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[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1573. "First Edition of this important work, commonly dismissed as a "supplement" to the Thesaurus Graecae Linguae [see Printing and the Mind of Man 62n]; it is in fact an independent work, though a by-product of Henri Estienne's work for the Thesaurus. The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first consists of the editiones principes of the two most valuable ancient Byzantine bilingual glossaries: the Latin-Greek Philoxenus Glossary, and the Greek-Latin Cyrillus Glossary (cfKrumbacher I 562). "The second part consists of Henri's extensive commentaries on the Greek dialects, and is a pioneering work in the field of Greek dialectology." (Schreiber) Schreiber 182. Renouard 135, no. 4. [ff. 4], col. 666, [ff. 4], 13-247. printer's device on title. several woodcut initials & headpieces. later vellum (soiled, head of spine bit chipped, short cut in vellum at top of upper cover, some foxing, inked-out note on title). unidentified cardinal's bookplate. library… Leer más

Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1593. First Estienne Edition. "This important edition of the great Athenian orator Isocrates (436-338 B.C.), with Hieronymus Wolf's text revised by Estienne, who has contributed 7 useful Diatribae, or Dissertations, represents Henri's last major work – the Concordantiae of the following year had been compiled in great part by his father – and constitutes his last folio edition of a classical text. It is also the only book to issue from his press that year. Estienne nostalgically recalls more prosperous days in his preface, addressed to Marcus Fugger, whom he reminds of his family's former generosity towards him." (Schreiber) Appended is the Greek text of the speeches of Aristides, the famous Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., edited with parallel Latin translation by Dutch humanist Willem Canter [1542-1575]. Renouard p. 155. Schreiber 224. Hoffmann II 473. Adams I-219. Brunet III 467. Dibdin (4th Edn.) II p. 126. folio. pp. 14 p.l., 427, 131, xxxiiii, [blank… Leer más

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551 & Paris: [Robert Estienne], 1551., 1551. 4to. pp. 357, [3]; 3 p.l., 280, [10]index. Greek & Latin texts. woodcut devices on titles (Renouard 471 & 296). woodcut ornaments & initials. 18th century calf, rebacked, all edges gilt (binding worn but solid, crack in spine, occasional light embrowning & marginal stains). First Edition of the abridgment of Dio Cassius by the younger Joannes Xiphilinus, bound, possibly as issued, with Guillaume Leblanc’s Latin translation of same. Estienne’s name does not appear on the title-page to the second title. These works complement Estienne’s 1548 folio edition of Dio Cassius. Xiphilinus’ 11th century epitome of the roman history is the only source for Dio’s lost books 61 to 80 (see Schreiber). The first text is printed in the first font of the ‘grecs du roi’, and is based on a manuscript in the Royal Library. It is also one of the last Greek texts to carry Estienne’s Paris… Leer más

Basel: In Officina Frobeniana [Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius], 1535. A handsome and important folio edition, based on the Basel Froben edition of 1531, the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich Glareanus [1488-1563], and also incorporates important new commentary and revisions by Beatus Rhenanus and Sigismund Galenius. Adams L1330. BM STC German p. 521 (5 Parts). Graesse IV 227. 7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 69, [3 leaves]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39]; [96]. woodcut printer’s device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, later spine labels… Leer más

Basel: In Officina Hervagiana [Per Ioannem Hervagium], 1539., 1539. 7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 63, [5]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39], [1]; [96]. woodcut printer's device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in 17th century speckled calf, paneled in gilt, rebacked, preserving endpapers & spine label, corners renewed (very occasional marginal stains). engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, [second] Earl of Essex, dated 1701, on title. A handsome folio edition, based on the Basel Froben editions of 1531 and 1535, the former being the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich… Leer más

Paris: Frédéric Morell, 1575., 1575. 8vo. ff. [8], 132. modern vellum, overlapping fore-edges, gilt edges (some foxing). Second Edition (first: 1574) of this treatise on gardens and the cultivation of plants, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees by French physician and astrologer Mizauld. The lengthy section on grafting (ff. 109-128) is drawn from Columella, Pliny, Palladio, Pontano, and others. Adams M1503. cfBM STC French p. 314 (1574).. Hardcover.

