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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.
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.
ALARDUS AMSTELREDAMUS. · 1491
€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)
[48], 304 ll.Second edition of Alardus Amstelredamus' (or Alardus of Amsterdam, 1491-1544) Selectae similitudines, his most popular work largely due to his extensive commentary on Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), with whom he maintained a close personal and scholarly relationsh...
Della invention dialettica; Tradotto da Oratio Toscanella ... con alcune annotationi utilissime, & affronti importantissimi. Venice, Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s 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.
Della invention dialettica; Tradotto da Oratio Toscanella ... con alcune annotationi utilissime, & affronti importantissimi. Venice, Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s 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.
AGRICOLA, Rodolphus and TOSCANELLA, Orazio (translator). · 1444
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[12], "290" [= 294], [2] pp.Rare first edition of the Italian translation of the main work of the Dutch (Frisian) humanist Rodolphus Agricola (1444-1485), his seminal Dialectica, seu de inventione dialectica libri tres (1515), an influential study of the proper place of logic ...
Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
GANSFORT, Wessel [and Petrus PAPPUS (editor)]. · 1521
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
[38], 921, [1] pp.First and only edition of Wessel Gansfort’s collected works, in which many of his letters and several of his ascetic works were published for the first time. Gansfort, often considered a forerunner of the Reformation, emphasised the importance of Scripture as...
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.With:(2) AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. 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. 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 Wilcke’s woodcut device on the title page. 18th-century half mottled calf, grey paste 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 author’s name and title lettered in gold (“Agricola De Inventione Dialectica”), and blue and red sprinkled edges.
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.With:(2) AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. 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. 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 Wilcke’s woodcut device on the title page. 18th-century half mottled calf, grey paste 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 author’s name and title lettered in gold (“Agricola De Inventione Dialectica”), and blue and red sprinkled edges.
AGRICOLA, Rodolphus. · 1433
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[16], 471, [1 blank]; [20], 321, [1 blank]; [8], 128 pp.The present work brings together collected humanist and other scholarly disputations and treatises, combining foundational works by the Dutch humanist Rudolf Agricola (1433-1485) with later academic material by Johann Ch...
Le corps politique ou les elements de la loy morale & civile. Avec des reflections sur la loy de nature, sur les serments, les pacts, & les diverses sortes de gouvernemens; leurs changemens, & leurs revolutions.Leiden, Jean & Daniel Elsevier, 1653. 12mo. With Elzevier’s woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Early to mid-18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
Le corps politique ou les elements de la loy morale & civile. Avec des reflections sur la loy de nature, sur les serments, les pacts, & les diverses sortes de gouvernemens; leurs changemens, & leurs revolutions.Leiden, Jean & Daniel Elsevier, 1653. 12mo. With Elzevier’s woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Early to mid-18th-century gold-tooled red morocco.
HOBBES, Thomas [and Samuel de SORBIÈRE (translator)]. · 1615
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[1], [1 blank], [4], [2 blank], 231, [1 blank] pp.First Elzevier edition of the French translation by Samuel de Sorbière (1615-1670) of Thomas Hobbes’s (1588-1679) De corpore politico, or the elements of law, moral & politick (1650). Hobbes, among the first major philosophers ...
Il Decamerone nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato.Florence, Heirs of Filippo Giunta, "14 April 1527" [= 1729]. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page and the final leaf. 18th-century vellum.
Il Decamerone nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato.Florence, Heirs of Filippo Giunta, "14 April 1527" [= 1729]. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page and the final leaf. 18th-century vellum.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. · 1729
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[7], [1 blank], 284 ll.A rare celebrated typographical facsimile of the so-called “Ventisettana”, widely regarded as the finest early edition of Il Decamerone. Produced in Venice in 1729 in a strictly limited edition of approximately 300 copies, many of which were reportedly d...
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.
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.
ARATOR. · 1502
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[48] ll.First and only 16th-century edition of the most celebrated work of Arator (ca. 490-after 544), a 6th-century Christian poet and subdeacon of Rome. De Actibus Apostolorum, written in Latin verse, stands as a remarkable example of early Christian literary culture.Arator,...
Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorsterman’s printer’s device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf.
Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. 8vo (14.4 x 6.6 cm). With a woodcut coat of arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck within a 4-piece woodcut frame on the title page, 2 woodcut illustrations, each enclosed in the same four-piece woodcut border (distinct from that on the title page), a large woodcut incorporating Vorsterman’s printer’s device on the last page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century half calf.
PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. · 1500
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[116] ll.First and only 16th-century edition of Johannes Leo Placentius’ (also known as Jan Leo Struyven, ca. 1500-1548) Latin chronicle of the bishops and the wider ecclesiastical history of the dioceses of Tongres, Maastricht and Liège, bringing the narrative up to the year...
Vita sacerdotum.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, May 1532. Small 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled half calf.
Vita sacerdotum.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, May 1532. Small 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled half calf.
DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). · 1402
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
[52] ll.Very rare early Antwerp edition of a treatise on priesthood by one of the famous theologians and mystics of the 15th-century Low Countries, Dionysius the Carthusian (Denys van Rijkel or van Leeuwen, ca. 1402/03-1471), who was given the title “Doctor ecstaticus”. The wo...
Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges.
Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges.
VALERIUS, Cornelius · 1567
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
103, [1 blank] pp.Early edition of an influential compendium of natural philosophy, first published in 1567 and reprinted ca. 15 times between 1568 and 1598. The present 1574 edition testifies to the work’s continued popularity at both Catholic and Protestant universities.The ...
Missae sacratissimae brevis & plana elucidatio.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535-1537. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern green calf.
Missae sacratissimae brevis & plana elucidatio.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535-1537. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern green calf.
