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- 2011 - CATALOGUE 226

These and some 100 other items will be offered for sale at ourStand G-9 at the Salon Inter- national du Livre Ancien which will be held from 11 to 13 April at the Grand Palais (Paris). Telephone during opening hours: +33 (0) 6 227 323 85

All books are complete and in good condition unless otherwise stated. Library stamps and can- celled stamps have not always been mentioned. Any item not agreeing with the description may be returned at our expense. Prices are in €. Postage, insurance and bank costs extra. Delivery according to the trade conditions of the Syndicat de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM). These conditions stipulate that the property right of the supplied goods remains with us up to full payment. Illustrations front- and backcovers: No. 2 ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS. 1 • AMPHIAREO DA FERRARA, VESPASIANO.

Opera, nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, et massime una lettera bastarda da lui nova- mente con sua industria ritrovata, laqual serve al cancellaresco et mercantesco... opera utilissima e molto necessaria all’uso humano. Venice, (G. Scotto?), 1555. Oblong 4to. (48) lvs. Woodcut of a hand holding a compass and a pen, 6 woodcut initials in text and 85 engraved models of calligraphic text and initials, all within black-lined borders. 18th century vellum, spine ribbed and gilt. A beautiful copy. 14.000 €

* Famous writing book by Vespasiano Amphiareo (1501-1563), first published in 1548. A new enlarged edition followed in 1554, and then our edition and 16 more before 1620. The book is intended to teach boys at school rather than young men starting a career. The models are deliberate and often elaborate. The framework of the manual follows the pattern of chancery and mercantile hands, elegant but immobile, gothic alphabets, the rotunda, and Roman capitals. We see for the first time in an Italian writing book a majuscule alphabet based on botanical motives, tree trunks, heavy gothic letters with putti and masks, and black strapwork letters linked to contemporary German writing books. The book ends with a section on how to cut the quill and make a clear, black ink. To the second edition were added sections on illuminating in azure and gold, and in vermilion in his later editions. The real significance of the writing book is that Amphiareo was dissatisfied with both the chancery and mercantile hands of his time. He therefore devised a mixture of the two styles which would suit both purposes. He wanted this “invention”’ to be generally known and thus “with incredible personal expense” he had his book engraved and printed.

01 2 • (ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS) FRANCESCHINI, L.

[Architectural drawings]. [Rome?, ca. 1789]. Folio. With 48 mostly full-page original drawings, mainly in ink and coloured washes; 4 of them signed Lodovico Franceschini and 3 dated “1789”. The 44 plates of Vignola’s Regula (Siena, 1635) and the 21 plates of Giovanni Battista Montano’s Tabernacoli diversi (Rome, 1684, pt. 5) are interspersed among the drawings, often with an engraving and a related drawing on facing pages. [70] ll. Contemp. blind-tooled goatskin, with a roman “B” (replacing a fainter “A”) in black ink on front board, 6 paper templates (ca. 1800?) for decorative motifs (for cartouches?) pasted on paste-downs. Minor worming in most leaves, some browning and water stains, but the drawings remain in good condition. Magnificent drawings by an unrecorded Italian architect. 65.000 €

* Very interesting and intriguing album by a hitherto unknown and unrecorded Italian architect and designer: Lodovico Franceschini. Mostly each leaf has been constructed by pasting 2 leaves together, with the drawings or engravings on the outside, and mounting the double leaf on a stub. The drawings illustrate the developing insights of classical architecture as represented by Vignola and others, by a practicing or teaching architect at the end of the 18th century. They illustrate the orders, doorways, fireplaces, altars, mouldings, complex floor tile designs, and a pan- tograph and geometrical figures, projections, perspective, etc. There are five sophisticated drawings (plans, sections and elevations) for a single(?) large theatre, and two double-page drawings for an ambitious church (plan, section and elevation, dated 1789), symmetrical in a 90 degree rotation, except for the doorway, entry stairs and awning(?) on one side. The greater part of the work is a reworking of the standard book by Vignola, first published in 1562.

02 03 3 • (ART - COSTUMES - TURKEY (SILVESTRE, CH.-F.?).

l[‘]Art de bien dessiner a la plume nouvellement mis au jour pour l[‘]utilité de la jeunesse. Including: (2): [SILVESTRE, Charles François]. Diverses figures Turcs propre à dessiner a la plume. (3): [IDEM]. Second livre de figures Turcs propre à déssiner à la plume. (4): [IDEM?]. Diverses figures de caprice propre a dessigner a la plume. [Paris?, ca. 1700?]. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 16mo.[12], [12], [12], [12] engr. ll. Each part with engraved title-page and each with 11 unnumbered engraved plates, depicting costume figures, trades or professions and scenes from daily life, parts 1 & 4 European and parts 2-3 Ottoman. Contemporary calf, mostly single leaves side-stitched in groups. 38.000 €

* Four extremely rare series of engraved European and Turkish costume figures, intended as models for children learning to draw and at least the Turkish ones drawn for the grandchildren of King Louis XIV of France. Each series has an engraved title-page and 11 model drawings, mostly with 2 figures each. The two parts with Turkish costume figures (ads 2-3) are explicitly called volumes 1 and 2, match each other in plate size and style, and were drawn by the artist and engraver François Silvestre (1667-1731), the el- dest son of Israël Silvestre (1621-1691), who had taught drawing to Louis XIV’s son Louis de Bourbon. François himself was appointed in 1695 to teach drawing to Louis XIV’s three grandsons, ages 9-12. The two parts with European figures and scenes (ads 1 & 4) also match each other in plate size and style, though not explicitly presented as two volumes of a single work, and the only other copy we have located of ad 4 is also bound with ad 1. Since the four series were clearly printed and published together Silvestre

02 03 may also have drawn the European ones. This is strengthened by the fact that a later edition of ad 1 was dedicated to the Duc de Berry. We have located no copy of this edition of either of the two Turkish series in any library. In most cases, each print shows two closely related figures, one drawn with outlines and the other also with hatched shading, 34 of the 44 costume leaves showing the same figure drawn in the two manners. The two Turkish series have engraved captions in French (and in our copy one print has a manuscript caption instead). The two European series have, in our copy, no engraved captions, but in ad 1 French manuscript captions have been added. Except for the title-pages, each plate has an engraved rectangular border. All four series are printed on the same paper stock, so they must have been printed and published together and may have been executed by the same artist and engraver. With an 1870 owner’s inscription on the endpapers (twice) and the top edge of the leaves. An owner has added a few lines in brown ink to the background scene of one plate. Very good condition, only an occasional minor marginal spot or smudge. The binding shows some professional restoration but remains in good condition and is structurally sound, with a few minor stains, some of the tooling on the board edges and raised bands flaked off, but most of the tooling in the spine compartments well preserved. Four extremely rare series of drawing models, including 22 Turkish costume prints drawn for the grandchildren of Louis XIV.

04 05 4 • (ART) AUCTION CATA- LOGUE.

Catalogue de tableaux anciens des différentes écoles dont 4 Sneyders Capitaux et un magnifique Rubens dont la vente aux enchères publiques aura lieu ... le samedi 24 février 1866. Paris, Renou & Maulde, 1866. 19pp. 75 items described. Nineteenth century half red morocco, marbled boards. 300 €

* «La collection dont nous donnons le Catalogue se compose ainsi: Tableaux vendus après le décès de M. Fradelle, peintre français, établi depuis de longues années à Londres, et mort en cette ville il y quelques mois. Parmi ces tableaux figure en pre- mière ligne un magnifique Rubens. Puis de quatre très-beaux Sneyders vendus également après décès. De même un intéressant tableau vendu par licita- tion, et spécialement à quatre heures, répétition de la Sainte Famille, ronde, du Musée du Louvre, par André del Sarte. Enfin pour compléter la vacation, nous y avons joint quelques tableaux, parmi lesquels plusieurs se recommandent à des titres divers.»

5 • AUDOT - PARIS.

Ouvrages Nouveaux Qui Se Trouvent a Paris, Chez Audot, Libraire-Editeur, Rue Des Maçons-Sor- bonne No. 11. Paris, imprimerie de Tastu, n.d. (but before 24 March 1827). Broadsheet, folio. 3 columns on each side. 450 €

* The present catalogue describes 65 new books that can be bought at Audot’s in Paris all with rather extensive descriptions that contain sizes, prices (without or including postage) number of illustrations and some notes on the contents of the books. Most of the books deal with hunting, gastronomy, gardening, with some technical and travel books. The last item described is the “Colonne de la Grande-Armée, élévée sur la Place Vendome, a Paris” that customers can subscribe to. The description of this last work states that the first installment will be sold as of 24 March 1827. Audot says at the very beginning of the sheet: “Vous êtes invité à communiquer cette Notice aux personnes qu’elle pourait intéresser” A scarce catalogue.

04 05 6 • BARLAEUS, CASPAR.

Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis. Amsterdam, J. & C. Blaeu, 1638. Folio. Full-page portrait of Maria de Medici with terrace and view on the Amstel after G. Honthorst, 16 double-page, 2 double-page folding, fine engraved views of Amsterdam and of the splendid ceremonies at the occasion of Maria de Medici’s visit to Amsterdam. (14), 76, (2 blank) pp. Contemp. vellum. A.e.g. Splendid copy. 11.000 €

* First edition of a beautifully illustrated baroque Dutch Royal Entree book, with all of the plates in either early or first states, before numbers and letters. Published simultaneously in French and in Latin, it is the first official description of an entrance in the Northern Netherlands. The splendid ceremonial entrance of the queen-mother of France in 1638 was an important moment in the history of Amsterdam. The beautiful plates are in two, quite different, styles. Nine plates depict allegorical subjects from the queen’s life. The other plates represent the festivals and are remarkable for the detailed views. The plates are here bound together, following the text. [Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies, 109; Frederik Muller auction catalogue, Wurfbain-Slagregen-Kroese, 6-11 mei 1912, nr. 407; Snoep, Praal en Propaganda, pp. 39-76; Hollstein XIV, Nolpe 86-94; Hollstein XXIV, Saverij 144 a-h; Muller, Historieprenten, 1793; L’Art Ancien, cat. 26, nr. 398; Kat. Berlin 2949; Lipperheide 2665; Verzameling Amsterdam W.J.R. Dreesman, p. 476; Vinet 489; cf. Collections A.J. Nijland troisième partie, nrs. 443-447].

06 07 7 • BEAUCHESNE, JEAN DE.

Le tresor d’escriture, auquel est continu tout ce qui est requis & necessaire à tous amateurs dudict art. Lyon, for the Author, 1580. Oblong 8vo. 62 full-page woodcut plates, all within rich ornamental and grotesque borders printed from 6 different blocks. Contemporary limp vellum 39.500 €

* Jean de Beauchesne (1538-ca. 1610), was not a publisher or bookseller, but a writing master who produced and sold his own writing books. First published in Paris in 1550, the present work was edited in English by John Bal- don and published in London in 1570. It was the first writing-book to be published in England. Baudrier states our Lyons edition of 1580 to contain 4 prelim. lvs. and 64 lvs., incl. 2 last blanks, with a single-leaf collation of A-Z, Aa-Zz, and AA-RR, and explains that the last two leaves QQ & RR had to be balanced by two last blanks. However, Baudrier’s collation would come to 63 lvs., needing only one blank for balance. Our collation runs, after the 4 prelim. lvs., A-I, L-Z, Aa-Zz, and AA-RR, that is 62. The two last blanks for balancing are lacking in our copy. As our copy is in contemporary vellum, leaf K to all probability has not been present from the beginning and was undoubtedly not present in Baudrier’s copy either, thus needing 2 last blanks. To all probability there has never been a leaf K; there is no copy recorded containing this leaf. The present book is extremely rare in all editions. Its Renaissance borders are richly ornamental and almost grotesque in the Flemish style, but have shaded backgrounds like in the early Venetian engravings. The two large alphabets, which seem models for printing types were designed according to the new standards of geometry and proportion of the Renaissance According to the preface by the artist such geometrical designed alphabets were the first of their kind to be published.

