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Antiquariat Aix-la-Chapelle 1

Greek Tragedies in Best Edition

First complete edition. AESCHYLUS (graece). Tragoediae VII. Que cùm omnes multo quàm antea castigatiores eduntur, tum verò

una, quae mutila & decurata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Petri Victorii cura

et diligentia. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus 1557. 4 unnumbered leaves, 395

pages, 1 p., with woodcut printer’s device on title, 18th

century mottled calf with

richly gilt spine, 4° (24,5 x 17 cm).

First complete edition. Adams A 266; Dibdin I, 237: ’An excellent and beautiful copy. The Agamemnon is published in it, for the first time, complete. This edition is rare and dear’. Edited by Petrus Victorius (Piero Vettori 1499 - 1585), one of the greatest classical scholars of 16th century Italy ‘certainly the

foremost representative’ (Sandys II, 135) and Henri Estienne. Very attractive copy.

Early Arabic Astronomy

ALBOHAZEN HALY filii Abenragel. De iudiciis Astrorum Libri octo. Conversi … per Antonium Stupam … Accessit huic

operi … Compendium duodecim domorum coelestium Authore PETRO

LIECHTENSTEIN. Basle: Henricus Petri March 1571. 14 unnumbered leaves (last

blank), 586 pages, 1 unn. leaf, with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf, some woodcut diagrams and horoscopes, and numerous woodcut initials, 17

th

century full calf, spine gilt, folio (33 x 21 cm).

First Edition with the contribution by Petrus Liechtenstein. (first Venice: Ratdolt 1485). Adams A 70; VD 16 A 1884; VD 16 L 1665 (for the article by Liechtenstein); Houzeau & Lancaster 3870; Zinner 2544.

Scarce first edition of this translation. One of the most popular astrological compendiums in East and West, even Kepler is said to have used information from this text. "On prétend que Kepler a tiré de cet

ouvrage d'importantes indications" (H.-L.)

The Famous Beroaldo Commentary on Cicero

Post-Incunabula. (CICERO, M. T.). Beroaldo, Philippo. Commentarii questionum Tusculanarum. [cum textu]. Paris: Jean Marchant for

Jean Petit January 1509. 263 Roman numbered leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 33

unn. leaves (index), with woodcut printer’s device of Jean Petit on title, full page woodcut verso title, and woodcut printer’s device of Jean Marchant on unn. leaf

before the index, some small woodcut initials, 18th

century quarter calf with spine

label gilt, marbled boards, 4° (21,5 x 15 cm).

Fifth edition. (First edition with the Beroaldus commentary was Bologna 1496). Adams C 1798;

Schweiger II, 212; BMSTC French books 114. With the famous early printer’s device of Jean Petit. With the famous printer’s device of Jean Marchant with Thomas Aquinas’ motto: ‘Fides ficit = Sola fides sufficit’ in type and musical notes, and with the two Saints Crispin und Crispian of the shoemakers: the

Marchant family became wealthy through the manufacture of shoes. (cf. Fairfax Murray, French books 12). Verso title the anonymous full page woodcut of a thoughtful scholar sitting in his study. Some

contemporary annotations at the beginning; lacking last blank leaf of the index (FF4). Very rare title with the best commentary by the Italian humanist Philippo Beraldo (1453 – 1505) in a very good copy.


Aldine in Folio

ARISTOTELES et al. (latine) Habentur hoc volumine haec Theodoro Gaza interprete.

Aristotelis de natura animalium. lib. IX.

Eiusdem de partibus animalium. lib. IIII.

Eiusdem de generatione animalium. lib. V.

Theophrasti de histioria plantarum. lib. IX.

Et decimi principium duntaxat.

Eiusdem de causis plantarum. lib. VI.

Venice: Aldus [Manutius Romanus] & Andreas Asulanus February 1513.

12 unnumbered leaves, 273 numbered leaves, 1 unn. leaf (with large printer’s

device), 16 unn. leaves (with 2 vocabularies), with printer’s device on first and

second title (for Problematum Aristotelis), 17th century calf, folio (32 x 22,5 cm).

Second enhanced Edition. Renouard 45.2. and 65.11.; Firmin-Didot 367 et seq.; Adams A 1765; Isaac

12825; Cranz 107.809. Index Aureliensis 107.809. (First edition 6th of April 1504). Enhanced by the addition of two vocabularies for Aristoteles and Theophrastus (Eresius) both in Latin and Greek with the terms of the plants, animals, and parts of the body. A splendid printing of the first

great compilation relating to biology, containing three of Aristoteles’ great works on biology and physiology as disclosed by dissection and study of animals. Provenance: engraved exlibris with the coat

of arms of Nob. Hieronymus Moraggius, Art. et Med. Doc. Insigne (citizen of Trent, Italy) with the motto ’Quale non Quantum’ (quality not quantity). Some leaves browned, otherwise a large and fine copy.

With Woodcuts by Weiditz, Dürer & Burgkmair

CICERO, Marcus Tullius Officia. Ejn Buch, so Marcus Tullius Cicero der Römer zu seinem Sune Marco.

Von den tugentsamen ämptern ... in Latein geschriben , welchs auff begere herren

Johansen von Schwartzenberg etc. verteütschet…[von Johann Neuber]

Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner 29. April 1531. 8 nn. Bll., XCI Bll., 1 nn. Bl., mit großem

Titelholzschnitt, 1 ganzseitigen Holzschnitt-Portrait (Johann von Schwarzenberg

nach Dürer), 103 großen Textholzschnitten und 8 Holzschnitt-Initialen von Hans

Weiditz, Pergament des 17. Jahrhunderts (Notenhandschrift), folio ( 30,5 x 21 cm).

Zweiter Druck (erster Druck 16. Februar 1531) der ersten Ausgabe von Johann Neubers Übersetzung,

die dieser auf Veranlassung des Mäzens Johann von Schwarzenberg besorgte. VD16 C 3239; Fairfax Murray 118; Schoeller 100; Dodgson II, 143; Friedländer, S. 11f.; Butsch I, Tafel 31 (für die Initialen und Zierstücke). 100 Holzschnitte des prächtig illustrierten Werks stammen von H. Weiditz, wovon 33

bereits in der Steinerschen Petrarca-Ausgabe Verwendung gefunden hatten; die übrigen wurden für den Cicero neu geschaffen. 1 Holzschnitt stammt von H. Burgkmair, zwei weitere sind anonym.

