{"title":"16th Century","description":"\u003ch5\u003eEarly printed books with a focus on the classics\u003c\/h5\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-works-of-plato-1517-platonis-opera-contemporary-folio-binding","title":"THE WORKS OF PLATO 1517 [PLATONIS OPERA] CONTEMPORARY FOLIO BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[PLATO (427?-347 B.C.)]. \u003cstrong\u003ePlatonis Opera.\u003c\/strong\u003e Venetiis [Venice] a Philippo Pincio Mantuano hoc opus Impressum suit, Anno M.CCCCCXVII. Die, XXII, Aprilis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Third Latin edition, edited by Marsilio Ficino. Printed in Venice by Filippo Pincio, 1517. Coeval leather-bound. Thick folio, 2º, (320 x 220 x 70mm), ff. (6), CCCLXXXIX, (1). Signatures: 1⁶ a-z⁸ \u0026amp;⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-Y⁸ Z⁶. [Z⁶ blank]. Leaves numbered on rectos. Divided into thirty-six sections with sections numbered on versos, titles in capitals. Initial and terminal blanks present. Latin text with some words in Greek. Roman letter in lines of 58. Original blind-stamped calf backed wooden boards, spine with three raised bands, remnants of leather clasps. Simple title-page printed in red. Woodcut diagrams in the text, spaces for capitals with guide letters, shoulder notes, eleven-line decorative initial beginning a¹ recto, colophon and register present at verso bottom of last printed leaf. Condition: Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Some worm-trail to d1-k7. Occasional light browning and spotting, with minor intermittent water-staining. Occasional marginalia and underscoring in early hand. Wooden boards a little holed and scuffed at corners, else an excellent example. [Adams P 1442; BM, STC Italian 524; Schweiger I, 248].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eListing note: Third edition of Ficino's translation of Plato into Latin (derived from that printed by Bern. De Choris in 1491), considered to be the best up to the 19th century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plato","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37668973379755,"sku":"PLA1517","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s.fengii.jpg?v=1606707102"},{"product_id":"1566-henri-estiennes-poetae-graeci-principes-heroici-carminis-homer-et-al","title":"1566 HENRI ESTIENNE'S POETAE GRAECI PRINCIPES HEROICI CARMINIS (Homer et al)","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ESTIENNE, HENRI]. \u003cstrong\u003ePoetae Graeci Principes heroici carminis, \u0026amp; alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callim. Aratvs, Nicand. Theocrit. Moschvs, Bion, Dionysivs, Colvthvs, Tryphiodorvs. Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagorae aurea carmina. Fragmenta Aliorum. Henrici Stephani tetrastichon de hac sua editione Quæ facie inuitat plures inuitat ocellos quum cultu corpus compta decente nitet Natiuo prius hi nos illexere decore, Illecebras dat nouus iste nouas.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus. Anno M. D. LXVI. [1566].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Full leather. Thick folio (365 x 220mm), pp. 20, [lxxii], 410, [4], 411-781; [3], [lvii] [i.e. 56], 489 [i.e. 494] - errors in pagination (misnumbering). Signatures: *5 **4 A-D8 E4 a-2b8 c6 Aa10 Bb-Ii8 Klz8 Ll-Yy8 Zz6 Zzz4; a-g4 2A-2Z6 3A-3R6 3S4 3T3. Eighteenth century calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt floral designs in the compartments and red morocco title plate. Gilt rules to boards. A.e.g. and marbled. Endpapers and pastedowns marbled. Title transliterated. Greek and Latin text. Single column in lines of 40-50. Foliated initials. Shoulder notes. Estienne device on title-page (Schreiber 9). Five calligrams (or examples of concrete poetry) at the cc. 3A6, 3B1 \u0026amp; 3B2 of the second part. Unnumbered blank leaf and special title-leaf to the Odssey between p. 410 \u0026amp; 411. Initial and terminal blanks present. Bound in before the title page are three folio leaves containing pasted in leaves from other old Estienne printings on Homer, Hesiod, and Theocritus, one on vellum. The recto of the first leaf contains a pen and ink drawing, in a very accomplished hand, of a floral wreath enclosing the title of the book 'Poetae Graeci', similar but smaller illustrations in the same hand adorn the following five pages. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure. Expertly re-backed with the majority of the original spine laid down. New head and tail band. Occasional light spotting. A few leaves browned. Light water staining in the final gutter margins. Occasional small insignificant paper repairs in the margins. Moderate surface marking to covers. Rare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This is Henri Estienne's monumental assemblage of the Greek poets and is recognised as his 'Typographic Masterpiece'. The letterpress is in Latin and Greek throughout, the Greek printed in the two largest sizes of the \"grecs du roi\", modelled on the handwriting of the Cretan copyist Angelo Vergecio, it had been brought from Paris to Geneva by his father Robert Estienne in 1551. The first part of the work is focussed only on the Homeric poems, at the end Estienne adds 57 pages of Annotations (P. 1 - P. LVII). The second part includes much improved texts of Theocritus, Hesiod, Bion and Aratus etc; and the first editions of the fragments of a number of early Greek poets - Solon, Tyrtaeus and Mimnernus. Overall a very good, complete, and well preserved copy of one of the most typographically pleasing books of the Sixteenth Century. Adams P1699. Schreiber 160 - ' This is unquestionably Henri Estienne's Typographic Masterpiece '. Renouard p. 126. Brunet IV, 757. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henri Estienne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37669013389483,"sku":"POET1566","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_525c936b-bbfe-4478-8e60-8dc35592f03e.jpg?v=1606707803"},{"product_id":"livys-history-of-rome-ab-urbe-condita-1520-1521-first-folio-aldine-edition","title":"LIVY'S HISTORY OF ROME [AB URBE CONDITA] 1520 - 1521 FIRST FOLIO ALDINE EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[LIVY (Titus Livius Patavinus)]. \u003cstrong\u003eEx XIIII. T. Livii Decadibus. Prima, Tertia, Quarta, Cuius Tertio libro prima pars, quæ desyderabat, \u0026amp; Decimo quicquid ferè in calce non habebamus, additum est. verum præter hæc veluti fragmenta quartæ Decadi adiuncta. Sciant omnes qui hæc lecturi sunt, aliarum quoque Decadum libros castigatiores nunc emitti, quàm unquam aliâs. nam \u0026amp; multa adulterina expunximus, \u0026amp; multa vera recepimus, beneficio veterum exemplarium adivti. Duplex Epitome ... à T. Livio compositam esse, alteram ab L. Floro, qui omnem historiam ex T. Livio excerpsit ... Polybii libri V de rebus Romanis in latinam traducti à Nicolao Perotto …\u003c\/strong\u003e Venetiis [Venice] : [Heirs of] Aldus Manutius, and Andrea Torresanus, October 1520 - February 1521.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First folio Aldine edition. Five volumes in one, complete. Leather-bound. Thick folio [2°] (300 x 210 x 75mm), 442 leaves numbered on rectos. Latin text in Roman letter in lines of 54. Later full vellum. Title from general title page, partly in capitals, on leaf A1 recto of Part 1. Printed in five parts (and complete with the often lacking part 5 \"Polybii Libri VI de rebus Romanis\"), with titles and colophons in capitals: Part 1: title \"Titi Livii Patavini Decas prima\", colophon \"Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Ianuario. M · D · XXI·\" (leaves a1 recto and n10 recto respectively); Part 2: title \"Titi Livii Patavini Decas tertia\", colophon \"Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, M · D · XX· mense Octobri\" (leaves aa1 recto and nn6 recto respectively); Part 3: title \"Titi Livii Patavini Decas quarta\", colophon \"Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Novembri· M· D·XX·\" (leaves aaa1 recto and lll8 verso respectively); Part 4: title \"Titi Livii Patavini Decadum XIIII epi-\/tomae. \/ Lucius Florus\", colophon \"Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Decembri· M· D· XX·\" (leaves mmm1 recto and qqq7 verso respectively); Part 5: title \"Polybii Historiarum libri quinque in Latiam [sic] conversi linguam, Ni-\/colao Perotto interprete\", colophon \"Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Februario· M· D· XXI·\" (leaves A1 recto and I7 verso respectively). Edited by Franciscus Torresanus Asulanus (preface). Index compiled by Johannes Malatesta. Polybius's Historiae in Part 5 translated by Nicolaus Perottus. Woodcut printer's anchor devices as follows (seven in total): Part 1: A8 (leaves A1 recto and a1 recto); Part 2: A3c (leaf [star]1 recto); Part 3: A8 (leaf [star star]1 recto); Part 4: A8 (leaf qqq8 verso); Part 5: A8 (leaves ²A recto and I8 verso). A variant issue with last leaf qqq7 of Part 4 correctly numbered 127 recorded in Cambridge: see Adams L-1324. Text in long lines, but in five columns for indexes. Printed foliation as follows: Part 1: [14], 106; Part 2: [10], 102; Part 3: [10], 88; Part 4: [89]-127, [1]; Part 5: 71, [1]. