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De arte cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati.(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm, March 1517. Small folio (20.5 x 29.8 cm). With Reuchlin's woodcut decorated coat-of-arms on the title page. 19th-century blind-stamped half calf.
De arte cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati.(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm, March 1517. Small folio (20.5 x 29.8 cm). With Reuchlin's woodcut decorated coat-of-arms on the title page. 19th-century blind-stamped half calf.
REUCHLIN, Johann. · 1455
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[4], LXXIX, [1] ll.First edition of De arte cabalistica, the first substantial Latin exposition of Kabbalistic doctrine. It was written by Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), a leading figure of European Humanism and a renowned professor at the University of Basel, and it marks a cru...
Historia Anabaptistarum Monasteriensium.3 July 1734. Folio. With small calligraphic decorations. 18th-century sprinkled calf, sewn on six supports with corresponding raised bands, spine gilt, with title and author lettered in gold, and red sprinkled edges. At the foot of the spine a separate paper label inscribed “ZH 53” in ink. With a separate paper label on the front board bears an alternative title pasted-on the front cover of the binding: Historia Monasteriensis urbis et episcopatus, inprimis motuum in reformatione anabaptistarum ... ad an. 1576.
Historia Anabaptistarum Monasteriensium.3 July 1734. Folio. With small calligraphic decorations. 18th-century sprinkled calf, sewn on six supports with corresponding raised bands, spine gilt, with title and author lettered in gold, and red sprinkled edges. At the foot of the spine a separate paper label inscribed “ZH 53” in ink. With a separate paper label on the front board bears an alternative title pasted-on the front cover of the binding: Historia Monasteriensis urbis et episcopatus, inprimis motuum in reformatione anabaptistarum ... ad an. 1576.
[KERSSENBROCH, Hermann von]. · 1534
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
362, 28 ll.A fine and carefully executed 18th-century manuscript copy by an unknown writer of Hermann von Kerssenbroch’s Historia Monasteriensis, the most important contemporary chronicle of the Anabaptist rising in Münster (1534-1535) and of the religious and civic turmoil su...
Tewtsche Theologey.(Colophon:) München, Hans Schobser, 31 August 1528. Small folio (19.6 x 28.5 cm). With the title printed in red and set inside a woodcut frame, depicting God the Father, the Virgin and Child, SS. Peter and Paul, and the four evangelists. Near-contemporary (ca. 1586?) panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and with remnants of 2 pairs of closing ties.
Tewtsche Theologey.(Colophon:) München, Hans Schobser, 31 August 1528. Small folio (19.6 x 28.5 cm). With the title printed in red and set inside a woodcut frame, depicting God the Father, the Virgin and Child, SS. Peter and Paul, and the four evangelists. Near-contemporary (ca. 1586?) panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and with remnants of 2 pairs of closing ties.
PIRSTINGER, Berthold. · 1528
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[251], [1 blank] ll.First edition of Tewtsche Theologey, printed in Munich in 1528, represents Berthold Pürstinger’s (1465-1543) chief work and the first extended Roman Catholic treatise on dogmatics in the German language. Written during his retirement in the Cistercian monas...
Satyrarum hecatostichon prima decas.(Colophon:) Milan, Christophorus Valdarfer, 13 November 1476. 4to. With most of the initial spaces filled with simple manuscript initials in brown ink. 19th-century vellum.
Satyrarum hecatostichon prima decas.(Colophon:) Milan, Christophorus Valdarfer, 13 November 1476. 4to. With most of the initial spaces filled with simple manuscript initials in brown ink. 19th-century vellum.
FILELFO, Francesco. · 1430
€16,000.00 ($17,634.91 | £13,348.26 | ¥2,816,068)
[149] ll.First and only incunable edition of Francesco Filelfo’s Satyrae, a landmark collection of early Renaissance satire. Written in the 1430s and 1440s and circulated privately during the author’s lifetime, the Satyrae offer a strikingly personal and politically charged wi...
Della fabrica del mondo ... libri dieci. Ne'quali si contengono le voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altri buoni auttori, mediante le quali si possono scrivendo esprimere tutti i concetti dell'huomo di qualunque cosa creata.Venice, Paolo Ugolino, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. With: PORCACCHI, Tomasso. Vocabolario nuovo ... Sopra molte voci, che per avanti nella Fabrica erano grandemente desiderate. Contemporary Italian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Della fabrica del mondo ... libri dieci. Ne'quali si contengono le voci di Dante, del Petrarca, del Boccaccio, & d'altri buoni auttori, mediante le quali si possono scrivendo esprimere tutti i concetti dell'huomo di qualunque cosa creata.Venice, Paolo Ugolino, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of each part, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. With: PORCACCHI, Tomasso. Vocabolario nuovo ... Sopra molte voci, che per avanti nella Fabrica erano grandemente desiderate. Contemporary Italian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.
