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Only edition View picture(s) 361 PORPHYRIUS. Homericarum quaestio num liber. Eiusdem de Nympharum antro in Odyssea, opusculum. (In Greek). (Strasbourg), Wendelinus Rihelius, 1539. Small 8vo. Comtemporary vellum, ms. title on spine. 3 woodcut printer's devices. 74 , (2), (3 blank), (1), (56) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Work on the constitution of Athens by the famous Humanist Guillaume Postel View picture(s) 362 POSTEL, Guillaume. De magistratibus Atheniensium liber, Gulielmo Poyeto totius Galliae Cancellario dicatus, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, sed & Romanorum politiam, ac omnem veterum historiam, lectu utilissimus. Basel, Joannes Oporinus, 1543. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink. Some nice woodcut initials. 151, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Laconismus': The art of saying much in only a few witty and elegant words View picture(s) 363 PUTEANUS, Ericius. De laconismo syntagma. Adjuncti Thyrsi Philotesii, Stili & sermonis Aculei.- IDEM. Thyrsi Philotesii, sive Amor laconissans. Stili & sermonis Aculei. Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1609. 12mo. Modern half parchment; marbled paper over boards. Printer's device on the title-pages and nice woodcut initials. 118, (2)(Privilege); 78, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Philology  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The second Aldus edition of the Roman world's greatest work on rhetoric View picture(s) 364 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Institutionum Oratorium libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conversio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit. Venice 'In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri' (André d'Asola & sons), January 1521. 4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within double gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, (later) matching red morocco spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, g.e. Aldus' famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. (4), 230 lvs. (Collation *4, a-z, A-E8, F6). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare treatise on astronomy, prophecies and the 'anni climacterici', printed by Plantin View picture(s) 365 RANTZOVIUS (RANZOVIUS, RANTZAU), Henricus. Catalogus Imperatorum, Regum ac Principum qui astrologicam artem amarunt, ornarunt & exercuerunt. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 1580. Sm.8vo. Modern boards. With full-page table and woodcut circular horoscope with astronomical figures and annotations within a typographically printed text. 109, 3 (blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Denmark  Humanists  Plantin  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Augmented edition of Regiomontanus's work on plane and spherical trigonometry View picture(s) 366 REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes. De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque.- PEURBACH, G. Tractatus super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis.- SANTBECH, D. Problematum astronomicorum et geometricorum sectiones septem. Basle, Henrichus Petrus and Petrus Pernas, 1561. Folio. Contemporary blind stamped vellum over wooden boards, spine ribbed with later calf title label, both sides with floral rolled on borders around a lozenge shaped ornament in the centre, red painted edges. Many astronomic and geometric woodcut illustrations in text and the sinus tables by Johannes Regiomontanus on 36 pages. (8), 146, (38); (20), 294, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The good and bad qualities of animals and plants View picture(s) 367 REUSNER, NICOLAUS. Polyanthea, Sive Paradisus Poeticus: Omnibus Propemodum Arboribus, plantis, & stirpibus consitus: omnique; genere animantium tam terrestrium, quam aquatilium inhabitatus: & illustrium Poetarum rivulis, fonticulisque; irrigatus: ad horum vires cognoscendas studiosis, praesertim Medicinae, utilissimus. Basileae, per Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1578. 8vo. Nineteenth century calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt supralibros of J. Gomez de la Cortina on sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. (PETIT SUCCr. DE SIMIER). With printer's device on verso last leaf. 276, (32) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed View picture(s) 368 REYD, E. VAN. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583. Arnhem, Ian Iansz, 1626. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem. (16), 734, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  History  House of Orange  Low Countries  Portraits  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In the manner of Erasmus' Adagia View picture(s) 369 RHODIGINUS, Ludovicus Caelius (RICCHIERI, Lodovico). Sicuti antiquarum lectionum commentarios concinnarat olim Vindex Ceselius, ita nunc eosdem per incuriam interceptos reparavit Lodovico Caelius Rhodiginus, in corporis unam velut molem aggestis primum linguae utrisque floribus, mox advocato ad partes platone item, ac platonicis omnibus, necnon Aristotele, ac haereseos eiusdem viris aliis, sed et theologorum plerisque ac jureconsultorum, ut medicos taceam, et mathesin professos. Ex qua velut lectionis farragine explicantur linguae Latinae loca, qu adrigentis haud paucio rafere, vel aliis intacta, vel pensiculate parum excussa. Opto valeas, qui leges, livore posito [Greek text]. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Soceri (= Aldus Manutius & his son-in-law Andreas Torresano de Asula), February 1516. Folio. 18th-century vellum, boards covered with 18th-century decorative paper, gilt title on spine. Title printed in red with Aldine printer's device also in red, repeated in black on verso of last leaf. (80), 862 (6) pp.(Collation: AA-CC8, DD4, EE8, FF4, a-z8, &8, ?8, R8, aa-zz8, 2&8, 2?8, 2R8, A8, B10). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Anatomy  Art  Dance  Encyclopædic Works  Law  Music  Theology  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare 16th-century schoolbook by a pupil of Erasmus View picture(s) 370 RIVIUS, Johannes. De Rhetorica, libri II. De periodis, libellus I. De puerorum institutione, liber I. Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1548. Small 8vo. Rebound: overlapping vellum, using a 17th-century vellum leaf with text written in Dutch. Woodcut printer's device on title with the motto 'In sole posuit tabernaculum suum' (Vandeweghe & Op den Beek, Marques typographiques, p. 129 (fig), woodcut initial. (72) lvs. (Collation: a-i8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Education  Humanism  Louvain  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The feasts of Israel as parables of time and the age of the world View picture(s) 371 ROBERTSZ. LE CANU, Robert. (Motto:) Onder verbeteringe. (Title:) Korte inleydinge der feesten Israels, twelck rechte tijtkaarten zijn, waer in ghy sien meucht hoe veel groot jaaren die werelt ghestaan heeft, ende hoe veel groot jaren datse noch staan sal, ende in wat groot jaar datse vergaan sal. Maar van dien dach, ende van die ure en weet niemant, oock de engelen niet in den hemel, dan alleen den Vader seydt Christus, Matth. 24. Want in de wage heeft hy de werelt ghewegen ... Wie heeft te vooren ghedacht, hoe veel zants datter inde zee, hoeveel druppelen in den regen ... Ende ghy Daniel verbercht dese woorden ... (Amsterdam, Robert Robertsz. le Canu), 1593. 4to. Nineteenth-century marbled paper over boards, spine with red label, lettered in gold. With 7 folding engraved plates of time-circles with 4-7 small engravings of biblical scenes (ca. 260-290 x 250-280mm; one: 72 x 275 mm) and 8 woodcuts of time-circles in the text. The compartments of the circles are coloured by a contemporary hand. (48) lvs. (collation: A-M4; H2 and M4 being blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Hebraica  Judaica  Mennonites  Netherlands  Songbook, Religious  Songbooks, Hymnology & Psalmody  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Impressive model writing book by Hans Rogel (1532-1592) View picture(s) 372 ROGEL, HANS. Capital und Versal Buech, allerhanndt grosser und kleiner Alphabeth, zue den Hauptschriften und Büechern, dessgleichen in Canntzleyen unnd gemein, zuegebrauchen ganntz zierlich geordiniert. Augsburg, Johann Jacob Schönig, (1568). Oblong folio. Modern vellum. With richly calligraphic woodcut title, printed in white against black with the publisher's address in letter-press at the bottom, and 9 full-page woodcut calligraphic models, all beautifully printed in white against a pitchblack background. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Calligraphy  German  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important history of Austria (1273-1556) and the Habsburg dynasty by the librarian of Archduke Ferdinand II View picture(s) 373 ROO, Gerardus de. Annales rerum belli domique ab Austriacis Habspurgicae gentis principibus, à Rudolpho primo, usque ad Carolum V. gestarum: ex optimis quibusque cum typocusis tum manuscriptis authoribus, publicis item ac privatis rerum monumentis, summo studio conquisiti, & in libros XII. nunc demun in lucem edit. Innsbruck, Joannes Agricola, 1592. Folio. Eighteenth century calf (by Roger Payne), spine richly gilt in seven compartments and lettered in gold, both covers with two ornamental gilt borders; gilt inner  dentelles; front cover with gilt supra-libros of M. Wodhull in the centre; gilt edges; mabled endpapers. Title-page elegantly ruled in red, with a woodcut of the crowned Habsburg coat of arms; portrait of Count Ferdinand II in armour and with the chain of the order of the Golden Fleece, full-page genealogical tree of the Habsburg dynasty and 13 pages with 49 coats of arms of related families and lands governed by different members of the Habsburg family. All coat-of-arms, portrait, and tree nicely coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. 