06 07 8 • (BENTES, ALBERTUS).

Bibliotheca Bentesiana. Sive catalogus librorum quos collegit vir amplissimus Albertus Bentes, judi- cum Amstelodamensium quondam praeses. Biblio- thecae hujus Auctio fiet Amstelodami, 24 Aprillis & seqq. diebus An. 1702. (12), 160, 148, 120 pp. With engraved vignette on titlepage and three engraved head- and tailpieces, all by J. Goeree. 4to. Con- temporary red half roan with marbled sides. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand. 4.800 €

* A fine wide-margined copy of this important collection comprising around 7000 lots, assembled by the former Amsterdam supreme judge. High- lights include early bibles, sciences (with works by Kepler, Brahe, Finé, Firmicius, Copernicus, Goericke), philosophy, and other subjects. It is interesting to note that the sessions were organized by the size of the books. An auction catalogue that is rare on the market.

9 • BONNAFFÉ, EDMOND

Dictionnaire des Amateurs Français au XVIIe Siècle. Paris, Quantin, 1884. xi, 353 pp. 3/4 morocco binding, marbled boards. Note in red ink on the halftitle dated 1931 and signature (19th century) on the title. With exlibris C. Dolkens. 330 €

10 • BOSBOOM, SIMON.

Cort onderwijs vande Vyf Colomen door Symon Bosboom, Stadts Steen-houwer tot Amsterdam. Uit den scherpsinnigen Vinsent Schamozzy getrocken en in Minuten gestelt seer gemacklick voor de jonge Leerlingen en dienstich voor alle Ionge Liefhebbers der Bouw-Const. Nieulycks vermeerdert en verbetert met Privilegio. Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, n.d. (between 1696 and 1726?). Folio. Limp vellum. Handwritten exlibris of the Arnhem (?) sculptor Johannes Daniels. Engraved titlepage, 58 ff with text and 47 full-page copper-engravings (one folding and 3 signed S. Bosboom inventor) and 6 copper-engravings in the text, marked A-F. 4.500 €

08 09 * Simon Bosboom (1614 - 1662) was a Dutch architect and stone mason. ‘Cort Onderwys...’ is an influential and simple and practical manual on the five orders of columns, written for the use of craftsmen. It is based on Scamozzi’s Idea della architettura - most plates derive from Scamozzi’s book VI. Bosboom’s work became a popular handbook for architects that was reprinted several times and served to spread the ideas of Scamozzi throughout the Nether- lands. He discusses and illustrates the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Composite (here called Roman) and Corinthian orders of column, along with doorways, arches, facades, etc., using them. Other illustrations show fireplaces, a church interior and exterior, geometrical diagrams, ornaments, etc. Bosboom was active as an architect in England and Germany, before working on an alms- house for the city council of Nijmegen in 1640 and moved to Amsterdam when he was hired as a master mason to assist Jacob van Campen for his work as city architect of Amsterdam. He helped him with the City Hall of Amsterdam, his largest city project. In 1653 he was promoted to city mason after the dismissal of Willem de Keyser, and in 1657, the year of Van Campen’s death, Bosboom was promoted to city architect. Cornelis de Bie’s Gulden Cabinet (Antwerp 1661) calls Bosboom the actual designer of the plastic details of the Amsterdam city hall. Plates 54 and 55 depict interiors of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Plates 52 and 53 depict a church designed by Bosboom.

08 09 11 • (BOUCHET, LE CHEVALLIER H. DU).

Reflexions sur l’education des enfans. Sevilla, widow of Francisco Lorenzo de Hermosilla, [1731?]. Small 8vo. [8], 44 pp. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 2 cut-off thongs, with a yellow surface stain applied with a brush. 9.500 €

* Second copy located of the first and only edition, in French, of an educational manual. The dedication is signed “le Chevalier du Bouchet”. Hermosilla’s widow appears in Sevilla imprints from 1727 to 1735 and the present copy is dated “1731” in an 18th-century hand on the title-page. The dedication is clearly addressed to King Philip V of Spain, not King Louis XV of France, for Du Bouchet notes that he has served him for 24 years (i.e. since ca. 1707) and refers to the princes (plural), his children. It also mentions the queen. He therefore seems likely to have been a tutor to the future Bourbon Kings of Spain and their younger brothers. For children’s education, he recommends the reading of not only classical authors, but also and especially the great contemporary authors on science, philosophy and literature, naming l’Ami and Malezieu for geometry, the authors of Port Royal for logic, Rohault for physics, Grotius, Puffendorf, Domat and Dargout for law, Pascal, Bossuet, Nicole, La Roche-Foucault, La Bruyère for philosophy and literature, etc. The book is extremely rare: we have located only one other copy, in the National Library of Spain. Manuscript note on paste-down: “Libro de la mayor rareza; nunca he visto otro exemplar” Second known copy of an educational manual, probably by a tutor to the future Kings of Spain, published in Sevilla. [KVK & WorldCat (1 copy, at BN Madrid); not in CC de Rebiun; CCPB; Palau].

12 • (BOUTOURLIN, D.).

Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte D. Boutourlin. Dont la vente se fera le lundi 25 novembre 1839, et jours suivants... Paris, 1839. Halftitle, title, 4, 306, (viii), 2 pp. 8vo. Mar- bled bds. Spine restored. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand. Some light foxing. Exlibris of Walter Arthur Copinger. Number 16 of only 30 copies on large paper («L’un des trente exemplaires tirés sur grand papier vélin No. 16») 1.280 €

* Buturlin (1763-1829), Russian soldier, military historian, politician, librarian of the Imperial Russian Library, and one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia, had formed earlier an important library but that was destroyed during the burning of Moscow in 1812. The present catalogue describes Buturlin’s second collection, formed during his retire- ment in Florence, which Brunet describes superior to the first. It contained 244 important early MSS., 964 15th-century books (many of which were unrecorded), very complete Aldine and Bodoni collections, and other outstanding later items.

10 11 • BOXHORN, M. Z. 13

Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Am- sterdam, Janssonius, 1638. 4to [2], 176, [84] pp. Engraved title-page & 125 full-page numbered engravings (1-87 integral; 88-125 plates). Richly gold-tooled French black goatskin morocco (ca. 1700?), with the arms of an unidentified noble- man. Edges gold-tooled. Early owner’s name on title-page, beginning with an initial G but with the family name struck through, a slip with a letterpress lot number(?) “196” on the title-page, and 19th-century manuscript notes tipped-in facing plate 112. Lacking the dedication leaf included in some copies, with a note to the reader on its re- verse. A beautifully bound copy, with the arms on the mourning binding related to that on one of the tombs. 13.000 €

* First edition of the present text and the fourth edition of a series of sixteenth-century engravings depicting the funeral monuments and epitaphs of famous men, mostly from Italy, printed from the original plates of 1574. It includes Cicero, Ovid, Lucretius, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, as well as Erasmus of Rotterdam’s tomb in Basel. Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn (1602-1653), wrote the new text for the present edition. Siegfried Rybisch collected the drawings on a visit to Italy and on his return home had them engraved by Tobias Fendt (ca. 1500-1576). They first appeared without text as a print series with the title Monumenta sepulcrorum cum epigraphis ingenio et doctrina, Breslau, 1574. Sigmund Feyerabend in Frankfurt am Main produced a new edition of the prints under the title Monumenta illustrium in 1585, printed from the original 125 copperplates, but with a new title-plate by Jost Amman. He produced another edition from the same plates in 1589 under the title Monumenta clarorum doctrina prcipue toto orbe terrarum virorum. Janssonius clearly acquired Feyerabend’s plates, for his present 1638 edition is printed from the same plates including the title-plate with the text revised. One can still make out most of the erased imprint: “Francofvrti ad Moenum/impensis/Sigismundi Feirabendi”, “1589” and the erased exotic birds perched on either side. Another edition with Boxhorn’s text appeared in 1671. The arms on the splendid armorial binding appear to be related to the arms shown in the book on the tomb of Agostino Bero of Bologna (1474-1554), on fol. P1. The coat of arms on the tomb shows a rampant lion with chief 3 (6-pointed) stars and a fourth star by the lion’s foremost paw. It appears mirrored on the left and right side of the face of the tomb, with the lions facing toward the centre. The tomb of Antonio de Alexandro of Naples (active 1478) also shows a rampant lion and 3 stars, but the stars are on a bend across the body of the lion. Several French families bore similar arms, but we have found no exact match to that on the binding and the ambiguous tinctures hinder identification. In later years the

10 11 family Berthier de Lioncourt bore a rampant lion accompanied by three roses but without the stars, while Berthier de Grandry bore a rampant lion below and three mullets (5-pointed stars) above a chev- ron. Several families bore a rampant lion with chief three mullets (au chef ... chargé de trois étoiles): De Faramond, Pacoret de Saint-Bon and others. Beyond the title-page, quires A-X (which include engravings 1-87) and plates 88-125, the book can contain any of 6 additional leaves whose number and position vary from copy to copy. The STCN records no copy with all 6 and the three other copies we have viewed in public collections also lack one or more. The present copy includes 4 of the 6, omitting the dedication to Guilielmo de Ryt and the “Plausus symbolicus” divisional title, but including the “Monumenta aliquot sepulchralia veterum Romanorum ri incisa.” divisional title (before plates 88-125), and at the end Box- .(* nigmatis, ...” and the 2-leaf (4-page) index (quireو horn’s “Explicatio

14 • (BOZE, M. DE).

Catalogue des Livres provenans [sic] de la biblio- théque [sic] de feu M. de Boze, dont la Vente sera indiquée par Affiches. Paris, G. Martin, 1754. Titlepage, (ii), viii, 188 pp. 8vo. New paper boards with a nice patina, spine goldtooled, morocco titleshield. 1297 items described. With estimation and prices realised in a contemporary hand in ink, and some additional notes mostly on books that were not present at the sale, and some additional lots. The author index can be found on pages 172 - 188. Without the 4 page supplement at the end. 1.750 €

* Blogie gives December as the month of the sale, which is stated in the short preface. The catalogue represents those books unwanted or unsold by Bou- tin and Cotte after their en-bloc purchase of Boze’s library in 1753. Dibdin and Horne knew of this catalogue only through Peignot. Lot number 13 is a Gutenberg Bible. [Grolier Club # 112].

15 • (BRUNET, JACQUES-CHARLES).

Catalogue Des Livres Rares et Précieux Composant La Bibliothèque De Feu M. Jacques-Charles Bru- net. La vente aura lieu le Lundi 20 Avril 1868 et les 4 jours suivants. Première Partie: Livres rares et précieux, belles reliures anciens et modernes. Paris & Londres, 1868. 3/4 red morocco with marbled

12 13 boards. Priced. [With] Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Jacques-Charles Brunet. La vente aura lieu le lundi 18 mai 1868 et les neuf jours suivants... Deuxième partie. Ouvrages de divers genres, histoire littéraire, bibliographie. 3/4 red morocco with marbled boards. Preface by Le Roux de Lincy. 2 volumes: Volume 1: xlvi, (xii), pp 1- 139 + 1 blank page = 140, (xii), (xii), pp 141-143, 16pp (Tableau alphabétique des noms d’auteurs et des ouvrages anonymes du catalogue de la biblio- thèque du feu M. Jacques-Charles Brunet... sui- vie de la liste des prix d’adjudication.; Volume 2: xiii,232 pp. 880 €

* Jacques-Charles Brunet (1780-1867), the most distinguished of the French scholar-booksellers, started his career as a bibliographer by issuing a supplement (1802) to R. Duclos’s Dictionnaire bibliographique... The introduction to part one contains an extensive note on the life and work of Brunet. 2 volumes. An extraordinary copy of the auction of this important sale to which several articles about Brunet and the sale have been added like a 12 page article by Jean Janin on Brunet taken from ‘Le Bibliophile français’ and two articles by Leroux de Lincy taken from the same magazine describing the two auctions in great detail, and with the separately published price list that is rarely present. Prices and names in a contemporary hand and some other annotations throughout. A magnificent copy containing all the information about this important auction.

