A HUMANIST COPY OF ONE OF THE 15th CENTURY’S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE INCUNABLES Nider, Johannes, ca. 1380-1438. Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive, Expositio decalogi]. (Basel : Berthold Ruppel, ca. 1470-1472) Folio. 30 x 21.5 cm., 330 leaves (i.e. 660 pages) ff. 1,24, 25 in contemporary manuscript. 37-38 lines and headline, double...
FIRST EDITION, SPLENDID OPENING ILLUMINATION; COPY BELONGING TO LUCIEN BONAPARTE THE EARLIEST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF DANTE The Book: BRUNUS ARETINUS, Leonardus (1369-1444). Historiae florentini populi, in Italian. Translated from the Latin by Donatus Acciaiuolus. Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 12 February 1476. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (320 x 230 mm). Collation: a-k10 kk6 l-p10 q12...
PRINTED 1566: ROLL-TOLLED BLINDSTAMPED PIGSKIN WITH CLASPS 121 woodcut scenes of tournaments, including two double-page (repeat) The Book: Rüxner, Georg. Thurnier Buch; von Anfang, Vrsachen, Vrsprung vnd Herkommen der Thurnier im Heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation, wie viel offentlicher Landthurnier von Keyser Heinrich dem Ersten dieses Namens an biss auff den jetztregierenden Keyser Maximilian den...
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM; CONNECTED WITH GALILEO Manuscript: [Illuminated Manuscript in Latin on Vellum] [Ludovico Attilo Incontri] PATENTI NOBILIARI E LAUREE; Diploma di Laurea. Pisa, 1626. 225 x 165 mm. 6 ff., i.e. 10 pages. Illuminated opening coat of arms, illuminated throughout in pure gold lettering, wax seal. Very fine 17th century Italian goatskin binding...
IN AN EXTREMELY RARE UNRESTORED, CONTEMPORARY 16th CENTURY VENETIAN GOATSKIN BINDING The Book: HOMER (8th century B.C.). Odyssey in Greek.Odysseia. Batrachomyomachia. Hymnoi = Vlyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. XXXII.[Venetiis : in Aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, M.D.XXIIII. mense Aprili] Printer’s device on the title page; verso of the final leaf. Imprint from the colophon. Spaces with...
The Book: Lucian, of Samosata. I Dialogi piacevoli, le Vere Narrationi, le Facete Epistole di Lvciano Philosopho. Di Greco in Volgare tradotte per M. Nicolo da Lonigo: et historiate, e di nuovo… emendate. Published: Venetia : [Giovanni de Farri e Fratelli], 1541. 8vo., 16 x 11 cm., 223 ff., Publisher’s statement from colophon. Signatures: A-2E⁸....
PRINTED 1599: THE RENAISSANCE REDISCOVERY OF THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES Contemporary Mille Fleurs Bookbinding The Book: Opsopoeus, Johannes Sivylliakoi chrēsmoi hoc est Sibyllina oracvla ex uett. codd. aucta, renouata, et notis illustrata a d. Iohanne Opsopoeo … Cum interpretatione latina Sebastiani Castalionis et indice. Published: Parisijs. Cum preuilegio regis. 1599. Description: 4 Book in 1; ;...
PRINTED 1480; MANY WOODCUTS; COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH OF ROLEWINCK’S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE WORLD The Incunable: ROLEWINCK, Werner (1425-1502). Fasciculus temporum, [Dutch:] Dat boek dat men hiet Fasciculus temporum. With additions. Utrecht: Johann Veldener, 14 February 1480.. Chancery Folio, wide margined., 276 x 205 mm., woodcut...
PRINTED 1579: 43 FULL PAGE WOODCUTS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ENGINEERING TREATISES OF THE 16th CENTURY Isacchi, Giovanni Baptista. Inventioni, nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, e utili avisi a persone di guerra, e per it tempi di piacere.Parma : appresso Seth Viotto, 1579. Signatures: a-b4,A-Y4,Z2. Title vignette (publisher’s device mirroring colophon) Description: [16],...
The artist Uffenbach’ss extremely rare tract on squaring the circle UFFENBACH, Philipp. De Quadratura circuli mechanici. Das ist: Ein newer Kurtzer, hochnützlicher und leichter mechanischer Tractat und bericht von der Quadratur dess Circkels, etc. in Verlegung dess Authoris: Franckfurt, 1619. 19th cebtury marbled boards. VERY RARE. No copies in 30 years of the ABPC auction...