Zusätzlich ist der Druck mit zahlreichen Zierstücken des vom Petrarca-Meister beeinflussten Meisters DS und mit Initialen ausgestattet. 6 Seiten etwas fleckig, leichter Wasserrand gegen Ende, meist im Rand; insgesamt schönes Exemplar. Unter dem Colophon handschriftlicher zeitgenössischer Eintrag aus:

Apuleius, De deo Socratis 4.


With First Geographic Lexicon

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Peri Genealogicas (graece) Deorum, Libri Quindecim, cum annotationibus Iacobi

Micylli. Eiusdem de Montium, Sylvarum, Fontium, Lacuum, Fluviorum, Stagnorum,

& marium nominibus. Liber I. Huc accessit rerum, & fabularum scitu dignarum

copiosus index. Basle: Iohannes Herwagen September 1532. 34 unnumbered

leaves, 504 pages, 2 unn. leaves, with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf, 13 fullpage woodcut genealogical trees, and numerous figurative woodcut initials, 19

th century half calf with early vellum spine label, small folio (29,1 x 21

cm).

First Micyllus edition (first 1472). Adams B 2173; VD 16 B 5846; Heitz/Bernoulli 126 and 127 (for the printer’s devices); Butsch I, plate 59 (for the initials). Edited and with commentary by Jacob Micyllus (1503 – 1558), German humanist, professor for Greek at University of Heidelberg, friend of

Melanchthon and Camerarius. His first work (Jöcher III, 525). Partly in Greek. Splendid Basle imprint of the famous adaption by Micyllus. Rare.

Impressive Contemporary Incunable-Binding

Incunabula in a German Renaissance Binding. BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. De consolatione Philosophiae cum commento angelici doctoris Thome de Aquino.

Nuremberg: Anthon Koberger 8th

of June, 1495. 174 unnumbered leaves (last

blank), Gothic type, 46 lines of commentary surrounding Boethius's text on three

sides, with numerous initials in red and blue penwork, contemporary

blindstamped leather half over wooden boards with one clasp in the middle, small

4° (22,2 x 16 cm).

Hain-Copinger 3388; GW 4559; Goff B 799; BMC 2:440 (IA. 7491); Voullieme, Berlin 1754; Mead 1260; Schweiger II, 30; Kyriss 118.1 (΄bookbinder of Nuremberg΄). Fourth edition by Koberger (first 1473 in

Latin and German). Signatures: title leaf, sign. 1-5; A - X8. Contemporary annotations in black throughout. The blindstamped binding showing lillies in losenge of tendrills and artichokes. Boethius

(480 - 524) philosopher, logician and statesman under Theoderic the Great. He wrote his final and most popular work the Consolation of Philosophy in prison while awaiting his execution (cf. Printing and the Mind of Men 34 and Jöcher I, 1182). Some repairs, fine copy.

Beautiful Incunable – Extraordinary Typesetting

BONIFACIUS VIII. Pope. Liber sextus decretalium, una cum apparatu domini Joannis Andree et ejus

tractatu arboris consangiunitatis. Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula,

Bartholomaeus de Blavis de Alexandria and Mapheus de Paterbonis de Salodio

26th

of September 1482. initial blank and 145 signed leaves, 66 lines of gloss by

Johannes Andreae, double column, Gothic type printed in red and black throughout and with initials in blue penwork, blind stamped calf half over

wooden boards, vellum pastedowns, 1 (of 2)metal clasps with leather straps, 4°

(23,3 x 16,5 cm).

Hain 3604; IGI 1972; Goff B 995; GW 4871; Voullieme, Berlin 3986; Proctor 4698; Mead 2700 (First

edition Mainz: Schöffer 1470). Liber Sextus Decretalium, the title of the canonical collection compiled under order of Boniface VIII (1235-1353) by Guillaume de Mandagot, Bishop of Embrun, Berenger Fredoli, Bishop of Beziers, and Ricardo Petroni, of Siena, vice-chancellor of the pope, by whom it was

approved as an authentic and official collection in the Bull "Sacrosanctae" of March 3, 1298. Worming to some leaves, mild spotting, some initials faded; worming to boards and vellum pastedowns,

otherwise a clean copy with the 18 lines initial on A5 in red and blue and the famous ’Arbor consanguinitatis’ printed in red and black.


Science

BUTEO, Ioannes (Jean Borrel). Opera Geometrica, quorum tituli sequuntur. De arca Noe, cuius formae,

capacitatisque fuerit. etc. ...

Lyon: Thomas Bertellus 1554. 158 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, with different

printer’s devices on title and last leaf,

50 woodcuts in the text, partly full-page and numerous partly large figurative

woodcut initials, contemporary vellum with handwritten title on spine, 4° (23,8 x

17,5 cm).

First Edition. Adams B 3356; Honeyman 557; Cantor II, 561; IA. 128.322; Poggendorff I, 250. Fifteen treatises on different geometrical subjects by the French monk Johannes Buteo, or Jean Borrel (ca. 1490

– ca. 1564), including, according to Sotheran, probably the first work published on the geometrical knowledge necessary to a lawyer. The first nine tracts discuss mechanical, arithmetical and geometrical problems. Of engineering interest are the chapters on Caesar's bridge and surveying. Buteo's most

original treatise - on the duplication of the cube - refutes Michael Stifel's exact solution to the problem, and gives one by approximation instead. There is also a tract on the shape of Noah's Ark, and others on

statics, and on the surveying of river islands, exposing some errors of Bartolo. The treatise on mathematical aspects of law, such as the division of land and inheritances, is included in the last part. The present book is all that remains of Buteo's studies. Famous for his works, but feared for his sharp

criticisms, he was a solitary figure with a great love for mathematics and mechanics. Buteo had already passed the age of 60 when he started to publish his works. Provenance: Bibl. Boncompagni; from the library of Baldassare Boncompagni (1821-1894), famous Italian mathematician from the illustrious

Boncompagni family (pope Gregor XIII.), who was specialized in medivial science. Fine copy.

