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Classic on sovereignty by the founder of political science in France, if not in Europe View picture(s) 21 BODIN, Jean. Les six livres de la république. Ensemble une apologie de René Herpin. Paris, Jacques du Puys, 1583. 8vo. Half nineteenth-century black painted calf, ribbed spine lettered in gold, marbled boards and endpapers. With woodcut printer's device on title (Silvestre 1098), woodcut head-pieces and initials in text. (24), 1060, (44) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  France  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The book on which Montesquieu based his system of climates, influencing the particular type of government and society View picture(s) 22 BODIN, Jean. Methodus ad facilem Historiarum cognitionem: Accurate denuo recusus. Subiecto rerum Indice. (Heidelberg), Jean Marechal, 1583. Sm.8vo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, red mottled edges. (16), 396, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  History & Historiography  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare third edition of the first translation into Italian, with the coat of arms of the Gaetani family on both covers View picture(s) 23 BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella. Don Anselmo Tanzo al pio lettore. Varie en le voglie, i stati & il valore ... (sonnet by A. Tanzo). Colophon: Venice, Marchio Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. 17th-century full green morocco, gilt title on spine, double gilt filets along edges and gilt central crowned coat-of-arms incorporating the arms of the GAETANI (or CAETANI) family on both sides, interesting paper pastedowns with stamped and coloured floral decoration, red painted edges. Title and fol. B1r within woodcut typographical border, some woodcut initials of which one historiated. (8), 104 lvs. [Collation: A-O8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare post-incunable from Cologne: a devotional text on the Holy Virgin View picture(s) 24 BONAVENTURA. Septem Psalmi illibate christipare virginis Marie pulcerrimi ac devotissimi. Cum letania dulcissima. Ex psalterio seraphici doc. Bonaventure. (Cologne, Carthusians of St. Barbara ?, ca. 1516). Small 4to. Later marbled wrappers. With large woodcut (77 x 58 mm) on title, showing Mary with Child on a crescent moon held by angels; not rubricated. (8) lvs. Collation: A-B4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Devotion  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Neo-Latin love poems View picture(s) 25 BONEFONIUS, Iohannes. Pancharis.- (Gillis DURAND). Imitations du Latin de Iean Bonnefons: avec autres gayetez amoureuses, de l'invention de l'autheur. Lyon, Thomas Soubron, 1593. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Old calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides, g.e. Large woodcut printer's device on title of the first part and smaller variant device on title of the second part. 68; 153, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Erotica  Neo-Latin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch verses to a famous Biblical woodcut series by Bernard Salomon View picture(s) 26 BORLUYT, Guillaume. Ghesneden figueren uuyten ouden testamente naer tlevene met huerlier bedietsele. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt dentelles around double inside fillet borders with ornamental fleurons at the corners on covers, gilt binding edges, blue marbled edges. Title within ornamental woodcut borders, woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces, woodcut printer's device with banderolle "Son Art en Dieu" at end of the first part and 231 fine woodcuts by Bernard Salomon with title above and 4-line verse underneath. 119 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Illustrated Books  Popular Books  Print Series  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Lyon & Paris ed. of François Xavier in Far East, including Japan View picture(s) 27 BOUHOURS, Dominique. Vie de S. François Xavier apotre des Indes et du Japon. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de quelques opuscules de piété, par l'Abbé F.X. de F. Lyon, Paris, Perisse Frères, 1836. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt spine and red title-label lettered in gold, blue marbled endpapers. First volume with engraved portrait of Xavier as frontispiece. [4], 246; [4], 262 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The conquest of Mexico and Latin America illustrated on 42 large plates and portraits View picture(s) 28 BOUTTATS, Gaspar & Pieter Baltasar. Collection of 42 engravings of portraits and historical  scenes (one repeated), relating to the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of Mexico and Latin America in the sixteenth century. (Brussels & Antwerp, ca. 1675-1700.). Folio. Contemporary vellum. 