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Six lively dialogues by a Spanish humanist from Sevilla View picture(s) 321 MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c. Antwerp, Widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with gilt double line along the edges and gilt coat-of-arms in the centre and four corner pieces on both sides, spine with gilt stars in four compartments, g.e. With printer's device of Nutius (two storks) on the title. 165 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Literature  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exceedingly rare View picture(s) 322 MONTENAY, Georgette de. Emblemes ou Devises Chrestiennes. Lyon, Jean Marcorelle, 1571. 4to. Fullgrained orange morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides with the gilt armorial supralibros of Prince d'Essling in center, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CUZIN). With woodcut author's monogram device on title and 100 fine engraved large emblems by Pierre Woeiriot, with the captions incorporated in the emblems and 8-line verse printed  underneath, the cancel to emblem 18 in first state before the numbering and printed text on extra leaf bound with, all verso blank. (7, 1 blank), 100, (=101), (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Bindings  Emblem Books  Engravings  French  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early classics on perspective View picture(s) 323 MÜNSTER, Sebastian. Compositio Horologiorum, in Plano, Muro, Truncis, Anulo, con concavo, cylindro & varijs quadrantibus, cum signorum zodiaci & diversarum horarum inscriptionibus. Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1531. Small 4to Contemporary vellum. With large perspectival woodcut on title, publisher's woodcut device on verso of last blank, large folding woodcut plate with the Typus Universalis Horologiorum Muralium, and with 60 large woodcut figures and illustrations in text, several full-page. (8), 198, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geography  Geometry  Perspective  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In praise of solitude and the monasterical life View picture(s) 324 MUSIUS, Cornelius. Solitudo sive vita solitaria laudata. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1566. 4to. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. Title within large ornamental and architectural woodcut border. 64 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first adaptation in (Neo-Latin) verses of the funny pranks of Tyl Eulenspiegel or Till Owlglass View picture(s) 325 NEMIUS, Joannes (Jan GOVERTS from 's-Hertogenbosch). Ulularum speculum, alias Triumphus humanae stultitiae, vel Tylus Saxo, nunc primum Latinate donatus. (Utrecht, Herman van Borculo?), 1563. 8vo. Modern dark-blue half morocco, marbled boards. Woodcut vignette of an owl holding a mirror with the motto'Ut sapiens, fias, cum ululis ululare memento' (to become wise, consult the owls) on title. (38) lvs.(collation: A-D8, E6-2 (E7-8, both blank, lacking)). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Till Owlglass  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the finest and most charming writing books from the Renaissance View picture(s) 326 NEUDÖRFFER, Johann. Ein gute Ordnung vnd kurtze vnterricht der furnemsten grunde, aus denen die Jungen Zierlichs schreybens begirlich, mit besonderer kunst vnd behendigkeyt vnterricht vnd geübt möge werden. (Nuremberg, Johann Neudörffer, 1538). 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. Contemp. vellum. With 49 etched calligraphic model plates (of which 48 printed on transparent paper in reverse, 1 printed on regular paper in counterproof, 3 folding, 2 printed in red, 5 ruled in red, and 45 heightened with gold). (49) lvs., partly interleaved. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Calligraphy  Education  German  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Primary source for the history of Byzantium, the 12th century in particular View picture(s) 327 NICETAS CHONIATES (ACOMINATUS) & Francesco SANSOVINO ed. Della historia di Niceta Coniate delle cose dell'Imperio di Costantinopoli. Libri VII. Ne' quali si contengono I fatti de gl'Imperatori Greci, cominciando da Alessio Comneno doue lascia il Zonara, fin'all'anno MCCCCLVII nel qual fu presa quella Citta da Mahomet Secondo. Con le postille a suoi luoghi dinotanti le cose di maggiore importanza. Et con molte altre cose ulti & necassarie a lettori. Venice, Appresso Francesco Sansovino, 1562. 4to. Contemporary (?) boards with title in ms. on spine. Woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. (4), 111, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gorgeous copy of the extremely rare first and only edition of the German translation of one of the main works by Jan van der Noot View picture(s) 328 NOOT, Jan van der. Theatrum das ist, Schawplatz, darein die eitelheit der irrdischen unnd vergencklichen dingen und die ubertreffenlichste Gottliche und Himlische sach getzeigt und erkleret wird, nicht weniger lustig und lieblich, als nützlich und anweisslich, allen liebhabern des Göttlichen Worts, der Poeterey und Mälerey ... erstlich in Brabandisch beschrieben, jetz aber in Oberl;endisch teutsch ubergesatzt, durch Balthasarn Froe Rechenmeister zu Cöln. Cologne (?), Gottfried Cervicornus (Hirtzhorn) (?), 1572. 