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters. Parts 3 and 4 sharing collation. Signatures: Part 1: A⁸ B⁶ a-m⁸ n¹⁰; Part 2: [star]¹⁰ aa-mm⁸ nn⁶; Parts 3 and 4: [star star]¹⁰ aaa-qqq⁸; Part 5: ²A-²B⁸ C-I⁸. Provenance: small bookplate to front pastedown with 'Di D. Giovanni Maria Arquati ex - Cappuccino', also a small institutional stamp verso A3 which is difficult to transcribe. [USTC 838282; Adams L1323; 'Elle est fort rare' Renouard 89.6.]. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure. Slight marking and wear to covers. Careful repairs to the margins of a few leaves. Sporadic moderate browning and toning, notably to A1-A4, but with majority of the textblock remaining fresh. Some ink scribbling to A1 and A2. Occasional marginalia, underscoring and ink spots - importantly nothing obscuring text. Good margins. Very Rare. See Renouard's Annales de l'Imprimerie des Aldes and Goldsmid's Biographical Sketch of the Aldine Press \u0026amp; Catalogue. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Few works on the history of Rome are as important and impactful as Livy's 'Ab Urbe Condita.' Livy began working on this work at the end of the 1st-century BC and covers the earliest times and the foundation of Rome through the reign of Caesar Augustus and was famously written in a series of 'decades'. Sixteenth century printings of Livy are exceptionally rare, but this volume, published by Aldine, is even more desirable. Complete sets, with all five volumes, of this important work from the Aldine press are extremely difficult to obtain. A true treasure of Aldine and Roman history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Livy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37669141577899,"sku":"LIVY152021","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_72967a1f-00cc-4ec9-84a6-6afffb1ea5a9.jpg?v=1606709328"},{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-of-dante-alighieri-1520-woodcut-illustrations-landinos-comms","title":"THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 1520 Woodcut Illustrations, Landino's Comments","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DANTE ALIGHIERI]. \u003cstrong\u003eOpere del divino poeta danthe con suoi comenti: recorrecti et con ogne diligentia novamente in littera cvrsiva impresse.\u003c\/strong\u003e Impressa in Venetia [Venice]: Per Miser Bernardino Stagnino da Trino de Monferra, del. M.CCCCC.XX [1520] A. di. XXVIII. Marzo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second Stagnino Edition. Vellum-bound. Thick quarto (205 x 150 mm), ff. [12], 441 [i.e. 440] (numbered leaves). Signatures: 2A¹² a-z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2z⁸ 2[et]⁸ 2[con]⁸ 2[rum]⁸ A-E⁸. Imprint from colophon on leaf 438: \"Comento di Christoforo Landino Fiore[n]tino sopra la comedia di Danthe ... reuista [et] emendata ... per ... Pietro da Figino\". Register at end. Italian text in italic type with some roman, in 51 lines of commentary partially surrounding text. Near contemporary full vellum binding with titles hand written to spine in black ink. Speckled page edges. Title-page printed in red and black, with ornamental woodcut border (repeated recto a²) incorporating winged angels playing instruments and other classical motifs, plus two woodcut vignettes depicting St. Bernardine of Siena holding the sacred monogram of Jesus on a board, and God confronting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (repeated recto a²). One full-page woodcut depicting Virgil and three images of Dante (verso a¹). 98 xylographic illustrations in the text throughout, loosely based on those in the 1491 edition of Dante's works. Floriated initials. Spaces for capitals with guide letters. Shoulder notes. Later initial and terminal blanks. Comprises the Divina commedia, edited by Pietro da Figino, the commentary and life of Dante by Cristoforo Landino, and Dante's Credo, Pater Nostro and Ave Maria (l. 440-441 [i.e. 439-440]). Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure. Slight marking and wear to covers. Textblock slightly cropped with occasional light foxing and browning. Old marginalia on leaf 197. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Rare second Stagnino-edition with text edited by Pietro Bembo, profusely illustrated with woodcut illustrations throughout the text, of Dante's Comedy including the 15th century Cristoforo Landino commentaries, arguably still the most important and influential comments on Dante's seminal work. While the Aldine-style Dante-editions had flooded the literary market, the more austere and demanding academic circles still required their Dante with commentary. Bernardino Stagnino sought to satisfy this group of the reading public with three editions of the poem (1512, 1520 and 1536) incorporating Landino's commentary in all of them.\"Stagnino's one significant innovation was to print the \"modern\" Aldine text edited by Pietro Bembo together with the 15th-century Landino commentary. Inevitably, discrepancies between text and commentary became even more numerous than they had been in the earlier editions. Yet, the 15th-century vulgate of Dante's text clearly had been superseded by Aldus' edition of 1502. Beyond this innovation, Stagnino rested content to resurrect in 1512 the Landino text as corrected by Pietro da Figino during the 1490s (printed now for the sixth time since 1491). \"(University of Notre Dame)\" Stagnino belonged to the distinguished Giolito de' Ferrari da Trino (Piedmont) family of printers, a family worthy of being considered alongside the Manutius family, if not for the correctness of their texts, then certainly for their long history in Renaissance publishing and printing. Around 1483 he moved from Trino to Venice and established a press under the sign of San Bernardino, and remained active there until his death in 1538. Landino, tutor of Lorenzo de' Medici and a member of the Platonic Academy founded by Marsilio Ficino in Florence, still ranks among the most important Dante-commentators: \"The significance of this prestigious commentary can hardly be overstated, both at the time of its first printing (1482) and through the fifteen subsequent reprints that were made before the end of the sixteenth century. It is without doubt the most celebrated and widely influential commentary on the Comedy to be printed in Renaissance Italy. It marks a pivotal moment in the Florentine cult of Dante [...]\" (Gilson, Dante and Renaissance Florence). 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Tra[n]slated out of frenche into our maternall englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bourchier knight lorde Berners: at the co[m]maundement of oure moost highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the. viii. kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, [and] highe defender of the christen faythe.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Imprinted at London by Richarde Pynson or Thomas Marsh, [ca. 1523 - ca. 1563].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Unidentified edition. Volume I only - a translation of books 1 and 2 of the \"Chroniques.\" Folio (330 x 230mm). 269 leaves. Signatures: D-3H⁶ 3I. Lacking all before D¹ and all after 3I¹. Beginning at chapter 31 and ending at chapter 411. English text in black letter, printed in double columns. Imprint unknown as the title leaves and colophon are lacking. Running title reads: \"The cronycle of Froissart.\" Woodcut initials; others with small guide capitals. Modern half calf. Condition: an incomplete copy in a secure binding, varying levels of staining and browning, some old marginalia, most leaves complete but one or two corner tears and frayed edges, some miniscule worming. An imperfect copy of an extremely rare book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Most likely a reprint edition of Berner's celebrated English translation of Froissart's great chronicle, undertaken at the express command of Henry VIII. Froissart, probably in Berner's translation, was a source for Shakespeare, specifically for Richard II (cf. Gillespie, Shakespeare's Books, pp.177-180). The chronicle covers the years 1325 to 1400 and was \"a new sort of history, fresh and lively and related with enthusiasm—a far cry from the dull heavy chronicles of earlier years. 