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Discussions and critical reviews of 100 books, from the incunabula period till the first quarter of the 18th century by a German philologist

BEYER, Augustinus.
Memoriae historico-criticae librorum rariorum, accedunt  Evangeli Cosmopolitani notae ad Jo. Burch. Menckenii De charletaneria eruditorum declamationes, in quibus exempla  nonnulla praecipue Hispanorum adferuntur.

Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces.



Dresden & Leipzig, Fred. Hekel. 1734. 8vo. Modern white cloth, red speckled edges. Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (16), 301, (3) pp.

Very interesting discussions and critical reviews of 100 books, published from the incunable period till far into the 18th century, partly written in Latin and partly in French by August Beyer (1707-1741), a German philologist and protestant minister from Dresden, one of the pioneers of critical bibliography.
Beyer's critical reviews include discussions on books on various subjects, incl. books on the art of printing, bibliographies, natural history, literary works, history, on Roman coins, etc. etc. Examples are: Nr. 1: Catherinot, Annales typographiques de Bourges, and Nr. 53 his L'art d'imprimer (1685); 3: Franc. de Araoz, Opusculum de bono disponenda Bibliotheca (1631); 7: La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo (Venice, Aldus, 1545); 11: Sonnetti lusuriso di Pietro Aretino;12: Theod. Beza, Juvenalia; 21: Franc. Tuppi Parthenopoei, utriusque iuris disertissime ... (Naples, 1485); 26: Giov. Batt. Natolini, Discorse intorno l'arte della stampa (1606); 28: Histoire de l'imprimerie & de la libraire (Paris 1689); 36: The naked Gospel (London 1691); 43: Trattato del nobilissimo & militare essercitio de Scacchi, including a bibliography of books on games (pp. 78-93); 56: Gabriel Naude, Mascurat, ou jugement de tout ce qui a été imprimé contre le Card. Mazarin (pp. 115-47); 60: La Bible des poëtes methamorphoze (Paris, Verard, 1493); 65: Lenglet du Fresnoy, Methode pour étudier l'histoire avec un cataloque des principaux historiens ... (1729) (pp. 166-206); 74: Hadrianus van Beverland, Peccatum originale (1670); 75: three of the rare Dutch "gastronomical" lampoons against Papism: Papekost, Geusekost, and Jesuitenkost; 76: Dante, Opera (Milan 1473); 86: Matthaei Judicis de typographiae inventione (Copenhagen 1566), etc. etc.
At the end Beyer's notes are given on De charlataneria Eruditorum by Johann Burckhard Mencke (1674-1732), one of the most famous satirical pamphlets at the time on the folly and foibles of learned men, who introduced the word 'charlatan' in German (pp. 285-301, followed by 3 pp. with index).

Good copy of a rare book.- (Occasionally sl. browned).
Nouv. Biogr. Gén. V, cols. 884-5; Peignot, Rép. bibliogr. univ. (1812), p. 368.

Related Subjects: Bibliography  Books about Books  French  Latin  Pamphlets  Satire 

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