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Osiander's only work published outside Germany View picture(s) 141 OSIANDER, Andreas. Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unum est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum ... Elenchus Harmoniae. Antwerp, Matthiaus Crom, 1540. 8vo. 17th century limp vellum. Nice vignet at the bottom of the title and the beginning of the text; the 'Canon ad Harmonicam' - the 'Elenchus' - printed in four columns between printed lines; 97 half-page and one full-page woodcuts by Levinus de Witte, some of them are repeated several times (164) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Art  Reformation  Theology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Flanders, printed by Plantin View picture(s) 142 OUDEGHERST, Pierre d'. Les chroniques et annales de Flandres: contenantes les heroicques et tresvictorieux exploicts des forestiers, & comtes de Flandres, & les singularités & choses memorables advenuës audict flandres, depuis l'an de nostre seigneur Iesus Christi VIc. & XX (=620) jusques a l'an 1476. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1571. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title. (20), 340 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound for the Dutch statesman Johannes Mepschius, later in Jan Six's library View picture(s) 143 OVID. Ars Amatoria.- Metamorphoseon libri XV.- Fastorum Lib. VI. Tristium Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1547. 3 vols. 16mo. Contemporary Lyonese red morocco bindings in Italian style, spines richly gilt in compartments, with 3 raised bands, sides with double lined gilt border and central panel: quadrilobe cartouche, with four small gilt flower tools, on the front covers with the abbreviated titles and on the rear covers with the name of the original owner Joannes Mepschius in gilt lettering, gilt and gauffered edges. Printer's device on the three titles; many woodcut initials in text. 421; 453; 431 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Rembrandt  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedicated to two young boys as a paradigm of the lessons of life View picture(s) 144 OVID. Metamorphoses, Argumentis Brevioribus ex Luctatio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum vivis singularum Transformationum iconibus in aes incisis. Antwerp, Ex off. Plantiniana, Widow and Jan Moretus, (1591). Oblong 16mo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red painted edges. With richly illustrated etched title, full-page etched portrait of Ovid within grotesque ornamental borders, full-page etched printer's device at the end, and 178 full-page fine etched plates by Pieter van der Borcht. 362, (20, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Illustrated Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hebrew dictionary for Dutch ministers View picture(s) 145 PAGNINUS, Saint. Epitome thesauri linguae sanctae, auctore Sancte Pagnino Lucensi. Fr. Raphelengius compluribus locis auxit, emendavit, & Appendicum dictionum Chalddaicarum addidit, Acc. hae editione Index dictionum Latinarum, sive Lexico Latino-Hebraicum. Leyden, Ex Off. Plantiniana, Chr. Raphelengius, 1599. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (80), 495, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Greek & Latin  Hebraica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"Who is who'' in Germany before 1566 View picture(s) 146 PANTALEON, Heinricus (BANDLIN, Hans Heinrich). Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniae, pars prima [secunda & tertia]. In hac personarum desriptione omnium tam armis et autoritate, quam literis & religione totius Germaniae celebrium virorum vitae & res praeclarè gestae bona fide referentur, à condito mundo [pars 1] ... ad ... annum 1566 usque [pars 3]. Opus plane novum et uicundissimum, ex omnium fere gentium chronicis, annalibus, & historiis magna diligentia excerptum: & vivis heroum imaginibus (quantum fieri potuit) passim illustratum: ac nunc primum ob patriae decorum in lucem editum. ita quod instar continuae historiae Germanorum esse queat. Basle, (Heirs of) Nicolaus Brylinger, 1565-66. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. 19th century boards. Woodcut printer's device on 3 titles, woodcut portrait of the author on the versos of the three titles accompanied by three different laudatory poems, numerous (ca. 1500)  woodcut portraits of famous men (Emperors, Kings, noble men, scholars, scientists, etc.) in German history; printed genealogical trees. (12), 291, (12); (8), 480, (12); (12), 565, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Biography  Germany  History  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare issue with the German texts of the first and only edition of 'The mistake of Matrimony' View picture(s) 147 PASSE the YOUNGER, Crispijn de. Les abus du mariage, ou sont clairement representez les subtilitez des homestes tant des femmes eu des hommes dont ils usent pour se tromper l'un l'autre a cecy sont adjoustez quelques enseignemens pour corriger tels abus. Misbruick  des houwelycx, waer in klaerlijck word uitgebeeldt de boosheden en loosheden zo wel tusschen mannen als vrouwen gepleeght, om malkander behendigh te bedriegen ... Misbrauch des Ehlichen Standes, waer in klaerlich wird aus gebilt die schändliche losheyt so wol bei Mannen als Frauwen die sich pflegen zu befleisigen einer den anderen zu betriegen ... (Amsterdam, for Crispijn de Passe), 1641. Oblong 8vo. Modern half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. With engraved emblematical frontispiece and 25 plates (ca. 95 x 140 mm) with two ovals per plate showing 50 numbered portraits of adulterous women, lovers or spouses; full-page etching of a cart with three adulterous couples. 