‘Book of Dreams’

CARDANUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo Cardano). Somniorum synesiorum omnis generis insomnia explicantes, libri IIII. Quibus

Accedunt, Eiusdem haec etiam: De Libris propriis. De Curationibus &

Praedictionibus admirandis. Neronis encomium. De uno. Actio in Thessamicum

medicum. De Secretis. De Gemmis & Coloribus. Dialogus de Morte. Dialogus de

Humanis consiliis, Tetim inscriptus.Item ad Somniorum libros pertinentia: De

minimis & propinquis. De Summo bono. Basle: Sebastian Henricpetri (September

1585). 2 parts in one volume: 21 unnumbered leaves, 278 pages, 1 blank leaf; 18

unn. leaves, 414 pages, 1 unn. leaf, with some woodcut initials, 3 small woodcuts in the text and woodcut printer’s device on last leaf,

later half calf with marbled boards, red edges, 4°.

Second Edition (first 1562). Adams C 693; Durling 834; Bibliotheca Palatina I, 216/I, 218; BMSTC

German Books 182; VD 16 C 929. Dedicated to Cardinal Carolus Borromeus. Early owner’s inscription on title with ink corrosion (not affecting the text), some light browning throughout.

Incunabula of the ‘Praegloriosissimo Poetarum’

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. Opera. (diligenter emendata per Thadeum Ugoletum Parmensem). Parma: Angelus

Ugoletus 9th

of May, 1493. 142 unnumbered leaves, Roman type, 36 lines, with

woodcut printer’s device on last leaf, leather half over contemporary wooden

boards, middle clasp, 4° (22 x 15,5 cm).

Second and first complete Edition (first 1482). Hain-C. 5371; Proctor 6868; Goff C 702; GW 7060; Pellechet 3802; Schweiger II, 281; Ebert 4742; Mead 3939; OCLC 25224154; Dibdin I, 467: ’the True Editio princeps’; Kristeller 120 (for printer’s device). Signatures: a – o8, p – t6. Thaddeus Ugoletus brother of the printer Angelus Ugoletus ‘revised the text by three manuscripts and one codex from Germany. Enlarged with seven poems’ (Schweiger). Claudius Claudianus ( ca. 370 Alexandria - 404

Rome) the author of the famous poem ‘The Rape of Proserpine’ was honoured as ‘the most glorious of the poets’ by a statue on the Forum of Trajan with the above inscription. Provenance: Inscription on

second leaf: Sr. (Soror) Maria Gratian(a) Coneglani. Sister Maria Gratiana from the Cloister of the Holy Virgin Mater Domini in Conegliano, Italy (near Treviso and Venice). Rare.


Atlas with 36 Maps

CELLARIUS, Christoph Notitiae Orbis antiqui, sive Geographiae plenior. Leipzig: Gleditsch 1701 – 1706. 3

Teile in 2 Bänden: 10 nn. Bll., 1332 Seiten, 32 nn. Bll.; 8 nn. Bll., 889 Seiten, 1 nn.

Bl., 254 Seiten, 31 nn. Bll., mit gestochenem Portrait, 2 gest. Titelvignetten, 2 gest.

Kopfstücken und 36 doppelblattgrossen ( 1 gefalteten) Kupfertafeln, Pergament

der Zeit, 4° (25 x 18,5 cm).

Erste Ausgabe. NDB 3, 180; cf. Brunet I, 1724 und Ebert 3868. Klassisches Hauptwerk von Cellarius mit

Weltkarte, 19 Karten von Europa, 5 Karten von Africa, 10 Karten von Asien und 1 schematischen Karte der Winde. Schönes vollständiges Exemplar.

First Diet Book

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. CURIO, Johannes & Jacob CRELLIUS. De conservanda bona Valetudine opusclum Scholae Salernitanae, ad regem

Angliae: Cum Arnoldi Novicomensis, Medici et Philosophi antiqui Enarrationibus

utilissimis; duenò recognitis et auctis. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph 1554. 8

unnumbered leaves, 183 numbered leaves, 5 unn. leaves, with title printed in red

and black and woodcut printer’s device, 1 fullpage woodcut printed in red and black and 68 partly halfpage woodcuts in the text, contemporary blindstamped

pigskin over boards, 8° (16 x 10,5 cm).

Third Edition. (first 1538; second 1553). VD 16 R 560; Benzing 331; Durling 3822; Oldenbourg L 228. The famous didactic poem from the school of Salerno (The Salernitan Rule of Health), initially dedicated to

the King of England, in Latin verses, a collection of pieces of advice over the effect of food: here with the commentaries and additions by Arnaldus «from Villanova» , Antonio Musa Brasavola, Christoph Aulaeus, Philipp Melanchthon, Otho «from Cremona» , Polybus and Johann Winter. The attractive woodcuts by Hans Schäufelein a.o. with kitchen, plants, eating and drinking, etc. from earlier editions (cf. Röttinger, Frankfurter Buchholzschnitt, p.65.9). Binding with Salvator-David-Paulus-

Johannes-roll (Haebler I, 165.3: ‘working from 1540 –1566’). Provenance: entry dated 1575: Gottes Will geschehe ... ; Jesuit College, Brünn (Brno), Moravia. On leaf 23 verso 2 faces in the copper engraving erased, otherwise a good copy of this rare edition.

The Great Orator Demosthenes

The famous speeches of DEMOSTHENES (graece). Logoi, kai prooimia demegorika, kai epistolai sun tais exêgêsin tou Oulpiannou.

Paris: Joannes Benenatus Febr. 1570. 26 unnumbered leaves, 798 pages, 1 unn.

leaf, with woodcut printer's device on title and numerous woodcut initials,

contemporary overlapping vellum, folio.

Adams D 267; Hoffmann I, 509; BMSTC French Books 130; Schweiger I, 87: 'Schöne und correcte Ausgabe'; Ebert 5941; Dibdin I, 480: 'The edition is a beautiful and excellent one'. Greek text surrounded by Greek Scholia of Ulpianus, Sophist at Antiocha, living in the times of the Roman Emperor

Constantin. A carefully edited edition begun by G. Morel and finished after his death by his son-in-law Bienné with the help of Lambinus. Clean and wide margin copy, printed with 'Typis regiis' and the initials from the Officin Charles Estienne (Butsch, Bücherornamentik II, plate 12). Binding with small

expert repairs and a little wavy, but a nice copy.


