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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 ARABIC MANUSCRIPT 1579.

1. al-Taftazani, Sa‘d al-Din. An introduction to logic by Sa'd al-Din Mas'ud al-Taftazani (d. 793/1390). N. p., 987 AH [1579 AD]. 8vo (14,8 x 9,5 cm). [1] + 12 ff. Arabic indigenous paper, nasta'liq script of calligraphic quality, 9 lines to the page, black ink, with headings executed in gold, illumination (two flowers over the beginning of the text). Full-leatherOriental binding with ornamentation (borders, flowers, in gold paint). € 950,Sa'd al-DinMas'ud al-Taftazani, a renowned scholar, was born in the village of Taftazan in the north-eastern Iranian province of Khurasan. He also wrote works on Arabic grammar,rhetoric, theology, logic, law, and Quranic exegesis (tafsir). GAL S II, p. 302.

[Book of Hours] Use of Rome, finely decorated in demi-grisaille, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands (probably Ghent or Bruges), c. 1460] € 125.000, 110 leaves, wanting a miniature from the opening of the Seven Penitential Psalms (before fol. 74, with vertical cut in previous leaf with later repair), else complete (stubs after fols. 8 and 9, and glued down strip in gutter after fol. 11, but with no loss to text and thus apparently just reinforcing strips of vellum, perhaps making up bifolia from two separate leaves of vellum)

Collation: i6, ii-iii8, iv9 (one a singleton with a miniature), v-vii8, viii9 (one a singleton with a miniature), ix9 (one a

singleton with a miniature), x8 (probably; wanting a singleton added with a miniature), xi8 (probably), xii-xiii8, xiv5 (last a singleton added to complete text), single column, 20 lines in a fine and professional late gothic bookhand,

capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, ornate line fillers in red and blue arranged around gold baubles, small oneline initials in blue or liquid gold with contrasting swirling penwork, 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and pink

grounds heightened with white penwork, with sprays of single line foliage with gold leaves gold and blue baubles,

and trilobed flowers with blue and gold tips to their petals, three large initials in black with white penwork (fol. 11r,

13r and 74r) on coloured grounds with tessellated flower infill on gold, the accompanying text enclosed within gold

and coloured bar borders and lavish borders of swirling foliage in black, grey and dull-gold tones, twenty-two small square miniatures (the Evangelists, fols. 7r-9r, the first with a blue peacock with a gold tail in the border), the Pièta

(fol. 19r), the Virgin and Child (fol. 20r), God the Father holding Christ on the Cross (with a tiny additional penmark intended to obscure Christ’s genitals, fol. 22r), the saints (fols. 22v-29v), eleven full-page miniatures with limited

use of colours for fleshtones, draperies and some interior features, else finely painted in grey-tones, with metallic silver for windows and gold for haloes (fol. 15r, 30v, 41v, 48v, 51v, 54v, 57v, 60v, 65v, 69v and 85v), these all

facing large black initials and decorated pages as before, very slight flaking and thumbing to areas of borders, face of Child on fol. 15v damaged (probably from ritual use) and retouched, small amount of cockling to some leaves,

slight trimming to edges with very small losses to edges of border decoration in Calendar, but overall in good and fine condition, last leaf with near-contemporary prayer and later pasted on coat-of-arms (perhaps seventeenthcentury) on linen cutout: tour d'argent sur fond de sable écartelé de gueule au lion d'or, écu de France; 200 by 140mm.; bound in nineteenth-century faded green silk over pasteboards, some wear at spine and at edges of thongs, but solid in binding About this book

Book of Hours in grisaille a far more rare, then the merely coloured ones and far more expensive. Then and now.

For instance an early royal book of hours like the invaluable prayer book of Jean of Evreux was executed in grisaille. While one would think that lack of precious materials such as gold, made such a book less valuable. The opposite is true. Silver is the hardest of materials to work with in the book arts. It was listed in one inventory of royal property among the jewels, not the library. The artistry, emphasized the understated grisaille technique, signified value,

rather than costly materials such as gold leaf, rather than costly materials such as gold leaf. The grisaille technique, combined with the double page spread images, may have brought to mind another kind of image, the ivory diptych

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 (a hinged image in two parts). It was during the extreme outpouring of wealth into the arts during the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy over the southern Netherlands that such books where produced.

There in key ducal centres such as Bruges and Ghent, the vast wealth of the dukes was set towards glorious and

novel artistic commissions, and in the search for the new, groups of artists began to produce entire books almost

devoid of colour, as monochrome treasures. The present manuscript may have been a production for a very wealthy member of the ducal administration, or an important member of the local aristocracy with an eye for the latest fashions. Made in Ghent or Bruges in the mid-fifteenth century.

The Litany includes both St. Bavo of Ghent (d. 659 and the patron of the town) and Amelberga (d. 772, whose relics were held in the town from the eleventh century onwards), as well as St. Winnoc (abbot of Wormhout, who came

from Wales in the eighth century, also in Calendar on 6 November) and Landoaldus (one of the teachers of Lambert

of Maastricht in the seventh century: feast in March). A near-contemporary hand, perhaps that of the original owner or his immediate successor, added other local saints to the Calendar, such as St. Hubert of Liège (early eighth

century: Feast in November), as well as those with a west-central French connection, such as King Louis of France, St. Symphorian (venerated in Autun) and Mammès (venerated in diocese of Langres). Text

The text comprises: a Calendar (ff.7-9v); Readings from the Evangelists (ff. 10-12v); Hours of the Cross (ff. 13-15); Hours of the Holy Spirit (15v-21v); Mass of the Virgin; the O Intemerata (f.19) and Obsecro te (ff. 20-21); the

Suffrages of the Saints (ff. 22v-29v); the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (ff. 31-41), Lauds (ff. 41v-48), Prime (ff.

48v-51), Tierce (ff. 51 v-54), Sext (ff. 54v- 57), None (ff. 57v-60), Vespers (ff. 60v-65), and Compline (ff. 65v-68v); the Office of the Virgin variants for Advent (ff. 74-80); the Seven Penitental Psalms, followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (ff.85 v-109). Illumination

The swirling foliage of the borders and oval faces with eyes formed of dots suspended from drooping penstrokes

shows the influence of Willem Vrelant, the favoured illuminator of the Burgundian dukes (fl. 1452-1480s), perhaps through the Mildmay Master.

Silver is the hardest of materials to work with in the book arts, and was perhaps mastered in the European Middle Ages only twice: firstly during the Carolingian age of the late eighth and ninth century, and secondly during the

extreme outpouring of wealth into the arts during the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy over the southern Netherlands. There in key ducal centres such as Bruges and Ghent, the vast wealth of the dukes was set towards glorious and

novel artistic commissions, and in the search for the new, groups of artists began to produce entire books almost

devoid of colour, as monochrome treasures. The present manuscript may have been a production for a non-noble but wealthy member of the ducal administration, or an important member of the local aristocracy with an eye for the latest fashions.

With 21 small miniatures and 11 full page ones. The large miniatures comprise: (1) f. 15v, The Virgin in majesty; (2) f. 30v, the Annunciation; (3) f. 41v, the Visitation; (4) f. 48v, the Nativity; (5) f. 51v, Annunciation to the Shepherds;

(6) f. 54v, the Adoration of the Magi; (7) f. 57v, Presentation in the Temple; (8) f. 60v, Massacre of the Innocents; (9) f. 65v, Flight into Egypt; (10) f. 69v, the Coronation of the Virgin; (11) f. 85v, Lazarus raised from the Dead.

MONASTIC DEVOTIONAL COMPENDIUM

3. [COMPENDIUM] Latin compendium, containing an Antiphonal for the whole liturgical year, a Hymnal, the Common of the Saints and a number of short texts on the nature of dying well in Latin. Central Germany (Erfurt), c. 1498

This is a fine monastic book from one of the greatest German medieval libraries, the Charterhouse of St. Salvatorberg in Erfurt, in an excellent state of preservation and in its original binding.

Apart from its liturgical contents, it holds a number of versions of a rare text written by members of

the Erfurt Charterhouse, one of which is evidently of great importance for the history of the text and its future study, and others which appear to be unique. There is an even more detailed description upon request.

