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E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______1. . [Greek] Αἰσχύλου τραγωδιάι Ζ ... σχολία εἰς τὰς αὐτὰς τραγωδίας. Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. (Ed. P. Vettori & H. Estienne). []: , 1557. $5,600

4to (leaf size: 244 x 170 mm), [4] leaves, 397 (numbered 395: with 2 unnumbered pages [fol. n2] between pp. 138 and 139) pp., [1] blank leaf. Greek type; Estienne device [Schreiber 15] on title. 18th-century white calf, double gilt fillet round sides, brown morocco label on spine titled in gilt; all edges gilt; copy ruled in red throughout; on the front paste-down is the engraved armorial bookplate of Robert Shafto, Esq., of Benwell; on the rear paste-down is the engraved armorial bookplate of William Adair, Esq.; old, unobtrusive ownership signature on title; binding somewhat soiled; overall a fine, wide-margined copy.

First complete of the tragedies of the first dramatist of Western civilization. This edition is important for including the of Agamemnon, the greatest Aeschylean tragedy, and one of the greatest masterpieces of Western dramatic literature. The three previous editions (the Aldine of 1518, and Robortello's and Turnèbe's editions of 1552) had all been based on a tradition exhibiting a of more than two-thirds of Agamemnon. The eminent Florentine humanist restored the 1275

2 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______missing verses of Agamemnon from the 14th-century Laurentian F. Vettori, for the first time, carefully distinguishes Agamemnon from the next play, the Choephori, unlike all previous editors, who had combined the two plays into one tragedy. Henri Estienne further corrected Vettori's text, and contributes 40 pages of very important textual comments.

The is handsomely printed in two sizes of "grecs du roi,” a duplicate set of which had taken with him when he left the French capital to seek refuge in Geneva (see Armstrong, Robert Estienne, p. 222).

A handsome, fresh, wide-margined copy, ruled in red throughout, and exhibiting none of the typical browning commonly present in this edition, and endemic of Estienne editions printed in Geneva. This copy belonged to Robert Shafto, M.P. (1732-1797), a.k.a. "Bonnie Bobby Shafto," who was celebrated in a popular ballad of this title.

§ Renouard 116: 15; Hoffmann I, 34-35; Schreiber 145; J. A. Gruys, The Early Printed Editions of Aeschylus, II. 6 (pp. 77-96).

! The Origin of the Aldine Dolphin and Anchor Device

2. [ALDUS] DENARIUS OF THE EMPEROR TITUS. Silver denarius. Minted in A.D. 80. $750

Silver coin, 18 mm in diameter, the obverse represents the laureate head of Titus facing right, the reverse an anchor entwined by a dolphin. Inscribed on obverse: IMP. TITVS. CAES. VESPASIAN. AVG. P.M.; on reverse: TR. P. IX. IMP. XV. COS. VIII. P.P.

(The coin is approximately the size of a dime)

We know from the account by in his Adagia that it is from an example of this coin, presented to him by Pietro Bembo, that borrowed his celebrated anchor and dolphin printer's device: "Again, Titus's approval of our maxim [i.e., 'Make haste slowly'] can easily be inferred from very ancient coins issued by him, one of which I was allowed to inspect by Aldo Manuzio. It was struck in silver from ancient dies clearly of Roman date, and he said it had been a present to him from Pietro Bembo, a Venetian patrician, a young man who was not only a scholar of distinction but also a most industrious explorer of the whole field of ancient literature. The design of the coin was as follows: One side showed the head of Titus with an inscription, the other an anchor, the central shaft of which had a dolphin coiled around it. Now the only meaning conveyed by this symbol is that favorite maxim of emperor , 'Make haste slowly'; and this we learn from the ancient texts relating to hieroglyphics" (Adagia II.i.1).

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Literary scholars and book historians traditionally attribute this coin to Vespasian—an easy confusion, since Titus, Vespasian's elder son, bore the same three names as his father (Titus Flavius Vespasianus), but was generally known by his praenomen Titus. Numismatists have had much less difficulty correctly identifying the denarius as that of Titus: see. e.g., Harold Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire II (, British Museum), p. 235: 72; see also B.L. Damsky, "The Throne and Curule Chair Types of Titus and Domitian," in Revue Suisse de Numismatique, 74 (1995), pp. 59-70, and more recently A. Ollfors, "The Anchor and the Dolphin and Some Other Printer's Devices," in Dais Philestephanos. Studies in Honour of Prof. Staffan Fogelmark (Uppsala, 2004), pp. 322-331.

The coin was minted in A.D. 80, and, according to one theory, was part of a series commemorating the prayers voted by the Senate after the eruption of Vesuvius in August A.D. 79 (Vespasian had died the previous June). As part of the ceremony, sacred couches (pulvinaria) were arranged, each bearing a symbol of a particular deity. In this particular case the dolphin and anchor represent Neptune (see Mattingly, op. cit., pp. lxxii-lxxiii, followed by C. Foss, Roman Historical Coins [London, 1990], pp. 85 and 87).

§ Carradice and Buttrey (2007), Roman Imperial Coinage IIa, p. 206: 112; Cohen, Médailles impériales, C 309; Seaby, Roman Silver Coins, p. 58: 309.

3. AMADIS DE GAULA. Le Thresor des livres d'Amadis de Gaule. : for Robert le Mangnier, 1571. $850

16mo, [8] leaves (last blank), 329 leaves; publisher's device [Renouard 613] on title. Contemporary limp vellum; light dampstains at beginning.

This 'Treasury' of Amadis of Gaul was produced to satisfy the need of letter- writers and speakers by providing for them all the examples of letters and speeches contained in the twelve volumes so far published of this popular Spanish romance -- one of the earliest romances of chivalry, and unquestionably the most influential. A table of the topics included is given at the beginning.

The booklet first appeared in 1559, with numerous reprints. All editions are today quite rare.

§ Brunet I, 217.

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4. ARETIUS, Benedictus. Commentarii in Epistolas D. Pauli ad Philippenses, Colossenses, & in utramque ad Thessal. facili et perspicua methodo conscripti, a D. Benedicto Aretio Bernensi Theologo. Morges: J. Le Preux, 1580. $1,250

8vo, [8], 300 pp., [2] blank leaves; title within a woodcut architectonic border, featuring in the upper panel an anthropomorphic army of bears advancing in attack; on title verso is a full-page woodcut portrait of the author. Rather flimsy modern stiff marbled paperboards.

FIRST EDITION of the commentaries on Paul's to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians by the eminent Calvinist theologian and botanist Benedictus Aretius (1505–1574), who published commentaries on the various books of the N.T., of which the present first edition was issued posthumously. Aretius was a many-sided scholar who had a reputation as a botanist, in which capacity he published an important treatise on the plants growing on the Alps, of which he discovered and described forty of great rarity. An accomplished Hellenist he published an important on (issued posthumously in 1587).

The printer Jean Le Preux was first active in Paris, and fled to Lausanne c. 1563 because of religious persecution; he established establishments in Geneva and Morges. His earliest Morges publications are dated 1580, in which year he printed the present work, along with Aretius’ commentaries on the Gospels and his Problemata theologica.

A very rare first edition of which the only copy in an American appears to be that at the New York Union Theological Seminary.

§ Adams A-1607.

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The Earliest Published French Translations of , by "The Most Erudite of All Women" (Bentley)

5. ARISTOPHANES. Plutus et les Nuées d'Aristophane. Comedies greques, traduites en François. Avec des remarques & un examen de chaque piece selon les regles du theatre. Par Mademoiselle Le Fèvre. (Ed. & Tr. Anne [Lefèvre] Dacier). Paris: Denys Thierry & Claude Barbin, 1684. $650

12mo, [62], 386 pp. Contemporary calf, back gilt in compartments; corners, joints, and spine extremities worn (but binding solid); on title verso is the early signature of ‘Le Begue de Villiers’; annotations in pen and blue pencil on p. 5 of the Plutus; small piece missing from upper blank corner of title-page.

FIRST EDITION of the first published French translation of Aristophanes, by Anne Lefèvre (the future Madame Dacier, 1654-1720: see preceding item), the most erudite Frenchwoman of the seventeenth century; her scholarship earned her the epithet "feminarum doctissima" from no less an admirer than the great .

No French translation of the greatest Greek comic writer was published before Anne Lefèvre set to the task of translating the Clouds and the Plutus. Her versions are accompanied by commentaries and preceded by prefaces in which she subjects each comedy (according to the literary fashion of the time) to the Aristotelian "Unities”.

Anne Lefèvre's versions became very popular and were reprinted often: 1692, 1696, 1762, etc. (J.A. de Baif is recorded to have translated Plutus c. 1560, but this was never published and the MS is now lost: see R.R. Bolgar, The Classical Heritage, p. 508.)

§ Cioranescu 22948; Hoffmann I, 266; see Sandys II, 292.

6. BASSOMPIERRE, François de. Ambassade du Mareschal de Bassompierre en Espagne l'an 1621. : Chez Pierre Marteau, 1668. $275

12mo, [1] leaf, 163 pp. Globe device on title.

bound with:

BASSOMPIERRE. Negociation du Mareschal de Bassompierre envoyé ambassadeur Extraordinaire, en Angleterre de la part du Roy tres-chretien, l'an 1626. Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau, 1668. [1] leaf, 316 pp. Globe device on title. The two works bound together in 19th-century half morocco; front joint broken and almost detached.

FIRST EDITIONS of two memoirs by François de Bassompierre (1579-1646), marshal of . Bassompierre's Memoirs, which have always been popular, contain a lively description of his contemporaries, the manners of the time, his own intrigues, no less than those of his friends and enemies.

6 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Under King Henry IV Bassompierre distinguished himself in the army and as a courtier, and after Henry's death he remained loyal to the queen, Marie de Médicis during her regency. Subsequently he was ambassador to , to England, and to Switzerland, and he fought against the Huguenots in 1621–22 and 1627–28. Because of his opposition to Cardinal Richelieu and his alleged part in an intrigue he was imprisoned (1631) in the Bastille until after the cardinal's death (1643). During his captivity he wrote valuable memoirs, including the two offered here.

In the first memoir Bassompierre recounts his embassy in where he was sent as envoy extraordinary in 1621 to sign a treaty after the seizure of the Valtellina forts by Spain.

The second deals with his 1626 embassy to London to secure the retention of the Catholic ecclesiastics and attendants of Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I.

§ I and II: Brunet I, 695; Cioranescu 10280 and 10281; II. Willems, Elzevier, 1783.

A Verse History of France 7. BÉRIGNY, Godard de. Abregé de l'histoire de France, en vers. Paris: Nicolas Pepingué, 1679. $650

Two parts in one , small 8vo, [5] leaves, 405, [3] pp.; woodcut title vignette of the arms of France; added engraved title with a border of medallions including a portrait of Louis XIV and the Labors of Hercules; engraved frontispiece at beginning of second part representing Jupiter resting after his defeat of the Titans; ornamental head- and tailpieces, and initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, back gilt; corners and head of spine worn.

FIRST EDITION (also issued with imprint of Estienne Loyson) of a history of France composed entirely in French verse by the little-known author Godard de Bérigny, counselor in the provincial ruling court of Caen. The long poem is divided in sections each devoted to a monarch, from Pharamond, the first king of France, to Louis XIV, the reigning monarch, to whom the work is dedicated.

§ Cioranescu 11500.

8. [. N.T. John. Greek. Paraphrase] PANOPOLITANUS. [Greek & ] Nόnnou Panopolίtou Metabolὴ toῦ katὰ Ἰωάnnhn Ἁgίou Eὐaggelίou. Nonni ... Metaphrasis Evangelii secundum Ioannem, versibus heroicis ... opera Frid. Sylburgii. (Ed. & Tr. ). []: H. Commelinus, 1596. $750

8vo, [4] leaves, 263 pp., [20] leaves; woodcut printer's device on title (with early hand-coloring); Greek text with Latin translation on facing pages. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf with considerable surface wear; upper portion of spine missing (but binding is solid); at foot of title is an early signature ('Joh. pe[n]telius'?); scattered marginalia in the same hand; on the rear pastedown are annotations in Greek in an early hand; modern bookplate inside front cover.

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First Sylburg edition of the paraphrase in Greek epic verse of the Gospel of John by the fifth-century poet and Christian exegete Nonnus Panopolitanus, author of the Dionysiaca, an epic of the god Dionysus.

The German humanist Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), professor and librarian at Heidelberg, who edited the Greek text and added his Latin translation, produced numerous important editions of Greek authors: , 1583, , 1584- 87, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1586. Sylburg also contributed to Henri Estienne's Greek Thesaurus (see Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship II, p. 270).

The edition opens with Sylburg's preface addressed to the teenage Erasmus Posthius (born 1582), son of Johannes Posthius, court physician to the Elector Palatine Frederick IV, in Heidelberg. This is followed by a bibliographic account of the printing history of the text, beginning with the Aldine editio princeps of 1501. In appendix, following the Greek text and Latin translation, are 40 pages consisting of Sylburg's critical notes on the Greek text, and a Greek index.

§ VD16, N1836; Brunet IV, 98; Adams B-1904; Hoffmann II, 646. ! ! ! ! !

9. BUCHANAN, George. Poemata quae extant. Editio postrema. : Elzevier, 1628. $750

24mo (binding: 119 x 60 mm; bookblock: 115 x 55 mm), 511, [1] pp., [10] leaves (last 3 blank); engraved title incorporating the author's portrait. 18th-century red morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides with gilt rosettes at corners, richly gilt flat spine divided into six compartments; all edges gilt; inside gilt dentelles, blue silk doublures (binding attributed to Derome by an earlier cataloguer); gilt morocco label of H.V. Ingram.

A very pretty copy of the Elzevier edition of the Latin poems of George Buchanan (1506-1582), including his original dramas Iephthes and Baptistes, as well as his Latin verse adaptations of ' tragedies and .

Buchanan, the greatest Scottish humanist of the sixteenth century, enjoyed a European reputation as a poet and playwright; in Bordeaux, where he taught for a time, the young Montaigne, who was one of his pupils, acted in his translations from Euripides.

§ Willems 292; Durkan, of G. Buchanan, no. 201.

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With Several Works on the Care and Training of Hunting Dogs 10. BURMAN, Pieter [POETAE LATINI MINORES]. Poetae latini minores sive Gratii Falisci Cynegeticon, M. Aurelii Olympii Nemesiani Cynegeticon, etc. … Cum integris doctorum virorum notis, & quorumdam excerptis, curante Petro Burmanno. Leiden: C. Wishoff & D. Goedval, 1731. $850

Two volumes, 4to, extra allegorical frontispiece-title, engraved by F. van Bleyswyk, after a design by H. van der My, [60], 730 pp., [1] blank leaf; [2], 553, [111] pp. Both titles printed in red and black. Contemporary blindstamped vellum over boards; upper cover of vol. 1 starting to crack; slight damage to head of spine of vol. 2; modern bookplates of the late George P. Goold, famed classicist, General Editor of the Loeb Classical inside front covers.

Monumental variorum edition by Pieter Burman of the miscellaneous Latin poets, from the time of Augustus to the Renaissance, including several works on hunting and the care and training of various species of hunting-dogs.

Also included is the famous Latin prose treatise, De canibus Britannicis (‘On English Dogs’), by John Caius (1510-1573), physician to Queen Elizabeth I, and the founder of Caius College, . This was the earliest attempt at a complete classification of dogs, and was first published in 1570.

Other works in the collection consist of the , a poem on hunting, with special emphasis on the management of dogs for hunting, by Faliscus, an Augustan poet, contemporary of ; another Cynegetica by the third- century AD poet Olympius , also emphasizing the care and training of hunting-dogs, and discussing canine diseases and the various breeds of dogs; the Alcon sive de cura canum venaticorum (‘Alcon, or On the Care of Hunting-Dogs’), by the physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), best known as the originator of the word ‘syphilis.’

Among the other works included are De medicina, a medical in verse, by Serenus Quintus, who wrote in the 3rd century AD, and was inspired in great part by Celsus and Pliny’s Natural History; De medicina, another medical textbook in verse, by one Marcellus, who lived in the 2nd century AD, under ; De ponderibus & mensuris, a poem on weights and measures, by Quintus Remnius Palaemon (1st century AD). The ‘Satire’ attributed to Sulpicia, a poetess of the age of Domitian; in the poem Sulpicia denounces the degradation of the empire under Domitian, in relation to a suppression of philosophers.

The editor, Pieter Burman (1668-1741), held the chair of Latin in Utrecht and Leiden, and was one of the greatest scholars of Holland; he produced a great many very useful such “variorum” editions of the Latin .

