis Alschechi : M.A. Barboni, 1690 £2000 comment. in Esaiae prophetiam 30 [actually This work, clearly meant for those members of the Isaiah 52 v. 13 to 53 v. 12] Cum additamento Armenian community in Venice, who needed a crib Bank Account: eorum quae R. Simeon [Simon Darshan] e to attend mass, encompasses the text of the Armenian Allied Irish Bank (GB) veterum dictis collegit... Authore Constantino liturgy with a facing Italian translation. Yovhannes Agopian is described as a papal missionary in the title Mayfair Branch l’Empereur. 8vo (152 x 90mm.), [16], 291, [13]pp., title printed but he is better known as Yovhannes of Constantinople 10 Berkeley Square in red and black, Square & Rabbinic letter, some (Kostandbupolsec’i) the author of an Armenian grammar London W1J 6AA Arabic type, contemporary English calf. generally found with his Puritas linguae armenicae (Rome, 1675), of a manual of oratory published in Marseilles in Sort code: 23-83-97 Account number: 47 77 70 70 Leiden: B & A. Elzevier, 1631 £550 1674, of an Armenian translation of Flos virtutum (Rome, IBAN: GB94 AIBK 238397 47777070 The ‘Suffering Servant’ verses of the prophet Isaiah (those 1675) and an Armenian- catechism Speculum veritatis generally taken to foretell the coming of Christ and his published in Venice by Barboni in 1680 (see Nersessian BIC: AIBKGB2L sufferings) are here commented upon by the great fifteenth 40-44 and 47). VAT no: GB 239 3813 47 century Portuguese rabbi and scholar Isaac Abarbanel or A similar work in Latin was published in Rome, Abravanel, and by Moses alSheik b. Hayyim, a sixteenth again by the Propaganda Press, in 1677 in Armenian Mastercard and Visa: century biblical exegete. Constantin l’Empereur van - Lyturgia Armena. Ministerium missae etc. Of this the BL please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number Oppyck (1591-1648) a distinguished Dutch Hebrew scholar copy (17024.e.2) also has a Latin version- Codex mysterii by mail, fax or telephone. provides a Latin translation. missae Armenorum etc. EU members: Steinschneider 1079 no. 18; Willems 341. Michiel Angelo Barboni, whose activity in Venice please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. is attested from the late 1660s published an Armenian breviary (Zhamagirk) and Tagharan in 1681, in 1682 a The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until 2 AGOPIAN, Yovhannes. T’argmanout Psalter (Saghmosaran) and Dashants tught - Lettera dell the price has been paid in full. ‘iwn italakansrbazani Xorhdatetern. La amicitia a dell unione di Costantino gran cesare a disan Siluestro 1aichiaratione della liturgia armena. Fatta in sommo pontefice, e di Tirdade re della armenia, e dis. Gregorio / illuminatore della natione armena scritta nell anno del Signore ©Maggs Bros Ltd 2010 Italliano [sic]... Ad instanza delli signori Armeni habitanti in questa città di Venetia. 316 [Letter of Concord] and in 1685 a prayer book based Design by Radius Graphics, Southleigh, Devon. 4to (190 x 140mm.), 51, [1]pp., title and text printed on Latin sources, a Gospels, and a Calendar (Nersessian Printed by Creeds the Printers, Bridport, DT6 5NL. 49-51). The latest date of any item from his press seems in red and black, some leaves cropped close at head

 OCLC locates three copies only of this work in Holland First edition of all twelve books of this poem, retelling (Rotterdam Universiteit, Tresoar (in Friesland) in hexameter verse the story of the first crusade, led by and Groningen Universiteit) with a microfilm at Godfrey of Bouillon (ca. 1060-1100), a story also told by Wolfenbuttel. Tasso in Gierusalemme liberata. The book is handsomely printed in italic type with large woodcut initials. The first four books were published in Paris 1582-84 by Patisson 5 ARETINO, Pietro. Quatro comedie... and books V-VI were published as part of Angeli’s Poemata cioè Il Marescalco la Talanta. La Cortegiana in 1585. L’Hipocrtito. Nouellamente ritornate, etc. The author (1517-96) was from Barga, hence the 8vo (142 x 88mm.), ff. [8], 485, [3 (errata)], early 18th- toponymic Bargaeus, a name commemorated in the lines century English calf, spine gilt in compartments. of Latin verse inscribed in a 17th-century French hand at [London: J. Wolfe]: 1588 £900 the end of the preliminary leaves. During his long life he worked as Greek scribe and editor, and indeed translated A very nice copy. Oedipus rex into Italian (1588). STC 19911; Pforzheimer 800; Woodfield Surreptitious Provenance: 17th century French inscription of one printing no. 43. Vallognes on title-page (name found also elsewhere in books from this library.) 6 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum libri decem et octo. 9 ANGELOS, Christophoros. Εγκωµιον 16mo (118 x 70mm.), 736,[8]pp., aa2 missigned aa3, της … µεγαλης Βρεταννιας (An encomion of last 2 leaves blank, contemporary French binding of Great Britaine, and of…Cambridge and Oxford). smooth calf, gilt arabesque in centre of covers, spine Cambridge: C. Legge, sm 4to (170 x 125mm.), [5], in 5 compartments each with small gilt ornament, 26, [1]pp., first & last pages, and verso of English title gilt edges, binding a little rubbed. blank, text in Greek (versos) and English (facing) Lyons : S. Gryphius, 1552 £450 STC 635 [London: W. Stansby], 1619. Baudrier ix, 257. Bound with: to be 1690, namely this work and a confession of faith FRISIAN LANGUAGE POETRY Provenance: deleted contemporary inscription on title- Εγχειριδιον, περι της κατατασεως των σηµερον by Nerses Snorhali. In all he seems to have published page Jacobus Rubeus. 13 editions, all financed by rich and devout Armenians. 4 ALTHUYSEN, Jan. Langaene oer dy ευριοσκοµενων Ελληνων (Encheiridion de Of this present extremely rare item we have located one fortziesing fin zyn trogloftigste Haegheyt institutis Graecorum). copy in the BNF and one in Venice at the Mekhitarist Willem Karel Hendrik Friso... yn ‘t Friesch 7 ANACREON. Opera (ed. M. Maittaire.) Sm 4to (188 x 132mm.), 2 parts [8], 59, [1];[6], 53pp., monastery. byrymme trog Jan Althuysen. 4to (292 x 222mm.), [8], XLII, xlii, xliii- device on title-page [McKerrow & Ferguson ] STC See Pelusi, S. La civiltà del libro e la stampa a Venezia 4to (190 x 140mm.), 18pp., imprint and catchwords lxxiv, 75, [3]pp., list of subscribers, contemporary 636. [London: W. Stansby], ex off. C. Legge acad. Cantab. (Civiltà Veneziana. Studi 51) Venice, 2000 no. 75 (copy trimmed, modern half calf over marbled boards. sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed. typogr, 1619. from S. Lazzaro); Kévorkian, R. Catalogue des “incunables” Harlingen: F. van der Plaats, [1747] £500 London: W. Bowyer (undecimo kalendas quintiles), 1725 Bound with: arméniens, Geneva, 1986, no. 151. Addressed to Willem Karel Hendrik, Prince of Orange £450 Πονησις Χριστοφορου του Αγγελου… and Stadholder, these verses are composed in Frisian A subscriber’s copy. The Earl of Macclesfield subscribed Sm 4to (180 x 132mm.), ff. [6], Oxford arms on title- (more properly West Frisian, a Teutonic language not 3 AINSWORTH, Robert. Thesaurus... for 2 copies. page, STC 638; Madan I, 109 Oxford: J. Lichfield & unrelated to English), a separate language still used in the or, a compendius dictionary of the latin W. Wrench 1617. province of Friesland, once a separate kingdom, but since Bowyer Ledgers 1155 (100 copies printed.) tongue: designed for the use of the british the sixteenth century part of the confederation of the Low Bound with: nations... the second edition, with additions... Countries. Several princes are mentioned by name in the 8 ANGELI, Pietro. Syrias hoc est [Ponesis] Christopher Angell, A Grecian, who by Samuel Patrick. text, which is in 44 6-line stanzas (aabccb). In medieval tasted of many stripes inflicted by the Turkes. 4to (285 x 220mm.), 2 volumes, contemporary times the language was written, but from the sixteenth expeditio illa celeberrima christianorum principum, qua Hierosolyma ductu Goffredi Sm. 4to (175 x 132mm.), ff. [8], woodcut figures, Russia, gilt. century it became much more a spoken tongue. one (B4r) full-page, STC 640 [Of this there are Jan Althuysen (1715-1763) was born in Franeker, Bolionis Lotharinguiae ducis a Turcarum London, [for various booksellers], 1746 £450 three editions (STC 639-641), of which STC 639 where he was educated, and entered the church. He had tyrannide liberata est. Eiusdem votivum carmen An extremely handsome copy of this long-lived and a number of literary friends, amongst them E.W. Higt in D. Catharinam. (Roberti Titii... scholia). and 640 closely (but not exactly) resemble each still useful dictionary. It is dedicated to Dr. Richard and published in Leeuwaarden in 1755 Friesche rymlery 4to (212 x 150mm.), [24], 496pp., italic type, woodcut other in their setting. However the most obvious Mead (1673-1754), who was physician to the First Earl yn twaa dielen bystaende, in which Langaene was reprinted difference is the absence in 639 of the oval (partial) of Macclesfield. initials, eighteenth-century English calf, triple gilt together with translations of the Psalms into Frisian (see fillet on covers, a little rubbed. border to the woodcut on B4r, which is present in the notice in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographie i, 20). : F. Giunta, 1591 £950 640. STC 641 incorporates at the end an enlarged MAGGS  before becoming master of the Free School at Kingston- on-Thames (see ODNB). There is an earlier and fainter inscription of the motto ‘Dum spiro sperabo’ and the Greek word ‘brachu’ (short). Gilmont, Bibl. de Jean Crespin no. 69/2b.

11 APHTHONIUS, the rhetorician. Προγυµνασµατα... Accedit ejusdem interpretatio, ita emendata, ut nova videri possit (transl. by Daniel Heinsius with a dedication to Adriaan Blyenburgh). 8vo (183 x105mm.), [8], 102, [2], English sheep. Leiden: (Jan Cornelis) for A. Commelinus, 1626 £350 Commelin is more usually associated with Heidelberg, but Leiden sometimes appears in his imprints. This also 10 APHTHONIUS the rhetorician, and others. may be found with the 1626 edition of Aelius Theon (no. ‘Οι εν τηι ρητορικητεχννηι κορυϕαιοι... 208), as the dedication ‘cum Theone’ makes clear. Αφθονιος, Ερµογενης, ∆. Λογγινος... Francisci Porti, Provenance: John Wyberd (Wybard) his booke 1654. Cretensis opera industriaque illustrati atque Possibly he of Pembroke Coll., Oxford. Matric. March expoliti. 1638/9 M.D. Franeker 1644, Oxford 1654. Author of several 2 parts 8vo (172 x 100mm.), [16], 443, [21]; 69, books on surveying etc. (Wood Ath. Oxon. iii, 388). [11]pp., device on title-page, early 17th-century Oxford binding with blind-stamped centrepiece, m.s guards and printed waste flyleaves. 12 . [Rhetorica. Italian.] [Geneva]: Jean Crespin, 1570 £950 I tre libri della retorica... tradotti in lingua volgare da M. Alessandro Piccolomini, etc. This volume contains the works of Aphthonius, Hermogenes 4to (192 x 137mm.), [12], 292pp., device on title- and Pseudo-Longinus ‘On the sublime’. Hermogenes Περι version of the Testimonials, and does not have this a Danzig pastor, in Germany (Frankfurt, 1655, enlarged page, English calf c. 1720, gilt fillet on covers, spine Leipzig, 1666, reprinted 1676 (see VD17), and at Franeker τον στασεων (pp. 49-127) is copiously annotated in ink, in woodcut.]; Madan I, 109 no. 1 Oxford: J. Lichfield gilt, coloured silk marker. and J. Short, 1618. in 1679). a neat hand by Burton. Angelos was from the Peloponnese, and had undergone The Longinus is heavily annotated in red chalk/ Venice: Francesco de’ Franceschi, 1571 £550 Bound with: torture at the hands of the Turks in Athens. He came to crayon, mostly in Latin but sometimes in English. At the First edition of this translation and a handsome copy. [Testimonials of good behaviour of Angelos England from Italy in 1608, landing at Yarmouth, whence beginning of the text is a note written in tiny characters Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578) is well known as a from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, he went to Norwich, the bishop of which (John Jegon) and in ink about Caecilius : 'Hic putatur esse Caecilius translator of and other classical writers into Italian and the Bishop of Salisbury]. sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge. Of that college rhetor Siculus qui Romae floruit aequalis et amicus and also as a scientist. CNCE 2976. Half sheet folio (240 x 172mm.), STC 643 (first Angelos sings the praises at the end of his Encomion. His Dionysii Halicarnassei' with a list of those who mention line ending ‘beene’); Madan I, 109 no. 2, [Oxford Encheiridion is dedicated to Richardson, Master of Trinity. him. There are a few other notes in the same hand and on p. 14, where there is a lacuna, the missing Greek text 13 ARRIANUS. Αρριανου... ars tactica, or London, 1618?]. Leaving Cambridge he established himself at Balliol College, Oxford, where he seems to have taught Greek. has been copied in the same hand. acies contra Alanos, Periplus ponti euxini... Together 5 works, bound in contemporary limp One of his English acquaintances was Samuel Purchas, The study of Hermogenes on is well attested Epicteti Enchiridion [and other works]... cum vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine £9750 to whom he gave a copy of the Encheiridion, from which in the sixteenth century, and from an early date. Longinus interpretibus latinis, & notis... N. Blancardi. On the sublime however was not edited until 1554. This is This extremely attractive and well-preserved volume Purchas provided extracts in Pilgrimes (1625) I, I, 154- 8vo (193 x 110mm.), [14(incl. add. engr. title, dated the third edition and the first to be divided into chapters. gathers together five (it omits STC 637, Πονος... περι της 163. Angelos died in Oxford and was buried in St. Ebbe’s 1683)], 450, [4 (errata)]pp., title printed in red & There was no English translation until 1652, but the αποστασιας της εκκλησιας) out of the six rare pamphlets church. black, 2 folding engraved maps, one large and by The presence of Greeks in England at this time is well present volume shews quite clearly its study in England published between 1617 and 1624, which served to describe Ortelius, folding engraved battle plan, engraved attested. The patriarch Cyril Lucaris famously presented earlier in the seventeenth century and bring to the notice of the world not only the trials plans in text, contemporary English calf, spine the Codex Alexandrinus to Charles I in 1628 (cf.Julian Provenance: “Wilhelm Burton Paul. Lond. Sept. 13 1624”, and tribulations of Christopher Angelos himself, but also gilt. served to spread of Turkish doings in Greece, Roberts ‘The Greek Press at Constantinople in 1627 and i.e William Burton of Alcham in Shrophire, educated St. th Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkst & Merk, 1750 £600 and the fear of the Turk further west, but also knowledge its Antecedents’ in The Library 1967, 5 series, XXII: 13- Paul’s school, Queen’s Coll. Oxford, who died 28 December of the Orthodox church and its tenets. It is this last aspect 43). For one (4to A. 57. Art. Seld) of the Bodleian copies 1657. He was a fine Greek scholar, and at one time taught A reissue of the edition published in 1683 with a cancellans which the Encheiridion addresses; indeed this work was of the collection which has the original drawings for the Greek at Oxford (Hart Hall). He was assistant to Thomas title-page. A most interesting compilation with Latin reprinted with substantial commentary by George Fehlau, woodcuts see Percy Simpson Proof reading in the sixteenth, Farnaby, the schoolmaster friend of Jonson and Selden, translations from various hands, Johann Scheffer, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1935) pp. 80-82. MAGGS  Wilhelm Stuck (Periplus), Hieronymus Wolf (Epictetus), 15 ASCHAM, Roger – JOHNSON, Samuel. 16 ASTERIUS, Saint. Homiliae graece & image clearly indicates the high regard Rubens and his Lucas Holstenius (De venatione) etc. The editor Nicolaus The English works... with notes and latine nunc primum editae Philippo friends had for Philip’ (Corpus Rubenianum etc. XXI (1977) Blancardus (Nicolaas Blanckaert, 1625-1703) was an editor observations, and the author’s life by James Rubenio interprete. Eiusdem Rubeni carmina, p. 152). The last section of the book is devoted to the of texts and a cartographer. Bennet. orationes, & epistolae selectiores: itemque panegyric on Marcus Welser, the Augsburg patrician, The engraved title has the imprint of the Jansz. 4to (270 x 210mm.), [10], xvi, 395pp., list of amicorum in vita functum pietas. (Iusti Rycqui... banker, scholar and maecenas. Waesberghe firm with the date 1683, which is the date of The book was very highly priced at 30 guilders and subscribers, engraved armorial head-piece (Earl pietas in funere...Marci Velseri... ad Ioannem the original publication. We have located 4 copies of this 750 copies were printed, the engravings all being printed reissue: at Oxford, and (from OCLC) Harvard, Stanford of Shaftesbury, contemporary calf, spine gilt, red Brantium). together (ibid. p. 433). & Kansas. morocco lettering piece (short split at the head of 4to (260 x 180mm.), [12], 284, [4]pp., engraved device The map was first published in 1590 (see Koeman Atlantes the upper joint). on title-page, last leaf with woodcut device on recto, iii, p. 53). London: printed for R. & J. Dodsley, 1761 £400 engraved portrait by Galle after Rubens, contemporary 17 [AUGUST II Duke of Branschweig- First edition, first issue with the leaf of additional limp vellum, lower cover slightly damaged. Lüneburg]. Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices subscribers. The life of Ascham and the dedication are Antwerp: in off. Plantiniana, widow & sons of J. Moretus, et cryptographiae libri IX, etc. 14 ARTEMIDORUS. Artemidori Daldiani from the pen of Dr. Johnson. The list of 307 subscribers 1615 £1200 Folio (295 x 185mm.), [36], 493, [1]pp., half-title & Achmetis Sereimi f. Oneirocritica. includes the names of the Earl of Macclesfield, the Earl of A very fine copy of a beautifully printed book, published folding letterpress table, engraved border on title- Astrampsychi & Nicephori versus etiam Shaftesbury, to whom the volume is dedicated, and who after Philip Rubens (1574-1611) death. Amongst his page, 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams, oneirocritici. Nicolai Rigaltii... notae. took 20 copies, and the Head Master of Eton, Edward correspondents is his brother the painter Peter Paul printer’s device on final verso, contemporary Dutch 4to (225 x 153mm.), [12], 269, Ll4 blank, [23] P2 Barnard, as well as a number of clergymen, fellows of Rubens (who painted his portrait) whose design for the vellum, yapp edges, title leaf trimmed at foot & blank, 20, 65; 275, [17]pp., title printed in red Cambridge colleges, and a bevy of ladies: Mrs & Miss illustration has been engraved: ‘the iconography of this mounted on a stub. and black, 2 columns, later seventeenth-century Cochran, Miss Cowper, Miss Harriot (sic) Cochran, Mrs. (Lüneburg: J. & H. Stern, 1624) £7000 Item 17, August II Cambridge binding of panelled calf, spine gilt, red Frye, and others. The sale of the 750 copies printed by Strahan in July 1761 was sluggish and the sheets were edges. reissued in 1767 with half-title, an undated title and no Paris: M. Orry, 1603 £900 leaf with additional subscribers. An extremely handsome copy of Rigault’s edition of Fleeman 61. 8BA/1a (vol. 2 pp. 1028-1030). Artemidorus’s Traumbuch, the Greek text of which had been first printed in 1518 by Aldus, and the Latin Item 16, Asterius version by Cornaro in 1539. The two short verse texts by Astrampsychus and Nicephorus had also previously been printed. Artemidorus forms an important source for our knowledge of antiquity, as was pointed out by Jakob Burckhardt. The book had an influence on Freud, who read it in a bowdlerised translation. ‘It is a work that has assumed massive importance in modern studies on sexuality and the unconscious in the ancient world’ (Glen Bowerock From Gibbon to Auden (2009) p. 116). The longer work by Ahmad ibn Serim is here first printed from a manuscript then in the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris. This work written originally in Arabic was then translated into Greek. Medieval Latin versions are known, but none was ever printed. The text of this edition is based on two Parisian mss. On is Par.Gr. 2538, but the other is not Par. Gr. 2427, which was not acquired until the early 18th century. Loewenklau’s earlier Latin version was based on a Vienna manuscript, which contains several lacunae. No new edition was produced until Drexl’s Teubner text of 1925. For a modern study see Mavroudi, M. A Byzantine book on Dream Interpretation The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and its Arabic sources. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Provenance: Inscription on title-page Stephanus Joann[is] Stephanius. [see inside front cover for photograph of binding]

MAGGS  First edition, and an extremely fine, unspotted copy of this Royal 8vo (245 X 155mm.), xxii (engr. portrait on London: by Edward Griffin for Iohn Parker, 1619 important book which combines practical crytopgraphy p. [ii]), 156, [6]pp., 2 full-page woodcut illustrations £2500 with the urge for universal knowledge which Duke of watermarks on pp. [160-161], contemporary First Edition (2nd state of imprint; see below). The third, Albert, founder of the great Wolfenbuttel library, sought parchment-backed blue paper boards, spine and most visible, comet of 1618 was seen throughout to create in that very library. The work is presented as a completely worn, deckle edges. Europe. It was widely held to prognosticate the most commentary on Trithemius, abbot of Würzburg, whose London: printed in the year 1737. calamitous events that would culminate in the fall of own works, published at the end of the fifteenth century, Rome, the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Islam played such an important role in both cryptography and The errata (7 lines) are printed on p. [157] within rules. In and was seen later in the century as a harbinger of the bibliography. this copy is inserted a single leaf, printed on one side only Thirty Years’ War. VD17 23:285820R; Caillet 10114; J.S. Galland, An historical (paginated 158) and on a different paper stock and with the ms. heading ‘Errata’. This page contains a rewriting Bainbridge describes how he observed the comet with and analytical bibliography of the liturgy of cryptography (NY the use of a cross-staff and describes its daily progress 1970) pp. 166-167. of some lines to the preface (p. viii), a short correction to a sentence on p. 83 (the only erratum, as such), and a long and nature (pp. 1-”17” [i.e. 25])). This is followed by the addition to the account of Syre Gualtier Manuy on p. 90. “Morall Prognosticks” (pp. 27-42). He avoids specifics but saw it as an auspicious sign for England and sees the 18 BACON, Roger. Specula mathematica: ESTC records 2 copies (at Huntington and Yale) of an ‘edition’ dated 1738 with 158pp., but these are ghosts. restoration of the English to their former heroic nature in qua de specierum muiltiplicatione... (now addled by tobacco smoking) and takes it as an evil agitur. Liber... editus opera... Johannis sign for England’s enemies. Combachii, [etc.] 20 BAIF, Lazare. De re vestiaria libellus STC 1208 (+; California-Berkeley (lacking plate), Folger (3 4to (182 x 125mm.), [8], 83pp., woodcut figures in ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris lingue copies, 2 defective of which 1 lacking plate), Harvard (with text. Rebound in half calf, old style. interpretatione, etc. (ed. C. Estienne). plate), Huntington (2 copies; 1 ex Mt Wilson Observatory) Frankfurt: W. Richter for A. Hummius, 1614 £1200 8vo (162 x 100mm.), 68, [10]pp, later vellum. both lacking plate), Minnesota (with the plate), New York Generally found with the 1614 edition of Bacon’s Perspectiva, Paris: Ambroise Girault, 1535 £650 Academy of (with plate), New York Public Library but in fact a separate work (although complementary to the (CATNYP does not mention the plate) & Yale (with plate) An uncommon edition of the children’s book, of which other), and treated as such by VD17. This is part of Bacon’s in USA. Estienne and Colines also published editions in the same Opus maius. Perspectiva deals with how we see, but in De The first state of the title has the imprint “by Edward year. There is a copy of this quite separate edition (i.e. it specierum multiplicatione Bacon discusses radiation: light Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1618. STC 1207 records is not an ‘édition partagée’) in the BNF. and colour emanate in every direction from every point copies at Emmanuel College Cambridge, Trinity College of the surface of a visible object, and do this continuously; Index Aureliensis 111.623; Lipperheide 100. Dublin, Huntington (with the plate) & Wisconsin-Madison the path is represented by straight lines or rays; light (with the plate). is not a body but a likeness of the luminous body, and 21 BAINBRIDGE, John. An Astronomicall so on. Bacon realised that seeing involved not just the description of the late Comet from the eye but the brain, and following Avicenna he divides the 19 [BAGFORD, John]. Proposals for 22 BARBA, Alvaro Alonso & Montagu, 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December brain into ‘cells’. He gives a fairly accurate account of the printing an historical account, of that most Edward, . A collection following. With certaine Morall Prognosticks anatomy of the eye and the optic nerve, but believed, as universally celebrated, as well as useful art of of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, did Aristotle, and others, that radiation from the visual or Applications drawne from the Comets typography (The life of William Caxton, the mines and minerals... translated by the Earl of object to the eye makes for visual perception. He begins motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall first printer in the abbey of Wesminster). Sandwich in the year 1669... [with] G. Plattes... a with a paean in praise of mathematics ‘the door and key Hieroglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent Folio (318 x 193mm.), 4pp., in folder. discovery of all sorts of mines... [and] Houghton’s of all knowledge’ (p. 2). observations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of compleat miner. This edition was edited by Johann Combach (1585- [London, 1707] £8000 Physicke, and louer of the Mathematicke. 12mo (168 x 92mm.), [12], 170, [10], 173-275, [5], 1651) a professor at Marburg, and an influential figure John Bagford (1650-1716) proposed this history of printing 4to (172 x 125mm.), [8], 24, “17” [i.e. 25], [26 (blank)], in the intellectual life of the time, being involved with 66, [2]pp., engraved plate, woodcut illustrations, but it was never published. The proposals proper (with the 27-42pp., folding engraved plate dedicated to James Rosicrucianism and much else. Combach had studied contemporary morocco, gilt triple-fillet and roll- names of the booksellers taking them in London, Oxford, I depicting the course of the comet through Libra in Oxford and 1609, and it was in the Bodleian that he Cambridge and Dublin) are on pp. 1-2, with on pp. 3-4 tooled border, gilt corner fleurons, spine gilt in and Arctophylax (Boötes) shown as soldier holding had unearthed the Bacon manuscripts he used for his the life of Caxton ending with a list of 39 publications compartments, gilt edges, spine chipped at head, edition. from his press arranged chronologically, the dated books a lance with the rear parts of Ursa Major in the joints rubbed and cracking, lacking lettering- VD17 39:121541F. preceding those undated. top right corner, Virgo at his feet and the “Corona piece. Septentrionalis” (Ariadne’s Crown; now known as There are recorded only 4 copies of these proposals, 3 at London: C. Jephson for Olive Payne, 1738 £550 the Corona Borealis) to the left and the “Serpens the at the BL (all bound in Harleian MS 5995) and the A fine copy with publisher’s advertisements at end (2p.), other at the State Library of Victoria. Ophiuchi” (the snake-holder) below, all shown in the glossary (6p.). astrological forms)’ lacking last blank leaf, errata leaf Folded into: References: Palau 23631. lightly stained; some light browning, a few headlines LEWIS, John. The life of mayster Wyllyam slightly shaved. Caxton, etc.

MAGGS 11 23 BARDET DE VILLENEUVE. [Cours de the educated minority. Their one point of disagreement spine somewhat faded, without list of subscribers. a special title-page, 2 engraved folding maps, 2 la science militaire]. Traité de was over the earth itself, Gilbert taking the Copernican London: W. Bowyer, 1719 £600 engraved folding plans, 46 engraved plates (44 view that the earth rotated on its axis, whereas Barlow l’architecture civile a l’usage des ingénieurs. A handsome copy, and one of 110 copies printed on royal folding), title printed in red and black. held to the church’s teaching of a stationary earth. Barlow 8vo (200 x 115mm.), 151, [9]p., engraved frontispiece, paper (the edition comprised 350 copies of which 240 were Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1729 £700 composed his treatise on magnetism in English (the Oxford engraved printer’s device, 12 folding plates on ordinary paper). English Dictionary credits him with the first use of the word), First and only French edition of a work first published in numbered pl.18 to pl.29 bound at the end (this The work is dedicated to Richard Mead, physician and and about 1609 gave a copy to Sir Thomas Challenor, German in 1709 in Hamburg. A worldwide guidebook collector, but this special copy has a leaf inserted after the series follows the one of the tract about chamberlain to Prince Henry. Challenor mislaid this, as giving an account of extraordinary places and stories, all printed dedication in which Mead is again addressed and which is numbered 1-17), contemporary mottled also a second copy, which he had promised to see into taken, as the title makes clear, from travel literature. it is suggested that the earliest inhabitants of Britain were calf, double-fillet gilt, spine gilt in compartments, print, so after his death in 1615 Barlow himself arranged ‘cave-dwellers (‘antricolae’) leading the lives of Hottentots red morocco lettering piece, frontispice and title- for its publication and dedicated it to Dudley Digges (1583- or Troglodytes, like the Cyclops and giants of the Greeks 30 BIANCHINI, Francesco. De kalendario page detached. 1639), known for his interest in magnetism, who had for and not speaking an articulated language of any kind, but et cyclo Caesaris ac de Paschali canone La Haye: Jean Van Duren, 1711 £300 many years urged Barlow to publish. like animals uttering sounds (εκφωνηµατα)'. The absence S. Hippolyti martyris dissertationes duae... Bardet de Villeneuve was a military engineer in the service STC 1442 (+; Boston Public, Folger, Huntington, of the List of subscribers must be deliberate. Pennsylvania, U.S. Naval Academy Nimitz, Wisconsin- quibus inseritur descriptio, & explanatio basis, of the king of . This forms part of the 8 volume According to the Bowyer Ledgers (577) sheet B and in Campo Martio nuper detectae sub columna Cours. Madison, Yale). some other half-sheets were reprinted. Antonio Pio olim dicata... De nummo et gnomone clementino (Tabulae IV). 24 BARDET DE VILLENEUVE. [Cours de 26 BASTA, Giorgio, Count d’Huszt. FORE-RUNNER OF GALILEO 3 parts in 1 volume folio (310 x 210mm.), [20], 1-92, la science militaire]. Traité de la géometrie Le gouvernement de la cavallerie legere. [4], 93-176; [8], 84, [8]; [24]pp., 10 engraved plates 28 BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. pratique, a lusage des officiers. Folio (297 x 200mm.), [12], 76 pp., title within (of 11) of which 5 folding, engraved illustrations in Resolutio omnium Euclidis problematum 8vo (200 x 115mm.), 195, [9]p., engraved frontispice, engraved border, woodcut initials and headpieces, text, “De nummo et gnomone Clementino...”, with aliorumque ad hoc necessario inventorum una engraved printer’s device, 17 folding plates numbered 12 double-page engraved plates, water-damaged separate half-title and pagination, contemporary tantummodo circini data apertura. pl.1 to pl.17, contemporary mottled calf, double at foot throughout with some fraying (including Dutch calf, gilt spine. 4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. [12], 57, [1], woodcut gilt fillet on boards, spine gilt in compartments, a foot of title-page and on some plates), binding Rome: A. & F. de Conte, 1703 £550 diagrams, large device on title-page. lettering-piece. scraped. Venice: (Bartolommeo Cesano), 1553 £5000 First edition. A handsome copy of this work by Francesco La Haye: Jean Van Duren, 1740 £300 Rouen: Jean Berthelin, 1627 £450 Bianchini (1662-1729), Italian philosopher and scientist, Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt (1550-1607) was a general of Benedetti’s first book, this work, with its lengthy and secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar, Albanian descent employed to command Habsburg forces elegantly printed dedication to the Dominican Gabriel who at the time was working on the method to calculate 25 [BARLOW, William]. Magneticall in the Long War of (1591-1606) and later to administer de Guzman, is divided into five books, of which book I is the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year, Advertisements: or divers pertinent Transylvania. His military prowess is celebrated in by far the longest, and provides solutions effected purely which is one of the topics discussed here (the so-called observations, and approved experiments Tarducci’s Delle machine, Venice, 1601, and elsewhere, by use of the compass, for a variety of problems from Hippolytan canon). In part 1 at p. 92 are four extra letter concerning the nature and properties of the and his own Il mastro di campo generale was published books vi, x, xi & xv of Euclid. press leaves (printed on one side only). Load-stone: Very pleasant for knowledge, and in 1606. The present work was published in Italian (by In the dedication he tells us how he spent September The second part is mostly about the Clementine sundial (1553) in the country, applied himself to mathematical most needfull for practise, of travelling, or Pietro Amiato) in 1612 in Venice, and numerous editions (‘gnomon’), erected on the orders of Pope Clement XI in French, and Spanish (1624) followed. There is an earlier studies, and wrote his commentary. He also clearly (illustrated in 2 large folding -plates), and also illustrated framing of Instruments fit for Travellers both by demonstrates his concern with questions of weight Sea and Land. Rouen edition of 1616. on the verso of a medallion. The missing plate would and motion, which were in 1554 to result in his most seem to be figure 1 (described on p. 20, with figs 2-5 also 4to (180 x 125mm.), [16], 86, [2]pp. Woodcut Of this 1627 edition, there are copies in the BL, NLS, Society of Antiquaries; BNF Paris ; Greifswald UB; LC, important contribution the Demonstratio proportionum described). illustrations in the text. Without the final leaf of Newberry, Brown and Yale. See Labarre de Raillicourt, motuum localium. “Faults escaped”, but with the penultimate leaf Dominique. Basta, comte d’Just et du Saint Empire (1550-1607) CNCE 5163; Riccardi i, 110. containing a letter from William Gilbert to the sa vie, sa famille, et sa descendance, Paris, 1968. HOW TO LEARN HEBREW author, Short tear at the head of A4; title and final Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Genl. G.L. Parker. WITH OR WITHOUT POINTS page dust-soiled, small dampstain in the upper fore- 29 BERKENMEYER, Paul Ludolph. 31 . PSALMS. Hebrew. [Hebrew] corner and fore-margin at the beginning and end. Le curieux antiquaire ou recueil Sefer Tehillim waSefer Aikhah …The Disbound. 27 BAXTER, William. Glossarium geographique et historique des choses les plus Hebrew text of the Psalmes and Lamentations London: Edward Griffin for Timothy Barlow, 1616 antiquitatum britannicarum, sive syllabus remarquables qu’on trouve dans les quatre but published … with the reading thereof in £4500 etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britannae parties de l’univers; tirees des voiages des divers English letters, excepting only the letter [‘ain]... atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum, etc. hommes célebres; avec deux tables, des noms First edition. Barlow’s interest in magnetism generally by William Robertson, etc. Royal 8vo (230 x 135mm.), [6], xiv, [4], 277, [19]pp., géographiques, & des matières. led him to exchange ideas with William Gilbert (1540- 12mo (153 x 85mm.), 8vo (178 x 105mm.), [8], engraved portrait of Baxter, contemporary russia 3 volumes in one, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), [22], 385, 1603), whose De magnete (1600) treated the subject at 248, 22, [2], text in 2 columns printed in vocalised length but was in Latin and therefore accessible only to binding, gilt border on covers, spine gilt, red edges, [2], 386-736, [10], 737-1062pp., each volume has