Venice: Gabriel Giolito De’ Ferrari, 1558. Second Edition of the Italian Translation by Lodovico Domenichi (first: 1548). Adams X40. Bongi II p. 64. BM STC Italian 738. Graesse VI 403. Hoffmann III p. 605. Schweiger I p. 344. small 8vo. ff. 163. lacking final leaf with printer’s device. part of title within woodcut border. woodcut printer’s device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century calf (worn & oxidized, several small holes in title affecting 2 letters, light dampstains & foxing to outer leaves)

Lyons: Guillaume Rouillé, 1554., 1554. 16mo. pp. 650, [47]index. woodcut printer's device on title. contemporary limp vellum (small piece wanting from spine, library rubberstamp on title, dampstain to outer margin in first half). 3 pp. old ms. notes at end & occasional notes in text. This copy does not include the Greek text of the Aphorismi (pp. 64) at the end; as it is in a contemporary binding and nothing appears to have been removed, it is possible that there may have been two issues of this edition (see Blake, listing one copy with the Greek text, and one without, identified as 'incomplete'). Adams G123. Durling 1959. cfBM STC French p. 226. cfWellcome 2624-25..

Venice: Fabio & Agostino Zoppini, 1589. Fifth Edition (first: 1563). Houzeau & Lancaster state that in his notes Grotto regards spheres as being originally in equilibrium in space, and that they move as a result of magnetic attraction produced by more distant bodies. Adams B2379. Houzeau & Lancaster 2618. This edition not in BM STC Italian. 8vo. ff. 132, [4]. full-page woodcut portraits of the author & of Luigi Grotto Cieco D’Adria, who wrote the notes. woodcut device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. modern wallet-edged vellum (light dampstaining to outer leaves)

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. First Combined Edition of this early example of Italian Renaissance utopian literature, inspired by Sir Thomas More (originally published as two separate volumes in 1552 and 1553). Doni himself had edited the first Italian translation of More's Utopia by Ortensio Lando, which appeared in Venice in 1548 (Gibson 37). "In a mixture of story, speculation, dialogue, allegory, and moralizing, Doni discusses the little world - man, the greater world - the universe, and the world of God, and goes on to satirize human inconsistencies in the mixed world, man's follies in the risible world, his vain imaginations in the world of the imagination, and thus reaches a more truly utopian section, il mondo savio e pazzo, which Curcio prints in Utopisti e riformatori, pages 1-15, noting (page xii) that More influenced Doni, who was probably the translator, certainly the editor of the Italian text of Utopia. Il mondo savio is perfect in all respects, even in form, "in todo… Leer más

[Geneva:] Jean Crispin, 1567. Crispin had previously published the Iliad in 1559; the two works are listed together in the bibliographies. Adams H756. Brunet III 271. Graesse III 327. Moss II 485. 16mo. pp. 2 p.l., 528 [i.e. 428]. text in Greek. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut headpieces & initials. 17th century calf, covers paneled in blind (joints rubbed, corners & spine worn & chipped at head & tail, light dampstaining to outer leaves, some headlines shaved)

Paris: Robert Estienne, 15[38]-39. 5 Parts in 2 Volumes. folio. pp. 8 p.l., 288; 340 [i.e. 640], [6]; 416; 450, [1 leaf]; 158, [100]. 6 titles with woodcut printer’s device. several woodcut initials. 17th century calf, recornered & rebacked with gilt spines mounted (staining to p. 240 of second part, lower blank margin of title of 3rd part renewed, a few small round wormholes at beginning of Vol. II). numerous neat old ms. marginal notations & some scoring in first volume. Second Edition edited by Italian classical scholar, Pietro Vettori [1499-1585], elegantly printed in folio format by Robert Estienne. It is based on the Giunta Venice edition of 1534, with a few additional notes by the editor. The five parts comprise the rhetoric (Part I), the orations (Part II), the letters (Part III), the philosophical writings (Part IV), and Vettori’s commentary (Part V). Adams C1640. BM STC French p. 109. Brunet II 7 (incorrectly citing 6 Vols.). Moss I p. 291. cfRenouard p. 48 (citing 4 Vols.… Leer más

Rostock: Myliander, 1591. First Edition. An extremely rare treatise and scarce imprint. Poet, philologist, and theologian Nathan Chytraeus, was the younger brother of the theologian David Chytraeus, a disciple of Philip Melanchton. Nathan was a professor first at the University of Rostock, where he is credited with founding the library in 1569, and later at the Gymnasium in Bremen. Not in Adams or BM STC German. 8vo. unpaginated. woodcut printer’s device on title. modern bds. (paper embrowned)