The handsome allegorical engraved frontispiece depicts a statue of Diana, goddess of the hunt, surrounded by figures representing the various poetic themes included in this volume: cupids holding emblems of poetry, medicine, and the hunt; hunting dogs surrounding a dead deer, with satyrs and nymphs frolicking in the distance.

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§ Brunet IV, 757 (“Collection estimée à cause des notes savantes qu’elle renferme”); Schweiger 1285 (“geschätze Sammlung” [‘precious collection’]); Souhart 384.

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11. [CAILLY, Jacques de]. Diverses petites poesies du Chevallier D’Aceilly. [Premier volume (all published)]. Paris: André Cramoisy, 1667. $450

12mo, [12], 228 pp. Woodcut ornament on title, and numerous typographical headpieces and ornaments in the text. [In this copy the mention “Premier volume” on the title has been carefully erased (no other volume was published)] Contemporary calf, back gilt (surface wear); upper margins cut short, occasionally shaving headlines.

FIRST EDITION, rare first issue (see below). Jacques de Cailly (1604-1673), here using the anagrammatic form of his name, ‘d’Aceilly,’ was a native of Orléans and a descendant of the family of Joan of Arc. His collection of French verse contain the obligatory love poems, as well as several pieces addressed to notable contemporaries -- Colbert being the most frequent-- but also include many on more unexpected subjects, such as an epigram to his cat (p. 85), and verses addressed to a lady of a certain age who pretends to still be a virgin (83).

Some of Cailly’s recurring topics are money, including one epigram about inflation (211), littering of the Paris streets and the failure to clean them up (13, 14, 16), and the etymology of the Italian word “Alfana,” the odd subject of at least three poems: 47, 169, and 198. (One assumes that “Alfana,” originally the name of Gradasso’s mare in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, may have taken on a generic meaning in Cailly’s days.)

Cramoisy first printed a few copies with the playful statement on the title-page that copies of the book ‘may be had gratis at the Palace’ (“...se donnent au Palais”); however, after several naifs took the statement at face value, Cramoisy quickly suppressed the misleading statement, and copies containing it (as here) are therefore quite rare (cf. Tchemerzine: “Les exemplaires portant sur le titre la mention: ‘se donnent au Palais’ sont du premier tirage et fort rares.”).

§ Tchemerzine I, 23; Cioranescu 17275; Lachèvre II, p. 177, and III, pp. 239-245; De Backer, no. 791.

12. COCCEIANUS [Greek & Latin]. Tῶn Diwnoj toῦ Kassίou Ῥwmaίkwn ἱstorίwn biblίa pέnte kaὶ eἴkosi. Dionis Cassii Romanarum Historiarum libri XXV (Ed. Henri Estienne; Tr. G. Xylander). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592. $1,750

Folio (355 x 230 mm), [12], 792 pp., [12] leaves (last blank). Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title; Greek and Latin printed in parallel columns; ornamental initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards; rebacked with original spine laid down; inside front cover is an armorial bookplate (baron's coronet and the name "Wynford"); on the front free is the ownership inscription "J. Eyre. Univ. Coll. Oxon."

11 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Very tall, wide-margined copy of the second edition of the extant books of the Roman history written in Greek by Cassius Dio (ca. A.D. 150-235), covering the period from the foundation of to A.D. 229. The surviving books deal with the period 68 B.C. - A.D. 54, and contain the only ancient account of the invasion of Britain by Claudius.

The editio princeps had been published in 1548 by Robert Estienne. This second edition by his son Henri contains major corrections to the Greek text, and is accompanied by the Latin translation by the celebrated German Hellenist Gulielmus Xylander. Henri Estienne has added an important preface in which he discusses the textual method of his edition.

There exist two states of this important Estienne edition, identical in all respects except for the date, which is printed variously as 1591 or 1592.

§ Renouard 155: 5; Hoffmann I, 548; Adams D-505.

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8vo, [18], 88 pp. Woodcut ornament on title, ornamental headpieces. (Lacking the plate, as often). 18th-century stiff vellum.

FIRST EDITION of the first publication by Gilles Boileau (1631-1669), older brother of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711: commonly referred to simply as 'Boileau'). The work consists of Gilles's French translation of the famous allegorical composition on the life of man, known a the Pinax ("Picture," or "Table") of Cebes. The work was ascribed to the Pythagorean philosopher by that name, a follower of ; however, it is thought to be of much later date since it contains elements of the Stoic philosophy of the Roman empire.

The first French version of the Table was published in 1529 (in a collection of several texts); Boileau's version is very rare: it is not mentioned by Hoffmann, and no copy is located in in America by NUC or OCLC.

§ Cioranescu 12667; Barbier IV, 630.

CEBES: See No. 61

14. [CHARLES V]. Oratio funebris de morte Caroli. V. Rom. Imperatoris, et Hispaniarum Regis. Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1559. $250

8 Small 4to, [8] leaves (last blank): A-B (B8 blank). Large historiated opening initial. Unbound but stitched; German library duplicate stamp on verso of title.

Funeral oration on the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) in which the monarch who faced the Turkish threat, developed relations with the Protestants, and effected the Peace of , is recalled with comments on his character and deeds.

§ VD 16, O 849; Adams C-1369.

Partly printed on blue paper. With 24 pages of printed music

15. [CHOLET DE JETPHORT, F.J., ed.]. Etrennes lyriques, anacréontiques, pour l’année 1786. Présentées à Madame, pour la sixième fois, en Décembre 1785. Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1786. $350 12mo, [2] leaves, 2, 4, [14] (calendar), engraved frontispiece after Cochin, 336 pp. (including 24 pages of printed music). Contemporary red morocco, gilt, edges gilt; spine darkened.

Each volume of this annual publication, begun in 1781 and suspended between 1794-1803, contained a calendar (here for the year 1786), a series of poems, and ended with musical items (in this volume consisting of the musical notations and lyrics for 15 songs). The names of the contributors are listed at the end. In this copy seven quires (A-B, F-G, L-N = 84 leaves) are printed on blue paper.

§ Grand-Carteret, Les almanachs français, 654.

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4to, [14], xxxii, [2], 31, [5], 1104 (misnumbered 1112 due to omission of page numbers 601-608) pp. Title printed in red and black; woodcut ornaments and initials. Contemporary blindstamped vellum over boards; joints cracking but solid; partly erased stamp on second leaf (dedication), leaving a small hole in the margin; modern bookplate of the late George P. Goold, famed classicist, General Editor of the .

Pieter Burman the Younger’s monumental variorum edition of the last of the great Roman classical poets (fl. A.D. 395-405). Burman (1714-1778) edited the text and various commentaries from materials left by his uncle, the celebrated Pieter Burman the Elder (1668-1741), one of the greatest scholars of Holland.

Besides his own comments Burman has included those of his uncle, as well as those of Martin Anton Del Rio (1551-1608),!Etienne de Clavière (d. 1622), Thomas Dempster (1579?-1625), and Nicolaas Heinsius (1620-1681).

§ Brunet II, 88-89; Schweiger 284; Dibdin I, 472 (“This is unquestionably a very superior edition”).

17. CORDIER, Mathurin. Les colloques divisez en quatre livres. Traduits de Latin en François. Paris: Jean Laquehay, 1613. $450

16mo, 648 pp. Woodcut IHS device on title. Contemporary limp vellum; early ownership inscription on title (Iacobus Giolus) crudely obliterated in ink, but still legible; another ownership inscription (“PIETRO LANDI”) written in large capitals in margin of second leaf.

Rare bilingual (Latin-French) edition of the most popular and influential phrase- book of the Renaissance: over 200 editions were published from 1564 to 1904 (the latter in Philadelphia: the booklet was a favorite learning tool in the schools of America, beginning in the 17th century). Mathurin Cordier (1479-1564), one of the foremost pedagogues of the sixteenth century, taught in several schools, including the College de la Marche, where he counted Calvin among his pupils. After embracing Protestantism, he moved to Geneva, where, in 1564, he published the first edition of this work, titled Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri IIII. The collection consists of brief entertaining dialogues intended to serve as models to schoolchildren in teaching them correct Latin style.

From 1576 on, editions of the Colloquia began to be published accompanied by French translations; all editions of these popular bilingual handbooks, produced in tiny, easily portable format (such as that offered here), have become considerable scarce, due to the heavy use to which they were subjected -- some editions not having survived at all. Thus the present edition remained unknown to Jules Le Coultre’s census of known editions (Maturin Cordier et les origines de la pédagogie protestante dans les pays de langue française, Neuchatel, 1926.

§ Not in J. Le Coultre, Maturin Cordier.

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The First "Portable" Dante 18. DANTE. Le Terze Rime di Dante. : Aldus Manutius, August 1502. 8vo (leaf size: 152 x 93 mm), 244 leaves (including the genuine blank leaf 82); italic type; Aldine device at the end. Handsome modern goatskin blind-tooled in Renaissance style, four raised bands and two raised half bands on spine; all edges gilt. $9,500

The first Aldine edition of Dante's Commedia, which is also the first edition of this compelling classic in pocket format. Bibliographically the edition is important as the first Aldine to make use of Aldus's famous anchor and dolphin printer's device -- some copies also exist without the device, which was not yet ready when the book first went to press. The text of this edition -- the first published in the sixteenth century -- enjoyed an unparalleled authority for over three centuries, for it served as the basis for nearly all subsequent editions, including the influential text published by the Accademia della Crusca in 1595.

§ Renouard 34: 5; Ahmanson-Murphy 59.5; Mambelli 17; Cornell p. 6.

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No. 18: DANTE

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19. DASYPODIUS, Petrus [= Peter Hasenfratz, or Hasenfuss]. [Latin & German] Dictionarium voces propemodum universas in autoribus latinae linguae probatis ... pro iuventute Germanica. Strassburg: Wendelin Rihel, March 1535.

4to, 232 leaves (including last blank); Latin text in roman, German text in gothic; historiated woodcut initials.

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[] GELDENHAUER, Gerhard. Ex familiaribus epistolis Ciceronis clausulae & sententiae, pro Epistolis conficiendis, ad studiosam iuventutem, una cum Germanica lingua, diligentiisime excerptae. Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, August 1534. 98 leaves; Latin text in roman, German text in gothic; woodcut initials. $3,600

The two works bound together in contemporary blind-stamped half pigskin over wooden boards, with two original metal catches, and remains of one clasp. From the library of Richard Heber, with the Heberiana stamp on front fly- leaf. CONDITION: Upper corner of rear wooden cover broken off. Two tiny wormholes in the first few outer margins of the first work; the title of the second work has five holes in blank portions due to paper flaws, affecting parts of two letters; inoffensive tiny round wormholes in the last few quires.

17 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______I. FIRST EDITION of the most popular Latin-German lexicon of the Renaissance; as the first humanist Latin-German school dictionary, it went through numerous and revisions for over two centuries — there is a modern edition by Gilbert de Smet (1974, repr. 1995). This first edition is of extreme rarity: OCLC locates no copy in any American collection.

The author, Petrus Dasypodius (Peter Hasenfuss, or Hasenfratz, ca. 1490-1559), was a Swiss humanist, friend of Ulrich Zwingli, and a teacher and pastor in Zürich. In 1533 he moved to Strassburg, where he taught Latin at the Carmelite monastery, and later at the Gymnasium. "Modern German lexicography begins with the Latin-German dictionary of the schoolteacher Petrus Dasypodius (ca. 1490-1559), which appeared in in 1535 ... Dasypodius clearly intended his dictionary for school use, as an aid in the teaching of Latin; the German is ancillary to this goal ... All the same, the volume does contain some 12,000 items of German vocabulary, and recent studies have shown that nearly 30% of these words are first known attestations in German, so that even allowing for the gravest deficiencies in German historical lexicology ... we still have some grounds for seeing Dasypodius as a contributor to the vocabulary, using patterns of compounding, prefixation and suffixation to generate new words in response to the Latin wherever he found them to be lacking" (W.J. Jones, Landmarks in German Lexicography, 1500-1700, p. 134).

II. ONLY EDITION of this Latin-German guide to letter writing intended for young students, based on Cicero's Letters to his Friends ( ad familiares). The material is divided into 17 chapters, each dealing with one type of letter, e.g. consolatory, congratulatory, humorous, or just imparting the latest news about oneself or friends. One deals with the more technical aspect of the correct expression of Roman dates; an additional unnumbered final chapter treats of the definition of what constitutes a letter and its various types.

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The author, Gerhard Geldenhauer (1482-1542), a native of Nijmegen, published several humanistic works in Louvain where he was also employed as corrector to the printer Dirk Martens, seeing through the press several works by Erasmus, with whom he developed friendly relations (see Contemporaries of Erasmus II, pp. 82-84). In 1516 he assisted in the production of the 1516 edition of Thomas More's Utopia, contributing verses as introductory pieces.

This Latin-German letter-writing handbook, in which The Ciceronian Latin excerpts are printed in roman and their German translations in handsome gothic type, is Geldenhauer’s least known production, due to its extreme rarity — e.g. Tournoy (op. cit., above) does not cite it among his works. Today only five copies appear to survive: three in (Augsburg, Dillingen, Württemberg), one at the National Library of Poland, and one at the National Library of Slovenia.

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§ I. VD16, D243; Ritter 617; Zaunmüller 92; F. Claes, Bibliographisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Vokabulare und Wörterbücher bis 1600, 341; II. VD16, C3080.

19 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Important Sammelband of three Estienne Greek Editions

20. . [Greek & Latin] Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia. C.I. Solini Polyhistor. (Ed. & Tr. H. Estienne; Comm. Eustathius, P.J. Oliver [Mela], M.A. Delrio [Solinus], J. Simmler [Aethicus]). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1577. $4,800

4to, [4] leaves, 160 (misnumbered 158) pp., [12] leaves, 47, 152 pp. Greek and roman types; Estienne device [Schreiber 18] on title; ornamental initials and headpieces; in margin of fol. 135r is printed a diagram with Greek text indicating the location of India and its rivers in relation to the four points of the compass.

bound with:

CALLIMACHUS. [Greek & Latin] Hymni (cum suis scholiis Graecis) & Epigrammata. Eiusdem Poematium De coma Berenices, a Catullo versum (Ed. & Tr. H. Estienne, N. Frischlin, & others). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1577. [16], 72, 134 pp., [1] blank leaf; Estienne device [Schreiber 12] on title; Greek type, ornamental initials and headpieces.

bound with:

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. [Greek & Latin] Ἀργοναυτικῶν βιβλία Δ. Argonauticωn libri IIII. vetusta in eosdem libros (Comm. H. Estienne). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1574. [4] leaves, 248 (misnumbered 240) pp. Greek text in middle size of the "Grecs du Roi," surrounded by the scholia in the smallest size; Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title; foliated Greek initials, ornamental headpieces. The three works bound together in 18th-century mottled sheep, back gilt in compartments, five raised bands; some wear to corners and head and tail of spine, some surface rubbing on covers, but a very sturdy binding; some inoffensive upper marginal dampstains at the end of the ; overall a very good copy, with the usual light toning of paper throughout (as is common in Geneva Estienne editions of that period). In the lower margin of each of three titles is the old stamp "GENEVAE".

I. Estienne's important and beautiful edition of these Greek and Roman geographical texts. The first text is the Description of the World, a Greek didactic poem that enjoyed considerable popularity in the Renaissance, by the second- century poet Dionysius Periegetes (i.e., "Dionysius The Guide"). Estienne's father, Robert Estienne, had already published the text in 1547; Henri here has made important additions to his father's edition, including his own Latin translation of the poem, with his notes on the text and on the Greek commentary of Eustathius, which is also included.

20 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______In addition to the Greek text of Dionysius and the Greek commentary of Eustathius, Estienne also prints three Latin geographical tracts: 's popular geographical treatise, with the commentary by the Spanish humanist Pedro Juan Oliver; Solinus's Polyhistor, composed ca. A.D. 200, introduced the name "Mediterranean Sea" and remained the most popular Latin geographical work throughout the Middle Ages; it is here accompanied by the textual comments of Martin Antonio Delrio; the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister, with the commentary of Josias Simmler, who had published the editio princeps two years earlier (this Cosmography is now believed to have been composed in Ireland in the 8th-century by Bishop [i.e. Feirgil]).

II. The first critical edition of Callimachus, one of the greatest Alexandrian poets, and director of the Alexandrian Library, for which he compiled a catalogue known as Pinakes, or "Lists." (This, the earliest library catalogue, survives only in fragments which were first printed in 1697.)