MAGGS 13 A copy of this lacking the 2 leaves of quire S (pp. 9-[12]) 33 BIBLE. O. T. Psalms. Latvian. Dahwida (old Macclesfield classmark A. IX. 23) and number and in a contemporary English binding is also offered with dseesmu-grahmata no deewa swehta 35 written in ink (slightly dusty). this volume. This has the ownership inscription of “AA 18 wahrda grahmatas pa wahrdu wahrdeem Ingolstadt: (G. Haenlin), 1637 £450 March 1657” and the price 1s.6d. of Arthur Annesley, later isnemta. First edition. Icaria is the High Palatinate (in East Bavaria, (1661) 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish landowner and politician, ff. [136], Black Letter. Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1704. friend and protector of Milton and patron of Andrew where Regensburg is found), and this work, which is in Marvell; he was the last President of the Commonwealth Bound with: 184 short chapters (some in verse), is in part a description Council of State (25 Feb. to 31 May 1660) and played a Bible. O.T. Proverbs. Latvian. Salamana and in part an account (disguised under pseudonyms) of events which took place there. Bissel (1601-1682) was part in the Restoration of Charles II. sakkami-wahrdi no deewa swehta wahrda the author of some eighteen works, a number of them For a copy of Milton’s Areopagitica with the ownership note grahmatas... on contemporary affairs, and one called Argonauticon “AA. novemb. 28. 1644. 4d” see Quaritch Catalogue 953 88pp., Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1707. Americanorum. At the end of the preface to the reader there (1975), item 36 where the identification of Annesley is made. 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (155 x 90mm.), later is a rather vague and indefinite key to names: Annibal His library of 30,000 volumes, including a “vast Collection eighteenth-century English polished calf, gilt Aquilonarius = King of Sweden or another; Neachilles = of Pamphlets of all sorts, containing all the remarkable Tilly, and so on, but the author wishes to remain vague. Ones relating to Government, &c.”, was considered one spine, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, a few headlines slightly shaved £550 There is some underlining and a few ms. annotations, one of the finest in private hands in the country. It was sold at of which identifies ‘Lucianus Lemannicus’ as Calvin, and auction as the Bibliotheca Angleseiana in October 1686. Both these versions are made from the German. We have on pp. 14-15 there are two notes one beginning ‘Mentiris At least one other title was in the Macclesfield Library. not located any copy of this edition. Jesuita’ (You lie, Jesuit) in which the lack of effect of his Wing B2742C and B2742B. attack on Calvin is mentioned, and the other calling the author a damned slanderer (‘Macte calumniator) who 34 Bird Fancier’s Recreation. justifies regicide. A further short note on p. 16 defines 32 BIBLE. O.T. Psalms. Hebrew. Sefer The Bird-fancier’s recreation: being Muftis as ottoman popes. tehillim… The Hebrew text of the Psalmes curious remarks on the nature of song-birds, De Backer-Sommervogel I 1514. no. 4; VD17 3:301276V. and Lamentations, but published, without the with choice instructions concerning the taking, Hebrew and transliterated, last leaf with errata, Not uncommon in European libraries, we have located points or vowels; yet to be made use of, by any feeding, breeding and teaching them, and how contemporary English calf over pasteboard copies at Harvard and OCLC lists 3 other copies in the who can read with the points… By Willuiam to know the cock from the hen. Also the manner contemporary English calf over pasteboard, upper USA. Robertson, etc. of taking birds with Lime-Twigs, and the joint cracking. Provenance: On the title is an early inscription “Annumeror 12mo (150 x 85mm.), [12], 156, 149- 191, 15, [2]pp., preparations necessary thereto. With London: printed for the author; and are to be sold by H. libris [?Lucae, Fucae or Tucae] ab Achen [I am counted last leaf with errata, contemporary calf. an account of the distempers incident to Song- Robinson, A. Crook, L. Fawn, J. Kirton, S. Thomson... among the books of... of Aachen [i.e.Aix-la-Chapelle]. London: printed for the author; and are to be sold by H. Birds, and the method to cure them. On the rear pastedown is written in ink in a possibly and by G. Sawbrige...Where any who desires, may know Robinson, A. Crook, L. Fawn, J. Kirton, S. Thomson... “Third edition” 12mo, 89, [5] pp. With an engraved continental (Dutch/German?) hand is the inscription where the author remains, 1656 £1800 and by G. Sawbrige...Where any who desires, may know frontispiece. Very lightly browned throughout, small something like: “Johnathan Mr Kathar [?Kathan]. Michael Dedicated to John Sadler, Esquire, his worthy Maecenas where the author remains, 1656 £450 closed tear to B4, but overall a good copy bound troite (?) & Joanna his wife baptized the 6 October.” There and Patron. John Sadler (1615-1674) addressed was an in contemporary sheep (front joint cracked, cords are also some short notes in Latin pencil above it. important figure, friend of Samuel Hartlib and others, Dedicated to the Ministers and Divines in the City of firm). master-in chancery, town clerk of London under the London with a list of their names. The text is printed Commonwealth, and himself a Hebrew scholar from that without points. Robertson, a London: printed for T. Ward, 1735 £450 36 BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. well-known nest of protestantism Emmanuel College, Scot from Edinburgh where This work, an adaptation of The Bird Fancier’s delight, which M. Blundeville His Exercises, containing Cambridge he graduated in 1651, came to appeared in 1714, is a guide for owning and raising birds. eight treatises... very necessarie to be read and England to teach Hebrew, which Robertson published in the same year a vocalised text There is a notice at the end of the text that “The author learned of all young Gentlemen, that have language he believed to be within (with no transliteration), dedicated to Jonathan Goddard sells all the sorts of Birds mentioned in this book, as well not beene exercised in such disciplines, and (1617-1675), Cromwell’s choice as warden of Merton the grasp of anyone, and which as all manner of seeds, and other provisions, for every he believed (correctly) did not yet are desirous to have knowledge as well in College, Oxford, and one of the founding members of sort of bird: likewise Elk’s-Hair, and all other convenient Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, the Royal Society. The Macclesfield copy of the 1543 need to be learned through the things proper for breeding canary-birds”. Under this title as also in the art of navigation, in which art it is Copernicus had a manuscript note by John Greaves medium of Latin which merely there is no earlier edition other than this ‘third’ recorded about experiments carried out at Dr. Goddard’s house. serves to complicate the issue by ESTC. impossible to profite without the helpe of these, This vocalised text is published by the same group of with irrelevant grammatical or such like instructions. The fourth edition… booksellers: Sefer tehillim... The Hebrew text... revised and terms and restrictions. He was a corrected and augmented. corrected according to the best of Plantin’s and Stephan’s zealous protestant, formed in the 35 BISSEL, Johann, S.J. Icaria. 4to (155 x 130mm.), [16 (first leaf blank)], 799, [1 impressions; but published without [sic] the (superfluous...) Scotch presbyterian mould, and 12mo (110 x 60mm.), [24], 343, [17]pp., (blank)]pp., folding table (“The Sexagenarie Table”, accents... with a postscript...explaining the keri and ketib... the author of a number of such engraved title and map in text, contemporary signed F5) at p. 80, folding table (“The draught of works. He was the author of Rights of the Kingdom. in these two books. By William Robertson, etc. 8vo (164 vellum, yapp edges, paper shelf-labels on the spine the Meridians and Paralels of the Mariners Carde”) x 110mm.) [8], 151, 11[1], [20]pp. Wing B2742C. Provenance: John Christy liber 1717. MAGGS 15 at p. 695 (loosely inserted), folding woodcut “Mappe 12mo (140 x 70mm.), [12], 226, [2(blank)]pp., Provençal (dialect of Cahors) given ‘afin de garentir [sic] of Fraunce” at p. 784, folding woodcut of an empty eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gilt fillet on d’estre esteinte par l’oubly’. globe divided into lines of longitude and latitude at covers, red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges. Borel was a doctor from Castres (Fermat’s home town), p. 798 (loosely inserted); the fifth folding woodcut is Rome: typis sacr. congreg. de progag. fide, 1638 £700 and a well known writer on alchemical subjects, whose Bibliotheca chimica was published in 1654. a woodcut of a set of compass points linked by rhumb The Meditationes is a work attributed to Saint , Cioranescu 13693. There was another edition in 1667 lines (it has become detached and is now loosely printed first in the fifteenth century and very popular and a revised edition was published in 1882. inserted at p. 794); numerous woodcut illustrations as a work of piety. The translator into Bulgarian was the of instruments, etc., in the text; that at p. 315 with a Franciscan Petar, Archbishop of Sofia, author of the Cuneus piece of string as a pointer; that at p. 315 a woodcut prophetarum de Christo, published in 1685 (modern edition volvelle with pointer is loosely inserted (this has 1977). There is a copy of the book in Munich (KVK) and in attached to it the semi-circular “flie” missing from the BL (856.a.9.), but we have found no copies in USA. p. 775 (cf. the 1638 edition on EEBO) in place of the The imprimatur is subscribed by Father Raphael Levacovich, a Croat Franciscan who is described as circular ?globe found in the 1597 & 1638 editions ‘sac. librorum illyricanae ecclesiae, auctoritate sedis on EEBO; that at p. 660 has the pointer loosely apostolicae in Urbe corrector’. See Alexandru Ciociltan. inserted; a woodcut pointer is tipped to the margin ‘Catolicismul in Tara Româneasca in relatari edite si inedite (?incorrectly) at p. 585; that at p. 720 has a woodcut alearhiepiscopului de Sofia Petru Bogdan Baksic((1663, volvelle and pointer; that at. 744 lacks the volvelle; 1668, 1670)’ in Revista istorica 18 (2007) pp. 61 sqq. the space for the “Flie” at p.775 is blank as in the Huntington copy on EEBO; Mid-17th-century calf, gilt spine marbled edges (joints and spine rubbed, 39 BOREL, Pierre. Trésor de recherches foot of the spine torn away exposing the tailband. et antiquitez gauloises et françoises, London: by William Stansby, 1613 £1500 réduites en ordre alphabétique et renrichies de beaucoup d’origines... de la langue thyoise ou STC 3149 (British Library, Oxford Museum of the History of Science, Senate House Library, Sheffield University; theuthfranque. Folger (2 copies), Huntington, Illinois, New York Public 4to (235 x 180mm.), [104], 611 (i.e. 609, pp. 73- Library). 74 omitted),[23]pp., engraved printer’s device, Catchword at p.229 cropped; rust-hole in p. 245/6 woodcut gilt fillets on covers, one corner a little rubbed head-piece and initial, all by Jean Picart (after astrolable at p. 301 cropped at the fore-edge; short tear at £9500 F.C. Chauveau?), woodcut head-pieces and the foot of p. 631/2 from a paper flaw; a few other short A fine copy of Bocchi with beautiful impressions of initials, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in tears and small rust-spots, otherwise a fine, clean and the plates, and the addition of the uncommon work by compartments, morocco lettering-piece, severe virtually complete copy, with most of the volvelles and Sambigucci (1502-1567), a doctor from Sassari in Sardinia, worming in bottom r.h. corners of 3 quires (GG- pointers (copies of any of the editions seldom have a full who dedicates this, his sole work to Salvatore Salapussi, II), affecting text, spine dry. complement). Archbishop of Sassari. It is a discussion of Bocchi’s emblem Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1655 £500 Editions appeared in 1594, 1597, 1606, 1613, 1622, no. 102, and is mostly concerned with the subject of First edition. Linguistic science was an important pre- 1636 & 1638. The final part, A Briefe description of universall Love. occupation among the learned at this period, and the mappes and cardes was first published separately in 1589. Bocchi Mortimer Harvard 77 ; CNCE 6484 ; Sambigucci composition of a dictionary based upon ‘old fashioned’ 40 BOSCHIUS [BOSCH], Jacobus S.J. Renouard 169: 12; UCLA 509; CNCE 27752. In the UK language was surprising, as the general tendency was Symbolographia: sive de arte symbolica there are 2 copies of Sambigucci (BL and Rylands); OCLC 37 BOCCHI, Achille. Symbolicarum to favour modern vocabulary; among supporters of this sermones septem. quaestionum... libri quinque. records 4 copies in USA, one in NZ and 4 in Germany. view there were, for instance, Malherbe, Vaugelas and Censimento records several copies in Italian libraries. 5 parts folio (377 x 218mm.), [16]ff. 72pp. [5]ff. (last ff. [48]],CCCLVIII, [3], numerous engravings in the dictionary of Richelet. Borel, with La Fontaine, goes against fashion and pleads for the revival of old words, blank). 62pp. 86pp. 79pp. 19pp. [32]ff., frontispiece, text, : Societa tipigrafica, 1574. Provenance: Brodeau 1649. but apart from the enrichment of the language Borel title-vignette and 171 plates of emblems engraved Bound with: enumerates many more advantages to be gained from his by Jakob Müller and Johann Georg Wolfgang after SAMBIGUCCI, Gavino. In Hermathenam 38 BONAVENTURE, St. & Petar [Bogdan book: it enables the access to ancient manuscript which J.C. Schalckh, contemporary English calf, spine gilt Bocchiam interpretatio. Baksich] Abp. of Sofia. Meditationes to we “laisse manger aux teignes à faute de les entendre “; it in compartments. 141 (=161), [3]pp., large device on title-page, woodcut yest bogosliubna razmiscglianya od otaystva also gives access to old judicial papers and case law enables Augsburg & Dillingen, Johan Kaspar Bencard, 1702. initials. Bologna: Antonio Manuzio, (14 December) odkupplienya coviçanskogo... V yezik slovinski, lawyers to discover falsifications in contracts; it clarifies the £5000 origin of French and its evolution, and provides material 1556. trudom P.O. F. Petra Bogdana Baksichia, [etc.] First edition of the Jesuit Boschius’ lengthy work on the for the composition of burlesque verses, of which Borel (Od dvostruke smarti covieka sloga. O. Fra P[etra origin and theory of emblems, richly illustrated with 2052 2 works in 1 volume 4to (195 x 135mm.), ruled in gives an example at the end p.612 (“Vers a l’imitation Bogdana, etc.) devices on 171 engraved plates. The emblems are divided red throughout, seventeenth-century smooth calf, des anciens”). On pp. 229-230 there is a poem given in

MAGGS 17 into four classes and some 3797 mottoes are quoted with 4to (222 x 160mm.), [16], 382, [14]pp., title printed 45 CALLIMACHUS. Υµνοι... Hymni, by means of a canal joining the Garonne river to the their sources. As Praz notes, some copies are dated 1701 in red & black, eighteenth century English calf, gilt epigrammata et fragmenta... vetera scholia Etang de Thau in the south, the famous Canal du Midi. on the title-page. fillets on covers, gilt spine. graeca... cum notis Annae Tanaquillae Fabri The second work by Torricelli has its own title-page, and a Praz p. 283. Landwehr, German Emblem Books, 144. De Paris: Pierre Le-Mur, 1620 £650 filiae. preface by Saporta addressed to the great mathematician Backer-Sommervogel, I, col. 1826, no. 4. 4to (223 x 150mm.), [20], 262, [56]pp., engraved Fermat, whom he terms ‘le souverain legislateur de tous les First edition and a very handsome copy. A short pamphlet scavans’. Fermat had prompted the translator to undertake armorial head-piece to dedication (to P-D. Huet), of Additions was published in 1621.There is a modern the work as a sequel to that of Castelli. Fermat, normally 41 [BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius]. edition, revised by Siguret, published in 1970. engraved initial, nineteenth-century olive green associated with Toulouse, where he was conseiller du roi, Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum morocco by Hatton of Manchester, gilt Macclesfield had for many years close links with Castres a strongly arms on upper cover, edges gilt, title-leaf slightly Huguenot town on the banks of the river Agout, where provinciarum Belguii. Editio sexta auctior... 44 CALLIMACHUS. Hymni (cum scholiis browned, spine slightly faded. he died and was buried in 1665.In 1648 was founded at Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae diatriba graecis) & Epigrammata. Eiusdem (Decretum...de antiquo jure - Articuli pacis...et Paris: S. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1675 £450 Castres a protestant Academy amongst whose members poematium de coma Berenices, a Catullo were Pierre Bayle, Pierre Borel, the physician and writer confoederationis... inter Olivarium [Cromwell]... An extremely handsome copy, printed on fine paper of this versum. Nicodemi Frischlini...interpretationes on alchemy, de Ranchin and Pierre Saporta. It was thus edition edited by Tannegui Le Fèvre’s daughter Anne, a et...ordines generales foederatarum Belgii duae hymnorum: una, oratione soluta: that Fermat and Saporta became acquainted. Pp. 84-7 learned lady, better known as Anne Dacier (1654-1720). provinciarum ab altera parte conclusae.) altera, carmine... Henrici Stephani... partim contain the ‘Observation sur ’ which is by Fermat 12mo (130 x 70mm.), [12(incl. add. engr. title dated emendationes partim annotationes, etc. and translates as follows: 1659)], 202, [2(blank)]pp., contemporary English 2 parts 4to (250 x 175mm.), [16], 72; 134, [2(blank)]pp., 46 CAMUS, Francois Joseph de. Traité des ‘The pages which remain empty in this quire made calf, gilt fillet on covers with gilt floral corner-pieces, device on title-page, initials, head-pieces, Dutch forces mouvantes, avec la description de 23 me think of filling them with the splendid observation spine gilt, edges gilt, first 2 leaves with slight damp early eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt spine. machines nouvelles de son invention. which I learned some days ago from the incomparable M. Fermat, who does me the honour of being my friend stain. [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1578 £600 8vo (190 x 120mm.), [16], 535, [7]pp., 8 folding The Hague: A. Vlacq for J. Vlacq, 1668 £450 and of frequently talking with me. It is in the fifteenth A handsome copy of this important edition, the first to engraved plates, woodcut device on title, woodcut letter of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, which deals with The work, which was first published in 1649 deals not include the epigrams of Callimachus. initials, head and tailpieces, speckled calf, spine something not understood by any of his commentators, only with the political and historical aspects of the Dutch Callimachus is the best known of the Alexandrian gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, not even by the learned Father Petau, as he himself avows republic, but also with economic life, such as taxes and poets, and, like Apollonius Rhodius, was printed at the a few quires lightly brown, extremities rubbed, red in his notes on this author. I give this observation even (pp. 117-139) the Dutch East India Company. On p. 135, same press in the fifteenth century. Like Apollonius, mottled edges. more willingly as it has much in common with the treatises for example, is a passage discussing slavery, and the another difficult and learned poet, his text is generally Paris: C. Jombert and L. Le Conte, 1722 £800 here printed. employment of slaves on sugar plantations in Brazil. printed with the explanations of the ancient commentators The Bishop writes to the learned Hypatia, who was Francois Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) from Lorraine or scholiasts, as in the , and in subsequent the marvel of her generation and who taught was originally intended for the church, but directed by editions of 1532, 1555 etc. at the famous city of to the admiration of all 42 BRAUN, Ernst. Novissimum his strong scientific interests to a life in science. This is his Various of his hymns and epigrams had already learned men. I translate this letter thus: “I am so unwell, most important book, and in it he describes a number of fundamentum & praxis artilleriae oder attracted translators into Latin verse, beginning with that I find myself needing a hydroscope. I beg you to ways of improving capstans, machines for digging canals nachitziger besten Mannier... Unterricht usw. Politician, but Frischlin is the first person to provide a have one made in copper, and buy it for me. It is a pipe and other inventions to minimise the size of a work force Folio (343 x 210mm.), [4], 197, [7]pp., no dedication, prose version (carefully lineated), which here is printed in cylindrical form, which looks like and is the size of a needed for a job. additional engraved title, 24 plates on 22 (of 23) at the foot of the text of the hymns, with the Greek scholia flute. Along its length it has a straight line which is cut sheets, lacking final double-page engraving (Kupffer printed at the side of the text. Frischlin’s hexameter verse across by small lines, and by these we measure the weight 26). translation of the Hymns is printed in italic in double WITH A CONTRIBUTION BY FERMAT of the water. One of the ends is covered by a cone, which Danzig: J.F. Grafen for the author, 1682 £2800 column on pp. 73-84 of part 2, after his commentary, is so positioned above that the pipe and the cone have the and his life of Callimachus composed in Greek, for which 47 CASTELLI, Benedetto. [Della misura same base. This instrument is called Baryllion. If you put First edition and very uncommon. There are copies in Christoph Baier provides a translation. Earlier/later verse dell’acque correnti]. Traicté de la mesure it into water by its point, it will stay upright, and one can Berlin and the Russian State Library. Plate 10 was never versions of the Hymns follow also at the end (pp. 109 sqq) des eaux courantes... traduit de’italien en easily count the sections, which cut the straight line and engraved or published (see note on last page). The three by Estienne, Bonaventura Vulcanius (hymn 1- Ad Jovem), by which one may see the weight of the water. variants displayed by VD17 all have (differing) dedications, françois. Auec un discours de la ionction des Franciscus Floridus Sabinus (hymn III -In Dianam), and As we have lost [any idea of] the appearance and use but none is here present. mers... Ensemble un traicté du mouuement des Politian (hymn V- Lavacrum Palladis). eaux d’ Euangeliste Torricelli... Traduit du latin of this instrument [c’est instrument= cet instrument], in Provenance: annotated in a German hand and in German; Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590) was born en françois [by Pierre Saporta]. common with a great many other splendid things which the J. Hopkey with inscription on title and his initials on at Balingen and educated at Tübingen. Chiefly known ancients invented and which they used, our contemporary 4to (175 x 125mm.), [10], 87pp., small woodcut cover. Hopkey was chief firemaster at the Royal Arsenal, as a Latin poet and playwright, he was also interested men of learning have spent a great deal of trouble on Woolwich (1699) and was later promoted. in astronomy (although he regarded the study of nature diagrams in text. working out what was this instrument of which Synesius with suspicion). His edition of Callimachus is dedicated Castres: F. Barcouda, 1664. £15,000 spoke. Some have held that it was a clepsydra, but Father to Philipp Ludwig, Count of Hanau, and is dated 1 July The Castelli has a lengthy preface ‘a messeigneurs les Petau has strongly rejected this, and for himself claims 43 BRY, Gilles, sieur de la Clergerie. Histoire 1571, but the book was not published until 1577. commissaires... pour la jonction des mers’ signed by that he does not understand it, but he suggests that it was des pays et comté du Perche et duché Renouard 145.3; not in Schreiber. Saporta on the great scheme actually carried out under an instrument for levelling water and that it in some way d’Alençon, etc. Louis XIV to join the Mediterranean sea to the Atlantic had a connection with that mentioned by Vitruvius (De

MAGGS 19 architectura vii, 6) which he calls Chorobates. But it is easy Of this work we have traced 9 copies. There are 3 copies great benefit of the Common-wealth generally, viz. 1. The Originall of his promotion. 2. The to judge by reading Vitruvius and Synesius that this is a listed at Albi, Bordeaux and BnF by Rép. bibl. xviieme but of Hereford-shire especially. Continuance in his Magnificence. 3. His Fall, question of two instruments very different in appearance siècle I, Castres, with 2 also in Paris in the library of the First Edition. [140]pp [-]1., without the first blank Death, and Buriall. Composed by one of his and use, and that if both of them, as Petau says, have Museum of Natural History. There is a copy at Harvard leaf, & lacking the two folding plates, side-notes to owne Servants, being his Gentleman-Usher. sections, those of the Chorobates are perpendicular as to (Houghton Library), the University of Oklahoma in the Davies’s’ “Panegyricke” shaved. London: by George First Edition. Small 4to. [12], 60, 57-118pp.(i. the horizon, but those of the hydroscope are parallel. USA, and in Germany at Göttingen (8 PHYS II 3659-a), Eld, 1610. e.122pp.) (sig. A6, B-O4, P3), engraved portrait I pass over in silence several other differences, which this last with Fermat’s autograph. There is also copy at I could mention, to bring to the attention what M. Fermat Keio University in Japan. It is not in the British Library, With a 13-page verse “Paneyricke” by his “poore kinsman” (trimmed to the border and laid-down). believes, which without doubt is the true sense of Synesius. Bodley, Cambridge etc. of Hereford, another poem by Davies and London: William Sheares, 1641 £1100 This instrument served to measure the weights of different Bound with: others verses by Robert Corbet, John Hoskins, etc. Wing C1619. “The “most important single contemporary waters, and was for the use of the sick, for doctors agree Vaughan’s idea of regularly flooding water-meadows to D’ACRES, R., ?pseudonym. The Elements of source for Wolsey’s life” which also offers a “detailed that the lightest are the best -the way in which Synesius boost crops was developed by Sir Richard Weston in the picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political Water-drawing, or a Compendious abstract of all uses the word ‘rhopé’ shews this clearly. Here it does not mid-17th-century. events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings mean Libramentum or levelling as Father Petau believed. sorts and kinds of Water-Machins or Gins, used STC 24603 (in America: Columbia [with plates], Harvard, against Katherine of Aragon.” - ODNB. or practised in the World, with their natural When applied to machines [instruments], it means weight, Yale (Beinecke, no plates & British Art Center, with plates) Bound with: called by the momentum, whence derives [et de là] grounds and reasons, and what service may be and at Folger [2 copies, both lacking plates & 1 lacking FROISSART (Jean). An epitome of Frossard: from the treatise by Archimedes on things of equal weight, expected from them. As also new and exquisite leaf K1 & Huntington [ex Bridgewater, with plates hand- his called ‘isorhopika’. But insofar as neither scales not any ways and Machins never before published. With coloured]. S4v has a printed certificate by Vaughan dated Or, A Summarie Collection of the most other man-made instrument, could distinguish exactly the a Philosophical discourse, and new discovery 1609 (in some copies the page is blank). memorable Histories contained in his Chronicle, weight of waters, insofar as they differ only very slightly of drawing water out of great deeps by fier. Bound with: chiefly concerning the State of England and between themselves, mathematicians have invented on Where is also dispproved The perpetual motion, France. Wherein the famous Warres and the basis of Archimedes’ treatise De his quae vehuntur in CEREDI, Giuseppe. Tre discorsi sopra il modo The Water-poise, The Syphon or Philosophers Conquests of King Edward the third, with the aqua, that tool which Synesius mentions. This shews the d’alzar acque da’ luoghi bassi. honorable atchievements of the Black Prince, difference in weight which waters have between themselves Engine, The Horizontal sails, With divers other ff. [10], pp. 100 (=99), [1], lacking ff. E3-4, and E7 experiments. Published for the improving the and his other sonnes,... are compendiously by the precise nature of the waters. with woodcuts (described in text) Parma: S. Viotti, described.... Compiled in Latine by John The diagram is this: a f is a copper cylinder; a b is the service of the Mineral World, for supplying our 1567 (Adams C1280 describes an imperfect copy. Sleydane [i.e. J. Philippson], and translated into top end which is always open; e f is the bottom end covered most necessary wants of firing, for raising of Quire E would seem from the signing to consist by the cone e i f, having the same base as the bottom end. water for Cities and Towns, and for watering and English, by P. [i.e. Arthur] Golding. of 12 leaves.) Small 4to (175 x 125mm.), Mid-18th- [2 (of 4, without the first blank leaf)], 215, [1(blank)]pp; a e: b f are two straight lines intersected by short lines, draining of Grounds. century sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, and the more there are of these, the more exact will be state without type ornament at head of title page, and First Edition. [8], 41, [1]pp. London: by Tho. Leach, red edges. the instrument. If one puts it into the water by the point for Henry Brome, [?1659/ 1660]. with no errata on the final page (blank).London: by of the cone, and if one adjusts it in such a way that it Tho[mas]. Purfoot for Per[cival]. Golding, 1608. remains upright, it will not sink in completely, because Wing E494 (British Library 2 copies, 1 with title mutilated], 48 CATULLUS, Caius Valerius. Catullus STC 11399 (Folger [3 copies], Harvard, Huntington, the interior vacuum will prevent it. It will however sink Cambridge, Bodley [ex Ashmole; last leaf in facsimile] & Tibullus Propertius (ed. Pulmannus & Newberry & Yale only in U.S.A.). First and last few pages to a certain level or measure, which will be marked by Folger only). Giselinus.) dusty. This is the only book published under the name of the little [horizontal] lines, and it will sink in different Title shaved closely at the head (touching “THE”) and at Percival Golding, son of the prolific Elizabethan translator ways according as the water will be more or less heavy. the foot with a small area of loss where one might expect 2 parts 16mo (115 x 75mm.), 173, [3(blank)]; 138, Arthur Golding (d. 1606). The lighter the water, the more it will sink, and the less, the date to be (cf. the BL copy on EEBO); title-page and [6(last leaf blank)]pp., device on title, eighteenth- as the water is heavy, as we could easily demonstrate, if last (blank) page lightly dust-soiled; lightly browned century calf, gilt spine, gilt edges. Bound with: needed. Here is the appearance and use of this instrument, throughout. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1569 £500 GARRARD (Edmund). The Countrie and the reason behind its use. The letter of Synesius is so “The earliest work exclusively on the subject [of vacuum The marginal notes are by various commentators, but Gentleman Moderator. Collections of such exact in what it reports in every aspect that Monsieur de steam-pumps] by an Englishman” - R.S. Kirby, etc. the notes to Propertius are entirely by the Dutch prodigy intermarriages, as have been betweene the two Monchal, Archbishop of Toulouse, sent this explanation Engineering in History (1990), p. 155. Willem Canter. This is the first Catullus printed by Plantin royall lines of England and Spaine, since the to Father Petau, and avowed that only M. Fermat could Bound with: (who also printed the text in 1587), and forms one of Conquest: with a short view of the stories of the have understood the nature of the instrument. He [Petau] VAUGHAN, Rowland. Most Approved And the series of 16mo editions of the classics published by lives of those Princes. And also some observations has written that he would put it in his notes in a second him. There are a few contemporary ms. notes to the Long experienced Water-Workes. Containing, of the passages: with divers reasons to moderate impression [edition]. But because that has not been done, Propertius. I believed that the learned reader who is curious, would The manner of Winter and Summer-drowning the Country peoples passions, feares, and Voet 934. not be annoyed if I share it with him’. of Medow and Pasture, by the advantage of expostulations, concerning the Prince his royall The original French of this text is reprinted in P. Fermat the least, River, Brooke, Fount, or Water-prill match and State affaires. Oeuvres complètes ed. Paul Tannery & C. Henry, Paris, 1891- adiacent; there-by to make those grounds 49 [CAVENDISH (George)]. The Negotiations First Edition. [6], 67, [1 (blank)]pp., variant 2 with 1912, i, 362-365. Tannery also prints the preface/dedication (especially if they be drye) more Fertile Ten for of Thomas Woosley, the great Cardinal the dedication leaf [A2] to Henry, Lord Danvers of the Toricelli to Fermat as part of the correspondence One. As also a demonstration of a Proiect, for the of England, containing his life and death, cancelled. London: Edward Allde, 1624. in volume two.

MAGGS 21 An enthusiastic historical defence, drawn from published Alain Chartier (1385?-1430?) was a French poet and Bound with: 53 , Marcus Tullius. Tusculanæ chronicles, of the proposed Spanish Match between Prince secretary to Charles VI and VII. His earliest poem is Le RHENFERD, Jacobus. Periculum Palmyrenum. quaestiones per D. Erasmum Roterodamum Charles (newly returned from Spain) and the Infanta. livre des quatre dames (pp. 594 - 684) written after the Battle Sive literaturae veteris Palmyrenae indagandae & diligenter emendatæ, & scholiis illustratæ. of Agincourt (1415).In 1424 he wrote “La belle dame sans STC 1164 (Folger [variant 2], Harvard [variant 2], eruendae ratio & specimen.[20], 56pp., 3 folding 8vo. (160 x 105mm.), 223, [15]pp., woodcut printer’s Huntington [2 copies: both variant 2; ex Bridgewater & mercy” (pp.503-523), a title that John Keats later used.He device on title-page . Late seventeenth-century calf, was so highly esteemed that legend has it that Margaret tables, Franeker: F. Halma, 1704. ex Britwell], Newberry [variant not stated], New York spine gilt in compartments, manuscript annotations Stewart (Marguerite d’Ecosse whom he negotiated the Bound with: Public Library [variant 2] & Yale [not on ORBIS] in U.S.A. in margins. Title and last blank page dust-soiled. marriage with the Dauphin, later Louis XI), finding him DRUSIUS, J. Alphabetum ebraicum etc. asleep on a chair, kissed his lips and explained her favour Paris: Robert Estienne 1537 £450 Bound with: 59pp., Franeker: A. Rade, 1587. as follow: “Je n’ai pas baisé l’homme, mais la bouche de A nice copy. ASHBY (Sir John). The account given by Sir 4 works, 4to (190 x 130mm.) eighteenth-century laquelle sont issus tant de mots dorés.” (‘I did not kiss a Reference: Renouard p. 46. John Ashby Vice-Admiral, and Reere-Admiral man’s mouth, but the mouth from which have issued so half calf, 1582-1704 £4000 Rooke to the Lords Commissioners, of the many golden words’). The work by Top, no copy of which is to be found outside engagement at sea, between the English, Dutch, Andre Duchesne (or du Chesne 1584-1640) is generally the UK, and which was been reprinted in facsimile by 54 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. and French Fleets. considered as the father of French history, appointed the Scolar Press in 1971, proposes that the twenty-two [LETTERS. AD FAMILIARES.] June the 30th 1690, [2], 12, “27”, “30”, 13-26, 31- geographer and historiographer to the King thanks to letters of the Hebrew alphabet correspond to the number Epistolarum volumen, earum quae familiares 32pp; lacking preliminary licence to print. London: the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu. of acts carried out by God in the seven days of Creation, olim dictae... Commentationes diversorum... for Randal Taylor, 1691. and that the Hebrew alphabet is divinely inspired. Top 2 vols. 8vo. (180 x 108mm.), [8]ff. 552pp. 231pp. also published St. Peters rocke in 1597 (known in 3 copies) 205pp. Eighteenth century English speckled calf, Wing A3937 (+;+). Concerns the Battle of Beachy Head 51 CHENU, Jean. Recueil d’antiquitez and a version of the Psalms in Amsterdam in 1629 (again spines gilt in compartments, labels lettered in on 30 June 1690, during the Nine Years’ War, in which et privileges de la ville de Bourges et de known in few copies.) the French were victorious over an Anglo-Dutch fleet. plusieurs autres villes capitales du royaume. Jakob Christmann (1554-1613) was born in the gilt. Bound with: Divisé en trois parties. Rheingau at Johannisberg, and may have been a Jew who [Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1577 £450 HESSELGREN (Johannes). Q.F.S.F.Q. 4to (220 x 160mm.), [4] 503 [9]pp. (p.156 became a Christian. The author of a number of works, Renouard p. 144, no. 1. Not in Schreiber. Chronologiam mnemonicam dissertatione misnumbered 457), engraved portrait by L. and an early Arabist, he was also interested in scientific graduali breviter delineatam... praeside... Olavo Gauthier, mid-seventeenth century French calf with matters, partly because he had inherited the library of Rheticus, in which was the manuscript of Copernicus De 55 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Sententiæ Celsio [praeses]. triple-fillets on boards and fleurons in corner, spine revolutionibus, which was sold by his widow at his death, Ciceronis, Demosthenis, ac Terentii. [4], 23, [17]pp. (sig. A-C4, D-G2) Woodcut initial and gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece. and is today in Poland. Dogmata philosophica. Item apophthegmata head-piece, chronological table at end. Uppsala: J.H. Paris: Robert Fouet, 1621 £500 In the preface to this elementary introduction to the quædam pia... [ed. P. Lagnerius of Toulouse]. Werner, 1716. First edition, and an édition partagée with Nicolas Buon, Arabic alphabet etc., Christmann gives an interesting [16], 246 ff., title within woodcut illustration, whose name appears in the privilege and on some title- 5 works in one, 4to (176 x 129mm.), mid-eighteen- brief account of the progress of Arabic studies in Europe, initials. century calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco pages. Jean Chenu (1559-1627) avocat at Parlement of mentioning the work of Postel and Clenardus, and gives Paris and canon lawyer, contributed to Gallia Christiana. Antwerp: widow & heirs of J. Steelsius, 1572 £550 lettering-piece “Historical tracts”. us the name of the man who has cut for him the woodcut He wrote his first historical account on Bourges in 1603, Arabic: ‘amicus et hospes meus Conradus Mareschallus Bound with and a number of legal works. The Recueil outlines the Bruntrutanus, qui summa industria in ligno sculpsit & MAIOR, Georgius. Sententiæ veterum 50 CHARTIER, Alain. Les Oeuvres… different ‘privilèges’ granted to Bourges and also the cities incidit, hoc, quos cernitis Arabum characteres, sicut ego poetarum per locos communes digestæ… toutes nouvellement revues, corrigées, & de of Tours and La Rochelle. illi praescripseram (my friend and guest Conrad Marschall Sententiæ singulis versibus contentæ, ex diversis beaucoup augmentées sur les exemplaires escrits Cioranescu 19099. from Pruntrut (1), who with the greatest skill cut in wood poëtis, pietatis studiosæ inuentuti accommode. à la main, par André du Chesne Tourangeau. these Arabic letters which you see, in accordance with what De poetica virtute, libellus plane aureus, Antonio I laid down for him’). We are further told that Christmann 4to (215x160mm.), [16], 868, [20]pp., title printed in Mancinello auctore. 52 CHRISTMANN, Jakob. Bismi al-Ab held long conversations with his master, Francis Junius red and black, woodcut device, woodcut head- and wa al-Ibn... Alphabetum arabicum. (himself, of course, very interested in exotic alphabets and 203, [5]pp., woodcut printer’s device [Voet 1619] tail-pieces, woodcut initials, contemporary calf with [12], 20pp., woodcut arabic, Neustadt: M. Harnisch, types), and had access to the Arabic books in the Palatine Antwerp: Christophori Plantini, 1564. triple-fillet rule on boards and fleurons in corners, 1582. Library. He also gives a general account of a plan to publish 2 works in one volume 16mo (110 x 70mm.), spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece further works on Arabic. The Arabic words on the title- Bound with:: seventeenth century calf, spine gilt in compartments, “oevures de maistre Alain Chartier”, coloured silk page mean ‘In the name of the Father & of the Son and morocco lettering-piece, pages shaved especially TOP, Alexander. The oliue leafe: or, uniuersall of the Holy Ghost and of the one God, Amen’. page marker, manuscript ex-libris on title-page f.121-136 with light loss in margins. “Normand”, manuscript annotations in margins Abce. Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent, (1) Pruntrut or Porrentruy is a small town in Jura in (many trimmed), manuscript underlining, p.2 and and authoritie of letters, etc. Switzerland. These small books of Sententiae were very popular in the 16th century, and were edited by figures like Geldenhauer, 6 the running titles read “chronique du Roy Charles ff. [16], London: W. White for G. Vincent, 1603 STC 24121 (BL, Oxford & Chatsworth), lacking the Petrus Lagnerius, and others. They provided, as does VI” instead of “Histoire du Roy Charles VII.” something like The Oxford Book of Quotations today, fodder Paris: S. Thiboust, (January 25th) 1617 £900 folding table, and A1 and D4 blank.

