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Anti-Luther treatise on the Sacraments View picture(s) 221 EUSTACHIUS DE ZICHENIS (de Rivis; Van Zichem van der Rivieren). Sacramentorum brevis elucidatio. Simulque nonnulla perversa Martini Luther dogmata exludens, quibus & sacramenta temerare ausus est, tum ecclesiasticam ierarchiam prorsum abolere ... Antwerpen, Symon Cock & Gerardus Nicolaus, 29 July 1523. 4to. Seventeenth century mottled calf, ribbed spine with gilt floral ornament in 4 compartments. Printed title in elaborate ornamental woodcut border, with 8 beautiful large woodcut initials of 10 lines, and large printer's device of Symon Cock on the verso of the last lv. (NAT, II,5). 62 lvs. a-o4, p6. 28 lines. Roman type R 10 and 12. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Luther  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully made on request of Pope Pius IV View picture(s) 222 FAERNO, Gabriele. Fabulae Centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae, et Carminibus explicatae. Rome, Vincentius Luchinus, 1565. 4to. 19th century full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt fillet borders on sides and inner panel with large arabesque gilt decorated inner corner-pieces and small gilt ornaments at the four outer corners, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (NIEDRÉE). With finely etched architectural title, and 100 beautifully etched full-page plates illustrating the fables, ascribed to Titian. (4), 100 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Emblem Books  Engravings  Fable Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catalogue of the bibliophile, music professor and flautist Aristide Farrenc (1794-1865) View picture(s) 223 FARRENC, A. Catalogue des livres rares et curieux Français et Italiens composant la bibliothèque de M.A. Farrenc ancien professeur et éditeur de musique, ou l'on remarque principalement: une belle et riche collection d'ouvrages Italiens des XVe et XVIe siècles, dans les éditions du temps (poètes de divers genres, poésies en patois, pièces de théatre, romans et nouvelles), écrits sur l'histoire d'Italie et de ses différents états et villes sur les beaux-arts, l'histoire littéraire, etc. Paris, L. Potier, Libraire, 1866. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 159 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  France  Habsburg  Italy  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Few books have had greater influence on the teaching of elementary mathematics View picture(s) 224 FELICIANO DA LAZESIO, FR. Libro di Aritmetica & Geometrica speculative & praticale. Novamente Stampato. Venice, Francesco de Leno, 1563. 4to. Contemp. limp vellum. With title set within a five-part woodcut border, and with numerous arithmetical and geometrical exercises and geometrical and perspectival figures and illustrations in the wide outer margins. (80) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Arithmetics  Education  Geometry  Italy  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of three rare editions of humanist works View picture(s) 225 FENESTELLA, L. De Magistratibus, sacerdotiisque Romanorum libellus, iam  primum nitori restitutus. Pomponii Laeti itidem de magistratibus &  sacerdotiis, & praeterea de diversis legibus Romanorum. Item  Valerii Probi grammatici de literis antiquis opusculum. Basilae, V. Curio, 1523, mense maio. Small 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped calf, with on each side two panels with animals in floral decoration within lozenge decorated borders separated by a small broad stamp with a peacock in centre, paste-downs of old ms. leaves. With fine woodcut title-border representing a female riding on a man's back, and other grotesque figures, fine illustrated initials, and woodcut printer's device on verso last leaf. 91, (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Pedagogy & Didactics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive notes on Cicero's Philippics by an Italian philologist, printed by Paulus Manutius View picture(s) 226 FERRARIUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo FERRARI). Ad Paulum Manutium emendationes in Philippicas Ciceronis. Venice, Paulus Manutius, (March) 1542. 8vo. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments with title lettered in ink, pastedowns of gilt paper with blue floral decorations. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. (126) ff. [Collation: A10 B-P8 Q4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Causes and cures for flatulence View picture(s) 227 FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanus corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili  & expedia methodo indicantur. Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Two woodcut devices on title and at the end. 215, (5), (4 blank) pp. (A8-N8, O6). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Belgicana  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare early scientific schoolbooks View picture(s) 228 FINE, Oronce. Liber De Geometria Practica, sive De practicis longitudinum, planorum & solidorum: hoc est, linearum, superficierum, & corporum mensionibus, alijsque mechanicis, ex demonstratis EUCLIDIS elementis corollarius. Ubi et de Quadrato Geometrico, et Virgis seu Baculis mensorijs. Nunc primum apud Germanos in lucem emissus. Strasbourg, Ex Off. Knoblochiana, Georgius Machaeropeus, 1544. Small 8vo. 19th century calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red title-label, mottled edges. With folding woodcut plate and 97 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text, incl. perspectival projections of the Platonic solids. (4), 133, (1); (34), 314 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  German  Mathematics  Schoolbooks  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest woodcuts depicting the "Jeu de Paume" View picture(s) 229 FLOCCUS, ANDREAS DOMENICHUS. Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani. Venice, Giolito di Ferrarii, 1544. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. 42 very interesting historiated woodcut initials of professions, sports and past times. 43 numbered leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A celebrated Spanish philosopher on government View picture(s) 230 FOXIUS MORZILLUS, SEBAST. De Regni, Regisque Institutione Libri III. Antverpiae, Gerardus Spelmannus, typis Io. Withaghius, 1556. Contemp. limp vellum, with the initials P.C.D. and the date 1556 stamped on front cover. With woodcut printer's vignette of Withagen on title. (211, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the abuse of alcohol by the great German chronicler and popular historiographer of the 16th century View picture(s) 231 FRANCK, Sebastian. Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenhayt so inn disen letsten zeytten erst schier mit den Frantzosen aufkommen, Was füllerey, sauffen und zutrincken, für jammer und unrath, schade der seel und deß leibs, auch armut und schedlich not anricht, und mit sich bringt. Und wie dem ubel zuraten wer, gründtlicher bericht und rathschlag/ auß götlicher geschrifft. (Augsburg, H. Steiner, 1533). 4to. Later marbled boards. Large woodcut on title with an elaborate banquet and 'Vomitus' scene by H. Weiditz (the Petrarca master), woodcut initials. (38) lvs. Collation: A-H4, I2, K4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cultural History  Germany  Medicine  Oenology  Pamphlets  Reformation  Social Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Finished while dying of the plague View picture(s) 232 FREIGE, Johann Thomas. Quaestiones geometricae et stereometricae Euclidis & Rami stoicheiosin: in quibus logica veterum mathematicorum illustratur & demonstratur. Part 2 with own title-page on Y1r: Epiloimia seu liber tristium. Tempore pestis, summa & moestitia & dolore scriptus. Basle, Sebastian Henricpetri, (March 1583). 2 parts 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink and pasted shelf mark on spine, blue speckled edges. Woodcut printers device on each title and verso of last leaf, some woodcut tables and calculations in text, woodcut initials. (32), 380 (4) pp. [Collation: æ8, y8, A-Z8, Aa8; X8 blank]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geography  Manuals  Mathematics  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare enlarged re-issue of Freitag's emblem book with the 107 original etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts, printed by Plantin in 1579 View picture(s) 233 FREITAG, Arnoldus - Marcus GHEERAERTS. Viridarium moralis philosophiae, per fabulas animalibus brutis attributas traditae, iconibus artificiosissimè in aes insculptis exornatum. Cologne, Georgius Mutingus, 1594. 4to. Early nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, boards covered with marbled paper, red painted edges. With engraved title with text in three cartouches surrounded by numerous birds and quadrupeds, three emblematic engravings (ca. 90-5 x 110-5 mm) and 125 fine etched plates, 107 of which are certainly by Marcus Gheeraerts (ca. 95 x 115 mm), all illustrating the 128 Aesopian fables. (8) [=(10)], 251, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Emblem Books  Fable Books  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Predicting horrible changes in Germany View picture(s) 234 FRIESS(EN) or VRIESE VAN MAASTRICHT, Wilhelm. Pronosticatio. Etliche seltzame Prophezeiunge, Geweissaget von dem alten M. Wilhelmo Friesen, von Mastrich, welcher newlich gestorben, die bey ihm gefunden nach seinem tode, Vom MDLVIII bis ins LXIII. Jar sich erstrechende, in welchem sehr selzame und greuliche verenderung geweissaget werden. (Germany), no printer, 1558. 