Colophon on G2r: [Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri, October 1518]., 1518. 8vo. ff. 233, [3]. complete with the 2 blanks, B8 & G3. Aldine woodcut device on title & verso of last leaf. 19th century paneled calf. armorial bookplate of Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Third Baron Holland [1773-1840]. First Aldine Edition of this collection of ancient geographical texts. Mela’s was "the first extant geographical work in Latin and the only Roman treatise of the classical period devoted exclusively to that subject." (DSB) His descriptive survey of the habitable world (Europe, Africa, and Asia) includes remarks on manners and customs, details on spectacular phenomena, and speculation on the causes of tides. "Despite his general inferiority as a geographer, Pomponius knew more than Strabo about the positions of Britain, Ireland, and the coasts of Gaul and north Germany; he was also the first to mention the Orkney Islands. Pomponius exerted a considerable influence on early… Leer más

[Lyon]: Vincent de Portonariis, 1529. Second Edition (?) of this text on criminal law by Bolognese teacher, lawyer, and judge Ippolito Marsili. Marsili is best known for documenting or inventing what is known as the Chinese water torture method, in which drops of water consistently falling on a victim's forehead gradually drives him to the point of insanity. Marsili is also credited with being the first person to document the use of sleep deprivation combined with prolonged and harsh interrogation as a means of torture. This edition not in Adams or BM STC French where earliest edition listed is 1528. 8vo. ff. cxliii, [28]. 2 Parts in 1, Repertorio with separate title. titles within woodcut border, the first printed in red & black. large woodcut printer’s device on titles & S8r. text in double columns. recently bound into old vellum (paper embrowned, some early underlining & marginalia). elala5770

Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583., 1583. folio. pp. 10 p.l., 505, [37]index, [2]errata & colophon. printer's device on title & at end. several woodcut diagrams in text. woodcut ornaments & initials. later bds. (worn but solid). Evelyn library bookplate. Important chronicle of the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to the year 1500, written by German historian and diplomatist Albert Krantz (or Crantz) and first published in 1546. The present edition, edited by Johann Wolf, contains a continuation by Cilicius [pseudoym for H.Ranzovius], and a reprint (pp. 473-497) of a complementary treatise on the northern regions by Jakob Ziegler, entitled Schondia, originally published in Ziegler's Quae intus continentur. (Strassburg: 1532). Here, in the section on Greenland (pp. 479-80), reference is made to the American voyage and discoveries of John Cabot, as related by Peter Martyr, with a report of his encounter with ice during the month of July in the Greenland Sea.… Leer más

[cMantua: c1599]., 1599. folio. pp. 405, 22, [blank leaf], 12, 35, 40. woodcut ornaments & initials. old vellum (some damage to lower front cover & upper spine, a few leaves discoloured, some staining to inner margins towards end). occasional marginal notes & markings, some cut into when text rebound). bookplate of the Prince of Liechtenstein. The volume contains the documentary material of a law suit concerning a feudal estate in northern Italy which, at the end of the sixteenth century, was still under the sovereign jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire. In connection with two scandalous murder cases in the Gonzaga family, the possession of the territory of Castelgiuffredo (between Mantua and Brescia) was claimed by the Duke of Mantua as head of the House of Gonzaga (the Gonzaga family were masters of Mantua from 1329 to 1708). However, the Emperor Rudolf had adjudged Castelgiuffredo to Francesco Gonzaga of Castiglione in 1599. This book was apparently published by order of the Duke of… Leer más

London: 1584., 1584. thick folio. text in double columns. unpaginated. lacking initial blank & without the 1584 colophon leaf. woodcut device on title. woodcut initials. modern quarter calf (repaired tear in q4 - no loss, small number rubberstamp at head of title, headlines occasionally shaved, small wormtrack through a few gatherings towards end). ms. inscription dated 1632 on last page. Cooper prepared his important Latin-English dictionary while headmaster of Magdalen College, drawing on the work of other lexicographers and in particular on the dictionaries of Sir Thomas Elyot and Robert Estienne. It was first published in 1565. Appended to the main text is an historical and poetical dictionary. The work soon became a standard reference and was probably used and consulted by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan poets and dramatists. So delighted with the dictionary was Queen Elizabeth that she promised to aid in the advancement of the author's career. Cooper was made dean of Christ Church,… Leer más