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Six essays on painting and sculpture View picture(s) 61 DONI, Anton Francesco. Disegno partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest'arti: & si termina la no bilta dell'una et dell'altra professione, con historie, essempi, et sentenze.& nel fine alcune lettere che trattano della medesima materia. Venice, Gabriel Giolitodi Ferrari, 1549. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum red morocco and green morocco title-labels on spine. Large woodcut printer's device on title and other woodcut printer's device on verso last leaf, many woodcut initials. 64 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art  Italy  Painting & Drawing  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Humanizing the abstract View picture(s) 62 DONI, Anton Francesco. Pitture. Nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione: amore, fortuna, tempo, castità, religione, sdegno, riforma, morte, sonno & sogno, huomo, republica, & magnanimità; divise in due trattati. Padua, Perchacino, 1564. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, title in ink on spine. Many beautiful and very clear woodcut initials. 64 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art  Drawing & Painting  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch 'Iliad' View picture(s) 63 DOUSA, Janus. Annales rerum a priscis Hollandiae Comitibus per CCC. XLVI. annos gestarum continuatâ serie memoriam complectentes. Nunc primitus in unum metricae historiae corpus redacti, atque in X. libros tributi ac dispartiti. Ad illustres, nobiles, praepotentes, ac vere magnificos Hollandiae Westfrisiaeque ordines. The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz., 1599. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials. (35, 1 blank), 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Netherlands  Nobility  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Against Anabaptism: original edition of a apologitic work by one of the most prolific Dutch writers of the Counter Reformation View picture(s) 64 DUNCAN, Martin. Anabaptisticae haereseos confutatio, et vere Christiani baptismi, ac potissimum paedobaptismatis assertio in duos libros divisa, quorum prior veram Christiani baptismi energiam declarat, posterior paedobaptismatis Christianam institutionem ex sacris literis demonstrat, contra Mennonis Simonis Frisii anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias. Second part with separate title: Liber posterior de paedobaptismate seu parvulorum baptismo, contra Menonis Simonis Frisii anabaptisticae pravitatis summi antistitis verulentas blasphemias. Antwerp, Johannes Gravius, 1549. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Original boards covered with marbled paper. With printer's device on the title of the second part, many interesting woodcut initials. (16, including last blank), 227 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Mennonites  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Friesland View picture(s) 65 EMMIUS, Ubbo. Rerum Frisicarum historiae. Libri X (= Decas prima) & Decas altera. Franeker, Aegidius Radeus, 1596 & 1598. 2 vols. (vol. 1: books 1-10; vol. 2: books 11-20). 8vo. 19th-century half mottled calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold on green morocco label, marbled boards. Woodcut ornament on titles, woodcut genealogical tables in vol. 2, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials (some historiated). (16), 416; (47, 1 blank), 400 (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Franeker  Friesland  History  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erasmus on the Latin language: two basic texts in a very attractive contemporary binding View picture(s) 66 ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commenratii duo. Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521. 8vo. Contemporary full blind tooled calf with ornamental rolls with four different 'heads-in-medaillions' within fillet frames on both covers; the centre of both, the front and back cover tooled with different separate stamps with floral motives. Titles in ink written on the spine (upside down in the third and fourth compartment); later paper label with written title pasted to the second compartment; holes for the ties; title also written on fore-edge. Title printed in woodcut border with Schoeffer's printer's device in the lower part; six beautiful woodcut initials (7-11 lines). (16), 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Education  Erasmus  Humanism  Humanists  Philology  Philosophy  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two important works by Erasmus in a magnificent and interesting Flemish panel binding, probably by the binder Jan Tys at Malines View picture(s) 67 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni. Basel, Joannes Froben, September 1523. 