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IMPORTANT C16TH PROVENANCE?
8vo, pp. [8], 223, [9]. Roman and Italic letters. Latin and Greek texts. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut head and tailpieces, decorated initials. Early annotations on t-p, apparently including the autograph of an important French collector of the 16th century at foot, as pointed out by a pencil note on the verso of the upper flyleaf (not identified though: "Chadric"?). Sporadic early ms. notes and underlining throughout. Occasional light water staining and binding extremities a little bit worn. A very good copy plus bound in limp contemporary vellum with remains of ties, original endpapers.
Second edition of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists with the addition of the author's "Legationes" taken from a codex found the library of Jesuit scholar André Schott of Antwerp. The editio princeps of the Greek text, with Latin translation by Hadrianus Junius of Hoorn, was printed by Plantin in 1564. The Greek historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, but went to… Read More

8vo, ff. [56], 424 [i.e. 422], [2]. Roman letter, little Italic. Printer's device of t-p, title and text printed in red and black, double-column text and commentary, printed side notes throughout. Woodcut historiated initials and vignettes as headpieces, full-page woodcut showing the "arbor civilis", or "arbor consanguinitatis" (genealogical tree). blank foot margin reinforced on H2v, very sporadic marginal mild water staining and light browning. Register at colophon and blank final leaf. 17th-century stiff vellum,slightly later morocco label with gilt title to spine, a.e.b. A very good copy.
Second edition curated by Girolamo Messaggi (1st edition published in 1558). 16th-c. Venetian 8vo edition of Emperor Justinian's famous compendium of Roman law, known as Codex Justinianeus, which was compiled by Theophilus, Dorotheus and Tribonianus. It includes "In arborem et ipsius intelligentiam quaestiones" of Cristoforo Porzio at 2H6, introduced by a full-page woodcut genealogical tree showing the various… Read More

RARE FIRST ITALIAN VERNACULAR TRANSLATION OF VEGETIUS'S DE RE MILITARI
FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, ff. [100], with a few little woodcuts in the text. Imprint from colophon. Woodcut historiated initials and capital spaces with guide-letters. Errata: p. [197]-[198]. Ms. annotation at foot of final leaf. Some initial and final light foxing. Generally clean and crisp. Contemporary limp vellum with ties. Early title handwritten at head of spine. Bookseller's label on upper pastedown (Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan). An excellent copy.
First edition of the Italian translation, unknown to Cockle, who records the 1525 edition only. Dedication to Federigo Gonzaga di Bozzolo by the translator Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi. Few secular works of Antiquity were as popular in the Middle Ages as Vegetius' De re militari, or Epitoma rei militaris, the broadest ancient manual of Roman warfare.
EDIT16 CNCE 37965.

FIRST GERMAN EDITION4to, 2 parts in 1 volume: pp. [20], 838, [2]; [16], 622, [70]. Roman and Italic letters. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, initial t-p printed in red and black, second t-p only in black, double-column-text. A few early annotations at the beginning. Occasional light browning and early restorations, perhaps contemporary, to original small paper flaws at blank margins. Contemp. German blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin decorated with oval arabesque centrepieces within floriated borders on covers. Faded early title handwritten below head of spine, old shelfmark paper label to spine's tail. An excellent copy.First German edition, printed in Frankfurt by Egenolff Emmel, of this treaty of economic jurisprudence on the principles governing the compensation of damages and the restitution of assets. The Perugian playwright and jurist Sforza Oddi wrote this treatise while he was in his villa at Murlo, near Perugia, during the early 1580s. It was first printed in Venice by L. Pasini and M.… Read More

8vo. ff. 287, [1]. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Woodcut printer's device of t-p and verso of final leaf, imprint and register at colophon. Capital spaces with small guide-letters. Small marginal worm holes on t-p. Rebound preserving the period richly blind-stamped calf with arabesque panel on covers over a more recent leather binding, renewed ties and some small losses of original leather on spine caps. A.e.b., a very good plus wide-margined copy, clean and crisp throughout.
Second Giunti edition (1st ed. issued in 1519), corrected, of Appian's The Civil Wars translated from the Greek into Vernacular Italian by Alessandro Braccese. Printed by Silber, the first edition of the Italian vernacular translation of The Foreign Wars appeared in Rome in 1502. Dedicatory letter by Giannozzo Pandolfini addressing Piero Filippi.
EDIT16 CNCE 2198; Renouard, Giunta, no. 92; STC (Italian) p. 35; not in Adams.