16 • (CALLIGRAPHY - WRITING BOOK) SCHLEUPNER, CASPAR.

[Calligraphy manual]. Nuremberg, 21 February 1555. 4to (21 x 16 cm). With 13 large ornamental initials in gold penwork, and text written in dark brown, red and gold ink. [26] ll. (including final two blanks). Re-cased in a contemporary binding of pigskin over wooden boards, richly blind-stamped and roll-tooled (clasps missing). Some occasional browning. In very good condition. 22.000 €

* A magnificent document of the golden age of Nuremberg calligraphy, with several German and Latin texts and alphabets in various calligraphic scripts adorned with 13 magnificent initials in gold penwork. The present writing book is the only manuscript extant by Schleupner. It is dated on page 40 (at the end

12 13 of the dedicatory letter) “February 21, 1555,” and signed on page 41 “Caspar Schleupner.” Caspar Schleupner (ca. 1535-1599) of Nuremberg was a student of Johann Neudörffer Sr. and became a schoolmaster at Breslau, where he published his Rechenbüchlein in 1596. In that work he presented himself as a pupil of Neudörffer. Most probably the present manuscript was produced under Neudörffer’s supervision. The manuscript seems to be complete, although one (blank ?) leaf at the beginning and, possibly, some blanks at the end are missing. The book belonged to the “Sammlung Dr. Ernst L. Hauswedell,” his sale no. 175. [Cf. Doede, Schreibmeisterbücher, p. 30, note 38; Doppelmayr, pp. 157 and 201; Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p. 412; Thieme & Becker XXX, p. 107].

17 • (CENSURE).

Arrest Du Conseil D’Estat Du Roy, Qui casse et Annule Les Arrets Du Conseil, Obtenus Par Jacques Nicolas & François-Denis Le Tourneur Oncle & Neveu, Pour Estre Reçus Libraires En La Ville De Roüen; et Ordonne Que Les Srs Cailloüé Freres Seront et Demeuront Destituez de la Profession le Libraires, &c... Du 11 Septembre 1724. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1724. 4pp. 4to. Woodcut headpiece. Uncut. A good copy with wide margins. 500 €

* First edition of this very important parliamentary paper. It renews officially, by naming specific individuals, under the reign of Louis XV the interdictions, made by Louis XIV, for Protestants to exercise the trade of booksellers and printers. Frère (Manuel de Bibliographie Normande, I, p. 171, col. 1) devotes a whole page to this affair of forbidding booksellers to work and the suspension of the brothers Calloüe and the family Le Tourneur - a suspension which nevertheless did not impede the Calloüe family being one of the most famous families of printers in Rouen where they worked from 1612 to at least 1753; printing and edition not only many Protestant works but also books in Spanish or translated from the Spanish. There is also a widow Calloüe who died at the Bastille and Jean Calloüe himself fled to England where another member of his family, Denis, translated into French, works that were favorable to King Charles II.

14 15 • (CENSURE) INDEX 18 LIBRORUM PROHIBI- TORUM

Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Benedicti XIV Pon- tificus Maximi Jussu Recognitis, Atque Editus Editio postrema caeteris ornatior, cum addita- mentis. Rome, Ex Typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1761. lvi,319pp. Followed by: Indicis Novissimi librorum prohibitorum. Appendix in qua recensentur deinceps proscripti post annum MDCCLVII. usque ad diem XXVII. Februarii MDCCLXIV. (14pp). 8vo. Contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt. Titleshield brown morocco. Titlepage engraved with papal arms and engraved frontispiece showing the burning of books. Some occasional foxing. 950 €

* The ‘Index of Prohibited Books’ is the classic example of censorship. It is a catalogue published by papal authority of books considered to be dangerous to religion and morals which Roman Catholics should not read without dispensation. Although the Church had been conscious of the dangers of heretical works since the earliest days - the Notitia Librorum of Gelasius was issued in 494 - the invention of printing increased these dangers in a manner which was immediately apparent and a more systematic control seemed to the authorities to be necessary. In 1557 the first Roman Index in the general ecclesiastical use of the term appeared and in 1564 Pope Pius IV caused the ‘Ten Rules’ to be published. Until the end of the sixteenth century, the Index was used mainly to help the Vatican’s fight against the Reforma- tion; later it was also used against movements inside the Roman Church. The forbidden books are chiefly: all heretical and superstitious writings; editions of the Holy Scripture by non-Catholics; any book on liturgy and dogma not approved by the Holy See; immoral and obscene books. The Index undoubtedly impeded the free circulation of books in countries where there was a vigilant bishop or inquisitor, and it continued to do so for centuries. But it entirely failed to prevent the books which it condemned from penetrating even areas obedient to Rome. Elsewhere, among Protestants or (later) among libres penseurs or ‘progressives’, the knowledge that a book was in the Index constituted a positive reason for reading it. (c.f. PMM)

14 15 19 • CHINESE INK BLOCKS.

Ink Blocks (9) Depicting Scenes From everyday Life. 9 blocks held in a cloth covered box. The blocks, in different shapes, are in bas-relief, delicate- ly finished off in gold and depict scenes from everyday life. Box a little rubbed, else in good condition. End 19th century? 750 €

* In China calligraphy is an ancient art, practiced by every cultivated person. The four objects needed to perform this art are “the four treasures of the Study”: Writing Brush, Ink-sticks, Paper and Ink- stone. Their history possibly goes back six thousand years. There are many varieties of ink stick. Ink stick falls into three major categories, according to the chief materials used in manufacture. The pine-soot ink stick is made with a mixture of pine soot. The oil-soot ink stick contains a.o. tung oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil or petroleum. The oil- and pine soot ink stick is a mixture of the previous materials for making the oil-soot ink stick and pine-soot ink stick. Proportions vary, and the quality of the ink differs accordingly”. The present set of Ink sticks is the kind which was traditionally given to the successful imperial examinee. The blocks could be shaped in several different ways, such as animals, different objects, elegantly dressed women, and endless other variants.

20 • (DANCE OF DEATH) - DEUCHAR, D.

The Dances of Death, through the various stages of human life; wherein the capriciousness of that ty- rant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs, which were cut in wood and afterwards painted by John Holbein, in the town house of Basel. London, W. Smith for J. Scott and Th. Ostell, 1803. Sm. 4to. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved portrait of Holbein, 46 engraved plates after Holbein and 1 engraved plate depicting a dance of death (Opperman: Die Dolchschneide). Printed title, 11f. (preface), 47pp. English and French text. Contemporary gilt panelled longgrained morocco, broad gilt floral border on sides, richly gilt spine, all edges gilt. 1.400 €

* Holbein’s Dance of Death etched by the famed Scottish engraver David Deuchar (1742-1808) who included four plates he designed himself: the frontispiece, engraved titleplate, Holbein’s portrait and one other. In the same place and year two editions were published, the other printed by S. Gosnell. Beautiful copy. [c.f. Oppermann 1154 (sehr seltene Ausgabe); Massmann p. 58,3; Reichelt 35; Hiersemann 163].

16 17 21 • DE CHOUL, JEAN.

De varia quercus historia. Accessit Pylati Montis descriptio. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé 1555. 8vo. 109, (19) pp. Morocco binding (18th century?). Top of spine sl. dam. All edges gilt. Text cut a bit short. Some foxing. Exlibris «Bibliotheque du Palais» on the inside front cover. A good copy. 3.300 €

* First edition of probably the first separate treatise on the oak tree and one of the first botanical mo- nographies. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings on 4 pages. Information about the different species, the insects that live in oak trees, the oak tree in history and superstition. Also trees that grow together with oaks. Chapter VI “De visco quercino” deals with mistletoe growing in oak trees and the belief of and its use by the French Druids. Chapter VII “De vet- eribus gallorum magis” deals with the mythical me- dicinal qualities of the oak tree, a.o. by the Druids. The description of the flore of Mont-Pilat was published later by Gesner in his “De raris et admirandis Herbis”. Jean du Choul was the son of Guillaume du Choul, humanist from Lyon. He was a pharmacist. [Hunt 73; Baudrier IX, 219-20; Davy de Virville, Hist. de la botanique en France 30].

22 • DEFER, P.-F.

Catalogue raisonné Des Estampes Anciennes, et Principalement Les Oeuvres D’Albert-Durer et De Rembrandt, et De Quelques dessins, Qui Composaient La Collection De Feu M. A-C. De Poggi, Peintre De Florence, Membre Des Académies De Bologne et De Florence, Et Conseiller Peintre de Sa Majesté, le Roi de Prusse. La vente de cette Collection se fera le lundi 29 Février 1836, et jours suivans... Paris, 1836. 50pp. 267 items described. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards. 700 €

* Catalogue with extensive descriptions and some biographical notes on the artists whose work is described here. The four page introduction deals with the history of engraving. At the end of the introduction is stated: “La collection dont nous donnons ici le Catalogue, si elle n’est pas une histoire entièrement complète de la gravure, est du moins remarquable par le choix d’estampes qui la compose, principalement des oeuvres d’Albrecht Dürer et de Rembrandt, pous lesquels maîtres M. A.-C. de Poggi eut une prédilection particulière. Aussi trouve t-on ici ces oeuvres presqu’au complet.”

16 17 23 • (DU FAY, CH.J. DE CISTERNAY).

Bibliotheca Fayana... Cum Indice Auctorum Al- phabetico. Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1725. 8vo. En- graved vignette on title and engraved frontispiece portrait of Du Fay. Halftitle, portrait, Titlepage, 8,xxii,450pp; 107,(2),(1)p. Contemp. mottled calf. Inner dentelles goldtooled. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand. Index not present. A good copy of this important auction catalogue. 1.880 €

* One of the most important French eighteenth century auction catalogues, compiled by Gabriel Martin and considered the best of the many catalogues he compiled. It consists of 4414 lots, and includes manuscripts, maps, fine bindings and has significant holdings in history. According to Bléchet the principal buyers were Louis-Alexandre de Bour- bon, comte de Toulouse, and Karl Heinrich, comte d’Hoym; unsold lots were retained by Du Fay’s son. Charles-Jérome de Cisternay du Fay (1662-1723) was a Captain of the “Gardes Françaises” who devoted himself to collecting books after losing a leg in the bombardment of Brussels in 1695. He bought from all the leading booksellers in Europe and formed a magnificent collection that was one of the richest of his times. It was often consulted by scholars who needed a particular and rare work. Copy with the portrait that is often lacking. [c.f. Peignot, p. 96“Catalogue bien fait d”une bibliothèque riche et bien composée.”; Pollard & Ehrman, no. 269; Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp. 207, 226, & 239; Grolier Club 22; Brunet III, 1497].

24 • FLAMEN, ALBERT.

[Collection of 25 etchings bound in 1 volume]. Paris, [ca. 1650-1670]. 4 series of respectively 6, 7, 6 and 4 etchings, and 2 separately published etchings (16.5 x 10 to 21 x 12.5 cm). With the bookplate of Roger Paultre. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise in fine condition. 8.500 €

* A fine collection of etchings, all in first or early state, by Albert Flamen, painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in Paris from 1648 to c. 1693. He belonged to the School of Callot and mostly worked after his own designs. The present collection includes the series Divers combats, Diverses especes danimaus, Veuës et païsages du Chasteau de Longuetoise et des environs, and Différentes vues, showing combat scenes, animals, and views.

