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received the remainder of the library not previously
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to a few printed in the eighteenth century, but most
are of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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1 ABARBANEL, Isaac. Don Yitzhaq
Abravani’el... & R. Mosis Alschechi
comment. in Esaiae prophetiam 30 [actually
Isaiah 52 v. 13 to 53 v. 12] Cum additamento
eorum quae R. Simeon [Simon Darshan] e
veterum dictis collegit... Authore Constantino
l’Empereur.
8vo (152 x 90mm.), [16], 291, [13]pp., title printed
in red and black, Square & Rabbinic letter, some
Arabic type, contemporary English calf.
Leiden: B & A. Elzevier, 1631 £550
The ‘Suffering Servant’ verses of the prophet Isaiah (those
generally taken to foretell the coming of Christ and his
sufferings) are here commented upon by the great fifteenth
century Portuguese rabbi and scholar Isaac Abarbanel or
Abravanel, and by Moses alSheik b. Hayyim, a sixteenth
century biblical exegete. Constantin l’Empereur van
Oppyck (1591-1648) a distinguished Dutch Hebrew scholar
provides a Latin translation.
Steinschneider 1079 no. 18; Willems 341.
2 AGOPIAN, Yovhannes. T’argmanout
‘iwn italakansrbazani Xorhdatetern. La
1aichiaratione della liturgia armena. Fatta in
Italliano [sic]... Ad instanza delli signori Armeni
habitanti in questa città di Venetia.
4to (190 x 140mm.), 51, [1]pp., title and text printed
in red and black, some leaves cropped close at head
with loss of page numbers, modern half calf.
£2000
Venice: M.A. Barboni, 1690 This work, clearly meant for those members of the
Armenian community in Venice, who needed a crib
to attend mass, encompasses the text of the Armenian
liturgy with a facing Italian translation. Yovhannes
Agopian is described as a papal missionary in the title
but he is better known as Yovhannes of Constantinople
(Kostandbupolsec’i) the author of an Armenian grammar
generally found with his Puritas linguae armenicae (Rome,
1675), of a manual of oratory published in Marseilles in
1674, of an Armenian translation of Flos virtutum (Rome,
1675) and an Armenian-Latin catechism Speculum veritatis
published in Venice by Barboni in 1680 (see Nersessian
40-44 and 47).
A similar work in Latin was published in Rome,
again by the Propaganda Press, in 1677 in Armenian
- Lyturgia Armena. Ministerium missae etc. Of this the BL
copy (17024.e.2) also has a Latin version- Codex mysterii
missae Armenorum etc.
Michiel Angelo Barboni, whose activity in Venice
is attested from the late 1660s published an Armenian
breviary (Zhamagirk) and Tagharan in 1681, in 1682 a
Psalter (Saghmosaran) and Dashants tught - Lettera dell
amicitia a dell unione di Costantino gran cesare a disan Siluestro
sommo pontefice, e di Tirdade re della armenia, e dis. Gregorio /
illuminatore della natione armena scritta nell anno del Signore
316 [Letter of Concord] and in 1685 a prayer book based
on Latin sources, a Gospels, and a Calendar (Nersessian
49-51). The latest date of any item from his press seems
OCLC locates three copies only of this work in Holland
(Rotterdam Erasmus Universiteit, Tresoar (in Friesland)
and Groningen Universiteit) with a microfilm at
Wolfenbuttel.
5 ARETINO, Pietro. Quatro comedie...
cioè Il Marescalco la Talanta. La Cortegiana
L’Hipocrtito. Nouellamente ritornate, etc.
8vo (142 x 88mm.), ff. [8], 485, [3 (errata)], early 18thcentury English calf, spine gilt in compartments.
[London: J. Wolfe]: 1588 £900
A very nice copy.
STC 19911; Pforzheimer 800; Woodfield Surreptitious
printing no. 43.
6 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum
gestarum libri decem et octo.
16mo (118 x 70mm.), 736,[8]pp., aa2 missigned aa3,
last 2 leaves blank, contemporary French binding of
smooth calf, gilt arabesque in centre of covers, spine
in 5 compartments each with small gilt ornament,
gilt edges, binding a little rubbed.
Lyons : S. Gryphius, 1552 £450
to be 1690, namely this work and a confession of faith
by Nerses Snorhali. In all he seems to have published
13 editions, all financed by rich and devout Armenians.
Of this present extremely rare item we have located one
copy in the BNF and one in Venice at the Mekhitarist
monastery.
See Pelusi, S. La civiltà del libro e la stampa a Venezia
(Civiltà Veneziana. Studi 51) Venice, 2000 no. 75 (copy
from S. Lazzaro); Kévorkian, R. Catalogue des “incunables”
arméniens, Geneva, 1986, no. 151.
3 AINSWORTH, Robert. Thesaurus...
or, a compendius dictionary of the latin
tongue: designed for the use of the british
nations... the second edition, with additions...
by Samuel Patrick.
4to (285 x 220mm.), 2 volumes, contemporary
Russia, gilt.
London, [for various booksellers], 1746 £450
An extremely handsome copy of this long-lived and
still useful dictionary. It is dedicated to Dr. Richard
Mead (1673-1754), who was physician to the First Earl
of Macclesfield.
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FRISIAN LANGUAGE POETRY
4 ALTHUYSEN, Jan. Langaene oer dy
fortziesing fin zyn trogloftigste Haegheyt
Willem Karel Hendrik Friso... yn ‘t Friesch
byrymme trog Jan Althuysen.
4to (190 x 140mm.), 18pp., imprint and catchwords
trimmed, modern half calf over marbled boards.
Harlingen: F. van der Plaats, [1747] £500
Addressed to Willem Karel Hendrik, Prince of Orange
and Stadholder, these verses are composed in Frisian
(more properly West Frisian, a Teutonic language not
unrelated to English), a separate language still used in the
province of Friesland, once a separate kingdom, but since
the sixteenth century part of the confederation of the Low
Countries. Several princes are mentioned by name in the
text, which is in 44 6-line stanzas (aabccb). In medieval
times the language was written, but from the sixteenth
century it became much more a spoken tongue.
Jan Althuysen (1715-1763) was born in Franeker,
where he was educated, and entered the church. He had
a number of literary friends, amongst them E.W. Higt
and published in Leeuwaarden in 1755 Friesche rymlery
yn twaa dielen bystaende, in which Langaene was reprinted
together with translations of the Psalms into Frisian (see
the notice in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographie i, 20).
Baudrier ix, 257.
Provenance: deleted contemporary inscription on titlepage Jacobus Rubeus.
7 ANACREON. Opera (ed. M. Maittaire.)
4to (292 x 222mm.), [8], XLII, xlii, xliiilxxiv, 75, [3]pp., list of subscribers, contemporary
sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed.
London: W. Bowyer (undecimo kalendas quintiles), 1725 £450
A subscriber’s copy. The Earl of Macclesfield subscribed
for 2 copies.
Bowyer Ledgers 1155 (100 copies printed.)
First edition of all twelve books of this poem, retelling
in hexameter verse the story of the first crusade, led by
Godfrey of Bouillon (ca. 1060-1100), a story also told by
Tasso in Gierusalemme liberata. The book is handsomely
printed in italic type with large woodcut initials. The first
four books were published in Paris 1582-84 by Patisson
and books V-VI were published as part of Angeli’s Poemata
in 1585.
The author (1517-96) was from Barga, hence the
toponymic Bargaeus, a name commemorated in the lines
of Latin verse inscribed in a 17th-century French hand at
the end of the preliminary leaves. During his long life he
worked as Greek scribe and editor, and indeed translated
Sophocles Oedipus rex into Italian (1588).
Provenance: 17th century French inscription of one
Vallognes on title-page (name found also elsewhere in
books from this library.)
9 ANGELOS, Christophoros. Εγκωµιον
της … µεγαλης Βρεταννιας (An encomion of
Great Britaine, and of…Cambridge and Oxford).
Cambridge: C. Legge, sm 4to (170 x 125mm.), [5],
26, [1]pp., first & last pages, and verso of English title
blank, text in Greek (versos) and English (facing)
STC 635 [London: W. Stansby], 1619.
Bound with:
Εγχειριδιον, περι της κατατασεως των σηµερον
ευριοσκοµενων Ελληνων (Encheiridion de
institutis Graecorum).
Sm 4to (188 x 132mm.), 2 parts [8], 59, [1];[6], 53pp.,
device on title-page [McKerrow & Ferguson ] STC
636. [London: W. Stansby], ex off. C. Legge acad. Cantab.
typogr, 1619.
Bound with:
Πονησις Χριστοφορου του Αγγελου…
Sm 4to (180 x 132mm.), ff. [6], Oxford arms on titlepage, STC 638; Madan I, 109 Oxford: J. Lichfield &
W. Wrench 1617.
Bound with:
8 ANGELI, Pietro. Syrias hoc est
expeditio illa celeberrima christianorum
principum, qua Hierosolyma ductu Goffredi
Bolionis Lotharinguiae ducis a Turcarum
tyrannide liberata est. Eiusdem votivum carmen
in D. Catharinam. (Roberti Titii... scholia).
4to (212 x 150mm.), [24], 496pp., italic type, woodcut
initials, eighteenth-century English calf, triple gilt
fillet on covers, a little rubbed.
Florence: F. Giunta, 1591 £950
[Ponesis] Christopher Angell, A Grecian, who
tasted of many stripes inflicted by the Turkes.
Sm. 4to (175 x 132mm.), ff. [8], woodcut figures,
one (B4r) full-page, STC 640 [Of this there are
three editions (STC 639-641), of which STC 639
and 640 closely (but not exactly) resemble each
other in their setting. However the most obvious
difference is the absence in 639 of the oval (partial)
border to the woodcut on B4r, which is present in
640. STC 641 incorporates at the end an enlarged
before becoming master of the Free School at Kingstonon-Thames (see ODNB). There is an earlier and fainter
inscription of the motto ‘Dum spiro sperabo’ and the Greek
word ‘brachu’ (short).
Gilmont, Bibl. de Jean Crespin no. 69/2b.
11 APHTHONIUS, the rhetorician.
Προγυµνασµατα... Accedit ejusdem
interpretatio, ita emendata, ut nova videri possit
(transl. by Daniel Heinsius with a dedication to
Adriaan Blyenburgh).
8vo (183 x105mm.), [8], 102, [2], English sheep.
Leiden: (Jan Cornelis) for A. Commelinus, 1626 £350
10 APHTHONIUS the rhetorician, and others.
‘Οι εν τηι ρητορικητεχννηι κορυϕαιοι...
Αφθονιος, Ερµογενης, ∆. Λογγινος... Francisci Porti,
Cretensis opera industriaque illustrati atque
expoliti.
2 parts 8vo (172 x 100mm.), [16], 443, [21]; 69,
[11]pp., device on title-page, early 17th-century
Oxford binding with blind-stamped centrepiece,
m.s guards and printed waste flyleaves.
[Geneva]: Jean Crespin, 1570 £950
version of the Testimonials, and does not have this
woodcut.]; Madan I, 109 no. 1 Oxford: J. Lichfield
and J. Short, 1618.
Bound with:
[Testimonials of good behaviour of Angelos
from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
and the Bishop of Salisbury].
Half sheet folio (240 x 172mm.), STC 643 (first
line ending ‘beene’); Madan I, 109 no. 2, [Oxford
or London, 1618?].
Together 5 works, bound in contemporary limp
vellum, lettered in manuscript on spine
£9750
This extremely attractive and well-preserved volume
gathers together five (it omits STC 637, Πονος... περι της
αποστασιας της εκκλησιας) out of the six rare pamphlets
published between 1617 and 1624, which served to describe
and bring to the notice of the world not only the trials
and tribulations of Christopher Angelos himself, but also
served to spread knowledge of Turkish doings in Greece,
and the fear of the Turk further west, but also knowledge
of the Orthodox church and its tenets. It is this last aspect
which the Encheiridion addresses; indeed this work was
reprinted with substantial commentary by George Fehlau,
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a Danzig pastor, in Germany (Frankfurt, 1655, enlarged
Leipzig, 1666, reprinted 1676 (see VD17), and at Franeker
in 1679).
Angelos was from the Peloponnese, and had undergone
torture at the hands of the Turks in Athens. He came to
England from Italy in 1608, landing at Yarmouth, whence
he went to Norwich, the bishop of which (John Jegon)
sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge. Of that college
Angelos sings the praises at the end of his Encomion. His
Encheiridion is dedicated to Richardson, Master of Trinity.
Leaving Cambridge he established himself at Balliol
College, Oxford, where he seems to have taught Greek.
One of his English acquaintances was Samuel Purchas,
to whom he gave a copy of the Encheiridion, from which
Purchas provided extracts in Pilgrimes (1625) I, I, 154163. Angelos died in Oxford and was buried in St. Ebbe’s
church.
The presence of Greeks in England at this time is well
attested. The patriarch Cyril Lucaris famously presented
the Codex Alexandrinus to Charles I in 1628 (cf.Julian
Roberts ‘The Greek Press at Constantinople in 1627 and
its Antecedents’ in The Library 1967, 5th series, XXII: 1343). For one (4to A. 57. Art. Seld) of the Bodleian copies
of the collection which has the original drawings for the
woodcuts see Percy Simpson Proof reading in the sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1935) pp. 80-82.
This volume contains the works of Aphthonius, Hermogenes
and Pseudo-Longinus ‘On the sublime’. Hermogenes Περι
τον στασεων (pp. 49-127) is copiously annotated in ink, in
a neat hand by Burton.
The Longinus is heavily annotated in red chalk/
crayon, mostly in Latin but sometimes in English. At the
beginning of the text is a note written in tiny characters
and in ink about Caecilius : 'Hic putatur esse Caecilius
rhetor Siculus qui Romae floruit aequalis et amicus
Dionysii Halicarnassei' with a list of those who mention
him. There are a few other notes in the same hand and
on p. 14, where there is a lacuna, the missing Greek text
has been copied in the same hand.
The study of Hermogenes on rhetoric is well attested
in the sixteenth century, and from an early date. Longinus
On the sublime however was not edited until 1554. This is
the third edition and the first to be divided into chapters.
There was no English translation until 1652, but the
present volume shews quite clearly its study in England
earlier in the seventeenth century
Provenance: “Wilhelm Burton Paul. Lond. Sept. 13 1624”,
i.e William Burton of Alcham in Shrophire, educated St.
Paul’s school, Queen’s Coll. Oxford, who died 28 December
1657. He was a fine Greek scholar, and at one time taught
Greek at Oxford (Hart Hall). He was assistant to Thomas
Farnaby, the schoolmaster friend of Jonson and Selden,
Commelin is more usually associated with Heidelberg,
but Leiden sometimes appears in his imprints. This also
may be found with the 1626 edition of Aelius Theon (no.
208), as the dedication ‘cum Theone’ makes clear.
Provenance: John Wyberd (Wybard) his booke 1654.
Possibly he of Pembroke Coll., Oxford. Matric. March
1638/9 M.D. Franeker 1644, Oxford 1654. Author of several
books on surveying etc. (Wood Ath. Oxon. iii, 388).
12 ARISTOTLE. [Rhetorica. Italian.] I tre libri della retorica... tradotti in lingua
volgare da M. Alessandro Piccolomini, etc.
4to (192 x 137mm.), [12], 292pp., device on titlepage, English calf c. 1720, gilt fillet on covers, spine
gilt, coloured silk marker.
Venice: Francesco de’ Franceschi, 1571 £550
First edition of this translation and a handsome copy.
Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578) is well known as a
translator of Ovid and other classical writers into Italian
and also as a scientist. CNCE 2976.
13 ARRIANUS. Αρριανου... ars tactica,
acies contra Alanos, Periplus ponti euxini...
Epicteti Enchiridion [and other works]... cum
interpretibus latinis, & notis... N. Blancardi.
8vo (193 x 110mm.), [14(incl. add. engr. title, dated
1683)], 450, [4 (errata)]pp., title printed in red &
black, 2 folding engraved maps, one large and by
Ortelius, folding engraved battle plan, engraved
plans in text, contemporary English calf, spine
gilt.
Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkst & Merk, 1750 £600
A reissue of the edition published in 1683 with a cancellans
title-page. A most interesting compilation with Latin
translations from various hands, Johann Scheffer,
The map was first published in 1590 (see Koeman Atlantes
iii, p. 53).
15 ASCHAM, Roger – JOHNSON, Samuel.
The English works... with notes and
observations, and the author’s life by James
Bennet.
4to (270 x 210mm.), [10], xvi, 395pp., list of
subscribers, engraved armorial head-piece (Earl
of Shaftesbury, contemporary calf, spine gilt, red
morocco lettering piece (short split at the head of
the upper joint).
London: printed for R. & J. Dodsley, 1761 £400
14 ARTEMIDORUS. Artemidori Daldiani
& Achmetis Sereimi f. Oneirocritica.
Astrampsychi & Nicephori versus etiam
oneirocritici. Nicolai Rigaltii... notae.
4to (225 x 153mm.), [12], 269, Ll4 blank, [23] P2
blank, 20, 65; 275, [17]pp., title printed in red
and black, 2 columns, later seventeenth-century
Cambridge binding of panelled calf, spine gilt, red
edges.
Paris: M. Orry, 1603 £900
First edition, first issue with the leaf of additional
subscribers. The life of Ascham and the dedication are
from the pen of Dr. Johnson. The list of 307 subscribers
includes the names of the Earl of Macclesfield, the Earl of
Shaftesbury, to whom the volume is dedicated, and who
took 20 copies, and the Head Master of Eton, Edward
Barnard, as well as a number of clergymen, fellows of
Cambridge colleges, and a bevy of ladies: Mrs & Miss
Cochran, Miss Cowper, Miss Harriot (sic) Cochran, Mrs.
Frye, and others. The sale of the 750 copies printed by
Strahan in July 1761 was sluggish and the sheets were
reissued in 1767 with half-title, an undated title and no
leaf with additional subscribers.
Wilhelm Stuck (Periplus), Hieronymus Wolf (Epictetus),
Lucas Holstenius (De venatione) etc. The editor Nicolaus
Blancardus (Nicolaas Blanckaert, 1625-1703) was an editor
of texts and a cartographer.
The engraved title has the imprint of the Jansz.
Waesberghe firm with the date 1683, which is the date of
the original publication. We have located 4 copies of this
reissue: at Oxford, and (from OCLC) Harvard, Stanford
& Kansas.
An extremely handsome copy of Rigault’s edition of
Artemidorus’s Traumbuch, the Greek text of which
had been first printed in 1518 by Aldus, and the Latin
version by Cornaro in 1539. The two short verse texts
by Astrampsychus and Nicephorus had also previously
been printed. Artemidorus forms an important source
for our knowledge of antiquity, as was pointed out by
Jakob Burckhardt. The book had an influence on Freud,
who read it in a bowdlerised translation. ‘It is a work that
has assumed massive importance in modern studies on
sexuality and the unconscious in the ancient world’ (Glen
Bowerock From Gibbon to Auden (2009) p. 116).
The longer work by Ahmad ibn Serim is here first
printed from a manuscript then in the Bibliothèque du Roi
in Paris. This work written originally in Arabic was then
translated into Greek. Medieval Latin versions are known,
but none was ever printed. The text of this edition is based
on two Parisian mss. On is Par.Gr. 2538, but the other is
not Par. Gr. 2427, which was not acquired until the early
18th century. Loewenklau’s earlier Latin version was based
on a Vienna manuscript, which contains several lacunae.
No new edition was produced until Drexl’s Teubner text
of 1925. For a modern study see Mavroudi, M. A Byzantine
book on Dream Interpretation The Oneirocriticon of Achmet
and its Arabic sources. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
16 ASTERIUS, Saint. Homiliae graece &
latine nunc primum editae Philippo
Rubenio interprete. Eiusdem Rubeni carmina,
orationes, & epistolae selectiores: itemque
amicorum in vita functum pietas. (Iusti Rycqui...
pietas in funere...Marci Velseri... ad Ioannem
Brantium).
4to (260 x 180mm.), [12], 284, [4]pp., engraved device
on title-page, last leaf with woodcut device on recto,
engraved portrait by Galle after Rubens, contemporary
limp vellum, lower cover slightly damaged.
Antwerp: in off. Plantiniana, widow & sons of J. Moretus,
1615 £1200
A very fine copy of a beautifully printed book, published
after Philip Rubens (1574-1611) death. Amongst his
correspondents is his brother the painter Peter Paul
Rubens (who painted his portrait) whose design for the
illustration has been engraved: ‘the iconography of this
Item 17, August II
image clearly indicates the high regard Rubens and his
friends had for Philip’ (Corpus Rubenianum etc. XXI (1977)
p. 152). The last section of the book is devoted to the
panegyric on Marcus Welser, the Augsburg patrician,
banker, scholar and maecenas.
The book was very highly priced at 30 guilders and
750 copies were printed, the engravings all being printed
together (ibid. p. 433).
17 [AUGUST II Duke of Branschweig Lüneburg]. Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices
et cryptographiae libri IX, etc.
Folio (295 x 185mm.), [36], 493, [1]pp., half-title
folding letterpress table, engraved border on titlepage, 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams,
printer’s device on final verso, contemporary Dutch
vellum, yapp edges, title leaf trimmed at foot &
mounted on a stub.
(Lüneburg: J. & H. Stern, 1624) £7000
Fleeman 61. 8BA/1a (vol. 2 pp. 1028-1030).
Item 16, Asterius
Provenance: Inscription on title-page Stephanus Joann[is]
Stephanius.
[see inside front cover for photograph of binding]
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Royal 8vo (245 X 155mm.), xxii (engr. portrait on
p. [ii]), 156, [6]pp., 2 full-page woodcut illustrations
of watermarks on pp. [160-161], contemporary
parchment-backed blue paper boards, spine
completely worn, deckle edges.
London: printed in the year 1737. First edition, and an extremely fine, unspotted copy of this
important book which combines practical crytopgraphy
with the urge for universal knowledge which Duke
Albert, founder of the great Wolfenbuttel library, sought
to create in that very library. The work is presented as a
commentary on Trithemius, abbot of Würzburg, whose
own works, published at the end of the fifteenth century,
played such an important role in both cryptography and
bibliography.
The errata (7 lines) are printed on p. [157] within rules. In
this copy is inserted a single leaf, printed on one side only
(paginated 158) and on a different paper stock and with
the ms. heading ‘Errata’. This page contains a rewriting
of some lines to the preface (p. viii), a short correction to
a sentence on p. 83 (the only erratum, as such), and a long
addition to the account of Syre Gualtier Manuy on p. 90.
ESTC records 2 copies (at Huntington and Yale) of an
‘edition’ dated 1738 with 158pp., but these are ghosts.
VD17 23:285820R; Caillet 10114; J.S. Galland, An historical
and analytical bibliography of the liturgy of cryptography (NY
1970) pp. 166-167.
18 BACON, Roger. Specula mathematica:
in qua de specierum muiltiplicatione...
agitur. Liber... editus opera... Johannis
Combachii, [etc.]
4to (182 x 125mm.), [8], 83pp., woodcut figures in
text. Rebound in half calf, old style.
Frankfurt: W. Richter for A. Hummius, 1614 £1200
Generally found with the 1614 edition of Bacon’s Perspectiva,
but in fact a separate work (although complementary to the
other), and treated as such by VD17. This is part of Bacon’s
Opus maius. Perspectiva deals with how we see, but in De
specierum multiplicatione Bacon discusses radiation: light
and colour emanate in every direction from every point
of the surface of a visible object, and do this continuously;
the path is represented by straight lines or rays; light
is not a body but a likeness of the luminous body, and
so on. Bacon realised that seeing involved not just the
eye but the brain, and following Avicenna he divides the
brain into ‘cells’. He gives a fairly accurate account of the
anatomy of the eye and the optic nerve, but believed, as
did Aristotle, and others, that radiation from the visual
object to the eye makes for visual perception. He begins
with a paean in praise of mathematics ‘the door and key
of all knowledge’ (p. 2).
This edition was edited by Johann Combach (15851651) a professor at Marburg, and an influential figure
in the intellectual life of the time, being involved with
Rosicrucianism and much else. Combach had studied
in Oxford and 1609, and it was in the Bodleian that he
had unearthed the Bacon manuscripts he used for his
edition.
VD17 39:121541F.
20 BAIF, Lazare. De re vestiaria libellus
ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris lingue
interpretatione, etc. (ed. C. Estienne).
8vo (162 x 100mm.), 68, [10]pp, later vellum.
Paris: Ambroise Girault, 1535 £650
An uncommon edition of the children’s book, of which
Estienne and Colines also published editions in the same
year. There is a copy of this quite separate edition (i.e. it
is not an ‘édition partagée’) in the BNF.
Index Aureliensis 111.623; Lipperheide 100.
19 [BAGFORD, John]. Proposals for
printing an historical account, of that most
universally celebrated, as well as useful art of
typography (The life of William Caxton, the
first printer in the abbey of Wesminster).
Folio (318 x 193mm.), 4pp., in folder.
[London, 1707] £8000
John Bagford (1650-1716) proposed this history of printing
but it was never published. The proposals proper (with the
names of the booksellers taking them in London, Oxford,
Cambridge and Dublin) are on pp. 1-2, with on pp. 3-4
the life of Caxton ending with a list of 39 publications
from his press arranged chronologically, the dated books
preceding those undated.
There are recorded only 4 copies of these proposals, 3 at
the at the BL (all bound in Harleian MS 5995) and the
other at the State Library of Victoria.
Folded into:
LEWIS, John. The life of mayster Wyllyam
Caxton, etc.
MAGGS
21 BAINBRIDGE, John. An Astronomicall
description of the late Comet from the
18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December
following. With certaine Morall Prognosticks
or Applications drawne from the Comets
motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall
Hieroglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent
observations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of
Physicke, and louer of the Mathematicke.
4to (172 x 125mm.), [8], 24, “17” [i.e. 25], [26 (blank)],
27-42pp., folding engraved plate dedicated to James
I depicting the course of the comet through Libra
and Arctophylax (Boötes) shown as soldier holding
a lance with the rear parts of Ursa Major in the
top right corner, Virgo at his feet and the “Corona
Septentrionalis” (Ariadne’s Crown; now known as
the Corona Borealis) to the left and the “Serpens
Ophiuchi” (the snake-holder) below, all shown in the
astrological forms)’ lacking last blank leaf, errata leaf
lightly stained; some light browning, a few headlines
slightly shaved.
London: by Edward Griffin for Iohn Parker, 1619
£2500
First Edition (2nd state of imprint; see below). The third,
and most visible, comet of 1618 was seen throughout
Europe. It was widely held to prognosticate the most
calamitous events that would culminate in the fall of
Rome, the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Islam
and was seen later in the century as a harbinger of the
Thirty Years’ War.
Bainbridge describes how he observed the comet with
the use of a cross-staff and describes its daily progress
and nature (pp. 1-”17” [i.e. 25])). This is followed by the
“Morall Prognosticks” (pp. 27-42). He avoids specifics
but saw it as an auspicious sign for England and sees the
restoration of the English to their former heroic nature
(now addled by tobacco smoking) and takes it as an evil
sign for England’s enemies.
STC 1208 (+; California-Berkeley (lacking plate), Folger (3
copies, 2 defective of which 1 lacking plate), Harvard (with
plate), Huntington (2 copies; 1 ex Mt Wilson Observatory)
both lacking plate), Minnesota (with the plate), New York
Academy of Medicine (with plate), New York Public Library
(CATNYP does not mention the plate) & Yale (with plate)
in USA.
The first state of the title has the imprint “by Edward
Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1618. STC 1207 records
copies at Emmanuel College Cambridge, Trinity College
Dublin, Huntington (with the plate) & Wisconsin-Madison
(with the plate).
22 BARBA, Alvaro Alonso & Montagu,
Edward, Earl of Sandwich. A collection
of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals,
mines and minerals... translated by the Earl of
Sandwich in the year 1669... [with] G. Plattes... a
discovery of all sorts of mines... [and] Houghton’s
compleat miner.
12mo (168 x 92mm.), [12], 170, [10], 173-275, [5],
66, [2]pp., engraved plate, woodcut illustrations,
contemporary morocco, gilt triple-fillet and rolltooled border, gilt corner fleurons, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt edges, spine chipped at head,
joints rubbed and cracking, lacking letteringpiece.
London: C. Jephson for Olive Payne, 1738 £550
A fine copy with publisher’s advertisements at end (2p.),
glossary (6p.).
References: Palau 23631.
11
23 BARDET DE VILLENEUVE. [Cours de
la science militaire]. Traité de
l’architecture civile a l’usage des ingénieurs.
8vo (200 x 115mm.), 151, [9]p., engraved frontispiece,
engraved printer’s device, 12 folding plates
numbered pl.18 to pl.29 bound at the end (this
series follows the one of the tract about geometry
which is numbered 1-17), contemporary mottled
calf, double-fillet gilt, spine gilt in compartments,
red morocco lettering piece, frontispice and titlepage detached.
La Haye: Jean Van Duren, 1711 £300
the educated minority. Their one point of disagreement
was over the earth itself, Gilbert taking the Copernican
view that the earth rotated on its axis, whereas Barlow
held to the church’s teaching of a stationary earth. Barlow
composed his treatise on magnetism in English (the Oxford
English Dictionary credits him with the first use of the word),
and about 1609 gave a copy to Sir Thomas Challenor,
chamberlain to Prince Henry. Challenor mislaid this, as
also a second copy, which he had promised to see into
print, so after his death in 1615 Barlow himself arranged
for its publication and dedicated it to Dudley Digges (15831639), known for his interest in magnetism, who had for
many years urged Barlow to publish.
Bardet de Villeneuve was a military engineer in the service
of the king of Naples. This forms part of the 8 volume
Cours.
STC 1442 (+; Boston Public, Folger, Huntington,
Pennsylvania, U.S. Naval Academy Nimitz, WisconsinMadison, Yale).
24 BARDET DE VILLENEUVE. [Cours de
la science militaire]. Traité de la géometrie
pratique, a lusage des officiers.
8vo (200 x 115mm.), 195, [9]p., engraved frontispice,
engraved printer’s device, 17 folding plates numbered
pl.1 to pl.17, contemporary mottled calf, double
gilt fillet on boards, spine gilt in compartments,
lettering-piece.
La Haye: Jean Van Duren, 1740
£300
26 BASTA, Giorgio, Count d’Huszt. Le gouvernement de la cavallerie legere.
Folio (297 x 200mm.), [12], 76 pp., title within
engraved border, woodcut initials and headpieces,
12 double-page engraved plates, water-damaged
at foot throughout with some fraying (including
a foot of title-page and on some plates), binding
scraped.
Rouen: Jean Berthelin, 1627 £450
25 [BARLOW, William]. Magneticall
Advertisements: or divers pertinent
observations, and approved experiments
concerning the nature and properties of the
Load-stone: Very pleasant for knowledge, and
most needfull for practise, of travelling, or
framing of Instruments fit for Travellers both by
Sea and Land.
4to (180 x 125mm.), [16], 86, [2]pp. Woodcut
illustrations in the text. Without the final leaf of
“Faults escaped”, but with the penultimate leaf
containing a letter from William Gilbert to the
author, Short tear at the head of A4; title and final
page dust-soiled, small dampstain in the upper forecorner and fore-margin at the beginning and end.
Disbound.
London: Edward Griffin for Timothy Barlow, 1616
£4500
First edition. Barlow’s interest in magnetism generally
led him to exchange ideas with William Gilbert (15401603), whose De magnete (1600) treated the subject at
length but was in Latin and therefore accessible only to
MAGGS
Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt (1550-1607) was a general of
Albanian descent employed to command Habsburg forces
in the Long War of (1591-1606) and later to administer
Transylvania. His military prowess is celebrated in
Tarducci’s Delle machine, Venice, 1601, and elsewhere,
and his own Il mastro di campo generale was published
in 1606. The present work was published in Italian (by
Pietro Amiato) in 1612 in Venice, and numerous editions
in French, and Spanish (1624) followed. There is an earlier
Rouen edition of 1616.
Of this 1627 edition, there are copies in the BL, NLS,
Society of Antiquaries; BNF Paris ; Greifswald UB; LC,
Newberry, Brown and Yale. See Labarre de Raillicourt,
Dominique. Basta, comte d’Just et du Saint Empire (1550-1607)
sa vie, sa famille, et sa descendance, Paris, 1968.
Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Genl. G.L. Parker.
27 BAXTER, William. Glossarium
antiquitatum britannicarum, sive syllabus
etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britannae
atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum, etc.
Royal 8vo (230 x 135mm.), [6], xiv, [4], 277, [19]pp.,
engraved portrait of Baxter, contemporary russia
binding, gilt border on covers, spine gilt, red edges,
spine somewhat faded, without list of subscribers.
London: W. Bowyer, 1719 £600
A handsome copy, and one of 110 copies printed on royal
paper (the edition comprised 350 copies of which 240 were
on ordinary paper).
The work is dedicated to Richard Mead, physician and
collector, but this special copy has a leaf inserted after the
printed dedication in which Mead is again addressed and
it is suggested that the earliest inhabitants of Britain were
‘cave-dwellers (‘antricolae’) leading the lives of Hottentots
or Troglodytes, like the Cyclops and giants of the Greeks
and not speaking an articulated language of any kind, but
like animals uttering sounds (εκφωνηµατα)'. The absence
of the List of subscribers must be deliberate.
According to the Bowyer Ledgers (577) sheet B and
some other half-sheets were reprinted.
FORE-RUNNER OF GALILEO
28 BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. Resolutio omnium Euclidis problematum
aliorumque ad hoc necessario inventorum una
tantummodo circini data apertura.
4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. [12], 57, [1], woodcut
diagrams, large device on title-page.
£5000
Venice: (Bartolommeo Cesano), 1553
Benedetti’s first book, this work, with its lengthy and
elegantly printed dedication to the Dominican Gabriel
de Guzman, is divided into five books, of which book I is
by far the longest, and provides solutions effected purely
by use of the compass, for a variety of problems from
books vi, x, xi & xv of Euclid.
In the dedication he tells us how he spent September
(1553) in the country, applied himself to mathematical
studies, and wrote his commentary. He also clearly
demonstrates his concern with questions of weight
and motion, which were in 1554 to result in his most
important contribution the Demonstratio proportionum
motuum localium.
CNCE 5163; Riccardi i, 110.
29 BERKENMEYER, Paul Ludolph. Le curieux antiquaire ou recueil
geographique et historique des choses les plus
remarquables qu’on trouve dans les quatre
parties de l’univers; tirees des voiages des divers
hommes célebres; avec deux tables, des noms
géographiques, & des matières.
3 volumes in one, 8vo (190 x 120mm.), [22], 385,
[2], 386-736, [10], 737-1062pp., each volume has
a special title-page, 2 engraved folding maps, 2
engraved folding plans, 46 engraved plates (44
folding), title printed in red and black.
Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1729 £700
First and only French edition of a work first published in
German in 1709 in Hamburg. A worldwide guidebook
giving an account of extraordinary places and stories, all
taken, as the title makes clear, from travel literature.
30 BIANCHINI, Francesco. De kalendario
et cyclo Caesaris ac de Paschali canone
S. Hippolyti martyris dissertationes duae...
quibus inseritur descriptio, & explanatio basis,
in Campo Martio nuper detectae sub columna
Antonio Pio olim dicata... De nummo et
gnomone clementino (Tabulae IV).
3 parts in 1 volume folio (310 x 210mm.), [20], 1-92,
[4], 93-176; [8], 84, [8]; [24]pp., 10 engraved plates
(of 11) of which 5 folding, engraved illustrations in
text, “De nummo et gnomone Clementino...”, with
separate half-title and pagination, contemporary
Dutch calf, gilt spine.
Rome: A. & F. de Conte, 1703 £550
First edition. A handsome copy of this work by Francesco
Bianchini (1662-1729), Italian philosopher and scientist,
secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar,
who at the time was working on the method to calculate
the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year,
which is one of the topics discussed here (the so-called
Hippolytan canon). In part 1 at p. 92 are four extra letter
press leaves (printed on one side only).
The second part is mostly about the Clementine sundial
(‘gnomon’), erected on the orders of Pope Clement XI
(illustrated in 2 large folding -plates), and also illustrated
on the verso of a medallion. The missing plate would
seem to be figure 1 (described on p. 20, with figs 2-5 also
described).
HOW TO LEARN HEBREW
WITH OR WITHOUT POINTS
31 BIBLE. PSALMS. Hebrew. [Hebrew]
Sefer Tehillim waSefer Aikhah …The
Hebrew text of the Psalmes and Lamentations
but published … with the reading thereof in
English letters, excepting only the letter [‘ain]...
by William Robertson, etc.
12mo (153 x 85mm.), 8vo (178 x 105mm.), [8],
248, 22, [2], text in 2 columns printed in vocalised
13
A copy of this lacking the 2 leaves of quire S (pp. 9-[12])
and in a contemporary English binding is also offered with
this volume. This has the ownership inscription of “AA 18
March 1657” and the price 1s.6d. of Arthur Annesley, later
(1661) 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish landowner and politician,
friend and protector of Milton and patron of Andrew
Marvell; he was the last President of the Commonwealth
Council of State (25 Feb. to 31 May 1660) and played a
part in the Restoration of Charles II.
For a copy of Milton’s Areopagitica with the ownership note
“AA. novemb. 28. 1644. 4d” see Quaritch Catalogue 953
(1975), item 36 where the identification of Annesley is made.
His library of 30,000 volumes, including a “vast Collection
of Pamphlets of all sorts, containing all the remarkable
Ones relating to Government, &c.”, was considered one
of the finest in private hands in the country. It was sold at
auction as the Bibliotheca Angleseiana in October 1686.
At least one other title was in the Macclesfield Library.