MAGGS 23 for speeches and essays, but some of them (taken from in Spain in Salamanca, where in 1533 he published an Cromwell, he discusses the rights of the civil magistracy the Epistolae) were also used to provide models for letter edition of Livy book I (unique copy in Seville; Bakelants & in matters of religion. He also is said to advocate here writing etc. Hoven 534). In Portugal from 1533, first at Evora and then what was later to be known as ‘the half-way covenant’, The first title had been printed first by Robert Estienne at Braga, he tutored and taught Latin. It was at Braga in which provided for a partial church membership by the in 1546, and subsequently in Paris and Lyons. Plantin first 1538 that the Latin grammar was first published, although children and grand children of church members who had printed it in 1561 probably in an edition intended to be no copy can be located. It was reprinted once at Coimbra not had themselves any true ‘religious experience’, which shared with Steelsius (see Voet 983 note on p. 641), and (1546; one copy), once at Louvain (1550; one copy), and experience had hitherto been a pre-requisite for church several times reprinted it, including an edition in1572. at Lyons (1551 this edition). Three copies are known of membership. In America (it should be remembered that The second title is the second of four editions printed by the [1551?] Salamanca edition by Giunta. the emigré English settlements in America had a religious Plantin printed 1561-1574. Bakelants & Hoven 538. One copy only recorded in Rome basis.) Cobbet wrote some eight works published in London (BNC 6.3.G 31/1). between 1648 and 1657, including one on the honour due to children. Bizarrely, although a strict non-conformist, 56 CLAIRAC Louis-André de la Mamie de. his funeral was attended with considerable drunkenness, L’ingénieur de campagne, ou traite de la 59 CLENARDUS [CLEYNAERTS], Nicolaus. as a barrel of wine and two of cider were consumed, not fortification passagère. Institutiones ac meditationes in Graecam to mention ‘some spice and ginger for the cider’ (it was, 4to (250 x 193mm.), xxiii, [1], 247, [3]pp., 36 linguam…Postrema hac editione accesserunt it seems, extremely cold). folding engraved plates, one engraved head-piece perbreves in Clenardum annotationes, per Tuss. John Clark of Rhode Island (1609-1676) was a Baptist by Cochin, contemporary speckled calf, spine Berchetum Lingonensem. missionary and physician who emigrated from England in 1637 and was a founder of the Rhode Island colony. gilt in compartments, some light spotting, foxing 4to (248 x 165mm.), [108], 414, [2]; 23, [1]pp., There seems to be no trace of his Ill News from New-England throughout p. 217 to 224. contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, gilt which engendered the second part of this work. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert (de l’imprimerie de J. centrepiece within a single gilt fillet, spine gilt in 6 Guerin), 1749 £400 Wing C4776. Short marginal tear in A2 from a paper fault; compartments, covers scuffed. large copy with many leaves uncut at the tail. Fine copy of the first edition dedicated to the Comte Paris: H. le Bé, 1581(1580) £800 Bound with two other pamphlets concerning civil magistrates’ d’Argenson. A handsome copy of this important and long-lived powers in matters of religion: Sloos 08114. grammar. This edition is found with the imprint as above PRYNNE, William. Truth triumphing over dated 1581 and also with the date 1580 and the names of Provenance: Gen. G.L. Parker bookplate and manuscript falshood, antiquity over novelty. ex-libris. Pierre Huet and Henri le Bé. Toussaint Berchet (1540- 1607) came from Langres and was head of the protestant London: by John Dawson, and are to be sold by Michael college in Sedan from 1579 to 1605. Sparke, 1645. [12], 156pp.Wing P4115 (issue without 61 COLUMNIS, Guido de. Historia destructionis Troiae [with Epitaphium 57 CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. Bakelants & Hoven no. 255 (11 copies listed; no copy in the final leaf *1). Many sidenotes cropped (Prynne [MINOR WORKS]. Quotquot... extant UK, Germany or USA). was known as ‘marginal Prynne’ for his citations). Hectoris and Epitaphium Achillis, etc.] opuscula... Omnia haec diligentissime recognita IBID. The sword of christian magistracy Chancery folio (285 x 195mm.), ff. [132], first & last [by S. de Colines], ad veterum exemplariorum supported: or a full vindication of christian kings leaves blank, lines, type; rubricated, English binding 60 COBBET, Thomas. The civil magistrates fidem. and magistrates authority under the Gospell, of the first half of the 17th century of brown calf power in matters of religion modestly 8vo (160 x 105mm.), ff. 185 [=183, ff. 177-178 to punish idollatry, apostacy… and obstinate over pasteboard, slightly worn. debated, impartially stated according to the omitted], [1] (blank)], printed in italic throughout, Schism, with pecuniary… and in some cases with [The Netherlands? Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW bounds and grounds of Scripture, and answer late seventeenth-century French binding of calf, banishment, and capitall punishments. 875 [Gerardus de Leempt?]) 1477-1479] £40,000 returned to those objections against the same double gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt. London: by John Macock for John Bellamie, 1647. [18 First edition and a fine large copy with title ‘Historia which seem to have any weight in them. Together Paris: S. de Colines, 1530 £500 (1st leaf blank)], 174, [1 (errata)]pp. Wing P4098. Troiana’ written possibly in the atelier of the printer, in with a brief answer to a certain slanderous red crayon on both first and final blank. A beautiful clean copy. The title of the second work makes its subject quite clear. pamphlet called Ill News from New-England; This tale of the fall of Troy is based on a French original One of the examples of obstinate treason which Prynne Renouard 151; Schreiber 56. or, A Narrative of New-Englands Persecution. the Roman de Troie of Benoiît de Sainte-Maure, dating mentions is Laud, of whose trial he had published an By John Clark, of Road-Island, physician. By from the middle of the 12th century (between 1155 and account in 1646. 1160), rewritten in Latin in 1287 as is stated at the end of 58 CLENARDUS [CLEYNAERTS], Nicolaus. Thomas Cobbet Teacher of the Church at Lynne 3 works sm 4to (205 x 145mm.), contemporary calf, the work by Guido. It is in 35 books, the last dealing with Institutiones grammaticae, latinae. Item de in New-England. 2 parts 4to (207 x 150mm.), [16]; 108, 52pp. panelled in blind. the death of Ulysses and the first going back to Peleus, syllabarum & carminum ratione. father of Achilles, and the search for the Golden Fleece. London: by W. Wilson, 1653 £5500 8vo (166 x 96mm.), 155pp., eighteenth-century It is written in an easy Latin style with digressions, and mottled calf, spine gilt. This important work was written by Cobbet (1608-1685) survives in well over a hundred and fifty manuscripts, Lyons: G & M. Beringen, 1551 £800 who was born in Newbury in England, educated at Trinity dating from the middle of the 14th century. It is on a College, Oxford and migrated to America probably in The second known copy. Clenardus began teaching Latin small group of these manuscripts that the edition of N.E. 1637. A powerful divine, in this work, dedicated to Oliver Griffin (1936) is based.

MAGGS 25 It was thus hugely popular and there are some 8 Latin 63 CRINESIUS, Christoph. Babel sive, Appian, not included in his Opera published in Paris by editions, printed in the Low Countries and Strassburg, discursus de confusione linguarum, tum Charles Estienne in 1551. between this, the first, and 1494 plus some 5 German orientalium...tum occidentalium...statuens dedicates the book to the Italian and one Low German editions, and an Italian translation hebraicam omnium esse primam, & ipsissimam historian Carlo Sigonio and explains how he had discovered of 1481 (see GW). From 1494 there was no edition until matricem, etc. the two works by Appian, which are not included in the that of 1936. The Historia destructionis Troiae known in 1551 edition of that author, in a highly corrupt manuscript 4to (190 x 145mm.), [16], 144, [4]pp., engraved text French, Italian and Dutch versions is not the same (see in Italy. He had intended a Latin translation, but that has, GW 12517-12522). in Samaritan and Arabic on [2nd])(2verso, engraved he explains, had to be deferred. This is one of a group of books printed by the so- text of Deut. XII on p. 30, small paper repair to Estienne, who by this time was established in Geneva, called Printer of the Historia Alexandri Magni. (GW 875= recto of last leaf, ff. T1-2 (contents and errata) bound whither his father Robert had gone late in 1550, describes ISTC ia00396000), a press to which 3 other books can in prelims, eighteenth-century English mottled himself as a Parisian printer, as indeed he does in 5 of the be attributed. The dating of this edition is based on the calf, gilt, some leaves browned, binding slightly books he published in that year (the only work without watermark which is found in books printed 1477-1479 (WM rubbed. this is the Athenagoras Apologia, and the only book Henri I 04127 in the site ‘Watermarks in Incunabula printed Nürnberg: S. Halbmayer, 1629 £900 Estienne II published in Paris was the Anacreon of 1555). in the Low Countries’ available on a link through ISTC). One must assume that this statement is to establish quite It has been suggested that the printer was Gerardus de The engraving has two passages of text and at the foot the clearly that his press (without name of town) is, as it were, Leempt. name of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662), rector of the one with the famous Estienne press at Paris. school at Zwickau and a student of Arabic, who in [c. 1660] Provenance: Wyllyam Algar (16th-cent). On the first edited a pamphlet with Arabic text of suras one and two Renouard 117. no. 6; Schreiber 146. For the texts of blank leaf is written probably c. 1600 a quotation from of the Qur’an. The plate is engraved by Georg Herreman Ctesias see Jakoby Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Seneca’s play Thyestes ll. 596-597 -’ Nulla sors longa, dolor and dated 3 October 1628. The text of Deuteronomy XII, and the Budé edition (Paris, 1991) ed. J. Auberger. See est voluptas/ invicem cedunt; brevior voluptas’. This vv. 14-18, in Samaritan is engraved on p. 30 and faces the also Agatharchides of Cnidus On the Erythraean Sea... ed. conceit had become proverbial. Seneca’s Thyestes was in same in Hebrew (letterpress) and Latin. S.M. Burstein (London: Hakluyt Society, 1989), and of fact translated into English by Jasper Heywood the Jesuit Memnon of Heraclea see Jakoby op. cit, 434. son of John Heywood(1560). VD17 14 053983L; for the book see A. Borst Der Turmbau von Babel p. 1633. A very handsome, clean copy of this beautifully printed On the verso of f. [131] are some financial notes in an Latin edition published by the author’s son Johann English 16th-century hand, and dating probably from 66 DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean. L’Ariane... enrichie de plusieurs figures. Wilhelm, as the imprint makes clear ‘edita sumptus et typos about 1700 some lines from book III of Chaucer’s Book 64 CRINITUS, Petrus. De honesta disciplina, 4to (230 x 175mm.), [8], 775, [1]pp., 17 engraved full- suppeditante Joanne Wilhelmo Dilichio F[ilio] architecto’ of Fame (ll. 1564-1472.) lib. xxv. De Poetis Latinis lib. v. Et (‘published at the cost of his son J.W. D. architect, who page illustration by Abraham Bosse after Claude HC 5505; GW 7224; Goff C-768; BMC ix, 108; Bodleian Poematon, lib. II. supplied the type’). The plates signed ‘J.W. Dilich Ing.’ Vignon, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcut C-392; Oates 3666; There is only one copy in USA at the 8vo (175 x 105mm.), [48], 585, [5], device, on title, are also by him. initials, seventeenth century speckled calf, spine Walters Art Gallery. For the text see the edition by N.E. last leaf with device on verso (blank recto), woodcut Wilhelm Schäffer or Dilich was born sometime about gilt in compartments, binding rubbed. Griffin, Cambridge, Mass., Medival Academy of America, initials, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, 1580 and died in 1655. A historian and chronicler he 1936. Paris: Matthieu Guillemot, 1639 £500 lacking ties. published in Cassel in 1605 a history of Hesse with plates, and his Kriegsbuch in 1608 (see Max Jähns. Geschichte der Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1543 £450 A fine copy of this novel with plates by Bosse, one of the Kriegswissenschaften (1997 reprint) ii, pp. 907sqq. 62 CORRADI, Sebastiano. Commentarius, leading engravers of his time. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) was a founding The last leaf at the end of the text has the instructions in quo P. Virgilij Maronis liber primus 65 CTESIAS and others. Εκ των Κτεσιου... member of the Académie française in 1634, and some of to the binder. At the end of Lib. I partis secundae pl. CCC Aeneidos explicatur [with the text]. Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone the Academie’s sessions were held at his own house. L’ (300) is a large folding plate. 8vo (152 x 92mm.), 390, [2(blank)]pp., device on excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica. Item, Ariane was his first major success in 1632. He was close to VD17 7:665417T; Bury & Breman p. 36; Sloos Warfare title-page, English calf c. 1700, spine gilt, slightly de gestis Annibalis... Cum Henrici Stephani Richelieu who admired his great knowledge. Later in life and the Age of Printing (2008) no 08025. rubbed. castigationibus. he wrote much on religion, including a verse translation Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Gen. Hon. G.L. Parker. Florence: L. Torrentino, 1555 £450 of the Imitatio Christi. 8vo (165 x 95mm.), [16]m, 248, seventeenth-century First edition of this detailed line-by-line commentary. smooth calf, spine gilt, red edges. 68 DILICH (SCHÄFFER, called) Wilhelm. Corradi, who died in 1556, studied in Venice but came [Geneva]: ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis 67 DILICH (SCHÄFFER, called) Wilhelm. from the region of Reggio, where he died. He wrote Peribologia. ANOTHER COPY. typographi, 1557 £1000 Peribologia. extensive commentaries on various works by Cicero. This Folio (210 x 195mm.), contemporary English calf, is his commentary on Book I only of ’s Aeneid. An extremely handsome copy of the editio princeps of Folio (295 x 213mm.), 5-202, [10]pp., engraved title gilt fillet on covers, spine with gilt ornaments, red short works by three historians, Ctesias’s work on the and 7 section titles, 410 plus numbered engravings Censimento 16 CNCE 13512. edges. Persians, Agatharchides on the Red Sea, of the Byzantine (I-CCC, I-CX) on c. 240 plates, the text and plates Frankfurt: A. Humm etc., 1641 £2000 patriarch Photius, and Memnon, all taken from the mounted on guards, eighteenth-century English This copy may well stem from the library of John Collins/ Bibliotheke or Library of the Byzantine patriarch Photius, calf, gilt, red edges. plus two more substantial works by the historian of Rome William Jones, and has the old Macclesfield Library class Frankfurt: A. Humm for J.W. Dilich, 1641 £2000 mark V.3.19.

MAGGS 27 69 DIONYSIUS Periegetes. ∆ιονυσιου 2 parts 79 [1]; 68 [i.e. 86] [2]pp., printer’s device, οικουµενου περιεγησις...Dionysij orbis woodcut head and tail-pieces, initials, Leiden: Jan descriptio. Arati Astronomicon. Procli sphaera Paets, 1585. (Thoma Linacro interprete). Cum scholijs Ceporini. Bound with: 8vo (143 x 95mm.), ff. [2], 68, [2]; [64], last leaf with IBID. De quæsitis per epistolam device etc. on verso, contemporary English brown [16] 232pp., printer’s device etc., [Franeker:] Gilles calf over pasteboard, blind-stamped shield on covers van den Rade, 1595. with letters G F & H stamped in blind at sides, spine gilded later with red morocco label, contemporary 2 volumes in one, 8vo (150x100mm.), Oxford ms. notes in margins of D3vand D4r. contemporary calf, strips of a musical manuscript Basel: (Thomas Wolf), 1534 £500 on vellum used as spineliner, extremities slightly rubbed, manuscript notes on preliminary leaf and The Greek texts are printed consecutively and are followed on pasteboard. 1585-1595 £500 by the Latin versions. Ceporinus (1500-1525) a gifted scholar and protegé of Zwingli, explains to the reader The subjects of the second work, where Hebrew printing is that the promised commentary on all three texts has been used, are various scriptural (OT) explications presented in cut, as translations (‘familiares traductiones’) have been the form of short letters to a wide variety of correspondents given, and that he has written a short commentary only including Sir Thomas Bodley, the printer Rade and others on Dionysius, written with the space of scarcely two days both English and foreign. There is a short ms. note on because of pressure from the printer and the forthcoming the front flyleaf in a small neat hand. (Frankfurt) book fair. VD16 D1981 (HAB); this edition of Linacre’s translation 72 DU BELLAY, Joachim. Poematum libri of Proclus not listed by Giles Barber in his bibliographical quatuor. Quibus continentur elegiae. account in Essays on the life and work of Thomas Linacre, ed. F. Maddison and others, OUP, 1977. Amores. Variae epigr. Tumuli. ff. 62., Paris: G. Morel, 1558. Bound with: 70 DRUSIUS, Joannes. Annotationum English calf, gilt triple fillet on covers with corner some on abstract topics. These follow the tradition of the In Ioachimi Bellaium... doctorum virorum Greek and Latin epigram. There then follow the ‘Amores’, in totum Iesu Christi testamentum, sive rosettes, spine gilt, coloured silk marker, mottled carmina et tumuli. many of them about a certain Faustina (‘un amour fictif’ præteritorum libri decem. edges, a few marginal worm holes at edges of leaves Paris: F. Morel, 1560. in all probability), and finally the ‘Tumuli’ a collection [8], 456, [12]pp. Amsterdam: J. Janssz, 1632. at end £10,000 Bound with: of mourning poems and epitaphs, of various lengths Bound with: A most beautiful copy. varying from a couple of lines to well over fifty. Many of L’HOSPITAL, Michel de. De sacra Francisci IBID. Ad voces ebraicas novi testamenti Du Bellay and Ronsard are the two most famous French these commemorate Italian friends, others are on more II Galliarum regis initiatione, regnique ipsius commentarius duplex... Item eiusdem poets of the sixteenth century, both members of the group vague figures or ideas. The final epitaph on f. 60 is his administrandi providentia. called La Pléiade, both consummate humanist scholars, annotationum in N. testamentum pars altera, own (‘Sui ipsius’) addressed, as in epigrams in the Greek ff. [10], quire B misbound, Paris: G. Morel, 1560. well read in Greek and Latin literature, and both fine Anthology, to the passer by (‘viator’). Overleaf is printed a necnon non vitæ... delineatio... per Abelum Bound with: Latin poets. But it was Du Bellay who in 1549 published version in Greek by the Dutch humanist Carolus Utenhove Curiandrum. the Deffence et illustration de la langue française, in which (1536-1600; see Leonard Forster, ‘Charles Utenhove & IBID. De Meti urbe capta et ab hostium [8], 226, [10], 138, [8], 1-183, [8], 185-192, 9-52pp., he defends the vernacular tongue. Germany’ in Keline Schriften zur Deutschen Literatur im small clear tear in Ff2 of part 1. Franeker: F. Heyns obsidione liberata, ampliss. viri M.H. carmen This important collection of latin verse therefore begins 17. Jahrhundert (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1977) pp. 81-101) for Jan Jansz, 1616. (Ad illustrissimum principem Franciscum with a poem with the title which may be paraphrased as This is followed by Latin elegiacs on the collection and a 2 works in one volume, 4to (185x130mm.), Lotaringum ducem... epistola - De Caleti et ‘Why is he taking a break from French and writing in Latin’. short Greek epigram by the same, who in 1560 published contemporary English calf, red edges, head of spine Guinae...expugnatione...carmen. - De Theavilla There then follow longer poems in elegiacs written during a polyglot collection of epigrams on the death of Henri slightly worn 1632 £400 capta carmen. - Ad Margaritam regis sororem his period as secretary to the ambassador in Rome (1553- II (with some on Du Bellay). M.H. epistola. - Ad Carolum cardinalem 1557): there is a description of Rome, a poem on the Tiber The collection on the death of Du Bellay (1560) contains Reference: Steinschneider 4877. Lotarenum Mich. Hospit. de pace carmen. - In addressed to Jean, one addressed to Ronsard with an echo poems by Adrianus Turnebus, classical scholar and Francisci illustriss. Franciae Delphini, et Mariae of ‘Ronsarde, Aeoniae merito pars maxima turbae,/ imprimeur du Roi, Claude d’Espence (1511-71), humanist Pars animae quondam dimidiata meae:/ Cui plectra, & 71 DRUSIUS, Joannes. Animadversionum sereniss. Scotorum reginae nuptias...carmen.) educator, Elie André, translator of Anacreon, Léger Du nervos sese debere fatetur/ Gallica Dircaeo pectine pulsa Chesne (1503-88) and Claude Roillet (1520-76), a minor libri duo. In quibus præter dictionem ff. [4], [16], [4], [2], device on title-pages, Paris: chelys’, a poem on nostalgia (‘Patriae desiderium’), and Latin poet. Ebraicam plurima loca scripturae, G. Morel, 1560. 4to (220 x 150mm.), 4 works in 1 others. There then follow epigrams addressed to various Michel L’Hospital (1505-1573) was educated in Italy, interpretumque veterum, explicantur, volume, the last in 4 parts, early eighteenth century French (and Italian) personages of the time, amongst them where his father was in exile, and became a fine jurist emendantur. members of the royal family, and Ronsard & Dorat, with and practical lawyer. He returned to France in 1533,

MAGGS 29 and eventually became chancellor of France (1560). An 189], [190-192] blank, device on title-page, English for 45verso & 46recto printed on ff. [207] verso and intellectual ‘avant la lettre’ (Robert Descimon) who gave binding of brown calf, gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine, [208]recto, [Geneva:] R. Estienne, 1555. a great boost to studies at the university of Bourges, he lettering-piece, red, green & white silk marker. Bound with: was a patron of Ronsard and Du Bellay, and was himself Lyons: B. Honoré, 1586 £950 no mean Latin poet, and here we have various items from ESTIENNE, Henri. Paralipomena his pen, one set of verses on François II, another on the First edition of this elegantly printed work of literary grammaticarum gr. lingae inst., etc. capture of Metz with other similar celebratory verses on history, mostly dealing with the ancients, but amongst [16], 167, [1]pp., device on title-page, [Geneva: H. matters as diverse as the marriage of the Dauphin to Mary contemporary writers and poets discussed are Ramus, Estienne], 1581. Queen of Scots in 1559, and other military feats, amongst Ronsard, Muretus (names printed), Desportes, Du Bartas 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (174 x 100mm.), eighteenth (names identified in ms.) and various Italian writers such them the rendition of Calais according to the treaty of century smooth calf, spine gilt. £700 Cateau-Cambrésis of 1559, about which L’Hospital and as Petrarch, Caelius Rhodiginus, Poliziano, as well as the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smith debated. Melanchthon, , from whose Latin verses These two works are separate bibliographic entities but there are substantial quotations. clearly belong together. Louis Enoch was a Geneva pastor Of the Du Bellay we have traced in libraries the following Du Verdier (1566-1649), who was the son of Antoine Du and master of the grammar school there. He was well copies: UK- BL, NLS, Bodley, Rylands; France - BNF, Verdier (1544-1600), was a lawyer at Lyons and published known to Calvin, to Beza and others of the Genevan Ste Genevieve, Sorbonne, Bordeaux; Austria- Vienna; in 1591 a work on literary games or ‘lusus’, included in a hierarchy. Estienne’s Paralipomena i.e. those things which Germany- Berlin, Halle; Mannheim & Sachsisches volume of parodies of Catullus ‘Phaselus ille...’, in 1581 a nödtorfftige figurer samt särskilt : en relation om are left out, is quite clearly a supplement to the work Landesbibliothek; USA - Morgan Library. Peripatesis epigrammatum, and in 1583 a work against those sidste branden. of Enoch printed, as he remarks in his preface, by his who pretended to foretell the end of the world Discours Agenda 12mo (150 x 60mm.), [32], 185pp, pp.185- father. 73 [DUMAS, Louis]. La bibliotèque des contre ceux qui par des grandes conjonctions des planètes... ont 191, 193-236; 53 [=54, [2(blank)]pp., engraved 1st work Renouard 86 no. 5; Schreiber 111; 2nd work enfans ou les premiers élémens des lettres, voulu prédire la fin dumonde; this forms part of Chappuy’s frontispice (added) and 5 folding woodcut inserted Renouard 148 no. 1. translation of Doni Mondes célestes, Lyons, 1583. contenant le sistème du bureau tipographique... illustrations (the plan of Uppsala bound in part 2), In addition to the ms. notes already mentioned there with an extra folding title-page to the second part à l’usage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, et des are several more substantial marginal notes and on the 78 EQUICOLA, Mario. Dell’ istoria di with a woodcut of the fire, woodcut illustrations in augustes enfans de France… Tome premier title-page the remark hanging from the word ‘censio’ Mantova libri cinque... Riformata secondo text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. (-quatrième). ‘docta quidem elaboriosa sed nec sine invidia nec sine l’uso moderne si scrivere istorie, per Benedetto Uppsala: Johann H. Werner, 1704 (1703) £1500 4to (255 x 190mm.), viii 216, xix [5] 96, xx 97-306, erroribus’. The originator of these notes seems to be one Osanna, etc. 16, [2] vi 124, 24, woodcut printer’s device, etc., Duval of Yverdon(?). The name Duprat is also found on A guide book to the university city of Uppsala. 4to (182 x 139mm.), [26], 307, [5], Rr1 with register contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, the title-page. Eenberg (d. 1709) was a librarian in Uppsala, and and imprint Rr2 with list of errata, English calf morocco lettering-piece. Baudrier iv, 154; copies in BL, Oxford (2 plus a reprint one of the longest sections of the guide to the delights of c. 1700, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in compartments, the city is devoted to the library and its collections (pp. Paris: Pierre Simon, P. Witte 1733 £1500 ?reissue of 1609), BNF (2 copies), Arsenal. KVK lists two green & red silk marker. copies, and OCLC records copies at Folger and the Library 56-84), amongst them the so-called Codex argenteus, a First edition and a fine large copy of a very uncommon book. : F. Osanna, 1607 £750 of Congress. There is also one at Yale. translation into Gothic of the Gospels. Other sections The educationalist Louis Dumas (1676-1744) outlines his are devoted to the collections of the antiquary Rudbeck, The humanist Mario Equicola (1470-1525) was born in system as practised by the ‘bureau tipographique’, which the royal palace, the botanical garden, etc., and there is Calabria, but spent much of his life at the court of Mantua, had great success at the time. Dumas imagines a new way of 75 EBER, Paulus & PEUCER, Caspar. much about the holders of professorial chairs etc. Part 2 is where, after her husband’s death, he was secretary to teaching writing and reading, using typography as a game Vocabula rei nummariae ponderum et a description of the fire which struck Uppsala on 16 May Isabella d’Este, to whom he had previously been tutor. He to form words with movable letters. In 1753 he published a 1702, when many buildings of all sorts were destroyed was the author of a number of works, and in particular similar work on music L’Art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué mensurarum graeca, latina, ebraica... collecta and damaged, including the castle. Eenberg seems first his book on the nature of love has been very influential, par la méthode du bureau typographique. ex Budaei, Ioachimi Camerarii, et Philippi Melanchthonis annotationibus. to have published in 1687 (Mars literatus), and was praeses as was his interest in Provençal poetry: on p.44 Dante’s See M. Grandiere ‘Louis Dumas et le système typographique, for some academic dissertations in 1704. remarks on Sordello are quoted and on p. 45 is given in 1728-1744’ in Histoire de l’éducation 1999, no81, pp. 35-62. 8vo (145 x 85mm.), ff. [112], smooth calf c. 1700, The book is most uncommon, and there is no title by both Provençal and Italian, one of his poems. We have located a copy in BNF Paris and one or two gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt, gilt edges. Eenberg in any UK library. Of this book KVK records The Chronica was first published ‘probably soon after other French libraries, one in Bavaria, and one at the Leipzig: J. Rhamba, 1570 £400 copies in Berlin, Gottingen and Greifswald, and there 10 July 1521, with old worn types, probably not in Mantua Newberry Library. The work was first published in the 1540s and proved are 2 copies listed on Regina (Swedish National Library itself’ (Rhodes), and is here republished and dedicated by very popular. catalogue). It is not at Harvard or Yale, and OCLC records the publisher to the Gonzaga duke, Vincenzo (1562-1612). VD16 E63; Dekesel E11. no copies, although there is a copy at Princeton. The editor Benedetto Osanna has tidied up the text; some 74 DU VERDIER, Claude. In autores thirty years earlier Sansovino had urged the publication pene omnes, antiquos potissimum, of a new edition. This 1607 edition was reprinted in 1608 censio: qua... grammaticorum, poetarum... 76 EENBERG, Johann. Kort berättelse af de 77 ENOCH, Louis. De puerili Graecarum and that edition was later reissued with the date 1610. rhetorum... iurisconsultorum, philosophorum, märkwädigste saker som för de främmande literarum doctrina liber. mathematicorum, medicorum & theologorum äre besee och förnimma uti Upsala stad och ff. 208, device on title-page, errata on f. 206, f. errata quaedam deprehenduntur. näst om gränsande orter. Utur de förnämste 207recto with instructions as to placing cancellanda 4to (222 x 140mm.), 187, [5]pp., errata on pp. [188- swänske antiquarier sammandragen. Med där til

MAGGS 31 79 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrasis with flowers at corners, spine gilt in compartments, and sex (reminiscent of Petronius: ‘Turpis: & est morbi seu potius epitome... in Elegantiarum libros parti-coloured silk marker 1509-1519 £4000 species horrenda caduci, / Quum aiacet exanimis post sua furta venus’). De arrogantiis sciolorum is addressed to Laurentii Vallae... cui addita est et Farrago The Colloquies of Erasmus are amongst the most famous a physician, Joannes Bartholus, and is an attack on those sordidorum uerborum, siue Augiae stabulum and widely used schoolbooks of the sixteenth, and indeed, who have a smattering of knowledge, which they parade, repurgatum per Cornelium Crocum [Cornelis of other centuries. This early edition, which has a prefatory and the whole of this short treatise is precisely of that Croock]. letter dated 1 January from Louvain, is a reprint of the genre, being full of references and gobbets of information Thierry Martens edition of March 1519, and has at the end 8vo (157 x 100mm.), 192, [36]pp., last leaf blank, gleaned from all sorts of reading, and written, as is stated the letter from Martens in which he speaks of reprinting printer’s device, seventeenth-century calf, spine gilt at the end, when Faustus was sick. this collection ‘from wherever and by whomsoever it is’. in compartments. Although the binding of this volume dates from the It is one of a number of editions printed in various cities Paris: R. Estienne (October), 1542 £850 early 18th century, it seems highly likely that is simply in 1519, but this particular edition is recorded by Moreau replacement an earlier binding which contained this This is one of three editions of 1542 (Lyons and Cologne (1519/2054) in one copy only at Laon. The printer Rembolt group of roughly contemporary and connected texts, all being the place of printing of the other two), and seems to had died in 1518 and the attribution to the press run by of them printed in Paris. Indeed, the presence of the parti- be extremely uncommon. Renouard gives no description his widow is based (by Brigitte Moreau) on the type. coloured silk marker may indicate that it was accorded (not even the colophon), and we have located no copy The short dialogue by Ulrich von Hutten entitled Aula special treatment when rebound. in BNF Paris, in the UK or elsewhere. It is one of many or ‘Court’ (‘Hof’), here edited by Joannes Ravisius Textor, editions printed between 1529 and 1566; indeed for the was first printed in Augsburg in 1518. It is addressed to decade 1540- 1550 van der Haghen (Bibliotheca Erasmiana the physician Heinrich Stromer of Auerbach, and has two 82 ERIZZO, Sebastiano. Discorso... (1893) pp.152-153) lists 21 editions, of which the Estienne speakers, the chaste man and the ‘court hater’ (Misaulus). firm printed several. In 1529 and 1531 the Estienne sopra le medaglie de gli antichi con la The ‘vita aulica’ or life of the court has always been ripe for dichiaratione delle monete consulari, & delle unauthorised reprints were considered as piracies by criticism and satire, and Hutten here lambasts in rich and medaglie de gli imperadori romani... di nuovo in Erasmus himself. occasionally course language, the sordid nature of this life. Renouard p.53. 4; not in Schreiber. This copy has a few contemporary marginal annotations. questa quarta editione... ampliata. At the end is a set of Latin elegiacs by Joannes Ravisius 2 parts 4to (219 x 153mm.), [16], 282, [2 (blank)]; Textor De miseria aulicorum (‘On the miseries of courtiers’) 572pp. title within woodcut border, woodcut initials 80 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrasis seu addressed to a certain Hugo Viturellus. and headpieces, woodcut illustrations, seventeenth- potius epitome... in Elegantiarum Laurentij The volume also contains four short texts by Fausto century mottled calf, gilt of arms of Foucault on Vallae... cum gallica... expositione. Cui accessit Andrelini (1462-1518), a humanist poet and scholar from covers, spine gilt in compartments, mottled red farrago sordidorum verborum, per Cornelium Forli, who, established in France at the end of the fifteenth edges. Y1 torn at head with loss, extremities slightly Crocum. Bound with: century, made the acquaintance of Erasmus through rubbed. 8vo (165 x 108mm.), 199, [17]pp., seventeenth- ANDRELINI (Publio Fausto). Epistolae Robert Gaguin. Whereas Erasmus was to devote a great Venice: Giovanni Varisco & Paganino Paganini [not deal of his attention to work on the Bible and patristics, century vellum over pasteboards, bottom edge proverbiales et morales. before 1584] £700 Andrelini remained very much a neo-latin poet, and whilst lettered Erasmus in Vallam. ff. [14]: (Paris: Josse Bade, 13 June, 1516) [Moreau Erasmus’s star was in the ascendant, his waned. Andrelini, A splendid copy. Sebastiano Erizzo’s work on medals was 1516/1252]. Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1547 £400 in addition to editing a number of short prose texts, was one of the sources for Cesare Ripa’s influentialIconologia , All mention of Erasmus has been deleted in accordance Bound with: also the publisher of Latin poetry, both by himself and by and thus has a direct link with the world of symbols and with the instructions of the Inquisition. IBID. Hecatodistichon. others. He was a member of the circle around the consort emblem books. It was first published in 1559 and this Van Gültlingen. ff. [8], (Ibid. 13 April, 1519) [not in Moreau]. of Louis XII, Anne of Brittany, and the poem addressed fourth, undated edition, follows the third of 1571. Varisco to her is surely to be dated be dated 1509 the period and Paganini were in partnership from about 1584, Bound with: when Louis was himself was in Italy and after his famous although there are a couple of books earlier in date. 81 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Familiarum IBID. De sciolorum arrogantia. victory over the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello on Dekesel E32 (cat. 1); Censimento 16 CNCE 18279. ff. [8]. (Ibid. 29 April, 1519) [Moreau 1519/1970]. colloquiorum formulae. Et alia [etc.] 14 May when, as Machiavelli said, the Venetians lost in Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, arms on cover and ff. [32 (last leaf blank & not present)], last 2 leaves Bound with: one day that which had taken 800 years to build. The armorial bookplate. slightly spotted (dampstain), Paris: [widow of B. Rembolt IBID. [drophead title] Epistola in qua Anna Epistolae form a series of exercises on particular themes: ‘A friend who is reconciled should rarely or never be trusted’ for] P. Gromors & G. Gourmont, (23 December 1519). gloriosissima francorum regina exhortatur ‘That the Aeneid is not understood by everyone...’; ‘Avoid 83 ERPENIUS, Thomas. Orationes tres, de Bound with: maritu[m] potentissimu[m] atque invictissimu[m] the use of antiquarian or out-of-date words’; ‘Do not francorum regem Ludovicum duodecimum ut linguarum ebraeae, atque arabicae HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Aula. dialogus (ed. J. have business dealings with a woman’; and the like. The dignitate. expectatu[m] in galliam adve[n]tu[m] maturet, Hecatodistichon is a series of elegiac couplets in imitation Ravisius Textor). 8vo (128 x 70mm.), [12], 132pp., contemporary ff. [32], device on title-page, Paris: (A. Aussard for) R. [etc.] [in Latin elegiacs]. of Cato’s Distichs, again covering a wide variety of subjects from debtors to pimps, and from types educated at the English calf, printed pastedowns (italian text), Chaudière, (xii Cal. Sextiles [21 July], 1519). [Renouard ff. [4], Ibid. [1509?]. repaired. Imprimeurs; Moreau ii 2095] a few marginal ms. 6 works in 1 volume 4to (188 x 121mm.), mid- Sorbonne who may safely spurn the wealth of Hercules to the scatology of the ignorant doctor and to death, wine Leiden: ex typographia auctoris, 1621 £1000 notes. eighteenth-century calf, gilt triple fillet on covers