€20.000,-

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600

258 leaves, contemporary monastic binding of blind tooled pigskin (roll stamps of flower heads, fleur-de-lys and agnus dei within roundels and lozenges, all enclosing a central panel of chevrons) Provenance

Written and decorated for the large and important medieval library of St. Salvatorberg, the great Charterhouse of Erfurt, c. 1498: the contemporary inscriptions on the front pastedown open with the ex libris “Iste libellus est

fratrum carthusien propter Erfford”, and the main text on fol. 2r with “Cartusiae Erfordiensis” in a sixteenth- or

seventeenth-century hand (identical inscriptions can be found on many books from this library, see those sold in

Sotheby’s, 5 December 1978, lot 45, and 7 December 1982, lot 56). The watermark, that of an imperial crown (split across the gutter of bifolia, but visible on fols. 228 and 237), is Briquet no. 4895 (otherwise recorded in Leipzig in 1498). The scribes of St. Salvatorberg most likely obtained their paper, on this occasion at least, from that neighbouring city.

The charterhouse in Erfurt was founded in 1372, and quickly attracted wealthy Thuringian benefactors. The

Carthusian order led the way in biblical scholarship in the fifteenth century, and the library at Erfurt grew rapidly,

coming to be one of the most important cultural repositories in Germany, The mid-fifteenth-century catalogue in its edited form, now occupies over 300 pages of printed text in the Mittelalterlische Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz II (1928), pp. 221-593. It included such opulent books as the Phillipps Bestiary, with 86

illustrations, and in fact the only recorded German illustrated manuscript of the text (once Phillipps MS. 10850, sold in Sotheby’s, 26 November 1975, lot 829, to the Getty Museum, and now Wormsley, MS. BM 3731), and the Bible

copied by Cambius de Vicentia with 444 historiated initials (once in the princely Donaueschingen collection of the Prince Fürstenberg, sold Sotheby’s, 21 June 1982, lot 12).

The house was suppressed in 1803 and its book collection scattered, with substantial institutional holdings now in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek (91 codices); Dresden, Landesbibliothek (13 codices); Edinburgh, National Library of

Scotland and University Library (12 codices); Erfurt, Cathedral and Stadtsbibliothek (9 codices); London, British

Library (30 codices); Oxford, University Library and Colleges (35 codices); St. Hugh’s Charterhouse, Partridge Green (13 codices); Pommersfelden (19 codices); Weimar ZB (43 codices). Text

The volume contains the antiphons with some associated versicles, collects and hymns for the liturgical feasts of the entire year, opening with those for the feast of an apostle (fol. 2r), an ending with that for an elect (fol. 155r). Of

especial note here are the feasts of the saints from the Germany and the neighbouring regions to the east: Ulric of Augsburg, 4 July (fol. 24v), Gereon of Cologne, 10 October (fol. 76r and 77v), Elizabeth, queen of Hungary, 19

November (fol. 85r and 104r), Stanislaus of Poland, 7 May, Wenceslaus of Poland, 28 September, and Ludmilla, the

grandmother of Wenceslaus, 16 September (fols, 149v and 150v); as well as a handful of Anglo-Saxon missionaries and saints, including Oswald, king of Northumbria, 5 August (fol. 39r); and the two SS. Ewalds of Northumbria who

died in Westphalia in 692, 1-3 October (fol. 70r). A hymnal for the Temporal follows on fol. 120v, with the same for the Sanctoral from fol. 133v. After these come prayers for various feasts and saint days follow (fol. 155v); as well as prayers ascribed to Pope Gregory or addressed to the Virgin Mary, which promise their readers reduced time in

purgatory (fol. 170v and 176r); and others for the dead (fol. 177v). The Common of the Saints opens on fol. 182v,

and ends on fol. 231v with the line “Deo Gratias”. These contents are also noted in a scribbled set of annotations on the front pastedown and recto of the front endleaf.

What is of especial interest here is the contemporary corrector’s attempt to make good the problems created here by the accidental misbinding of the 11th gathering amongst those at the end of the book. The binding here was

evidently quite expensive in the last years of the fifteenth century, or was seen as of such quality, that rather than disband the manuscript and reorder these two gatherings, a contemporary corrector added a note horizontally in

the inner margin of fol. 211 (the opening leaf of the 19th gathering), noting that the following “sexterna” should in

fact be in “undecimo loco” (the 11th place [in the gathering structure]), marking this with a symbol of a cross atop a globe. The same symbol appears upside down in the margin of fol. 114v, marking the correct place for the gathering.

Around 1500, a short series of closely related devotional texts were added on gatherings at the end of the volume. The first three are longer or shorter variants of a version of a well-known text on dying well the Modus disponendi

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 se ad mortem, in the extended version of a previously unidentified Carthusian writer (see R. Rudolf, Ars moriendi,

1957, pp. 75-82). All three open with variants of the incipit “confitebor tibi clementissime deus pater multitudinem magnitudinem et enormitatem …” (here on fols 233v, 234r and 240v). The text is apparently unedited. Other

manuscripts containing a version of this Carthusian version of the work are recorded at Graz UB, MS. 1606 (A. Kern, Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Graz III, 1967); the library of the monastery at Stams, MS. 43 (recorded in Hill Monastic Manuscript Library’s unpublished catalogue of c. 1976); and Augsburg UB, MSS. 8° 15, 2° 66 and 2˚

405 (G. Hägele, Lateinische mittelalterliche Handschriften in Folio der Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, 1993-1996). To these should be added Vienna, ÖNB Cod. 3650; Munich UB, MS. 8˚ Cod MS 213 (N. Daniel, Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek München, 1989, p. 144); Ljubljana, Narodni Muzeum, MS. 241r (see Milko Kos and France Stelè’s catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Slovenia: Srednjeveški rokopisi v

Sloveniji, 1931, under Kos no. 80); and a copy recently published as in the eighteenth-century library of Herzogin Anna Amalia of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Die lateinischen Handschriften bis 1600, 2004, p. 269).

The author of this text is normally given only as “N” for Nomine (ie. ‘insert name here’), and this has lead academic consensus to state that the author is unknown and undated. However, one of the Augsburg manuscripts names its author as Johannes and dates it to 1481, and the Vienna manuscript while giving no name, dates the text to 1476. In addition, a lengthy version of the text (closely corresponding to that of fols. 234r-236r of the present

manuscript) was published in an edition of the Neujahrsblatt für Basels Jugend for 1838 dedicated to the history of the Charterhouse in Basel (part II, pp. 6-7), naming the author as “Ego frater Martinus indignus nomine

carthusiensis ordinis”. Clearly the arguments for authenticity are not strong or straightforward here, and hitherto there have been no indications where the text might have been composed.

The present manuscript casts a great deal of light on these questions, and promises to cast much more in the

future. A lengthy introduction on fol. 240r here offers the date of the copying of one of these texts as 1500, and notes the involvement of a Carthusian monk named Jacobus Volradus, as well as naming the author as Johannes

“ordinis carthusiensis et monachus professus domus eiusdem ordinis propter erffurdiam” (fol. 240r), and again on fol. 234r as Johannes “indignus nomine carthusiensis ordinis . monachus et sacerdos professus domus sancti

salvatoris”. On each of the occasions when Johannes is named, a few centimetres of following text which clearly

gave more information on him are lightly covered with ink. With sensitive handling and careful study these might

prove readable (note in particular fol. 234r where individual letterforms are easily discernible beneath the ink panel in normal light).

However, significant questions remain for the future student. The first and shortest version of the text here is

ascribed to “Frater Marcellinus indignus quidam nomine Carthusiensis ordinis monachorum et sacerdos professus” (fol. 233v). This clearly agrees, albeit in a slightly garbled form, with the printed identification of Martinus as the

author, despite the fact that the text printed in 1838 in connection with the Charterhouse at Basel corresponds here to a version named as the work of Johannes. There may have been two authors who worked together, or one who revised the others text soon after it was finished.

This text appears to be the only surviving copy to name the main potential author as a member of the Carthusians

of Erfurt, offers further details on him for future students of it, and with the inclusion of multiple copies of different lengths (and perhaps by two different authors) will almost certainly add significantly to our knowledge of the composition and earliest stages of this text.