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Detailed illuminated woodcut miniature within prominent gilt architectural border, the reverse with several lines of printed text in Latin, black letter, within elaborate printed border depicting monks, saints and grotesque figures, on fine vellum, leaf size c.220 x 115 mm. A very well preserved leaf with some mild cockling, toning to reverse and a tiny hole in top margin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700008083627,"sku":"ILLUMINI1510","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_bae8cc98-104c-4339-a72e-3f55d64c476a.jpg?v=1606967543"},{"product_id":"1519-the-works-of-pliny-the-younger-panegyrics-letters-trajan-post-incunabulum","title":"1519 THE WORKS OF PLINY THE YOUNGER Panegyrics Letters Trajan, Post-incunabulum","description":"\u003cp\u003e[PLINY THE YOUNGER (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)]. \u003cstrong\u003eC. Pli. 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Latin text in Roman letter in up to 46 lines, interspersed with occasional words and paragraphs in Greek, with surrounding commentary in small characters in lines of sixty and shoulder notes. Index at front in four columns on unpaginated leaves. Numerous and variable decorative woodcut floriated and historiated capitals. Ten repeat woodcut illustrations of Pliny working at a desk. Terminal blank present. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete. Binding secure. Head perhaps a little short, otherwise margins correct. Largely fresh interior, the leaves generally very clean with very occasional signs of light browning. No marginalia or inking. 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Near contemporary vellum, smooth spine, brown calf lettering-piece, gilt titles. First 111 pages numbered by hand in upper margin, 3-line initial spaces with guide-letters, with blank L2, double-page woodcut illustration showing Jerusalem and the descent through purgatory and hell on H4-H5, and 1 full-page diagram of hell and purgatory verso of H5, Paganini's colophon on final leaf, Registro on H4. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Binding tight and secure, the covers somewhat grubby. This copy lacking leaf H6, which bears the final two woodcut schemas (copies of which are supplied in photocopy). Some browning and a few folded page corners, otherwise a generally good copy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: A very scarce edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. An imitation by Paganini of the Aldus edition of 1515. cf. Renaissance Dante in Print, 1472-1629, according to Renouard, the type size is bigger than the italic type used by Aldus. Printers identified as Paganino Paganini and son Alexander Paganino from colophon, which reads: \"P[aganinus] [\u0026amp;] Alex. Pag. Benacenses f[ecerunt] Bena[cus] v[ivat] v[ivat].\" See F.J. Norton, Italian printers 1501-1520, p. 116, citing Luigi Lechi, Della tipografia brescianna nel secolo decimoquinto (Brescia 1854), p. 97. 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La dichiaratione di tutte le istorie, \u0026amp; favole toccate nel presente libro, fatte da m. Nicolò Eugenico. Di nuovo aggiuntovi li cinque canti del medesimo autore. Et una tavola de' principii di tutte le stanze. Con altre cose utili, \u0026amp; necessarie.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Venetia [Venice], appresso gli Heredi di Vincenzo Valgrisi. M. D. LXXX. [1580].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Reprint. Vellum-bound. Two parts in one volume, Quarto (4°) (250 x 180 mm), pp. [16], 654, [32]. Collation: *8, A-Z8, AA-UU8 (fol. UU8 blank). Later vellum over stiff boards; smooth spine with titles in gilt; red dyed page edges; initial and terminal blanks. Italian text in Italic and Roman type, the cantos printed in double columns. Title-page within an elaborate architectural woodcut border containing Valgrisi's serpent device and medallion portrait of Ariosto (a reverse copy of the one by Giolito), imprint set in type within a cartouche placed in the lower part of the border. Another Valgrisi device on the separate title-page of the second part (\"I cinque canti\"), which contains the Annotationi by Ruscelli. Many woodcut historiated initials, framed headings, and tail-pieces; fifty-one full-page woodcut illustrations (attributed to Dosso Dossi [Kupferstich \u0026amp; Holzschnitt\", pp. 282-83]), one at the beginning of each canto, set within two different borders with figures and grotesques. Five woodcuts illustrating the added Cinque Canti section. Two smaller cherub borders for the argumento to each canto. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD. Binding secure, some marking to covers, majority of woodcuts very good, top edge slightly cropped, title-page worn and repaired with minor loss of the woodcut design, a2 repaired in margin, single tract in inner margin at beginning, margin of pp47\/48 restored, p.49 repaired without loss, final textual leaf worn in fore margin with slight loss of text, last quires with staining.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The handsome and rare \"Furioso\" in quarto - a splendid sixteenth-century edition, thus a faithful reprint of that printed by Valgrisi himself in 1565 (this is the first edition in-4 ° realized by the heirs of Valgrisi but similar to the previous editions of the same printer), annotated by Girolamo Ruscelli (1504-1566), the engravings are most likely based on drawings by Dosso Dossi and had already been used in preceding editions. These blocks are the first full-page illustrations for Ariosto (see Mortimer). Valgrisi printed his first Furioso in 1556, and produced more editions of Ariosto's poem than any other save that of Giolito, with seventeen editions up to 1587, as well as an octavo edition which was produced for a cheaper market. Ruscelli began work on a new Orlando between 1552 and 1553. He based his editorial work on the text printed by Giolito in 1552, which he claimed to have compared with previous editions from the 1530s, as well as some autograph corrections received by Ariosto's brother Galasso. His Furioso “tutto ricorretto” is supplemented with new commentaries and paratexts, among others his Annotationi, et Avvertimenti sopra i luoghi importanti del Furioso. From the edition issued in 1560 the poem is further accompanied by an enlarged version of Ariosto's Vita, composed by the secretary of the Estense court and minister of Alfonso II Giovanni Battista Pigna (1529-1575). Starting with the Furioso of 1565, Valgrisi added the texts of the Cinque Canti, allegorical prose, and argumenti by Luigi Groto from Adria (1541-1585). The Valgrisi Furioso offers one of the finest examples of multi-narrative book illustration, with the first full-page woodcuts for each canto of Ariosto's masterpiece, all newly designed. Each woodcut, framed within fine borders with figures and grotesques, records one or more scenes from the illustrated canto, rendered with a skilful use of perspective and close attention to the iconographic tradition established by Giolito. In the nineteenth century, Girolamo Baruffaldi ascribed the designs for these woodcuts to the Ferrarese painter Dosso Dossi (1480-1542), while Paul Kristeller later attributed them to his brother Battista Dossi (1517-1548), owing to the latter's stylistic tendencies. Recently, Battista's name has been proposed again, along with that of an artist belonging to the circle of Giovanni Britto. A further innovative feature of the Valgrisi cycle is the introduction of geographic charts as backgrounds for the multiple plots of the poem: an apt visual representation of that geographical space which Ariosto continuously enlarged in the Furioso, ultimately including, in the definitive edition of 1532, important discoveries of the navigators of his time. The marvellous woodblocks continued to be re-used in subsequent editions issued from Valgrisi's printing house up until 1603. [S.T.C. Italian Books, p. 40. Guidi, p. 84. Melzi, p. 165. Melzi-Tosi, pp. 65-66. Baruffaldi, p. 302. Mazzucchelli, I, p. 1073. Brunet, I, p. 436. Graesse, I, p. 199. Coccia, The illustrations of Orlando Furioso, pp. 308-309. Index Aureliensis, 107.552. 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Octavo (155 x 105mm). 167 leaves. Terminal blank. Signatures: pi⁸ a-t⁸ u⁶. Imprint from colophon: 'Impressum Florentiae opera et impensa Philippi Giuntae bibliopolae Florentini, Anno Salutis. M.D.VII. Mense Decembri'. Printed by Filippo Giunta (1450-1517), founder of the House of Giunta in Florence. Bound in later stiff vellum, spine lettered in red. Caption title from leaf a¹: \"Q. Curtii de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum ...\". Preliminaries by Pietro Bargeo (Pietro Angèli), and Luca della Robbia (Editor). Latin text in italic type. Simple title-page. Index at front. Errata on last two leaves. Spaces for capitals with guide letters. Leaves numbered in manuscript to top right of rectos.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure. Covers generally clean. Top edge slightly cropped. Light scattered foxing. Occasional old marginalia. Two small tracks in the margin affecting 12 leaves but not touching text. 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Condition: collated complete, binding tight and secure, covers with some grimy marks and light rubbing, old inking to title-page, mild browning and some insignificant spots to contents, final few leaves with light marginal staining. Provenance: nice armorial bookplate of Rupert Abb Weltenburg.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The first of two print variants, a Greek-Latin parallel text edition containing the five surviving comedies: Wealth (Πλοῦτος Ploutos; Latin Plutus) 408 BC, The Knights (Ἱππεῖς Hippeis; Attic Ἱππῆς; Latin: Equites) 424 BC, The Clouds (Νεφέλαι Nephelai; Latin: Nubes) 423 BC, The Frogs (Βάτραχοι Batrakhoi; Latin: Ranae) 405 BC, and, The Acharnians (Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneis; Attic Ἀχαρνῆς; Acharnenses) 425 BC. The text is edited by the humanist and philologist Philip Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590) and includes his Life of Aristophanes. The work is enriched with further contributions and comments by Matthäus Bader, Salomon Frenzel von Friedenthal, Lambert Ludolf Helm, Friedrich Sylburg, Johann Wilhelm Rosenbach, Francis Modius and others. Frischlin's translation is highly regarded for contributing to the late humanistic rediscovery of Aristophanes in Northern Europe. - VD 16, A-3269; Wilhelmi \/ Seck 82; Adams A-1718; Hoffmann I, 253 f.; Graecogermania, Greek Studies of German Humanists (Exhibition Catalog 1989) No. 92.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aristophanes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700290969771,"sku":"COMARISTO1586","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_12cd9b15-137a-46bc-a463-f300501fbbb7.jpg?v=1606974675"},{"product_id":"king-henry-viii-assertio-septem-sacramentorum-1561-defence-of-the-seven-sacraments","title":"KING HENRY VIII ASSERTIO SEPTEM SACRAMENTORUM 1561 Defence of the Seven Sacraments","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Henry VIII, King of England]. \u003cstrong\u003eRegis Angliae Henrici huius nominis octaui Assertio septem sacramentorum aduersus Martinum Lutherum.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lugduni [Lyon], apud Guliel. Rouillium, sub scuto Veneto. M.D. LXI. [1561].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoftcover. First Lyon Edition. Quarto (215 x 155mm), pp. [lxxxxvi], 195, [1]. Signatures: 2b-2n4 a-z4 A4 B2. Near contemporary yapp style limp vellum, title inked to spine, Latin text in Roman and Italic letter, title within architectural columnar woodcut border, with a stamp of a saint(?), decorative woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, shoulder notes. Published with section \"Literarum, quibus invictissimus princeps Henricus VIII: Rex Angliae dominus Hyberniae, ac fidei defensor respondit ad quandam epistolem Martini Lutheri ad se missam, \u0026amp; ipsius Lutheranae quoque epistolae exemplum\". [USTC 153046]. Collated complete. The binding very secure. Covers with moderate marks and cockling, the top edges slightly chipped. First four leaves with some staining. A few very small brown spots or burn marks, however the majority of leaves remain clean. Lacking ties. Rare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Henry’s text (for which he received the title ‘Fidei defensor’) here has a lengthy polemical and virulently anti-Reformation preface by Gabriel de Saconay (1527-80), preceptor of the cathedral in Lyons. This attracted a satirical rebuttal by Calvin, ‘Congratulation à vénérable prêtre messire Gabriel de Saconay touchant la belle et mignone préface dont il a remparé le livre du roi d’Angleterre'. Originally printed in London in 1521, editions quickly followed at Rome (1521), London (1522), Antwerp (1522), Mainz (1522), Cologne (1523), Paris (1523), Rome (1543), and Lyon (1561). 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Februarii [1506].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Folio (300 x 210mm), ff. [2], CCXXVIII, [6] (numbered leaves). Signatures: [pi]² a-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ \u0026amp;⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶, A⁶ B⁸ C-D⁶ [chi]⁶. Title from verso of final leaf. Imprint from colophon (recto of final leaf): 'Omnes sunt quaternioes praeter... ...tabula terniones \u0026amp; primu unione nullo numero notatu. Impressum Mediolani apud Alexandrum Minutianum anno salutis. M.D.vi.xv. Calendis Februarii'. Later calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, brown lettering-piece. Latin text in Roman letter interspersed with occasional words and paragraphs in Greek, with surrounding commentary and shoulder notes, in lines of sixty. Index at rear in four columns. Numerous decorative woodcut floriated capitals. Spaces for capitals, with guide letters.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete. Binding secure. Contents generally very clean with light browning and occasional insignificant stains and spots. No marginalia or inking. Scarce post-incunabulum.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Edited by Giovanni Maria Cattaneo and printed in Milan, 15th Feb, 1506. 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Folio (in 6s) (340 x 210mm), pp. [8], 282; [10], 323, [11]. Collation: α⁴ a-z⁶ 2a⁴ β⁴ A-2C⁶ 2D¹⁰ (-2D10) [$4 signed (-α1, y4, β1, +2D5, 2D6)]. Pages α1b, 2a4a, b, and β1b are blank. Date of imprint from colophon. First part Greek, second part Latin. Rear index. Separate pagination and title-pages. First title with woodcut printer's device. Roman letter. Historiated woodcut initials. Shoulder notes. Wide margins. Re-backed retaining the contemporary blind ruled boards. Gilt titles and bands. Red page edges. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Textually complete but lacking one leaf (2D5) of index at rear. Binding very secure. Covers scuffed. Corners repaired. Text-block remarkably clean with title-page showing a few brown spots. Couple of minor marginal repairs. Endpapers renewed. Scarce. [USTC 684677].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Editio princeps of the fragments from books VI-XVII of Polybius' Histories, with Latin translation by Wolfgang Musculus, and second edition of books I-V, reproducing the Latin translation given by Niccolò Perotti in the early 1450s. This edition was committed to the Basler printer Johannes Herwagen (Hervagius) by Arnoldus Arlenius Peraxylus (c. 1510-1582), a Dutch humanist and a librarian to the Spanish ambassador in Rome, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, to whom the work is dedicated. As Peraxylus says in his dedicace to Mendoza, the Greek text of books VI-XVII was transmitted by a collection of abridged fragments that he had found in his master's private library, the so-called Excerpta Antiqua. Since Mendoza's manuscript (Scorialensis VI B6) was lost in the Escorial during the fire of 1671, the 1549 edition is now the only source for its readings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolybius (c. 200-120 BC) was the most important and influential Greek historian of the Hellenistic Age. A leading politician in his own homeland and a man of war before being a historian, Polybius was deported in Rome in 167 BC as a detainee, after the Third Macedonian War. On that occasion, he became a friend and a counsellor of Scipio Aemilianus, the nephew of Scipio Africanus, who was later to become famous as the destroyer of Carthage and Numance. All over the 40 books of his Histories, mostly written during his Roman stay, he narrated as an eyewitness the sudden rise of the Roman State to the dominion in the Greek and Hellenistic World. With this work, he acted as a political and cultural mediator, aiming at providing both the Greeks and the Romans with a useful tool for mutual understanding. \"Writing in the mid-second century BC, Polybius had set out to explain to his fellow Greeks by what means and under what system of government, the Romans succeeded in less than fifty-three years [220-167 BC] in bringing