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Second Aldine edition of the famous canon of classical texts on agriculture View picture(s) 41 CATO, Marcus Porcius [et al.]. Libri de re rustica. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later blind- and gold-tooled calf ('a l'antique'). With 2 woodcut Aldine devices and some woodcut geometrical figures in text. [54], 295, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Aldus Manutius  Gastronomy  Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Plantin editions of the works of the finest Roman poets of the first century BC View picture(s) 42 CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. [Opera] Catullus Tibullus Propertius. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1569. 2 works in one volume. 16mo. 17th- or 18th-century gold-tooled calf. With Plantin's printer's device on title. 173, [3, including last blank leaf] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Secrets of the goldsmith and sculptor; with an important passage on Michelangelo's sculptural techniques View picture(s) 43 CELLINI, Benvenuto. Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell' oreficeria. L'altro in materia dell'arte della scultura; dove si veggono infiniti segreti nel lavorar le figure di marmo, & nel gettarle di bronzo. Florence, Valente Panizzi, Marco Peri, 1568. 4to. 19th-century boards, with gilt orange morocco title label on spine. With the woodcut coat of arms of the Medici on the title-page, a woodcut printer's device at the end, 1 small and 36 large architectural historiated initials. [5], 61, [7] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art General  Crafts  Italy  Schoolbooks  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most complete treatise on carving of the Renaissance View picture(s) 44 CERVIO, Vincenzo. Il trinciante. Venice, Heirs of Francesco Tramezini, 1581. 4to. Modern calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and 3 large woodcut plates (1 folding). [4], 44 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Gastronomy  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A close friend of Montaigne on morality: into the breath for freedom of thought! View picture(s) 45 CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse, trois livres. Leiden, Jean Elzevier, ca. 1659. 12mo. 19th century green morocco, ribbed spine with title and imprint lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 1-264, 295-366, 377-621, (12), (3 lvs. blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Elzevier  France  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Spanish handbook on chronography View picture(s) 46 CHAVES, Jérôme de. Chronographia o repertorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, que hasta ahora ha salido a luz. Sevilla, Fernando Diaz, 1584. 4to. 19th century vellum, gilt spine with red morocco label lettered in gold (DOMINGO V. FOLCH, Valencia). Title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Hieronymo Chaves together with his .....: 'Virtus in infirmitate perficitur'. Printer's device of Fernando Diaz on the verso of the last leaf.  Some interesting woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Many printed tables of the positions of the moon and sun, calendars, moveble feasts etc., 2 full-page woodcuts of the movements of the stars and a medical (zodiac) man, 7 half-page woodcuts of celestial bodies (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) with their signs, 12 half-page woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac, 7 half-page round woodcuts of an emblem, the earth, 2 hemispheres and eclipses, and 43 small round woodcuts of positions of the moon. 163 lvs. [Collation: x8(8), A-X8(176), Y-Z4(184), AA8(192), BB-HH8 (201-156(=256)), II8-1(157-163(=257-263)), the last blank missing]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The basic Greek grammar of the great Humanists, written by the pioneer in spreading Greek literature in the West View picture(s) 47 CHRYSOLORAS, Manuel. Erotemata. (In Greek). Latin text on the title: Erotemata Chrysolorae. De anomalis verbis. De formatione temporum ex libro Chalcondylae: Quartus Gazae de constructione. De encleticis. Sententiae monostichi ex variis poetis. Cato. Venice, Victor Raban, 1540. Small 8vo. Later half calf, spine with black title-label, red marbled edges. Small woodcut printer's device of a crowned mermaid within cartouche on title and the same (larger) device on the recto of the last leaf underneath the colophon. 270, (2, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A printer from Kampen abroad View picture(s) 48 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Joannes. Comparatio regii potentatus & diuitiarum, ac praestantiae, ad monachum in uerissima Christi philosophia acquiescentem. Paris, apud Collegium Sorbonae (colophon: Gerardus Morrhius), 1530. 8vo. 19th century half calf. Printer's device (Renouard 818) on last page. (20) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In an interesting original Antwerp panel binding View picture(s) 49 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes. Van die beweechnisse des herten, tot berouwe der sonden. Met meer ander gulden tractaetkens des alder heylichsten joannis Chrysostomi: overgheset wt den Latine in duytsche, doer eenen religiosen der Regulier orden sancti Augustini. Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1546. 8vo. Very interesting contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding: full calf, panel with two portraits in roundels on both sides, interesting fastening of two bone buttons on small leather bands to be fastened on two loops. With title printed in red and black, some woodcut initials (8 lines). Collation: A-Q8, R4-1. (131) lvs. (including the mostly lacking quire (R) with the privilege, without last blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Devotion  Dutch  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mid-sixteenth century Aldus edition of Cicero's rhetorical works, includuing the Rhetoricorum ad Herrennium View picture(s) 50 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII. incerto autore. Ciceronis De Inventione libri. II. Topica ad Trebatium. Oratoriae partitiones. Corrigente Paulo Manutio. Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. Modern light brown morocco in antique style, gilt ribbed spine, both covers panelled with single gilt fillet border and gilt corner pieces, front cover with title lettered in gold, edges died blue. With Aldus' woodcut printer's device on title. 