KRETZ, Matthias. · 1480
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[24] ll.First and only Antwerp edition of an explanation of the mass by the German Catholic theologian Matthias Kretz (ca. 1480-1543). It is probably a Latin translation of the author's earlier Von der Meß unnd wer der recht priester sey (1524). The title page of the present w...
Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim, Iodoco Valar[a]eo interprete. Coluti Thebani Raptus Helenae eodem interprete.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1539. Small 8vo. With 16 decorated woodcut initials. Modern blind-tooled calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath.
Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim, Iodoco Valar[a]eo interprete. Coluti Thebani Raptus Helenae eodem interprete.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1539. Small 8vo. With 16 decorated woodcut initials. Modern blind-tooled calf by the Period Bookbinders in Bath.
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS. · 1450
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[4], "CCVII" [= 208] ll.First Latin edition of the Posthomerica, an epic Greek poem in 14 books, intended as a continuation of the Illiad. Written by Quintus Smyrnaeus (or Calaber), probably in the 3rd century CE, it tells the story of the Trojan War between Hector's death and...
Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.). Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf.
Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.). Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf.
WESTHEIMER, Bartholomaeus. · 1499
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
340, [8] ll.Rare first edition of a survey of biblical terms. Arranged more or less alphabetically, it explains difficult or distinctive biblical expressions and was intended as a philological aid to understanding Scripture. The author made use of traditional Christian sources...
Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges.
Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges.
JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. · 1452
€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)
64 ll.Very rare Antwerp edition of the famous Satires. This collection of 16 poems was written in the early 2nd century by Decimus Junius Juvenalis (or Juvenal, ca. 55-127 CE), one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. With his sharp wit and biting tone he criticises wha...
Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528. With: (2) HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita. (Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked.
Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528. With: (2) HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita. (Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked.
HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). · 1502
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll.Rare first Antwerp edition, and the earliest truly complete Latin Homer to be printed in the city, from the press of Joannes Grapheus (1502-1571). Conceived as a two-volume "opera omnia", it gathered together all the major Latin tran...
Rerum gestarum Brabantiae ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta ... usque in annum vigesimu[m] sextu[m] supra 1500 restitutae salutis ... Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris. Emendationes, quibus incuriae typographorum occurritur.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hadrianus Tilanus & Johannes Hoochstraten, 1526. 8vo (12.8 x 8.9 cm). With woodcut frame on the title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century half vellum.
Rerum gestarum Brabantiae ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta ... usque in annum vigesimu[m] sextu[m] supra 1500 restitutae salutis ... Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris. Emendationes, quibus incuriae typographorum occurritur.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hadrianus Tilanus & Johannes Hoochstraten, 1526. 8vo (12.8 x 8.9 cm). With woodcut frame on the title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century half vellum.
BARLANDUS, Adrianus. · 1486
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[148] pp.First edition of Adrianus Barlandus’ (1486-1538) seminal Humanist chronicle of Brabant, a landmark in 16th-century Netherlandish historiography and one of the author’s most influential works. The present work offers a sweeping history of the Duchy of Brabant the suppo...
Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimoAntwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum.
Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimoAntwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum.
VALERIUS MAXIMUS. · 2095
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
237, [11] ll.Early Antwerp edition of Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla, it transmits one of the most influential moral and historical collections of Imperial Rome. The work was compiled by Valerius Maximus, a Latin author active in the early decades of the first centu...
Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibusAntwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum.
Omnium gentium mores, leges & ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum opus, Aphricam, Asiam, & Europam describentibus. Accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibusAntwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1538. 8vo (14.7 x 9.6). With a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and some woodcut initials. Later vellum.
BOEMUS, Joannes. · 1520
€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)
149, [3] ll.Second Antwerp edition of one of the most pioneering and influential foundational works of early modern anthropology, first published at Augsburg in 1520. Johann Boemus (1485-1535), often described as the “father of scientific ethnography”, here produced the first ...
Pro invictiss[imo] Caesare Carolo ... ad epistolam Franci Regis ad Principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis ... (&c.). Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 19 August 1527. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the final page of ad 1, and 2 decorated woodcut initials in ad 2. With (bound before ad 1): [CLEMENT VII, Pope]. Epistolae duae, Altera Clementis VII Papae ad Karolum V Imperatorem Aug. etc. Altera Karoli V, Imp. Aug. etc. Clementi respondentis. Cologne, [Petrus Quentell?], March 1527.17th-century vellum.
Pro invictiss[imo] Caesare Carolo ... ad epistolam Franci Regis ad Principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis ... (&c.). Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 19 August 1527. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the final page of ad 1, and 2 decorated woodcut initials in ad 2. With (bound before ad 1): [CLEMENT VII, Pope]. Epistolae duae, Altera Clementis VII Papae ad Karolum V Imperatorem Aug. etc. Altera Karoli V, Imp. Aug. etc. Clementi respondentis. Cologne, [Petrus Quentell?], March 1527.17th-century vellum.
[CHARLES V]. · 1526
€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)
[88]; [48] ll.Early edition of the correspondence between Emperor Charles V and King Francis I, illustrating the strained political situation in Europe during the years 1526-1527. Francis was captured by Charles' army in February 1525, and held captive until he signed the Trea...
De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus. Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1528. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a full-page woodcut decorated illustration, incorporating Grapheus’ device on the verso of the last leaf. Modern vellum.
De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus. Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1528. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a full-page woodcut decorated illustration, incorporating Grapheus’ device on the verso of the last leaf. Modern vellum.
GIOVIO, Paolo. · 1483
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[64] ll.Second edition of Paolo Giovio's (1483-1552) most curious and engaging work De romanis piscibus, his little treatise on the fishes of the Mediterranean. First printed in Rome in the summer of 1524, the work was conceived, fittingly, at a papal banquet. Pope Clement VII...