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Two famous tracts by two of the most interesting scholars of the Middle Ages View picture(s) 121 LULLIUS, Raimundus. De secretis naturae, sive quinta essentia libri duo. Hic accesserunt Alberti Magni De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque. Quae omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturae studiosis recens publicata sunt per Gualtherum H. Ryff. Venice, Petrus Schoeffer, 1542. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With 8 woodcuts in the first part, showing an oven and various vessels. 324, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Alchemy  Occult  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Aldine edition of three astronomical treatises View picture(s) 122 MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius and CENSORINUS. In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natalia, additis ex vetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Torressano, April 1528. 8vo. 19th-century blind-ruled brown calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, some astronomical woodcuts and a world-map in text. [6], [2 blank], 322, [1 blank], [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two of the leading textbooks of letter writing in the 16th century, published together View picture(s) 123 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Methodus de conscribendis epistolis, ... secundum veram artis rationem tradita. Eiusdem. Epitome praeceptionum de paranda copia verborum & rerum, per quaestiones: item de novem speciebus argumentationum rhetoricarum, rem omnem breviter explicans. Accessit Christophori Hegendorphini Epistolas conscribendi methodus. Cologne, Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1570. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink; rests of ties. With the printer's device on the title and three nice woodcut initials. (2), 1-70, 70-108, 106, 109-123 leaves, without the last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Neo-Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Portuguese in Brazil & Asia, with a folding world map View picture(s) 124 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Cologne, [successors to Arnold?] Birckman, Arnold Mylius, 1593. Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with a triple border of rolls (1 initialled EW A[ugsburg]) around central panel stamps with allegorical figures (Patience and the 3 theological virtues on the front; the 4 cardinal virtues on the back), with seventeenth-century(?) gold tooling added, including a centrepiece with Saint Urban and the St. Urban coat of arms on the front board, and the boards coloured brown. With a large folding engraved map of the world (26 x 48.5 cm), woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 2 part-titles, a woodcut tailpiece, and about 30 woodcut initial letters (plus about 100 repeats) from 10 series (13-48 mm, the main series 39 mm), and bands of arabesque fleurons. [4], 541, [1], [2 blank], [36] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [South]  Brazil  China  Colonial History  East Indies  India  Jesuits  Mission  Persia  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First attempt for a history of the mission in Japan View picture(s) 125 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum volumen, continens historiam iucundam lectu omnibus Christianis, praesertim ijs, quibus vera Religio est cordi. In qua videre possunt, quomodo nunquam Deus Ecclesiam suam deserat, & in locum deficientium a vera fide, innumeros alios in abditissimis etiam regionibus substituat. Cologne, Gervinus Calenius, & haeredes Iohannis Quentel, 1574. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum over thin boards, title in ink on spine. With several charming woodcut initials; many woodcut Japanese characters on pp. 451-7. (16), 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Japan  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The abridged version of Olaus Magnus' history of the Northern People, probably printed by Plantin View picture(s) 126 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus. A Cornelio Scribonio Graphaeo ... sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Joann. Bellerus (= Christopher Plantin?), 1562. Small 8vo. Later vellum with title in ink on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 138 fine woodcut illustrations in text. (8), 192 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of an early Plantin edition of a valuable work on Scandinavian customs and folklore View picture(s) 127 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1558. 8vo. Early 17th-century gold-tooled calf. With woodcut printer's device and 135 fine woodcut illustrations by Arnaud Nicolai in text. [8], 192 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Plantin  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice copy of the first Aldine edition View picture(s) 128 MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. [Epigrammata]. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius the Elder, December 1501). 8vo. 17th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. [191], [1 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 16th-century narrative of a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope View picture(s) 129 MARTINEZ, Pierre. Raguaglio d'un notabilissimo naufragio, cavato da una lettera del P. Pietro Martinez, scritta da Goa. Al Molto Rever. P. Generale della Compania di giesu, Alli 9. di Decembre M.D. LXXVI. Venice, Giolito, 1588. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 62 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  East Indies  Jesuits  Shipwrecks  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Official condemnation of the dishonorable traitors that surrendered Geertruidenberg to the Spaniards View picture(s) 130 MAURITS, Prince of Orange-Nassau. Placcaet Vande Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, Waerby der eerlose, eervergheten, schelmen, rebellen ende verraders, Gouverneur, Capiteynen, Bevelhebberen, Officieren, Ruyteren ende Soldaten, inde stede van Geertruydenberghe gheleghen hebbende, schandelicken ende verradelicken handel, int vercoopen ende overleveren der voorz. stede van Geertruydenberghe aenden Hertoch van Parma, verhaelt, hare verdiende straffe ghedecreteert, ende een yeghelijck vermaent wordt. Delft, Aelbrecht Hendricxz., 1589. 4to. Modern boards. (14) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Christ. Vurstisius's edition of two classical Latin geographers View picture(s) 131 MELA, Pomponius & Gaius Julius SOLINUS. Pomponii Melae de orbis situ, libri III. et C. Iulii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum Orbis terreni partium atque regionum: Hic vero praeter eadem, quae ubique memorabilia sint loca, animantia, plantae, gemmae, & similia, compendiose enarrat. Basel, Henric Petri, 1576. 2 works in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum over boards with title in contemporary hand writing on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title and larger variant on verso last leaf, 20  numbered double-page woodcut  maps in the first part (nrs. 1 and 13 lacking), and 13 (of 14) full-page woodcut  maps in the second part, numbered 21-25 (26 lacking), 27, 28/29 on folding leaf, 30-32, 33 folding leaf with two full-page maps two folding, in second part, and numerous charming woodcut  initials. (30), 363 (=365), (3) pp.; collation: a8-1 (blank lacking), *8, A-Z8, including the blank I8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Classical Antiquity  Geography  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three medical treatises by a famous 16th-century physician on pediatrics, toxicology and on Hippocrates View picture(s) 132 MERCURIALE, Hieronymus. De morbis puerorum. Item de venenis et morbis venenosis. Quibus adiuncta est Censura Hippocratea. Basilae, Ex off. Pernea per Conrad. Waldkirch, 1584. Three works in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped three-quarter pigskin, with monogram D*L*H and date 1611, written on front cover, ribbed spine with paper title-label lettered in ink. With woodcut printer's device on general title, vignettes on the separate titles of second and third work, woodcut initials, and head- and tail-pieces in text. (8), 356, (2 blank); (8), 134, (2 blank); (2), 24, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Medicine  Philology  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six lively dialogues by a Spanish humanist from Sevilla View picture(s) 133 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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In praise of solitude and the monasterical life View picture(s) 134 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) 135 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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Primary source for the history of Byzantium, the 12th century in particular View picture(s) 136 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 first and only edition of a rare German translation View picture(s) 137 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 nineteenth century gold-tooled blue morocco, by the 'Lortic Freres'. With all pages within an elaborate woodcut border, 2 large coat of arms, a woodcut author's portrait, and 20 full-page emblematical woodcuts after the engravings by Marcus Gheeraerts. The last eight leaves coloured yellow in outlines. [58] ll. 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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A highly controversial work on the papacy View picture(s) 138 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) 139 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) 140 ORTELIUS, Abraham & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 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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