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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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GALEN.
In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentarii Septem, Recens per Gulielmum Plantium Cenomanum Latinitate donati.
Lyons: Guillaume Rouillé, 1554..
16mo. pp. 650, [47]index. woodcut printer's device on title. contemporary limp vellum (small piece wanting from spine, library rubberstamp on title, dampstain to outer margin in first half). 3 pp. old ms. notes at end & occasional notes in text. This copy does not include the Greek text of the Aphorismi (pp. 64) at the end; as it is in a contemporary binding and nothing appears to have been removed, it is possible that there may have been two issues of this edition (see Blake, listing one copy with the Greek text, and one without, identified as 'incomplete'). Adams G123. Durling 1959. cfBM STC French p. 226. cfWellcome 2624-25.
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GIOVIO, Paolo, Bishop of Nocera [1483-1552].
Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium veris imaginibus supposita, quae apud Musaeum spectantur.
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551..
folio. 00. 340, [3]. Torrentino's woodcut device of the Medici arms on title. woodcut initials. 18th century calf, rebacked & repaired (covers worn, scattered foxing - generally light, dampstain to outer margin of outer leaves, repair to upper inner blank margin of first leaves). First Edition. With corrected reading on x3v but original reading on x4v. Accounts of the lives of illustrious men, whose portraits Giovio maintained in his private collection at his villa at Lake Como, including Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortés as well as Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Cesar Borgia, Emperor Charles V, Cosimo de' Medici, Elizabeth of Aragon, Francisco Gonzaga, Henry VIII of England, Louis XII of France, Mahomet II of Turkey, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King Robert of Naples, King Sigismund of Poland, Solyman, Emperor of the Turks, Tamerlane, &c. Adams G639. Alden 551/23. BM STC Italian p. 304. Brunet III 584. Graesse III 490. Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books, 213.
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GONZAGA FAMILY.
Summarium, Sive Compendium Omnium Contentorum In sequenti, sive processu, sive negotio plurium actitatorum.in causa Castrigufredi nomine D. Ducis Mantuae, & Montisferrati, &c. coram Caesarea Maiestate [Drop Title].
[cMantua: c1599]..
folio. pp. 405, 22, [blank leaf], 12, 35, 40. woodcut ornaments & initials. old vellum (some damage to lower front cover & upper spine, a few leaves discoloured, some staining to inner margins towards end). occasional marginal notes & markings, some cut into when text rebound). bookplate of the Prince of Liechtenstein. The volume contains the documentary material of a law suit concerning a feudal estate in northern Italy which, at the end of the sixteenth century, was still under the sovereign jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire. In connection with two scandalous murder cases in the Gonzaga family, the possession of the territory of Castelgiuffredo (between Mantua and Brescia) was claimed by the Duke of Mantua as head of the House of Gonzaga (the Gonzaga family were masters of Mantua from 1329 to 1708). However, the Emperor Rudolf had adjudged Castelgiuffredo to Francesco Gonzaga of Castiglione in 1599. This book was apparently published by order of the Duke of Mantua, as a protest against the decision of the Emperor Rudolf. Included are the texts of hearings before the criminal court in the cases of the assassinations of Alfonso and Rodolfo Gonzaga during the years 1592-1597, and legal opinions on the validity of the claims of the parties concerned. A specified catalogue of the dowry of Caterina Gonzaga, including every piece of her wardrobe, jewellery, household goods, etc., is an interesting historical document illustrating the life of late Renaissance Italian privileged society. Presumably privately printed in a limited number of copies. Not found in the Italian National Library service or in the British Library Catalogue.
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HIPPOCRATES.
De Aere, aquis, & locis, Liber olim mancus, nunc integer:qui Galendo, De habitationibus, & aquis, & temporibus & regionibus inscribitur: Ab Adriano Alemano apud Parisios medico, commentariis quatuor illustrates.
Paris: Gilles Gorbin, 1557..
8vo. ff. 8 (the last blank), 230, [18]. errata on verso of last leaf. text in Greek & Latin. early 20th century half pigskin (slight staining in upper margins of last gatherings). First Edition with the Latin translation and commentary of Adrian l’Alemant. It is preceded by the 1529 edition with translation and commentary by Janus Cornarius. Stillwell mentions a 1542 edition but it is not listed in the other bibliographies or on Worldcat. "The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology." (G & M) "In the book Airs, Waters, and Places, [...] written by Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th or 4th century bce, the first systematic attempt was made to set forth a causal relationship between human diseases and the environment. Until the new sciences of bacteriology and immunology emerged well into the 19th century, this book provided a theoretical basis for the comprehension of endemic disease (that persisting in a particular locality) and epidemic disease (that affecting a number of people within a relatively short period)." (Encyc. Britannica) "In addition to being the earliest known recognition of the action of climate on health, the text gives a comparison of the climatic conditions of Europe and Asia and their differences in flora and fauna." (Stillwell) Adams H596. BM STC French p. 226. Durling 2403. Wellcome 3202. cfGarrison & Morton, 4th Edn., 1767 (1923 English version in his Works). cfStillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science, 658.
