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Five interesting and important early humanistic works printed in the second decade of the 16th century, bound together View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica ... Louvain, Theodor (Dirk) Martens, 1515, 4 January. Folio. 16th century half pigskin, tooled in blind with several decorated rolls, over wooden boards. Half of the boards uncovered but the imprint of tooling is still visible; two clasps and catches (one clasp missing). Probably rebound, re-using a piece of stamped pigskin from an older binding. Titles written on the front edge. Title printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (132x90mm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Mathematics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two beautifully produced and extremely rare schoolbooks in one volume View picture(s) 2 BARLANDUS, HADR. Dialogi LVII, ad profligandam e scholis barbariem longe utilissimi, quibus iam recens accesserunt sex ante hac non excusi. Item Augustini Reymarij Mechliniensis Dialogus unus, de ludo chartarum. Barlandi opusculum de insignibus oppidis inferioris Germaniae. Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1527, Mense Martio. Contemp. overlapping vellum, with vellum endpapers. With title within a fourpart ornamental woodcut border, with John the Evangelist in the top border, and the portrait of Virgil in the lower border, and some fine woodcut initials. (28) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Italy  Louvain  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A commentary on and epithome of Laurentius Valla's De Elegantiis View picture(s) 3 BIENATO, Aurelio. In elegantiarum sex libros Laurentii Vallae disertissimi epithomata nuper recognita. Venice, Ioan. Antonio de Nicolinis de Sabio for Melchiore Sessa, 1539. Small 8vo. Later three quarter vellum, gilt and ribbed spine, boards covered with decorated paper. Charming woodcut printer's device showing a cat with a mouse in its mout, with motto 'Dissimilium infida societas' underneath, repeated on verso of last leaf. 63, (1) lvs. (Collation: A-H8). Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Humanism  Neolatinism  Pedagogy & Didactics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of an influental book View picture(s) 4 BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophie duplici commentario videlicet sancti Thome & Jodoci badii ascensii cum utriusque tabula. Item eiusdem de disciplina scholarium cum explanatione et quintilianum de officio discipulorum diligenter annotata. Rouen, for Joannis Mace, Rennes, 1519. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to Modern vellum, with red morocco title-label on spine. Large woodcut devices of Jean Macé on the two titles, and on verso of the last leaf; first title printed in red and black. Several fine woodcut initials. (156); (32) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Humanism  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare incunable: the first edition of the juvenile poetry of an important humanist and pupil of Hegius from Westphalia View picture(s) 5 BUSCHIUS, Hermannus. Carmina [tumultuaria (with additions by Rudolphus Langius and Alexander Hegius)]. (Deventer, Richard Paffraet, between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497; before 1496? 4to. 19th century marbled boards. (34) lvs., last page blank. Collation: a8, b4, c6, d4, e8, f4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Incunabula  Neo-Latin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the freedom of conscience: against Calvin View picture(s) 6 CASTELLIO(N), Sebastianus. Corte ende duydelijcke Wederlegghinghe, van 'tghene door Mr. Johan Calvijn, tot beweringe van de macht der overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert: in seker boecxken van hem ge-intituleert: Wederlegginghe der dolinghen van Michiel Servet. daer oock gheleert wert datmen de ketters metten swaerde moet straffen. Eertijdts int Latijn geschreven door den godvruchtien, ende seer gheleerden Sebastiaen Castellio, ende nu int Nederlants getrouwelijck vertaeldt; ende met een voorreden verrijckt, nut ende oirbaerlijck gelesen in dese ghevaerlijcke tijden. (Haarlem, Pieter Arentsz), 1613. 4to. Nineteenth-century calf, spine with red title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title. Printed in two columns, in roman and gothic type. 162 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Humanism  Reformation  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The basic reader of the great Humanists, written by the pioneer in spreading Greek literature in the West View picture(s) 7 CHRYSOLORAS, (Manuel). Erotemata. (In Greek). Venice, Victor Raban, 1540. Small 8vo. Later half calf, spine with black title-label, red marbled edges. Small woodcut printer's device on title and same large device on colophon last leaf. 270, (2, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First critical text-edition of this heroic poem View picture(s) 8 CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. De raptu Proserpine, ed. by Jacob Locher. [(in large textualis type:) Hoc in volumine infra scripta continentur. (in smaller roman type:) ¶ Epistola dedicatoria Philomusi Ad Reuerendum ac nobilem patrem dominum Georgium truchses Auhusensis monasterii: ad Varaniae fluminis ripam siti ... ¶ Catalogus Illustrium auditorum eiusdem Philomusi. ¶ Opus aureum Clau. Claudiani De raptu Proserpinae; cum quibusdam declaratoriis glossematibus ... que ex Servio, Paulo Marso, Parrhasio Philomusus transsumpsit ... Eiusdem Philomusi argumenta in singulos libros, cum epistola ad iuventutem exhortatoria. ¶ Elegia eiusdem, de origine et officio poetarum. Ad nobilem et studiosum iuvenem Eustachium von der Alben, cum Epistolio.] Nuremberg, Fridericus Peypus, 5 November 1518. 4to. 19th century gilt vellum, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on recto of last blank. (4), (40) lvs. Collation (A4), B-L4, including last blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Humanism  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fierce attack on the famous Leiden professor J.J. Scaliger View picture(s) 9 DELRIO, Martin Antoine, S.J. Peniculus foriarum elenchi Scaligeriani pro Societate Iesu, Maldonato, Delrio. Auctore Liberio Sanga Verino Cantabro ad clarum Bonarscium Belgam. Metelloburgi Mattiacorum (=Antwerp), Apud Haeredes Matthianos, 1609. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. (9), 10-203 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Humanism  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on colour View picture(s) 10 DOLCE, Lodovico. Dialogo. Nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Gio. Battista & Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1565. Modern half vellum. Woodcut vignette on title, 2 woodcut initials in text 87, (1) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Humanists  Italy  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erasmus on the Latin language: two basic texts in a very attractive contemporary binding View picture(s) 11 ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commenratii duo. Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521. 8vo. Contemporary full blind tooled calf with ornamental rolls with four different 'heads-in-medaillions' within fillet frames on both covers; the centre of both, the front and back cover tooled with different separate stamps with floral motives. Titles in ink written on the spine (upside down in the third and fourth compartment); later paper label with written title pasted to the second compartment; holes for the ties; title also written on fore-edge. Title printed in woodcut border with Schoeffer's printer's device in the lower part; six beautiful woodcut initials (7-11 lines). (16), 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Education  Erasmus  Humanism  Humanists  Philology  Philosophy  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine Sammelband with four theological works printed by Joannes Maire View picture(s) 12 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Explicatio in Symbolum Apostolorum, & Decalogum.- (2) IDEM. Enchiridion militis Christiani.- (3) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.- (4) IDEM. De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia, deque sedandis opinionum dissidis, cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignis, liber. Ex editione Frobrniana, anni MDXXXIII ... Leyden, Jean Maire, 1641, 1642. 4 works in one. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With woodcut printer's devices on all four title-pages. 264; 330; 144; (8), (4 blank pages), 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Erasmus  Humanism  Netherlands  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Annotated by Arnold Montanus View picture(s) 13 ERASMUS. Colloquia, nunc emendatiora. cum annotationubus Arnoldi Montani.- Coronis apologetica pro colloquiis Erasmi, ex ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fideliter collecta à P.S. accedit ejusdem De Collequiorum utilitate dissertatio. Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, spine richly gilt with gilt name of Erasmus, gilt fillet borders on sides, central gilt coat-of-arms on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With fine engraved frontispiece, and engraved full length portrait of Erasmus. (24), 820, 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Education  Erasmus  Humanism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three beautifully produced humanist school books written by or edited by Erasmus View picture(s) 14 ERASMUS. Epitome Chiliadum Adagiorum ad commodiorem studiosorum usum per Hadrianum Barlandum conscripta. Locupletata etiam denuo, bona parte adagiorum passim inserta, praeterilla quae primae editioni nuper accesserant. Cologne, Godefridus Hittorpius, 1524. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. calf over wooden boards, spine ribbed, sides blind-stamped, with old mamuscript endpapers, remnants of 2 brass clasps. With title within richly designed 4-part woodcut borders, with cherubs, a scribe, and a medallion portrait of Virgil. 146, (13) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Humanism  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of three rare editions of humanist works View picture(s) 15 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. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Pedagogy & Didactics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works of a brilliant but prematurely deceased student, edited by Janus Dousa and printed by Plantin View picture(s) 16 FRUTERIUS, Lucas. Librorum qui recuperati potuerunt reliquiae. Inter quos Verisimilium lib. II. Et Versus miscelli. Additus Iulii SEVERIANI prisci scriptoris liber. Omnia nunc primum edita, cura V. N. Iani Dousae a Nortwyck. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 8vo. 17th or 18th century calf, triple gilt filets with four cornerpieces on both sides; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, lettered in gold. Titles with two variants of the 'Labore et constantia' printer's device of the Plantin office; some woodcut initials. 172, (4), 27(28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Neo-Latin  Philology  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Delft prize-binding View picture(s) 17 GROTIUS, H. Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis. Amst., J. Blaeu, 1658. 8vo. 18th century marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt decorated, with red title-label, with decorative gilt borders on sides and large gilt decorated central coat of arms of the city of Delft with underneath a richly decorated letter Y surrounded by the legend 'per angusta ad augusta', remnants of 2 green ties. With large woodcut printer's device on title, and full-page engraved portrait of the author. (16), 567, (25) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Bindings  Delft  History  Hugo Grotius  Humanism  Netherlands  Prize Binding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first collected edition of the poetical works of the famous Dutch humanist, diplomat and lawyer View picture(s) 18 GROTIUS, HUGO. Poemata, Collecta & magnam partem nunc primum edita à fratre Guilielmo Grotio. Lugdunum Batavorum, Andr. Clouquius, 1617. Small 8vo. Contempoarary vellum, spine in compartments with gilt stamped ornament, gilt rolled ornamental borders on sides, with gilt ornaments in the corners and large oval gilt ornament in center, with the intital "W" gilt stamped on top on both sides. With title within richly engraved architectural border. (24), 548 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Forbidden Books  Hugo Grotius  Humanism  Humanists  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Huygen's collected poetical work View picture(s) 19 HUYGENS, Constantijn. Koren-bloemen, Nederlandsche gedichten. Tweede druck, vermeerdert tot XXVII boecken. Amsterdam, Johannes Ravesteyn, 1672. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, titles with woodcut printer's device, full-page engraved portrait of the author by A. Blotelingh after Caspar Netscher, large folding engraved plate with plan and view of his estate Hofwijck, folding engraved plate of the 'Zeestraat' way to Scheveningen, both by Romeyn de Hooghe, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (32, including title and portrait), 732; (2), 574 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Humanism  Literary History  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The beautiful first Badius edition of Juvenal View picture(s) 20 JUVENAL(IS), Decimus Junius. Familiare commentum. Cum Anthonii Mancinelli explanatione. Argumenta Satyrarum Juvenalis per Antonium Mancinellum. Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, for Joannis Meganc, Joannis Waterloose & Jodocus Horenweghe (in Flanders), 7 March 1505 (1506). 4to. Nineteenth-century marbled boards. (6), CCLIII lvs. (without the last blank); collatiion: #6, a-z, A-H8, I6. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Literary History  Satire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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