MAGGS 33 First edition of this uncommon book which prints three 87 FALCONIERI, Ottavio. Inscriptiones An exhibition of his work was held at Museo di lectures or speeches given by the great Dutch orientalist athleticae nuper repertae editae & notis Castelvecchio, Verona, Oct. 17, 2005-Jan. 29, 2006 and Erpenius on the use and study of Arabic and Hebrew. illustratae … Quibus accesserunt aliae ex a catalogue published Paolo Farinati (1524-1606): dipinti, In it, apart from giving some general remarks about the africanis marmoribus recens descriptae. Una incisioni e disegni per l’architettura / a cura di Giorgio Marini, extent of the use of Arabic, and its importance as well as cum dissertatione de nummo apamensi. Paola Marini, Francesca Rossi, Venice: Marsilio [c. 2005]. some about grammar, he talks of those who collect Arabic 4to (220 x 155mm.), [12], 230pp., engraved Cicognara 2028. The suite was republished in 1736 by manuscripts and those who have printed Arabic texts. On illustrations, contemporary vellum binding with Jombert in Paris (Berlin Kat 4355). In the UK there is a pp.35-36 there is mention of the library at Fez in Morocco copy at the Courtauld Institute. where, it is said, 30,000 manuscripts are located. This spine gilt in compartments and lettering piece, Provenance: This copy has an acquisition date on the copy has a few marks of reading. Some words are printed 2 leaves detached, pages browning within two fly-leaf January 7 1727/8. in Arabic type (the type of Erpenius himself) and a few quires. in Hebrew. Rome: Fabio de Falco 1668 £650 Provenance: on the lower pasteboard is written Stud. D. Falconieri (1636-1675) was one of the distinguished group 89 FERTEL, Martin Dominique. La Science ix. 29 and a note about Joannes Mercerus. is of savants gathered around Queen Christina of Sweden, pratique de l’imprimerie. Contenant, des identified as Ibno-Rasidus. and he was the recipient of Cassini’s Lettere on sunspots instructions très-faciles pour se perfectionner the Vatican library. He uses the notes of Maurolico (who COPAC records 5 copies in the UK, and OCLC lists 7 of 1665. As the title suggests, the work is concerned with himself used an Arabic text), and refers in his preface to his dans cet art. copies in Germany, 3 in Holland, and one at Chicago. the epigraphical evidence for athletic sports. His extensive teacher Giovanni Battista Raimundi, the orientalist who 4to (250 x 182mm.), [2], 230, [2], 231-292, [10]pp., There is no copy at Yale or Harvard. manuscript correspondence is at Princeton. directed the Typographia Medicea. Auria was from Naples 5 engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, and died in 1610. He translated the works of Theodosius Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with bookplate. woodcut diagrams etc. contemporary speckled calf, 84 EUCLID. Geometricorum elementorum and Autolycus, and wrote a couple of other small tracts, spine gilt in compartments, slight damp-staining libri XV. Campani Galli... commentariorum mostly published in Rome. in outer margins and on covers, spine chipped and libri XV. Theonis... in trededim priores, Steck, VIII.7; CNCE 18365; see Euclid. Phaenomena ed. & a little rubbed. commentariorum libri XIII. Hypsiclis... in duos translated by J. L. Berggren and R. S. D. Thomas, 2006. St. Omer: M.D. Fertel, 1723 £750 Of this 1591 edition there are copies in BL, Cambridge, posteriores... commentariorum libri II (trs. B. The first major French printing manual, reissued in 1741 UCL, Balliol Coll, Oxford; Munich, Augsburg, copies in and enlarged in 1822. Zamberti, ed. J. Le Fèvre d’Étaples). Italian libraries, and in the USA copies at the Smithsonian, Folio (297 x 191mm.), ff. 261 (of 262 without the Brown and Oklahoma. Bigmore & Wyman i, 215-216; Barber, G. French Letterpress final blank), woodcut diagrams in margins, woodcut printing (Oxford: OBS, 1969) p. 8; Rép. bibliog. xviie siècle Provenance: Ownership inscription on title-page of V (Artois etc.) Fertel 25. initials, nineteenth century half calf by Hatton of William Chark. Charke matriculated at Peterhouse in Manchester, marbled edges, title leaf cut down and 1560, and was fellow 1566-1572, but was expelled for remounted. obdurate puritan opinions. He was one of the protestant FLEMISH LANGUAGE Paris: H. Estienne [after 7 January 1516/17] £4000 divines instructed to examine St. Edmund Campion in the 90 Nouvelle grammaire flamande... Nieuwe The first edition of Euclid printed outside Italy, in the Tower of London. He died in 1617. One of his books (an translation of Bartolommeo Zamberti, and with the Aldine Gregory Nazianzen is in Eton College Library). nederduitsche spraakkonst, behelzende de commentary of Joannes Campanus of Novara. A handsome rechte regelen en gronden om de nederduitsche large copy in spite of the cut down title leaf. 88 FARINATO, Paolo. Diverses figures à l’eau taal te leezen, spreeken en schryven. Vit 86 FABRE, Pierre Jean. Sapientia universalis forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et Renouard 1516/8; Schreiber 26 Steck Bibl. Euclideana verschiedene Auteurs... en op een behoorlyke quatuor libris comprehensa. Videlicet enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes... (1981) III.14. orde gebracht. 1. Quid sit sapientia... 2. De cognitione hominis. Ensemble plusrs sortes de masques de l’invention 8vo (155 x 90mm.), [4], 156pp., contemporary calf, 3. De medendis morbis hominum. 4. De de Paule Farinaste Italien. upper joint split. 85 EUCLID. Euclidis phaenomena post meliorandis metallis. Obl. 4to (197 x 250mm.), 30 numbered engraved Amsterdam: P. Mortier, 1688 £400 Zamberti & Maurolyci editionem... scholijs 4to (243 x 165mm.), [2], 418[=400], [8]pp., contem- plates, early eighteenth-century vellum-backed The preface makes it clear that the author is an individual, antiquis: & figuris optimis illustrata: & de graeca porary English calf, ms. index notes at end, slightly boards. but, although the work is very similar to the frequently browned, hinges weak. lingua in latinam conversa. (by G. Auria). Paris: A. Bosse, 1644 £3500 reprinted work by Philippe La Grue, which had a long 4to (190 x 130mm.), [22], 89 (=99)pp., woodcut Frankfurt: J. Beyer, 1656 £850 The suite consists of 22 plates of small cupids (‘petits life, and which was originally published in the 1680s in diagrams. In this book, first published in Toulouse in 1654, Fabre amours’) etc., and eight of masks (16-23). The masks are by Amsterdam, it by no means has the same title, length, or Rome: G. Martinelli, 1591 £1200 discusses the role of alchemy (sapientia universalis’) in Paolo Farinato (1524-1606; known in France as Farinaste) detail as that work. First edition of this Latin version of the Phaenomena of relation to the chemical composition of humans and how to an enormously productive painter and draughtsman (also KVK lists copies at KB Netherlands and Jena to which Euclid a work concerned with mathematical astronomy understand it, the chemistry and symptoms of disease and known as an engraver) from Verona, whose paintings are OCLC adds 2 more copies in the Netherlands, one in and one of the oldest such. It was made from a Greek in book IV alchemy and all that relates to gold and silver. to be seen in many churches. Bartsch XVI 164ff. records Germany, one in BNF Paris, one in Quebec, and one in manuscript in Aurias’s possession and a manuscript in This edition is also found as part of Fabre’s Opera. engravings by him, and there are many drawings on Madrid. coloured paper in various collections. VD17 23: 241729Y. Provenance: with auction lot no. N 621 on fly-leaf. MAGGS 35 91 . The Royal contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, used, as well in French armies, as amongst other Charter establishing an Hospital for the binding rubbed, spine gilt erased, lacks lettering- nations. Inriched with many figures... Translated Maintenance and of Exposed and piece. for publick advantage (with a dedication to Sir Deserted Young Children. With the Act of Paris: Jean Jombert, 1692 £450 Jonas Moore signed R[obert] H[arford]). Parliament establishing the same. Together with This popular work is one of a series of works on numismatics 8vo (150 x 87mm.), [16], 143, [1]pp., engraved the By-Laws of the said Corporation, and the by Foy-Vaillant which went through numerous editions., frontispice (mounted) and 18 plates, eighteenth- Regulations for Managing the said Hospital from and were indispensable works in their day, being found century smooth calf, gilt spine, lacking A1 the its Commencement, till 25 March, 1745, and a in many libraries of artists and antiquarians. printed title. List of the Governors on the said 25 March. Kress 1789; Goldsmiths 2945.5; Dekesel F55. London: printed for Robert Harford, 1678 £500 8vo (195 x 122mm.), 48pp. Contemporary vellum- Wing G402A. The book is not common, there being two backed marbled boards. copies in UK (BL and Ch. Ch. Oxford), and 5 in the USA London: printed for Thomas Osborne, 1746 £450 93 FRICK, Johann Georg. Commentatio de (Folger, Huntington, NYPL, Philadelphia LC, Yale). ESTC Druidis occidentalium populorum The Foundling Hospital received its Royal Charter on is in error in stating 20 plates in all. There are 19 in the philosophis... auctior et emendatior. Accedunt 17 October (see p. 43) 1739. This was published by J. Christ Church copy (EEBO) exactly the same as in this Osborn and again by Baskett in 1740. A list of the original opuscula quaedam rariora historiam... copy, i.e. the frontispice and plates at pages 12, 15, 24, 25, governors was also published in 1740. This edition is Druidarum illustrantia. 27,28, 35, 39, 40, 46, 49, 56, 75, 94, 97, 117,121, 125. updated to 1745. 4to (210 x 160mm.), [20], 226, [2(blank)]pp., engraved Provenance: Macclesfield South Library 202.A.20. The hospital was very much the creation of a rough, frontispice, contemporary vellum-backed decorated uneducated man (originally from Lyme Regis), Thomas paper boards. Coram, who had played a major role in the development Ulm: Daniel Bartholomaei & Son, 1744 £500 97 GELASIUS of Cyzicus. Γελασιου... of the American colonies, and who had been impressed by συνταγµα... commentarius actorum Nicaeni Edited by his son Albertus Frick. the organisation of hospitals or orphanages for foundlings concilii, cum corollario Theodori presbyteri, made in various cities of Europe, whereas no provision at de incarnatione Domini... Interprete Rob. all was made in London. With the support of the Queen, a 94 FRONSPERGER, Leonhard. Balforeo... cum... notis. royal charter, and a host of rich and powerful governors, Kriegsbuch… Jetzt von neuem gemehrt und 95 GAYA, Louis de. Traité des armes, des 8vo (162 x 97mm.), 15, [1], 287, [3], device on the charity, which still exists, flourished and became from gebessert, usw. machines de guerre, des feux d’artifice, des verso of title, last leaf with imprint, later sprinkled the late 1740s very much a centre for fashionable London, 3 parts folio (341 x 206mm.), ff.[5], CLVII, [5]; [3], enseignes & des instruments militaires anciens & vellum. and concerts were held there. Amongst the governors, CLXIII, [4]; [5], CCLXVI, [6], 19 engr. plates & 3 modernes. Paris: F. Morel, 1599 £450 a list of whom is printed at the end, was George, 2nd 12mo (138 x 77mm.), [6], 172pp., additional engraved Earl of Macclesfield along with William Hogarth, who woodcut plates =22 (pt 1: 5 pls; pt 2: 6 engraved First edition. A little contemporary underlining in the title-page, 19 engraved plates by N.Guérard, painted Thomas Coram (and the earl), as well as many plates (pp. 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 80) and 3 woodcut Latin text and occasional notes on words missing in the other persons of rank and distinction. The Foundling (p. 81); part 3: 8 engr. plates (pp. 103,104,106,110, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Contemporary calf, Greek. Hospital is one of the greatest examples of English secular 126(x 4)) late eighteenth-century tree calf, occasional spine gilt in compartments, spine partly detached, philanthropy of the period. Annual performances of spotting. sides rubbed. 98 GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. Handel’s Messiah were a regular source of income, and Frankfurt: (J. Feyerabend for) the heirs of S. Feyerabend, Paris: Sébastien Cramoisy, 1678 £600 Prophetia Anglicana, Merlini Ambrosii the charity owns not only a fair copy of the score and parts 1596 £2000 A charmingly-illustrated pocket manual for foot soldiers, given by Handel himself, who was also a governor, but and one of the first military works to describe arms and Britanni, ex incubo olim (ut hominum fama also the Gerald Coke Handel collection. A very handsome copy of this fascinating and beautifully est) ante annos mille ducentos circiter in illustrated encyclopaedia of the military arts. Particularly armour in detail. First edition. Following his Art de la ESTC lists three copies in the BL, one in the Bodleian Anglia nati, Vaticinia & praedictiones: à striking are the handsome woodcuts by Jost Amman set in guerre of 1677, which dealt largely with military strategy, and one at Christ Church with four copies in the USA Galfredo Monumentensi Latinè conversae: unà elaborate woodcut frames, some of which are repeated. this work is devoted to arms and other instruments of war and Canada (National Library of Medicine, Huntington, The number of plates is rarely complete. Their presence such as mines, fireworks, rockets, cannons, etc. An English cum septem libris explanationum in eadem Colorado, McGill). in part 2 is indicated by full descriptions of what each translation was published the same year. prophetiam, excellentissimi sui temporis oratoris, contains, and sometimes with words indicating a plate, The Traité is known in two Cramoisy editions of 1678: polyhistoris & theologi, Alani de Insulis.... Opus one with an added title and plates engraved by N. Guérard, nunc primum publici juris factum, & lectoribus 92 FOY-VAILLANT, Jean. Numismata e.g. f.79v ‘Hieher kompt ein grosse Figur in Kupffer mit den Instrumenten’. In part 2 fol. L there is a description and another (presumably later) edition with woodcut plates ad historiarum, praecipuè verò Britannicae, imperatorum romanorum praestantiora a and a completely reset text. of a Wagenburg ‘Erklerung folgendts abzugs zwischen cognitionem, non parùm lucis allaturum. Julio Caesare ad Postumum et tyrannos… Tomus dem Geschutz und der Wagenburg verzeichnet mit den Small 8vo (142 x 85mm.), [16], 269, [3]pp., woodcut primus. De Romanis aereis… (Tomus secundus. Buchstaben A.B. C. wie folgt {A-R]’ and after the list 96 GAYA, Louis de. A treatise of the arms portrait on the verso of the title, mid-18th-century De Aureis et Argenteis... Editio altera etc.) ‘hienach folget ein Kupfferstück von der Wagenburg’, but and engines of war, of fire-works, ensigns, English mottled calf, gilt spine, lightly browned, 2 volumes 4to (250 x 180mm.), [12], 256, [8]; [8], this seems to refer to the plate bound at p. 52 which has a label missing, joints rubbed. 397, [35]pp., last leaf a blank, numerous engravings, lengthy list of figures (1-63) printed on ff. Liv and LIIr. and military instruments, both ancient and modern; with the manner they are at present Frankfurt: Ioachim Brathering, 1603 £800 VD16 F3125-3127; Sloos Warfare and the Age of Printing (2008) no. 01003. MAGGS 37 The prophecies of Merlin circulated both independently 99 GESUALDO, Filippo, OFM. Plutosofia... 4to (190 x 135mm.), ff. [4], woodcut on verso of and as book VII of the History of Geoffrey of Monmouth, nella quale si spiega l’arte della memoria title, disbound. the latter first published at Paris by Josse Bade in 1508 con altre cose notabili pertinenti tanto alla Stockholm: H. Kayser, 1650 £400 (and again 1517). The actual prophecies, which may well memoria naturale, quanto all’ artificiale. A short work on the delineation of fortifications. Two actual be based at least on some element of Welsh vaticinatory 4to (187 x 140mm.), ff. [6], 64, device on title-page, tradition, occupy pp. [iii-xvi] of this book and are printed copies are recorded at Wolfenbuttel HAB and Halle, with full-page woodcut figure of a man on f. [27], very in italic type. The prologue (§§109-110) is omitted. In the one in Sweden. In the USA there is a copy at Columbia text of Geoffrey they occupy §§111-117 (pp. 145-159 of the slightly cropped at foot, English binding c. 1700 of (SMITH 520 1639 L66) and microfilms at Centre for Reeve edition (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007). They also go brown calf, gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine, morocco Research Libraries & Harvard. in tandem with the Histoire de la vie, miracles, enchentements lettering-piece. : P. Meietti 1592 £3000 et propheties de Merlin, a medieval French text incorporating 101 GODFREY, Ambrose & John. A Curious the prophecies, printed by Verard in 1498 (GW 12668). First edition of this work by a Franciscan friar born in 1550, Research in the Element of Water: This was printed in an Italian translation in 1480/81 (? who died as bishop of Cariati in 1619. A second edition Venice GW 12670) and 1495 (Florence GW12671) and in containing Many Noble and Useful Experiments was published in Vicenza in 1600 in which the full-page on that Fluid Body. As I. Three different Spanish in Burgos in 1498 (GW12672). All these editions woodcut is replaced by an engraving. Various works by Experiments of reducing Water into Earth. are very rare indeed, and there are fragments only of an Gesualdo on Franciscan discipline and spirituality were edition printed by de Worde in London (GW 12669). published in Italy in the last decade of the sixteenth II. Several Experiments of turning Salts into However there could be two possible reasons for the century, and his Officum quindeceim graduum passionis Water; with a Method of discovering their resurrection in 1603 of the Prophecies. One is political Christu etc., was published in Cracow in 1606. This work intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are. and connected with the accession to the English throne is dedicated to Arnulf Uchinski, abbot of Suleovia in III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury of James VI of Scotland as also treated of in The whole Eastern Europe. into Water; with a way to extract the genuine prophecies of Scotland. Merlin’s prophecies had also been The ‘dedication’ to St. Catherine is dated 10 November Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment referred to by Harrington in his translation of Orlando 1588 from Palermo, and in it Gesualdo explains the Greek proving that there is a latent Fire in Water; Furioso published with engravings in 1591, where Merlin title Plutosofia, a name created as ‘artificial memory is the presents sculpted prophetic images. Merlin comes also with a Method to attract the said Fire from the treasure and riches of all human ’, a point also Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The whole into Spenser’s Faerie Queen, into Drayton’s Polyolbion¸and made on f. 2 of the text proper. The text is divided into 20 consilio populoque’, woodcut alphabets and Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks. into Jonson’s The Speeches at Prince Henries barriers of 1610, readings (lettioni), and proceeds from a general discussion illustrations, somewhat cropped with some borders Being the Conjunctive Trials of Ambrose and for which Inigo Jones designed the sets. The other may of memory to a consideration of artificial memory (with of woodcuts etc., and on pp. 1 & 3 the last line of have something to do with Merlin viewed as magician John Godfrey, chymists, from their late Father’s references to other earlier and contemporary writers (f. text affected, rebound in half calf, old style. and alchemist as well as prophet. A text attributed to him [Ambrose Gottfried Hanckwitz] Observations. 11), which leads to the idea of the ‘luoghi’ or places, which Ath [in Belgium]: excudebat Ioannes Masius. Incidebat Allegoria de arcano lapidis was published in 1610 as part of 4to (240 x 190mm.), [2], 18pp. Disbound. are of three sorts, imagined, natural and artificial. These Christophorus agersdorf expensis auctoris [1622?] the Artis auriferae… volumina (Basel: C. Waldkirch) a work form the matter of readings 5 to 9. Readings 10-17 are London: T. Gardner, 1747 £850 published in three volumes originally between 1593 and £3000 concerned with the idea of ‘collocatione’ or grouping of First edition. Ambrose Gottfried Hankwitz (1660-1741), 1610, and it may be (although 1603 is a little on the early A rare and interesting work of linguistic scholarship, things or ideas in various ways, ending with a discussion of the ‘late father’ of the title, was originally from Hamburg, side) that the growth of Rosicrucianism and the idea of published by the author, at a town where there was no dictation, and in section 17 ‘Della libraria della memoria’, and came to England to work for Robert Boyle. His chief imminent salvation may also have something to do with printing. books and memory. Books, he writes ‘supply remedies for claim to fame was his manufacture of phosphorus from the publication. The bibliographical description is a little complicated, both death and distance’ and ‘students speak with the urine and excrement, but in fact through his two sons, The commentary attributed to Alanus de Insulis or some leaves having been reset. dead’’, but memory is compared with Memory ‘as a wooden who are the authors of this pamphlet, he begot a long- Alain of Lille (1114-1203), Bishop of Auxerre is in seven There are two copies of this tract in the British Library leg compared with one of flesh and bone’. Libraries cost lived firm of industrial chemists, Godfrey & Cooke which books and constitutes pp. 1-269. His authorship has been (63.m.14 and 619.e.9.), both having a dedication to Jean, money and are for the rich, memory ‘is also common to lasted until 1915, when it was subsumed into Savory & generally accepted (e.g, by Manitius) but other possible count of Tserclaes, baron de Tilly & Marbais (whose arms the poor’. Books ‘age and are consumed by use, memory by Moore, now itself defunct (1968) and a museum exhibit authors have been suggested. This is the first printing of this appear on the title-page), and not the present dedication. In use and over time makes it self everlasting. Books perish, in Melbourne, Australia. elaborate commentary, which fits the various prophecies memory remains always’. both cases the make up of the book is clear: the signatures into the context of English or British history. ESTC records only the BL copy only. CNCE 20828 (listing 17 copies) Copies at BL (C. 68.a.21, a can be seen: 2 A2, [2nd] A-C4, [3rd]A4, 20 leaves, pp. [8], The book was reprinted in 1608, and again in 1649. copy once belonging to the ‘Wizard Earl’ of Northumberland 1-23, [1], 33-37, 6e, 03, 40, and in both cases the order of Brathering published some 32 books in 1602-03, of (1546-1632)), Yale, UCLA, and Chicago. KVK lists several these has been observed. In 619.e.9, first A (‘Ad lectorem’) which some were of a ‘chemical’ or medical nature, but 102 GRAMAYE, Jean Baptiste. Specimen copies. has been duplicated. In this copy the order of the leaves, his publication programme was not exclusively such, and litterarum & linguarum universi orbis all of which are present, is not the same. the book itself has no preliminary matters which might in quo centum fere alphabeta diuersa sunt The author (1575-1635) describing himself on the title- cast light on who edited it. 100 GIGER (GEIJGER), Matthias. Artificium adumbrata, & totidem quae supersunt annotata page as ‘Provost of Arnhem, dean of Leuze (near Tournai) VD17 1:051074D (Berlin, Munich, HAB, Halle); BL, muniendi geometricum, quo delineatio operique maioiris ratio & auctoris institutum and the counsellor and historiographer of princes’, was Bodley etc. regularium munimentorum, non solum absque aperitur. in fact the last Provost of Arnhem and a well known local historian writing on the antiquities of Brabant, Antwerp omni calculo... Small 4to (178 x 130mm.), ff. [20], Jesuit IHS device on title-page, dedication ‘nobilissimo... senatui, and much else, including the history of Asia in a book

MAGGS 39 published in 1604. He was also Bishop of Africa, and A fine copy of this uncommon book. The only copy in D or that it was left out of a consignment of sheets sent to First edition, and a sequel to the first series of lectures his journal has recently (1998) been published. This is a the UK is in the UL Cambridge amongst Lord Acton’s the Frankfurt bookfair, that Antonius printed some extra published in 1707 by Desbordes, both dedicated to the bilingual edition of his Diarium rerum Argelae gestarum, part books. copies of the quire to be inserted, and that this variant Count of Hesse-Kassel. The subjects dealt with are all of his work on Africa published at Tournai in 1623. was issued in Germany in 1607 to meet book fair demand physiological, and the plates illustrate Siamese twins etc. In the section on Greek Gramaye writes about Greek after he had sold his own second edition. This copy has COPAC, KVK etc. list a number of copies. manuscripts and his informants on their whereabouts, 104 [HALL, Joseph]. Mundus alter et idem clearly an English provenance as may be seen from the which indicate that someone from Mount Athos was sive terra australis ante hac semper style of binding, binder’s waste, and the presence in the visiting Brussels, that the Genoese consul there was also incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici index of places of identifications of English place names 107 HASE, Johann Matthias. Regni davidici a source of information, and that some information about lustrata auth. Mercurio Britanico. (also occasionally in the body of the text). et salomonaei descriptio geographica et the treasures of Moroccan libraries was current: Graeca 8vo (190 x 135mm.), [16], 224pp., engraved title and STC 12685.3; Church II, 54; Sabin, 29819. John Millar historica... juncta est... consideratio urbium extant SS. patrum volumina innumera in monasteriis 5 folding engraved maps (with page numbers) by Wands, “The Early Printing History of Joseph Hall’s maximarum veterum et recentiorum ect. insularum archipelagi & orientis, prout asserit mihi William Kip, contemporary English limp vellum. Mundus Alter et Idem”, The papers of the Bibliographical 2 parts folio (358 x 205mm.), ff. [4], col. 320, ff. [2]; hoc anno Bruxellae episcopus de Monte sancto [Athos] [London: H. Lownes and Hanau, sold] Frankfurt: heirs Society of America, 74 (1980). For Antonius see the article ff. [2] (first blank), col. 132, f. [1], title printed in Graecus... superesse etiam multos graecos codices... docuit in Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens. me Lucas Sanchius consul genuensis... In Africa... multos of ] A. de Rinialme, [1607?] £2600 red and black, 6 folding engraved maps (coloured), Graecos esse intelligo & latere in bibliothecis Fessanis & Mundus Alter was not ascribed to Bishop Hall until plates numbered [1 (key)], I-VII, sect. III I-V & tab. Tuneti raros quosdam...’ In the section on Latin he refers 1674, when the librarian of the Bodleian, Thomas Hyde 105 HALLEY, Edmond. Catalogue des estoilles ultima, all coloured, contemporary sprinkled calf, to Hubert Roswind SJ, as ‘amicus noster’, but he does not identified Mercurius Britanicus. Indeed, at one time it had australes ou suppléments du catalogue gilt spine, red edges. mention a date anywhere. been ascribed to Alberico Gentili, whose name appears Thycho qui montre les longitudes & latitudes des Nurnberg: J.H.G. Bieling, prostat in off. Homanniana, In the ‘Ad lectorem’ preface, Gramaye lists a large in the table of contents of book II. The work is one of estoilles fixes du pole antartique, lesquelles ont 1739 £1500 group of those who have either provided him with books the earliest fictional voyages set in Terra Australis (and esté cachées à Tycho dans l’orison d’Uranibourg, A very handsome copy of this interesting book, of which the from their collections, or have written books which he has a moral satire against the Church of Rome), and was an calculées avec un soin tres-exact suivant leurs second part contains descriptions and plans of a number used. These include Angelo Rocca (Bibliotheca vaticana), inspiration for Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The maps show of important cities from London to Beijing and Kyoto, Trithemius, Claude Duret, the brothers de Bry (in in some detail the imaginary great Antarctic continent, distances, & corrigées jusques à la fin de l’année and from St. Petersburg to Lima. Oppenheim/Frankfurt), various Jesuits, Bonaventure and two also include details of the Americas. 1677. Avec les observations faites en l’Isle de Hepburn, the orientalist(1573-1620, see ODNB), whose First published in London by Henry Lownes (with Sainte Helene au 15. degré 55. minutes de Lexicon linguae sanctum succinctum of 1620 may have been Frankfurt given on the titlepage) in [1605?], a second latitude australe, & 7. degré de longitude à 108 [HELDOREN, Jan van]. A nomenclator used, and other works from the library of Beauchan, H. edition dated 1607 was printed in Hanau by Gulielmus l’Occident de Londres... Par Edmond Hallai. English and Dutch. Consisting in familar Winghius, canon of Tournai and a Bollandist, and the Antonius (VD 17 23 254946R), which has a completely 12mo (135x75mm.), [36], 118, [2(blank)], contempo- words with variety of choise phrases used in Jesuit Lansenius. On p. 22, when discussing the Aethiopic different engraved title. But it is clear that there also exists rary calf, spine gilt, spine worn, lacking the map. common discours. Eeen naamboekje, Engels language and those who write about it, we find the Pater a ‘third’ which is in large part a reissue of the London Paris: J.B. Coignard, 1679 £2000 Noster given in both Latin and Angolan (‘Nigrorum oratio’) sheets with two gatherings (at most; the preliminary quire en Duyts... An English and Nether-dutch in the same form as it is given in 1812 by Adelung in his and quire D) printed in Hanau. These are distinguished This French version of the Catalogus (1678) was, according dictionary, composed out of the best English Mithridates p. 224, and today on-line. by the absence of catchwords on the rectos, and by another to Cook (Edmund Halley: Charting the heavens and the seas, authors... Ath is a small town in Belgium, which was part of the state of the engraved title. OUP, 1997, p.78) published as a supplement to the Carte 2 volumes 16mo (140 x 80mm.), pp. 48; [1]- 64, 67- Spanish Netherlands until 1667 when it became the first The copy described here is a hybrid, having a first du ciel of Augustin Royer, by the same publisher Coignard. 166 (lacking pp. 163-166) ; 48; 48pp., ff. [52 (signed That there should be a map present is clear, but it is not town to come under French control. This is the only book edition title (with only vertical hatching), 8 preliminary A-O in 8’s), vellum-backed boards. clear from the descriptions how many copies actually printed there. Christopher Agersdorf would seem to have leaves having no catchwords on the rectos (i.e. printed Amsterdam: widow Mercy Bruyning, 1675 £1200 been the cutter of the illustrations and the alphabets. in Hanau) and first edition text other than signature D, have it; that at BNF certaily does but that at Harvard again from the Hanau edition. It should be noted that in does not. The first work was published under the title A new English Copies: UK (5, BL, Bodley (2), Cambridge etc.); Germany grammar etc. , with 2 preliminary leaves before the title (2 -Göttingen, Regensburg); USA - no copies. the contents of Lib II, chapter 2 is given as ‘Quid Alberico OCLC records 4 copies in France (Paris BNF, Ste Gentili a Gynaecopolitis factum fuerit’. The two proper Genevieve, Observatoire, Bordeaux), one at Göttingen, as given above (see the entry in ESTC). The ‘Dialogue names have been crossed out and ‘mihi’ (the reading of the and one at Harvard (lacking map). between a Frenchman and an Englishman’ (in Dutch and English) has its own fly-title on F2 (p. 83). 103 GUILLARD, René. Histoire du conseil first edition) added in the margin in manuscript. Wands Provenance: Macc. South Lib. 182-b-27. The dictionary part is arranged according to the du roy depuis le commencement de la lists five copies with this change made in the same hand (p. 12 note 20). The same woodcut headpiece is used on p. [v] of number of syllables (1-6) with a dash between each syllable monarchie, jusqu’ à la fin du regne de Louis of the English words. These are followed by a short section le Grand, par raport à sa jurisdiction avec un the prelims and on p. 62 (D7verso) of the text. This is from 106 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. Suite des the Antonius press. Antonius ‘typographus Hanovianus conjectures physiques. on abbreviations and one on nicknames or adapations recueil d’arrests de ce tribunal. of christian names. Throughout the English words are solertissimus’ was the hugely prolific prototypographer in 4to (287 x 223mm.), [8], 147, [1]pp., Large Paper 4to (250 x 185mm.), viii [4], 855pp., contemporary printed in Roman and the Dutch in italic. Hanau 1593-1611 much engaged in printing works in Latin copy, 5 medical engraved plates, 2 engraved armorial sprinkled calf, gilt border on covers with floral Wing H 1372A (BL, Cashiel, NLS; Columbia, Huntington, by Ramus, Talon, Keckermann, and by English writers head-pieces, woodcut figures, contemporary vellum- corner-pieces, spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece, such as Ascham, Perkins, John Case, James I, Alberico Yale); H1372B (BL, Cashiel, NLS; 6 US libraries). backed boards, uncut, prelims slightly soiled silk bookmark. Gentili (many works), and others. Paris: A.-U. Coustelier, 1738 £750 Wands conjectures that some damage befell signature (particularly title-page), spine worn. Amsterdam: H. Desbordes, 1708 £700 MAGGS 41 109 HELIODORUS. Aethiopicorum libri X. 111 HEXHAM, Henry. The Principles Io.Bourdelotius emendavit etc. of the Art Militarie: etc. (An appendix, 8vo (170 x 105mm.), [16], 519, [1]; 123 [5(blank)]pp., of the quarter for ransoming of officers... and text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns, souldiers). Practised in the Warres of the United seventeenth-century Dutch Prize binding of vellum Netherlands. Represented by figure, the word over pasteboard, arms of Amsterdam on covers of command, and demonstration. Composed by within a double gilt fillet with armorial corner- Henry Hexham Quarter-Master at the Regiment pieces, flat spine gilt, later (18th-cent.) red morocco of the Honourable Coronell Goring. [- An label added at head, lacking green silk ties. Appendix, of the Quarter for the ransoming Paris: L. Feburier, 1619 £400 of Officers of all Qualities, and Souldiers,... The Amsterdam arms on the covers are those illustrated Together, with the lawes, and articles of marshall (vol. I p. 187 B) by J. Storm van Leeuwen in Dutch decorated Discipline enacted on the States side. With their bookbinding in the eighteenth century. Bourdelot’s commentary placcard of Musters. And other necessaries forms the second part of the book. depending on the warre. - The second part of the principles of the Art Militarie, practised in the Warres of the United Provinces: Consisting of the Severall Formes of Battell, represented by the Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange of famous Memorie, and his Highnesse Frederick Henrie Prince of Orange that now is... Together with the order, and forme of Quartering, encamping, and Approching in a warre offensive, and defensive. - The Third Part of the Principles of the Art Militarie... Treating of severall peeces of ordnance, carriages, engines, quadrants, morters, petards, as also instructions for Master Gunners, and Canoniers. Part 1: [4], 55, [1]pp; Appendix 20pp; 2 folding engraved plates, 46 engraved illustrations in the text (mostly full or 3/4-page), 2 engraved volvelles Henry Hexham began his military career at the siege on pp. 46 & 47. London: M. P[arsons] for M. Symons gilt in compartments, gilt edges, small hole in text of dedication (paper flaw), tear in pp. 15-16 of part of Ostend in 1601. Remaining in Holland he published (Delft: Jan Petersen Waelpte), 1637. FIRST EDITION. in 1610 and 1611 two translations of works of religious Reprinted at Delft in 1642 (Sloos 03022). 1, lacks ties, tear from a paper flaw across the top corner of p. 19/20 in the Appendix to part 1. controversy by Polyander a Kerchoven. He continued his Part 2: [2], 18, 40pp; 18 engr. plates London: R. military career and was fighting (still for Sir Francis Vere as Young, 1639. SECOND EDITION. This part was As Louis Sloos has recently demonstrated with his splendid his quartermaster) at the relief of Breda (1625), and at the 110 HELMONT, Franciscus Mercurius van. first printed at Delft in 1638. catalogue Warfare and the age of Printing Catalogue of Early sieges of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (1629) and Maastricht(1631). Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima Part 3: The third part etc. pp. [8], 18, [2], 45-48, 25- Printed Books from before 1801 in Dutch military collections, It was on this bedrock of practical military experience Leiden: Brill, 2008, Holland’s rôle in the development of delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, 33, [1], 37-40, 21-28, 47-50, 21-28, [4], 75, [2], 80-81, that he drew to write a number of works on military a properly organised and paid army of modest size, which juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari [1], 3 folding engraved plate, engraved illustrations discipline and organisation, as well as fortification (he the state could afford to pay, was of great importance (op. translated Marolois’ work on fortification (1638)) and possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, pp. 47-50 (signed N) with double-page plate on cit. p. 93). Classical influences as documented in ancient pp. [48-49] printed on a smaller size of paper The ordnance: an unrecorded work by him A briefe treatise sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant. and Byzantine writers, who stressed the importance of drill of the founding, making and practise of ordnance, carriages, Hague: F. vander Spruyt, 1640. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (130 x 65mm.), [36 (incl. additional engraved and exercise, were conveyed through Justus Lipsius and engins, quadrants, morters, petards London, 1641 was also title)], 107, [1]pp., 36 engraved plates, eighteenth- The collation of this part matches that of the copy others to figures such as the stadtholders Maurice (1567- in the Macclesfield Library. He also wrote accounts of century smooth calf, gilt. in the BL (C.122.i.4.) in every way apart from the 1625) and William Louis (1560-1620). English captains several battles, translated Mercator’s Atlas into English, and Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1657 (1667) £1800 fact that quire N (pp. 47-50) is here printed on small and soldiers, the most famous of them Sir Philip Sidney, compiled a Dutch-English dictionary and grammar. were much involved in the struggles of the Dutch against A handsome copy of this fascinating work. The correct paper. £10,000 the Spanish, and Henry Hexham fits into this pattern, STC 13264; 13264.6; 12364.7. Cockle 136, 137. date appears in the colophon and on the engraved title. 3 parts in 1 volume, folio (348 x 213mm.), and plays an important part in the transference of the [see inside front cover for photograph of binding] VD17 12:153272L; Dünnhaupt (2nd edition) 2375.1; contemporary red morocco gilt, narrow roll borders, Dutch scientific approach to England. Krivatsy 5426. central cartouche formed of sprays of olive, spine

