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Good companion (Bonus socius): XIIIth century manuscript collection of chess problems...to which is added a short. narrative of Jacobus Cessolis and the two French champions Philidor and La Bourdonnais.

by MAGEE, James F(rancis), ed.

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Florence, Tipografia Giuntina, 1910. With colored frontispiece and 38 full-page reproductions from the original manuscript on 27 (mostly double-page, 1 fold.) plates. 68 pp. 4to. Orig. calf with brass buttons on both covers, t.e.g. (clasp lacking, rebacked). narrative of Jacobus Cessolis and the two French champions Philidor and La Bourdonnais. Florence, Tipografia Giuntina, 1910. First edition of copy no. 95 from an unspecified limited edition, with a dedication signed and dated by the Magee on first blank. This work contains reproductions of a part of the Latin chess problem vellum manuscript known as "Bonus Socius" (13th century or later), which is probably based on Jacobus de Cessolis (13th cent.), The book includes its history and a description, and short biographies of Philidor and La Bourdannais, all with relevant illustrations by James Magee (1867-1955), chess player from Philadelphia.- Good copy. - Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 720. CHESS / SCHACH ; MANUSCRIPS ; SCHACH ; CHESS ;
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Aphrodite.

by MAGLIN. - LOUYS, Pierre (i.e. Pierre-Félix Louis).

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Paris, Kra, 1930. With 12 etched color plates by Firmin Maglin. XII, 233, (1) pp., 1 leaf. 8vo. Private 3/4 leather, flat spine gilt, orig. front wrapper and spine bound in. Paris, Kra, 1930. "Byblis", 2. Numbered copy, printed on Vélin du Marais. Erotic novel by Pierre Louys (1870-1925), first published in 1896. - Light browning to margins. LITERATURE: FRENCH ; MODERNE ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER ; MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (1900-1999) ;
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Moguntiacarum rerum ab initio usque ad ... hodiernum Archiepiscopum, ac Electorem, Dominum D. Ioannem Schwichardum, libri quinque.

by MAINZ. - SERARIUS, Nicolaus, S.J.

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Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1604. Title printed in red and black. With woodcut device on title, full-page heraldic woodcut on title verso, woodcut head-piece and large figured intital on leaf 2, and 7 engr. plates (one folding, with a view of Mainz). 8 unn. leaves, 980 pp., 7 unn. leaves. 4to. Contemp. richly blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, 1 clasp (second clasp broken), ms. title on spine. Exlibris Clemens Reitmayer, Brussels. Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1604. Important history of Mainz, including letters of Saint Boniface, by Nicolaus Serarius (1558-1609), Professor of Exegesis at Mainz university. A highly esteemed authority in his field, he was best known for his exegetical works and his polemical writings against Luther and some of his followers. The present work leads up to the time of Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg (1553-1626), Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, to whom the book is dedicated, with his fine coat of arms on title verso. Under his rule,… Read More
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Bibliotheca Moguntina Libris Saeculo Primo Typographico Monguntiae Impressis Instructa, Hinc Inde Addita Inventae Typographiae Historia.

by MAINZ. - WUERDTWEIN, Stephan Alexander.

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Augsburg, Christoph Friedrich Bürglen, 1787. With engraved title-vignette, 9 engraved plates, 2 engraved text illustrations of the Fust and Schoeffer device. 251 pp. 4to. Modern half leather. Augsburg, Christoph Friedrich Bürglen, 1787. First edition of the first bibliography exclusively devoted to Mainz imprints, presenting colophons of most of the products of those presses. Especially admirable is Würdtwein's facsimile of portions of the Psalter of 1457. The plates show printer's devices or extracts from books. The work includes a genealogy of Gutenberg and Fust and Schoeffer. Würdtwein (1722-1796) was a scholar and bishop of Worms. - Bigmore & Wyman III, 100; Petzholdt p. 121. BIBLIOGRAPHY:ANTIQUARIAN ;
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Der Atem. Roman.

by MANN, Heinrich.

