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Collection of three rare editions of humanist works View picture(s) 21 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) 22 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) 23 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) 24 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) 25 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) 26 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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Two of the leading textbooks of letter writing in the 16th century, published together View picture(s) 27 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Methodus de conscribendis epistolis, ... secundum veram artis rationem tradita. Eiusdem. Epitome praeceptionum de paranda copia verborum & rerum, per quaestiones: item de novem speciebus argumentationum rhetoricarum, rem omnem breviter explicans. Accessit Christophori Hegendorphini Epistolas conscribendi methodus. Cologne, Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1570. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink; rests of ties. With the printer's device on the title and three nice woodcut initials. (2), 1-70, 70-108, 106, 109-123 leaves, without the last blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Neo-Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The erring schoolboys and the farcical villagers View picture(s) 28 MACROPEDIUS, Georgius. Rebelles, fabula longe iucundissima, rudibus adhuc & tenellis Traiectinae scholae auditoribus nuncupata.- Aluta, fabula admodum iucunda & lepida, denuo recognita, & Traiectinae iuventuti denuo nuncupata. 's Hertogenbosch, Gerard Hatard, 1539 Mense Februario. 2 plays in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Modern wrappers. Full-page woodcut printer's device on lf. 28 verso, and separate title to the second play. (42) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Schoolbooks  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classic on classical ballet and dancing View picture(s) 29 MEURSIUS, IOANNIS. Orchestra. Sive, De Saltationibus Veterum, Liber Singularis. Leyden, Ex Off. Godefridus Basson, 1618. Small 4to. 18th century red morocco, spine inlaid with green morocco, gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With woodcut printer's vignette comprising an open music book on title. (8), 111, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dance  Humanism  Literature  Music  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two scholarly works on Ancient Greece from the Elsevier press View picture(s) 30 MEURSIUS, Johannes. De populis Atticae liber singularis. In quo antiquitates Atticae plurimae. Leyden, Ex officina Ludovicus Elzeviri, Typis Godefridi Basson, 1616. Sm. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine, gilt ruled covers, red sprinkled edges. Title with woodcut printer's device. (12), 149, (25) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Greece  Greek & Latin  History  Humanism  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six lively dialogues by a Spanish humanist from Sevilla View picture(s) 31 MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c. Antwerp, Widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with gilt double line along the edges and gilt coat-of-arms in the centre and four corner pieces on both sides, spine with gilt stars in four compartments, g.e. With printer's device of Nutius (two storks) on the title. 165 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Literature  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the "Tormentor of Macon" View picture(s) 32 PERREAUD, François. Demonologie ou traitte des demons et sorciers: de leur puissance & impuissance. Ensemble l' Antidemon de Mascon ou histoire veritable de ce qu'un demon a fait & dit, il y a quelques années, en la maison dudit Sr. Perreaud à Mascon. Genève, Pierre Aubert, 1653. 2 vols in one. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With small woodcut vignette on title, woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces. (32), 233, (23); 78 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Demonology  Humanism  Occult  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine" View picture(s) 33 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. 17th/18th century polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat-of-arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. (452) lvs.Collation: a-p4, q-r5, s-t4, A-I4, K2, L-P4, Q-R5, S4, T5, V3, X-Y5, Z4, &5, iterum2a-iterum2b4, 2a5, 2b-2h8, 2i3, 2k5. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Italy  Literary History  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 34 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. (242) lvs. Collation: a-z8 (part 1, May 1505); 2a-2f8, 2g10 (part 2, August 1505). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the famous Huet library View picture(s) 35 PROCLUS.- BAROCHIUS, FR. Procli Diadochi in Primum Euclidis Elementorum librum Commentariorum ad universam mathematicam disciplinam principium eruditionis tradentium Libri IIII. summa opera, cura, ac diligentia cunctis mendis expurgati: sScholiis, & Figuris, quae in graeco codice omnes desideranbantur aucti: primum iam Romanae linguae venustate donati, & nunc recens editi. Padua, Gratiosus Perchacinus, 1560. Folio. Contemp. limp overlapping vellum, with gilt double fillet borders on sides with small gilt ornaments in the four corners and oval gilt ornament in centre, g.e. With large woodcut emblem on title, large woodcut printer's device on last blank, full-page woodcut portrait of Franciscus Barocius on verso title, several large historiated woodcut initials, numerous large and smaller oblong woodcut text-escutcheons, all pages set within red ruled borders, and numerous geometrical woodcuts in text. (16), 272, (24) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Laconismus': The art of saying much in only a few witty and elegant words View picture(s) 36 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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Rare 16th-century schoolbook by a pupil of Erasmus View picture(s) 37 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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The earliest Latin grammar founded on scientific principles and following a scientific method View picture(s) 38 SCALIGER, Julius Caesar. De causis linguae Latinae libri tredecim. (Heidelberg), In bibliopolo Commeliniano (heirs of Hieronymus Commelin), 1609. 8vo. Contemporary brown calf, 5 fillets (two of which gilt) along the edges of both sides with a large gilt coat-of-arms in the centre, ribbed spine with gilt flower in each compartment and orange title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With Commelin's printer's device on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (32, including last blank leaf), 451 (= 455, pp. 125-28 repeated in pagination) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Italy  Latin  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the commentary and notes by Martin Antoine Delrio (1551-1608) View picture(s) 39 SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. In L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis poetae gravissimi tragoedias decem; scilicet Herculem Furentem, Herculem Oetaeum, Medeam, Hippolytum, Oedipum, Thebidem, Thyestem, Troades, Agamemnonem, Octaviam, ampplissima adversaria, quae loco commentarii esse possunt. Ex bibliotheca Martini Antonii Delrio. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1576. 4to. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum with remnants of ties. Printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (24), 381 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Jesuits  Plantin  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the development of French poetry in the 16th century and the promotion of the use of the vernacular languages View picture(s) 40 SPERONI DEGLI ALGAROTTI (Sperone). Dialoghi del sig. Speron Speroni nobile Padovano, di nuovo ricorretti; a quali sono aggiunti molti altri non più stampati. E. di più l'Apologia de i primi. Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1596. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, spine with gilt rulling, covers with gilt fillets and gilt oval central piece decorated with floral ornaments, 4 gilt floral cornerpieces. Woodcut printer's device on title. (8), 596 (=604), (2 errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Ethics  Humanism  Humanists  Italy  Linguistics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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