This Estienne text of Callimachus is the one followed by most subsequent editors; it includes the editio princeps of the Epigrams. The Hymns and Epigrams are edited by the celebrated Neo-Latin dramatist and humanist of Tübingen, Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), who has provided a Life of Callimachus in Greek, the Greek scholia, his own annotations, and Latin versions of the Hymns and Epigrams -- for each Hymn he has in fact provided two alternate Latin versions: one in prose and literal, and one in verse.

Estienne has added the Coma Berenices of , with his own extensive commentary on the poem, his emendations and annotations to the Hymns, his two alternate verse renderings of Hymn I, a Latin version of the same by , a Latin version of Hymn III by Franciscus Floridus (Sabinus), and the translation and notes of Politian to Hymn V, the Bath of Pallas (from his Miscellanea, ch. LXXX: cf. R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship 1300- 1850, p. 45).

III. Estienne's important and beautifully printed edition of the , Apollonius's epic about Jason and the Argonauts on their journey to find the Golden Fleece, including Jason's love for and eventual betrayal of Medea. This edition includes the Greek scholia surrounding the text, as well as eight pages of textual notes by Estienne.

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§ I. Renouard 145: 5; Hoffmann I, 592; Adams D-648; Schreiber 200; II. Brunet I, 1480: "Bonne édition, où l'on a imprimé pour la première fois une partie des épigrammes et des fragments"; Renouard 145, no.3; Hoffmann I, 428 ("The basis for all subsequent editions"); cf. also Pfeiffer's edition, vol. II, pp. xliii and xciii. III. Renouard 141: 1; Hoffmann I, 207; Adams A-1316; Schreiber 188.

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"One of Erasmus's more controversial writings"

21. [ERASMUS] HILARY OF POITIERS, Saint. Divi Hilarii Pictavorum episcopi Lucubrationes per Erasmum Roterodamum non mediocribus sudoribus emendatas. (Ed. D. Erasmus). : J. Froben, Feb. 1523. $3,500

Two parts in one volume, (330 x 210 mm), [24], 435; 418, [34] pp. Title within a handsome historiated woodcut border by Hans Holbein [Johnson 17] depicting 's suicide [A.F. Johnson, The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein, no. 20]; title of second part within a different border; numerous ornamental initials by Hans Holbein from several of his alphabets [see Christian Müller, Hans Holbein. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, Nos. 133, 135, 139, etc.]; two woodcut printer's devices at the end. Contemporary half blind-tooled pigskin over thick wooden boards, brass catches, remains of clasps; worming in blank lower margins at the end, never touching text; some fraying of outer margin of title- page. PROVENANCE: Early Würzburg Carmelite ownership inscription on title; 19th-century bookplate of the Meadville Theological School, with mention "presented by Rev. W.H. Furness" (name in manuscript: see below); with the school's perforated stamp on title.

FIRST ERASMUS EDITION of the collected writings of St. Hilary (c. 315-67), who became the leading and most respected Latin theologian of his age. Among his works are his influential commentaries on the Psalms and Matthew — the earliest complete commentary on one of the Gospels by a Latin father — and the lengthy treatise De Trinitate in twelve books, aimed against the Arian heresy in the West, as well as the first important contribution in Latin to the discussion of this great dogma of the Christian faith.

Erasmus undertook the edition in order to correct the deficiencies of the earlier edition of Robert Fortuné issued in 1511 by Badius in Paris. The volume opens with Erasmus's lengthy 20-page dedicatory preface addressed to his patron Jean de Carondelet, Archbishop of Palermo (Allen, Ep. 1334). This famous preface became one of Erasmus's more controversial writings, containing "some of Erasmus's most

23 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______pungent comments on the nature of theology and on the baleful consequences of theological argument and contention" (John C. Olin, Six Essays on Erasmus [1979], p. 93). In 1526 the Paris faculty of theology censured several passages, and the following year a conference of theologians at in Spain vehemently attacked several other passages: see M. Bataillon, Erasme et l'Espagne, pp. 276-8.

William Henry Furness (1802–1896), who presented this copy to the Philadelphia Meadville Theological School, was a clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist, and a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson; he presided over a period marked by the growth and increasing prosperity for First Church. A fiery abolitionist, he was a supporter of the rights of all segments of society, including African-Americans and Jews. Following the American Civil War, he raised funds for Black schools the South, including Morehouse College.

§ VD16, H 3618; Vander Haeghen II, p. 31; Adams H-552.

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A Tall Copy of the Tiniest Book Issued by Henri Estienne

22. ESTIENNE, Henri (ed.). [Greek & Latin] Comicorum Graecorum sententiae, id est γνῶμαι. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1569. $950

32mo (116 x 52 mm), [16] leaves, 635 (numbered 633), [1] pp., [2] leaves (the second a blank); ornamental headpieces. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore-edges; patch of vellum torn out from top of rear cover; some inoffensive waterstains.

Collection of aphorisms and proverbs from the Greek comic writers ( and other writers of New Comedy), selected, translated and annotated by Henri Estienne, who has also added a dissertation on the method of selecting literary proverbs (De habendo sententiarum delectu). A second part contains proverbial expressions derived from Roman comic writers, as well as selected Sententiae from , with annotations by Erasmus.

These sorts of compilations were very popular in their day, and Henri Estienne may have issued them as "bread-and-butter" publications, in order to raise the capital (which he had lost with the patronage of Ulrich Fugger, a member of the wealthy Augsburg banking family) necessary to meet the printing and publication costs of his magnum opus, now nearing completion: the Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. This would explain why he began issuing such collections in 1568, the year he lost Fugger's financial backing.

Estienne has left some pages entirely blank (pp. 11, 17, 24, 61, 84, 85, 366), or nearly blank (pp. 416, 417), to allow readers (as he explains on pp. 416-417) to add such sententiae as they may discover in their .

This is a very tall copy (leaf size: 116 x 52 mm), in its original binding, of perhaps the tiniest book produced by Henri Estienne.

§ Renouard 132: 3; Adams P-1694; Schreiber 175.

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23. FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe. Education des filles. Paris: P. Aubouin, P. Emery & Ch. Clousier, 1687. $750

12mo, [4] leaves, 269 (numbered 275: the pagination jumps from 192 to 199, as called for), [7] pp.; title printed in red and black, with engraved monogram. Contemporary calf, back gilt; corners and spine extremities worn; early ownership entries on front paste-downs; pencil doodles on front .

FIRST EDITION of Fénelon's first book, consisting of the most important educational treatise of 17th-century France, a pivotal work in the history of western education -- which had a considerable influence on Rousseau's Emile -- as well as a masterpiece of French literature, showing good sense and insight into the feminine mind, and not devoid of charm.

Fénelon (1651-1715), the tutor to the three sons of the Grand Dauphin, and the author of the celebrated didactic , Les Aventures de Télémaque, composed the present work as a guide to mothers in the education of their daughters. It opens with a critique of contemporary pedagogical methods, and continues with an exposition of the two fundamental rules which serve as the basis of the author's theories: 1. Education must be useful, and conform to the position the child will fill in society; 2. It must be based on the child's natural aptitudes, which it must follow and develop.

The work proved quite influential; it was twice translated into English: "Instructions for the Education of a Daughter" (1707, tr. George Hickes); "Treatise on the Education of Daughters" (1805, tr. Th. F. Dibdin).

This is the second issue, with the final page of errata, and fol. O4 a cancel with line 20 of p. 167 "sans vivre de son esprit"; p. 275 has corrections "magnifiques" and "simplicité".

§ Brunet II, 1209; Tchemerzine (Scheler ed.) III, 164; Cioranescu 29145.

24. [FRENCH GRAMMAR] [MACÉ, Jean]. La politesse de la langue francoise pour parler puremant et ecrire nettemant. Par Noel François Predicateur du Roy. III. Edition. : Balthasar Vivien, 1663. $950

12mo, [12] leaves, 215 pp. Woodcut ornament on title.

bound with: LA GRUE, Thomas. Grammatica Gallica, ex celebrioribus grammaticis collecta, in pluribus aucta & emendata. Editio tertia auctior et emendatior. Amsterdam: P. Le Grand, 1671. [6] leaves, 236 pp., [1] leaf. Woodcut armillary sphere on title.

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GRAMMATICA. Grammatica Gallica. Succincta, sed accurata, in usum illustris Collegii Würtembergensis, edita. Tübingen: Johann Alexander Cellius, 1656. 192 pp.

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The three works bound together in contemporary vellum over boards; early inscription on first title, 'Bibliotheca Viennensis. Schol: Piarum'; early engraved armorial bookplate inside front cover; purchase entry on free endpaper dated Tübingen 1671, with early ms. corrections on the first 30 pages of text.

Three very rare handbooks for learning French, apparently aimed at foreigners, bound together in the 17th century.

I. Jean Macé (1600-1671), a Carmelite Friar, here writing under the pseudonym "Noel François" was known in religion as Père Léon de Saint-Jean; he also used the noms-de-plume "Du Tertre," and "François Irénée." Barbier cites 1656 and 1664 Paris editions of this work, as well as a 1668 edition; the BNF has 1663, 1664, and 1672 editions. No copies of any edition located in America by NUC, OCLC, or RLIN.

II. Thomas de La Grue (1620-1680), a physician, took refuge in Holland on religious grounds. Cioranescu (939275) cites only an editio altera: Amsterdam 1664, which is also the only edition at the BNF.

III. Published for a very restricted readership: the title states that it was printed for the use of students of French in Württemberg: KVK locates only one copy (at UB Augsburg), and I wasn't able to locate any other copy anywhere.

§ I. Brunet IV, 90 ("Ce petit ouvrage n'est pas commun" [erroneously attributing the authorship to "François Noel"]); Barbier III, 941; II. Cioranescu (the 1664 edition); III. A very elusive work of which I was able to locate only the copy at the University of Augsburg.

25. FRIZON, Léonard, S.J. De Pace, nuptiis regiis, Delphino, aliisque temporum nostrorum rebus clarissimis, poëmata. Editio secunda. Poitiers: J. Fleuriau, 1661. $350

12mo, 24, 94, [4] pp. Decorative woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary vellum; on title is the early inscription of the Jesuit college of Bordeaux; on front free endpaper is the ownership signature of the Jesuit missionary Louis Barnabé (d. 1687: see De Backer-Sommervogel I, 904).

Neo-Latin poems dedicated to the Dauphin; the author (1628-1700) was one of the most respected and popular Jesuit Neo-Latin poets of the Grand siècle.

§ De Backer-Sommervogel III, 1008, no. 10 (citing no edition earlier than this “editio secunda”)

27 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______In Praise of the Flea 26. GALLISSARDUS, Petrus. Pulicis encomium physica ratione tractatum. Lyon: J. de Tournes, 1550. $750 8vo, 38 pp., [1] blank leaf; woodcut printer's device on title; two large ornamental initials; text in italic, with use of Greek and Hebrew. 19th-century pink boards, spine quite worn; on the title an early ownership signature has been canceled in ink at an early date causing two small holes affecting a few letters on verso; faint water stain in upper margins.

First and only edition of this amusing satirical prose essay on "The Praise of the Flea," by Pierre Gallissard (d. 1577), a Dominican theologian of Arles, the author of several Bible commentaries, and a French translation of Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana. Ironically, Gallissard is best remembered for this Praise of the Flea, which belongs to a long established tradition of burlesque eulogies of incongruous subjects, or paradoxical encomia, such as 's second-century Praise of the Fly, the fourth-century Praise of Baldness, by of Cyrene, Erasmus's Praise of Folly (1511), Christoph Hegendorff's Praise of Drunkenness (1519), 's Laus Asini ("Praise of the Ass": 1623), and including John Donne's The Flea (1633).

***A typographically remarkable booklet, in that Gallissard often cites classical and biblical sources in the original Greek and Hebrew.

§ Brunet II, 1467; Cartier, De Tournes, 170; Gültlingen IX, p. 159, no. 170; Cioranesco 10339 (s.v. Pierre Galissart).

The First Realistic Description of Modern Greece

27. GERBEL, Nicolaus. Pro declaratione picturae sive descriptionis Graeciae Sophiani, libri septem. Basel: J. Oporinus, [1550]. $6,500

Folio, [6] leaves, 297, [1] pp., [7] leaves; woodcut illustration on page 255 of Arion astride a dolphin and playing his harp (this image was adopted as Oporin's printer's device); diagrams; numerous historiated initials in various sizes.

bound with:

PAUSANIAS. De tota Graecia libri decem (Tr. A. Loescher). Basel: J. Oporinus, August 1550. [6] leaves, 438 pp., [25] leaves; at the end is Oporinus's woodcut printer's device representing Arion astride a dolphin and playing his harp (see above); historiated initials in various sizes.

The two works bound together in contemporary elaborately blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, with one intact original brass clasp and catch, with remains of another; roll-tooled showing medallion portraits of popes and biblical figures; surface wear; portion of pigskin covering missing from lower portion of rear cover revealing another, different one underneath; ownership signature on first title-page of Samuel Hochholtzer, dated 1566 (see below); later inscription on front free endpaper of Georg Schultheiss, dated 1747.

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FIRST EDITIONS, appropriately bound together, consisting of, respectively, the most scholarly description of Greece published up to that time, and the first complete Latin translation of Pausanias's second-century Description of Greece.

In this account, Nicolaus Gerbel (1485-1560), a Hellenist who was a pupil of Erasmus, and friend of Melanchthon and Luther, set out to evaluate the first regional map of Greece made by Nikolaos Sophianos, a scholar from Corfu. The map was first published at Rome in 1540 and was re-issued by Oporinus at Basel in 1544; neither of these two editions has survived; a third Oporinus Basel edition was issued in 1545; this too was long believed lost, when, in 2004, an example of it turned up for auction at Sotheby’s, London (Nov. 18, 2004, lot 219). Until that time the map was known only from a 1552 Rome edition (Legrand II, 246) and a 1601 Basel edition (Legrand-Pernot 91).

The present work was sometimes erroneously taken to be a second edition of Gerbel's earlier work, In descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani praefatio (Basel, 1545), but the two are clearly separate and distinct works. As its title indicates, the earlier tract consisted merely of an 80-page "Preface" to Sophianos's map, which Oporinus issued at the same time, whereas the present is a detailed 300-page study. In addition to the Preface, Gerbel now adds thematic chapters describing the physical of Greece (seas, gulfs, mountains, and rivers), and the tribes, languages, traditions and customs of the country.

At the beginning is a lengthy two-page Latin verse elegy in praise of Gerbel by Abraham Loescher, the translator of the Pausanias edition appropriately bound following Gerbel's work in this volume.

II. FIRST COMPLETE LATIN TRANSLATION of Pausanias’s second-century Description of Greece, by Abraham Loescher (1520-1575), a prominent Hellenist who taught at . Loescher’s version, which was the first to include all ten books of Pausanias’s monumental work, was preceded only by the translations of Book 1 by Domitius Calderinus (c. 1500: Goff P-238), and Books 1 and 2, also by Calderinus (Basel 1541).

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Loescher’s translation is textually important because it is based on more accurate than Aldus’s editio princeps of the Greek text (1516).

This volume belonged to the pastor and educator Samuel Hochholtzer (d. 1606), author of several works of which the most popular was his pedagogic treatise Von Der Kinderzucht, (Zurich, 1591).

§ I. VD16, G1452; Legrand III, 514 (cf. II, 246); Adams G-480; G. Tolias, "Nikolaos Sophianos's Totius Graeciae Descriptio," in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 58:2 (2006), pp. 157-159; II. VD16, P1075; F. Hieronymus, Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen (1992), 295; Hoffmann III, 50.

30 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______28. GIRALDI, Lilio Gregorio. Huic libello insunt Lilii Gregorii Gyraldi Ferrariensis Herculis vita, eiusdem De musis syntagma, … Omnia recens nunc nata & edita. Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1539. $1,500

8vo, [12] leaves, 177 pp. [with two blank leaves following p. 140, not included in pagination]; italic type, with use of Greek; woodcut initials; scattered early marginalia in a scholarly hand; some insignificant marginal dampstains. Modern dark brown calf, tastefully blind-tooled in antique style. Occasional marginalia in a contemporary hand.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, including some first printings, of works by the two famous poets and humanists of , Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552), and Celio Calcagnini (1479-1541).

The first three works, by Giraldi, consist of the “Life” of the mythological Hercules, dedicated to his namesake, Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara; the second work, De Musis syntagma, is an essay on the Greek Muses.

Giraldi’s third work, here in first edition, consists of his Epithalamion in nuptias Ioann. Sinapii et Franciscae Bucyroniae, a long poem celebrating the marriage at Ferrara of the German humanist and physician Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560) and Françoise de Boussiron. (Sinapius was the tutor of the short-lived Olympia Fulvia Morata [1526-1555], who was destined to become one of the most celebrated Renaissance women scholar- poets.)