33 BIBLE. O. T. Psalms. Latvian. Dahwida
dseesmu-grahmata no deewa swehta
wahrda grahmatas pa wahrdu wahrdeem
isnemta.
ff. [136], Black Letter. Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1704.
Bound with:
Bible. O.T. Proverbs. Latvian. Salamana
sakkami-wahrdi no deewa swehta wahrda
grahmatas...
88pp., Riga: G.M. Nöller, 1707.
2 works in 1 volume 8vo (155 x 90mm.), later
eighteenth-century English polished calf, gilt
spine, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, a
few headlines slightly shaved
£550
Both these versions are made from the German. We have
not located any copy of this edition.
Wing B2742C and B2742B.
Hebrew and transliterated, last leaf with errata,
contemporary English calf over pasteboard
contemporary English calf over pasteboard, upper
joint cracking.
London: printed for the author; and are to be sold by H.
Robinson, A. Crook, L. Fawn, J. Kirton, S. Thomson...
and by G. Sawbrige...Where any who desires, may know
where the author remains, 1656 £1800
Dedicated to John Sadler, Esquire, his worthy Maecenas
and Patron. John Sadler (1615-1674) addressed was an
important figure, friend of Samuel Hartlib and others,
master-in chancery, town clerk of London under the
Commonwealth, and himself a Hebrew scholar from that
well-known nest of protestantism Emmanuel College,
Cambridge
Robertson published in the same year a vocalised text
(with no transliteration), dedicated to Jonathan Goddard
(1617-1675), Cromwell’s choice as warden of Merton
College, Oxford, and one of the founding members of
the Royal Society. The Macclesfield copy of the 1543
Copernicus had a manuscript note by John Greaves
about experiments carried out at Dr. Goddard’s house.
This vocalised text is published by the same group of
booksellers: Sefer tehillim... The Hebrew text... revised and
corrected according to the best of Plantin’s and Stephan’s
impressions; but published without [sic] the (superfluous...)
accents... with a postscript...explaining the keri and ketib...
in these two books. By William Robertson, etc. 8vo (164
x 110mm.) [8], 151, 11[1], [20]pp.
MAGGS
32 BIBLE. O.T. Psalms. Hebrew. Sefer
tehillim… The Hebrew text of the Psalmes
and Lamentations, but published, without the
points or vowels; yet to be made use of, by any
who can read with the points… By Willuiam
Robertson, etc.
12mo (150 x 85mm.), [12], 156, 149- 191, 15, [2]pp.,
last leaf with errata, contemporary calf.
London: printed for the author; and are to be sold by H.
Robinson, A. Crook, L. Fawn, J. Kirton, S. Thomson...
and by G. Sawbrige...Where any who desires, may know
where the author remains, 1656
£450
Dedicated to the Ministers and Divines in the City of
London with a list of their names. The text is printed
without points. Robertson, a
Scot from Edinburgh where
he graduated in 1651, came to
England to teach Hebrew, which
language he believed to be within
the grasp of anyone, and which
he believed (correctly) did not
need to be learned through the
medium of Latin which merely
serves to complicate the issue
with irrelevant grammatical
terms and restrictions. He was a
zealous protestant, formed in the
Scotch presbyterian mould, and
the author of a number of such
works. He was the author of Rights of the Kingdom.
Wing B2742C.
Provenance: John Christy liber 1717.
34 Bird Fancier’s Recreation.
The Bird-fancier’s recreation: being
curious remarks on the nature of song-birds,
with choice instructions concerning the taking,
feeding, breeding and teaching them, and how
to know the cock from the hen. Also the manner
of taking birds with Lime-Twigs, and the
preparations necessary thereto. With
an account of the distempers incident to SongBirds, and the method to cure them.
“Third edition” 12mo, 89, [5] pp. With an engraved
frontispiece. Very lightly browned throughout, small
closed tear to B4, but overall a good copy bound
in contemporary sheep (front joint cracked, cords
firm).
London: printed for T. Ward, 1735 £450
This work, an adaptation of The Bird Fancier’s delight, which
appeared in 1714, is a guide for owning and raising birds.
There is a notice at the end of the text that “The author
sells all the sorts of Birds mentioned in this book, as well
as all manner of seeds, and other provisions, for every
sort of bird: likewise Elk’s-Hair, and all other convenient
things proper for breeding canary-birds”. Under this title
there is no earlier edition other than this ‘third’ recorded
by ESTC.
35 BISSEL, Johann, S.J. Icaria.
12mo (110 x 60mm.), [24], 343, [17]pp.,
engraved title and map in text, contemporary
vellum, yapp edges, paper shelf-labels on the spine
(old Macclesfield classmark A. IX. 23) and number
35 written in ink (slightly dusty).
Ingolstadt: (G. Haenlin), 1637 £450
First edition. Icaria is the High Palatinate (in East Bavaria,
where Regensburg is found), and this work, which is in
184 short chapters (some in verse), is in part a description
and in part an account (disguised under pseudonyms)
of events which took place there. Bissel (1601-1682) was
the author of some eighteen works, a number of them
on contemporary affairs, and one called Argonauticon
Americanorum. At the end of the preface to the reader there
is a rather vague and indefinite key to names: Annibal
Aquilonarius = King of Sweden or another; Neachilles =
Tilly, and so on, but the author wishes to remain vague.
There is some underlining and a few ms. annotations, one
of which identifies ‘Lucianus Lemannicus’ as Calvin, and
on pp. 14-15 there are two notes one beginning ‘Mentiris
Jesuita’ (You lie, Jesuit) in which the lack of effect of his
attack on Calvin is mentioned, and the other calling the
author a damned slanderer (‘Macte calumniator) who
justifies regicide. A further short note on p. 16 defines
Muftis as ottoman popes.
De Backer-Sommervogel I 1514. no. 4; VD17 3:301276V.
Not uncommon in European libraries, we have located
copies at Harvard and OCLC lists 3 other copies in the
USA.
Provenance: On the title is an early inscription “Annumeror
libris [?Lucae, Fucae or Tucae] ab Achen [I am counted
among the books of... of Aachen [i.e.Aix-la-Chapelle].
On the rear pastedown is written in ink in a possibly
continental (Dutch/German?) hand is the inscription
something like: “Johnathan Mr Kathar [?Kathan]. Michael
troite (?) & Joanna his wife baptized the 6 October.” There
are also some short notes in Latin pencil above it.
36 BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. M. Blundeville His Exercises, containing
eight treatises... very necessarie to be read and
learned of all young Gentlemen, that have
not beene exercised in such disciplines, and
yet are desirous to have knowledge as well in
Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie,
as also in the art of navigation, in which art it is
impossible to profite without the helpe of these,
or such like instructions. The fourth edition…
corrected and augmented.
4to (155 x 130mm.), [16 (first leaf blank)], 799, [1
(blank)]pp., folding table (“The Sexagenarie Table”,
signed F5) at p. 80, folding table (“The draught of
the Meridians and Paralels of the Mariners Carde”)
15
at p. 695 (loosely inserted), folding woodcut “Mappe
of Fraunce” at p. 784, folding woodcut of an empty
globe divided into lines of longitude and latitude at
p. 798 (loosely inserted); the fifth folding woodcut is
a woodcut of a set of compass points linked by rhumb
lines (it has become detached and is now loosely
inserted at p. 794); numerous woodcut illustrations
of instruments, etc., in the text; that at p. 315 with a
piece of string as a pointer; that at p. 315 a woodcut
volvelle with pointer is loosely inserted (this has
attached to it the semi-circular “flie” missing from
p. 775 (cf. the 1638 edition on EEBO) in place of the
circular ?globe found in the 1597 & 1638 editions
on EEBO; that at p. 660 has the pointer loosely
inserted; a woodcut pointer is tipped to the margin
(?incorrectly) at p. 585; that at p. 720 has a woodcut
volvelle and pointer; that at. 744 lacks the volvelle;
the space for the “Flie” at p.775 is blank as in the
Huntington copy on EEBO; Mid-17th-century calf,
gilt spine marbled edges (joints and spine rubbed,
foot of the spine torn away exposing the tailband.
London: by William Stansby, 1613 £1500
STC 3149 (British Library, Oxford Museum of the History
of Science, Senate House Library, Sheffield University;
Folger (2 copies), Huntington, Illinois, New York Public
Library).
Catchword at p.229 cropped; rust-hole in p. 245/6 woodcut
astrolable at p. 301 cropped at the fore-edge; short tear at
the foot of p. 631/2 from a paper flaw; a few other short
tears and small rust-spots, otherwise a fine, clean and
virtually complete copy, with most of the volvelles and
pointers (copies of any of the editions seldom have a full
complement).
Editions appeared in 1594, 1597, 1606, 1613, 1622,
1636 & 1638. The final part, A Briefe description of universall
mappes and cardes was first published separately in 1589.
37 BOCCHI, Achille. Symbolicarum
quaestionum... libri quinque.
ff. [48]],CCCLVIII, [3], numerous engravings in
text, Bologna: Societa tipigrafica, 1574.
12mo (140 x 70mm.), [12], 226, [2(blank)]pp.,
eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gilt fillet on
covers, red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges.
Rome: typis sacr. congreg. de progag. fide, 1638 £700
The Meditationes is a work attributed to Saint Bonaventure,
printed first in the fifteenth century and very popular
as a work of piety. The translator into Bulgarian was the
Franciscan Petar, Archbishop of Sofia, author of the Cuneus
prophetarum de Christo, published in 1685 (modern edition
1977). There is a copy of the book in Munich (KVK) and in
the BL (856.a.9.), but we have found no copies in USA.
The imprimatur is subscribed by Father Raphael
Levacovich, a Croat Franciscan who is described as
‘sac. librorum illyricanae ecclesiae, auctoritate sedis
apostolicae in Urbe corrector’. See Alexandru Ciociltan.
‘Catolicismul in Tara Româneasca in relatari edite si inedite
alearhiepiscopului de Sofia Petru Bogdan Baksic((1663,
1668, 1670)’ in Revista istorica 18 (2007) pp. 61 sqq.
gilt fillets on covers, one corner a little rubbed
£9500
A fine copy of Bocchi with beautiful impressions of
the plates, and the addition of the uncommon work by
Sambigucci (1502-1567), a doctor from Sassari in Sardinia,
who dedicates this, his sole work to Salvatore Salapussi,
Archbishop of Sassari. It is a discussion of Bocchi’s emblem
no. 102, and is mostly concerned with the subject of
Love.
Bocchi Mortimer Harvard 77 ; CNCE 6484 ; Sambigucci
Renouard 169: 12; UCLA 509; CNCE 27752. In the UK
there are 2 copies of Sambigucci (BL and Rylands); OCLC
records 4 copies in USA, one in NZ and 4 in Germany.
Censimento records several copies in Italian libraries.
Provenance: Brodeau 1649.
Bound with:
SAMBIGUCCI, Gavino. In Hermathenam
Bocchiam interpretatio.
141 (=161), [3]pp., large device on title-page, woodcut
initials. Bologna: Antonio Manuzio, (14 December)
1556. 2 works in 1 volume 4to (195 x 135mm.), ruled in
red throughout, seventeenth-century smooth calf,
MAGGS
38 BONAVENTURE, St. & Petar [Bogdan
Baksich] Abp. of Sofia. Meditationes to
yest bogosliubna razmiscglianya od otaystva
odkupplienya coviçanskogo... V yezik slovinski,
trudom P.O. F. Petra Bogdana Baksichia, [etc.]
(Od dvostruke smarti covieka sloga. O. Fra P[etra
Bogdana, etc.)
Provençal (dialect of Cahors) given ‘afin de garentir [sic]
d’estre esteinte par l’oubly’.
Borel was a doctor from Castres (Fermat’s home town),
and a well known writer on alchemical subjects, whose
Bibliotheca chimica was published in 1654.
Cioranescu 13693. There was another edition in 1667
and a revised edition was published in 1882.
39 BOREL, Pierre. Trésor de recherches
et antiquitez gauloises et françoises,
réduites en ordre alphabétique et renrichies de
beaucoup d’origines... de la langue thyoise ou
theuthfranque.
4to (235 x 180mm.), [104], 611 (i.e. 609, pp. 7374 omitted),[23]pp., engraved printer’s device,
head-piece and initial, all by Jean Picart (after
F.C. Chauveau?), woodcut head-pieces and
initials, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, morocco lettering-piece, severe
worming in bottom r.h. corners of 3 quires (GGII), affecting text, spine dry.
Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1655 £500
First edition. Linguistic science was an important preoccupation among the learned at this period, and the
composition of a dictionary based upon ‘old fashioned’
language was surprising, as the general tendency was
to favour modern vocabulary; among supporters of this
view there were, for instance, Malherbe, Vaugelas and
the dictionary of Richelet. Borel, with La Fontaine, goes
against fashion and pleads for the revival of old words,
but apart from the enrichment of the language Borel
enumerates many more advantages to be gained from his
book: it enables the access to ancient manuscript which
we “laisse manger aux teignes à faute de les entendre “; it
also gives access to old judicial papers and case law enables
lawyers to discover falsifications in contracts; it clarifies the
origin of French and its evolution, and provides material
for the composition of burlesque verses, of which Borel
gives an example at the end p.612 (“Vers a l’imitation
des anciens”). On pp. 229-230 there is a poem given in
40 BOSCHIUS [BOSCH], Jacobus S.J.
Symbolographia: sive de arte symbolica
sermones septem.
5 parts folio (377 x 218mm.), [16]ff. 72pp. [5]ff. (last
blank). 62pp. 86pp. 79pp. 19pp. [32]ff., frontispiece,
title-vignette and 171 plates of emblems engraved
by Jakob Müller and Johann Georg Wolfgang after
J.C. Schalckh, contemporary English calf, spine gilt
in compartments.
Augsburg & Dillingen, Johan Kaspar Bencard, 1702. £5000
First edition of the Jesuit Boschius’ lengthy work on the
origin and theory of emblems, richly illustrated with 2052
devices on 171 engraved plates. The emblems are divided
17
into four classes and some 3797 mottoes are quoted with
their sources. As Praz notes, some copies are dated 1701
on the title-page.
Praz p. 283. Landwehr, German Emblem Books, 144. De
Backer-Sommervogel, I, col. 1826, no. 4.
41 [BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius].
Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum
provinciarum Belguii. Editio sexta auctior...
Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae diatriba
(Decretum...de antiquo jure - Articuli pacis...et
confoederationis... inter Olivarium [Cromwell]...
et...ordines generales foederatarum Belgii
provinciarum ab altera parte conclusae.)
12mo (130 x 70mm.), [12(incl. add. engr. title dated
1659)], 202, [2(blank)]pp., contemporary English
calf, gilt fillet on covers with gilt floral corner-pieces,
spine gilt, edges gilt, first 2 leaves with slight damp
stain.
The Hague: A. Vlacq for J. Vlacq, 1668 £450
The work, which was first published in 1649 deals not
only with the political and historical aspects of the Dutch
republic, but also with economic life, such as taxes and
(pp. 117-139) the Dutch East India Company. On p. 135,
for example, is a passage discussing slavery, and the
employment of slaves on sugar plantations in Brazil.
42 BRAUN, Ernst. Novissimum
fundamentum & praxis artilleriae oder
nachitziger besten Mannier... Unterricht usw.
Folio (343 x 210mm.), [4], 197, [7]pp., no dedication,
additional engraved title, 24 plates on 22 (of 23)
sheets, lacking final double-page engraving (Kupffer
26).
Danzig: J.F. Grafen for the author, 1682 £2800
First edition and very uncommon. There are copies in
Berlin and the Russian State Library. Plate 10 was never
engraved or published (see note on last page). The three
variants displayed by VD17 all have (differing) dedications,
but none is here present.
Provenance: annotated in a German hand and in German;
J. Hopkey with inscription on title and his initials on
cover. Hopkey was chief firemaster at the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich (1699) and was later promoted.
43 BRY, Gilles, sieur de la Clergerie. Histoire
des pays et comté du Perche et duché
d’Alençon, etc.
MAGGS
4to (222 x 160mm.), [16], 382, [14]pp., title printed
in red & black, eighteenth century English calf, gilt
fillets on covers, gilt spine.
Paris: Pierre Le-Mur, 1620 £650
First edition and a very handsome copy. A short pamphlet
of Additions was published in 1621.There is a modern
edition, revised by Siguret, published in 1970.
44 CALLIMACHUS. Hymni (cum scholiis
graecis) & Epigrammata. Eiusdem
poematium de coma Berenices, a Catullo
versum. Nicodemi Frischlini...interpretationes
duae hymnorum: una, oratione soluta:
altera, carmine... Henrici Stephani... partim
emendationes partim annotationes, etc.
2 parts 4to (250 x 175mm.), [16], 72; 134, [2(blank)]pp.,
device on title-page, initials, head-pieces, Dutch
early eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt spine.
[Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1578 £600
A handsome copy of this important edition, the first to
include the epigrams of Callimachus.
Callimachus is the best known of the Alexandrian
poets, and, like Apollonius Rhodius, was printed at the
same press in the fifteenth century. Like Apollonius,
another difficult and learned poet, his text is generally
printed with the explanations of the ancient commentators
or scholiasts, as in the editio princeps, and in subsequent
editions of 1532, 1555 etc.
Various of his hymns and epigrams had already
attracted translators into Latin verse, beginning with
Politician, but Frischlin is the first person to provide a
prose version (carefully lineated), which here is printed
at the foot of the text of the hymns, with the Greek scholia
printed at the side of the text. Frischlin’s hexameter verse
translation of the Hymns is printed in italic in double
column on pp. 73-84 of part 2, after his commentary,
and his life of Callimachus composed in Greek, for which
Christoph Baier provides a translation. Earlier/later verse
versions of the Hymns follow also at the end (pp. 109 sqq)
by Estienne, Bonaventura Vulcanius (hymn 1- Ad Jovem),
Franciscus Floridus Sabinus (hymn III -In Dianam), and
Politian (hymn V- Lavacrum Palladis).
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590) was born
at Balingen and educated at Tübingen. Chiefly known
as a Latin poet and playwright, he was also interested
in astronomy (although he regarded the study of nature
with suspicion). His edition of Callimachus is dedicated
to Philipp Ludwig, Count of Hanau, and is dated 1 July
1571, but the book was not published until 1577.
Renouard 145.3; not in Schreiber.
45 CALLIMACHUS. Υµνοι... Hymni,
epigrammata et fragmenta... vetera scholia
graeca... cum notis Annae Tanaquillae Fabri
filiae.
4to (223 x 150mm.), [20], 262, [56]pp., engraved
armorial head-piece to dedication (to P-D. Huet),
engraved initial, nineteenth-century olive green
morocco by Hatton of Manchester, gilt Macclesfield
arms on upper cover, edges gilt, title-leaf slightly
browned, spine slightly faded.
Paris: S. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1675 £450
An extremely handsome copy, printed on fine paper of this
edition edited by Tannegui Le Fèvre’s daughter Anne, a
learned lady, better known as Anne Dacier (1654-1720).
46 CAMUS, Francois Joseph de. Traité des
forces mouvantes, avec la description de 23
machines nouvelles de son invention.
8vo (190 x 120mm.), [16], 535, [7]pp., 8 folding
engraved plates, woodcut device on title, woodcut
initials, head and tailpieces, speckled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece,
a few quires lightly brown, extremities rubbed, red
mottled edges.
Paris: C. Jombert and L. Le Conte, 1722
£800
Francois Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) from Lorraine
was originally intended for the church, but directed by
his strong scientific interests to a life in science. This is his
most important book, and in it he describes a number of
ways of improving capstans, machines for digging canals
and other inventions to minimise the size of a work force
needed for a job.
WITH A CONTRIBUTION BY FERMAT
47 CASTELLI, Benedetto. [Della misura
dell’acque correnti]. Traicté de la mesure
des eaux courantes... traduit de’italien en
françois. Auec un discours de la ionction des
mers... Ensemble un traicté du mouuement des
eaux d’ Euangeliste Torricelli... Traduit du latin
en françois [by Pierre Saporta].
4to (175 x 125mm.), [10], 87pp., small woodcut
diagrams in text.
Castres: F. Barcouda, 1664.
£15,000
The Castelli has a lengthy preface ‘a messeigneurs les
commissaires... pour la jonction des mers’ signed by
Saporta on the great scheme actually carried out under
Louis XIV to join the Mediterranean sea to the Atlantic
by means of a canal joining the Garonne river to the
Etang de Thau in the south, the famous Canal du Midi.
The second work by Torricelli has its own title-page, and a
preface by Saporta addressed to the great mathematician
Fermat, whom he terms ‘le souverain legislateur de tous les
scavans’. Fermat had prompted the translator to undertake
the work as a sequel to that of Castelli. Fermat, normally
associated with Toulouse, where he was conseiller du roi,
had for many years close links with Castres a strongly
Huguenot town on the banks of the river Agout, where
he died and was buried in 1665.In 1648 was founded at
Castres a protestant Academy amongst whose members
were Pierre Bayle, Pierre Borel, the physician and writer
on alchemy, de Ranchin and Pierre Saporta. It was thus
that Fermat and Saporta became acquainted. Pp. 84-7
contain the ‘Observation sur Synesius’ which is by Fermat
and translates as follows:
‘The pages which remain empty in this quire made
me think of filling them with the splendid observation
which I learned some days ago from the incomparable
M. Fermat, who does me the honour of being my friend
and of frequently talking with me. It is in the fifteenth
letter of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, which deals with
something not understood by any of his commentators,
not even by the learned Father Petau, as he himself avows
in his notes on this author. I give this observation even
more willingly as it has much in common with the treatises
here printed.
The Bishop writes to the learned Hypatia, who was
the marvel of her generation and who taught philosophy
at the famous city of Alexandria to the admiration of all
learned men. I translate this letter thus: “I am so unwell,
that I find myself needing a hydroscope. I beg you to
have one made in copper, and buy it for me. It is a pipe
in cylindrical form, which looks like and is the size of a
flute. Along its length it has a straight line which is cut
across by small lines, and by these we measure the weight
of the water. One of the ends is covered by a cone, which
is so positioned above that the pipe and the cone have the
same base. This instrument is called Baryllion. If you put
it into water by its point, it will stay upright, and one can
easily count the sections, which cut the straight line and
by which one may see the weight of the water.
As we have lost [any idea of] the appearance and use
of this instrument [c’est instrument= cet instrument], in
common with a great many other splendid things which the
ancients invented and which they used, our contemporary
men of learning have spent a great deal of trouble on
working out what was this instrument of which Synesius
spoke. Some have held that it was a clepsydra, but Father
Petau has strongly rejected this, and for himself claims
that he does not understand it, but he suggests that it was
an instrument for levelling water and that it in some way
had a connection with that mentioned by Vitruvius (De
19
architectura vii, 6) which he calls Chorobates. But it is easy
to judge by reading Vitruvius and Synesius that this is a
question of two instruments very different in appearance
and use, and that if both of them, as Petau says, have
sections, those of the Chorobates are perpendicular as to
the horizon, but those of the hydroscope are parallel.
I pass over in silence several other differences, which
I could mention, to bring to the attention what M. Fermat
believes, which without doubt is the true sense of Synesius.
This instrument served to measure the weights of different
waters, and was for the use of the sick, for doctors agree
that the lightest are the best -the way in which Synesius
uses the word ‘rhopé’ shews this clearly. Here it does not
mean Libramentum or levelling as Father Petau believed.
When applied to machines [instruments], it means weight,
called by the Latins momentum, whence derives [et de là]
from the treatise by Archimedes on things of equal weight,
his called ‘isorhopika’. But insofar as neither scales not any
other man-made instrument, could distinguish exactly the
weight of waters, insofar as they differ only very slightly
between themselves, mathematicians have invented on
the basis of Archimedes’ treatise De his quae vehuntur in
aqua, that tool which Synesius mentions. This shews the
difference in weight which waters have between themselves
by the precise nature of the waters.
The diagram is this: a f is a copper cylinder; a b is the
top end which is always open; e f is the bottom end covered
by the cone e i f, having the same base as the bottom end.
a e: b f are two straight lines intersected by short lines,
and the more there are of these, the more exact will be
the instrument. If one puts it into the water by the point
of the cone, and if one adjusts it in such a way that it
remains upright, it will not sink in completely, because
the interior vacuum will prevent it. It will however sink
to a certain level or measure, which will be marked by
the little [horizontal] lines, and it will sink in different
ways according as the water will be more or less heavy.
The lighter the water, the more it will sink, and the less,
as the water is heavy, as we could easily demonstrate, if
needed. Here is the appearance and use of this instrument,
and the reason behind its use. The letter of Synesius is so
exact in what it reports in every aspect that Monsieur de
Monchal, Archbishop of Toulouse, sent this explanation
to Father Petau, and avowed that only M. Fermat could
have understood the nature of the instrument. He [Petau]
has written that he would put it in his notes in a second
impression [edition]. But because that has not been done,
I believed that the learned reader who is curious, would
not be annoyed if I share it with him’.
The original French of this text is reprinted in P. Fermat
Oeuvres complètes ed. Paul Tannery & C. Henry, Paris, 18911912, i, 362-365. Tannery also prints the preface/dedication
of the Toricelli to Fermat as part of the correspondence
in volume two.
MAGGS
Of this work we have traced 9 copies. There are 3 copies
listed at Albi, Bordeaux and BnF by Rép. bibl. xviieme
siècle I, Castres, with 2 also in Paris in the library of the
Museum of Natural History. There is a copy at Harvard
(Houghton Library), the University of Oklahoma in the
USA, and in Germany at Göttingen (8 PHYS II 3659-a),
this last with Fermat’s autograph. There is also copy at
Keio University in Japan. It is not in the British Library,
Bodley, Cambridge etc.
Bound with:
D’ACRES, R., ?pseudonym. The Elements of
Water-drawing, or a Compendious abstract of all
sorts and kinds of Water-Machins or Gins, used
or practised in the World, with their natural
grounds and reasons, and what service may be
expected from them. As also new and exquisite
ways and Machins never before published. With
a Philosophical discourse, and new discovery
of drawing water out of great deeps by fier.
Where is also dispproved The perpetual motion,
The Water-poise, The Syphon or Philosophers
Engine, The Horizontal sails, With divers other
experiments. Published for the improving the
service of the Mineral World, for supplying our
most necessary wants of firing, for raising of
water for Cities and Towns, and for watering and
draining of Grounds.
First Edition. [8], 41, [1]pp. London: by Tho. Leach,
for Henry Brome, [?1659/ 1660].
Wing E494 (British Library 2 copies, 1 with title mutilated],
Cambridge, Bodley [ex Ashmole; last leaf in facsimile] &
Folger only).
Title shaved closely at the head (touching “THE”) and at
the foot with a small area of loss where one might expect
the date to be (cf. the BL copy on EEBO); title-page and
last (blank) page lightly dust-soiled; lightly browned
throughout.
“The earliest work exclusively on the subject [of vacuum
steam-pumps] by an Englishman” - R.S. Kirby, etc.
Engineering in History (1990), p. 155.
Bound with:
VAUGHAN, Rowland. Most Approved And
Long experienced Water-Workes. Containing,
The manner of Winter and Summer-drowning
of Medow and Pasture, by the advantage of
the least, River, Brooke, Fount, or Water-prill
adiacent; there-by to make those grounds
(especially if they be drye) more Fertile Ten for
One. As also a demonstration of a Proiect, for the
great benefit of the Common-wealth generally,
but of Hereford-shire especially.
First Edition. [140]pp [-]1., without the first blank
leaf, & lacking the two folding plates, side-notes to
Davies’s’ “Panegyricke” shaved. London: by George
Eld, 1610.
With a 13-page verse “Paneyricke” by his “poore kinsman”
John Davies of Hereford, another poem by Davies and
others verses by Robert Corbet, John Hoskins, etc.
Vaughan’s idea of regularly flooding water-meadows to
boost crops was developed by Sir Richard Weston in the
mid-17th-century.
STC 24603 (in America: Columbia [with plates], Harvard,
Yale (Beinecke, no plates & British Art Center, with plates)
and at Folger [2 copies, both lacking plates & 1 lacking
leaf K1 & Huntington [ex Bridgewater, with plates handcoloured]. S4v has a printed certificate by Vaughan dated
1609 (in some copies the page is blank).
Bound with:
CEREDI, Giuseppe. Tre discorsi sopra il modo
d’alzar acque da’ luoghi bassi.
ff. [10], pp. 100 (=99), [1], lacking ff. E3-4, and E7
with woodcuts (described in text) Parma: S. Viotti,
1567 (Adams C1280 describes an imperfect copy.
Quire E would seem from the signing to consist
of 12 leaves.) Small 4to (175 x 125mm.), Mid-18thcentury sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label,
red edges.
48 CATULLUS, Caius Valerius. Catullus
Tibullus Propertius (ed. Pulmannus &
Giselinus.)
2 parts 16mo (115 x 75mm.), 173, [3(blank)]; 138,
[6(last leaf blank)]pp., device on title, eighteenthcentury calf, gilt spine, gilt edges.
Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1569 £500
The marginal notes are by various commentators, but
the notes to Propertius are entirely by the Dutch prodigy
Willem Canter. This is the first Catullus printed by Plantin
(who also printed the text in 1587), and forms one of
the series of 16mo editions of the classics published by
him. There are a few contemporary ms. notes to the
Propertius.
Voet 934.
49 [CAVENDISH (George)]. The Negotiations
of Thomas Woosley, the great Cardinal
of England, containing his life and death,
viz. 1. The Originall of his promotion. 2. The
Continuance in his Magnificence. 3. His Fall,
Death, and Buriall. Composed by one of his
owne Servants, being his Gentleman-Usher.
First Edition. Small 4to. [12], 60, 57-118pp.(i.
e.122pp.) (sig. A6, B-O4, P3), engraved portrait
(trimmed to the border and laid-down).
London: William Sheares, 1641
£1100
Wing C1619. “The “most important single contemporary
source for Wolsey’s life” which also offers a “detailed
picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political
events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings
against Katherine of Aragon.” - ODNB.
Bound with:
FROISSART (Jean). An epitome of Frossard:
Or, A Summarie Collection of the most
memorable Histories contained in his Chronicle,
chiefly concerning the State of England and
France. Wherein the famous Warres and
Conquests of King Edward the third, with the
honorable atchievements of the Black Prince,
and his other sonnes,... are compendiously
described.... Compiled in Latine by John
Sleydane [i.e. J. Philippson], and translated into
English, by P. [i.e. Arthur] Golding.
[2 (of 4, without the first blank leaf)], 215, [1(blank)]pp;
state without type ornament at head of title page, and
with no errata on the final page (blank). London: by
Tho[mas]. Purfoot for Per[cival]. Golding, 1608.
STC 11399 (Folger [3 copies], Harvard, Huntington,
Newberry & Yale only in U.S.A.). First and last few pages
dusty. This is the only book published under the name of
Percival Golding, son of the prolific Elizabethan translator
Arthur Golding (d. 1606).
Bound with:
GARRARD (Edmund). The Countrie
Gentleman Moderator. Collections of such
intermarriages, as have been betweene the two
royall lines of England and Spaine, since the
Conquest: with a short view of the stories of the
lives of those Princes. And also some observations
of the passages: with divers reasons to moderate
the Country peoples passions, feares, and
expostulations, concerning the Prince his royall
match and State affaires.
First Edition. [6], 67, [1 (blank)]pp., variant 2 with
the dedication leaf [A2] to Henry, Lord Danvers
cancelled. London: Edward Allde, 1624.
21
An enthusiastic historical defence, drawn from published
chronicles, of the proposed Spanish Match between Prince
Charles (newly returned from Spain) and the Infanta.
STC 1164 (Folger [variant 2], Harvard [variant 2],
Huntington [2 copies: both variant 2; ex Bridgewater &
ex Britwell], Newberry [variant not stated], New York
Public Library [variant 2] & Yale [not on ORBIS] in U.S.A.
Title and last blank page dust-soiled.
Bound with:
ASHBY (Sir John). The account given by Sir
John Ashby Vice-Admiral, and Reere-Admiral
Rooke to the Lords Commissioners, of the
engagement at sea, between the English, Dutch,
and French Fleets.
June the 30th 1690, [2], 12, “27”, “30”, 13-26, 3132pp; lacking preliminary licence to print. London:
for Randal Taylor, 1691.
Wing A3937 (+;+). Concerns the Battle of Beachy Head
on 30 June 1690, during the Nine Years’ War, in which
the French were victorious over an Anglo-Dutch fleet.
Bound with:
HESSELGREN (Johannes). Q.F.S.F.Q.
Chronologiam mnemonicam dissertatione
graduali breviter delineatam... praeside... Olavo
Celsio [praeses].
[4], 23, [17]pp. (sig. A-C4, D-G2) Woodcut initial and
head-piece, chronological table at end. Uppsala: J.H.
Werner, 1716.
5 works in one, 4to (176 x 129mm.), mid-eighteencentury calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco
lettering-piece “Historical tracts”.
50 CHARTIER, Alain. Les Oeuvres…
toutes nouvellement revues, corrigées, & de
beaucoup augmentées sur les exemplaires escrits
à la main, par André du Chesne Tourangeau.
4to (215x160mm.), [16], 868, [20]pp., title printed in
red and black, woodcut device, woodcut head- and
tail-pieces, woodcut initials, contemporary calf with
triple-fillet rule on boards and fleurons in corners,
spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece
“oevures de maistre Alain Chartier”, coloured silk
page marker, manuscript ex-libris on title-page
“Normand”, manuscript annotations in margins
(many trimmed), manuscript underlining, p.2 and
6 the running titles read “chronique du Roy Charles
VI” instead of “Histoire du Roy Charles VII.”
Paris: S. Thiboust, (January 25th) 1617 £900
MAGGS
Alain Chartier (1385?-1430?) was a French poet and
secretary to Charles VI and VII. His earliest poem is Le
livre des quatre dames (pp. 594 - 684) written after the Battle
of Agincourt (1415).In 1424 he wrote “La belle dame sans
mercy” (pp.503-523), a title that John Keats later used.He
was so highly esteemed that legend has it that Margaret
Stewart (Marguerite d’Ecosse whom he negotiated the
marriage with the Dauphin, later Louis XI), finding him
asleep on a chair, kissed his lips and explained her favour
as follow: “Je n’ai pas baisé l’homme, mais la bouche de
laquelle sont issus tant de mots dorés.” (‘I did not kiss a
man’s mouth, but the mouth from which have issued so
many golden words’).
Andre Duchesne (or du Chesne 1584-1640) is generally
considered as the father of French history, appointed
geographer and historiographer to the King thanks to
the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu.
51 CHENU, Jean. Recueil d’antiquitez
et privileges de la ville de Bourges et de
plusieurs autres villes capitales du royaume.
Divisé en trois parties.
4to (220 x 160mm.), [4] 503 [9]pp. (p.156
misnumbered 457), engraved portrait by L.
Gauthier, mid-seventeenth century French calf with
triple-fillets on boards and fleurons in corner, spine
gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece.
Paris: Robert Fouet, 1621 £500
First edition, and an édition partagée with Nicolas Buon,
whose name appears in the privilege and on some titlepages. Jean Chenu (1559-1627) avocat at Parlement of
Paris and canon lawyer, contributed to Gallia Christiana.
He wrote his first historical account on Bourges in 1603,
and a number of legal works. The Recueil outlines the
different ‘privilèges’ granted to Bourges and also the cities
of Tours and La Rochelle.
Cioranescu 19099.
52 CHRISTMANN, Jakob. Bismi al-Ab
wa al-Ibn... Alphabetum arabicum.
[12], 20pp., woodcut arabic, Neustadt: M. Harnisch,
1582.
Bound with::
TOP, Alexander. The oliue leafe: or, uniuersall
Abce. Wherein is set foorth the creation, descent,
and authoritie of letters, etc.
ff. [16], London: W. White for G. Vincent, 1603 STC
24121 (BL, Oxford & Chatsworth), lacking the
folding table, and A1 and D4 blank.
Bound with:
RHENFERD, Jacobus. Periculum Palmyrenum.
Sive literaturae veteris Palmyrenae indagandae &
eruendae ratio & specimen.[20], 56pp., 3 folding
tables, Franeker: F. Halma, 1704.
Bound with:
DRUSIUS, J. Alphabetum ebraicum etc.
59pp., Franeker: A. Rade, 1587.
4 works, 4to (190 x 130mm.) eighteenth-century
half calf, 1582-1704
£4000
The work by Top, no copy of which is to be found outside
the UK, and which was been reprinted in facsimile by
the Scolar Press in 1971, proposes that the twenty-two
letters of the Hebrew alphabet correspond to the number
of acts carried out by God in the seven days of Creation,
and that the Hebrew alphabet is divinely inspired. Top
also published St. Peters rocke in 1597 (known in 3 copies)
and a version of the Psalms in Amsterdam in 1629 (again
known in few copies.)
Jakob Christmann (1554-1613) was born in the
Rheingau at Johannisberg, and may have been a Jew who
became a Christian. The author of a number of works,
and an early Arabist, he was also interested in scientific
matters, partly because he had inherited the library of
Rheticus, in which was the manuscript of Copernicus De
revolutionibus, which was sold by his widow at his death,
and is today in Poland.
In the preface to this elementary introduction to the
Arabic alphabet etc., Christmann gives an interesting
brief account of the progress of Arabic studies in Europe,
mentioning the work of Postel and Clenardus, and gives
us the name of the man who has cut for him the woodcut
Arabic: ‘amicus et hospes meus Conradus Mareschallus
Bruntrutanus, qui summa industria in ligno sculpsit &
incidit, hoc, quos cernitis Arabum characteres, sicut ego
illi praescripseram (my friend and guest Conrad Marschall
from Pruntrut (1), who with the greatest skill cut in wood
these Arabic letters which you see, in accordance with what
I laid down for him’). We are further told that Christmann
held long conversations with his master, Francis Junius
(himself, of course, very interested in exotic alphabets and
types), and had access to the Arabic books in the Palatine
Library. He also gives a general account of a plan to publish
further works on Arabic. The Arabic words on the titlepage mean ‘In the name of the Father & of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost and of the one God, Amen’.
