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Lyon: Iohnnes Clein, 1515. Hardcover. See Description. [c.1515]. 4to. pp. [280]. p.[280 blank]. Colophon dated "nono kale[n]das Octobris" (23 Sept.). Title page printed in red and black inside woodcut architectural border. Woodcut printer's device (Sylvestre 132). Printed in Roman font with the surrounding commentaries printed in Gothic. Text contains decorative initials. Bound in contemporary blind stamped paneled calf boards; re-backed preserving original spine. Later antique endpapers with inscription on front-free endpaper dated "1925"; front and rear blank fly-leaves worn. Pages are generally clean with occasional marginalia in an old hand (i.e. several small inscriptions written on the title page); minor spotting; lower corner of leaf c7 clipped in margin; The hinges and inner margins to the first gathering are neatly strengthened / repaired. The outer edges to this same gathering show some wear - i.e. a few marginal tears (sealed), and light soiling. The bottom margins…
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by Lando (or Landi), Ortensio
Paradossi,: cioè, sententie fuori del comun parere novellamente venute in luce, opra non men dotta, che piacevole, & in due parti separata
by Lando (or Landi), Ortensio
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Lyon: per Gioanni Pullon da Trino" (i.e., Jean Pullon dit de Trin), 1543. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (17cm); [112] leaves (signed A-O\8). Printer's device on title page (Ferraris, 1), showing a human-faced moon in the sky reflected on the surface of the land. Bound in later 18th-century or 19th-century dark green leather in neoclassical style with gilt central losenge within gilt borders on both boards; gilt-tooled spine with leather title label. Joints reinforced but tender; light marginal stain along bottom edge; O7 torn and repaired (remains of tape). Early marginalia trimmed close. Later (c19) notes in French on endleaves. Pages not bright. All in all a very good copy of a very rare book. References: Ferraris, "Giovanni Pullone e altri stampatori trinesi a Lione" in "Trino e l'arte tipografica nel XVI secolo..." (2014), #1; USTC 116008, BM Italian, 399; Grendler, "Critics of the Italian World," #8; Gültlingen, "Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon..." vol. X, p. 7; [Bongi], "Catalogo delle opere di M. Ortensio Lando," p. xxxvi ("eseguita in bel carattere rotonde, cui la originalità e la bellezza danno il pregio sopre le ristampe"); not in Adams; not in Baudrier.
Exquisitely rare first printing of Ortensio Lando's most famous book (his first in a modern language), that in later editions and in translations became a 16th-century best seller.
Lando's name does not appear on the title page, or anywhere in the book except in code. (His real name shows up on no edition published in the 16th century.) A dedicatory leaf after the colophon attributes the text to "M.O.L.M," interpreted generally as "Messer Ortensio Landi Milanese." More cryptically, there is a phrase printed after the telos, "SVISNETROH TABEDVL," mirror writing for "ludebat Hortensius," Ortensio has played.
It is serious play. The Paradossi undertakes, in the key of popular "world upside down" folklore, to prove black what is commonly accepted as white. For instance, it is better to be poor than rich, better ugly than handsome, better drunk than sober, and so on.
Biographical sketches of Lando are remarkable for how little information about him is available. Peer of Aretino and Doni, friend to Etienne Dolet (later incinerated for heresy), he was a non-believer who nevertheless took Augustinian orders and later deserted them. Member of a prestigious literary club (L'accademia degli elevati), he was above all an outsider. All of his books landed on the Index of Prohibited Books, and "I paradossi" in particular was widely banned and copies of it were confiscated.
Probably the first book printed by the obscure Italian printer working in Lyon, Giovanni Pullone da Trino (later called "Jean Pullon de Trin"). Following Pullon's modest press run, the text was quickly taken up and reprinted, badly, by Bindoni and others in Venice (twice in 1544, 1545, 1563, 1594, etc.), and translated into Latin, into French by Charles Estienne (1553) and into English (1596). If you Google "Jean Pullon," you will get dozens of pages advertising pull-on jeans.
Exquisitely rare first printing of Ortensio Lando's most famous book (his first in a modern language), that in later editions and in translations became a 16th-century best seller.