The second part of the volume contains first editions of two works by Calcagnini; the first is his Latin version of the Lucianic satire “The Consonants at Law,” describing a trial in which the Greek consonant Sigma is suing the consonant Tau in the court of the seven vowels. Since many terms are untranslatable, Calcagnini has left these in the original Greek. Following the text of this mock trial, Calcagnini has added his own “Defense of Tau against the attacks of Sigma” (Coelii Calcagnini Apologia festivissima pro τ contra σ, Lucianicae accusatio respondens).

§ Adams G-724; VD 16, G 2113.

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29. GRETSER, Jacob, S.J. Rudimenta linguae Graecae. Venice: Francesco Baba, 1662. $450

16mo, 207 pp. Woodcut Jesuit symbol on title. Contemporary boards; totally untrimmed copy; minor dampstains at beginning; paper flaw in lower blank margin of title-leaf; stamps of the “Antonianum Coll. Univ. Bibl.”

Rare Venice edition of the phenomenally popular Greek primer by the German Jesuit Jacob Gretser (1560-1625), who taught at Ingolstadt and published philosophical and religious treatises, Latin poetry and dramas. Gretser’s work, first published in 1593 at Ingolstadt, was adopted as the official Greek textbook in Jesuit schools, and was reissued continually until the mid-19th century in a variety of locations: Liège, , Douai, Dillingen, Dantzig, Freiburg, Luzern, Lyon, Venice, Rome, Cracow, Prague, Buda, Tyrnau (Nagy-Szombath), Leutschau, London, etc. All editions are rare; the present Venice edition is not recorded by the otherwise compulsively thorough De Backer-Sommervogel.

§ Not in De Backer-Sommervogel.

30. GUEVARA, Antonio de. L'Horloge des Princes, avec le tresrenomme livre de Marc Aurele. (Tr. Nicolas de Herberay). Paris: J. Ruelle, 29 Oct. 156[4]. $750

8vo, [32], 395, [1] leaves; woodcut printer's device [Renouard 1023] on title; arabesque ornament on last leaf; woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping fore-edges; contemporary ownership inscription ("Fr. N. Lamyron"?) on title-page; small hole through the rear cover, affecting the last six leaves (without text loss).

French translation of the enormously popular and influential Spanish courtesy book by Antonio de Guevara (ca. 1480-1545), which originally appeared as Libro aureo de Marco Aurelio (1527), and was augmented two years later as Libro Llamado Relox de Principes (Valladolid, 1529).

Guevara's work is regarded as a didactic novel designed to delineate for the benefit of modern sovereigns, the life and character of Marcus Aurelius, distinguished for wisdom and virtue.

Nicolas de Herberay's French version was first published in 1555, and served as the basis of Thomas North's English version, The Diall of Princes (London, 1557). The date on the title-page appears as "156," the fourth digit having been left uninked, but the date may be found in the colophon, which reads, "Achevé d'imprimer le vingtneufiesme iour d'Octobre mil cinq cens soixante quatre." According to Palau (VI, 110178: note) this 1564 Paris edition appeared under several publisher's names: besides the present Ruelle imprint, Palau cites those of Guillaume Julien, Robert le Mangnier, and Gilles Gourbin.

The only copy of a 1564 edition in Herberay’s translation located by OCLC is that at Yale, missing its first 20 leaves, including the title, and putatively assigned to [1564], and without a printer's name. § Palau VI, 110178 (note)

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Request for Payment for a Hanging by the Executioner of Joan of Arc

31. [JOAN OF ARC]. Order for payment to Geoffroy Therage (the executioner of Joan of Arc) for a hanging. Neufchâtel: Manuscript on parchment, 20 May 1416. $18,000

Document in French; 80 x 265 mm = 3 x 101/2 inches; seven lines and signature. Fine condition; clean tear in left margin slightly entering text block but without affecting any writing; small piece missing from upper blank margin; fold in lower margin. Later red ink inscription (19th cent?) in upper left corner, giving the date of the document and the name of the reigning monarch (Charles VI).

A remarkable, hitherto unknown document, dated 1416, consisting of a request for payment to the executioner Geoffroy Therage, the royal executioner of , for "dragging and hanging" a criminal; Therage was the enigmatic figure who, fifteen years later, was the torturer and executioner of Joan of Arc in Rouen. The best authority on Therage — whose name is documented under variant spellings: 'Therache,' ‘Thierache,' 'Terache' — is Albert Sarrazin's , Le bourreau de Jeanne d'Arc d'après des documents inédits (1910); this was also published as "Le bourreau de Jeanne d'Arc," in Précis analytique des travaux de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen pendant l'année 1908-1909 (Rouen, 1910), pp. 233-288. NOTE: All page references below are given to the latter, of which a digitized version may be found on line: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5698168b.image

On 30 May 1431 it was Therage who burned Joan of Arc at the stake in Rouen; contemporary witness accounts state that Therage “greatly feared to be damned ... and never to obtain pardon and indulgence from God for what he had done to that saintly woman" (See A. Sarrazin, Jeanne d'Arc et la Normandie au XVe siècle [1896], p. 385, and cf. Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses [1994 edition], p. 233-234).

Therage was active as royal executioner from 1407 to 1432; his name is known from similar documents, all preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: 6 August 1407: 15 sols tournois for placing a certain Pierre Hellot on the pillory.

10 August 1411: 20 sols tournois for the drawing, quartering and hanging of one Clémence.

33 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______25 February 1420: 20 sols tournois for the decapitation of Gardin Hermenoult.

28 May 1428: 4 livres tournois and 8 sols for dragging, cutting at the wrist, decapitating, quartering, hanging the body and the four limbs of Pierre Le Bigourdais, and affixing his head on the tip of a spear.

14 July 1430: 6 livres tournois for 4 decapitations of "brigands" loyal to the King of France.

25 March 1432: 111 livres and 13 sous for 104 executions, consisting of the decapitations, quarterings, and the victims' limbs and heads affixed and displayed on the tips of spears.

To this list may now be added the present hitherto unknown document which reads, with a few omitted illegible words:

"Guill[aum]e Leprevost lieuten[ant] general de mons[eigneur] le bailli de Caux au viconte de Gournay, ou a son lieuten[ant] salut.//Nous avons tauxe a Guieffroy Terache bourrel du baillage de Rouen pour son salaire davoir traine et//pendu au gibet du neufchastel feu colin rastel, qui par vous a este [illegible] condempne pour ses//demerites la somme de lxxii s., [?vi dt = 6 deniers tournois?] et vous mandons que des deniers [?] de votre recepte vous payez et delivrez audit Guieffroy la ditte somme par prenant sa quittance par la//quelle rapportant avec ses p[res]entes ce [illegible] alloue en vos comptes comme il app[ar]tendra [illegible]//Au neufchastel le xxe jour de mai lan milcccc xvi. GLeprevost" ("Guillaume Leprevost, deputy of the lord magistrate of Caux, to Viscount de Gournay, or to his deputy, greetings. We have paid to Guieffroy Terache, royal executioner of the bailiwick of Rouen, the amount of 72 sols […] in payment for the dragging and hanging at the gallows at Neufchâtel of the late Colin Rastel, who was condemned by you for his misdeeds; we request that you remit and deliver the said amount to the said Guieffroy ... Neufchâtel, 20th day of May 1416. G. Leprevost").

DETAIL: “ Guieffroy Terache bourrel”

NOTE: In France only the King held the power to appoint executioners; local lords had the right of execution but not their own executioners, and thus would summon royal executioners from the nearest city and pay for the execution; in the present case, Therage was summoned to Neufchâtel from Rouen. On Guillaume Le Prevost, deputy of the lord magistrate of the commune of Caux, in Normandy, see Amédée Hellot, Essai sur les baillis de Caux, de 1204 à 1789 (1895): pp. xiii and 102, and N.R. Potin de La Mairie, Recherches historiques sur la ville de Gournay en Bray (1842), p. 275. On the Viscount of Gournay, see N.R. Potin de La Mairie, op. cit. p. 271: his name was Gille de Lépée, who in 1408 became the first Viscount of Gournay. The viscountship of Gournay lasted until 1563.

34 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______§ Albert Sarrazin, Le bourreau de Jeanne d'Arc d'après des documents inédits (1910); A. Sarrazin, "Le bourreau de Jeanne d'Arc," in Précis analytique des travaux de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen pendant l'année 1908-1909 (Rouen, 1910), pp. 233-288; Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses (1994 edition), p. 233-234.

32. & . D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satyrarvm libri V ... Praeterea A. Flacci Persii Satyrarum liber vnvs. Cum analysi & doctissimis commentariis, partim nunc primum, partim de integro editis Eilhardi Lubini. Hanau: Claude de Marne & heirs of J. Aubry, at the Wechel Press, 1603. $1,250

4to, [12] leaves, 755, [45] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title; ornamental woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; with the two original metal catches, and one metal clasp, with remains of another; blue edges. Some light foxing, and some faint marginal dampstains, but a very good copy in its original binding; early inscription on title-page of the Benedictine Monastery of Ottobeuren ("Monasterii Ottoburani 1652").

FIRST EDITION by Eilhard Lubin of the two great Roman satirists Juvenal and Persius, whose texts are here accompanied by his profuse comments. Eilhard Lubin (1565-1621), German theologian and classical scholar, taught and theology at the University of Rostock. What is striking about his commentary is that it includes numerous comments in German, printed in gothic; these consist mostly of translations of Latin idioms and expressions.

§ Schweiger 709-710; Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, no. 215.

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33. JUVENAL & PERSIUS. D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae: Cum veteris scholiastae, & variorum commentariis. Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio. (Comm. C. Schrevelius). Leiden: Franciscus Hackius, 1648. $650

8vo, [8] leaves, 641, [44] pp. Handsome engraved frontispiece-title; ornamental headpieces and initials. Contemporary gilt-panelled calf; joints worn but firm; small armorial stamp in lower margin of engraved title.

First Schrevelius edition of the two great Roman satirists Juvenal and Persius, whose texts are here accompanied by profuse commentaries collected and edited by the Dutch scholar Cornelius Schrevelius (1608-1664).

Schrevelius's edition, through its reprints, became the most popular 17th-century variorum edition of Juvenal and Persius, incorporating comments by the most illustrious scholars of the Renaissance and 17th century, including Poliziano, Erasmus, Aldus, Budé, Scaliger, Lipsius, , H. Estienne, Casaubon, et al.

The allegorical engraved frontispiece is startling in that it shows a topless female.

§ Schweiger 510; Morgan, Persius, 277.

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8vo, [8] leaves, 638, [42] pp. Handsome engraved frontispiece-title; ornamental headpieces and initials. Contemporary vellum over boards with overlapping fore-edges.

A handsome copy of a later edition of the preceding item, with additional material, and with the same frontispiece-title (see illustration).

§ Schweiger 511; M.H. Morgan, A Bibliography of Persius, no. 286.

Dryden's English Version, Illustrated

35. JUVENAL & PERSIUS. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden. With Explanatory Notes at the end of each Satire, To which is prefix'd a Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire ... Adorn'd with Sculptures. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, and sold by Robert Knaplock, 1697. $675

8vo (leaf size: 193 x 124 mm), [1] leaf, xc, 505 (misnumbered 501, due to repetitions of page-numbers 370-71 and 497-98), [3] pp. The second part (Persius) has a sectional title-page. With 18 engraved plates (including frontispiece portraits of Juvenal and Persius); the frontispieces were engraved by M. Burghers, and the 16 plates by M. vander Gucht, and John Sturt. Contemporary paneled calf; corners and spine extremities worn; front joint cracked (but solid); armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945).

Second edition, second issue, with cancel title-page and additional plate (cf. Macdonald, John Dryden; a bibliography, p. 53, no. 30c.), of Dryden's translations of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius. The first edition, issued in 1693, was not illustrated, and is far more common in the trade.

Dryden rendered all of Persius himself, and six satires of Juvenal (1, 3, 4, 6, 10, and 16; for

37 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______the rest; he selected collaborators including Nahum Tate (Satires 2 and 15), William Bowles (5), George Stepney (8), Stephen Harvey (9), William Congreve (11), Thomas Power (12), William Congreve, Thomas Creech (13). Satires 5 and 14 were translated by Dryden's sons Charles and John, respectively. The edition opens with Dryden's lengthy 90-page preface, consisting of his "Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire," here simply titled "Dedication" (to Charles Earl of Dorset). Each satire is introduced by an "Argument," providing the theme of the satire, and followed by notes. The volume is illustrated with 18 copper-engraved plates, most based on W. Hollar's illustrations of a 1660 edition of Juvenal, and here accomplished by Michael Burghers and Michael Van der Gucht, with a few signed by the English engraver John Sturt (1658-1730).

§ Wing J1289; Macdonald, John Dryden, no. 30c; Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, 501a; Schweiger 515-516.

36. JUVENAL & PERSIUS. D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761. $475 4to (binding: 300 x 240 mm = 11-7/8 x 9-1/2 inches; bookblock: 292 x 232 mm = 11-1/2 x 9 inches), 240 pages (with the four cancels as described by Gaskell). Contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet round sides, framing a blind floral border; on front pastedown is the monogram 'JBDG' dated 1774; armorial bookplate, "Bibliothèque du Vte de Verneaux"; light wear to corners and edges.

A fine, clean, and wide-margined copy of the first Baskerville edition (corrected issue: with all the cancellantia as called for by Gaskell) of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius.

§ Gaskell 15.

37. JUVENAL & PERSIUS. D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Tabulis aeneis illustravit, et notas variorum selectas, suasque addidit G.S. (Ed. George Sandby). Cambridge: Joseph Bentham at the University Press, for W. Sandby, in London, and G. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer in Cambridge, 1763. $250 Tall 8vo (leaf size: 210 x 140 mm), [6] leaves, 229 pages; title-page printed in red and black; with 15 plates engraved by P.S. Lamborne. Later tan calf (upper cover and portion of lower cover turned to dark brown); spine richly gilt, retaining original title label; all edges gilt; slight foxing at beginning.

First Sandby edition of the tall octavo issue. (There was also a small octavo issue, with a different setting and collation): see Bowes, Catalogue of Books Printed at ... Cambridge, No. 567, and note at Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, 356.) The editor, George Sandby (d. 1807) was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The 15 handsome plates, show details from ancient coins, gems, sculptures, etc. § Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, 356 (see note); Schweiger 513.

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One of the most Influential Greek Ever Published

38. [LANCELOT, Claude]. Le Jardin des racines grecques, mises en vers françois. Paris: Pierre Le Petit, 1657. $750

12mo, Engraved frontispiece, [6] leaves, 367, [1] pp., [1] blank leaf. Contemporary calf with considerable surface wear, but binding solid.

FIRST EDITION of one of the most popular and influential Greek textbooks ever published. Claude Lancelot (1615-1695), the great teacher of Port-Royal, originally conceived this "Garden of Greek Roots" to serve as a textbook for the use of the Jansenists at Port-Royal; but the book's fame rapidly spread abroad, and editions succeeded one another with great rapidity until the end of the 19th century: OCLC lists over 25 editions before 1875. This first edition is exceptionally rare.

The Jardin was devised to assist students in Greek vocabulary-building by an ingenious mnemonic method, based on French rhyme:

AΔΩ, souler, remplir, veut dire. Α∆ΗΝ, abondamment, s'en tire. ΑΕΘΛΟΣ, ΑΘΛΟΣ, des combats. ΑΕΙ, toujours, tu traduiras . . .

The French verse was contributed by another of the "Solitaries" of Port- Royal, the poet Le Maistre de Sacy (1613-1684), author of an important translation of the Bible.

The most famous product of the Lancelot Greek Method was the great dramatist Racine, whose relatively strong dependence on Greek themes for the subjects of his tragedies has been attributed to the influence of Lancelot (cf. R. C. Knight, Racine et la Grèce, 30ff.).

§ Brunet III, 509-510: "elle est rare et assez recherchée"; Cioranescu 39914; Sandys II, 290.

39 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______39. LA PORTE, Mathieu de. La science des négocians et teneurs de livres, ou, Instruction générale pour tout ce qui se practique dans les comptoirs des négocians, tant pour les affaires be banque, que pour les marchandises, & chez les financiers pour les comptes ... Nouvelle édition, revue & corrigée ...augmentée d'un traité des changes étrangers. Amsterdam: F.J. Desoer, 1787. $1,250

Oblong 4to (122 x 208 mm), xvi, 757 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, back gilt in compartments with four raised bands; corners and extremities worn; overall a fine copy intended for frequent reference.

