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2 1 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, St De laudibus beatae virginis Mariae. [, Ulrich Zell, not after 1473].

Folio (274 x 200mm) 165 leaves (of 166, lacking final Sacramentum mundi, ed Karl Rahner, 1975, p 903.) blank). Gothic type, 36 lines, double column. 2-4 line Only relatively recently has Albertus Magnus’ Maggs Bros Ltd, 50 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5BA initial spaces, alternating spaces filled in red, red authorship been challenged, see A Fries, Die unter Tel 020 7493 7160 paragraph marks, underlining and capital strokes. Single dem Namen des Albertus Magnus überlieferten Fax 020 7499 2007 pinhole visible in the lower margins. Early 19th-century mariologischen Schriften (1954) pp5-80, 130-131, Email [email protected] ochre paper boards, red spine label lettered in gilt, red and A Kolping, in Recherches de théologie ancienne Opening hours Monday to Friday 9.30am–5pm edges (spine darkened, a little soiled and marked). £15,000 et médiévale 25 (1958) pp 285-328 (Sack Freiburg). By 1473, it was rare for a pinhole to still be account Allied Irish (GB), 10 Berkeley Square, London First edition. A fine wide-margined copy with visible in the lower inner margin as found here. In W1J 6AA deep impressions of the types on remarkably 1466 and 1467 all of Zell’s books had four Sort code 23-83-97 fresh paper, printed by the prototypographer of pinholes on each page but this was soon reduced Account no 47777070 Cologne, Ulrich Zell. As noted by BMC the copy to two and generally by 1470 they disappear IBAN GB94AIBK23839747777070 at the University Library of Uppsala is dated from the visible part of the page. (See: Martin BIC AIBKGB2L 1473 by the rubricator. Boghardt, ‘Pinholes in Large-format Incunabula’, VAT no GB239381347 The works ascribed to Albertus Magnus led The Library s7, vol 1 (2000), pp263-289). him to be considered to be the greatest Mariologist Provenance: Bibliothecae J[ohann Heinrich © Maggs Bros Ltd 2011 of the . A product of the mid-13th Joseph] Niesart (1766-1841), pastor in Velen

Design and production by Cat’s Pyjamas Publishing century and a hugely influential work in Marian 1816, with his manuscript inscription on first www.catspyjamaspublishing.co.uk scholarship, ‘the Mariale represents the first leaf and his bibliographical notes on a loose Printed and bound by Connekt Colour systematic theology of Mary, inasmuch as all inserted leaf. Inner margin of first leaf lightly assertions about Mary are reduced to one single soiled otherwise extremely fresh. Front cover: 20, Cats (Jacob), page 28. Inside front cover: 64, Plutarch, page 80. principle, that of the all embracing fullness of H460. GW 678. BMC I, 192. BSB-Ink A185. Back cover: 2, Albertus Magnus, St, page 6. Inside back cover: 20, Cats (Jacob), page 28. grace.’ (Encyclopedia of theology: a concise Goff A271. Bod-inc A119.

5 2 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, St Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. [Speyer, Peter Drach, not after 1475]. [Bound with:] GUILLERMUS PARISIENSIS Postilla in evangelia et epistolas. [Speyer, Peter Drach, c1476].

Two works in one volume. Folio (293 x 211mm). I 240 copy of either book sold in Anglo-American leaves (including f 144 blank). Gothic type, 40 lines, table auctions since 1934. in double columns. 2 to 6-line initials, headlines, paragraph This is the second edition of the Albertus marks and capital strokes in red, rubricator’s guide- Magnus’ Sermones, first published the previous letters and quiring sometimes visible. II 170 leaves (last year in Cologne. Albertus Magnus (1193/1206- blank). Gothic type, 40 lines. Rubricated uniformly with 1280), Dominican preacher, Bishop of Ratisbon, the above but without the headlines, manuscript quiring saint, and Doctor (‘Doctor Universalis’) of the often visible. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over , was the leading intellectual wooden boards, covers panelled by fillets into a double figure of his time and wrote encyclopedically on frame with lozenge shaped compartments inside, each theology, philosophy and the sciences. He applied containing a round tool of an eagle or a clover leaf or a Aristotelian methods and principles to revealed square tool with a rosette (two different stamps), also doctrine and was, therefore, the pioneer of the with lettered scrolls ‘Jhesus’ and ‘Maria’; 5 brass bosses scholastic method elaborated by his pupil, St on each cover, clasps and catches, remains of paper labels Thomas Aquinas. on front cover (expert restoration to joints). £25,000 The second work, the Postilla, first published by Zainer in 1472, was one of the most A superb example of two rare from the popular works of the 15th century and justly 1470s, published by the same printer, and bound described by Goff as one of the earliest ‘best sellers’. together soon after. The tall, fresh, rubricated The supposed author, Guillermus, was a copies with strong impressions of the types and Dominican monk and professor of theology at some deckle edges are bound in a fine contemporary who compiled this work in 1437 ‘expressly binding with the ten brass bosses, as well as the for the clergy and for those desirous of clasps and catches, still intact. The small stamps understanding the excerpts from the Epistles and used to decorate the covers are not found in Kyriss the Evangelists, more commonly called lessons, but point to a Rhineland origin, probably monastic. which are read at appropriate services throughout The two undated works are catalogued in the the church year. It obviously filled a most pressing BMC as the earliest impressions from the press of need.’ (Goff, ‘The Postilla of Guillermus Peter Drach at Speyer. The first not after 1475 as a Parisiensis’, in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1959, pp73- copy at München BSB has a buyer’s date of that 77). Much of the collection has also been attributed year and the second assigned to the following year. to Johann Herolt (see Die Deutsche Literatur des ISTC lists few copies of either printing outside Mittelalters Verfasserlexikon (Bd 3, 1124, 8). , for example, the only copies of Drach’s Provenance: Some contemporary annotations. Sermones de tempore... and Postilla in the UK are Early inscription ‘Pertinet ad Fabricam/BMVF’ on at the British Library, only an imperfect copy of the front pastedown. Book label of George Dunn first work and one of the second in , and no (1865-1912), Woolley Hall (his sale Sotheby’s 2nd copies of either in Belgium or the . The February 1914, lot 702). USA fares somewhat better with six locations for I HC*469. GW 772. BMC II, 488. BSB-Ink the first work and three for the second. They are A213. Goff A328. II HC*8226. GW 11924. BMC also extremely rare on the market with no other II, 488. BSB-Ink H134. Goff G648.

6 7 4 (Ulisse) Metamorphoseos, sive lusus Asini libri IX. Floridoru[m] IIII. De Deo Socratia I. De Philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti dialogus eode[m] Apuleio i[n]terprete... (Graece: Alcinoi philosophi ad Platonis dogmata introductio). (, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri mense maio, 1521).

Sm 8v (160 x 95mm) 266, [28]ff. 18th-century vellum during the Middle Ages (eight medieval over paste-boards, blue marbled edges, ink title on manuscripts survive, ie Brussels, Bibliothèque spine (small split to spine). £2,500 Royal 10054-10056, Ms on vellum, 10th-11th- 3 ALDROVANDI (Ulisse) Serpentum et draconum historiae libri duo... century). The Asclepius has been described as Bologna, apud Clementem Ferronium, (1639) 1640. First aldine edition of the collected works the single most important revelation of Hermes of apuleius including the Metamorphoses (also and it guaranteed the continuation of the Engraved title by Io. Baptista Coriolanus and the reading of classical texts, such as Pliny, and known as the Golden Ass), the sole novel Hermetic tradition prior to the rediscovery of numerous woodcuts, many full-page, of snakes, the secondhand accounts related by merchants that survives in its entirety, with a prefatory the Corpus Hermeticum in the mid-15th mythical serpents and dragons. and adventurers. letter from Asulanus to Francesco Rubrio, century. The text is quoted by amongst others The Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi French legate of Francis I at Venice. The OCD Bernardus Silvestris, Alanus ab Insulis, Albertus Folio (355 x 235mm) [5]ff 427pp [15]ff. Contemporary (1522-1605) was and one of the major figures in describes the Golden Ass as, ‘A delightful work, Magnus, Roger Bacon and Thomas vellum with early rebacking in vellum, title and the movement that placed a renewed imaginative, humorous, and exciting, it tells the Bradwardine. Although the magical and shelf-mark lettered on spine (upper joint split). £2,500 emphasis on the study of the nature. He was the adventures of one Lucius who, being too curious Egyptian elements in the text were objected to first professor of natural sciences at the University concerning the black art, is accidentally turned by St Augustine in De Civitate Dei they were First edition of aldrovandi’s posthumously of Bologna and one of the first great specimen into an ass, and thus disguised, endures, sees, held in high regard by later philosophers such as published and beautifully illustrated collectors, he regularly organized expeditions and hears many strange things. He is at last Ficino and Giordano Bruno. history of serpents and dragons. In this across for that purpose. He was also heavily restored to human shape by the goddess Iris. The final section of 28pp has its own title- work he combines detailed descriptions of real involved in the founding of the Bologna’s Many stories are embedded in the novel, the page and is printed entirely in Greek. It holds snakes but also gives equal weight to fantastical Botanical Garden in 1568, one of the first in most famous being the exquisite tale of Cupid the philosopher Alcinous’ (2nd century BC) creatures such as a winged dragon, basilisk and Europe and left his Wunderkammern ‘cabinets of and Psyche’. Handbook of Platonism, an epitome of Middle a multi-headed hydra. This contradiction can be curiosities’, one of the earliest and most The other works are his Platonic texts which Platonism, probably intended as a manual for understood when one considers that Aldrovandi impressive collections of this kind to the city. include his supposed translation of the lost teachers rather than students. lived through a transitional period for science Half-title and title with small wormhole, a little Greek dialogue Asclepius, The Perfect Discourse, Renouard p91, no 8. Hoffmann I, p109. and was obliged to base much of his knowledge spotted and browned in places but generally attributed here to Hermes Trismegistus, the only BMSTC (Italian), p35. Adams A-1362. UCLA of the natural history of distant lands from fresh. Nissen ZBI 78. philosophical Hermetic work know in the West Ahmanson-Murphy no 202.

8 9 5 Aristotle Ethicorum, sive ad moribus, ad Nichomachum filium, libri decem, a Joachimo Perionio primum conversi... compendium, per Hermolaum Barbarum... compendium ac synopsis, a Cuthberto Tonstallo editum. 6 BENCI (Francisco), SJ Orationes & carmina. Quae partim nunquam Heidelberg, Lodovicus Lucius, April 1562. [With] De moribus ad Nichomachum antehac, partim in Germania nunc primum in lucem prodierunt. Ingolstadt, libri decem. Strassburg, Josias Rihel, 1563. David Sartorius, 1592. [With:] Carminum libri quatuor eiusdem Ergastus et Philotimus, dramata. Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1592. Printer’s woodcut device, ornamental initials of the most important English diplomats of the and greek letter in second work. 16th century; he was one of Erasmus’ patrons who assisted in the production of the second Woodcut Jesuit device on title-page, ornamental performed before the distribution of prizes in Two works in one vol. 8vo (168 x 104mm). edition of his Greek New Testament, and also woodcut head-pieces and initials. the gymnasium of the Jesuit College in in Contemporary German roll-tooled pigskin, central cast his eye over More’s Moriae Encomium. November 1587 and January 1590 respectively. panel with the arms of Wurttemberg, signed ‘HC’ [Hans II Third edition of the Greek text of the 2 parts in one vol. 8vo (165 x 102mm) [4]ff 383pp [4]ff The author Benci (1542-94) studied in Rome Cantzler]; outer border of medallion heads and foliage Nicomachean Ethics, to be edited by Joannes 325pp. Contemporary blind-panelled pigskin with for seven years during which time he was a (worn, remains of vellum ties). £1,800 Sturm, the German educationalist, with prefaces by roll-tooled borders of medallion heads and foliage, pupil of Marc Antoine Muret, and the first part Sturm and the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives. both original clasps intact, spine backed with marbled of the work includes Benci’s oration delivered I Perionius’ highly regarded latin translation Bound in a contemporary pigskin binding paper and label in the 18th century. £950 at Muret’s funeral. Bayle devoted an article to of the Nicomachean Ethics, edited by Daniello signed by Hans Cantzler (Haebler I, 74, XIX). Benci in his Dictionnaire calling him ‘un des Barbaro. It is followed by the epitome of the Provenance: Franciscan ownership inscriptions First edition. The first part of the book includes plus excellents orateurs de ce temps-là, et un work by Ermolao Barbaro (pp325-384) and by on fly-leaf and title-page dated 1657. several discourses on Latin poetry, while the poète latin’. the Compendium on Aristotle’s text by Cuthbert I Adams A1831. VD16 A3424. Hoffmann I, four books of Carmina in the second part are Provenance: Jesuit ownership inscription at Tunstall (pp385-562), first published in Paris in p338/9/ II Adams A1808. Ritter 80. Hoffmann followed by the texts of the religious dramas (in head of title-page, later armorial stamp at foot. 1556. Tunstall was a renowned scholar and one I, p291. This edition not in VD 16. verse) Ergastus and Philotimus which were VD16 B1666. Adams B626. Sommervogel I, 1288.

10 11 7 , St Opuscula Divi Bernardi Abbatis 8 (New Testament). Latin. ERASMUS Desiderius Clarevallensis (– Flores Sancti Bernardi). (Venice, per Luceantonium de Giunta, Novum Testamentum omne, tertio iam ac diligentius ab ERASMO Roterodamo 1 June & 31 August 1503). recognitum non solum ad graecam veritatem, verum etiam ad multorum utriusque linguae codicum, eorumque veterum simul & emendatorum Fine full-page woodcut of the Annunciation Provenance: Contemporary inscription of the fidem, postremo ad probatissimorum autorum citationem, emendatione & facing the opening page of text in each part, first Buxheim Charterhouse at head of title-page, interpretationem. Addita sunt in singulas apostolorum epistolas argumenta. title and device (Kristeller 216) printed in red and ‘Cartusiae Buxheim’, with their library stamp at foot. ( [Zwolle? Simon Corver for]: Willem Corver, September 1522). opening chapter heading, second title with same Some neat early annotations in red ink. Another device, fine eight-line white-on-black initials inscription inked out. Fine bookplate of the Titles within a woodcut frame, the first with the 8vo edition, without Greek text, is a pointer throughout, printed in double columns. celebrated bookseller and publisher Leo S Olschki. printer’s mark and initials, six-line and eight-line to the importance of the Erasmus version in the CNCE 5500 & 5499. Janauschek, Bib Bernardina woodcut initials coloured by hand. context of Protestantism and of reform within the Two works in one vol. 8vo (185 x 125mm) [400]ff [205]ff 317 & 315 (notes Buxheim Catalogue no 189). Catholic Church. As is shown in the transcription (of 206, lacks final blank). Contemporary Buxheim Sander 961 & 954. Essling 1383 & 1389. COPAC Two parts in one vol. 8vo (145 x 95mm) [176] [144] ff, of the title above, the word Erasmus is capitalised. binding of blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, covers I British Library & Oxford. II British Library & last leaf of part two presumed blank and not present, Simon Corver is recorded as printing at Zwolle panelled and stamped with a variety of small tools, National Library of Scotland. OCLC US libraries: headlines, marginal scripture references. 19th-century from 1519, when he printed an edition of rebacked in vellum in the 18th? century, one clasp I. Harvard & Western Michigan Uni. II Columbia, blind-stamped calf, red edges (worn). £2,200 Erasmus De octo orationis partium constructione remains, early paper label with shelf-mark lettered in red Brigham Young, NYPL, Yale, UCLA & 3 others. A (NK 2897), until early 1523. His output as listed at foot of spine (old repair to lower portion of upper Heavenly Craft. The Woodcut in Early Printed A scarce amsterdam edition of the erasmus by NK (III, iii 290-292) consists of some 42 cover, vellum spine scattered with wormholes). £2,750 Books (LoC, 2004), pp35-37 & cat no 39. latin new testament, and a book recorded by books, including school texts by Erasmus and NK in one copy only at . 1522 saw Listrius with several plays by Plautus, three texts The buxheim copy of two rare collections a number of editions of the Erasmus New by Luther and 4 by the local theologian Gansfort of st bernard of clairvaux’s writings both Testament in various formats, and the success of Wessel (1420-1489.) On 20 June 1523 in illustrated with the same full-page woodcut of a printer identified as Corver by NK the Annunciation which is described by Lilian published a Dutch version of a text by Luther Armstrong as ‘an early example of Venetian Eeen nuttige expositie des evangelijs van den tien High Renaissance art’. The woodcut was first malaetsche (NK 3461) and Dat nyge Testament used two years earlier in another of LucAntonio tho dude (VD 16 B4498), the first Dutch version Giunta’s publications, the Officium beatae of Luther’s New Testament, of which copies are Mariae virginis of June 1501. located by OCLC at Hamburg and Wurttemberg ‘The traditional figures of the Virgin Mary and (see also article in Het Boek 23 (1935-36) pp55- the Angel Gabriel are set in an elegant Renaissance 60, and other articles in the same on Corver.) interior, defined by classical architectural Simon Corver is represented in the British components: a Corinthian column, a coffered Library by some eight titles (four by Wessel), but barrel vault, and roundheaded windows behind his imprint is found only in three works (of which Gabriel. The diagonal lines of the tiled floor two by Wessel) in five copies elsewhere in the UK. converge to suggest the depth of the room. At the Willem Corver is presumed to be a relation who edges of the image are decorative columns that acted as a publisher in Amsterdam. appear to support a segmented arch; these act as a Provenance: Inscription at foot of title-page frame through which the viewer looks at the holy ‘Pal: A: Leith 1711’, some underlining and ms event’ (Armstrong, Heavenly Craft). This notes in part two on B6 and B8 (Romans ix, 14, spacious setting, perspective, and the idealised 15 note on predestination). Some dampstaining, and lightly modelled figures are to Armstrong the heavier towards end. indicators of the High Renaissance style. Nijhoff-Kronenburg 2430.

12 13 9 BLOEMAERT (Abraham) Oorspronkelyk en vermaard konstryk tekenboek. Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, 1740.

Engraved title, added, engraved dedication plate, figure as a whole. Bloemaert’s drawing examples portrait of the author and plates numbered 1 are not derived from those of other authors. (engraved title) to 166; engraved title, portrait They represent the fruits of a life of industrious and duplicates of plates 80, 94, 95, 108, 137, study in academies and after nature. Each 144 & 145 overprinted with chiaroscuro blocks individual example bears the unmistakable in ochre; also duplicates of 87, 88, 98 & 102 stamp of Bloemaert. It is not a method or a making a total of 179 plates, by Frederick system of construction which is being offered as Bloemaert after Abraham Bloemaert. an example, but the maniera of the great and respected master himself… This method of Folio (404 x 287mm) [3]ff 6pp [2]ff. Contemporary approach is described by the subtitle on the title/ half-calf, marbled boards (neat repairs to spine). £6,500 frontispiece, where the idea is expressed, that the apprentice would be able to attain his goal, The most complete edition of the dutch the representation of the human figure, provided mannerist artist abraham bloemaert’s that he first learned to draw the individual parts (1564-1651) drawing book which includes the of the human body from this book’ (Bolten). engraved title, portrait and seven duplicate Ref: Jaap Bolten. Method and Practice: Dutch plates overprinted in chiaroscuro. First and Flemish Drawing Books, 1600-1750 published in installments c1650-1656 under the (1985), pp57-67 (ill) & p253. title Artis Apellae liber with 100-120 plates, few copies of which have survived, the present edition is described by Bolten as ‘magnificent... due to its costly and attractive design, [it] presumably made its way directly to the library of the connoisseur’. Abraham’s youngest son, Frederick Bloemaert (c1610-c1669), had engraved the plates after the designs of his father for their original publication and they were prepared and ordered for this edition by the renowned French engraver and publisher Bernard Picart. The plates are divided into eight sections each part with its own title: I Heads & faces. II Hands & feet. III Figures. IV Male & female nudes. V Children. VI Figures & groups. VII Compositions or historic subjects. VIII Animals. ‘The leading example of the master model in the Netherlands is the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. This work consists mostly of academic drawing examples with depictions of both parts of the body and of the human

14 15 11 BOETHIUS Consolationis philosophiae libri recensuit, emendavit, edidit, Johan Eremita. Paris, sumptibus Lamy, 1783.

Fine engraved frontispiece.

12mo (130 x 75mm) liv, 85, 280pp 18th-century green morocco possibly by Derome, triple filt fillet on covers, flat spine gilt in compartments, ieg, ge £850

A finely bound edition newly edited by Jean-François Debure de Saint Fauxbin (1741-1825) under the pseudonym Johannes Eremita, son of the great bibliographer Guillaume-François Debure (1731-82) author of Bibliographie instructive: ou traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers (1763-69). Schweiger pp 33/34.