8vo. Beautifully bound in contemporary full calf, ribbed spine with paper title label lettered in ink ('Spongi Erasmi'), sides with blind ruling around a magnificent centre piece, a triple panel of 94 x 60mm., consisting of two similar but not identical compartments with two rows of four animals and birds in winding vines. Both compartments are surrounded by a legend: the lower section reads: "De profundis / clamavi ad te domine / domine / exaudi vocem meam", the upper section has "Omnia si persa / famam servare memento / qua semel / amissa nula revisio erit". The two panels are separated by a frieze of four square compartments with three dogs and a porcupine; fore edge lettered in ink: 'Spongia Erasmi'. With Froben's printer's devise on title. (59 out of 60) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Erasmus  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Considered the best history of the famous Martyrs of Gorcum View picture(s) 68 ESTIUS, Gulielmus (Willem Hessels van EST). Waerachtighe historie Van de martelaers van Gorcum, meesten-deel al Minder-broeders, die veur het Catholijck gheloove van de ketters ghedoodt zijn inden jaere onses Heeren, 1572. Eerst beschreven in 't Latijn. Ende nu in onse Duytsche taele over-gheset deur Willem Spoel-bergh. Antwerpen, Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije, Jan Moerentorf, 1604 (colophon: 1605). 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut device of Plantin on title, and another on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut initials. 401, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Catholicism  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original work on forgery View picture(s) 69 EUDEL, Paul. Trucs et Truqueurs. Altérations, Fraudes et Contrefaçons dévoilées. Paris, Librairie Molière, (1907). Half cloth, original Art Nouveau wrappers bound in. 580, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps, assuring the history of Greek drama: Thomas More made his hero Raphael to give a copy to the Utopians! View picture(s) 70 EURIPIDES. [Greek text] Tragoediae septendecim [=18], ex quibus quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache Supplices Iphigenia in Aulide Iphigeniae in Tauris Rhesus Troades Bacchae Cyclops Heraclide Helena Ion. Venice, Aldus Manutius, February 1503. 2 volumes. 8vo. Limp vellum: leaves from a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript with a large decorated initial painted in blue, red and gold with white pen flourishes on the front cover of the first volume, blue painted edges. With the famous printer's device of Aldus on the last leaf of both volumes, printed throughout in Aldus' beautiful Greek characters. [268]; [190] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Printing [Greek]  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine edition of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica in the first French translation in a beautiful contemporary binding View picture(s) 71 EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. L'histoire ecclesiastique translatee de latin en francoys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis archevesque de Thusrin. Antwerp, Martin l'Empereur (Martin Keyser), 17 April 1533. 8vo. Contemporary calf acorn panels, surrounded by an elaborate blind-tooled border on both sides. Printed in De Keyser's Small Pica Bastarda. Title-page in woodcut border, numerous woodcut initials. [12], 160, 157-293 ll. 295-299 [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Church History  French  History  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) 72 FARRENC, Aristide. 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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Collection of three rare editions of humanist works View picture(s) 73 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) 74 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] ll. 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) 75 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) 76 FINE, Oronce. Liber de geometria practica. Strasbourg, printed by Georg Messerschmidt for Johann Knobloch, 1544. With folding woodcut plate and 97 geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text.  [4], 133, [1] 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) 77 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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Rare influential handbook for the conversion of Mexican Indians View picture(s) 78 FOUCHER, Jean. Itinerarium Catholicum proficiscentium, ad infideles couertendos. Fratre Ioãne Focher minorita autore. Nuper summa cura & diligentia auctum, expurgatum, limatum ac praelo mandatum, per fratrem Didacum Valadesium, eiusdem instituti, ac provintiae sancti evangelii in nova Hyspania, professorem. Ad reverendissimum patrem, F. Franciscum Guzmanum, omnium Indiarum maris Occeani commissarium generalem. Hispali (Sevilla), Alfonsus Scribanus (A. Escrivano), 1574. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title written in ink on spine. With beautiful woodcut initials, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion with the inscription 'Christo confixus sum cruci, vivo ego iam non ego, vivit vero in me Christus. Ad. Gal. 2', woodcut printer's device on last page, text of ll. 94-99 in red and black. [8], 99, [9] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Mexico  Religion  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) 79 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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Predicting horrible events in Germany View picture(s) 80 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 publ. 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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