Lando's name does not appear on the title page, or anywhere in the book except in code. (His real name shows up on no edition published in the 16th century.) A dedicatory leaf after the colophon attributes the text to "M.O.L.M," interpreted generally as "Messer Ortensio Landi Milanese." More cryptically, there is a phrase printed after the telos, "SVISNETROH TABEDVL," mirror writing for "ludebat Hortensius," Ortensio has played.
It is serious play. The Paradossi undertakes, in the key of popular "world upside down" folklore, to prove black what is commonly accepted as white. For instance, it is better to be poor than rich, better ugly than handsome, better drunk than sober, and so on.
Biographical sketches of Lando are remarkable for how little information about him is available. Peer of Aretino and Doni, friend to Etienne Dolet (later incinerated for heresy), he was a non-believer who nevertheless took Augustinian orders and later deserted them. Member of a prestigious literary club (L'accademia degli elevati), he was above all an outsider. All of his books landed on the Index of Prohibited Books, and "I paradossi" in particular was widely banned and copies of it were confiscated.
Probably the first book printed by the obscure Italian printer working in Lyon, Giovanni Pullone da Trino (later called "Jean Pullon de Trin"). Following Pullon's modest press run, the text was quickly taken up and reprinted, badly, by Bindoni and others in Venice (twice in 1544, 1545, 1563, 1594, etc.), and translated into Latin, into French by Charles Estienne (1553) and into English (1596). If you Google "Jean Pullon," you will get dozens of pages advertising pull-on jeans.
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Boetius de consolatione philosophica & de disciplina Scholarium. Additum est Carmen iuvenile Sulpitti.
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Pirotechnia. Li diece libri della pirotechnia, nelli quail si tratta non solo la diversita delle minere, ma ancho quanto si ricera alla prattica di esse: e di quanto s'appartiene all'arte della fusiione ouer getto de metallic, e d'ogni altra cosa a Questa
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Venice: Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1558. Hardcover. See Description. Third Edition. 4to in 8s. ff. [8], 168. Including decorative initials and 84 woodcut illustrations with the text. Title within woodcut border depicting a variety of metallurgical and mining equipment. Final leaf (recto) contains a printers device and colophon - "In Vinegia per Comin da Trino di Monferrato MDLIX" [1559]. Attractive copy. Pages are generally clean and fresh with occasional mild spotting / staining. An old bookplate from the "Royal Military College" is located on the inside front cover. The bookplate is stamped "Sold by H.M Stationery Office." Bound in original limp vellum (minus thong fore-edge ties). Minus binders blank fly-leaf in the rear. Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480-1539?) was a Siennese nobleman, engineer and metallurgist. His "Pirotechnia" (first published in Venice, 1540) is considered the earliest detailed hand-book on metallurgy. The work contains…
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Missae episcopales pro sacris ordinibus conferendis: secundum ritu[m] sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie ....
by Machabaeus, Hieronymus.
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Venice: Giunta (colophon: in officina haeredum Lucaeantonii Iunctae), 1563. Leather. Very Good. Folio (38 cm); [2], 152, 12 leaves. Text in two columns, printed in red and black ink. Printer's device in red on title page (Camerini, I, 143, third variant). About 99 woodcut illustrations in text (some repeated), including full-page crucifixion, repeated seven times, and 10-panel historiated woodcut border to facing page, also repeated seven times. Rotunda, roman, and italic type. Music with notes in black on red staves. Bound in paneled calf, roughly contemporary, ruled in gilt with gilt fleurs-de-lis at corners. Binding worn with signs of old repairs. Text toned on some leaves, but remarkably fresh and free of blemishes overall. References: Mortimer, Italian, 304; Amiet, Repertorium, 2:101; Camerini, 673; RELICS, 2859. In the 1560s, the brothers Tommaso and Giovan Maria Giunta were trying to recover financially from the fire that destroyed their Venice workshop in 1557. Taking few…
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Opera di agricoltura: nela q[ua]l si co[n]tiene a che modi si debbe coltivar la terra....