A remarkably fine, fresh, and well preserved copy of this revised and augmented edition of an extremely popular and influential business and accounting manual; the work was first issued in 1704 and continuously reissued and augmented for over a century (including modern reprints). The present edition is augmented by a section on rates of exchange for foreign currencies.

La Porte, a Dutch accountant and arithmetician, presents numerous examples of actual accounts which take us into the world of the shops of 18th century France. The first section is on simple accounting the second on double-entry bookkeeping and the third on other sorts of business. La Porte envisages an international business and explains the currencies and the weights and measures of other European countries. A dictionary of French business terms is included.

The work contains a clear exposition and illustration of a systematic classification of accounts into three main classes, analyzed in progressive detail. The three classes are for the "Proprietor" (Capital, Profit and Loss, Expenses, Provisions and Assurances), for "Effective effects" (money, goods, securities, and specific assets such as property, shops, etc.), and for "Correspondents" or Persons.

The work stimulated widespread adoption of specialized daybooks for purchases, sales, cash and bills which gave periodic totals soon to be put through one centralizing journal, and presenting what is often known as, the "French method" of accounting. In 1800 La Porte's handbook was copied by Pierre Boucher who issued his work under the very same title, but with a heavier emphasis on legal matters (Boucher was an economist and a lawyer).

§ Cf. Kress Library of Business and Economics, no. 4914 (the 1748 edition), and Einaudi, A.427 (the 1797 edition).

40 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______40. LAUNOY, Matthieu de. Defence de Matthieu de Launoy & d'Henry Pennetier, n'agueres Ministres de la pretendue Religon reformée, & maintenant retournez au giron de l'Eglise Chrêtienne & Catholique. Contre les fausses accusations & perverses calomnies des Ministres de Paris ... Reveu & corrigé par l'Autheur. Paris: Guillaume de la Noue, 1578. $750

8vo, [8], 64 pp. Modern boards; faint dampstains; two outer margins cut away, just shaving text; engraved bookplate of Hecht-Dollfus.

Second, revised and augmented edition (the first edition, printed the previous year in Paris by Jean du Carroy, consisted on only 59 pages). Matthieu de Launoy (died 1608), a Roman Catholic theologian embraced the Reformation at Geneva in 1560 and was admitted to the evangelical ministry. He was pastor at Heidelberg and Sedan, where he was excommunicated after being accused of adultery. He abjured Protestantism to return to the Catholic Church, and became one of the most furious preachers of the League. He published this defense of himself and fellow apostate Henry Pennetier against the attacks of their former fellow ministers in the Protestant church.

A very rare book of which I could find no copy in any American collection (there are copies of the 1577 edition at the U. of Michigan and BYU).

§ Brunet III, 797 ("Volume rare"); Adams L-274; Lindsay and Neu, French Political Pamphlets 1547-1648, no. 922 (1577 edition); cf. Cioranesco 12769 (citing a non- existing Sedan 1572 edition).

41. [LE BRUN, Laurent]. Institutio Iuventutis Christianae. Paris: Seb. & Gabr. Cramoisy, 22 February 1653. $850

12mo, [12], 268, [2] pp.; engraved vignette on title representing Saint Lawrence; woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards.

FIRST EDITION of a popular educational manual by the Jesuit Neo-Latin poet Laurent Le Brun (1608-1663), author of a large number of Latin works including a popular Virgilius Christianus (1661), a poetic imitation of Virgil on Christian themes.

This manual offers the usual advice for the 'Education of Christian Youth', and its six parts treat daily agenda, holidays, social behavior, the four virtues of Christian youth (Moderation, Obedience, Modesty, Chastity), the dangers to be avoided, and the various shields to ward off sin.

The author dedicates the work to the pupils of the Jesuit Collège de Clermont at Paris, for whose use the manual was intended.

§ De Backer-Sommervogel IV, 1630: 7.

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8vo, [10] leaves, 199, [1] pp., [4] leaves; woodcut printer's device on title, ornamental woodcut tailpieces and initials.

bound with:

II. LE MIRE, Aubert. Elenchus historicorum Belgii, nondum typis editorum. Antwerp: H. Verdussen, 1606. 15 pp. woodcut printer's device on title.

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III. PUTEANUS, Erycius. De Erycio nomine syntagma. item Iuli Paridis de nominibus . Hanau: C. de Marne & heirs of J. Aubry, at the Wechel Press, 1606. 44 pp., [2] leaves (including last blank); woodcut "Pegasus" printer's device on title and at the end.

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IV. COUSIN, Jean. De prosperitate et exitio Salomonis. Douai: J. Bogard, 1599. 167 pp. Elaborate woodcut printer's device on title, ornamental initials.

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V. HERAULD, Didier. Adversariorum libri duo. Paris: J. Perier, 1599. [8] leaves, 183 pp., [5] leaves; woodcut printer's device on title. The five works bound together in 18th-century plain calf, back gilt in compartments created by four raised bands; surface wear. With the Nordkirchen Library bookplate on front pastedown.

Interesting sammelband of five first editions of rare works on philological and theological subjects, by four contemporary scholars, three Flemish and one French.

I. FIRST EDITION of a monograph on the origins and history of the Benedictine Order, by Aubert Le Mire (Miraeus, 1573-1640), renowned Belgian ecclesiastical historian, canon of the cathedral of Antwerp, and staunch champion of the Catholic Church against the attacks of the Reformed movement.

The work is divided into 67 chapters in which Miraeus describes as many Benedictine monasteries and convents.

II. FIRST EDITION of Le Mire's catalogue (or inventory) of unpublished manuscripts held by ecclesiastic institutions; for each item Miraeus records the title, author, and date of the work, and identifies the institution where the manuscript is kept.

Miraeus's objective in compiling the catalogue was to encourage the heads of the institutions to publish the manuscripts in their possession.

III. FIRST EDITION. The Flemish historian and humanist Erycius Puteanus (1574-1646) had been a pupil of Justus Lipsius who inspired him to a life of scholarship. This work consists of Puteanus's dissertation on the origin, etymology, and examples of his own Christian name, Erycius (Eric), from ancient

42 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______times to his own day. In the course of his work the author provides certain autobiographical details.

In appendix Puteanus has added the portion of the "Epitome of Proper Names" (De Nominibus Epitome) attributed to Julius Paris (4th-5th-century).

IV. FIRST EDITION of a dissertation of King Solomon by Jean Cousin (Cognatus), a Belgian historian and theologian, canon of the cathedral of .

V. FIRST EDITION. Didier Herauld (1575-1649), professor of Greek at Sedan, and a member of the parliamentary bar in Paris, published an important treatise on Greek and Roman law. The present work contains textual notes and interpretations of Laertius, , Pindar, , Aristotle, Cicero, and Juvenal. The second part (pp. 135-183) consists of an extensive critique of the recently published editio princeps of 's Life of (Heidelberg, 1598).

§ I. Ch. Matagne, Répertoire des ouvrages du XVIIe siècle de la Bibliothèque du C.D.R.R. (1601-1650), L-141; not in Simoni; II. Not in Simoni; III. Bibliotheca Belgica IV, p. 762, P 156; not in Paisey; IV. Cioranescu 22407; Répertoire bibliographique II (Douai), p. 350, no. 291; V. Adams H-291.

43. LE PAYS, René. Les nouvelles oeuvres. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1672. $750

Two parts in one volume, 12mo, [24], 237; [8], 279 pp. (with an extra title for part II); woodcut ornaments on both titles, and as head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards; two title-labels on spine, partly worn away.

FIRST EDITION of this collection of letters, poems, and chansons by this notoriously mannered poet (1636-1690) whose appeal was almost entirely limited to a female readership -- as evidenced by the dedications of the pieces, nearly all addressed to ladies. His first collection of poems (1664) met with such immense success among female readers that the Duchesse de Nemours (see No. 48 below) desired to meet him.

Le Pays was met with quite a different reception with his male audience; thus Boileau referred to him as a “pleasant buffoon,” a judgment that Le Pays accepts graciously from the great literary critic, and forms the subject of an entire letter (Second part, pp. 133-136), in which he argues that despite Boileau’s satirical remark, he will continue to compose verse, for, after all, “Molière is not grieved to see wretched clowns on stage, nor does it displease Le Brun that the realm is filled with ignorant painters.”

This first edition was published in partnership among three publishers, and is consequently found with three different imprints: Claude Barbin, Denys Thierry, and Charles de Sercy (as here).

§ Brunet III, 990; Quérard, La France littéraire V, p. 185.

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Remarkable Sammelband Including the First Collection of Riddles by an Author of the Modern Era

44. LORICHIUS, Johannes. Aenigmatum libri III. Recens conscripti, recogniti, & aucti. : Christian Egenolff, 1545. $3,200

8vo, 84 leaves; printer's device on title, ornamental initials; small woodcut of a rooster on fol. 73b (see illustration below).

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GNAPHEUS, Gulielmus. Eloquentiae triumphus carmine non minus vario quam erudito. Cologne: Marinus Gymnicus, 1551. [32] leaves (including last blank); historiated initial at beginning of text.

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BALTICUS, Martinus. Poematum Martini Baltici Monacensis libri tres. Augsburg: Ph. Ulhart [1556]. [48] leaves; title within an elaborate historiated woodcut border.

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WALTHER, Rudolph {GWALTHER, Rudolf]. De syllabarum et carminum ratione, libri duo, authore Rodolpho Gvalthero Tigurino. Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1554. 103 leaves (without last blank); woodcut printer's device on title. The four works bound together in contemporary roll-tooled pigskin portraying biblical figures, including King David; spine extremities worn.

I. First complete edition of the first printed collection of riddles by a single author of the modern era -- it was preceded by the collection of riddles by Symphosius, who lived in the late fourth century, whose book of riddles was first printed in 1533. Joannes Lorichius (d. 1569) originally published his Aenigmata at in 1540; for the present second edition he has added a third book, comprising more than 30 new riddles, with a dedication dated 1544 to his brother Wilhelm.

The riddles are arranged by topics: God, the Universe, Man, Arts and Crafts, Animals, etc., and include several translated and versified from the vernacular. Lorichius includes essays on the nature, origin, and use of riddles, and cites several examples from antiquity, as well as from contemporary humanists: e.g., Reuchlin, Erasmus, Thomas More (a 6-page excerpt from the Utopia), Bembo, Badius Ascensius, Camerarius, et al. -- including some examples in Greek.

II. Second, augmented edition, with a new preface, of the “Triumph of Eloquence," a didactic play composed in verse by the noted Lutheran educator Gulielmus Gnapheus (Willem van de Volder, 1493-1568), who intended it to be performed by his students.

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Very rare: I found no copy of this edition in any American collection—and only one copy of the 1541 edition (at Harvard).

III. FIRST (and only) EDITION of the Neo-Latin poems of Martinus Balticus (c. 1532-1601), educator, poet, and dramatist, native of who taught at the Latin school in . Nothing much is known about Balticus’s life: in fact, in the monograph devoted to him by Karl von Reinhardstoettner (Bamberg, 1890), the author states that the most reliable commentary on Balticus's life are his own lyrics contained in the present edition; chief among these is the tenth elegy of the first book addressed to Philipp Melanchthon, a sort of brief autobiography in which we learn that Balticus studied at Wittenberg under the great Reformer.

IV. Early (third) edition of this very popular handbook on prosody and versification of Greek and Latin; numerous editions succeeded each other until 1575, including one printed in London in 1573 (STC 25011). The author, Rudolph Walther (or Gwalther, 1518-1586), a son-in-law of Ulrich Zwingli, was a prolific Latin versifier, specializing in Biblical subjects; he edited the first three volumes of his father-in-law's works, and translated several of Zwingli's German writings into Latin. The present edition retains Walther's original preface of the first edition, published in 1542, which is addressed to his 'Dearest relatives,' including Ulrich Zwingli the Younger; this preface was suppressed from later editions.

§ I. VD16, L2555; Archer Taylor, Bibliography of Riddles, 671; Friedreich, Geschichte des Räthsels, pp. 206-208; Santi, Bibliografia della enigmistica, 16; II. VD16, V2277 (s.v. 'Volder'); III. VD16, B248; Ellinger, Geschichte der neulateinischen Literatur II, pp. 224-227; IV. VD16, W1134; Rudolphi 440; Vischer C491.

45. [MACÉ, François]. Histoire des quatre Cicerons, dans laquelle on fait voir par les historiens Grecs & , que le fils de M.T. Ciceron étoit aussi illustre que son pere. Paris: En la boutique de la Veuve Barbin, chez Pierre Huet, 1714. $350

12mo, [16], 257, [37] pp. title vignette, headpieces. Contemporary sprinkled calf; corners and joints worn (but holding); all edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION of this strange dissertation on the "four ," published anonymously but attributed by Barbier to the French theologian François Macé (ca. 1640-1721); the work has also been attributed to the Jesuit scholar Jean Hardouin (1646-1729) -- a more likely attribution in my opinion, if we compare the character of the two writers' works (but who am I to argue with Barbier?)

The work consists essentially of a biography of Marcus Tullius Cicero the younger, only son of the great orator, whom the author is proud to have "unburied" from oblivion ("je me suis applaudi d'avoir déterré le fils de Ciceron").

45 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______As stated in the title, the author's questionable thesis is to prove that the younger Cicero was as great and illustrious as his famous father -- incidentally, according to Seneca, Cicero junior was known mainly as a drunkard!

(NOTE: OCLC calls for only 23 final pages, ending in Z4; this copy contains an additional 14 pages consisting of a 3-page privilege, and an 11 page catalogue of books available at Pierre Huet's shop).

§ Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes II, 763.

Rare Novelized Biblical Story

46. MANZINI, Luigi. Il Dragone di Macedonia. : G.B. Ferroni, 1643. $850

4to, [16], 214, [2] pp., including half-title and engraved allegorical additional title by Giovanni Battista Coriolano depicting the slain dragon. Contemporary "interim" stiff wrappers, worn and shaken, with damage to foot of backstrip; stains on first three leaves, with indistinct early stamp in lower margin of half- title. Copy entirely uncut and untrimmed, in its original "interim" boards.

FIRST EDITION of a baroque novelized adaptation of the biblical story of Esther. The title alludes to Mordecai's prophetic dream of the fight between two dragons, symbolizing himself and his nemesis Haman the Macedonian, as related in the apocryphal Additions to the Book of Esther.

The author, the Benedictine theologian Luigi Manzini, of Bologna (1604-1657), was a very prolific writer; in addition to purely theological tracts, he produced dramas and , based on both pagan and biblical subjects, like the present.

A very rare first edition, of which the only copy located in US collections is that at the Newberry Library.

§ Piantanida, Autori Italiani del '600, No. 3253.

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12mo, [12], 95, [1] pp. Engraved vignette on title; woodcut ornamental initials and headpieces. Contemporary limp vellum; light browning of paper; 18th- century ownership inscription, dated 1786, on title of the Abbaye St. Remi of Reims.

FIRST EDITION of the most popular French translation of the Octavius of , one of the earliest Latin apologists of , believed to have lived from the late 2nd to the early 3rd century.

The Octavius, the only known work of the Roman lawyer Marcus Minucius Felix, is an for Christianity in the form of a dialogue between the Christian Octavius and the pagan Caecilius on a trip from Rome to Ostia. Minucius Felix serves as moderator and narrator of the dialogue. Nothing is known of Minucius Felix except that he was a jurist prior to his conversion to Christianity and no other work can be attributed to him.

The translator, Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (1606-1664), who, the very year of the present publication, was elected to the Académie française, is best known for his many translations of classical Greek and Latin authors, from to , some of which are reprinted to our own days. His translation of the Octavius established itself as the standard French version of the work: at least twenty editions are known. This first edition is exceptionally rare: the only copy located in the US is that at Harvard.

Two other French versions of the Octavius are known, each printed only once: 1617, translated by "Thomas le Reverend", and, also in 1637, another, equally rare translation was published by Guillaume Du Mas (Cioranescu 27102); however, D'ablancourt's version takes precedence in that its privilege is dated 24 December 1636, whereas Du Mas's is dated 18 April 1637.

§ Cioranescu 54488; cf. Brunet III, 1737, citing 1660 as the earliest edition of this translation.

47 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______48. MOREL, Guillaume. De verbis anomalis commentarius ... Prioribus editionibus accessit ingens verborum numerus, cum ex aliis scriptoribus, tum ex Homero & aliis poetis. Paris: Guillaume Morel, 1558. $450

8vo, 196 pp. Italic and Greek types; printer's device [Renouard 786] on title. Modern boards; last leaf a bit dust-soiled.