VERY RARE ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS OF GALEN'S "DE SANITATE TUENDA" AND HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES OF THE SOUL AND THEIR CUREFIRST EDITIONS. 8vo, 2 works in 1 volume: ff. [8, 2 of which blank], 157 [i.e. 165], [3 blanks]; 28 [i.e. 26]. Italic letter, a little Roman. Woodcut printer's device on both t-ps. Large historiated initials and two engraved diagrams in the text to the first volume. Early title handwritten on foot fore-edge. C19th stiff vellum with overhanging edges, gilt lettering to spine over two morocco labels (red and green), marbled endpapers. An excellent copy, fresh and very clean.First and only editions of these Italian vernacular translations of two important works by the Greek physician Galen. The first work is "On the Preservation of Health" and the second concerns the diseases of the soul and their cure. The translator was Giovanni Tarcagnota, a humanist and antiquarian from Gaeta. The first work includes the "placet" of PauI III and the privilege, and it is dedicated by the… Read More

RARE C18TH COUNTERFAIT EDITION

8vo, pp. [16], 293, [1]. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Printer's device on t-p, head and tailpieces, register and imprint of verso of final leaf. C18th stiff vellum, edges sprinkled in green. Gilt lettering over red morocco label to spine. An excellent copy.
Counterfeit issue from the 18th century, probably printed in Venice by the bookseller Pavino, of the Italian vernacular translation by humanist Pietro Lauro, which was printed by Giolito in the 16th century. Dedication to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. The Interpretation of Dreams is a theoretical and practical encyclopaedia of dreams divided in 5 books, written in ancient Greek in the second century AD; a compendium of the whole ancient and complex Greek tradition on this subject, which in the modern world was placed at the centre of all psychology and proved to be an inexhaustible source of knowledge and mysteries. This is the oldest book on dreams and their interpretation, a text so highly esteemed by Sigmund Freud… Read More

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION8vo, pp. [8], 596 [i.e. 604], [2], lacking last blank. Roman letter, little Italic. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut initials, capital spaces with small guide letters, and few headpieces. Wide-margined copy in 18th-c. stiff vellum, green morocco label with gilt title to spine. Sporadic very light marginal foxing. Excellent copy.
Edited by Daniele Barbaro, the first edition was printed by the heirs of Aldus in 1542 without the consent of the author. It was reprinted 5 times by them in '43, '44, '46, '50 and '52. Giolito also issued it in 1558. According to Brunet, the present Meietti edition is the best and most complete. Speroni's "Dialogues" contain philosophical discussions on various humanist topics, which are expounded through the method of unplanned and unmoderated dialogical speech.
Brunet, V, p. 488; Edit16 CNCE 30949 (Var. A).

AN ELEGANT RENAISSANCE IMPRINT ABOUT HONOUR, CHIVALRY ETHICS AND DUELLING4to, pp. [8], 318 [i.e. 322], [42]. Italic letter, some Roman. Large and beautiful printer's device on t-p and Giolito's classic phoenix with motto in cartouche on verso of final leaf. Register and repeated imprint at colophon. Large woodcut historiated initials and elaborate head and tailpieces. Private library shelfmark over C19th paper label glued on upper pastedown. T-p a little soiled, occasional light marginal damp staining, very skilfully restored horizontal tear at margin of first leaf. Contemporary stiff vellum, calligraphic title to head of spine. Internally clean; an excellent, sound copy.Second edition, the first having been printed in 1553. The book is developed in the form of a dialogue between Giberto di Correggio and the author. The first book deals with "what honour is, how it is gained and lost"; the second with "our soul's freedom according to Aristotle, and about the offences of those who have no honour and… Read More

A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED RENAISSANCE BOOKFIRST VERNACULAR EDITION. 4to, ff. [6], CCLXXXII, with a woodcut portrait of the author and 22 charming vignettes. Roman letter. Title within elaborate ornamental border with figures. Clean, bright and crisp copy, printed on heavy paper. Modern period-style binding in limp vellum with ties, ms. name to head of spine.First edition in any vernacular language. The Greek original was not printed until 1548. Moss quotes Haym on this edition of 1533: "Edizione rara". The interesting woodcuts are by several artists, whose monograms appear on each. Humanist Leoniceno vulgarised directly from the Greek both Procopius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Ambr. 272 ​​inf.) and this Roman History of Cassius Dio, a work already started in 1473 and completed before 1488. It was then published in this edition in Venice only in 1533. Of Dio's great work, which covers the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus, we possess only Books 36-60,… Read More

