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Collection of three rare editions of humanist works

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.



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.

With:
LUCIANUS OF SAMOSATA. Complures dialogi a Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo in latinum conversi & a Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati. Additis Fabularum  & difficilium vocabulorum explanationibus. Antverpiae, M. Hillen van  Hoochstraten, 1524. With woodcut initials. 26, (2) lvs.
P. MOSELLANUS. Paedologia in puerorum usum conscripta & aucta. Dialogi XXXVII.
CHR. HEGENDORF. Dialogi pueriles XII. Antverpiae, M. Hillen, 1523. With woodcut initials.(40) lvs.

Collection of rare editions of humanist works in contemporary binding, all well produced in a fine italic type.

Ad 1: First Basel-edition of this work by the Florentine humanist A.D. Floccus (Fiocco) on the sacerdocy and the administration in ancient Rome. At the end, a work by Pomponius Laetus on the same subject, and a list of abbreviations by Valerius Probus is added.
Ad 2: Rare Antwerp edition of Lucianus' Dialogues in the translation  of Erasmus, first published at Louvain, 1512.
Ad 3: Rare early edition of this very popular pedagogical work by the German humanist and professor at Leipzig Petrus Schade Mosellanus  (1493?-1524). According to Buisson, the first edition was published  in quarto by the same publisher in 1519, two editions appeared in 1521, at Mainz and Strassburg. The present edition, not listed in Buisson, includes as usual the Paedologia by the German Hellenist Christophorus Hegendorf (1500-1540), first published at Leipzig, 1511.

Good copy with occasionally a few old ms. annotations and underlinings.- (Recased, binding restored, a few small wormholes on front and rear sides, corner dam.; small library label on front paste-down; first and last lvs. sl. browned; some waterst.).
Ad 1: Adams F 597 STC German p. 300 Hieronymus, Oberrhein. Buchillustr. 377c ad 2: Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1401 not in Adams, nor in STC Dutch ad 3: This edition not in Nijhoff-Kronenberg; nor in Buisson, Adams or STC Dutch NUC lists one copy.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Pedagogy & Didactics  Schoolbooks 

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