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ARNOBIUS.
Disputationum Adversus Gentes Libri Octo Nunc primum in lucem editi.
Rome: Francisco Priscianese, [1542, i.e. 1543?]..
folio. ff. [5], 102, [1]. lacking blank a6 & blank R8. initial spaces with guide letters. A tall copy, bound in 17th century red morocco, gilt back, all edges gilt (extremities worn, spine faded & chipped at ends, light soiling to title, occasional faint foxing). Provenance: ownership entry on title of Étienne Baluze ('Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis') [1630-1718], French historian and librarian to Colbert, Syston Park engraved armorial bookplate & monogram book label of J.H.Thorold, leather ex-libris of bookseller E.P.Goldschmidt, with his ms. note regarding the Baluze inscription. First Edition. Edited by Fausto Sabeo. A vigorous defence of the Christian faith and powerful sarcastic attack on the absurdities of contemporary pagan cults. Arnobius was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca in Proconsular Africa during the reign of Diocletian before his conversion to Christianity. The present work, which was written about 303 A.D., is a valuable source of information concerning the forms of idolatrous worship, temples, idols, and the Graeco-Roman mythology of the time. While the colophon cites the date '1542', the dedication is dated 'September 1543'. Adams A1994. BM STC Italian p. 56. Brunet I 491. Graesse I 225.
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BONARDO, Gio[vanni] Maria.
La Grandezza, Larghezza, E Distanza Di Tutte Le Sfere ridotte a nostre miglia.
Venice: Fabio & Agostino Zoppini, 1589..
8vo. ff. 132, [4]. full-page woodcut portraits of the author & of Luigi Grotto Cieco D'Adria, who wrote the notes. woodcut device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. modern wallet-edged vellum (light dampstaining to outer leaves). Fifth Edition (first: 1563). Houzeau & Lancaster state that in his notes Grotto regards spheres as being originally in equilibrium in space, and that they move as a result of magnetic attraction produced by more distant bodies. Adams B2379. Houzeau & Lancaster 2618. This edition not in BM STC Italian.
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BURCHARDUS DE MONTE SION & SALIGNAC, BARTHÉLÉMY de.
Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, Et Regionum Finitimarum...M. CC. XXCIII. Item Itinerarium Hiersolymitanum Bartholomaei De Saligniaco...
Magdeburg: Paulus Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1587..
2 Parts in 1. small 4to. [ff. 60; 50]. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century century bds. (rubbed, library stamp on title & label on lower spine, light dampstain to lower inner margins of last leaves). First Combined Edition of these two travel narratives to the Holy Land (first separately published in 1519 and 1525). German Dominican friar, Buchardus de Monte Sion traveled to the Middle East between 1274 and 1284, being one of the last pilgrims to travel to the Holy Land and write a full report before the fall of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. He visited Palestine, the principality of Antioch, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and Egypt. His work is described as being of "extraordinary importance", "the most detailed account to have come down to us from the thirteenth century" and "in a class of its own among the many mediaeval descriptions of the Holy Land." (see Wikipedia) Barthélémy de Salignac of Burgundy, knight, jurist and protonotary of the Papal Curia, undertook his journey to the Holy Land in 1522. He set out from Venice and visited Corsica, Crete, Candia, Rhodes, Cyprus, before arriving in the Holy Land, which is described in books 5 to 10. Adams B2875. Brunet I 1270 [vide BROCARDUS] & V 77. Graesse I 545 [vide BROCARDUS] & VI 233. Rohricht p. 59. Tobler pp. 27 & 69. cfBM STC German (1593 edition) [vide SALIGNIACO].
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CAMDEN, William [1551-1623].
Britannia Sive Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate Chorographica descriptio.
London: Ralph Newbery, 1587..
2 Parts in 1 with continuous pagination. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 648, [21]index, [1]errata. woodcut ornament & cartouche on first title, ornament on 2nd title. woodcut ornaments & initials. later paneled calf (spine dry & flaking, front joint cracked, corners worn, some light foxing & browning). 2 early ownership entries on title. from the library of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1806-71], lawyer, politician and high court justice of Lower Canada. Second Edition (first published the previous year). The great Elizabethan topographical-historical description of England consumed ten years' travel, study and effort. Camden had to learn Welsh and Anglo-Saxon in order to read both native and other historians, many still in manuscript, and to carefully peruse the public records. The work went through five London editions plus another at Frankfort by 1600, although it was not translated into English until 1610. STC 4504. cfRead 302. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 101.