MAGGS 43 112 HOWELL, James. Lustra Ludovici, First separate edition, and a fine crisp copy. The translation 1772, see note), original blue paper wrappers, vol. or the late victorious king of France, Lewis and commentary on Porphyry is by Lucas Holstenius 2 split. the XIII (and his cardinall de Richelieu). librarian of the Palatine library. Part 1 (Iamblichus) has a London: printed for G. Robinson, 1777 £550 new Latin version by Obrecht, and also contains a number Folio (278 x 182mm.), [12], 188,[8]pp., engraved Jones (1726-1800) was educated at Charterhouse and medallion portrait of the dedicatee Prince Charles of pencilled annotations in English, possibly by Edward Wake (see below). The work is dedicated by Kuster to the University College, Oxford. A divine of Hutchinsonian by G[eorge]. G[lover]. On *2r, woodcut initials and Bishop of Norwich, John Moore, whose famous library is in views (i.e. anti-Newtonian views, which believed that the head-pieces, rule border, seventeenth-century red Cambridge UL, and whose son accompanied George Parker, Bible contained all science) he published many works (some morocco gilt, panelled sides with fleuron at corners, the second Earl of Macclesfield, on his Grand Tour. reprinted) and founded the periodical The British Critic. Although most of the book is devoted to a detailed spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, long tear in Hoffmann ii, 388. P3 with slight loss, occasional other short tears in description of Paris and its libraries (notably Ste Geneviève), Provenance: armorial bookplate of Edward Wake (1664/5- margins, occasional manuscript notes in margins, and ‘cabinets’ as well as the theatre etc., he also described 1732) of Christ Church, later canon of Canterbury. places he saw en voyage such as the English College at St. small tear on upper cover. Omer: ‘This day I went to the English college, saw their London: [by John Legate II] for Humphrey Moseley, chapel, and the theatre in which they perform the plays of 1646 £450 ESTIENNE’S LAST FOLIO TEXT Terence and practise the art of elocution. In their library First edition. This biography of Louis XIII contains ‘The 116 . Orationes et epistolae. I found many English books of controversial divinity, with life of Armand John de Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu’. Cum Latina interpretatione Hier. Wolfii, ab some answers (unheard by us) to books which we reckon Wing H3092. ipso postremum recognita, etc. unanswerable...’ Jones, who was a musician and organist himself (in fact Provenance: P.J. Wright collation note on flyleaf dated Folio (338 x 330mm.), [14]ff. 427, 131, XXXIVpp. he recounts how he played works by Händel and Corelli September 1720. [1]f. (blank). [4]ff. 31pp. [9]ff., early 18th century on a Paris organ), devotes a whole chapter to the organs English mottled calf, covers panelled in blind, spine of Paris and visits a monastery with ‘an expert organist, gilt in compartments, red morocco label, printed 113 HULSIUS, Levinus. Chronologia, Monsieur De Luce, one of the players at the cathedral of pastedowns etc. (see below), slight worming, upper hoc est brevis descriptio rerum the Notre Dame... He was so obliging as to exhibit upon joint split at head and foot. the different stops... The chief excellency of this organ, memorabilium, in provinciis hac adiuncta tabula of how he was asked in the previous year (1534) by the [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1593. £900 is in the reed stops, and the lightness of the touch. It has topographica comprehensis gestarum, usq; ad publisher Hervagius to reread Boccaccio’s Geneologiae four rows of keys, with thirty-two pedal notes; so that a A famous edition of Isocrates with what was the standard hunc M.D. IIIC. annum praesentem. deorum and thence to continue his work on Hyginus, strain, of the cantabile kind, may be played upon a reed version of the dyspeptic scholar Hieronymus Wolf. 4to (198 x 150mm.), [6], 89(rectè 90)pp. large which he saw would be useful to young students. The stop with one hand, an accompaniment, or second part, The printed pastedowns and free-endpapers are bifolia armorial engraving on title (arms of imperial manuscript used by Micyllus (Molsheim-Moltzer, 1503- with the other hands, while a base is thrown in... with the from a late 16th century 4to Latin Bible printed in London, provinces), and of Eberhard, Bishop of Spier on 1558, German Neo-Latin poet and editor) was in the foot...’ (in vol. ii postscript no. 3 (pp. 193-196) gives the probably one of the editions printed by Henry Middleton Beneventan script (‘literis longobardicis’) and does not registration of ‘one of the best organs at Paris’). f. A2v, contemporary vellum, foot of spine worn. for Christopher Barker, 1580-1585, the earliest complete survive, although fragments have been found sufficient to The print of acting at Ferney is made from Nürnberg: C. Lochner, 1597 £500 Latin printed in England (see Darlow and Moule indicate that Micyllus was a poor editor (see Alan Cameron a drawing by Thomas Orde of Lincoln’s Inn (see vol. ii II, no. 6166). The pages are numbered 117-119, 122-124, VD16 H5069. Greek mythography in the Roman world, 2004). pp. 191-192). Voltaire is frequently discussed in parts of 129-130 (Maccabees), 131, 142-144 (Ecclesiastes; p. 131 with Hyginus is an important source for ancient mythology, the text. two decorative woodcut initials). Narrow strips of binder’s and may have originally written in Greek; certainly his 114 HYGINUS, Caius Julius. Fabularum waste from manuscript written in a neat late Carolingian sources are Greek. liber... Poeticon astronomicon libri minuscule hand. Provenance: Georgius Melchior, 1664 with inscription 118 JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Some observations quatuor... Arati Phaenomena graece... Procli de Provenance: Inscriptions on title-page of “E libris Thomae on title-page. of the additions to & differences from sphaera libellus, graece & latine [ed. J. Micyllus]. Coke” (early 17th century), “T:Osborne” (17th century) and the truth contained in the storie of the holy Folio (317 x 200mm.), [8], 251, [29]pp., last leaf “Wm. Robinson” (18th century). Fine armorial bookplate scripture together with a compend of the rest of blank, device on title-page, woodcut illustrations, 115 IAMBLICHUS. [Greek]... De vita inside front cover of “William Robinson é Coll. Jes. Soc. Josephus his XX books of the Jewish Antiquities. Com.” (of College, Oxford, matriculated 13 July contemporary vellum over pasteboards, spine pythagorica liber... notisque... illustratus (A compend of Josephus his 7 bookes of trhe 1706 - see Alumni Oxoniensis III, p. 1269). slightly cracked. a Ludolphon Kustero. Versionem latinam... Jewish warres. - A compend of the ecclesiasticall Renouard 155: 1; Schreiber 224. Basel: ex officina Hervagiana, per E. Episcopium confecit... Ulricus Obrechtus. Accedit Malchus, historie in X books by Eusebius Pamphilus...- A (August), 1570 £1500 sive Porphyrius de vita Pythagorae [etc.] compend of the ecclesiasticall historie in VII This fine, large volume is a collection of mythographical 2 parts 4to (202 x 145mm.), [16(incl. engr. frontis), 117 [JONES, William]. Observations in a bookes by Socrates scholasticus. - A compend of texts and contains mythological works by Palaephatus, 219, [17]; 93, [1]pp., 2 columns, title printed in red journey to Paris by way of Flanders, in the the ecclesiasticall historie written in VI bookes by Fulgentius, Phurnutus, Albricus, and the Latin version of and black, contemporary English panelled calf, gilt month of August 1776. Evagrius scholasticus.) Aratus attributed to Germanicus Caesar. It was originally spine, red morocco lettering-piece. 2 volumes 8vo (170 x 110mm.), viii, 196; [4], 200pp., 8vo (142 x 90mm.), MANUSCRIPT in English, ff. published in 1535. The editor, Micyllus in his dedication to Amsterdam: widow of S. Petzold & C. Petzold, 1707 engraved caricature of Voltaire in vol. 1 (T.O. f. [228], first leaf and last 4 leaves blank, written in a Otho Truchses, canon of Speyer (here reprinted), speaks £700 MAGGS 45 single hand in brown ink, 20 -26 lines to the page. Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempfer for G. Tampach, 1621 (- Silesia of the life and career of the founder of Jewish Contents: The 5 sections are dated 20 November 1622) £15,000 bibliography Shabbethai Bass b. Joseph (1641-1718) with an account of his work as printer at Dyrenfurth, a small 1651(1v) & 2 December (61v) (Antiquities); 3 Second edition with an appendix containing Kepler’s town near Breslau, titled ‘index librorum in Silesia typis December 1651 (62v) & 10 December 1651 (101r) defence against Robert Fludd. The missing engraved plate, Dyrenfurtensibus ab anno Christi 1690 ad annum 1710 (Jewish Wars); 11 December 1651 (103r) (Life of dated Tubingen 1597 (‘Orbium planetarum dimensiones evulgatorum’ (pp. 1691-712). Josephus); 15 December 1651 (104v) & 23 December etc.’) should be at p. 27. The publication continued until 1717 and a full set 1651 (149r) (Eusebius); 24 December 1651(149v) VD17 12:637078S; Caspar 67 & 68; Houzeau & Lancaster comprises 60 issues in 5 volumes. Many libraries have a & 23 January 1651/2 (Socrates followed (196v) by 2841. microfilm, but only Göttigen seems to have a complete set. Evagrius). Contemporary rough calf, rubbed. 1651- Provenance: on the front fly-leaf is written N 1340 (lot 1652 £3000 121 KRAG, Niels. De republica number from a sale). An interesting resumé of both OT and christian history Lacedaemoniorum libri III... Opus taken mostly from Josephus (ff. 1-103), and from the politicarum... studiosis, lectu iocundum, nec histories of Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius, the works of 123 LASENA, Pietro. Dell’antico ginnasio whom are frequently printed together both in the original inutile futurum (Heraclidae Pontici de politiis napoletano. Opera posthuma. Greek, in Latin translation and in the English version libellus cum interpretatione latina edente 4to (200 x 155mm.), [20], 229, [3]pp., plus engraved of Meredith Hanmer, originally published in 1577, but Nicolao Cragio - Ex Nicolai Damasceni title, title-page cropped, seventeenth-century reprinted, and with an edition published in 1650 (Wing universali historia seu de moribus gentium mottled calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in E3421). Josephus was similarly translated into English libris excerpta Ioannis Stobaei collectanea etc.) compartments. and widely read. 3 parts 4to (215 x 160mm.), [16], 269, [3(blank)]; 35, Naples: a spese di C. Porpora, [1688] £850 At the very end are 2 pages of notes on Grotius De jure [1]; 23pp., contemporary (? Scandinavian) vellum This is the second edition of this work by Pietro Lasena belli ac pacis on the treatment of prisoners ‘captivis parci jus over thin wooden boards, yapp edges. (1590-1636), originally published posthumously in 1641 naturale et commune’, with some references to Xenophon, [Geneva]: P. Saintandré, 1593 £400 Sallust, and Camden (‘1598 in causa Hawkins’). Whether by Cardinal Brancaccio (1592 - 1675), whose library forms these have some contemporary resonance, which may well First edition of this work, which is in three parts, all the basis of the public library at Naples. Copies having be the case, is unclear. of them connected to the main theme which is that of (it appears) become rare, it was reprinted in 1688 at the social organisation, in particular that of Sparta, which instigation of Giuseppe Valletta. Another work from is discussed from every angle, geographical, political, Lasena’s pen was Cleombrotus, 1637, a work on those who 119 JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata. domestic, diet etc.. The work is dedicated to Niels Kaas, had died by drowning, like Lasena’s parents. This too was Eiusdem aenigmata libellus. Cum noua & the Danish chancellor from 1573. published posthumously, and illustrated with an engraving emblematum & aenigmatum appendice. of Bernini’s Bercacca statue. Vinciana 4477. Some seven copies are in various British 16mo (115 x 74mm.), 167pp., woodcuts, speckled calf RABBI SHABBETHAI BASS BEN JOSEPH c. 1700, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece. libraries, including 3 at Cambridge, whereas of the 1641 Leiden: F. Raphelengius ex off. Plantiniana, 1596 122 [KRAUSE, Johann, editor]. Neuer edition only three are recorded in UK (and only 3 others Bücher=Saal der gelehrten Welt oder by OCLC). £950 the dedication (signed *) to Clement VIII by Cayet ausführliche Nachrichten von allerhand neuen 58 woodcuts, mostly unsigned, by Arnaud Nicolai and bound at end. Büchern... Die I. (XII.) Oeffnung. (nebst denen Geeraard Jansen van Kampen after Luc de Herre, Pierre 124 LAURET, Christophe. La doctrine des Paris: Cramoisy, 1610 £6000 Huys and Geoffroy Ballaing. Some copies are dated dazu gehörigen Registern über die ersten zwölff temps et de l’astronomie universelle An extraordinary work which marries astronomy and 1595. Oeffnungen). contenant la démonstration du vray nombre biblical history, pointing out that accurate calculations are Landwehr 406. 8vo (162 x 95mm.), [16], 969, [76]pp. frontispiece des ans du monde, & des orbes célestes... par & portraits, contemporary vellum backed paper the basis of accurate calendars which themselves provide Christofle Lavret de Provins... avec une épistre a the framework into which historical events are fitted, and boards. notre St Père le Pape Clément le huictiesme... par in particular biblical chronology. 120 KEPLER, Johann. Prodromus Leipzig: Gleditsch & Weidmannishe Buchhandlung, P. Victor Cayet. Christophe Lauret (c.1547-1615) avocat au siège dissertationum cosmographicarum... 1710 -1711 £550 Folio (350 x 210mm.); ff.[8] 133 (= 135, several présidial de Provins, and a Greek and Hebrew scholar, Addita est... narratio M. Georgii Rhetici, de libris Issues 1-12 (with index), edited by J.G. Krause, of this mispaginations etc.) 1]; large woodcut printer’s explains in his dedication to Martin Ruzé, how he started revolutionum, etc. excellent collection of book reviews etc. Amongst those device on title-page, woodcut head-pieces, tail- at the age of 20 to study astronomy in order to improve Folio (280 x 186mm.), [8], 114, 119-163, [1]; [50]pp., whose portraits are given are Leibniz and. Amongst the pieces, initials, mid-nineteenth century calf the way in which men conceived time. Book I outlines 4 ‘tabellae’ with woodcut diagrams and with the different ways of conceiving the year and time, books discussed are Overbeke’s series of engravings by Hatton in Manchester, triple blind fillet on letterpress (I-IIat pp. 18, IV at p. 54, V at p. 56), with an account of the calendar reform of 1582 by the of Rome, Poleni’s Miscellanea, works on mathematics boards, blind fleuron in boards’ corner and in woodcut diagrams, contemporary speckled calf, by Hermann and Verzaglia, various works of classical papal bull ‘Inter gravissimas’ of Gregory XIII. This is spine compartments, morocco lettering piece, red spine gilt in compartments, some browning, lacking and oriental scholarship, a notice of Maittaire’s Historia followed by a perpetual Roman calendar and by another edges, f. 58 stained, small hole with loss of text the engraved plate numbered III. Stephanorum and a long account sent by a gentleman from table with details of how different calendrical systems in f. 126, few manuscript annotations in margin, MAGGS 47 allow for extra days. The second book is an account of and professor of oriental languages by Henri IV. A very John Collins, the mathematician whose books and papers blue boards, vellum spine, lettered in manuscript, the “sphère artificielle” or armillary sphere, again with learned man with a wide knowledge of oriental and other came into the Macclesfield library. lacking the dedication. tables of calculations; the third book on ‘la théorique du languages (he published his Paradigmata in 1596), he was Bound with: London: for John Brett and Ruth Charlton, [1738] firmament’ is followed by a catalogue of zodiacal signs also interested in alchemy and millenarianism. A translation £450 and fixed stars. Book IV is about the moon and is again from Widman Histoire prodigieuse et lamentable du Docteur MARROIS, Jean. Traité succint de la followed by tables and rules governing lunar calculations Fauste, grand magicien was published in 1603 brought him trigonométrie géométrique aux triangles “In February 1738 [Lediard] wrote A Scheme... dedicated (Copernicus is here referred to, p. 55). Book V discusses the reputation of a magician. He wrote several important rectilignes sans les sinus. Par une manière to Lord Sundon and Sir Charles Wager, the members of solar and lunar cycles, and book VI the date of the world’s historical works, enlarged Genebrard’s Chronographia in générale, laquelle donne la vraye proportion, parliament for Westminster. About this time, possibly to foundation etc. (also followed by tables). Book VII, which the edition of 1600, and translated from the Spanish, as & grandeur des costés d’un triangle, soit en some extent in consequence of this, he was appointed agent contains 179 sections discusses the basis of chronology well as other languages. De la venue de l’Antechrist, comment et longitude, ou en puissance. and surveyor of Westminster Bridge. It seems probable that and history, in particular that of the Jews and the Bible. en quel temps il viendra..., Paris, Richer 1602, is a translation [6], 48pp., some cropping of headlines. Orléans: Cl. he was the ‘JP for Westminster’ who was appointed in 1742 to succeed the recently deceased Nathaniel Blacherby as On ff. 72-73 are given in French, translations made from into French of the Consummatio mundi ac de Antichristo of & J. Borde, 1647. the Septuagint and the Hebrew text of the Bible shewing Hippolytus (earlier translated into French in 1579). ‘Treasurer for Westminster Bridge’ (GM, 12.275, where, Marrois taught mathematics to a wide variety of students however, the name is printed ‘John’), for on 13 July 1742 the chronological disparity by which the same person The book is rare, and we have located only 8 copies as from all over Europe from the 1630s until the 1660s. In ‘the crown lands from Westminster Bridge to Charing seems to have lived a different number of years. Book follows: Paris: BNF, Arsenal, S.Genevieve; Germany: 1632 he published with René Frémont at Orléans his Traité Cross’ were granted to him and Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bt, to VI contains much other chronological information about Göttingen; UK: BL, Merton Coll. Oxford; USA: Columbia, de la méthode de nombre ou de la numération, in 1644 with hold ‘in trust to the Commissioners appointed to build the ancient world. Books VIII-XII are concerned with NYPL. the planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury), and Hotot Premier livre des élémens de mathématiques, and this Westminster Bridge’ (ibid., 12.385).” - ODNB. De La Lande (Bibliographie astronomique, 1803) p.132; book XIII contains tables of planetary calculations. The third work in 1647. In some totally exaggerated verses Lacking the dedication to William, Lord Sundon and Dictionnaire des lettres françaises (ed. M. Simonin), Paris: penultimate book XIV discusses “la racine originelle et which may reflect more on his teaching abilities than on Sir Charles Wager, perhaps as it was being presented to Fayard 2001, 239-240 (Cayet). primitive des mouvemens célestes”, viewed as a necessary his published work, he is addressed as : Lord Macclesfield. Provenance: ownership inscription on title-page of Philip « Archimède nouveau, vivant portrait d’Euclide, base for all historical calculations and book XV deals with Harris 488. what are called ‘Antidoxes’ or contrary opinions about a Warrick (Sir Philip Warwick 1609-1683) politician and « Oronce déguisé, Galilé de nos temps, whole variety of astronomical, astrological and historical historian (see ODNB). « Copernic de nos jours, le Tycho de nos ans, statements, ending with an account of how many years « Ptolémé revenu pour nous servir de guide. » 127 LENFANT, Jacques. Histoire du (See the short article by H. Tranchau ‘Jean Marrois from the creation of the world to the time of Salvation. This Concile de Pise, et de ce qui s’est passé 125 LE CORDIER, Samson. Instruction professeur de mathématiques à Orléans et son Album is given (ff. 132-133) according to a wide range of writers, de plus mémorable depuis ce Concile jusqu’au Jewish, Christian, medieval and recent: Melanchthon, des pilotes ou traité des latitudes, amicorum quelques mots sur d’autres albums français et contenant les tables de la déclinaison du soleil, allemands’ in Mémoires de la société archéologique et historique Concile de Constance… Enrichie de portraits. Génébrard, Scaliger (his De emendatione temporum) & 4to (250x190mm.), [4], LIII, [1], 366; [4], 327 [31], others. At the end of the text, Lauret announces a Latin et des plus reconnaissables & plus claires étoiles de l’Orléanais, vol. 22 (1889) pp. 499-534). engraved frontispiece of Jacques Lenfant by Picart, translation of the work intended to be printed and read du firmament... Neuvieme édition... seconde KVK lists copies at Weimar (? Destroyed in fire) and Paris internationally. This seems never to have been done (but partie. Ste Geneviève. 13 engraved plates of portraits, 1 engraved plate of 8 4+1 medals, engraved large device on both title-pages see below for Génébrard’s Chronographia). [8], 177, 3, [2]pp., (sig.[*4], A-L , M ), last leave with 3 works in one volume, 8vo (154 x 100mm.), eighteenth- “perspective de la ville de Pise” by W. Fongman. Lauret published also Hazoar, sive illustratio prohetarum privilege slightly torn, pp.1-3 at end with “Catalogue century half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red de plenitudine temporis Messiae, Paris: Cramoisy, 1610,, a Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1724 £450 des livres et cartes marines”. morocco lettering-piece, red edges. work with similar intent. Le Havre: veuve de Jacques Hubault, 1708 £1500 The Council of Pisa (1409) aimed at putting an end to the The dedication to Pope Clement VIII by Pierre Cayet, western schism that divided the papacy between Rome Samson Le Cordier (Havre 1647-1709 Dieppe), taught (bound at the end) is a seven page text, here annotated 126 LEDIARD, Thomas. Some observations and Avignon. The opposing pontiffs agreed on one thing hydrography at Dieppe, and first published this little with anti-papal comments, on the first page, on *iii and the only, the illegality of the council. Thus both were accused book in 1683. It was still in print in the mid eighteenth on the scheme, offered by Messrs. Cotton last one. The title reads: A notre St Pere le pape Clement of heresy and witchcraft, and, as they refused to come to century. This edition prints the second part only (see and Lediard, for opening the streets and huictieme, par la providence de Dieu et a son deshonneur. Pisa to defend themselves, the Popes were dismissed and J. Polak, Bibliographie maritime française, Grenoble, 1976, passages to and from the intended bridge Souverain pontife et chef de nostre Mere Sainte Eglise Alexander V was elected. Thus there were three popes. no. 5566). at Westminster. In a Letter from one of the Catholique Romaine. C’est a dire idolatre. Apres avoir The schism finally ended in 1414 with the Council of Commissioners for Building the said Bridge, to tres-devotement & en toute humilité baisé les pieds de Bound with: Constance, the subject of Lenfant’s previous book. sa Saincteté et aussi le cul s’il luy plait je m’appliquay a DARY, Michael. The general doctrine of Mr. Lediard, and his Answer. With the Scheme escrire ce livre.” equation... in three chapters; concerning the and Plan prefix’d: To which is added, a plan of Pierre Cayet (1525-1610), who sometimes designates 128 LEOPARDUS (LIEBAERT), Paulus. invention reduction solution of an equation. the lower parts of the parishes of St. Margaret himself with the name of a non-existent title, Sieur de Emendationum et miscellaneorum libri 16pp., a few page numbers shaved, London: for the and St. John the Evangelist, from the Horse- la Palme, and after his conversion to catholicism took viginti... Tomus prior, decem libros continens. author, 1664. Wing D276 (BL, Bodley and UCLA Ferry to White-hall. the surname Victor, was a pupil of Ramus, under whose 4to (245 x 195mm.), [2], 3-26pp., two folding 4to (190 x 130mm.), [12], 279, [13]pp., late influence he became a protestant, studying at Geneva and only). engraved plans of the north bank of the Thames seventeenth-century morocco leather, spine gilt, in Germany. He later became a pastor and in 1593/4 was Michael Dary ‘philomath’ was the author of a number of from Westminster Hall to the Plantation Office and morocco lettering-piece. brought to Paris by his pupil Catherine de Bourbon. In works, all of them rare or uncommon. He was known to 1595 he returned to catholicism and was made chronologer from the Horse Ferry to Whitehall, contemporary Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1567 £450