43 (one of which double) engravings of ca. 220 x 180 mm of portraits and historical scenes, partly signed by Gaspar (Caspar) and Pieter Baltasar Bouttats. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [South]  America, North  Cartography  Mexico  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor View picture(s) 29 BRADWARDINE, Thomas. Geometria speculativa, omnes conclusiones geometricas  studentibus artium & philosophie aristotelis valde  necessarias simul cum quodam tractatus de quadratura  circuli noviter edito. Paris, Gaillard, for Jehan Petit, 1511. Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in the style of the early 16th-century, uncut. With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages. (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare and important devotional post-incunable: the first French edition of the lavishly illustrated 'Life of Christ' by a Carthusian monk from Antwerp View picture(s) 30 BRANTEGHEM, Guilielmus de. La vie de nostre Seigneur Jesu Christ par figures, selon le texte des quattre evangelistes, avec toutes les evangiles epistres & propheties de toute lannee, chantee en loffice de la Messe, avec aucunes oraisons. Antwerp, Adriaan Kempe de Bouchot & Matthieu Crom, 1539. 8vo. Modern violet morocco, spine ribbed and lettered in gold, gilt lines on binding edges and inside covers, marbled endpapers, g.e. Full-page woodcut title: Moses with the Tables of the Law and the Descent of the Holy Ghost (115x78mm) with title and mention of the privilege in letterpress and a woodcut tail piece underneath; full-page  woodcut border with the instruments of the passion and the flagellation for the beginning of "La Passion" on p. 255; 2 full-page woodcuts: (1) the Lineage of Christ, according to Matt. 1:1-16 (111x76mm.) and (2) the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:1-13 (113x75mm); 185 half-page woodcuts (ca. 50x70mm.): 153 in the Life of Christ, 30 in the Passion and 2 in the Table; a few blocks used twice). The woodcuts are designed, and perhaps also cut (?), by Lieven de Witte; numerous tail-pieces and 28 small vignettes representing the tetragramme and biblical quotations (Veldman & Van Schaik (1989), figs. v and 187-208), used repeatedly for filing the blank spaces (sometimes more than one tail-piece - on p. (16) even 7 - on top of each other), and many charming woodcut initials. (16), 1-128, 119-294, (176) pp.- Collation: +8, A-Z8, a-g8 (248 lvs.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Devotion  Illustrated Books  Low Countries  Post Incunabula  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three interesting sermons by one of the leading protestant theologians of the 16th century View picture(s) 31 BRENTIUS (BRENZ), Johan. Wie man sich Christlich zu dem sterben bereyten sol. Das man Got rechtschaffen dienen sol. Wie das ubel nachreden für eyn schwere sunde zu achten sey, auff drey Sermon gestellet. Nürnberg, Künigund Hergotin 1533. 8vo. Later vellum. (40) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  Luther  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Comprehensive compilation of Roman legal terminology by a famous French jurist and philologist View picture(s) 32 BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII: Omnibus politioris litteraturae, cumprimis iurisprudentiae studiosis utiles & necessarii, In quibus varii bonorum auctorum loci emendantur, supplentur, notantur, illustrantur. Opus magno labore ab auctore congestum; nunc vero diligenter recognitum & a prioribus mendis purgatum. Adiecti sunt Rerum & verborum indices locupletissimi. Frankfurt a/Main, Ioannes Wechel & Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed & gilt, blue edges. Title in red & black, woodcut head- & tail pieces & initials. (8), 750 (= 760), (84) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Linguistics  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pioneering study of Roman coinage: the best book on the subject written up to that time View picture(s) 33 BUDÉ, Guillaume. Libri V de asse, & partibus eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idque authore Io. Grolierio Lugdunensi Christianissimi Gallorum regis secretario, et Gallicarum copiarum quaestore, cui etiam ob nostram in eum ob servantiam à nobis illi dicantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Asulani Sorceri, September 1522. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink on spine, parts of ties preserved. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. [12], 262 [=260], [2] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Numismatics  Typography  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works of a 16th century Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire View picture(s) 34 BUSBECQIUS, Ogier Ghiselin de. Omnia quae extant. Leyden, Ex Off. Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt filet borders on sides and gilt coat-of-arms with the order of the Golden Fleece in centre, g.e. With engraved allegorical title by C.C. Dusend. 575, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Cartography  Elzevier  Hungary  Politics  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Calvin's commentary on the Letters of Paul in Dutch, in a magnificent contemporary binding View picture(s) 35 CALVIN, Johannes. UUtlegghinghe op alle de Sendbrieven Pauli des apostels: ende oock op den Sendbrief tot den Hebreen. Met een schoon register. Embden, Gellius vander Erven & Wilwm Gaillart, 1566. Folio. Contemporary panelled calf with four different rolls over wooden bevelled boards, brass decorated corner and centre pieces, bars along the spine (rebacked), and catches (clasps missing). The rolls include a decorative roll, a roll with the portraits of two emperors (?), a roll with the half-length portraits of four saints with the motto's "Ecce Agn," "Data est," "Tu es Pe," and "Apparui," and a roll with nude putti. With woodcut printer's device and woodcut initials. [6], 464 [=462], [16] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dutch  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The copy owned by Arnoldus Buchelius View picture(s) 36 CANTERUS, Theodorus (Dirk CANTER). Variarum lectionum libri duo.Ad clarissimum virum Georgium Rattallerum Senatus Regii Ultraiectini praesidem dignissimum. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 1574. 8vo. Nineteenth-century black morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides and large gilt coat-of-arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina in centre, gilt inner dentelles, marbled end-papers. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 2 circular woodcuts by Antoon van Leest in text (diam. 36 mm., p. 126), depicting both sides of a Roman coin with the portrait of the double-headed Janus; reverse: ship-bows and the inscriptions 'Roma' and 'Viri'. 141 (= 135) , (1 blank) pp. (Collation: A-H8, I4, with erroneous pagination in the last quire: 129, 132, 133, 136, 137, 140, 141). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The nature of men derived from the characters of famous historical persons View picture(s) 37 CAPELLA, Galeazzo. L'anthropologia. Venice, heirs of d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea d'Asola, 1533. 8vo. 19th-century vellum, with red and green morroco title labels on spine. With woodcut printer's device of Aldus on title, and on verso of last blank. 74, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anthropology  Education  Greek & Latin  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the papal Councils by the archbishop of Toledo View picture(s) 38 CARRANZA [DE MIRANDA], F. Bartholomæo. Summa omnium conciliorum, a Sancto Petro usque ad Iulium quartum (corrected in ink as "tertium") Pontificem, omnibus facræ scripturæ studiosis utilissima. Antwerp, Ioan. Steelsij, 1556. Sm.8vo. Modern half leather with green marbled boards. (8), 420 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Catholicism  Church History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most influential works of mythological commentary of the 16th and 17th centuries View picture(s) 39 CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab dntiquis colebantur: In quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: Olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio  domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo Indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur. Lyons, Guichardus Iullieron for Stephanus Michaelis (Etienne Michel), 1581. 4to. Modern vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink. With woodcut publisher's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier within richly ornamented architectural Renaissance border, small woodcut illustration and 89 large beautiful woodcuts (130 x 95 mm) of mythological classical Gods and Heroes in text. (8), 359, (57) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Mythology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the freedom of conscience: against Calvin View picture(s) 40 CASTELLIO(N), Sebastianus. Corte ende duydelijcke Wederlegghinghe, van 'tghene door Mr. Johan Calvijn, tot beweringe van de macht der overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert. [Haarlem, Pieter Arentsz], 1613. 4to. 19th-century calf. With woodcut vignette on title. 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Humanism  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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