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, ff. 106 (A-N8 O2). Attraente legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle e bella carta marmorizzata ai piatti, titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, sguardie marmorizzate. Bottello di carta con numerazione d inventario in inchiostro al risguardo superiore. Ancora aldina con delfino e "AL-DUS" al frontespizio ed in fine, come anche le note tipografiche; registro all'ultima carta. Carattere corsivo, sporadico romano. Piccole lettere guida nel testo. Due piccoli abili restauri, uno a celare un innocuo forellino al margine bianco superiore del frontespizio (probabilmente un difetto originale della carta) ed un riparo a uno strappetto, sempre al margine bianco, della carta D7. Antica nota di possesso al margine bianco inferiore del frontespizio ormai non più visibile. Qualche lievissima gora marginale ed occasionale arrossatura, per il resto un esemplare molto in ordine e pulito. Un'ottima copia. Prima ed unica edizione aldina di questa traduzione in volgare italiano di due orazioni di Eschine e… Read More

THE EARLIEST PRIVATE-LIBRARY CATALOGUE ARRANGED BY SUBJECTSFIRST EDITION. 8vo (ca. 19,5x15,5 cm), [20], 542 pp., Roman and Italic letter. Woodcut initials, large printers device on t-p and Cordes's full-page engraved portrait to verso of a2. Generally, a very pleasant copy, clean and crisp. Very occasional mild waterstaining at blank margins, stronger damp stains to the final 50 leaves. Upper blank corners of the 3 last leaves restored. Bound in contemporary semi-limp vellum, early ms. title to spine. A near-fine, wide-margined and complete copy of an extremely rare and iconic work, preserved in its original binding.The present work "did much to establish the use of catalogues of private libraries as reference works" (Taylor, p. 109; see also p. 238). The Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus is perhaps one the earliest major library catalogues to appear in print and surely the first printed catalogue of a French private library arranged by subject. For such reason, it is of greatest relevance for the… Read More

EDITIONES PRINCIPES OF EUSEBIUS' EVANGELICAL PREPARATION AND DEMONSTRATIONEDITIO PRINCEPS. Folio, pp. 498, [2]; 138 [i.e. 338], [2]. Greek letter, very sporadic Roman. Estienne's device on both t-ps (serpent wound around the spear/olive tree branch) and in the classic large variant at end of the second work (the tree of knowledge), imprint repeated at colophon (dated 1546). Fine large woodcut initials and headpieces. Early provenance stamp on first t-p: "Biblioteca Se. Me. Novelle". Wide-margined copy, crisp and clean, bound in C19th rustic pasteboard wrappers, spine backed with marbled paper, handwritten title to paper label. Excellent copies. Evangelical preparation was the first work issued by Estienne as the official Printer in Greek to Francois I and was the first appearance of a full text in the first font of the 'grecs du roi' commissioned by the king through the printer. The font was designed by the Cretan scribe Angelos Vergikios and cut by Claude Garamont."Editiones principes of these two… Read More

RENAISSANCE BLIND-STAMPED BINDING; COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED IN AN EARLY HAND
8vo, pp. 350 [50]. Italic letter, little Roman. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and final leaf, historiated initials. Early annotations and underlining throughout, especially up to Book XIX. Later ownership autograph on t-p. Blind-stamped ornamental panels on both covers, contemporary calf, spine rebacked and refurbished, endpapers renewed (but not modern), recent C18th-style morocco label with gilt lettering. Author's ms. name written on foot fore-edge. A very good copy.

Dedicatory letter by the editor, German jurist and humanist Johann Sichard, to Peter Reich von Reichenstein, clergyman in Basel. Justin flourished in the third century AD. A Roman historian, he was the author of this Epitome, an abridgement of the Historiae Philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs (Philippic Histories) by Pompeius Trogus, whose work is lost. Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus. Nothing is… Read More

TWO SCARCE EDITIONS OF INTERESTING WORKS BOUND TOGETHER, ONE OF WHICH IS THE SECOND EDITION OF PHILES' ON THE NATURE OF ANIMALS

8vo, pp. [8] 152; 32, 159, [9]. Greek and Italic types, sporadic Roman. Woodcut printer's devices, initials, head and tailpieces. Occasional moderate browning and mild damp staining at margins. Generally very good. Contemporary limp vellum with ties and original endpapers.

1) The first work contains the gnomic poems of Pythagoras, Theognis, Solon, Phocylides and other ancient Greek authors. The humanist Sylburg was a German classical scholar born near Marburg. In 1583 he moved to Frankfurt to act as editor of Greek texts for the publisher Johann Wechel. In 1591 he moved to Heidelberg, where he became librarian to the elector palatine and continued the Wechel series by collaborating with the printer Jerome Commelin. The present book is the result of their joint work.