A popular treatise on irregular Greek verbs by the humanist-printer Guillaume Morel (1505-1564), who was appointed Royal Printer for Greek after Robert Estienne's departure from the capital in 1551.

This booklet, intended for young students, and of which the Greek examples are here printed in 'Grec du Roy,' went through several editions, beginning in 1549. For the present edition Morel, as he states on the title, has added numerous examples from Homer and other writers of the Greek corpus.

§ Adams M-1764; Buisson, p. 453.

49. NEMOURS, Marie d'Orléans, duchesse de. Memoires de M.L.D.D.N., contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus particulier en France pendant la Guerre de Paris, jusqu'à la prison du Cardinal de Retz, arrivée en 1652. Avec les differens caracteres des personnes, qui ont eu part à cette Guerre. (Ed. Marie Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon). Cologne [i.e. Paris]: N. pr., 1709. $350

12mo, [8], 280, [10] pages; title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, back gilt; considerable surface wear, but solid; on the front free endpaper is a long note in French in a late 18th-century hand about the provenance of this copy.

FIRST EDITION of the memoirs of Marie d'Orléans, Duchesse de Nemours (1625-1707), published posthumously two years after her death by the novelist Marie Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon (1664-1734).

These memoirs are important for not only corroborating, but also completing the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz about the French civil war known as The Fronde. (It may be mentioned that the editor, Mlle Lhéritier de Valadon, was the niece of Charles Perrault, the author of the celebrated collection of classic children's tales.).

§ Cioranescu 50946 (and cf. 43387.! ! !

48 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______50. NICOLE, Pierre. Instructions theologiques et morales, sur le symbole. Paris: Sold by Eugene Henry Fricx in Brussels, 1706. $475

Two volumes, 16mo, [16], 366, [12], 448 pp. Contemporary boards; copy in original condition, entirely untrimmed, preserving deckle edges throughout.

FIRST EDITION of Pierre Nicole's posthumously published treatise on the Apostles' Creed. Pierre Nicole (1625-1695), was, with Antoine Arnauld (1612- 1694), the most influential theologian of the Jansenist monastery at Port-Royal; with Arnauld he prepared the famous Logique de Port-Royal. Nicole was also a close collaborator with Pascal - whose Provincial Letters he translated into Latin, with notes and additions.

§ Cioranescu 51255.

51. NICOLE, Pierre, & LANCELOT, Claude. Epigrammatum delectus ex omnibus tum veteribus, tum recentioribus poetis accurate decerptus. Cum Dissertatione, de vera pulchritudine ... Cum brevioribus sententiis seu proverbiis Latinis, Graecis, Hispanis, Italis. Paris: Charles Savreux, 1659. $650

16mo, [60], 490 (misnumbered 590) pp. (quire I misbound after quire G, but complete); woodcut ornament on title; ornamental head- and tailpieces, and initials. Contemporary mottled calf, back gilt in compartments; red sprinkled edges.

FIRST EDITION of this collection of epigrams and proverbs in Latin, Greek, Italian, and Spanish, compiled by Claude Lancelot (1615-1695) and Pierre Nicole (1625-1695) for young students. Lancelot and Nicole were, along with Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694), the most influential teachers of the Jansenist monastery at Port-Royal, where Racine had been a student.

In the opening preface and Dissertation the authors explain their guidelines for selecting verses, especially from such often racy poets as and Catullus, who figure prominently in the selections.

Besides ancient Roman and Greek poets, the selections include examples from the 'moderns': e.g. , Théodore Bèze, George Buchanan, Janus Douza, , the Scot John Barclay (1582-1621), and the English Neo- Latin epigrammatist John Owen (1563-1622), among others.

In appendix is a 50-page section consisting of proverbial expressions selected from Italian and Spanish writers, given in the original languages accompanied by French translations: "Sentences courtes, et proverbes pleins de sens, tirez des plus excellens auteurs, & de l'entretien ordinaire des Espagnols & des Italiens."

The collection proved very popular and was often reprinted, including in London in the 18th century.

§ Brunet II, 1017; Cioranescu 39915 (s.v. Lancelot).

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4to, [6] leaves, 332, pp., [8] leaves; copper-engraved vignette on title; copper- engraved printer's device at the end; several copper-engravings in the text, including one full-page. 19th-century vellum-backed boards; early inscription erased from title-page.

ONLY EDITION of this history of Alsatian antiquities, forms of government, laws, etc. The author, Ulrich Obrecht (1646-1701), a Strassburg historian and legal scholar, had projected three further volumes which were never published due to the surrender of Strassburg to Louis XIV the very year of publication of this volume.

§ VD 17, 23:304090Q; BL German 17C, O12; Haag VIII, 37, no. xviii.

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The History of Burgundy

53. PARADIN, Guillaume. De antiquo statu Burgundiae liber. Basel: N. pr., [1550?]. $650

Small 8vo, [4], 285, [1] pp., [25] leaves; ornamental initials. 18th-century tree calf, back gilt; corners and joints worn, upper joint beginning to crack.

Considerably augmented edition of Paradin's history of Burgundy, its origins and antiquities, including its laws and politics. The first edition was issued in 1542 in Lyon by Etienne Dolet, whose original preface is here reprinted.

The anonymous printer has here added several important biographical and historical texts some of which appear only in the present edition. Among these added contributions are two biographies of the last Prince of Orange, Philibert of Chalon (d. 1530), both by Gilbert Cousin (known as Cognatus, 1506-1572), confidant and secretary of Erasmus for the last six years of his life. (For one of the biographies Cousin uses the pseudonym Dominicus Melgutius); a speech by Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (1484-1550), counselor to Charles V, to the German princes; a funeral oration for Margaret of Austria, by the poet Antoine du Saix (1505-1579); a life of the Chevalier Bayard (1476-1524) by Symphorien Champier (1471-1537), etc.

§ VD 16, P 727 (ca. 1560); Longeon, Bibliographie de Dolet, 228; Adams P-302.

54. [PERSIUS] FOUQUELIN, Antoine. In Auli Persii Flacci Satyras commentarius, ad Petrum Ramum, eloquentiae & philosophiae Regium Lutetiae professorem. Paris: A. Wechel, 1555. $850

4to, [4] leaves, 188 (numbered 186) pp., [4] leaves. Printer's Pegasus device on title, ornamental initials. Contemporary limp vellum; along the lower fore-edges is written in gothic script, 'Foq. Com. in Per. Sat.'; ***the fourth leaf of every quire has worming in the outer margin (not affecting text), an indication that this occurred while the edition was still in unfolded sheets***

FIRST EDITION of this very rare exhaustive commentary on the Satires of Persius, including the text of Persius. The commentary is by the French scholar Antoine Fouquelin, who dedicates his work the philosopher and grammarian, Pierre Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée: 1515-1572), regius professor of philosophy and eloquence at the Collège de France where Fouquelin probably attended his courses.

The Satires of Persius have always had the reputation of being quite obscure and difficult, which explains why in this edition the text of the Satires is presented in short sections of a few verses each followed by several pages of commentary.

§ Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, 168; Cioranesco 10234; Adams F-733; Ong, Ramus, p. 381; see also Catalogus Translationum III, pp. 289f.

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8vo (leaf size: 180 x 118 mm), lix, 246 pp., [3] leaves (last blank). Title and half- title printed in red and black; numerous decorative woodcut headpieces (signed 'Huault'), and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, five raised bands on spine, five compartments gilt with floral patterns, second compartment with morocco label titled in gilt; red edges; corners and spine ends worn; armorial bookplate ('EX LIBRIS JULES AUBAN') inside front cover.

FIRST EDITION of this bilingual edition of the Satires of Persius, with the Latin text and French prose translation printed on facing pages. The translator, Nicolas Joseph Sélis (1737-1802), was on the faculty of the University of Paris, and a member of the French Académie des Sciences. Sélis had published a French translation of Persius's first Satire in 1770 (see Morgan, op. cit. below, no. 547).

A very rare edition of which the only two American copies I could locate are those at Harvard and the U. of .

§ Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, 547a; Schweiger 716; Cioranescu 18C, 59937.

56. , Sextus. Sex. Aurelii Propertii Elegiarum libri IV. Cum commentario perpetuo Petri Burmanni secundi et multis doctorum notis ineditis. Opus Burmanni morte interruptum Laurentius Santenius absolvit (Ed. P. Burmannus & L. Santenius). Utrecht: Barth. Wild, 1780. $750

Two parts in one volume, 4to, [8], xiv, [2], 990, [2] pp. (the last two pages are the errata); copper-engraved portrait of Propertius on p. 3. Contemporary blindstamped vellum over boards (binding a bit soiled); armorial bookplate ('Mirehouse'), with an inscription by J. Mirehouse recording that he received this copy as a gift from Drury at Harrow, in 1808 ('Ex dono Il. Drury Esq. Scholae Harroviensis, 1808'); this was either Joseph Drury (1750-1834), or his son Henry Joseph Thomas (1778-1841), both of whom were headmasters at Harrow; modern bookplate of the late George P. Goold, famed classicist, General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library.

The great posthumous edition by Pieter Burman the Younger (1714-1778), completed after his death by his former student Laurens van Santen (1746-1798): "By far the best edition of Propertius yet published. The commentary of Burman is a treasure of critical and philological learning ... This work presents us with the edited and unpublished notes of almost every learned man [e.g., Scaliger, Heinsius, Hemsterhuys, et al.] who has written in illustration of the poet" (Dibdin I, 385).

§ Brunet IV, 905 ("Bonne édition"); Schweiger 831 (writing in 1834: "This precious edition has apparently for a long time not been available in commerce" ["Diese schätzbare Ausgabe soll schon längst nicht mehr im Handel zu haben sein"]).

52 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______57. SAINT-JULIEN, Pierre de. Meslanges historiques et recueils de diverses matières pour la pluspart paradoxalles, & neantmoins vrayes. Lyon: B. Rigaud, 1588. $1,150

8vo, [32], 702 pp., [1] leaf (errata); [1] folding genealogical table; two woodcut coats of arms; woodcut initials. 18th-century speckled boards, leather label on spine titled in gilt; front joint cracked but solid; red edges. The Yemeniz copy, with bookplate (no. 2177 in the Yemeniz sale catalogue, Paris 1867); later owned by Comte Chappaz de La Prat (1899-1968), with his usual small red and green armorial stamps on the title, and the tiny red stamp repeated on the first text leaf and on the final errata leaf; an 18th-century owner has corrected the text throughout according to the final leaf of errata, and has added a 4-page manuscript index at the end, as well as a 13-line note about the volume's content on the front binder's blank.

FIRST EDITION of this collection of 25 miscellaneous essays consisting predominantly of the history and genealogies of royal and noble houses and dynasties, enlivened by curious and entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes.

The author, Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure (1519-1593), describes his topics as "paradoxalles", an epithet which he explains by defining paradoxe as a truth that, because it goes against what is generally believed—or was not before known— may strike the reader as astounding.

Besides the purely historical and genealogical subjects Saint-Julien includes a few on religious matters: e.g. a chapter on Faith (pp. 114-160), one on people who address God impertinently with the familiar form Toi (pp. 161-166), etc.

Several of the chapters concern the history and genealogies of Burgundian families—Saint-Julien himself was a member of a prestigious Burgundian family which forms the subject of one of the chapters (pp. 401-446), including a description of its coat-of-arms illustrated with a woodcut. It should be mentioned that the author's best-known work is a history of the Burgundians: De l’origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne (1581).

A major chapter concerns Hugh Capet, the first king of the Franks and founder of the Capetian dynasty; this section (pp. 216-261), which has its own separate title-page and is illustrated with a folding genealogical table, had already been published as a monograph in 1585: Discours et paradoxe de l'origine de Hugues Capet, here printed with a few revisions and additions.

§ Cioranesco 20241; Baudrier III, 409; Gültlingen XII, no. 1279.

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Hymn on the De Thou Library

58. SANTEUL, Jean-Baptiste de. Joan. Baptistae Santolii Victorini Opera poëtica. Amsterdam: G. Gallet, 1695. $650

12mo, [12] leaves (including engraved author's portrait), 362 pp. Title printed in red and black; woodcut ornamental head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, back gilt in compartments; surface wear, corners, spine extremities, and joints worn (but solid); one tiny round wormhole in the extreme outer margins of the second half of the volume; bookplate of the distinguished French paleographer, art critic, and bibliographer Anatole de Montaiglon (1824-1895), with his motto, "De jour en jour en apprenant mourant".

Second edition of the modern Neo-Latin poems and hymns of the poet Jean- Baptiste Santeul (Latinized as Santolius: 1630-1697) who was famous especially for his modern hymns intended to replace the ancient traditional ones.

Santeul, who has been called "the greatest Latin poet of his time" (Vissac, loc.cit. below), entered the regular canons of St. Victor at the age of twenty; he accepted the rank of sub-deacon but refused to rise higher. His whole life was devoted to study and to the cultivation of Latin poetry. His verse was exceedingly well known in his own day, and his hymns rapidly spread throughout the dioceses of France, and were even taught along with the Classics in some schools (Vissac, loc.cit. p. 148).

Pp. 139-143 consist of the Latin hymn, Bibliotheca Thuana, extolling the Marquis de Ménars as savior of the De Thou Library, and enabling it to remain open to

54 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______scholars. Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), one of the most prodigious book collectors of the French Renaissance, specified in his last will and testament that his library not be dispersed or sold, not only in the interest of his family, but of the literary world as well (Pollard & Ehrman, p. 261, and cf. Guigard II, p. 453). However, when De Thou's son (also named Jacques Auguste) died in 1677, he had been so heavily in debt that his creditors seized his estate and began selling the library. Through a series of private and auction sales the library was bought almost in its entirety, by Jacques Charron, Marquis de Ménars, brother-in-law of Colbert (Pollard & Ehrman, pp. 211-12).

When he composed this laudatory hymn Santeul could not foresee that the great De Thou library would eventually be dispersed; in 1706 Menars would sell a portion of the library to the Cardinal de Rohan, while the remainder was sold in after his death (see P & E & Guigard).

§ Vissac, De la poésie latine en France au siècle de Louis XIV, pp. 143-149, 306 ("le plus grand poëte du temps"); cf. Cioranescu 61471 (the 1694 edition).

Jesuit Pedagogical Fables

59. SAUTEL, Pierre Juste, S.J. Lusus poetici allegorici sive elegiae oblectandis animis et moribus informandis accommodatae. Lyon: Antoine Molin, 1667. $675

12mo, 171, [7] pp., [1] blank leaf; woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary calf, back gilt in compartments; head and tail of spine worn, corners bumped; light foxing and some occasional inoffensive stains; on the rear pastedown is the ownership signature of 'Franciscus Ludovicus Reding,' dated 1695.

Apparently the third edition (preceded by the 1656 and 1665 editions) of the very rare pedagogical "Allegorical Poetic Amusements ... Suited to Divert the Mind and to Form Character" by the Jesuit Neo-Latin poet Pierre Sautel (1613-1662). The work, first published in in 1656, was one of the most popular books of its kind, intended to instill ethical behavior and good manners in its young readership, and editions were continuously issued well into the 19th century.

The work is scarce in American collections: NUC locates one copy of the present edition (at NYPL), and OCLC locates one copy of the 1656 edition (Georgetown).

The great majority of the poems are actually original animal fables composed in verse by Sautel: e.g., "The Fly Shipwrecked in a Bowl of Milk," "The Quarrel of the Flies," "The Chatty Parrot," "The Young Bee Deceived by a Painted Rose," "The Contest between the Rose and the Violet over the Rule of Flowers," "The Apotheosis of the Lion," "The Prudent Ant," "The Captive Bird,"etc.

§ De Backer-Sommervogel VII, 666.2.

55 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______60. [SCALIGER, Joseph Juste]. Yvonis Villiomari Aremorici, In locos controversos Roberti Titii Animadversorum liber. [Geneva]: H. Commelinus, 1597. $450

8vo, 201 pp., [3] leaves (with last blank); printer's device on title. Contemporary vellum; first dozen blank upper margins dampstained and frayed.

Second edition of Scaliger's vindication of French scholarship, under the pseudonym “Yvo Villiomarus,” against the attacks of the Tuscan Roberto Titi, who, in his Locorum controversorum liber ( 1583), attempted to prove the superiority of Italian scholarship over the French; in so doing, Titi attacked and insulted the foremost humanists of France, including Turnèbe, Lambin, Muret, and Scaliger. The author's most slanderous accusations were reserved for the last named, who took up the cudgels for French scholarship in this pseudonymous work (first edition in 1586), vindicating himself in the third person.