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Venice: Bernardino de' Viani, 1538. Good. Octavo (17 cm); [784] pages (signed A-BBB\8, plus index signed with maltese cross\8). One full-page woodcut illustration within patterned border. Floral border around title (at the top of which is a cat and mouse, similar to the image used by Sessa), and floriated initials at the beginning of each of the 12 books. Modern vellum binding, reusing an 18th-century morocco label; tail edge of text block titled in contemporary manuscript. Title with small oil stain transferring to following several leaves until disappearing at the fifth leaf, outer conjugate of first and last gatherings guarded, last leaf extended at fore-margin with Japanese mending tissue. Good, crisp copy. A sixteenth-century Italian translation of "Ruralia commoda," one of very few treatises on agronomy to appear during the Middle Ages, and the first printed modern text on agriculture when it was published in 1471. The book's enormous influence over Italian agriculture is evident even…
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Caij Julij Cesaris des grossmechtigen ersten Römischen Keysers Historien von Gallier und der Römer Burgerische Krieg: so er selbst beschrieben: und seiner ritterlichen tugent gefüret hat.
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Mainz, Johannem Schöffer, 1530. Folio. (32),+ CLXIII ll. Richly illustrated with 115 wood cuts in pagination, of which 14 are full page, and with wood cut device of Schöffer. Minor stain in margins, some spotting, more on ll. 40-41, 45-48. Paper repair on leaf (2), (7-9 in upper margin) and (27). Contemporary ink annotations in margins, mainly in the beginning. Modern rebound in old vellum antiphonary leaf, with notes and text written with black and red ink, small crack at top of front hinge. From the library of Victor von Stedingk, with his book plate, and from the library of Bengt Lassen. VD16, C 56. Adams C80. Schweiger p. 51. The Mainz edition, printed by Johannes Schöffer, the son of Peter Schöffer, of the first German translation of Caesar’s ”De bello gallico” and ”De bello civili”. The translation made by Ringmann Philesius, i.e. Matthias Ringmann, was first published in Strassburg in 1507, with a second edition in 1508. This is the third edition. It also contains a German…
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Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbi, Prisciano Interpret
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Colophon on G2r: [Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri, October 1518]., 1518. 8vo. ff. 233, [3]. complete with the 2 blanks, B8 & G3. Aldine woodcut device on title & verso of last leaf. 19th century paneled calf. armorial bookplate of Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Third Baron Holland [1773-1840]. First Aldine Edition of this collection of ancient geographical texts. Melas was "the first extant geographical work in Latin and the only Roman treatise of the classical period devoted exclusively to that subject." (DSB) His descriptive survey of the habitable world (Europe, Africa, and Asia) includes remarks on manners and customs, details on spectacular phenomena, and speculation on the causes of tides. "Despite his general inferiority as a geographer, Pomponius knew more than Strabo about the positions of Britain, Ireland, and the coasts of Gaul and north Germany; he was also the first to mention the Orkney Islands. Pomponius exerted a considerable influence on early…
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Missae episcopales pro sacris ordinibus conferendis: secundum ritu[m] sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie ....
by Machabaeus, Hieronymus.
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Venice: Giunta (colophon: in officina haeredum Lucaeantonii Iunctae), 1563. Leather. Very Good. Folio (38 cm); [2], 152, 12 leaves. Text in two columns, printed in red and black ink. Printer's device in red on title page (Camerini, I, 143, third variant). About 99 woodcut illustrations in text (some repeated), including full-page crucifixion, repeated seven times, and 10-panel historiated woodcut border to facing page, also repeated seven times. Rotunda, roman, and italic type. Music with notes in black on red staves. Bound in paneled calf, roughly contemporary, ruled in gilt with gilt fleurs-de-lis at corners. Binding worn with signs of old repairs. Text toned on some leaves, but remarkably fresh and free of blemishes overall. References: Mortimer, Italian, 304; Amiet, Repertorium, 2:101; Camerini, 673; RELICS, 2859. In the 1560s, the brothers Tommaso and Giovan Maria Giunta were trying to recover financially from the fire that destroyed their Venice workshop in 1557. Taking few…
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Opera di agricoltura: nela q[ua]l si co[n]tiene a che modi si debbe coltivar la terra....
by Crescenzi, Pietro de' (1233-1320).