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HOMER. [Greek Title].
Odyssea, Id Est, De Rebus Ab Ulysse Gestis. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia & Hymni.
[Geneva:] Jean Crispin, 1567..
16mo. pp. 2 p.l., 528 [i.e. 428]. text in Greek. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut headpieces & initials. 17th century calf, covers paneled in blind (joints rubbed, corners & spine worn & chipped at head & tail, light dampstaining to outer leaves, some headlines shaved). Crispin had previously published the Iliad in 1559; the two works are listed together in the bibliographies. Adams H756. Brunet III 271. Graesse III 327. Moss II 485.
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ISOCRATES.
[Greek Title]...Orationes et Epistolae Cum Latina Interpretatione Hier. Wolfii, ab ipso postremum recognita. Henr. Steph. In Isocratem Diatriba VII: quarum una observationes Harpocrationis in eundem examinat. Gorgiae Et Aristidis quaedam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero interprete.
Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1593..
folio. pp. 14 p.l., 427, 131, xxxiiii, [blank leaf], [8], 31, [18]index. Greek & Latin text in parallel columns. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary vellum (lower corner of rear cover damaged, bookplate removed from front paste-down, light dampstaining in last gatherings). First Estienne Edition. "This important edition of the great Athenian orator Isocrates (436-338 B.C.), with Hieronymus Wolf's text revised by Estienne, who has contributed 7 useful Diatribae, or Dissertations, represents Henri's last major work -- the Concordantiae of the following year had been compiled in great part by his father -- and constitutes his last folio edition of a classical text. It is also the only book to issue from his press that year. Estienne nostalgically recalls more prosperous days in his preface, addressed to Marcus Fugger, whom he reminds of his family's former generosity towards him." (Schreiber) Appended is the Greek text of the speeches of Aristides, the famous Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., edited with parallel Latin translation by Dutch humanist Willem Canter [1542-1575]. Renouard p. 155. Schreiber 224. Hoffmann II 473. Adams I-219. Brunet III 467. Dibdin (4th Edn.) II p. 126.
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KRANTZ, Albert [c1450-c1517].
Regnorum Aquilonarium, Daniae, Sueciae, Norvagiae, Chronica.Accessit, supplementi cuiusdam instar, Dithmarsici belli historia, Christiano Cilicio Cimbro autore. Item Iacobi Ziegleri Schondiao.
Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583..
folio. pp. 10 p.l., 505, [37]index, [2]errata & colophon. printer's device on title & at end. several woodcut diagrams in text. woodcut ornaments & initials. later bds. (worn but solid). Evelyn library bookplate. Important chronicle of the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to the year 1500, written by German historian and diplomatist Albert Krantz (or Crantz) and first published in 1546. The present edition, edited by Johann Wolf, contains a continuation by Cilicius [pseudoym for H.Ranzovius], and a reprint (pp. 473-497) of a complementary treatise on the northern regions by Jakob Ziegler, entitled Schondia, originally published in Ziegler's Quae intus continentur. (Strassburg: 1532). Here, in the section on Greenland (pp. 479-80), reference is made to the American voyage and discoveries of John Cabot, as related by Peter Martyr, with a report of his encounter with ice during the month of July in the Greenland Sea. Adams C2874. BM STC German p. 477. Brunet III 696. Graesse IV 47. Sabin 38299. Winship, Cabot Bibliography, 232n. Not in Alden.
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LIVIUS, Titus.
Historiae Principis Decades Tres Cum Dimidia.Beati Rhenani & Sigismundi Gelenii adiunctae Annotationes. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani.
Basel: In Officina Hervagiana [Per Ioannem Hervagium], 1539.
7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 63, [5]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39], [1]; [96]. woodcut printer's device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in 17th century speckled calf, paneled in gilt, rebacked, preserving endpapers & spine label, corners renewed (very occasional marginal stains). engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, [second] Earl of Essex, dated 1701, on title. A handsome folio edition, based on the Basel Froben editions of 1531 and 1535, the former being the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich Glareanus [1488-1563], and also incorporates the revisions of Beatus Rhenanus and Sigismund Galenius, which were added in the 1535 edition. Adams L1332. BM STC German p. 521 (5 Parts). Graesse IV 228n.
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LIVIUS, Titus.
Historiae Principis Decades Tres cum dimidia.Beati Rhenani & Sigismundi Gelenii adiunctae Annotationes. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani.
Basel: In Officina Frobeniana [Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius], 1535..
7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 69, [3 leaves]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39]; [96]. woodcut printer's device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, later spine labels (lacking clasps & catches, extremities worn & chipped, some light foxing & browning). A handsome and important folio edition, based on the Basel Froben edition of 1531, the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich Glareanus [1488-1563], and also incorporates important new commentary and revisions by Beatus Rhenanus and Sigismund Galenius. Adams L1330. BM STC German p. 521 (5 Parts). Graesse IV 227.