ALUNNO, Francesco.
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[34], "263" [= 262], [1 blank]; 17 ll.Scarce edition of the first methodical vocabulary of the Italian vernacular, with a particular focus on the Tuscan dialect, compiled on the basis of the works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Sannazaro. The vocabulary, preceded ...
Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf.
Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf.
GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). · 1472
€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)
[79] ll.First Strasbourg edition of the earliest printed work to mention chess, published several years before William Caxton's famous work. Primarily intended as a manual for priests, it is a collection of extracts intended to provide moral lessons and examples for the edific...
Epistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus.[Venice, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, ca. 1492]. 4to. 18th-century limp vellum.
Epistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus.[Venice, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, ca. 1492]. 4to. 18th-century limp vellum.
PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius and Antonius MORETUS (editor).
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
108 ll.First Venetian edition of three distinct works historically attributed to Pliny the Younger (62-ca. 113 CE). The biggest part of the present work is comprised of Pliny’s celebrated letters, offering insight into Roman social, domestic, legal, and political life, which w...
Satyrae.(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardinus Benalius & Matteo Capcasa, 3 August 1491. Folio. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled half brown morocco and marbled paper sides, with the author, title, and impressum lettered in gold.
Satyrae.(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardinus Benalius & Matteo Capcasa, 3 August 1491. Folio. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled half brown morocco and marbled paper sides, with the author, title, and impressum lettered in gold.
PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus; Johannes BRITANNICUS, and Bartholomaeus FONTIUS (commentators). · 1450
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[48] ll.First incunable edition that brings together the Renaissance commentaries of Johannes Britannicus (ca. 1450-1518) and Bartholomaeus Fontius (1446-1513), this printing of the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 CE) presents one of the most challenging and intellectu...
Malleus Joannis fabri doctoris celeberrimi, illustriss. Principis ferdinandi archiducis Austriae etc. à secretis, in haeresim Lutheranam, iam denuo vehemtiori studio et labore recognitus, in tractatus etiam et paragraphos divisus. Adiectus est triplex index.(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Soter for Peter Quentel, 1524. Folio. With a woodcut device on the title page, bearing the arms quarterly of Cologne, Angria, Westphalia, and Arnsberg, with an escutcheon of Wied, a crest showing a screen of the arms of Cologne, and two pennons of the cross of Cologne, partly coloured in red and with some woodcut decorated initials throughout.18th-century mottled calf.
Malleus Joannis fabri doctoris celeberrimi, illustriss. Principis ferdinandi archiducis Austriae etc. à secretis, in haeresim Lutheranam, iam denuo vehemtiori studio et labore recognitus, in tractatus etiam et paragraphos divisus. Adiectus est triplex index.(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Soter for Peter Quentel, 1524. Folio. With a woodcut device on the title page, bearing the arms quarterly of Cologne, Angria, Westphalia, and Arnsberg, with an escutcheon of Wied, a crest showing a screen of the arms of Cologne, and two pennons of the cross of Cologne, partly coloured in red and with some woodcut decorated initials throughout.18th-century mottled calf.
FABER, Johann and Johann HOST von ROMBERCH (editor). · 1522
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[12], CLXXVI ll.Third edition of an important work of the early Catholic Counter-Reformation: Johann Faber’s Malleus in haeresim Lutheranam. It is one of the earliest and most systematic Catholic attempts to respond to the emerging Lutheran movement. First printed in Rome in 1...
Controversiarum praecipuarum in comitiis ratisponensibus tractatarum, & quibus nunc potissimum exagitatur christi fides & religio, diligens, & luculenta explicatio.Paris, Jacques Gazeau, 1542. 8vo (16.9 x 10.7 cm). With several large decorated metalcut initials. 19th century gold-tooled half calf.
Controversiarum praecipuarum in comitiis ratisponensibus tractatarum, & quibus nunc potissimum exagitatur christi fides & religio, diligens, & luculenta explicatio.Paris, Jacques Gazeau, 1542. 8vo (16.9 x 10.7 cm). With several large decorated metalcut initials. 19th century gold-tooled half calf.