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Venice: Bernardino de' Viani, 1538. Good. Octavo (17 cm); [784] pages (signed A-BBB\8, plus index signed with maltese cross\8). One full-page woodcut illustration within patterned border. Floral border around title (at the top of which is a cat and mouse, similar to the image used by Sessa), and floriated initials at the beginning of each of the 12 books. Modern vellum binding, reusing an 18th-century morocco label; tail edge of text block titled in contemporary manuscript. Title with small oil stain transferring to following several leaves until disappearing at the fifth leaf, outer conjugate of first and last gatherings guarded, last leaf extended at fore-margin with Japanese mending tissue. Good, crisp copy. A sixteenth-century Italian translation of "Ruralia commoda," one of very few treatises on agronomy to appear during the Middle Ages, and the first printed modern text on agriculture when it was published in 1471. The book's enormous influence over Italian agriculture is evident even…
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Venerabilis Bedae presbyteri theologi doctissimi juxta ac sanctissimi, commentationum in Sacras Literas, tomus primus : in quo ea maximè quae Veteris Testamenti sunt, ita perspicuè ac dilucidè enarrantur, ut inter celeberrimos ejus argumenti tractatores…
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1545 Saint Venerable BEDE Bible & Commentary English Monk Church Cosmology Saint Venerable Bede was an English monk during the 7th- and 8th-centuries. He is most remembered for his ecclesiastical work on the history of English people, in which he discusses the establishment and growth of the church throughout the known world. He also wrote important commentaries on the books of the Bible. This work explains relevant Biblical passages, as well as describes the allegorical notes of Church Fathers. However, he did not write exclusively of church theology. He also wrote on the development of time and ideas of cosmology.
This 16th-century Latin edition was published in Paris by Roigny. An impressive, three-volume folio set!
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BEDE, Saint Venerable
Venerabilis Bedae presbyteri theologi doctissimi juxta ac sanctissimi, commentationum in Sacras Literas, tomus primus : in quo ea maximè quae Veteris Testamenti sunt, ita perspicuè ac dilucidè enarrantur, ut inter… Read More
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Delle nozze,: trattato del Fausto da Longiano, in cui si leggono i riti, i costumi, gl'instituti, le cerimonie, et le solennità di diversi antichi popoli, onde si sono tratti molti problemi; & aggiuntivi, i precetti matrimoniali di Plutarco
by Fausto da Longiano, Sebastiano; Plutarch.
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Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1554. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (22 cm); 45, [3] pages (last leaf blank). Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper, titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner, subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki, Choix de livres anciens, VI, 5817 This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography, in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion, Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia (or, Atlantis), men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter, and that in Assyria, husbands were bound by law to obey…
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Opera omnia in usum ivuentutis scholasticae emendate admodum edidit notisque ad modum Ioh. Minellii explicuit et intellectu facillima reddidit M. Christ. Iuncker.
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Ex officina Weidmanniana, 1739. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [10] 348 [12]. Title printed in red and black. Crudely illustrated frontispiece. Annotated by Johann Minellii. This edition of Sallustius was probably meant for Latin students. The entire book is inter-leaved with blanks, presumably for note taking. Several blanks contain notes in a miniscule old hand. Bound in full vellum (darkened spine). [Schweiger II, p.881].
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POEMATA PYTHAGORAE, ET PHOCYLIDIS: Cvm Dvplici Interpretatione Viti Amerbachij
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Lipsiae [Leipzig], 1586. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. Publication date "M. D. XXCVI." Professionally rebound in brown boards with the spine stamped in black. Text block is browned and appears cut-down slightly from original size. Unmarked. Text is in Latin. A Very pretty copy. 134 p. plus 5 more printed pages and two blank leaves. 3 5/8 x 5 15/16 inches. I believe that this book was rebound in the early twentieth century. See Pictures.
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Discorso della virtù heroica, et della charità.as Sig. Monsig. il Cardinale Cesareo.
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Venetia: Bernardo Giunti. [Giunti-Tasso-Prima Edizione] (cm.20) brossura antica restaurata con foglio di antifonario con musica, sguardie antiche.-- cc. 10. Grande marca al frontis, carattere rotondo, grande capolettera figurato. Edizione originale molto rara. Manca a Choix ed Adams. Il Census Iccu registra solo 9 copie nelle Biblioteche Italiane. L' operetta affronta varie facoltà morali e materiali dell' uomo. Esemplare molto bello e fresco. * Camerini II p.465 n° 16; * Graesse VII 39; * Parenti 482; * Raccolta Tassiana " A.Mai " n° 1434; * Bm. Stc. 660.[f56] . ottimo. Rilegato. prima edizione. 1582.