1341 Woodcuts on Plants

Herbal. DODONAEUS, Rembertus (Rembert Dodoens). Stirpium Historia pemptades sex, sive libri XXX .Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana,

Balthasar et Ioannes Moretus 1616. 8 unnumbered leaves, 872 pages, 33 unn.

leaves (indices, last blank), with engraved title page, 1341 woodcuts of plants in the text and a large woodcut printer’s device, contemporary calf with supralibros

gilt on both covers, folio (36 x 23 cm).

Nissen BBI 517; Hunt 201; ADB V, 282; Pritzel 2350; Wellcome I, 1824. Most complete second Latin edition (first 1583) of Dodoens' ‘Cruydtboeck’ (1544) augmented with 30 woodcuts. Dodoens (1517 – 1585) was the first of the great 16

th century Flemish botanists and made with his herbals an important

contribution to the botanical classification system which had begun with Bock's ‘Neu Kreuterbuch’ in 1539. The 1616 Latin edition is his last and most comprehensive botanical work, incorporating material from his earlier publications, and containing also an attempt to explain the different parts of the plants.

Edited by Lobel and Clusius. Binding with traces of use, inside a fine crisp copy. Provenience: Noble Coat of arms with the Lion of Flanders and the Golden Fleece.

Best Edition - Erasmus

Final autoritative edition. ERASMUS Roterodamus, Desiderius. Adagiorum chiliades toties renascispero aequis lectoribus esse gratissimum,

quando semper redeunt tum auctionares , tum emendatiores. Basle: Hieronymus

Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius March 1536. 36 unnumbered leaves, 1085 pages, 1

p., 1 leaf, with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf, woodcut portrait of Erasmus on title verso, and numerous figurative woodcut initials, contemporary

vellum with richly gilt leather spine, folio (33 x 23 cm).

Most extensive edition in Erasmus’ lifetime. VD 16 E 1941; Vander Haeghen 1, 3; Bezzel 80; not in Adams, Ebert and BMSTC. Erasmus died 12

th of July, 1536: this is his final autoritative edition with 4151

proverbs. The woodcut medallion with the portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the younger. Binding

rubbed and spotted, internal a clean copy. Provenance: contemporary inscription on title page by a Dominican from Angers, France.

Fundamental Work - Astronomy

EULER, Leonhard. Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum. Continens methodum facilem ex

aliquot observationibus orbitas cum planetarum tum Cometarum determinandi.

Berlin: Ambrosius Haude (1744). engraved frontispice, 187 (recte 186) pages, with

engraved vignette on title and 4 folding copper plates, contemporary marbled

boards, large 4°.

First edition. Houzeau/Lancaster 11948; Wolf, Astronomie 475; Honeyman Coll. 1063; Roller/Goodman I, 375; DSB IV, 471; Sotheran I, 1259; Lalande 422; Poggendorff I, 1051-52. Euler's first book on astronomy; it is 'a fundamental work on calculation of orbits' (DSB). Euler introduced new methods of investigating planetary perturbations and the results were of great importance in dynamics. The astronomical frontispice engraved by Ferdinand Helfreich Fritsch; the vignette on title with the motto of

Enlightenment ' sapere aude '. Binding worn; inside very good copy with wide margins. Provenance: Stamp on title ‘Société de lecture de Geneve’ founded 1818. In a new double slipcase with gilt lettering

on spine.


‘But it Moves!’

Astronomical Main Work of GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo... dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi

Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. In questa seconda impressione

accresciuto di una Lettera dello stesso, non più stampata, e di vari Trattati di più

Autori, i quali si veggono nel fine de Libro. Florence [i.e. Naples] 1710. 2 parts in 1

volume: 6 unnumbered leaves, 458 pages, 15 unn. leaves; 1unn. leaf, 83 (recte 81)

pages, 1 unn. page, with title printed in red and black, engraved publisher’s device

of the ‘Accademia della Crusca’ with the mo]o ΄Il più bel fior ne coglie΄ (Petrarch),

and 32 woodcuts in the text, contemporary Italian vellum, sprinkled edges, 4° (23,5

x 17,7 cm).

Second Edition (first 1632). Cinti 168; Riccardi I/1, 512, 10.2; Ebert 8089; Caspar, Kepler 88; cf. PMM

128; Horblit 18c; Sparrow 74; Parenti, Luoghi di stampa falsi, p. 86 (for the place of printing). Edited by Cellenio Zacclori [i.e. Lorenzo Ciccarelli]. ‘A masterly defense of the Copernican hypothesis. When it

appeared there seemed to be no indication of trouble, but the sale of the book was shortly prohibited, for having offended the Pope’ (Sparrow). The second part contains with separate title the famous letter by Galilei: ‘Lettera scritta alla Granduchessa dio Toscana’ to Christina of Sweden from 1615; Kepler’s ‘Perioche’ from the ‘Astronomia nova’ from 1609; the famous passage from Didaces da Stunica [Zuniga’s] commentary on Job on the Copernican theory from 1584, and at last the text of the first conviction of the Inquisition from 1616 (signed by 7 of 10 Cardinals) with the abjuration of Galilei from

1633. Usual spotting and dampstaining throughout. Good copy in a contemporary binding. Il più bel fior ne coglie (He picks the fairest flower)

Early Froben-Imprint on Law

Incunabula. GRATIANUS. Decretum Gratiani summo studio elaboratum: correctum et cum libris Biblie

accurate concordatum. Basle: Johannes Froben de Hammelburg 13th

of June 1493

519 unnumbered leaves (missing the last blank), with 1 large woodcut (Gratianus sitting and writing surrounded by the Prophetes, Apostles and Saints), numerous initials printed in red, gothic type, black and red printed text in two columns surrounded by the commentary, contemporary blindstamped calf (with remains of

ties), with one contemporary ribbon of leather used as bookmark, large 4° (21,5 x

16,0 cm)

GW 11377; Hain-C 7912; Goff G384; BSB-Ink G-278; Schreiber 4117; IGI 4410; Madsen 1763; Voullieme, Berlin 594; BMC III 790; Wilhelmi, Brant 345. Signatures: a-z