18 19 The collection comprises: (1) Divers combats, dediez a Monsieur le Marquis d’Albert, Comte de Sorel, Baron de Chars, &c. Par... Albert Flamen. [Paris, J. Lagniet, n.d.]. Series of 6 etched scenes of combat on horse-back, incl. title with dedicatory coat of arms in centre, all signed. First state before the address of J. Lagniet. (2) Diverses especes danimaus faits apres nature, dediees a Monsieur le Marquis de Gyé d’Entraques, Comte de Marcoussy Boismalesherbes, Baron d’Yeure le Chastel, et autres lieux &c. Lieu- tenant Colonnel d’un Regiment de Cavallerie Allemande. Par... AB Flamen. [Paris, no publisher & year]. Series of 7 etched plates, incl. title, depicting animals in a landscape, 2 incl. a pastoral farmhouse in the background, showing horses, sheep, cattle, goats, Indian rabbits and foxes, all signed, with titles in French below. First state (?) before the numbering. (3) Veuës et païsages du Chasteau de Longuetoise et des environs. Dediés a Mr. de Seue, Abbé de l’Isle. Dessinés et gravés par Albert Flamen. [Paris, J. Lagniet, n.d.]. Series of 6 (of 12) etched views of the house, gardens and landscapes in the environment of the Castle of Longuetoise, all signed and with French titles below. First state before the numbering and the address of J. Lagniet. (4) [Différentes vues]. Series of 4 numbered finely etched views, titled: 1. Veuë du port a l’Anglois du coste de Charenton. View of some houses, with pastoral water-scene. 2. Veuë de Constan du coste d’Iury. View of a city, with pastoral scene with sheep, and people on horse-back and on foot. 3. Veuë du Peray du costé de Corbeil. View of a village, with pastoral scene with a horse-rider followed by a packing-horse. 4. Veuë de Marcoussy du costé de Montlehery. Beautiful view of a fortified castle surrounded by water between woods, with people on horse-back, walking and in a boat. [Paris, J. Merlen, n.d.]. Early state with AB Flamen delin. et excud. and before the address of J. Merlen. (5) [L’Homme suivi de son chien]. [Paris, no publisher & year]. Etching signed ‘AB Flamen fec.’ with a beautiful pastoral view with trees, with some cattle and a half-hidden farmhouse in the background and a man with a dog on a lease walking. First state before the numbering. (6) [Le Chemin à la lisière d’un bois]. [Paris, no publisher & year]. Etching signed ‘AB Flamen fec.’ with a landscape of woods with some cattle and a man with a packing-horse on a bending road in the foreground. First state before the numbering.

18 19 25 • FONTANINI, GIUSTO (ed.).

Bibliothecae Josephi Renati Imperialis... Catalogus... Rome, (1711). Titlepage, v,(i),738pp. Folio. Con- temporary vellum (corners bumped & hinges cracked at bottom). From the library of Prince Liechten- stein with his bookplate. Also with the bookplate of H.P.K[raus]. Some notes in a contemporary hand. (Occasionally some very light foxing and a couple of pages uniformly browed). 3.500 €

* First edition of the famous library of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1651-1737), compiled by his librarian Giusto Fontanini (1666-1736). The library, with around 20,000 titles, was rich in all fields of scholarship and science and unusually for the time, the first part (pp. 1-582) is arranged alphabetically by author. Pollard & Ehrman, p. 262 say: “the Imperiali catalogue of 1711 by Giusto Fontanini includes under each author’s name all his contributions to the periodicals and miscellanies in the library as well as his separately published books. For this reason it was recognised as a useful work of reference on its own.” In the second part (pp. 583-738) the titles are rearranged into subject categories. Upon the Cardinal’s death the collection was bequeathed to the public. Peignot on page 104-105 call this catalogue «bien fait et très utile... Il seroit a désirer que les catalogues des grandes bibliothèques fussent ainsi rédigé...»

26 • GILLÉ, J.G.

Receuil Des Divers Caractères, Vignettes et Orne- mens [sic] de La Fonderie et Imprimerie J.F. Gillé. Paris, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, 1808. Folio. 96ff. Vellum spine, marbled boards. Binding very worn & rubbed, trace of label with name and address of Gillé on front cover. 18.000 €

* Among French type-founders at the end of the 18th century, the two Gillé’s, père et fils, held a prominent place. The elder Gillé, Joseph, was a distinguished Parisian type-founder... Joseph Gillé was succeeded about 1790 by Joseph Gaspard Gillé fils... He was one of the promoters of the newer styles of ornament, and offered typographic decoration to the printers of France - in a kind of stereotype - which he felt sure - or so he asserted - was in design and method of reproduction to overthrow. Gillé fils was influenced by Didot in the design of his lush vignettes, borders and rules. His house specialized in ornaments, fancy letters and script letters. In Sep- tember 1827 it was bought by Honoré de Balzac.

20 21 27 • HOLINSHED, RAPAHEL.

The Historie of Scotlande, conteyning the beginning, increase, proceedings, continuance, Actesand Gouernemente of the Scottish nation, from the originall therof unto the yeare 1571. London, Lucas Harrison, 1577. Small folio. (viii), 22, 1 blank, 518, (26) pp. (Lacking erratea leaf ). Late nineteenth century blindstamped binding, restored & rebacked, new endpapers. Scottish part only. 5.250 €

* A good copy of the Scottish part of the first edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles, published in 1577 and illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts. A second edition was published in 1587 but that was not illustrated. This first edition was commonly known as the “Shakespeare edition” until W.G. Boswell-Stone and H.R.D. Anders established that it was, in fact, the second edition which Shakespeare employed as the source for ten of his plays. The Chronicles for each of the countries are divided into two sections: “De- scription” and “History.” The work originated with Reginald Wolfe who devoted 25 years to it, leav- ing it unfinished at his death in 1573. Holinshed, who had assisted Wolfe, then took over the project. He narrowed his scope to the British Isles and abandoned the plan to publish maps. Although the Chronicles bear the name of Holinshed, they were a corporate achievement. Eight men were involved, and a number of printers and publishers. Holinshed himself wrote the “Historie of England.” The “De- scription of England” is by W. Harrison. “The History and Description of Scotlande” and the “History of Irelande” are by R. Staynehurst and E. Campion. According to Luborksy and Ingram, “the Histories, where all the woodcuts appear, represent (together with the herbals and emblem books) the most co- piously illustrated secular texts of the Tudor era ... both the narrative and descriptive cuts are printed to relate to the pertinent texts; the images of the rulers function as initials do, to signal a new topic and also, for those of the Tudor rulers in volume Two, as portraits.” While some of the cuts are reuses, “most of the narrative and descriptive cuts are new and many artisans were engaged in their making.” Henry Bynneman, Reginald Wolfe’s apprentice and successor, printed the work. Copies bear various imprints with the names of Hunne, John Harrison, Lucas Harrison or George Bishop, who were enlisted “to de- fray the charges for the impression.” [c.f. Bartlett 222; Grolier English 6; Luborsky and Ingram English Illustrated Books 1536-1603 I, pp. 452-68; Pforzheimer 494; STC 13568b]

20 21 • HONDIUS, HENDRIK. 28

Grondighe onder-richtinghe in de Optica, ofte Perspective Konste, door Henricus Hondius, In ‘sGraven- Hage, 1647. Den tweeden druck, ghecorrigeert ende verbetert. Folio. Limp vellum with ties. Printed titlepage followed by a engraved title-page, 12 unnumbered leaves containing text + 43 numbered copper engravings by Hondius on 36 plates. A lovely copy. 4.500 €

* A lovely copy of this classic and popular work on perspective by Hendrik Hondius the elder (1573 - 1650). It was first published in 1622. Our copy is the second edition from 1647. Hondius was an engraver, publisher and expert on fortifications. “The book provides a series of neatly conceived demonstrations on perspective in its abstract and applied forms and gives an original if brief analysis of the upwards conver- gence of tall verticals to a ‘contre-poinct’ when viewed with a plane tilted slightly towards the spectator” (Kemp, p. 112). [c.f. Bierens de Haan 2116, Berlin Kat. 4709 1622 (or 1624) edition; Kemp, The science of art, pp. 111-112]

29 • HUESO ROLLAND, FRANCISCO.

Exposicion de Encuadernaciones Espanoles Siglos XII al XIX. Catalogo general illustrado. Madrid, So- ciedad Espanola de Amigos del Arte, 1934. 258pp. with illus. in b/w. + XLI full-page plates of bindings in b/w & colour. With list of lenders. Original decorated cloth (designed after a 16th century Spanish Renaissance binding - no. 115 in the book). 980 €

* Describes 534 bindings. This catalogue of the loan exhibition of Spanish bindings is, with its sixty-six plates, one of the few comprehensive surveys of Spanish bindings (Breslauer, the uses of bookbinding literature p. 25).

22 23 30 • HUSUNG, MAX JOSEPH.

Bucheinbände aus der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. In historischer Folge. Leipzig, Hierse- mann, 1925. vii,47pp + 100 plates showing 182 bindings (26 plates in colour). Folio. Original cloth binding. 800 €

* Good copy of this magnificent book that shows bookbindings from the IVth to the XIXth centuries.

31 • (INCUNABLE - GERMANY).

[12 leaves from: Statuta synodalia herbipolensia]. [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, ca. 1486]. Folio. [12] ll. Printed in red and black in rotunda type (32 lines; printed area: 18 x 12 cm; type: 112a). With illustrations cut from 19th- or 20th-century reproductions of early woodcuts (ca. 21 x 14 cm) pasted on the front (Annunciation) and back pastedown (Christophorus, with the year “cccc xx tercio”). Later bound in two leaves from a 13th-century vellum theological manuscript, rubricated and decorated with alternating red and blue initials with penwork. 4.250 €

* Interesting example of the study of early printing in 19th-century England. The 12 leaves come from the library of the 19th-century collector Dr C. Inglis, whose father boasted an impressive collection of early printed books. Inglis believed that the leaves came from an unknown work titled De vita et honestate clericorum ex consilio Mogunti- num, printed in 1453 by Gerhardus Episcopus. Tipped in is a letter to Inglis by the well-known bibliographer William Blades discussing this matter. Although the text opens with “De Vita et honestate clericorum ex consilio Maguntinensis Gerhardi Archiepiscipi”, it was in fact part of Statuta synodalia herbipolensia, printed at Würzburg by Georg Reyser in ca. 1486. The first 6 leaves are [2]-[d]7 and the final 6 leaves are quire [g]. With owner’s inscription of Sir Edward Coates, bookplate with initials “CC” (Clifford Coates), the bookplate of Dr. C. Inglis, and some annotations on front pastedown; an autograph letter signed by Wiliam Blades to C. Inglis tipped to flyleaf. 12 well-preserved leaves.

22 23 32 • (INCUNABLE - GERMANY - ACCIPIUS WOOCUT) BERNARDUS CLARVALLENSIS (pseudo-).

Floretus. (Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, not after 1491). With a splendid nearly full-page title woodcut of a teacher instructing two pupils, a scroll with inscription above, a dove perched on his shoulder and an open book before him. Printed in Gothic type. Capital Spaces. 35 - 45 lines and head-line to the page. 56 leaves. 4to. 20th century boards covered with an early printed leaf, printed paper spine label. A light marginal waterstain to a very few leaves. A few leaves very slightly browned. Contemporary handwritten marginal annotations and some under- linings, in at least two different hands, one signed by Gebhardus Rem(m)inger (leaf 24 recto). Library stamp inside front cover of F. Fasting, Rio de Janei- ro. A well preserved incunable. 12.000 €

* First edition with commentary of this often reprinted schoolbook. And the first version of the beautiful ‘accipius’ woodcut, with a scroll inscribed: ‘Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti’. Heinrich Quentell used this ‘magister cum discipulis’ woodcut for the first time in 1490, and in the following year numerous schoolbooks were illustrated with comparable woodcuts. The ‘Floretus’ consists of a text in rhythmic prose for easy memorization and an anonymous explanatory commentary. The work is ascribed to Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Abbot of Clairvaux, which under his direction soon became one of the chief centres of the Cistercian Order. The basic Christian tenets in this work include a.o. the following subjects: ‘De pr(a)eceptis iuris scripti’, ‘De peccato gul(a)e et de malis sequentibus ebrietatem’, ‘De somno et vigilia’, ‘De custodia quinque sensuum, gustus, odoratus, auditus, visio, tactus’. [c.f. Hain-Copinger 2912; GWK 4004; BMC I, 276; Goff B-392; Janauschek no. 167; Not in IDL; for the fine accipius woodcut see: Schreiber No. 3431, Schramm VIII 20, and Schreiber-Heitz No. 18].