12 BOILEAU-DESPREAUX (Nicolas) Oeuvres... avec des éclaircissemens historiques donnez par lui-même... Amsterdam, chez David Mortier, 1718.

Engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, folding portrait of the Princess of Wales after Kneller, 10 BOETHIUS Consolationis philosophiae libros quinque interpretatione frontispiece and 6 full-page engraved plates to et notis illustravit Petrus Callyus... in usum serenissimi delphini. Paris, apud ‘Le Lutrin’ and numerous large head- and tail Lambertum Roulland, 1680. vignettes all by Picart. Each page printed within a border made up of typographical ornaments. Fine engraved frontispiece incorporating the Louis. The name of the series was derived from a dauphin’s arms and a medallion of Boethius, Latin inscription on the title page of the books, Two vols. Folio (380 x 240mm). Late 18th-century engraved dauphin’s arms on title-page, engraved in usum serenissimi Delphini (‘for the use of the polished calf, covers with outer decorative gilt border, dedication headpiece, repeated. most serene Dauphin’). spines richly gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, ge The editor was the Cartesian scholar Pierre fine gilded floral endpapers (joints rubbed). £1,100 4to (258 x 185mm) [20]ff 352pp [28]ff. Late 18th- Cally, of Mesnil-Hubert, near Argenton. The century red morocco, triple filt fillet on covers, spine edition is notable for Cally’s use of Cartesian First edition to hold the fine illustrations of richly gilt in compartments, ieg, ge. £1,500 philosophy, or at least notions of it, in his Bernard Picart (1673-1733) and the portrait of explanation of the text. It had a lasting influence Caroline, Princess of Wales after Sir Godfrey A finely bound copy of one of the rarest of as it was included in Migne’s Patrologia Latina Kneller (1646-1723). Gordon Ray describes Picart the delphin editions of the Latin classics (see Lodi Nauta, ‘Platonic and Cartesian as ‘the outstanding professional illustrator of the created for le Grand Dauphin. The series was Philosophy in the Commentary on Boethius’ first third of the 18th century’ while Cohen-de supervised by Pierre-Daniel Huet from 1670 to Consolatio Philosophiae by Pierre Cally’, in Ricci describes the frontispiece as ‘superbe’ and the 1680, when he was working with Jacques British Journal for the History of Philosophy portrait as ‘magnifique’. Bossuet, tutor to Louis XIV’s son, the Dauphin 4/1 1996, pp79-100). Schweiger p33. Cohen-de Ricci 165/6. Ray I, p7.

16 17 product of the Dutch Golden Age and lived his landscape painter. Jan also specialized in entire life in Amsterdam, his works reflecting the landscapes but made his mark as a printmaker and 13 BREDERO (Gerbrand Adriaensz) Boertigh, Amoreus, everyday language of the city. In 1611 he became a draftsman. His engraved landscapes were often en Aendachtigh Groot Lied-boeck. Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodowijcksz: member of the De Eglantier rederijkerskamer, based on drawings from nature and his emphasis vander Plasse, 1622. where he was friends with Roemer Visscher and on naturalistic detail and simple composition PC Hooft, and with Hooft he joined the Costers influenced other artists including Rembrandt Engraved title, added, fine engraved portrait of First collected edition of bredero’s famous Nederduytsche Academie. He became best known Harmensz van Rijn’ (Getty). Le Blon was a Bredero by Hessel Gerritsz (the only known groot lied-boeck, a collection of some 200 for his farces and comedies and in 1617 his comedy goldsmith and engraver from who was portrait), 20 engravings, three full-page and 17 popular songs, mostly love and wedding songs. masterpiece De Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo active in the Netherlands and . half-page by Jan van de Velde II and Michel le The beautiful engravings depict scenes of love and was first performed. He died suddenly in the Bookplate of GS Overdiep. Blon; full-page calligraphic woodcut of Cupid courtship although the first full-page engraving by following year at the age of just 33. Tear on pp89/90 of part two neatly repaired in part two repeated in part three; occasional van de Velde is a lively scene of peasants drinking The engravings are mostly by Jan van de Velde Scheurleer, Nederlandsche Liedboeken, p142. use of civilité type. and dancing in a tavern to illustrate the song the younger (1593-1641) with three by Michel le Carter & Vervliet, Civilité Types, 1966, no 360. ‘Boeren Geselschap’ (‘Peasant Company’). Blon (1587-1658). ‘Jan van de Velde II came from OCLC (US: NGA Washington, Newberry Lib, Three parts in one vol. Oblong 4to (150 x 195mm) Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585-1618), an artistic family. His father was a celebrated Columbia, Huntington only). [16]ff 111pp103pp 62pp [1]f. 19th-century vellum was a prolific writer of popular lyrics and dramas. calligrapher and teacher and he was the over pasteboards. £8,500 The son of a well-to-do shoemaker Bredero was a nephew of Esaias van de Velde, an important See pages 24 and 26 for further song books.

18 19 14 BULLINGER (Heinrich) In omnes Apostolicas epistolas, divi videlicet Pauli XIIII et VII canonicas, commentarii Heinrychi Bullingeri... accesserunt ad fine quoque duo libelli, alter de Testamento dei unico & aeterno, alter vero de Utraque. in Christo natura. , apud Christophorum Froschouerum, 1558.

Froschauer’s fine woodcut device on both editions of the Apostolic Letters (1537, 1539, titles, woodcut initials, some large. 1544, 1549 & 1558 – see VD16 B9723-9727), all of which are rarely found. Two vols in one. Folio (323 x 200mm) [20]ff 731pp Charles S McCoy and J Wayne Baker in 195pp. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger bevelled wooden boards, covers panelled with fillets and the Covenantal Tradition (1991) argue that and outer historiated roll of the muses Calliope, Bullinger’s covenant doctrine, which went far Thalia, Euterpe und Terpsichore and inner roll of beyond Zwingli’s, was seminal for the further medallion heads, leafy stamps in panels, clasps and development of covenant or federal theology catches remain, title lettered in ink at head of and the creation of federal political philosophy. fore-edge (lower cover with tear but no loss). £4,500 ‘It is the first work that organizes the understanding of God, creation, humanity, Froschauer’s edition of the swiss reformer human history and society around the covenant. bullinger’s commentary on the apostolic It must be regarded therefore as the point of letters includes as an appendix his De origin or the fountainhead of federalism as it has testamento seu foedere Dei unico et aeterno (A increasingly come to permeate the world in the Brief Exposition of the One and Eternal four and a half centuries since its publication’. Testament or Covenant of God). This important The present edition is scarce outside and highly influential treatise was the first continental libraries and no copies are located devoted to covenant theology. It was Bullinger’s by OCLC in the USA. Provenance: Ownership most distinctive doctrine and taught that there inscription inside front-cover dated 1566, a few was only covenant in history, from Adam to the marginal annotations and underlinings. present. First published by Froschauer in a VD16 B4974, B9727 & B9740. Adams B3240. separate octavo edition of 1534 (VD16 B9722) Ref: J Wayne Baker, in, Oxford Encyclopaedia of and subsequently only reprinted in his five folio the Reformation, I, pp227-230).

20 21 15 (BUONAROTTI (Filippo)) Osservazioni istoriche sopra alcuni medaglioni antichi. Rome, nella stamparia di Domeico Antonio Ercole, 1698.

Beautiful engraved frontispiece in the manner First edition of this sumptuously of a large commemorative marble medal. 29 illustrated numismatic work, dedicated to full-page plates of coins and medals engraved by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, which records the Andreoni; in all, the recto and verso of 129 medals and coins from the collection of Cardinal medals are illustrated. A full page portrait of Gasparo de Carpegna. The publishing history of Emperor Augustus after Marratta engraved by the present work is interesting in so far as the Auden Aest, and two double-page plates of large printer/publisher had already printed the cameos, an engraved plate of a ‘patera antica’. 43 numismatic plates before he had even heard of finely engraved text-illustrations by Pietro Santo the existence of Buonarotti’s learned annotations Bartoli (monogrammed pSB) of carved stones, of the collection. He subsequently married his coins, medals, and relief sculptures. Engraved plates and Buonarotti’s notes without adaption, title-vignette, two engraved historiated initials which explains the different chronological order 16 CALLOT (Jacques) Les images de tous les Saincts et Saintes de l’année and 12 text-woodcuts. Some Greek printing. of plates and notes. Bartoli was commissioned to suivant le martyrologe Romain. Paris, Israel Henriet, 1636. adorn the volume with engravings of cameos, 4to (280 x 200mm) [4]ff xxviii 495pp. engraved stones etc found in the same collection Engraved title-page with arms of Richelieu, his contemporaneous work in method, for often Contemporary vellum over paste boards. £2,000 of Cardinal Gasparo (cf publisher’s preface). printed dedication; etched frontispiece and they were almost completely drawn in line, with Cicognara 2782. Gamba 1824. Nagler 122 plates, with four images per plate, making very little shading. In their first states they are Monogrammisten, IV, no. 3308. 488 in all, by Callot. entitled to careful study, for they are full of individuality and indicate, with their explanatory Folio (291 x 180mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, backgrounds of martyrdoms, an incredible double gilt fillet on covers, fleurons at each corner, knowledge of religious history and tradition. The spine with gilt fleuron in each compartment frontispiece is Callot’s Tintoretto-like (joints restored). £6,000 Assumption of the Virgin (Bechtel). Between 1631 and 1635 Callot is thought to have executed First edition, dedicated to the cardinal around 600 religious prints which reflected both duc de richelieu, published by Callot’s close his deep personal faith (he is said by Félibien to friend Henriet in 1636 one year after the artist’s have attended mass every day) and the flourishing death. This copy has the first issue of the 119 plates market for spiritual imagery in Lorraine at this of saints, with blank panels, and signed only with time, a stronghold of Roman Catholicism. Israel’s name; the second issue of the three plates A few minor marks and stains but generally a for the feast days with text in panels; the second very good copy in a contemporary binding with issue title and imprint with the correct reading contemporary manuscript foliation and note at ‘Henriet’; the first issue printed dedication with all the foot of final plate. Pencil notes in French the text on the recto; and finally the third issue inside front cover dated 12/4/1896 by M Gallier, frontispiece with the caption reading ‘ny de mort’. with his more extensive bibliographical notes Jacques Callot’s (1592-1635) Images of Saints on a loose sheet. for Every Day of the Year was one of his Brunet I, 1484. Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot: Vie final works and characterised his later artistique et catalogue de l’oeuvre grave, Paris, productions at Nancy which were mostly 1924-1927, 1252, 1253, 1254 & 1255. E de T religious in nature. The plates here ‘differed from Bechtel, Jacques Callot, (1955), p32, pls 173-5.

22 23 17 CAMPANUS (Matthaeus van), COLEVERT (JJ), ROBBERTSEN (J) & CRAEN (Ap) Amsterdamsche Pegasus, waer in (uyt lust) be een nergadert zijn, deel Minnelijcke Liedekens... Amsterdam, p A Ravestyn for Cornelis Willemsz Blaeu-Laken, 1627.

Engraved title, added, and ten engravings (170 x were often based on drawings from nature and 80mm) by Jan van de Velde the younger, musical his emphasis on naturalistic detail and simple scores in text, use of civilité type. composition influenced other artists including Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn’ (Getty). His Oblong 4to (154 x 191mm) [8]ff 177pp [1] f. father was a celebrated calligrapher and teacher Contemporary vellum (small cracks to upper and he was the nephew of Esaias van de Velde, an cover joint). £12,000 important landscape painter. Provenance: Contemporary Latin inscription Extremely rare first edition of this on front free endpaper of Jacob Rocher, dated collection of dutch pastoral songs Amsterdam 24 July 1635. Henry Howard beautifully illustrated by Jan van de Velde II. (1628-1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to Only six copies are recorded by OCLC the Royal Society in 1667 with stamp ‘Soc Reg. (Amsterdam, Leiden, and Utrecht universities, Lond ex dono Henr Howard Norfolciensis’ on Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, British Library and verso of title with their late 19th-century an incomplete copy at the Library of Congress) disposal stamp beneath. while RISM adds copies at Toonkunst- Small worm hole in blank lower margin Bibliotheek Amsterdam and the Bibliothèque expertly repaired, lightly dampstained in places. Royale Brussels. RISM 1627.10. DF Scheurleer, Nederlandsche Jan van de Velde II (1593-c1641) was among Liedboeken, p152. Brunet I, 248. Ref: H Rodney the first artists to create the distinctive Dutch Nevitt, Art and the Culture of Love (2003), p134. landscape genre of the early 17th century beautifully depicted in the present work. ‘The conceit of nature - or rather, the image of nature – as a spur to love is present in Jan van de Velde II’s ten etched illustrations to Amsterdamsche Pegasus, which may be the first Dutch song-book with illustrations not so much of lovers in landscapes but of landscapes themselves as representations of desire’ (Nevitt). In his pastoral scenes he favoured a narrow horizontal format as a way to emphasize the low, expansive terrain surrounding Haarlem. ‘His engraved landscapes

24 25 19 CARTHUSIAN LITURGY Libellus continens modum recipiendi, ac incellandi Novitios. Absolendi & inungendi infirmos. Item sepeliendi mortuos: cum devotis aspirationibus & precibus. Astheim, 1689.

Manuscript on paper, in Latin and German. 4to (210 x The Carthusian liturgy is unique and differs 160mm) [1], 91ff (last three blank). 26 lines, rounded considerably from the Roman Rite, being gothic script in brown, red and blue ink, German text in a substantially that of Grenoble in the 12th century neat cursive script. Musical notation on four-line staves, with some admixture from other sources. In the some penwork ornamentation. Contemporary vellum manuscript some prayers are in the vernacular for over pasteboard (covers with a few stains). £2,400 the benefit of the lay brothers, written in a cursive script. The body of customs that had been the basis An unusual manuscript combining the liturgy of Carthusian life became the statutes of the order for the reception of novices into the Carthusian when compiled by Guigo, the fifth prior of the order with the liturgy and prayers for the Grande Chartreuse, in the mid-12th century absolution and anointing of the sick, and burial (Migne, Patrol Lat cliii 631); enlargements and 18 CAMPHUYSEN (Dirk Raphaelsz) Stichelycke rymen, om te lesen of the dead. The manuscript was produced for modifications of this code were made in 1259, 1367, ofte singhen. Onderscheyden in III. deelen. Op nieuws over-sien en grootelijckx the Buxheim Charterhouse by the 70-year-old 1509 and 1681. The 1681 revision may well have vermeerdert, oock de noten van Druck-fauten ghecorrigeert, en verrijckt met vele Wurzburg born Fr Caspar Hess at the Astheim prompted the production of this manuscript, a copere figuren. Amsterdam, by Iacob Colom, 1647. Charterhouse, ‘Scripsi in Cartusia Asthiem. change is noted at the foot of f 51v for example. Anno 1689. F Caspar Hess. Herbipolensis. Revisions were only ever slight and the unofficial Folding engraved portrait (255 x 185mm) of the lezen of te zingen (Hoorn, 1624), which in the aetatis an 70. Pro Cartusia Aulae B Mariae V. in motto for the order is ‘Cartusia nunquam reformata author by S Savey after C Castelein, 61 large first edition, and in the many subsequent ones, Buxheim’. The Monasticon Cartusiense, vol II in quia nunquam deformata’ (the order has never been engravings (125 x 80mm), including one was published with music, whereas in Dutch Analecta Cartusiana, no 185: 2 (2004) records reformed, because it was never deformed). tipped-in between Q4 and R1 unpaginated and Calvinist church services only rhyming psalms that Caspar Hess, who became a novice in 1641, with blank recto, by F Allen and P Nolpe to Geneva melodies were sung. The 17th produced liturgical manuscripts for Astheim and (Landwehr), fine large historiated woodcut century, thanks also to Camphuysen’s poetry, other charterhouses of the province (Provincia initials, musical scores in text. saw the development of domestic devotional Alemanniae inferioris). songs for one or more voices, which were often The manuscript gives a fascinating insight Oblong 4to (144 x 196mm) [4]ff 326pp [3]ff. accompanied by, or arranged for, instruments... into the workings of the Carthusian order where Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorative border on Camphuysen’s poems enjoyed great popularity life is very nearly eremitical. The monks live in covers with central gilt lozenge shaped ornament made and gave to Dutch piety of the 17th and 18th solitude in separate houses or ‘cells’ off the great up of small stamps, spine gilt in compartments (expertly centuries an individual character comparable cloister and, except on Sundays and feast days, rebacked with original spine laid down). £5,000 to that of early Pietism in Germany.’ (Grove). meet only three times a day in the church. Here, Small tear to inner margin of portrait with at the beginning of his life as a monk, great First illustrated edition of camphuysens’ slight loss of image, blank lower corner of C4 emphasis is placed on his fellow cloister monks important collection of devotional songs, torn away, paper flaw in Oo4 affecting one or bringing the novice to his cell in procession and first published in 1624. The engravings are two letters over three lines, Rr2v and Rr3r finally, at the end of his life, when extreme emblematic, each one with a motto above and a somewhat soiled. unction is to be administered, the monks process four line epigram beneath. In this edition parts one Bookplate of GS Overdiep. again to the cell, the sick monk is anointed, and two include musical scores for every poem. Praz p296 (only calls for 58 engravings). pardoned and blessed and all present give him a The Dutch poet and schoolmaster Landwehr Dutch Emblem Books, no 40 (‘The last kiss of peace. For burial the monk is dressed Camphuysen (1586-1627) ‘is significant in the only edition with emblematic plates’). Scheurleer, in his robes and cowl, laid on a wooden plank, history of music for his Stichtelycke rymen, om te Nederlandsche Liedboeken, p39. and placed in the grave without a coffin.

26 27 20 CATS (Jacob) Swerelts begin, midden, eynde, besloten in den trou-ringh, appeal, and moral message guaranteed a broad Blaeu Atlas. Although such colourists worked met den proef-steen van den selven. Dordrecht, voor Matthias Havius. Gedruckt audience’ (W Frijhoff & M Spies, Dutch Culture in principally on fine atlases they were also by Hendrick van Esch, 1637. a European Perspective (2004), p28). commissioned by wealthy collectors to colour The miniature compositions of artists such as engravings found in , emblem and festival Double-page engraved title by Adriaen van de First edition of one of the most important van de Venne, with so many references to books and other illustrated works; indeed the Venne (1589-1662), two divisional titles, portrait and popular works of the famous Dutch contemporary Dutch culture, are brought to life Museum Catsianum notes a similarly coloured of Jacob Cats by W Delff after M Miereveld, poet Jacob Cats (1577-1660), Proefsteen van de here by the superb colouring which is expertly copy of the present work (no 154). Master colourists portrait of the dedicatee Anna Maria Schurmans, Trou-ringh (Touchstone of the Wedding Ring), applied. The pages that contain illustration have such as Van Santen and our anonymous artist added 51 half-page engravings by Crispyn van den found here with all engraved titles, portraits, half- been sized to prevent absorption, the colourist has a specific character to the prints and maps they Queboorn, Adriaen Matham and others after page engravings and woodcut initials and vignettes added details to dress, interiors and landscape, and worked on, not just a mechanical process of Adriaen van de Venne, Jan Olis and others, beautifully hand-coloured at the time of binding in ample use is made of gold to heighten the colour as colouring in, and thus their prints became works of woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces; all are the late 17th century. well as white paint or gesso often used to dramatic art in their own right (see: H de La Fontaine Verwey, superbly hand-coloured and many heightened The Trou-ringh and Cat’s first work on marriage effect, none more so than in the depiction of the ‘The Glory of the Blaeu Atlas and the Master in white and gold. Houwelijck (1625) were extremely popular books skeleton being warded off by Cupid on p709. Very Colourist’, Quaerendo, XI, 1981, pp208-229). running through many editions and ‘could be found little is known of individual colourists working Cats was a born storyteller, who in this work 4to (238 x 175mm) [22]ff 772pp [4]ff 136pp. Late on the bookshelves of persons of all persuasions... during the Golden Age, they were not members of a illustrated his sharp psychological and social 17th-century Dutch gilt panelled calf over paste- with their many prints they were geared both to the guild, and only one attained any level of recognition insights as easily with examples from the classical boards, spine richly gilt in compartments (headcaps reading abilities of the Dutch and their highly visual – Dirck Jansz van Santen (1637-1708), the ‘master world or the Bible as from daily life in the Golden and joints rubbed). £22,500 culture. The combination of literary form, visual colourist’ (Meester Afsetter) of the van der Hem Age. One important example taken from a modern

28 29 author is Cervantes’ La Gitanilla (Novelas Ejemplares, 1613) the tale of a Spanish nobleman marrying a gypsy girl, which appears here for the first time in the Netherlands as ‘Het Spaens Heydinnetie’. Van de Venne’s illustration of Don Jan in a large Spanish ruff before a seated Pretiose 21 CAVALIERI (Giovanni Battista) Romanorum imperatorum with Majombe, the gypsy, behind, greatly effigies. Elogiis, ex diversis scriptoribus, per Thomam Treteru[m]... Rome, influenced other Dutch artist’s rendering of the apud Franciscum Coattinum, 1590. subject and came to epitomize the tale in visual terms; it also provides evidence of the connections Title engraved within architectural border with imperatori romani, Rome, Domenico Basa, 1590. between Dutch art and contemporary literature the crowned arms of the dedicatee Stefan Provenance: Early inscription on title-page (see: I Gaskell, Transformations of Cervantes ‘La Bathory, king of Poland, at the head, full-page rubbed away, early shelf-marks. Booklabel of Gitanilla’ in Dutch Art, in Journal of the Warburg engraved arms of Cavalieri and 151 full-page Ebenezer Palmer, Bookseller, 18 Paternoster Row, & Courtauld Institute, vol 45 (1982), pp263-70). engraved portraits with the names engraved at London EC, Estd 1819. 20th-century bookplate of Provenance: Unidentified circular monogrammed the foot, Coattino’s ring device on verso of last Thomas Hodgkin, Newcastle on Tyne, designed stamp on title-page. leaf, coloured. by Harry Soane, London. Museum Catsianum 153. Lower corner, I3 paper flaw affecting one letter. 8vo (171 x 114mm) [8]ff (last two blank) 157 (ie 152) Brunet I, 1697. Mortimer Italian 119. OCLC (four ff. Contemporary vellum over thin paste-boards, re copies only in US libraries: Newberry, Illinois, St (ties missing, trifle soiled). £1,500 John’s MN, & Southern Methodist University)

An additional portrait of rudolph II is found here in the second edition of Cavalieri’s portrait book of the Roman Emperors, following the first of 1583. Mortimer records a second issue of this edition with the title-page altered to 1592. The work is dedicated to Stefan Bathory, king of Poland, and the short biographies are by the Polish polymath Tomasz Treter (1547-1610), at that time a canon at Santa Maria in Trastevere, who was closely associated with the Polish court. Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri (1526-1601) was a prolific printmaker producing engravings after Michelangelo and other masters as well as illustrating a number of books such as the important counter-reformation suites of Catholic martyrdoms Ecclesiae militantis triumphi (1583) and Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea (1584). As Mortimer notes Cavalieri’s copperplates were also used to illustrate a text by Antonio Ciccarelli, Le vita degli

30 31 23 DELAUNE (Etienne) Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c1560-70.