1 blank, (32), 477, (29), pp. last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Bindings  Colour Plate Books  Genealogy & Heraldry  Habsburg  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A work of learning and pastoral wisdom by a moderate inquisitor View picture(s) 374 ROSEMONDT, Godschalk. Confessionale sive libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime complectens, necessarius atque utilis, & cuilibet recte confiteri volenti, & ipsis sacerdotibus, qui aliorum confessiones audire habent. Editus a celeberrimo academie Lovaniensis. Denuo recognitus et castigatus. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, June 27 - (colophon:) July 8, 1519. 8vo. Re-cased in a 17th-century binding (overlapping vellum), title in ink on spine. Title in red & black with red woodcut rebus of the author's name: a rose followed by 'mondt' = Rosemondt; woodcut initials. 251 (5) ff. [Collation: (A)8 B-2K8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Catholicism  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition View picture(s) 375 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino. Eiusdem oratio contra M.T. Ciceronum. M.T. Ciceronis oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quator contra Lucium Catilinam. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catalinam orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii. (Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus (Torresanus) Socer, April 1509. 8vo. 18th-century vellum with title in ink on spine, red painted edges. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last page. (16), 279, (1) pp. (Collation: a-s8 t4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Politics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Plantin pocket edition of the works of Sallust with a Leiden imprint View picture(s) 376 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. Opera, quae extant, una cum fragmentis. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius I, 1591. 32mo. Contemporary green morocco with two gilt decorative borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, gilt edges. Woodcut printer's device on title. 302 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  History  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition of the only work by an Italian mathematician View picture(s) 377 SAMINIATI, Federico. Tabulae astronomicae: quibus facilè omnia capita, quae ad usum sphaerae primi mobilis praecipiuntur, confici possint. His quoque accesserunt, fundamentum, apodixis, causa ac demonstratio, nec non supputandi methodus absolutissima, quibus astronomiae studiosus, suo marte, per triangula plana & sphaerica omnes tabulas primi motus condere possit. Antwerp, Martinus Nutius, 1599. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, 3 folding engraved charts of a 'horologium astronomicum horizontale', a 'horologium horizontale', and a 'horologium murale', 209 pp. with astronomical schemes and a few diagrams in text; woodcut initials, head- and tail pieces. (16), 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Horology  Italy  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A source of fundamental importance for the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor View picture(s) 378 SANDOVAL, Prudencio. Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V. Max. fortissimo. Rey Catholico de España y de las Indias, Islas, y toierra firme del Mar Oceano. Al Catholico Rey Don Felipe III. Pamplona, Bartholome Paris, 1614. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary sprinkled calf, ribbed spine with red title-label, lettered in gold (missing from vol. 2). Printed in red and black, vignette with the Spanish Royal coat-of-arms on both titles, full-page engraved portrait of Charles V in vol 1, and full-page allegorical portrait of Charles V in vol. 2, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (28), 895, (30); (4), 898, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On logics, ethics and science, by the heretic Savonarola View picture(s) 379 SAVONAROLA, Hieronymus. (Johann JESSENIUS (Ed.)). Hieronymi Savonarolae Ferrariensis, ordinis praedicatorum, universae philosophiae epitome. Eiusdem de divisione, ordine atque usu omnium scientiarum, nec non de poetices ratione, opusculum quadripartitum. Omnia Iohan Iessenii a Iessen, philosophiae, medicinaeque doctoris& professoris, opera & studio emendatiora, auctioraque edita. Wittenberg, Simon Gronebergius, Andrea Hoffmann, 1596. Small 8vo. Later boards with paper title label pasted on spine. Woodcut portrait of Savonarola, woodcut diagrams. (16), 828, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Medicine  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early edition of the main work of Savonarola View picture(s) 380 SAVONAROLA, Jeronimo Triumphus crucis: De veritate fidei. Fra. Hieronymi de Ferraria. Prædicatoris. Venice (or Paris?), Lazarus de Soardis, 4 January 1504 8vo. Modern calf, ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold. The leather of the original binding - blind tooled with ornamented and floral rolls and fillets - preserved and pasted to the boards. 115 lvs. (A-O8, P4-1, without the last blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Italy  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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