(1) Pruntrut or Porrentruy is a small town in Jura in
Switzerland.
53 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanæ
quaestiones per D. Erasmum Roterodamum
diligenter emendatæ, & scholiis illustratæ.
8vo. (160 x 105mm.), 223, [15]pp., woodcut printer’s
device on title-page . Late seventeenth-century calf,
spine gilt in compartments, manuscript annotations
in margins.
Paris: Robert Estienne 1537 £450
A nice copy.
Reference: Renouard p. 46.
54 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. [LETTERS. AD FAMILIARES.]
Epistolarum volumen, earum quae familiares
olim dictae... Commentationes diversorum...
2 vols. 8vo. (180 x 108mm.), [8]ff. 552pp. 231pp.
205pp. Eighteenth century English speckled calf,
spines gilt in compartments, labels lettered in
gilt.
[Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1577
£450
Renouard p. 144, no. 1. Not in Schreiber.
55 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Sententiæ
Ciceronis, Demosthenis, ac Terentii.
Dogmata philosophica. Item apophthegmata
quædam pia... [ed. P. Lagnerius of Toulouse].
[16], 246 ff., title within woodcut illustration,
initials.
Antwerp: widow & heirs of J. Steelsius, 1572 £550
Bound with
MAIOR, Georgius. Sententiæ veterum
poetarum per locos communes digestæ…
Sententiæ singulis versibus contentæ, ex diversis
poëtis, pietatis studiosæ inuentuti accommode.
De poetica virtute, libellus plane aureus, Antonio
Mancinello auctore.
203, [5]pp., woodcut printer’s device [Voet 1619]
Antwerp: Christophori Plantini, 1564.
2 works in one volume 16mo (110 x 70mm.),
seventeenth century calf, spine gilt in compartments,
morocco lettering-piece, pages shaved especially
f.121-136 with light loss in margins.
These small books of Sententiae were very popular in the
16th century, and were edited by figures like Geldenhauer,
Petrus Lagnerius, and others. They provided, as does
something like The Oxford Book of Quotations today, fodder
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for speeches and essays, but some of them (taken from
the Epistolae) were also used to provide models for letter
writing etc.
The first title had been printed first by Robert Estienne
in 1546, and subsequently in Paris and Lyons. Plantin first
printed it in 1561 probably in an edition intended to be
shared with Steelsius (see Voet 983 note on p. 641), and
several times reprinted it, including an edition in1572.
The second title is the second of four editions printed by
Plantin printed 1561-1574.
56 CLAIRAC Louis-André de la Mamie de.
L’ingénieur de campagne, ou traite de la
fortification passagère.
4to (250 x 193mm.), xxiii, [1], 247, [3]pp., 36
folding engraved plates, one engraved head-piece
by Cochin, contemporary speckled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, some light spotting, foxing
throughout p. 217 to 224.
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert (de l’imprimerie de J.
Guerin), 1749 £400
Fine copy of the first edition dedicated to the Comte
d’Argenson.
Sloos 08114.
Provenance: Gen. G.L. Parker bookplate and manuscript
ex-libris.
57 CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. [MINOR WORKS]. Quotquot... extant
opuscula... Omnia haec diligentissime recognita
[by S. de Colines], ad veterum exemplariorum
fidem.
8vo (160 x 105mm.), ff. 185 [=183, ff. 177-178
omitted], [1] (blank)], printed in italic throughout,
late seventeenth-century French binding of calf,
double gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt.
Paris: S. de Colines, 1530 £500
A beautiful clean copy.
Renouard 151; Schreiber 56.
58 CLENARDUS [CLEYNAERTS], Nicolaus.
Institutiones grammaticae, latinae. Item de
syllabarum & carminum ratione.
8vo (166 x 96mm.), 155pp., eighteenth-century
mottled calf, spine gilt.
Lyons: G & M. Beringen, 1551 £800
The second known copy. Clenardus began teaching Latin
MAGGS
in Spain in Salamanca, where in 1533 he published an
edition of Livy book I (unique copy in Seville; Bakelants &
Hoven 534). In Portugal from 1533, first at Evora and then
at Braga, he tutored and taught Latin. It was at Braga in
1538 that the Latin grammar was first published, although
no copy can be located. It was reprinted once at Coimbra
(1546; one copy), once at Louvain (1550; one copy), and
at Lyons (1551 this edition). Three copies are known of
the [1551?] Salamanca edition by Giunta.
Bakelants & Hoven 538. One copy only recorded in Rome
(BNC 6.3.G 31/1).
59 CLENARDUS [CLEYNAERTS], Nicolaus.
Institutiones ac meditationes in Graecam
linguam…Postrema hac editione accesserunt
perbreves in Clenardum annotationes, per Tuss.
Berchetum Lingonensem.
4to (248 x 165mm.), [108], 414, [2]; 23, [1]pp.,
contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, gilt
centrepiece within a single gilt fillet, spine gilt in 6
compartments, covers scuffed.
Paris: H. le Bé, 1581(1580)
£800
A handsome copy of this important and long-lived
grammar. This edition is found with the imprint as above
dated 1581 and also with the date 1580 and the names of
Pierre Huet and Henri le Bé. Toussaint Berchet (15401607) came from Langres and was head of the protestant
college in Sedan from 1579 to 1605.
Bakelants & Hoven no. 255 (11 copies listed; no copy in
UK, Germany or USA).
60 COBBET, Thomas. The civil magistrates
power in matters of religion modestly
debated, impartially stated according to the
bounds and grounds of Scripture, and answer
returned to those objections against the same
which seem to have any weight in them. Together
with a brief answer to a certain slanderous
pamphlet called Ill News from New-England;
or, A Narrative of New-Englands Persecution.
By John Clark, of Road-Island, physician. By
Thomas Cobbet Teacher of the Church at Lynne
in New-England.
2 parts 4to (207 x 150mm.), [16]; 108, 52pp.
London: by W. Wilson, 1653 £5500
This important work was written by Cobbet (1608-1685)
who was born in Newbury in England, educated at Trinity
College, Oxford and migrated to America probably in
1637. A powerful divine, in this work, dedicated to Oliver
Cromwell, he discusses the rights of the civil magistracy
in matters of religion. He also is said to advocate here
what was later to be known as ‘the half-way covenant’,
which provided for a partial church membership by the
children and grand children of church members who had
not had themselves any true ‘religious experience’, which
experience had hitherto been a pre-requisite for church
membership. In America (it should be remembered that
the emigré English settlements in America had a religious
basis.) Cobbet wrote some eight works published in London
between 1648 and 1657, including one on the honour due
to children. Bizarrely, although a strict non-conformist,
his funeral was attended with considerable drunkenness,
as a barrel of wine and two of cider were consumed, not
to mention ‘some spice and ginger for the cider’ (it was,
it seems, extremely cold).
John Clark of Rhode Island (1609-1676) was a Baptist
missionary and physician who emigrated from England
in 1637 and was a founder of the Rhode Island colony.
There seems to be no trace of his Ill News from New-England
which engendered the second part of this work.
Wing C4776. Short marginal tear in A2 from a paper fault;
large copy with many leaves uncut at the tail.
Bound with two other pamphlets concerning civil magistrates’
powers in matters of religion:
PRYNNE, William. Truth triumphing over
falshood, antiquity over novelty.
London: by John Dawson, and are to be sold by Michael
Sparke, 1645. [12], 156pp.Wing P4115 (issue without
the final leaf *1). Many sidenotes cropped (Prynne
was known as ‘marginal Prynne’ for his citations).
IBID. The sword of christian magistracy
supported: or a full vindication of christian kings
and magistrates authority under the Gospell,
to punish idollatry, apostacy… and obstinate
Schism, with pecuniary… and in some cases with
banishment, and capitall punishments.
London: by John Macock for John Bellamie, 1647. [18
(1st leaf blank)], 174, [1 (errata)]pp. Wing P4098.
The title of the second work makes its subject quite clear.
One of the examples of obstinate treason which Prynne
mentions is Laud, of whose trial he had published an
account in 1646.
3 works sm 4to (205 x 145mm.), contemporary calf,
panelled in blind.
61 COLUMNIS, Guido de. Historia
destructionis Troiae [with Epitaphium
Hectoris and Epitaphium Achillis, etc.]
Chancery folio (285 x 195mm.), ff. [132], first & last
leaves blank, lines, type; rubricated, English binding
of the first half of the 17th century of brown calf
over pasteboard, slightly worn.
[The Netherlands? Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW
875 [Gerardus de Leempt?]) 1477-1479] £40,000
First edition and a fine large copy with title ‘Historia
Troiana’ written possibly in the atelier of the printer, in
red crayon on both first and final blank.
This tale of the fall of Troy is based on a French original
the Roman de Troie of Benoiît de Sainte-Maure, dating
from the middle of the 12th century (between 1155 and
1160), rewritten in Latin in 1287 as is stated at the end of
the work by Guido. It is in 35 books, the last dealing with
the death of Ulysses and the first going back to Peleus,
father of Achilles, and the search for the Golden Fleece.
It is written in an easy Latin style with digressions, and
survives in well over a hundred and fifty manuscripts,
dating from the middle of the 14th century. It is on a
small group of these manuscripts that the edition of N.E.
Griffin (1936) is based.
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It was thus hugely popular and there are some 8 Latin
editions, printed in the Low Countries and Strassburg,
between this, the first, and 1494 plus some 5 German
and one Low German editions, and an Italian translation
of 1481 (see GW). From 1494 there was no edition until
that of 1936. The Historia destructionis Troiae known in
French, Italian and Dutch versions is not the same (see
GW 12517-12522).
This is one of a group of books printed by the socalled Printer of the Historia Alexandri Magni. (GW 875=
ISTC ia00396000), a press to which 3 other books can
be attributed. The dating of this edition is based on the
watermark which is found in books printed 1477-1479 (WM
I 04127 in the site ‘Watermarks in Incunabula printed
in the Low Countries’ available on a link through ISTC).
It has been suggested that the printer was Gerardus de
Leempt.
Provenance: Wyllyam Algar (16th-cent). On the first
blank leaf is written probably c. 1600 a quotation from
Seneca’s play Thyestes ll. 596-597 -’ Nulla sors longa, dolor
est voluptas/ invicem cedunt; brevior voluptas’. This
conceit had become proverbial. Seneca’s Thyestes was in
fact translated into English by Jasper Heywood the Jesuit
son of John Heywood(1560).
On the verso of f. [131] are some financial notes in an
English 16th-century hand, and dating probably from
about 1700 some lines from book III of Chaucer’s Book
of Fame (ll. 1564-1472.)
HC 5505; GW 7224; Goff C-768; BMC ix, 108; Bodleian
C-392; Oates 3666; There is only one copy in USA at the
Walters Art Gallery. For the text see the edition by N.E.
Griffin, Cambridge, Mass., Medival Academy of America,
1936.
62 CORRADI, Sebastiano. Commentarius,
in quo P. Virgilij Maronis liber primus
Aeneidos explicatur [with the text].
8vo (152 x 92mm.), 390, [2(blank)]pp., device on
title-page, English calf c. 1700, spine gilt, slightly
rubbed.
Florence: L. Torrentino, 1555 £450
First edition of this detailed line-by-line commentary.
Corradi, who died in 1556, studied in Venice but came
from the region of Reggio, where he died. He wrote
extensive commentaries on various works by Cicero. This
is his commentary on Book I only of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Censimento 16 CNCE 13512.
MAGGS
63 CRINESIUS, Christoph. Babel sive,
discursus de confusione linguarum, tum
orientalium...tum occidentalium...statuens
hebraicam omnium esse primam, & ipsissimam
matricem, etc.
4to (190 x 145mm.), [16], 144, [4]pp., engraved text
in Samaritan and Arabic on [2nd])(2verso, engraved
text of Deut. XII on p. 30, small paper repair to
recto of last leaf, ff. T1-2 (contents and errata) bound
in prelims, eighteenth-century English mottled
calf, gilt, some leaves browned, binding slightly
rubbed.
Nürnberg: S. Halbmayer, 1629 £900
The engraving has two passages of text and at the foot the
name of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662), rector of the
school at Zwickau and a student of Arabic, who in [c. 1660]
edited a pamphlet with Arabic text of suras one and two
of the Qur’an. The plate is engraved by Georg Herreman
and dated 3 October 1628. The text of Deuteronomy XII,
vv. 14-18, in Samaritan is engraved on p. 30 and faces the
same in Hebrew (letterpress) and Latin.
VD17 14 053983L; for the book see A. Borst Der Turmbau
von Babel p. 1633.
64 CRINITUS, Petrus. De honesta disciplina,
lib. xxv. De Poetis Latinis lib. v. Et
Poematon, lib. II.
8vo (175 x 105mm.), [48], 585, [5], device, on title,
last leaf with device on verso (blank recto), woodcut
initials, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges,
lacking ties.
Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1543 £450
65 CTESIAS and others. Εκ των Κτεσιου...
Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone
excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica. Item,
de gestis Annibalis... Cum Henrici Stephani
castigationibus.
8vo (165 x 95mm.), [16]m, 248, seventeenth-century
smooth calf, spine gilt, red edges.
[Geneva]: ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis
typographi, 1557 £1000
An extremely handsome copy of the editio princeps of
short works by three historians, Ctesias’s work on the
Persians, Agatharchides on the Red Sea, of the Byzantine
patriarch Photius, and Memnon, all taken from the
Bibliotheke or Library of the Byzantine patriarch Photius,
plus two more substantial works by the historian of Rome
Appian, not included in his Opera published in Paris by
Charles Estienne in 1551.
Henri Estienne dedicates the book to the Italian
historian Carlo Sigonio and explains how he had discovered
the two works by Appian, which are not included in the
1551 edition of that author, in a highly corrupt manuscript
in Italy. He had intended a Latin translation, but that has,
he explains, had to be deferred.
Estienne, who by this time was established in Geneva,
whither his father Robert had gone late in 1550, describes
himself as a Parisian printer, as indeed he does in 5 of the
books he published in that year (the only work without
this is the Athenagoras Apologia, and the only book Henri
Estienne II published in Paris was the Anacreon of 1555).
One must assume that this statement is to establish quite
clearly that his press (without name of town) is, as it were,
one with the famous Estienne press at Paris.
Renouard 117. no. 6; Schreiber 146. For the texts of
Ctesias see Jakoby Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
and the Budé edition (Paris, 1991) ed. J. Auberger. See
also Agatharchides of Cnidus On the Erythraean Sea... ed.
S.M. Burstein (London: Hakluyt Society, 1989), and of
Memnon of Heraclea see Jakoby op. cit, 434.
66 DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean.
L’Ariane... enrichie de plusieurs figures.
4to (230 x 175mm.), [8], 775, [1]pp., 17 engraved fullpage illustration by Abraham Bosse after Claude
Vignon, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcut
initials, seventeenth century speckled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, binding rubbed.
Paris: Matthieu Guillemot, 1639 £500
A fine copy of this novel with plates by Bosse, one of the
leading engravers of his time.
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) was a founding
member of the Académie française in 1634, and some of
the Academie’s sessions were held at his own house. L’
Ariane was his first major success in 1632. He was close to
Richelieu who admired his great knowledge. Later in life
he wrote much on religion, including a verse translation
of the Imitatio Christi.
67 DILICH (SCHÄFFER, called) Wilhelm.
Peribologia.
Folio (295 x 213mm.), 5-202, [10]pp., engraved title
and 7 section titles, 410 plus numbered engravings
(I-CCC, I-CX) on c. 240 plates, the text and plates
mounted on guards, eighteenth-century English
calf, gilt, red edges.
Frankfurt: A. Humm for J.W. Dilich, 1641 £2000
A very handsome, clean copy of this beautifully printed
Latin edition published by the author’s son Johann
Wilhelm, as the imprint makes clear ‘edita sumptus et typos
suppeditante Joanne Wilhelmo Dilichio F[ilio] architecto’
(‘published at the cost of his son J.W. D. architect, who
supplied the type’). The plates signed ‘J.W. Dilich Ing.’
are also by him.
Wilhelm Schäffer or Dilich was born sometime about
1580 and died in 1655. A historian and chronicler he
published in Cassel in 1605 a history of Hesse with plates,
and his Kriegsbuch in 1608 (see Max Jähns. Geschichte der
Kriegswissenschaften (1997 reprint) ii, pp. 907sqq.
The last leaf at the end of the text has the instructions
to the binder. At the end of Lib. I partis secundae pl. CCC
(300) is a large folding plate.
VD17 7:665417T; Bury & Breman p. 36; Sloos Warfare
and the Age of Printing (2008) no 08025.
Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Gen. Hon. G.L. Parker.
68 DILICH (SCHÄFFER, called) Wilhelm.
Peribologia. ANOTHER COPY.
Folio (210 x 195mm.), contemporary English calf,
gilt fillet on covers, spine with gilt ornaments, red
edges.
Frankfurt: A. Humm etc., 1641
£2000
This copy may well stem from the library of John Collins/
William Jones, and has the old Macclesfield Library class
mark V.3.19.
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69 DIONYSIUS Periegetes. ∆ιονυσιου
οικουµενου περιεγησις...Dionysij orbis
descriptio. Arati Astronomicon. Procli sphaera
(Thoma Linacro interprete). Cum scholijs Ceporini.
8vo (143 x 95mm.), ff. [2], 68, [2]; [64], last leaf with
device etc. on verso, contemporary English brown
calf over pasteboard, blind-stamped shield on covers
with letters G F & H stamped in blind at sides, spine
gilded later with red morocco label, contemporary
ms. notes in margins of D3vand D4r.
Basel: (Thomas Wolf), 1534 £500
The Greek texts are printed consecutively and are followed
by the Latin versions. Ceporinus (1500-1525) a gifted
scholar and protegé of Zwingli, explains to the reader
that the promised commentary on all three texts has been
cut, as translations (‘familiares traductiones’) have been
given, and that he has written a short commentary only
on Dionysius, written with the space of scarcely two days
because of pressure from the printer and the forthcoming
(Frankfurt) book fair.
VD16 D1981 (HAB); this edition of Linacre’s translation
of Proclus not listed by Giles Barber in his bibliographical
account in Essays on the life and work of Thomas Linacre, ed.
F. Maddison and others, OUP, 1977.
70 DRUSIUS, Joannes. Annotationum
in totum Iesu Christi testamentum, sive
præteritorum libri decem.
[8], 456, [12]pp. Amsterdam: J. Janssz, 1632.
Bound with:
IBID. Ad voces ebraicas novi testamenti
commentarius duplex... Item eiusdem
annotationum in N. testamentum pars altera,
necnon non vitæ... delineatio... per Abelum
Curiandrum.
[8], 226, [10], 138, [8], 1-183, [8], 185-192, 9-52pp.,
small clear tear in Ff2 of part 1. Franeker: F. Heyns
for Jan Jansz, 1616.
2 works in one volume, 4to (185x130mm.),
contemporary English calf, red edges, head of spine
slightly worn 1632 £400
Reference: Steinschneider 4877.
71 DRUSIUS, Joannes. Animadversionum
libri duo. In quibus præter dictionem
Ebraicam plurima loca scripturae,
interpretumque veterum, explicantur,
emendantur.
MAGGS
2 parts 79 [1]; 68 [i.e. 86] [2]pp., printer’s device,
woodcut head and tail-pieces, initials, Leiden: Jan
Paets, 1585.
Bound with:
IBID. De quæsitis per epistolam
[16] 232pp., printer’s device etc., [Franeker:] Gilles
van den Rade, 1595.
2 volumes in one, 8vo (150x100mm.), Oxford
contemporary calf, strips of a musical manuscript
on vellum used as spineliner, extremities slightly
rubbed, manuscript notes on preliminary leaf and
on pasteboard. 1585-1595 £500
The subjects of the second work, where Hebrew printing is
used, are various scriptural (OT) explications presented in
the form of short letters to a wide variety of correspondents
including Sir Thomas Bodley, the printer Rade and others
both English and foreign. There is a short ms. note on
the front flyleaf in a small neat hand.
72 DU BELLAY, Joachim. Poematum libri
quatuor. Quibus continentur elegiae.
Amores. Variae epigr. Tumuli.
ff. 62., Paris: G. Morel, 1558.
Bound with:
In Ioachimi Bellaium... doctorum virorum
carmina et tumuli.
Paris: F. Morel, 1560.
English calf, gilt triple fillet on covers with corner
rosettes, spine gilt, coloured silk marker, mottled
edges, a few marginal worm holes at edges of leaves
at end
£10,000
Bound with:
A most beautiful copy.
L’HOSPITAL, Michel de. De sacra Francisci
II Galliarum regis initiatione, regnique ipsius
administrandi providentia.
ff. [10], quire B misbound, Paris: G. Morel, 1560.
Bound with:
IBID. De Meti urbe capta et ab hostium
obsidione liberata, ampliss. viri M.H. carmen
(Ad illustrissimum principem Franciscum
Lotaringum ducem... epistola - De Caleti et
Guinae...expugnatione...carmen. - De Theavilla
capta carmen. - Ad Margaritam regis sororem
M.H. epistola. - Ad Carolum cardinalem
Lotarenum Mich. Hospit. de pace carmen. - In
Francisci illustriss. Franciae Delphini, et Mariae
sereniss. Scotorum reginae nuptias...carmen.)
ff. [4], [16], [4], [2], device on title-pages, Paris:
G. Morel, 1560. 4to (220 x 150mm.), 4 works in 1
volume, the last in 4 parts, early eighteenth century
Du Bellay and Ronsard are the two most famous French
poets of the sixteenth century, both members of the group
called La Pléiade, both consummate humanist scholars,
well read in Greek and Latin literature, and both fine
Latin poets. But it was Du Bellay who in 1549 published
the Deffence et illustration de la langue française, in which
he defends the vernacular tongue.
This important collection of latin verse therefore begins
with a poem with the title which may be paraphrased as
‘Why is he taking a break from French and writing in Latin’.
There then follow longer poems in elegiacs written during
his period as secretary to the ambassador in Rome (15531557): there is a description of Rome, a poem on the Tiber
addressed to Jean, one addressed to Ronsard with an echo
of Horace ‘Ronsarde, Aeoniae merito pars maxima turbae,/
Pars animae quondam dimidiata meae:/ Cui plectra, &
nervos sese debere fatetur/ Gallica Dircaeo pectine pulsa
chelys’, a poem on nostalgia (‘Patriae desiderium’), and
others. There then follow epigrams addressed to various
French (and Italian) personages of the time, amongst them
members of the royal family, and Ronsard & Dorat, with
some on abstract topics. These follow the tradition of the
Greek and Latin epigram. There then follow the ‘Amores’,
many of them about a certain Faustina (‘un amour fictif ’
in all probability), and finally the ‘Tumuli’ a collection
of mourning poems and epitaphs, of various lengths
varying from a couple of lines to well over fifty. Many of
these commemorate Italian friends, others are on more
vague figures or ideas. The final epitaph on f. 60 is his
own (‘Sui ipsius’) addressed, as in epigrams in the Greek
Anthology, to the passer by (‘viator’). Overleaf is printed a
version in Greek by the Dutch humanist Carolus Utenhove
(1536-1600; see Leonard Forster, ‘Charles Utenhove &
Germany’ in Keline Schriften zur Deutschen Literatur im
17. Jahrhundert (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1977) pp. 81-101)
This is followed by Latin elegiacs on the collection and a
short Greek epigram by the same, who in 1560 published
a polyglot collection of epigrams on the death of Henri
II (with some on Du Bellay).
The collection on the death of Du Bellay (1560) contains
poems by Adrianus Turnebus, classical scholar and
imprimeur du Roi, Claude d’Espence (1511-71), humanist
educator, Elie André, translator of Anacreon, Léger Du
Chesne (1503-88) and Claude Roillet (1520-76), a minor
Latin poet.
Michel L’Hospital (1505-1573) was educated in Italy,
where his father was in exile, and became a fine jurist
and practical lawyer. He returned to France in 1533,
29
and eventually became chancellor of France (1560). An
intellectual ‘avant la lettre’ (Robert Descimon) who gave
a great boost to studies at the university of Bourges, he
was a patron of Ronsard and Du Bellay, and was himself
no mean Latin poet, and here we have various items from
his pen, one set of verses on François II, another on the
capture of Metz with other similar celebratory verses on
matters as diverse as the marriage of the Dauphin to Mary
Queen of Scots in 1559, and other military feats, amongst
them the rendition of Calais according to the treaty of
Cateau-Cambrésis of 1559, about which L’Hospital and
the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smith debated.
Of the Du Bellay we have traced in libraries the following
copies: UK- BL, NLS, Bodley, Rylands; France - BNF,
Ste Genevieve, Sorbonne, Bordeaux; Austria- Vienna;
Germany- Berlin, Halle; Mannheim & Sachsisches
Landesbibliothek; USA - Morgan Library.
73 [DUMAS, Louis]. La bibliotèque des
enfans ou les premiers élémens des lettres,
contenant le sistème du bureau tipographique...
à l’usage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, et des
augustes enfans de France… Tome premier
(-quatrième).
4to (255 x 190mm.), viii 216, xix [5] 96, xx 97-306,
16, [2] vi 124, 24, woodcut printer’s device, etc.,
contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments,
morocco lettering-piece.
Paris: Pierre Simon, P. Witte 1733 £1500
First edition and a fine large copy of a very uncommon book.
The educationalist Louis Dumas (1676-1744) outlines his
system as practised by the ‘bureau tipographique’, which
had great success at the time. Dumas imagines a new way of
teaching writing and reading, using typography as a game
to form words with movable letters. In 1753 he published a
similar work on music L’Art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué
par la méthode du bureau typographique.
See M. Grandiere ‘Louis Dumas et le système typographique,
1728-1744’ in Histoire de l’éducation 1999, no81, pp. 35-62.
We have located a copy in BNF Paris and one or two
other French libraries, one in Bavaria, and one at the
Newberry Library.
74 DU VERDIER, Claude. In autores
pene omnes, antiquos potissimum,
censio: qua... grammaticorum, poetarum...
rhetorum... iurisconsultorum, philosophorum,
mathematicorum, medicorum & theologorum
errata quaedam deprehenduntur.
4to (222 x 140mm.), 187, [5]pp., errata on pp. [188MAGGS
189], [190-192] blank, device on title-page, English
binding of brown calf, gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine,
lettering-piece, red, green & white silk marker.
Lyons: B. Honoré, 1586 £950
First edition of this elegantly printed work of literary
history, mostly dealing with the ancients, but amongst
contemporary writers and poets discussed are Ramus,
Ronsard, Muretus (names printed), Desportes, Du Bartas
(names identified in ms.) and various Italian writers such
as Petrarch, Caelius Rhodiginus, Poliziano, as well as
Melanchthon, Thomas More, from whose Latin verses
there are substantial quotations.
Du Verdier (1566-1649), who was the son of Antoine Du
Verdier (1544-1600), was a lawyer at Lyons and published
in 1591 a work on literary games or ‘lusus’, included in a
volume of parodies of Catullus ‘Phaselus ille...’, in 1581 a
Peripatesis epigrammatum, and in 1583 a work against those
who pretended to foretell the end of the world Discours
contre ceux qui par des grandes conjonctions des planètes... ont
voulu prédire la fin du monde; this forms part of Chappuy’s
translation of Doni Mondes célestes, Lyons, 1583.
In addition to the ms. notes already mentioned there
are several more substantial marginal notes and on the
title-page the remark hanging from the word ‘censio’
‘docta quidem elaboriosa sed nec sine invidia nec sine
erroribus’. The originator of these notes seems to be one
Duval of Yverdon(?). The name Duprat is also found on
the title-page.
Baudrier iv, 154; copies in BL, Oxford (2 plus a reprint
?reissue of 1609), BNF (2 copies), Arsenal. KVK lists two
copies, and OCLC records copies at Folger and the Library
of Congress. There is also one at Yale.
75 EBER, Paulus & PEUCER, Caspar.
Vocabula rei nummariae ponderum et
mensurarum graeca, latina, ebraica... collecta
ex Budaei, Ioachimi Camerarii, et Philippi
Melanchthonis annotationibus.
8vo (145 x 85mm.), ff. [112], smooth calf c. 1700,
gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt, gilt edges.
Leipzig: J. Rhamba, 1570 £400
The work was first published in the 1540s and proved
very popular.
VD16 E63; Dekesel E11.
76 EENBERG, Johann. Kort berättelse af de
märkwädigste saker som för de främmande
äre besee och förnimma uti Upsala stad och
näst om gränsande orter. Utur de förnämste
swänske antiquarier sammandragen. Med där til
for 45verso & 46recto printed on ff. [207] verso and
[208]recto, [Geneva:] R. Estienne, 1555.
Bound with:
ESTIENNE, Henri. Paralipomena
grammaticarum gr. lingae inst., etc.
[16], 167, [1]pp., device on title-page, [Geneva: H.
Estienne], 1581.
2 works in 1 volume 8vo (174 x 100mm.), eighteenth
century smooth calf, spine gilt.
£700
nödtorfftige figurer samt särskilt : en relation om
sidste branden.
Agenda 12mo (150 x 60mm.), [32], 185pp, pp.185191, 193-236; 53 [=54, [2(blank)]pp., engraved
frontispice (added) and 5 folding woodcut inserted
illustrations (the plan of Uppsala bound in part 2),
with an extra folding title-page to the second part
with a woodcut of the fire, woodcut illustrations in
text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards.
Uppsala: Johann H. Werner, 1704 (1703) £1500
A guide book to the university city of Uppsala.
Eenberg (d. 1709) was a librarian in Uppsala, and
one of the longest sections of the guide to the delights of
the city is devoted to the library and its collections (pp.
56-84), amongst them the so-called Codex argenteus, a
translation into Gothic of the Gospels. Other sections
are devoted to the collections of the antiquary Rudbeck,
the royal palace, the botanical garden, etc., and there is
much about the holders of professorial chairs etc. Part 2 is
a description of the fire which struck Uppsala on 16 May
1702, when many buildings of all sorts were destroyed
and damaged, including the castle. Eenberg seems first
to have published in 1687 (Mars literatus), and was praeses
for some academic dissertations in 1704.
The book is most uncommon, and there is no title by
Eenberg in any UK library. Of this book KVK records
copies in Berlin, Gottingen and Greifswald, and there
are 2 copies listed on Regina (Swedish National Library
catalogue). It is not at Harvard or Yale, and OCLC records
no copies, although there is a copy at Princeton.
77 ENOCH, Louis. De puerili Graecarum
literarum doctrina liber.
ff. 208, device on title-page, errata on f. 206, f.
207recto with instructions as to placing cancellanda
These two works are separate bibliographic entities but
clearly belong together. Louis Enoch was a Geneva pastor
and master of the grammar school there. He was well
known to Calvin, to Beza and others of the Genevan
hierarchy. Estienne’s Paralipomena i.e. those things which
are left out, is quite clearly a supplement to the work
of Enoch printed, as he remarks in his preface, by his
father.
1st work Renouard 86 no. 5; Schreiber 111; 2nd work
Renouard 148 no. 1.
78 EQUICOLA, Mario. Dell’ istoria di
Mantova libri cinque... Riformata secondo
l’uso moderne si scrivere istorie, per Benedetto
Osanna, etc.
4to (182 x 139mm.), [26], 307, [5], Rr1 with register
and imprint Rr2 with list of errata, English calf
c. 1700, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in compartments,
green & red silk marker.
Mantua: F. Osanna, 1607 £750
The humanist Mario Equicola (1470-1525) was born in
Calabria, but spent much of his life at the court of Mantua,
where, after her husband’s death, he was secretary to
Isabella d’Este, to whom he had previously been tutor. He
was the author of a number of works, and in particular
his book on the nature of love has been very influential,
as was his interest in Provençal poetry: on p.44 Dante’s
remarks on Sordello are quoted and on p. 45 is given in
both Provençal and Italian, one of his poems.
The Chronica was first published ‘probably soon after
10 July 1521, with old worn types, probably not in Mantua
itself’ (Rhodes), and is here republished and dedicated by
the publisher to the Gonzaga duke, Vincenzo (1562-1612).
The editor Benedetto Osanna has tidied up the text; some
thirty years earlier Sansovino had urged the publication
of a new edition. This 1607 edition was reprinted in 1608
and that edition was later reissued with the date 1610.
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with flowers at corners, spine gilt in compartments,
parti-coloured silk marker 1509-1519 £4000
79 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrasis
seu potius epitome... in Elegantiarum libros
Laurentii Vallae... cui addita est et Farrago
sordidorum uerborum, siue Augiae stabulum
repurgatum per Cornelium Crocum [Cornelis
Croock].
8vo (157 x 100mm.), 192, [36]pp., last leaf blank,
printer’s device, seventeenth-century calf, spine gilt
in compartments.
Paris: R. Estienne (October), 1542 £850
This is one of three editions of 1542 (Lyons and Cologne
being the place of printing of the other two), and seems to
be extremely uncommon. Renouard gives no description
(not even the colophon), and we have located no copy
in BNF Paris, in the UK or elsewhere. It is one of many
editions printed between 1529 and 1566; indeed for the
decade 1540- 1550 van der Haghen (Bibliotheca Erasmiana
(1893) pp.152-153) lists 21 editions, of which the Estienne
firm printed several. In 1529 and 1531 the Estienne
unauthorised reprints were considered as piracies by
Erasmus himself.
Renouard p.53. 4; not in Schreiber.
80 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrasis seu
potius epitome... in Elegantiarum Laurentij
Vallae... cum gallica... expositione. Cui accessit
farrago sordidorum verborum, per Cornelium
Crocum.
8vo (165 x 108mm.), 199, [17]pp., seventeenthcentury vellum over pasteboards, bottom edge
lettered Erasmus in Vallam.
Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1547 £400
All mention of Erasmus has been deleted in accordance
with the instructions of the Inquisition.
Van Gültlingen.
Bound with:
ANDRELINI (Publio Fausto). Epistolae
proverbiales et morales.
ff. [14]: (Paris: Josse Bade, 13 June, 1516) [Moreau
1516/1252].
Bound with:
IBID. Hecatodistichon.
ff. [8], (Ibid. 13 April, 1519) [not in Moreau].
Bound with:
81 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Familiarum
colloquiorum formulae. Et alia [etc.]
ff. [32 (last leaf blank & not present)], last 2 leaves
slightly spotted (dampstain), Paris: [widow of B. Rembolt
for] P. Gromors & G. Gourmont, (23 December 1519).
Bound with:
HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Aula. dialogus (ed. J.
Ravisius Textor).
ff. [32], device on title-page, Paris: (A. Aussard for) R.
Chaudière, (xii Cal. Sextiles [21 July], 1519). [Renouard
Imprimeurs; Moreau ii 2095] a few marginal ms.
notes.
MAGGS
IBID. De sciolorum arrogantia.
ff. [8]. (Ibid. 29 April, 1519) [Moreau 1519/1970].
Bound with:
IBID. [drophead title] Epistola in qua Anna
gloriosissima francorum regina exhortatur
maritu[m] potentissimu[m] atque invictissimu[m]
francorum regem Ludovicum duodecimum ut
expectatu[m] in galliam adve[n]tu[m] maturet,
[etc.] [in Latin elegiacs].
ff. [4], Ibid. [1509?].
6 works in 1 volume 4to (188 x 121mm.), mideighteenth-century calf, gilt triple fillet on covers
The Colloquies of Erasmus are amongst the most famous
and widely used schoolbooks of the sixteenth, and indeed,
of other centuries. This early edition, which has a prefatory
letter dated 1 January from Louvain, is a reprint of the
Thierry Martens edition of March 1519, and has at the end
the letter from Martens in which he speaks of reprinting
this collection ‘from wherever and by whomsoever it is’.
It is one of a number of editions printed in various cities
in 1519, but this particular edition is recorded by Moreau
(1519/2054) in one copy only at Laon. The printer Rembolt
had died in 1518 and the attribution to the press run by
his widow is based (by Brigitte Moreau) on the type.
The short dialogue by Ulrich von Hutten entitled Aula
or ‘Court’ (‘Hof’), here edited by Joannes Ravisius Textor,
was first printed in Augsburg in 1518. It is addressed to
the physician Heinrich Stromer of Auerbach, and has two
speakers, the chaste man and the ‘court hater’ (Misaulus).
The ‘vita aulica’ or life of the court has always been ripe for
criticism and satire, and Hutten here lambasts in rich and
occasionally course language, the sordid nature of this life.
This copy has a few contemporary marginal annotations.
At the end is a set of Latin elegiacs by Joannes Ravisius
Textor De miseria aulicorum (‘On the miseries of courtiers’)
addressed to a certain Hugo Viturellus.
The volume also contains four short texts by Fausto
Andrelini (1462-1518), a humanist poet and scholar from
Forli, who, established in France at the end of the fifteenth
century, made the acquaintance of Erasmus through
Robert Gaguin. Whereas Erasmus was to devote a great
deal of his attention to work on the Bible and patristics,
Andrelini remained very much a neo-latin poet, and whilst
Erasmus’s star was in the ascendant, his waned. Andrelini,
in addition to editing a number of short prose texts, was
also the publisher of Latin poetry, both by himself and by
others. He was a member of the circle around the consort
of Louis XII, Anne of Brittany, and the poem addressed
to her is surely to be dated be dated 1509 the period
when Louis was himself was in Italy and after his famous
victory over the Venetians at the Battle of Agnadello on
14 May when, as Machiavelli said, the Venetians lost in
one day that which had taken 800 years to build. The
Epistolae form a series of exercises on particular themes: ‘A
friend who is reconciled should rarely or never be trusted’
‘That the Aeneid is not understood by everyone...’; ‘Avoid
the use of antiquarian or out-of-date words’; ‘Do not
have business dealings with a woman’; and the like. The
Hecatodistichon is a series of elegiac couplets in imitation
of Cato’s Distichs, again covering a wide variety of subjects
from debtors to pimps, and from types educated at the
Sorbonne who may safely spurn the wealth of Hercules
to the scatology of the ignorant doctor and to death, wine
and sex (reminiscent of Petronius: ‘Turpis: & est morbi
species horrenda caduci, / Quum aiacet exanimis post
sua furta venus’). De arrogantiis sciolorum is addressed to
a physician, Joannes Bartholus, and is an attack on those
who have a smattering of knowledge, which they parade,
and the whole of this short treatise is precisely of that
genre, being full of references and gobbets of information
gleaned from all sorts of reading, and written, as is stated
at the end, when Faustus was sick.