Six engraved prints, three oval, three rectangular, all except one white-on-black, plate size c 80 x 65mm, sheet size 205 x 105mm, sewn together at top (trifle soiled). Three signed with variations of 22 CHYTRAEUS (David) Articulorum symboli apostolici de filio dei domino ‘Cum privilegio regis Stephanus fecit’, second Minerva, nostro Iesu Christi... Explicatio ex praelectionibus Davidis Chytraei collecta, & fourth image Arithmetic, fifth Astronomy, last edita a Ioanne Fredero. Wittenberg, excusa per haeredes Ioan. Cratonis, 1584. image ‘Sacrifice of Abraham’. £1,500 [Bound with:] De baptismo et eucharistia, ex praelectionibus Davidis Chytraei excepta. Wittenberg, edita per Zachariam Lemanum, 1584. A rare collection of individual plates by the skilled french mannerist engraver Some greek and hebrew letter, woodcut intials Chemnitz and Jakob Andreae. etienne delaune. Three are taken from his suites and ornaments in both works. I VD16 C2507. Adams C1574. OCLC (US: to illustrate the liberal arts, two are classical Columbia, Luther Seminary Library only). II figures, while the last is the ‘Sacrifice of 8vo.(163 x 102mm) [1]f 343pp; [1]f 1-156pp [2]ff VD16 C2508. OCLC (no copies in US). Abraham’ from his Old Testament series. The (blank) [1]f 157-534pp [4]ff (last 3 blank). common factor in all the prints is the exquisite Contemporary vellum, spine gilt ruled in execution of the mannerist borders and, as has compartments, central gilt floral stamp in each, ink often been noted, in his prints he shows a titles at head of spine. £1,200 precision and intricacy associated with his original profession as a goldsmith. First and only editions of these two works Etienne Delaune (Orléan 1518/19-1583) was by the lutheran divine and historian, the trained as an engraver of medals, and worked with first edited by his son-in-law Johann Freder (1544- Benvenuto Cellini during the latter’s stay in Paris 1604), also professor of theology at Rostock. from 1540-1545. By 1552, Delaune was employed David Chytraeus (1531-1600), or Kochhafe, as chief medallist at the royal mint, founded by was professor at Rostock and spent considerable Henry II, and in 1556 he furnished designs for time travelling around Germany, stabilizing the Henry’s parade armour. His extant prints consist union and harmony of the emerging Lutheran mostly of allegorical subjects within rich, Church. He was one of the six theologians ornamental surrounds and are exceptional for engaged on the Form of Concord (1576) and had their technical precision despite their often small completely rewritten two articles of the Swabian size. Delaune’s rare surviving drawings reveal the Concord on Free Will and the Lord’s Supper. In influence of Primaticcio and the school of his youth he was a favourite of his master Fontainebleau and his engravings helped to spread Melanchthon and lived in his house; in later the Fontainebleau style among artists and life, however, he came to oppose some of craftsmen in France and beyond. Melanchthon’s views. Of the three developing Ref: Per Bjurstrom, Etienne Delaune and the Lutheran parties Chytraeus was a member of the Academy of Poetry and Music, in Master centre one, along with such theologians as Martin Drawings, 1997, vol 34, no 4, pp351-364.

32 33 24 DIO CASSIUS Rerum Romanarum a Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae, Epitome authore Ioanne Xiphilino. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1551. [Bound with:] Rerum Romanarum... epitome, Ioanne Xiphilino authore, Guilielmo Blanco Albiensi interprete. Paris, [Robert Estienne], 1551. Wittenberg, edita per Zachariam Lemanum, 1584.

In first work basilisk device of king’s printer on Beautifully printed with the first part using the title-page, 25 large grotesque ornamental largest types of the ‘grec du roi’ and the second woodcut initials and head-pieces, in second part printed in Estienne’s handsome roman types. work woodcut arms of Cardinal d’Armagnac Provenance: 17th-century Florentine and 25 similar initials and head-pieces; first part ownership inscription inside front cover, book printed in Greek letter throughout. label of Elizabeth Armstrong, the authority on the Estiennes and author of Robert Estienne (1954). Two works in one vol 4to (245 x 165mm) 357pp [1] Blank upper outer corner of title-page neatly f; [3]ff 280pp [5]ff. 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt restored; a very fresh copy internally. in compartments (crack to spine, lower joint Adams D513 & D515. Mortimer 170 & just splitting). £1,600 171. Renouard p80, nos 8 & 9. Schreiber 108 (Greek text). of Xiphilinus’ epitome of the histories of Dio Cassius printed from manuscripts in the French Royal Library. In 1548 Robert Estienne had published the first edition in the 25 ERASMUS Moriae Encomium [in Greek, then] Stultitiae Laus. original Greek of the surviving books of Dio Cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris Jo Holbenii. E codice Academiae Cassius’ histories which covered the period 68 BC Basiliensis... Basle, typis Genathianis, 1676. -AD 54. Joannes Xiphilinus was a 12th century Byzantine monk who wrote this Epitome under Engraved title-page, added, by Kaspar Merian Ambrosius. They are here engraved by Kaspar the orders of Emperor Michael VII, and it is now after Hans Holbein, engraved device on title, Merian from the original marginal illustrations, the only surviving source for books 61-80 which engraved vignette above dedication to Colbert Holbein’s earliest surviving work, found in a copy concern the period 47-235 AD, a most exciting incorporating his ‘snake’ insignia, engraved of the 1515 edition now at the Kunstmuseum at time in Roman imperial history. The second work portrait of Erasmus, and two of Hans Holbein, Basle. The editor Charles Patin also adds a life of in the volume is Guillaume Leblanc’s Latin full-page engraving of Erasmus’ epitaph, and 82 Holbein, not always complementary, and the first translation of the Epitome and presumably engravings by Merian after Holbein, some catalogue raisonné in which he describes 60 works intended to be bound with the Greek text, although pressed directly into the text and the larger ones over five pages in double columns. it is often found as a separate publication. pasted in on folding slips (a little browned). This edition also includes a life of Erasmus Possibly the last two books printed by Estienne and bibliography, the commentary of Gerard in Paris before his departure for Geneva. An early 8vo (194 x 116mm) [40]ff 336pp [6]ff. Contemporary Lister (which Erasmus also worked on), owner has tried to delete Estienne’s name from panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco Erasmus’ preface to Thomas More, with whom the first title; the second work has the cancel title label (rebacked with original spine laid down). £1,250 he stayed in 1509 and wrote In Praise of Folly as with the arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Georges a diversion from a kidney ailment, and letters to d’Armagnac (replacing a title-page with First edition of In Praise of Folly to hold the famous More and Martin van Dorp Estienne’s olive-tree device). illustrations of Hans Holbein and his brother Van der Haeghen p122.

34 35 26 ERASMUS Morias enkomion (graece), id est stultitae laus... (Strassburg, work, continually revised during his lifetime; Wimpfeling (1450-1528), dated September apud Ioannem Knoblouchum, 1521. [Bound with:] De duplici copia verborum. the first dated edition had been published in 1514 (Allen 305), in which he relates his (, ex aedibus Ioannis Schoeffer, August 1521. [And] Parabolae sive Strassburg in 1511. In Praise of Folly was previous journey to Basle, mentioning all the similia... Accesserunt annotationes... Ioanne Artopaeo Spirense. Freiburg, written by Erasmus in little over a week in 1509 humanist scholars he had met from and Stephanus Melechus Gravius excudebat, 1544. as a diversion to a kidney complaint he was Basle, where Erasmus had just taken up suffering from while staying at the London residence. Erasmus had first become acquainted I Fine four-piece title-border, some greek letter; roll of half-figures of Justicia, Prudentia and Lucretia, home of Thomas More. The idea of universal with Wimpheling in August 1514 when he opening initial in red and some rubrication. inner panel made up of repeated decorative roll and folly had been conceived by Erasmus while stopped in Strassburg on his way to Basle, and II Fine one-piece title-border, large woodcut small floral stamps (head and foot of spine restored, crossing the Alps on his way from Italy to was officially welcomed by the members of the initials, some greek letter. remains of catches). £4,500 England taking as inspiration all he had seen recently founded literary society which included in recent years, the idea was then allowed Sebastian Brant and Joannes Sturm. The work Three works in one volume. 8vo (166 x 102mm). A finely preserved sammelband of three to develop into this masterpiece of satire. concludes with three poems by Erasmus Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled erasmian works including in praise of folly. ‘The Praise of Folly is Erasmus’ best work. He addressed to Sebastian Brant, Joannes Sapidus and wooden boards, covers panelled with fillets and outer I An early edition of Erasmus’ most enduring wrote other books, more erudite, some more Thomas Didimus, together with the latter’s reply. pious –some perhaps of equal or greater III Rare first edition of Johannes Artopoeus influence on his time. But each had its day. (Peter Becker 1520-66), no copies are located by Moriae Encomium alone was to be immortal. OCLC in US libraries. Artopoeus was from For only when humour illuminated that mind Speier and studied at Freiburg, where he later did it become truly profound. In the Praise of taught rhetoric and greek, and became professor Folly Erasmus gave something that no one else of canon law and eventually rector of the could have given to the world’. (J Huizinga, university. The Parabolarum, first printed in Erasmus, ch IX, p78). 1514, is a collection of similitudes and II An early edition of De duplici copia. comparisons, metaphors, allusions, poetical and Erasmus was working for a number of years on scriptural allegories, compiled for the use of a treatise on Latin composition, begun while in rhetoricians and letter writers and an Italy, but completed only in 1512 during his enormously popular school text. third stay in England at the request of John Provenance: Long 17th-century presentation Colet for use in the latter’s newly founded school inscription inside front cover from Pastor in St Paul’s Churchyard. This treatise was Johannes Münster to Hilmaro Anthonio with designed to help the young student in acquiring chronogram at the end. A few examples of early an elegant and copious style and to provide underlining and annotation in all three works. abundant examples of how to say the same thing Lower blank margin of second title-page cut in different ways. First printed in Paris by Badius away and repaired with old paper, old paper in 1512, it was soon reprinted several times, repairs to last leaf of second and title of third work, becoming a standard textbook in schools across some light staining affecting last few leaves. Europe. This edition contains Erasmus’ long I VD16 E3192. Bezzel 1312. II VD16 E2656. letter to the Alsatian humanist Jakob III VD16 E3259.

36 37 27 ERDMANN (Christian) ie [FORNER (Friedrich) Relatio historico-paraenetica, de sacrosanctis, Sacri Romani Imperii, reliquiis, et ornamentis, quibus Romanorum Caesares, inaugurari, coronari, solennique ritu investiri conseverunt, aliisque sacris Lipsanis, in Imperiali Thesauro 28 EUSEBIUS Pamphili, Bp of Caesaria Chronico[n]. Paris, collectis, ac Norimbergae asservatis... [, np], 1629. , 30 October 1518.

Title within woodcut decorative border, final Provenance: Inscribed ‘Rariss’ and ‘de Murr’ Woodcut title-border, printed in red and black Eusebius’ Tables, arranged in parallel columns leaf with large woodcut headpiece and on title-page, ie Christoph Gottlieb von Murr throughout, some Greek letter, criblé initials. illustrating the history of the world year by year, emblematic printer’s device. (1733-1811). Stamp on front pastedown of end during the year 329 and the continuations are ‘Bibliothek Schloss Miltenberg’ (). 4to (233 x 165mm) [20], 175 [ie 173]ff [1]f (blank). by St Jerome (to 381), Prosper Aquitanus (to 448), 4to (192 x 150mm) [3]ff 76pp [1]f. Later cream paper VD17 23:235105M (one of two variants, each 17th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments Matteo Palmieri (to 1449), Mattia Palmieri (to boards (somewhat soiled). £1,200 with a different colophon leaf). OCLC: outside (head of spine and joints restored) £1,600 1481) and Joannes Multivallis (to 1512). Germany only British Library, Cambridge, Mattia Palmieri under 1457 refers to the First and only edition and the copy of the Paris BN and University of Minnesota. Second henri estienne edition, following his invention of printing, ascribed to Johann Nuremberg polymath Christoph Gottlieb von first of 1512 when the Chronological Tables were Gutenberg in 1440: ‘Namque a Joanne Gutenberg Murr (1733-1811). Murr wrote on many art- extended to include the years 1482-1512. Zuniungen equiti Maguntiae rheni solerti ingenio related subjects and published an important work librorum Imprimendorum ratio 1440 inventa’. on the art and library treasures of Nuremberg and The account goes on to say how printing had Altdorf in both public and private collections, extended over almost the whole world, and that Beschreibung der vornehmsten Merkwürdigkeiten the whole of antiquity was to be bought with a in des HR Reichs freyen Stadt Nürnburg (1778). little money and would be read by our descendants Friedrich Förner’s (1568-1630) work is a study in innumerable volumes. of the greater part of the imperial regalia ‘For the period covered by Multivallis, more (Reichskleinodien), known as the ‘Nürnberger space is given to an account of the arrival of Kleinodien’ which included the imperial crown, seven savages at Rouen in 1509 than to any orb, sceptre and sword and the so-called ‘Holy other event (leaf Y4v; generally thought to be Lance’ thought to have pierced Christ’s side. Brazilians from this reference)’ (Mortimer). Although Nuremberg was now a Protestant city, They could also have been Canadian aboriginals the Catholic author argues for the continued brought back from his 1508 voyage to the New presence there of the treasure and relics, discusses World by Thomas Albert, the Dieppe pilot. the local traditions associated with it, as well as Pencil notes and old catalogue cutting on its history and journey to the city. The regalia endpapers. One or two small wormholes only remained in Nuremberg from 1424 to 1796 when, occasionally affecting a letter. together with the Aachen regalia, it was removed Renouard Estienne, p20-21, no 9 Mortimer I, to the Schatzkammer in the Hofburg Palace, no 217. Schreiber 28 cf Sabin 23114 and , where it remains today. Harrisse 71, add 43 & 54.

38 39 30 FERRERIUS (Zacharius) Hymni novi ecclesiastici iuxta veram metri et Latinitatis normam... et novi Ludovici Vicentini ac Lautitii Perusini characteribus in lucem traditi... (Rome, in aedibus Ludovici Vicentini et Lautitii Perusini, 1 February 1525). 29 FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND (Barthélemi) Descrizione delle esperienze della macchina aerostatica dei Signori di Montgolfier... seguita da richerche sopra 4to (212 x 140mm) [12], cxv ff (lacks final blank). First edition of zaccaria ferreri’s latin l’altezza... Da una memoria sopra il Gaz infiammabile... Da una lettere intorno ai 18th-century polished calf, narrow gilt border on hymns printed in arrighi’s exquisite italic type, mezzi di dirigere queste Macchine... Venice, alla stamperia Graziosi, 1784. covers, rebacked with original spine laid down. £3,500 cut for him by his partner, Lautizio Perugino, the goldsmith praised by Cellini. Their partnership Nine engraved plates. only lasted two years, 1524 and 1525, and then Arrighi printed on his own account until his 8vo (222 x 145mm) xxxii, 320pp Contemporary death in the Sack of Rome in 1527. In this cartonnage boards (somewhat soiled). £2,000 brief period he published not less than thirty- seven humanist and literary works mostly The rare first italian edition of this account by contemporary authors. They are almost of the invention of the hot air balloon by the all now rare. Montgolfier brothers, and also the first Zaccaria Ferreri (1479-c1530), Bishop of fundamental work in the Italian language on Guardia in the kingdom of Naples, attended the modern aeronautics. Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741- Council of Pisa in 1511 where he agitated 1819), later professor of geology at the Musée strongly against the ambition of Julius II. For d’Histoire Naturelle, was so impressed by their this he was rewarded by Leo X who gave him his first experiment on 5 June 1783 that he organised bishopric and appointed him apostolic nuncio a subscription to pay for a repeat of the to . Of the present work, published as experiment which took place on 26th August of part of a tentative reform of the liturgical office, the same year. This work begins with accounts of Tiraboschi says ‘nel 1524 [sic] pubblicò in these experiments and also of the Montgolfiers’ eleganza dello stile’. further experiment at Versailles on 19 September Provenance: 18th-century ownership stamp 1783, in which a sheep, a cock and a duck were in black ink on title-page of ‘Captne: Michiels.’, carried in a cage below the balloon, the first aerial ie JG Michaelis (fl 1775). Armorial bookplate travellers. The French text appeared in 1783 and inside front-cover of Watkin Herbert Williams was soon followed by translations in Dutch and (1845-1944), Bishop of Bangor. Italian; this edition has new illustrations. An Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 18842. Adams F293. excellent copy in the original binding. Clement, Bib Curieuse, viii, pp287-9. Gueranger, Morazzoni, Fig Veneziani, p229. Institiutions liturgiques, i, pp369-72.

40 41 31 FONTENELLE (Bernard le Bouvier, sieur de) Oeuvres diverses... Nouvelle Edition Augmenté & enrichie de Figures gravées par Bernard Picart le Romain. The Hague, Chez Gosse & Neaulme, 1728-1729.