PIGHIUS, Albertus. · 1490
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
[8], 292 ll.Rare early edition of one of the most substantial works by the Dutch Catholic humanist and controversialist Albertus Pighius (ca. 1490-1542), a native of Kampen, The Netherlands, and one of the most learned defenders of Roman orthodoxy in the first generation of th...
De ratione studii, ac legendi interpretandique auctores libellus aureus. Officiu[m] discipulorum ex Quintiliano. Qui primo legendi, ex eodem. Erasmi concio de puero Iesu in schola coletica Londini instituta p[ro]nu[n]cia[n]da. Eiusdem expostulatio Iesu ad mortales. Eiusdem carmina scholaria.(Colophon) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, April 1516. 4to. With a woodcut decorated title frame and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern brown pigskin.
De ratione studii, ac legendi interpretandique auctores libellus aureus. Officiu[m] discipulorum ex Quintiliano. Qui primo legendi, ex eodem. Erasmi concio de puero Iesu in schola coletica Londini instituta p[ro]nu[n]cia[n]da. Eiusdem expostulatio Iesu ad mortales. Eiusdem carmina scholaria.(Colophon) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, April 1516. 4to. With a woodcut decorated title frame and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern brown pigskin.
ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1709
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
XXIII, [1 blank] ll.Early edition of Erasmus’ seminal educational treatise De ratione studii, here presented alongside several other influential pedagogical and devotional texts. It further includes: Officium discipulorum ex Quintiliano (The duties of students according to Qui...
De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de incantationibus ... ante annos XXXV compositum, nunc primùm verò in lucem fideliter editum. Adiecta brevibus scholiis à Gulielmo Gratorolo Physico Bergomate.Basel, (colophon:) Heinrich Petri, August 1556. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 17th-century vellum.
De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de incantationibus ... ante annos XXXV compositum, nunc primùm verò in lucem fideliter editum. Adiecta brevibus scholiis à Gulielmo Gratorolo Physico Bergomate.Basel, (colophon:) Heinrich Petri, August 1556. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 17th-century vellum.
POMPONAZZI, Pietro. · 1462
€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)
[16], 349, [3] pp.First edition of the most original work on natural philosophy of the time, treating the subject in a completely novel way, and providing the field with new methods. The work investigates seemingly miraculous events, and develops naturalistic explanations for ...
Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers.
Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers.
CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. · 1488
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[4] ll.First and only edition of a rare and important Reformation pamphlet by Hartmuth von Cronberg (1488-1549), an imperial knight (Reichsritter) and one of the earliest convinced adherents of Martin Luther (1483-1546).Von Cronberg belonged to a family of free imperial knight...
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a large engraved portrait of Savonarola mounted on the verso of the blank leaf before the title page, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum.
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a large engraved portrait of Savonarola mounted on the verso of the blank leaf before the title page, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary limp vellum.
CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. · 1484
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[1], [8], 100, [1 blank] ll.First edition of the celebrated polemic by the Dominican theologian Ambrosius Catharinus Politi (1484-1553) against the doctrines and prophetic claims of the Florentine preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). Printed in Venice by the eminent human...
Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum. Libri quinque. Argumentis et Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere Latinè expressi.Geneva, [Eustache Vignon or Henry II Estienne], 1579. 8vo. With a woodcut title border, numerous decorative woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Modern blind-tooled calf.
Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum. Libri quinque. Argumentis et Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere Latinè expressi.Geneva, [Eustache Vignon or Henry II Estienne], 1579. 8vo. With a woodcut title border, numerous decorative woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Modern blind-tooled calf.
BÈZE, Théodore de. · 1519
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[16], "715" [=709], [3] pp.First edition of Théodore de Bèze's influential translation and verse paraphrase of the Psalms, divided into five books. Each of the 150 Psalms is presented with an argumentum, followed by a prose interpretation and paraphrase in parallel columns, an...
Unio dissidentium, omnibus unitatis & pacis amatoribus utilissima, ex praecipuis Ecclesiae Christianae doctoribus ... selecta, & iam denuo aucta & locupletata ... (Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Gymnich, September 1531. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame. Contemporary blind-tooled calf.
Unio dissidentium, omnibus unitatis & pacis amatoribus utilissima, ex praecipuis Ecclesiae Christianae doctoribus ... selecta, & iam denuo aucta & locupletata ... (Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Gymnich, September 1531. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame. Contemporary blind-tooled calf.
