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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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On weights and measures View picture(s) 2 ALCIATI, Andrea. Libellus de ponderibus et mensuris. Item Budaei quedam de eadem re, adhuc non visa. Item Philippi Melanchthonis, de iisdem, ad Germanorum usum, sententia. Alciati quoque & Philippi Melanchthonis, in laudem Iuris Civilis, orationes duae elegantissimae. Hagenau, Iohannes Secerius, 1530, March. Small 8vo. 18th century half calf. Three fine historiated woodcut initials. (50) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Education  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Schoolbooks  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) 3 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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Very rare oration printed by the first printer in Belgium View picture(s) 4 BEROALDUS, Philippus (Filippo Beroaldo). Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio philosophi. medici. & oratoris de excellentia disputantium. Louvain, Theodorus Martinus (Dirk Martens of Aalst), 21 August 1501. 4to. Modern boards. 10 lvs. (Collation: a6, b4); 39-40 lines. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Literary History, 16th-17th century  Louvain  Neo-Latin  Philology  Post Incunabula  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) 5 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) 6 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) 7 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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Popular grammer, reworked after the new humanist ideas by Hermann Buschius View picture(s) 8 CAESARIUS, IOH. Diomedis Grammatici Opus, ita emendatum, scholijsque; illustratum, ut nulla porrolabes insideat. Item Donati De Octo Orationis partibus, & Barbarismo libellus, ab eodem recognitus. Cum Indice Cologne, Johann Soter, 1533. Sm.8vo. Modern half vellum. With woodcut printer's mark on title and large woodcut variant printer's device on verso of last leaf. (8), 176 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important textbooks on Dialectics, highly praised by Melanchton View picture(s) 9 CAESARIUS, Johannes. Dialectica. Nunc recens Hermani Raiani Welsdalii fructuosis scholiis illustrata, & in multis locis emendata. Accessit huic Ioanni Murmelii Isagoge in decem Aristotelis Praedicamentas. Venice, Ioannes Maria Lenus, 1579. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title and title with woodcut border at the top with the printed word 'Dialectica'. 189 (=179), (1 blank) lvs. Collation: A-Y8, Z4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Germany  Humanism  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two different struggles for power in one binding View picture(s) 10 CAPELLA, G. De Rebus Nuper in Italia gestis libro octo. Habet in hisce libris, optime lector, quicquid bellorum in tota Italia ab anno domini 1521. usque ad annum 1530. inter Pontificem, Gallum Venetos, & Caesarem gestum est, praecipue vero, ut Mediolanum à Caesarianis recuperatum, Franciscus eiusdem Dux restitutus, & ad extrenum Urbs Roma capta, ac direpta sit, singulorum annorum rebus gestis, singulis libris explicatis. Antverpiae, apud Martinum Caesarem (Mart. de Keyser), 1533. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum wrappers. 96 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  History  Humanism  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the freedom of conscience: against Calvin View picture(s) 11 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) 12 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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One of the earliest school dictionaries of Latin synonyms by the Silesian humanist Hieronymus Gürtel von Wildenberg View picture(s) 13 CINGULARIUS AURIMONTANUS, HIER. Tersissima latini eloquij Synonymorum collectanea, non modo epistolas, verum etiam carmina cudere volentibus oppido idonea, ex multiiugis & quidem luculentissimis Oratorum tum Poetarum scriptis studiosa recognitione, veluti quaedam progymnasmata eruta, vernaculoque suo ut inventu sint faciliora accommodata, ac denuo secundum Alphabeti seriem deprompta atque concinnata. Annexus est Tractatulus utilissimus de vocum proprietatibus, seu terminorum differentijs. Magdeburg, Michael Lotter, (ca. 1535). Sm.8vo. Old boards. (75) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Much enlarged complete edition of the popular Greek grammar by the famous humanist Nicolaas Clenardus, or Cleynaerts (1495-1542) View picture(s) 14 CLENARDUS, NIC. Institutiones ac Meditationes in Graecam Linguam: cum Scholiis & Praxi P. Antesignani. Operi Praefixi sunt Indices copiosissimi duo, rerum unus, verborum alter: ex quibus facile quivis perspiciet quantum adiumenti ad intelligendos optimos quosque Graecos authores, oratione ac stylo dialective quantumvis dissimiles, liber hic sedules eius lectoribus sit allaturus: maxime vero novitiis, ut themata in verbis omnibus anomalis, ac vocabulis aliis subobscutis, sine magna labore aut longa disquisitione possint invenire. Sed Et in eorundem gratiam libellus ad operis calcem annexus est, in quo plenissime tota huius argumenti difficultas exorbetur. Omnia à Frid. Sylburgio Hesso recognita, locis propemodum innumeris emendata, notisque insuper illustrata. Frankfurt, A. Wechelus heredes, Cl. MarniusIoan. Aubrius, 1588. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine in compartments. With large woodcut device of Andreas Wechel on 2 titles and a smaller variant on one title. (124), 414, (10) pp., 415-574 columns, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Venice edition View picture(s) 15 CLENARDUS, NIC. Institutiones in Graecam linguam. Una cum Annotationibus in Nominem, Verborumque difficultates, investigationeque thematis, in verbis anomalis, & compendiosa Syntaxeos ratione. Eiusdem Meditationes Graecanice in artem Grammaticam, quibus quilibet sine Doctore, Grecarum literarum cognitionem poterit adipisci. Ad haec Renati Guilonnii Annotationes in eiusdem Grammaticam Graecam accessere. Cum Praxi, sive usu praeceptorum Grammatices, per P. Antesignanum. Venice, Petrus Dusinellus, 1589. 3 parts in 1 vol. Sm. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device on 3 titles. 126, (2 blank); 48, 54, (2); 133, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous Belgian humanist scholar in Spain writing his friends View picture(s) 16 CLENARDUS, NIC. Peregrinationum, ac de rebus Machometicis Epistolae elegantissimae. Louvain, Hieronymus Wellaeus, 1561. Small 8vo. Modern vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title and on verso of last blank. (68) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Linguistics  Low Countries  Spain  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) 17 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) 18 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) 19 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) 20 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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