Following these are three related tracts: the first opens “Sed ut dictum est ut tua iusticia …” on fols. 254r-257r, and

the second with “Et pro omnibus volo omni modo manere …” on fols. 257v-258v, the latter also mentioning Jacobus Volradus. The third opens “Et ego frater Marcellinus idem et eandem protestationem cupio et desidero …” on fol.

257v-258r, again noting Marcellinus as its author. None appears in the vast In Principio database, and these may well be unique to this manuscript.

FROM THE CELEBRATED CHOIRBOOK OF ANNE OF BRITTANY.

4. [Gradual cuttings] Six hitherto unrecorded cuttings from the celebrated Gradual of King Louis XII of France (reigned 1498-1515) and his second wife, Anne of Brittany. € 6500,4

MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600

Other surviving parts of the manuscript include the royal arms of France, royal heraldic devices and the initials ‘A’ and ‘L’. The artist has been identified as the Master of Phillippe de Gueldres (fl.1500-10) from a cutting with a miniature of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany adoring the Crown of Thorns (Nantes, Musée Dobrée, see Paris, Les

Enluminures, 1994, no.28; for the artist, see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 14401520, 1993, pp.278-81). The Gradual had been cut up and dispersed by the mid-nineteenth century (see Le Roux de Lincy, Vie de la Reine

Anne de Bretagne, II, 1860-61, p.86), and a large number of initials and borders have survived (for a summary of the surviving fragments, see de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly, 2010, no.83, including the sole complete leaf now Massachusetts, Wellesley College, MS.6, which has the vast dimensions of 657mm. by 495mm.). Recently one cutting made 11.250 GBP http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/western-manuscriptsminiatures-l13240/lot.7.htm

5. [GRADUAL LEAF] circa second half of the 13th century, Northern France. 25 x 18 cm. Anonymus artist. € 6500,The initial depicts a Priest presiding over the Offertory. The chant reads " P. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. S. Amen. P. Dominus Vobiscum Et cum spíritu tuo. Sursum corda. Habémus ad Dóminum. Gratias agamus Domino. " The

Offertory is the traditional moment in Roman Catholic Mass when alms are collected for the support of the church and for charity.

PAPAL BULL

6. Innocent IV, Pope. Born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254. This papal bull on vellum is dated 26 september 1252. Did not study it in depth, but it is addressed to the monastery Moutier-Saint-Jean de Réôme in the village of Moutiers-Saint-Jean (named after the monastery). The topic is debts. 29 x 24 cm

Two triangle like cuts in text, some smaller ones. Corner repaired. Text clearly legible. € 2950

PAPAL LETTER

7. Intimantibus Nobis 29 April 1259. Written at the papal court in Anagni. A seminal document for Franciscan relations. 10 lines written in dark brown ink in an Italian Gothic Script. Size: 205 x 305 mm. € 3750,– Alexander IV. lobt auf Grund der Berichte der Kölner Minoriten den Einsatz des Erzbischofs zu ihren Gunsten und ermahnt, also fortzufahren.Incipit: Intimantibus nobis. Adressat: Erzbischof von Köln. Pope, Alexander IV, was a

Cardinal Protector of the Franciscans, also called the Order of Friars Minor. This papal letter (not a bull!) attests of his sympathies and is addressed to the Archbishop of Cologne: Konrad von Hochstaden (or Conrad of Hochstadt, 1238-1261), under which reign the first phase of the famous Cologne Cathedral was build.

In 1257 Konrad issued an indulgence of hundred days, for everyone who prayed for the Holy Franciscus and Clara.

In 1259, (the contents of this very letter) he praises the Archbishop for his efforts to protect the Franciscan monks,

who referred to themselves as “little brothers” (Fraticelli or Minoriten), and had been resident in the city since 1221.

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 LIVE OF JESUS IN DUTCH, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS (NORTH-BRABANT?), C. 1475-1500

8. Leven von Jezus [Middle-Dutch translation of the PSEUDO-BONAVENTURE-LUDOLPHIAN, Life of Jesus] € 35.000,i+197 + i folios on paper, no watermarks discernible; neither foliated nor paginated; mostly in quires of eight

leaves, quires numbered from 1 to 25 with pencil at the bottom of the first recto of each quires, complete (collation i-ix8 [ff. 1-72] x8 [lacking 8, ff. 73-79] xi8 [ff. 80-87] xii6 [ff. 88-93] xiii8 [lacking 3, ff. 94-100], xiv-xxxiii8 [ff.

101-180] xxiv8 [+ one leaf, f. 181, before 1, ff. 181-189], xxv6 [+ one leaf, f. 191, after 1 and one leaf, f. 196, after 5, ff. 190-197]), no catchwords or signatures, ruled in blind (justification 98 x 64 mm.), written in a littera hybrida by one hand (apart from a short addition on f. 181 by another hand) in a single column of twenty-three to twenty-

one lines, many corrections in the margins, one six-line blue lombard with pen-flourishes in red (f. 1), one four-line littera duplex in red and blue with pen-flourishes in blue and red (f. 182), five three-line red or blue lombards with pen-flourishes in blue, red or brown (ff. 27v, 80, 148, 151, 180v), three two-line red or blue lombards with pen-

flourishes in blue, red or brown (ff. 39, 40v, 196v), several three- and two-line red or blue lombards without pen-

flourishes, paragraph signs in red, majuscules in text stroked in red, rubrics in red, some underlining in red, simple

ornamentation and tiny faces in brown and red at the elongated shafts of letters in the upper margin of nearly every page; a drawing in green and red of a cross on a hill in the lower margin of f. 79v; in good condition, a small tear in the lower edge of f. 32 and in the upper edge of f. 47, unobtrusive stains on ff. 100v–101. Binding from the

eighteenth century, plain vellum over pasteboard, gold fillets on the spine, a shield on the spine with gilt lettering reading “LEVEN / VAN / ONS HEREN / MANUSCRIT / 1331”, edges speckled in blue. Dimensions 135 x 100 mm.

Neatly written and carefully corrected manuscript of the so-called Pseudo-Bonaventure-Ludolphian Life of Jesus, a Middle Dutch translation from a Latin account of the life and passion of Christ that encourages the reader to relive

and to identify with these events. This manuscript, written for a woman, reflects the late-medieval need, inspired by the Devotio Moderna, for devotional texts in the vernacular as aids for private worship. PROVENANCE

The manuscript does not contain any traces of ownership, but evidence of script, decoration and language suggests it was copied in the Southern part of the Northern Netherlands (North-Brabant?), c. 1475–1500. Apparently it was

made for a woman, given the feminine form “dierne” in “Ic arme sondighe dierne offer di huden dijns een gheboren uutgerecte armen” (f. 180v).

Somebody trying to imitate the hand of the scribe wrote “anno .M.CCC.XXXI.” in red on f. 197v, following the end of the text. This date 1331 is false.

Loosely inserted is a piece of paper with notes by the Belgian philologist and historian Karel De Flou (1853–1931).

He states, among other things, that the manuscript is of Brabant origin, that it dates from the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century, that it is incomplete (which is not true), and that “the language is the beautiful and

peculiar language of the 14th and 15th centuries” (“de tale is de schoone en eigenaardige der XIVe en XVe eeuwe”). It is uncertain whether the manuscript was owned by De Flou himself or that it was shown to him by an unknown private owner.

The recto of the flyleaf in the front and f. 197v (beneath the false date 1331) bear the number “1481” in pencil by a modern hand. The number may be an assumed date for the manuscript, or refer to an auction number.

According to De Bruin the compilation was made shortly before 1400 (De Bruin, 1964, and Tleven ons heren Ihesu Cristi, 1980). This view, however, was challenged by Walter Baier and Karl-Ernst Gaith, who argued that the Latin

original had been compiled by Michael of Massa (d. 1337), an Italian Augustinian monk living in Paris (Baier, 1977;

Geith, 1987, 1988, 1990). Michael of Massa primarily used the Meditationes Vitae Christi; Ludolph of Saxony’s Vita Jesu Christi had not yet been written.

