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Early Printing & Manuscripts (15th & 16th Century)

1511 Paris book of hours printed on vellum, with 17 large & 27 small illustrations plus more in the borders:
only known complete copy of this edition, possibly from the great Harleian Library

[BOOK OF HOURS]. Hore [= Horae beate Marie Virginis] secundum usum Romanum ad longum.
(colophon: Paris, Thomas Kees), [ca. 1511, with an almanac for the years 1511-1530]. 8vo (18 x 12 cm). Printed on vellum in red and black throughout, with illustrations printed from (mostly metal?) relief blocks: 17 nearly full-page plus 1 repeat, 27 small plus 2 repeats in the text, many additional small in the decorated border pieces that surround nearly every page. Dark brown gold- and blind-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?), signed "HARDY-MENNIL" in the foot of the front turn-in. [216] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Almanacs Bindings Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of a great classic of the history and science of art and the evolution of taste

BORGHINI, Raffaello. Il riposo ... in cui della pittura, e della scultura si favella, de piu illustri pittori, e scultori, e delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano.
Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo. With Marescottis woodcut "et vult et potest" device on the title page (ship in an oval cartouche with motto, and a monogram at the foot) and a full-page allegorical woodcut on art and on fame in an oval cartouche, a woodcut tailpiece, and 6 woodcut decorated initials (4 series). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment (ca. 1890?). [48], 648 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Art & Art History Early Printing - 16th century Italy
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A 16th-century poem that encourages the Holy Roman Emperor to start a war with the Ottomans

BRANT, Sebastian. Ad divum Maximilianum Caesarem invictissimum conctosque Christiani nominis principes et populos, Nenia Sebastiani Brant, In Thurcarum nyciteria, cum arripiende in eosdem expeditionis exhortatione.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Johann Knoblauch], 9 February 1518. 4to. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page. 18th-century grey paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century German Literature Germany History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century)
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Five medical treatises, heavily influenced by Galen

BRASSAVOLA, Antonio Musa. Examen omnium trochiscorum, unguentorum, ceratorum, emplastrorum, cataplasmatum, & collyriorum : quorum apud Ferrarienses pharmacopolas usus est : ...
Venice, (colophon: Lucas Antonius Juntas), 1551. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, restored. 296 ll. Full description
€ 2,000
Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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Catholic reflections on sedition during the Reformation

BRAUN, Konrad, and Johannes COCHLAEUS (editor). De seditionibus libri sex, rationibus et exemplis ex omni doctrinarum et authorum genere locupletati... Ioannis Cochlaei de seditionibus Appendix triplex, contra quosdam rebelles huius temporis.
Mainz, Franz Behem, 1550. Folio (ca. 30.8 x 20 cm). With Behems large woodcut device on the final leaf, made by Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, as indicated by his "HS" monogram, and with decorated woodcut initials throughout. Late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled calf. [20], 355, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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Standard work on Roman law by a famous French jurist and philologist

BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII...
Frankfurt, Joannes Wechel and Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. With title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [8], 750 [= 760], [84] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Literature
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Rare pocket handbook of practical herbal medicine

BRUNFELS, Otto. Epitome ex gravissimis authoribus, totius rei medicae summam complectens, ... congesta: nuper verò emendata et locupletata.
Paris, Guillaume Julian, 1552. 16mo (11.5 x 7.5 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial, 2 vine-leaf ornaments (Vervliet 173 & 169) and paragraph marks. Set in roman and italic types with incidental Greek. Old limp parchment, sewn on 3 cords, blue edges. 104 ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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A humanist account of the Gothic War

BRUNI (ARETINO), Leonardo and Lodovico PETRONI (translator). Libro de la guerra de Ghotti ... in lingua Latine [e] fatto volgare da Lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese nuovamente stampato.
(Colophon: Venice, Nicolo d'Aristotele detto Zoppino de Ferrara), 1528. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Slightly later limp vellum. 87, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 950
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Philosophy & Humanism
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