Although the binding of this volume dates from the
early 18th century, it seems highly likely that is simply
replacement an earlier binding which contained this
group of roughly contemporary and connected texts, all
of them printed in Paris. Indeed, the presence of the particoloured silk marker may indicate that it was accorded
special treatment when rebound.
82 ERIZZO, Sebastiano. Discorso...
sopra le medaglie de gli antichi con la
dichiaratione delle monete consulari, & delle
medaglie de gli imperadori romani... di nuovo in
questa quarta editione... ampliata.
2 parts 4to (219 x 153mm.), [16], 282, [2 (blank)];
572pp. title within woodcut border, woodcut initials
and headpieces, woodcut illustrations, seventeenthcentury mottled calf, gilt of arms of Foucault on
covers, spine gilt in compartments, mottled red
edges. Y1 torn at head with loss, extremities slightly
rubbed.
Venice: Giovanni Varisco & Paganino Paganini [not
before 1584]
£700
A splendid copy. Sebastiano Erizzo’s work on medals was
one of the sources for Cesare Ripa’s influential Iconologia,
and thus has a direct link with the world of symbols and
emblem books. It was first published in 1559 and this
fourth, undated edition, follows the third of 1571. Varisco
and Paganini were in partnership from about 1584,
although there are a couple of books earlier in date.
Dekesel E32 (cat. 1); Censimento 16 CNCE 18279.
Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, arms on cover and
armorial bookplate.
83 ERPENIUS, Thomas. Orationes tres, de
linguarum ebraeae, atque arabicae
dignitate.
8vo (128 x 70mm.), [12], 132pp., contemporary
English calf, printed pastedowns (italian text),
repaired.
Leiden: ex typographia auctoris, 1621 £1000
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First edition of this uncommon book which prints three
lectures or speeches given by the great Dutch orientalist
Erpenius on the use and study of Arabic and Hebrew.
In it, apart from giving some general remarks about the
extent of the use of Arabic, and its importance as well as
some about grammar, he talks of those who collect Arabic
manuscripts and those who have printed Arabic texts. On
pp.35-36 there is mention of the library at Fez in Morocco
where, it is said, 30,000 manuscripts are located. This
copy has a few marks of reading. Some words are printed
in Arabic type (the type of Erpenius himself) and a few
in Hebrew.
87 FALCONIERI, Ottavio. Inscriptiones
athleticae nuper repertae editae & notis
illustratae … Quibus accesserunt aliae ex
africanis marmoribus recens descriptae. Una
cum dissertatione de nummo apamensi.
4to (220 x 155mm.), [12], 230pp., engraved
illustrations, contemporary vellum binding with
spine gilt in compartments and lettering piece,
2 leaves detached, pages browning within two
quires.
Rome: Fabio de Falco 1668 £650
An exhibition of his work was held at Museo di
Castelvecchio, Verona, Oct. 17, 2005-Jan. 29, 2006 and
a catalogue published Paolo Farinati (1524-1606): dipinti,
incisioni e disegni per l’architettura / a cura di Giorgio Marini,
Paola Marini, Francesca Rossi, Venice: Marsilio [c. 2005].
Provenance: on the lower pasteboard is written Stud. D.
ix. 29 and a note about Joannes Mercerus. Averroes is
identified as Ibno-Rasidus.
Falconieri (1636-1675) was one of the distinguished group
of savants gathered around Queen Christina of Sweden,
and he was the recipient of Cassini’s Lettere on sunspots
of 1665. As the title suggests, the work is concerned with
the epigraphical evidence for athletic sports. His extensive
manuscript correspondence is at Princeton.
89 FERTEL, Martin Dominique. La Science
pratique de l’imprimerie. Contenant, des
instructions très-faciles pour se perfectionner
dans cet art.
4to (250 x 182mm.), [2], 230, [2], 231-292, [10]pp.,
5 engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables,
woodcut diagrams etc. contemporary speckled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, slight damp-staining
in outer margins and on covers, spine chipped and
a little rubbed.
St. Omer: M.D. Fertel, 1723 £750
COPAC records 5 copies in the UK, and OCLC lists 7
copies in Germany, 3 in Holland, and one at Chicago.
There is no copy at Yale or Harvard.
84 EUCLID. Geometricorum elementorum
libri XV. Campani Galli... commentariorum
libri XV. Theonis... in trededim priores,
commentariorum libri XIII. Hypsiclis... in duos
posteriores... commentariorum libri II (trs. B.
Zamberti, ed. J. Le Fèvre d’Étaples).
Folio (297 x 191mm.), ff. 261 (of 262 without the
final blank), woodcut diagrams in margins, woodcut
initials, nineteenth century half calf by Hatton of
Manchester, marbled edges, title leaf cut down and
remounted.
Paris: H. Estienne [after 7 January 1516/17] £4000
The first edition of Euclid printed outside Italy, in the
translation of Bartolommeo Zamberti, and with the
commentary of Joannes Campanus of Novara. A handsome
large copy in spite of the cut down title leaf.
Renouard 1516/8; Schreiber 26 Steck Bibl. Euclideana
(1981) III.14.
85 EUCLID. Euclidis phaenomena post
Zamberti & Maurolyci editionem... scholijs
antiquis: & figuris optimis illustrata: & de graeca
lingua in latinam conversa. (by G. Auria).
4to (190 x 130mm.), [22], 89 (=99)pp., woodcut
diagrams.
Rome: G. Martinelli, 1591 £1200
First edition of this Latin version of the Phaenomena of
Euclid a work concerned with mathematical astronomy
and one of the oldest such. It was made from a Greek
manuscript in Aurias’s possession and a manuscript in
MAGGS
the Vatican library. He uses the notes of Maurolico (who
himself used an Arabic text), and refers in his preface to his
teacher Giovanni Battista Raimundi, the orientalist who
directed the Typographia Medicea. Auria was from Naples
and died in 1610. He translated the works of Theodosius
and Autolycus, and wrote a couple of other small tracts,
mostly published in Rome.
Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with bookplate.
Steck, VIII.7; CNCE 18365; see Euclid. Phaenomena ed. &
translated by J. L. Berggren and R. S. D. Thomas, 2006.
Of this 1591 edition there are copies in BL, Cambridge,
UCL, Balliol Coll, Oxford; Munich, Augsburg, copies in
Italian libraries, and in the USA copies at the Smithsonian,
Brown and Oklahoma.
In this book, first published in Toulouse in 1654, Fabre
discusses the role of alchemy (sapientia universalis’) in
relation to the chemical composition of humans and how to
understand it, the chemistry and symptoms of disease and
in book IV alchemy and all that relates to gold and silver.
This edition is also found as part of Fabre’s Opera.
VD17 23: 241729Y.
Provenance: This copy has an acquisition date on the
fly-leaf January 7 1727/8.
The first major French printing manual, reissued in 1741
and enlarged in 1822.
Bigmore & Wyman i, 215-216; Barber, G. French Letterpress
printing (Oxford: OBS, 1969) p. 8; Rép. bibliog. xviie siècle
V (Artois etc.) Fertel 25.
Provenance: Ownership inscription on title-page of
William Chark. Charke matriculated at Peterhouse in
1560, and was fellow 1566-1572, but was expelled for
obdurate puritan opinions. He was one of the protestant
divines instructed to examine St. Edmund Campion in the
Tower of London. He died in 1617. One of his books (an
Aldine Gregory Nazianzen is in Eton College Library).
86 FABRE, Pierre Jean. Sapientia universalis
quatuor libris comprehensa. Videlicet
1. Quid sit sapientia... 2. De cognitione hominis.
3. De medendis morbis hominum. 4. De
meliorandis metallis.
4to (243 x 165mm.), [2], 418[=400], [8]pp., contemporary English calf, ms. index notes at end, slightly
browned, hinges weak.
Frankfurt: J. Beyer, 1656 £850
Cicognara 2028. The suite was republished in 1736 by
Jombert in Paris (Berlin Kat 4355). In the UK there is a
copy at the Courtauld Institute.
FLEMISH LANGUAGE
88 FARINATO, Paolo. Diverses figures à l’eau
forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et
enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes...
Ensemble plusrs sortes de masques de l’invention
de Paule Farinaste Italien.
Obl. 4to (197 x 250mm.), 30 numbered engraved
plates, early eighteenth-century vellum-backed
boards.
Paris: A. Bosse, 1644 £3500
The suite consists of 22 plates of small cupids (‘petits
amours’) etc., and eight of masks (16-23). The masks are by
Paolo Farinato (1524-1606; known in France as Farinaste)
an enormously productive painter and draughtsman (also
known as an engraver) from Verona, whose paintings are
to be seen in many churches. Bartsch XVI 164ff. records
engravings by him, and there are many drawings on
coloured paper in various collections.
90 Nouvelle grammaire flamande... Nieuwe
nederduitsche spraakkonst, behelzende de
rechte regelen en gronden om de nederduitsche
taal te leezen, spreeken en schryven. Vit
verschiedene Auteurs... en op een behoorlyke
orde gebracht.
8vo (155 x 90mm.), [4], 156pp., contemporary calf,
upper joint split.
Amsterdam: P. Mortier, 1688 £400
The preface makes it clear that the author is an individual,
but, although the work is very similar to the frequently
reprinted work by Philippe La Grue, which had a long
life, and which was originally published in the 1680s in
Amsterdam, it by no means has the same title, length, or
detail as that work.
KVK lists copies at KB Netherlands and Jena to which
OCLC adds 2 more copies in the Netherlands, one in
Germany, one in BNF Paris, one in Quebec, and one in
Madrid.
Provenance: with auction lot no. N 621 on fly-leaf.
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91 FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. The Royal
Charter establishing an Hospital for the
Maintenance and Education of Exposed and
Deserted Young Children. With the Act of
Parliament establishing the same. Together with
the By-Laws of the said Corporation, and the
Regulations for Managing the said Hospital from
its Commencement, till 25 March, 1745, and a
List of the Governors on the said 25 March.
8vo (195 x 122mm.), 48pp. Contemporary vellumbacked marbled boards.
London: printed for Thomas Osborne, 1746 £450
The Foundling Hospital received its Royal Charter on
17 October (see p. 43) 1739. This was published by J.
Osborn and again by Baskett in 1740. A list of the original
governors was also published in 1740. This edition is
updated to 1745.
The hospital was very much the creation of a rough,
uneducated man (originally from Lyme Regis), Thomas
Coram, who had played a major role in the development
of the American colonies, and who had been impressed by
the organisation of hospitals or orphanages for foundlings
made in various cities of Europe, whereas no provision at
all was made in London. With the support of the Queen, a
royal charter, and a host of rich and powerful governors,
the charity, which still exists, flourished and became from
the late 1740s very much a centre for fashionable London,
and concerts were held there. Amongst the governors,
a list of whom is printed at the end, was George, 2nd
Earl of Macclesfield along with William Hogarth, who
painted Thomas Coram (and the earl), as well as many
other persons of rank and distinction. The Foundling
Hospital is one of the greatest examples of English secular
philanthropy of the period. Annual performances of
Handel’s Messiah were a regular source of income, and
the charity owns not only a fair copy of the score and parts
given by Handel himself, who was also a governor, but
also the Gerald Coke Handel collection.
ESTC lists three copies in the BL, one in the Bodleian
and one at Christ Church with four copies in the USA
and Canada (National Library of Medicine, Huntington,
Colorado, McGill).
92 FOY-VAILLANT, Jean. Numismata
imperatorum romanorum praestantiora a
Julio Caesare ad Postumum et tyrannos… Tomus
primus. De Romanis aereis… (Tomus secundus.
De Aureis et Argenteis... Editio altera etc.)
2 volumes 4to (250 x 180mm.), [12], 256, [8]; [8],
397, [35]pp., last leaf a blank, numerous engravings,
MAGGS
contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments,
binding rubbed, spine gilt erased, lacks letteringpiece.
Paris: Jean Jombert, 1692 £450
used, as well in French armies, as amongst other
nations. Inriched with many figures... Translated
for publick advantage (with a dedication to Sir
Jonas Moore signed R[obert] H[arford]).
8vo (150 x 87mm.), [16], 143, [1]pp., engraved
frontispice (mounted) and 18 plates, eighteenthcentury smooth calf, gilt spine, lacking A1 the
printed title.
London: printed for Robert Harford, 1678 £500
This popular work is one of a series of works on numismatics
by Foy-Vaillant which went through numerous editions.,
and were indispensable works in their day, being found
in many libraries of artists and antiquarians.
Kress 1789; Goldsmiths 2945.5; Dekesel F55.
Wing G402A. The book is not common, there being two
copies in UK (BL and Ch. Ch. Oxford), and 5 in the USA
(Folger, Huntington, NYPL, Philadelphia LC, Yale). ESTC
is in error in stating 20 plates in all. There are 19 in the
Christ Church copy (EEBO) exactly the same as in this
copy, i.e. the frontispice and plates at pages 12, 15, 24, 25,
27,28, 35, 39, 40, 46, 49, 56, 75, 94, 97, 117,121, 125.
93 FRICK, Johann Georg. Commentatio de
Druidis occidentalium populorum
philosophis... auctior et emendatior. Accedunt
opuscula quaedam rariora historiam...
Druidarum illustrantia.
4to (210 x 160mm.), [20], 226, [2(blank)]pp., engraved
frontispice, contemporary vellum-backed decorated
paper boards.
Ulm: Daniel Bartholomaei & Son, 1744 £500
Provenance: Macclesfield South Library 202.A.20.
Edited by his son Albertus Frick.
94 FRONSPERGER, Leonhard.
Kriegsbuch… Jetzt von neuem gemehrt und
gebessert, usw.
3 parts folio (341 x 206mm.), ff.[5], CLVII, [5]; [3],
CLXIII, [4]; [5], CCLXVI, [6], 19 engr. plates & 3
woodcut plates =22 (pt 1: 5 pls; pt 2: 6 engraved
plates (pp. 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 80) and 3 woodcut
(p. 81); part 3: 8 engr. plates (pp. 103,104,106,110,
126(x 4)) late eighteenth-century tree calf, occasional
spotting.
Frankfurt: (J. Feyerabend for) the heirs of S. Feyerabend,
1596 £2000
A very handsome copy of this fascinating and beautifully
illustrated encyclopaedia of the military arts. Particularly
striking are the handsome woodcuts by Jost Amman set in
elaborate woodcut frames, some of which are repeated.
The number of plates is rarely complete. Their presence
in part 2 is indicated by full descriptions of what each
contains, and sometimes with words indicating a plate,
e.g. f.79v ‘Hieher kompt ein grosse Figur in Kupffer mit
den Instrumenten’. In part 2 fol. L there is a description
of a Wagenburg ‘Erklerung folgendts abzugs zwischen
dem Geschutz und der Wagenburg verzeichnet mit den
Buchstaben A.B. C. wie folgt {A-R]’ and after the list
‘hienach folget ein Kupfferstück von der Wagenburg’, but
this seems to refer to the plate bound at p. 52 which has a
lengthy list of figures (1-63) printed on ff. Liv and LIIr.
VD16 F3125-3127; Sloos Warfare and the Age of Printing
(2008) no. 01003.
95 GAYA, Louis de. Traité des armes, des
machines de guerre, des feux d’artifice, des
enseignes & des instruments militaires anciens &
modernes.
12mo (138 x 77mm.), [6], 172pp., additional engraved
title-page, 19 engraved plates by N.Guérard,
woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Contemporary calf,
spine gilt in compartments, spine partly detached,
sides rubbed.
Paris: Sébastien Cramoisy, 1678
£600
A charmingly-illustrated pocket manual for foot soldiers,
and one of the first military works to describe arms and
armour in detail. First edition. Following his Art de la
guerre of 1677, which dealt largely with military strategy,
this work is devoted to arms and other instruments of war
such as mines, fireworks, rockets, cannons, etc. An English
translation was published the same year.
The Traité is known in two Cramoisy editions of 1678:
one with an added title and plates engraved by N. Guérard,
and another (presumably later) edition with woodcut plates
and a completely reset text.
96 GAYA, Louis de. A treatise of the arms
and engines of war, of fire-works, ensigns,
and military instruments, both ancient and
modern; with the manner they are at present
97 GELASIUS of Cyzicus. Γελασιου...
συνταγµα... commentarius actorum Nicaeni
concilii, cum corollario Theodori presbyteri,
de incarnatione Domini... Interprete Rob.
Balforeo... cum... notis.
8vo (162 x 97mm.), 15, [1], 287, [3], device on
verso of title, last leaf with imprint, later sprinkled
vellum.
Paris: F. Morel, 1599 £450
First edition. A little contemporary underlining in the
Latin text and occasional notes on words missing in the
Greek.
98 GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
Prophetia Anglicana, Merlini Ambrosii
Britanni, ex incubo olim (ut hominum fama
est) ante annos mille ducentos circiter in
Anglia nati, Vaticinia & praedictiones: à
Galfredo Monumentensi Latinè conversae: unà
cum septem libris explanationum in eadem
prophetiam, excellentissimi sui temporis oratoris,
polyhistoris & theologi, Alani de Insulis.... Opus
nunc primum publici juris factum, & lectoribus
ad historiarum, praecipuè verò Britannicae,
cognitionem, non parùm lucis allaturum.
Small 8vo (142 x 85mm.), [16], 269, [3]pp., woodcut
portrait on the verso of the title, mid-18th-century
English mottled calf, gilt spine, lightly browned,
label missing, joints rubbed.
Frankfurt: Ioachim Brathering, 1603 £800
37
The prophecies of Merlin circulated both independently
and as book VII of the History of Geoffrey of Monmouth,
the latter first published at Paris by Josse Bade in 1508
(and again 1517). The actual prophecies, which may well
be based at least on some element of Welsh vaticinatory
tradition, occupy pp. [iii-xvi] of this book and are printed
in italic type. The prologue (§§109-110) is omitted. In the
text of Geoffrey they occupy §§111-117 (pp. 145-159 of the
Reeve edition (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007). They also go
in tandem with the Histoire de la vie, miracles, enchentements
et propheties de Merlin, a medieval French text incorporating
the prophecies, printed by Verard in 1498 (GW 12668).
This was printed in an Italian translation in 1480/81 (?
Venice GW 12670) and 1495 (Florence GW12671) and in
Spanish in Burgos in 1498 (GW12672). All these editions
are very rare indeed, and there are fragments only of an
edition printed by de Worde in London (GW 12669).
However there could be two possible reasons for the
resurrection in 1603 of the Prophecies. One is political
and connected with the accession to the English throne
of James VI of Scotland as also treated of in The whole
prophecies of Scotland. Merlin’s prophecies had also been
referred to by Harrington in his translation of Orlando
Furioso published with engravings in 1591, where Merlin
presents sculpted prophetic images. Merlin comes also
into Spenser’s Faerie Queen, into Drayton’s Polyolbion¸and
into Jonson’s The Speeches at Prince Henries barriers of 1610,
for which Inigo Jones designed the sets. The other may
have something to do with Merlin viewed as magician
and alchemist as well as prophet. A text attributed to him
Allegoria de arcano lapidis was published in 1610 as part of
the Artis auriferae… volumina (Basel: C. Waldkirch) a work
published in three volumes originally between 1593 and
1610, and it may be (although 1603 is a little on the early
side) that the growth of Rosicrucianism and the idea of
imminent salvation may also have something to do with
the publication.
The commentary attributed to Alanus de Insulis or
Alain of Lille (1114-1203), Bishop of Auxerre is in seven
books and constitutes pp. 1-269. His authorship has been
generally accepted (e.g, by Manitius) but other possible
authors have been suggested. This is the first printing of this
elaborate commentary, which fits the various prophecies
into the context of English or British history.
The book was reprinted in 1608, and again in 1649.
Brathering published some 32 books in 1602-03, of
which some were of a ‘chemical’ or medical nature, but
his publication programme was not exclusively such, and
the book itself has no preliminary matters which might
cast light on who edited it.
VD17 1:051074D (Berlin, Munich, HAB, Halle); BL,
Bodley etc.
MAGGS
99 GESUALDO, Filippo, OFM. Plutosofia...
nella quale si spiega l’arte della memoria
con altre cose notabili pertinenti tanto alla
memoria naturale, quanto all’ artificiale.
4to (187 x 140mm.), ff. [6], 64, device on title-page,
full-page woodcut figure of a man on f. [27], very
slightly cropped at foot, English binding c. 1700 of
brown calf, gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine, morocco
lettering-piece.
Padua: P. Meietti 1592 £3000
First edition of this work by a Franciscan friar born in 1550,
who died as bishop of Cariati in 1619. A second edition
was published in Vicenza in 1600 in which the full-page
woodcut is replaced by an engraving. Various works by
Gesualdo on Franciscan discipline and spirituality were
published in Italy in the last decade of the sixteenth
century, and his Officum quindeceim graduum passionis
Christu etc., was published in Cracow in 1606. This work
is dedicated to Arnulf Uchinski, abbot of Suleovia in
Eastern Europe.
The ‘dedication’ to St. Catherine is dated 10 November
1588 from Palermo, and in it Gesualdo explains the Greek
title Plutosofia, a name created as ‘artificial memory is the
treasure and riches of all human wisdom’, a point also
made on f. 2 of the text proper. The text is divided into 20
readings (lettioni), and proceeds from a general discussion
of memory to a consideration of artificial memory (with
references to other earlier and contemporary writers (f.
11), which leads to the idea of the ‘luoghi’ or places, which
are of three sorts, imagined, natural and artificial. These
form the matter of readings 5 to 9. Readings 10-17 are
concerned with the idea of ‘collocatione’ or grouping of
things or ideas in various ways, ending with a discussion of
dictation, and in section 17 ‘Della libraria della memoria’,
books and memory. Books, he writes ‘supply remedies for
both death and distance’ and ‘students speak with the
dead’’, but memory is compared with Memory ‘as a wooden
leg compared with one of flesh and bone’. Libraries cost
money and are for the rich, memory ‘is also common to
the poor’. Books ‘age and are consumed by use, memory by
use and over time makes it self everlasting. Books perish,
memory remains always’.
CNCE 20828 (listing 17 copies) Copies at BL (C. 68.a.21, a
copy once belonging to the ‘Wizard Earl’ of Northumberland
(1546-1632)), Yale, UCLA, and Chicago. KVK lists several
copies.
00 GIGER (GEIJGER), Matthias. Artificium
1
muniendi geometricum, quo delineatio
regularium munimentorum, non solum absque
omni calculo...
4to (190 x 135mm.), ff. [4], woodcut on verso of
title, disbound.
Stockholm: H. Kayser, 1650
£400
A short work on the delineation of fortifications. Two actual
copies are recorded at Wolfenbuttel HAB and Halle, with
one in Sweden. In the USA there is a copy at Columbia
(SMITH 520 1639 L66) and microfilms at Centre for
Research Libraries & Harvard.
01 GODFREY, Ambrose & John. A Curious
1
Research in the Element of Water:
containing Many Noble and Useful Experiments
on that Fluid Body. As I. Three different
Experiments of reducing Water into Earth.
II. Several Experiments of turning Salts into
Water; with a Method of discovering their
intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are.
III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury
into Water; with a way to extract the genuine
Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment
proving that there is a latent Fire in Water;
with a Method to attract the said Fire from the
Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The whole
Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks.
Being the Conjunctive Trials of Ambrose and
John Godfrey, chymists, from their late Father’s
[Ambrose Gottfried Hanckwitz] Observations.
4to (240 x 190mm.), [2], 18pp. Disbound.
London: T. Gardner, 1747 £850
First edition. Ambrose Gottfried Hankwitz (1660-1741),
the ‘late father’ of the title, was originally from Hamburg,
and came to England to work for Robert Boyle. His chief
claim to fame was his manufacture of phosphorus from
urine and excrement, but in fact through his two sons,
who are the authors of this pamphlet, he begot a longlived firm of industrial chemists, Godfrey & Cooke which
lasted until 1915, when it was subsumed into Savory &
Moore, now itself defunct (1968) and a museum exhibit
in Melbourne, Australia.
ESTC records only the BL copy only.
102 GRAMAYE, Jean Baptiste. Specimen
litterarum & linguarum universi orbis
in quo centum fere alphabeta diuersa sunt
adumbrata, & totidem quae supersunt annotata
operique maioiris ratio & auctoris institutum
aperitur.
Small 4to (178 x 130mm.), ff. [20], Jesuit IHS device
on title-page, dedication ‘nobilissimo... senatui,
consilio populoque’, woodcut alphabets and
illustrations, somewhat cropped with some borders
of woodcuts etc., and on pp. 1 & 3 the last line of
text affected, rebound in half calf, old style.
Ath [in Belgium]: excudebat Ioannes Masius. Incidebat
Christophorus agersdorf expensis auctoris [1622?] £3000
A rare and interesting work of linguistic scholarship,
published by the author, at a town where there was no
printing.
The bibliographical description is a little complicated,
some leaves having been reset.
There are two copies of this tract in the British Library
(63.m.14 and 619.e.9.), both having a dedication to Jean,
count of Tserclaes, baron de Tilly & Marbais (whose arms
appear on the title-page), and not the present dedication. In
both cases the make up of the book is clear: the signatures
can be seen: 2 A2, [2nd] A-C4, [3rd]A4, 20 leaves, pp. [8],
1-23, [1], 33-37, 6e, 03, 40, and in both cases the order of
these has been observed. In 619.e.9, first A (‘Ad lectorem’)
has been duplicated. In this copy the order of the leaves,
all of which are present, is not the same.
The author (1575-1635) describing himself on the titlepage as ‘Provost of Arnhem, dean of Leuze (near Tournai)
and the counsellor and historiographer of princes’, was
in fact the last Provost of Arnhem and a well known local
historian writing on the antiquities of Brabant, Antwerp
and much else, including the history of Asia in a book
39
published in 1604. He was also Bishop of Africa, and
his journal has recently (1998) been published. This is a
bilingual edition of his Diarium rerum Argelae gestarum, part
of his work on Africa published at Tournai in 1623.
In the section on Greek Gramaye writes about Greek
manuscripts and his informants on their whereabouts,
which indicate that someone from Mount Athos was
visiting Brussels, that the Genoese consul there was also
a source of information, and that some information about
the treasures of Moroccan libraries was current: Graeca
extant SS. patrum volumina innumera in monasteriis
insularum archipelagi & orientis, prout asserit mihi
hoc anno Bruxellae episcopus de Monte sancto [Athos]
Graecus... superesse etiam multos graecos codices... docuit
me Lucas Sanchius consul genuensis... In Africa... multos
Graecos esse intelligo & latere in bibliothecis Fessanis &
Tuneti raros quosdam...’ In the section on Latin he refers
to Hubert Roswind SJ, as ‘amicus noster’, but he does not
mention a date anywhere.
In the ‘Ad lectorem’ preface, Gramaye lists a large
group of those who have either provided him with books
from their collections, or have written books which he has
used. These include Angelo Rocca (Bibliotheca vaticana),
Trithemius, Claude Duret, the brothers de Bry (in
Oppenheim/Frankfurt), various Jesuits, Bonaventure
Hepburn, the orientalist(1573-1620, see ODNB), whose
Lexicon linguae sanctum succinctum of 1620 may have been
used, and other works from the library of Beauchan, H.
Winghius, canon of Tournai and a Bollandist, and the
Jesuit Lansenius. On p. 22, when discussing the Aethiopic
language and those who write about it, we find the Pater
Noster given in both Latin and Angolan (‘Nigrorum oratio’)
in the same form as it is given in 1812 by Adelung in his
Mithridates p. 224, and today on-line.
Ath is a small town in Belgium, which was part of the
Spanish Netherlands until 1667 when it became the first
town to come under French control. This is the only book
printed there. Christopher Agersdorf would seem to have
been the cutter of the illustrations and the alphabets.
Copies: UK (5, BL, Bodley (2), Cambridge etc.); Germany
(2 -Göttingen, Regensburg); USA - no copies.
03 GUILLARD, René. Histoire du conseil
1
du roy depuis le commencement de la
monarchie, jusqu’ à la fin du regne de Louis
le Grand, par raport à sa jurisdiction avec un
recueil d’arrests de ce tribunal.
4to (250 x 185mm.), viii [4], 855pp., contemporary
sprinkled calf, gilt border on covers with floral
corner-pieces, spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece,
silk bookmark.
Paris: A.-U. Coustelier, 1738 £750
MAGGS
A fine copy of this uncommon book. The only copy in
the UK is in the UL Cambridge amongst Lord Acton’s
books.
04 [HALL, Joseph]. Mundus alter et idem
1
sive terra australis ante hac semper
incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici
lustrata auth. Mercurio Britanico.
8vo (190 x 135mm.), [16], 224pp., engraved title and
5 folding engraved maps (with page numbers) by
William Kip, contemporary English limp vellum.
[London: H. Lownes and Hanau, sold] Frankfurt: heirs
of ] A. de Rinialme, [1607?]
£2600
Mundus Alter was not ascribed to Bishop Hall until
1674, when the librarian of the Bodleian, Thomas Hyde
identified Mercurius Britanicus. Indeed, at one time it had
been ascribed to Alberico Gentili, whose name appears
in the table of contents of book II. The work is one of
the earliest fictional voyages set in Terra Australis (and
a moral satire against the Church of Rome), and was an
inspiration for Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The maps show
in some detail the imaginary great Antarctic continent,
and two also include details of the Americas.
First published in London by Henry Lownes (with
Frankfurt given on the titlepage) in [1605?], a second
edition dated 1607 was printed in Hanau by Gulielmus
Antonius (VD 17 23 254946R), which has a completely
different engraved title. But it is clear that there also exists
a ‘third’ which is in large part a reissue of the London
sheets with two gatherings (at most; the preliminary quire
and quire D) printed in Hanau. These are distinguished
by the absence of catchwords on the rectos, and by another
state of the engraved title.
The copy described here is a hybrid, having a first
edition title (with only vertical hatching), 8 preliminary
leaves having no catchwords on the rectos (i.e. printed
in Hanau) and first edition text other than signature D,
again from the Hanau edition. It should be noted that in
the contents of Lib II, chapter 2 is given as ‘Quid Alberico
Gentili a Gynaecopolitis factum fuerit’. The two proper
names have been crossed out and ‘mihi’ (the reading of the
first edition) added in the margin in manuscript. Wands
lists five copies with this change made in the same hand (p.
12 note 20). The same woodcut headpiece is used on p. [v] of
the prelims and on p. 62 (D7verso) of the text. This is from
the Antonius press. Antonius ‘typographus Hanovianus
solertissimus’ was the hugely prolific prototypographer in
Hanau 1593-1611 much engaged in printing works in Latin
by Ramus, Talon, Keckermann, and by English writers
such as Ascham, Perkins, John Case, James I, Alberico
Gentili (many works), and others.
Wands conjectures that some damage befell signature
D or that it was left out of a consignment of sheets sent to
the Frankfurt bookfair, that Antonius printed some extra
copies of the quire to be inserted, and that this variant
was issued in Germany in 1607 to meet book fair demand
after he had sold his own second edition. This copy has
clearly an English provenance as may be seen from the
style of binding, binder’s waste, and the presence in the
index of places of identifications of English place names
(also occasionally in the body of the text).
STC 12685.3; Church II, 54; Sabin, 29819. John Millar
Wands, “The Early Printing History of Joseph Hall’s
Mundus Alter et Idem”, The papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America, 74 (1980). For Antonius see the article
in Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens.
05 HALLEY, Edmond. Catalogue des estoilles
1
australes ou suppléments du catalogue
Thycho qui montre les longitudes & latitudes des
estoilles fixes du pole antartique, lesquelles ont
esté cachées à Tycho dans l’orison d’Uranibourg,
calculées avec un soin tres-exact suivant leurs
distances, & corrigées jusques à la fin de l’année
1677. Avec les observations faites en l’Isle de
Sainte Helene au 15. degré 55. minutes de
latitude australe, & 7. degré de longitude à
l’Occident de Londres... Par Edmond Hallai.
12mo (135x75mm.), [36], 118, [2(blank)], contemporary calf, spine gilt, spine worn, lacking the map.
Paris: J.B. Coignard, 1679
£2000
This French version of the Catalogus (1678) was, according
to Cook (Edmund Halley: Charting the heavens and the seas,
OUP, 1997, p.78) published as a supplement to the Carte
du ciel of Augustin Royer, by the same publisher Coignard.
That there should be a map present is clear, but it is not
clear from the descriptions how many copies actually
have it; that at BNF certaily does but that at Harvard
does not.
OCLC records 4 copies in France (Paris BNF, Ste
Genevieve, Observatoire, Bordeaux), one at Göttingen,
and one at Harvard (lacking map).
Provenance: Macc. South Lib. 182-b-27.
106 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. Suite des
conjectures physiques.
4to (287 x 223mm.), [8], 147, [1]pp., Large Paper
copy, 5 medical engraved plates, 2 engraved armorial
head-pieces, woodcut figures, contemporary vellumbacked boards, uncut, prelims slightly soiled
(particularly title-page), spine worn.
Amsterdam: H. Desbordes, 1708 £700
First edition, and a sequel to the first series of lectures
published in 1707 by Desbordes, both dedicated to the
Count of Hesse-Kassel. The subjects dealt with are all
physiological, and the plates illustrate Siamese twins etc.
COPAC, KVK etc. list a number of copies.
07 HASE, Johann Matthias. Regni davidici
1
et salomonaei descriptio geographica et
historica... juncta est... consideratio urbium
maximarum veterum et recentiorum ect.
2 parts folio (358 x 205mm.), ff. [4], col. 320, ff. [2];
ff. [2] (first blank), col. 132, f. [1], title printed in
red and black, 6 folding engraved maps (coloured),
plates numbered [1 (key)], I-VII, sect. III I-V & tab.
ultima, all coloured, contemporary sprinkled calf,
gilt spine, red edges.
Nurnberg: J.H.G. Bieling, prostat in off. Homanniana,
1739 £1500
A very handsome copy of this interesting book, of which the
second part contains descriptions and plans of a number
of important cities from London to Beijing and Kyoto,
and from St. Petersburg to Lima.
108 [HELDOREN, Jan van]. A nomenclator
English and Dutch. Consisting in familar
words with variety of choise phrases used in
common discours. Eeen naamboekje, Engels
en Duyts... An English and Nether-dutch
dictionary, composed out of the best English
authors...
2 volumes 16mo (140 x 80mm.), pp. 48; [1]- 64, 67166 (lacking pp. 163-166) ; 48; 48pp., ff. [52 (signed
A-O in 8’s), vellum-backed boards.
Amsterdam: widow Mercy Bruyning, 1675 £1200
The first work was published under the title A new English
grammar etc. , with 2 preliminary leaves before the title
as given above (see the entry in ESTC). The ‘Dialogue
between a Frenchman and an Englishman’ (in Dutch and
English) has its own fly-title on F2 (p. 83).
The dictionary part is arranged according to the
number of syllables (1-6) with a dash between each syllable
of the English words. These are followed by a short section
on abbreviations and one on nicknames or adapations
of christian names. Throughout the English words are
printed in Roman and the Dutch in italic.
Wing H 1372A (BL, Cashiel, NLS; Columbia, Huntington,
Yale); H1372B (BL, Cashiel, NLS; 6 US libraries).
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109 HELIODORUS. Aethiopicorum libri X.
Io.Bourdelotius emendavit etc.
8vo (170 x 105mm.), [16], 519, [1]; 123 [5(blank)]pp.,
text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns,
seventeenth-century Dutch Prize binding of vellum
over pasteboard, arms of Amsterdam on covers
within a double gilt fillet with armorial cornerpieces, flat spine gilt, later (18th-cent.) red morocco
label added at head, lacking green silk ties.
Paris: L. Feburier, 1619 £400
The Amsterdam arms on the covers are those illustrated
(vol. I p. 187 B) by J. Storm van Leeuwen in Dutch decorated
bookbinding in the eighteenth century. Bourdelot’s commentary
forms the second part of the book.
10 HELMONT, Franciscus Mercurius van.
1
Alphabeti vere naturalis hebraici brevissima
delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat,
juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari
possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant,
sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant.
12mo (130 x 65mm.), [36 (incl. additional engraved
title)], 107, [1]pp., 36 engraved plates, eighteenthcentury smooth calf, gilt.
Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1657 (1667)£1800
A handsome copy of this fascinating work. The correct
date appears in the colophon and on the engraved title.
VD17 12:153272L; Dünnhaupt (2nd edition) 2375.1;
Krivatsy 5426.
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11 HEXHAM, Henry. The Principles
1
of the Art Militarie: etc. (An appendix,
of the quarter for ransoming of officers... and
souldiers). Practised in the Warres of the United
Netherlands. Represented by figure, the word
of command, and demonstration. Composed by
Henry Hexham Quarter-Master at the Regiment
of the Honourable Coronell Goring. [- An
Appendix, of the Quarter for the ransoming
of Officers of all Qualities, and Souldiers,...