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Amsterdam, Querido, 1949. 354 pp. 8vo. Orig. cloth with dust-jacket. Amsterdam, Querido, 1949. First edition of this novel, the portrait of a dying lady, the last book published during his life, by Heinrich Mann (1871-1950). - Wilpert/Gühring 93; Sternfeld/Tiedemann p. 215. LITERATURE: GERMAN ; LITERATUR: DEUTSCHE ;
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Early Portuguese Books 1489-1600 in the Library of His Majesty the King of Portugal. Described by H.M. King Manuel. Livros antios Portuguezes 1489-1600 da Bibliotheca de sia Majestade fidelissima. Descripto por S.M. El-Rei D. Manuel. 3 vols.

by MANUEL II, King of Portugal.

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London, (Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, for) Maggs Bros., 1929-35. With 22 plates, and more than 1000 illustrations, often in red and black. LVI, 633 pp.; XII, 817 pp.; XLI, 791 pp. Large 4to. Orig. cloth, gilt Royal coat of arms on covers (spines slightly faded). London, (Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, for) Maggs Bros., 1929-35. One of 650 copies on antique paper, of a total edition of 698. A catalogue raisonné of the Royal Portuguese collection. Volume I covers the period 1489-1539, volume II 1540-1569, volume III 1570-1600 and supplement 1500-1597. More than 400 books are described in detail both in English and Portuguese. With a text by Aubrey F. G. Bell "H.M. King Manuel II", and by Stanley Morison "The King and his books". This catalogue can indeed be called a "masterpiece, both of composition and press-work" (Barker, Stanley Morison, p. 335). BIBLIOGRAPHY ;
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Antiquitatum Romanarum. Liber de Legibus. Index rerum memorabilium.

by MANUTIUS, Paulus.

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Venice, Aldus, 1559. With Aldine anchor device on title and last blank verso, capital spaces and guide letters. Printed in Italics. 6 unn. leaves, leaves 7-170, 34 unn. leaves index. Small 8vo. Later half vellum, spine label (slightly soiled). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet; with bookplate Renard. Venice, Aldus, 1559. An Aldine edition containing the first of four books on Roman antiquities by Paulus Manutius (the others are De senatu, De comitiis, and De civitate Romana), first published in 1557 in folio, and printed under the direction of the Italian humanist Paulus or Paolo Maunuzio (1512-1574), who was the youngest son of Aldus Manutius the elder (1450-1515). An eminent philologist, he took over the publishing company from his in-laws, the Asolani, in 1533 and headed it until he left for Rome in 1561. This is a handsome and textually valuable edition.- Bibliographical note in red ink on flyleaf, some old marginalia in brown ink, otherwise a charming little Aldine in good condition.… Read More
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MOSTRA DI LEGATURE DEI SECOLI XV - XIX.

by Marchine, Luigi.

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Genova, Comune di Genova, 1976. Genova, Comune di Genova, 1976. 8vo., cloth. 143, (3) pages; 60 plates. Catalogue for an exhibition held in Genoa at the Palazzo dell'Accademia from January 9 - February 3,1976. 60 plates depicting bindings.
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Dialogos de varia historia, em que se referem as vidas dos senhores reys de Portugal, com os seus retratos: e noticias dos nossos reynos, e conquistas, e varios sucessos do mundo. 2 vols.

by MARIZ, Pedro de.

