Early Printing & Manuscripts

[ACHILLINI, Alessandro]. Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.
Including:
ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.
ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.
ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.
AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.
ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.
(Colophon: Lyon, Antoine Blanchard, 1528. Small 8vo. With a title-page with a 4-piece decorated woodcut border with flowers, birds and snails, woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials and a leaf ornament. Set in 3 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with the title in roman capitals. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, in a panel design with quadruple fillets and 2 decorative rolls, brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost). LXXXIII ll. Full description

ACOSTA, José de. Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien.
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz. Meyn (colophon: Haarlem, printed by Gillis Rooman), 1598. 8vo. With a woodcut decoration on the title page. Vellum (ca. 1700?). [7], 398, [8] ll. Full description

AEGINETA, Paulus. Salubria de tuenda valitudine praecepta. Guilielmo Copo Basileiensi interprete ...
Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Encomium artis medicae.
Nuremberg, (colophon:) Johann Petrejus, February 1525. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold. [80] ll. Full description

AESCHYLOS and Gulielmus CANTERUS (editor). Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium, ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1580. 16mo. With a small woodcut printer's device on the title page, 9 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 8 woodcut tailpieces, further with printed manicules in the margins throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], 355, [1 blank], [7], [3 blank] pp. Full description

AESOP. Fabellae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella.
Venice, (colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers), 1542. Small 8vo (16 x 11 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials (with printed guide letters). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with fragments of a vellum manuscript used to reinforce the spine. 364, [4] pp. Full description

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and Caspar VOLLAND (editor). Longe elegantissima oratio de nativitate Christi ... Heydelbergae dicta. Ann. A Christo nato M.CCCC.LXXXVI.
Tübingen, (colophon) Ulrich Morhart, 1527. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern marbled boards. [8], [10 blank] ll. Full description

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. De inventione dialectica libri omnes et integri & recogniti... nunc demum ad autographi exemplaris fidem, per Alardum Aemstelredamum accuratius emendati & additis annotationibus illustrati. Cum aliis non parum multis eodem pertinentibus, (atque iis non sanè iam nunc primum aeditis) quae versa monstrabit pagina...
Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, 1539. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with Gymnicus woodcut device on the title page and several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3 with Wilckes woodcut device on the title page. With:
(2) IDEM. Lucubrationes ... in hanc usque diem nusquam prius aeditae ... nunc demum ad autographorum exemplarium fidem per Alard um Aemstelredamum emendata, et additis scholiis illustrata. Epistola Ioannis Phrissemii. Erudita cum primis Philippi Melanthonis epistola, mores, eruditionem, vitamque Rodolphi compendio perstringens. Cum aliis cognitu perquàm necessariis ... Cologne, Joannes Gymnicus, (colophon:) 1539.
(3) FUGMANN, Johann Christoph. Vetus et nova philosophia moralis: opusculum humanarum literarum cultoribus haud fortè in jucundum.
Wittenberg, Johann Wilcke, 1678.
18th-century half mottled calf, decorated paper sides, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the gold-tooled spine, with a light brown paper label on the spine with the authors name and title lettered in gold ("Agricola De Inventione Dialectica"), and blue and red sprinkled edges. [16], 471, [1 blank]; [20], 321, [1 blank]; [8], 128 pp. Full description

AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and TOSCANELLA, Orazio (translator). Della invention dialettica; Tradotto da Oratio Toscanella ... con alcune annotationi utilissime, & affronti importantissimi.
Venice, Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and last leaf (variant), several historiated woodcut initials, tables in the text. Mid to late 19th century gold-tooled quarter calfl. [12], "290" [= 294], [2] pp. Full description

ALAMANNI, Luigi. Opere toscane.
Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (colophons: printed by Peter Schoeffer the younger), 1542. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, each with the same woodcut Giunta device, and a full-page woodcut showing a larger version of the same device on the last printed page of vol. 2. Set in an Aldine-style italic. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. [16], 431, [1 blank]; 295, [7] pp. Full description

ALARDUS AMSTELREDAMUS. Selectae similitudines sive collationes, tum ex bibliis sacris, tum ex veterum orthodoxorum commentariis. per ... tomis tribus accurativs concinnatae, plurimum allaturae adiumenti verbi dei concionatoribus, iuxta ac scripturaesacrae tractatoribus.
Lyon, (colophon:) Jean and Francois Frellon, 1543. 8vo. With the title set in a woodcut frame, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum. [48], 304 ll. Full description