4to. Modern wrappers. (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  Maastricht  Prognostication  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming print series of birds and butterflies View picture(s) 235 FRISIUS, Simon Wynouts. Birds and butterflies. Series of 12 engraved plates. (Amsterdam), Frederick de Wit, ca. 1650-1660. Oblong 4to. Modern boards. 12 lvs. (255x178mm). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Butterflies  Emblem Books  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare sixteenth-century Italian writing master's book in an unrecorded issue of the second and best edition View picture(s) 236 GAGLIARDELLI, Salvadore. Soprascritte di lettere in forma cancelleresca, corsiva, appartenenti ad ogni grado di persona; date in luce in tal carattero per commune utilità degli studiosi della buona forma dello scrivere, per esercitarsi nelle accomodate abbreviature, ne'tratti diversi, nelle variate maiuscole, che in esso sono, cosi nello scritto. come ance nel modo del dire di esse soprascritte. ... Con l'aggiunta di questa seconda stampa, come à piè della tavola si dice. Florence, for the author, (1583). Oblong 4to. (203 x 255 mm). 19th-century three-quarter blue painted calf, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, marbled boards, marbled endpapers (Legatoria T. LAENGNER, Milano). Title in elaborate woodcut border (Type 2), f. 2r-12v: printed texts in decorated borders composed from little stamps, f. 13r-84: woodcut calligraphical texts (f. 13r-16v: one text to a page; f. 17r-84v: two numbered texts - 1-269 and 3 blank - to a page) within 3 types of elaborate woodcut borders: (1): decorated border on all the verso's; (2): elaborate border with putti in the top border, the one to the left holding a banner with the text "Il Gagliardello", the one to the right with the banner with "Scrittore in Fior."; two nude writing masters holding quills and writing utensils as caryatids left and right; (3) idem, with putti and two griffins in the top border holding the same banners and two nude 'writing mistresses' at either side. Types 2 and 3 alternating on the recto's. (84) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Calligraphy  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the main works of Galen in an authoritative early sixteenth translation into Latin: the textbook of physicians for over a millennium View picture(s) 237 GALEN(US), Claudius. De morborum et symptomatum differentiis et causis libri sex. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1550. (Colophon: Excudebat Philibertus Rolletius). 16mo. Contemporary full calf with two triple blind stamped filets, git central ornament and corner pieces on both sides, decorated gilt spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head-and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 296, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Medicine  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Galen with comments by the famous Spanish doctor Francesco de Valles View picture(s) 238 GALENUS (& Francesco VALLES). Ars medicinalis, commentariis Francisci Vallesii Cobarrubiani doctoris medici, & in Complutensi academia primarii medicae facultatis professoris illustrata. Compluti, Andreas de Angulo, 1567. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with ties; spine lettered in ink. Some nice woodcut initials. 228, (12) leaves, including the last two blanks. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Latin text printed in civilité View picture(s) 239 GALTHERUS, Philippus. Alexandreidos libri decem, nunc primum in Gallia Gallicisque characteribus editi. Lyon, Robertus Granjon, 1558. Small 8vo. 19th century dark-brown morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with fine arabesque central vignette on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CAPÉ). Large woodcut printer's device on title, and text entirely printed in Granjon's Civilité type. 84 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early edition of the highly important first collection of works by one of the precursors of the Reformation View picture(s) 240 GANSFORT, Wessel. Farrago rerum theologicarum uberrima ...  In hoc libello tractatus I. De benignissima dei providentia ... II. De causis misteriis, & effectibus dominicae incarnationis & passionis. III. De dignitate & potestaate ecclesiastica. De vera & recta obedientia. Et quantum obligent subditos mandata & statuta praelatorum. IIII. De sacramento, penitentiae, & quae sint claves ecclesiae, De potestate ligandi & solvendi. V. Quae sit vera communio sanctorum, De thesauro ecclesiae, de participatione & dispensatione huius thesauri, De fraternitatibus &c. VI. De purgatorio, quis & qualis sit ignis prugatorius. De statu & profectu animarum post hanc vitam &c. Wittenberg, (Melchior Lotter d. Jüngere, 1522). 4to. Nineteenth-century boards. Printed title in beautiful large woodcut border (177 x 120 mm). (8), 86 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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