33 • (INCUNABLE - ITALY) PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS.

Satirarum opus. Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Paschalibus Bononienses, 10 Septem- ber 1484. Small folio (292 x 205 mm). Collation: a-d6, e4; (28) leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on last leaf (Device A), not rubricated (capital spaces not filled in), printed in Roman type: 110R and 83R. Vellum over boards (rebacked). Good copy with wide margins.- (Quires carefully washed; inner margins of last quire restored, with some marginal water staining). 15.500 €

24 25 * One of the incunable editions of the satires of Persius with the gloss (commentary) of Bartolomeo della Fonte (Fonzio, or Fontius). According to the BMC, the text is ‘reprinted, generally with the same page-contents, from the edition of De Tortis, 14 March, 1482’. Fonzio’s dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici of 1477 is included on the verso of the first leaf (recto blank). Bartolomeo Fonzio (1445-1513) was a Florentine humanist whose achievements are on a par with those of Poliziano. Their early friend- ship later turned into enmity and unremitting po- lemics. Fonzio’s commentary on Persius was first published in 1477 at the Ripoli press (Rhodes 315; Conway, p. 292); its dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici is reprinted here. His purpose was to firmly establish Persius as a satirical poet; it was not his intention to write a full commentary on Persius’ work, but rather to give a clear and straightforward interpretation of the text and to free it from its obscurities. Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), known as Persius, was one of the most famous Latin satirical poets. Born at Volaterrae in Etruria, he belonged to an equestrian family and was a relative of the famous Arria, wife of Paetus. He was educated at Rome, and became the pupil of the Stoic Cornutus, who exercised a strong influence on him; a fellow pupil was the Roman epic poet Lucan. He joined the group of Stoics around Thrasea Paetus, the senator who was married to the younger Arria. He bequeathed his books and a part of his large fortune to Cornutus, who accepted the books but not the money. Persius took no part in public life, died young, and left only a small amount of literary work: six satires modeled on Lucilius and Horace, and a prologue. Except for the first satire, these poems are homilies rather than satires in the strict sense, preaching an uncompromising Stoic morality as it could be applied to private life, and only incidentally touching on public life. He uses an incongruous mixture of styles and his language is obscure, but his moral sincerity is unforced and scarcely priggish when considered against the background of Nero’s Rome. Satire I is a criticism of the poets at Nero’s court and the contemporary fashion for elegant, unrealistic poetry, which Persius finds significant of the corruption of Roman virtue and hardihood. Satire 2 is concerned with the right use of prayer, mocking those who ask for external goods rather than virtue. Satire 3 is a diagnosis of the damage done to sick souls by sloth and vice. Satire 4 urges a young statesman (Nero?) to disregard public admiration and pursue virtue by examining his own character. Satire 5 is a eulogy of Cornutus, describing the simple and studious life the poet leads when in the philosopher’s company; its subject is the rarity of true freedom-we are all the slaves of our passions or superstitions. Satire 6 is addressed to Caesius Bassus (a lyric poet commended by Quintilian) who edited Persius’ satires after his death and is said to have died in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79; it expounds the wisdom of living comfortably, but not covetously.

24 25 34 • JAUBERT, ABBÉ.

Dictionnaire raisonné Universel Des Arts et Metiers, Contenant L’histoire, La Description, La Police Des Fabriques et Manufactures De France & Des Pays Etrangers: Ouvrage Utile a Tous Les Citoyens. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & considerablement augmentée d’après les Mémoires & les Procédés des Artistes... 5 vols. Paris, chez P. Fr. Didot jeune, 1773. 8vo. Contemporary full calf (rubbed, corners & tops & bottoms of spine slightly damaged). xxvi,3,595pp; halftitle, titlepage, 622pp with 3 (folding) plates bound in; halftitle, titlepage,574pp; halftitle, titlepage, 556pp + 4 pages catalogue of books; 640pp. The last (fifth) volume contains a dictionary of all the terms used in all the arts and crafts. 700 €

* Interesting work that was first published in two volumes only. Pierre Jaubert (1715-1780) took it upon himself to revise and augment this universal encyclopedia of all the arts and crafts. A non neglect- able part is dedicated to the professions related to the book. We find interesting articles on engravers, typefounders, papermakers, makers of decorated paper, bookbinders, gilders, printers, booksellers and bibliographers. The three (folding) plates that are to be found in the second volume all deal with printing.

35 • (JUVENALIS).

Decii Iunii Iuuenalis Satyre Sexdecim Ab An- tonio Macinello Exposite: Cu Iodoci Badij As- censi Familiari Earun Dem Explanatione. Lyon, L. Hillaire, (1517). 4to. 6 ff., 141 ff, 1 ff blank. Printed in Gothic Letters. Eighteenth century mottled calf binding, spine gold-tooled with red titleshield. 2.800 €

* According to Baudrier Laurent Hyllaire is mentioned as working in Lyon in 1506 and there is another mention of him in 1530 wit- nessing a marriage. In ink on the first page is the date 1498 but the book is in fact from 1517. Juvenal, whose full name was Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was a satirical poet active in Imperial Rome in the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 2nd century. Juvenal, today, is most well-known for his 16 Satires (which were, already in ancient times, arranged into five books). These satires (Saturae) are sharp attacks on the vices and mis- deeds of Roman society. [Baudrier Vol. II, p. 68]

26 27 36 • (LA CAILLE, JEAN DE).

Histoire De L’imprimerie et de La Librairie, Où L’on Voit son Origine & Son Progrés, Jusqu’en 1689. Divisée en deux Livres. Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1689. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt. Red marbled edges. Front hinge weak, but holding well, bottom of spine slightly damaged. (iv), 326, (xxvi) pp. Paper uniformly browned but a good copy. 2.000 €

* First and only edition. A very important work for the history of Parisian printing, the major portion of the work (pp. 53-322) being composed of a biographical dictionary of the printers and booksellers of Paris up to 1689. This is preceded by a slight sketch of the invention and early history of printing, with a list of the (supposed) first book produced in each place. De la Caille was a Parisian printer and bookseller like his father. He died in 1720. [c.f. B&W].

37 • LE BRUN, M.

Catalogue de tableaux des trois écoles; estampes en volumes & en feuilles, figures de bronze, vases de marbre, porcelaines, bronzes dorés, histoire naturelle & autres objets; formant le cabinet de M. le Baron d’Holback... La vente s’en fera le Lundi 16 Mars 1789 & jours suivans... A Paris, 1789. x,30 pp. 93 items, with prices and names added in ink. Nineteenth century hcalf, marbled boards (spine damaged). 700 €

* Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723 – 1789) was a philosopher, translator, and prominent social figure of the French Enlightenment. For the Encyclopédie he wrote and translated a large number of articles on topics ranging from politics and religion to chemistry and mineralogy. Money was not a problem for d’Hoblach and he maintained one of the more notable and lavish Parisian salons, which soon became an important meeting place for the contributors to the Encyclopédie. It was at once a shel- ter for radical thought and a hub of mainstream culture. The present catalogue presents his collection of art containing a.o. works by Wouvermans, Teniers, Poussin, le Sueur and Mengs and many engravings.

26 27 38 • LE CLERC, JEAN.

Bibliothèque Choisie, Pour Servir De Suite a La Bibliotheque Universelle. Amsterdam, Henry Schelte, 1703 - 1711. 22 parts in 24 volumes (of 28). Volumes I (1703) - XIX (1710) all in one volume; Volume XX (1710) & Volume XXI (1710-11) both in two volumes & Volume XXII part I (1711). 22 parts in 24 volumes (of 28). 12mo. All in marbled boards, uncut and unopened. 6.000 €

* A nearly complete series of this early eighteenth century magazine. A complete series should consist of 27 volumes and a separate index has been published in 1717. Among the many scholarly journals published all over Europe in the decades around 1700 Jean Le Clerc’s Bibliothèques, published in Amsterdam, occupied a special place. Jean Le Clerc, a theologian and refugee from Geneva, published three periodicals: The Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique (1686-1693); the Bibliothèque Choisie (1703-1713) and the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Mo- derne (1714-1727). The Bibliothèque Choisie consists of about 11,000 pages in which Le Clerc not only deals with new books but all those books that he thinks important enough for the reader to know about. Provenance: From the collection of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716), with his name written on either the titlpages or the inside back wrapper of most volumes. Did he end his subscription near the end of his life? The index was published after his death so logically is not part of this set. [c.f. H. Bots, Jean Leclerc pp. 53-66 in Studies in Seventeenth Century English Literature, History and Bibliography & for the (complicated) publishing history see Wijngaards, De Bibliothèque Choisie van Jean Le Clerc... A’dam, 1986)

39 • LÉPICIÉ, (FRANÇOIS BERNARD).

Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux du Roy, avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres, Fait par ordre de sa Majesté. Tome Premier Contenant l’École Florentine, & l’École Romain. Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1752 & Tome Second Contenant l’École Vénitienne & l’École de Lombardie. Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1754. xv,203; viii,333 pp. Large 4to. Two volumes bound together. Halfcalf, boards. Binding a bit rubbed but a good uncut copy with wide margins. 2.100 €

* Bernard François Lépicié, né le 6 octobre 1698 à Paris où il est mort le 17 janvier 1755, est un graveur français. Cet important catalogue consacré aux peintres florentins, romains, lombards et vénitiens a long- temps servi de modèle. Il devait s’étendre à d’autres écoles représentées dans les collections royales qui renfermaient, aux temps de Lépicié, 1800 oeuvres. Le projet fut cependant compromis par la disparition

28 29 de l’auteur en 1755. Le catalogue contient des bio- graphies et descriptions des tableaux de: Léonard de Vinci, Frère Barthelmi de S. Marc., Michel-Ange Buonarroti, Baccio Bandinelli, André del Sarte, Jacques Pontorme, Balthazar Peruzzi, François Salviati, Matthieu Rosselli, Peirre Perrugin, André Mantègne, Raphael, Sébastien del Piombo, Jules Romain, Polydore de Caravage, Perrin del Vague, Le Parmesan, Le Chevalier Josephin, Dominique Feti, Michel-Ange des Batailles, Pietre de Cortone, Ro- manelli, Carle Maratte, Ciro Ferri, Bellin, Bordone, Titien, Pordenon, Les Dosses, Lotto, Schiavon, Zustris, Bassan, Tintoret, Mutian, Paul-Véronèse, Palme le vieux, Palme le jeune, Alexandre-Véro- nèse, Corrège, Carache Louis, Carache Augustin, Carache Antoine, Carache Annibal, Caravage, Le Guide, L’Albane, Le Dominiquin, Lanfranc, Le Guerchin, Le Mole, Manfrède.

40 • (MAIRET, F.).