Scaliger's counter-attack elicited another salvo from the venomous Titi, this time aimed directly at “Villioscaliger”: Roberto Titii pro suis locis controversis assertio adversus Yvonem quendam Villiomarum Italici nominis calumniatorem (Florence, 1589). For a detailed account of this “Battle of the Books,” see Anthony Grafton, Joseph Scaliger II, 368-371 and 384-385.

§ Adams S-564; Chaix, Dufour, Moeckli, p. 150.

61. [SOLINUS] CAMERS, Joannes. Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini Polyhistora, et Lucii Flori De Romanorum rebus gestis, libros, ac Tabulam Cebetis . . . Praeterea Pomponii Melae De orbis situ libri tres, cum commentariis Ioachimi Vadiani. Ed. Johannes Basilius Herold. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557. $1,250

Two parts in one volume, folio, [24] leaves, 476 (numbered 478) pp.; [16] leaves, 222, [2], 223-297, [1] pp. Historiated initials; printer’s device at the end. 18th- century boards, rebacked in calf; light marginal dampstains.

The important composite edition of the commentaries (with the texts) by Joannes Camers and Joachimus Vadianus on the geographical works of Solinus and Pomponius Mela, the history of Florus, and the “Table of Cebes,” which had all been published separately at various dates in various places [See No. 13 above].

The works of Solinus, Florus, and the “Table of Cebes” are accompanied by the commentaries of the Italian humanist Joannes Camers (Giovanni Ricuzzi Vellini, ca. 1450-1546, a native of Camerino); he was a Franciscan who taught at where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology.

Camers’s commentary on Solinus’s geographical work was originally published at Vienna in 1520; added in the present edition is the anonymous commentary to the first 12 chapters by the scholar printer .

56 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Solinus’s Collectanea rerum memorabilium (“Collection of Memorable Things”), also known as De mirabilibus mundi (“About the Marvels of the World”), and the Polyhistor, composed soon after A.D. 200, was the work which introduced the name “Mediterranean Sea,” and remained the most popular Latin geographical work throughout the Middle Ages.

Florus’s work, an abridged history of Rome from Romulus to Augustus, based on and other sources, was composed in the reign of Trajan, and is best known for its division of Roman history into four ages, infancy, youth, maturity, and decline (the period after Augustus), which made it a favorite schoolbook during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

The “Table of Cebes” is a famous allegorical composition on the life of man, known as the Pinax (“Picture,” or “Table”) of Cebes, because it was ascribed to the Pythagorean philosopher by that name, but is thought to be of much later date. It too was a favorite schoolbook in the Renaissance.

The final work included in this volume is the popular geographical treatise of Pomponius Mela, distinctive as the first Latin geography; it is accompanied by the voluminous commentary by Joachimus Vadianus. Pomponius Mela composed his pioneering Latin geography at the time of Claudius’s invasion of Britain (AD 43-44), which it may be designed to celebrate. The work, which was used by the elder Pliny, systematically delineates the order of the lands and seas on the globe, and lists names of peoples and places with some ethnographic details in an order following the sea coasts.

§ VD 16, S 6970; Hieronymus, Petri, 190; Schweiger 960; Adams S-1395.

62. [] TERENTIUS AFER, Publius. Terentius, in quem triplex edita est P. Antesignani Rapistagnensis Commentatio. Editio secundi exempl[aris]. (Ed. & Tr. P. Davantes). Lyon: Mathieu Bonhomme, 1560. $1,500 4to, [44], 850 pp., [1] blank leaf. Publisher's device on title, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (clasps lacking), with stamps of several biblical scenes, and medallion portraits of Luther, Melanchthon, and Erasmus (discreetly identified by the abbreviations "MAR,' 'PHIL,' and 'ERAS'); front cover with owner’s initial 'G.H.C.M.' with date 1567, on the front free endpaper is a long inscription signed 'Georgius Hirssbauerus' (presumably the G.H. of the stamped initials).

The French Huguenot schoolmaster and musician Pierre Davantes (known in scholarly circles as Antesignanus, 1525-1561), besides inventing a system of musical notations, is known primarily for his monumental Terentius Triplex, i. e., the three-fold variorum edition of Terence which he issued in 1560. The three parts, issued separately and independently of each other, present a genuine bibliographical nightmare, being often confused for one another, since, (a) they were all three issued the same year, (b) all three contain the text of Terence, and (c) they are hardly ever found together (cf. Schweiger and Brunet: "Les trois volumes se trouvent rarement réunis").

Another confusing feature is that the titles of the individual parts are identical

57 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______too, except for the distinguishing final three words, which read in each volume respectively, 'Editio Primi Exempl.,' 'Editio Secundi Exempl.,' and 'Editio Tertii Exempl.'

Of the first two parts each consists of the text accompanied by essays on Terentian meters and other topics and by exhaustive commentaries. The second part offered here includes essays by Erasmus, J.C. Scaliger, Henricus Glareanus, et al., as well as the commentaries by Erasmus, Petrus Marsus, Pietro Bembo, M.A. Muret, A. Gouvea, and several others.

All the volumes are rare. This second part exists also with the imprint of Antoine Vincent (see Gültlingen VII, p. 150, no. 356).

§ Brunet V, 715 ("Les trois volumes se trouvent rarement réunis"); Schweiger 1061 ("vollständig Exx. sehr selten"); Baudrier X, 264; Gültlingen VIII, p. 116, no. 277; Lawton, Térence en France au XVIe siècle, no. 343; see Cioranesco 7416 (listing only the first part).

63. [TERENCE] TERENTIUS AFER, Publius. Comoediae sex Ex recensione Heinsiana. (Ed. Daniel Heinsius). Leiden: Elzevier, 1635.

12mo (leaf size: 133 x 75 mm), [48], 304, [8] pp. Engraved frontispiece title (by Cornelius Cl. Dusend); woodcut medallion portrait of Terence on f. **12 verso; first page of each of the six plays printed in red and black. $750

bound with:

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. Claudiani quae exstant. Nic. Heinsius ... recensuit ac notas addidit. Accedunt quaedam hactenus non edita. Leiden: Elzevier, 1650. Two parts: [12] leaves, 270 pp.; 276 pp., [1] leaf. Engraved frontispiece title to first part; woodcut Elzevier device on title of second part. The two works bound together in contemporary vellum over boards; edges dyed red and gauffered to a design incorporating the monogram 'BD' (see photo); minor soiling to binding.

I. This first Elzevier edition of the six Comedies of the great Roman comic dramatist Terence was overseen by the eminent Dutch scholar Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655). Terence, a native of Africa who was brought to Rome as a slave, so impressed his master with his intelligence and good looks that he was freed and given a thorough education. He wrote six plays (all extant), adapted from Greek

58 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______New Comedy. Terence was famed already in antiquity for the elegance of his Latin, which led him to be one of the favorite authors studied in the schools of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

This Elzevier edition combines points of several issues, as follow:

At head of dedication is a grotesque figure (instead of a buffalo head) The catchword on fol. *4 recto is DANIE- Pp. 101, 104, 154, and 273 are numbered correctly On p. 51 the name LACHES is printed in black On p. 54 the word PROLOGUS is printed in red The final tailpiece is a bunch of fruits

II. Elzevier edition of the last of the great Roman classical poets (fl. A.D. 395-405). The text was edited by the famed philologist Nicolaus Heinsius (1620-1681: son of Daniel), who produced editions of various Latin poets (including Virgil and Ovid) of which this was the first. The edition is of major importance in that Heinsius used as many as 28 ancient MSS to establish the text. [NOTE: That same year the Amsterdam branch of the Elzevier press issued a variorum edition of Claudian not to be confused with this Leiden Heinsius edition].

§ I. Willems 433; Schweiger II, p. 1065; II. Willems 675; Schweiger I, p. 283.

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The Best Edition of Bentley’s Terence

64. [TERENCE] TERENTIUS AFER, Publius; with . Comoediae, Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et aliorum veterum sententiae. Editio altera. (Ed. & Comm. Richard Bentley). Amsterdam: R. & J. Wetsten & G. Smith, 1727. $575

Two parts in one volume, 4to, [18] leaves, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Frederick, the eldest son of George II (by Houbraken after C. Boit), a second engraved frontispiece representing Terence presenting his book to an allegorical figure of the Roman Republic, 444 pp., [92] leaves (including last blank); [5] leaves, including engraved frontispiece of among the animals, with William, the younger son of George II, in medallion being carried aloft by an eagle, 87 pp., [48] leaves. Contemporary russia, gilt; binding worn, rebacked with original spine laid down; inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape; worming in lower margins of several leaves in the second part, never touching text; armorial bookplates of E.H. Whinfield; modern bookplate of the late George P. Goold, famed classicist, General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library.

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Second and best edition of the famous Terence, edited with extensive commentary by Richard Bentley (1662-1742), the greatest classical scholar of England, and one of the greatest scholars of all times. For this second edition, which is more correct and complete than the first of the previous year, two extensive indexes by Westerhovius have been added, one to Terence (182 pp.) and one to Phaedrus (95 pp). Bentley was able to correct the text in about 1,000 passages, mainly on metrical grounds. His accompanying commentary is still considered one of the most useful for the understanding of Terence's Latinity. Classical scholarship has long regarded Bentley's Terence as more significant than his much praised -- and more notorious -- edition of (included in Printing and the Mind of Man 178): "More important [than his Horace], and recognized as such, is his Terence, in which he retrieved from the corruptions of the Middle Ages and the despair of contemporary scholars the complex prosody of Roman comedy" (G. P. Goold). "In certain important respects his Terence must rank above the Horace . . . In the Terence he laid the foundations of all subsequent work on the Latin comic metres, in itself an achievement which would suffice to make the reputation of an ordinary man" (E. J. Kenney).

The second part consists of Bentley's edition of the Fables of Phaedrus and the Sententiae of Publius Syrus, with his commentary on these texts.

§ Bartholomew & Clark, Richard Bentley, no. 176; see Sandys II, 407.

60 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______An Opponent of Erasmus: The Third Known Copy?

65. TITELMANS, Franciscus. Le traicte de l’exposition des misteres de la Messe. Deux expositions du Sainct Canon d’icelle. Tr. C. Hilaire. Lyon: N. Petit, 1544. $1,500

4 8 4 8vo, [4], 92 leaves: * , A-L , M . (fol. 1 misnumbered 9, with other inconsistent numbering); woodcut ornamental initials. Modern brown calf, gilt in Renaissance style; lower margin of title-page with brownish stain and with a repair (touching three letters of imprint). Armorial bookplate of the noted Lyon bibliophile Desgeorge.

FIRST EDITION of the first vernacular edition of Titelmans's work on the mysteries of the Eucharist and Incarnation, with heavy emphasis on the necessity to allow the Holy Spirit to enter one’s soul and to ask for its presence in prayer.

The second part, with separate title-page, deals with the explication of the liturgical prayers and their symbolism. The first Latin edition of these two treatises, titled Tractatus de expositione mysteriorum Missae. Sacri canonis Missae duplex expositio, was issued at Antwerp in 1528.

The Flemish Franciscan scholar Franciscus Titelmans (also Franciscus Hasseltensis, 1502–1537) is best known for his bitter polemic with Erasmus over New Testament exegesis; as a stubborn upholder of the orthodox scholastic tradition, Titelmans attacked the new humanistic method represented especially by Erasmus.

Of this first edition of the earliest vernacular translation only two copies are known (besides the present).

§ Brunet V, 868-869 ("Traduction rare"); Gültlingen VII, 100 (locating only Lyon BM; OCLC adds BNF).

61 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Extremely Rare Latin-German Dictionary for Young Students: The Fifth Known Copy

66. TROCHUS, Balthasar. Vocabulorum rerum promptarium ... studiose iuventuti fideliter congestum, ingeniose dispositum, et vernaculo interioris Germanie apposito affabre concinnatum. In quo profecto nihil earum rerum quarum apud nostrates usus est suum vocabulum non habet. : Melchior Lotter, 1517. $6,500

4to (bookblock: 200 x 140 mm), A-B6, C4, D-R6, S4, T-U6, X4, Y6, Z4 = 130 leaves; gothic type throughout for both Latin and German texts; occasional use of Greek; title printed in red and black. Handsome modern goatskin blind-tooled in appropriate period style; light marginal dampstain at beginning; some very light foxing; overall a fine copy.

The sixth known copy (see below for a census) of the ONLY EDITION of the only known work by Balthasar Trochus about whom very little is known (he is unnoticed in ADB), except from what he says of himself in the title and preface: he was a priest and educator in Anhalt (modern Aschersleben, near Magdeburg, Saxony).

The work consists of an encyclopedic Latin-German dictionary especially designed for young students (iuventuti) in Saxony. The title may be translated as, "A Storehouse of the names of things, faithfully compiled for the studious youth of Saxony ( interior), in which everything in use among our countrymen is given its name."

The work's arrangement is not alphabetical, but rather organized by (scrinia, i.e. ) and subcategories (nidi: literally nests or pigeonholes, i.e. shelves). The three scrinia contain a total of 65 nidi, as follow:

Scrinium I. Twenty-five nidi dealing with classical mythology, religion, arts, music, games, the calendar, natural history, etc.

Scrinium II. Twenty nidi on nature and man, e.g. trees, forests, fruits, herbs, metals, colors, dress, human anatomy, medicine, buildings, etc.

Scrinium III. Twenty nidi largely on technological matters such as various types of tools, geography, grammar, vocabulary, etc.

A typical entry will consist of a Latin lemma followed by a very brief definition, also in Latin, sometimes accompanied by the etymology (including Greek); then the German vernacular equivalent.

62 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Of the five known copies (besides that offered here) four are in Germany (Augsburg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Marburg), and one at the National Library of the Netherlands. (NOTE: In 1931 Borchling and Claussen [Niederdeutsche Bibliographie bis 1800, no. 604] located a single copy at Königsberg [= Kaliningrad], which is now presumably lost.)

§ VD 16, T 2015 (no copy located: citing Borchling & Claussen: see above); Claes 260 (locating the Augsburg copy, and the Königsberg copy after Borchling & Claussen); W. Kettler, Untersuchungen zur frühneuhochdeutschen Lexikographie (, 2008), pp. 424-425; not in Zaunmüller's Bibliographisches Handbuch der Sprachwörter Bücher; not in Adams, not in BL.

67. ULNER, Hermann. Copiosa supellex elegantissimarum Germanicae et Latinae linguae phrasium. Frankfurt: J. Wolff, 1582. $850

8vo, [8] leaves, 462 (misnumbered 472) pp., [25] leaves (including 3 blank leaves); italic, roman, and gothic (for German) types; printer's device on title. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with roll-tooled borders representing the Evangelists, two brass catches and clasps in working order; some binding wear and soiling; paper lightly browned throughout; contemporary ownership inscriptions on front endpapers (one dated 1592), and an early hand-drawn coat-of-arms inside front cover with initials 'M.W.D.T.'

Popular bilingual Latin-German phrasebook, arranged by topic, first published in 1567 and becoming an influential handbook for pedagogical use; a number of editions were published well into the next century. All editions appear to be quite rare: no copy of any edition is listed in Adams and there is no copy at the BL. In American collections I have located one copy of the 1567 edition (Harvard), two copies of the present 1582 edition (U. of Illinois and Indiana State U.), and two copies of a 1602 edition (U. of Chicago and Indiana State U.)

The author's preface, dated 1555, is addressed to his two sons, Eustachius and Fridericus; a second preface, dated 1566 (the year of the Hermann Ulner's death), is addressed by his son Eustachius to his two brothers, Johannes and Heinrich.

§ VD 16, U 77; Vancil, Cordell Collection, p. 239.

63 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______

Superb Large Paper Copy

68. , Caius. C. Valerii Flacci ... Argonauticon libri octo, cum notis integris Ludovici Carrionis [et al.] ... curante Petro Burmanno, qui & suas adnotationes adjecit. Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans, 1724. $1,500

4to (leaf size: 288 x 232 mm; 11-3/8 x 9-1/8 inches), Extra engraved frontispiece title representing the Argonauts sailing on the Argo being entertained by on his lyre, within an elaborate border incorporating the various elements of the legend: the Golden Fleece, the Dragon, the Calydonian Boar, the Harpies, etc.; [160], 759, [1] pp., [50] leaves (the last consisting of errata); large folding portrait of Burman at beginning (370 x 260 mm), engraved by J. Houbraken after a painting by K. van der My; title-page printed in red and black; title vignette, initials, tailpieces. Contemporary calf, professionally and handsomely rebacked, with richly gilt spine and two morocco labels titled in gilt; edges marbled and gilt. Bookplate of the late George P. Goold, famed classicist, General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library

Impressive large-paper copy of Burman's great variorum edition of the epic of Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, by the first-century A.D. poet Valerius Flaccus. The work is indebted to the Greek epic Argonautica by for its subject, and to Virgil's for its poetic style.