under their rule almost the whole of the inhabited world, an achievement which is without parallel in human history. ' Thirty books followed on the formation and the growth of the Roman Empire', subsequently extended by a further ten books in order to accommodate the years 167-146 BC\" (Kempshall 2011, 509). Polybius was highly appreciated during the whole Antiquity for his accuracy, for the rigour of his historical analyses, and for his first-hand political and military experience. As a consequence, it was largely read and praised by Greek and Roman authorities like Cicero, Livius, and Plutarch, and soon imposed itself within the canon of Classical historians. \"Polybius was rediscovered in Florence as a historian of the first Punic War by Leonardo Bruni about 1420. Though he had been translated into Latin by the middle of the fifteenth century, his reputation as a historian and as a political thinker does not seem to have been widely diffused. It was in Republican Florence, too, that the importance of his Book VI was recognized for the first time by Machiavelli and others at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Even the first philological work on him seems to have been done in Florence, by Politian. The idea of printing the Greek text does not appear to have interested the Italians until it was too late. The publication of Polybius in Germany [Haguenau, 1530] coincided with the opening of a new stage in Greek studies - and with the new didactic and pragmatic mood of European historiography. Polybius' reputation soared rapidly in the second part of the sixteenth century. His fame was based on his expertise as a military and a diplomatic historian\" (Momigliano 1974, 3). He was also appreciated as a fine political theoretician: his sixth book, offering an analysis of the Roman State in the terms of a mixed constitution and here edited for the first time, proved to be extremely fascinating for Renaissance and Modern thinkers, as Machiavelli, Bodin, Montesquieu, or the Fathers of the American Constitution.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polybius","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700817453227,"sku":"POLYBI1549","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/z_f3d29eb7-8dfd-46de-ad26-a2f8665764e5.jpg?v=1606982072"},{"product_id":"the-poetical-works-of-virgil-1579-woodcut-illustrations-blindstamped-decoration","title":"THE POETICAL WORKS OF VIRGIL 1579 Woodcut Illustrations, Blindstamped Decoration","description":"\u003cp\u003e[VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC); Philipp Melanchthon]. \u003cstrong\u003eP. Vergilii Maronis Poemata, Qvae Extant, Omnia : adiectis figuris egregie depictis, \u0026amp; doctissimorum virorum scholijs ac annotationibus Virorum scholijsjac annotationibus, partim antehac, partim nunc primum publicatis, quarum Catalogum sequens pagella enumerabit.\u003c\/strong\u003e Francofurti ad Moenum : Apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Iohannis Feyrabendij, M.D. LXXIX. [1579].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Leather-bound. Thick octavo (165 x 110mm), ff. [8], 394, [14 - index] (numbered leaves). Signatures: a⁸ A-Z⁸ a-z⁸ aa-ee⁸. Initial and terminal blanks present. Imprint at colophon. Latin text in italic and roman letter. Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with central panel of Crucifixion and outer boarder incorporating heads of soldiers and acanthus leaves, featuring quotation from John 3, 16 (“Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum, ut omnis qui credit in eum, non pereat”), spine with 3 raised bands, remains of metal clasps. Woodcut devices on title and last leaf depicting the Roman goddess Fame, 18 full-page illustrations, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, shoulder notes, index at rear in double column. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete, title almost detached, tiny paper flaw to second leaf, small marginal repair to G7, tear to Y8, occasional spotting and staining, dust soiling, faint marginalia in a contemporary hand throughout, ownership notes by Marmaduke Cholmley and William Elis (p. 148), boards abraded, scuffed and holed, hinges cracked but solid, spine tail defective with loss, partially repaired with parchment stub from Medieval ms.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: [Not in Adams], Johann Feyerabend for George Corvinus, Frankfurt, 1579. 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[Aug. 1523].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First Aldine edition. Volume 2 only (without vol.1, but complete in itself). Small octavo (165 x 100mm), ff. 214, (2) [numbered leaves]. Later stiff vellum, signatures: a-z8 A-D8, imprint from colophon recto penultimate leaf: 'Venetiis in aedibus Aldi et Andreae, Asulani Soceri, mense Augusto M.D.XXIII', errors in pagination: 158 numbered 142; 160 numbered 185, leaf 194 (B2) blank, terminal blanks present, Latin text in Roman and Italic letter type, printer's device on title-page and verso final leaf, spaces for capitals with guide letters, marbled endpapers. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete, binding secure, covers a little grubby and marked, spine lacking title label, top edge very slightly cropped, contents largely fresh and clean, a little inking to ffep, no marginalia, small hole to front blank. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: FIRST ALDINE EDITION, edited by Gian Francesco Torresani, and containing seven of Cicero’s philosophical and political works, many of which survive only in part and whose missing fragments are designated multa desunt throughout: \"On the Nature of the Gods\", \"On Divination\", \"On Destiny\", the six surviving books of \"The Dream of Scipio\", the famous dialogue \"On the Laws\", a commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, and a treatise \"On Running for Consul\". The first two works were hugely influential from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment - Voltaire regarded De Natura Deorum as ‘the best book of all antiquity’ - offering detailed accounts of Epicurian, Stoic, Academic and Sceptical philosophies, as well as a critical approach to types of divination common in pagan theology. A continued discussion of omens, lots, dreams, and divination in De Divinatione influenced the writings of sceptics into the 18th century. The sixth book of Cicero’s De re publica, also known as Somnium Scipionis, offers a comprehensive view of Roman cosmology in the form of a dream vision. In it, Scipio is visited by his dead grandfather and shown the heavens, the Milky Way, the earth’s atmosphere, and its insignificant size in comparison to the rest of the universe. It is the earliest known mention of the Wheel of Fortune (rota fortunae), which along with the planetary spheres enjoyed such popularity throughout the middle ages and gave rise to many beautiful illustrations. De Legibus was written in the final years of the Republic before Caesar assumed power, and discusses the foundations of Natural Law. The concluding treatise advises electioneering for Counsulship, and claims to be written for Marcus Tullius Cicero by his brother, Quintus, but its authenticity is contested. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Ces deux volumes complètent l’ancien Cicéron donné avant Paul Manuce, soit qu’on veuille le former absolument des premières éditiones, soit qu’on y admette les secondes ou les troisièmes, données justqu’en 1522. Au reste, toutes sont tellement rares, que l’on n’a guère la faculté de choisir, et qu’il faut prendre celles qu’on recontre, si l’on veut parvenir á se complèter mème dans le cours de beaucoup d’années: d’ailleurs leur réunion ne forme nullement disparate.’ Renouard, Annales des Alde, p. 97. 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Thick octavo, 8º, (180 x 110 x 75mm.), pp. [112], 1262. Latin text. Beautifully bound in contemporary blind stamped calf, spine with four raised bands. Initial and terminal blanks present. Later printed leaves added to pastedowns. Title-page woodcut printer's device. Index at front in double columns. Head- and tail-pieces. Historiated initials. Shoulder notes. Contains Saint Augustine’s Confessions, On Grammar, On Music, Principles of rhetoric, Soliloquies, On the Teacher, Morals of the Catholic Church, Against the Manichaeans. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete. Binding remarkably well preserved, the hinges secure, some light wear to extremities, lacking ties. Textblock with light toning and staining, some old sporadic inking and underscoring, a few leaves with worm tracts in the margins. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Augustine of Hippo was a 5th-century early Christian church philosopher and theologian. While most known for his work ‘City of God’, he also wrote many other treatises on aspects of the Christian faith. His stance on free will vs predestination and fatalism was supported by and still is supported by, the Catholic Church, as his teachings on free will are consistent with modern doctrine. This particular tome includes Saint Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ – collection of shorter treatises that were autobiographical in nature. In fact, because of this, it is often considered the very first Western autobiography ever written. 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[1567].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Second edition. Two volumes in one with continuous foliation but with a separate half-title to 'Tomus Secundus'. Vellum-bound. Thick folio (2°)(330 x 230 x 70mm)(in sixes), [10] ff., 15 ff., [1] pp., 15-441 ff., [16] ff. (numbered leaves). Signatures: [alpha]⁶ ß⁴ a-z⁶ A-3F⁶ 3G⁴ 3H⁶ (verso of O1 is blank) (incomplete - lacking B1 of list of cited authors and Ggg2-Hhh6 of index at end). Foliation errors: leaves 54, 58, 157, 253, 428 and 429 misnumbered as 45, 60, 517, 235, 482 and 431 respectively. Latin text with some words and passages in Greek. Roman type with some italics. Contemporary full vellum binding with MS title in black ink to smooth spine. Initial blank present. Printer's device on title-page with motto \"Palma Guar\". Full page woodcut portrait of Valeriano by T. Stimmer on verso of title-page. Over 300 woodcut illustrations in text, some of them taken from Lorenzo Torrentino work (see Mortimer, R., Italian 16th-cent., 511). Numerous decorative and historiated woodcut initials in various sizes throughout, some of them after Hans Holbein (see Hollstein). Note to reader (Lectori) printed on title page above the printer's mark. Dedication to Cosimo Medici on α2r-α5r, followed, on α5v-β4r, by table of contents, list of authors cited, index of citations from Scriptures. Preliminaries conclude with a Greek epigram on Valeriano's Hieroglyphica by Carolus Utenhovius. Final leaves are occupied by index in triple columns, here lacking the final 9 leaves including the errata and colophon printed at the bottom of Hhh6r. Originally published: Basileae: M. Isengrin, 1556, this is the second edition overall and the first edition to contain C. A. Curione's books LIX-LX (cf. Landwehr). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Fair to good. Lacking a total of 10 leaves, consisting of 9 index and 1 list of cited authors; the main text is complete. Binding secure with some reasonable cockling and staining to covers. Wide margins with some ragged edges particularly to rear index. Various levels of light foxing, browning and staining. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Famous book considered the greatest Renaissance contribution to the study of emblems, symbolism and hieroglyphics, from which at least nine editions were published, the first in 1556, this is the second edition of 1567. It is one of the first books attempting to decipher and interpret the language of Egyptian hieroglyphs for which Bolzani relied on alchemy, Greek mythology, pagan folklore, Egyptian religion. Pierio Valeriano Bolzani (1477- 1558), born Giampietro Valeriano Bolzani, was an Italian Renaissance humanist, favored by the Medici. His Hieroglyphica, written during a frenzy of popularity surrounding the rediscovered Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, was a nearly thousand-page folio that constituted a dictionary of symbols, which would become a popular genre. The work is a curious compendium of ancient and Medieval lore that was once sourced in a monastic library. Valeriano rose to such fame as a scholar that Venice erected a statue of him outside the Frari church. Despite its title, this work will tell the reader very little about the hieroglyphs of Egypt, but it is full of information on natural history, culled from Medieval bestiaries, lapidaries, and the \"Physiologus,\" an ancient book of Alexandrian origin. More importantly, the work was widely used as a source in the 16th and 17th centuries for art, literature, and emblem books. Mortimer calls the book \"a major contribution to emblem literature,\" and Moseley calls it \"the great encyclopedia of symbol for the period.\" Praz, page 521. 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Pulmanni Craneburgii Studio Correcta.\u003c\/strong\u003e Antuerpiae, Apud Christophorum Platinum, cIↄ Iↄ LxxxVI [1586].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound together with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65BC - 8BC)]. \u003cstrong\u003eQuincti Horatii Flacci, Opera Omnia; cum mouis Argumentis.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lugd. Batavorum, ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, cIↄ Iↄ LxxxVI [1586].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound together with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[JUVENAL (Decimus Junius Juvenalis); PERSIUS (Aulus Persius Flaccus)]. \u003cstrong\u003eD. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satyrarum Libri V. A. Persii Flacci Satyrarum Libri I. Omnia nune opera \u0026amp; iudicio viri docti emendate.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lugd. Batavorum, ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, M. D. LXXXVI. [1586].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Three works in one. Leather-bound. 16° (110 x 60mm), pp. 335; 207; 111. Latin text. 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(Ref: VD16 D 1794; Hoffmann 1,551; Dibdin 505\/06; Graesse 2,393\/94). Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding very secure. Some soiling and staining to covers with darkening to spine. Contents largely clean with very light browning and foxing. Stain to lower fore edge touching margin. Without inking or bookplates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: This book contains a Latin translation of the extant books (libri 36\/60, covering the years 68 B.C - 47 A.D.) of Dio Cassius' Roman History, supplemented with the books 61\/80 (till 229 A.D.), epitomized by the Byzantine historians Johannes Xiphilinus and Zonaras. After this translation follow fragments of the 'Historia Romana', in Greek, accompanied by a facing Latin translation, followed by the Greek text only of the fragments of the first 20 books. At the end of this work 99 pages with critical notes of Leunclavius).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDio Cassius Cocceianus of Nicaea in Asia Minor was born ca. 155 A.D. He held several high state offices (twice consul). He wrote in Greek a Roman history (Rhômaikê Historia) in 80 books, from the founding of the city of Rome till 229 A.D, the year of his own second consulate. His work 'appears to be based on republican annalistic tradition, Livy, or Livy's sources, imperial annalistic tradition, and for contemporary events', the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Severian dynasty, 'his own high authority. Unreliably about republican institutions and conditions, from Caesar onwards he used his constitutional experience, at first colouring events with his ideas of imperial absolutism, but later handling his material with full knowledge. Annalistic in arrangement his narration concentrated on political aspects, in the manner of Thucydides, giving a rhetorical narrative in Atticist style'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 345) § The 'editio princeps' of Cassius Dio was published in 1548 by Robertus Stephanus. The first Latin translation appeared ten years later in Basel, and was made by the German scholar Xylander, in German Wilhelm Holzman, 1532-1576. He was professor of Greek at the University of Heidelberg, and a translator and editor of late antique and byzantine writers. He produced e.g. the 'editio princeps' of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. His gifted pupil Johannes Leunclavius, or Hans Loewenclau, 1541-1594, who had hoped to succeed Xylander in 1576, but failed because he was considered to be a 'cryptocalvinist', revised and augmented Xylander's translation of Cassius Dio, and had it published in 1592. Leunclavius added also a collection of critical notes of his own. 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Engraved architectural title-page and 49 fine engraved maps in the text, including two world maps, by Girolamo Porro of Padua, wood-engraved printer's device on the last leaf, wood-engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces. Re-bound in antique-style blind-stamped calf. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete, binding tight and secure, contents very well preserved.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition. The Isole piu famose del mondo was one of the most popular atlases of the late sixteenth century, treating the world as a collection of islands. Much enlarged, including 19 maps not included in the first edition of 1572, and with two additional maps not included in the second edition of 1576: \"Descrittione dell'Istria\" and \"Descrittione dell'isolla d'Elandia, isola de Gotti\". The New World is represented from page 157: \"Descrittione della Gran Citta e isola Temistitan,\" with a plan; \"Descrittione dell'isola et terra di Santa Croce, overo Mondo Nuouo,\" with a reduced version of Forlani's very important map of North America first published in Venice in 1565, which was the first to show America as a single geographic entity, and is the second map to show the Strait of Anian in any detail; there are descriptions of the islands of \"Spagnvola\", \"Cvba\", \"Iamaica\" or \"S. Iacopo\", \"S. Lorenzo\", and \"S. Giovanni\"or \"Borichen,\" with five maps. The islands of the Pacific are depicted in \"dell'Isole Molucche\". The two world maps at the end illustrate \"Descrittione del Mappamondo,\" and \"Discorso intorno alla Carta da navigare\". The isolario, or book of islands, was a popular genre that had first appeared in manuscript examples by Cristoforo Buondelmonte dating from the early fifteenth century, then in printed versions by Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti from the late 1400s. More so than its predecessors, the isolario first published in 1528 by Venice-based cartographer Benedetto Bordone was formative for Renaissance geographical conceptions. Porcacchi, who was a prolific author of classical translations, genealogies, and poetry, gives detailed accounts of the geography and the history of each island. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Adams P-1906; Alden and Landis 590\/54; BMC Italian, p.534; Edit16 37349; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 189; Phillips, Atlases 3327, Burden The Mapping of America 42; JCB (3) I:324; Sabin 64151; Shirley The Mapping of the World, pp. 127-128. 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An incomplete copy, lacking pp. 1-8 and pp.136-144 of Book One, the first of these gatherings replaced by blank sheets; pp. 9-16 of Book One chipped at outer edge with marginal loss not affecting text, p.77 of Book Seven torn with loss of 75% of the text, short marginal tear to p.133 of Book Two and longer one to p.121 of Book Eight. Mildly toned with some marginal staining and thumbing. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A translation, by Thomas Tymme, of Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae, by Jean de Serres, The work consists of 3 vols., containing three books each, and a fourth volume without separate title page but separate pagination which is headlined: \"The Tenth Booke treating of the furious outrages of Fraunce ...,\" a translation of E. Varamund's [i.e. F. 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A very well-preserved copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition of the important complete text of Livy, edited by Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigone; ca. 1524-1584), together with his Scholia and interesting additions on the Roman chronology. Sigonius was professor of literature at Venice and produced a number of works for the Aldine press - he was then the most significant classical scholar in Italy and probably rivalled only by Scaliger elsewhere. The first edition has been issued from the Aldine press in 1555, the second in 1566; a fourth, less attractive edition followed in 1592. This third edition is distinguished from those which preceded it by some additions to the Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents (=part 3). Livy's work was originally composed of 142 books, of which only 35 are extant; these are Books 1-10 and 21-45 (with major lacunae in 41 and 43-45). A fragmentary palimpsest of the 91st book was discovered in the Vatican Library in 1772, containing about a thousand words, and several papyrus fragments of previously unknown material, much smaller, have been found in Egypt since 1900, most recently about forty words from Book 11, unearthed in the 1980s.To the present edition Aldus Jr. contributed the Testimonia in the preliminary pages and he is also unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the addition: Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug. When his father's death had made him the head of the press Aldus the younger continued for some years to employ the same device. For the fourth edition of 1592, much inferior to the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen at the end of the 16th century, he was only indirectly responsible. l Ahmanson-Murphy IIIb, 604 \u0026amp; 604a; Renouard p. 215, no. 10; Sandys, Hist. 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Translated from Greek into Latin by Lorenzo Valla, revised by Henri Estienne, Aemilius Portus and Franciscus Porti. Printers device on title page and verso of final page. Floriated initials, headpieces, footnotes and shoulder notes, rear appendix and index. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Textblock with marginal staining throughout. Small corner tear to title leaf. Some rear index leaves with neat corner repairs, some just touching text. An excellent copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Type and ornaments would suggest that the book was printed at the Estienne shop (either by Henri or his son Paul) at Geneva for the Wechel firm of Frankfurt. Cf. Schreiber, F. 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Historiated and grotesque woodcut initials, woodcut tailpieces, numerous woodcut diagrams and tables in the text, with the divisional title page (2C3): \"The third part or Addition to this Booke entreateth of briefe Rules ... Set forth by John Mellis schoolemaster\". Bound in later full calf. Condition: FAIR. An incomplete copy; lacking all before C2 and all after 2I8, plus O7, Q1-2, and V8. Binding secure, the extremities somewhat rubbed. Interior toned, stained and thumbed, some corners and fore-margins with losses, various old marginal annotations throughout, with Roger Conway's 18th century scribbling to the endpapers, some older names appearing in the margins. A flawed copy of an extremely rare title.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Very rare early edition of this most important mathematical work of the sixteenth century in England, edited and augmented after the author’s death by John Dee and John Mellis. The publication details of this particular copy are difficult to ascertain as the title-page and colophon are absent. \"The third part\" was added in 1582, so we can assume it was published shortly after this date. It was the standard arithmetic textbook of the period, passing through numerous editions until the late 1600s. Dee’s contributions were of a practical nature, being sections on foreign exchange and on foreign weights and measures. Robert Recorde’s Arithmetic: or, The Ground of Arts was one of the first printed English textbooks on arithmetic and the most popular of its time. 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Tabula marginalium glossularum omnium canonum et conciliorum. Margarita decreti. Flosculis totius decreti a domino Ioanne Diacono compositis. Additione in margine litterarum quo minuscoli characteres lineis intercepticitius legenti appareant. \u003c\/strong\u003e[Venezia : Luca Antonio Giunta il vecchio] (Venetijs : Lucas Antonius de Giunta Florentinus impressit, 1514 die XX Maij).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW224469152 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW224469152 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeather-bound; hardcover; thick octavo (21.5 x 15 x 7.5 cm); leaves [38], CCCCCCLII, [76]. Latin text in gothic letter, commentary surrounding double column text, with side-notes, printed in red and black, printer’s device on title, ca. 130 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page), decorative initials. Rebound in modern full calf, spine in five compartments with brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Imprint information from colophon on numbered leaf 652 recto. Title-page device of Lucantonio Giunta (lily in rectangular frame, with \"L. A.