2) This edition was edited by German humanist Joachim Camerarius and is the rare second edition of Philes'… Read More

RARE FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF PONTANO'S LOVE POETRYFIRST ALDINE EDITON. 8vo, ff. 170 [i.e.164], [2] (Renouard: "lacune de huit [feuillets] après le fol. 88"; leaves 144 and 165 are blank). Italic letter, a little Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters, Aldus' device on t-p and verso of final leaf. Imprint and register on recto of second-to-last sheet. A few ms. annotations, mainly on title. Some wear at headcap. An attractive crisp and clean copy bound in 18th-century mottled brown leather, gilt-tooled spine. Original endpapers, a.e.r.Dedicated to Antonio Mocenigo. Francesco D'Asola's preface includes a wonderful praise of Pontano's poetry. The man of letters was very much appreciated by the dedicatee, who kept Pontano's portrait in his private library. D'Asola also tells that the dedicatee's father, Aloisio, who served the Republic as ambassador, brought an old manuscript of Pliny's letters from France to Venice, where the editor and his kin Aldus amended and curated the text for… Read More

RARE EDITION, THE SECOND IN VERNACULAR ITALIAN, IN IMITATION OF THE ALDINES

8vo, ff. [128], with 2 final blanks. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Register at colophon and imprint within double-fillet border at end. Very light water staining at upper corner of a few central gatherings. Attractive contemporary limp vellum. An excellent copy with original endpapers and remains of ties.
Rare second edition of Veronese humanist Giorgio Sommariva's translation of Juvenal's satires, which were first published in vernacular Italian in 1480 in Treviso. The text is sided by several printed maniculae. Early ms. title on foot fore-edge.
A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), n. 82; EDIT16 CNCE 28202.

8vo, ff. 279, [1]. Greek type, sporadic Italic and Roman. woodcut printer's device on t-p and last leaf, historiated initials. Occasional marginal damp stains and light foxing, short ms. notes on lower pastedown. Contemporary limp vellum with early title handwritten to spine. Remains of ties. A very good copy.
Greek edition of Aristophanes' comedies printed in Venice by Giovanni Griffio and edited by humanist Angelo Canini from Anghiari. In the preface, Canini addresses the young "lovers of Greek and eager to learn" in an epistolary form, saying that he wanted to prepare a text as correct as possible for the needs of their studies. Taking up the invitation of the publisher Giovanni Griffio, the editor "healed many wounds", limiting himself to "marking the incurable passages with an asterisk". From his statement that he did not have "the possibility of using an ancient manuscript", it can be deduced that he reprinted an earlier edition collating it perhaps with a few more recent manuscripts and freeing… Read More

4to, ff. LVI. Paganini's curious Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Title within charming intricate white-on-black border, 5 woodcut vignettes and 5 initials, one of which criblé. Text in verse printed on centre of the pages, sided by two-column commentary by Bartolomeo Merula, printed side notes and occasional early ms. underscoring. C19th private-library stamp on t-p, torn bookplate on verso of flyleaf. Bound in 18th-century stiff vellum with calligraphic title written on front cover, spine with later stamped lettering. All edges sprinkled in red, overhang cover. A very good copy.The first edition of Ovid's classic appeared in 1494 and was multifariously reprinted. This fascinating edition, which includes also the companion work De remedio amoris, was printed by Alessandro Paganini, a rather mysterious printer who produced visually-intriguing imprints during the first half of the 16th century.The Ars amatoria ("Art of loving"), which is the title derived from the manuscript tradition, while the title… Read More

AN EXCELLENT COPY OF AMMAN'S BIBLE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 16TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIBLEFIRST EDITION OF THE VULGATE WITH AMMAN'S STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS. Folio. ff. [8], 602, [63]. Roman and Italic letters, some Greek and Hebrew. Imprint on last leaf. Register at colophon, double-column text, printed side notes, different large printer's devices on title and verso of final leaf, historiated and floriated initials, 128 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page. 18th-century calf with blind-ruled borders on covers, richly gilt-tooled spine, skilfully refurbished, divided in five compartments decorated with starry sky patterns. Marbled pastedowns, all edges sprinkled in red and blue. Occasional minimal damp stains at margins, sporadic light foxing and age toning. An excellent copy.Edited by Johann Hentenius, who also curated the earlier editions of the Vulgate published in Louvain (1547) and Antwerp (1559), this splendid bible was illustrated by Swiss Jost Amman (1539-1591). The latter was a prolific… Read More