45 lvs. (collation: p2-1, A-G4, H2, I4, (***)4, 2(***)2, I6-2). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Erotica  Netherlands  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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German edition of John Peckham Perspectiva Communis, one of the earliest works on perspective, with 44 new geometric and perspectival woodcuts View picture(s) 148 PECKHAM, John, & Georg HARTMANN. Perspectiva Communis. Ideo sic dicta, quod contineat elementa tès optigès, omnibus philosophiae studiosis necessaria. In hac enim doctrina inchoatae disputationes  philosophorum, de natura, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum & formarum absolvuntur. In quibus & de speculis tractatur. Summa cura & diligentia emendata, & ab infinitis quibus scatebat mendis repurgata, necnon in quibus desiciebat demonstrationibus restituta. Nuremberg, Johan Petreius, 1542. Small 4to. Boards. With 44 geometric and perspectival woodcuts in text. [55] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dürer  Mathematics  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Latin language: the most important Renaissance dictionary/encyclopaedia, together with the three main classical texts on the subject View picture(s) 149 PEROTTUS (PEROTTO, PEROTTI), Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ... Colophon on K8r: Venice, in aedibus Aldi & Andrea Soceri, May 1517. Colophon on Y7v: Venice, in aedibus Aldi Folio. Modern brown calf with gilt title on spine, new endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title repeated on verso of last leaf. 440 lvs., ff. 1-79 (1 blank), cols. 1-492 494-495 495-602 563-564 606-967 668-669 970-1018 1021-1022 1021-1024 1013-1014 1027-1408 1397-1398 1411-1436, ff. (1 blank) [Collation: '*'-10'*'8 a-z8 A-Y8 (Q3 unsigned)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Italy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare contemporary history of the Dutch Revolt against Spain View picture(s) 150 PERS, Dirck Pietersz. De verwarde adelaer, en ontstelde leeuw: waer in de spring-ader der beroerten, die in Duytsland en Nederland, soo in den staet als religie, van Lutheri tijden af, onder Keyser Karel V. en zynen sone Phlippus, als mede onder de bestieringe der Staten van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, tot den dood des Princen Wilhelmi van Oragnien, zyn voorgevallen, klaer en beknopt werden voorgedragen. Wt de geloofwaerdighste schrijvers en schriften, en verscheyden taelen opgesocht, en by nae de helft vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Paulus Matthysz. for Dirck Pietersz. Pers, (1647). 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title written on spine. With engraving on title (85 x 120 mm) of a lion caught in a net, woodcut initials and centre piece. (20), 911, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Phaedrus-edition printed in the Netherlands View picture(s) 151 PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Nuper à P. Pithoeo V.C. primum editi. Et iam emendati atque illustrati notis à Cunrado Ritterhusio I.C. Acc., in eadem Fabulas Spicilegium Gasp. Schoppi: & alia quam plurima quae sequens pagella indicebat. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, 1598. Small 8vo. 19th century half red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt (CAPÉ). 191, (1 blank), 55, (1 blank), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest sources on Congo and Central Africa, complete with its plates and maps View picture(s) 152 PIGAFETTAF, Filippo. Relatione del reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade tratta dalli scritti & ragionamenti di Odoardo Lopez. Rome, Bartolomeo Grassi, (1591). 4to. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine. Engraved title within rich architectural border, with the coat of arms of Antonio Migliore, bishop of San Marco, to whom the book is dedicated, large folding engraved map of Congo, large folding engraved general map of Africa, 8 numbered folding engraved plates of plants, animals and inhabitants of the country by Natalis Bonifazio, woodcut endpiece and initials. (8), 82, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Africa  Congo  Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Mission  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Post-incunable describing of 'German' Europe in the early 16th century, and an early Americanum as well View picture(s) 153 PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio. Augsburg, Heirich Stainer, 1530. 