8, &

8, A-Z

8, AA-SS

8 (-1). Beautiful edition

revised by Sebastian Brant and with the text by Gratianus (12th

century) surrounded by the apostilles by

Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke and Bartholomeus Brixiensis (? - 1258). Sebastian Brant (1458 – 1521) was professor for law in Basle. His famous work ‘Narrenschyff’ was published in the same year at Froben’s

officina, who was starting to evolve into Basle’s most important printer of the 16th

century. This copy with the beautiful woodcut portrait of Sebastian Brant (after a portrait by Tobias Stimmer) mounted on inner cover. A beautiful clean copy on strong paper in a remarkable German Renaissance binding by a bookbinder in Southern Germany , operating between 1475 and 1515. (cf. Einbanddatenbank: EBDB s 029713; Werkstatt Maria XII)


Two Standard Works on Medicine / Surgery

HIPPOCRATES (graece). Libri omnes, ad vetustos Codices summo studio collati & restaurati. Basle:

Hieronymus Froben & [Nicolaus Episcopius] 1538. 4 unnumbered leaves, 562

pages, 1 unn. leaf, with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf,

bound with: PAULUS AEGINETA (graece). Libri septem, in principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo

continentur libro. Basle: Andreas Cratander August 1538. 6 unnumbered leaves,

305 pages, 7 unn. pages, with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf and some woodcut initials and headpieces, contemporary blindstamped pigskin over

wooden boards, clasps, folio (32 x 21,5 cm).

I. Second Greek Edition (first 1526). Choulant 22; VD 16 H 3741; Wellcome 3174; Waller 4486; Durling

2317; Ebert 9726; Schweiger I, 149. ’Aus 3 Manuscripten und aus Galenus mit Umsicht verbessert’ edited by Janus Cornarius (Waller). ‘Besonders geschätzt Basel 1538’ (Hirsch-H. III, 232). II. Second Greek Edition (first 1528). Choulant 142; VD 16 P 1027; Wellcome 4862; Durling 3548; Schweiger I, 223; Hoffmann III, 200. ’The standard work on surgery’ (Garrison, History 124). Edited by Hieronymus Gemusaeus. A very nice copy. Rare.

Handcoloured throughout – Book of Devotion

HORTULUS ANIME. Mainz: Johannes Schöffer, Saturday after Judica [ 8th of April ] 1514. 296

unnumbered leaves (last blank) printed in red and black, with full page title

woodcut, 2 woodcuts with sun and moon, 2 tables, 12 woodcuts for the calender,

and 67 woodcuts in the text, all pages (except 2) with woodcut borders,

contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, remains of clasps, 8° (16,5 x

10,2 cm).

Third German Hortulus printed by Schöffer. VD 16 H 5090; Oldenbourg I, 55; Roth, Schöffer 31. Hortulus anime is compilation of prayers for educated courtly and bourgeois society and has the importance for Germany like the Livre d’heure in France. The woodcuts with scenes of hunting, from the bath, from the

printer’s workshop, from the kitchen, of music instruments, of Dances of Death, etc. and many grotesqueries. Traces of use as usual, but a complete copy of this rare contemporary handcoloured edition.

Extensively Illustrated - Astronomy

HUYGENS, Christiaan. Opera Varia. (Edited by G. J. s’Gravesande). Leiden: Janssonius vander Aa 1724. 4

volumes in 1: 8 unnumbered leaves, 776 pages, 10 unn. leaves (Index), engraved portrait of Huygens and 56 folded engraved plates, 2 engraved vignettes on first

two titles, which are printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf on 5

raised bands, richly gilt spine with gilt title-label in leather, large 4°.

First collected edition. Houzeau-Lancaster I, 3428; Bierens de Haan 2238. Containing Huygen’s

masterworks and some of his minor works formerly published in periodicals, all important in the fields of mathema_cs, astronomy, mechanics and op_cs as ΄Horologium Oscillatorium΄ (first edi_on 1673, see Printing and the Mind of Man 154), ‘Cosmotheoros’, ΄Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura΄, ΄Systema

Saturnium΄, ΄Machinal Quedam΄, etc. all illustrated with engraved plates. Christian Huygens (1629-95) was a famous Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer out of a rich familiy. ΄He soon became

an international figure in science, spending the years from 1666 to 1681 in Paris where he was the leading light of the Académie Royale des Sciences. He was also, from 1663, a Fellow of the Royal Society; he met Newton twice during his third visit to England (1689), and exchanged some important

letters with him. In the history of mathematicial science Huygens stands next to Newton, drawing (as he did too) upon Galileo and Descartes΄ (PMM 154). Provenience: Stamps of the Schweizerische

Naturforschende Gesellschaft and of their member R(udolf) Wolf (1816 – 1893) on title. An attractive copy.


Expulsion of the Jesuits

Expulsion of the JESUITS. COLECCION GENERAL de las PROVIDENCIAS hasta aqui TOMADAS por el GOBIERNO

sobre el estrañamiento y ocupacion de temporalidades de los Regulares de la

Compañia, que exîstian en los Dominios de S. M. de España, Indias, e islas Filipinas

á consequencia del Real Decreto de 27 de Febrero, y Pragmática-Sancion de 2 de

Abril de este año. Parte Primera (-Quinta). Madrid: Imprenta Real 1767 – 1784

(parte quinta: Imprenta Antonio de Sancha). 5 parts in one volume: 104; 91 (1); 24,

135 (1); 144; (4), 74 pages, with royal woodcut coat of arms on titles and woodcut

tail-pieces, contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, 4° (20,6 x 15 cm).

First Edition. Sabin 14304; Palau 56516 (both only 3 parts); Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana

4228; de Backer-Sommervogel XI, 509. ‘These collections contain the documents relative to the

expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions, and the confiscation of their property. A complete series consists of five parts, which are rarely found together’ (Sabin). Provenience: Bookplates of F.

Puvill, Libros Antiguos, Barcelona and of Alberto Parreño, famous book-collector (Parreño sale NY 1978, lot 219). Fine copy. Rare.

Pioneers in Natural Printing

’Typographia naturalis’. KNIPHOF, Johann Hieronymus. Botanica in Originali Pharmaceutica. Das ist: Lebendig-Official-Kräuter-Buch, In

welchen Alle in denen Apothecken gebräuchliche Kräuter ... Auf eine neue und in

noch keinem eintzigen Botanischen Buche befindliche Methode nach ihrer

vollkommenden Schönheit von denen lebendigen ausgetruckneten Kräutern selbst

abgedrucket sind. Erfurt: Johann Michael Funcke 1733. title page, 182 (recte 192)

pages, 200 handcoloured plates in nature printing, contemporary vellum, folio (33

x 20 cm).