\"; flanked by black motto in italics: Soli Deo honor, \u0026amp; gloria; Zappella figure 617). Includes indexes in triple columns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the covers well-preserved. Textblock remaining largely fresh and clean, some very light toning, the title-page and fore-edge with old inking, plus a few small marginal annotations and trivial stains. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW224469152 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW224469152 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Typographically beautiful edition of Gratianus’ Decretum by the Venetian printer Luca Antonio Giunta the elder. The text is printed mirroring the manuscript editions of the Decretum with the text surrounded by the commentators’ notes and illustrated by more than 130 woodcuts. The Concordia Discordantia Canonum, or Decretum Gratiani, is a collection of canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the jurist and Camaldolese monk known as Gratian. Together with later legal texts (The “Decretals” of Gregory IX; those of Boniface VIII (Sixth Book of the Decretals); those of Clement V (Clementinæ), the Extravagantes of John XXII, and the Extravagantes Communes) it constituted for centuries the cornerstone of the Corpus Juris Canonici, the main source of the canon law of the Catholic Church, in force until 1917. In addition to the Glossa Ordinaria of Joannes Teutonicus and the glosses of Bartolomeo da Brescia this edition includes the Flos Decreti of Johannes Hispanus, a set of commentaries on Gratian, and the Margarita Decreti of Polonus Martinus, a collection of excerpts from the Decretals of Gregory IX. 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Handsomely bound in contemporary brown full calf; spine gilt-decorated; red speckled page edges; title with large woodcut portrait of Dante in profile within a rich medallion with cherubs and garlands; 97 woodcut illustrations to text (three of which are full-page); woodcut initials and ornaments; woodcut device of the printer Marchio Sessa depicting a cat (Zappella, 588) to verso of final leaf. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure with some marks and discreet restoration to joints at head and foot of spine. Contents generally in clean condition with wide margins, minor fraying to outer edges of endpapers. Early 20th century bookplate of André Corbeau to front free endpaper. A most attractive copy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The second of three editions of Dante's Commedia printed by Marchio Sessa (also known as the 'Gran Naso' editions due to the prominent profile portrait of the author on the title-page), with the commentary by Alessandro Vellutello together with that by Cristoforo Landino. One of the earliest scholarly editions of Dante's Divina Commedia, with the dedication by Giovanni Antonio Rampazetto to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. The editions of the Commedia by Marchio Sessa, printed respectively in 1564, 1578 and 1596, are enhanced by the many woodcut illustrations traditionally ascribed to the engraver Francesco Marcolini. 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Bedae Anglosaxonis Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum libri V. Continuatio eiusdem historiae, incerto auctore, libris III. comprehensa, ac iam primum publicata. Gulielmus Neubricensis De rebus anglicis libri V. Ioannis Frossardi Historiarum epitome, in qua de bellis inter Anglos \u0026amp; Gallos gestis, praecipue agitur. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bound without the dedication and terminal blanks, but otherwise complete. Binding tight and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003esecure, the hinges and joints intact, with a few slight scuffs to covers. Interior very well-preserved, remaining largely fresh and clean, with a circular armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of the first book published by the great scholar Jerome Commelin (Hieronymus Commelinus). 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Lacking two leaves, b6 of contents section, and the colophon leaf which bears printer's name, place of publication and actual publication date (final leaf ff. 88). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorm damage to lower margin ff. 17-24 (mainly marginal, just affecting text ff 19-23), some toning to leaves throughout, ff. 26 with some waterstaining\/soiling to recto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Elyot's Castell of Helth, a popular medical treatise, intended to place a scientific knowledge of the art within the reach of those unacquainted with Greek. This work, though scoffed at by the faculty, was appreciated by the general public, and speedily went through many editions. It Provided advice as to the uses and effects of different foods and diets 'so that English men and women may understand and regulate their health accordingly. 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Leather-bound; hardcover; small octavo (150 x 100 x 35 mm); ff. [8], 247, [1]. Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-2H⁸. Leaves [par.]\u003cspan\u003e⁸\u003c\/span\u003e and 2H\u003cspan\u003e⁸\u003c\/span\u003e are blank. Imprint from colophon: \"London in Fleetestreete within Temple barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre, by Richard Tottel, the 8 day of March, 1576.\" Printed in black letter; text Latin or Law French, then in English after fol.119; woodcut capitals and historiated initials; indexes. Beautifully bound in contemporary blind-stamped \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003ecalf; initial and terminal blanks present. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. The original binding is well-preserved, remaining tight and secure with a little erosion to the spine ends. Interior very lightly toned, a few old marginal notes, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003evariously inscribed in ink for 'Tho Weston', 'John Dallender 1607' and others, indistinct signature to title, front endpapers slightly worn, final textual leaf fol.247 apparently trimmed at the fore edge. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Magna Carta (1215) stands as one of the truly great historic legal documents of Britain and the western world, leading directly to the establishment of constitutional government. Famously, thanks to the English barons, a reluctant King John was forced to accept certain liberties of his subjects and restraint of his powers within the law. Although at first renounced, amended versions were confirmed and reconfirmed by later monarchs throughout the Medieval period. Magna Carta was first printed around 1508 by Richard Pynson, however, it was his contemporary Richard Tottell who printed more editions of Magna Carta than any other 16th-century printer having been awarded a life grant by Elizabeth I to print law books. His first printing of an expanded Magna Carta came in 1556, it is regarded as 'the most known'; it varies from Pynson’s (and also Berthelet’s) printings in some readings of the text of the statutes, and it is enlarged by the addition of “certain statutes with other needful things taken out of old copies examined by the rolls,” printed at the end of the first part. Further editions by Tottell followed in 1576 and 1587.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1576 printing, with omissions and additions (the additions, selected through to the fourteenth regnal year of Elizabeth I), adds to and improves upon William Rastell's important collection, and includes the Charta de Foresta of Henry III, the Statutes of Merton and Marlebridge, the Statutes of Edward I and other statutes which are digested by topic specifically designed for practicing lawyers and judges, and includes English statutes in law French. Among the most notorious statutes are those of Edward concerning Jews, including the Edict of Expulsion (1290), which banished them from England. Other statutes relate to women, wills, forcible entry, \"Fraudulent Deedes\" and other topics. There is a new preface subsequently used in later editions. The title translates as: The Magna Carta edited with its laws in old and then recent form with especial care, then finally put together as one unit by Richard Tottill in the year 1576. [Beale S18; STC (2nd ed.), 9281; MMBR (1812) 336; Maxwell 350; ESTC S101094].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57508294459767,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_4856_23101bcc-73bd-477c-bcf4-fed75e91b630.jpg?v=1790986951"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/collections\/s-l1600_11.jpg?v=1600035259","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/collections\/16th-century.oembed?page=4","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}