Engraved frontispiece to vol I and five plates pointing to the sun and planets above – Histoire all by Picart, 174 fine head and tailpieces all by des Oracles (1687) and his Digressions sur les Picart, title-page vignettes by Picart, titles in Anciens et les Modernes (1688). The OCFL red and black. assesses his value in the following way, ‘In general he was the precursor of the attack which Three vols. 4to (295 x 230mm). Contemporary before long science was to make on religion, marbled calf with the ‘Lowther’ crest on covers of unostentatiously encouraging freedom of thought the Earls of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, spines gilt by substituting the play of mechanical forces for in compartments. £2,500 Providence in explanations of natural phenomena’. Fontenelle was an important member of the French A remarkable edition of the works of Academies and vol III is dedicated to his writings fontenelle, ‘a man of wide curiosity and on the Academie des Sciences and his Eloges des learning’, illustrated by Picart, ‘the outstanding Academiciens de l’Academie Royale des Sciences professional illustrator of the first third of the mort depuis l’an 1699, 51 in all, which include eighteenth century’ (Ray). Cohen simply éloges of Malebranche, Leibniz, Peter the Great describes Picart’s numerous inventive vignettes and Isaac Newton. This volume is illustrated by as ‘Superbes illustrations’. Picart with delightful vignettes of the various Fontenelle (1657-1757) wrote many notable branches of the Academie such as Les calculs et works such as his Dialogues des Morts (1683), l’algebre, la philosophie, la botanique, la physique, 32 GALLUCCI (Giovanni Paolo) Della fabrica, & uso di un novo Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686) – l’anatomie et l’histoire naturelle, l’astronomie et la stromento fatto in quattro maniere per fare gli horologi solari ad ogni latitudine, which awakened general interest in astronomy and geographie, la chimie and so on, all with playful con tutte le sorti di hore, che si usano, ilquale si puo usare per horologio ancora. popularized the scientific system of inquiry and is putti taking the place of the distinguished members. [with]: Della fabrica, & uso del novo horologio universale ad ogni latitudine. superbly illustrated by Picart showing the author A fine copy from the library at Lowther Castle. Venice, appresso Gratioso Perchacino, 1590. and a lady seated in a landscaped garden the author Cohen-Ricci 407-8. Printer’s device on both title-pages, numerous lunar clocks is shown as well as a compass with large woodcut illustrations, many full-page, 32 parts. ‘Gallucci describes the needle as woodcut initials. inclined 10 degrees from the South towards the South-West’ (SP Thompson, Notes to Gilbert, Two parts in one. 4to (205 x 153mm) [4], 36, [2]ff [4], De Magnete, p58). 28ff. Original cartonnage boards backed with The two unnumbered leaves at the end of the decorated paper (tears to spine, a trifle soiled). £2,250 first part of the book contain five woodcut illustrations, with instructions to the binder for First edition of these two important cutting them out and using them as volvelles on treatises on the manufacture and use of time- leaves which are specified. Stain affecting top of pieces, profusely illustrated with many full-page front cover and next few leaves, little foxing, but woodcut designs. The work is of extreme a good, unsophisticated copy. importance because of the very detailed and well Censimento CNCE 20290 & 20289. Riccardi I, illustrated instructions on how to make 569. Turner 56. H & L 11389. Tardy 104. instruments for navigations. One of the earliest Loeske p37.

42 43 34 GARGIARIA (Battista) Aureum caelimundium, seu liber de caelo et mundo. [Bologna?, np, 1569?].

Woodcut armorial device on title-page, 20 large Aristotelian distinctions so in the first part we (45 x 45mm) fine white-on-black initials. have a wide range of views on the essence and ‘quiddity’ of the heavens. In the second part there 4to (260 x 200mm) XXX, [4], XXX1-XLIIII, [2]ff (last are discussions on the generation, nature, leaf blank). Antique style calf-backed marbled boards, position, magnitude, figure and movement of the red morocco label. £2,400 heavens from Arabic, Hebrew and Christian sources as well as those described as astronomers, Extremely rare first and only edition of philosophers, theologians, historians, poets and the only published work of Battista Gargiaria magicians. listed by Censimento Edit 16. We can locate Provenance: Early inscription on title-page only one other copy outside Italy at the Bodleian inked out. Stamp on verso of final leaf, ‘Ex libris Library, Oxford. Prof Romuli Meli Romae’. In Censimento the author is described as a Title-page soiled with some paper repairs with Bolognese jurist who flourished in the second half two letters and a small piece of banner from the 33 GALLUS, Abbot of Königsaal Dyalogus dictus of the 16th century, on the title-page he appears armorial device expertly replaces in manuscript, Malogranatum. [Cologne, Ludwig von Renchen], 1487. as ‘Baptista de Galzaria Bonnoniensis’. Gargiaria ff XXXII-XXXIII heavily spotted. has compiled a digest of opinions on the physical Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 43850 (7 locations Folio (290 x 200mm). 346 leaves. Gothic type, 44 lines The Cistercian abbey of Aula-Regia nature of heaven and earth. He follows traditional only). COPAC (Bodleian only). Not in OCLC. and head-line, double column. Late 16th-century (Zbraslav/Königsaal) close to Prague was blind-tooled Flemish calf over wooden boards, covers founded in 1292 by the Bohemian king panelled by fillets and ornamental rolls, title lettered in Wenceslas II. The monks came from the Sedlec gilt with gilt fleurons in other compartments, the top Monastery near Kutná Hora and the medieval and bottom concealed by paper shelf-labels (clasps cloister of Aula Regia became the burial place of missing, some rubbing, neat repairs to headcaps). £9,500 the Bohemian kings. It was closed in 1785 but many of the Baroque buildings still survive. A rare cistercian text and the second of only Provenance: Inscription on title-page ‘Viridis two editions of the Malogranatum vallis in Zonia, 1614’, ie from the library of the (Pomegranate), a guide to Christian and monastic Canons Regular at Groenendaal (Viridis Vallis in perfection in three books, first published by Zonia), Hoeilaart near Brussels. 19th-century Heinrich Eggestein at Strassburg, c1473. The stamp on title of the Franciscan friary at author Gallus (fl c1370) was the Cistercian abbot ‘Pantasaph, Holywell, N Wales’. 19th-century of Aula-Regia (Zbraslav/Königsaal) and composed bibliographical notes on front fly-leaf quoting this work written in the form of a dialogue for his from François Xavier Laire’s Index librorum ab monks. Trithemius held him to be very inventa typographia ad annum 1500, vol II, p 105, knowledgeable in the scriptures and an eloquent his catalogue of the incunabula in the library of minister (see ADB). In recent times the work has Cardinal Loménie-Brienne (1727-94). also been attributed to a predecessor, Pierre de HC 7451. BMC I, 267. BSB-Ink G15.Goff G48 Zittau (1275-1339), abbot from 1316-1339. (three copies). Bod-inc G026. Chevalier I, col 1641.

44 45 36 GOLTZIUS (Hubertus) C Iulius Caesar sive historiae imperatorum Caesarumque Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae. Bruges, (apud Hubertum Goltzium) 1562. [Bound with:] Caesar Augustus sive historiae imperatorum caesarumque romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae... Bruges, (excudebat Hubertus Goltzius), 1574.

I. Engraved title-page and 57 pages of plates of Hubert Goltzius (1526-1583), Belgian painter Roman coins, device on verso of last leaf, and numismatist was largely taught in the arts by numerous historiated woodcut initials (signed by his father Rüdiger, himself a painter. His first work, A. Sylvius; first three with later colouring). II. published at the age of 21, was Icones Imperatorum Engraved title-page and 83 pages of plates of (1557) dedicated to Phillip II of Spain. He followed Roman coins, device on verso of last leaf. this by travelling through Germany, France and 35 GENTILINI (Eugenio) Il perfeto bombardiero et real instruttione di Italy seeking out collections of antiquities to artiglieri... dove si contiene la Esamina usata dallo strenuo Zaccharia Schiavina... Two works in one vol. Folio (334 x 235mm) [17]ff advance his research. On his return to Bruges at the (Breve discorso in dialogo sopra le fortezze, etc) Venice, Alessandro de Vechi, 1626. LVIIpp (plates) [3]ff 231pp [24]ff [12]ff LXXXIIIpp end of 1560 he had accumulated a great wealth of (plates) 248pp [20]ff. 17th-century vellum over material which he then sought to publish. To this Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, Provenance: note in pencil at end ‘Salkeld 20. pasteboards, overlapping fore-edges, ink lettering at end he set up a press in his house and supervised two full-page, two of double-page width (ff 38v 12.1884’ This must be a reference to the London head of spine (ties missing). £1,850 himself the execution of the numerous prints that & 39r, ff 119v & 120r) and one showing the bookseller John Salkeld who died in 1908 – were to accompany his works often engraving the tower of San Marco (f 138v). ‘John Salkeld, who died lately in London at the First editions of goltzius’ numismatic plates himself to ensure that they conformed to his age of 81, was a second-hand bookseller of the histories of and caesar models. In 1567 the Roman Senate accorded him Two parts in one vol. 4to (200 x 145mm) ff [8], 143 good old type, renowned in fiction, encountered augustus. In the view of bibliographers such the title Citizen of Rome, a most exulted honour (foliation continuous). Contemporary vellum-backed frequently in literary biography, but not often as de la Fontaine Verwey the superb title-pages, which brought him the emnity of his fellow paste boards. £2,500 met with nowadays in one’s walks abroad. He engraved plates, and typography placed these distinguished but less favoured scholars. began to collect old books and sell them in his works among the most beautiful Dutch books of A large, wide-margined copy; a little marginal A compendious work on artillery, ballistics, and boyhood. He acquired a large knowledge of the 16th century. dampstaining at the beginning and end. fortification. Both part one and the Discorso, books and literature, and was the friend of many Funck relates that Goltzius had come to I Adams G829. Fairfax Murray (German) no 477. which begins on f 113, are cast in the form of a eminent bookish men, including Macaulay, establish himself at Bruges in 1558 on the invitation Funck, p323. II Adams G832. Ref: J Cunnally, dialogue between the two brothers, Eugenio and Thomas, the elder Dilke, and John Forster. More of Marc Laurin (the dedicatee of this work); he Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence Marino, about those aspects of fortification than thirty years ago he moved down to quotes MV Tourneur’s belief that the taste for in the Renaissance (1999), pp41-46. which are of greatest importance for artillery and Clapham Road, where he had a notable numismatics in the second half of the 16th century its practitioners – foremost among these the bookshop. He had acquired many treasures, and shows the importance of the role played by this placement and protection of the guns themselves. was concerned in many now historic discoveries series of antique medals. At the end of the first First published in 1592 by Francesco de’ of rare books and manuscripts. His catalogues work is a preface addressed to well known Franceschi of Siena and reprinted in 1598 and of his own collections are treasured in the collectors, scholars and patrons in the Low 1606 by the same firm, and again in 1641, all Bodleian Library.’ (The New York Times 11 July Countries, Germany, Italy and France, followed by editions of Instruttione de’ Bombardieri... and the 1908). An illustration of his shop at 306 a long list of 978 names arranged by country and Dialogo are uncommon. Of this edition, which Clapham Road is found in W. Roberts The Book town; among many of note are the cartographer has a dedication from the publisher to Ferdinando Hunter in London. Ortelius, Vasari, Vico, Sambucus, Michaelangelo, Rasponi, OCLC locates just four copies Light browning, small stain at foot of title- three members of the Fugger family, Diane de (Universities of Minnesota and Michigan, New page, marginal stain and very slight tear on f 24, a Poitiers, Jean Grolier and Adrien Turnèbe. As in York and Boston Public Library) but there are a few later interpretative notes in pencil. other copies the date of 1562 on the first title-page few copies in European libraries (HAB, ). Breman no 143. Cockle 669. Riccardi I, 586. has been altered to 1563.

46 47 38 HERODIANUS Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus, den der Hochgelert Angelus Politianus inn das Latein, und Hieronymus Boner in nachvolgend Teütsch pracht. Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 19th August 1531. 37 [GRANDVILLE (J-J)] STAHL (p-J) and others Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux... Paris, J Hetzel et Paulin, 1842. Large woodcut on title-page of Antoninus and Aurelius to the beginning of the reign of Gordianus Gordianus (with names in Roman type above), III (AD 120-128), and Herodianus states he is Frontispiece in each volume and 199 wood animals, and to join our pen with his pencil, by Jorg Breu the Elder after Hans Burgkmair; describing events during the period of his own life. engraved plates by Grandville, numerous thereby coming to his assistance in criticizing large cut by Hans Weiditz on folio a1 of an The bold title woodcut of Emperors Marcus head- and tailpieces and vignettes. the aberrations of our epoch, and by preference emperor, two large ornamental woodcut Aurelius and Gordianus III is a copy from among these aberrations, those which are of tail-pieces by the Master DS, ornamental Burgkmair’s illustrations for the Pappenheim Two vols. Lge 8vo (280 x 190 mm). 19th-century every period and every country.’ As noted in woodcut initials. Chronicle published in the previous year (see brown morocco, covers ruled in gilt and blind with Ray, Hetzel and his collaborators were able, Dodgson II, p425). The large cut on the first large floral cornerpieces, spine with raised bands with through Grandville’s animals, to offer a witty Sm folio (285 x 205mm) [4], 70ff. 18th-century vellum page of text is by Hans Weiditz and shows an compartments decorated to a gilt floral design. £2,000 and telling commentary on contemporary backed boards covered with German gilt embossed emperor on a throne granting an audience to a politics and personalities. The results were decorative paper (top of spine restored). £2,000 man in a fur tippet. One of the large woodcut A fine copy with the original wrappers acknowledged as the best satire on French initials is also attributed to Weiditz. bound in and also a selection of the yellow paper manners during the middle of the century. First German edition, translated from the A little marginal watertstaining, and a few ‘livraison’ wrappers found at the end of each Today, however, these allusions are largely Greek into Latin by Angelo Poliziano and from small round marginal wormholes; many 17th- volume. The publisher Hetzel, who provided unnoticed but as Ray concludes, ‘Grandville’s Latin into German by Hieronymus Boner who century annotations in German (which are many of the chapters under the pseudonym of animals remain as amusing as ever, thanks to the describes himself in the dedication as a magistrate sometimes cropped). Stahl, remarks in his preface that his objective wit and verve of his compositions.’ (Schultheys) in . The work is a history of VD16 H 2503. Adams H391. Muther 1078. was, ‘to give words to Grandville’s marvellous Carteret III, 552-559. Ray II, no 194. the Roman Empire from the death of Marcus Fairfax Murray 1078.

48 49 39 JOSEPHUS (Flavius) Opera... nunc vero ad exemplaria Graeca denuo summa fide diligentiaq. collata... Basle, ex officina Frobeniana (per Ambrosium et Aurelium Frobenios, fratres), 1567.

Woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf Provenance: Premonstratensians of Steingaden, verso, fine large woodcut initials. Bavaria, founded in 1147, with their inscription on title-page ‘In usum FF Steingadensium. Emptus Folio (330 x230mm) [10]ff 910pp [13]ff (first blank). A 1649’, stamped monogram ‘SC’ on the upper Late 16th/early 17th-century limp vellum with cover, spine and head of title-page, and engraved overlapping edges, blue cloth ties. £1,400 armorial bookplate ‘Ex Bibliotheca Canonicorum Premonstratensium in Steingaden’ dated 1786 A fine copy of Sigismund Gelenius’ inside front-cover. The monastery was dissolved in important edition of josephus from the 1803 during the secularisation of Bavaria. library at steingaden abbey, a revised version of Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, with his edition of 1548. It begins with Gelenius’ their pencil mark ‘Dpl A 10362’ on fly-leaf. dedication to the Augsburg patrician and VD16 J964. Adams J366. Schweiger p178. 40 LIBRO D’ORO BENI (Andrea) Libro de Nobeli Veneti che vanno in bibliophile Johann Jacob Fugger (1516-75), Gran Conseglio con l’origine, et arme delle loro famiglie: Aggiustato fino li 4 Agosto Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn, dated 1631 per Andrea Beni. (Venice, dalla Preggion Giustiniana, 9th September 1631). 1548. There follows a short life of Josephus, and the twenty books of De antiquitates Judaeorum Title-page with geometric border of squares in given for 145 families who had members in the which covers the history of the Jews from the brown, blue, yellow and red, two winged angels Gran Conseglio, as well as a brief history and creation to the outbreak of the war with Rome, at top corners and a shield with a centaur in the well executed armorial shields in watercolour followed by the eight books of the De bello middle; c160 fine armorial shields in for each family. The Errizo family also has the Judaico, the history of the Jewish rebellion watercolour, only a very few blank. distinction of the Doge’s corno ducale or cap of 67-73 AD, and the two books of De being added in red at the head of their entry as antiquitatibus contra Appionem, a defence Manuscript on paper. 4to (200 x 145mm) [9]ff 212ff Francesco Erizzo had been elected Doge on 10th against current misinterpretations of the Jews. (of 213ff, f 41 torn away). Written in brown ink with April 1631. The final part De Machabaeis, is an account of first capitals in red, in a neat scribal hand. The copyist Andrea Beni, who signs his name the martyrdom of Eleazar and of seven youths Contemporary limp vellum. £5,500 on the title-page and at the end of the dedication, and their mother in the persecution under also produced another Libro d’oro, now in the Antiochus Epiphanes; the attribution of this A remarkable survival of a venetian Museo Correr (Cod Cicogna 18), and signed it piece to Josephus is doubtful. The Bohemian political guidebook, an essential reference ‘Questa libro su fatto da me Andrea Beni humanist Sigismund Gelenius (c1498-1554) had tool for members of the Gran Conseglio who preggion nella giustigiana’ (dated 20 January moved to Basle in 1524, where he first lived in needed up to date information on their fellow 1631). Both were therefore completed in the Erasmus’ household, and spent the remainder of counsellors and their families. This Libro d’oro Giustiniana, the name attributed in the 17th his life there working for the Froben press as was commissioned by Senator Francesco Pisani, century to a section of the ducal prison. The scholar, editor, corrector and translator from the Podesta of Padua, with a three page dedication, Giustiniana served as a form of model prison for Greek. He worked on the editio princeps of and the Pisani arms are pasted inside the front 20-30 citizens imprisoned for minor crimes and Josephus published by Froben in 1544. cover. The details of births and marriages are debts. They were mostly educated persons and

50 51 to maintain themselves, and sometimes to pay not occur, Raines notes a unique attempt in 1603 their debts as well, they completed small tasks. which was soon abandoned, as the information Raines notes, ‘Perhaps Beni, imprisoned for a would soon be out of date and the print run minor misdemeanour, completed the commission deemed not large enough to make it economically in order to finance his stay in prison’. viable. The bespoke manuscript format was far An official Libro d’oro had been created by the easier to update, examples were often revised patriciate in 1506 to record all legitimate births every three to four years, and there is ample and marriages between patricians and their brides evidence of this process in the present volume. and thereby prevent fraudulent claims. It became Paper restoration to blank fore-margin of first increasingly popular throughout the 16th century three leaves; a little minor damp-staining here and for manuscript copies to be made for private use there but generally very fresh. and by the end of the century these were often D Raines ‘Office seeking, broglio, and the pocket found in a pocket-sized format and usually political guidebooks in Cinquecento and Seicento ranged from 8vo to 64mo. Printed versions do Venice’, in Studi Veneziani, 22 (1991), pp137-194

41 LILIUS Zacharias, Bishop of Sebaste Orbis breviarium, fide compendio ordineque captu, ac memoratu facillimum, felix gratu legito. Venice, ad instantiam domini Petri Facoli ditto dal cavallo, [1540].

Fine one-piece white on black woodcut border Zaccaria Lilio (1452-c1522), Bishop of on title-page, f5 verso with a ‘TO’ version world Sebaste, was compiler of this early geographical map and a division of the globe into six zones, dictionary, the first to condense the writings of woodcut initials throughout. the ancient and medieval geographers into one work. The gazetter illustrates the state of 8vo (155 x 100mm) [88]ff. Contemporary limp vellum geographical knowledge before Columbus’ (spine defective). £1,500 first voyage, with general descriptions of Europe, Africa and Asia as well as oceans, First published in 1493, only three 16th-century climates and islands; at the an index lists over editions of this world gazetter are recorded in 260 cities. Censimento, an undated edition of c 1505, one of Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 36018. BMSTC Vicenza c 1507 and the present edition. (Italian), p378.

52 53 42 LIVIUS (Titus) Römische Historien mit etlichen neuen translation auss translated by Nicolas Fabri von Carbach and said to be taken from sketches Faber made dem Latein... sampt nun dem vierdten Theyl der Römischen Historien auss fünff Jakob Micyllus which form the fifth decade (fols during his travels in the Middle Rhine. The same lateinischen Büchern Liuii, jetzt newlich im[m] Closter (Lorss genant) erfunden... 451-545). In 1530 Carbach had discovered the applies to Faber’s Roman soldiers and senators verteutscht, zwey durch Nicolaum Carbachium, die ander drei durch Jacobum five new books in a manuscript of Livy in the who are shown in 16th-century attire and Micyllum. Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1533. Kloster Lorsch, a discovery which is highlighted one can recognize portraits of the emperor, on the title-page. Schöffer had previously Philipp of Hesse, and Luther amongst others. printed a new edition in 1523 based on Bernhard Faber was later to become the favoured Four section titles with elaborate woodcut Folio (315 x 205mm) [14], CCCCCXLV, [1]ff. Schöferlin’s 1505 translation with the addition portraitist of the Frankfurt patriciate in the borders and 248 large text-woodcuts (some Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled of books 33 to 40 translated by Ivo Wittig and first half of the 16th century. nearly full-page) made up of 153 blocks. Each wooden boards, covers panelled by blind fillets, an Fabri von Carbach to end the fourth decade. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of A woodcut is composed of one or up to four outer ornamental roll and an inner historiated roll, Schöffer commissioned new woodcuts for the Broleman. A little light foxing in places but different blocks. The woodcuts are mostly clasps and catches (neat repair to small splits to 1523 edition and they are used here. The superb generally a very good copy. attributed to Conrad Faber von Creuznach, upper joint). £5,500 woodcuts by Conrad Faber von Creuznach (c VD16 L 2107. Adams L1359. Schweiger I, in addition 15 blocks by the Meister vom 1490-1533) represent his most significant work p545. Not in BMSTC (German). Ref: E Freiburger Altar, taken from the Strassburg A fine copy of the most complete edition in book illustration and are famous for their Thormählen, Der holzschnittmeister de Mainzer edition of 1507, were also used; Schöffer’s of this important german translation of landscapes. These are contemporary German Livius Illustrationen in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch device designed by Faber at end. livy. It was the first to include books 41 to 45 landscapes and not Roman imaginations and are 1934, pp137-54.