First Edition. Nissen 1074; Pritzel 4749; Dunthorne 169; Fischer, 200 Jahre Naturselbstdruck (in

Gutenberg-Jahrbuch VIII, 1933: No. 5 and page 197). This edition for the first time with detailed description of the 200 plants. Kniphof (1704 – 1763) , professor for medicine at the university of Erfurt and his printer Funcke were pioniers in nature printing. Traces of use as usual for herbals. Provenance:

Heinrich Gottlob Gansert (contemporary handwritten name verso plate 129) fom Elxleben, Thuringia, Germany. Extremely rare.

Important Americana

West Indies. NICOLAI, Eliud. Newe und wahrhaffte relation, von deme was sich in beederley, das ist, In den West- und Ost-Indien von der Zeit an zugetragen, daß sich die Navigationes der

Holl- unnd Engelländischen compagnien daselbsthin angefangen abzuschneiden.

Sambt einer newen description deß Erdtbodens. Alles aus gewissen

Castiglianischen unnd Portugesischen relationen colligieret, und mit einer

introduction in die beygefügte neue description deß Erdbodens … an tag geben.

Munich: Nicolaus Henricus 1619. 12 unnumbered leaves, 158 pages, lacking map,

19th

century half calf gilt, small 4° (19,7 x 16 cm).

First edition. VD17 23:257416G; Sabin 55242; European Americana 619/94; J. Carter Brown Coll. II, 137; Palau 190345. ‘This very scarce and highly interesting treatise, relating many circumstances now

entirely lost, gives an account of the English and Dutch voyages of discovery’. Lacking the improved double hemisphere World Map based on the Hessel Geritsz (1581 – 1632) map of 1616 (Shirley 300 A). World map in facsimile attached. Dampstaining on title page, minor foxing; inked stamp of John Carter

Brown on first page, and his bookplate on front pastedown with release stamp. (JCB) Provenience: John Carter Brown Collection. Rare (no copy in auction since 1952)


Mexican Calendar

LEON y GAMA, Antonio de (1735 – 1802). Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo

empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de Mexico, se hallaron en

ella el año de 1790. Dala a luz con notas, biografía de su autor y aumentada con la

segunda parte que estaba inédita ... Carlos Maria de Bustamante [1774 – 1848]

Mexico: Alejandro Valdés 1832. VIII, 114 pages, 148 pp., 5 folding plates of copper engravings, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, 8° (20,8 x 15 cm).

Palau 135588; Sabin 40060; OCLC79924235. Second expanded edition (first 1792) of this important

work on the famous Mexican calender stone and the statue of Tlaloc (He who makes things sprout). Moderate foxing, early owner’s signature on title page; good copy. Aztecan calender

Early Alchemy

LULL, Raymundus (Ramon Llull). De secretis naturae, seu de quinta essentia liber unus. Adiecta est eiusdem epistola

ad regem Robertum de Accuratione lapidis philosophorum ; cui adiunctis tractatus

de Aquis. Cologne: Johannes Birckmann 1567. 4 unnumbered leaves, 376 pages,

with woodcut printer’s device on title and 1 full page woodcut verso title,

bound with: LULL, Raymundus. Testamentum, duobis libris universam artem chymicam complectents. Item

eiusdem compendium animae transmutationis artis metallorum. Secunda aeditio.

Cologne: Johannes Birkmann 1573. 4 unnumbered leaves, 321 numbered leaves, 9

unn. leaves (last blank), with 2 folded woodcut plates and 8 schematic woodcuts in the text, contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, 8°

(16,5 x 11 cm).

I. VD 16 R 160 and 149 (for the Epistola); Palau 143.841; Brüning 375; Ferguson II, 54; cf. Mellon 8. One of the most influential texts in the history of alchemy. II. VD 16 R 167; Palau 143.896; cf. Ferguson II, 54 and Duveen 369. Second edition (first 1566) Edited by Ludolph Vredemann. ‘Perhaps the author’s most important alchemical work, and one of the few genuine works of many attributed to him’ (Zeitlinger 11088). Fine copy.

‘The Art of Love’

Incunabula. OVIDIUS Naso, Publius. De Arte Amandi et De Remedio Amoris cum comento. Venice: Ioannes Tacuinus de

Tridino 3rd

of May, 1494. 56 unnumbered leaves, Roman type, 57 lines of

commentary surrounding the Ovid's text on three sides, rubricated throughout in red and blue, with 10 woodcut intials and woodcut printer's device on last leaf,

19th

century English blindstamped calf gilt, folio (31 x 21,5 cm).

First edition with the commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula. Hain 12219; Goff O 142; BMC V, 528; Proctor 5431; IGI 7055; Schweiger II, 642; Ebert 15407. Signatures: a - g6, A6, B - C4. Partly with

extensive contemporary annotations. Bartholomaeus Merula, Italian scholar and poet of the late 15th

and early 16

th century dedicated the book to Franciscus Georgius Cornelius (cf. Jöcher III, 469-70). On

last leaf two poems from M. Antonius Antimachus und Domicus Soranus. 2 pages slightly staining, edges of the binding rubbed, fine copy of this famous book. Provenance: small sticker on inner cover 'Ford, Bookseller, No. 2 St. Ann's Square, Manchester. Binding neatly executed'.


Important Humanistic Edition – Natural History

PLINIUS Secundus, C. (der Ältere). Naturae historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, quam

emendatissime editi. Additus est ... Index Joannis Camertis. Hagenau: Thomas

Anshelm für (Johann Koberger in Nürnberg) und Lucas Alantsee in Wien,

November 1518. 2 Teile in 1 Band: 286 röm. num. Bll. mit schwarz-rot gedrucktem

Titel, breiter Holzschnitt-Titelbordüre und einigen großen Holzschnitt-Initialen; 96

nn. Bll. mit seperatem Titel, breiter Holzschnitt-Titelbordüre und großer

Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf dem letzten Blatt, Halbleder des 16. Jahrhunderts

mit Lederecken, folio.