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Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatione fragmentum. Ex vetustissimo exemplari Bibliothecae Farnesianae descriptum. Schedae quae Festi fragmento detractae apud Pomponium Laetum extabant. Ex bibliotheca Fulvi Ursini. Notae in Sex. Pompei Festi fragmentum, schedas & epitomam.
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(Genève), apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1583. 8vo. (1),196,(18),62 p. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: 1 GLN 3005; Schweiger 2,354, Smitskamp 60) (Details: Six thongs laced through the joints. Veritas printer's device on the title: a woman, the naked truth, seated on a cubus, holding a radiant sun in her right hand; in her left hand she holds an opened book and a palm leaf; her feet rest on the globe; the garland of fruit which surrounds her shows a ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Alêtheia Pandamatôr', i.e. 'Allmighty Truth'). (Condition: Vellum partly soiled. Right margin of title slightly thumbed; title slightly browning) (Note: Festus is a 2nd century grammarian, who produced an abbreviation of a lexicographic work by Marcus Verrius Flaccus, a wellknown antiquarian and grammarian living in Augustan Rome. Verrius compiled an enormous lexicon in 80 books, full of unusual, difficult, and archaic words, with discussions about customs, political institutions, belief and Roman law.…
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CONSILIA SIVE RESPONSA
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VENETIIS: APUD JOANNEM BAPTISTAM SESSAM, 1591. In 4. Dim. 28x21,5 cm. Pp. (24)+180+(1)+68+(1). Rara opera del 1591 del giurista Roberto Maranta (1746-1530) nato a Venosa. Maranta si laureò a Napoli nel 102 e dedicò tutta la sua vita allo studio e pratica della legge. Lavorò e studiò a Salerno, Palermo e Napoli. Lopera sono una serie di consigli con risposta sulle materie giuridiche dellalienazione e dei rimedi della possessione. Testo a doppia colonna e numerazione singola. In buone condizioni e completo. Belle vignette all'interno Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Segni di tarlo (vedere foto). Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Lievi gore dumidità marginali. Parte mancante al frontespizio e alle pagine dalla 60 alla finale 68 con perdita di qualche porzione di lettera a pag.…
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CHRISTOPHORI LONGOLII EPISTOLARUM LIBRI IIII TULLIANAE VIDELICET ELOQUENTIAE AD UNGUEM EXPRESSA IMAGO
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BASILEAE: APUD NIC. EPISCOPIUM IUN., 1558. In 16. Dim. 17x12 cm. Pp. 32 (n.n.)+350+2 (n.n.). Rara edizione del 1558 di quest'opera scritta da Cristophe Longueil (1488-1522) umanista francescano. Nel 1517 Longueil strinse amicizia con Pietro Bembo e Jacopo Sadoleto ma questo non impedì che nei suoi confronti si scatenasse una forte campagna diffamatoria tanto che fu costretto a trafserirsi a Padova dove si spense. Ammiratore incondizionato di Cicerone, fu un grande propagandista del ciceronismo prima in Francia, poi a Roma. Questo suo epistolario non è una mera imitazione della produzione ciceroniana, ma denota una ricerca stilistica ed un'eleganza espositiva di rara freschezza e vivacità. Nella prima parte la sua vita, poi l'epistolario. Numerose note manoscritte all'interno. Marca editoriale all'ultima carta. Titolo manoscritto al taglio inferiore. Opera collazionata e risultata completa. Legatura in pergamena. Non comune. Copertina in piena pergamena con…
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ADRIANUS TT. S. CHRYSOGONI S. R. E. PRESBYTER CARDINALIS DE SERMONE LATINO ET MODIS LATINE LOQUENDI EIUSDEM VENATIO AD ASCANIUM CARDINALEM ITEM ITER IULII II PONTIFICIS ROM.