BODIUS, Hermann. · 1527
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
[32], 539, [4], [1 blank] pp.Early Cologne edition of one of the most intriguing irenical works of the early Reformation. The present work is the Unio dissidentium, and represents an early and expanded state of a work first published in Antwerp in 1527. The Unio dissidentium i...
Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae... (Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi deum.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Consilium in caussa evangelica. [Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs.
Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae... (Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi deum.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Consilium in caussa evangelica. [Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs.
ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1516
€14,000.00 ($15,430.55 | £11,679.72 | ¥2,464,059)
141, [3]; 167, [1]; [91], [1 blank]; [14], [2 blank] pp.Compilation of first or early editions of four of the most important religious works by Desiderius Erasmus, all printed during his lifetime. The texts, which were incredibly popular in his own time, were written to promot...
Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Virginis et martyris comparatio.[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.[Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knobloch’s large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates.
Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Virginis et martyris comparatio.[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.[Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knobloch’s large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates.
ERASMUS, Desiderius.
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
106; [57], [1 blank]; [49], [1 blank] ll.;158 pp.Four significant early 16th-century works that illuminate the intellectual and theological tensions of the Reformation. Ad 1: The Enchiridion militis christiani (“Poinard of the Christian Knight”), one of Erasmus’ most influenti...
De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis, libellus et novus & elegans. & elegans ... Eiusdem de ratione instituendi discipulos. uterque per autorem recognitus, & locupletatus.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1536. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem, nullo adversario bellacem.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1535.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad epistolam paraenetica[m] clarissimi, doctissimicq[ue] viri... Alberti Pii carporum principis. [Paris, Pierre Vidoux], April 1529.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri.Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, April 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the blank last leaf, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 4 with Froben’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the last blank leaf. Half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides, with the (faded) manuscript title on the spine, red edges.
De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis, libellus et novus & elegans. & elegans ... Eiusdem de ratione instituendi discipulos. uterque per autorem recognitus, & locupletatus.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1536. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem, nullo adversario bellacem.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1535.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad epistolam paraenetica[m] clarissimi, doctissimicq[ue] viri... Alberti Pii carporum principis. [Paris, Pierre Vidoux], April 1529.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri.Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, April 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the blank last leaf, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 4 with Froben’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the last blank leaf. Half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides, with the (faded) manuscript title on the spine, red edges.
ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1529
€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)
[50] ll.; 30, [1 blank], [1] pp.; [56]; [32] ll.Together, these four works capture the remarkable breadth of Erasmus’s influence, from his visionary humanist pedagogy to his forceful engagement in the theological controversies of the Reformation. Brought together in this volum...
Le miroir des Francois, compris en trois livres. contenant l'estat et maniement des affaires de France ... Et generalement tous les secrets qu'on a peu recueillir pour l'ébelissement, & enrichissement du royaume, & soulagement du public. Le tout mis en dialogues par Nicolas De Montand. A la royne regnante. [Geneva/France?], 1581. Bound after: (2) [Nicolas BARNAUD], Le cabinet du Roy de France, dans lequel il y a trois perles precieuses d'inestimable valeur: par le moyen desquelles sa maiesté s'en va le premier monarque du monde, et ses suiets du tout soulagez. [Geneva/France?], 1582. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Ad 2 with a small woodcut initial. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
Le miroir des Francois, compris en trois livres. contenant l'estat et maniement des affaires de France ... Et generalement tous les secrets qu'on a peu recueillir pour l'ébelissement, & enrichissement du royaume, & soulagement du public. Le tout mis en dialogues par Nicolas De Montand. A la royne regnante. [Geneva/France?], 1581. Bound after: (2) [Nicolas BARNAUD], Le cabinet du Roy de France, dans lequel il y a trois perles precieuses d'inestimable valeur: par le moyen desquelles sa maiesté s'en va le premier monarque du monde, et ses suiets du tout soulagez. [Geneva/France?], 1582. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Ad 2 with a small woodcut initial. Contemporary overlapping vellum.
[BARNAUD, Nicolas]. · 1538
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[1], [1 blank], [7], "497" [=495], [1 blank]; [16], 647, [1 blank], [10], [2 blank] pp.This convolute brings together two closely related satirical political texts by, or attributed to, Nicolas Barnaud (1538-1604), a Protestant, and more specifically Huguenot, theologian and p...