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 The question of the author of this text is still open to debate, but in any event, the Dutch translation of this Life of Jesus was very popular. More than forty manuscripts with the complete text or with parts of the text have survived (lists in Deschamps, 1972 and Biemans, 1984; see also the online Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta and the

online Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts). Its popularity can be explained by the increasing desire among both religious and lay people in the fifteenth century for devotional and meditative texts in the vernacular to enhance

private worship, independent from the formal corporate liturgy. It was a desire which was strongly inspired by the

Devotio Moderna or Modern Devotion, the religious movement, founded by the Dutch reformer Geert Groote, which revived spiritual life in the Low Countries during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The contents of this

vernacular text doubtless appealed especially to women; the strong identification with the life of Christ and His Passion known as affective piety or affective meditation was a form of devotion that had special importance to women, both lay and religious, and indeed may have been created by nuns (McNamer, 2010).

De Bruin published the text in 1980 after a manuscript dated 1409 (Leiden, University Library, Ms. LTK 1984). He discerned four versions of the text, but only as the result of “preliminary research” (“een voorlopig ingesteld

onderzoek”). This may explain why De Bruin did not specify very precisely which features characterize each version. Version I is represented by the text in his edition, and from that it is certain that our manuscript does not contain that version. Versions II, III and IV, however, are not described in a way that allows for easy identification of the

version in the present manuscript. It seems likely, however, that it contains Version IV, described by De Bruin as “an independent version; apparently its adaptor has attempted to make the text of Version I more fluent and readable,

however without taking the Latin original into account” (“een op zichzelf staande redactie; de bewerker hiervan heeft er kennelijk naar gestreefd de tekst van I vloeiender en meer leesbaar te maken, zonder dat hij evenwel rekening heeft gehouden met de latijnse grondtekst”; Tleven, 1980, p. XXII).

NANTES, ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT EARLY 16th century

9. [Nantes] Statutes and Ordinances of the Diocese of Nantes [France, c.1515]. 51 leaves, [2 index] , 312mm by 262mm, on vellum. Includes 2 7-line initials depicting St. John and St. Peter giving the

keys. 16th century calf detaching, spine peeling with 1/4 loss, damage to inner upper margin and u.r. corner, thankfully not touching text due to ample margins. € 7500,Manuscript statutes for the diocese of Nantes, promulgated by Francois Hamon, bishop of Nantes (1511-32). These statutes, which cover a broad range of clerical duties, rules of residence, rules for students, punishment for nonobservance etc., give a glimpse of Church law in Nantes, shortly after the death of

Anne of Brittany and before the French Wars of Religion that culminated in the Edict of Nantes.There are no copies of such statutes in the ABPC manuscript auction records.

RARE PHILOSOPHICAL ARABIC TEXTS IN LATIN TRANSLATION.

10. Thomas Aquinas: Summa contra gentiles. And: Al-Kindi. De unitate, De intellectu, and De somnio et visione ad imperatorum dolium. Probably Burgundy, 1464. Signed and dated by the scribe himself

("Ego Anthonius le bysse de N. gallicus scripsique complevi hec presens opus Anno domini 1464. Vive Bourgogne", fol. 220v). FOLIO. 221 leaves. (instead of 222 leaves, lacking leaf 1, otherwise complete). Early 17th-c. blindstamped calf. € 55.000,This manuscript contains a highly personal collection of texts made for a pious patron with an interest in

philosophy and humanistic studies. The volume opens with the Summa de veritate catholicae fidei contra gentiles (treatise on the truth of the Catholic faith, against unbelievers), intended at persuading Muslims and Jews of the truth of Christianity. Originally written in Rome in 1261-64 at the behest of Raymond of Pennafort. Followed by

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MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE 1600 three of his minor works, the De ente et essentia (fol.191v), the De motu cordis (fol.195v) and the De spiritualibus creaturis (fol.197r).

Next are three extremely rare Arabic texts composed by the Muslim philosopher Al Kindi. Al Kindi, known as "the

Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher, mathematician and physician. He was the first of the Muslim Aristotelian philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world. In the present copy we find Al-Kindi's

main works 'De Intellectu' (fol. 218v) and 'De somnio et visione ad imperatorem dolium' (On sleeping and dreaming, fol. 219r), which are known in no more than four or five ms. copies, all in institutional possession (Oxford, Venice, and Paris). For his work devoted to the question of God's nature "De unitate" (fol. 217v), or 'On the unity of Allah and the limited nature of the body of the universe', no textual witness is found in the In Principio database. Literature Lexikon des Mittelalters V, 1155-1156.

P. Adamson, "Al-Kindi", in: Albino Nagy (ed.), Die philosophischen Abhandlungen des Ja'qu-b ben Ishaq al-Kindi, BGPhMA (Münster 1897) 2-5.

W. P. Stoneman, A summary guide to the medieval and later manuscripts in the Bergendal Collection (Toronto 1997) 173-174. [BN#27341]

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MANUSCRIPTS AFTER 1600 FROM FREIHERRN JOHANN PAUL VON VOCKEL, (1699-1764) LIBER AMICORUM (1752-1759).

11. [Amicorum] Approximate 90 leaves (about 30 leaves) blank. 18 x 13.5 cm. With his ex-libris. Armorial/Wappen des Freiherrn Johann Paul von Vockel, (Recorded in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel).

With a fine drawing in ink of Nürnberg. Two Flower drawings. A beautiful embroidery of Flowers with the monogram from him and his wife Johanne Charlotte Freifrau von Vockel, handcut borders from paper or straw? A beautiful depiction of a House in Erlangen. Watercolour of a woman, holding a sable. 6 illustrations in all. Many signatures from local dignitaries, Zwickau, Erlangen, Vienna

1752-1759 Among others: Buirette von Ohlefeld, Carl Wilhelm (Markgräfl. bayreuth. Geheimrat).

Carolus Adolphus Braun, lawyer, Charles Comte Giech. Winckler Mohrenfels, Louise Chetiene Baronne de Vockel. € 3450,-

Freiherr von Vockel was born in Oschatz, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Died 19 december 1764 in Vienna,, Austria.

Studied law in Jena. Wirklicher geheimer Kriegsrat, oberster Befehlshaber der Kriegspolizei, seit 1746 Kaiserlicher Reichshofrat. Wrote a number of books on law. “Rechtliches Bedenken uber die Natur” (1746).

A SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUMINATED CARTA EXECUTORIA.

12. Carta Executoria de Hildalguia, issued by Charles II of Spain, in favour of Fernández de Piérola, a native of Seville. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, Seville 3 november 1690. Folio (305 x

201mm.). 86 leaves, FIVE FULL PAGE MINATURES. 1. The Virgin. 2. King Ferdinand. 3. Coat of Arms of the Piedrola family. 4. Genealogical tree. 5. King Carlos II of Spain, 35 ILLUMINATED INITIALS, , some with grotesques, others inhabited by birds, insects, flowers, and a ship. With protective red silk curtains interleaved. Contemporary red red velvet € 6950,Letters patent of nobility, or Carta executoria, both established noble lineage and served as tangible evidence of

nobility, which had tremendously practical implications beyond social standing. During the early modern period in

Spain the nobility and the clergy formed an estate far removed from the rest of the population. The property of the

nobility was exempt from taxation and protected from civil suits. Nobles could not be imprisoned for indebtedness, or tortured (except for treason), and if sentenced to execution had the option of decapitation rather than hanging. A sumptuously illuminated carta executoria that traces the noble lineage of the Piedrola family to Piedrola Ruy Fernandez, one of the leading gentlemen who were with the holy King Ferdinand III, when he reconquered Andalusia. To our knowledge this is the only Carta Executoria that depicts the King Carlos II himself.

His noble ancestry is described throughout and illustrated in the genealogical tree on and further evidence is laid out in order to have his name removed from the register of commoners: his request is endorsed by friends and relatives

AN USUALLY EARLY ALBUM WITH CHINESE COURTESANS.

13. Chinese courtesans. An early Chinese album of watercolors on pith paper, c. 1800 (terminus ante quem by provenance of 1806) containing eleven leaves depicting scenes of courtesans, all very finely and delicately executed. Album 34 x 25.5 cm bound in original textile binding. € 8500,Courtesan albums, especially early ones, are considerably rarer than their botanical and tradesmen counterparts.