4to. Beautifully bound in nineteenth-century blue morocco, richly gilt with fillets, rolls and leafy branches on both sides, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e.; the binding is signed by LORTIC FRERES. All pages, including the title-page within an elaborate woodcut border: there are eight different designs with changing medallions in the lower border; one of the medallions with the coat-of-arms of Jan van der Noot with the motto 'Van der Noot een deucht'; three with other mottos of Van der Noot: 'Amor et prudentia', 'Labore et industria', and 'Tempora te tempori' (see: Poorteman & Waterschoot (eds.), Jan van der Noot, Verscheiden poetixe wercken (Keulen 1972), Het voorwerk (1990), p. 62), and one with a portrait of a poeta laureata. A large coat-of-arms of Jan van der Noot on the verso of the title (and on the recto of the last leaf, verso blank); woodcut portrait of Jan van der Noot when he was thirty years old with the poem: "So war bey seinen dreissig Jar/ Von der Noot mit Aug, Bart und Haar/ Aber sein kunst, tügt und wezen/ Kan man auss seim büchlein lesen", and 20 full-page emblematical woodcuts (ca. 92 x 75 mm) after the engravings by Marcus Gheeraerts for the London edition of 1568 of the Theatre. The last eight lvs. coloured yellow in outlines. (58) lvs. (A-O4, P2) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibliophily  Bindings  Emblem Books  Literary History  Literary History, Poetry  Low Countries  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First editions of the two most important books on twilight in one volume View picture(s) 329 NUNES, Pedro. Salaciensis, de crepusculis liber unus, nunc recens & natus et editus.- ALHAZEN (or AL-HAYTHAM, Ibn). De causis crepusculorum liber unus, à Gerardo Cremonensi iam olim Latinita te donatus, nunc vero omnium primum in lucem editus. Olyssipone (=Lisbon), Ludovicus Rodericus, January 1542. 4to. Modern marbled boards. Woodcut allegorical and architectural title with putti and mythological women holding drapes hanging from an arch and the Royal Portuguese a coat of arms at the bottom, 40 woodcut figures in text, of which several half-page, a large full-page emblematical woodcut printer's device of Rodericus (a dragon with the motto 'Salus vitae' on a banderole), and many beautiful woodcut initials. (73, 1 (blank)) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Optics  Portugal  Science  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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A highly controversial work on the papacy View picture(s) 330 OCHINO, Bernardino. Des hochgelehrten und Gottsaeligen mans Bernhardini Ochini von Senis fünff Bücher siner Apologen...Durch Christoff Wirsung verdeütcht. (Augsburg), 1559. 4 (of 5) parts in 1 vol. 4to. Early 17th-century flexible blindstamped vellum with initials I.S.I and the date 1611 in ink on front cover, traces of ties. With 4 title-pages. (8), 87 (1 blank); (85, 3 blank); (78, 2 blank); (86) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  German  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very early post-incunable with satirical verses on the lascivious clergy View picture(s) 331 OLEARIUS, Paul (= WIMPFELING, Jac.?) & Jacob HARTLIEB. De fide concubinarum in sacerdotes. Questio accessoria causa ioci et urbanitatis in quod libeto Heidelbergensis determinata a magistro Paulo Oleario Heidelbergensis.- De fide meretricum in suos amatores. Questio minus principalis urbanitatis et facetie causa in fine quodlibeti Heidelbergensis determinata a magistro Jacobo Hartlieb Landoniensis. Augsburg, Johannes Froschauer, 1505. 2 parts in one. Small 4to. Later marbled boards. Two titles, each with an identical large woodcut. (24) lvs. (collation: a6, b4 ; c6, d-e4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Erotica  German  Poetry  Post Incunabula  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare and important humanist studies on ancient Dutch and German history View picture(s) 332 ORTELIUS, Abraham & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. Sm.8vo. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 folding engraved plates, and 3 large engravings and some woodcut inscriptions in text. 76, (3, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Archaeology  Dutch  France  Geography  History  Mercator  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Flanders, printed by Plantin View picture(s) 333 OUDEGHERST, Pierre d'. Les chroniques et annales de Flandres: contenantes les heroicques et tresvictorieux exploicts des forestiers, & comtes de Flandres, & les singularités & choses memorables advenuës audict flandres, depuis l'an de nostre seigneur Iesus Christi VIc. & XX (=620) jusques a l'an 1476. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1571. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title. (20), 340 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound for the Dutch statesman Johannes Mepschius, later in Jan Six's library View picture(s) 334 OVID. Ars Amatoria.- Metamorphoseon libri XV.- Fastorum Lib. VI. Tristium Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1547. 