54 55 43 LIVIUS (Titus) Romanae historiae principis, libri omnes quotquot ad nostram aetatem pervenerunt... Frankfurt, (apud G Corvinum, S Feierabend, et haeredes W Galli), 1568.

Title within superb woodcut border, and 94 will always render it a great acquisition to the (including 25 repeats) large text woodcuts library of the curious’ (Dibdin). (150 x 110mm) by Jost Amman, most signed Following the extant works of Livy the with his monogram; printer’s device on each additional parts to this fine edition of include part title-page, woodcut intials. Joachim Grellius’ Chronologia in Titi Liuii Historiam, Carlo Sigonio’s Scholia, quibus Titi Six parts in one vol. Folio (410 x 245mm) [18]ff (last Liuii Patavini historiæ, et earum epitomæ... blank) 988pp [10]ff 56pp [6]ff 119pp 82ff 112pp 93pp explanantur and Wilhelm Godelevaeus’ In Titi [1]f. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over bevelled Liuii Patauini historiarum ab vrbe condita wooden boards, covers panelled with rolls and fillets, libros... omnes, obseruationes’. three historiated with half-length Biblical figures and Provenance: Stamp on titles of ‘Stadtbibliothek medallions heads of the reformers (splits to front zu Homberg’ (with cancellation). cover and spine). £3,000 A small scattering of wormholes at the beginning but generally a good, fresh copy. First edition to be illustrated with the VD16 L2099. Adams L1345. BMSTC fine woodcuts of the Swiss draughtsman, (German), p521. Dibdin II, pp166-7. Becker, woodcutter, engraver, etcher and painter Jost Amman 12a. Amman (1539-1591). All the woodcuts listed by Becker are newly cut for this edition save four which are from the Thurnierbuch of 1566. Ilse O’Dell-Franke notes in Grove, that a great number of Amman’s woodcuts for the Livy are after drawings by Hans Bocksberger the younger (fl 1564-79). She also concludes that ‘Amman enjoyed a high reputation among his contemporaries and proved an influential source for later artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Joshua Reynolds’. ‘An uncommon and magnificent edition: it has a number of curious woodcuts, and the typography is exceedingly splendid. The connoisseur will discover many singular traits in the engravings – the bustle of a battle and solemnity of a march are sometimes well represented – but he will smile on finding cannons and bombs introduced in a Roman siege. The text is printed with frequent contractions, but, from what I have perused, it is not incorrect. The engravings, and general splendour of the volume,

56 57 45 MAGNUS (Olaus) Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusue... Basle, ex officina Henricpetrina, March 1567. [Bound with:] PANTALEON (Henricus). Militaris ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... historia nova. Basle, [Tomas Guarinus] 1581.

I Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and corner). Grenacher was of the opinion that the verso of last leaf, large folding ‘Carta Marina’ map was designed for a projected edition of map of Scandinavia, and c 450 fine woodcuts. Ptolemy, which was never completed. II Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, Magnus’ Historia, his great description of the Pantaleon’s portrait on a5v and c 60 (including Scandinavian peoples, is divided into twenty-two repeats) woodcut maps, views and portraits books, and examines the manners and customs, (some full-page), including Jerusalem, the the commercial and political life of northern Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodes, Constantinople, nations, the physical proportions of the land and Belgrade, Greece, and Malta. its minerals and zoology. Illustrated throughout with vivid woodcuts after Magnus’ own drawings Two works in one vol. Folio. (320 x 207mm). 44 MACHIAVELLI Princeps. Ex Sylvestri Telii Fulginatis traductione diligenter Contemporary pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, emendata... Basle, 1580. [Bound with:] Vindiciae contra tyrannos: sive de covers panelled with fillets and rolls, central panel- principis in populum, populiq, in principem. legitima potestate. [Np, np], 1580. stamp of Justicia (90 x 50mm) on upper cover and Lucretia on lower cover, clasps and catches intact Woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut initials. This influential tract Defences [of Liberty] (slight tear on lower cover). £12,000 Against Tyrants, written in the same decade as 8vo (165 x 105mm) [8]ff 264 (ie 262pp) [5]ff [6]ff the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572, ‘is First basle edition richly illustrated with 303pp [1]f. Contemporary vellum over paste-boards, an eloquent vindication of the people’s right to the fine folding woodcut map carta marina of title lettered in ink on spine. £1,700 resist tyranny, while affirming that resistance scandinavia copied from the original wall map must be based on properly constituted authority’ of 1539 and with newly cut text woodcuts based A rare variant of the 1580 Petrus Perna (PMM 94). It was first published in 1579 also in on those used in the first edition of Rome 1555. edition of Sylvestre Tellio’s Latin translation of Basle, although with a fictitious Edinburgh The large folding woodcut map of northern Il Principe. The dedicatory epistle from the first imprint, and is usually attributed to Hubert Europe is a reduced and simplified copy of the issue has been replaced with ‘Typographus Languet (1518-81) or possibly Philippe de Olaus Magnus’ huge Carta Marina wall map of candido lectori sd’ and ‘De Nicolao Machiauello Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623), and formerly, 1539 (of which only two copies are extant). The p Iouij elog.’ Perna had previously published to Beza, Hotman, and others. map shows Scotland in the west, central Russia in Tellio’s translation in 1560 but here it is Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Prinz the east, southern in the south and reprinted with the important addition of the Ludwig zu Windisch-Graetz (1830-1904), Greenland (Gruntlandia) in the north. It was Hugenot tract Vindiciae contra tyrannos, which Sarospatak, Hungary. A wax seal on front free formerly attributed to JB Fickler but has been is referred to on the Princeps title-page as endpaper is stamped over an inscription from 1881. identified by Grenacher as being the work of the ‘scripta de potestate & officio principum, & Bertelli/Innocenti sec XVI, *167. Gerber III, Basle form-cutter Thomas Weber (monogram contra tyrannos’. 68, 2c VD16 M10. ‘THW’ and date 1567 in bottom right-hand

58 59 which cover an amazing range of subjects, His brother was Johannes Magnus, Archbishop from geography and climate, local customs, of Uppsala, and both spent several years in occupations (including and coinage) to Danzig while the Lutheran Reformation took methods of warfare, animals and fish, witchcraft hold in Sweden. They eventually settled in Rome and superstition. Sten Lindroth states in the in 1537, never to return to Sweden and, after the DSB that Magnus was a pioneer in the death of Joannes in 1544, Olaus succeeded him as geographic research of Scandinavia; his Carta Archbishop of Uppsala in exile. Marina was indispensible for later cartographers II. First edition of Pantaleon’s contemporary and the Historia for generations informed history of the Order of St John, the Knights of educated Europeans about Scandinavia. Malta, with many maps illustrating their sphere Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) was born in of influence in the Eastern Mediterranean, from Linköping and studied in Sweden and abroad the Holy Land, to Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta. before embarking on his travels throughout The Order’s international sovereignty allowed it Scandinavia which took him as far as the maintain and deploy armed forces, including a wilderness of Norrland and the high mountains powerful navy, in defence of Christendom and of . On his return he became a vicar in further Crusades took place in Syria and Egypt Stockholm and dean of the cathedral in Strangnas. following the expulsion from the Holy Land in 1291. After the fall of Rhodes in 1523 a permanent home for the Order was found in 1530 when the island of Malta was granted to the Order by Emperor Charles V with the approval of Pope Clement VII. In 1565 the Knights, led by Grand Master Fra’ Jean de la Vallette, defended the island for more than three months during the Great Siege by the Turks. The fleet of the Order, then one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean, contributed to the ultimate destruction of the Ottoman naval power in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pantaleon (1522-95) was professor at Basle University and Poet Laureate. A superb copy in a finely preserved contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding. Provenance: Jacobus Reutlinger (1545-1611) of Uberlingen on with his inscription on title-page and armorial ownership stamp dated in manuscript 1581. Inscriptions of Joa. Guilielmus Reutlinger, Canon Mattheus Kofer of Uberlingen and Fr. Johannes Baptista. I VD16 M 225. Adams M141. cf Mortimer Italian 270. II VD16 P223. Adams P178. References: F Grenacher, Imago Mundi XIII (1956), p17.

60 61 46 MAROT (Clement) [Oeuvres]. Lyon, par Iean de Tournes, 1558.

Fine portrait of Marot on title-page with the Béze. The first part contains his poetic works legend LMNM. ‘La mort n’y mord’ and 22 while the second holds his translations of the woodcut illustrations by Bernard Salomon. classics including two books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses which are illustrated with the Two parts in one vol. 16mo (122 x 75mm) [13]ff fine woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. An edition 597pp 314pp [1]f. 19th-century marbled calf signed by of Marot’s works had first been published in Lloyd, triple gilt fillet on covers, spine richly gilt in 1538 with de Tournes’ first appearing in 1546; 47 MARTYROLOGY Martyrilogium viola sanctorum. compartments, red morocco labels, ge. £2,200 all early editions are rare. (Strassburg, p[er] honestu[m] Matthia[m] Hupffuff, 1516). Provenance: Armorial bookplate of This much revised edition of the poet Bibliotheca Trautner-Falkiana, ie the library Fine one-piece woodcut title border with A scarce strassburg edition of this early Marot’s Oeuvres was first published by de of the Augsburg bibliophile Hans-Joachim printer’s monogram in shield at foot, woodcut martyrology. At the beginning is an alphabetical Tournes’ in 1553 but without the portrait of Trautner (1916-2001). Somewhat tightly bound tailpiece and initial. register of martyrs and saints followed by the Marot which is found here for the first time. but otherwise a good copy. martyrology which is arranged in the calendar Cartier states that the portrait shares many Cartier 409 (& 253 for details of revisions). 4to (202 x 142mm) [6]ff XCIXff [1]f (blank). order of their feast days. similarities with an authentic portrait that once BMSTC (French), p303. Tchemerzine VIII, p37. Antique style panelled calf. £1,200 VD16 V1249. BMSTC (German), p895 belonged to Marot’s collaborator Théodore de Brunet III, col 1457. Not in Adams. (imperfect). Adams M798.

62 63 48 MAZARINADES A collection of 84 Mazarinades, almost all from 1652, in a contemporary binding, each numbered with a manuscript label and recorded in a 10pp manuscript index ‘Table des pieces’ at the end, extra-illustrated with seven engraved portraits by Balthasar Moncornet. Paris and elsewhere, 1652.

Portraits of Henry de la Tour, Mathieu Molé, Royalle a la lettre du C Marzarin sur son retour en Charles Emanuel de Savoie duc de Nemours, France) have real literary merit. 49 MUNTZ (Georg) Ein wunigkliche, schöne, nutzliche und notwendige Charles de Lorraine duc de Guise, Anthoine Their importance is summed up by Walsh, Predig, dern inhalt, welches zu diser unser Zeyt inn teutscher Nation, under den Daumont Rochebaron, Cardinal Mazarin, Louis ‘Pamphlets, broadsides, and similar pièces funff schwebenden Glauben, die rechte und allein seligmachende Religion sey: de Vendosme duc de Mercoeur, all by the French d’occasion are of incalculable value to the historian, die bäptistlich, lutherisch, zwinglish, widertäfferisch oder caluinish. painter, engraver and printseller Balthasar capturing as they do the passions of the moment Thierhaupten, [Klosterdruckerei], 1592. Moncornet (1600-68), engraved frontispiece for and recording actions, reactions, and attitudes in Le courier François (no 79) unsigned; woodcut quick, unstudied, unpolished prose or verse that are Fine full-page woodcut (110 x 77mm) on verso The Benedictine monastery of SS. Peter and arms and vignettes on some titles including a often more revealing than the most carefully of fol 5 with monogram of Hans Schäufelein, Paul at Thierhaupten, one of the oldest in Bavaria, portrait of Nostradamus (no 10). composed accounts written years later... No one can half-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on recto of was founded in the 8th century. study or write about any aspect of the early years of fol 30 and of the Trinity on the verso; title within A little stained in places but generally fresh. Thick 4to (230 x 160mm). Contemporary mottled calf, Louis XIV, that monarch who was to make himself ornamental border, vignette. VD 16 M6739. OCLC (British Library & Folger double gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in compartments and the most absolute in modern history, without taking only outside Germany). lettered ‘Recueil 1552’ (joints, headcaps restored). £4,000 the Mazarinades into account’. (James E Walsh, Sm 8vo (155 x 100mm) [1], 30 ff (lacks final blank). Mazarinades, Harvard, 1976). 19th-century vellum backed paste-boards. £1,600 A fascinating collection of mazarinades Moreau describes at least 15 as rare and five are produced towards the end of the Fronde, the series unlisted: 3 La Genealogie de Mr le premier Rare first edition of one of a small number of of civil wars which afflicted France during the president, garde des sceaux, & ministre d’Estat en books printed by the monastic press at the minority of Louis XIV. These pamphlets, in verse France. 29. La deffence du pet, pour le galant du Benedictine abbey of Thierhautpten, Bavaria, in and prose, often scurrilous and mainly anonymous, Carnaval par le sieur de S And. 39 Le manifeste de the 1590s. VD16 lists 22 imprints published were written in protest at, or sometimes in defence Monseigneur le duc de Beaufort. 43 Suitte veritable between 1591-99 all of which are seldom found of, Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) and his des conferences de Piairot de S. Ovyn ey Iannin de outside Germany. In the UK although the British policies at the time. Mazarin was chief minister and, Montmorency. 49 Lettre escrite de Potiers du XX Library holds eight examples the only other with the Queen Mother, Anne of , the Ianvier MDCLII. 82 Arrest de la cour de Thierhaupten printing is found at Oxford. OCLC real power behind the throne of the boy parlement, portant reglement pour le records only single examples of works located in king Louis XIV. The Mazarinades cours & l’exposition des Monnoyes. the USA at the Folger, Michigan and Wisconsin provide a fascinating insight into Du 10 Ianvier 1652. universities, and in France at the Bibliothèque the political and social turmoil in Signature on fly-leaf inked National. It is thought that the press was operated France during the mid-17th over. A little browned and by Josias Wörli who had previously printed at century. Their numbers ran into spotted in places. Augsburg between 1579-1590. the thousands, possibly to 5000 Celestin Moreau Bibliographie The present work appears to be the only or above, and some of the des Mazarinades, Paris, 1850- publication of the Dominican Georg Müntz who is examples by writers such as 51. Hubert Carrier, La presse described on the title-page as a preacher at Botzen ‘Sandricourt’ (represented here de la Fronde (1648-1653): (South ). The full-page woodcut is a late by nos 19 L’accouchee Les Mazarinades, Geneva, impression of a woodcut by the great Hans Espagnole, 59 Le procez du Droz, 1989. Schäufelein (1480-1540) whose ‘shovel’ monogram Cardinal Mazarin, 72 Le politique Full list of moreau numbers appears in the complicated composite scene which lutin and 76 Response pour son altesse available on request. includes Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection.

64 65 50 NAOGEORGUS (Thomas) Regnum papisticum. Opus lectu iucundum omnibus veritatem amantibus: in quo Papa cum suis membris, vita, fide, cultu, ritibus, atque caeremoniis... describuntur. [Basle, J. Oporinus], June 1553.

Sm 8vo (167 x 105mm) 171, [1] ff. Late 19th-century Incendia (1541) and three biblical ones Hamanus half-green morocco over boards, spine lettered and (1543), Hieremias (1551) and Judas (1553). He ruled in gilt. £950 was suitably versatile as a neo-latin poet and dramatist, humanist and theologian and First edition, dedicated to Philip Landgrave of throughout emphasized education as the primary 51 NOVERRE (Jean Georges) Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets. Hesse, of Naogeorgus’ polemical and unrestrained method to attain piety. A Stutgard, et se vend à Lyon, chez Aimé Delaroche, 1760. denunciation in neo-latin verse of the Catholic Provenance: Ownership inscription inside Church, attacking not only the papacy itself but front-cover of ‘John W Hales, 1883’. Engraved arms of the Duke of Württemberg also the rites and ceremonies of the church and BMSTC (German), p471. VD16 K985. Adams on dedication leaf. practices such as the granting of indulgences and N32. G Oberle. Poetes Neo- (1988), pp126/7, the cult of saints. It was translated by the poet nos 137/138. Ref: HJ Hillebrand in the Oxford 8vo (175 x 105mm) [2]ff 484pp. 18th-century and passionate protestant Barnaby Googe into Encyclopaedia of the Reformation, II, p378. French mottled calf, ornamental gilt spine, English and published as The Popish Kingdome, morocco label. £1,400 or, Reigne of Anti-Christ, London 1570. Thomas Naogeorgus (or Kirchmeyer; 1509- First edition, first issue with the imprint: 63) was a Calvinist-orientated theologian, as well ‘Stutgard’, of this very important of collection of as a polemical dramatist of a pointedly antipapal letters. Noverre called for the traditional forms of but also anti-Lutheran orientation. He was raised ballet, which he felt to be uninspired, to be a strict Catholic and became a Dominican but left banned from the repertoire and replaced by the order in 1526 to pursue a humanist education. completely new forms. Although he was Subsequently he became a protestant minister appointed head of Ballet de l’Académie Royale de and produced a number of literary works which Musique, Noverre gained great animosity from found favour at the court of Saxony. The his contemporaries and it was left to his patronage of the court also offered him some successors to put his new ideas into place. protection once he dissented from the Wittenberg ‘No book has exerted so incalculable an theologians. This controversy was moderate to influence for good on the manners and production begin with but became fundamental from 1546 of ballets and dances’ (Beaumont, pp134-5). as Naogeorgus took the Zwinglian view of Noverre wrote many ballets and founded the Communion. He then moved from city to city in Stuttgart Ballet at the court of the Dukes of southern Germany and and finally Württemberg. In 1767 he moved to Vienna where found a welcome at the court of the Calvinist he collaborated with Glück, and in 1774 he was Elector Frederick III of the . Although working in . he published a number of theological and Armorial bookplate of Anatole Bassseville. philological works, and translations of classical In excellent condition. authors, he is best known for his three antipapal IK Fletcher, Forty Rare Dance Books, no 34. En plays Pammachius (1538), Mercator (1540), and Français dans le Texte, no 161.

66 67 52 OVIDIUS NASO Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta. Ex postrema Iac Micylli recognitione. Frankfurt, (Georgius Corvinus, 53 OVIDIUS NASO) Metamorphoseon libri XV. Raphaelis regii Volaterrani Sigismund Feyerabent & heirs of Wigandus Gallus, 1563. luculentissima explanatio, cum novis alterius viri eruditissimi, additionibus... Venice, apud Nicolaum Moretum, 1586. Printers’ device on title-page, and 178 half-page Spanish. Solis has been described as the most woodcut illustrations by Solis. prolific graphic artist in mid-16th century Printer’s device on title-page and 60 woodcuts illustration is flanked by extensive commentaries Germany with over two thousand prints and book (c 60 x 80mm), woodcut initials. of Raffaele Regio and others to the left and right Sm 8vo (173 x 100mm) [8]ff 573pp [9]ff. illustrations attributed to his workshop. He was and sometimes at head and foot as well. Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin, covers active from 1540 until his death in 1562 as a Folio (300 x 210mm) [6]ff 315pp [1]f. Contemporary? 17th-century ink drawing on rear endpaper panelled with medallion and shield roll, central panel graphic artist, and probably painter, noted for his vellum-backed cartonnage boards. £1,500 and some pen trials. on front cover of Justicia and on lower cover of designs for goldsmiths and his copies after other Light dampstaining affecting a few quires but Lucretia, both shown in contemporary dress. £2,800 masters. Following Hans Sebald Beham’s death in A fine late 16th-century edition of the generally a fresh copy possibly in its original 1550 he became the principal book illustrator for Metamorphoses richly illustrated with unsigned ‘interim’ binding of cartonnage boards. A superb copy in its first binding of only the Feyerabend and other Frankfurt publishers. woodcuts reminiscent of editions of much earlier Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 31201. Adams O502. second edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to be Provenance: Contemporary ownership in the century. The central column of text and BMSTC (Italian), p481. Schweiger II, 649. illustrated with the fine woodcut illustrations of inscription on title-page. Early ownership the German mannerist Virgil Solis (1514-1562). (partly erased) and two 18th-century ownership The great Nuremberg artist and engraver was inscriptions on front free endpaper. Armorial commissioned by a consortium of Frankfurt bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, West printers, namely Sigmund Feyerabend, Corvinus Park, inside front cover. and Gallus’ heirs, to produce the illustrations Small ink stain to front endpaper and fore-edge, which were first published in 1563. Solis modelled not affecting margins or text. his woodcuts on those provided by the Lyonese VD16 O1651. Schweiger 649. Not in BMSTC artist Bernard Salomon for the De Tournes’ edition (German) or Adams. Only a three copies listed of 1557. His lively interpretations proved on OCLC outside Germany (Victoria & Albert immensely popular with the blocks being re-used Museum, BN Madrid, and Bowdoin College, in c25 editions up to 1652, with accompanying Maine). Ref: Grove Dictionary of Art, vol 29, texts in Dutch, Flemish, German, Latin, and pp43-44.