8vo. Modern boards covered with brown marbled paper. Printed title within broad woodcut ornamented border with five dancing putti in the lower section; 2 woodcut historiated initials. (36) lvs., including the last blank; collation: A-D8, E4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [Central]  Americana  Geography  Germany  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps of the history of the dioceses Tongres, Maastricht and Luik View picture(s) 154 PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium. Antwerp, Willlem Vorsterman, (ca. 1530; preface dated 14 September 1529). 8vo. Seventeenth-century overlapping vellum with title in ink on spine. Title with woodcut coat-of-arms of Everard van de Marck within border consisting of four ornamental woodcuts, 2 woodcuts of Maria, Anna & Christ (63 x 42 mm), and a bishop in his study (46 x 43 mm), both within the same ornamental border of four cuts, and almost full-page woodcut printer's device on last page, woodcut initials. Finely rubricated in red throughout. 116 ff. [Collation A-O8 P4]. With 2 indexes in contemporary handwriting on 4 inserted lvs. at the beginning; 27 lines on a page Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Maastricht  Religion  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With medieval manuscript fragments of Schutken's bible translation in Dutch View picture(s) 155 PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus: multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additit quoque sunt duo Indices copiosissimi: Prior, verborum, locutionum & sententiarum: Posterior, eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur. [Geneva], heirs E. Vignon, 1595. 4to. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine reinforced with strips of manuscript leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces, embellished initials. (8), 920, (52) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Roman comedies View picture(s) 156 PLAUTUS. Comediae viginti. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, Franciscus I Raphelengius. 1593. 16mo. Old calf, spine with 3 raised bands. (2), 719, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an interesting blind tooled pigskin binding View picture(s) 157 PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti. Panegyricus Traiano Caesari dictus. Et is ad vetustissimum exemplar emendatus. De viris illustribus rei militaris & administrandae reipub.Acesserunt argumento non admodum abhorrentia. Suetonii Tranquilli liber de claris grammaticis & rhetoribus. Item. Julii Obsequentis, Prodigiorum liber. Latina interpretatio dictionum ac sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Indices duo ... Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus, 1542. 8vo. Extraordinary well preserved contemporary blind tooled pigskin binding; rolls with square and oval portraits and panels with passion scenes and saints on both covers; floral motives are stamped in the central spaces of the covers and in the four compartments of the spine; in the middle of the front cover, between two paragraph signs, the initials 'E' and 'K' are stamped and decorated with black ink. Some woodcut initials. 3 fly-leaves, 494, (40) pp. and 3 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Flemish panel binding signed by Anthoine de Gavere View picture(s) 158 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X.- Panegyricus Traiano principi dictus.- De viris illustribus in re militari, & in administranda Rep.- Item SUETONII TRANQUILLI De claris grammaticis & rhetoribus.- JULII OBSEQUENTIS Prodigiorum liber. Indices duo, quorum altero nomina referuntur eorum, ad quos Plinius scribit: altero quicquid memoratu dignum toto opere continetur. Latina interpretatio dictionum & sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Basel, per Andream Cratandrum, 1526, March. 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped calf, spine ribbed, each side with two different blindstamped rectangular panels with birds and animals in floral decoration, one signed by Anthoine de Gavere, gilt and gauffered edges. Woodcut printer's device on verso of the last blank and fine decorated woodcut initials in text. (24), 551, (41) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Latin edition printed outside Italy View picture(s) 159 PLUTARCH. Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei post Pyladen Brixianum longe diligentius repositae: cum moiore verioreque indice: necnon cum Aemilii Probi vitis. Paris, Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), 1514, November 13, preface dated 1 December 1514. Folio. 16th-century blind-stamped half pigskin over the original wooden boards, with two clasps, spine in compartments with title written in ink: 'Plutarchus 35', title also in 16th-century hand on the wood of the front board. Title in splendid Renaissance woodcut border, with coat of arms left blank in the lower borderpiece (Renouard, Encadrement no. 1); in the middle the printer's device of Jodocus Badius Ascensus with the heading 'prelum Ascensianum' printed in red (Renouard, marque 3, ill. vol. 1, p. 43), lettering of the title, as well as certain elements in the border printed in red. Many beautiful woodcut initials in the text. (22), 393, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 160 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. [242] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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