MAGGS 49 Leopardus was a Belgian humanist born at Isemberge (near Moreau 1501/854; Goff L27. title-page (several copies recorded by KVK). There is a 135 LOREDAN, Bernardino. In M. Tullii Furnes), who studied at Louvain, who opened a Latin school Provenance: Nicolas Mallary of Rouen; Nicolas Maillard third edition dated 1670 published at Uppsala, and the Ciceronis orationes de lege agraria contra at Hondschoote. He eventually became headmaster of the (c. 1486-1565) see Bietenholz, P. & al. Contemporaries of work was also reprinted with the same author’s Historia P. Servilium Rullum tribunum pl. commentarius gymnasium at Bergues St. Winnoc where he died in June Erasmus pp. 369-370. Another book from his library is Suecana in 1676. [with the text]. 1567. In 1556 he published a translation of Aristippus, Vita, the 1513 Estienne Quincuplex Psalterium in Paris (BNF The son of a merchant, Johan Loccenius (Hamburg 4to (200 x 150mm.), 297, [3]pp., contemporary limp & chriae sive apophthegmata Aristippi, Diogenis, Demonactis, 1598- Uppsala 1697), a jurist, was educated at various Rés. G.a. 17). vellum, ms. guards. Stratonici, Demosthenis & Aspasiæ. Quires A-H were actually European universities, and in 1651 became Queen printed at Bruges by Goltzius and then the stock was Christina’s royal historiographer. He published works Venice: Paulus Manutius, July 1558 £500 transferred to Plantin who printed the remainder and the 131 LLWYD, Humphrey. Commentarioli on law and history. Ahmanson Murphy 535; Renouard 174:8. prelims. This collection of conjectures etc. is very much in Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. the tradition of Low Countries philological scholarship, 8vo (153 x 94mm.), ff. [8], 79 [=78], [2(blank)], 133 LOISEL, Antoine. Memoires des pays, 136 LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus. Lucan’s a tradition still common in the nineteenth century with eighteenth-century smooth calf, gilt spine, without villes, comté et comtes, evesché et Pharsalia. Translated into English Verse by books such as Cobet’s Variae lectiones. the final blanks. evesques… de Beauvais et Beauvaisis. Nicholas Rowe, Esq; Servant to His Majesty. Copies are listed by Voet at Plantin Moretus Museum, Cologne: J. Birckmann, 1572 £900 Brussels, Cambridge (6), and BL, but there are copies 4to (205 x 160mm.), [4], 367, [19]pp., title printed Folio (475 x 280mm.), [6], xxv, [5], 446, 55pp. Large elsewhere, including Bodley, Magdalen College, Yale, etc. First edition of Llwyd’s geographical and historical in red and black, woodcut device on title-page, Paper copy, engraved frontispiece by B. Baron after description of Ancient Britain. It is prefixed by his farewell Voet 1519. woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, 1 engraved Louis Cheron, double-page map of the Roman letter to the cartographer Abraham Ortelius dated from illustration, seventeenth century calf, triple-fillet gilt Empire, engraved head and tailpieces by Elisha Denbigh 30 August 1568 (the original dated “3o”, i.e. with fleuron in each corner on boards, spine gilt in Kirkhall after Cheron, contemporary calf, panelled 129 LEOPOLD, Johann Friedrich. Relatio “Tertio Augusti” or 3 August is in the National Library of Wales) and ends with a short Welsh vocabulary. An compartments, morocco lettering piece, spine used, in blind, gilt spine (upper joint cracked but firm), epistolica de itinere suo suecico anno. English translation by Thomas Twyne, The Breuiary of slightly water-stained on title-page and in upper some light browning. MDCCVII facto. Ad... Johannem Woodward, etc. Britayne, was published in 1573. corner of the first pages. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1718 £600 8vo (195 x 120mm.), viii (=vi), [2], 111pp., fly-title, Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568), was personal physician Paris: S. Thiboust, 1617 £700 Provenance: Subscriber’s copy. 8 numbered folding engraved plates and maps, to the Earl of Arundel for 15 years but returned to his First (and only) edition of this classic work of local history woodcut head and tail-pieces, contemporary calf, home town, Denbigh, in 1563. He was M.P. for East by a leading lawyer. gilt border on covers, spine gilt, edges gilt, a little Grinstead 1559 and Denbigh 1563-67. He was also a noted 137 MACCHIAVELLI, Niccolo. Historie. Provenance: manuscript ex-libris on top of title-page. rubbed. antiquary and the manuscript of this work was sent to 12mo (137 x 75mm.), [12], 559, [9]pp., italic London: T. Childe, 1720 £525 Ortelius by Llwyd from his deathbed, together with a letter, woodcut printer’s device on title-page, map of England, a map of England and Wales and one First edition. A handsome copy of this posthumously 134 LONGINUS, Dionysius. On the sublime: woodcut headpiece and initials, seventeenth century of Wales - the two latter, Angliae Regni Forentissimi Nova published work on Swedish geology with plates and translated from the Greek, with notes speckled calf binding, spine gilt in compartments, Descriptio and Cambriae Typus were published by Ortelius descriptions of mountains, natural phenomena, geological lettering-piece (lacking), binding rubbed, spine gilt in the first supplement to his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in and observations, and some account of the life, specimens etc. The work is addressed to John Woodward 1573 - the Cambriae Typus being the first map of Wales writings, and character of the author. By William detaching, small hole on the last page. (See J.M. Levine Dr. Woodward’s Shield, 1977). The author ever published. Smith... The second edition, corrected and Piacenza: Gli heredi di Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari [i.e. Leopold (1676-1711) came from Lübeck and as the title The work has a philological aspect in as much as Llwyd improved. London: John Wolfe]1587 £700 states made this journey through Sweden in 1708. distinguishes between the two types of Celtic, the ‘p’ Celts 8vo (198 x 120.mm.), [16], xxxiv, 189, [1]pp., engraved Macchiavelli (1469-1527) was commissioned by Giulio ESTC records a 1722 edition (one copy only) and what and the ‘q’ Celts. frontispiece by G. Van Der Gucht, woodcut head- di Giuliano de Medici, later Pope Clement VII to write may well be a reissue of this 1720 edition in 1727 with Shaaber, Check of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in and tailpieces, woodcut initials, contemporary red this history of Florence, in which he had to suppress his the names of Bickerton and Joseph Pote (later of Eton) Languages other than English, to 1641, L335. VD16 L2153. morocco, wide gilt border on covers, spine gilt in republican views. It was first published in 1532. in the imprint. Copies are to be located in several British, Libri Walliae no. 3313. German and North American libraries. compartments, gilt edges, slight wear to joints. References: STC 17161; WoodfieldSurreptitious Printing London: for W. Sandby, 1742 £750 33; Bertelli, ‘Bibliografia machiavelliana’ 178. 132 LOCCENIUS (LOCHEN), Johan. The dedication copy, specially bound for George, second Provenance: Lt. gen. George L. Parker bookplate. 130 LETO, Giulio Pomponio (LAETUS, Julius Antiquitatum Sueo-gothicarum, cum huius earl of Macclesfield. The translation by Smith, based on Pomponius). Romanae historiae aevi moribus, institutis ac ritibus indigenis pro the edition of Zachary Pearce (himself a protegé of the compendium, etc. Macclesfield family) was first published in 1739. In his 138 MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius. re nata comparatarum libri tres. Editio secunda, 4to in 6’s (189 x 133mm.), ff. [62], woodcut illustration notes Smith draws attention to many modern writers, In Somnium Scipionis lib. II. emendatior & auctior. on title-page, large device at end, eighteenth-century Tasso, Milton, Pope, etc. and several times to Shakespeare Saturnaliorum lib. VII. 8vo (155 x 95mm.), [8], 168pp., seventeenth-century smooth calf, gilt spine, red edges. (King Lear pp. 138-140, Macbeth pp. 147-148, Hamlet PP. 8vo (165 x 104mm.), 567, [73]pp., device on title- English sprinkled calf. (Paris: Jean Dupré, 7 May) 1501) £1500 158-159, Antony & Cleopatra p. 163, Romeo & Juliet p. page, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, Stockholm: Johan Jansson, [1654] £400 169, and Timon of Athens p. 170). lacking ties. A handsome copy of this resumé of Roman history from the A very nice copy of this work, first published in 1647. This [see inside back cover for photograph of binding] Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1556 £550 younger Gordian II (AD 238) to Justin III in the early 7th second edition is also found with the date 1654 on the century. The work was first printed in 1499 in Venice. A very attractive copy. Baudrier: ix, 284-285. MAGGS 51 139 MANFREDI, Eustachio. Elementi della 142 MAUPAS DU TOUR, Henri Couchon de, 144 MELANCHTHON, Philipp. 147 MONTJOSIEU, Louis de. Gallus Romae cronologia con diverse scritture Bishop of Puy. La Vie du venerable serviteur Grammatica latina. hospes. Ubi multa antiquorum monimenta appartenenti al calendario romano. Opera de Dieu, François de Sales, etc. (Abregé de 8vo (162 x 111mm.), 368pp. contemporary French explicantur, etc. postuma. l’Esprit intérieur des religieuses de la visitation binding of calf, blind-stamped panel on covers with [4], 24; 27, [1];15, [1];[2], 20; [2], 5, [1]pp., full-page 4to (255 x 180mm.), [14],362, [2 (imprimatur)]pp., de Sainte Marie). central vase of flowers stamp, vellum ms. guards engravings in text, small marginal paper restoration engraved device on title-page, woodcut initials, 2 parts 4to (245 x 175mm.), 411; 53, [3]pp., ruled (15th-cent.), binding slightly worn. to title-page, f. + of part 1 cropped at head and with woodcut diagrams, engraved headpiece, nineteenth in red, add. engraved title-page, 6 engraved plates Paris: R. Estienne, 1550 (1548) £550 repair to verso [Censimento 16 CNCE 25956]. century half calf by Hatton of Manchester, red after F. Chauveau, engraved by various hands, With a note on fly-leaf (quotation from Melanchthon) in Rome: G. Gigliotti, 1585 £1400 morocco lettering-piece, red speckled edges, lacking engraved head-pieces and initials, contemporary a small neat English hand. Bound with: frontispiece. French panelled red morocco, gilt floral corner- Renouard p. 77; not in Schreiber. BELON, Pierre. De admirabili operum Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1744 £450 pieces, spine gilt, turn-ins and edges gilt, slight antiquorum et rerum suspiciendarum First edition. Eustachio Manfredi (1674-1739) was founder damage to upper cover, paper flaw in pl. at p. 1 praestantia liber primus. De medicato funere... 145 MENGOLI, Pietro. Circolo of the Academy of Bologna, a poet and an astronomer. with consequent tear. & lugubri defunctorum eiulatione. Liber [on the quadrature of the circle]. References: Houzeau & Lancaster 13980; Ricardi ii, 85-86. Paris: J. & E. Langlois 1657 £850 secundus. De medicamentis nonnullis, seruandi [6], 60pp. (Riccardi ii, 156). ‘Vous devez tenir la doctrine salésienne comme un de cadaueris vim obtinentibus. Liber tertius. Bologna: heir of Benacci, 1672 £450 ferments de la civilisation moderne. Jugez-le comme vous ff. [4], 54, [4] Paris: B. Prevost, 1553 [Wellcome 756 140 MANUTIUS, Aldus, the younger. faites les autres, Érasme, Montaigne, par exemple. Son Bound with: (the author’s own copy with corrections etc.)] De quaesitis per epistolam libri III. influence s’ est exercée d’ordinaire sur une autre fraction FALCO y SEGURA, Jaime Juan. Iacobus 2 works in 1 volume 4to (213 x 150mm.), English 3 parts 8vo (150 x 85mm.), [8], 125, [3 (blank)]; 106, du public, mais elle n’a été ni moins étendue ni moins Falco… hanc circuli quadraturam invenit. panelled calf c. 1700, gilt fillets on covers, spine [6 (blank)]; 103pp., 17th-century German blind- profonde’ (Bremond, Hist. De la spiriitualité I, 127 (=I, 29, [1]pp., woodcut on title-page, woodcut figures 52 in 2006 reprint). gilt. stamped pigskin over pasteboard, red edges. in text, royal privilege in Catalan. Antwerp: P. Bellère Venice: [Aldus Manutius] 1576 £450 A handsome copy, ruled in red, and from the Foucault Louis de Montjosieu (died c. 1585) accompanied Henri duc library, of the life of St. François de Sales (1567-1622) who [Palau 86407]. First edition and a very nice copy. de Joyeuse to Rome in 1583 and this book is based on his became a priest in 1593 and bishop of Geneva in 1602. Dismissed by de Morgan as a worthless exercise researches there. Belon is better known as a doctor and Provenance: title-page inscribed ‘Paulus Johanne ?? Patavii However it is as a spiritual counsellor and writer that he (his copy is at University College London), but to be fair naturalist, but was a considerable historian. The work by MDLXXVII’. is famous. The order of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary the author, in his address to the reader, does not claim Belon (an édition partagée with Corrozet and Cavellat) UCLA 898; Renouard. was founded by St. Jeanne Françoise Frémiot de Chantal much for it, only asking that those who condemn it, do is dedicated to the Cardinal de Tournon, grand mécène (1572-1641), herself a woman famous for her spirituality, not do so before they understand it, and that they should of many French writers and scholars. Books 2 and 3 are together with François de Sales. write to him about his mistakes. Falco from Valencia first concerned with the preservation and commemoration 141 MAROLLES, Michel de. Tableaux du Provenance: de Cohon (inscription in red crayon on flyleaf) published this work there in 1587. of the dead, and book 1 describes and illustrates Roman temple des muses représentant les vertus, possibly A-D. Cohon (1595-1670), Bp. of Nîmes and Dôle; 2 works 4to (191 x 131mm.) disbound. monuments. et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) with his engraved Provenance: J. Tristan (sign. on title-page). l’antiquité. bookplate. Fol. [20], 477, [9]p. (336x245mm.), 58 engraved 146 MENNENS, Frans. Militarium ordinum plates & portrait of the author, engraved folding origines, statuta, symbola, et insignia, 148 MORE, Henry. An account of virtue: title-page, woodcut head and tail-pieces, initials 143 MEARS, Abraham. The Book of Religon, iconibus, additis genuinis. Hac editione or, Dr. Henry More’s abridgment of morals woodcut. Contemporary calf binding, rubbed, spine Ceremonies, and Prayers, of the Jews, as multorum ordinum... accessione locupletata. etc. [Encheiridion ethicum], put into English. The gilt in compartments, crackled, water stained in practised in their synagogues and families on 4to (203 x 148mm.), 12, 120pp., printed in 2 columns, second edition, corrected. corners throughout half of the book. all Occasions… To which is added, a preface woodcut illustrations, late eighteenth-century English 8vo (165 x 100mm.), [16], 264pp., panelled sheep. (Paris: Nicolas Langlois), 1655 £900 shewing the Intent of the Whole… Translated tree calf, spine gilt, yellow edges. London: printed for B. Tooke, 1701 £400 immediately from the Hebrew, by Ganaliel Ben Macerata: P. Salvioni for F. Manolessi, 1623 £800 First edition. Pedahzur, Gent. [Abraham Mears]. The translation is sometimes said to be by Edward Southwell, but the end of the preface, dated September Michel de Marolles (1600-1681) is famous for his collection 8vo (200 x 120mm.), [xiv], 291, [7]pp. Fine copy in Originally published at Cologne in 1613, this edition is dedicated by the publisher Manolessi to Antonio 1688 is signed K.W. It was first published in 1690. of 123,000 engravings which was bought by Colbert contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled with a gilt Barberini, the pope’s nephew. The imprint reads: for Louis XIV. He worked on many translations and double fillet, gilt spine (slightly rubbed). Provenance: inscription at end ‘Bibliothecae Gilberti historical accounts, as well as on the art of engraving Coloniae Agrippinae, et denuo Maceratae, apud Petrum Walmsley’. Gilbert Walmesley of Lichfield (1681-1747) London: for J. Wilcox, 1738 £1500 like the Catalogue de livres d’estampes et de figures en taille Salvionum... ad instantiam Francisci Manulessii bibliopolae was a friend of Dr. Johnson, who wrote ‘he was one of douce, avec un dénombrement des pièces qui y sont contenues, First English adaptation of the Siddur, the Jewish Prayer Anconitani’. the first friends that literature procured me’. His library fait à Paris en l’année 1666 or the present book. It contains Book. There is a copy of this edition in the Bodleian (Ashmole was sold in 1758. engravings of figures from the stories of Ovid, engraved 563) which is very uncommon outside Italy (where 9 copies ESTC records three copies of this edition in the UK (not BL by Cornelis Cloemaert after Diepenbeck. are recorded). The work was more than once reprinted or Bodley), and 6 in the USA (but not Yale or Harvard). Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with bookplate. at Cologne.

MAGGS 53 PATER NOSTER case the version given is the ‘versio vulgata’ expressed in 153 NEUGEBAUER, Salomon. Icones & vitae The work by Neugebauer belongs to the class of book these characters. This edition uses in addition to the types principum ac regum Poloniae omnium. popular from the late sixteenth century in which portraits 149 MUELLER, Andreas. Oratio orationum. available in Oxford, Irish type (on p. 57) in the version [8], 144, [12]pp., engraved title, engraved portraits and images (true and false) of monarchs, theologians, SS. orationis dominicae versiones praeter of the Pater Noster taken from the NT printed at the in text, Frankfurt: H. Palthenius f. J. de Zetter (prostat emperors etc. are given with a brief biography. auuthenticam fere centum, etc.] dominica expense of Robert Boyle. in off. L. Jennis), 1620. There is no copy of the Lex Frisionum, the work by polyglottos, polymorphos... editio novissima. Neugebauer or the final pamphlet at Yale; in fact of the Bound with: [16], 64pp.,[VD17 3:313865A; Nersessian 666], last we have found no trace. lacking title-page and dedication leaf, b2 signed a2, 150 MUZIO, Pio. Considerationi sopra SICCAMA, Sibrand, editor. Lex Frisionum, seu cropped, affecting some headlines & ms. marginalia, il primo libro di Cornelio Tacito. antiquae Frisiorum leges, etc. Berlin: officina Rungiana, 1680. 4to (220 x 155mm.), [56], 544, [4]; [36], 360 [4]pp., [6], 151 [=152, p. 136 bis], [8]pp., Franeker: J. 154 NEVE, Richard. The city and country IBID. ANOTHER EDITION. [8], 70 [2](blank)pp., eighteenth-century English calf, spine gilt in Lamrinck, 1617. purchaser’s and builder’s dictionary: or, the half-title, without final blank, cropped with some compartments, red morocco lettering-piece. Bound with: complete builder’s guide... The third edition etc. Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1642 £500 8vo in 4’s (197 x 120mm.), xvi (incl. frontis.of loss to headlines [Wing M2944; Nersessian 667]. VENICE. Risposta in difesa delle ragioni del. Chiswick House), ff. [192], contemporary smooth London: D. Browne & W. Keblewhite, 1700. The errata and advertisement leaves for each part are all ser.mo arciduca Ferdinando contra il manifesto calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt. Bound with: bound in part 2. publicato per la republica di Venetia, per London: printed for B.Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, occasione della presente guerra. Con l’ oratione FABRICIUS, Johann Albert. Votum davidicum S. Birt, H. Lintot & A. Wilde, 1736 £650 [Ps.LI vv. 12,13,14], cor novum crea in me Deus, 151 NANNINI, Remigio. Orationi militari... di Lodovico Eliano... havuta da lui contro la a centum quinquaginta amplius metaphrastis da tutti gli historici greci, e latini, etc. medesima republica, in Augusta... l’anno. 1510. ‘The third [and much enlarged] edition of 1736 is a forced effort... to out-do the rival two volume Builder’s Dictionary expressum etc. [2], 34pp., [Holland?] 1617. 4to (215 x 148mm.), [40], 1004pp., italic letter, of 1734’ (Harris p. 332). These included a number of [8], 120pp. Hamburg: widow Felginer, 1729. eighteenth-century tree calf, gilt spine, red morocco 3 works in 1 volume. 4to (192 x 132mm.), eighteenth- articles added or adapted from other names sources, items 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (192 x 144mm.), eighteenth lettering piece, red edges. century calf, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece, borrowed from The Builder’s Dictionary, and corrections century half calf, spine gilt, red edges, red morocco Venice: all insegna della Concordia (G.A. Bertano), twisted silk marker £2500 or enlargements. 1585 £700 lettering-piece. £900 An extremely handsome volume. Harris 597. Andreas Müller of Greiffenhagen (1630?-1694) was a A handsome copy of this second edition of Nannini’s Siccama’s edition of the laws of Friesland is an important translation of all the ‘battle speeches’ to be found in German clergyman and student of oriental languages, work of both legal and philological scholarship. Printed 155 NEWTON, Sir Henry. Epistolae, orationes, including Chinese. Educated at the university of Rostock, Thucydides, Livy, Quintus Curtius, Josephus and other first in 1557 from a manuscript that does not survive, these et carmina. he came to England in the 1650s to work with Walton and ancient writers as well as Saxo Grammaticus, Aretino, 22 laws go back beyond the time of Charlemagne to the Castell. He returned to Germany in and began a series of Sabellicus, Poggio, Accolti, Bembo and other modern 7th century. The most recent edition in the Monumenta [6], 205, 115, [3]pp., engraved frontispiece depicting publications. This polyglot edition of the Lord’s Prayer has Italian writers. Germaniae historiae was published in 1982. Massilmiliana Soldani-Benzi’s 1709 medal of certain languages reproduced by engraving, attributed [see inside back cover for photograph of spine] The final Italian pamphlet, written from a strongly Newton, Lucca: D. Ciufetti, 1710. in the title, where the editor is identified as Thomas anti-Venetian standpoint, is prompted by the war waged Bound with: Ludecker, to Barnimus Hagius. Both are pseudonyms by Venice (1613-1617) against the Uskoks (Uscocchi) a IBID. Orationes quarum altera Florentiae anno for Müller. The versions engraved are those in Syriac 152 NAVIA OSORIO, Alvaro, marques de Santa group of Balkan pirates who with the connivance of their MDCCV. Altera vero genuae anno MDCCVII. (Estrangelo script), Armenian, Georgian, Devenagari Cruz de Marcenado. Reflexiones militares. overlord Archduke Ferdinand of Styria, sailing out from Habita est. (wrongly identified as Malabarica), Tamil (similarly 4to 10 volumes (of 11), 3 folding engraved plates the Dalmatian coast at Senj, attached Venetian shipping. wrongly identified as Brachmanica), Chinese, Coptic, in vol. 5, later eighteenth century English tree calf, The conflict spread to the land and involved the Archduke’s 58pp. (the final quire signed* (pp. 51-58) reprinted Gothic, Slavonic (Glagolithic script), Slavonic (Russian gilt spines, vol. 4 with a few quires damaged and forces. Indeed, eventually it involved troops from all over to include items dated 1711 and 1712). Amsterdam, script) and Wilkins’s philosophic language. repaired at foot of leaves, title-page of volume 10 Europe, and was part of the struggle between Spain and 1710 [-1712]. The book sparked a whole raft of later editions, in which, repaired at top. Venice. The BL has an Aviso delle ragioni... intorno alla mossa 2 works in 1 volume sm 4to (225 x 160mm.), according to the availability of type; more or sometimes less Turin: J. F. Mairesse (vol.s 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 A. Vimercati), d’ arme contra Uscocchi (1616?) Risposta alla Scrittura fatta contemporary English panelled calf, spine gilt was printed rather than engraved. The English edition of in diffesa delle ragioni del Serenissimo Arciduca Ferdinando, 1724-1727 £900 (rubbed, upper joint slightly cracked, one corner 1700 is dedicated to Henry Compton, Bishop of London signed by one Patrifilo, a defence of Venice Difesa( a favor.... from 1675, who died in 1713, and the epistle to the reader, First edition, and an uncommon book. Vol. XI (plates) [Venice, 1617]) by Prospero Urbani, and the Servite Paolo worn). £800 signed B.M. typogr[aphus] Lond.[inensis, i.e. Benjamin was published in 1730 in Paris. The work was translated Sarpi also wrote on the Uskoks. Sir Henry Newton (1650-1715), was the English envoy- Motte], explains that certain parts of the text have been into French (1739-1750) and an English translation of the This pamphlet includes also (pp. 12-34) a similar work extraordinary at Genoa and Florence from 1704 to 1711. printed in Oxford (sheets B-C, 8 leaves). These contain first volume was also published. from a century earlier, the anti-Venetian Latin oration There are a number of small corrections throughout the various exotic alphabets in types then only available in Palau 188824. given in Rome by the French diplomat Louis Hélian in text of the Epistolae, and some also in the second Orationes. Oxford, mostly orientals but also including the Walpergen Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Genl. George Parker. 1510 (‘De bello suscipiendo adversus Venetianos & Turcas In the section devoted to N’s orations and verses at p. 14 Slavonic used in Ludolf’s grammar of 1696. In this edition oratio’) given at Augsburg on 9 April 1510 and first printed (elegy on the death of Stephen Waller) four lines have the wrong identifications of the versions in Sanskrit and at Augsburg in May of that year by J. Othmar (reprinted been omitted and these are added in ms. (Fata deum Tamil are corrected and it is pointed out that in the former at Strasbourg, see VD16 s.v. Hélian). reserata optarent, venturaque Bella,/ Atque iterum Gallus

MAGGS 55 156 NICOLAI, Johann. Disquisitio de 159 OCCO, Adolf. Impp. Romanorum Mose Alpha dicto. In qua multae intricatae numismata a Pompeio magno ad antiquitates scripturae s. explicantur & contra Heraclium... summa diligentia & magno labore cavillationes ethnicorum defenduntur lectu collecta ab Adolpho Occone R.P. Aug. Medico, jucundae. antiquarium studioso. 12mo (132 x 75mm.), 148, [4]pp., last leaf blank, 4to (207 x 105mm.), [16], 398, [10], [5 bl.] pp., contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper printer’s device on title-page, initials. Contemporary boards. calf, title-page torn with loss on the lower right Leiden: H. Teering, 1703 £500 corner (repaired),first page torn with loss (repaired), This extraordinary little book, the author explains in both not affecting text. the first chapter, was written partly as a response to a Antwerp: Christophor Plantin [for the author], short work in Greek by Helladius of Antinopolis (edited at 1579[1578] £500 Utrecht in 1686 by Meursius) where Moses is called ‘Alpha’ First edition of Occo’s (1524-1606) work on medals (some because his body was affected with a form of white leprosy; of the examples being in the Fugger collection). A letter the very uncommon Greek word aλφος (lat. vitiligo) means from Ortelius makes it clear that the author paid Plantin a form of leprosy. This is, one assumes a reference to 100 ‘daelders’ to print the book, which Plantin thought the 'nimbus' which surrounded the head of Moses on his would not sell very well. He had already paid `150 florins descent from Mount Sinai. A great deal of learning in to Plantin in 1578, but he was given a number of copies to Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Arabic is paraded, and there put on the market early before the edition proper was on are several passages quoted in English. sale. 190 copies were sent to him in Augsburg in December 1578. 157 NICOLAI, Johan. Tractatus de siglis Ref.: Voet 1760; Dekesel O1 (cat.1). veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturae son Nicolaus (1620-1681) is to this day one of the greatest amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur, FROM SCALIGER’S LIBRARY editors of Ovid, who during his diplomatic career collated que ad interpretationem numismatum, almost 300 manuscripts, and established by diligence and 160 OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Operum inscriptionum, juris et fere omnium artium brilliance of emendation a proper text of the huge Ovidian requiruntur... tomus primus (tertius)…cum variorum corpus. The Greek ownership inscription on the title-page tela Britanna tremit:/ Horrens Anglorum surgantia sydera doctorum virorum commentariis…unum in noscet,/ Seposuit quales Anglia nostra viros./). The reason 4to (220mm x 155mm.), [22], 314pp., engraved is found in many Heinsius books: των εινσιου. The sale corpus magno studio congestis. for their omission from the printed text may be the local printer’s device on title-page, title-page printed in of the Heinsius books took place in March 1683 after the censor. On p. 19 two stanzas in sapphics are added. Two black and red letters, woodcut headpieces, woodcut 3 volumes folio (335 x 215mm.), [4], 500, [16]; [2], death of Nicolaus (see Pollard and Ehrman The distribution lines are added on p. 31 about [Basil] Kennett (1674-1715), initials, woodcut illustrations, engraved illustrations 388, 116, 244; [12], 340, 199pp., later seventeenth- of books by catalogue (1965) pp. 241-242). and on p. 65 at the end of the printed verses about Dr in text, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in century mottled calf, gilt fillet on covers, spines Woodward’s shield, four additional lines are added by gilt, green silk ties lacking, slightly foxed but highly compartments, morocco lettering piece, binding 161 PANCHAUD, Benjamin. Entretiens ou hand., with the place of composition (Livorno) and the desirable. rubbed. lecons mathematiques sur la manière name Bas. Kennett. A further sapphic stanza by Kennett Frankfurt: C. Marny & Heirs of J. Aubry, typis Leiden: Abraham de Swart, 1703 £450 d’étudier cette science, et sur les principales is added to an ode addressed to Newton (p. 74). Newton’s Wechelianis, 1601 £3000 name is added at the end of this, as it is also to another utilités; avec les eléments d’arithmétique et A handsome copy of this massive variorum edition with a ode dated Kal. May 1710 on pp. 84-85. d’algèbre, rangés dans un nouvel ordre, & 158 NOCETI, Carlo, S.J. De iride et aurora marvellous link to three great scholars: the great Scaliger Kennett had gone as chaplain to the English factory at démontrés sans calcul littéral. boreali carmina...cum notis J.R. Boscovich. and the two Heinsii, father and son. Livorno in 1706, where he remained for six years, largely 2 parts 12mo (160 x 90mm.), vi [ii] 372 [1]; 250 4to (230 x 160mm.), [12], 127, [1]pp, printed on This edition which comprises the best part of 2000 living in Newton’s house because of papal opposition to thick paper, 2 engraved plates, eighteenth-century pages contains the text of the Ovidian corpus (over 34,000 [2]pp., title printed in black and red, woodcut head- his chaplaincy, before journeying back to England with English sprinkled calf, gilt spine, morocco lettering- lines) printed together with the commentaries (set around pieces and initials, contemporary English blond a large collection of antiquities. the text) of the great editors of Ovid from the late fifteenth calf with nice gilt border on boards, spine gilt in Bound at the end are two manuscript letters from piece, first plate slightly torn. century onwards, and is a considerable feat of printing. compartments, morocco lettering-piece, elegant Newton at Florence, one to Jean le Clerc (Clericus) at Romer: N & M. Pagliarini ex typ. Palladis, 1747 binding. Amsterdam, and the other to Gisbert Cuper at Deventer £400 Provenance: Bequeathed by Scaliger [? to D. Heinsius]. Legatum illustris viri Iosephi Scaligeri Iu. Caes. Burden. Lausanne & Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1743 both of the same date in 1710 The first speaks of ‘our trifles’ First edition of these two Lucretian poems. (i.e. the book) arriving at last, and complains about Italian F.’ Scaliger died 21 January 1609. Daniel Heinsius, £450 Sommervogel v, 1784. For Noceti see also Yasmin Haskell. censorship which is contrasted with Dutch and British Scaliger’s favourite Dutch pupil (1580-1655) died at the Loyola’s bees… in Jesuit didactic poetry. Oxford: British Panchaud seems to have been known somewhat later as liberty. The second letter is also about his book, and is end of February 1655. He was a distinguished latinist Academy, 2003. a writer on financial subjects. Copies recorded at UCL, addressed to the numismatist and scholar Cuper. and Ovidian scholar (3 vol. Leiden, 1629). However his London, BNF Paris, Munich, 2 copies in Scandinavia and 4 copies in USA., but not Harvard or Yale. MAGGS 57 162 PAPIN, Denys. La Maniere d’ amolir les collector from Cosenza, who taught in and married are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the 6 volumes 12mo (164 x 90mm.), [52], 10, 462, [56]pp., os, et de faire cuire toutes sortes de viandes the daughter of the Greek Chalcondyles. The little work UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved folding plates; en fort peu de temps, & à peu de frais. (Advis de by Francesco Campano was first published in 1540 in (Harvard [with plate on yellow satin]), plus Yale, Kansas [18], 504, [62]pp., 7 engraved folding plates; [8], 524, M. Comiers...) Milan. and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no [54]pp., 1 engraved plate; [12], 527, [1 bl.], [59]pp., 1 12mo (152 x 85mm.), [12], 164, [12], 2 folding Renouard 130; Schreiber 170. copy in Germany or Austria, and it is not in the BL. engraved plate; [10], 574, [62]pp.; [12], 682, [38]pp., engraved plates (first with 8 figures, second with X), [see back cover for full illustration of folding plate] 1 engraved folding map, contemporary speckled contemporary calf, first few leaves slightly stained calf, with fillet gilt on boards and fleurons in corners, at head of leaf, spine slightly worn. 166 [PERSONS or PARSONS (Robert)]. spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering- Paris: E. Michallet, 1682 £700 An Answere to the fifth part of Reportes piece, silk page marker, label torn and detaching First French edition. lately set forth by Syr Edward Cooke Knight, (2), label detached (6), light patch apparently due Krivatsy 8545; Vicaire 652. the Kinges Attorney generall. Concerning to the leather treatment that was defective on this the ancient & moderne Municipall lawes of upper board (6). England, which do apperteyne to Spirituall Paris: T. Legras fils, 1718 £550 163 PARENT François, editor. Τα Power & Iurisdiction. By occasion wherof, & First edition of this work which was subsequently enlarged αποσεσηµειοµενα περι ετων Αιγυπτιων... of the pricnipall Question set downe in the to thirteen volumes (1753-54). The same author’s Nouveau Cum latina interpretamento. Quibus addita sequentpage, there is laid forth an evident, voyage de France 1724 (new ed. 1755) was used and parodied authoris oratio de annis diversis, habita in plaine, & perspicuous Demonstration of the by in volume VII of Tristram Shandy. auditorio regio. continuance of Catholike Religon in England, 8vo (165 x 100mm.), 71pp., device on title-page from our first Kinges christened, unto these seventeenth-century calf, gilt spine, minimal tear 168 PITSEUS, Joannes. Relationum dayes. By a Catholicke Devyne. historicarum de rebus anglicis tomus in E3, binding rubbed, upper joint split. First Edition. sm 4to (185 x 140mm.), [72], 351, Paris: R. Estienne, 1616 £450 primus [ed. William Bishop]. 353-386, [15]pp. Contemporary limp vellum (loose 4to (225 x 170mm.), [20], 990, [2]p., last leaf blank, This uncommon book, which may be seen as an early in case; covers a bit creased; short slit and a few title printed in red and black with engraved device, work of comparative religion, is known in few copies. small holes in the upper cover; ties missing; lightly contemporary vellum, lacking ties. The editor of the texts and author of the ‘oratio’, who browned in places, a few corners creased, first few Paris: R. Thierry for Joseph Cottereau, 1623 £450 was more than 73 years old and in poor health (se p. 53) leaves cut-close at the foot, a single wormhole No more published. The work is essentially a bibliography is François Parent, ‘professeur royal’, known for one or through the last few leaves). two orations, including one on the assasination of Henri of English writers of the Middle Ages. 165 PEREZ DE MENDOZA [Saint Omer:] Imprinted with licence [by F. Bellet], IV. He has made a selection from such writers as the Y QUIXADA, Miguel. Resumen de la 1606 £950 Provenance: Welsh motto on title-page ‘Heb Dhw heb Bible (one chapter from Genesis) Herodotus, Josephus, vera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho dhim’ [Without God, without anything] E.B. Plutarch and others. The dedication is to Guillaume du asserciones. STC 19352. Vair (1556-1621) an important political and cultural figure, 4to (195 x 130mm.), ff. [21], 73, title printed in “Persons became deeply involved in the printed controversy who wrote on religion. 169 POLENI, Giovanni, marchese. Miscellanea. red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, and over Catholic treason and the new oath of allegiance drawn Renouard p. 202 no. 3. Copies at BL, Bodley, Bibl. S. Hoc est. I. Dissertatio de barometris, & armorial title-vignette, large folding plate (small up in consequence of the Catesby plot. In his Answere to Genevieve, Berlin, Göttingen. the Fifth Part of Reportes Lately Set Forth by Syr Edward Cooke thermometris, II. Machinae aritmeticae, ejusque tear) bound before f. 69, modern half calf. (St Omer, 1606) he denounced the tactics used against usus descriptio, III. De sectionibus conicis Madrid: Francisco Sanz, 1675 £3000 Garnet at his trial. The critique of these procedures was parallerum in horologiis solaribus tractatus. 164 PARRHASIO, Aulo Giano. Liber de rebus The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption: ‘En linked to a questioning of Coke’s celebration of English 4to (240 x 170mm.), [8], 56, 9 folding engraved per epistolam quaesitis... Adiuncta est el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas freedom from canon law; in Persons’s view, the state of plates, contemporary Italian ‘carta rustica’. Francisci Campani quaestio virgiliana. especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la English justice was in serious decline.” - ODNB. Venice: Alvise Pavini, 1709 £4500 8vo (160 x 100mm.), [8], 272, [8]pp., English binding verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra c. 1700 of black morocco leather, panelled in gilt on todas naciones’, and pasted at the foot of the plate is a long The second section describes and illustrates a ‘pin- 167 PIGANIOL DE LA FORCE, Jean-Aimar. wheel’ calculating machine which, as he puts it, will do covers with floral corner pieces, spine gilt, edges (6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is Nouvelle description de la France Dans addition, subtraction, and with a further turn of the gilt. machine multiplication and division. Poleni had learned [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1567 £700 given in full (=second state). The engraving of the arms laquelle on voit le gouvernement général of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by de ce royaume, celui de chaque province en of the machines devised by Pascal and Leibniz both by A handsome copy of this collection of Parrhasius Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674. particulier; et la description des villes, maisons their publications and by word of mouth, and was able to emendations and commentaries on a wide range of Latin make one from wood (‘Conceptam inde ex ligno fabrefieri Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is royales, châteaux, & monuments les plus writers, some cast in the form of letters to both named curavi’), but the initial object did not work, which led him often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard remarquables. Avec la distance des lieux pour la and un-named correspondents, and others as a separate to make another out of harder woods, which fitted his bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no group. Parrhasio was a well-known humanist and book commodité des voyageurs. Ouvrage enrichi de initial conception (p. 27). details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies figures en taille douce. A fine large clean copy in beautiful condition. MAGGS Riccardi ii, 290. 59 170 PRAETORIUS [SCHULZE], Johann. corrected to ‘dependentibus’ which is correct ‘Nevertheless 173 PUIG, Andres. Arithmetica, especulativa, De suspecta poli declinatione et from the beings dependent upon them…’; 34r Prop. 125. y practica, y arte de algebra en la qual se eccentricitate firmamenti vel ruina coeli, ultro Dem. Servat autem… ad identitatem… causam’ corrected contiene todo lo que pertenece al arte menor, citroque ventilata Materia, potissimum tamen to ‘Servat autem suam identitatem’ (‘yet in the procession o mercantivol, y a las dos algebras, racional, heic contra Domin. Mariam, Astrolog. 2. D. identity is preserved’) with ‘ad identitatem crossed out; è irracional; con la explicacion de todas las 41v Prop. 155 Dem. ‘ad unigenam seriem’ corrected Gregor. Francum, Theol. Calvin. & 3. Illic proposiciones, y problemas de los libros quinto, to ‘’vivificam’ = ( προς την ζωογονον σειραν); 54v. Prop. contra Childraeum Britann. in Ephemerid. 206. where ‘descendens’ (which is wrong) is changed to septimo, octavo, nono, y decimo del principe de curios. directa, cum inserta simili dissertatione ‘descendere’, (infinitive governed by ‘potest’, and also la matematica Euclides. parastatae nostri Joh. Adolphi Tassii, & explicata present in the Greek). 4to (193 x 135mm.), [16], 576, [8]pp., eighteenth- capacitate montium, contra Linemannum & 3. Some additions made from the Greek, e.g. Prop. 206 century English sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red Caesonem Grammium, &c. Ex privatis scriniis... Dem. Where in the margin (alas, slightly cropped) is morocco lettering-piece, mottled edges. communicata a M. Johanne Praetorio, P.L.C. added a sentence after that ending ‘in Dijs est’, where in Barcelona: A. Lacavalleria, vendense e casa del mismo 4to (208 x 160mm.), 239, [1]pp., eighteenth century the Greek there is a lacuna ‘for it cannot ’ It is written in Castilian, but the liminary verses are partly (Proclus. The Elements of Theology ed. E.R. Dodds (Oxford, An uncommon work, written in Latin, and an extraordinary in Catalan. The book first printed in 1670 went through 1933) pp. 180-181). mixture of science, theology, pseudo-science, mythology several editions. and history, all piled one upon the other with elaborate CNCE 35916. Palau 241304. references to multifarious sources ancient and modern Provenance: Rodolph Weckherlin manuscript ex-libris and with (sometimes) extensive quotations in German. title-page, probably Rodolph W. (1617-1667) son of Georg The author is much addicted to acrosticks and on p. 150, Rodolph Weckherlin (1584-1653, poet, Latin secretary 174 QUR’AN. L’Alcoran de Mahomet. where there is a discussion of explorations beyond the before Milton, and politician). Weckherlin senior has Translaté d’Arabe en Francois, par le Sieur columns of Hercules (Straights of Gibraltar), there is been extensively studied by the late Leonard Forster in du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair. one reading AMERICA, followed by a discussion as to various articles and his 1944 monograph G.R. Weckherlin, 8vo., (155x 95mm.), [8], 485, [3]pp., title printed in whether America was the Atlantis of the Ancients. Indeed zur Kenntnis seines Lebens in England, Basel, 1944. red and black, contemporary speckled calf, spine on p. 151 there is an opinion cited that Noah was born gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece. in America (‘Lescarbotus Noachum in America natum, Antwerp: J.F. Lucas, 1719 £300 eamque post diluvium recepisse potius, quam accepisse 172 PUENTE, Francisco de la. Tratado breve adfirmare non veretur...’ i.e. Lescarbot is not afraid to de la antiguedad del linaie de Vera, y The first western translation of the Qu’ran was made by affirm that Noah was born in America, and that it was The work survives in a number of Greek mss., memoria de personas señaladas de, que se hallan Robert de Ketton in 1143, though it was more a summary America which received him back rather than accepted including one from the library of Ficino, and a couple en historias, y papeles autenticos (Parrafos, que than a translation into Latin. Du Ryer’s translation (1647) him’) Lescarbot is, of course, the author of Histoire de la from Bessarion’s library. There are some twelve or so se an de añadir en este libro [etc.]). is the first made from the original Arabic, and was very sixteenth-century manuscripts The autograph draft for nouvelle France, 1607. 4to (200 x 140mm.), ff. [6],180 (corrected to 182); 12, popular. It formed the basis of the translations into other the 1618 editio princeps of the Greek text by Portus is in European vernaculars until Sale made a new version Faber du Faur (no. 646sqq.) describes many of the marginal notes printed in italic, armorial woodcut Copenhagen. The work was early translated into Georgian from the Arabic into English. Du Ryer was an important works of this extraordinary author Hans Schulze 91630- on p. [iii], contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, 1680) who wrote under the name of Praetorius, but not on the basis of a text a century or so earlier than any orientalist and diplomat in Egypt and Constantinople. minor marginal dampstains to a few leaves. this one. surviving Greek manuscript. Translated first into Latin in 1268 by William of Lima: G. de Contreras, 1635 £6500 VD17 39:121428R; there is a copy in the BL in the UK, Moerbeke, this version by Patrizzi is said by Dodds to 175 RAY, John. Travels through the Low- but none at Harvard or Yale. A handsome, crisp copy of this handsomely printed quarto be based on renaissance copies of his second group of is a family history of the Veras, a noble Aragonese family, Countries, Germany, Italy, and France... manuscripts of which the main ms. is Marcianus graecus tracing them back to Numa Pompilius. There are some The second edition... adorn’d with copper-plates 171 PROCLUS Diadochus. Elementa 678, which belonged to cardinal Bessarion. However the ms. annotations on ff. 13verso and 16verso, and a few (A collection of curious travels, etc.) theologica et physica... quae Franciscus lacuna in Prop. 209 (f. 55r) is left blank in this translation; elsewhere, transcribed from the list of addenda at the end. 2 volumes 8vo (197 x 118mm.), [4], iv, 428; 119, in Marc. Graec. 607 it has been filled at some point in the Patricius de graecis, fecit latina. Ff 173-180 which have only partially have been numbered [1];[12[, 489, [3], 44pp., title printed in red and second half of the 14th cent. in print, have been numbered in ms. It is possible that black, half-titles, 3 engraved plates at vol. ii, pp. 4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. [3], 69, device at end, modern Carefully read and extensively annotated in a near half calf. these ms. additions (all written in the same hand) may 4-5, contemporary English calf, spines gilt. contemporary hand by someone well acquainted with the have been made in the atelier of the printer. : D. Mammarello, 1583 £3000 Greek text not published until 1618, but well known in London [for various booksellers], 1738 £450 Medina (Lima) 177 (copies at BL (606.c.43), Bodley, ONB manuscript. The annotations take the form of: Proclus is one of the ‘chief links between ancient and (60.J.21), Portugal, JCB (?), NYPL (*KE 1635; imp. lacking medieval thought... the unique position of the Elements 1. Cross references to other propositions and other texts. Parrafos) Not at Yale, Harvard. No copy seems to have of Theology as the one genuinely systematic exposition of 2. Some interlinear corrections and additions e.g. 33v been sold at auction. Attributed by some bibliographers Neoplatonic metaphysic which has come down to us’. Prop. 123. Demonstratio’ Sed a separatis, quales…’ to Fernando de Vera.