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MANUSCRIPTS AFTER 1600 by Payer-Thurn in Chinesische Miniaturen aus dem Leben Einer Chinesischen Dame. Leipzig: Thyrsos-Verlag,

1924. Provenance: Henry Boyle Byrne, who died in the Bay of Calcutta in 1806, but sent these home to the Byrne

family in Philadelphia; then by descent through at the family home, the Woodlands, in Clopper, Md. (built by Francis Cassatt Clopper in 1810).

THE CRIMEAN WAR, THE MOST DEVASTING CONFLICT OF THE 19th CENTURY.

14. [Crimean war] An archive of English military correspondence from the Crimean War. The letters, reports, and petitions, are written by officers. The comprise of instructions for troops and sanitary

personnel, reports of sanitary inspections (examinations of newly arrived horses, shooting of injured animals), hygienic conditions and measures (construction of latrines), disciplinary measures (theft,

leaving battle without permission, remaining at night on the opposite side of the Bosporus, failure to appear at parade), letters regarding the return to England, etc. Among the signing officers are

important commanders such as Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799-1871), James Bucknall Estcourt (180255), Lord George Paget (1818-80), € 2500,On March 28th 1854, Britain, the superpower of the day, declared war on Russia. The resulting conflict was mainly fought in Crimea as British forces and their allies laid siege to the main Russian naval base in the Black Sea at

Sebastopol. It began against a backdrop of Russian expansionism as the Ottoman Empire declined. The spark was a

religious dispute over who should be the guardian of the Ottoman Empire’s Christian minority, especially in the Holy Land: Orthodox Russia or Catholic France. The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts to use modern

technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways and telegraphs It was also the first war to be documented

extensively in written reports and photographs. As the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" demonstrates, the war quickly became an iconic symbol of logistical, medical and tactical failures and mismanagement. The

reaction in Britain was a demand for professionalization, most famously achieved by Florence Nightingale, who gained worldwide attention for pioneering modern nursing while treating the wounded.

ARABIC/PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT WITH 48 MINATURES

15. Firdawsi (D. 1010 AD): Shanama (book od kings) Kashmir, late 18th century. 374 mm x 228 mm. The famous Persian epic of Firdawsi. Persian manuscript on paper. 25ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns with red and blue intercolumnar divisions, text within brown frame. 48 (Forty-eight) large inset miniatures, most three-quarter page. illuminated Qajar-style

headpiece and margins, the first opening one with upper right loss and old repair; catchwords, and

evidently complete. Stated to be form 1601 on inset preserved panel, but more likely copied after a 1601 Safavid Persian manuscript. Binding of unsympathetic modern buckram and black € 6950,The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama, "The Book of Kings"), is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 60,000

verses,[1] the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century boards, but overall a highly interesting and powerfully executed example, well preserved internally and seldom found complete.

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MANUSCRIPTS AFTER 1600 LOVE & INTRIQUE AT THE FRENCH COURT OF THE SUN KING.

16. [Italian manuscript] Late 17th/Early 18th Italian manuscript. 74 leaves, (paper, edges gilded) Carta Rustica binding. Quarto. The manuscript tells us about the ‘complefsione amora’ at the Court of the Sun King. € 8500,The text narrates part of the life Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan (5

October 1640 – 27 May 1707), better known as Madame de Montespan, the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of

King Louis XIV of France. Since the memoires of Montespan have been proven to be 19th centuries forgeries, and

the description given by François de La Rochefoucauld in his maxims is very short. It seems unlikely that the present manuscript is a translated version of a printed book. World catalogue does not list works on or by Montespan, in the late 17th and early 18th century.

We find in the manuscript several names mentioned: Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, (=Gran Aleandro), Louise de La Vallière (another mistress of the Sun King), and Duc de Lauzun (=Loson). I was not able to find anything about a “madame Bertigliae” who names is frequently mentioned.

The manuscript narrates in a lively way the events, it speaks about love and intrigue and mentions a day spend at theatre where the ladies admire a dancer (a ballare basque ?) in a “comedia colla Marescialla”

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR (RUSSIAN) BALLET COSTUMES.

17. KACHUROVSKIY, LEONID. ca. 1930-45. From the private family archives of the choreographer. € 1495,38 sheets of various paper (approx. 22 x 16 cm). Pencil, ink and watercolor, a few heightened with gold, most with pencil inscriptions in French and Russian; rare tears and soiling. Lovely collection of almost 40 smaller watercolour sketches, some probably for a ‘Mozartiana’ ballet, other evoking traditional Russian dresses, or modern outfits. 67 sheets of thin paper (approx. 27 x 21 cm). Pencil, ink and watercolour, a few heightened with gold, some with pencil inscriptions in French and Russian; small creases or tears, rare soiling

Kachurovskiy was included in Dyagilev’s Ballet Russe, before being choreographer and producer of ballets, important operas and concerts in Brussels in the 1930s, and moving to South America after WWII.

THE PORTUGESE ARISTOTLE

18. Rodier, François. Compendiara logae institutio ex ea quae a Petr. A. Fonseca octo libris. 16 april 1613 Quarto. 850 pages. Attractive Renaissance binding. € 800,Pedro da Fonseca was a Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle; he projected the 'Cursus Conimbricenses' realized by Manuel Góis and others.

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19. Alphonsus de Spina. Fortalitium fidei contra iudeos saracenos aliosque christiane fidei... inimicos]. Lyon, Guillaume Balsarin, 22. V. 1487. Small folio. 249 leaves. Goff A542; HC 874*; GW 1577. 18th century full calf with panelled boards.. € 7950,Rare edition, one copy in England. The Franciscan Alphonsus de Spina, himself a Jewish convert, was a celebrated preacher and Bishop (Died 1491) The first four books of this notorious work are directed against those who deny the divinity of Christ, and against heretics, Jews, and Muslims. Part 3, on the iniquities of the Jews, is a veritable

encyclopaedia of mediaeval anti-Semitic libel, containing numbered lists of Jewish "cruelties" and refutations of the Jews' supposed anti-Christian arguments. The section on Islam lists the numerous Saracen wars, while the fifth

book is devoted to the battle to be waged against the Gates of Hell and its resident demons, whose population the

author calculates at over 133 million; this is one of the earliest printed discussions of witchcraft and a precursor to the Malleus maleficarum (1st ed. 1487).

THE CELEBRATED APPIANUS WITH ITS FAMOUS BORDERS- THE EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE RED-PRINTED VINE ISSUE

20. APPIANUS (c.100-c.170). Historia Romana. -De bellis civilibus. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius (1399-1477). Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Loslein, 1477. 2

volumes COLLATION: I: a-c10 (-a1 blank) d12 e-x10 (a1 blank, a2 Decembrio's address to Alfonso of Aragon, a3 contents, a4 De bellis civilibus, x10r second colophon, x10v blank). Woodcut border

printed in RED, II : a-i10 k-n8 o10 (a1 blank, a2 P. Decembrio's address to Pope Nicholas V, a3 text, o10r colophon, o10v blank); Woodcut border printed in black. € 20.000,Note: some copies bound in reversed order. Royal half-sheets. 4to., 279 x 203 mm. Early 20th century full vellum and morocco spine, paste-downs renewed. Internally, light foxing to a2 (I) and 010v, but otherwise an exception wide margined copy. Provenance: Sotheby's May 4, 1970 and private collection since. Goff A-928. Hain 1307.

Redgrave, Ratdolt No. 4. A copy with equally wide margins, in a similar binding and the vine border in red made 11.500 $ in 1998 Christies.

The work - the first ever printed with woodcut borders- is universally celebrated as one of the finest productions

of the Venetian printing press. The copy here is one of only a small minority of copies with a vine border printed in red, the contrasting color adding an extra measure of elegance to this typographic masterpiece. Redgrave rightly

states that "To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellence of its typography." This copy is not

only wide margined but the vines themselves are present in full form; the top thoughtfully spared the binder's knife (unlike many copies when rebound)

RARE INCUNABULUM

21. Auctoritates Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum. With title: Propositiones universales. (Text begins: Aristoteles patrem Nicomachum). Ed: Simon Pasqualis. Venice: [Paganinus de Paganinis, about 1495] ISTC No.:

ia01203000, Goff A1203; H 1924*; 42 leaves. Modern vellum binding.