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey [c1343-1400].
The Workes.
London: Printed by Adam Islip for Thomas Wight, 1598..
folio. irregular foliation: ff. 1-232, 232, 232-235, 242-243, 246, 243-245, 241, 241-246, 248-300, 302-308, 308-309, 311-314, 321, 317-337, 340-344, 339, 348-358, 358, 360-392, 395, 394. lacking folio 300 (Iii1) & portion of folio 301 (Iii2) & last 15 leaves containing the glossary and errata. 1 leaf misbound. black letter. general title & 2 divisional titles within woodcut borders. engraved portrait of Chaucer by John Speed after Thomas Hoccleve surrounded by armorial devices & a family tree. full-page woodcut of Chaucer's coat of arms. large woodcut headpiece of a knight on horseback. woodcut initials. full leather, c1900 (worn but solid, some browning & occasional stains, corners of several leaves torn away with slight loss, repair to folio 336 with some loss, outer margin of title frayed & repaired with slight loss of border, several other marginal repairs, first divisional title shaved at outer edge). a few old ms. notes. Sixth Edition, the first to be edited by Thomas Speght; issue with Wight imprint. This edition contains the first portrait of Chaucer, the first life of Chaucer printed in English (albeit largely fictitious), some previously unpublished material, Chaucer's English translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and several works incorrectly attributed to Chaucer. "[Chaucer] is the first great figure of modern English literature, the first great humorist of modern Europe, and the first great writer in whom the dramatic spirit, so long vanished and seemingly extinct, re-appears. Except Dante, there is no poet of the middle ages of superior faculty and distinction." (DNB) Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer championed the use of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he was printed more than any other English author, and he was the first English author to have his works printed in single-volume collected editions. STC 5079. Pforzheimer 177. cfGrolier 1.
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CHYTRAEUS, Nathan [1543-1598].
Oratio De Astronomia seu Uranoscopium Christianum.
Rostock: Myliander, 1591..
8vo. unpaginated. woodcut printer's device on title. modern bds. (paper embrowned). First Edition. An extremely rare treatise and scarce imprint. Poet, philologist, and theologian Nathan Chytraeus, was the younger brother of the theologian David Chytraeus, a disciple of Philip Melanchton. Nathan was a professor first at the University of Rostock, where he is credited with founding the library in 1569, and later at the Gymnasium in Bremen. Not in Adams or BM STC German.
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CICERO, M[arcus] T[ullius].
Opera Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima.
Paris: Robert Estienne, 15[38]-39.
5 Parts in 2 Volumes. folio. pp. 8 p.l., 288; 340 [i.e. 640], [6]; 416; 450, [1 leaf]; 158, [100]. 6 titles with woodcut printer's device. several woodcut initials. 17th century calf, recornered & rebacked with gilt spines mounted (staining to p. 240 of second part, lower blank margin of title of 3rd part renewed, a few small round wormholes at beginning of Vol. II). numerous neat old ms. marginal notations & some scoring in first volume. Second Edition edited by Italian classical scholar, Pietro Vettori [1499-1585], elegantly printed in folio format by Robert Estienne. It is based on the Giunta Venice edition of 1534, with a few additional notes by the editor. The five parts comprise the rhetoric (Part I), the orations (Part II), the letters (Part III), the philosophical writings (Part IV), and Vettori's commentary (Part V). Adams C1640. BM STC French p. 109. Brunet II 7 (incorrectly citing 6 Vols.). Moss I p. 291. cfRenouard p. 48 (citing 4 Vols. & different title).
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COOPER, Thomas [1517-1594].
Thesaurus Linguae Romanae Britannicae.
London: 1584..
thick folio. text in double columns. unpaginated. lacking initial blank & without the 1584 colophon leaf. woodcut device on title. woodcut initials. modern quarter calf (repaired tear in q4 - no loss, small number rubberstamp at head of title, headlines occasionally shaved, small wormtrack through a few gatherings towards end). ms. inscription dated 1632 on last page. Cooper prepared his important Latin-English dictionary while headmaster of Magdalen College, drawing on the work of other lexicographers and in particular on the dictionaries of Sir Thomas Elyot and Robert Estienne. It was first published in 1565. Appended to the main text is an historical and poetical dictionary. The work soon became a standard reference and was probably used and consulted by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan poets and dramatists. So delighted with the dictionary was Queen Elizabeth that she promised to aid in the advancement of the author's career. Cooper was made dean of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1567, dean of Gloucester in 1569, bishop of Lincoln in 1571, and bishop of Winchester in 1584. Alden notes that the dictionary includes a definition and discussion of Guiacum, and in the Dictionarium historicum, a description of America as discovered by Vespucci. This copy is very interesting bibliographically as it contains the 'faked' title-page described in STC which reads 'Romanae Britannicae' rather than 'Romanae & Britannicae'. The STC estimates this leaf to have perhaps been printed after 1705. Apart from the title-leaf, the text is composed of sheets from different sixteenth century printings, the STC noting a number of such variants. See STC 5689 & Alden 584/16.