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Lisbon, Joseph Filippe (I) and Manoel Soares (II), 1758. With 25 woodcut portraits of the kings of Portugal up to Joannes V (included in the pagination). 4 unn. leaves, 546 (i.e. 536) pp. (=complete); 4 unn. leaves, 250 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Lisbon, Joseph Filippe (I) and Manoel Soares (II), 1758. The first edition of the famous "Dialogos de varia historia" by Pedro de Mariz (fl. 1565-1615) appeared in 1594, and was reprinted up to 1806. It relates to the discovery of Brazil, and is the first book that attempted to compile a comprehensive iconography of the kings and queens of Portugal, by means of woodcuts, where the images were supplemented with biographical details. This work is very rare and much sought after. - A nice copy. - Cf. King Manuel Catalogue III, no. 264; Rodrigues 1536; Sabin 44608; Borba de Moraes II, 520; Bosch, Brasilien- Bibl. I, 42; STC (Spanish) 140. AMERICANA ; PORTUGAL ;
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Der mittlere Baumgarten im mittlern Druck: Darinn ... Morgen- Abend- Mess- Vesper- Beicht- und Communiongebether, wie auch zu dem ... Sakrament des Altars, und der allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit ....

by (MARTIN (LINIUS) VON COCHEM, O.Cap.).

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Glatz, Franz Pompejus, c. 1710. With woodcut frontispiece showing Christ appearing in a tree. (11) leaves, 350 pp., (4) leaves. 8vo. Contemp. vellum, painted blue and green in a panel design with some gilt stamping, spine with 2 green compartments, edges gauffered (color rubbed off slightly). Glatz, Franz Pompejus, (c. 1710). Unrecorded prayer book from Silesia, in a typical peasant binding of the period. It is one of a series of prayer books by the Capuchin Martin von Cochem's (1634-1712), "... a born poet ... the most popular folk author of his time" (Faber du Faur). Most of his works went through numerous editions; about half of them were works of devotion, the others were legends and moralistic tales which found their way into later collections of "Volksbücher". The present copy is bound in a charming rustic binding. - Old ms. ownership entry on front pastedown, small wormtrack in upper outer corner of last few leaves, slightly browned. - Not in Gesamtverzeichnis; nor… Read More
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Grammatica Hebraea, recens ab auctor emendata & aucta. Accessit hac editione "technologia", que rerum atque ordinis ratio redditur. Item Grammatica Chaldea quatenus ab Hebraea differt.

by MARTINIUS, Petrus.

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La Rochelle, Jérôme Haultin, 1597. With woodcut printer's mark on title (repeated). 210 pp., 5 leaves index, 2 blanks. 8vo. Contemp. limp vellum (edges partly rubbed, ties missing). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. La Rochelle, Jérôme Haultin, 1597. (Bound with:). THE SAME. Chaldaea grammatica, quatenus ab Hebraea differt. With woodcut printer's mark on title. 111 pp. 8vo. La Rochelle, Jérôme Haultin, 1597. Popular Hebrew grammar by Petrus Martinius (1530-1594), philologist from Navarra. Being a Protestant, he was called to La Rochelle as professor. The present work combining the Hebrew and Chaldean grammar was first published in 1590; there were also German and English translations. - Engr. exlibris inside front cover, ms. inscr. on title and occasionally in the text. - Ad I: Cf. Adams M-738; cf. Fuerst II, 232 (ed. 1590); Hoefer 34, 95. Not in STC (French); ad II: FRBNF30898533; cf. Adams M-739. PHILOLOGY ; HEBRAICA ;
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Calling card, with autograph note.

by MASSENET, Jules-Emile-Frédéric, French composer, 1842-1912.

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Paris ,, n.d. (Paris ), n.d. Calling card with printed name "J. Massenet" and address "38, rue du Général Foy". To an unnamed recipient: "Vos très charmants félicitations me causent un vrai plaisir - vous pensez à moi et je vous en remercie tant!!" - Glue marks on verso. AUTOGRAPHS ; MUSIC ;
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Die Baseler Todtentänze. Nebst geschichtlicher Untersuchung, so wie Vergleichung mit den übrigen deutschen Todtentänzen, ihrer Bilderfolge und ihren gemeinsamen Reimtexten. Sammt einem Anhange: Todtentanz des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Text and plate vols.

by MASSMANN, H(ans Johann) F(erdinand).