184 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First critical text-edition of this heroic poem View picture(s) 51 CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. De raptu Proserpine, ed. by Jacob Locher. [(in large textualis type:) Hoc in volumine infra scripta continentur. (in smaller roman type:) ¶ Epistola dedicatoria Philomusi Ad Reuerendum ac nobilem patrem dominum Georgium truchses Auhusensis monasterii: ad Varaniae fluminis ripam siti ... ¶ Catalogus Illustrium auditorum eiusdem Philomusi. ¶ Opus aureum Clau. Claudiani De raptu Proserpinae; cum quibusdam declaratoriis glossematibus ... que ex Servio, Paulo Marso, Parrhasio Philomusus transsumpsit ... Eiusdem Philomusi argumenta in singulos libros, cum epistola ad iuventutem exhortatoria. ¶ Elegia eiusdem, de origine et officio poetarum. Ad nobilem et studiosum iuvenem Eustachium von der Alben, cum Epistolio.] Nuremberg, Fridericus Peypus, 5 November 1518. 4to. 19th century gilt vellum, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank. (4), (40) lvs. Collation (A4), B-L4, including last blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Humanism  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare works on priesthood and education of priests in an interesting 16th century binding with the name of the first owner View picture(s) 52 CLICHTHOVE, Josse. De vita et moribus sacerdotum, opusculum: singularem eorum dignitatem ostendens, & quibus ornati esse debeant virtutibus: explanans. Paris, Ex officina Henrici Stephanus (Henri Estienne), 4 August 1519. 4to. Contemporary early 16th-century calf, ribbed spine, front cover blind tooled with triple rules, central panel with the name of the original owner: "D. Ioa(n)mes Lassere'', blind stamped in capitals, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces; back cover ruled in gilt with the motto ''Memento Mortis'' in gilt capitals. Printed title within elegant woodcut border with wreath, two scholars in upper corners on both sides of a coat-of-arms with three French lilies and a hand holding a book coming from heaven, and lace-strapwork in the lower corners; nice large and smal woodcut initials. 75, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Church History  Paris  Religion  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Contemporary criticism to Nostradamus prophecies View picture(s) 53 COUILLARD, Antoine. Les contredicts du Seigneur du Pavillon, lez Lorris, en Gastinois, aux faulses & abbusifves propheties de Nostradamus, & autres astrologues. Adiousté quelques oeuvres de Michel Marot, fils de feu Clément Marot, prince des poètes Francois. Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1560. Small 8vo. 19th century Jansenist style red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (JOLY). Woodcut printer's device on title. (6), 116, (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  France  Occult  Occult Sciences  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fundamental book for the history of sixteenth-century Reformation in England View picture(s) 54 CRANMER, Thomas. Defensio verae et Catholicae doctrinae de Sacramento corporis & sanguinis Christi servatoris nostri, & quorundam in hac causa errorum confutatio ... (Emden, Gellius Ctematius (=Egidius (Gillis) van der Erven)), 1557. 8vo. Later three-quarter calf, red painted edges. (16), 154, (1) lvs. Collation: A-X8, Y4-1; last blank missing). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Erasmus  Reformation  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Neo-latin school drama written by the rector of the Amsterdam gymnasium View picture(s) 55 CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum. Strasbourg, Jacobus Iucundus (Frölich), 1542. 8vo. 18th century sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers. With small printer's device (a swan) on title and half-page device on the recto of the last leaf of a swan playing the violin with a Latin poem for Jacobus Iucundus underneath; several interesting tail-pieces. 40 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Amsterdam  Neo-Latin  Netherlands  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16th-century woodcuts on food & drink View picture(s) 56 CURIO, Joannes (ed.). Conservandae Bonae Valetudinis Praecepta Longe Saluberrima, Regi Angliæ quondam à Doctoribus Scholæ Salernitanæ versibus conscripta. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1582. With title-page in red and black, 65 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a couple repeats), 1 woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a woodcut tailpiece. [8], 280, [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Gastronomy  Medicine  Oenology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rise and fall of the Greeks as a mirror for the Dutch Republic View picture(s) 57 DEMETRIUS, Andreas. Der Griecken Opganck ende Onderganck. Dordrecht, Isaac Janssz. Kaen, 1599. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, with gilt filet borders on sides, with gilt ornaments in the corners and large central gilt ornament. With fine engraved biblical device on title, and folding engraved map of Ancient Greece by Joan. Doetecum. (10), 288, (19) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A dialogue on painting between Pietro Aretino and John Francis Fabrini. View picture(s) 58 DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconuengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtù e delle opere del divin Titiano. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. 8vo. Vellum. Woodcut vignette on title. 60 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aesthetics  Art  Italy  Painting & Drawing  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on colour View picture(s) 59 DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo. Nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Gio. Battista & Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1565. Modern half vellum. Woodcut vignette on title, 2 woodcut initials in text 87, (1) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Humanists  Italy  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare schoolbook for studying Virgil View picture(s) 60 DONATUS, Aelius Tiberius [=Tiberius CLAUDIUS]. P. Virgiliu Maronis vita scripta ab Aelio Tiberio Donate ut Hermolaus Barbarus: et Janus Parrhasius: antiquis exemplaris titulus comprobant. Ad studiosos Virgilii latineque lingue Joannis Murmelij Ruremundensis distichon. Munster, Lorenz Borneman, [ca. 1510]. 4to. Disbound. With woodcut of the Deposition on the title-page. [6] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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