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DEMOSTHENES.
Demosthenis Graecorum Oratorum Principis, Olynthiacae orationes tres, & Philippicae quatuor, e Greco in Latinum conversae.Addita est etiam Epistola de vita, & obitu eiusdem Nicolae Carri.
London: Henry Denham, 1571.
4to. ff. [12], 83. title within typographical border. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century blind-stamped old-style calf by Rivière, gilt edges (rubbed, short split in upper front joint, few minor stains, small repair to C1 - no loss). First Edition of the Latin Translation by Nicholas Carr [1524-1568], the second edition of Demosthenes to be published in England. The first English translation, by Thomas Wilson, was published by Denham in London the previous year. Appended are a life of Carr by Bartholomew Dodington, one of Carr's successors as regius professor of Greek at Trinity College, Cambridge, and eulogies and funeral orations by Henry Howard, Thomas Bing, Thomas Hatcher, and others. STC 6577. Bruggemann I p. 160.
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DIO CASSIUS.
[Greek Title].Rerum Romanarum a Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae, Epitome authore Ioanne Xiphilino. [BOUND WITH:] DIO CASSIUS. Dionis Nicaei, rerum Romanarum A Pompeio Magno, ad Alexandrum Mamaeae filium Epitome, Ioanne Xiphilino authore, & Guilielmo Blanco Albiensi interprete.
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551 & Paris: [Robert Estienne], 1551.
4to. pp. 357, [3]; 3 p.l., 280, [10]index. Greek & Latin texts. woodcut devices on titles (Renouard 471 & 296). woodcut ornaments & initials. 18th century calf, rebacked, all edges gilt (binding worn but solid, crack in spine, occasional light embrowning & marginal stains). First Edition of the abridgment of Dio Cassius by the younger Joannes Xiphilinus, bound, possibly as issued, with Guillaume Leblanc's Latin translation of same. Estienne's name does not appear on the title-page to the second title. These works complement Estienne's 1548 folio edition of Dio Cassius. Xiphilinus' 11th century epitome of the roman history is the only source for Dio's lost books 61 to 80 (see Schreiber). The first text is printed in the first font of the 'grecs du roi', and is based on a manuscript in the Royal Library. It is also one of the last Greek texts to carry Estienne's Paris imprint. Mortimer, Harvard French 16th Century Books, 170-171. Adams D515 (2nd part). Schreiber 108 (1st part). Renouard p. 80, nos. 8 & 9.
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DONI, [Anton Francesco] [1513-1574].
Mondi Celesti, Terrestri, Et Infernale, De Gli Academici Pellegrini...
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562..
small 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 430, [blank leaf]. woodcut printer's device on title & another larger one on verso of penultimate leaf. woodcut ornaments & initials. A nice fresh copy in modern vellum (covers bowed, stamp & old ownership entry on title, light dampstain to lower outer corner of prelims). First Combined Edition of this early example of Italian Renaissance utopian literature, inspired by Sir Thomas More (originally published as two separate volumes in 1552 and 1553). Doni himself had edited the first Italian translation of More's Utopia by Ortensio Lando, which appeared in Venice in 1548 (Gibson 37). "In a mixture of story, speculation, dialogue, allegory, and moralizing, Doni discusses the little world - man, the greater world - the universe, and the world of God, and goes on to satirize human inconsistencies in the mixed world, man's follies in the risible world, his vain imaginations in the world of the imagination, and thus reaches a more truly utopian section, il mondo savio e pazzo, which Curcio prints in Utopisti e riformatori, pages 1-15, noting (page xii) that More influenced Doni, who was probably the translator, certainly the editor of the Italian text of Utopia. Il mondo savio is perfect in all respects, even in form, "in todo perfetissimo, a guise d'una stella," regular, symmetrical, blessed with perpetual peace. Reason prevails in all things. There is exchange of goods but no money. All are equal and dress in the same manner. Love is free and children are adopted by the state. Life is tranquil; though luxury is absent, all are contented." (Gibson & Patrick) BM STC Italian p. 226. Bongi II pp. 144-45. Gamba 1369n. Gibson 665. This edition not in Adams.