MAGGS 61 176 REGIOMONTANUS (MÜLLER), Johann. 178 ROBERT, prior of Shrewsbury. The 179 ROBORTELLO, Francesco. De artificio is called ‘Latina Cardani’, i.e. Cardano’s Latin names. The Fundamenta operationum etc. Admirable life of Saint Wenefride... Now dicendi... Eiusdem tabulae oratoriae. author describes two instruments, the ‘anescopium’ for (ed. A. Schöner). translated into English, out of a very ancient and 4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. 52; 20; 32; [18], italic shewing the direction of the wind, and the ‘quadratum’ ff. [36], title printed in red and black, folding authenticall manuscript, for the edification and type, large device on title-page, 9-line woodcut based on the work of Gemma Frisius. woodcuts inserted at D5 and F2, letterpress table comport of catholikes. By I. F., of the Society of mythological initials, Dutch polished calf c. 1700, Adriaan van Roomen (1561-1614) was a Belgian physician and mathematician who taught at the university at G1, woodcut diagrams in text, paper repair to Jesus. spine gilt, red edges. of Louvain and then at Würzburg, in both of which places letterpress table, VD16 M6536 Neuburg: J. Kilian, 8vo (135 x 90mm.), [32], 275, [13]pp. plus add. Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, 1567 £650 he was professor of medicine. He published a number of 1557. engr. title-page by Martin Baes (loose), text printed First edition and an extremely handsome book with fine medical and mathematical works. Bound with: within a double line border, last leaf blank (here initials, and in particular a long-tailed Q at the beginning VD 16 R 3032 (copies at HAB, Augsburg, Würzburg; BL, THEODOSIUS of Tripoli. Sphaericoum lacking), eighteenth-century English vellum-backed of ‘Ratio artificii...’ Robortello (1516-1567) was from Udine Bodley; no copy at Yale or in USA.) elementorum libri iii, etc. boards. and taught literature at various universities. He wrote extensively on ancient rhetoric and on certain aspects of ff. [6], 72, woodcut diagrams printed in margins, [St. Omer: English College Press] Superiorum permissu, Roman history. some diagrams and notes cropped. Censimento 16 1635 £500 CNCE 33324 (Messina P. Spira, 1558). St. Winefride (Gwenfrewi, Winefrith) who flourished in CNCE 32419. Copies in UK at BL, CUL, Trinity, Oxford All Souls and Merton, Manchester JRL. In USA Yale has Bound with: the middle of the seventh century, is the patron saint of Holywell and Gwytherin. A nun, she was educated by St. a copy as have various other libraries. ARCHIMEDES. Opera nonnulla etc. Beuno, and it was he who brought her back to life after 2 parts, ff. []4], 55, [1]; [2],, 63, [1], lacking last leaf her head had been severed by Caradog ab Alog, to whom 180 ROELANDS, David. T’magazin oft’ with device [UCLA 540] Venice: P. Manutius,1558. she refused sexual favours. Where her head fell on the ground, a spring welled up, and this is Saint Winfride’s pac-huys der loffelycker penn-const. 3 works in 1 volume folio (305 x 275mm.), eighteenth- Obl. folio (227 x 335mm.), ff. [47] (44 engraved leaves century sprinkled calf, gilt spine, green morocco well, famously commemorated in two poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet who had been doing his incl. title and 3 leaves of letterpress comprising letttering-pieces, red edges. £10,000 theological studies at the Jesuit house of St. Beuno’s in N. dedication to the Aldermen of Flushing (in French) This is the first edition of the text by Regiomontanus Wales. In 1138 her body was translated to Shrewsbury. and ‘To the reader’ (in Dutch)), engraved portrait of or Müller. The Greek text of Theodosius had first been Many miracles are attributed to her and to the well (see pp. Roelands, later vellum-backed blue paper boards, published in Greek in 1558. Here Maurolico brings 177 sqq. of this book). There are two lives of St. Winefride title-leaf creased, a few plates very slightly shaved together a group of related texts, some known in old in Latin the Vita prima (printed in Acta Sanctorum) and at top edge, just touching swirls. translations made from the Arabic. Provenance: From this Vita secunda attributed to Robert of Shrewsbury, the Vlissingen (letterpress printed at Middelburg by R. ARTIFICIAL MEMORY the library of the Hungarian humanist Andreas Dudith Latin original of which does not seem to survive. Schilders), 1616 (1617) £800 with his name on the title-page of the Archimedes, and The translator John Falconer (1577-1656) had become 182 ROSSELLI, Cosmo. Thesaurus with annotations in Book II of Theodosius in red ink. a catholic in 1589 and entered the English College in Copies vary as to the number of plates, and often lack artificiosae memoriae... perutilis... Cum Dudith (1533-1589) was an important figure in sixteenth Rome in May 1600. Ordained in 1603, he became a Jesuit the letter-press leaves. The elaborate calligraphic scripts indicibus... tum capitum, tum rerum omnium century scholarship. Known to Englishmen such as Sir in the following year, being sent to the English mission in engraved frequently take the form of animals, birds, fish insingiorum (ed. Damiano Rosselli). or men. Henry Savile and most of the savants of Europe (see 1607. Sometime in the late 1630s he returned to England 4to (218 x 160mmm.), ff. [16], 145, [(errata)], printed P. Costil, A. Dudith, humaniste hongrois, Paris, 1935). after a long sojourn abroad, and was chaplain at Wardour Bonacini 1545; Simoni R95. Copies in BL (both imperfect), in italic, 2 leaves with double-page woodcut at Castle during the siege in 1643. He drew up the terms of Bodley, Hamburg, Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft (with centre signed E4 and and a similar 2 leaves at R3 the capitulation of the castle (see Gillow ii, 223-224 and dedication to Jacobus Malderus, but lacking letterpress 177 RICHER, Edmond. Grammatica cf. McCoog (1994) i, 165). This translation is dedicated to ‘To the reader’). with a single woodcut on the first recto and second obstetricia. Dorothy Barlow, a member of the well-known Lancashire verso, full-page woodcuts, with some repeats, 8vo (164 x 98mm.), ff. [8], 162, [1(errata)], folding recusant family, which produced several Benedictine contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties. table at p. 126, device on title-page, seventeenth- monks and martyrs. 181 ROMANUS [ROOMEN], Adrianus. Venice: A. Paduano, bibliopola Fiorentino, 1579 century calf, gilt fillet on covers gilt spine, top of Caxton printed his own translation of this life of St. Ventorum secundum recentiores £5000 Winifred in [1485; STC 25853], and in 1712 William upper hinge weak, marbled edged. distinctorum usus. Quo anescopium & First edition of this extremely influential book, and an Fleetwood produced a version, in which he is highly Paris: P.L. Febvrier,1607 £550 quadratum nauticum explicantur, miraque exceptionally fine, crisp copy. critical of Falconer. An uncommon elementary Latin grammar dedicated to eorundem utilitates proponuntur. Rosselli, a Florentine, was a member of the Dominican STC 21102 (10 copies UK; 6 copies USA (CUA, Folger, the Dauphin, later Louis XIII. Edmond Richer (1569-1631) Sm 4to (180 x 125mm.), ff. [9]. Rebound in half order, of which various members wrote on the subject Huntington, Yale, Illinois, Texas); copy in Australia; A was hugely active in the University of Paris and author of calf, old style. of memory. This work is a collection of tracts (see the & R 725; see the article in the ODNB by Tom Charles- a number of theological works. He published a general Würzburg: G. Fleischmann, 1596 £900 note at end ‘tractatus de memoria artificiosa editi...’) by Edwards and the essay on Saint Winefride in Saints and Cosma Rosselli, edited by his relation, another Dominican, introduction to learning called Obstetrix animorum in 1600 This rare work is dedicated to Nicolaus Corycius (Göritz), their cults in the Atlantic world University of S. Carolina Damiano Rosselli, who dedicates the book to Cardinal (reprinted 1608, 1617 & 1693 in Germany). secretary to the King of Poland. On A3v is a table of the Press, 2007 pp. 202-228. Giustiniani. Rosselli writes in prose on various aspects of Copies recorded at BL, Erfurt, BN, Arsenal (2) and B names of the winds in French, Spanish, Italian, and what Provenance: signature of James Elcocks and note of his the natural (and supernatural) world and the book also Sainte Genevieve, Paris. No copies recorded in USA. birth on 6 January 1679. MAGGS 63 contains verses by another Dominican, Niccolo Alessi of contemporary London Harleian style binding of that parliaments should have limited terms, as the Long Provenance: William Godolphin (ex-libris on title-page, Perugia. The book is in 2 parts, the first dealing with sprinkled calf, by Brindley. Parliament did not. His contention that parliaments should slightly trimmed). Sir William Godolphin (1635-1691) ‘loci’and the second with’ figurae’ as an aid to memory. London: William Bowyer for John Brindley, 1724 not be dissolved until all petitions had been considered diplomat and convert to catholicism (see ONDB). The illustrations come in part 2. £750 later made the work relevant to the exclusion crisis, and it Durling 3847; Censimeno 16 CNCE 27839. was reprinted in 1682. Sadler’s general reformist interests Dedicated by Brindley to Henry [Molin] Davenant (sent are also evinced in Rights of the Kingdom, which includes 188 SARPI, Fra Paolo. Histoire du concile as envoy extraordinary to Florence by George I, and like complaints about lawyers’ conduct and a call for prison de Trente, de Fra’ Paolo Sarpi… Traduite 183 ROUSSEAU, Josue. Ensayo da arte his father educated at Balliol) who had a transcript made reform.” - ODNB. par Mr. Amelot de la Houssaie, ci-devant from the ms. in the Laurenziana in Florence. One of 100 grammatical Portugueza, & Franceza, para Wing S278A (+;+). This copy is variant 2, with no errata sécrétaire de l’Ambassade de France a Vénise. Large paper copies on royal holland of an total edition aquelles, que sabéndo a lingua Francéza, querem on the verso of the title but with two extra leaves at the Avec des remarques historiques, politiques et of 600 copies. end, containing a list of the contents and a slightly longer morales. Troisième édition, revue et corrigee. aprender a Portuguéza. Primeira parte. Brindley is recorded as a binder from 1723, and by list of errata. 4to (193 x 144mm.), [8], 176pp., hand-coloured 1728 was established in New Bond Street in the west end 4to (250 x 190mm.), [48], 800, [46]pp, title-page woodcut device on title-page, woodcut illustrations, of London. He is known to have had connections with the Provenance: Signature on the title “Sum Ashursti &&&” printed in red and black, woodcut printer’s device, woodcut initials and headpiece, contemporary royal household, and the copy of this work at Windsor is and “Pet. 2s. 8d. Sept. 17o 1649” and with a preliminary leaf woodcut tail-pieces and initials, contemporary calf, vellum over boards, a few small tears with slight bound in ‘gold tooled red morocco with a gilt border and of manuscript notes in Latin. There are also a number of spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece, loss, pages browned, spine cracking. diamond-stamped centrepiece, and has comb-marbled manuscript notes/corrections in the text (mostly changing binding rubbed, slight foxing. Lisbon: A. P. Galram 1705 £500 paper ends’. That book may well have been presented “before” to “hereafter” because the printer printed the Amsterdam: G.P. & J. Blaeu, 1713 £450 to George I by Brindley, but there is no way of telling. second part first). The binder has reduced by 5mm the width First edition. Parallel Portuguese and French text. The Brindley is also known to have sold a few books to the of the leaves but a number of the annotations have been amusing tail-pieces, which are quite large, have the air of great collector Harley, indeed, on October 11 1736 a bill carefully cut-round and folded-in to preserve them. 189 SAVARY, Jacques. Le parfait négociant belonging to ‘chapbook’ or colporteur literature. records the sale of a copy this very book, ‘illuminated ou instruction générale pour ce qui The author, Josue Rousseau (fl.1705-1718), a Frenchman, with the Kings arms’, and of a copy of Richard Holland also wrote a fanciful history of Portugal from the creation 187 SAMERIUS [de Samrée ? LA RUE], regarde le commerce des marchandises de Observations on the small pox, 1728, also printed for Brindley of the World published in 1724. Copies are located at Henricus S.J. Sacra chronologia [a] mundo France, & des pais étrangers... Huitieme édition and bound with the ‘Queens cyphers’. Howard Nixon Hamburg and the Biblioteca Nacional in Portugal, and revue, corrigée... par le Sieur Jacques Savary inclined to the view that the Rucellai at Windsor and the condito ad Christum. a copy is in the BL. Desbruslons, son fils. Holland now BL. 43.f.16, may neither be the volumes billed Folio (290 x 190mm.), [4], 67 (i.e. 65) [1]pp., damage 2 volumes in one, 4to (242 x 190mm.), XX, 651, to Harley, as neither has an Osborne price pencilled on to title-leaf with loss of word ‘a’, nineteenth-century crimson hard grained morocco, by Hatton of [25]; XXIV, 631, [1]pp. title-pages printed in red 184 ROWLEY, Alexander. Hever le the fly-leaf (see H.M. Nixon ‘Harleian Bindings’ in Studies in the Book Trade in honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, Manchester, Macclesfield arms gilt on upper and black, eighteenth century panelled calf, spine Talmidim… The schollers companion, or a 1975) pp. 184-186). cover, vertical gilt lettering, gilt edges, manuscript gilt in compartments, title-piece “parfait negociant”, little library containing all the interpretations of annotations (some extensive) in margins (folded at light damp-staining towards centre of volume. the Hebrew and Greek Bible, by all the authors, Bowyer Ledgers 1072. ESTC lists only 3 copies in USA (Folger, PML, University of Missouri). pp. 3, 9, 11,13, 27, 39, 42-43, 57, 63, 67) manuscript Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1717 £500 first into the Latine. And now... brought into a annotations in text (41, 51, 53, 55, 57, 61, 62, 64), Scarce eighth edition (not in Goldsmiths etc.) of a popular, pocket book. [see inside back cover for photograph of binding] white stains on boards. often printed work, first published in 1676. 8vo (140 x 86mm.), [8], 210, [2], 152, 432pp., woodcut Antwerp: Hieronymum Verdussen, 1608 £750 Jacques Savary was the major author of ordinances to headpieces and initials, contemporary calf, some 186 [SADLER (John)]. Rights of the Kingdom regulate trade drawn up under chancellor Séguier. headlines and catchwords cut close or shaved, a or, customs of our ancestours: touching History is a gift from God to man ‘without which no monuments of divine benefits, no truth, no monuments few small wormholes, rusthole in Vvv7, extremities the duty, power, election, or succession, of our rubbed. of true religion can exist’. History is ‘the light of truth, 190 SAVERY, Thomas. The miner’s friend; kings and parliaments; our true liberty, due the witness of times past, the messenger of truth’ (from London: M.Bell for William Larner and George allegiance... freely discussed through the Brittish, or, an engine to raise water by fire, the preface). In this work it is acknowledged that History described. And of the manner of fixing it Wittington, 1648 £450 Saxon, Norman, lawes and histories... has need of her handmaid chronology. in mines. First edition of this pocket dictionary on the two Testaments 4to (210 x 140mm.), [2], [6], 93, 30-191, 176-182 Henricus Samerius (28 January 1541- 5 January1610), with Hebrew, Greek and Latin words definitions. [i.e.198], [4]pp. Mid-nineteenth century calf by a Luxembourgeois, became a Jesuit in 1562, and is said to 8vo (171 x 103mm.), [10], 84pp., folding engraved plate. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in Reference: Wing R2094B. Hatton of Manchester, panelled in blind, red edges, have been confessor of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots browned, spine slightly faded. in 1583, whose service he entered disguised as a doctor. compartments, red edges, without final blank leaf, London: Richard Bishop 1649 £500 He was however detected and had to escape. He may plate slightly creased with a small tear (repaired). 185 RUCELLAI, Bernardo. De bello italico be the same as the Père la Rue attached to Mary Queen London: for S. Crouch, 1702 £10,000 commentarius ex authentici manuscripti First edition. “Sadler’s principal political work, Rights of Scots under the name ‘Henri’. Samerius definitely is of the Kingdom, a work replete with citations to mythical A celebrated book. Thomas Savery (?1650-1715), who came apographo nun primum in lucem editus. ‘homo unius libri’. British monarchs, appeared the same year. In it he insisted from Devon, obtained a patent initially for 14 years (later De Backer-Sommervogel vii, 504. 3 copies in UK; 6 copies Large 4to (285 x 230mm.) [8], 102, [2]pp., last leaf the saints’ rule would not be inaugurated by force, and in 1699 extended by another 21 years) for his machine in Germany, 3 in the Netherlands; 1 in France (BNF). a blank, small errata slips pasted to pp. [vii & viii], he castigated shows of military might to awe parliament for keeping water out of mines in 1698, but the patent There seems to be no copy in the USA. - a denunciation of Pride’s Purge. Yet he also averred contained no description, something remedied in this

MAGGS 65 pamphlet. The pump was not able to deal with pumping 194 SCHICKARD, Wilhelm. Tarich h.e. A splendid Sammelband of German travel books. Johann water from great depths as it overheated, but was improved series regum Persiae...cum proemio Schreyer is described on the title-page of his book as a by Thomas Newcomen (see the short entry in ODNB and longiori... Omnia ex fide manuscripti voluminis... surgeon. Philippus a Sanctissima Trinitate (also known the various publications of the Newcomen society there quod a Turcis ex archivo Fillekensi reportavit... by his French name) was a discalced Carmelite whose cited). Vitus Marchtaler. Vestita...commentario... book was originally published in Latin at Lyons in 1649 and then in a French translation in 1652. The work by Norman 1895; Dibner 177. authore Wilhelmo Schikardo. Frike, also a surgeon, originally from Ulm, with the Dutch 4to (190 x 140mm.), 231pp., woodcut illustrations, East India Company (whose approbation is printed in 191 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi etc. eighteenth-century calf, gilt spine, red edges, Dutch on p. [299], was published in Dutch in 1694 and Folio (335 x 213mm.), ff. [64], eighteenth- last 2 leaves cropped at outer margin with loss of in English in 1700. century half calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering- letters. The extremely rare anonymous advice from a wise piece, lacking plan of Macerata, a few illustrations Tübingen: T. Werlin, 1628 £1800 father to his sons (Offener Wechsel-Brief) is a short moral treatise, apparently translated from the French. It offers shaved. Schickard (1592-1635) was one of the most learned men of a whole series of do’s and don’ts for leading a good life as Rome: Giuseppe de Rossi, 1627 £750 his age, astronomer, professor of Hebrew, mathematician a young man. It is printed in a large Fraktur (18 lines to and orientalist. Here he edits a manuscript brought to First published in 1596. This enlarged edition has 100 the page). The identity of J.Y. Z. is not revealed. Germany by Veit Marchtaler of Ulm and provided it with engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts a detailed commentary quoting from various Hebrew BL has Schreyer & Benaglia; Yale has the Benaglia but of fortifications on 50 numbered leaves plus 10 engraved and Arabic writings (including several extracts from the not Frike, Schreyer, Philippe de la Très-Sainte Trinité plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5 Qur’an). (Philippus a Sanctissima Trinitate) or the Offener Wechsel- leaves, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 leaf, and In his dedication to the emperor, Marchtaler explains Brief. 4 (of 5) double-page engraved plates with perspectival how this elegantly written manuscript (a genealogical [see inside front cover for photograph of binding] designs and full plans of fortifications. roll; ‘propter immanem longitudinem convolutum in Cockle 818; Bury & Breman p. 91; Riccardi I, 2 426. spiras’; on p. 13 Schickard writes that it is 45 feet long, and gives a detailed physical description) was found in 196 SCHUBLER, Johann Jacob. Erste [Beylag the mosque during the sack of Fillek (Fülek) in Hungary. zur Ersten Ausgab... Zweyte-Funffzehende] 192 SCALIGER, Josephus. Collectanea in M. Marchtaler wishing that the manuscript not be simply the engraved map at p.1. Ulm: M. Wagner, 1692. Ausgab seines vorhabenden Werks. Terentium Varronem de lingua latina. forgotten (like another previously given to Ferdinand’s VD17 39:120450V; VOC 319. 16 (of 21) parts [2], [6], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], 8vo (168 x 107mm.), [8], 221 [3]pp., device on title, grandather), consulted in vain with various dragomans Bound with: [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2]pp., title in German and last leaf blank, contemporary limp vellum, first few (whose versions he did not trust) and came across Schickard BENAGLIA, Giovanni. Aussführliche Reiss- Italien, 96 engraved plates. Ausburg: Jeremias Wolff leaves damp-stained at head, title leaf a little frayed who immediately grasped what the roll was about. The Beschreibung von Wien nach Constantinopel [c.1715-1730]. at bottom. translation is offered as a gift until such time as the und wieder zurück in Teutschland... getruelich Paris: R. Estienne, (22 August) 1565 £475 ‘autographum ipsum’ be lodged in the imperial library. Bound with: in die Hoch-Teutsche Sprache übersetzt. Provenance: “Nathan Wright of Englefield”, Berkshire IBID. Nutzliche Vorstellung, wie man... First edition of this important work by the twenty-five 145[=174]pp., title printed in red and black, year old Scaliger. (cropped signature at head of title), probably Sir Nathan bequeme Repositoria, compendiose Contoirs Wright (1654-1721), lawyer, appointed Lord Keeper in lacking frontispiece. Frankfurt: M. Wagner, 1687. und neu-façonirte Medaillen-Schräncke in den Renouard 167 no. 6; Schreiber 235. 1700 (see ODNB). VD17 23:233670N. Studier- und Kauffmanns- Stuben... ordiniren Bound with: kan. GREEK PROVERBS OFFENER Wechsel-Brief eines klugen Vaters zu 52pp., 20 engraved plates Nuremberg: L. Bieling for 195 SCHREYER Johann. Neue Ost- Ausführung der Welt-Reise vor seine Söhne: aus J.C. Weigel, 1730. 193 SCALIGER, Josephus, editor. Παροιµιαι Indianische Reisz- Beschreibung... dem frantzösischen ins Teutsche gebracht durch εµµετροι. Proverbiales Graecorum handelnde von unterschiedenen Africanischen Bound with: J.Y. Z. versus. Ios. Scaliger...collegit, composuit, und Barbarischen Völckern sonderlich derer IBID. Nutzliche Vorstellung und deutlicher digessit (Proverbiales Graecorum versus... an dem Vor-Gebürge Caput bonae spei sich ff. [7] [s.l.], 1697. VD17 3:304641X (Halle only)]. Unterricht von zierlichen, bequemen und Holtz Fed. Morellus... Latine expressit eode. genere enhaltenen so genanten Hottentoten Lebens-Art, Bound with: ersparenden Stuben-Oefen. carminis). Kleidung, Hausshaltung, usw. [PHILIPPUS a Sanctissima Trinitate]. P. a S. T. [2], [1]-42pp., 25 engraved plates Nuremberg: L. 2 parts 8vo (170 x 100mm.), 15, [1], 20; [4], 32pp., [16], 144pp., title printed in red and black, Leipzig: Orientalische Raisebeschreibung, usw. Bieling for J.C. Weigel, 1728 £900 device of the royal Greek printer on title-pages, J.C. Wohlfart, 1681. VD17 14:656715V (Berlin; [22], 628 [=6636], [4]pp., add. engr. title, Frankfurt: Together 3 works in one volume, folio (339 x 210mm.), large ‘decalogue’ device with motto Pietas et Iustitia Weimar (still existing?) and Dresden); VOC 315]. J.G. Schiele, 1671. VD17 23:313525H (4 copies), woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary and Morel’s initials on part 2 p. [iv], contemporary Bound with: slightly wormed at beginning. speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, binding limp vellum. FRIKE, Christoph. Ost-Indianische Räysen und 5 works in 1 volume (164 x 95mm.), contemporary slightly rubbed, tears on both covers. Paris: F. Morel, 1594 £450 Krieges-Dienste, usw. vellum lettered on spine Eastern Voyages, edges Johann Jacob Schubler (1689-1741), mathematician, A fine crisp copy. [10], 298, [14]pp., engr. portrait & 8 plates, lacking coloured £3000 often described as an architect, published many works on

MAGGS 67 perspective, carpentry and architectural theory. The first not only a town surveyor at Leiden, as well as instrument Willebrord Snel van Royen (1580-1626) here uses the The Antiquities of Canterbury, is a pioneering work in work in this volume known as the ‘Werk’ includes designs maker but also entrusted with monitoring the quality of name of the mythic pilot of the Argo, to discuss after a several respects: it is both “the first book devoted to the for beds, cabinets, alcoves, memorials, writing-desk, clock wine (Wijnroyer). long preface replete with classical learning (but also with intensive study of an English cathedral” (Graham Parry) cases, commodes, summer houses, lecterns, organ cases, This work is not in the BL (indeed there appears to be more modern references to Mercator, Edward Wright and and “the first scholarly history of any English town” (Nigel altars, confessionals, gateways, stoves and water pumps. no copy at all in the UK), and of this edition KVK locates others), how and using what mathematical basis etc., a Ramsay). As Parry notes, it is also “a real guide book, in The second work is about cupboards, lecterns and medal only 2 copies in Augsburg. OCLC gives a copy in Denmark ship’s master should steer his vessel. At the very end after a recognizable modern sense”, in which Somner plays cabinets, and the third about stoves. and one in the Hague. the tables he prints the late Latin poet Claudian’s verses the part of an enthusiastic tour-guide leading a group of The individual pieces often reveal a particular genius on the magnet (pp. 61-62). visitors around the Cathedral. See Schonaerts, R. Les Géomètres-arpenteurs du xvie au sviiie for gadgetry and Mark Schubler as more of an inventor On the front end papers are 3 pages of manuscript “Underlying the whole book is an anxiety that the siècle dans nos provinces Brussels: Bibl. royale Albert I, 1976 than a practical designer. ‘Estat de ce qui est necessaire pour battir un navire de cathedral might not survive unharmed for much longer. no. 31 and plate 7. soixante et douze pieds de quille de 25 pieds de haut, 11 Greece, which created so much that was beautiful, slid Provenance: Probably from the library of John Collins pieds de creu, etc.’, and at the end 2 pages in Dutch on 3 into a state of barbarism, Somner warns the reader in FRS. ways of solving a geometrical problem, followed by a page the preface. He wants to make sure that the record is as of tables referring to pp. 75 & 93 of the text. complete as he can make it in case times turn against the Church. Canterbury did suffer in the Civil Wars. As White 198 SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, Saint. Opera Willems 224. Kennett recalled, the ‘popular phanatique fury... stormed Provenance: Christophorus Plass, Leiden 1671, who gave castigata & restituta (ed. Elie Vinet). and pillaged the cathedral, the beautified Windows were it to Benjamin de Munchausen, The Hague 1675. 8vo (165 x 100mm.), 360pp., device on title-page, broke, the Tombs of Princes and Prelates were ravaged, and ruled in red throughout. English calf c. 1700, gilt every graceful ornament despoiled’.” (Graham Parry). fillet on covers, spine gilt, red edges. 201 SOMNER, William. The Antiquities of The original design in pen and watercolour for the new Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552 £450 Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient font illustrated in a plate here was recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum, having been discovered Cartier 231. citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall. in the Portobello Road market. Containing principally matters of antiquity in them all., etc. STC 22918. With the extra leaf of errata at the end. 199 SIEMIENOWICZ, Kazimierz. [Grand Copies were clearly available for some years, as that in 4to (215 x 152mm.), [16], 516, [12]pp., full-page art d’artillerie] Aussführliche Beschreibung the Huntington has a printed dedication to Charles II woodcut coat-of-arms of William Laud, Archbishop der grossen Feuerwercks, usw. [transl. into on his Restoration. of Canterbury on the verso of the title, folding French by P. Noizet]. Provenance: 1: Presentation copy, inscribed on the title engraved plan of Canterbury, folding engraved Folio (318 x 197mm.), [2], 410, [6]pp., text in French, in ink by the unidentified recipient “Ex dono auctoris plan of the High Altar and surrounding chapels engr. title (in German) and 22 plates, contemporary Oct 7 1644”. in the cathedral, folding engraved plate of new font English calf, lacking 4 leaves of printed prelims. Parry (Graham), Trophies of Time, English Antiquarians of consecrated in 1639, contemporary sprinkled calf, Frankfurt: J.D. Zunner, 1676 £550 the Seventeenth Century (1995), pp.182-184. 197 SEMS, Johan & DOU, Jan Petersz. the covers panelled in gilt and with a gilt lozenge in A reissue of the 1651 French edition (translated from the the centre, smooth spine divided into eleven panels Practijck des kantmetens, Leerende alle original Latin) printed at Amsterdam. In the BNF copies rechte ende cromsijdige landen, boschen, by gilt rules (headcap broken, front flyleaf loose, 202 SOPHOCLES. Τραγωιδιαι επτα. of the 1651 edition, the French title-page is pasted over Occasional light browning/spotting; outer margin Sophoclis tragoediae septem. boomgaerden, ende andere velden meten (Van the original Latin. This is a reissue with a German title- 8vo (150 x 95mm.), ff. [200], last leaf blank, device het gebruyck der geometrische instrumenten). page, and a similar copy is in the BL. of pp. 411/2 and 425/8 spotted by damp (a light purple, otherwise a good copy. on title-page, late seventeenth-century spinkled calf, 2 parts 4to (197 x 150Xmm.), [8], 303, [5]; [8], 126, Provenance: R. Andersson, very possibly the author of London: by I. L[egat]. for Richard Thrale, 1640 £950 gilt spine, a few (cropped) marginal notes at on first [2]pp., 7 engr. plates in part 2, engraving on both The making of rockets, 1696. title-pages, woodcuts diagrams, contemporary First edition. William Somner (1606-1669) was an 2 leaves of Ajax. vellum, upper hinge split, ms. vellum guards and ecclesiastical lawyer by profession, and spent his entire (Paris: Simon de Colines, 16 December, 1528) £850 strengtheners. 200 SNELL, Willebrord. Tiphys batavus, working life in Canterbury, first as deputy registrar to The first Sophocles printed outside Italy, is in fact a reprint Leiden: Jan Bouwensz, 1600 £3500 sive histriodromice, de navium cursibus, et Archbishop Laud, and later as auditor and registrar to of the 1502 Aldine edition, and is printed in a Greek re navali. the cathedral chapter. The recently published history of type, of which this is the first appearance, believed to be FIRST EDITION of this important work which is an 4to (202 x 150mm.), [56], 109, [3]; 62, [2]pp., last leaf Canterbury Cathedral describes him as “one of the most designed by Colines himself, and certainly reminscent of overview by Sems (1572-1656) a surveyor in Leeuwaarden, attractive as well as most learned persons in the entire the Aldine type. It is found as here with [200] leaves and in and Jan Pietersz Dou of Leiden, of contemporary surveying, with errata, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams, history of the Cathedral community”. He appreciated the a variant in which 4 additional leaves signed bb, containing and in the second part describing the use of instruments. contemporary turkey morocco, gilt and blind fillet beauty of the cathedral’s architecture, and its importance errata and Greek epigrams, are also found. There is also an Amsterdam 1600 edition by Jan Jansz borders, spine gilt in compartments, blue edges, for unravelling the history of its construction, and was Schreiber 32; Renouard 128; Moreau 1528/1609; see Blaeu, which is much more common. It was several times binding rubbed, spine crackling and chipped at instrumental in preserving the fabric and many of the reprinted and translated into German (Amsterdam, Blaeu, head. Vervliet, French Renaissance Printing Types A Conspectus furnishings (including the font illustrated here) from (2010) no. 344. 1616 VD17 39:121321G). Leiden: Officiana Elzeviriana, 1624 £950 destruction during the Civil War. Many of his books and Dou also published a Dutch version of Euclid and was papers still survive in the Cathedral library.