Notice Sur La Lithographie, Deuxième Édition Suivi D’un Essai sur La Reliure et Le Blanchiment Des Livres et Gravures. Chatillon-sur-Seine, C. Cornillac, 1824. 8vo in half sheets. 228 pp. Small wood-engraved device on title. With 4 lithographed plates & 1 plate of a lithographic press (total 5 plates). Some foxing to the lithographed plates, as usual. Interior nice and clean. Hcalf, marbled boards, original wrappers bound-in (small part of lower corner front wrapper torn). Spine goldtooled. 2.500 €

* The first edition of this work was published in Dijon in 1818 and preceded Senefelder’s treatise. This is the second edition, but the first one with the bookbinding section. This second part on bookbinding is the first work to describe how to marble the edges of a book and devotes 8 pages to that subject alone. Mairet also talks a lot about colours. Bigmore & Wyman say: “The lithographic matter extends over 68 pages. In the preface it is stated that the previous edition had been quickly sold off, and the author had been solicited to issue a second. In complying with this request he added the matter relating to bookbinding, &c. It is notice- able that whereas in the title-page of 1818 he was described as a stationer, in that of 1824 he is described as a bookbinder and lithographic printer. He seems to have gained a great reputation for the excellence and elegance of his binding, M. Peignot, the bibliophile, awarding him high commendation on this account. The new edition was printed in a far superior manner to the old one, and the plates are much better executed, marking the progress which had been made in the interval between the two publications.” And although the first edition is much rarer, this one is not at all common. [Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 14; Pollard & Potter 52]

28 29 41 • (NODIER, CHARLES).

Catalogue D’une Partie de Livres Rares, Singuliers et Précieux Dépendant De La Bibliothèque De M. Charles Nodier, Homme de Lettres. A Paris, chez J.-S. Merlin, Libraire, 1827. (ii),ii,58,(ii)pp. 399 items described. Uncut. Original pink wrappers. (pp. 41-48 with a light waterstain in the margin) 880 €

* Charles Nodier (1780-1844) settled in Paris after he had been appointed librarian of the Arsenal library in 1824. There he soon became one of the leaders of the literary life in Paris. He assembled three collections which were not very large but contained only carefully chosen books. In the Grolier Club catalogue of French auction sales # 595 is mentioned that “Lonchamp records that Noder compiled this catalogue himself; according to Graesse, many of the lots sold for extremely low prices”. Rare catalogue.

42 • PEIGNOT, GABRIEL.

Abrégé de l’Histoire de France. Paris, Renouard & Tournachon-Molin et H. Seguin / Dijon, Noellat, 1819. 8vo. lxiii, (1), 432, 116pp. With 6 plates (1 folding). The last 116 pages contain: Précis chronologique des événements politiques, civils, militaires et littéraires, survenus, tant en France que dans les différens Etats de l’Europe, depuis 1814 jusqu’en 1819. Bound together in half green morocco with marbled boards. Spine richly gilt. Ex libris on inside front cover. 750 €

* Étienne Gabriel Peignot, the great bibliographer was born at Arc-en-Barrois, 15th May 1767. Originally a bookseller he later became librarian. Every leisure moment he gave to book and pen. He lived to be eighty three years old and left behind him no less than fifty or more unpublished works in manuscript.

43 • (PIXERÉCOURT, G. DE).

Bibliothèque de M. G. de Pixerécourt, avec des notes littéraires et bibliographiques de ses deux excellens amis Charles Nodier et Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1838. Halftitle, titlepage with engraved exlibris of de Pixe- récourt, vii (preface), (viv) (ordre des vacations), 4 (des livres de M. de Pixérecort par Ch. Nodier), 414, 4 pp. Large 8vo. Marbled boards, spine restored. Prices and names in a contemporary hand. Uncut copy on better paper with wide margins. 1.280 €

30 31 * Pixerécourt (1773-1844), the author of more than a hundred plays, “the Shakespeare and Corneille of the Boulevards,” was one of the founders of the So- ciété des Bibliophiles français. The sale of his library was a major event in the annals of French biblio- phily. The catalogue features wonderfully detailed and original literary and bibliographical notes by Charles Nodier and Paul Lacroix, the latter having taking down some of Pixerécourt’s own dictations, with each contributing separate prefaces. The first catalogue, with 2313 lots plus the French Revolu- tion lot, is printed on fine paper and dated 1838 (regular paper copies have the date of “1839” on the title). Pixerécourt’s magnificent collection on the French Revolution, which occupies pages 343-414, sold for 3000 frs. and was divided between the Bib- liothèque du Sénat and the Louvre.

• (PLAYING CARDS) 44 BREITKOPF, J.G.I.

Versuch, den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einfürhung des Leinenpapiers, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Europa zu Erforschen. Leipzig: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1784 & Leipzig, Koch und Compagnie, 1801 2 volumes 8vo. Vol. 1: quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Minimal foxing, binding a bit rubbed. Vol. 2: loose unbound signatures. (iv), 136 pages; (v), vi-xxii,218 pages. Parts of the unbound book are uncut. Minor foxing throughout. 4.500 €

* First edition. One of the first books which systematically deals with playing cards, their production including paper, use and card history. The first volume, printed in 1784, contains panels of pictures of 21 tarot cards, German Piquet cards from the 15th and 17th century, patterns of German costumes, as well as examples of Chinese card and board games. The second chapter is illustrated with pictures of a Japa- nese papermill. The very rare second volume deals only with the art of writing, carving and illumination. Johann Breitkopf (1719-1794) was an18th-century Leipzig printer, type-founder, and bookseller who is credited by some with the invention of map-printing with moveable type. He introduced great improve- ments to letterpress music-types, and was an acquaintance of Goethe, some of whose earlier poems he set to music. [B&W I, 81-82].

30 31 45 • (POMPADOUR, MADAME LA MARQUISE DE).

Catalogue des livres de la bibliothéque de feue Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, Dame du Palais de la Reine. Paris, Herissant, 1765. xvi, 404, lxxii pp. 8vo. Half leather, paper boards. Rebacked. Prices in a contemporary hand in the margins. Also some names in a later (nineteenth century?) hand. 1.700 €

* A famous catalogue, «remarquable par la partie du théatre, qui est une des plus complètes que l’on connoisse. On y trouve aussi le recueil des Mercures, l’un des plus complets et des plus riches en extraordinaires qu’il y ait en Europe... Ce catalogue est terminé par une table d’auteurs et une table des anonymes.» Peignot, p. 119. Mme. de Pompadour employed the best binders of her time and, in consequence, her catalogue is of special value for the history of bookbinding in France and for establishing the pedigree of the volumes from her library which have become coveted treasures for the collector. Fine copy. 3796 lots, including music and prints. Blogie col. 10. Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions...1643-1830, 180. Pollard & Ehrman no. 289. Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp. 106, 135, & 256.

46 • PORCELLI, GIUSEPPE MARIA.

Catalogo di libri Italiani, Latini & Greci vendibili nelle Libreria di Giuseppe Maria Porcelli, Negoziante di Libri e Stampatore della Reala Accademia Militaire... Naples, Porcelli, 1796. 8vo. 347pp. Original grey wrappers (damaged). More or less browning and foxing throughout as is usual for books printed in Naples. 950 €

* Large stock catalogue arranged alphabetically. The majority of books offered are of the eighteenth century but there are also titles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pages 329 onwards contains prospectuses for books to appear.

47 • RIGOLAY DE JUVIGNY, JEAN-ANTOINE.

Les Bibliothèques Françoises de La Croix du Maine et de Du Verdier. Paris, Saillant & Nyon - Lam- bert, 1772-1773. 6 vols. 4to. Mottled calf. (bindings expertly restored). 3.500 €

* The most complete bibliography on 16th-century French literary history, in a scholarly enlarged edition to which has been added a discourse on the progress of letters in France by the French savant Rigoley de Juvigny, d. 1788. Unsurpassed bio-bibliographical dictionary. The first French national bibliography was published in 1584 by François Grudé de la Croix du Maine and contained a.o. an auto-bibliography of several hundred works on French history of which none has survived, earning Grudé in some quarters the title of impostor; also, the plan for a French Royal Library - this was to

32 33 be arranged in bookcases according to a classifi- cation by numbers. The second French bibliography was published by Antoine du Verdier in 1585 less than a year later. Both works were considered complimentary to such an extent that even after almost two hundred years they were combined in a single edition, much enlarged and corrected by Rigoley de Juvigny. (Cioranescu 53211; Breslauer & Folter 29 & 30).

48 • RIVOLI, DUC DE.

Les Missels Imprimés à Venise De 1481 à 1600. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1896. Avec cinq planches sur cuivre et 350 gravures, intiales et marques. 350 pp. Folio. 3/4 red morocco. (Études sur l’art de la gravure sur bois à Venise). A lovely copy. 750 €

49 • (RODLER, HIERONYMUS - JOHANN II VON PFALZ-SIMMERN).

Perspectiva. Eyn schön nützlich Büchlin und Underweisung der Kunst des Messens, mit dem Zirckel, Richtscheidt oder Linial. Franckfort, Cyriacus Jacob zum Bart, 1546. (6vo) A to G1-6; H1-3. (45 leaves). Contemp. vellum. Title page in red and black with woodcut illustration. 34 woodcut illustrations (17 full- page, one with red printed rules), 26 woodcut diagrams (10 with red printed rules). “Hieronymi Rodler” as author in a contemporary hand in ink on top of the title-page. Faint notes in ink on the last (blank) page. Expertly restored. A beautiful Renaissance illustrated book. 21.000 €

* Second edition, the text and the illustrations are (basically) identical to the 1531 edition, which was printed in Simmern at the private press of Johann II von Pfalz-Simmern. Marvelous woodcuts of me- dieval streets, complex floor and ceiling patterns, corridors with variously ornamented columns, interiors with elaborate landscapes in the background, a room with a student’s desk and a calculation sheet and counter, a festive gathering with a musician singing and playing a viola da gamba, a spiral staircase in a villa, an artist at work in a room with a grid iron window to represent the landscape in perspective, etc. “This small volume appeared in 1531 with a preface by the printer Hieronymus Rodler, who stated that he found the perspective methods presented by Dürer [Unterweisung der Messung, 1525] too difficult for practitioners, for which reason he had decided to publish a book by an author who knew how to

32 33 address this group. The identity of Rodler’s chosen author remained unknown for centuries, but in 1991 Werner Wunderlich solved the riddle by pointing to the palsgrave Johann II von Simmern (1492 -1557) as the author (Wunderlich 1991, pp. 25-27). Rodler was one of the most celebrated publishers of illustrated books in Germany in the sixteenth century. He was the first to use the “Dürer” Fraktur as a text type. There are some slight differences in the 1546 edition compared to the first edition: the illustration of B4 verso has been printed upside-down, and on F6 verso and G6 verso the red lines leading to the vanishing points are missing on all images. This second editions appears to be rarer than the first and it is lacking from the Murray, Muther, Adams, Ger- man STC, Brunet bibliographies, which describe the 1531 edition. [c.f. Bonnemann, E.: Die Presse des Hieronymus Rodler in Simmern. Leipzig, 1938; Wunderlich, W.: Johann II. von Simmern. Autor und Gelehrter auf dem Fürstentron. 1991. 85.; An- dersen, K.: The Geometry of an Art. . 2007; Berlin Katalog 4682; ].

50 • SCAMOZZI, VINCENZO.

