Early Printing & Manuscripts / Religion & Devotion

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

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

ALGERUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). De veritate corporis & sanguinis d[ominici in Eucharistia, cum refutatione diversaru[m] circa hoc haereseon, opus pium iuxta ac doctum ...
Cologne, [Jaspar von Gennep] Peter Quentel, August 1535.
With (bound before ad 1):
VIGILIUS. Opera ...
Including: CASSANDER, Georg. Commentarius de duabus in Christo naturis ...
Cologne, Arnold Birckman, 1555. 2 works in 1 volume, ad 1 in 2 parts. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials, and a Quentels woodcut printers device at the end. Limp overlapping vellum with ties. 255 pp.; [16], 143, [1 blank]; 52 ll. Full description

ALVERNUS, Guillelmus (William of AUVERGNE). Libri ... de fide et legibus.
[Augsburg, Günther Zainer, ca. 1475/1476]. Small folio. Set in a hybrid roman type with gothic elements (a single column of 43 lines per page plus running heads), with the first 3 lines, including the title, in a slightly larger rotunda gothic. With all initials supplied in manuscript in red, rubricated throughout. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, two brass clasps, blue edges, "Nr. 56" in red ink written at the foot of the spine. [139] ll. Full description

ARATOR. Acta apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1534 (impressum: 1535). 8vo (15.2 x 9.7 cm). With the title on the verso of leaf 24 underlined in red ink and the accompanying initial also coloured in red. Modern half brown calf. [48] ll. Full description

ARNOBIUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Arnobii aphri, vetusti pariter ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis palmos co[m]mentarii, iuxta pij atq[ue] eruditi. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Commentarius in psalmum, quare fremuerunt gentes.
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1522. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut frame on the title page, and 2 smaller woodcut frames on the first pages of the texts, and 5 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with armorial panel-stamps. Sewn on 4 supports, with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with remnants of 4 pairs of green closing ties, re-backed. [166], [36] ll. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). De la cita d'Dio.
[Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf. [1 blank], [322], [1 blank] ll. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). Collectanea, ex universo opere librorum D. Aurelii Augustini passim decerpta, semitam quanda[m] media[m] Christianis, nu[n]c misere dissentie[n]bus[!] mon[s]trantia, qua unanimiter ad ecclesiam Christi redeant.
Deventer, Albert Paffraet, 1529. 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). With the title in letterpress in a woodcut border and one woodcut initial. With a contemporary manuscript index (31 1/2 pp.) and contemporary manuscript notes (1 1/2 pp.) giving quotations from Saint Augustine on 16 leaves bound at the front. Contemporary blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards (the back board replaced with paperboard), with a brass catch-plate in the middle of the fore-edge (clasp and anchor plate lacking and binding repaired). 196 ll. Full description

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE), Desiderius ERASMUS (editor), and others. Primus [- decimus] tomus eximii patris, inter summa latinae ecclesiae ornamenta ac lumina principis, D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi ...
Basel, Ambrosius & Aurelius Froben, 1569. 11 parts in 10 volumes. Folio (38 x 25.5 cm). With the general title page in volume 1 set within an elaborate woodcut frame, all other title pages show the large woodcut Froben printer's device, repeated on all but one verso of the final page in each part. Further with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports (volume 1 on 4), with two brass clasps on the fore edge (leather anchor plate, brass clasp and catch plate). With the manuscript titles on the spines and the contents of each volume in manuscript on the bottom edge of all but one volume. Probably bound by Michael Hermann in Stuttgart before 1580. Full description