MAGGS 69 203 SPANHEIM, Ezechiel. Dissertationes in text, 22 (of 23) plates, bound as 28 engraved 208 THEON, Aelius. Προγυµνασµατα... contemporary vellum over pasteboard. de praestantia et usu numismatum double-page plates (plates 16, 17, 20, 21, 24 and accurate emendata ac recensita. In usums Padua: S. Sardi, 1644 £550 antiquorum. Volumen primium. Edition nova. 25 comprising 2 separate sheets, not jointed as scholarum Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque… Accedit A handsome copy of this supplement to a collection (Dissertationum de praestantia... volumen sometimes). Contemporary calf backed, spine gilt interpretatio latina, ita hac editione emendata, ut published in 1630 (with an engraved title and a portrait alterum... Ex autoris autographo editum, ac in compartments, lacking plate VI. sit nova (by Daniel Heinsius). of the author). Although the title expressly mentions the numismatum iconibus illustratum ab Isaaco Ausburg: Peter Detleff for Jeremias Wolff 1714 £450 8vo (175 x 110mm.), [16], 144pp., contemporary lives of men, there are in fact also given the lives (and Verbugio.) Provenance: bookplate of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. G.L. vellum over paper boards. portraits) of a number of women, including Cassandra 2 volumes folio (357 x 217mm.), [36] [1f.pl.] 656 Parker. Leiden: B. & A. Elzevir, 1626 £450 Fedele (1465?-1558), whose works Tomasini edited, the Nogarola ladies, and others. The work is dedicated on [50]pp. [1f.pl.]; [6] XXVIII, 726 [42], engraved A companion to the Aphthonius of the same year (no. 10) the title-page to Anne of Austria (1601-1666), regent of frontispiece signed Berchet (desin.) and Gucht with dedication to Blyenburgh by Heinsius. A note printed France, and, in a slightly longer dedicatory epistle to (sculpt), engraved folding portrait of the author, title 206 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius. at the end explains that the Paradigmata hitherto ascribed Cardinal Mazarin, tribute is paid to feminine genius and [Opera]. to Theon have been omitted, as by Libanius, and printed printed in red and black, engraved illustrations in its influence through the salon, which as Marc Fumaroli 12mo (130 x 70mm.), [12], 558, [30]pp., engraved in the Paris (Morel) edition of his works (1606-27). text, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, has shewn, played a considerable rôle in the growth of title, engraved medallion portraits, engraved head binding extremely rubbed. Willems 265. letters and polite society. and tail-piece, contemporary French calf, gilt fleurs London: R. Smith, Amsterdam: Rodolph & Gerhard Provenance: small stork stamp on title-page. Cicognara 2117;Vinciana 3617. Wetstein, 1717 £450 de lys on covers within a double gilt fillet, spine gilt in compartments, marbled edges. Paris: Typographia regia, 1645 £700 209 THOMAS MAGISTER & others. 211 TORRE, Filippo del, Bishop of Adria. 204 STRADA, Famiano S.J. Histoire A handsomely printed edition from the Imprimerie royale Ονοµατων αττικων εκλογαι... Thomae Monumenti veteris Antii hoc est de la guerre de Flandre... traduite par P. founded by Colbert as a means of adding to the ‘gloire’ of Magistri dictionum atticarum collectio. inscriptio M. Aquilii et tabula solis Mithrae... Du-Ryer. Louis XIV, most of the books from which are in a much Phrynichi atticorum verborum... collectio. Accedunt dissertationes de Beleno... et de 2 volumes 8vo (168 x 105mm.), [12], 768, [36]; larger format. Manuelis Moschopouli vocum atticarum colonia forojuliensi... Addita sunt fragmenta [12], 881, [65]pp., titles printed in red and black, Provenance: Vincent Loger, 1667 (signature). collectio e libro de arte imaginum Philostrati... inscriptionum fratrum Arvalium recens...effossa. engraved portraits in text, late eighteenth-century [see inside back cover for photograph of binding] Ex scriptis Aelianis libellus de antiqua ratione 4to (215 x 155mm.), [16], 400, [32]pp., 4 engraved English tree calf, spines gilt, joints a little weak. instruendarum acierum... Orbicius de oridinibus plates at pp. 6, 159, 161, 257 (folding), contemporary Suivant la copie imprimé à Paris [Leiden: B. & A. excercitus. smooth French calf, gilt stamp of N.J. Foucault Elzevier],1652 £500 207 THEODORE METOCHITES 2 parts 8vo (160 x 95mm.), ff. [128]; [148], Greek on covers, gilt spine, red edges, some occasional The Jesuit Strada’s (1572-1649) history of the Spanish [Michael Glycas]. Annalium liber III] letter, French seventeenth-century calf, gilt filet on marginal dampstaining (particularly quires R-T) campaigns in Flanders was written in Latin and published Theodori Metochitae historiae romanae a covers, gilt spine, red edges, binding slightly worn. Rome: Gaetano Zenobi & G. Placho, 1700 £1100 in two groups of ten books (decades) in 1632 and 1647. Iulio Caesare ad Constantinum magnum, liber Paris: M. Vascosan, 1532 £450 First edition and an extremely handsome copy. The Its success was immediate and considerable, and it was singularis. Ioannes Meursius primus vulgavit, & A collection of a group of late Greek grammarians all of important section of mithraism which occupies a substantial quickly translated. The French translation by Du Ryer, in linguam latinum transtulit, notasque addidit. whom cultivated pure ‘attic’ Greek, as written by and part of the volume, is the first discussion of the subject. who is chiefly known for his French translation of the 4to (182 x 130mm.), ff. [22], 103, [5], Greek text others. Philostratus alone, from whose Imagines Manuel There was a later edition published in 1724 (with a life Qur’an, appeared in 1644 and 1649 in folio in Paris, and printed in Plantin’s large Greek font, last leaf with Moschopoulos has made a collection of words, belongs to of the author), and the work was reprinted in Graevius was again widely reprinted. short list of errata, mid 17th-century English binding the early atticist period. In 1517 Kallierges had published Thesaurus antiquitatum vol. 8 (1725). This edition has the Elzevier device on the title-pages, of brown calf over pasteboard, blind-stamped filets, an edition of Thomas Magister alone, and this is a reprint. but only the preliminary leaves were from their press, the Provenance: from the library of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault Part 2 contains the other named works, Phrynichus also text proper being from the press of Abraham Verhoef red edges. with bookplate. reprinted from a 1517 Kallierges edition. Both were highly (Verhoeven) active at Harlignen and then (later) at Leiden. Leiden: J. Colster, 1618 £450 [see inside front cover for photograph of binding] prized in the eighteenth century by collectors such as However it was published under the aegis of the Elzevier A very nice copy of this work which is actually book III of Maittaire, Storer (Eton), Cracherode (BL), Grenville (BL) firm (see Willems). the Annals (a world chronicle) of the monk Michael Glycas and Lord Spencer (Rylands), and later by such as Ingram dating from 1118, attributed erroneously to Theodore 212 [TRABAUD]. Principes sur le mouvement De Backer Sommervogel vii, 1607sqq.; Willems 708. Bywater (Bodley) and R.C. Christie (Rylands). Metochites, a thirteenth century Byzantine writer. The et l’équilibre, pour servir d’introduction Provenance: bookplate of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. G.L. full text was edited by Labbé in the seventeenth century, Parker. aux mécaniques & á la physique. by Bekker in CSHB and in volume 158 of Migne’s PG. FEMININE CULTURAL INFLUENCE 4to (256 x 196mm.), [2], xxiv, 616, lvii, [1] pp. Provenance: from the library of Thomas Smith, fellow woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and 210 TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo. Elogia 205 STURM, Leonhard Christoph. of Magdalen (1638-1710) who has made some textual headpieces, 25 folding engraved plates (one with virorum literis & sapientia illustrium ad Prodomus architecturae Goldmannianae, corrections to the Greek (e.g. on p. 64 where there are onlays). Contemporary mottled calf with double vivum expressis imaginibus exornata. oder Betreue und grundliche Anweisung. three such) which show careful reading. gilt fillets, spine gilt in compartments, red speckled 4to (215 x 155mm.), [12], 411, [1]pp., device on title- Oblong folio (422 x 505mm.), bound as upright edges, extremities slightly rubbed, joints starting page, engraved portraits attributed to J.F. Greuter, folio (422 x 322mm.), ff. [10], engraved illustration to crack at head and foot. Paris: J. Desaint, C. Saillant 1741 £450 MAGGS First edition complete with cancellanda & cancellantia 215 VALLEMONT, Pierre le Lorrain, edge: ‘Victorius Varia lectio’, title-page slightly There are four loose leaves among the preliminary leaves abbé de. La sphère du monde, selon damaged (with small repair) and spotted. each with text different from that appearing in the bound l’hypothèse de Copernic, présentée au roy: Florence: L. Torrentino, 1553 £600 leaves (pp.xxiii-xxiv, pp.1-2, 5-6 and 535-536). décrite, & comparee avec les sphères & les First edition. Pier Vettori (1499-1585) was a distinguished systèmes de Ptolomée, & de Tyco-Brahé. Italian scholar, in particular known for his work on 213 TRICHET DU FRESNE, Raphael, & 8vo (165 x 100mm.), [24], 377, [5]pp., 5 engraved Cicero, but also for his work on Euripides, , FIALETTI, Odoardo. Briefve histoire de plates 1 signed J. B. Scotin le Jeune), woodcut device Sophocles and many other Greek writers. He was one l’institution des ordres religieux. Avec les figures on title-page by B. Picart, woodcut head- and tail- of the outstanding personalities of this period (Pfeiffer). de leurs habits, gravés sur le cuivre par Odoart pieces. Contemporary calf, originally black stained His Variae lectiones were first published in 25 books, later enlarged to 38. His letters to scholars all over Europe are in Fialetti, bolognois. spine, spine gilt in compartments. Paris: P. Marchand, 1707 £500 the British Library and his printed books and manuscripts 8vo (205 x 140mm.), [8], 45p., frontispiece & 72 are in Munich. engraved plates, engraved half-title after t-p, head- A fine copy. Censimento 16 CNCE 34608. pieces woodcut, initial, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece. boards, a few plates with small tears or stains, and Provenance: ‘Angeli Angelotii Camertis’ (of Camerino) stamped name on title-page. Paris: Adrien Menier 1658 £550 216 VAYRAC, Jean de. El arte frances, en que a few slightly shaved affecting flourishes. se van puestas las reglas... para Rotterdam: Jan van Waesberghe, 1605(-1609) [1610?] First French edition of De gli habiti delle religioni con le armi, apprehender... la lengua françesa... Con una £4000 220 VETTORI, Pietro. Variarum lectionum etc. (Venice,1626). It appears that some copies contain tratado de la poesia. an etched Italian text facing each plate which is not the Engraved throughout by Simon Frisius. Much of the book libri XXV. 2 volumes 12mo (162 x 95mm.), xxxiii, [3], 453, case here. The French descriptions and number of plates takes the form of sample letters in different styles of writing 4to (240 x 160mm.), [12], 486, [60]pp., woodcut [7]; [3], 454-964pp., contemporary vellum, a few are complete (allegoric figure of religion followed by 72 and in various languages (Dutch, French, English (1), and criblé initials, contemporary limp vellum, yapp marginal notes. German, Latin (many), Italian and Spanish) written to a plates). edges, lacking ties, 2 small holes in title (damage Odoardo Fialetti (1573- 1638) first studied under Paris: P. Vitte, 1714 £850 wide variety of Rotterdam worthies, including painters, doctors, schoolmasters and the printer publisher van to initial on verso). Giovanni Battista Cremonini, before moving on to Rome First edition. The abbé Vayrac (1664-1734) was the author Waesberghe. Two plates are dated 1609 (letters to Petrus Lyons: Jean Temporal (exc. B. Frein, 4 May), 1554 and Venice, where he entered the school of Tintoretto. of a number of such works on Spanish language, history Carpentarius (in Latin) & P. vande Veken). Plate no. [9] £450 His is best known for his engravings, but was a proficient and geography. This work gives a very thorough treatment is pasted in. The first 6 leaves following the Latin title painter. of the language, how to write letters, and how to write This elegantly produced volume, with charming woodcut actually have 12 separate plates of alphabets. Raphael Trichet du Fresne (1611-1661) was the poetry. initials, is a reprint of the folio edition of 1553 printed first publisher of Leonardo’s treatise on painting in Bonacini 1931; Simoni BL 1601-1621 V42-43 (describing 2 in Florence. Palau 353490; not listed by Cioranescu and a very 1651 and author of the first published annotated art editions published by J. van Waesberghe in 1609 and [1610?], uncommon book. There is no copy recorded in the UK, Baudrier iv, 483. bibliography. in which part 2 has 50 and 51 plates respectively.) one at Jena is recorded by KVK, and there is a copy in Paris BNF. Simoni V42 (50 unnumbered plates) the BL copy C 119. h.12(2) lacks the 20 letterpress leaves ; Bonacini 1931; 221 VICO, Enea. Discorsi... sopra le medaglie Provenance: some notes on flyleaves of vol. I ‘3 laced 214 VALERIANO BOLZANI, Giovanni Pierio. Berlin Cat. 5010. The book is not to be found in the Dutch de gli antichi divisi in due libri ove si hancherch. 1 camb. Hancherch. M.W. Hen: Chamberlain Hieroglyphica, sive de sacris Aegyptiorum NSTC. dimostrano notabili errori di scrittori antichi, e upon the new Haven near the packing bridge’. aliarumque gentium litteris, commentariorum moderni intorno alle historie Romane... Libri LVII. cum duobus aliis ab eruditissimo viro 4to (200 x 140mm.), 112 [116]pp., 1pl., large printer’s 218 VETTORI, Pietro. Epistolarum libri X. annexis. Editio novissima, etc. 217 VELDE, Jan van den. Sphieghel der device on title page, printer’s device on last page, Orationes XIIII. Et liber de laudibus 6 parts in 1 volume 4to. (230 x 190mm.), [60], 760, schrijfkonste, inden welcken ghesien engraved portrait plate of Cosimo II de Medici Ioannae Austriacae. [58], 248, [8], 122, [2], 83pp., printer’s device on worden veelderhand gheschriten met hare (210mm), early eighteenth-century speckled calf Folio (300 x 195mm.), [12], 72; 226, [2]pp., large title-page, woodcut illustrations, woodcut head dondementen ende onderrichtinghe. (Artificium with triple-fillet gilt and fleurons in corners, spine device on title-page and recto of last leaf, engraved and tail-pieces, initials, contemporary Oxford grammatices verum obilissimumque speculum. gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece “Vico portrait of Vettori, 11- and 6-line woodcut initials, calf binding, triple fillet blind stamped on boards, n quo varia scripturae tessellataparadigmata... sopra medag”, red and green speckled edges, a woodcut head-pieces, seventeenth-cenury vellum. binding rubbed, foxing heavy in places. typis adumbratae. slight tear on upper board right bottom corner. Florence: Giunti, 1586 £600 Cologne: A. Hierat, 1631 £500 2 parts obl. 4to (217 x 325mm.), ff. [20] (letterpress), 2 Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1558 £700 A very handsome copy; Censimento 16 CNCE 28506. The rediscovery of Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica created engraved title-pages, portrait (cut out and mounted) An extremely fine and fresh copy with nice woodcut initials huge public interest, and was immensely influential in and 67 unnumbered engraved plates on 62 leaves and engraved portrait and a dedication poem by Lodovico the world of the Renaissance. Valeriano Bolzani wrote his (1 plate of how to trim a pen, 2 Frysius plates of 219 VETTORI, Pietro. Variarum lectionum Dolce (1508-1568), Italian theorist of painting and writer. own huge folio of a thousand pages published in Basel in how to hold a pen, 2 plates of circles plus 62 others, The first edition was published in 1555. 1556. There were several editions published in Cologne libri XXV. incl. 12 printed 2 to a leaf), engraved illustrations Dekesel V 23 (cat.1); CNCE 26275. in the seventeenth century. Folio (312 x 190mm.), [28], 410, [14]pp., Italian of 16 alphabets in text later vellum-backed paper VD17 23:296739T. vellum, rebacked, spine lettered, lettered on bottom MAGGS 73 222 VLACQ, Adriaan & KEPLER, Johann. (although the woodcut on title page is untouched), this is century English polished calf, spine gilt in 4 works in 1 volume, 8vo (191 x 110mm.), contem- Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for overall a good copy of a rare book incorporating fine and compartments, morocco lettering-piece lacking. porary calf, slightly scuffed. harmonious typography and beautiful large woodcuts the yeeres of the vulgar Era 1633. 1634. 1635. Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetsein op kosten va de E.A. Heren Provenance: a contemporary list of the contents with the and illustrations. 1636. Calculated out of the Tables of Philip Bewindhebberen der oost-indische maatschappye, 1736 cost of each pamphlet (one shilling and sixpence, two The work describes the Duke Antoine’s defeat of the Lansberg for the motions and coniunctions of £1400 shillings, one shilling and one shilling) and the cost of peasant rebellion of 1525. Gabriel Salmon, the engraver the Luminaries, by A.V. and for the other Planets binding (one shilling) and in a purely personal finding-aid, of the illustrations, worked between 1504 and 1542 and First edition. Some copies lack the dedication (here probably by the 1st Earl of Macclesfield, on the fore-edge out of the Rudolphine Tables by Iohn Kepler his illustrated another famous anti-heretical book Gringoire’s present) to the Heeren Bewindhebberen or Directors of of the volume the be position of each pamphlet is marked Imperiall Maiesties Mathematician. With the Blazon des hérétiques (1524). the company (e.g. 5 of the copies listed in NSTC, the copy by a thick ink line (in a series of four descending steps) Instructions for the use of them. “Cette composition par ses ombres très accentuées, par in the NL of Australia, etc.). There was a later revised and additionally the one section of the second pamphlet 4to (172 x 125mm.), [2], 22, [104 (tables)]pp. Closely ses effets de clair-obscur, s’inspire directement de Durer, edition published in 1823 in Batavia. Part of the book is which is particularly underlined has an additional ink shaved, cropping some signatures and catchwords mais les personnages ont des proportions trapues et sont devoted to a discussion of European books in Malay (Holy line on the fore-edge identifying its position - a distinctive plutot grimaçants.” (R.Brun, Le livre illustré en France au Writ, catechisms, grammars etc.) and part of the one rule border (the text itself is and practical aide-memoire. untouched) in the first part (A-C4) and in the tables XVI siecle, Paris, Lacan, 1930, p.326). The woodcut on Malay is written using unvocalised Arabic script with some additional letters, but the bulk of this volume is touching a few signatures and with some slight f.xxxiii which represents the author offering his book to printed in Black Letter in Dutch; italic is used for the damage to the extreme upper outer corners on a the prince, had already been used in the Collectaneorum 228 WILSON, Henry. Trigonometry Poligraphi libellus (1523). meanings of Malay words in Dutch. Werndly was also few leaves (affecting a few dates), rebound in half involved in the translation of the Scriptures and the Improv’d, and Projection of the Sphere References: Moreau III,1114; Mortimer, Harvard French calf, old style. catechism (see Darlow & Moule). Made Easy. Teaching the Projection of the 533. London: by William Iones, 1635 £4000 VOC Bibl. 759. Sphere Orthographick, and Sterographick: As STC 24864 records the three following copies: Bodley, also, Trigonometry Plain and Spherical; with Elias Ashmole’s copy, Jesus College Oxford, Herbert 224 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. plain and intelligible Reasons for the various of Cherbury’s copy, & Cambridge UL, the astronomer, Letters concerning the English Nation. 227 [WEST (Richard)]. A Discourse and most useful Methods, both in Projection and mathematician and antiquary Charles Towneley’s copy First Edition 8vo (203 x 120mm.), [16], 253, [19]pp., concerning Treasons and Bills of Attainder. Calculation; with the Application of the whole to only. There is no copy in America. fine copy in contemporary calf, gilt spine, Small 111pp. London: for J. Roberts, 1716 £500 Astronomy, Dialling, and Geography. The Tables themselves (with separate register A-N4) are dampstain in the upper inside corner of the title, Title-page lightly browned. Some ink underlining and First Edition. 12mo. [12], 192pp, 10 engraved plates are reissue of the sheets printed at Gouda in 1632 - as a fading away over the next few leaves. two marginal notes. (a few just shaved at the fore-edge). tailpiece they have a characteristic bear in foliage ornament London: for C. Davis, and A. Lyon, 1733 £600 Bound with: London: by H.P. for J. Senex; and W. Taylor, 1720 of which several varieties were used in Holland in the £600 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 17th century, including on Evans, Voltaire, 346. This English version precedes the Observations, Rules and Orders, Collected out Bound with: the Amsterdam reprint of Hobbes’s Leviathan (cf Noel first French edition. of Divers Journals of the House of Commons. Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes, p. 367.) Entred in the reigns of Edward VI. Q. Mary. [RAMUS, Pierre]. Arithmetica. Q. Elizabeth. K. James I. K. Charles I. and K. [Libri II]. 70pp., printer’s device on the title. Paris: 225 WATIN, Jean-Félix. L’ Art de faire et Charles II. A. Wechel, 1562. 223 VOLCYRE DE SEROUVILLE, Nicolas. d’employer le vernis, ou l’art de vernisseur, [8], 160, *261-276, 161-176pp. London: for Bernard 2 works in 1 volume 8vo (155 x 95mm.), mid-18th- L’histoire & recueil de [la triumphante et auquel on a joint ceux du peintre & du doreur. Lintot; and sold by Ch. King, 1717. century half calf, marbled boards. glorieuse victoire obtenue contre les seduyctz et Ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui [abusez] lutheriens mescreans du pays Daulsays veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir With the advertisement leaf opposite the title. Lightly browned. Considerable ink underlining and a couple et autres... par Anthoine... duc de Calabre, de par eux-memes toute forte de sujets, &c. divisé en 229 WINGATE, Edmund & DODSON, deux parties de couleurs & de vernis. of annotations (see provenance note) in the text of a Lorraine et de Bar... protestation of the Commons to the King (pp. 144-160, Samuel, editor. A plain and familiar method 8vo (200 x 120mm.), xvi, 249, [1 (errata)], [6 (table/ Folio (268 x 187mm.), ff. [10], xcviii, text in 2 columns, *261-75). for attaining the knowledge and practice of privilege)], 8 (supplement), contemporary English woodcut illustration of Faith on title-page, woodcut Bound with: common arithmetic. The Nineteenth Edition. of a scribe on *2, 3 full-page woodcut, 2 of battle half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. Wherein the additions … made by Mr. John An Inquiry into the manner of creating Peers. scene, 2 with monogram ‘SG’ [Gabriel Salmon]), Paris: Chez Quillau. [& Chez] L’ Auteur, 1772 £750 Kersey, in his Appendix, and Mr. George [4], 74pp. With the half-title and final blank leaf. 5 woodcut illustrations, eighteenth-century calf The 8pp. supplement lists artists’ materials for varnishing Shelly, in his Supplement, are introduced in London: for J. Roberts, 1719. with triple fillet gilt, spine gilt in compartments, and painting with prices at which they are available from their proper places… also sundry others, that red speckled edges, 3 coloured silk markers. First Watin’s shop. Bound with: are entirely new, are added. By James Dodson, 4 leaves torn with loss (including title-page), H3- [ST. AMAND, George]. Animadversions on accomptant, and teacher of the Mathematicks. H4 transposed, last leaf torn in margin, occasional the Enquiry Into the Manner of Creating Peers: 226 WERNDLY, Georg Henrik. Maleische 8vo (203 x 122m.) x, 401, [13]pp., engraved slight staining. With some Hints about Pyrating in Learning; in Spraakkunst, uit de eige schriften der frontispiece, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red [Paris: for Galliot du Pré], 1526 £2500 a Letter to Richard W--st, Esq. Malaiers opgemaakt; met eene voorreden [etc.] morocco label (upper joint cracked, lower joint 52pp., half-title, London: for J. Peele, 1724. First edition. Despite the heavily damaged first leaves 8vo (210 x 112mm.), [12], lxviii, [23]pp., eighteenth- cracked at the head), worming to the upper margin

MAGGS 75 of the last leaf (not affecting text). First and last few A rare and important first edition with an unrecorded Pp 20-28 of this section are printed in Black Letter and 4to (210 x 145mm.), 218, [2 (blank)]pp., French leaves browned at the margins by the turn-ins. continuation (see below). Edward Somerset (1601-1667), give the text of the patent or Act of Parliament permitting smooth calf c. 1700, spine gilt. London: for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, and R. Baldwin; sixth Earl and second Marquis of Worcester presents 100 the earl to profit from his invention. This is followed by Rome: G. G. de Buagni, 1690 £1000 of his inventions in a few words, and outlines especially the verses by James Rollock ‘Scoto-Belgo-Britannus’ in Latin A. Millar; John Rivington; and S. Crodwer and Co., Queen Christina’s (1626-1689) collection of coins was 1760 £450 applications of the steam engine. The ingenious Earl of and English on the stupendous water work. Worcester with Gaspar Calthoff as an associate ‘ingenior’ celebrated in its day, and was transported to Rome on “The Nineteenth Edition” of a work first published in set up an area in Vauxhall on the south bank of the Thames her departure in 1654 from Sweden. After her death 1630. This is the second edition edited (extensively) by for mechanical and scientific experimentations, such as 231 ZOSIMUS, the historian. Ιστοριων in 1689, when a formal inventory was prepared, this Dodson; the first was 1751. an early precursor of the steam machine, the “water βιβλια η. Historiarum libri VIII. Cum catalogue was published by Cameli, one of the group of commanding machine”. Besides the purely technological, Angeli Politiani interpretatione & huius partim scholars and antiquaries gathered around her, of whom the book records other curious inventions: a mute discourse supplemento, partim examine Henrici Stephani: F. Gottifredi & Gianpietro Bellori also served as curators 230 WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, of the coins. Cameli had to retire because of poor sight. by colours (semaphore?), an unsinkable ship, a pleasant utroque margine adscripto... Historiarum marquis of. A century of the names and The collection passed into the hands of the Odescalchi floating garden, a portable bridge, an artificial bird, to [Zosimi] herodianicas subsequentium libri duo, scantlings of such inventions, as at present I family and a further inventory was drawn up in 1713. write in the dark, “how to make a man to fly; which I nunc primum graece editi. can call to mind to have tried and perfected, have tried with a little boy of ten years old in a barn, from Havercamp in 1742 published the Nummophylacium at 2 parts 4to (233 x 157mm.), [8], 182 [2]; 79, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the one end to the other, on a hay-mow.”, etc. The author the Hague (see Christina Queen of Sweden – a personality [1(blank)]pp. small burn holes in margins on pp. of European civilisation . Stockholm: National Museum, instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now has put his name to the preface/dedication to both parts. 35-40 (part 1), affecting the odd letter of printed 1966 pp. 558-559). in the year 1655. to set these down in such a way The book was popular and reprinted right through the marginal notes, late seventeenth-century English as many sufficiently instruct me to put any of eighteenth century. Dekesel 17th cent. C28; The book is not at all common, panelled calf, somewhat rubbed. Dekesel lists 7 copies, to which the Warburg and Yale them in practice. Wing W3532. ESTC records two editions of 1663, one in Geneva: H. Estienne, 1581 £750 should be added. 12mo (125 x 70mm.), [24], 72, [12], [2],34pp.(A1 an unique copy at the Folger, and the second comprising blank (here lacking), A11v, E5v, E6r blank, woodcut what is here present, but minus the last 34 pages The Dedicated by Estienne to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with engraved 12 6 12 6 royal arms on F1v), eighteenth century speckled calf, present copy collates A-D (A1 blank) E (-E6) F G = 71 courtier and man of letters. Estienne stresses the utility bookplate. leaves. The table of contents is on quire E (9 pages). This spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering- of history to courtiers (‘aulici’) and writes how these two all tallies with the CUL copy reproduced on EEBO. The historical commentaries are as it were theatres in which piece, hinges cracked, binding rubbed. new and unrecorded section, which deals with the ‘water the tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies of court life GRADUS AD PARNASSUM London: J.Grismond, 1663 £4500 commanding engine’, begins on F1v with the woodcut arms. are played out and may serve as a parallel to modern 233 FINCK, Kaspar. Poetica latina nova, life. He urges Sidney, who he hopes is the same man methodo perspicua tradita, commentariis that he knew in Germany and Austria and unchanged by luculentis declarata, exemplis tum veterum, life at court, to read the translation, and ends with two couplets urging the reading of these two historians above tum recentiorum Poëtarum illustrata, duobus all in order to see Rome in its decline (‘Qui titubantem libris ita conscripta, ut non tam classibus quam uult Romam tandemque cadentem /cernere, prae cunctis academiis & scholis publicis utilis esse possit; legat historicis’). Estienne and Sidney had met in 1573 per Scholae Giessenae nonnullos Professores and the former gave Sidney a collection of the Greek philosophos (K. Finck, C. Hellwig & Konrad paroemiographers, and also dedicated to Sidney his 1576 Bachmann). edition of the Greek New Testament. 8vo (160 x 90mm.), [8], 393, [7]pp., eighteenth In his preface to the reader Estienne explains how century sprinkled calf, spine gilt. he has corrected Politian’s Latin version, which is ‘more Giessen: N. Hampel, 1607 £550 elegant than accurate’, and gives a number of specific examples where Politian has misunderstood the Greek. A manual for writing Latin verse written specially for the His own versions are printed in the margin of the text. school at Giessen by Kaspar Finck (1578-1631), Christoph Helwig (1681-1617), a fine Hebrew scholar and epigone of Renouard 149.7; Schreiber 249. the educationalist Wolfgang Ratke, at the time teaching in Giessen, and Konrad Bachmann (1572-1646) the first University librarian there. Helwig & Finck published a ADDENDA Latin grammar with the same printer in 1610. Giessen, where the anti-Calvinist university was founded in 232 CAMELI, Francesco. Nummi antiqui 1607, was a home to Ramism, and several text books of aurei, argentei, & aerei primae, secundae, rhetoric etc. were published there (see note in H. Hotson seu mediae, minimae, & maximae formae. Commonplace learning Ramism and its German ramifications Latini, graeci, consulum, augustorum, regum, 1543-1630 Oxford, 2007 p. 96). & urbium. In thesauro Christinae reginae VD17 23:295251P (4 copies; we have traced no others). Suecorum &c Romae asservati... Per seriem redacti. MAGGS 77 indicate sententiae. This is particular useful in the Greek HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES AND RECEIPTS 238 , Judaeus. Φιλωνος Ιουδαιου εις Anthology where proper names abound in the titles of τα του Μωσεος... De mundi opificio, historicos, de 237 Neueröffneter curioser Schatz-Kasten the individual epigrams. legibus, eiusdem libri suingulares. Ex bibliotheca welcher mit allerhand fürtrefflich- u. At the end there is a note addressed by Estienne to the regia (ed. by Turnebus, with an index). reader in which he tells us that it is a shortage of paper and bewährten, der Natur und Kunst, auch not of time which has made him offer such abbreviated medicinisch.- und chirurgischen Secreten, notes (‘annotatiunculae’) which constitute barely a tenth of benebst sehr vielen andern ungemeinen, so what he might have offered. He then proceeds to outline wohl mechan. als oeconom. raren Kunst- his method of editing, and speaks of the epigrams he Stücken reichl. angefüllet und hervor gethan, has added, one of which he has taken from a manuscript in einem gantz neu heraus gegebenen Artzney- in the possession of the English doctor John Clement at Kunst- Haus- und Wunder-Buch ... Von einem Louvain, as well as others from various ancient writers christlich-gesinnten und jederman gutes such as Pauusanias. Certain verses in book VII he has rejected as being modern (by Janus Lascaris). gönneten aufrichtigen Freund, usw., [8], 816, [80pp., title printed in red and black, Renouard 126.4; Schreiber 159. See Hutton The Greek Nuremberg: Georg Lehmann, 1706. Anthology in France Ithaca NT: Cornell UP, 1946, pp. 128- 133. Bound with: Provenance: M. Bruningen 29 June 1657 (inscr. on fly- A., L. Curieuse Vorstellung schöner rarer und leaf). nützlicher Künste... 5. Der curieuse Confectirer. 6. Der curieuse Koch und Becker allerhands Speisen und Gebackens zu machen... Von L.A. 235 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe [2], 184, [4]pp., Arnstadt: printed by J.C. Heergart at condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV. Cum [Bad] L[angen]salza for J.G. Ehrt, 1707. universae historiae epitomis, a Carolo Sigonio emendati: cuius etiam scholia simul eduntur, etc. 2 works in 1 volume (165 x 95mm.), contemporary 2 parts folio (335 x 230mm.), ff. [4], 1-429, 428-430, vellum, yapp edges 1706-1707 £1200 433-478; 98, [40], calf, title-leaf mounted, scholia The first and very substantial work covers in ten sections bound first. everything from medical treatments to gold and silver Venice: P. Manutius, 1555 £1000 working, and from painting, leather work, clothing and tapestry to cookery and the preparation of drinks, along The first of Sigonio’s editions of Livy, the text based on the with gardening and hunting and fishing. There is an Basel recension. This edition was several times reprinted ample index. It is like the large format German Haus- and became the textus receptus. Carlon Sigonio’s work on Vater books, which were so popular in the seventeenth 234 GREEK ANTHOLOGY. Ανθολογια Livy and on Roman political life was amongst the most and eighteenth centuries. The second work, of much διαφορων επιγραµµατων... Florilegium important of the sixteenth century (see W. W. McCuaig smaller compass, covers the same sort of subjects from diversorum epigrammatum veterum, in septem Carlo Sigonio etc., Princeton UP, 1989). Folio (332 x 300mm.), [12], 736, [48]pp., device headaches to urination (von vielen Harnen) and face spots on title-page, four leaves of errata, last leaf with libros diversum. Renouard 166.15; UCLA 47. (die Flecken in Angesichte zu vertreiben) and from fruit colophon, English panelled calf, c. 1700, upper 4to (250 x 155mm.), [4], 539 (=545, pp.283-288 bis), and other conserves, to how to cook calf liver, trout and [35]pp., device on title-page, later Dutch vellum crabs, along with recipes for marzipan and various sorts hinge slightly splitting, small worm hole at edge of over pasteboard, yapp edges. 236 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum...libri, of bread and cakes. margins as far as about p. 240. [Geneva]: E. Estienne, H. Fuggeri typographus, 1566 qui extant, XXXV. Cum ...epitomis. Of the second work KVK records only one copy in Paris: A. Turnèbe, regiis typis, (14 August) 1552 £2200 Adiunctis scholijs Caroli Sigonii... Secunda editio. Berlin. Its place of printing is interesting: Bad Langensalza £1400 2 parts folio (318 x 205mm.), [52], 399, [1]; 107, is not far from Arnstadt in Thuringia, and printing A fine, clean, large copy. As far as p. 60 the epigrams are Editio princeps, dedicated to Charles cardinal of Lorraine, [1], later calf, f. 70 with small stain, the odd leaf was begun there at the end of the 17th century by J.C. fairly extensively annotated with interlinear and marginal and a fine, clean, large copy of this important book. Robert slightly browned, light marginal dampstaining on Bachmann, who published two works in the BL: one a glosses and vocabulary notes in a small neat hand. Estienne having left Paris for Geneva early in 1550, the German translation of The whole duty of man, one of the On the verso of the title-page is a key to the various ff. 140-141, some margins washed near beginning punches for the Grecs du Roi or Typi regii passed, with a set best sellers of the age and a work attributed to Richard diacritical signs used by Estienne in this edition to indicate with traces of annotations. of matrices and the ornamental material into the custody Allestree, provost of Eton; the other a little work on proper names of men, women, digs, horses etc., to indicate [Niccolo Bevilaqua] for P. Manutius, 1566 £1000 of Charles Estienne, from whom Turnebus as the next royal ‘Honigtau’ an insectal secretion which attacks plants the names of peoples or places, to indicate the names of Greek printer obtained them in 1552. Turnebus printed The identification of the printer is given in McCuaig op. cit. (‘for he on honey-dew hath fed and drunk the milk of mountains, to indicate the names of seas, rivers, fountains, Turnebus then passed them on to Morel who succeeded p. 59 no. 172, where reference is given to correspondence. Paradise’ (Coleridge ‘Kubla Khan’). Bachmann’s successor together with the pointing finger used (‘as in Aeschylus, him. In 1563 Morel put them into official custody, where Here the index is bound first. at Langensalza was Heergart whose imprint is found from Xenophon, Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus and others’) to they were forgotten. Renouard 202. 19; UCLA 769 (imperfect). 1705 to about 1750. Of the first work three copies in Germany and three in MAGGS the USA can be traced. 79 240 SAVARON, Jean. Les origines de la ville de Clairmont... augmentées de remarques... iustifiées par chartes, tiltres, privileges... Par Pierre Durand. Folio (316 x 212mm.), [12], 593, [31]pp., title printed in red and black, engravings in text, eighteenth- century English calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in compartments, red speckled edges. Paris: F. Muguet, 1662 £900 An extremely fine copy of this major French work of local history. Clermont is in the Auvergne. Various copies in European libraries, but not at Yale, although Harvard has a copy.

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Item 134, Longinus [8vo]. Item 151, Nannini [4to].

239 PROCOPIUS, of Caesarea. Historiarum... libri VIII... Accessit liber de aedificijs Justiniani... Opera Davidis Hoeschelii. Folio (316 x 195mm.), [8], 376; 56; [84]pp., engraved title, contemporary English (? Oxford) binding of brown calf, double gilt fillet on covers, spine with gilt ornament in compartments, chain mark on upper cover. Augsburg: D. Franck, 1607 £800 Editio princeps of the Greek text of the great Byzantine historian, whose animadversions on the empress Theodora had to be quoted by Gibbon ‘in the decent obscurity of a learned language’. The work is edited by Hoeschel (1556- 1617), favourite pupil of Hieronymus Wolf in Augsburg and his successor as librarian of the city library. VD17 39:123445Q. Provenance: Thomas Tonkys (possibly from Staffordshire & of Christ Church, Oxford, 1699, see Foster); perhaps the book had been extruded from a library in Oxford.

Item 185, Rucellai [large 4to]. Item 206, Suetonius [12mo]. MAGGS Item 165, Perez de Mendoza.