Search Results: Authors starting with E from Liber Antiquus

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. This work is the second of Eberlin's "Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen" ("The Fifteen Confederates"). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border. Eberlin von Günzburg was, next to Luther, perhaps the most gripping folk writer of the early days of the Reformation. In this work, "Concerning the forty-day fast before Easter and others, and how wretchedly the Christian people are burdened by them", he condemns the Lenten fast as a rule imposed upon hard-working people by the Church (not by Christ) and one that the hypocritical priests and monks do not themselves observe. The imposition of the fast leaves the Christian tortured in body and soul, caught between maddening hunger and the fear of committing a mortal sin. That the fast occurs during the spring makes it… Read More

[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522. ONE OF THREE EDITIONS printed in 1522. The first ed. appeared in 1521. Place, printer, and year from VD16. Hardcover. Fine. A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text. An early edition of Eberlin's "In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And in praise of parish priests and their necessary chaplains." This is the seventh -and the first composed- of Eberlin's "Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen" ("The Fifteen Confederates"). Eberlin offers advice on how to truly honor the dead, not by expending money and energy on funerals and special church ceremonies that largely support the "fat, full, hypocritical, self-serving, blackmailing monks, priests and nuns" but rather by providing for the family members of the departed, giving alms to the poor, helping the needy,… Read More

No place: ?Erfurt: No printer: ?Matthes Maler, No date:, 1519. ONE OF THREE PRINTINGS, ALL PRINTED IN 1519, ALL BY THE SAME PRINTER. This, the second listed by Benzing, has "Responsio Carolostadij" on leaf A6r, line 24 and "Responsio Eckij" on leaf B1r, line 3 (rather than Responsio Carolostadij." and "Responsio. Eckij.", as in the first. The third issue has "Eccii" on the title in Gothic character.) For the variants, see Dommer, "Lutherdrucke auf der Hamburger Stadtbibliüthek" p. 41 f. Nr. 79 and 80. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. drab wrappers (sunned.) The text is in fine condition, a few leaves lightly toned, title and blank verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Title with short bibliographical reference and 2 stamps (Nuremberg city library with deaccession stamp). A printed, eye-witness transcript of the Leipzig Disputation of 1519. The debate took place from June 27th to July 15th between the reformers Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Luther's Wittenberg colleague Andreas Bodenstein von… Read More

Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652 -, 1655. SOLE EDITION. The Culmination of Kircher's Egyptian Studies. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in eighteenth-century calf (rebacked seamlessly in the nineteenth-century, light wear to hinges, boards with light marks. The boards are framed by a triple gold filet, board edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gold. Spines richly tooled in gold, with red and green Morocco spine labels. All edges red. The majority of the text is in very fine condition, with occ. toning or spotting in 3 of the volumes, though the text in T. II, pt. 2 is variably browned, as often. The map at T. I p. 9 has some small repaired tears (with one small flaw), the mystical plate in T. II, pt. 1, p. 289 is slightly shaved at the outer edge; one plate in T. III (Obelisk of Antinous. p. 371) has a slight separation at one fold. There are a few marginal tears, a few small paper flaws, the opening and index lvs. in T. III have small repairs (to repair scattered wormholes), a few other minor… Read More

London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557. SIXTH EDITION (first ed. 1531). Printer's name from ESTC. Hardcover. Fine. A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily's grammar, "An introduction of the eight partes of speche"(London: Berthelet, 1546). The one at the front is the title page of that book, with woodcut border. Thomas Elyot, humanist and diplomat, composed three influential works during the reign of King Henry VIII: "The Boke named the Governour"(1531), a Latin-English "Dictionary"(1538) and the "Castel of Helth"(1539). Of these, it is the "Governour" that proved most influential and brought Elyot preferment at Henry's court. In September 1531 Elyot was named ambassador to the emperor Charles V and sent to the continent to "to sound out Charles regarding the… Read More

Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary parchment (upper cover soiled and with light staining, small defects to parchment at foot of spine), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. A fine copy with sharp impressions of the etchings. The text with minor blemishes as follows: light marginal foxing, a few small spots, marginal soiling to blank margin of p. 27, light stain to the blank lower margin of pp. 28-29. The folding plate it in excellent condition. Illustrations: 10 etchings by Stefano della Bella comprising a portrait of Prince Francesco de' Medici, a large, folding view of the church interior with catafalque, and 8 striking emblems on shields, with Latin mottos and macabre elements. The folding plate is in its second state, with the monogram SDB (see De Vesme I, No. 74). A superb funeral book for the young Francesco de' Medici (1614-1634), fourth son of Cosimo II and Maria Maddalena of Austria, who died of the plague on 25 July 1634.… Read More

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524. THE 1524 BADIUS ASCENSIUS EDITION. Written in 1509 as a visitor's gift to Thomas More, whose name -Morus- was so aptly similar to the Greek "moros," folly, the "Moriae Encomium" was first printed by Gilles de Gourmont at Paris, probably in 1511. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the "Praelum Ascensianum" showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials, and smaller, charming historiated initials. Passages in Greek. A fine, unsophisticated copy of this rare edition. From the personal library of Bob and Emily De Graaf. The rare 1524 Parisian "Praise of Folly", printed by Erasmus' friend, the scholar-printer Badius Ascensius, who printed the first authorized edition in 1512. This edition contains all of the supplementary texts found in the… Read More

Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri., 1520. SECOND FROBEN EDITION (1st ed. May 1520). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins, a few trivial marginal stains, final leaf with light crease, light soiling to t.p. and final leaf. Provenance: 17th c. inscription on t.p. "Monasterii S. Albani Congregationis S. Mauri 1699." 16th c. ownership inscription (struck through) on pastedown. Second Froben edition, printed within 6 months of the first, of a book begun by Erasmus when he was a young humanist monk in his twenties and completed twenty-five years later, by which time he had become a figure of international renown and controversy. As originally conceived in the 1490s, Erasmus' "Antibarbarians" was to be a… Read More

Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684. First printed in 1574, this is the second edition to include Christian Berward's important lexicon of mining terms, "Interpres Phraseologiae Metallurgicae". Hardcover. Fine. Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts. "Ercker's treatise is the most authoritative contemporary work on 16th-century metallurgy and assaying. Ercker gave a systematic review of methods of testing alloys and minerals and of obtaining and refining various metals, as well as methods of manufacturing acids, salts and other chemical compounds, including saltpeter. He described the apparatus and laboratory equipment used in metallurgy and assaying and gave a detailed account of laboratory methods, all of which he himself had used." (Norman) "Erker's… Read More

Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab, 1694. FIRST EDITION of Joshua Barnes' Euripides. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition throughout. The Greek text is surrounded by the Greek scholia and flanked by a Latin translation, in smaller type. The second part is introduced by a divisional title page. "The merits of all preceding editions are eclipsed by this celebrated one of Joshua Barnes. Fabricius observes that 'the text is accurately revised and printed, the metrical rules of Canter diligently corrected, and the entire ancient scholia on the first seven plays subjoined and enriched by excerpta from a manuscript in Corpus… Read More