€ 3950 The "Auctoritates Aristotelis" is a compendium primarily of the sentences of Aristotle and his commentators, with

briefer summaries of Seneca, Boethius, Plato, and Apuleius. It was compiled as an aid to composing sermons, and

for academic exercises. It was a popular florilegium (anthology of brief extracts) composed around around 1300 by

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work is intended to provide assistance “as much for preaching to the people as study of the arts.” The work enjoyed a wide circulation, providing a convenient way to access Aristotle’s philosophy, or to embellish a composition or sermon with quotations from his work.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED INCUNABULUM.

22. Bertholdus. Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi. Basel, J. Amerbach, Not after 1490]. 8vo, 66 leaves. Goff B506; H 2990*. € 22.000,A true miniature incunabulum and a popular devotional work. The Devotional bell is a book that compares the Life of Christ is, to that of a natural day, divided into 24 hours. A summary of the main events in the Life is given on

a2v-3. Thus, the 1st hour is the Annunciation and the 24th hour, the Day of Judgment… Contains 36 remarkable

woodcuts, like the Annunciation; Circumcision of Christ, The Adoration of the Magi. The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, The Adoration of the Magi; The Harrowing of Hell; Christ Resurrected from the Tomb; The Ascension. Bound in Bound with two other rare tracts:

II: Thomas Aquinas: Novum insigneq[ue] opusculu[m] pro Christi verbu[m] eva[n]geliza[n]tibus. Ubi plures et

copiosi: et aurei sermones co[n]tinentt[ur]: de septe[m] peccatis mortalibus. Basel, M. Furter, 1514. 36 leaves. III: Johannes Chrysostomus. Libellus cui est titulus Neminem posse ledi nisi a semetipso. [Basel, A. Petri], 1509. 24 leaves. With a beautiful coloured woodcut. attributed to Hans Baldung Grien.

CHAIN BINDING

23. Caracciolus, Robertus. Sermones de Laudibus Sanctorum. Basel: Nikolaus Kessler, 26.II.1490. Folio, 189 leaves. Sumptuous contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, a Nuremberg binding (Kyriss shop K115), metalwork centre-and cornerpieces, two clasps, chaining staple at head of lower cover. Presumably with a medieval chain taken from another binding. € 7950,Roberto Caracciolo of Lecce (c.1425 - 6 May 1495) was a Franciscan friar, and one of the most famous Italian

preachers of his time, who boasted that he could move any audience to tears. He was a contemporary of Erasmus, who mocked him on several occasions. Incunabula in their original bindings are rare.

Provenance Dominican convent of Bamberg, contemporary inscriptions on a2 and a5 (the convent was secularised in the early nineteenth century.) Goff C148; H 4485* citing two copies in the UK, and 7 in the US.

MEDIEVAL PAWNSTARS!

24. Carcano, Michael de. Sermonarium de peccatis per adventum et per duas quadragesimas. Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476. Large 8vo. 161 leaves (one blank missing). Goff C194; HC 4508* Later vellum binding. 23 cm. Margin of the second leaf repaired. Some browning to the first leaves. Contemporary annotations throughout. The other volume usually bound with it Sermones per adventum de peccato is not present here. € 4750,-

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A major obstacle to the growth of banks in the Middle Ages was the Church's prohibition of usury, the charging of

interest on loans. As economic activity expanded, however, the papacy became one of the first to insist that interest should be paid on investments made at a risk. Because they were forbidden to hold land or engage in more

"acceptable" sources of economic enterprise, money changers in the Middle Ages were typically Jews. Christian

rulers gradually saw the advantage of having a class of men like the Jews who could supply capital for their use

without being liable to excommunication, and the money trade of western Europe by this means fell into the hands

of the Jews. The Franciscans indicted in their sermons individual cities for permitting such practices of usury within their walls. Michele Carcano (1427-1484) was a gifted Italian Franciscan preacher. It was said that Christ appeared

to two Franciscan brothers in Perugia promising them to help them and the people suffering under the joke of high interest loans by sending a preacher from the Holy Land to give a Lent sermon urging the establishment of a so

called Monte di Pieta. The Monte Pieta was essentially a pawnbroker and it operated as a charity. developed in cities as a reform against money lending. The organizing principle, based on the benefit of the borrower and not the profit of the lender, was viewed as a lesser evil than money lending. A pre-determined interest rate would be applied to the loan and these profits were used to pay the expenses of operating the Monte di Pietà.

FROM THE GUTENBERG PRESS.

25. [Catholicon] Original leaf from the "Catholicon" FOLIO. 1460 (but printed 1469.) In a cloth folder. Rubricated. € 3500,The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon (from the Greek universal), is a 13th-century Latin dictionary which found wide use throughout Christendom. Some of the entries contain encyclopaedic information, and a Latin grammar is also included. The work was created by John Balbi of Genoa, a Dominican. who finished it on March 7, 1286. The work served in the late Middle Ages to interpret the Bible "correctly". The educated citizen could gather from it the substantial knowledge of his time. From 1286 to the late 15th century it was available mainly in manuscripts held by monastic libraries. The Catholicon was one of the first books to be printed, using the new printing technology of Johannes Gutenberg in 1460. Three issues can be distinguished in spite of identical typesetting: a) printed on vellum or Bull's Head paper; b) on Galliziani paper; c) on Tower & Crown paper. This has given rise to the theory that issue a) was printed in 1460, issue b) in 1469 and issue c) about 1472; Paul Needham argued convincingly that some copies of the Catholicon were printed on Bull’s Head paper in 1460 with solid two-line slugs of cast type, and that these slugs were used again to print more copies on the later paper stocks c. 1469 and 1472-74. We believe this to be 1469. This leaf most likely does not come from the "Catholicon" incunabula that was broken and sold together with an essay by Margaret Bingham.

TWO INCUNABULA IN ONE SAMMELBAND ON THE ART OF LOVE

26. Ovidius Naso, Publius. De arte amandi et De remedio amoris. (Comm: Bartholomaeus Merula) Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 5 July 1494. 56 leaves. THE ART AND REMEDY OF LOVE, The Ars Amatoria is an instructional elegy series in three books by Ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD.

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Epistolae Heroides (Comm: Antonius Volscus et Hubertinus Clericus) et Sappho

et Ibis (Comm: Domitius Calderinus) The Heroides ((Letters of Heroines), Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 24 Jan. 1497/98, 96 leaves.

A collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. FOLIO 30 CM, Bound in a 17/18th century limp vellum

binding. Last leaf of the second work damaged with some loss of text. Some water staining in the last work. A few wormholes in the margin.

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The edition of the second work is particular rare with an attractive illustrated title page. There are 12 complete copies world wide know (15 all together). Only one on the American continent.tlemanly male and female relationship skills and techniques.

€ 6500

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF PETRARCHS WORKS IN LATIN.

27. Petrarca, F. Opera Latina. Basel 1496. Folio. 389 leaves (including the last blank), contemporary wooden boards. Spine restored. Complete but title page supplied from another copy. € 9950,This is the first Latin edition of his collected works, edited by the great humanist Sebastian Brant. It incluses all work of Petrarch (91304-1374), each with a separate title page. A beautiful wide margined copy in its first binding. 290 mm x 215 mm. Hain 12749; GW M31505, Goff P-365;

EXCEPTIONAL GOTHIC CHAIN BINDING.

28. Petrus Lombardus/St. Bonaventure. Quaestiones super III-IV libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi cum textu eiusdem. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, (after 2 March) 1491. Folio 2 parts in one volume.

218 leaves plus 272 leaves. H 3540. Goff P-486. GW M32527 (referring to all four sections plus table). LATE GOTHIC CHAIN BINDING from the Carmelite convent in Bamberg ( Kyriss, 52) and identified the binder as Johannes de Meien'. € 20.500,First edition of the "Sententiae" of Lombardus with the commentary of St. Bonaventure, edited by Johannes

Beckenhaub. This was THE theological textbook in the high and late Middle Ages (the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries). A commentary on the Sentences was required of every master of theology, and was part of the

examination system. At the end of lectures on Lombard's work, a student could apply for bachelor status within the

theology faculty. Institutional libraries would fasten their most valuable books to a horizontal iron bar running along the desk.