Oeuvres d’Architecture de Vincent Scamozzi Vincentin, Architecte de la Republique de Venise, Conte- nuës dans son Idée de l’Architecture Universelle; Dont les Regles des Cinq Ordres, que le sixiéme Livre contient, ont eté traduites en François Par Mr. Augustin Charles d’Aviler, Architecte du Roi Tres-Chre- tien; & le reste traduit nouvellement Par Mr. Samuel du Ry, Ingenieur ordinaire de Leurs Hautes Puis- sances Les Seigneurs Etats Généraux des Provinces Unies. Avec les Planches Originales; le tout revü & exactement corrigé sur l’Original Italien. On y a joint aussi plusiers nouveaux Desseins des plus beaux Edifices de Rome, dont l’Auteur parle dans son Ouvrage. A Leide, chez Pieter vander Aa, Marchand Libraire, 1713. Folio. Later full vellum binding. A good, clean copy. Halftitle, engraved frontispiece containing title, titlepage, 6 ff; (1) - 276 pp. Complete with the engraved title and the 24 plates hors-texte. Illustrated with an added engraved title-page; engraved plates by Pieter Sluiter after Jan Goeree; full- page copper and wood engravings after Scamozzi. 3.500 €

* The first edition in Italian ‘L’idea della architettura universale’ was published in 1615. The present edition consists of abridged translations of books 3 and 6, the illustrations from books 1-2 and 8 with

34 35 brief explanations, and additional woodcuts. A.C. d’Aviler’s translation of book 6 was first published in 1685. Trained by his father, Bertotti Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1548 - 1616) studied in Venice and Rome and traveled widely through western Europe. He both benefited from and was overshadowed by his association with Palladio. When the master died in 1580, Scamozzi was 40 years his junior, but was nonetheless the obvious choice to complete a number of his unfinished projects. The classicizing influence of Andrea Palladio and Sebastiano Serlio is evident in the palaces, villas, and churches that Scamozzi designed in Venice, Vicenza, Padua, and elsewhere in Italy. His designs for villas and town palaces, which were sometimes adaptations of buildings by Palladio, influenced English Neoclassical architecture from Inigo Jones onward. [c.f. Berlin Kat; 2608; Brunet V, col.181; Cicognara 655; Halwas 4:127; Laget `Bibliothèque d’un Collectionneur’ (1999):82; Quéraud VIII, p.503; Spellman 12:45; UCBA p.1827; Weinreb 1:155].

51 • SCHMIDT, A.

Bucheinbände aus dem XIV-XIX J. in der Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. Leipzig, 1921. Folio. Orig. cloth. 100 plates with 162 illustrations, all in colour. 3/4 morocco binding. 1.500 €

* Majestic book and one of the standard works on bookbinding by Adolf Schmidt, the Director of the Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. 162 bindings are illustrated and described in detail. At the time of publi- cation the Landesbibliothek Darmstadt had, together with the Library of Dresden, the most important collection of bindings in Germany. Most of the bindings shown here are bindings from Cologne, mostly from the collection of Baron Hüpsch. And the bindings from the “Hofbuchbinderei of Kurfürst August” are from the collection of Sophie Eleonore (1609 - 1671), originally from Sachsen but married into Darmstadt. All bindings are fully described with provenance, bookbinder and arms.

52 • SCHOEPFLIN, J.D.

Vindiciae typographicae. Strassburg, Joh. Gothofr. Bauer, 1760. 2 parts, 1 vol. 4to. (VI), 120 + 42, (10) pp.

34 35 followed by 7 fold-out plates with engr. facs. small 4to., contemporary paper-covered, paper spine label. Two bookseller labels mounted on front pastedown along with the bookplate of Edwin Osgood Grolier. Signed by Wilberforce Eames on front pastedown. Bookplate of library (stamped withdrawn) on free endpaper. Covers rubbed with paper covering on hinges cracked. 750 €

* First, probably only edition of this influential monograph on Gutenberg and the origins of printing. Gutenberg was already experimenting with printing in Strassburg, when Andreas Dritzehn, one of his partners died. His heirs demanded to be admitted to the secrets of the partnership which very probably included printing. Gutenberg successfully contested the claim. The records were first published in Schoepflin’s book, but the original documents were unfortunately destroyed in the Prussian bombardment of Strassburg in 1870... A famous contribution to the history of the origin of printing. The Documenta typographicarum originum ex Argentinensibus tabulariis et bibliothecis nunc primum edita (contained in the second part) are still of interest. The author claims that Strassburg was the town where the cradle of printing-art has stood.... important work... he (Schoepflin) may be said to have contributed more to the history of the origin of the invention than any of his predecessors. [Cf. Bigmore & Wyman II, pp. 318-323]. (Ruppel 90ff ).

53 • SCHÜBLER, J.J.

Grondige en duydelyke Onderwyzing Der volko- men Kolommen-Ordening, Zoo als men dezelve in de Heedendaagse-Boukunst, Gewoon is te ge- bruyken. Amsterdam, Schenk, 1728. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Large engraved illustration of a patrician’s residence on first title, engraved architectural frontispiece incl. a medallion portrait of Vitruvius and all the architect’s instruments, and numerous detailed perspective designs and projections of the five columns and their ornamental capitals, and several rich designs of bays, wardrobes, tables, stoves, etc. on 17 full-page engraved plates, all after designs by the author in the first part; and the same large engraved illustration of a city residence on title, fine architectural frontispiece of an inner yard and numerous detailed perspective designs of porches with columns, balconies and doors, and several rich designs of carriages, sedans, sledges, etc. mostly engraved and designed by the author in the second part. 16; 22 pp. text. Modern hcalf, spine. Fine copy. 2.880 €

36 37 * Rare Dutch edition of two books of the German mathematician and draughtsman Johann Jakob Schübler (1689-1741), together presenting a richly illustrated concise course in the art of perspective drawing and ornamental designing for architects. The drawing of the basic architectural orders is taught as well as the designing of richly ornamental porches, balconies, bays, closets, furniture, carriages, sledges, etc. Everything is taught according to mathematical and perspective rules and clearly illustrated on the engraved plates. And all plates are fully explained by accompanying text. Schübler published a lot of in- structive picture books on all aspects the art of the architect, which were very popular and much used by architects in the 18th century. H. van Oord, the Dutch translator, was architect at Amsterdam. The city residence on the title-pages was his own design, bearing his personal device “Selden sonder Opspraak”. Bierens de Haan 3621-3622; cf. Berlin Kat. 1998 (German originals).

54 • SENGUERD (W.), GRONOVIUS (J.), HEYMAN (J.).

Catalogus Librorum Tam Imprssorum Quam Manuscriptorum Bibliothcae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden, 1716 - 1741. (x), 500pp; (60 unn. ff ); titlepage of supplement; pp. 501-534. 2 parts in one. Folio. Title in red and black with engraved vignette. Finely engraved frontispiece repre- senting the library interior and heads of celebrated Dutch scholars, full page plate of benefactors and plate of the Copernican Globe preserved in the library. Preface and index. Contem. mottled sheep (rubbed, corners lightly bumped, head & foot of spine chipped, lower back joint cracked). 3.500 €

* The present catalogue was first published in 1716. When the supplement was completed in 1741 a newer and fuller titlepage was substituted in the copies then unsold, but still dated 1716. The supplement has a separate titlepage: Supplementum Catalogus librorum... Bibliothecae publicae Universitatis Lugdu- no-Batavae. Leiden, 1741, but the pagination is con- tinuous (the supplement occupies pp. 501-534). Incidentally there is a substantial unpaginated index placed between them of 60ff. The Catalogue of the University Library at Leyden has a certain air of modernity in its carefully listed holdings in theology, jurisprudence, medicine, philosophy, philology, political economy, history, belles-lettres, classics, numismatics, etc. A single chapter enumerates the celebrated collection of 1993 Oriental manuscripts in Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Armenian, Coptic, etc. Separate chapters list the special collections donated by Huygens, Vossius, Perizonius, De Smet, and others. Rare [Brunet 31496 says that this is one of the most representative sources of Oriental manuscript holdings].

36 37 55 • SERLIO, S.

Tutti l’Opere d’Architettura et Prospetiva, di Sebas- tiano Serlio Bolognese, dove si mettono in disegno tutte le maniere di Edificij, e si trattano di quelle soce, che sonon più necessarie à sapere gli Architetti. In Venetia, Giacomo de’Franceschi, 1619. 4to. [24] ff; 219 ff; 27 ff, titlepage; 243 pp (with several errors in the pagination). Hundreds of woodcuts in the text. Contemporary blind stamped vellum binding. All edges stained red. A really nice and clean copy. 3.500 €

* Third collected edition of Serlio’s seven books on architecture. The first edition was published in Venice in 1584. A reprint of the 1584 edition, with an additional ‘Discorso’ first added in 1600. Each book has a separate title-leaf, printed within a woodcut border; books 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 have the imprint ‘In Vicenza ...’, with books 2 and 4 dated ‘1618’. This edition may originally have been issued in 1618. Leaves 17 (first sequence) and 24 (second sequence) are misnumbered ‘71’ and ‘42’, and pages 86 and 209 are misnumbered ‘85’ and ‘219’. Serlio (1475 - 1555) is renowned for the present work which includes volumes on the classical orders, perspective, domes- tic buildings and churches. His architectural background in Rome, in the environment of Bramante, Raphael and his acknowledged teacher Peruzzi, was crucial to the formation of his ideas and he included drawings by all three masters in his volume devoted to antiquities. L’Architettura was the first modern treatise to include illustrations, it has a strongly practical basis and proved highly significant in dissemi- nating knowledge of Italian High Renaissance architecture. [c.f. Charvet 34-35; Cicognara 675; Fowler 335; UCBA p.1871].

56 • SERLIO, S.

Het eerste ((-den vijfsten)) Boeck van de Architecturen Sebastiani Serlii [...] Over-gheset uyt d’Ita- liaensche in de Neder-duytsche sprake, door Pieter Coecke van Aelst, doen der tijdt Schilder der K. Majesteyt. Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz., 1616. 5 parts in one volume. Folio. A--C4, D1-2; A-G4; A-R4, S1-6; A-S4; A-D4. Titlepage and first sheet (A1 & A2) browned and heavily restored& small tear in one page. Apart from the first two sheets a good copy. Bound with:BLOEM or BLUM, HANS.

38 39 Beschryvinghe van de vijf colomnen van Architecture/. Te weten: Tuscana/ Dorica/ Jonica/ Corin- thia ende Composita. Vel deur-grondeert ende gheconterfeyt naer de rechte Simmetrie ende constighe mate van Metselrye, deur den experten M. Hans Bloem, met grooter neer-sticheydt ghetrocken uyt de Antiquiteyten. Van nieuws oversien/ en van veele fauten ghebetert. Tot voordeel/ dienst ende profijt van Schilders/ Metsers/ Steenhouwers/ Goudtsmeden/ Beeldtsnyders/ Schrijn-werckers/ Timmerlieden/ Antijck-snijders/ ende allen anderen die met Passer ende Winckelhaeck werken. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. [Blaeu], 1619. Folio. Printed title, 1 f. with preface of Hans Bloem to the reader, 15 ff containing woodcut illustrations and printed explanations. Bound together in contemporary full vellum (top of spine damaged, ties missing). 7.500 €

* Two important works bound together: Ad 1. Dutch edition of the first 5 books (all that appeared in the author’s lifetime) of a monumental work of Renaissance architecture by Sebastiano Serlio. Ad 2. One of the most interesting (but also one of the least known) treatises on the orders which came out during the Renaissance. The European success of the book was astonishing: as early as 1551, a French translation which came out in Antwerp began a long series of re-issues in German, French, Dutch and English. Our copy lacks the last plate. [ad. 2: Bierens de Haan 403; Berlin Cat. 1937 (ed. 1623)].

38 39 57 • SOWLE, J.

Books Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, in Lombard Street. (London, 1715?). 8pp. 8vo. Drop head title. Disbound (loose). 800 €

* J. Sowle must be Jane Sowle, wife of Andrew Sowle and mother of Tace Sowle. On this family of printers Plomer says the following about the Sowle family: Andrew Soyle was a printer in London. Although his name is not found in any imprint before 1683 there is no doubt that he was the printer of most, if not all, of the early Quaker literature. In the obituary notice of him it was stated that he engaged himself freely in printing Friends books, and that his printing materials were several times seized and broken to pieces, and on one occasion a thousand reams of printed books were taken from him. On another occasion he was taken before Sir Richard Browne, who threatened to send him after his brother Twyn, who had been executed in 1664 for printing a seditious book. One of his daughters, Tace (or Tacy) succeeded her father in the business. Dunton (pp. 222-3) says of her: She is both a Printer as well as a Bookseller, and the daughter of one; and understands her trade very well, being a good Compositor herself... She keeps herself unmarried. Three years later however, in 1706, she married Thomas Raylton. Her mother Jane Sowle, and from 1715 the latter’s assigns, continued the business. [Plomer, Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers].