Together, with the lawes, and articles of marshall
Discipline enacted on the States side. With their
placcard of Musters. And other necessaries
depending on the warre. - The second part of the
principles of the Art Militarie, practised in the
Warres of the United Provinces: Consisting of
the Severall Formes of Battell, represented by the
Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange of famous
Memorie, and his Highnesse Frederick Henrie
Prince of Orange that now is... Together with
the order, and forme of Quartering, encamping,
and Approching in a warre offensive, and
defensive. - The Third Part of the Principles of
the Art Militarie... Treating of severall peeces
of ordnance, carriages, engines, quadrants,
morters, petards, as also instructions for Master
Gunners, and Canoniers.
Part 1: [4], 55, [1]pp; Appendix 20pp; 2 folding
engraved plates, 46 engraved illustrations in the
text (mostly full or 3/4-page), 2 engraved volvelles
on pp. 46 & 47. London: M. P[arsons] for M. Symons
(Delft: Jan Petersen Waelpte), 1637. FIRST EDITION.
Reprinted at Delft in 1642 (Sloos 03022).
Part 2: [2], 18, 40pp; 18 engr. plates London: R.
Young, 1639. SECOND EDITION. This part was
first printed at Delft in 1638.
Part 3: The third part etc. pp. [8], 18, [2], 45-48, 2533, [1], 37-40, 21-28, 47-50, 21-28, [4], 75, [2], 80-81,
[1], 3 folding engraved plate, engraved illustrations
pp. 47-50 (signed N) with double-page plate on
pp. [48-49] printed on a smaller size of paper The
Hague: F. vander Spruyt, 1640. FIRST EDITION.
The collation of this part matches that of the copy
in the BL (C.122.i.4.) in every way apart from the
fact that quire N (pp. 47-50) is here printed on small
paper.
£10,000
3 parts in 1 volume, folio (348 x 213mm.),
contemporary red morocco gilt, narrow roll borders,
central cartouche formed of sprays of olive, spine
gilt in compartments, gilt edges, small hole in text
of dedication (paper flaw), tear in pp. 15-16 of part
1, lacks ties, tear from a paper flaw across the top
corner of p. 19/20 in the Appendix to part 1.
As Louis Sloos has recently demonstrated with his splendid
catalogue Warfare and the age of Printing Catalogue of Early
Printed Books from before 1801 in Dutch military collections,
Leiden: Brill, 2008, Holland’s rôle in the development of
a properly organised and paid army of modest size, which
the state could afford to pay, was of great importance (op.
cit. p. 93). Classical influences as documented in ancient
and Byzantine writers, who stressed the importance of drill
and exercise, were conveyed through Justus Lipsius and
others to figures such as the stadtholders Maurice (15671625) and William Louis (1560-1620). English captains
and soldiers, the most famous of them Sir Philip Sidney,
were much involved in the struggles of the Dutch against
the Spanish, and Henry Hexham fits into this pattern,
and plays an important part in the transference of the
Dutch scientific approach to England.
Henry Hexham began his military career at the siege
of Ostend in 1601. Remaining in Holland he published
in 1610 and 1611 two translations of works of religious
controversy by Polyander a Kerchoven. He continued his
military career and was fighting (still for Sir Francis Vere as
his quartermaster) at the relief of Breda (1625), and at the
sieges of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (1629) and Maastricht(1631).
It was on this bedrock of practical military experience
that he drew to write a number of works on military
discipline and organisation, as well as fortification (he
translated Marolois’ work on fortification (1638)) and
ordnance: an unrecorded work by him A briefe treatise
of the founding, making and practise of ordnance, carriages,
engins, quadrants, morters, petards London, 1641 was also
in the Macclesfield Library. He also wrote accounts of
several battles, translated Mercator’s Atlas into English, and
compiled a Dutch-English dictionary and grammar.
STC 13264; 13264.6; 12364.7. Cockle 136, 137.
[see inside front cover for photograph of binding]
43
12 HOWELL, James. Lustra Ludovici,
1
or the late victorious king of France, Lewis
the XIII (and his cardinall de Richelieu).
Folio (278 x 182mm.), [12], 188,[8]pp., engraved
medallion portrait of the dedicatee Prince Charles
by G[eorge]. G[lover]. On *2r, woodcut initials and
head-pieces, rule border, seventeenth-century red
morocco gilt, panelled sides with fleuron at corners,
spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, long tear in
P3 with slight loss, occasional other short tears in
margins, occasional manuscript notes in margins,
small tear on upper cover.
London: [by John Legate II] for Humphrey Moseley,
1646 £450
First separate edition, and a fine crisp copy. The translation
and commentary on Porphyry is by Lucas Holstenius
librarian of the Palatine library. Part 1 (Iamblichus) has a
new Latin version by Obrecht, and also contains a number
of pencilled annotations in English, possibly by Edward
Wake (see below). The work is dedicated by Kuster to the
Bishop of Norwich, John Moore, whose famous library is in
Cambridge UL, and whose son accompanied George Parker,
the second Earl of Macclesfield, on his Grand Tour.
First edition. This biography of Louis XIII contains ‘The
life of Armand John de Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu’.
116 ISOCRATES. Orationes et epistolae.
Cum Latina interpretatione Hier. Wolfii, ab
ipso postremum recognita, etc.
Folio (338 x 330mm.), [14]ff. 427, 131, XXXIVpp.
[1]f. (blank). [4]ff. 31pp. [9]ff., early 18th century
English mottled calf, covers panelled in blind, spine
gilt in compartments, red morocco label, printed
pastedowns etc. (see below), slight worming, upper
joint split at head and foot.
[Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1593. £900
Hoffmann ii, 388.
Provenance: armorial bookplate of Edward Wake (1664/51732) of Christ Church, later canon of Canterbury.
ESTIENNE’S LAST FOLIO TEXT
Wing H3092.
Provenance: P.J. Wright collation note on flyleaf dated
September 1720.
113 HULSIUS, Levinus. Chronologia,
hoc est brevis descriptio rerum
memorabilium, in provinciis hac adiuncta tabula
topographica comprehensis gestarum, usq; ad
hunc M.D. IIIC. annum praesentem.
4to (198 x 150mm.), [6], 89(rectè 90)pp. large
armorial engraving on title (arms of imperial
provinces), and of Eberhard, Bishop of Spier on
f. A2v, contemporary vellum, foot of spine worn.
Nürnberg: C. Lochner, 1597 £500
VD16 H5069.
114 HYGINUS, Caius Julius. Fabularum
liber... Poeticon astronomicon libri
quatuor... Arati Phaenomena graece... Procli de
sphaera libellus, graece & latine [ed. J. Micyllus].
Folio (317 x 200mm.), [8], 251, [29]pp., last leaf
blank, device on title-page, woodcut illustrations,
contemporary vellum over pasteboards, spine
slightly cracked.
Basel: ex officina Hervagiana, per E. Episcopium
(August), 1570 £1500
This fine, large volume is a collection of mythographical
texts and contains mythological works by Palaephatus,
Fulgentius, Phurnutus, Albricus, and the Latin version of
Aratus attributed to Germanicus Caesar. It was originally
published in 1535. The editor, Micyllus in his dedication to
Otho Truchses, canon of Speyer (here reprinted), speaks
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of how he was asked in the previous year (1534) by the
publisher Hervagius to reread Boccaccio’s Geneologiae
deorum and thence to continue his work on Hyginus,
which he saw would be useful to young students. The
manuscript used by Micyllus (Molsheim-Moltzer, 15031558, German Neo-Latin poet and editor) was in the
Beneventan script (‘literis longobardicis’) and does not
survive, although fragments have been found sufficient to
indicate that Micyllus was a poor editor (see Alan Cameron
Greek mythography in the Roman world, 2004).
Hyginus is an important source for ancient mythology,
and may have originally written in Greek; certainly his
sources are Greek.
Provenance: Georgius Melchior, 1664 with inscription
on title-page.
115 IAMBLICHUS. [Greek]... De vita
pythagorica liber... notisque... illustratus
a Ludolphon Kustero. Versionem latinam...
confecit... Ulricus Obrechtus. Accedit Malchus,
sive Porphyrius de vita Pythagorae [etc.]
2 parts 4to (202 x 145mm.), [16(incl. engr. frontis),
219, [17]; 93, [1]pp., 2 columns, title printed in red
and black, contemporary English panelled calf, gilt
spine, red morocco lettering-piece.
Amsterdam: widow of S. Petzold & C. Petzold, 1707 £700
A famous edition of Isocrates with what was the standard
version of the dyspeptic scholar Hieronymus Wolf.
The printed pastedowns and free-endpapers are bifolia
from a late 16th century 4to Latin Bible printed in London,
probably one of the editions printed by Henry Middleton
for Christopher Barker, 1580-1585, the earliest complete
Latin Bibles printed in England (see Darlow and Moule
II, no. 6166). The pages are numbered 117-119, 122-124,
129-130 (Maccabees), 131, 142-144 (Ecclesiastes; p. 131 with
two decorative woodcut initials). Narrow strips of binder’s
waste from manuscript written in a neat late Carolingian
minuscule hand.
Provenance: Inscriptions on title-page of “E libris Thomae
Coke” (early 17th century), “T:Osborne” (17th century) and
“Wm. Robinson” (18th century). Fine armorial bookplate
inside front cover of “William Robinson é Coll. Jes. Soc.
Com.” (of Jesus College, Oxford, matriculated 13 July
1706 - see Alumni Oxoniensis III, p. 1269).
Renouard 155: 1; Schreiber 224.
117 [JONES, William]. Observations in a
journey to Paris by way of Flanders, in the
month of August 1776.
2 volumes 8vo (170 x 110mm.), viii, 196; [4], 200pp.,
engraved caricature of Voltaire in vol. 1 (T.O. f.
1772, see note), original blue paper wrappers, vol.
2 split.
London: printed for G. Robinson, 1777 £550
Jones (1726-1800) was educated at Charterhouse and
University College, Oxford. A divine of Hutchinsonian
views (i.e. anti-Newtonian views, which believed that the
Bible contained all science) he published many works (some
reprinted) and founded the periodical The British Critic.
Although most of the book is devoted to a detailed
description of Paris and its libraries (notably Ste Geneviève),
and ‘cabinets’ as well as the theatre etc., he also described
places he saw en voyage such as the English College at St.
Omer: ‘This day I went to the English college, saw their
chapel, and the theatre in which they perform the plays of
Terence and practise the art of elocution. In their library
I found many English books of controversial divinity, with
some answers (unheard by us) to books which we reckon
unanswerable...’
Jones, who was a musician and organist himself (in fact
he recounts how he played works by Händel and Corelli
on a Paris organ), devotes a whole chapter to the organs
of Paris and visits a monastery with ‘an expert organist,
Monsieur De Luce, one of the players at the cathedral of
the Notre Dame... He was so obliging as to exhibit upon
the different stops... The chief excellency of this organ,
is in the reed stops, and the lightness of the touch. It has
four rows of keys, with thirty-two pedal notes; so that a
strain, of the cantabile kind, may be played upon a reed
stop with one hand, an accompaniment, or second part,
with the other hands, while a base is thrown in... with the
foot...’ (in vol. ii postscript no. 3 (pp. 193-196) gives the
registration of ‘one of the best organs at Paris’).
The print of Voltaire acting at Ferney is made from
a drawing by Thomas Orde of Lincoln’s Inn (see vol. ii
pp. 191-192). Voltaire is frequently discussed in parts of
the text.
18 JOSEPHUS, Flavius. Some observations
1
of the additions to & differences from
the truth contained in the storie of the holy
scripture together with a compend of the rest of
Josephus his XX books of the Jewish Antiquities.
(A compend of Josephus his 7 bookes of trhe
Jewish warres. - A compend of the ecclesiasticall
historie in X books by Eusebius Pamphilus...- A
compend of the ecclesiasticall historie in VII
bookes by Socrates scholasticus. - A compend of
the ecclesiasticall historie written in VI bookes by
Evagrius scholasticus.)
8vo (142 x 90mm.), MANUSCRIPT in English, ff.
[228], first leaf and last 4 leaves blank, written in a
45
single hand in brown ink, 20 -26 lines to the page.
Contents: The 5 sections are dated 20 November
1651(1v) & 2 December (61v) (Antiquities); 3
December 1651 (62v) & 10 December 1651 (101r)
(Jewish Wars); 11 December 1651 (103r) (Life of
Josephus); 15 December 1651 (104v) & 23 December
1651 (149r) (Eusebius); 24 December 1651(149v)
& 23 January 1651/2 (Socrates followed (196v) by
Evagrius). Contemporary rough calf, rubbed. 16511652 £3000
An interesting resumé of both OT and christian history
taken mostly from Josephus (ff. 1-103), and from the
histories of Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius, the works of
whom are frequently printed together both in the original
Greek, in Latin translation and in the English version
of Meredith Hanmer, originally published in 1577, but
reprinted, and with an edition published in 1650 (Wing
E3421). Josephus was similarly translated into English
and widely read.
At the very end are 2 pages of notes on Grotius De jure
belli ac pacis on the treatment of prisoners ‘captivis parci jus
naturale et commune’, with some references to Xenophon,
Sallust, and Camden (‘1598 in causa Hawkins’). Whether
these have some contemporary resonance, which may well
be the case, is unclear.
19 JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata.
1
Eiusdem aenigmata libellus. Cum noua &
emblematum & aenigmatum appendice.
16mo (115 x 74mm.), 167pp., woodcuts, speckled calf
c. 1700, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece.
Leiden: F. Raphelengius ex off. Plantiniana, 1596 £950
58 woodcuts, mostly unsigned, by Arnaud Nicolai and
Geeraard Jansen van Kampen after Luc de Herre, Pierre
Huys and Geoffroy Ballaing. Some copies are dated
1595.
Landwehr 406.
120 KEPLER, Johann. Prodromus
dissertationum cosmographicarum...
Addita est... narratio M. Georgii Rhetici, de libris
revolutionum, etc.
Folio (280 x 186mm.), [8], 114, 119-163, [1]; [50]pp.,
4 ‘tabellae’ with woodcut diagrams and with
letterpress (I-IIat pp. 18, IV at p. 54, V at p. 56),
woodcut diagrams, contemporary speckled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, some browning, lacking
the engraved plate numbered III.
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Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempfer for G. Tampach, 1621 (1622) £15,000
Second edition with an appendix containing Kepler’s
defence against Robert Fludd. The missing engraved plate,
dated Tubingen 1597 (‘Orbium planetarum dimensiones
etc.’) should be at p. 27.
VD17 12:637078S; Caspar 67 & 68; Houzeau & Lancaster
2841.
21 KRAG, Niels. De republica
1
Lacedaemoniorum libri III... Opus
politicarum... studiosis, lectu iocundum, nec
inutile futurum (Heraclidae Pontici de politiis
libellus cum interpretatione latina edente
Nicolao Cragio - Ex Nicolai Damasceni
universali historia seu de moribus gentium
libris excerpta Ioannis Stobaei collectanea etc.)
3 parts 4to (215 x 160mm.), [16], 269, [3(blank)]; 35,
[1]; 23pp., contemporary (? Scandinavian) vellum
over thin wooden boards, yapp edges.
[Geneva]: P. Saintandré, 1593 £400
First edition of this work, which is in three parts, all
of them connected to the main theme which is that of
social organisation, in particular that of Sparta, which
is discussed from every angle, geographical, political,
domestic, diet etc.. The work is dedicated to Niels Kaas,
the Danish chancellor from 1573.
RABBI SHABBETHAI BASS BEN JOSEPH
22 [KRAUSE, Johann, editor]. Neuer
1
Bücher=Saal der gelehrten Welt oder
ausführliche Nachrichten von allerhand neuen
Büchern... Die I. (XII.) Oeffnung. (nebst denen
dazu gehörigen Registern über die ersten zwölff
Oeffnungen).
8vo (162 x 95mm.), [16], 969, [76]pp. frontispiece
& portraits, contemporary vellum backed paper
boards.
Leipzig: Gleditsch & Weidmannishe Buchhandlung,
1710 -1711 £550
Issues 1-12 (with index), edited by J.G. Krause, of this
excellent collection of book reviews etc. Amongst those
whose portraits are given are Leibniz and. Amongst the
books discussed are Overbeke’s series of engravings
of Rome, Poleni’s Miscellanea, works on mathematics
by Hermann and Verzaglia, various works of classical
and oriental scholarship, a notice of Maittaire’s Historia
Stephanorum and a long account sent by a gentleman from
Silesia of the life and career of the founder of Jewish
bibliography Shabbethai Bass b. Joseph (1641-1718) with
an account of his work as printer at Dyrenfurth, a small
town near Breslau, titled ‘index librorum in Silesia typis
Dyrenfurtensibus ab anno Christi 1690 ad annum 1710
evulgatorum’ (pp. 1691-712).
The publication continued until 1717 and a full set
comprises 60 issues in 5 volumes. Many libraries have a
microfilm, but only Göttigen seems to have a complete set.
Provenance: on the front fly-leaf is written N 1340 (lot
number from a sale).
23 LASENA, Pietro. Dell’antico ginnasio
1
napoletano. Opera posthuma.
4to (200 x 155mm.), [20], 229, [3]pp., plus engraved
title, title-page cropped, seventeenth-century
mottled calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt in
compartments.
Naples: a spese di C. Porpora, [1688] £850
This is the second edition of this work by Pietro Lasena
(1590-1636), originally published posthumously in 1641
by Cardinal Brancaccio (1592 - 1675), whose library forms
the basis of the public library at Naples. Copies having
(it appears) become rare, it was reprinted in 1688 at the
instigation of Giuseppe Valletta. Another work from
Lasena’s pen was Cleombrotus, 1637, a work on those who
had died by drowning, like Lasena’s parents. This too was
published posthumously, and illustrated with an engraving
of Bernini’s Bercacca statue.
Vinciana 4477. Some seven copies are in various British
libraries, including 3 at Cambridge, whereas of the 1641
edition only three are recorded in UK (and only 3 others
by OCLC).
124 LAURET, Christophe. La doctrine des
temps et de l’astronomie universelle
contenant la démonstration du vray nombre
des ans du monde, & des orbes célestes... par
Christofle Lavret de Provins... avec une épistre a
notre St Père le Pape Clément le huictiesme... par
P. Victor Cayet.
Folio (350 x 210mm.); ff.[8] 133 (= 135, several
mispaginations etc.) 1]; large woodcut printer’s
device on title-page, woodcut head-pieces, tailpieces, initials, mid-nineteenth century calf
by Hatton in Manchester, triple blind fillet on
boards, blind fleuron in boards’ corner and in
spine compartments, morocco lettering piece, red
edges, f. 58 stained, small hole with loss of text
in f. 126, few manuscript annotations in margin,
the dedication (signed *) to Clement VIII by Cayet
bound at end.
Paris: Cramoisy, 1610 £6000
An extraordinary work which marries astronomy and
biblical history, pointing out that accurate calculations are
the basis of accurate calendars which themselves provide
the framework into which historical events are fitted, and
in particular biblical chronology.
Christophe Lauret (c.1547-1615) avocat au siège
présidial de Provins, and a Greek and Hebrew scholar,
explains in his dedication to Martin Ruzé, how he started
at the age of 20 to study astronomy in order to improve
the way in which men conceived time. Book I outlines
the different ways of conceiving the year and time,
with an account of the calendar reform of 1582 by the
papal bull ‘Inter gravissimas’ of Gregory XIII. This is
followed by a perpetual Roman calendar and by another
table with details of how different calendrical systems
47
allow for extra days. The second book is an account of
the “sphère artificielle” or armillary sphere, again with
tables of calculations; the third book on ‘la théorique du
firmament’ is followed by a catalogue of zodiacal signs
and fixed stars. Book IV is about the moon and is again
followed by tables and rules governing lunar calculations
(Copernicus is here referred to, p. 55). Book V discusses
solar and lunar cycles, and book VI the date of the world’s
foundation etc. (also followed by tables). Book VII, which
contains 179 sections discusses the basis of chronology
and history, in particular that of the Jews and the Bible.
On ff. 72-73 are given in French, translations made from
the Septuagint and the Hebrew text of the Bible shewing
the chronological disparity by which the same person
seems to have lived a different number of years. Book
VI contains much other chronological information about
the ancient world. Books VIII-XII are concerned with
the planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury), and
book XIII contains tables of planetary calculations. The
penultimate book XIV discusses “la racine originelle et
primitive des mouvemens célestes”, viewed as a necessary
base for all historical calculations and book XV deals with
what are called ‘Antidoxes’ or contrary opinions about a
whole variety of astronomical, astrological and historical
statements, ending with an account of how many years
from the creation of the world to the time of Salvation. This
is given (ff. 132-133) according to a wide range of writers,
Jewish, Christian, medieval and recent: Melanchthon,
Génébrard, Scaliger (his De emendatione temporum) &
others. At the end of the text, Lauret announces a Latin
translation of the work intended to be printed and read
internationally. This seems never to have been done (but
see below for Génébrard’s Chronographia).
Lauret published also Hazoar, sive illustratio prohetarum
de plenitudine temporis Messiae, Paris: Cramoisy, 1610,, a
work with similar intent.
The dedication to Pope Clement VIII by Pierre Cayet,
(bound at the end) is a seven page text, here annotated
with anti-papal comments, on the first page, on *iii and the
last one. The title reads: A notre St Pere le pape Clement
huictieme, par la providence de Dieu et a son deshonneur.
Souverain pontife et chef de nostre Mere Sainte Eglise
Catholique Romaine. C’est a dire idolatre. Apres avoir
tres-devotement & en toute humilité baisé les pieds de
sa Saincteté et aussi le cul s’il luy plait je m’appliquay a
escrire ce livre.”
Pierre Cayet (1525-1610), who sometimes designates
himself with the name of a non-existent title, Sieur de
la Palme, and after his conversion to catholicism took
the surname Victor, was a pupil of Ramus, under whose
influence he became a protestant, studying at Geneva and
in Germany. He later became a pastor and in 1593/4 was
brought to Paris by his pupil Catherine de Bourbon. In
1595 he returned to catholicism and was made chronologer
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and professor of oriental languages by Henri IV. A very
learned man with a wide knowledge of oriental and other
languages (he published his Paradigmata in 1596), he was
also interested in alchemy and millenarianism. A translation
from Widman Histoire prodigieuse et lamentable du Docteur
Fauste, grand magicien was published in 1603 brought him
the reputation of a magician. He wrote several important
historical works, enlarged Genebrard’s Chronographia in
the edition of 1600, and translated from the Spanish, as
well as other languages. De la venue de l’Antechrist, comment et
en quel temps il viendra..., Paris, Richer 1602, is a translation
into French of the Consummatio mundi ac de Antichristo of
Hippolytus (earlier translated into French in 1579).
The book is rare, and we have located only 8 copies as
follows: Paris: BNF, Arsenal, S.Genevieve; Germany:
Göttingen; UK: BL, Merton Coll. Oxford; USA: Columbia,
NYPL.
De La Lande (Bibliographie astronomique, 1803) p.132;
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises (ed. M. Simonin), Paris:
Fayard 2001, 239-240 (Cayet).
Provenance: ownership inscription on title-page of Philip
Warrick (Sir Philip Warwick 1609-1683) politician and
historian (see ODNB).
25 LE CORDIER, Samson. Instruction
1
des pilotes ou traité des latitudes,
contenant les tables de la déclinaison du soleil,
et des plus reconnaissables & plus claires étoiles
du firmament... Neuvieme édition... seconde
partie.
[8], 177, 3, [2]pp., (sig.[*4], A-L8, M4+1), last leave with
privilege slightly torn, pp.1-3 at end with “Catalogue
des livres et cartes marines”.
£1500
Le Havre: veuve de Jacques Hubault, 1708
Samson Le Cordier (Havre 1647-1709 Dieppe), taught
hydrography at Dieppe, and first published this little
book in 1683. It was still in print in the mid eighteenth
century. This edition prints the second part only (see
J. Polak, Bibliographie maritime française, Grenoble, 1976,
no. 5566).
Bound with:
DARY, Michael. The general doctrine of
equation... in three chapters; concerning the
invention reduction solution of an equation.
16pp., a few page numbers shaved, London: for the
author, 1664. Wing D276 (BL, Bodley and UCLA
only).
Michael Dary ‘philomath’ was the author of a number of
works, all of them rare or uncommon. He was known to
John Collins, the mathematician whose books and papers
came into the Macclesfield library.
Bound with:
MARROIS, Jean. Traité succint de la
trigonométrie géométrique aux triangles
rectilignes sans les sinus. Par une manière
générale, laquelle donne la vraye proportion,
& grandeur des costés d’un triangle, soit en
longitude, ou en puissance.
[6], 48pp., some cropping of headlines. Orléans: Cl.
& J. Borde, 1647.
Marrois taught mathematics to a wide variety of students
from all over Europe from the 1630s until the 1660s. In
1632 he published with René Frémont at Orléans his Traité
de la méthode de nombre ou de la numération, in 1644 with
Hotot Premier livre des élémens de mathématiques, and this
third work in 1647. In some totally exaggerated verses
which may reflect more on his teaching abilities than on
his published work, he is addressed as :
« Archimède nouveau, vivant portrait d’Euclide,
« Oronce déguisé, Galilé de nos temps,
« Copernic de nos jours, le Tycho de nos ans,
« Ptolémé revenu pour nous servir de guide. »
(See the short article by H. Tranchau ‘Jean Marrois
professeur de mathématiques à Orléans et son Album
amicorum quelques mots sur d’autres albums français et
allemands’ in Mémoires de la société archéologique et historique
de l’Orléanais, vol. 22 (1889) pp. 499-534).
KVK lists copies at Weimar (? Destroyed in fire) and Paris
Ste Geneviève.
3 works in one volume, 8vo (154 x 100mm.), eighteenthcentury half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red
morocco lettering-piece, red edges.
126 LEDIARD, Thomas. Some observations
on the scheme, offered by Messrs. Cotton
and Lediard, for opening the streets and
passages to and from the intended bridge
at Westminster. In a Letter from one of the
Commissioners for Building the said Bridge, to
Mr. Lediard, and his Answer. With the Scheme
and Plan prefix’d: To which is added, a plan of
the lower parts of the parishes of St. Margaret
and St. John the Evangelist, from the HorseFerry to White-hall.
4to (245 x 195mm.), [2], 3-26pp., two folding
engraved plans of the north bank of the Thames
from Westminster Hall to the Plantation Office and
from the Horse Ferry to Whitehall, contemporary
blue boards, vellum spine, lettered in manuscript,
lacking the dedication.
London: for John Brett and Ruth Charlton, [1738] £450
“In February 1738 [Lediard] wrote A Scheme... dedicated
to Lord Sundon and Sir Charles Wager, the members of
parliament for Westminster. About this time, possibly to
some extent in consequence of this, he was appointed agent
and surveyor of Westminster Bridge. It seems probable that
he was the ‘JP for Westminster’ who was appointed in 1742
to succeed the recently deceased Nathaniel Blacherby as
‘Treasurer for Westminster Bridge’ (GM, 12.275, where,
however, the name is printed ‘John’), for on 13 July 1742
‘the crown lands from Westminster Bridge to Charing
Cross’ were granted to him and Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bt, to
hold ‘in trust to the Commissioners appointed to build
Westminster Bridge’ (ibid., 12.385).” - ODNB.
Lacking the dedication to William, Lord Sundon and
Sir Charles Wager, perhaps as it was being presented to
Lord Macclesfield.
Harris 488.
27 LENFANT, Jacques. Histoire du
1
Concile de Pise, et de ce qui s’est passé
de plus mémorable depuis ce Concile jusqu’au
Concile de Constance… Enrichie de portraits.
4to (250x190mm.), [4], LIII, [1], 366; [4], 327 [31],
engraved frontispiece of Jacques Lenfant by Picart,
13 engraved plates of portraits, 1 engraved plate of
medals, engraved large device on both title-pages
“perspective de la ville de Pise” by W. Fongman.
Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1724 £450
The Council of Pisa (1409) aimed at putting an end to the
western schism that divided the papacy between Rome
and Avignon. The opposing pontiffs agreed on one thing
only, the illegality of the council. Thus both were accused
of heresy and witchcraft, and, as they refused to come to
Pisa to defend themselves, the Popes were dismissed and
Alexander V was elected. Thus there were three popes.
The schism finally ended in 1414 with the Council of
Constance, the subject of Lenfant’s previous book.
128 LEOPARDUS (LIEBAERT), Paulus.
Emendationum et miscellaneorum libri
viginti... Tomus prior, decem libros continens.
4to (190 x 130mm.), [12], 279, [13]pp., late
seventeenth-century morocco leather, spine gilt,
morocco lettering-piece.
Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1567 £450
49
Leopardus was a Belgian humanist born at Isemberge (near
Furnes), who studied at Louvain, who opened a Latin school
at Hondschoote. He eventually became headmaster of the
gymnasium at Bergues St. Winnoc where he died in June
1567. In 1556 he published a translation of Aristippus, Vita,
& chriae sive apophthegmata Aristippi, Diogenis, Demonactis,
Stratonici, Demosthenis & Aspasiæ. Quires A-H were actually
printed at Bruges by Goltzius and then the stock was
transferred to Plantin who printed the remainder and the
prelims. This collection of conjectures etc. is very much in
the tradition of Low Countries philological scholarship,
a tradition still common in the nineteenth century with
books such as Cobet’s Variae lectiones.
Copies are listed by Voet at Plantin Moretus Museum,
Brussels, Cambridge (6), and BL, but there are copies
elsewhere, including Bodley, Magdalen College, Yale, etc.
Voet 1519.
129 LEOPOLD, Johann Friedrich. Relatio
epistolica de itinere suo suecico anno.
MDCCVII facto. Ad... Johannem Woodward, etc.
8vo (195 x 120mm.), viii (=vi), [2], 111pp., fly-title,
8 numbered folding engraved plates and maps,
woodcut head and tail-pieces, contemporary calf,
gilt border on covers, spine gilt, edges gilt, a little
rubbed.
London: T. Childe, 1720 £525
First edition. A handsome copy of this posthumously
published work on Swedish geology with plates and
descriptions of mountains, natural phenomena, geological
specimens etc. The work is addressed to John Woodward
(See J.M. Levine Dr. Woodward’s Shield, 1977). The author
Leopold (1676-1711) came from Lübeck and as the title
states made this journey through Sweden in 1708.
ESTC records a 1722 edition (one copy only) and what
may well be a reissue of this 1720 edition in 1727 with
the names of Bickerton and Joseph Pote (later of Eton)
in the imprint. Copies are to be located in several British,
German and North American libraries.
30 LETO, Giulio Pomponio (LAETUS, Julius
1
Pomponius). Romanae historiae
compendium, etc.
4to in 6’s (189 x 133mm.), ff. [62], woodcut illustration
on title-page, large device at end, eighteenth-century
smooth calf, gilt spine, red edges.
(Paris: Jean Dupré, 7 May) 1501) £1500
A handsome copy of this resumé of Roman history from the
younger Gordian II (AD 238) to Justin III in the early 7th
century. The work was first printed in 1499 in Venice.
MAGGS
Moreau 1501/854; Goff L27.
Provenance: Nicolas Mallary of Rouen; Nicolas Maillard
(c. 1486-1565) see Bietenholz, P. & al. Contemporaries of
Erasmus pp. 369-370. Another book from his library is
the 1513 Estienne Quincuplex Psalterium in Paris (BNF
Rés. G.a. 17).
131 LLWYD, Humphrey. Commentarioli
Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum.
8vo (153 x 94mm.), ff. [8], 79 [=78], [2(blank)],
eighteenth-century smooth calf, gilt spine, without
the final blanks.
Cologne: J. Birckmann, 1572 £900
First edition of Llwyd’s geographical and historical
description of Ancient Britain. It is prefixed by his farewell
letter to the cartographer Abraham Ortelius dated from
Denbigh 30 August 1568 (the original dated “3o”, i.e.
“Tertio Augusti” or 3 August is in the National Library
of Wales) and ends with a short Welsh vocabulary. An
English translation by Thomas Twyne, The Breuiary of
Britayne, was published in 1573.
Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568), was personal physician
to the Earl of Arundel for 15 years but returned to his
home town, Denbigh, in 1563. He was M.P. for East
Grinstead 1559 and Denbigh 1563-67. He was also a noted
antiquary and the manuscript of this work was sent to
Ortelius by Llwyd from his deathbed, together with a
map of England, a map of England and Wales and one
of Wales - the two latter, Angliae Regni Forentissimi Nova
Descriptio and Cambriae Typus were published by Ortelius
in the first supplement to his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in
1573 - the Cambriae Typus being the first map of Wales
ever published.
The work has a philological aspect in as much as Llwyd
distinguishes between the two types of Celtic, the ‘p’ Celts
and the ‘q’ Celts.
Shaaber, Check of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in
Languages other than English, to 1641, L335. VD16 L2153.
Libri Walliae no. 3313.
title-page (several copies recorded by KVK). There is a
third edition dated 1670 published at Uppsala, and the
work was also reprinted with the same author’s Historia
Suecana in 1676.
The son of a merchant, Johan Loccenius (Hamburg
1598- Uppsala 1697), a jurist, was educated at various
European universities, and in 1651 became Queen
Christina’s royal historiographer. He published works
on law and history.
135 LOREDAN, Bernardino. In M. Tullii
Ciceronis orationes de lege agraria contra
P. Servilium Rullum tribunum pl. commentarius
[with the text].
4to (200 x 150mm.), 297, [3]pp., contemporary limp
vellum, ms. guards.
Venice: Paulus Manutius, July 1558 £500
33 LOISEL, Antoine. Memoires des pays,
1
villes, comté et comtes, evesché et
evesques… de Beauvais et Beauvaisis.
4to (205 x 160mm.), [4], 367, [19]pp., title printed
in red and black, woodcut device on title-page,
woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, 1 engraved
illustration, seventeenth century calf, triple-fillet gilt
with fleuron in each corner on boards, spine gilt in
compartments, morocco lettering piece, spine used,
slightly water-stained on title-page and in upper
corner of the first pages.
Paris: S. Thiboust, 1617 £700
36 LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus. Lucan’s
1
Pharsalia. Translated into English Verse by
Nicholas Rowe, Esq; Servant to His Majesty.
Folio (475 x 280mm.), [6], xxv, [5], 446, 55pp. Large
Paper copy, engraved frontispiece by B. Baron after
Louis Cheron, double-page map of the Roman
Empire, engraved head and tailpieces by Elisha
Kirkhall after Cheron, contemporary calf, panelled
in blind, gilt spine (upper joint cracked but firm),
some light browning.
London: for Jacob Tonson, 1718 £600
First (and only) edition of this classic work of local history
by a leading lawyer.
Provenance: manuscript ex-libris on top of title-page.
34 LONGINUS, Dionysius. On the sublime:
1
translated from the Greek, with notes
and observations, and some account of the life,
writings, and character of the author. By William
Smith... The second edition, corrected and
improved.
8vo (198 x 120.mm.), [16], xxxiv, 189, [1]pp., engraved
frontispiece by G. Van Der Gucht, woodcut headand tailpieces, woodcut initials, contemporary red
morocco, wide gilt border on covers, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt edges, slight wear to joints.
London: for W. Sandby, 1742 £750
32 LOCCENIUS (LOCHEN), Johan.
1
Antiquitatum Sueo-gothicarum, cum huius
aevi moribus, institutis ac ritibus indigenis pro
re nata comparatarum libri tres. Editio secunda,
emendatior & auctior.
8vo (155 x 95mm.), [8], 168pp., seventeenth-century
English sprinkled calf.
Stockholm: Johan Jansson, [1654] £400
The dedication copy, specially bound for George, second
earl of Macclesfield. The translation by Smith, based on
the edition of Zachary Pearce (himself a protegé of the
Macclesfield family) was first published in 1739. In his
notes Smith draws attention to many modern writers,
Tasso, Milton, Pope, etc. and several times to Shakespeare
(King Lear pp. 138-140, Macbeth pp. 147-148, Hamlet PP.
158-159, Antony & Cleopatra p. 163, Romeo & Juliet p.
169, and Timon of Athens p. 170).
A very nice copy of this work, first published in 1647. This
second edition is also found with the date 1654 on the
[see inside back cover for photograph of binding]
Ahmanson Murphy 535; Renouard 174:8.
Provenance: Subscriber’s copy.
37 MACCHIAVELLI, Niccolo. Historie.
1
12mo (137 x 75mm.), [12], 559, [9]pp., italic
letter, woodcut printer’s device on title-page,
woodcut headpiece and initials, seventeenth century
speckled calf binding, spine gilt in compartments,
lettering-piece (lacking), binding rubbed, spine gilt
detaching, small hole on the last page.
Piacenza: Gli heredi di Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari [i.e.
London: John Wolfe]1587 £700
Macchiavelli (1469-1527) was commissioned by Giulio
di Giuliano de Medici, later Pope Clement VII to write
this history of Florence, in which he had to suppress his
republican views. It was first published in 1532.
References: STC 17161; Woodfield Surreptitious Printing
33; Bertelli, ‘Bibliografia machiavelliana’ 178.
Provenance: Lt. gen. George L. Parker bookplate.
38 MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius. 1
In Somnium Scipionis lib. II.
Saturnaliorum lib. VII.
8vo (165 x 104mm.), 567, [73]pp., device on titlepage, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges,
lacking ties.
Lyons: S. Gryphe, 1556 £550
A very attractive copy.
Baudrier: ix, 284-285.
51
139 MANFREDI, Eustachio. Elementi della
cronologia con diverse scritture
appartenenti al calendario romano. Opera
postuma.
4to (255 x 180mm.), [14],362, [2 (imprimatur)]pp.,
engraved device on title-page, woodcut initials,
woodcut diagrams, engraved headpiece, nineteenth
century half calf by Hatton of Manchester, red
morocco lettering-piece, red speckled edges, lacking
frontispiece.
Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1744
£450
First edition. Eustachio Manfredi (1674-1739) was founder
of the Academy of Bologna, a poet and an astronomer.
References: Houzeau & Lancaster 13980; Ricardi ii, 85-86.
40 MANUTIUS, Aldus, the younger. 1
De quaesitis per epistolam libri III.
3 parts 8vo (150 x 85mm.), [8], 125, [3 (blank)]; 106,
[6 (blank)]; 103pp., 17th-century German blindstamped pigskin over pasteboard, red edges.
Venice: [Aldus Manutius] 1576 £450
First edition and a very nice copy.
Provenance: title-page inscribed ‘Paulus Johanne ?? Patavii
MDLXXVII’.
UCLA 898; Renouard.
41 MAROLLES, Michel de. Tableaux du
1
temple des muses représentant les vertus,
et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de
l’antiquité.
Fol. [20], 477, [9]p. (336x245mm.), 58 engraved
plates & portrait of the author, engraved folding
title-page, woodcut head and tail-pieces, initials
woodcut. Contemporary calf binding, rubbed, spine
gilt in compartments, crackled, water stained in
corners throughout half of the book.
(Paris: Nicolas Langlois), 1655 £900
First edition.
Michel de Marolles (1600-1681) is famous for his collection
of 123,000 engravings which was bought by Colbert
for Louis XIV. He worked on many translations and
historical accounts, as well as on the art of engraving
like the Catalogue de livres d’estampes et de figures en taille
douce, avec un dénombrement des pièces qui y sont contenues,
fait à Paris en l’année 1666 or the present book. It contains
engravings of figures from the stories of Ovid, engraved
by Cornelis Cloemaert after Diepenbeck.
Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with bookplate.
MAGGS
42 MAUPAS DU TOUR, Henri Couchon de,
1
Bishop of Puy. La Vie du venerable serviteur
de Dieu, François de Sales, etc. (Abregé de
l’Esprit intérieur des religieuses de la visitation
de Sainte Marie).
2 parts 4to (245 x 175mm.), 411; 53, [3]pp., ruled
in red, add. engraved title-page, 6 engraved plates
after F. Chauveau, engraved by various hands,
engraved head-pieces and initials, contemporary
French panelled red morocco, gilt floral cornerpieces, spine gilt, turn-ins and edges gilt, slight
damage to upper cover, paper flaw in pl. at p. 1
with consequent tear.
Paris: J. & E. Langlois 1657 £850
‘Vous devez tenir la doctrine salésienne comme un de
ferments de la civilisation moderne. Jugez-le comme vous
faites les autres, Érasme, Montaigne, par exemple. Son
influence s’ est exercée d’ordinaire sur une autre fraction
du public, mais elle n’a été ni moins étendue ni moins
profonde’ (Bremond, Hist. De la spiriitualité I, 127 (=I,
52 in 2006 reprint).
A handsome copy, ruled in red, and from the Foucault
library, of the life of St. François de Sales (1567-1622) who
became a priest in 1593 and bishop of Geneva in 1602.
However it is as a spiritual counsellor and writer that he
is famous. The order of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
was founded by St. Jeanne Françoise Frémiot de Chantal
(1572-1641), herself a woman famous for her spirituality,
together with François de Sales.
Provenance: de Cohon (inscription in red crayon on flyleaf)
possibly A-D. Cohon (1595-1670), Bp. of Nîmes and Dôle;
Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) with his engraved
bookplate.
43 MEARS, Abraham. The Book of Religon,
1
Ceremonies, and Prayers, of the Jews, as
practised in their synagogues and families on
all Occasions… To which is added, a preface
shewing the Intent of the Whole… Translated
immediately from the Hebrew, by Ganaliel Ben
Pedahzur, Gent. [Abraham Mears].
8vo (200 x 120mm.), [xiv], 291, [7]pp. Fine copy in
contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled with a gilt
double fillet, gilt spine (slightly rubbed).
London: for J. Wilcox, 1738 £1500
First English adaptation of the Siddur, the Jewish Prayer
Book.
44 MELANCHTHON, Philipp. 1
Grammatica latina.
8vo (162 x 111mm.), 368pp. contemporary French
binding of calf, blind-stamped panel on covers with
central vase of flowers stamp, vellum ms. guards
(15th-cent.), binding slightly worn.
Paris: R. Estienne, 1550 (1548) £550
With a note on fly-leaf (quotation from Melanchthon) in
a small neat English hand.
Renouard p. 77; not in Schreiber.
145 MENGOLI, Pietro. Circolo
[on the quadrature of the circle].
[6], 60pp. (Riccardi ii, 156).
Bologna: heir of Benacci, 1672 £450
Bound with:
FALCO y SEGURA, Jaime Juan. Iacobus
Falco… hanc circuli quadraturam invenit.
29, [1]pp., woodcut on title-page, woodcut figures
in text, royal privilege in Catalan. Antwerp: P. Bellère
[Palau 86407].
Dismissed by Augustus de Morgan as a worthless exercise
(his copy is at University College London), but to be fair
the author, in his address to the reader, does not claim
much for it, only asking that those who condemn it, do
not do so before they understand it, and that they should
write to him about his mistakes. Falco from Valencia first
published this work there in 1587.
2 works 4to (191 x 131mm.) disbound.
47 MONTJOSIEU, Louis de. Gallus Romae
1
hospes. Ubi multa antiquorum monimenta
explicantur, etc.
[4], 24; 27, [1];15, [1];[2], 20; [2], 5, [1]pp., full-page
engravings in text, small marginal paper restoration
to title-page, f. + of part 1 cropped at head and with
repair to verso [Censimento 16 CNCE 25956].
Rome: G. Gigliotti, 1585
£1400
Bound with:
BELON, Pierre. De admirabili operum
antiquorum et rerum suspiciendarum
praestantia liber primus. De medicato funere...
& lugubri defunctorum eiulatione. Liber
secundus. De medicamentis nonnullis, seruandi
cadaueris vim obtinentibus. Liber tertius.
ff. [4], 54, [4] Paris: B. Prevost, 1553 [Wellcome 756
(the author’s own copy with corrections etc.)]
2 works in 1 volume 4to (213 x 150mm.), English
panelled calf c. 1700, gilt fillets on covers, spine
gilt.
Louis de Montjosieu (died c. 1585) accompanied Henri duc
de Joyeuse to Rome in 1583 and this book is based on his
researches there. Belon is better known as a doctor and
naturalist, but was a considerable historian. The work by
Belon (an édition partagée with Corrozet and Cavellat)
is dedicated to the Cardinal de Tournon, grand mécène
of many French writers and scholars. Books 2 and 3 are
concerned with the preservation and commemoration
of the dead, and book 1 describes and illustrates Roman
monuments.
Provenance: J. Tristan (sign. on title-page).
46 MENNENS, Frans. Militarium ordinum
1
origines, statuta, symbola, et insignia,
iconibus, additis genuinis. Hac editione
multorum ordinum... accessione locupletata. etc.
4to (203 x 148mm.), 12, 120pp., printed in 2 columns,
woodcut illustrations, late eighteenth-century English
tree calf, spine gilt, yellow edges.
Macerata: P. Salvioni for F. Manolessi, 1623 £800
Originally published at Cologne in 1613, this edition
is dedicated by the publisher Manolessi to Antonio
Barberini, the pope’s nephew. The imprint reads:
Coloniae Agrippinae, et denuo Maceratae, apud Petrum
Salvionum... ad instantiam Francisci Manulessii bibliopolae
Anconitani’.
There is a copy of this edition in the Bodleian (Ashmole
563) which is very uncommon outside Italy (where 9 copies
are recorded). The work was more than once reprinted
at Cologne.
48 MORE, Henry. An account of virtue:
1
or, Dr. Henry More’s abridgment of morals
[Encheiridion ethicum], put into English. The
second edition, corrected.
8vo (165 x 100mm.), [16], 264pp., panelled sheep.
London: printed for B. Tooke, 1701 £400
The translation is sometimes said to be by Edward
Southwell, but the end of the preface, dated September
1688 is signed K.W. It was first published in 1690.
Provenance: inscription at end ‘Bibliothecae Gilberti
Walmsley’. Gilbert Walmesley of Lichfield (1681-1747)
was a friend of Dr. Johnson, who wrote ‘he was one of
the first friends that literature procured me’. His library
was sold in 1758.
ESTC records three copies of this edition in the UK (not BL
or Bodley), and 6 in the USA (but not Yale or Harvard).
53
PATER NOSTER
49 MUELLER, Andreas. Oratio orationum.
1
SS. orationis dominicae versiones praeter
auuthenticam fere centum, etc.] dominica
polyglottos, polymorphos... editio novissima.
[16], 64pp.,[VD17 3:313865A; Nersessian 666],
lacking title-page and dedication leaf, b2 signed a2,
cropped, affecting some headlines & ms. marginalia,
Berlin: officina Rungiana, 1680.
IBID. ANOTHER EDITION. [8], 70 [2](blank)pp.,
half-title, without final blank, cropped with some
loss to headlines [Wing M2944; Nersessian 667].
London: D. Browne & W. Keblewhite, 1700.
Bound with:
FABRICIUS, Johann Albert. Votum davidicum
[Ps.LI vv. 12,13,14], cor novum crea in me Deus,
a centum quinquaginta amplius metaphrastis
expressum etc.
[8], 120pp. Hamburg: widow Felginer, 1729.
3 works in 1 volume, 4to (192 x 144mm.), eighteenth
century half calf, spine gilt, red edges, red morocco
lettering-piece. £900
Andreas Müller of Greiffenhagen (1630?-1694) was a
German clergyman and student of oriental languages,
including Chinese. Educated at the university of Rostock,
he came to England in the 1650s to work with Walton and
Castell. He returned to Germany in and began a series of
publications. This polyglot edition of the Lord’s Prayer has
certain languages reproduced by engraving, attributed
in the title, where the editor is identified as Thomas
Ludecker, to Barnimus Hagius. Both are pseudonyms
for Müller. The versions engraved are those in Syriac
(Estrangelo script), Armenian, Georgian, Devenagari
(wrongly identified as Malabarica), Tamil (similarly
wrongly identified as Brachmanica), Chinese, Coptic,
Gothic, Slavonic (Glagolithic script), Slavonic (Russian
script) and Wilkins’s philosophic language.
The book sparked a whole raft of later editions, in which,
according to the availability of type; more or sometimes less
was printed rather than engraved. The English edition of
1700 is dedicated to Henry Compton, Bishop of London
from 1675, who died in 1713, and the epistle to the reader,
signed B.M. typogr[aphus] Lond.[inensis, i.e. Benjamin
Motte], explains that certain parts of the text have been
printed in Oxford (sheets B-C, 8 leaves). These contain
various exotic alphabets in types then only available in
Oxford, mostly orientals but also including the Walpergen
Slavonic used in Ludolf’s grammar of 1696. In this edition
the wrong identifications of the versions in Sanskrit and
Tamil are corrected and it is pointed out that in the former
MAGGS
case the version given is the ‘versio vulgata’ expressed in
these characters. This edition uses in addition to the types
available in Oxford, Irish type (on p. 57) in the version
of the Pater Noster taken from the NT printed at the
expense of Robert Boyle.
53 NEUGEBAUER, Salomon. Icones & vitae
1
principum ac regum Poloniae omnium.
[8], 144, [12]pp., engraved title, engraved portraits
in text, Frankfurt: H. Palthenius f. J. de Zetter (prostat
in off. L. Jennis), 1620.
Bound with:
50 MUZIO, Pio. Considerationi sopra
1
il primo libro di Cornelio Tacito.
4to (220 x 155mm.), [56], 544, [4]; [36], 360 [4]pp.,
eighteenth-century English calf, spine gilt in
compartments, red morocco lettering-piece.
Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1642 £500
The errata and advertisement leaves for each part are all
bound in part 2.
151 NANNINI, Remigio. Orationi militari...
da tutti gli historici greci, e latini, etc.
4to (215 x 148mm.), [40], 1004pp., italic letter,
eighteenth-century tree calf, gilt spine, red morocco
lettering piece, red edges.
Venice: all insegna della Concordia (G.A. Bertano),
1585 £700
A handsome copy of this second edition of Nannini’s
translation of all the ‘battle speeches’ to be found in
Thucydides, Livy, Quintus Curtius, Josephus and other
ancient writers as well as Saxo Grammaticus, Aretino,
Sabellicus, Poggio, Accolti, Bembo and other modern
Italian writers.
[see inside back cover for photograph of spine]
52 NAVIA OSORIO, Alvaro, marques de Santa
1
Cruz de Marcenado. Reflexiones militares.
4to 10 volumes (of 11), 3 folding engraved plates
in vol. 5, later eighteenth century English tree calf,
gilt spines, vol. 4 with a few quires damaged and
repaired at foot of leaves, title-page of volume 10
repaired at top.
Turin: J. F. Mairesse (vol.s 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 A. Vimercati),
1724-1727 £900
First edition, and an uncommon book. Vol. XI (plates)
was published in 1730 in Paris. The work was translated
into French (1739-1750) and an English translation of the
first volume was also published.
Palau 188824.
Provenance: bookplate of Lt. Genl. George Parker.
SICCAMA, Sibrand, editor. Lex Frisionum, seu
antiquae Frisiorum leges, etc.
[6], 151 [=152, p. 136 bis], [8]pp., Franeker: J.
Lamrinck, 1617.
Bound with:
VENICE. Risposta in difesa delle ragioni del.
ser.mo arciduca Ferdinando contra il manifesto
publicato per la republica di Venetia, per
occasione della presente guerra. Con l’ oratione
di Lodovico Eliano... havuta da lui contro la
medesima republica, in Augusta... l’anno. 1510.
[2], 34pp., [Holland?] 1617.
The work by Neugebauer belongs to the class of book
popular from the late sixteenth century in which portraits
and images (true and false) of monarchs, theologians,
emperors etc. are given with a brief biography.
There is no copy of the Lex Frisionum, the work by
Neugebauer or the final pamphlet at Yale; in fact of the
last we have found no trace.
154 NEVE, Richard. The city and country
purchaser’s and builder’s dictionary: or, the
complete builder’s guide... The third edition etc.
8vo in 4’s (197 x 120mm.), xvi (incl. frontis.of
Chiswick House), ff. [192], contemporary smooth
calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt.
London: printed for B.Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn,
S. Birt, H. Lintot & A. Wilde, 1736 £650
3 works in 1 volume. 4to (192 x 132mm.), eighteenthcentury calf, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece,
twisted silk marker £2500
‘The third [and much enlarged] edition of 1736 is a forced
effort... to out-do the rival two volume Builder’s Dictionary
of 1734’ (Harris p. 332). These included a number of
articles added or adapted from other names sources, items
borrowed from The Builder’s Dictionary, and corrections
or enlargements.
An extremely handsome volume.
Harris 597.
Siccama’s edition of the laws of Friesland is an important
work of both legal and philological scholarship. Printed
first in 1557 from a manuscript that does not survive, these
22 laws go back beyond the time of Charlemagne to the
7th century. The most recent edition in the Monumenta
Germaniae historiae was published in 1982.
The final Italian pamphlet, written from a strongly
anti-Venetian standpoint, is prompted by the war waged
by Venice (1613-1617) against the Uskoks (Uscocchi) a
group of Balkan pirates who with the connivance of their
overlord Archduke Ferdinand of Styria, sailing out from
the Dalmatian coast at Senj, attached Venetian shipping.
The conflict spread to the land and involved the Archduke’s
forces. Indeed, eventually it involved troops from all over
Europe, and was part of the struggle between Spain and
Venice. The BL has an Aviso delle ragioni... intorno alla mossa
d’ arme contra Uscocchi (1616?) Risposta alla Scrittura fatta
in diffesa delle ragioni del Serenissimo Arciduca Ferdinando,
signed by one Patrifilo, a defence of Venice (Difesa a favor....
[Venice, 1617]) by Prospero Urbani, and the Servite Paolo
Sarpi also wrote on the Uskoks.
This pamphlet includes also (pp. 12-34) a similar work
from a century earlier, the anti-Venetian Latin oration
given in Rome by the French diplomat Louis Hélian in
1510 (‘De bello suscipiendo adversus Venetianos & Turcas
oratio’) given at Augsburg on 9 April 1510 and first printed
at Augsburg in May of that year by J. Othmar (reprinted
at Strasbourg, see VD16 s.v. Hélian).
55 NEWTON, Sir Henry. Epistolae, orationes,
1
et carmina.
[6], 205, 115, [3]pp., engraved frontispiece depicting
Massilmiliana Soldani-Benzi’s 1709 medal of
Newton, Lucca: D. Ciufetti, 1710.
Bound with:
IBID. Orationes quarum altera Florentiae anno
MDCCV. Altera vero genuae anno MDCCVII.
Habita est.
58pp. (the final quire signed * (pp. 51-58) reprinted
to include items dated 1711 and 1712). Amsterdam,
1710 [-1712].
2 works in 1 volume sm 4to (225 x 160mm.),
contemporary English panelled calf, spine gilt
(rubbed, upper joint slightly cracked, one corner
worn). £800
Sir Henry Newton (1650-1715), was the English envoyextraordinary at Genoa and Florence from 1704 to 1711.
There are a number of small corrections throughout the
text of the Epistolae, and some also in the second Orationes.
In the section devoted to N’s orations and verses at p. 14
(elegy on the death of Stephen Waller) four lines have
been omitted and these are added in ms. (Fata deum
reserata optarent, venturaque Bella,/ Atque iterum Gallus
55
156 NICOLAI, Johann. Disquisitio de
Mose Alpha dicto. In qua multae intricatae
antiquitates scripturae s. explicantur & contra
cavillationes ethnicorum defenduntur lectu
jucundae.
12mo (132 x 75mm.), 148, [4]pp., last leaf blank,
contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper
boards.
Leiden: H. Teering, 1703 £500
This extraordinary little book, the author explains in
the first chapter, was written partly as a response to a
short work in Greek by Helladius of Antinopolis (edited at
Utrecht in 1686 by Meursius) where Moses is called ‘Alpha’
because his body was affected with a form of white leprosy;
the very uncommon Greek word aλφος (lat. vitiligo) means
a form of leprosy. This is, one assumes a reference to
the 'nimbus' which surrounded the head of Moses on his
descent from Mount Sinai. A great deal of learning in
Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Arabic is paraded, and there
are several passages quoted in English.
tela Britanna tremit:/ Horrens Anglorum surgantia sydera
noscet,/ Seposuit quales Anglia nostra viros./). The reason
for their omission from the printed text may be the local
censor. On p. 19 two stanzas in sapphics are added. Two
lines are added on p. 31 about [Basil] Kennett (1674-1715),
and on p. 65 at the end of the printed verses about Dr
Woodward’s shield, four additional lines are added by
hand., with the place of composition (Livorno) and the
name Bas. Kennett. A further sapphic stanza by Kennett
is added to an ode addressed to Newton (p. 74). Newton’s
name is added at the end of this, as it is also to another
ode dated Kal. May 1710 on pp. 84-85.
Kennett had gone as chaplain to the English factory at
Livorno in 1706, where he remained for six years, largely
living in Newton’s house because of papal opposition to
his chaplaincy, before journeying back to England with
a large collection of antiquities.
Bound at the end are two manuscript letters from
Newton at Florence, one to Jean le Clerc (Clericus) at
Amsterdam, and the other to Gisbert Cuper at Deventer
both of the same date in 1710 The first speaks of ‘our trifles’
(i.e. the book) arriving at last, and complains about Italian
censorship which is contrasted with Dutch and British
liberty. The second letter is also about his book, and is
addressed to the numismatist and scholar Cuper.
MAGGS
57 NICOLAI, Johan. Tractatus de siglis
1
veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturae
amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur,
que ad interpretationem numismatum,
inscriptionum, juris et fere omnium artium
requiruntur...
4to (220mm x 155mm.), [22], 314pp., engraved
printer’s device on title-page, title-page printed in
black and red letters, woodcut headpieces, woodcut
initials, woodcut illustrations, engraved illustrations
in text, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, morocco lettering piece, binding
rubbed.
Leiden: Abraham de Swart, 1703 £450
58 NOCETI, Carlo, S.J. De iride et aurora
1
boreali carmina...cum notis J.R. Boscovich.
4to (230 x 160mm.), [12], 127, [1]pp, printed on
thick paper, 2 engraved plates, eighteenth-century
English sprinkled calf, gilt spine, morocco letteringpiece, first plate slightly torn.
Romer: N & M. Pagliarini ex typ. Palladis, 1747 £400
First edition of these two Lucretian poems.
Sommervogel v, 1784. For Noceti see also Yasmin Haskell.
Loyola’s bees… in Jesuit didactic poetry. Oxford: British
Academy, 2003.
59 OCCO, Adolf. Impp. Romanorum
1
numismata a Pompeio magno ad
Heraclium... summa diligentia & magno labore
collecta ab Adolpho Occone R.P. Aug. Medico,
antiquarium studioso.
4to (207 x 105mm.), [16], 398, [10], [5 bl.] pp.,
printer’s device on title-page, initials. Contemporary
calf, title-page torn with loss on the lower right
corner (repaired),first page torn with loss (repaired),
both not affecting text.
Antwerp: Christophor Plantin [for the author],
1579[1578] £500
First edition of Occo’s (1524-1606) work on medals (some
of the examples being in the Fugger collection). A letter
from Ortelius makes it clear that the author paid Plantin
100 ‘daelders’ to print the book, which Plantin thought
would not sell very well. He had already paid `150 florins
to Plantin in 1578, but he was given a number of copies to
put on the market early before the edition proper was on
sale. 190 copies were sent to him in Augsburg in December
1578.
Ref.: Voet 1760; Dekesel O1 (cat.1).
FROM SCALIGER’S LIBRARY
160 OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Operum
tomus primus (tertius)…cum variorum
doctorum virorum commentariis…unum in
corpus magno studio congestis.
3 volumes folio (335 x 215mm.), [4], 500, [16]; [2],
388, 116, 244; [12], 340, 199pp., later seventeenthcentury mottled calf, gilt fillet on covers, spines
gilt, green silk ties lacking, slightly foxed but highly
desirable.
Frankfurt: C. Marny & Heirs of J. Aubry, typis
Wechelianis, 1601
£3000
A handsome copy of this massive variorum edition with a
marvellous link to three great scholars: the great Scaliger
and the two Heinsii, father and son.
This edition which comprises the best part of 2000
pages contains the text of the Ovidian corpus (over 34,000
lines) printed together with the commentaries (set around
the text) of the great editors of Ovid from the late fifteenth
century onwards, and is a considerable feat of printing.
Provenance: Bequeathed by Scaliger [? to D. Heinsius].
Legatum illustris viri Iosephi Scaligeri Iu. Caes. Burden.
F.’ Scaliger died 21 January 1609. Daniel Heinsius,
Scaliger’s favourite Dutch pupil (1580-1655) died at the
end of February 1655. He was a distinguished latinist
and Ovidian scholar (3 vol. Leiden, 1629). However his
son Nicolaus (1620-1681) is to this day one of the greatest
editors of Ovid, who during his diplomatic career collated
almost 300 manuscripts, and established by diligence and
brilliance of emendation a proper text of the huge Ovidian
corpus. The Greek ownership inscription on the title-page
is found in many Heinsius books: των εινσιου. The sale
of the Heinsius books took place in March 1683 after the
death of Nicolaus (see Pollard and Ehrman The distribution
of books by catalogue (1965) pp. 241-242).
61 PANCHAUD, Benjamin. Entretiens ou
1
lecons mathematiques sur la manière
d’étudier cette science, et sur les principales
utilités; avec les eléments d’arithmétique et
d’algèbre, rangés dans un nouvel ordre, &
démontrés sans calcul littéral.
2 parts 12mo (160 x 90mm.), vi [ii] 372 [1]; 250
[2]pp., title printed in black and red, woodcut headpieces and initials, contemporary English blond
calf with nice gilt border on boards, spine gilt in
compartments, morocco lettering-piece, elegant
binding.
Lausanne & Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1743 £450
Panchaud seems to have been known somewhat later as
a writer on financial subjects. Copies recorded at UCL,
London, BNF Paris, Munich, 2 copies in Scandinavia and
4 copies in USA., but not Harvard or Yale.
57
62 PAPIN, Denys. La Maniere d’ amolir les
1
os, et de faire cuire toutes sortes de viandes
en fort peu de temps, & à peu de frais. (Advis de
M. Comiers...)
12mo (152 x 85mm.), [12], 164, [12], 2 folding
engraved plates (first with 8 figures, second with X),
contemporary calf, first few leaves slightly stained
at head of leaf, spine slightly worn.
Paris: E. Michallet, 1682 £700
collector from Cosenza, who taught in Milan and married
the daughter of the Greek Chalcondyles. The little work
by Francesco Campano was first published in 1540 in
Milan.
Renouard 130; Schreiber 170.
[see back cover for full illustration of folding plate]
First French edition.
Krivatsy 8545; Vicaire 652.
63 PARENT François, editor. Τα
1
αποσεσηµειοµενα περι ετων Αιγυπτιων...
Cum latina interpretamento. Quibus addita
authoris oratio de annis diversis, habita in
auditorio regio.
8vo (165 x 100mm.), 71pp., device on title-page
seventeenth-century calf, gilt spine, minimal tear
in E3, binding rubbed, upper joint split.
Paris: R. Estienne, 1616 £450
This uncommon book, which may be seen as an early
work of comparative religion, is known in few copies.
The editor of the texts and author of the ‘oratio’, who
was more than 73 years old and in poor health (se p. 53)
is François Parent, ‘professeur royal’, known for one or
two orations, including one on the assasination of Henri
IV. He has made a selection from such writers as the
Bible (one chapter from Genesis) Herodotus, Josephus,
Plutarch and others. The dedication is to Guillaume du
Vair (1556-1621) an important political and cultural figure,
who wrote on religion.
Renouard p. 202 no. 3. Copies at BL, Bodley, Bibl. S.
Genevieve, Berlin, Göttingen.
64 PARRHASIO, Aulo Giano. Liber de rebus
1
per epistolam quaesitis... Adiuncta est
Francisci Campani quaestio virgiliana.
8vo (160 x 100mm.), [8], 272, [8]pp., English binding
c. 1700 of black morocco leather, panelled in gilt on
covers with floral corner pieces, spine gilt, edges
gilt.
[Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1567 £700
A handsome copy of this collection of Parrhasius
emendations and commentaries on a wide range of Latin
writers, some cast in the form of letters to both named
and un-named correspondents, and others as a separate
group. Parrhasio was a well-known humanist and book
MAGGS
are found at: Madrid BN (ER/4818), NLS Edinburgh in the
UK (G.26.d.110), France at the BNF, and 4 copies in USA
(Harvard [with plate on yellow satin]), plus Yale, Kansas
and Michigan (listed on OCLC). There seems to be no
copy in Germany or Austria, and it is not in the BL.
165 PEREZ DE MENDOZA
Y QUIXADA, Miguel. Resumen de la
vera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho
asserciones.
4to (195 x 130mm.), ff. [21], 73, title printed in
red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, and
armorial title-vignette, large folding plate (small
tear) bound before f. 69, modern half calf.
Madrid: Francisco Sanz, 1675 £3000
The large engraved plate has on f. 68verso a caption: ‘En
el mapa, que mira esta plana se delinean todas las formas
especulativas, que dan luz a la practica, para valerse de la
verdadera destreza con todo genero de armas, y contra
todas naciones’, and pasted at the foot of the plate is a long
(6 lines) cancellans engraved slip with legend concerning
the nature of the text, in which the name of the author is
given in full (=second state). The engraving of the arms
of Carlos II on the title and the large plate are signed by
Marco Orozco as engraver, the latter dated 1674.
Palau 221467 (who makes it clear that the plate is
often lacking); the work is mentioned in the standard
bibliographies of fencing (Thimm p.168), but with no
details, and would seem to be far from common. Copies
166 [PERSONS or PARSONS (Robert)]. An Answere to the fifth part of Reportes
lately set forth by Syr Edward Cooke Knight,
the Kinges Attorney generall. Concerning
the ancient & moderne Municipall lawes of
England, which do apperteyne to Spirituall
Power & Iurisdiction. By occasion wherof, &
of the pricnipall Question set downe in the
sequentpage, there is laid forth an evident,
plaine, & perspicuous Demonstration of the
continuance of Catholike Religon in England,
from our first Kinges christened, unto these
dayes. By a Catholicke Devyne.
First Edition. sm 4to (185 x 140mm.), [72], 351,
353-386, [15]pp. Contemporary limp vellum (loose
in case; covers a bit creased; short slit and a few
small holes in the upper cover; ties missing; lightly
browned in places, a few corners creased, first few
leaves cut-close at the foot, a single wormhole
through the last few leaves).
[Saint Omer:] Imprinted with licence [by F. Bellet],
1606 £950
STC 19352.
“Persons became deeply involved in the printed controversy
over Catholic treason and the new oath of allegiance drawn
up in consequence of the Catesby plot. In his Answere to
the Fifth Part of Reportes Lately Set Forth by Syr Edward Cooke
(St Omer, 1606) he denounced the tactics used against
Garnet at his trial. The critique of these procedures was
linked to a questioning of Coke’s celebration of English
freedom from canon law; in Persons’s view, the state of
English justice was in serious decline.” - ODNB.
67 PIGANIOL DE LA FORCE, Jean-Aimar.
1
Nouvelle description de la France Dans
laquelle on voit le gouvernement général
de ce royaume, celui de chaque province en
particulier; et la description des villes, maisons
royales, châteaux, & monuments les plus
remarquables. Avec la distance des lieux pour la
commodité des voyageurs. Ouvrage enrichi de
figures en taille douce.
6 volumes 12mo (164 x 90mm.), [52], 10, 462, [56]pp.,
engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved folding plates;
[18], 504, [62]pp., 7 engraved folding plates; [8], 524,
[54]pp., 1 engraved plate; [12], 527, [1 bl.], [59]pp., 1
engraved plate; [10], 574, [62]pp.; [12], 682, [38]pp.,
1 engraved folding map, contemporary speckled
calf, with fillet gilt on boards and fleurons in corners,
spine gilt in compartments, morocco letteringpiece, silk page marker, label torn and detaching
(2), label detached (6), light patch apparently due
to the leather treatment that was defective on this
upper board (6).
Paris: T. Legras fils, 1718 £550
First edition of this work which was subsequently enlarged
to thirteen volumes (1753-54). The same author’s Nouveau
voyage de France 1724 (new ed. 1755) was used and parodied
by Laurence Sterne in volume VII of Tristram Shandy.
68 PITSEUS, Joannes. Relationum
1
historicarum de rebus anglicis tomus
primus [ed. William Bishop].
4to (225 x 170mm.), [20], 990, [2]p., last leaf blank,
title printed in red and black with engraved device,
contemporary vellum, lacking ties.
Paris: R. Thierry for Joseph Cottereau, 1623 £450
No more published. The work is essentially a bibliography
of English writers of the Middle Ages.
Provenance: Welsh motto on title-page ‘Heb Dhw heb
dhim’ [Without God, without anything] E.B.
69 POLENI, Giovanni, marchese. Miscellanea.
1
Hoc est. I. Dissertatio de barometris, &
thermometris, II. Machinae aritmeticae, ejusque
usus descriptio, III. De sectionibus conicis
parallerum in horologiis solaribus tractatus.
4to (240 x 170mm.), [8], 56, 9 folding engraved
plates, contemporary Italian ‘carta rustica’.
Venice: Alvise Pavini, 1709 £4500
The second section describes and illustrates a ‘pinwheel’ calculating machine which, as he puts it, will do
addition, subtraction, and with a further turn of the
machine multiplication and division. Poleni had learned
of the machines devised by Pascal and Leibniz both by
their publications and by word of mouth, and was able to
make one from wood (‘Conceptam inde ex ligno fabrefieri
curavi’), but the initial object did not work, which led him
to make another out of harder woods, which fitted his
initial conception (p. 27).
A fine large clean copy in beautiful condition.
Riccardi ii, 290.
59
70 PRAETORIUS [SCHULZE], Johann.
1
De suspecta poli declinatione et
eccentricitate firmamenti vel ruina coeli, ultro
citroque ventilata Materia, potissimum tamen
heic contra Domin. Mariam, Astrolog. 2. D.
Gregor. Francum, Theol. Calvin. & 3. Illic
contra Childraeum Britann. in Ephemerid.
curios. directa, cum inserta simili dissertatione
parastatae nostri Joh. Adolphi Tassii, & explicata
capacitate montium, contra Linemannum &
Caesonem Grammium, &c. Ex privatis scriniis...
communicata a M. Johanne Praetorio, P.L.C.
4to (208 x 160mm.), 239, [1]pp., eighteenth century
English calf, spine gilt.
Leipzig: C. Michaelis, 1675 £3000
An uncommon work, written in Latin, and an extraordinary
mixture of science, theology, pseudo-science, mythology
and history, all piled one upon the other with elaborate
references to multifarious sources ancient and modern
and with (sometimes) extensive quotations in German.
The author is much addicted to acrosticks and on p. 150,
where there is a discussion of explorations beyond the
columns of Hercules (Straights of Gibraltar), there is
one reading AMERICA, followed by a discussion as to
whether America was the Atlantis of the Ancients. Indeed
on p. 151 there is an opinion cited that Noah was born
in America (‘Lescarbotus Noachum in America natum,
eamque post diluvium recepisse potius, quam accepisse
adfirmare non veretur...’ i.e. Lescarbot is not afraid to
affirm that Noah was born in America, and that it was
America which received him back rather than accepted
him’) Lescarbot is, of course, the author of Histoire de la
nouvelle France, 1607.
Faber du Faur (no. 646sqq.) describes many of the
works of this extraordinary author Hans Schulze 916301680) who wrote under the name of Praetorius, but not
this one.
VD17 39:121428R; there is a copy in the BL in the UK,
but none at Harvard or Yale.
71 PROCLUS Diadochus. Elementa
1
theologica et physica... quae Franciscus
Patricius de graecis, fecit latina.
4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. [3], 69, device at end, modern
half calf.
Ferrara: D. Mammarello, 1583 £3000
Proclus is one of the ‘chief links between ancient and
medieval thought... the unique position of the Elements
of Theology as the one genuinely systematic exposition of
Neoplatonic metaphysic which has come down to us’.
MAGGS
corrected to ‘dependentibus’ which is correct ‘Nevertheless
from the beings dependent upon them…’; 34r Prop. 125.
Dem. Servat autem… ad identitatem… causam’ corrected
to ‘Servat autem suam identitatem’ (‘yet in the procession
identity is preserved’) with ‘ad identitatem crossed out;
41v Prop. 155 Dem. ‘ad unigenam seriem’ corrected
to ‘’vivificam’ (= προς την ζωογονον σειραν); 54v. Prop.
206. where ‘descendens’ (which is wrong) is changed to
‘descendere’, (infinitive governed by ‘potest’, and also
present in the Greek).
3. Some additions made from the Greek, e.g. Prop. 206
Dem. Where in the margin (alas, slightly cropped) is
added a sentence after that ending ‘in Dijs est’, where in
the Greek there is a lacuna ‘for it cannot <have been for
an infinite time in material bodies and thereafter pass
a second infinite time among the gods, neither can it>’
(Proclus. The Elements of Theology ed. E.R. Dodds (Oxford,
1933) pp. 180-181).
CNCE 35916.
Provenance: Rodolph Weckherlin manuscript ex-libris
title-page, probably Rodolph W. (1617-1667) son of Georg
Rodolph Weckherlin (1584-1653, poet, Latin secretary
before Milton, and politician). Weckherlin senior has
been extensively studied by the late Leonard Forster in
various articles and his 1944 monograph G.R. Weckherlin,
zur Kenntnis seines Lebens in England, Basel, 1944.
The work survives in a number of Greek mss.,
including one from the library of Ficino, and a couple
from Bessarion’s library. There are some twelve or so
sixteenth-century manuscripts The autograph draft for
the 1618 editio princeps of the Greek text by Portus is in
Copenhagen. The work was early translated into Georgian
on the basis of a text a century or so earlier than any
surviving Greek manuscript.
Translated first into Latin in 1268 by William of
Moerbeke, this version by Patrizzi is said by Dodds to
be based on renaissance copies of his second group of
manuscripts of which the main ms. is Marcianus graecus
678, which belonged to cardinal Bessarion. However the
lacuna in Prop. 209 (f. 55r) is left blank in this translation;
in Marc. Graec. 607 it has been filled at some point in the
second half of the 14th cent.
Carefully read and extensively annotated in a near
contemporary hand by someone well acquainted with the
Greek text not published until 1618, but well known in
manuscript. The annotations take the form of:
1. Cross references to other propositions and other texts.
2. Some interlinear corrections and additions e.g. 33v
Prop. 123. Demonstratio’ Sed a separatis, quales…’
72 PUENTE, Francisco de la. Tratado breve
1
de la antiguedad del linaie de Vera, y
memoria de personas señaladas de, que se hallan
en historias, y papeles autenticos (Parrafos, que
se an de añadir en este libro [etc.]).
4to (200 x 140mm.), ff. [6],180 (corrected to 182); 12,
marginal notes printed in italic, armorial woodcut
on p. [iii], contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties,
minor marginal dampstains to a few leaves.
Lima: G. de Contreras, 1635 £6500
A handsome, crisp copy of this handsomely printed quarto
is a family history of the Veras, a noble Aragonese family,
tracing them back to Numa Pompilius. There are some
ms. annotations on ff. 13verso and 16verso, and a few
elsewhere, transcribed from the list of addenda at the end.
Ff 173-180 which have only partially have been numbered
in print, have been numbered in ms. It is possible that
these ms. additions (all written in the same hand) may
have been made in the atelier of the printer.