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Stuttgart and Leipzig, J. Scheible and Expedition des Klosters, 1847. Text vol.: 2 leaves, pp. 7-127, 6 leaves (so complete), and 15 (13 fold.) tables. Plate vol.: 1 leaf., and 49 full-page engr. (22) or lithogr. (29) plates,. 16mo & Sm.-4to. Wrappers, unopened and uncut. Stuttgart and Leipzig, J. Scheible and Expedition des Klosters, 1847. First edition of this fundamental work about the text tradition of the dance of death, written by H. J. F. Massmann (1797-1874), professor of German language and literature. The mostly lacking separately published atlas volume is present here. - Somewhat foxed, otherwise good, uncut copy. - Cf. Pfister, Tod und Totentänze (1927), 1136. DANCE OF DEATH / TOTENTANZ ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; BIBLIOGRAPHIE, BUCHKUNDE, TYPOGRAPHIE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ;
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Basel, Johann Jacob Decker, 1678. Title printed in red and black, with engr. frontispiece- portrait (B. Verzasca), by B. Kilian and more than 1000 text woodcuts. 4 unn. leaves, 792 (= 790) num. pp., 36 unn. leaves index. Folio (340 x 220 mm). Early 20th century vellum. Basel, Johann Jacob Decker, 1678. This famous herbal by Mattioli (1501-1577) and Camerarius (1500-1574), is present here in a new and revised variant "A" edition ed. by Bernhard Verzasca (1628-1680), who was the personal physician to the bishop of Basel and the margrave of Baden. Included in this work are extensive tracts on tobacco, coffee, tea, etc. Illustrated mostly with the famous woodcuts by Mattioli, but there are some woodcut illustrations by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), which are printed here for the first time. An extensive index at the end lists plant names in German, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and English.- Copies are known with an additional engraved title-page. A few lower margins at the end… Read More
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Die Geistliche Hertzens-Einbildungen, in zwey hundert und fünffzig Biblischen Figur-Sprüchen vorgestellet. (On engr. title: "angedeutet" ... auf das neue herausgegeben von Johann Christian Leopold). Erster (Anderer) Theil. 2 parts in 1 vol.

by (MATTSPERGER, Melchior).

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Augsburg, Johann Christian Leopold, n. d. (c. 1730). With 2 engr. richly figured titles and altogether 500 engraved images on 166 plates, and 1 engr. plate "Hieroglyphisches Beschluss-Gedicht", partly in the orig. handcoloring. 8 leaves incl. printed title; 2nd printed title, 8 leaves, 1 leaf explanations to the "Hieroglyphisches Beschluss-Gedicht". Oblong-quarto. Modern half calf with old brocade pastedowns and flyleaves, spine gilt. In slipcase. Augsburg, Johann Christian Leopold, n. d. (c. 1730). A popular collection of rebus-like and emblematic illustrations of Biblical quotations, by Melchior Mattsperger (1627-1698), merchant and mayor of Augsburg, here in a new edition by Johann Christian Leopold, conceived also with regard to children. The work was initially published in 1687 and 1699. The present copy is complete with both engraved titles sometimes lacking. Each image is headed by book, chapter, and verse numbers, followed by the verse itself which always includes one or… Read More
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Letters on the French Nation. Considered in its Different Departments: With many interesting Particulars relating to its Placemen (sic). By Sir Robert Talbot, Who attended the Duke of Bedford to Paris in 1762. Translated from the French. 2 vols.

by (MAUBERT DE GOUVEST, Jean Henri).