64 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______

Valerius's epic follows the Argonauts through many famous adventures to the point where Jason absconds from Colchis with Medea.

Pieter Burman (1668-1741), one of the greatest scholars of Holland, held the chair of Latin respectively in Utrecht and Leiden, and produced a great many such very useful "variorum" editions of the Latin classics which incorporated the comments of the most eminent 16th- and 17th-century scholars. In this monumental edition appear the comments, of N. Heinsius, G.J. Vossius, as well a Latin translation by the well-known Bolognese humanist Giovanni Battista Pio (died 1540) of those portions of the Greek epic Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius that supplement Valerius Flaccus's narrative (pp. 684-721). Also included (pp. 724-759) is Pio's Latin version of the Orphic Argonautica. This poem of about 1,400 lines occupies an exceptional position in Orphic literature, being an autobiographical narrative in which Orpheus -- heavily influenced by a reading of Apollonius Rhodius -- tells the story of his participation in Jason's expedition. It can hardly be earlier and may well be later than the fourth century AD.

The large striking engraved folding portrait of Burman (370 x 260 mm) is often missing from copies of this edition. (see reproduction on preceding page).

This edition should not be confused with the 12mo edition of the same year consisting of the text only, without the commentaries.

§ Brunet V, 1046; Schweiger 1100; Dibdin II, 516-517: “some copies are struck off on LARGE PAPER”.

65 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______"The first original French book dealing specifically with the education of children." With a notorious critique of Corneille

69. VARET, Alexandre Louis. De l'Education chrétienne des enfans selon les maximes de l'Ecriture Sainte et les Instructions des Saint Pères de l'Eglise. Seconde édition, revue & augmentée. Paris: chez Pierre Promé, 1668. $950

12mo, [8] leaves, 368 pp., [1] leaf; engraved vignette on title. Contemporary calf, back gilt in compartments; surface wear; head and tail of spine, and corners quite worn, but binding solid. Second, revised and augmented, edition [first in 1666] of "the first original French book dealing specifically with the education of children" ("le premier livre d'origine française, traitant ex professo de l'éducation des enfants" [L. Burnier, De l'Éducation morale et religieuse en France (1864), p. 108]).

Alexandre Varet (1632-1676), a priest of Sens, addresses his work to his sister on the eve of her marriage, with advice on how to raise her future children. In his chapter on Varet, Burnier (op. cit. pp. 107-126), points out that although the author was influenced by the Jansenist educators, his focus was very different from theirs: whereas most of the Jansenist manuals aimed at intellectual teaching—such as their Greek and Latin Méthodes—Varet leaves aside intellectual education and instruction, focusing instead on the family, and emphasizing the religious education of children.

Also, although there had appeared earlier French educational publications, such as, e.g., Abbé Cerné's Pédagogue des familles chrétiennes (1662), these emphasized good manners rather than true Christian education (Burnier, p. 108).

Varet warns his sister against the corrupting influence of worldly interests, such as fashion, literature (especially novels), the theater, dances, games of chance, and, for girls, excessive concern with their physical appearance and with the latest fashions.

In his chapter on dramas (pp. 203-229) we find Varet's notorious critique of Corneille's religious tragedy Théodore, in which he attacks the author for having made his saintly protagonist use the language of profane passion to express divine love (pp. 206-210).

Varet's work became an instant success and was often reprinted—an English translation appeared in 1678 (Wing V108). Of the first 1666 edition I can locate no copy in any U.S. collection, nor of the present second edition (of which copies were issued dated 1667), nor of the third edition of 1669 (see next item).

§ Cioranescu 65483 (the 1666 edition). !

66 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______70. VARET, Alexandre Louis. De l'Education chrestienne des enfans, selon les Maximes de l'Escriture Sainte, & les Instructions des Saint Pères de l'Eglise. Brussels: François Foppens, 1669. $850

12mo, [6] leaves, 323, [1] pp. Woodcut vignette on title; headpieces and initials. Handsome 19th-century binding by Muller, successor of Thouvenin, signed on verso of front endpaper, of dark blue straight-grain morocco, triple gilt fillets round sides, in each angle a little gilt ornament, back divided into six panels by raised bands, title gilt in one compartment, the other five framed with gilt decoration, all edges gilt; pointillé fillet round edges, inner dentelles; wear to corners and extremities; dark stain in lower outer margins (far from text); overall a fine copy.

First edition published outside Paris. On the author and his work: see preceding item.

Of the first three Paris editions (1666, 1668, and 1669) there appears to be no copy in any US. library (according to OCLC); of the present Brussels edition OCLC locates three copies in the US: L. of Congress, Newberry, and Chapel Hill.

§ Willems, Les Elzevier, 2045: "Fort jolie édition"; Cioranescu 65483 (the 1666 edition).

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"La première femme qui ait vécu de sa plume" (The First Woman who Earned her Living through her Pen)

71. [VILLEDIEU: i.e. DESJARDINS, Marie-Catherine-Hortense, known as Madame de]. Les desordres de l'amour. Par M. [sic] de Villedieu. Paris: Claude Barbin [i.e. Brussels: Ph. Vleugart], 1676. $650

Four parts in one volume, 12mo (leaf size: 127 x 70 mm), [4], 88; 82 [2] (blank); 72; 64 pp. Different woodcut ornaments on all four titles, ornamental head- and tailpieces, and initials. Contemporary vellum boards, stained, corners worn; contemporary manuscript title on front cover; four leaves in the first quire (A3-6) with unsightly loss of lower corners, but without loss of text; scribbling on first title-page.

Pirated edition of Madame de Villedieu's most popular novel. First published in 1675-76 in Paris by Claude Barbin, the novel became so notorious that it was immediately pirated in editions which, although all bearing the Barbin imprint, and dated 1676, were actually counterfeits printed in Lyon, Toulouse, and Brussels: see R. Harneit, "Les Désordres de l’amour de Madame de Villedieu," Bulletin du Bibliophile (2000), I, pp. 101-138.

Marie-Catherine Desjardins, known as Mme de Villedieu (c 1640-1683), a prolific poet, novelist, and dramatist (one of her plays, Le Favori, was performed by Molière's theatrical company), played an important role in the of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living ("première femme qui ait vécu de sa plume": cf. the Pléiade volume "Nouvelles du XVIIe siècle," p. 1477), she defied cultural convention by becoming an innovator and appealing to popular tastes through fiction, drama, and poetry. Judging from the many early editions of her works, in her day Villedieu was more popular than her contemporary Mme de Lafayette.

Les Désordres de l'amour, which falls under the fictional genre of "secret history," describes life at the court of Henri III, and satirally warns against the perils of erotic passions, which affect the course of history.

Besides piracies, the novel's popularity is further affirmed by its appearing in an English translation only one year following its original publication in French: The disorders of love (London, 1677).

Alphonse Willems, in his Elzevier bibliography, established that the present edition, which, incidentally, reprints Villedieu's preface from the first edition, was published in Brussels by Philippe Vleugart (see below).

§ Willems, Elzevier, no. 2106 (attributing the printing to Ph. Vleugart in Brussels); R. Harneit, "Les Désordres de l’amour de Madame de Villedieu," Bulletin du Bibliophile (2000), I, pp. 101-138; cf. Brunet, Suppl. II, 895; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 873; Lever, Fiction narrative, p. 134; Cioranescu 66666; Barbier I, 911.

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On the Beheading of Thomas More and the Comparative Merits of the Printers Estienne, Colines & Gryphius, etc.

72. VISAGIER, Jean [Joannes Vulteius]. Ioannis Vulteii Remensis Epigrammatum libri IIII. Eiusdem Xenia. Lyon: Michel Parmentier, 1537. $1,750

8vo, 282 pp., [3] leaves (last blank). Parmentier's woodcut device on title [Baudrier X, 400]; woodcut initials; at the end is a woodcut of a poet with pen in hand bound with:

VISAGIER. Oratio funebris ... de Iac. Minutio Tholosae habita. Lyon: M. Parmentier, 1537. 15 pages. Parmentier's woodcut device on title; woodcut initials. The two works bound together in 19th-century crimson crushed morocco signed by Capé, double blind fillets round sides, elaborate inner gilt border, gilt edges.

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, second overall, of the epigrams of the Neo-Latin poet Joannes Vulteius (Jean Visagier, 1510-1542). The first two books had been published in 1536 by Sebastianus Gryphius, in Lyon. The present second edition not only adds two new books, but also brings incorporates new and startling changes.

Thus, for instance, all the epigrams which in the first edition had been dedicated to the prominent scholar and poet Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550), have now been re-dedicated to the poet Clément Marot and the scholar-printer Etienne Dolet; the reason for this change was that upon Bourbon's return from England, where he served as tutor to the children of partisans of Anne Boleyn, he accused Visagier of having plagiarized his poems in his 1536 Epigrams.

69 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______Visagier's epigrams include three epitaphs of Erasmus (p. 191), two of Thomas More, (109) as well as two poems on More's beheading (112, 129). One curious epitaph is for Euripides (80). Another consists of a warm defense of Rabelais against a detractor (61), and several are in praise of the printer S. Gryphius (e.g. 95 and 134).

On p. 56 appears Visagier's famous verse appraisal of the respective merits of the three printers Robert Estienne, , and :

Inter tot, norunt libros qui cudere, tres sunt Insignes: languet caetera turba fame. Castigat Stephanus, sculpit Colinaeus: utrunque Gryphius edocta mente manuque facit.

("Among so many printers there are three who stand out, leaving the rest in obscurity: Estienne edits, Colines designs type, Gryphius, thanks to his trained mind and hand does both")

This hyperbolic flattery of Gryphius is accounted for by his having published the first edition of the first two books of Visagier's Epigrammata.

II. FIRST EDITION of Visagier's funeral oration for Jacques de Minut, President of the Toulouse Parlement, who had died in November.

§ I. Gültlingen VII, p. 200, no. 24 (s.v. Barbous); Baudrier X, 399-402; Cioranesco 22018; Brunet V, 1390. II. Gültlingen VII, p. 200, no. 25 (s.v. Barbous); Baudrier X, 402; Cioranesco 22019.

The Birth of the Novel 73. . [Greek]. Ξενοφῶντος Κύρου παιδείας βιβλία τέτταρα Α.Β.Γ.Δ. Xenophontis Cyri paediae libri quatuor priores. Paris: Chr. Wechel, 1538.

4to, 126, [2] pp. Printed entirely in Greek, except for three lines of title and imprint; woodcut printer's device [Renouard 1115] on title and last leaf; woodcut historiated Greek initials. $1,800

bound with:

XENOPHON. [Greek]. Ξενοφῶντος Κύρου παιδείας βιβλία τέτταρα Ε.Ζ.Η.Θ. Xenophontis Cyri paediae libri quatuor posteriores. Paris: Chr. Wechel, 1539. 139, [1] pp. Printed entirely in Greek, except for three lines of title and imprint; woodcut printer's device [Renouard 1119] on title and last leaf; woodcut historiated Greek initials.

bound with:

HERMOGENES. [Greek]. Ἑρμογένους τέχνη ῥητορικὴ τελειοτάτη. Hermogenis Ars Rhetorica absolutissima. Paris: Chr. Wechel, 1538. 32 pages. Printed entirely in Greek, except for two lines of title and imprint; woodcut printer's device [Renouard 1119] on title; woodcut historiated Greek initial at beginning of text.

70 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______The three works bound together in 18th-century calf, corners quite worn, and clumsily rebacked; some light, inoffensive foxing. At foot of first title page is an ownership inscription in a contemporary hand; the name has been cancelled in ink, but the Christian name ('Joannes') can be made out, as well as 'Carpentoractensis' (i.e. of Carpentras).

The second separate printing of the Greek text of Xenophon's Cyropaedia ("Education of Cyrus"), a biography of Cyrus the Great, merging fact with fiction, so that this work is commonly regarded as the earliest historical novel. Xenophon's straightforward style and didactic approach made the Cyropaedia a popular text in Renaissance and seventeenth-century classrooms.

The work was separately printed for the first time at Louvain, in 1527 (Hoffmann III, 581).

Part I consists of the first four books, and part II of the last four. Both parts were produced with generous margins for entering the student's notes. A contemporary hand has entered marginalia on seven pages of Book I.

Bound with the two parts of Xenophon's Cyropaedia is the Progymnasmata of Hermogenes of Tarsus, the second-century rhetorician. The Progymnasmata, the first of five works in which Hermogenes presented a complete course in school , was for three centuries the standard elementary introduction to the study of the subject, until it was replaced by the abridgment made by Aphthonius.

§ XENOPHON: Brunet V, 1492 ("édition peu commune"); Moreau V, 1117 and 1535; Hoffmann III, 583; HERMOGENES: Moreau V, 921; not in Hoffmann.

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The Most Popular Woman Writer of Seventeenth-Century Spain

74. ZAYAS Y SOTOMAYOR, Maria de. Nouvelles amoureuses et exemplaires (Tr. Claude Vanel). Paris: G. Quinet, 1680. $2,900

Five volumes, 16mo (144 x 83 mm), I. [4] leaves, 323 pages; II. [2] leaves, 336 pages; III. [1] leaf, 297 pages; IV. [1] leaf, 283 pages; V. [1] leaf, 226 pages; woodcut initials, and head- and tail-pieces.

Uniformly bound in contemporary calf, modern rebacking; blank marginal tears in three leaves of vol. 1 not affecting any text.

PROVENANCE: Stamp of the Netherby Library on all five title-pages, with the ownership signature of one of the baronets Grahme of Netherby, Cumberland. Two volumes also bear the early inscription, “Su. Fletchers Booke”, and the same hand has copied two speeches from the tragedy Roland, by the dramatist and librettist Philippe Quinault (1635-1688).

First complete edition in French of the series of twenty short novels of love and intrigue by Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1660?), the most popular woman writer of seventeenth- century Spain. Her novels were originally published in two separate collections: Novelas amorosas y exemplares (Saragossa, 1637: Palau 379889), which all end happily; and Parte segunda del sarao, y entretenimientos honestos (Barcelona, 1647: 379892), which all end unhappily.

The stories are artificially linked together somewhat in the manner of the Decamerone: they are told on successive evenings to amuse an ailing woman, and bring the picaresque genre into the aristocracy.

The present first complete French translation of all twenty novels, by Claude Vanel, translator of various Spanish works, was preceded by a partial edition of six novels, translated by Antoine de Methel, and published in 1656 (Palau 379922). Furthermore, in 1651 and 1661, respectively, the

72 E.K. Schreiber. New York, NY 10024. (212) 873-3180 [email protected] ______French novelist and comic playwright Paul Scarron (1610-1660) had borrowed the themes of three of the novels in his Roman Comique and in his Nouvelles tragi- comiques. (Palau 379922, note).

It is noteworthy that one of the novels in Scarron’s latter collection, La Précaution inutile, based on Maria de Zayas’s El prevenido engañado (printed as the first story in vol. 2 of the present edition), provided the theme for Molière’s L’École des femmes.

(NOTE: The next three paragraphs owe much to Yolanda Gamboa Tusquets’ Cartografía social en la narrativa de Maria Zayas, 2009).

Details from Zayas’ chosen genre, subject matter, as well as from her life reveal her as a proto-feminist, and a learned woman, an engaged intellectual of her day, who paved the road for women writers as well as for women in general. Throughout her stories she encourages women’s education; in the Prologue of the original Spanish collection, she also requests that readers buy her novels, possibly as an ironic statement, since women commonly did not earn money outside marriage or the convent:

The real reason why women are not learned is not a defect in intelligence but a lack of opportunity. When our parents bring us up if, instead of putting cambric on our sewing cushions and patterns in our embroidery frames, they gave us books and teachers, we would be as fit as men for any job or university professorship. We might even be sharper because we’re of a colder humor and intelligence partakes of the damp humor (Trans. H. Patsy Boyer).

Zayas’s novels were an immediate success and retained their popularity during the 18th century, but their success declined during the 19th. They have been reevaluated in the 20th century, especially from the perspective of gender, and have been the subject of much research. Zayas’s work has passed the test of time and continues to be read. It continues to be appealing to a wide variety of readers, but particularly women. This first complete French translation is quite rare; of the three copies located in American collections two consist of the first two volumes only (Northwestern and Santa Barbara); the third is that of the Library of Congress. § Palau 379924; Cioranescu 65450 (s.v. Claude Vanel).!

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