Medina (Lima) 177 (copies at BL (606.c.43), Bodley, ONB
(60.J.21), Portugal, JCB (?), NYPL (*KE 1635; imp. lacking
Parrafos) Not at Yale, Harvard. No copy seems to have
been sold at auction. Attributed by some bibliographers
to Fernando de Vera.
73 PUIG, Andres. Arithmetica, especulativa,
1
y practica, y arte de algebra en la qual se
contiene todo lo que pertenece al arte menor,
o mercantivol, y a las dos algebras, racional,
è irracional; con la explicacion de todas las
proposiciones, y problemas de los libros quinto,
septimo, octavo, nono, y decimo del principe de
la matematica Euclides.
4to (193 x 135mm.), [16], 576, [8]pp., eighteenthcentury English sprinkled calf, gilt spine, red
morocco lettering-piece, mottled edges.
Barcelona: A. Lacavalleria, vendense e casa del mismo
autor, 1672 £800
A very handsome copy of the second edition of this work.
It is written in Castilian, but the liminary verses are partly
in Catalan. The book first printed in 1670 went through
several editions.
Palau 241304.
174 QUR’AN. L’Alcoran de Mahomet.
Translaté d’Arabe en Francois, par le Sieur
du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair.
8vo., (155x 95mm.), [8], 485, [3]pp., title printed in
red and black, contemporary speckled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece.
Antwerp: J.F. Lucas, 1719 £300
The first western translation of the Qu’ran was made by
Robert de Ketton in 1143, though it was more a summary
than a translation into Latin. Du Ryer’s translation (1647)
is the first made from the original Arabic, and was very
popular. It formed the basis of the translations into other
European vernaculars until Sale made a new version
from the Arabic into English. Du Ryer was an important
orientalist and diplomat in Egypt and Constantinople.
75 RAY, John. Travels through the Low1
Countries, Germany, Italy, and France...
The second edition... adorn’d with copper-plates
(A collection of curious travels, etc.)
2 volumes 8vo (197 x 118mm.), [4], iv, 428; 119,
[1];[12[, 489, [3], 44pp., title printed in red and
black, half-titles, 3 engraved plates at vol. ii, pp.
4-5, contemporary English calf, spines gilt.
London [for various booksellers], 1738 £450
61
76 REGIOMONTANUS (MÜLLER), Johann.
1
Fundamenta operationum etc.
(ed. A. Schöner).
ff. [36], title printed in red and black, folding
woodcuts inserted at D5 and F2, letterpress table
at G1, woodcut diagrams in text, paper repair to
letterpress table, VD16 M6536 Neuburg: J. Kilian,
1557.
Bound with:
THEODOSIUS of Tripoli. Sphaericoum
elementorum libri iii, etc.
ff. [6], 72, woodcut diagrams printed in margins,
some diagrams and notes cropped. Censimento 16
CNCE 33324 (Messina P. Spira, 1558).
Bound with:
ARCHIMEDES. Opera nonnulla etc.
2 parts, ff. []4], 55, [1]; [2],, 63, [1], lacking last leaf
with device [UCLA 540] Venice: P. Manutius,1558.
3 works in 1 volume folio (305 x 275mm.), eighteenthcentury sprinkled calf, gilt spine, green morocco
letttering-pieces, red edges.
£10,000
This is the first edition of the text by Regiomontanus
or Müller. The Greek text of Theodosius had first been
published in Greek in 1558. Here Maurolico brings
together a group of related texts, some known in old
translations made from the Arabic. Provenance: From
the library of the Hungarian humanist Andreas Dudith
with his name on the title-page of the Archimedes, and
with annotations in Book II of Theodosius in red ink.
Dudith (1533-1589) was an important figure in sixteenth
century scholarship. Known to Englishmen such as Sir
Henry Savile and most of the savants of Europe (see
P. Costil, A. Dudith, humaniste hongrois, Paris, 1935).
177 RICHER, Edmond. Grammatica
obstetricia.
8vo (164 x 98mm.), ff. [8], 162, [1(errata)], folding
table at p. 126, device on title-page, seventeenthcentury calf, gilt fillet on covers gilt spine, top of
upper hinge weak, marbled edged.
Paris: P.L. Febvrier,1607 £550
An uncommon elementary Latin grammar dedicated to
the Dauphin, later Louis XIII. Edmond Richer (1569-1631)
was hugely active in the University of Paris and author of
a number of theological works. He published a general
introduction to learning called Obstetrix animorum in 1600
(reprinted 1608, 1617 & 1693 in Germany).
Copies recorded at BL, Erfurt, BN, Arsenal (2) and B
Sainte Genevieve, Paris. No copies recorded in USA.
MAGGS
178 ROBERT, prior of Shrewsbury. The
Admirable life of Saint Wenefride... Now
translated into English, out of a very ancient and
authenticall manuscript, for the edification and
comport of catholikes. By I. F., of the Society of
Jesus.
8vo (135 x 90mm.), [32], 275, [13]pp. plus add.
engr. title-page by Martin Baes (loose), text printed
within a double line border, last leaf blank (here
lacking), eighteenth-century English vellum-backed
boards.
[St. Omer: English College Press] Superiorum permissu,
1635 £500
79 ROBORTELLO, Francesco. De artificio
1
dicendi... Eiusdem tabulae oratoriae.
4to (190 x 130mm.), ff. 52; 20; 32; [18], italic
type, large device on title-page, 9-line woodcut
mythological initials, Dutch polished calf c. 1700,
spine gilt, red edges.
Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, 1567 £650
St. Winefride (Gwenfrewi, Winefrith) who flourished in
the middle of the seventh century, is the patron saint of
Holywell and Gwytherin. A nun, she was educated by St.
Beuno, and it was he who brought her back to life after
her head had been severed by Caradog ab Alog, to whom
she refused sexual favours. Where her head fell on the
ground, a spring welled up, and this is Saint Winfride’s
well, famously commemorated in two poems by Gerard
Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet who had been doing his
theological studies at the Jesuit house of St. Beuno’s in N.
Wales. In 1138 her body was translated to Shrewsbury.
Many miracles are attributed to her and to the well (see pp.
177 sqq. of this book). There are two lives of St. Winefride
in Latin the Vita prima (printed in Acta Sanctorum) and
this Vita secunda attributed to Robert of Shrewsbury, the
Latin original of which does not seem to survive.
The translator John Falconer (1577-1656) had become
a catholic in 1589 and entered the English College in
Rome in May 1600. Ordained in 1603, he became a Jesuit
in the following year, being sent to the English mission in
1607. Sometime in the late 1630s he returned to England
after a long sojourn abroad, and was chaplain at Wardour
Castle during the siege in 1643. He drew up the terms of
the capitulation of the castle (see Gillow ii, 223-224 and
cf. McCoog (1994) i, 165). This translation is dedicated to
Dorothy Barlow, a member of the well-known Lancashire
recusant family, which produced several Benedictine
monks and martyrs.
Caxton printed his own translation of this life of St.
Winifred in [1485; STC 25853], and in 1712 William
Fleetwood produced a version, in which he is highly
critical of Falconer.
CNCE 32419. Copies in UK at BL, CUL, Trinity, Oxford
All Souls and Merton, Manchester JRL. In USA Yale has
a copy as have various other libraries.
STC 21102 (10 copies UK; 6 copies USA (CUA, Folger,
Huntington, Yale, Illinois, Texas); copy in Australia; A
& R 725; see the article in the ODNB by Tom CharlesEdwards and the essay on Saint Winefride in Saints and
their cults in the Atlantic world University of S. Carolina
Press, 2007 pp. 202-228.
Provenance: signature of James Elcocks and note of his
birth on 6 January 1679.
First edition and an extremely handsome book with fine
initials, and in particular a long-tailed Q at the beginning
of ‘Ratio artificii...’ Robortello (1516-1567) was from Udine
and taught literature at various universities. He wrote
extensively on ancient rhetoric and on certain aspects of
Roman history.
80 ROELANDS, David. T’magazin oft’
1
pac-huys der loffelycker penn-const.
Obl. folio (227 x 335mm.), ff. [47] (44 engraved leaves
incl. title and 3 leaves of letterpress comprising
dedication to the Aldermen of Flushing (in French)
and ‘To the reader’ (in Dutch)), engraved portrait of
Roelands, later vellum-backed blue paper boards,
title-leaf creased, a few plates very slightly shaved
at top edge, just touching swirls.
Vlissingen (letterpress printed at Middelburg by R.
Schilders), 1616 (1617) £800
Copies vary as to the number of plates, and often lack
the letter-press leaves. The elaborate calligraphic scripts
engraved frequently take the form of animals, birds, fish
or men.
Bonacini 1545; Simoni R95. Copies in BL (both imperfect),
Bodley, Hamburg, Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft (with
dedication to Jacobus Malderus, but lacking letterpress
‘To the reader’).
81 ROMANUS [ROOMEN], Adrianus.
1
Ventorum secundum recentiores
distinctorum usus. Quo anescopium &
quadratum nauticum explicantur, miraque
eorundem utilitates proponuntur.
Sm 4to (180 x 125mm.), ff. [9]. Rebound in half
calf, old style.
Würzburg: G. Fleischmann, 1596 £900
This rare work is dedicated to Nicolaus Corycius (Göritz),
secretary to the King of Poland. On A3v is a table of the
names of the winds in French, Spanish, Italian, and what
is called ‘Latina Cardani’, i.e. Cardano’s Latin names. The
author describes two instruments, the ‘anescopium’ for
shewing the direction of the wind, and the ‘quadratum’
based on the work of Gemma Frisius.
Adriaan van Roomen (1561-1614) was a Belgian
physician and mathematician who taught at the university
of Louvain and then at Würzburg, in both of which places
he was professor of medicine. He published a number of
medical and mathematical works.
VD 16 R 3032 (copies at HAB, Augsburg, Würzburg; BL,
Bodley; no copy at Yale or in USA.)
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY
182 ROSSELLI, Cosmo. Thesaurus
artificiosae memoriae... perutilis... Cum
indicibus... tum capitum, tum rerum omnium
insingiorum (ed. Damiano Rosselli).
4to (218 x 160mmm.), ff. [16], 145, [(errata)], printed
in italic, 2 leaves with double-page woodcut at
centre signed E4 and and a similar 2 leaves at R3
with a single woodcut on the first recto and second
verso, full-page woodcuts, with some repeats,
contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties.
Venice: A. Paduano, bibliopola Fiorentino, 1579 £5000
First edition of this extremely influential book, and an
exceptionally fine, crisp copy.
Rosselli, a Florentine, was a member of the Dominican
order, of which various members wrote on the subject
of memory. This work is a collection of tracts (see the
note at end ‘tractatus de memoria artificiosa editi...’) by
Cosma Rosselli, edited by his relation, another Dominican,
Damiano Rosselli, who dedicates the book to Cardinal
Giustiniani. Rosselli writes in prose on various aspects of
the natural (and supernatural) world and the book also
63
contains verses by another Dominican, Niccolo Alessi of
Perugia. The book is in 2 parts, the first dealing with
‘loci’and the second with’ figurae’ as an aid to memory.
The illustrations come in part 2.
Durling 3847; Censimeno 16 CNCE 27839.
183 ROUSSEAU, Josue. Ensayo da arte
grammatical Portugueza, & Franceza, para
aquelles, que sabéndo a lingua Francéza, querem
aprender a Portuguéza. Primeira parte.
4to (193 x 144mm.), [8], 176pp., hand-coloured
woodcut device on title-page, woodcut illustrations,
woodcut initials and headpiece, contemporary
vellum over boards, a few small tears with slight
loss, pages browned, spine cracking.
Lisbon: A. P. Galram 1705 £500
First edition. Parallel Portuguese and French text. The
amusing tail-pieces, which are quite large, have the air of
belonging to ‘chapbook’ or colporteur literature.
The author, Josue Rousseau (fl.1705-1718), a Frenchman,
also wrote a fanciful history of Portugal from the creation
of the World published in 1724. Copies are located at
Hamburg and the Biblioteca Nacional in Portugal, and
a copy is in the BL.
84 ROWLEY, Alexander. Hever le
1
Talmidim… The schollers companion, or a
little library containing all the interpretations of
the Hebrew and Greek Bible, by all the authors,
first into the Latine. And now... brought into a
pocket book.
8vo (140 x 86mm.), [8], 210, [2], 152, 432pp., woodcut
headpieces and initials, contemporary calf, some
headlines and catchwords cut close or shaved, a
few small wormholes, rusthole in Vvv7, extremities
rubbed.
London: M.Bell for William Larner and George
Wittington, 1648 £450
First edition of this pocket dictionary on the two Testaments
with Hebrew, Greek and Latin words definitions.
Reference: Wing R2094B.
185 RUCELLAI, Bernardo. De bello italico
commentarius ex authentici manuscripti
apographo nun primum in lucem editus.
Large 4to (285 x 230mm.) [8], 102, [2]pp., last leaf
a blank, small errata slips pasted to pp. [vii & viii],
MAGGS
contemporary London Harleian style binding of
sprinkled calf, by Brindley.
London: William Bowyer for John Brindley, 1724 £750
Dedicated by Brindley to Henry [Molin] Davenant (sent
as envoy extraordinary to Florence by George I, and like
his father educated at Balliol) who had a transcript made
from the ms. in the Laurenziana in Florence. One of 100
Large paper copies on royal holland of an total edition
of 600 copies.
Brindley is recorded as a binder from 1723, and by
1728 was established in New Bond Street in the west end
of London. He is known to have had connections with the
royal household, and the copy of this work at Windsor is
bound in ‘gold tooled red morocco with a gilt border and
diamond-stamped centrepiece, and has comb-marbled
paper ends’. That book may well have been presented
to George I by Brindley, but there is no way of telling.
Brindley is also known to have sold a few books to the
great collector Harley, indeed, on October 11 1736 a bill
records the sale of a copy this very book, ‘illuminated
with the Kings arms’, and of a copy of Richard Holland
Observations on the small pox, 1728, also printed for Brindley
and bound with the ‘Queens cyphers’. Howard Nixon
inclined to the view that the Rucellai at Windsor and the
Holland now BL. 43.f.16, may neither be the volumes billed
to Harley, as neither has an Osborne price pencilled on
the fly-leaf (see H.M. Nixon ‘Harleian Bindings’ in Studies
in the Book Trade in honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford,
1975) pp. 184-186).
Bowyer Ledgers 1072. ESTC lists only 3 copies in USA
(Folger, PML, University of Missouri).
[see inside back cover for photograph of binding]
86 [SADLER (John)]. Rights of the Kingdom
1
or, customs of our ancestours: touching
the duty, power, election, or succession, of our
kings and parliaments; our true liberty, due
allegiance... freely discussed through the Brittish,
Saxon, Norman, lawes and histories...
4to (210 x 140mm.), [2], [6], 93, 30-191, 176-182
[i.e.198], [4]pp. Mid-nineteenth century calf by
Hatton of Manchester, panelled in blind, red edges,
browned, spine slightly faded.
London: Richard Bishop 1649 £500
First edition. “Sadler’s principal political work, Rights
of the Kingdom, a work replete with citations to mythical
British monarchs, appeared the same year. In it he insisted
the saints’ rule would not be inaugurated by force, and
he castigated shows of military might to awe parliament
- a denunciation of Pride’s Purge. Yet he also averred
that parliaments should have limited terms, as the Long
Parliament did not. His contention that parliaments should
not be dissolved until all petitions had been considered
later made the work relevant to the exclusion crisis, and it
was reprinted in 1682. Sadler’s general reformist interests
are also evinced in Rights of the Kingdom, which includes
complaints about lawyers’ conduct and a call for prison
reform.” - ODNB.
Wing S278A (+;+). This copy is variant 2, with no errata
on the verso of the title but with two extra leaves at the
end, containing a list of the contents and a slightly longer
list of errata.
Provenance: Signature on the title “Sum Ashursti &&&”
and “Pet. 2s. 8d. Sept. 17o 1649” and with a preliminary leaf
of manuscript notes in Latin. There are also a number of
manuscript notes/corrections in the text (mostly changing
“before” to “hereafter” because the printer printed the
second part first). The binder has reduced by 5mm the width
of the leaves but a number of the annotations have been
carefully cut-round and folded-in to preserve them.
187 SAMERIUS [de Samrée ? LA RUE],
Henricus S.J. Sacra chronologia [a] mundo
condito ad Christum.
Folio (290 x 190mm.), [4], 67 (i.e. 65) [1]pp., damage
to title-leaf with loss of word ‘a’, nineteenth-century
crimson hard grained morocco, by Hatton of
Manchester, Macclesfield arms gilt on upper
cover, vertical gilt lettering, gilt edges, manuscript
annotations (some extensive) in margins (folded at
pp. 3, 9, 11,13, 27, 39, 42-43, 57, 63, 67) manuscript
annotations in text (41, 51, 53, 55, 57, 61, 62, 64),
white stains on boards.
Antwerp: Hieronymum Verdussen, 1608 £750
History is a gift from God to man ‘without which no
monuments of divine benefits, no truth, no monuments
of true religion can exist’. History is ‘the light of truth,
the witness of times past, the messenger of truth’ (from
the preface). In this work it is acknowledged that History
has need of her handmaid chronology.
Henricus Samerius (28 January 1541- 5 January1610),
a Luxembourgeois, became a Jesuit in 1562, and is said to
have been confessor of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots
in 1583, whose service he entered disguised as a doctor.
He was however detected and had to escape. He may
be the same as the Père la Rue attached to Mary Queen
of Scots under the name ‘Henri’. Samerius definitely is
‘homo unius libri’.
De Backer-Sommervogel vii, 504. 3 copies in UK; 6 copies
in Germany, 3 in the Netherlands; 1 in France (BNF).
There seems to be no copy in the USA.
Provenance: William Godolphin (ex-libris on title-page,
slightly trimmed). Sir William Godolphin (1635-1691)
diplomat and convert to catholicism (see ONDB).
88 SARPI, Fra Paolo. Histoire du concile
1
de Trente, de Fra’ Paolo Sarpi… Traduite
par Mr. Amelot de la Houssaie, ci-devant
sécrétaire de l’Ambassade de France a Vénise.
Avec des remarques historiques, politiques et
morales. Troisième édition, revue et corrigee.
4to (250 x 190mm.), [48], 800, [46]pp, title-page
printed in red and black, woodcut printer’s device,
woodcut tail-pieces and initials, contemporary calf,
spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece,
binding rubbed, slight foxing.
Amsterdam: G.P. & J. Blaeu, 1713 £450
89 SAVARY, Jacques. Le parfait négociant
1
ou instruction générale pour ce qui
regarde le commerce des marchandises de
France, & des pais étrangers... Huitieme édition
revue, corrigée... par le Sieur Jacques Savary
Desbruslons, son fils.
2 volumes in one, 4to (242 x 190mm.), XX, 651,
[25]; XXIV, 631, [1]pp. title-pages printed in red
and black, eighteenth century panelled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, title-piece “parfait negociant”,
light damp-staining towards centre of volume.
Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1717 £500
Scarce eighth edition (not in Goldsmiths etc.) of a popular,
often printed work, first published in 1676.
Jacques Savary was the major author of ordinances to
regulate trade drawn up under chancellor Séguier.
90 SAVERY, Thomas. The miner’s friend;
1
or, an engine to raise water by fire,
described. And of the manner of fixing it
in mines.
8vo (171 x 103mm.), [10], 84pp., folding engraved
plate. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in
compartments, red edges, without final blank leaf,
plate slightly creased with a small tear (repaired).
London: for S. Crouch, 1702
£10,000
A celebrated book. Thomas Savery (?1650-1715), who came
from Devon, obtained a patent initially for 14 years (later
in 1699 extended by another 21 years) for his machine
for keeping water out of mines in 1698, but the patent
contained no description, something remedied in this
65
pamphlet. The pump was not able to deal with pumping
water from great depths as it overheated, but was improved
by Thomas Newcomen (see the short entry in ODNB and
the various publications of the Newcomen society there
cited).
Norman 1895; Dibner 177.
91 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi etc.
1
Folio (335 x 213mm.), ff. [64], eighteenthcentury half calf, spine gilt, red morocco letteringpiece, lacking plan of Macerata, a few illustrations
shaved.
Rome: Giuseppe de Rossi, 1627 £750
First published in 1596. This enlarged edition has 100
engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts
of fortifications on 50 numbered leaves plus 10 engraved
plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5
leaves, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 leaf, and
4 (of 5) double-page engraved plates with perspectival
designs and full plans of fortifications.
Cockle 818; Bury & Breman p. 91; Riccardi I, 2 426.
92 SCALIGER, Josephus. Collectanea in M.
1
Terentium Varronem de lingua latina.
8vo (168 x 107mm.), [8], 221 [3]pp., device on title,
last leaf blank, contemporary limp vellum, first few
leaves damp-stained at head, title leaf a little frayed
at bottom.
Paris: R. Estienne, (22 August) 1565 £475
First edition of this important work by the twenty-five
year old Scaliger.
Renouard 167 no. 6; Schreiber 235.
GREEK PROVERBS
93 SCALIGER, Josephus, editor. Παροιµιαι
1
εµµετροι. Proverbiales Graecorum
versus. Ios. Scaliger...collegit, composuit,
digessit (Proverbiales Graecorum versus...
Fed. Morellus... Latine expressit eode. genere
carminis).
2 parts 8vo (170 x 100mm.), 15, [1], 20; [4], 32pp.,
device of the royal Greek printer on title-pages,
large ‘decalogue’ device with motto Pietas et Iustitia
and Morel’s initials on part 2 p. [iv], contemporary
limp vellum.
Paris: F. Morel, 1594 £450
A fine crisp copy.
MAGGS
194 SCHICKARD, Wilhelm. Tarich h.e.
series regum Persiae...cum proemio
longiori... Omnia ex fide manuscripti voluminis...
quod a Turcis ex archivo Fillekensi reportavit...
Vitus Marchtaler. Vestita...commentario...
authore Wilhelmo Schikardo.
4to (190 x 140mm.), 231pp., woodcut illustrations,
eighteenth-century calf, gilt spine, red edges,
last 2 leaves cropped at outer margin with loss of
letters.
Tübingen: T. Werlin, 1628 £1800
Schickard (1592-1635) was one of the most learned men of
his age, astronomer, professor of Hebrew, mathematician
and orientalist. Here he edits a manuscript brought to
Germany by Veit Marchtaler of Ulm and provided it with
a detailed commentary quoting from various Hebrew
and Arabic writings (including several extracts from the
Qur’an).
In his dedication to the emperor, Marchtaler explains
how this elegantly written manuscript (a genealogical
roll; ‘propter immanem longitudinem convolutum in
spiras’; on p. 13 Schickard writes that it is 45 feet long,
and gives a detailed physical description) was found in
the mosque during the sack of Fillek (Fülek) in Hungary.
Marchtaler wishing that the manuscript not be simply
forgotten (like another previously given to Ferdinand’s
grandather), consulted in vain with various dragomans
(whose versions he did not trust) and came across Schickard
who immediately grasped what the roll was about. The
translation is offered as a gift until such time as the
‘autographum ipsum’ be lodged in the imperial library.
Provenance: “Nathan Wright of Englefield”, Berkshire
(cropped signature at head of title), probably Sir Nathan
Wright (1654-1721), lawyer, appointed Lord Keeper in
1700 (see ODNB).
95 SCHREYER Johann. Neue Ost1
Indianische Reisz- Beschreibung...
handelnde von unterschiedenen Africanischen
und Barbarischen Völckern sonderlich derer
an dem Vor-Gebürge Caput bonae spei sich
enhaltenen so genanten Hottentoten Lebens-Art,
Kleidung, Hausshaltung, usw.
[16], 144pp., title printed in red and black, Leipzig:
J.C. Wohlfart, 1681. VD17 14:656715V (Berlin;
Weimar (still existing?) and Dresden); VOC 315].
Bound with:
FRIKE, Christoph. Ost-Indianische Räysen und
Krieges-Dienste, usw.
[10], 298, [14]pp., engr. portrait & 8 plates, lacking
A splendid Sammelband of German travel books. Johann
Schreyer is described on the title-page of his book as a
surgeon. Philippus a Sanctissima Trinitate (also known
by his French name) was a discalced Carmelite whose
book was originally published in Latin at Lyons in 1649
and then in a French translation in 1652. The work by
Frike, also a surgeon, originally from Ulm, with the Dutch
East India Company (whose approbation is printed in
Dutch on p. [299], was published in Dutch in 1694 and
in English in 1700.
The extremely rare anonymous advice from a wise
father to his sons (Offener Wechsel-Brief) is a short moral
treatise, apparently translated from the French. It offers
a whole series of do’s and don’ts for leading a good life as
a young man. It is printed in a large Fraktur (18 lines to
the page). The identity of J.Y. Z. is not revealed.
BL has Schreyer & Benaglia; Yale has the Benaglia but
not Frike, Schreyer, Philippe de la Très-Sainte Trinité
(Philippus a Sanctissima Trinitate) or the Offener WechselBrief.
[see inside front cover for photograph of binding]
the engraved map at p.1. Ulm: M. Wagner, 1692.
VD17 39:120450V; VOC 319.
Bound with:
BENAGLIA, Giovanni. Aussführliche ReissBeschreibung von Wien nach Constantinopel
und wieder zurück in Teutschland... getruelich
in die Hoch-Teutsche Sprache übersetzt.
145[=174]pp., title printed in red and black,
lacking frontispiece. Frankfurt: M. Wagner, 1687.
VD17 23:233670N.
Bound with:
OFFENER Wechsel-Brief eines klugen Vaters zu
Ausführung der Welt-Reise vor seine Söhne: aus
dem frantzösischen ins Teutsche gebracht durch
J.Y. Z.
ff. [7] [s.l.], 1697. VD17 3:304641X (Halle only)].
Bound with:
[PHILIPPUS a Sanctissima Trinitate]. P. a S. T.
Orientalische Raisebeschreibung, usw.
[22], 628 [=6636], [4]pp., add. engr. title, Frankfurt:
J.G. Schiele, 1671. VD17 23:313525H (4 copies),
slightly wormed at beginning.
5 works in 1 volume (164 x 95mm.), contemporary
vellum lettered on spine Eastern Voyages, edges
coloured
£3000
96 SCHUBLER, Johann Jacob. Erste [Beylag
1
zur Ersten Ausgab... Zweyte-Funffzehende]
Ausgab seines vorhabenden Werks.
16 (of 21) parts [2], [6], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2],
[2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2]pp., title in German and
Italien, 96 engraved plates. Ausburg: Jeremias Wolff
[c.1715-1730].
Bound with:
IBID. Nutzliche Vorstellung, wie man...
bequeme Repositoria, compendiose Contoirs
und neu-façonirte Medaillen-Schräncke in den
Studier- und Kauffmanns- Stuben... ordiniren
kan.
52pp., 20 engraved plates Nuremberg: L. Bieling for
J.C. Weigel, 1730.
Bound with:
IBID. Nutzliche Vorstellung und deutlicher
Unterricht von zierlichen, bequemen und Holtz
ersparenden Stuben-Oefen.
[2], [1]-42pp., 25 engraved plates Nuremberg: L.
Bieling for J.C. Weigel, 1728 £900
Together 3 works in one volume, folio (339 x 210mm.),
woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary
speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, binding
slightly rubbed, tears on both covers.
Johann Jacob Schubler (1689-1741), mathematician,
often described as an architect, published many works on
67
perspective, carpentry and architectural theory. The first
work in this volume known as the ‘Werk’ includes designs
for beds, cabinets, alcoves, memorials, writing-desk, clock
cases, commodes, summer houses, lecterns, organ cases,
altars, confessionals, gateways, stoves and water pumps.
The second work is about cupboards, lecterns and medal
cabinets, and the third about stoves.
The individual pieces often reveal a particular genius
for gadgetry and Mark Schubler as more of an inventor
than a practical designer.
not only a town surveyor at Leiden, as well as instrument
maker but also entrusted with monitoring the quality of
wine (Wijnroyer).
This work is not in the BL (indeed there appears to be
no copy at all in the UK), and of this edition KVK locates
only 2 copies in Augsburg. OCLC gives a copy in Denmark
and one in the Hague.
See Schonaerts, R. Les Géomètres-arpenteurs du xvie au sviiie
siècle dans nos provinces Brussels: Bibl. royale Albert I, 1976
no. 31 and plate 7.
Provenance: Probably from the library of John Collins
FRS.
98 SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, Saint. Opera
1
castigata & restituta (ed. Elie Vinet).
8vo (165 x 100mm.), 360pp., device on title-page,
ruled in red throughout. English calf c. 1700, gilt
fillet on covers, spine gilt, red edges.
Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552 £450
Cartier 231.
97 SEMS, Johan & DOU, Jan Petersz.
1
Practijck des kantmetens, Leerende alle
rechte ende cromsijdige landen, boschen,
boomgaerden, ende andere velden meten (Van
het gebruyck der geometrische instrumenten).
2 parts 4to (197 x 150Xmm.), [8], 303, [5]; [8], 126,
[2]pp., 7 engr. plates in part 2, engraving on both
title-pages, woodcuts diagrams, contemporary
vellum, upper hinge split, ms. vellum guards and
strengtheners.
Leiden: Jan Bouwensz, 1600
£3500
FIRST EDITION of this important work which is an
overview by Sems (1572-1656) a surveyor in Leeuwaarden,
and Jan Pietersz Dou of Leiden, of contemporary surveying,
and in the second part describing the use of instruments.
There is also an Amsterdam 1600 edition by Jan Jansz
Blaeu, which is much more common. It was several times
reprinted and translated into German (Amsterdam, Blaeu,
1616 VD17 39:121321G).
Dou also published a Dutch version of Euclid and was
MAGGS
99 SIEMIENOWICZ, Kazimierz. [Grand
1
art d’artillerie] Aussführliche Beschreibung
der grossen Feuerwercks, usw. [transl. into
French by P. Noizet].
Folio (318 x 197mm.), [2], 410, [6]pp., text in French,
engr. title (in German) and 22 plates, contemporary
English calf, lacking 4 leaves of printed prelims.
£550
Frankfurt: J.D. Zunner, 1676 A reissue of the 1651 French edition (translated from the
original Latin) printed at Amsterdam. In the BNF copies
of the 1651 edition, the French title-page is pasted over
the original Latin. This is a reissue with a German titlepage, and a similar copy is in the BL.
Provenance: R. Andersson, very possibly the author of
The making of rockets, 1696.
200 SNELL, Willebrord. Tiphys batavus,
sive histriodromice, de navium cursibus, et
re navali.
4to (202 x 150mm.), [56], 109, [3]; 62, [2]pp., last leaf
with errata, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams,
contemporary turkey morocco, gilt and blind fillet
borders, spine gilt in compartments, blue edges,
binding rubbed, spine crackling and chipped at
head.
Leiden: Officiana Elzeviriana, 1624 £950
Willebrord Snel van Royen (1580-1626) here uses the
name of the mythic pilot of the Argo, to discuss after a
long preface replete with classical learning (but also with
more modern references to Mercator, Edward Wright and
others), how and using what mathematical basis etc., a
ship’s master should steer his vessel. At the very end after
the tables he prints the late Latin poet Claudian’s verses
on the magnet (pp. 61-62).
On the front end papers are 3 pages of manuscript
‘Estat de ce qui est necessaire pour battir un navire de
soixante et douze pieds de quille de 25 pieds de haut, 11
pieds de creu, etc.’, and at the end 2 pages in Dutch on 3
ways of solving a geometrical problem, followed by a page
of tables referring to pp. 75 & 93 of the text.
Willems 224.
Provenance: Christophorus Plass, Leiden 1671, who gave
it to Benjamin de Munchausen, The Hague 1675.
201 SOMNER, William. The Antiquities of
Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient
citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall.
Containing principally matters of antiquity in
them all., etc.
4to (215 x 152mm.), [16], 516, [12]pp., full-page
woodcut coat-of-arms of William Laud, Archbishop
of Canterbury on the verso of the title, folding
engraved plan of Canterbury, folding engraved
plan of the High Altar and surrounding chapels
in the cathedral, folding engraved plate of new font
consecrated in 1639, contemporary sprinkled calf,
the covers panelled in gilt and with a gilt lozenge in
the centre, smooth spine divided into eleven panels
by gilt rules (headcap broken, front flyleaf loose,
Occasional light browning/spotting; outer margin
of pp. 411/2 and 425/8 spotted by damp (a light
purple, otherwise a good copy.
London: by I. L[egat]. for Richard Thrale, 1640 £950
First edition. William Somner (1606-1669) was an
ecclesiastical lawyer by profession, and spent his entire
working life in Canterbury, first as deputy registrar to
Archbishop Laud, and later as auditor and registrar to
the cathedral chapter. The recently published history of
Canterbury Cathedral describes him as “one of the most
attractive as well as most learned persons in the entire
history of the Cathedral community”. He appreciated the
beauty of the cathedral’s architecture, and its importance
for unravelling the history of its construction, and was
instrumental in preserving the fabric and many of the
furnishings (including the font illustrated here) from
destruction during the Civil War. Many of his books and
papers still survive in the Cathedral library.
The Antiquities of Canterbury, is a pioneering work in
several respects: it is both “the first book devoted to the
intensive study of an English cathedral” (Graham Parry)
and “the first scholarly history of any English town” (Nigel
Ramsay). As Parry notes, it is also “a real guide book, in
a recognizable modern sense”, in which Somner plays
the part of an enthusiastic tour-guide leading a group of
visitors around the Cathedral.
“Underlying the whole book is an anxiety that the
cathedral might not survive unharmed for much longer.
Greece, which created so much that was beautiful, slid
into a state of barbarism, Somner warns the reader in
the preface. He wants to make sure that the record is as
complete as he can make it in case times turn against the
Church. Canterbury did suffer in the Civil Wars. As White
Kennett recalled, the ‘popular phanatique fury... stormed
and pillaged the cathedral, the beautified Windows were
broke, the Tombs of Princes and Prelates were ravaged, and
every graceful ornament despoiled’.” (Graham Parry).
The original design in pen and watercolour for the new
font illustrated in a plate here was recently purchased by
the Victoria & Albert Museum, having been discovered
in the Portobello Road market.
STC 22918. With the extra leaf of errata at the end.
Copies were clearly available for some years, as that in
the Huntington has a printed dedication to Charles II
on his Restoration.
Provenance: 1: Presentation copy, inscribed on the title
in ink by the unidentified recipient “Ex dono auctoris
Oct 7 1644”.
Parry (Graham), Trophies of Time, English Antiquarians of
the Seventeenth Century (1995), pp.182-184.
02 SOPHOCLES. Τραγωιδιαι επτα.
2
Sophoclis tragoediae septem.
8vo (150 x 95mm.), ff. [200], last leaf blank, device
on title-page, late seventeenth-century spinkled calf,
gilt spine, a few (cropped) marginal notes at on first
2 leaves of Ajax.
(Paris: Simon de Colines, 16 December, 1528) £850
The first Sophocles printed outside Italy, is in fact a reprint
of the 1502 Aldine edition, and is printed in a Greek
type, of which this is the first appearance, believed to be
designed by Colines himself, and certainly reminscent of
the Aldine type. It is found as here with [200] leaves and in
a variant in which 4 additional leaves signed bb, containing
errata and Greek epigrams, are also found.
Schreiber 32; Renouard 128; Moreau 1528/1609; see
Vervliet, French Renaissance Printing Types A Conspectus
(2010) no. 344.
69
03 SPANHEIM, Ezechiel. Dissertationes
2
de praestantia et usu numismatum
antiquorum. Volumen primium. Edition nova.
(Dissertationum de praestantia... volumen
alterum... Ex autoris autographo editum, ac
numismatum iconibus illustratum ab Isaaco
Verbugio.)
2 volumes folio (357 x 217mm.), [36] [1f.pl.] 656
[50]pp. [1f.pl.]; [6] XXVIII, 726 [42], engraved
frontispiece signed Berchet (desin.) and Gucht
(sculpt), engraved folding portrait of the author, title
printed in red and black, engraved illustrations in
text, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments,
binding extremely rubbed.
London: R. Smith, Amsterdam: Rodolph & Gerhard
Wetstein, 1717
£450
04 STRADA, Famiano S.J. Histoire
2
de la guerre de Flandre... traduite par P.
Du-Ryer.
2 volumes 8vo (168 x 105mm.), [12], 768, [36];
[12], 881, [65]pp., titles printed in red and black,
engraved portraits in text, late eighteenth-century
English tree calf, spines gilt, joints a little weak.
Suivant la copie imprimé à Paris [Leiden: B. & A.
Elzevier],1652 £500
The Jesuit Strada’s (1572-1649) history of the Spanish
campaigns in Flanders was written in Latin and published
in two groups of ten books (decades) in 1632 and 1647.
Its success was immediate and considerable, and it was
quickly translated. The French translation by Du Ryer,
who is chiefly known for his French translation of the
Qur’an, appeared in 1644 and 1649 in folio in Paris, and
was again widely reprinted.
This edition has the Elzevier device on the title-pages,
but only the preliminary leaves were from their press, the
text proper being from the press of Abraham Verhoef
(Verhoeven) active at Harlignen and then (later) at Leiden.
However it was published under the aegis of the Elzevier
firm (see Willems).
De Backer Sommervogel vii, 1607sqq.; Willems 708.
Provenance: bookplate of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. G.L.
Parker.
05 STURM, Leonhard Christoph. 2
Prodomus architecturae Goldmannianae,
oder Betreue und grundliche Anweisung.
Oblong folio (422 x 505mm.), bound as upright
folio (422 x 322mm.), ff. [10], engraved illustration
MAGGS
in text, 22 (of 23) plates, bound as 28 engraved
double-page plates (plates 16, 17, 20, 21, 24 and
25 comprising 2 separate sheets, not jointed as
sometimes). Contemporary calf backed, spine gilt
in compartments, lacking plate VI.