58 • (TYPESPECIMEN) LAURENT & DEBERNY.

Fieschi. Clichés Destinés à Être Insérés dans Les Colonnes Mêmes De Journaux, et En Tête Des Relations Particulières De L’attentat Du 28 Juil- let 2.000 €

On 28 July 1835, nineteen people were kil- led or mortally wounded in an attempt to kill Louis-Philippe. Fieschi, who was caught straight away was condemned to death and executed on 19 February 1836. The present typespecimen was published in August 1835 by the typefoundry of Laurent et Deberny and destined for newspaper managers. Laurent & Deberny propose illustrations that can be included in newspaper articles related to the at- tack or at the beginning of those articles. Extremely rare, possibly unique survival.

40 41 59 • VEREENIGING TER BEVORDERING VAN DE BELANGEN DES BOEKHANDELS

Internationale Tentoonstelling voor Boekhandel en Aanverwante Vakken in het Paleis voor Volksvlijt te Amsterdam Juli - Augustus 1892. Catalogus. Am- sterdam, 1892. 4to. 196, (iv)pp. Printed in various colours on various kinds of papers. 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Exlibris A.S.A. Struik. 380 €

* Gives a survey of the Dutch bookselling- and printing trade at the end of the nineteenth century. A beautiful book.

60 • VERMAARSCH, J.

Eerste deel der Bouw-Kunst, ofte Grondige Bewijs-Redenen, over den sin ende Practijck van den Autheur Vincent Scamozzi, Waer in Gron- digh wert bewesen, dat men door den middel van den Autheur Scamozzi, Palladio en Vinjola hare vijf Colommen kan uytwercken; als oock van alle de voornaemste Meesters der Bouw- kunst, ende dat alleen met het verdeelen van een Duym-stock, of Voet-maet. Te samen gestelt door Joost Vermaarsch, Meester-Metselaer tot Leyden. Leyden, Abraham Verhoeff, 1664. 4to. Vellum. On the title page a slip has been pasted over the old imprint showing a new address: Amsterdam, Hendrick Doncker, 1667. (xvi), 40, 16, 34 pp. With architectural frontispiece by G. Wingendop Sz. and 45 engraved plates (partly folding). A good copy. 1.800 €

* All that was published. First edition published in 1664 by Verhoeff and reissued in 1667 by Doncker. Practical architectural handbook based on Scamozzi, Palladio and Vignola. Each of these authors are separately dealt with. Ver- maarsch, a mason from Leyden, discusses mathematical projection, architectural decoration, the five orders of columns of classical architecture, based on these three great authors. [Berlin Kat. 2225 (same first edition with the same slip over the imprint); Bierens de Haan 5021 (edition Amsterdam, Hendrick Doncker, 1668); not in B.A.L.]

40 41 61 • VIGNOLA, G.B.

Règles Des Cinq Ordres D’architecture De Vignolle. Reveuee Augmentees et Reduites De Grand En Petit Par Le Muet Paris, Nicolas Langlois, (n.d.) (c. 1664). Small 8vo. (4pp blank), Titlepage, Engraved frontispiece, Advis au Lecteur au verso, 101pp containing 50 full page plates on the rectos en several descriptions on the versos. Some soiling throughout. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards. Con- temporary handwritten exlibris in ink on the titlepage. 600 €

* Vignola’s ‘Regola’ was first published in 1562 and until now has known 514 editions. Thanks to its pocket size the ‘petit Vignole français’ by Le Muet, published first in 1632, has played an important role in its distribution. It was published in Paris in 1632 by Tavernier and has known many reprints and also served as a model for Dutch, German and English translations. In 1644 the original copperplates were bought by Pierre I Mariette who used them to reprint the book with the original 1632 date but with his own name and address. At his death the plates come into the possession of Pierre II Mariette and in 1664 they go to his son in law, Nicolas Langlois who uses them to print the third edition which we have here. Copy with the dedication to la Vrillière and the frontispiece signed ML. [B. Doucet, 12o Ko 233 with an exlibris 1671]

62 • VINGBOONS, PHILIPPUS. De gronden afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der aldervoornaamste en aldernieuwste gebouwen uyt alle die door Philippus Vingboons, binnen Amsterdam in de nieuwe vergrooting en daar na aldaar en elders geordonneerd zyn. Leiden, 1715. Large folio. Title in red and black with allegorical engraved printer’s device of Van der Aa by J. Goeree with Minerva sitting before columns, the coat-of-arms of Leiden and the burg of Leiden in the background, 5 double-page engravings numbered A-E in the first part, engraved by Johannes Vingboons after drawings by Justus Vingboons, followed by 75 engraved plates (numbered 1-46, (46a), 47-74), of which 64 are double-page, the others full-page), engraved by Jo- hannes Vingboons, Jan Mathys or B. Stopendal, after the designs of Philippus Vingboons, all with architectural plans, cross-sections and views. 4, 11 pp. Half calf. A good, complete, uncut copy with wide margins. 15.500 €

42 43 * Second Dutch edition of the second volume of the collected architectural works by the famous Dutch architect Philippus Vingboons (1607-1678), who is considered as one of the greatest exponents of Dutch Classicism as introduced by the school of Jacob van Campen. The plates depict plans (including garden plans) and elevations of Philip Vingboons’s designs for town and country houses. These plates provide a magnificent picture of the building activities of the Dutch, in particular the Amsterdam elite in the second half of the 17th century, commissioning the building of their private houses on the newly established Amsterdam canals as well as their manor houses in the country to one of the most renowned architects of the Netherlands. The plans and elevations give an excellent opportunity to get a glance of the housing conditions of this elite during the Dutch Golden Age on the famous Amsterdam canals. A good, complete, uncut copy with wide margins. K. Ottenheym, Philips Vingboons (1989), passim, with all the plates reprod.; BAL 3485, note (French edition, Van der Aa, 1715); Berlin Kat 2228; Weinreb, Cat. 15, Dutch architecture, 143 & Weinreb 6, 42b (Dutch edition, Van der Aa, 1715, without the Trippenhuis plates); Breman 153:23 (French edition, Van der Aa, 1715); Vermeulen, Handb. gesch. Ned. bouwkunst III, pp. 175-191.

42 43 63 • (VOLTAIRE) BENGES- CO, G.

Voltaire. Bibliographie de Ses Oeuvres. Paris, 1882- 1890. 4 vols. xix, 494; [1], xvii, 438; xv, 609; [1] , xxii, [ii], 391 pp. Approx. 12,500 entries. First ed. 3/4 morocco. Original wrs. bound-in. T.e.g. 3 frontispieces. Edition limited to 550 copies, this one not numbered. Vol. 1 with dedication from Bengesco to Léon Brélard. Vol. 3 has a small business card from Bengesco inserted with a note on it to a friend (unnamed) to whom he sends this volum. Binding ticket: “Reliure Franz Os- terman, 80 Bd Malesherbes Paris”. A very nice copy of this important bibliography. Contains: Tome 1: Theatre. Poemes. Grands ouvrages historiques. Dic- tionnaire philosophique et questions sur l’Encyclope- die. Romans. Tome 2: Melanges. Ouvrages edite par Voltaire. Ouvrages annote par Voltaire. Tome 3: Cor- respondance. Cent lettres de Voltaire qui ne figurent dans aucune edition de ses oeuvres et suivi du reper- toire chronologique de sa correspondance de 1711 a 1778, avec l’indication des principales sources de chaque lettre. Tome 4: Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Principaux extraits de Voltaire. Ouvrages faussement attribue a Voltaire. 1.000 €

* First edition of this bibliography of Voltaire whose real name was François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778). Voltaire was a prolific French Enlightenment writer who used almost every literary form, for his work, authoring plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2000 books and pamphlets. From early on, Voltaire had trouble with the authorities for his energetic attacks on the government and the Catholic Church. This would lead to numerous imprisonments and exiles.

64 • (WALL, PETRUS HENRICUS VAN DE).

Bibliotheca Walliana sive catalogus librorum... Petrus Henricus van de Wall, Ictus. Quorum publica fiet auctio, in aediubus Defuncti, die Lunae 20 Martis & seqq. 1809 per Haeredem J. Thierry & C. Mensing, Bibliopolas Hagenses... (The Hague, 1809). (6),(2),167pp. 506 + 890 + 1217 + 109 + 225 + 29+42 + 3 items described. 8vo. Good uncut copy in its original brocade paper binding. 1.200 €

* Auction catalogue of the library of Pieter Hendrik van de Wall (1737 - 1808). He was a doctor in Law and active in local politics. He wrote several works, mostly on the charters and privileges of Dordrecht where he lived. [c.f. NNBW IX, 274].

44 45 And also:

65 (ALPHABET). Alphabet des Sourds-Muets. Paris, (c. 1850). Illustrated broadsheet. €125

66 BARNHART BROTHERS & SPINDLER - CHICAGO. Preferred Type Faces. Book Number 10. Chicago, (1913). Oblong. Original decorated cloth. €300

67 BOONEKAMP, PETRUS JOHANNES, Handleiding Tot de Schrijfkunst.. Deventer & Gronin- gen, 1830. 8vo. €800

68 (BORDELET, VEUVE). Catalogue des livres imprimés, ou quie se trouvent en nombre chez la veuve Bordelet, libraire… (Paris), 1757. Small 8vo. €375

69 (CUSSAC, JEAN). Livres proposés au rabais de 10 pour 100, sur les prix du catalogue… à Paris, chez Cussac, Imprimeur-Libraire… (1795). 8vo. €275

70 DESMARAIS, P. Préface Du Catalogue de La Bibliothèque Mazarine Rédigée En 1751. Publiée, Traduit en François et Annotée Par Alfred Franklin. Paris, 1867. €100

71 GRUEL, LÉON. Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l’Amateur de Reliures. Paris, 1887. This is no. 60 of 250 copies on Papier de Vosges. €875

72 (HARDENBROEK DE BILLJOEN, BARON). Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosité. … dont la vente aura lieu... le 29 avril… 4 mai 1872. Paris, 1872. €425

73 HUBERT (Auguste Cheval de Saint-Hubert). Rapport sur l’embellissement du Palais et du Jardin National… (Paris), (1794). 8vo. €250

74 (LENORMANT, CHARLES). Catalogue de tableaux et dessins vendu après décès de M. Charles Lenormant, Membre de l’Institut dont la vente aura lieu le jeudi 15 mars 1860... Paris, 1860. €375

75 PIC, F.A. Code Des Imprimeurs, Libraires, Écrivains et Artistes… Paris, 1826. 2 vols. Bound with: (NODIER). Questions de littérature légale... Paris, 1812. €1500

76 (TROUILLAT). Catalogue raisonné Des éditions Incunables De La Bibliothèque Du Collège De Porrentruy. Porrentruy, 1858. 8vo. €330

77 (TYPE SPECIMEN) BOGAERT-DE-CLERCQ, F.J. Caractères De L’Imprimerie De F.J. Bo- gaert-de-Clercq à Gand. (Gand, c. 1805?). Folio. €2800

78 VALLÉE, L.L. Traité De La Science Du Dessin… Paris, 1821. 2 vols. €1500

79 ZANETTI, ALEXANDRE. Le Premier Siècle de La Calcographie Ou Catalogue raisonné Des Estampes Du Cabinet De Feu M. Le Comte Léopold Cicognara... Venise, 1837. €750

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