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London, B. White, 1771. XVI, 333 pp.; IV, 391 pp. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spines with two labels and some gilt decoration, gilt supralibros with the arms of Karl Philipp Theodor von der Pfalz (extremities slightly rubbed). With exlibris Franz Pollack-Parnau. London, B. White, 1771. First English edition of the "Lettres du chevalier de Talbot" (Amsterdam, 1768) by Maubert de Gouvest (1721-1767), French homme de lettres who was secretary to the King of Poland and conducted diplomatic missions to other European governments. The politics of his era were almost always the theme of his writings, often published in Lausanne. In the present work he offers a critical description of the Parisian society, pretending that these observations had been made by an impartial English gentleman. He is best-known for his fictitious "Lettres iroquoises", written in the tradition of Montesquieu's "Lettres persanes". Charles Philipp Theodore von der Pfalz (1724-1799), Elector of the… Read More
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Cosmographia ... In tres dialogos distincta: in quibus de forma, situ, numeroque tam coelorum quam elementorum aliisque rebus ad astronomica rudimenta spectantibus satis differitur.

by MAUROLICO, Francesco.

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Venice, heirs of Luc'Antonio Giunta, 1543. With woodcut printer's device on title and a larger one on A3 verso, numerous historiated initials and 55 woodcut diagrams in the text. 4 unn., 103 num. leaves, 4 unn. leaves "Ad Lectorem" bound at end (lacking the preceding blank). 4to. 17th-century vellum with spine label. Venice, heirs of Luc'Antonio Giunta, 1543. First edition of an outstanding astronomical treatise containing a discussion of the Earth's rotation on its axis. This is the Sicilian born mathematician Maurolico's (1494-1575) first and most important work, including the 4-leaf "Ad Lectorem" often missing, a convenient list of the astronomical parameters culled from various authorities found embedded within the text - which is dated 5 December 1542. Written in the form of three dialogues, this work was completed at Messina 21 October 1535 (f.103). But the preface, a dedicatory letter to Cardinal Bembo with a list of Maurolico's numerous unpublished… Read More
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Diccionario biográfico colonial de Chile.

by MEDINA, José Toribio.

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Santiago de Chile,, 1906. With 18 portrait plates. VIII, 1004 pp. 4to. Full brown half leather. Santiago de Chile, 1906. First edition of a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia on colonial Chile. Medina (852-1930) was a Chilean historian and bibliographer. BIBLIOGRAPHY ; VARIA ;
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Schweizerische Spaziergänge.

by MEISTER, Leonhard.

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St. Gallen, Huber & Compagnie, 1789. With engr. title-vignette. 249, (5) pp. 8vo. Contemp. boards with gilt-stamped title on spine (somewhat faded, slightly rubbed). St. Gallen, Huber & Compagnie, 1789. First edition of these philosophical musings by Leonhard Meister (1741-1811), a pupil of Bodmer and Breitinger, professor of history at the art school in Zurich, best known for his "Helvetische Galerie grosser Männer". He writes about themes like wealth without pleasure, a visit to the penitentiary, squalor and idleness, or a walk in his own chamber. A sequel called "Neue Schweizerische Spaziergänge" was published in 1790. - Old library stamp on title verso. - Goedeke IV/1, 622, 115, 6. LITERATURE: GERMAN ; LITERATUR: DEUTSCHE ;
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De orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime emendati, unà cu(m) comme(n)tariis Ioachimi...
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Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1522. With 2 richly figured woodcut title borders by Hans Franck, and many woodcut figured initials. 20 unn. leaves, 220 pp., 44 unn. leaves. Folio. 18th-century calf with richly gilt spine, gilt armorial supralibros of Karl Theodor von der Pfalz on both covers (signed B.P. in lowest compartment). Basel, (Andreas Cratander), 1522. Pomponius Mela's famous Latin "Geography" of the earliest surviving Latin work on geography, present here in the epochal edition by the great Swiss humanist Joachim von Watt or Vadianus (1484-1551), first published in a textually shorter edition in Vienna, 1518: 23, 132 ff., see VD 16 M 2310). The present second edition is revised and augmented, and is the first to contain the "Loca aliquot" in which Vadianus once more confirmed his modern scientific point of view by critizising the obsolete one of Johannes Camertus. Further more, this second edition contains the famous letters by Vadian to Rudolph Agricola with the… Read More
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