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Very rare edition of a standard medieval textbook View picture(s) 161 PORPHYRIUS. Eisagoge, sive institutiones quinque uocum, ad Chrysaorium: Item, Aristotelis categoriae, & de Interpretatione liber: Joachimo Perionio Cormoeriaceno interprete, unà cum eiusdem annotationibus. Adiectus quoque est Danielis Barbari in Porphyrij Institutiones commentarius, acrerum verborumque in hisce omnibus memorabilium locupletissimus index. Basel, Joannis Oporinus, August 1545. 8vo. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine, ties lacking. Woodcut initials. (8, last 2 blank), 469 (35, last 5 blank) pp. [Collation: a4 a-z8 A-F8 G4 H-I8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Influential and popular work on natural history and magic View picture(s) 162 PORTA, Johannes Baptista (Giambattista). Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII. Cum indice. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1585. 16mo. Sl. later vellum. 296, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Occult  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Work on the constitution of Athens by the famous Humanist Guillaume Postel View picture(s) 163 POSTEL, Guillaume. De magistratibus Atheniensium liber, Gulielmo Poyeto totius Galliae Cancellario dicatus, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, sed & Romanorum politiam, ac omnem veterum historiam, lectu utilissimus. Basel, Joannes Oporinus, 1543. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink. Some nice woodcut initials. 151, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art of saying much with few words View picture(s) 164 PUTEANUS, Ericius. De laconismo syntagma. Adjuncti Thyrsi Philotesii, Stili & sermonis Aculei.- IDEM. Thyrsi Philotesii, sive Amor laconissans. Stili & sermonis Aculei. Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1609. 12mo. Modern half parchment; marbled paper over boards. Printer's device on the title-pages and nice woodcut initials. 118, (2)(Privilege); 78, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Philology  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldus edition of the most important Roman work on rhetorics, from the library of Joseph Romilly View picture(s) 165 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Institutionum Oratorium libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conversio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit. Venice 'In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri' (André d'Asola & sons), January 1521. 4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within double gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, (later) matching red morocco spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, g.e. Aldus' famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. (4), 230 lvs. (Collation *4, a-z, A-E8, F6). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important first Aldus edition of the Roman world's greatest work on rhetoric View picture(s) 166 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. [Institutiones oratoriae]. Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andre d'Asola ('Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri'), August 1514. 4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within triple gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, spine with (later) black title-label lettered in gold. Aldus famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. [4], 230 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First exploration of the flora of the Near East View picture(s) 167 RAUWOLF, Leonhard. Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß, so er inn die Morgenländer selbs volbracht. Augsburg, Georg Willer, 1583. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Modern vellum. [16], 487, [55]) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Botany  Levant  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Augmented edition of Regiomontanus's work on plane and spherical trigonometry View picture(s) 168 REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes. De Triangulis Planis et Sphaericis Libri Quinque. INCLUDING: PEURBACH, G. Tractatus Super Propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis. AND: SANTBECH, D. Problematum Astronomicorum et Geometricorum sectiones septem. Basle, Henrichus Petrus and Petrus Pernas, 1561. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards. With many astronomic and geometric woodcut illustrations in text and the sinus tables by Johannes Regiomontanus on 36 pages. [8], 146, [38]; [20], 294, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy & Cosmography  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A compilation of emblematical epigrams on the properties of animals, plants, and foods View picture(s) 169 REUSNER, Nicolaus. Polyanthea, sive Paradisus poeticus: omnibus propemodum arboribus, plantis, & stirpibus consitus: omnique genere animantium tam terrestrium, quam aquatilium inhabitatus:  & illustrium poëtarum rivulis, fonticulisque irrigatus: ad horum vires cognoscendas studiosis, praesertim medicinae, utilissimus. Una cum penu poetica, variis esculentis & potulentis, ad victum quotidianum necessariis, referta. Basel, Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1578. 8vo. Nineteenth century calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt  supralibros of J. Gomez de la Cortina on both sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. (Petit Succr. de Simier) With woodcut printer's device on verso last leaf, and one woodcut historiated initial. 276, (32) pp. Collation: A-S8, T10. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed View picture(s) 170 REYD, Everhard van. Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583. Arnhem, Ian Iansz, 1626. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem. (16), 734, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  History  House of Orange  Low Countries  Portraits  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In the manner of Erasmus' Adagia View picture(s) 171 RHODIGINUS, Ludovicus Caelius (RICCHIERI, Lodovico). Sicuti antiquarum lectionum commentarios concinnarat olim Vindex Ceselius, ita nunc eosdem per incuriam interceptos reparavit Lodovico Caelius Rhodiginus, in corporis unam velut molem aggestis primum linguae utrisque floribus, mox advocato ad partes platone item, ac platonicis omnibus, necnon Aristotele, ac haereseos eiusdem viris aliis, sed et theologorum plerisque ac jureconsultorum, ut medicos taceam, et mathesin professos. Ex qua velut lectionis farragine explicantur linguae Latinae loca, qu adrigentis haud paucio rafere, vel aliis intacta, vel pensiculate parum excussa. Opto valeas, qui leges, livore posito [Greek text]. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Soceri [= Aldus Manutius & his son-in-law Andreas Torresano de Asula], February 1516. Folio. 