3 vols. 16mo. Contemporary Lyonese red morocco bindings in Italian style, spines richly gilt in compartments, with 3 raised bands, sides with double lined gilt border and central panel: quadrilobe cartouche, with four small gilt flower tools, on the front covers with the abbreviated titles and on the rear covers with the name of the original owner Joannes Mepschius in gilt lettering, gilt and gauffered edges. Printer's device on the three titles; many woodcut initials in text. 421; 453; 431 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Rembrandt  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedicated to two young boys as a paradigm of the lessons of life View picture(s) 335 OVID. Metamorphoses, Argumentis Brevioribus ex Luctatio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum vivis singularum Transformationum iconibus in aes incisis. Antwerp, Ex off. Plantiniana, Widow and Jan Moretus, (1591). Oblong 16mo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red painted edges. With richly illustrated etched title, full-page etched portrait of Ovid within grotesque ornamental borders, full-page etched printer's device at the end, and 178 full-page fine etched plates by Pieter van der Borcht. 362, (20, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hebrew dictionary for Dutch ministers View picture(s) 336 PAGNINUS, Saint. Epitome thesauri linguae sanctae, auctore Sancte Pagnino Lucensi. Fr. Raphelengius compluribus locis auxit, emendavit, & Appendicum dictionum Chalddaicarum addidit, Acc. hae editione Index dictionum Latinarum, sive Lexico Latino-Hebraicum. Leyden, Ex Off. Plantiniana, Chr. Raphelengius, 1599. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (80), 495, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Greek & Latin  Hebraica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The last of the three major Italian copy-books of the 16th-century in its first edition ! View picture(s) 337 PALATINO, Giovanni Battista. Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere antiche et moderne di tutte nationi, con nuove regole misure et essempi. Con un breve & utile trattato de le cisere. Rome, Baldassare di Francesco Carolari Perugino for M. Benedetto Gionta (colophon), 11 August 1540. 4to. Contemporary vellum over boards. With large oval woodcut portrait of Palatino on the title, large oval woodcut device of a moth and lighted candle with the motto 'Et so ben ch'io vo dietro a quel che m'arde' on verso of last leaf, 70 full-page woodcuts with different scripts, rebuses and writing instruments, and 31 text pages, all framed within two black lines. (52) lvs. (collation: A-N4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Calligraphy  Italy  Modelbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Shroud of Turin printed in colours: a 16th-century best-seller View picture(s) 338 PALEOTTI, Alfonso. Esplicatione del lenzuolo ove fu involto il Signore, & delle piaghe in esso impresse col suo pretioso sangue confrontate con la Scrittura profeti e padri. Con la notitia di molte piaghe occulte, & numero de chiodi. Et con pie meditationi de' dolori della Vergine. Bologna, Heirs of Giovanni Rossi, 1598. 4to. (in quires of 8 lvs). Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink on spine; remains of ties. Engraved title, full-page engraving and a folding plate (102 x 390 mm) printed in two colours (reddish brown and yellow-ochre) with printed letters (A-O)referring to the text; heading: "Torcular calcavi solus. Isai. LXIII"; several ornamental woodcut initials. (32, last 2 blank), 146, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Colour Printing  Devotion  Italy  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Roman Baths as measured and represented by Palladio: a major contribution to European classicism View picture(s) 339 PALLADIO, Andrea, Ottavio BERTOTTI SCAMOZZI & Richard BOYLE, Earl of BURLINGTON. Le terme dei Romani disegnate da Andrea Palladio e ripubblicate con la giunta di alcune osservazioni da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi giusta l'esemplare del Lord Conte di Burlinthon impresso in Londra l'anno 1732. Vicenza, Giovanni Rossi, 1797. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt ornamental border between two blind fillets along the edges of both sides, gilt spine with yellow gilt title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 17 folding and 8 full-page engraved plates by Antonio Mugnoni. 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  18th Century  Architecture  Classical Antiquity  England  Italy  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition by an unknown printer in Rees of a very rare pedagogical work View picture(s) 340 PALUDANUS, Gerardus. Nova tabula Paludana: claves artium liberalium, ac ipsius eruditionis, rei literariae studiosis perquam utiles & necessariae: quippe quarum adminiculo vel usu facilis ad earum cognitionem atque scientiam aditus patet, & sine quibus illuc nunquam pervenitur. Rees, in Cleve, Petrus Stommel Coloniensis, 1583. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Title within typographical woodcut borders; large woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Rees on verso of the last leaf; large woodcut coat-of-arms of the Duchy of Cleve and of the city of Rees in the preliminaries, both coloured by hand, woodcut portrait of Christ within typographical borders preceeding the 'Claves', woodcut of the Trinity at the end of the 'Claves', and 4 woodcut devices on the author's name or monogram in the epilogue. (33) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  German  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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