68 69 55 PETRARCA (Francesco) (MALIPIERO (Girolamo)) Il Petrarcha spirituale. (Venice, stampato Francesco Marcolini, 1536).

Fine title-page woodcut of Petrarca (118 x 96mm) First edition of Girolamo Malipiero’s (1480- within an ornamental frame and on verso a 1547) theological and spiritual rendering of woodcut of Malipiero speaking to Petrarca on the Canzoniere. The delightful woodcut of the edge of a forest with Arquà and the poet’s Malipiero’s meeting with Petrarca introduces an tomb in the distance, signed ‘B’ with a crossbar. imaginary dialogue between the two of June 8 54 PETIT (Pierre)Disseration sur la nature des cometes au Roy. 1534 in which the poet asks the Franciscan to Avec un discours sur les prognostiques des eclipses & autres matieres 4to (207 x 150mm) 161 (ie 159f) ff. Bound in dark adapt his work for spiritual uses. L Panizza curieuses. Paris, chez Thomas Jolly, 1665. blue/black morocco in antique style by Rinda of Milan, explains that Malipiero’s solution to ‘correcting’ signed along inner edge, with central gilt arms on the Canzoniere, ‘giving Wisdom and Virtue a Folding engraved planisphere celeste, engraved accuracy and completeness of its observations covers of the Marchese d’Adda. £2,400 chance to prosper, and, of course, procuring plate and six woodcut text diagrams. and discussions. Petrarch’s salvation’ is to banish Laura ‘because DSB X, pp546/7. she led Petrarch astray, and must not be 4to (212 x 156mm) 350pp [18]ff. Contemporary allowed to tempt imitators of Petrarch’s lyrics to mottled calf with gilt ecclesiastical arms on covers, sensual adulterous lusts’. Malipiero also provides spine gilt in compartments with gilt monogram ‘HC’ a poetics of Franciscan spiritual poetry (ff 89-97), (repairs to head and foot of spine, some wear to ‘His ambition is evidently to take advantage of covers, new endpapers). £2,200 and compete with the tidal wave of Petrarch enthusiasm by relaunching a vogue for mystical First edition of this important work on comets poetry going back to Jacopone da Todi and dedicated to Louis XIV. Petit (1594-1677) was his followers’. an influential figure in government and scientific Printed by Marcolini in his fine Italic type circles in mid-17th century France. He ‘with some unusual swash capitals’ (Mortimer). advocated the establishment of scientific Our copy has the correction on C1r, changing organisations and the value of experimental ‘Devenuto’ to ‘Divenuto’, as noted by Mortimer science notably in the field of astronomy. Petit in some other copies. himself had a fine collection of astronomical Provenance: Gilt arms on covers of Marchese instruments and several of these were of his own d’Adda. Bookplate of Erich von Rath. invention, notably a filar micrometer to measure A fine clean copy, neat repair to the blank the diameters of celestial objects such as the sun, inner margins of last four leaves. moon and planets, later used by Cassini. He was Adams P803. Sander II, 4378. Essling part 2, a regular correspondent of , secretary vol II, 666. Speck no 638. Casali, Marcolini, of the Royal Society in London, and was one of pp21-26, no 14. Ref: Letizia Panizza, the first foreign fellows of that Society when Impersonations of Laura in 16th- and 17th- elected in April 1667. The present work was Century Italy, Proceedings of the British praised in England and on the Continent for the Academy, 146 (2007), 177-200.

70 71 57 PHILOSTRATUS Opera quae exstant. Philostrati iunioris imagines, et Callistrati ecphrases… Graece Latinis è regione posita; Fed Morellus Professor et interpres regius cum Mss. contulit, recensuit: et hactenus nondum Latinitate donata, verit… Paris, ex officina typographica Claudii Morelli, 1608.

Printer’s device on title-page, title in red and fourteen statues, also found here, is in imitation 56 PETRARCA Il Petrarca con l’espositione di M. Alessandro Vellutello: di black, fine foliate headpiece and initial, text in of the Imagines. nuovo ristampato con le figure a i Trionfi, con le apostille, e con piu cose utili Latin and Greek in double columns. Provenance: From the library of St Benedict’s aggiunte. Venice, appresso Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1563. [Bound with:] AMADI Abbey, Fort-Augustus, Scotland, with their label (Anton Maria). Ragionamento di M Anton Maria Amadi intorno a quel sonetto Folio (345 x 220mm) [14]ff 914pp [11]ff. 18th-century and shelf-mark. del Petrarca che incomincia; Quel; che infinita providentia, & arte; Tratto dal suo marbled calf, label on spine. £1,200 Hoffman III, 77. Schweiger 231. Convivio, sopra’l Canzoniere di esso Petr. celebrato, come nella seguente lettera appare. Padua, appresso Gratioso Percacino, 1563. First collected edition of the writings of Flavius Philostratus (2nd/3rd c), Philostratus of Lemnos I Printer’s device on title-page, historiated sopra vna canzon morale; in che alcuni utili (3rd c) and Philostratus the Younger (3rd c) as well cartouche above title, six woodcuts 60 x 78mm discorsi si contengono, & molti errori si scoprono as writings from Callistratus (3rd/4th c), all edited for the Trionfi, cartouche headpieces and initials. de’ moderni intorno alla lingua toscana, & al and translated from the Greek into Latin by II Printer’s device on title-page, woodcut initials Boccaccio. Con un brieue, & catolico discorso Fédéric Morel (ca 1552-1630). The work is del santissimo sacramento dell’altare, contra beautifully printed in fine large Greek types by the Two works in one vol 4to (207 x 147mm) [12], 213, Gio. Caluino published in a single edition of King’s printer Claude Morel, brother of Fédéric. [3]ff [4], 42, [2]ff (last blank). 19th-century vellum, Padua, Lorenzo Pasquatto, 1565 (Censimento Flavius Philostratus’ most important works spine ruled in gilt (lightly soiled). £1,250 Edit 16 CNCE 1381). were his life of the Pythagorean philosopher Provenance: Near contemporary initials either Apollonius of Tyana, commissioned by the Syrian I A handsome edition of Petrarca’s Sonetti, side of printer’s device ‘CR’. Seven lines of early Empress of Rome, Julia Domna, his Lives of the Canzoni e Triomphi with the commentary of notes in Latin on blank verso of final leaf of second Sophists, which began with the classical Sophists Vellutello. The elaborately composed woodcuts work. Inscription at head of title-page of ‘? of the 5th c BC and ended with the philosophers for the Triomphi of processions against a Dunlop, 1797’. Armorial bookplate of John of his own times, and the Heroicos, a dialogue in landscape background illustrate superbly the Charles Wilson, his inscription on fly-leaf dated which the dead heroes of Troy appear. Of his triumphs of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time 1858. Inscription beneath of CG Allen, Nov 1934. letters, one was to inspire Ben Jonson’s ‘Drink to and Divinity. Small paper repair to blank lower outer of Me Only with Thine Eyes’. Philostratus of II First and only edition of Anton Maria title-page, upper margin closely cropped by the Lemnos, the son-in-law of the above, was author Amadi’s extensive commentary of the fourth binder but no loss to headlines. of the first series of the Imagines discussing 65 poem of Petrarca’s Canzone, ‘Que’ ch’infinita I Censimento CNCE 33478. Fiske/Fowler 107. real or imaginary on mythological providentia et arte’ (What infinite providence and Speck 301. Not in Mortimer. II Censimento themes housed in Naples, with his grandson, art). Little is known of the author and Censimento CNCE 1380. BMSTC (Italian), p22. Fiske/ Philostratus the Younger, composing a second lists only one other work by him, Annotationi Fowler 199. Speck 673. series. The Sophist Callistratus’ descriptions of

72 73 58 PICART (Bernard) Le temple des muses ... ou sont représentés les evenemens les plus remarquables de l’antiquité fabuleuse. Amsterdam, Zacherie Chatelian, 1733. 59 PLATINA (Bartolommeo Sacchi de) De honesta voluptate Engraved half title, title in red and ac valitudine libri decem qz emendatissime impressi: cum nova impressi black with vignette, coat-of-arms of & indice. (Venice, per Ioannes Tacuinus de Trino, 2nd January 1517. Prince Philippe-Charles on dedication and 60 engraved plates surrounded by Woodcut initials of various sizes. Title-page browned, some light browning ornamental borders, designed and throughout. engraved by Picart. 4to (207 x 153mm) [4], LXXIIff. 19th-century boards, Vicaire 690. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica II, 521. leather label on spine (lightly soiled). £2,000 Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 34836. Large folio (476 x 308mm) [5]ff 152pp [2]ff. Contemporary marbled calf, spine An early venetian edition of platina’s compartments tooled in gilt (head and cookery classic and, as recorded by Censimento, foot of spine rubbed). £3,000 the last edition to be published in Italy in the 16th Homer, Virgil and Euripides. Picart’s edition century. The De honesta voluptate, first published First picart edition, a reworking of the includes two new plates, Leucothoé (pl. XIV) in Rome 1475, was the first printed cookery book illustrations for Michel de Marolles’ Temple des and Lycaon (pl. XVII) and the legends and provides a reflection of humanist sensibilities Muses of Paris 1655, designed by Diepenbeeck, throughout are in French, English, German and and attitudes to food, health and good living. with added ornamental borders. The original Dutch. The explanatory text for each plate is by Successive editions and translations made it one of designs were taken from the collection of Jaques Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais. the most important works on food in early Favereau (1590-1638), poet, advocate and ‘Bernard Picart was the outstanding modern Europe. councillor, who had commissioned them from professional illustrator of the first third of the The author Platina (1421-1481), the first Abraham Diepenbeeck, one of Ruben’s most eighteenth century, an age during which the librarian of the Vatican Library, wrote this work as talented pupils. The work explores classical designs for the finest illustrated books were a guide to how best to enjoy one’s meals and have mythology from seven aspects starting naturally typically drawn by leading painters. He worked good health, with discourses on the quality of with l’origine du Monde through les amours des for the most part in the fading baroque tradition, varieties of meat, fish, vegetables and the best way Dieux & des Hommes and les avantures de l’air but there are elements in his immense production to prepare them for the table, as well as noting their & des eaux and finally to la mort, le Deuil, les which herald the new age. When his diverse medical and dietetic properties. A whole chapter is Enfers, & le Sommeil. Those illustrated include accomplishments are finally catalogued and devoted to wine and vinegar, another for the sauces Pandora, Daphne, Achilles, Castor & Pollux, analyzed, his standing as a book artist will be to be served with various dishes. The recipes are Narcissus, Jason, Cassandra and Orpheus, and greatly enhanced,’ (Ray). derived from the Libro de arte coquinaria of the their legends are taken chiefly from Ovid, Ray I, p7. Brunet V, 696. Cohen-de-Ricci 531. great chef Maestro Martino de Rossi.

74 75 60 PLATINA (Bartolommeo Sacchi de) De honesta voluptate. De ratione victus, & modo vivendi. De natura rerum & arte coquendi libri X. (Paris), in aedibus Ioannis Parvi, 1530. 61 PLINIUS caecilius secundus Epistolarum lib X. Eiusdem Title within fine four piece woodcut The author Platina (1421-1481), the first Panegyricus Traiano dictus. Cum commentariis Ioannis Mariae Catanei. Paris, architectural border also enclosing Petit’s librarian of the Vatican Library, wrote this work Josse Badé & Iean Roigny, Jan 1533. device, woodcut initials. as a guide to how best to enjoy one’s meals and have good health, with discourses on the quality Title printed within wide ornamental border, only Badius edition and it follows earlier editions Sm 8vo (168 x 112mm) xcviiipp [2]ff (last leaf blank). of varieties of meat, fish, vegetables and the with large device of Jean Roigny in centre; many with the commentaries of Giovanni Maria Later vellum over paste boards. £1,500 best way to prepare them for the table, as well hundred ornamental and historiated initials Cataneo. This edition is adorned with many as noting their medical and dietetic properties. throughout, some on criblé ground; text ruled ornamental woodcut initials including numerous The first latin edition to be printed in France of There is a whole chapter is devoted to wine in red throughout. large ones on criblé ground. Platina’s cookery classic, first published in Rome, and vinegar and another for the correct sauces Provenance: From the Sunderland Library 1475. The De honesta voluptate was to be served with various dishes. The recipes Folio (350 x 220mm) [8]ff CCXXXI [1] (blank) ff. with the shelf mark C7 18 at top of inside front the first printed cookery book and provides a themselves are derived from the Libro de 18th-century marbled boards with pink spine. £1,200 cover. This is a large copy in very good condition reflection of humanist sensibilities and attitudes to arte coquinaria of the great chef Maestro (apart from a tear which is repaired at the top of food, health and good living. Successive editions Martino de Rossi. Beautifully printed edition of Pliny the title-page), with many deckle edges preserved. and translations made it one of the most important Vicaire 691. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, no Younger’s letters, edited by Badius, and followed Renouard III, 170-171. Schweiger II, p804. works on food in . 523 (illustrated). Adams P1407. at the end by the Panegyricus Traiano. It is the BMSTC (French), p356.

76 77 62 PLINIUS SECUNDUS Historia mundi naturalis... (Ed Sigismund Gelenius). Frankfurt, (officina Martini Lechleri impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendis), 1582.

Two large woodcut devices, large woodcut arms and De conceptu et generatione hominis. and 50 woodcuts of various sizes by Jost This is also one of the few illustrated early Amman, Hans Weiditz, Hans Burgkmair and editions of the Naturalis historia, the most others, title in red and black. thorough zoological and botanical treatise known 63 Plutarch La prima (-secunda) parte delle vite di Plutarcho, from the ancient world. Plinius Secundus nuovamente da M. Lodovico Domenichi tradotte... Venice, appresso Folio (355 x 220mm) [18]ff (2 blanks) 528pp [26]ff; attempted to record all knowledge of the world Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari et fratelli, 1567. [92]ff. Index with separate title-page. 17th-century and nature preserving that written by earlier Dutch vellum over paste-boards with large blind- authors and adding to it from his own observations. Giolito’s fine device on title-page and final leaf A very handsome set of Lodovico Domenichi’s stamped arabesque ornament in centre of covers, Provenance: 18th-century armorial bookplate of each part, fine historiated woodcuts and (1515-64) Italian translation of Plutarch’s Vitae, title lettered in ink (covers a little soiled). £2,500 of Johnstone, with the clan motto ‘Nun Quam headpieces, all pages of the indexes enclosed parallel lives of famous Greeks and Romans, first Non Paratus’, inscription on fly-leaf. within a decorative border. published by Giolito in 1555. Bongi and Gamba First latin edition to hold the fine A little browned and stained in places but note that the editions are hard to come by, ‘E woodcuts of jost amman, hans weiditz and hans generally a fresh copy with good impressions of Two volumes. 4to (255 x 183mm). 18th-century difficile trovare uniti i due volumi di questa bella burgkmair. Many of the woodcuts were the woodcuts. mottled calf, single gilt fillet on covers, spine richly gilt originale edizione’ (Bongi), Gamba states originally used in other works such as Weiditz’s VD 16, P 3550. BMSTC (German), p705. in compartments, labels in red and green (expert ‘edizione assai rara’ in his note to the 1560 edition illustrations for editions of and Petrarch, Adams P 1579. Graesse V, 340. Nissen, ZBI, restoration to headcaps, joints and corners). £1,500 (no 1583, pp462/3). Lightly browned in places. and Amman’s for Frauentrachten, Jagdbüchern 3191. Becker, Amman 47, 7c. Censimento Edit 16, 26532. Bongi I, pp479/80.

78 79 64 PLUTARCH Vitae illustrium virorum (ed Johannes Antonius Campanus). [Rome], Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), [1470].

Illuminated opening page with white-vine stem First edition of the first of two volumes border ‘bianchi girari’ on three sides extending published in this year of plutarch’s vitae, into the fore-margin, the border incorporates a a wide-margined copy lavishly illuminated nine-line initial ‘P’ in gold and a wreath in each in rome with a superb opening border and border, the one in the lower margin left blank 55 exquisite white vine-stem initials. for a coat-of-arms, the remaining two with ‘The whole (sixty Vitae) was on sale at Milan rosettes, also four birds are found in the lower by 27th April 1470 (see E Motta, ‘Pamfilio border, all in burnished gold, blue, green, Castaldi, Antonio Planella, Pietro Ugleimer ed il purple; 54 further initials in gold, mostly nine vescovo d’Aleria’, Rivista storica italiana, 1 to 11-lines, against intricate white-vine (1884), 252-72, at 255 note 2)’ (Bod-Inc). backgrounds infilled with blue, green, and Complete copies are known but many purple, which extend into the margins; four-line institutions have only one of the two volumes initial in gold infilled with green and purple (see ISTC). A note at the foot of the first page against a blue background; some rubrication; appears to suggest that this volume was on its early manuscript headings and foliation. own when bought in Logrono, northern Spain, by Dean Munor de Suessa in 1632. Volume 1 (& 24ff of vol 2). Large Folio. Binding size: 412 Examples are very rare on the market with x 295mm. Paper size: 390 x 280mm. 316 of 320ff. Anglo/American auctions recording only an (lacking d10 and 3 blanks). [*4 a10 b8 c10 d9(of 10) e10 incomplete copy of volume I appearing at fg8 h6 i-o10 p8 q10 r12 s10 t3(of 4 -t4 blank) v-y10 z8 auction since 1936 when at the celebrated aa-cc8 dd12 ee9(of 10 - ee10 blank) gg12 hh10 ii3(of 4 Mensing sale, the Sykes-Syston Park-William -ii4 blank); A10 B8 C6]. Quires c & d misbound. 45 lines Morris copy was sold. Our copy was auctioned (257 x 160mm), roman type (113R.), spaces left for at Sotheby’s 18th November 1918, lot 609, and greek letter. Mid-late 19th-century dark brown sold to Francis Edwards for £18.10s. morocco over bevelled boards by William Townsend This copy of the first volume of Plutarch’s and Son, Sheffield, with their blindstamp inside front Vitae ends with the life of Lucullus unlike most cover, covers panelled with simple blind fillets and other examples which end with the life of ornamental rolls, spine decorated in the same Sertorius. Our volume one, therefore, holds a way, red morocco label, re. Price upon request further 24 leaves and three incipits with initial spaces which are illuminated with three further white vine initials. The three blanks are missing from this copy and also f d10 which holds only the final 16 lines of the comparison between Lycurgus and Numa on the recto of the leaf, the remainder of the leaf is blank. The leaves have

80 81 65 POLE (Reginald) De summo pontifice Christi in terris vicario, eiusque officio & potestate… Louvain, John Fowler, 1569. [Bound with:] URANIUS (Henricus). De re numaria, mensuris, et ponderibus. Cologne, ad been absent since the 17th century at least as the Provenance: Near contemporary marginal intersignium Monocerotis, 1569. early foliation is continuous. annotations, plentiful for first 35ff and It is rare to find such lavish use of white vine- intermittent thereafter. Acquisition note at foot Printer’s device on title-page of first work. stem illumination or bianchi girari as very few of first page of Dom Munor de Suessa, Dean of books of the period printed in Rome or Venice had Albelda-Logrono, 1632, his inscription also at Two works in one vol. 8vo (150 x 100mm) [8], 151, [5] II Second edition. ‘Henricus Uranius was a so many opening initial spaces, one exception being foot of final leaf. 18th-century inscription of ‘D ff; [32]ff (final leaf blank). Contemporary limp vellum German classicist, born at Reesz, Prussia. He the Sweynheym and Pannartz Pliny of the same year Gregorio Lopez Malo’ on first page, ie Gregorio stained orange (lacks ties). £900 lived at Emmerlich (Emrich) when he wrote this although the Natural History has only 37 initial López de la Torre y Malo (1700-1770), an work. This is a semi-historical discussion of the spaces. White vine-stem illumination developed in historian from Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara, I First edition of Cardinal Pole’s influential work various measures which the 16th century received early fifteenth-century as decoration for central Spain). Annotations to ff cc1v-cc2r, Life on the Papacy edited posthumously by Henry from the Roman civilization, or which were humanistic or classical texts, seemingly copied from of Gracchi probably in his hand. Two pages of Joliffe (d 1573), who also provides a dedicatory mentioned in the most commonly read classics of manuscripts of the classical period which were in 19th-century bibliographical notes cut down letter addressed to Pope Pius V. Pole’s treatise on the Renaissance period. No arithmetical reality Italian manuscripts of the 12th century. The and mounted at the end, stating that the volume the powers and duties of the papal office was operations are given in the book. It begins with style of illumination spread throughout Italy and in was acquired in Valencia in 1834. Sold at conceived soon after the death of his friend Pope the fractional parts of the as, the twelfth being the 1460s and 1470s suitable printed books were Sotheby’s 18 November 1918, lot 609. Paul III at a time when Pole himself was called the uncia (the Troy ounce), the sixth the also decorated in this way before making way for The final leaf C6 is cut down and mounted. considered the most likely candidate for the sextans, the fourth the quadrans, and so woodcut ornaments. Heavy ink stain affecting folios v1v and v2r and pontificate. However, to appease the French party on’(Smith). Smith erroneously states that there Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), a native of the white vine initial. Some dampstaining, a compromise candidate was found in Cardinal was no edition other than the first of 1540. Ingolstadt and a citizen of Vienna, was the mostly marginal but heavier towards the end, de Monte who was elected Pope on 8 February First title stained partially obscuring two second printer in Rome. He followed Sweynheym affecting circa 9 initials. Foxed and spotted in 1550 and took the name of Julius III. The editor, early inscriptions. and Pannartz, the first to print in Italy, who had places, also mostly marginal. Joliffe, had been Dean of Bristol but escaped I Allison & Rogers I, no 915. Adams P1746. II moved to Rome from Subiaco in 1467, the year in HC 13125*. BMC IV, 21. Goff P-830. Bod-Inc England following the accession of Elizabeth I Dekesel U2. Smith Arithmetica pp208/9 (1540 which Han began printing. P-390. BSB-Ink P-624. Pr 3348. and settled in Louvain. ed). Not in Adams.