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DÜRER, Albrecht (after).
Finely executed carved ivory relief portrait of German humanist and public official Ulrich Varnbüler [1474-1545], based on a 1522 woodcut portrait by Albrecht Dürer.
[cGermany or The Netherlands: c16th-17th century].
6 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (size of plaque). 10 x 7 ½ inches (size with frame). mounted in an antique wooden frame c1840 on a pine backing board (a number of minor surface blemishes, crack of not more than ½ inch in top near centre & 2 small cracks of not more than ½ inch in hat). The subject, Ulrich Varnbüler [1474-1545], was a German humanist and public official. In 1521 he was appointed chancellor to the Reichsregiment [1521-30] which was to exercise imperial powers in Germany in the absence of Charles V. With the Reichsregiment he first resided in Nuremberg where his friend Albrecht Dürer sketched his portrait for a woodcut which was executed in 1522 and upon which this ivory is based. The text in the cartouche of the woodcut reads in translation: "Through this picture, Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg would like to recognize Ulrich, the secretary and chief clerk of the Roman imperial government, with the surname Varnbüler, whom he loves immensely." Varnbüler was also friends with Erasmus and translated into German the latter's adage 'Dulce bellum inexpertis' (Basel: 1519). Varnbüler was instrumental in obtaining in the name of the emperor protective privilege against pirated editions for works published by Johan Froben and Andreas Cratander. A number of works were dedicated to him by Cratander, Willibald Pirckheimer and Peter (II) Schöffer. See P.G.Bietenholz, Contemporaries of Erasmus', 1987, Vol. III p. 377.
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ESTIENNE, Henri II [1531=1598].
Glossaria duo, è situ vetustatis cruta: Ad Utriusque Linguae cognitionem & locupletationem perutilia. Item, De Atticae Linguae seu dialecti idiomatis.
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1573..
[ff. 4], col. 666, [ff. 4], 13-247. printer's device on title. several woodcut initials & headpieces. later vellum (soiled, head of spine bit chipped, short cut in vellum at top of upper cover, some foxing, inked-out note on title). unidentified cardinal's bookplate. library rubberstamp of Thomas Cushing Aylwin [1816-71], lawyer, politician and high court justice of Lower Canada. "First Edition of this important work, commonly dismissed as a "supplement" to the Thesaurus Graecae Linguae [see Printing and the Mind of Man 62n]; it is in fact an independent work, though a by-product of Henri Estienne's work for the Thesaurus. The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first consists of the editiones principes of the two most valuable ancient Byzantine bilingual glossaries: the Latin-Greek Philoxenus Glossary, and the Greek-Latin Cyrillus Glossary (cfKrumbacher I 562). "The second part consists of Henri's extensive commentaries on the Greek dialects, and is a pioneering work in the field of Greek dialectology." (Schreiber) Schreiber 182. Renouard 135, no. 4.
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FABRICIUS (or GOLDSCHMIDT), Georg [1516-1571].
Roma.Liber unus.
[Colophon on m7r:] Basel: Joannes Oporinus, March 1551..
2 Parts in 1 with separate titles. 8vo. pp. 188, [4]incl final blank; 90, [30index. woodcut initials. 17th century vellum (title backed repairing 2 marginal holes resulting from erasures, light dampstaining in first gatherings, some light foxing & a few underlines). First Edition (?) of this important early guide to the antiquities of the city of Rome by the Protestant German poet, historian, and archaeologist from Chemnitz. Although possibly preceded by an undated edition believed to have been published in 1550 it is the earliest edition listed in the bibliographies. Adams F94. BM STC German p. 296. Graesse II 543.
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[FLEETWOOD, William] [1535?-1594].
Annalium tam Regum Edwardi quinti, Richardi tertii, & Henrici septimi, quàm Henrici octavi Titulorum Ordine Alphabetico digestorum, Elenchus.
London: Richard Tottel, 1579..
small 8vo. unpaginated. black letter. contemporary calf (worn but solid, head of spine damaged). First Edition. Index to the law reports of the reigns of Edward V, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Fleetwood, recorder of London and M.P. for the city, was famous for his vigorous enforcement of the laws against vagrants and papists. STC 11034. Sweet & Maxwell I.311.4.
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