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LUGDUNI: APUD SEB. GRYPHIUM, 1548. In 16. Dim. 17x11 cm. Pp. 402+(14). Edizione del 1548 di questa nota opera letteraria scritta da Adriano Castellesi (ca 1485-1521) nato a Corneto (antico nome di Tarquinia) detto anche Adriano da Corneto. Castellesi fu grechista, ebraista, autore di poemetti, opere di stile, grammatiche e filosofico-teologiche. Espertissimo di affari, si arricchì enormemente destando in tal modo l'invidia di Cesare Borgia che tentò di avvelenarlo. Andato in esilio e ritornato in patria all'avvento di Leone X, dovette ritornarvi perchè accusato di aver preso parte alla congiura del Cardinale Petrucci. Da questo momento in poi non si sa più nulla di lui: sembra che sia stato assassinato a scopo di furto da uno dei suoi servitori. Il volume è un'opera didattica latina che riporta termini utilizzati in sentenze classiche latine. Alla fine risulta molto interessante il poema sulla caccia organizzata dal Cardinale Ascanio Sforza nei pressi…
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TRES GALLICARUM RERUM scriptores nobilissimi Philippus Cominaeus de rebus gestis a Ludovico XI et Carolo VIII Francorum regibus; Frossardus in brevem historiarum memorabilium epitomen contractus; Claudius Sesellius de republ. Galliae & Regum officiis. A Ioanne Sleidano e Gallico in Latinum sermonem conversi breviq[ue] explicatione illustrati.
by Commynes, Philippe de, Jean Froissart & Claude de Seissel trans. by Johannes Sleidanus (1506-1556)
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Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel first edition, 1578. Hardcover. Very Good. Printer's mark of flying horse over cornucopia & hand from cloud holding caduceus to titlepage + same printer's mark slightly larger to verso of last leaf + floral, foliate & historiated head- & tail-piece & initials.. Folio handsome 18th century gilt ruled and sprinkled calf with 6 raised bands, the compartments & bands gilt but without a title on the spine (small chip out of head of spine/edges sl.rubbed). All edges sprinkled with red dye [8]pp prelims + 320pp + [28]pp index, publisher's imprint and large Wechel printer's mark. Some marginal damp marks to top corner but not affecting the strength and crispness of the paper nor the text. Name Fletcher to top of titlepage. A very few notes or marks to margin. *History of Louis XI & Charles VIII by de Commynes, shortened history of memorable events by Froissart and a further work, by de Seissel. Scarce volume of Medieval French history OCLC locates only 6 copies.
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HOMILIAE SIVE CONCIONES PRAESTANTISSIMORUM Ecclesiae Catholicae Doctorum, Primum ab Alcuino Levita iussu Imp. CAROLI MAGNI in hunc redactae ..
by Paulus Diaconus [Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?] and others
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Koln (Cologne): apud Maternum Cholinum, 1557. Hardcover. Good. Small woodcuts (40 with a few repeats mostly of biblical scenes) + a few historiated initials. . Folio flexible vellum with stubs of ties (some wrinkles /paper spine label & large old shelfmark B) Titlepage +[25pp]=dedication, indices, to reader & errata. +[1p]blank +5-704pp As listed on a4 the book collates !6 #4 a6 b4 c-z6 +A-Z6 +Aa-Mm6 +Nn7 (lacks Nn8=the final blank) Title has stamp of the library of P.P.Capuci & early "sum ex libris Leodegarj a Meggen Can. Beron." Another "Capucinorum in Sursee" also "loci Capu. in Schyfen". Three small pin sized worm holes to TP soon diminishing to one and then none after the first few pages of text. There are two corners torn away without loss, 4 marginal tears (only one into text and that without loss). And p 634 has a marginal paper fault, again not affecting text.Page 479/480 is bound before 477/478. There are a few gatherings that are browner and a few creases. A few ink splatters to about 6…
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ILIAS, SEU POTIUS, OMNIA EIUS QUAE EXTANT OPERA (preceded by title in Greek, ????? ?????, ? ????? ?pa?ta t? s???e?a). Studio & cura Ob. Giphanii I.C. quam emendatissime edita, cum eiusdem scholijs & indicibus novis.
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Argentorati (Augsburg): Theodosius Rihelius, 1572 [from dedication]. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut printer's devices on title pages; woodcut initials. . Octavo (165x90mm) Vol. 1 only (of 2) original vellum with yapp edges title in old ink on spine 893+[73]pp Scolia & Index. Dedication dated XIIII. Kalend. Aprilis. A.D. 1572. Greek (text of H. Estienne) and Latin text of J. Crespin's edition, Geneva, 1560-67) on opposite pages throughout. Pages very browned thoughout but Latin & Greek text entirely legible. Referenced by Brunet III 272, Adams H764. Publisher Rihel was active 1560?-1619.
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