VD 16, P 3528; Burg 385; Ritter 1887; Schweiger II, 785; Ebert 17271; Dibdin II, 321 Anm. Bedeutende Humanisten-Ausgabe mit Beiträgen von Th. Canner, J. Vadianus; B. Chelidonius und G. Gemanius sowie dem extrem ausführlichen Index von Johannes Camers. 'L'index de J. Camertes, qui fait le principale

mérite d'éditon de 1518, avait d'abord été imprimé separément' (Wien 1514): Brunet IV, 715. ' Die prächtige Druckermarke gehört zu Hans Baldung-Grüns vorzüglichsten Erzeugnissen': Butsch I, 75;

Nageler V, 509; Heitz LXII, 2; Silvestre 771. Die erste Titelbordüre mit dem ' Sprung des Marcus Curtius in den Abgrund ' bei Butsch I, 76. Deckelbezüge (Handschriften-Pergament) entfernt, insgesamt schönes, sauberes Exemplar.

With Woodcut Maps by Münster

PICCOLOMINI, Aeneas Silvius = PIUS II. Opera quae extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas editiones summa

diligentia castigata & in unum corpus redacta ... His quoque accessit Gnomologia

ex omnibus Sylvii operibus collecta. Basle: Henricus Petri, August 1551. 56

unnumbered leaves, 1034 pages, 1 unn. leaf, 16 unnumbered leaves (last blank),

with woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf of the main work, 19 partly full page woodcut maps and numerous woodcut initials, contemporary blindstamped

pigskin over wooden boards, clasps missing, folio (32,5 x 21 cm).

First collected edition. Adams P 1333; VD 16 P 3093; BMSTC German books 700; Ebert 148; Heitz/Bernoulli 76 (for the printer’s device); Butsch I, plate 61 (for the printer’s device and the initials by

Hans Holbein). The rare first collected edition of the works of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405 - 1464), who became Pope Pius II. It contains the important Epitome to Biondi da Forli, the history of Bohemia,

the Cosmographia, and the Europa, the latter illustrated with woodcut maps from Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, which was edited in 1544 also by Henricus Petri in Basle. The volume also includes the letters, the famous romantic novel ‘De duobus amantibus’, and a number of historical and biographical

essays as well as the famous pedagogic treatise ‘De librorum educatione’. At the end, with a seperate title page, the ‘Gnomologia’ a collection of topics from the entire works, compiled by Conrad Wolfhart (Lycosthenes). Maps of Tartaria, Friesland, Holland, Cyprus, Europe, Croatia, Austria, Poland with

European Russia, East Prussia, Northern Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Hesse, Franconia, Baveria, Great Britain, Spain, Hungaria, and Turkey in fine dark impressions. The German binding with central panel of

Grammatica, Dialectica, Retorica, Arithmetica on front and rear cover surrounded by roller stamps and dated 1578 (cf. Goldschmidt no.240 & 242; Haebler I, 299, VI = bookbinder Nikolaus Müller, Wittenberg). Provenance: 17

th century engraved arms of Johan Schomacher inside front cover,

numerous early manuscript marginalia intermittently throughout.

Atlas with 64 Large Maps

PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Geografia cioè Descrittione universale della Terra. Nouvamente con singolare

studio rincontrati, & corretti da Gio. Ant. Magini. Tradotta dal Leonardo Cernoti.

Venice: Gio. Battista, & Giorgio Galignani 1598 (-97). 2 parts in 1 volume: 2

unnumbered leaves, 62 numbered leaves, 21 num. leaves, 1 blank leaf, 14 unn.

leaves (index); 212 numbered leaves, 30 unn. leaves (index), with 2 engraved title

vignettes, 1 full page and 63 half page engraved maps, 11 woodcut diagrams, and

numerous woodcut initials, contemporary vellum, folio (31 x 21 cm).

Adams M 118; Phillips 405; Sabin 66506. First edition of Cernoti’s Italian translation of Magini’s Latin edition of 1596. With 27 Ptolemaeic maps and 37 new maps: 4 world maps (1 full page), 32 maps of

Europe, 6 maps of Africa, 21 maps of Asia, and 1 map of America. All maps are engraved by G. Porro; the beautiful full page world map after Mercator. Fine copy with large margins, only at the end a small

waterstained margin. Provenance: owner’s inscription on title page dated Padua, 27th

December 1606.


The Famous Answer on Cardanus

Science. SCALIGER, Julius Caesar. Exotericarum Exercitationum liber quintus decimus, De Subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum. In extremo duo sunt indices: prior breviusculus,

continens sententias nobiliores: alter opulentissmus, penè omnia complectens.

Paris: Michael Vascosanus July 1557. 4 unn. leaves, 476 num. leaves, 32 unn.

leaves (indices), with several woodcuts in the text, contemporary overlapping

vellum, 4°.

First edition. Rare. Adams S 579; BM STC French books 396; Ebert 20449; Poggendorff II, 765; Jöcher IV, 192; not in Smitskamp, Scaliger Collection. Famous critique on Cardano’s celebrated work ‘De subtilitate’ (first Nuremberg 1550), a compilation of his achievements on natural history and science.

Cardanus replied to this critique in his ‘Apologia’, Basle 1560. Provenance: inscription on the first fly-leaf Nicolas Bergier, Advocat de Rheims. Bergier (1557-1623) was a lawyer and historian in Rheims,

France (cf. Jöcher I, 995). Fine copy with wide margins.

‘One of the Monuments of Sixteenth Century Scholarship’

TACITUS, C(aius) Cornelius. Opera quae exstant. 8 unnumbered leaves, 335 pages, 4 unn. leaves,

bound with: Lipsius, Justus. Ad annales Cor. Taciti liber commentarius. 4 unnumbered leaves, 194 pages,

bound with: Lipsius, Justus. Ad libros historiarum notae. 2 unnumbered leaves, LXIV pages, 15 unn. pages, with

1 folding genealogical table of Roman Emperors

Leiden: Officina Plantiniana 1589. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in ink on

spine, folio.

Landmark edition by the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius. Voet 2281; Adams T 36; BMSTC Dutch books 195; Schweiger II, 1000 (Antwerp); Dibdin II, 450: ‘The monument of his glory’; cf. PPM 93 (first edition of 1574). This is the first folio edition complete with the Commentaries. Provenance: Letter by Pierre

[Rene] de Saint Julian (1636 – 1705), French Huguenot from the Brittany on this book.