A SAMMELBAND OF INCUNABULA PRINTED IN GERMANY OF POLISH AND CZECH INTEREST.

29. [Sammelband] of four incunabula, contemporary annotations throughout, ample margins but slightly cut, one C8 of the work with one corner missing, no less of text. Late 19th or 20Th century half leather binding, with marble boards. € 8950 Lampsheym, Johannes.Speculum officii Missae expositorium. Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, 29 June 1495, 30 leaves. Goff G593; HC 8194

Lampsheym, Johannes or Johannes de Lambsheim was born in Lambsheim in Frankenthal (Pfalz), after which he is named. He entered in 1470 as a novice in the Augustinerkloster Kirschgarten, near Worms. His Speculum officii Missae expositorium waswritten during his lifetime and this is the first edition.

Matthaeus de Cracovia. Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu communionis. Speyer: Conrad Hist, about 1495] 18 leaves No copies in the US or UK HC 5807

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The Dialogus was written in Prague, where Matthaeus was professor of theology during the early part of his career, during a controversy over the question of the propriety of daily communion by laymen. The text, a dialogue between Conscience and Reason, argues in favor of frequent lay communion

Guido de Monte Rochen. Manipulus curatorum. Strassburg: Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg)], 10 May 1487, 122 leaves. 4 copies in the US. Fully rubricated, with elaborate initials.

A handbook for parish priests (1st edition 1473), composed by the Spanish canon lawyer Guido de Monte Rochen (fl. 1330-1350).

Nicolaus de Blony. De sacramentis:Strassburg: Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 29 May 1490. 126 leaves, 6 copies in the US. Goff N84; HC 3254*; Fully rubricated, with elaborate initials.

Written by the Polish cleric Nicolaus de Blony (also Nicolaus de Plowe or Nicolaus de Staravolcio de Blonie; deceased around 1440), written on behalf of the bishop Stanislaus of Posen. It contains a practical guide on the sacraments, one of the first of its kind.

WINE MAKING, AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY.

30. Scriptores rei rusticae. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505) after Georgius Merula (1430/31-1494) and Franciscus Colucia (fl. 15th century): Marcus Porcius CATO (234-149 B.C.). De re rustica. Marcus Terentius VARRO (116-27 B.C.). De re rustica. - L. Junius Moderatus COLUMELLA (fl. c. 36-ca. 65 A.D.). De re rustica. Commentary by Pomponius Laetus (1428-1497). - Rutilius Taurus PALLADIUS (fl. 4th century). De re rustica. Commentary by Antonius Urceus Codrus (1446-1500).

Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September 1496. Folio. 272 leaves. Bibliographical references: Goff S349; HC 14569, GW M41055. Numerous woodcut initials which are tinted by a contemporary

hand. Sixteenth-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, central stamp of Justice

on upper cover and Lucretia on lower cover, 4 bosses on each cover. First few leaves frayed at for edge with some loss but not touching text, quires C & D soiled at head with a few small wormholes. The outer edges of the two German books bound in are tin, due told traces of mould. € 8500,The texts in this book form the principal source of information on Roman agriculture and rural life, treating the

cultivation of vines and olives, farming, beekeeping, and the breeding and grazing of livestock. Cato's treatise -the oldest surviving complete prose work in Latin -- includes much on ancient customs and superstitions, and

sheds light on the transition from small landholdings to capitalistic farming in Latium and Campania in the second century B.C. Columella wrote his 10th book, a treatise on gardening in hexameters, as a continuation of Virgil's Georgics, Virgil having written that he was leaving it to others to write about gardening. This is the first book

printed at Reggio Emilia by the quasi-itinerant Bolognese printer Dionysius Bertochus, who worked in six different Italian cities between 1481 and the end of the century, moving from Vicenza to Treviso to Venice to Bologna, and finally settling in Reggio Emilia and Modena. Christies sale record 23 April 2001, 21.150$ BOUND IN :

A. XII Bucher von dem Feldbau und vollkommener Bestellung eines ordentlichen Mayershofs, oder Landguts. Pietro

de Crescenzi Straßburg Jobin 1586. Illustrated throughout with numerous woodcuts. [6] 1-566, [6] Printers mark on last page dated 1583. No copy worldwide with the title XII Bucher, although other editions exist. Profusely illustrated.

B. Paralipomena Et Marginalia Hortvlanica. Das ist, Gartenkunst zum Feldbuch angehörig Jobin 1586, 22 pages. last leaves damaged. Rare.

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THE BOOK OF THE DEVIL.

31. d'Amerval, Eloy. Le livre de la deablerie. Paris, Michel Le Noir, 1508. Small folio. 23 leaves printed in two columns. With full-page title woodcut and half-page woodcut at the beginning of the text. Splendid 19th- century red morocco, signed "F. Bedford”. Corners of ff. M4-5 neatly remargined without loss to text. The first page is most likely in facsimile, because it is on a different stock of paper. € 7500,Excessively rare! There are worldwide 11 copies (in two variants), only one is in the US in the Pierpont Morgan

Library. Written at the close of the fifteenth century and published in 1508, this long poem by Eloy d'Amerval is one of the last of the rich series of medieval dream vision poems that includes the Roman de la Rose and the

Pelerinage de la Vie Humaine. The book is classified in literature as a belonging to the Demonomanie The author eavesdrops on a diabolic dialogue between Satan and his ambitious henchman, Lucifer. The later brags on his success in luring sinners into the infernal realm. The vices of merchants, innkeepers, tradesmen, peasants, nobleman and the clergy are all vividly described in every lurid detail.

For example: Gambling and hunting (book II, chapters 1-17), Marriage and family life (II, chapters 126-149). Of course also scholarship (II, chapters 82-93) has its moral faults, such as concupiscence, cunning and pride.

D’Amerval describes by way of contrast, the behaviour of the virtuous and tell us that he is happy that there are not more of the latter, because otherwise the devils' domain would be less thronged! Eloy is apt at delivering an

impressive number of profanities. With its humour and richness of language, the dialogue between both devils must be considered unique for its time. The poem's cultural significance is amplified by its references to music, musical instruments and musicians heard at French and Burgundy courts during the 15th century. Eloy’s List” has come to be regarded as a nascent “Who’s Who” of late fifteenth-century composers. The text also sheds light upon April’s fool’s day in the sentence "maquereau infâme de maint homme et de mainte femme, poisson d'avril." Overall a

fascinating glimpse into the life and customs of a broad spectrum of French society on the eve of the Reformation: its customs and manners, its food and its dress, its work and its play. And as an historical document, it bears witness to the medieval conception of Hell and the representatives of Good and Evil.

Eloy, apparently from Amerval in the Pas-de-Calais, was probably born before 1440; he was a singer, choirmaster

and composer of note and spent most of his life serving in institutions connected with the French royal court in the region of the Loire Valley. Le livre de la deablerie was finally published in 1508, but it is not known how long he lived after that. King Louis XII granted him explicit permission

A SPLENDID 16th CENTURY COSTUME BOOK, COLORED BY A FRIEND OF BYRON.

32. Amman, Jost/Weigel, Hans. Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti. Trachtenbuch darin fast allerley und der furnembsten Nationen die heutigs tags bekandt sein. Nuremberg, Hans Weigel, 1577. Folio. 161 plates (instead of 220) hand-numbered

woodcuts in early 18th-century colour, mounted on backing paper and missing parts supplemented by hand. Later half calf with 18th-century spine label. All edges sprinkled in red. € 15.000,First edition of Amman's celebrates encyclopaedic book of costumes. A fragmented copy, as usual; in the early 19th century, the plates were mounted on backing paper by the owner, the trained landscape painter Jakob Linckh

(1786-1841) from Stuttgart (cf. Thieme/B. 23, 254), who also coloured the volume throughout and supplemented all missing parts of the images and even of the text by hand. Linckh, who had studied in Rome, visited Greece in

1810. There he met Byron, who commissioned him to provide the illustrations for Hobhouse's travel book. - Wants 59 plates altogether. The remaining plates are trimmed.

