Search Results: Titles starting with M from Liber Antiquus

Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-, 1539. FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in matching 18th c. speckled calfskin bindings, rebacked, the gilding to the spine largely preserved, minor wear, corners bumped. The text is clean and broad-margined, with just the occasional minor dampstain to the upper edge of the upper blank margin. A few 18th c. annotations and underscores. 17th(?) c. inscription (scored through) on first title page: "Ex bibliotheca Petri à Thoma Montalbanensia". Each of the five volumes has its own dated title page with a large woodcut Estienne device. The first volume is introduced by an additional, general title page. Parts 1, 3, 4 and 5 are dated 1538. Part 2 is dated 1539. The colophon at the end of the first volume reads: "Excudebat Robertus Stephanus Parisiis, Ann. M. XXXIX. Idib. Augusti." The text is adorned with large criblé initials throughout. For his edition, Robert Estienne used the text of Cicero as edited by Pietro Vettori, and has included… Read More

Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf. The text is printed in italic, with passages in Greek. Illustrated with eight woodcut diagrams, including maps of the Ptolemaic world (p. 110) and the solar system (p. 73); and the world divided into five climate zones. There are several large and fine woodcut initials. Soter's woodcut device appears on the title page. This edition is a reprint of the one edited by the German humanist Arnoldus Vesaliensis (1484-1534) published in Cologne in 1526 by Eucharius Cervicornus. Arnold of Wesel, linguist, poet, and philosopher, taught at Cologne University. A canon of Cologne Cathedral, Arnold was present at the Diet of… Read More

Florence: Giunta, 1515. FIRST GIUNTA EDITION, Edited by Niccolò Angeli (b. 1448). Hardcover. Fine. A very nice copy in 18th c. vellum with a single blind-ruled fillet and a citron morocco label, gilt; edges of text-block stained red. The text is in very good condition with scattered light foxing, heavier to a few leaves. A few minor stains, wax seal remnant on final leaf. Text in italic, with numerous passages in Greek. Illustrated with six geographical and astronomical diagrams, including maps of the world and the solar system, the world divided into five climate zones, with a section in the lower hemisphere labelled "nobis incognita", believed to be America. Final leaf with Giunta device (the Giunta lily supported by two putti holding cornucopias). Early ownership inscription on title. Written in the late fourth or early fifth century, during the twilight years of Roman paganism, Macrobius' "Saturnalia" and "Commentary on the Dream of Scipio" are two of the last works produced in antiquity that… Read More

Steinhilben: (near Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg), 1572. AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED, STRICTLY CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE, SIGNED BY LUDWIG III, DUKE OF WURTTEMBERG, DATED SEPTEMBER 2, 1572 -- JUST DAYS AFTER THE HORRIBLE EVENTS TRANSPIRED IN PARIS -- TOGETHER WITH A SEPARATE DOCUMENT WHICH NAMES SOME OF THE PRINCIPLE VICTIMS AND PROVIDES ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Hardcover. Fine. The French Wars of Religion produced one of the most brutal and excessive persecutions in history, including the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris which began on August 24, 1572 and continued for three hellish days. Thousands of Protestant Huguenots were tortured, raped, and murdered on the streets of Paris and elsewhere in France. In the provinces the violence continued through October. Whereas the number of casualties can only be conjectured, one instructive piece of evidence is the record of a payment by the City of Paris to workmen for collecting and burying exactly 1,100 bodies… Read More

Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508. NINTH? EDITION (1st ed. 1497). Hardcover. Fine. Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden patient. An early and (like all early editions) very rare edition of this popular medical book describing plant-based remedies for a host of illnesses, first printed in 1497 by Albert Kunne at Memmingen under the title "Büchlin der Artzney". The book began to be printed with the title "Margarita medicinae" beginning in 1500. As in the "Hortus sanitatis", the chapters are arranged alphabetically based on the Latin drug names. A valuable index at the end gives one-line descriptions of the ailments treated in each chapter, keyed to the leaf number on which they are to be found, adding greatly… 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

London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH (1st ed. 1543) of Vigo's "Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa"(1514) and "Practica in arte chirurgica compendiosa"(1517), translated by Bartholomew Traheron (?1510-?1558). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled and tooled English calfskin over wooden boards, lacking the clasps but with the original catches present. The binding has been rebacked with sheepskin, preserving the original calfskin spine, with some wear and flaking to the sheep at the hinges. A small section of the leather on the lower board has also been underlaid with sheep. The leather of the boards is a little crackled and there is wear at the corners. Modern endpapers with the original 16th c. endpaper (with 16th c. inscriptions) pasted inside the upper board. The final blank, with further 16th c. inscriptions, is also preserved. Rare. 7 copies in the… Read More