Ausburg: Peter Detleff for Jeremias Wolff 1714 £450
Provenance: bookplate of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. G.L.
Parker.
06 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius. 2
[Opera].
12mo (130 x 70mm.), [12], 558, [30]pp., engraved
title, engraved medallion portraits, engraved head
and tail-piece, contemporary French calf, gilt fleurs
de lys on covers within a double gilt fillet, spine gilt
in compartments, marbled edges.
Paris: Typographia regia, 1645 £700
A handsomely printed edition from the Imprimerie royale
founded by Colbert as a means of adding to the ‘gloire’ of
Louis XIV, most of the books from which are in a much
larger format.
Provenance: Vincent Loger, 1667 (signature).
[see inside back cover for photograph of binding]
07 THEODORE METOCHITES
2
[Michael Glycas]. Annalium liber III]
Theodori Metochitae historiae romanae a
Iulio Caesare ad Constantinum magnum, liber
singularis. Ioannes Meursius primus vulgavit, &
in linguam latinum transtulit, notasque addidit.
4to (182 x 130mm.), ff. [22], 103, [5], Greek text
printed in Plantin’s large Greek font, last leaf with
short list of errata, mid 17th-century English binding
of brown calf over pasteboard, blind-stamped filets,
red edges.
Leiden: J. Colster, 1618 £450
A very nice copy of this work which is actually book III of
the Annals (a world chronicle) of the monk Michael Glycas
dating from 1118, attributed erroneously to Theodore
Metochites, a thirteenth century Byzantine writer. The
full text was edited by Labbé in the seventeenth century,
by Bekker in CSHB and in volume 158 of Migne’s PG.
Provenance: from the library of Thomas Smith, fellow
of Magdalen (1638-1710) who has made some textual
corrections to the Greek (e.g. on p. 64 where there are
three such) which show careful reading.
208 THEON, Aelius. Προγυµνασµατα...
accurate emendata ac recensita. In usums
scholarum Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque… Accedit
interpretatio latina, ita hac editione emendata, ut
sit nova (by Daniel Heinsius).
8vo (175 x 110mm.), [16], 144pp., contemporary
vellum over paper boards.
Leiden: B. & A. Elzevir, 1626
£450
contemporary vellum over pasteboard.
Padua: S. Sardi, 1644 £550
Willems 265.
A handsome copy of this supplement to a collection
published in 1630 (with an engraved title and a portrait
of the author). Although the title expressly mentions the
lives of men, there are in fact also given the lives (and
portraits) of a number of women, including Cassandra
Fedele (1465?-1558), whose works Tomasini edited, the
Nogarola ladies, and others. The work is dedicated on
the title-page to Anne of Austria (1601-1666), regent of
France, and, in a slightly longer dedicatory epistle to
Cardinal Mazarin, tribute is paid to feminine genius and
its influence through the salon, which as Marc Fumaroli
has shewn, played a considerable rôle in the growth of
letters and polite society.
Provenance: small stork stamp on title-page.
Cicognara 2117;Vinciana 3617.
09 THOMAS MAGISTER & others.
2
Ονοµατων αττικων εκλογαι... Thomae
Magistri dictionum atticarum collectio.
Phrynichi atticorum verborum... collectio.
Manuelis Moschopouli vocum atticarum
collectio e libro de arte imaginum Philostrati...
Ex scriptis Aelianis libellus de antiqua ratione
instruendarum acierum... Orbicius de oridinibus
excercitus.
2 parts 8vo (160 x 95mm.), ff. [128]; [148], Greek
letter, French seventeenth-century calf, gilt filet on
covers, gilt spine, red edges, binding slightly worn.
Paris: M. Vascosan, 1532 £450
211 TORRE, Filippo del, Bishop of Adria.
Monumenti veteris Antii hoc est
inscriptio M. Aquilii et tabula solis Mithrae...
Accedunt dissertationes de Beleno... et de
colonia forojuliensi... Addita sunt fragmenta
inscriptionum fratrum Arvalium recens...effossa.
4to (215 x 155mm.), [16], 400, [32]pp., 4 engraved
plates at pp. 6, 159, 161, 257 (folding), contemporary
smooth French calf, gilt stamp of N.J. Foucault
on covers, gilt spine, red edges, some occasional
marginal dampstaining (particularly quires R-T)
Rome: Gaetano Zenobi & G. Placho, 1700 £1100
A collection of a group of late Greek grammarians all of
whom cultivated pure ‘attic’ Greek, as written by Plato and
others. Philostratus alone, from whose Imagines Manuel
Moschopoulos has made a collection of words, belongs to
the early atticist period. In 1517 Kallierges had published
an edition of Thomas Magister alone, and this is a reprint.
Part 2 contains the other named works, Phrynichus also
reprinted from a 1517 Kallierges edition. Both were highly
prized in the eighteenth century by collectors such as
Maittaire, Storer (Eton), Cracherode (BL), Grenville (BL)
and Lord Spencer (Rylands), and later by such as Ingram
Bywater (Bodley) and R.C. Christie (Rylands).
Provenance: from the library of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault
with bookplate.
A companion to the Aphthonius of the same year (no. 10)
with dedication to Blyenburgh by Heinsius. A note printed
at the end explains that the Paradigmata hitherto ascribed
to Theon have been omitted, as by Libanius, and printed
in the Paris (Morel) edition of his works (1606-27).
FEMININE CULTURAL INFLUENCE
10 TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo. Elogia
2
virorum literis & sapientia illustrium ad
vivum expressis imaginibus exornata.
4to (215 x 155mm.), [12], 411, [1]pp., device on titlepage, engraved portraits attributed to J.F. Greuter,
First edition and an extremely handsome copy. The
important section of mithraism which occupies a substantial
part of the volume, is the first discussion of the subject.
There was a later edition published in 1724 (with a life
of the author), and the work was reprinted in Graevius
Thesaurus antiquitatum vol. 8 (1725).
[see inside front cover for photograph of binding]
12 [TRABAUD]. Principes sur le mouvement
2
et l’équilibre, pour servir d’introduction
aux mécaniques & á la physique.
4to (256 x 196mm.), [2], xxiv, 616, lvii, [1] pp.
woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and
headpieces, 25 folding engraved plates (one with
onlays). Contemporary mottled calf with double
gilt fillets, spine gilt in compartments, red speckled
edges, extremities slightly rubbed, joints starting
to crack at head and foot.
Paris: J. Desaint, C. Saillant 1741 £450
First edition complete with cancellanda & cancellantia
There are four loose leaves among the preliminary leaves
each with text different from that appearing in the bound
leaves (pp.xxiii-xxiv, pp.1-2, 5-6 and 535-536).
213 TRICHET DU FRESNE, Raphael, &
FIALETTI, Odoardo. Briefve histoire de
l’institution des ordres religieux. Avec les figures
de leurs habits, gravés sur le cuivre par Odoart
Fialetti, bolognois.
8vo (205 x 140mm.), [8], 45p., frontispiece & 72
engraved plates, engraved half-title after t-p, headpieces woodcut, initial, contemporary calf, spine gilt
in compartments, morocco lettering piece.
Paris: Adrien Menier 1658 £550
First French edition of De gli habiti delle religioni con le armi,
etc. (Venice,1626). It appears that some copies contain
an etched Italian text facing each plate which is not the
case here. The French descriptions and number of plates
are complete (allegoric figure of religion followed by 72
plates).
Odoardo Fialetti (1573- 1638) first studied under
Giovanni Battista Cremonini, before moving on to Rome
and Venice, where he entered the school of Tintoretto.
His is best known for his engravings, but was a proficient
painter.
Raphael Trichet du Fresne (1611-1661) was the
first publisher of Leonardo’s treatise on painting in
1651 and author of the first published annotated art
bibliography.
14 VALERIANO BOLZANI, Giovanni Pierio.
2
Hieroglyphica, sive de sacris Aegyptiorum
aliarumque gentium litteris, commentariorum
Libri LVII. cum duobus aliis ab eruditissimo viro
annexis. Editio novissima, etc.
6 parts in 1 volume 4to. (230 x 190mm.), [60], 760,
[58], 248, [8], 122, [2], 83pp., printer’s device on
title-page, woodcut illustrations, woodcut head
and tail-pieces, initials, contemporary Oxford
calf binding, triple fillet blind stamped on boards,
binding rubbed, foxing heavy in places.
Cologne: A. Hierat, 1631 £500
The rediscovery of Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica created
huge public interest, and was immensely influential in
the world of the Renaissance. Valeriano Bolzani wrote his
own huge folio of a thousand pages published in Basel in
1556. There were several editions published in Cologne
in the seventeenth century.
VD17 23:296739T.
MAGGS
edge: ‘Victorius Varia lectio’, title-page slightly
damaged (with small repair) and spotted.
Florence: L. Torrentino, 1553
£600
15 VALLEMONT, Pierre le Lorrain,
2
abbé de. La sphère du monde, selon
l’hypothèse de Copernic, présentée au roy:
décrite, & comparee avec les sphères & les
systèmes de Ptolomée, & de Tyco-Brahé.
8vo (165 x 100mm.), [24], 377, [5]pp., 5 engraved
plates 1 signed J. B. Scotin le Jeune), woodcut device
on title-page by B. Picart, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, originally black stained
spine, spine gilt in compartments.
Paris: P. Marchand, 1707 £500
First edition. Pier Vettori (1499-1585) was a distinguished
Italian scholar, in particular known for his work on
Cicero, but also for his work on Euripides, Aeschylus,
Sophocles and many other Greek writers. He was one
of the outstanding personalities of this period (Pfeiffer).
His Variae lectiones were first published in 25 books, later
enlarged to 38. His letters to scholars all over Europe are in
the British Library and his printed books and manuscripts
are in Munich.
A fine copy.
16 VAYRAC, Jean de. El arte frances, en que
2
se van puestas las reglas... para
apprehender... la lengua françesa... Con una
tratado de la poesia.
2 volumes 12mo (162 x 95mm.), xxxiii, [3], 453,
[7]; [3], 454-964pp., contemporary vellum, a few
marginal notes.
Paris: P. Vitte, 1714 £850
First edition. The abbé Vayrac (1664-1734) was the author
of a number of such works on Spanish language, history
and geography. This work gives a very thorough treatment
of the language, how to write letters, and how to write
poetry.
Palau 353490; not listed by Cioranescu and a very
uncommon book. There is no copy recorded in the UK,
one at Jena is recorded by KVK, and there is a copy in
Paris BNF.
Provenance: some notes on flyleaves of vol. I ‘3 laced
hancherch. 1 camb. Hancherch. M.W. Hen: Chamberlain
upon the new Haven near the packing bridge’.
217 VELDE, Jan van den. Sphieghel der
schrijfkonste, inden welcken ghesien
worden veelderhand gheschriten met hare
dondementen ende onderrichtinghe. (Artificium
grammatices verum obilissimumque speculum.
n quo varia scripturae tessellataparadigmata...
typis adumbratae.
2 parts obl. 4to (217 x 325mm.), ff. [20] (letterpress), 2
engraved title-pages, portrait (cut out and mounted)
and 67 unnumbered engraved plates on 62 leaves
(1 plate of how to trim a pen, 2 Frysius plates of
how to hold a pen, 2 plates of circles plus 62 others,
incl. 12 printed 2 to a leaf), engraved illustrations
of 16 alphabets in text later vellum-backed paper
Censimento 16 CNCE 34608.
boards, a few plates with small tears or stains, and
a few slightly shaved affecting flourishes.
Rotterdam: Jan van Waesberghe, 1605(-1609) [1610?]
£4000
Engraved throughout by Simon Frisius. Much of the book
takes the form of sample letters in different styles of writing
and in various languages (Dutch, French, English (1),
German, Latin (many), Italian and Spanish) written to a
wide variety of Rotterdam worthies, including painters,
doctors, schoolmasters and the printer publisher van
Waesberghe. Two plates are dated 1609 (letters to Petrus
Carpentarius (in Latin) & P. vande Veken). Plate no. [9]
is pasted in. The first 6 leaves following the Latin title
actually have 12 separate plates of alphabets.
Bonacini 1931; Simoni BL 1601-1621 V42-43 (describing 2
editions published by J. van Waesberghe in 1609 and [1610?],
in which part 2 has 50 and 51 plates respectively.)
Simoni V42 (50 unnumbered plates) the BL copy C 119.
h.12(2) lacks the 20 letterpress leaves ; Bonacini 1931;
Berlin Cat. 5010. The book is not to be found in the Dutch
NSTC.
18 VETTORI, Pietro. Epistolarum libri X.
2
Orationes XIIII. Et liber de laudibus
Ioannae Austriacae.
Folio (300 x 195mm.), [12], 72; 226, [2]pp., large
device on title-page and recto of last leaf, engraved
portrait of Vettori, 11- and 6-line woodcut initials,
woodcut head-pieces, seventeenth-cenury vellum.
Florence: Giunti, 1586 £600
A very handsome copy; Censimento 16 CNCE 28506.
219 VETTORI, Pietro. Variarum lectionum
libri XXV.
Folio (312 x 190mm.), [28], 410, [14]pp., Italian
vellum, rebacked, spine lettered, lettered on bottom
Provenance: ‘Angeli Angelotii Camertis’ (of Camerino)
stamped name on title-page.
220 VETTORI, Pietro. Variarum lectionum
libri XXV.
4to (240 x 160mm.), [12], 486, [60]pp., woodcut
and criblé initials, contemporary limp vellum, yapp
edges, lacking ties, 2 small holes in title (damage
to initial on verso).
Lyons: Jean Temporal (exc. B. Frein, 4 May), 1554 £450
This elegantly produced volume, with charming woodcut
initials, is a reprint of the folio edition of 1553 printed
in Florence.
Baudrier iv, 483.
221 VICO, Enea. Discorsi... sopra le medaglie
de gli antichi divisi in due libri ove si
dimostrano notabili errori di scrittori antichi, e
moderni intorno alle historie Romane...
4to (200 x 140mm.), 112 [116]pp., 1pl., large printer’s
device on title page, printer’s device on last page,
engraved portrait plate of Cosimo II de Medici
(210mm), early eighteenth-century speckled calf
with triple-fillet gilt and fleurons in corners, spine
gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece “Vico
sopra medag”, red and green speckled edges, a
slight tear on upper board right bottom corner.
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1558
£700
An extremely fine and fresh copy with nice woodcut initials
and engraved portrait and a dedication poem by Lodovico
Dolce (1508-1568), Italian theorist of painting and writer.
The first edition was published in 1555.
Dekesel V 23 (cat.1); CNCE 26275.
73
22 VLACQ, Adriaan & KEPLER, Johann.
2
Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for
the yeeres of the vulgar Era 1633. 1634. 1635.
1636. Calculated out of the Tables of Philip
Lansberg for the motions and coniunctions of
the Luminaries, by A.V. and for the other Planets
out of the Rudolphine Tables by Iohn Kepler his
Imperiall Maiesties Mathematician. With the
Instructions for the use of them.
4to (172 x 125mm.), [2], 22, [104 (tables)]pp. Closely
shaved, cropping some signatures and catchwords
and part of the one rule border (the text itself is
untouched) in the first part (A-C4) and in the tables
touching a few signatures and with some slight
damage to the extreme upper outer corners on a
few leaves (affecting a few dates), rebound in half
calf, old style.
London: by William Iones, 1635 £4000
STC 24864 records the three following copies: Bodley,
Elias Ashmole’s copy, Jesus College Oxford, Herbert
of Cherbury’s copy, & Cambridge UL, the astronomer,
mathematician and antiquary Charles Towneley’s copy
only. There is no copy in America.
The Tables themselves (with separate register A-N4) are
are reissue of the sheets printed at Gouda in 1632 - as a
tailpiece they have a characteristic bear in foliage ornament
of which several varieties were used in Holland in the
2nd and 3rd quarters of the 17th century, including on
the Amsterdam reprint of Hobbes’s Leviathan (cf Noel
Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes, p. 367.)
23 VOLCYRE DE SEROUVILLE, Nicolas.
2
L’histoire & recueil de [la triumphante et
glorieuse victoire obtenue contre les seduyctz et
[abusez] lutheriens mescreans du pays Daulsays
et autres... par Anthoine... duc de Calabre, de
Lorraine et de Bar...
Folio (268 x 187mm.), ff. [10], xcviii, text in 2 columns,
woodcut illustration of Faith on title-page, woodcut
of a scribe on *2, 3 full-page woodcut, 2 of battle
scene, 2 with monogram ‘SG’ [Gabriel Salmon]),
5 woodcut illustrations, eighteenth-century calf
with triple fillet gilt, spine gilt in compartments,
red speckled edges, 3 coloured silk markers. First
4 leaves torn with loss (including title-page), H3H4 transposed, last leaf torn in margin, occasional
slight staining.
[Paris: for Galliot du Pré], 1526 £2500
First edition. Despite the heavily damaged first leaves
MAGGS
(although the woodcut on title page is untouched), this is
overall a good copy of a rare book incorporating fine and
harmonious typography and beautiful large woodcuts
and illustrations.
The work describes the Duke Antoine’s defeat of the
peasant rebellion of 1525. Gabriel Salmon, the engraver
of the illustrations, worked between 1504 and 1542 and
illustrated another famous anti-heretical book Gringoire’s
Blazon des hérétiques (1524).
“Cette composition par ses ombres très accentuées, par
ses effets de clair-obscur, s’inspire directement de Durer,
mais les personnages ont des proportions trapues et sont
plutot grimaçants.” (R.Brun, Le livre illustré en France au
XVI siecle, Paris, Lacan, 1930, p.326). The woodcut on
f.xxxiii which represents the author offering his book to
the prince, had already been used in the Collectaneorum
Poligraphi libellus (1523).
References: Moreau III,1114; Mortimer, Harvard French
533.
24 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.
2
Letters concerning the English Nation.
First Edition 8vo (203 x 120mm.), [16], 253, [19]pp.,
fine copy in contemporary calf, gilt spine, Small
dampstain in the upper inside corner of the title,
fading away over the next few leaves.
London: for C. Davis, and A. Lyon, 1733 £600
Evans, Voltaire, 346. This English version precedes the
first French edition.
225 WATIN, Jean-Félix. L’ Art de faire et
d’employer le vernis, ou l’art de vernisseur,
auquel on a joint ceux du peintre & du doreur.
Ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui
veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir
par eux-memes toute forte de sujets, &c. divisé en
deux parties de couleurs & de vernis.
8vo (200 x 120mm.), xvi, 249, [1 (errata)], [6 (table/
privilege)], 8 (supplement), contemporary English
half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label.
Paris: Chez Quillau. [& Chez] L’ Auteur, 1772 £750
The 8pp. supplement lists artists’ materials for varnishing
and painting with prices at which they are available from
Watin’s shop.
26 WERNDLY, Georg Henrik. Maleische
2
Spraakkunst, uit de eige schriften der
Malaiers opgemaakt; met eene voorreden [etc.]
8vo (210 x 112mm.), [12], lxviii, [23]pp., eighteenth-
century English polished calf, spine gilt in
compartments, morocco lettering-piece lacking.
Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetsein op kosten va de E.A. Heren
Bewindhebberen der oost-indische maatschappye, 1736 £1400
First edition. Some copies lack the dedication (here
present) to the Heeren Bewindhebberen or Directors of
the company (e.g. 5 of the copies listed in NSTC, the copy
in the NL of Australia, etc.). There was a later revised
edition published in 1823 in Batavia. Part of the book is
devoted to a discussion of European books in Malay (Holy
Writ, catechisms, grammars etc.)
Malay is written using unvocalised Arabic script with
some additional letters, but the bulk of this volume is
printed in Black Letter in Dutch; italic is used for the
meanings of Malay words in Dutch. Werndly was also
involved in the translation of the Scriptures and the
catechism (see Darlow & Moule).
VOC Bibl. 759.
227 [WEST (Richard)]. A Discourse
concerning Treasons and Bills of Attainder.
111pp. London: for J. Roberts, 1716 £500
Title-page lightly browned. Some ink underlining and
two marginal notes.
Bound with:
Observations, Rules and Orders, Collected out
of Divers Journals of the House of Commons.
Entred in the reigns of Edward VI. Q. Mary.
Q. Elizabeth. K. James I. K. Charles I. and K.
Charles II.
[8], 160, *261-276, 161-176pp. London: for Bernard
Lintot; and sold by Ch. King, 1717.
With the advertisement leaf opposite the title. Lightly
browned. Considerable ink underlining and a couple
of annotations (see provenance note) in the text of a
protestation of the Commons to the King (pp. 144-160,
*261-75).
Bound with:
An Inquiry into the manner of creating Peers.
[4], 74pp. With the half-title and final blank leaf.
London: for J. Roberts, 1719.
Bound with:
[ST. AMAND, George]. Animadversions on
the Enquiry Into the Manner of Creating Peers:
With some Hints about Pyrating in Learning; in
a Letter to Richard W--st, Esq.
52pp., half-title, London: for J. Peele, 1724.
4 works in 1 volume, 8vo (191 x 110mm.), contemporary calf, slightly scuffed.
Provenance: a contemporary list of the contents with the
cost of each pamphlet (one shilling and sixpence, two
shillings, one shilling and one shilling) and the cost of
binding (one shilling) and in a purely personal finding-aid,
probably by the 1st Earl of Macclesfield, on the fore-edge
of the volume the be position of each pamphlet is marked
by a thick ink line (in a series of four descending steps)
and additionally the one section of the second pamphlet
which is particularly underlined has an additional ink
line on the fore-edge identifying its position - a distinctive
and practical aide-memoire.
28 WILSON, Henry. Trigonometry
2
Improv’d, and Projection of the Sphere
Made Easy. Teaching the Projection of the
Sphere Orthographick, and Sterographick: As
also, Trigonometry Plain and Spherical; with
plain and intelligible Reasons for the various
and most useful Methods, both in Projection and
Calculation; with the Application of the whole to
Astronomy, Dialling, and Geography.
First Edition. 12mo. [12], 192pp, 10 engraved plates
(a few just shaved at the fore-edge).
London: by H.P. for J. Senex; and W. Taylor, 1720 £600
Bound with:
[RAMUS, Pierre]. Arithmetica.
[Libri II]. 70pp., printer’s device on the title. Paris:
A. Wechel, 1562.
2 works in 1 volume 8vo (155 x 95mm.), mid-18thcentury half calf, marbled boards.
29 WINGATE, Edmund & DODSON,
2
Samuel, editor. A plain and familiar method
for attaining the knowledge and practice of
common arithmetic. The Nineteenth Edition.
Wherein the additions … made by Mr. John
Kersey, in his Appendix, and Mr. George
Shelly, in his Supplement, are introduced in
their proper places… also sundry others, that
are entirely new, are added. By James Dodson,
accomptant, and teacher of the Mathematicks.
8vo (203 x 122m.) x, 401, [13]pp., engraved
frontispiece, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red
morocco label (upper joint cracked, lower joint
cracked at the head), worming to the upper margin
75
of the last leaf (not affecting text). First and last few
leaves browned at the margins by the turn-ins.
London: for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, and R. Baldwin;
A. Millar; John Rivington; and S. Crodwer and Co.,
1760 £450
“The Nineteenth Edition” of a work first published in
1630. This is the second edition edited (extensively) by
Dodson; the first was 1751.
30 WORCESTER, Edward Somerset,
2
marquis of. A century of the names and
scantlings of such inventions, as at present I
can call to mind to have tried and perfected,
which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the
instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now
in the year 1655. to set these down in such a way
as many sufficiently instruct me to put any of
them in practice.
12mo (125 x 70mm.), [24], 72, [12], [2],34pp.(A1
blank (here lacking), A11v, E5v, E6r blank, woodcut
royal arms on F1v), eighteenth century speckled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, red morocco letteringpiece, hinges cracked, binding rubbed.
London: J.Grismond, 1663 £4500
A rare and important first edition with an unrecorded
continuation (see below). Edward Somerset (1601-1667),
sixth Earl and second Marquis of Worcester presents 100
of his inventions in a few words, and outlines especially the
applications of the steam engine. The ingenious Earl of
Worcester with Gaspar Calthoff as an associate ‘ingenior’
set up an area in Vauxhall on the south bank of the Thames
for mechanical and scientific experimentations, such as
an early precursor of the steam machine, the “water
commanding machine”. Besides the purely technological,
the book records other curious inventions: a mute discourse
by colours (semaphore?), an unsinkable ship, a pleasant
floating garden, a portable bridge, an artificial bird, to
write in the dark, “how to make a man to fly; which I
have tried with a little boy of ten years old in a barn, from
one end to the other, on a hay-mow.”, etc. The author
has put his name to the preface/dedication to both parts.
The book was popular and reprinted right through the
eighteenth century.
Wing W3532. ESTC records two editions of 1663, one in
an unique copy at the Folger, and the second comprising
what is here present, but minus the last 34 pages The
present copy collates A-D12 (A1 blank) E6 (-E6) F12 G6 = 71
leaves. The table of contents is on quire E (9 pages). This
all tallies with the CUL copy reproduced on EEBO. The
new and unrecorded section, which deals with the ‘water
commanding engine’, begins on F1v with the woodcut arms.
Pp 20-28 of this section are printed in Black Letter and
give the text of the patent or Act of Parliament permitting
the earl to profit from his invention. This is followed by
verses by James Rollock ‘Scoto-Belgo-Britannus’ in Latin
and English on the stupendous water work.
231 ZOSIMUS, the historian. Ιστοριων
βιβλια η. Historiarum libri VIII. Cum
Angeli Politiani interpretatione & huius partim
supplemento, partim examine Henrici Stephani:
utroque margine adscripto... Historiarum
[Zosimi] herodianicas subsequentium libri duo,
nunc primum graece editi.
2 parts 4to (233 x 157mm.), [8], 182 [2]; 79,
[1(blank)]pp. small burn holes in margins on pp.
35-40 (part 1), affecting the odd letter of printed
marginal notes, late seventeenth-century English
panelled calf, somewhat rubbed.
£750
Geneva: H. Estienne, 1581 Dedicated by Estienne to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586),
courtier and man of letters. Estienne stresses the utility
of history to courtiers (‘aulici’) and writes how these two
historical commentaries are as it were theatres in which
the tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies of court life
are played out and may serve as a parallel to modern
life. He urges Sidney, who he hopes is the same man
that he knew in Germany and Austria and unchanged by
life at court, to read the translation, and ends with two
couplets urging the reading of these two historians above
all in order to see Rome in its decline (‘Qui titubantem
uult Romam tandemque cadentem /cernere, prae cunctis
legat historicis’). Estienne and Sidney had met in 1573
and the former gave Sidney a collection of the Greek
paroemiographers, and also dedicated to Sidney his 1576
edition of the Greek New Testament.
In his preface to the reader Estienne explains how
he has corrected Politian’s Latin version, which is ‘more
elegant than accurate’, and gives a number of specific
examples where Politian has misunderstood the Greek.
His own versions are printed in the margin of the text.
Renouard 149.7; Schreiber 249.
ADDENDA
MAGGS
32 CAMELI, Francesco. Nummi antiqui
2
aurei, argentei, & aerei primae, secundae,
seu mediae, minimae, & maximae formae.
Latini, graeci, consulum, augustorum, regum,
& urbium. In thesauro Christinae reginae
Suecorum &c Romae asservati... Per seriem
redacti.
4to (210 x 145mm.), 218, [2 (blank)]pp., French
smooth calf c. 1700, spine gilt.
£1000
Rome: G. G. de Buagni, 1690
Queen Christina’s (1626-1689) collection of coins was
celebrated in its day, and was transported to Rome on
her departure in 1654 from Sweden. After her death
in 1689, when a formal inventory was prepared, this
catalogue was published by Cameli, one of the group of
scholars and antiquaries gathered around her, of whom
F. Gottifredi & Gianpietro Bellori also served as curators
of the coins. Cameli had to retire because of poor sight.
The collection passed into the hands of the Odescalchi
family and a further inventory was drawn up in 1713.
Havercamp in 1742 published the Nummophylacium at
the Hague (see Christina Queen of Sweden – a personality
of European civilisation . Stockholm: National Museum,
1966 pp. 558-559).
Dekesel 17th cent. C28; The book is not at all common,
Dekesel lists 7 copies, to which the Warburg and Yale
should be added.
Provenance: Nicolas-Joseph Foucault with engraved
bookplate.
GRADUS AD PARNASSUM
33 FINCK, Kaspar. Poetica latina nova,
2
methodo perspicua tradita, commentariis
luculentis declarata, exemplis tum veterum,
tum recentiorum Poëtarum illustrata, duobus
libris ita conscripta, ut non tam classibus quam
academiis & scholis publicis utilis esse possit;
per Scholae Giessenae nonnullos Professores
philosophos (K. Finck, C. Hellwig & Konrad
Bachmann).
8vo (160 x 90mm.), [8], 393, [7]pp., eighteenth
century sprinkled calf, spine gilt.
Giessen: N. Hampel, 1607 £550
A manual for writing Latin verse written specially for the
school at Giessen by Kaspar Finck (1578-1631), Christoph
Helwig (1681-1617), a fine Hebrew scholar and epigone of
the educationalist Wolfgang Ratke, at the time teaching
in Giessen, and Konrad Bachmann (1572-1646) the first
University librarian there. Helwig & Finck published a
Latin grammar with the same printer in 1610. Giessen,
where the anti-Calvinist university was founded in
1607, was a home to Ramism, and several text books of
rhetoric etc. were published there (see note in H. Hotson
Commonplace learning Ramism and its German ramifications
1543-1630 Oxford, 2007 p. 96).
VD17 23:295251P (4 copies; we have traced no others).
77
indicate sententiae. This is particular useful in the Greek
Anthology where proper names abound in the titles of
the individual epigrams.
At the end there is a note addressed by Estienne to the
reader in which he tells us that it is a shortage of paper and
not of time which has made him offer such abbreviated
notes (‘annotatiunculae’) which constitute barely a tenth of
what he might have offered. He then proceeds to outline
his method of editing, and speaks of the epigrams he
has added, one of which he has taken from a manuscript
in the possession of the English doctor John Clement at
Louvain, as well as others from various ancient writers
such as Pauusanias. Certain verses in book VII he has
rejected as being modern (by Janus Lascaris).
Renouard 126.4; Schreiber 159. See Hutton The Greek
Anthology in France Ithaca NT: Cornell UP, 1946, pp. 128133.
Provenance: M. Bruningen 29 June 1657 (inscr. on flyleaf).
35 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe
2
condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV. Cum
universae historiae epitomis, a Carolo Sigonio
emendati: cuius etiam scholia simul eduntur, etc.
2 parts folio (335 x 230mm.), ff. [4], 1-429, 428-430,
433-478; 98, [40], calf, title-leaf mounted, scholia
bound first.
Venice: P. Manutius, 1555 £1000
34 GREEK ANTHOLOGY. Ανθολογια
2
διαφορων επιγραµµατων... Florilegium
diversorum epigrammatum veterum, in septem
libros diversum.
4to (250 x 155mm.), [4], 539 (=545, pp.283-288 bis),
[35]pp., device on title-page, later Dutch vellum
over pasteboard, yapp edges.
[Geneva]: E. Estienne, H. Fuggeri typographus, 1566 £2200
A fine, clean, large copy. As far as p. 60 the epigrams are
fairly extensively annotated with interlinear and marginal
glosses and vocabulary notes in a small neat hand.
On the verso of the title-page is a key to the various
diacritical signs used by Estienne in this edition to indicate
proper names of men, women, digs, horses etc., to indicate
the names of peoples or places, to indicate the names of
mountains, to indicate the names of seas, rivers, fountains,
together with the pointing finger used (‘as in Aeschylus,
Xenophon, Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus and others’) to
MAGGS
The first of Sigonio’s editions of Livy, the text based on the
Basel recension. This edition was several times reprinted
and became the textus receptus. Carlon Sigonio’s work on
Livy and on Roman political life was amongst the most
important of the sixteenth century (see W. W. McCuaig
Carlo Sigonio etc., Princeton UP, 1989).
Renouard 166.15; UCLA 47.
36 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum...libri,
2
qui extant, XXXV. Cum ...epitomis.
Adiunctis scholijs Caroli Sigonii... Secunda editio.
2 parts folio (318 x 205mm.), [52], 399, [1]; 107,
[1], later calf, f. 70 with small stain, the odd leaf
slightly browned, light marginal dampstaining on
ff. 140-141, some margins washed near beginning
with traces of annotations.
[Niccolo Bevilaqua] for P. Manutius, 1566 £1000
The identification of the printer is given in McCuaig op. cit.
p. 59 no. 172, where reference is given to correspondence.
Here the index is bound first.
Renouard 202. 19; UCLA 769 (imperfect).
HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES AND RECEIPTS
37 Neueröffneter curioser Schatz-Kasten
2
welcher mit allerhand fürtrefflich- u.
bewährten, der Natur und Kunst, auch
medicinisch.- und chirurgischen Secreten,
benebst sehr vielen andern ungemeinen, so
wohl mechan. als oeconom. raren KunstStücken reichl. angefüllet und hervor gethan,
in einem gantz neu heraus gegebenen ArtzneyKunst- Haus- und Wunder-Buch ... Von einem
christlich-gesinnten und jederman gutes
gönneten aufrichtigen Freund, usw.,
[8], 816, [80pp., title printed in red and black,
Nuremberg: Georg Lehmann, 1706.
38 PHILO, Judaeus. Φιλωνος Ιουδαιου εις
2
τα του Μωσεος... De mundi opificio, historicos, de
legibus, eiusdem libri suingulares. Ex bibliotheca
regia (ed. by Turnebus, with an index).
Bound with:
A., L. Curieuse Vorstellung schöner rarer und
nützlicher Künste... 5. Der curieuse Confectirer.
6. Der curieuse Koch und Becker allerhands
Speisen und Gebackens zu machen... Von L.A.
[2], 184, [4]pp., Arnstadt: printed by J.C. Heergart at
[Bad] L[angen]salza for J.G. Ehrt, 1707.
2 works in 1 volume (165 x 95mm.), contemporary
vellum, yapp edges 1706-1707 £1200
The first and very substantial work covers in ten sections
everything from medical treatments to gold and silver
working, and from painting, leather work, clothing and
tapestry to cookery and the preparation of drinks, along
with gardening and hunting and fishing. There is an
ample index. It is like the large format German HausVater books, which were so popular in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. The second work, of much
smaller compass, covers the same sort of subjects from
headaches to urination (von vielen Harnen) and face spots
(die Flecken in Angesichte zu vertreiben) and from fruit
and other conserves, to how to cook calf liver, trout and
crabs, along with recipes for marzipan and various sorts
of bread and cakes.
Of the second work KVK records only one copy in
Berlin. Its place of printing is interesting: Bad Langensalza
is not far from Arnstadt in Thuringia, and printing
was begun there at the end of the 17th century by J.C.
Bachmann, who published two works in the BL: one a
German translation of The whole duty of man, one of the
best sellers of the age and a work attributed to Richard
Allestree, provost of Eton; the other a little work on
‘Honigtau’ an insectal secretion which attacks plants
(‘for he on honey-dew hath fed and drunk the milk of
Paradise’ (Coleridge ‘Kubla Khan’). Bachmann’s successor
at Langensalza was Heergart whose imprint is found from
1705 to about 1750.
Of the first work three copies in Germany and three in
the USA can be traced.
Folio (332 x 300mm.), [12], 736, [48]pp., device
on title-page, four leaves of errata, last leaf with
colophon, English panelled calf, c. 1700, upper
hinge slightly splitting, small worm hole at edge of
margins as far as about p. 240.
Paris: A. Turnèbe, regiis typis, (14 August) 1552 £1400
Editio princeps, dedicated to Charles cardinal of Lorraine,
and a fine, clean, large copy of this important book. Robert
Estienne having left Paris for Geneva early in 1550, the
punches for the Grecs du Roi or Typi regii passed, with a set
of matrices and the ornamental material into the custody
of Charles Estienne, from whom Turnebus as the next royal
Greek printer obtained them in 1552. Turnebus printed
Turnebus then passed them on to Morel who succeeded
him. In 1563 Morel put them into official custody, where
they were forgotten.
79
240 SAVARON, Jean. Les origines de la ville
de Clairmont... augmentées de remarques...
iustifiées par chartes, tiltres, privileges... Par
Pierre Durand.
Folio (316 x 212mm.), [12], 593, [31]pp., title printed
in red and black, engravings in text, eighteenthcentury English calf, gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt
in compartments, red speckled edges.
Paris: F. Muguet, 1662 £900
An extremely fine copy of this major French work of local
history. Clermont is in the Auvergne.
Various copies in European libraries, but not at Yale,
although Harvard has a copy.
FINIS
Item 134, Longinus [8vo].
Item 151, Nannini [4to].
39 PROCOPIUS, of Caesarea. Historiarum...
2
libri VIII... Accessit liber de aedificijs
Justiniani... Opera Davidis Hoeschelii.
Folio (316 x 195mm.), [8], 376; 56; [84]pp., engraved
title, contemporary English (? Oxford) binding of
brown calf, double gilt fillet on covers, spine with
gilt ornament in compartments, chain mark on
upper cover.
Augsburg: D. Franck, 1607 £800
Editio princeps of the Greek text of the great Byzantine
historian, whose animadversions on the empress Theodora
had to be quoted by Gibbon ‘in the decent obscurity of a
learned language’. The work is edited by Hoeschel (15561617), favourite pupil of Hieronymus Wolf in Augsburg
and his successor as librarian of the city library.
VD17 39:123445Q.
Provenance: Thomas Tonkys (possibly from Staffordshire
& of Christ Church, Oxford, 1699, see Foster); perhaps the
book had been extruded from a library in Oxford.
MAGGS
Item 185, Rucellai [large 4to].
Item 206, Suetonius [12mo].
Item 165, Perez de Mendoza.