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MANILIUS, M[arcus].
Astronomicon Libri Quinque Iosephus Scaliger Iul. Caes. F. Recensuit, ac pristino ordini suo restituit. eiusdem Ios. Scaligeri Commentarius in eosdem libros, & Castigationum explicantiones.
[Heidelberg]: In Officina Sanctandreana [H.Commelinus?], 1590..
3 Parts in 1, second part with fly title, Scaliger's commentary with separate title-page & pagination, but beginning with signature AA. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 136, [5], [blank leaf], 131, [1]blank, [3]; 415, [1]blank, [13]. woodcut printer's device on both titles. text diagrams. contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges (book block loose in binding, vellum soiled, ties wanting, some foxing & browning, front flyleaf wanting, repair to lower blank margin of title). armorial bookplate of the Rev. Walter Stennett. & ownership entry of the Jesuit College at Louvain. A didactic poem in five books, written at the beginning of the first century, A.D., the Astronomicon is the earliest surviving connected treatise on astrology. The first book deals with the origin and nature of the universe, the stars, zodiacal and other constellations, planets, the circles of the sky, and comets, the second with zodiacal signs, their classifications, &c., the third with the twelve astrological places, the Lot of Fortune, the rising times of the signs at Alexandria, &c., book four with monomoria and an astrological geography, and the last with the fixed stars. (see DCB) Scaliger's edition was originally published in 1579. His commentary is usually bound first in the volume. Adams M362. BM STC German p. 591. Houzeau & Lancaster I 1037. cfKenney 113 & 167(1655 edn.).
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MARSILI, Ippolito [1451-1529].
Practica causarum criminalium una cum Theorica & Repertorio.
[Lyon]: Vincent de Portonariis, 1529..
8vo. ff. cxliii, [28]. 2 Parts in 1, Repertorio with separate title. titles within woodcut border, the first printed in red & black. large woodcut printer's device on titles & S8r. text in double columns. recently bound into old vellum (paper embrowned, some early underlining & marginalia). Second Edition (?) of this text on criminal law by Bolognese teacher, lawyer, and judge Ippolito Marsili. Marsili is best known for documenting or inventing what is known as the Chinese water torture method, in which drops of water consistently falling on a victim's forehead gradually drives him to the point of insanity. Marsili is also credited with being the first person to document the use of sleep deprivation combined with prolonged and harsh interrogation as a means of torture. This edition not in Adams or BM STC French where earliest edition listed is 1528.
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MELA, Pomponius Et Al.
Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbi, Prisciano Interpret.
Colophon on G2r: [Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri, October 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. Mela's 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 medieval authors, both on his own account, and because Pliny used and cited his work." (Ibid.) Solinus's description of the classical world was based on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's geography. The Itinerarium compiled by Antoninus provides a brief survey of the whole of the Roman Empire. Vibius Sequester lists the names of the principal rivers, mountains, etc. known to the Romans. Victor's work on the topography of ancient Rome, which appears here for the first time, is an important source for the identification of Roman ruins. The last text is Dionysius Afer's treatise on cosmography. Renouard I 198.9. Adams M1053. BM STC Italian p. 432. JCB I p. 71.
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MIZAULD, Antoine [c1510-1578].
Hortorum Secreta, Cultus, Et Auxilia, amoenae voluptatis, & inenarrabilis utilitatis abunde plena: rerumque variarum accessione nunc primum aucta & illustrata.
Paris: Frédéric Morell, 1575..
8vo. ff. [8], 132. modern vellum, overlapping fore-edges, gilt edges (some foxing). Second Edition (first: 1574) of this treatise on gardens and the cultivation of plants, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees by French physician and astrologer Mizauld. The lengthy section on grafting (ff. 109-128) is drawn from Columella, Pliny, Palladio, Pontano, and others. Adams M1503. cfBM STC French p. 314 (1574).
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian [1489-1552].
Dictionarium Hebraicum...
[Basel: Hieronymous Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius], 1564.
8vo. [ff. 496]. text in Hebrew & German. printer's device on title & at end. woodcut initials. contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (small stain on lower cover, lacking ties, intermittent light foxing, some leaves with faint marginal dampstain, tiny paper flaw on title with loss of 1 letter). Sixth Edition (first: 1523) of this Hebrew dictionary compiled by the distinguished German geographer, mathematician, Hebraist, linguist, and theologian. Münster was court preacher at Heidelberg, where he also lectured in Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, and from 1536 until his death he taught at Basel. A disciple of Elias Levita, he was the first German to edit the Hebrew Bible (Basel: 1534-35). He is best known for his 'Cosmographiae', one of the most important scientific geographical works of the Reformation period. Adams M1926. BM STC German p. 633. Burmeister 22.
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