Turkey, Persia, India, Java, Ceylon and Tonking

TAVERNIER, Johann Baptist Vierzig-Jährige Reise-Beschreibung worinnen dessen, durch Türkey, Persien, Indien

und noch mehr andere Oerter, ... und, in dreyen Theilen vorgestellet beygefüget.

Italiänische, dalmatische, griechische und orientalische Reise-Beschreibung, worinn

allerhand merkwürdige, vormals in Europa unbekannte, Antiquitäten, enthalten,

welche Jacob Spon, und Georgius Wheler, als sie obbenannte Lande, im Jahr 1675

und 1676 durchreiset aus dem Französischen in das Teutsche treulichst

übertragen, und zum Druck befördert, durch J. Menudier. Nuremberg: Andreas

Knorz for Johann Hofmann 1681. 5 parts in 1 volume:

illustrated title (J. J. Schollenberger), 296 pages, 2 leaves; 4 leaves., 232 p., 2 l.; 4 l.,

200 p., 2 l.; illustrated title (Gabr. Hirschmann), 4 leaves, 122 p.; printed title, 120

p., 2 l. , with 1 Portrait, 18 copperplates with 85 pictures and 2 maps (1 double

page), 13 text engravings and some woodcuts in the text,

contemporary vellum, folio (34,5 x 21 cm).

First German edition of the translation by Menudiers. Graesse VI/2, 43; Henze V, 291; Paisey T 151;

Ebert 22369. Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689); important descripition of the Orient (Turkey, Persia, India, Java, Ceylon and Tonking) between 1632 and 1668. Addendum (part 4 and 5): Jacob Spon und and George Wheeler about Greece and with a description of Rome, Venice, Athenas, Constantinople

(Ebert 21629; Lipperheide La 6). Fine copy.


The Famous Commentary by Thomas Aquinas

ARISTOTELES [cum textu]. Expositio Divi Thome Aquinatis super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis cum duplici

translatione antiqua videlicet et Joannis Argyropyli. Item summa Linconiensis

[Robert Grosseteste Bishop of Lincoln] super eosdem libros Physicorum. Venice:

Heirs of Lucas Antonius Giunta May 1539. 6 unnumbered leaves, 147 numbered

leaves, 1 unn. leaf, with large woodcut printer’s device on title and last numbered

leaf, 1 large figurative woodcut and 56 schematic woodcuts in the text, and

numerous woodcut initials,

recent dark brown blind tooled calf, folio (32 x 21,5 cm).

Second Giunta Edition (first edition 1470). Camerini, Annali dei Giunta 423; Kristeller 222, printer’s device on title not in Kristeller. Very uncommon edition of Aristotle’s Physics, with extensive

commentary of Thomas Aquinas. Also containing the commentary of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1160 – 1253). The large woodcut shows ‘The Triumph of Thomas Aquinas over Averroes’. Provenance: Library

stamp BIBLIOTHECAE PORTIUNCULAE (i.e. Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Portiunculae = S. Mariae Angelorum, Rome, Italy); early inscription on title page: ‘In usum Alexandri Quadrii’ (Notary in Tirano, Grosio, Italy circa 1595). Some library stamps, occasional light soiling and foxing, wide margins. Recent

binding by Blair Jeary, conservator at Burghley House, Stamford, UK (small ticket). Rare.

Famous Humanist on Grammar

Incunabula. TORTELLIUS Arretinus, Ioannes. Commentatorium Grammaticorum de Orthographia Dictionum e Graecis

tractarum. Opus procurante Hieronymo Bononio. Treviso: [Hermann Liechtenstein]

for Michael Manzolus 2nd

of April, 1477. 345 unnumbered leaves (44 lines a page),

with large (15 lines) first initial, blue against a pink floral background and numerous initials in red penwork, rubricated throughout in light brown,

contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, remains of clasps, folio

(30,5 x 21,5 cm).

Third Edition. Hain-C. 15565; IGI 9683; Rhodes, Treviso 69; Goff T 396; Polain 3791; Proctor 5438; Pellechet 11129; BMC VI, 887 =891 (IB 28384): explains that leaf A9 ‘should be cut away’ (repeat of A4

verso). (first edition Rome 1571, second Venice 1471). Signatures: A12 (-1), B-G10, H8, K-N 6.8, O12, a-e10, f-i8.10, k-l6, m-o8, p6, q-s10, t12, u-y10, z6, &10. Johannes Tortellius (Giovanni Tortelli: 1400 –

1466), humanist and librarian of Pope Nicolas V. (1387 – 1455), who in mid-15th-century Rome assembled scholars from the Byzantine Empire, and encouraged the revival of classical studies under his patronage. In the dedication of the Orthographia, Tortelli positions himself within the tradition of

classical grammar and bibliography, and makes grand claims for the significance of his writing. Indeed, his work was often used as a reference work for classical grammar. Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on the first blank ‘Liber mo[na]sterii Vallis Scte Lucie, prope et ad muros Sancti

Trudonis in parochia Scti Johannis’ and by the same hand ‘Op tcloester Sint Jans buyten sintruyden’ = Sint-Truiden (French: Saint-Trond), a city located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium.

Fine and complete copy of a extremly rare incunable in a contemporary Flemish binding.

Famous Classic in Greek and Latin

XENOPHON. Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, tam Graeca quam Latina ... nunc primum

latinitate donata, ac multo accuratius quam antea recognita. Basle: Nicolaus

Brylinger 1545. 14 unnumbered leaves, 678 pages, with woodcut printer’s device on title and numerous woodcut initials, contemporary blind stamped pigskin with

old manuscript vellum over boards, folio (31,5 x 21 cm).

First edition in Greek and Latin. Adams X 7; VD 16 X 4; Hoffmann III, 575; Schweiger I, 335; Ebert 24067; BMSTC German books 931; Hieronymus, Griechischer Geist 145. Edited by Albanus Torinus (Alban

Thorer) 1489 – 1550 with his new preface dated 10th

of September 1545. Latin translation by F. Filelfo and others. Edges of the boards expertly repaired, some browning, some contemporary annotations, good copy. Provenance: Owner’s inscriptions on title from Zurich and Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

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