82 83 66 PORCACCHI (Thomaso) Funerali antichi di diversi popoli et nationi; forma, ordine et pompa di sepolture, di obsequie, di consecrationi antiche et d’altro. Venice, (appresso Simon Galignani), 1574.

Elaborate engraved architectural title-page and discussion starts with a deliberation about the 67 [RAPHAEL] AQUILA (Francesco) Picturae Raphaelis Sancti 23 half-page text engravings (95 x 155mm) by merits of the chosen artist and the publisher. It is Urbinatis ex Aula et Conclavibus Palatii Vaticani ad publicum terrarum orbis Girolamo Porro, depicting funeral ceremonies of agreed that the Paduan born designer and ornamentum in aereas tabulas nunc primum omnes deductae, explicationibus various cultures. Galignani’s large woodcut engraver of the illustrations, Girolamo Porro illustratae... Rome, typis ac sumptibus Domenici de Rossi Jo. Jacobi filii, 1722. device on recto of last leaf; woodcut initials and (1520-1604), although affected by the handicap decorative tail-pieces. of a defective eye, is an extraordinarily gifted Engraved throughout: architectural and of the famous Raphael Stanze in the Vatican. artist; he even constructed a kind of flying allegorical title-page incorporating dedication Included also on four sheets (plate three) is 4to. (265 x 210mm) [4]ff 109pp [1]f. Early 19th-century machine which will carry many men (cf folio 3/4). and address to Pope Innocent III, and 21 etched the grandiose Battle at the Milvian Bridge from vellum over pasteboards, covers panelled in blind, flat The author Tommaso Porcacchi (1530-85) was a plates by Aquila after Raphael (numbered 1-19, the Sala di Constantino painted by Giulio spine gilt with two red morocco labels, the lower one Tuscan historian, philologist, and poet whose with three on four sheets) Romano after the designs of Raphael and here a library label ‘Col Gr Gioia X’ (duplicate morocco L’isole piu famose del mondo, also illustrated by etched and engraved by Francesco Aquila’s labels also pasted inside front cover). £2,600 Porro, was published in 1572. The book proved Oblong folio (582 x 790 mm). Bound in contemporary uncle Pietro Aquila; this print was originally popular and even held the status as a handbook vellum backed limp paste boards, large part of the issued in 1683. A fine copy of the first edition of this beautifully for princely funerals and was notably consulted contemporary mottled paper on front cover missing Franceso Aquila (fl 1690-1740) was a native illustrated work. The book discusses in detail the for the obsequies of Cosimo I de’ Medici who exposing paste board beneath, corners and of Palermo (Sicily) but spent most of his life funeral preparations, rites, burials, tombs and died in the year of publication. extremities bumped and scuffed, new endpapers, working as an engraver at Rome. He was a other customs of antiquity for the Greeks, Provenance: Armorial bookplate with ducal but in surprisingly good condition. £3,800 nephew and the student of Pietro Aquila. Romans, Egyptians, Hebrews and early crown and motto ‘Espérance avec Dieu’, 1867. A very good, large and uncut copy with fine Christians, among others. It is written in the form Cicognara 1766. Adams P1903. Mortimer II, First edition of Francesco Aquila’s magnificent impressions of the plates. of a dialogue between two men discussing the 395. Brunet IV, 820 ‘Ouvrage recherché à cause series of engravings after Raphael; this is the Passavant, Raphael, II, p98. Pezzini, Raphael illustrations which introduce each chapter. The des 24 gravures dont il est orné’. earliest series of complete reproductions in print inventit, pp120-124.

84 85 68 [SALINAS (Miguel)] Rhetorica en lengua castellana en la qua se pone muy en breve lo necessario para saber bien hablar y escrevir: y conoscer quien habla y escrive bien. Alcala, Joan de Brocar, 8 Feb1541.

Title printed in red and black within ornamental important at that time when most people were woodcut border, on verso of title the imperial illiterate and relied on the spoken word for Spanish arms within border of architectural information and knowledge. Salinas makes columns, two large historiated initials and many interesting remarks on rhetorical devices such as smaller ornamental and historiated initials, text aids to memory, but surprisingly makes no mention in gothic letter. of St Augustine, the early master of that subject. Also noteworthy is Salinas’ recommendation that Sm 4to (192 x 138mm) [4] cxvii ff. Late 18th-century when some thing or place is mentioned in a speech Spanish tree calf, morocco label, marbled or sermon, realistic details should be added to make end papers. £7,000 the image more vivid and realistic and hence memorable. ‘If it is a garden, say what fruit grows Rare first edition of the first book on rhetoric to there’, ‘if a house, what is it built of’, ‘if a river, how be printed in Spanish, one of the main subjects deep is it, if a mountain, how high’. taught at renaissance schools and universities. The text also has some surprises, Salinas cites The author writes at the beginning of the Erasmus as one who could be trusted (folio lxx), work that although there were many books on although at that time Erasmus was theologically rhetoric in Greek and Latin he found it necessary suspect to many orthodox Catholics, especially to write this book in his native language, since in Spain. More surprisingly still, he shows he had asked in many bookshops if such a work knowledge of the contemporary play La existed in Castilian but had never found one. Celestina (1499), an erotic classic and still one His aim was to help people to write and speak of the greatest works in Spanish literature. well which would be to the advantage of the Little is known about Salinas (d 1577), a Catholic commonwealth. Ignorance of rhetoric Hieronymite monk who spent his life in the sometimes results from ignorance of Latin, but monastery of Santa Engracia, Saragossa. He by studying this book in Spanish, Salinas states, was Master of Novices for 35 years and was one can make more progress in one year than singled out for praise by José de Siguenza, the students can in three years in the schools. historian of the Hieronymite Order. In the main text, Salinas offers advice to Provenance: Ownership inscription on title- preachers, lawyers and orators on how to speak page of ‘es de Dr. Juan Manuel de Miranda y and preach effectively and on how to move the Ortiz Abocado de la Real... 1751’. Title-border emotions of the audience, on how to persuade just cropped, a little staining at beginning and others and how best to rebuke them: ‘Rebuking end, but generally a good copy. the evils of the great and powerful is dangerous Palau 263182 & 287547. BMSTC (Spanish), and might also give scandal; it is better to ignore p163. OCLC (US: Harvard, Michigan, their errors’ (folio 38r). Oratory was particularly Washington, Pennsylvania only). Not in Adams.

86 87 69 SALLUST Histoire de la conjuration de Catilina (& Guerre de Jugurtha) 70 SANDRART (Joachim von) Iconologia deorum, oder Abbildung traduit en français... par CA Thomas, géomêtre. Np, nd, (Paris?, c 1816-1818). der Götter, welche von den Alten verehret worden. Nuremberg, Christian Siegmund Froberger for the author, 1680. Manuscript on paper. Two parts in one vol. Folio translation procure for them the easy (338 x 223mm) [44]ff (last blank) [75]ff. Calligraphic understanding of this author and spare them Fine frontispiece, Sandrart’s portrait by R. agate and onyx”; but it is still in large part title-pages and heading, each text page of 27 lines in a precious time in years to come and most of all in Collin, and 34 plates on 33 sheets (seven founded on the Italian mythographers and neat cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary pale their youth. May I have the joy of assisting in the double-page), mostly engraved by Johann Jakob emblematists of the preceding century – calf over boards, flat spine with gilt label lettered development of the two offspring who, like their Sandrart after Joachim von Sandrart, two by Alexander of Naples, Alciati, Valeriano, Conti, ‘SALLUSTE’ (a little rubbed, a few short tears elders, are the love and pride of my country and Susanna Maria Sandrart (1658-1716); two Cartari’ (Seznec). to covers). £2,400 the happy hope of your house.’ Louis Philippe’s engraved headpieces. Sandrart (1606-1688) was a renowned painter first two sons, Ferdinand Philippe d’Orléans and and art historian and is described by Klemm A fine calligraphic manuscript of Sallust in Louis d’Orléans were born in 1810 and 1814 Folio (400 x 253mm) [21]ff 212pp [8]ff. Contemporary as ‘the most famous German painter of his day French for the education of the two young sons of respectively, while his third son Louis d’Orléans mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments (some expert and the most important German writer on art Louis Philippe, Duc d’Orleans, the future King was not born until August 1818. restoration to joints and headcaps). £3,500 between Dürer and Johann Joachim Louis Philippe of France, with his library stamp The translator signs the dedication ‘Thomas, Winckelmann’. His most famous work was of the Bibliothèque de Roi at the Palais Royal. expert; dernier parent de l’auteur des éloges,’ First edition of Sandrart’s beautifully illustrated Teutsche Akademie der edlen... Künste (1675), This unpublished translation is by ‘CA which refers to his famous kinsman the poet and iconography of the ancients gods based on with numerous portraits of artists and notices of Thomas, géomêtre’ who dedicates the critic Antoine-Léonard Thomas (1732-1785) best Cartari’s indispensable guide to artists Imagini de German painters. manuscript to ‘son Altesse royale, Monseigneur known for his series of éloges of great men whose i Dei degli antichi (1556). ‘The monumental Provenance: 18th-century engraved armorial le Duc D’Orleans, premier prince du sang’. In his Oeuvres complètes in six volumes were published Iconologia deorum reveals its remoter origins bookplate of ‘Am Gruberi’. dedication he writes that he has undertaken this 1822-25 (see: NBG, 45, pp223-6). Nothing else, from the first page on; Boccaccio’s Demogorgon VD-17 3:312576U. Faber du Faur 1835. See: C work for the benefit of the Duc’s two young sons however, is known about his descendant. is given the place of honour. The work, it is true, Klemm in Grove Dictionary of Art, vol 27, so that they can read and study the Roman Provenance: Library stamp on title-page boasts of its use of antique monuments: “Greek pp725/6. J Seznec, Survival of the Pagan Gods historian Sallust. He continues, ‘May my ‘Bibliothèque de Roi, Palais Royal’. and Roman statues, objects in marble, ivory, (1972), p317.

88 89 71 SCHERER (Georg) Rettung der Jesuiter Unschuld wider die Giftspinnen Lucam Osiander. Ingolstadt, Sartorius, 1586. [Bound with:] Ob es wahr sey, Dass auff ein Zeit ein Bapst zu Rom Schwanger gewesen, und ein Kind geboren habe. Ingolstadt, Sartorius, 1584. [And:] Bericht, Ob der Bapst zu Rom der Antichrist sey. In etliche Predigen kürtzlich verfasset. Inglostadt, Sartorius, 1585.

First title with woodcut of a rose in bloom with and Mexico. Lucas Osiander was Protestant court a beetle and a wasp on the petals; titles in red and preacher to the Duke of Württemberg at Stuttgart qualified to adapt to the new struggles than the sternness of his character scarcely fitted him for black, second and third titles within type and in his pamphlet accused the Jesuits of working older congregations, and they had no need to the office, and he was transferred (1594) to . ornament borders. towards the extinction of the protestant religion by take on the medieval inheritance of the ‘Scherer was a man of boundless energy using undue influence over sovereigns. The violent Dominicans and the Franciscans’ Alain Boureau, and rugged strength of character, a strenuous Three works in one vol. 4to (205 x 160mm) [3] ff 72pp controversy lasted between 1585-89 and produced Myth of Pope Joan, (2001) p248. controversialist, a genuinely popular orator and [1]f; [36]ff (last blank); [6]ff 153pp [1]f (blank). a succession of pamphlets from both sides. III A defence of Rome and the Pope, long writer. He vigorously opposed the Tübingen Contemporary limp vellum. £2,000 II An important polemical work which helped regarded by some more virulent Protestant professors who meditated a union with the Greek the Church to move on from its long held stance authors as the Antichrist. Schismatics, refuted Lutheran divines like First editions of all three works by the jesuit of accepting the existence of Pope Joan. This Georg Scherer was a ‘Pulpit orator and Osiander and Heerbrand, and roused his georg scherer, a leading figure of the counter- process began in Italy with Panvinio’s corrected controversialist, born at , in the Tyrol, countrymen against the Turks... His eloquence reformation. version of Platina’s Lives of the Popes in 1562. 1540, he died at Linz, 30 Nov, 1605; entered the and zeal made many converts, amongst them the I A defence of the Jesuits against the ‘venemous However, Scherer’s was ‘The first work entirely in 1559. Even before his future Cardinal Khlesl’ (Catholic Encyclopaedia). spider’ Osiander in response to his 1585 treatise devoted to refuting the existence of Joan. Scherer ordination he was famed for his preaching Provenance: Ownership stamp on verso of Warnung Vor der Jesuiter blutdurstigen had nothing to add to Panvinio’s arguments but powers. For over forty years he labored in the title of the Counts of Fürstenberg, Court Library Anschlagen (Warning of the Jesuit’s bloody plans his work was new in two ways; it was written in Archduchy of Austria. To Scherer, in part, it owes Donaueschingen. and malicious practices) which also defends the German, thus carrying the debate into the the retention of the Faith. In 1577 he was Court I VD16 S2734. Stalla 1562. Alden-L. 586/65. Jesuits’ missionary work in the New World Lutherans own linguistic domain; it signalled the preacher to the Archduke Matthias; he retained Sommervogel III, 609, no 8 II VD16 S2725. Stalla (pp55/66) and lists all the Jesuit Provinces arrival of the Society of Jesus on the ideological the post until 1600. In 1590 he was appointed 1512a. Sommervogel III, 607, no 4. III VD16 worldwide including those in India, Japan, Brazil terrain of the popess. The Jesuits were better Rector of the Jesuit College at Vienna; the S2680. Stalla 1535. Sommervogel III, 610, no 16.

90 91 73 SUCQUET (Antoine), SJ Via vitae aeternae iconibus illustrata per Boetium a Bolswert. , typis Martini Nutii, 1620.

Engraved frontispiece title and 32 engraved emblematic plates by Boetius a Bolswert.

8vo (190 x 125mm) [8]ff 875pp [10]ff. Contemporary vellum (later endpapers, a few minor marks). £2,400

A fine presentation copy of the first edition of this 72 [SOBIUS (Jacobus)] Philalethis civis Utopiensis dialogus, de facultatibus very popular emblem book, a meditative guide to Rhomanensium nuper publicatis. Henno rusticus. [Np, nd, ie Basle, Andreas the path of eternal life by the Belgian Jesuit, Cratander, 1520]. Antoine Sucquet (1574-1627). Each emblem has an annotation or quotation from the Bible and an Sm 8vo (155 x 100mm) [28]ff. Modern marbled attributed to Sobius on the strength of an lengthy explanation of the plate. The fine boards, paper label on front cover. £1,200 explicit statement to this effect by Henricus emblems are by the great baroque engraver Cornelius Agrippa. However, a letter to Zwingli Boetius a Bolswert (c 1580-1633), who also A rare example of the only edition of this early (Z VII Ep 148) by Jacobus Nepos dating from illustrated the emblem books of Herman Hugo reformation satire which lampoons the sale of the time when the manuscript was published in and also engraved many plates after Rubens. Praz indulgences by the papal legate (Giovanni Angelo Basel would seem to cast some doubt on the calls him ‘the illustrator of the sentimental and Arcimboldi?) and was later put on the index. The traditional attribution’. The work appears in ecstatic states of the soul’. supposed author is one ‘Philalethis civis Böcking’s edition of Hutten Opera, 1859-1862, Provenance: Presentation inscription at foot Utopiensis’ and it is written in the form of a IV, pp485-514. of the engraved title from the author to an dialogue between Henno, Polypragmon, Bruno, Provenance: 19th-century circular stamp on unidentified fellow Jesuit, ‘Ab auctore donatus Bartolinus and the Legatus Romanus. verso of title ‘Ad Bibl Acad Land’ and inscription A dg SJ’, and dated at head of page ‘4 Novemb The satire has been wrongly ascribed to in lower margin of f a3 ‘bib acad Ingolst [adt]’. 1620’. Later inscription at foot dated 1720 of Hutten and to Erasmus and is attributed to the VD16 S6833. Adams S1341. BMSTC ‘Joan Toll?’. On fly-leaf presentation inscription prominent Cologne humanist Jacobus Sobius (German), p691. Contemporaries of Erasmus of Pater J de Beare, 1912, to Mount St Mary’s (1493-1527) by VD16. Contemporaries of III, pp252/3. Index des livres interdits (Ed JM Jesuit College. Erasmus notes, however, that ‘this lampoon of de Bujanda), Centre d’Études de la Renaissance, Praz, p506. De Backer-Sommervogel, VII, col an unnamed papal legate has normally been 1995, no 486. 1690, no 1.

92 93 74 TERESA DE AVILA St Camino di perfettione. - [Le Mansioni overo castello interiore]. [Trans. Francesco Soto]. Rome. Stefano Paolini, for 75 TERRACINA (Laura) Quarte rime della Signora Laura Terracina detta Giacomo Vernice, 1603. Phebea nell’Academia de gl’Incogniti. Venice, appresso Domenico Farri, 1560.

Large woodcut portrait with a wide border of autobiographical Vida was denounced to the Fine woodcut half-length portrait of Laura appeared by the time of her death including her typographical ornaments, Jesuit device on Inquisition by conservative Carmelites. on verso of folio 6, device and cartouche on commentaries on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso; her each title-page. Her mysticism is simple, pure and title-page, initials. last collection composed just before her death spontaneous, easily understood by the average remained unpublished. She was member of the 2 parts in one. 4to (205 x 150mm) [8]ff 157pp [1]f [4] believer yet susceptible of multiple interpretations Sm. 8vo (160 x 100mm) 75ff (lacks final blank). Neapolitan Accademia degli Incogniti between ff 177-368pp. 19th-century quarter calf. £900 by the theologian. ‘In her writings the Saint Modern marbled boards. £1,200 1545-47 where she was known as ‘Phebea’, as reveals herself as an admirable organiser and an noted on the title-page here. As well as cultivating First edition in Italian of two important works of expert diplomat, quick to penetrate human Laura Terracina’s fourth book of poems was friendships with the leading Neapolitan writers Santa Teresa de Avila (1515-1582), generally motives. She united in remarkable fashion first published in 1550 and reprinted here by and intellectuals of the time she also corresponded regarded as the most famous and most original of realistic practical talents and the most Farri in 1560. Both editions are very rare with with figures such as Anton Francesco Doni, Luigi all the mystical writers; these two works are extraordinary poetic imagination and abstract Edit 16 only locating four copies of the first Tansillo and Lodovico Dolce. printed before her beatification in 1614 and power of absorption. The rare alliance of gifts edition (OCLC adds BL, John Rylands Title word ‘Quarte’ has been rubbed away canonisation in 1622. She became a Carmelite at which appear contradictory constitutes the truly Manchester & Yale only) and four of the present from cartouche. the age of 19 and later set out, in collaboration original side of her genius. (Merimée, History of edition. Another edition of Lucca, Vincenzo Censiment Edit 16 CNCE 37714 4 locations with San Juan de la Cruz, to reform the order; she Spanish Literature, p267). Busdraghi, 1551 is recorded by Edit 16 but no only (Piazza Armerina, Padova, Urbania, managed to reform 32 convents throughout Title repaired in inner margin, a few light locations are given and we can trace no copy. Bassano del Grappa). BMSTC (Italian), p666. Spain and founded the Order of Discalced stains in places. Terracina’s (1519-1577?) poems were OCLC (US: NYPL, Wellesley, Duke & Utah (Barefoot) Carmelites. Of her many writings her Palau 299043. published from 1548 and eight slim volumes only; Germany BSB only).