18th-century vellum, boards covered with 18th-century decorative paper, gilt title on spine. With title printed in red with Aldine printer's device also in red, repeated in black on verso of last leaf. [80], 862 [6] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Anatomy  Art  Dance  Encyclopædic Works  Law  Music  Theology  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare 16th-century schoolbook by a pupil of Erasmus View picture(s) 172 RIVIUS, Johannes. De Rhetorica, libri II. De periodis, libellus I. De puerorum institutione, liber I. Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1548. Small 8vo. Rebound: overlapping vellum, using a 17th-century vellum leaf with text written in Dutch. Woodcut printer's device on title with the motto 'In sole posuit tabernaculum suum' (Vandeweghe & Op den Beek, Marques typographiques, p. 129 (fig), woodcut initial. (72) lvs. (Collation: a-i8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Belgicana  Education  Humanism  Louvain  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important history of Austria (1273-1556) and the Habsburg dynasty by the librarian of Archduke Ferdinand II View picture(s) 173 ROO, Gerardus de. Annales rerum belli domique ab Austriacis Habspurgicae gentis principibus, à Rudolpho primo, usque ad Carolum V. gestarum: ex optimis quibusque cum typocusis tum manuscriptis authoribus, publicis item ac privatis rerum monumentis, summo studio conquisiti, & in libros XII. nunc demun in lucem edit. Innsbruck, Joannes Agricola, 1592. Folio. Eighteenth century calf (by Roger Payne), spine richly gilt in seven compartments and lettered in gold, both covers with two ornamental gilt borders; gilt inner  dentelles; front cover with gilt supra-libros of M. Wodhull in the centre; gilt edges; mabled endpapers. Title-page elegantly ruled in red, with a woodcut of the crowned Habsburg coat of arms; portrait of Count Ferdinand II in armour and with the chain of the order of the Golden Fleece, full-page genealogical tree of the Habsburg dynasty and 13 pages with 49 coats of arms of related families and lands governed by different members of the Habsburg family. All coat-of-arms, portrait, and tree nicely coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. 1 blank, (32), 477, (29), pp. last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Bindings  Colour Platebooks  Genealogy & Heraldry  Habsburg  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A work of learning and pastoral wisdom by a moderate inquisitor View picture(s) 174 ROSEMONDT, Godschalk. Confessionale sive libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime complectens, necessarius atque utilis, & cuilibet recte confiteri volenti, & ipsis sacerdotibus, qui aliorum confessiones audire habent. Editus a celeberrimo academie Lovaniensis. Denuo recognitus et castigatus. Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, June 27 - (colophon:) July 8, 1519. 8vo. Re-cased in a 17th-century binding (overlapping vellum), title in ink on spine. Title in red & black with red woodcut rebus of the author's name: a rose followed by 'mondt' = Rosemondt; woodcut initials. 251 (5) ff. [Collation: (A)8 B-2K8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Catholicism  Post Incunabula  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Agaist Geraerdt Brandt's famous 'Arminiaanse' History of the Dutch Reformation View picture(s) 175 RULAEUS (RUYL), Henricus. G. Brandts stoute geveynstheyt en liefdeloose geest vertoont in sijn boeck genaemt de Historie der Reformatie. Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, 1676. 4to. Unbound. Oval woodcut printer's device on title. (10), 127, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Reformation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Heavily annotated copy of one of the early Cologne (Quentell) editions View picture(s) 176 SACROBOSCO, Johannes de. Opus sphericum magistri Joannis de Sacro Busco natione angli figuris verissime exculptis et interpretatione familiari ad comoditatem desiderantium iucundissima Artis Astronomice callere principia pulcherrime et iterata recognitione illustratum. Cologne, Sons of Henricus Quentell, January 1505. 4to. Modern boards. With a six-line woodcut initial on title comprising a teacher with his pupil, full-page woodcut of a armillary globe held by angels above and below, with the zodiac and a small view of a walled small town in centre on the verso of the title, and 27 large half-page astronomical and cosmological woodcuts in text, 2 other 6-line woodcut initials. (38) lvs. (last blank present; collation: A6, B-C4, D6, E-F4, G6, H4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  England  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Great Renaissance pedagogical work View picture(s) 177 SADOLETO, Jacopo. De Liberis recte instituendis, Liber. Venice, Io.Antonio et Fratres de Sabio, Sumptu & requisitione D. Melch. Sessa, July 1533. Sm.8vo. Modern vellum. With woodcut printer's device of a cat with a mouse on title. 52 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Education  Pedagogy & Didactics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition View picture(s) 178 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino. Eiusdem oratio contra M.T. Ciceronum. M.T. Ciceronis oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quator contra Lucium Catilinam. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catalinam orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus (Torresanus) Socer, April 1509). 8vo. 18th-century vellum with title in ink on spine, red painted edges. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last page. [16], 279, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Politics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Plantin pocket edition of the works of Sallust with a Leiden imprint View picture(s) 179 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. Opera, quae extant, una cum fragmentis. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius I, 1591. 32mo. Contemporary green morocco with two gilt decorative borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, gilt edges. Woodcut printer's device on title. 302 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  History  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated early work on fish View picture(s) 180 SALVIANI, Ippolito. Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus, cum eorumdem formis, aere excusis. Rome, the author, 1554 (on colophon last leaf dated january 1558). Folio. Later vellum, spine ribbed with gilt title. Engraved allegorical title with an architectural frame around a portrait of the author and decorated with marine motifs with the coat-of-arms of Marcello Cervini, the proposed dedicatee, on top, 81 full-page engraved illustrations of fish, of which 36 are plates, all 81 plates included in the signatures and foliation, many woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device on last leaf. (8), 256 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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