94 95 77 TORY (Geoffroy) L’art et science de la vraye proportion des lettres attiques... Paris, par Viuant Gaultherot, 1549.

116 woodcuts designed and cut by Tory mostly illustrating the formation of letters with several more elaborate blocks, one ‘Le Hercule françois’ is signed with the Lorraine cross and dated 1526, in addition 13 alphabets are found on 36 pages plus three pages of ciphers.

8vo (163 x 105mm) 184ff. 18th-century marbled calf covered in 19th-century purple silk which is sewn together inside the front and back covers, paper label on spine (spine lightly faded, small tears at head of spine). £8,500

The second edition of the Champ Fleury, ‘the most famous single work in the early history of French typography’ (Mortimer). Both the 76 TERREVERMEILLE (Jean de) Contra rebelles suorum Regum... format and layout have been revised and, as (Lyon, in edibus Ioannis Crespin, 3 December 1526). Mortimer notes, the title has reverted the one first recorded in Tory’s 1526 privilege. Although Title in red and black within fine four-piece concentrates on the laws and prerogatives of kings almost all the illustrations from the first edition woodcut border, with central woodcut device of and emperors and in particular the kings of France. are found here, there are three substitutions in Constantin Fradin, woodcut initials. In the first tract in he develops the idea that the king the letter diagrams, the format is now octavo is only a custodian of the authority of the crown and and the title and colophon are unornamented 4to (262 x 180mm) 22, CXXI, [1] (blank) ff. Double the importance of rightful succession. The text is making this, ‘a strictly utilitarian volume in columns. 18th-century marbled calf, ornate gilt border augmented by the copious commentary of Jaques contrast to the 1529 printing’ (Mortimer). on covers and central gilt arms of Pius VI (1717-99), Bonaud de Sausete. The printing of the text a Among the alphabets the ‘lettres fleuries’ have pope from 1775. £2,500 century after it was written allowed it to gain been changed to criblé initials adapted from the considerable influence in French constitutional set belonging to Robert Estienne. Rare first edition of this important 15th-century thinking from the Renaissance onwards. Tory’s reputation as renaissance scholar, legal treatise on the monarchy by Jean de Provenance: Gilt arms on covers of Pius VI printer and artist is based on this work which is Terrevermeille or Terrerouge (1370?-1430?), (1717-99), pope from 1775, born Count Giovanni divided into three books, the first on the French avocat at Nîmes and a legal expert in the turbulent Angelo Braschi, whose long reign culminated in his language, the second on the origin of roman reign of Charles VI (1368-1422) and the Dauphin, being taken prisoner by Napoleonic troops in 1798, letters and the third on the construction of the future Charles VII (1403-61). This, his only he died a year later. A few early underlinings and letters. The woodcuts in the second section known work, was written for the Dauphin between marginal notes. Some light browning in places. demonstrate proportions of letters based on the February and September 1419 in defence of his Baudrier XI, 131 (no locations outside France). human form, and Bernard suggests they may be rightful succession. In the three tracts Terrevermeille OCLC (USA: Yale Law, NYPL) Copac (Oxford). attributed to Jean Perréal, whom Tory credits with

96 97 78 TOSCANO (Giovanni Matteo) Psalmi Davidis ex hebraica veritate latinis versibus exoressi... quibus praefixa sunt argumenta singulis distichis comprehensa, opera Io. Aurati poetae regii. [Bound with:] Octo cantica sacra e Sacris Biblis latino carmine expressa... praefixis argumentis Io. Aurati... eiusdem Toscani Hymni, & Poemata. Paris, ex officina Federici Morelli typographi 1575.

Fine four-piece arabesque woodcut border on professor of Greek at the College Royale and was title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials. named by Charles IX as poeta regius . designs elsewhere. In the third section Tory Provenance: Inscription on title-page of provides a detailed account of and practical advice Two vols in one. 8vo (175 x 110mm) [8], 141, [9]ff; ‘Antheaume Parisin 1683’ with a one-line note on the design and execution of letter-cutting. [60]ff. Late 17th/early 18th-century calf, single gilt before each psalm in the same hand. Ownership The idea of the Champ Fleury first came to fillet on covers, spine gilt with arms of the Dauphin inscription inside front-cover of ‘James Ford, him in 1523, inspired partly by an Attic letter in four compartments (upper joint and 1848. Very Scarce.’ and bookplate of the Phillpotts which he had recently made for his friend, Jean headcaps restored). £1,200 Library, Truro, ‘presented by Rev. James Ford, Grolier. Tory’s earlier travels in France and Italy, 1872’. 18th/19th-century engraving of King David visiting the Coliseum, and seeing many ancient First editions of both volumes of Toscano’s with his Harp pasted on to front free endpaper. monuments, provided further inspiration for his (1500?-1576) verse translations from the Hebrew I Adams B1464. OCLC (US: Harvard, Kansas, ideas on letter-forms. In addition to the many of the Psalms and eight Canticles, followed by his Michigan only). II Adams T843. OCLC (US: woodcuts illustrating letters are two allegorical own hymns, epigrams and poems. Jean Dorat Harvard, Folger & Columbia only). Ref: G scenes by Tory which he signed with the Lorraine (1508-1588) provides the introductory distich to Oberle, Poesie Neo-Latine, no 242. cross, one of ‘Le Hercules françois’ (dated 1526), each psalm and canticle. In the appendix to the and one in two parts of ‘Le triumphe d’Apollo’. first part, Morel the younger describes the variety Title-page just shorter and lightly soiled, of meters used by Toscano. Two leaves, which index quire * misbound after title-page and x2.7 contain an elegy to Chauvet and the privilege, are misbound in quire v, stain affecting lower blank found at the end of the first part and are not portion of final leaf, slight loss to upper blank present in all copies. margin of last few leaves; overall a very good Giovanni Matteo Toscano (1500?-1576) was unwashed copy in an unusual binding. The use born in Milan at the beginning of the 16th century of a silk ‘dust jacket’ is reminiscent of the and little is known of his early life. He came to ‘Cottonian’ bindings found in the collection of know Dorat at the court of Catherine de Medicis the poet Robert Southey, covered in material by and they became good friends. Dorat helped in the his daughters. publication of the present work and Toscano, in Provenance: Early inscriptions on title-page turn, was proud to be his student. He also compiled (faded). Armorial bookplate of Richard Shute a collection of Latin works by Italian poets inside front cover which is inscribed by the Carmina illustrium poetarum italorum (1576-77). Oxford historian Frederick York Powell (1850- The great Hellenist Jean Dorat (c 1502-88) 1904), ‘Given me by Mrs Shute in memory of counted Ronsard among his pupils at the College [Richard Shute]’ and dated ‘23.3.1887’. Rowley de Coqueret as well as Baif and du Bellay. He had Atterbury (b 1920), designer and printer at Faber the honour of being named leader of La Pleiade & Faber and founder of the Westerham Press. which had been formed by these young poets as a Mortimer (French) no 526. BMSTC (French), society for the reformation of the French language. p423. Brun, p315. See: Bernard Tory 12-27, 81- Dorat’s importance, however, lay in the study of 84, 189-196. Greek and Latin and in 1555 he was appointed

98 99 79 TYRE (William, Archbishop of) Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme, della Terra di Promissione, e quasi di tutta la Soria ricuperata da’ Christiani. Tradotta in Lingua Italiana da G. Horologgi. Venice, appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

Printer’s device on title-page and verso of last contrast with the tone of other European leaf, woodcut historiated initials. chronicles’ (Catholic Encyclopaedia). Provenance: Unidentified initials on upper 4to (210 x 160mm) [14]ff 702pp [1]f. Contemporary cover, small armorial stamp on title-page. vellum over thin paste boards, upper cover stamped with Engraved bookplate of the Augustinian Canons ownership initials ‘HIK’ (remains of vellum ties). £1,250 of Polling Abbey, Bavaria, dated 1744, ‘Franciscus Praepositus S Salvatoris Pollingae. First italian edition, translated by Giuseppe Ad bibliothecam ibidem.’ Franz Töpsl (1711- Orologi (1520-76), of the archbishop and 1796), provost at Polling for 50 years, was chronicler William of Tyre’s (d 1190) History of one of the great leaders of the Catholic the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the only source for Enlightenment in Bavaria. He oversaw the the history of twelfth-century Jerusalem written building of the large library at the abbey which by a native. The first Latin edition had only been held some 80,000 volumes by the time of his published a decade or so before by Nicholas death and was therefore one of the largest in Brylinger, Basle 1549. southern Germany. ‘The chief work of his which has reached us is Light dampstain to lower margin, otherwise a the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis very fresh copy. gestarum, or Historia Hierosolymitana, in Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 22407. BMSTC twenty-three books. It is a general history of the (Italian), p322. Adams W179. Crusades and the Kingdom of Jerusalem down to 1184. The work was begun between 1169 and 1173, at the request of King Amaury. The first sixteen books (down to 1144) were composed with the assistance of pre-existing sources, 80 UBALDINUS (Joannes Paulus) Carmina poetarum Nobilium. Albert of Aix, Raimond d’Aguilen, Foucher of Io Pauli Ubaldini conquista. Milan, apud Antonium Antonianum, 1563. Chartres, etc. On the other hand books 17 to 23 have the value of personal memoirs. As Fine large woodcut printer’s device on title-page earlier generations are represented (eg Tebaldeo, chancellor of the kingdom the author consulted repeated on verso of final leaf. Navagero, Aonio Paleario, Bonfadio, the brothers documents of the first importance, and he Amalteo, Giano Vitale and Niccolò d’Arco). himself took part in the events which he Sm 8vo (180 x 115mm) 107, [1]ff. Early binding of Although some of the contents may well have been recounts. He is therefore a chief source for the cartonnage boards. £1,100 taken from printed editions, Ubaldini declares that history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. His his texts were ‘magna cura ac studio conquisitos’, account is in general remarkable for its literary First edition of this important anthology of Neo- and he must have gone to manuscript sources for charm. Very intelligent and well informed, the Latin poetry which holds 224 poems by forty much of his materials, eg the three odes of Giovanni author had very broad views; from his stay at writers. John Sparrow describes it as ‘one of the Casa, the three poems of Niccolò d’Arco and the Constantinople he acquired a certain admiration most remarkable of such collections ... some of the ten important poems of Molza, which alone give for the Byzantine Empire, and his temperate contributors are contemporary nonentities, distinction to this anthology.’ opinions of John and Manuel Comneus are in distinguished poets, both contemporary and of Censimento CNCE 29215.

100 101 81 ULRICH III, Herzog zu Mecklenburg Kurtze wiederholung etlicher fürnemer Heuptstücke Christlicher Lehre, nach ordung des Catechismi. Durch eine hohe Fürstliche Person zusammen getragen. Mit einer Vorrede Andreae Celichii Mecklenburgischen Superintendenten. Leipzig, (bey Michael Lantzenberger. In verlegung Werneri Langen/ Buchbinders und Buchendlers zu Güstrow), 1594.

Title in red and black, 17 woodcuts c. 65 x 60mm most within ornamental border strips, each page printed within one of eight different four-piece woodcut borders of finely detailed ornamental and historiated blocks, one pair dated ‘1566’ another with the arms of the Electorate of Saxony at foot, full-page woodcut Mecklenburg coat-of-arms (148 x 106) on verso A devout Lutheran, Ulrich was a well educated of title-page after Lukas Cranach d A, printer’s and modern prince whose court at Güstrow was a device on verso of final leaf; gothic and some centre of artistic and intellectual activity. His roman letter. catechism reflected his thorough knowledge of the Lutheran faith. He organised the work in 23 4to (195 x 145mm) [324]ff. Contemporary vellum chapters in the form of questions and answers. over paste-boards decorated in gilt (now mostly The excerpts used to illustrate the answers are oxidised), covers panelled by double gilt fillets, small taken from the Bible but also reflect his wide star and fleuron stamps at corners, large central oval reading of the Church Fathers and other early fleur-de-lys ornament on front cover, oval arabesque theologians including Bede and some classical stamp on rear cover (ties missing). £7,500 authors such as Pliny and Euripides. He intended it to serve as a pedagogical and theological work Extremely rare first edition of the richly which guided the reader to a better Christian life. illustrated Lutheran catechism of Duke Ulrich Neumann notes that he discussed his plans for of Mecklenburg. The only surviving copies the Catechism with his daughter Sophie and that that we can trace in Germany are at the he also had a strong influence on the layout of Herzog August Bibliothek, Landesbibliothek the printed form. Later editions appeared in Mecklenburg, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, 1595 and 1600 with some changes. Gotha Forschungs Bibliothek and Museum der The richly ornamented borders, found on every Stadt Güstrow. Outside Germany only three page save the title-verso, incorporate scenes from copies can be traced, in France at the Bibliothèque the Bible, figures of Old Testament prophets, the Nationale and Université de Strasbourg and in symbols of the evangelists, the arms of Saxony and Denmark at the Danish National Library. the date ‘1566’. The woodcuts are from a variety of

102 103 sources and follow the text. Three are signed, the 1567). He married Elizabeth Oldenburg, Princess 82 VEGETIUS (Flavius) De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Iulii Frontinu woodcut of the Creation is marked with a cross ‘+.’ of Denmark, daughter of Frederik I von Gottorp, ... de stratagematis libri totidem. Aeliani de instruendis rei militaris liber and Adam and Eve with an initial ‘H’, neither King of Denmark on 16 February 1556. From unus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber unus (Ed G Budé). Paris, apud marks are found in Nagler. The woodcut of Moses 1558 he rebuilt the medieval castle at Güstrow in Christianum Wechelum, 1535. [Bound with:] VALTURIUS (R). De re militari holding the ten commandments is signed by the a synthesis of Italian, French and German libri XII. Paris, apud Christianum Wechelum, 1534. initial ‘L’ with the symbol of a cutter’s knife architectural styles which become the most alongside (Nagler, IV, p257, unknown artist); it important renaissance palace in North Germany. also appeared in Ambrosius Lobwasser’s very rare Tycho Brahe dedicated a copy of Astronomiae I. Wechel’s device on title-page, large woodcut of in 1472. Three of the cuts appear with the paraphrase of the Bible printed in Leipzig, 1584 instauratae mechanica (Wandesbeck, 1598) to a lansquenet (German foot-soldier) on verso and Mercury sign of the artist Jean Jollat who has (VD16 L 2186). A number of the other woodcuts him, and he corresponded with humanists such as repeated twice more, one half-page diagram and added small details to many of the illustrations, are likely to have been produced for the Catechism, Heinrich Rantzau. 119 other full-page woodcuts of military men, although Mortimer remarks that the strong including a Lutheran baptism with Ulrich in Provenance: Contemporary inscription on title- arms and armour. Letter diagrams of military outline characteristic of the Italian illustrations attendance, a Memento mori of a Putto with an page of ‘Albert: Moller’ who has underlined a positions to text of Aelianus. Wechel’s device on was retained in the French copies. Hourglass commonly used in sepulchral art at number of passages, likely to be the Hamburg verso of last leaf. II. Woodcut printer’s device at The illustrations include numerous military Güstrow and the Day of Judgement woodcut pastor who had a number of works published beginning and end and 85 near full-page engines: catapults, rams, cannons, grenades, scaling which has close parallels to the important painting between 1589-1596 (see VD16). 20th-century woodcuts with 97 illustrations of military ladders, water-raising machines, a clepsydra or of that subject by Hans Metzger in 1584 (Neumann bookplate inside front cover of Athol H Lewis. engines and demonstrations water-clock (with 17 hours marked on the dial), M28, Abb 74). The woodcut of the Mecklenburg VD16 U109. OCLC (outside Germany only bridges, rafts and paddle boats. arms bears the small serpent-like mark of Cranach France: Bibliothèque Nationale, Uni. Strassburg; Two works in one vol. Folio (292 x 195mm) [4]ff 279pp; Mortimer 487 & 536. Fairfax Murray 563 & in the lower left-hand corner. Cranach designed an Denmark: Danish National Lib.). No copies [6]ff 383pp. 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt in 560. Adams V332 & 225. armorial woodcut which appeared in the located in USA or UK. No copy has appeared in compartments, re (joints and headcaps restored). £6,750 Mecklenburg service book of 1552 and also at German auction records in recent decades (JAP 41- I Wechel’s third edition with illustrations least two other bookplates for the family. 60, 1990-2009), nor Anglo/American auctions. from his first of 1532. Mortimer regards them as Ulrich III Nestor Herzog von Mecklenburg- Ref: Carsten Neumann Die Renaissancekunst close copies of the cuts in Heinrich Steiner’s Güstrow (1527-1603), was the son of Albrecht VI am Hofe Ulrichs zu Mecklenburg (2009), cat no Augsburg edition of 1529. With the exception of (1488-1547) and Anne von Hohenzollern (1507- G23 pp294-5. the two smaller cuts at the beginning, Steiner’s series are free copies, the majority in reverse, of blocks used in the 1511 Erfurt edition printed by Hans Knappe. Following Vegetius are the texts of Frontinus, Aelianus Tacitus and Modestus. Among the more remarkable cuts are pneumatic beds, similar boots for walking in the water, diving suits, an ‘armoured train’, impenetrable footwear, while on K4v is a farrier at work with an enlarged illustration of a horseshoe with nails and on 01 is a soldier using a flint and steel with a tinder box divided into three compartments. II Wechel’s second edition with the errata corrected from his 1532 edition, the first to be printed in France. The fine military plates are reversed free copies of those found in the 1483 Venice edition, which in turn were reduced free copies of those in first edition printed in Verona

104 105 83 [VINCENTIUS (Petrus)] Von kleglichem vnzeitigem Tod Eduardi des Sechsten, Königs zu Engelland etc. Warhafftiger gründlicher Bericht vnd erzelung der dinge vnd veranderung[n], so sich in dem löblichen Königreich Engelland, Anno Christi 1553. im Monat Julio zugetragen. Leipzig, [Jakob Barwald], 1554.

4to (197 x 147mm) [12]ff. Bound in later Authorship has been ascribed to the Lutheran vellum wrappers. £1,800 pedagogue Petrus Vincentius (Peter Vietz, 1519- 81), who was in England at the time as a member A rare eye-witness account of the struggle for of the Hansa delegation. His authorship shows succession following the death of Edward VI. It the international interest in the succession relates the events of July 1553 when John Dudley, question. Germany was particularly interested Duke of Northumberland, attempted to put his as Mary was Charles V’s cousin and, although daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey on the English Northumberland’s government was protestant, throne. The account accuses Dudley, who was de this legitimacy of succession was the main facto regent, of causing or accelerating Edward’s concern. Other important factors included death by poison or the dagger, and describes him Northumberland’s pro-French policy and the as ‘gaping like a crow for carrion’ after the king’s possible restriction of German trade. Other demise. It also makes clear the lack of public suggested authors are the Italian theologian support in London and the country for Lady Jane Pietro Martire Vermigli, a close friend of Grey as monarch, as well as describing the Thomas Cramner, and the Swiss protestant wavering loyalties of the privy counsellors bullied theologian Peter Viret. by the primus inter pares Dudley, and the scenes of The account was first published in Wittenberg jubilation when Mary was proclaimed rightful in a Latin and a German edition in 1553 with this Queen on 19 July. The author ends his tract with sole Leipzig edition appearing in the following details of Mary’s magnificent entry into London year. According to VD16 no further editions were on 3 August, which was full of regal pomp and published and all are very rare. OCLC records ceremony, and notes that, ‘It is highly worthy of only one copy of our edition in US libraries and the consideration of all good men that this no copies of the Wittenberg printing. wonderful vicissitude of the greatest revolutions VD16 V1093 (online four copies). OCLC (Yale was experienced in the kingdom of Britain within copy only in US). COPAC (BL only). Ref: Denys the space of a month without slaughter or Hay, The ‘Narratio Historica’ of Petrus bloodshed, excepting the murder of King Edward, Vincentius, 1553, in English Historical Review, owing to the singular beneficence of God’. Vol 63, No 248 (Juli 1948), pp350-356.

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