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Although the present collection begins with the plate showing the Emperor, as originally issued, the remaining

woodcuts follow no apparent order. 20 plates show costumes of Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Egypt, and Ethiopia; others depict Greeks, Russians, and Englishmen. 28 plates show the costumes of today's Italy; German cities are well

represented, as are France and Spain, Bohemia and Hungary. Also includes the famous picture of the Brazilian

Tupinamba Indians: a man with a crown and belt of feathers, a knife, and a bow and arrow, beside a long-haired woman carrying a baby in a knotted sling. The illustration is an adaptation of two cuts from the "Recueil de la

diversité des habits" (Paris, 1562; Antwerp, 1572) by Francois Descerpz, "one of the first likenesses of the Brazilian Indian" (Borba de Moraes). For comparison, in 1994, 53 coloured woodcut engravings made 8050 GBP. Complete copies are never found in the auction records.

MAGIC, SEX, CRIME, LOVE AND REDEMPTION IN A POST INCUNABULA

33. Apuleius, L. (Asinus aureus) cum commento Beroaldi (et) figuris noviter additis. Venedig, G. Tacuino, 1516. Folio. [14] 168 leaves. Bound in old vellum antiphon leave. Small repair to the title

page. loss of 1 letter of title and few words verso of title due to repaired tear. Tiny womhole affecting about 12 leaves. With 36 woodcuts in the text (four repeated). € 1500,The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and

fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis.

Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, the Golden Ass is one of the truly

seminal books of European Literature It includes as its famous centrepiece the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the search of the human soul for union with the divine, and has been the inspiration for numerous creative works of literature and art since the Renaissance.

The large and attractive cuts in this edition do not seem to be the same as in the 1510 printing, deemed mediocre by Essling. No copies in the trade.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED FRENCH PICTURE BIBLE. BIBLIA BIBLIORVM OPVS SACROSANCTVM

34. Biblia Latina. Lyon, Mareschal august 1532. Folio, full-page woodcut opposite first page of text and two others, approximate 110 woodcut illustrations within text, woodcut initials. [8], 276, [22] leaves. Later leather biding, rubbed. Last index leave repaired with loss of text. € 2500,Profusely illustrated French bible. The woodcut of the Nativity scene is a very close copy of Hans Springinklee's

woodcut for the 1520 Lyon edition of the Bible (Mortimer, Harvard French 63), with a different artist's monogram.

ILLUSTRATED LAW.

35. Boniface VIII. Sextus decretalium liber, Venice: Antonio Giunta, 1514, 5 parts in one volume. Modern full calf binding. 7 first leaves missing, but replaced in a 17th century hand. CCLXXXVIII, CXX, LXIV, LXIV. XI. € 1400,An impressive post incunabulum with over 130 woodcuts. Last copy sold in Italy for 3600 Euro, since the first leaves are replaced in a 17th century hand.

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ROMAN TABLE MANNERS.

36. Chacon, Pedro. De triclinio, sive, de modo convivandi apud priscos romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu. Accedit Fulvii Ursini appendix. Heidelberg, Hieronymus Commelinus in Zusammenarbeit mit

der Genfer] Officina Sanctandreana, 8vo. 1590. [4], 192, [12] pages. With woodcut printer's device to t. p. and four large woodcuts. 18th century dark brown calf, rubbed. € 1250,De Triclinio is a treatise about dining habits of the ancient Romans, along with their food, drink, wine, guests,

etiquette, table dressing and background music for eating with four large in-text woodcuts depicting Roman feasts,

and including relevant texts by classical authors such as Ovid, Terence, and Propertius. Last copy sold at Christies in 2005, for 2200 €

EARLY SCIENCE & ESOTERISM.

37. Champier, Symphorien. Liber de Quadruplici Vita. Theologia Asclepii, And other Works: Hermetis Trismegisti discipuli -- Silve médicinales de Simplicibus, cum nonnullis in medice facultatis praxim

introductoriis ... Tropheum Gallorum quadruplicem eorundem complectens his-toriam. -- De ingressu Ludovici XII. Francorum regis in Urbem Genu am ... De claris Lugdunensibus. -- De Gallorum

Scriptoribus.... De Campis for Stephanas Gueynardus & Jacobus Huguetannus, 31 July 1507. Large 8vo. 140 leaves. Contemporary limp vellum, Ex Libris L Froissart. Title page with two erased stamps,

vaguely legible, water stain in the corner, from leaf 120 onwards. Spine starts to detach from the woodblock. € 7500,-

First edition of this collection of mostly scientific writings by himself and others, gathered by Symphorien Champier

(c. 1471-1537). The book of quadruple life (mimicking De triplici vita by Ficino], The theology of Ascelpius, disciple of Hermes Trismegistus, The handbook of Sixtus, a Pythagorean philosopher and others

Title in red within a woodcut-border. On fol. a 6 a curious woodcut of the martyrdom of St. Symphorianus, with S.

Champier and his wife kneeling in prayer beside their armorial bearings, a special prayer to St. Symphorien beneath,

the whole within a composite woodcut-border. This woodcut is repeated six times in this book. --In the second Part there is a woodcut of St. Louis, King of France, on A III. and two very interesting metal cuts (gravures interrasiles) on A8 and E8 one of the Adoration of the Magi; the other a bishop kneeling before a pope) printed from the original

blocks, appearing first in the Turrecremata, printed by J. Neumeister at Albi, 1481, (Dibdin : Bibl. Spenc. IV. 39-42.)

Last copy at auction in 1995 (The Collection of Otto Schafer Part III: Illustrated Books and Historical Bindings) , made 8625$ against an 7000 to 10.000 $ estimated.

POLYGLOT EDITION.

38. Cherpontii, Johannis. Libelli aliquot formandis turn iuventutibus moribus opera & studio Geneva. 1581. 16mo. 335 pages. Modern binding. € 375,Rare, small polyglot edition of this compendium, published by the French philologist and teacher Jean Cherpont (1557-1586). Includes three texts of classical pedagogy: Plutarch's "Booklet of the children discipline," the two "speeches of Isocrates to Demonikos and Nicocles" and an excerpt from the Christian ethic of the influential

humanist theologian Lambert Daneau (ca. 1530-1595). The text is printed in four parallel columns in the languages of Greek, Latin, French and German. Every language has been set in a separate type, the German text in an unusual hybrid of cursive and Gothic type.

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CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

39. Dionysius the Areopagite: Cælestis hierarchia, Ecclesiastica hierarchia, Divina nomina, Mystica theologia, undecim epistolæ, Ignatii undecim epistolæ. Polycarpi epistola una. Tacuino de Tridino, Venezia, 1502. Folio. Contemporary vellum. [6] CXXXXIII. Last bank not present. € 2400,The fundamental thesis of Pseudo-Dionysius is the absolute incomprehensibility of God. We can of course approach the Divine nature by an affirmative theology, as in the Bible which speaks continuously of the goodness and

greatness of God, but as we realize our inadequacy of human concepts, we may choose the negative approach and say that God is utterly incomprehensible and thus emphasizes the divine transcendence. It is also a book of great typographical beauty with a number of engravings in the text.

CHARMING 16TH CENTURY COSTUME BOOK OF ISLAMIC INTEREST

40. [Diversarum nationum habitus.] "Album des Gostumes [!] de tous les pays à la fin du XVIè siècle." [Padua, 1594-1596].

Collection of 56 costume engravings, all c. 120 x 90 mm, mounted in early 19th century album (laid paper) with marbled wrappers (4to; edges chipped). € 695,56 of the 256 costume engravings of the world's various peoples that the Italian artist Pietro Bertelli produced

between 1589 and 1596 in various editions. Apart from the Italian costumes (16 specimens in all), the present

collection is strongest in the Near and Middle Eastern cultures, with 16 engravings showing the costumes of an "Arabs Nobilis", "Arabs, habitu Gentili", "Mammalucus", "Janizeri Contantinopolitana uxor", as well as several

members of the Jewish community; two others show a Persian nobleman and his wife. Other costumes include France, Greece, Russia, India, Britain, Germany, but also Native Americans. Thieme/Becker III, 488.

DEMONS, SPELLS, WIZARDS AND WITCHCRAFT.

41. Grillandus, Paulus. Tractat[us] de hereticis : et sortilegijs omnifariam coitu: eorumq[ue] penis. Ite[m] de questionibus: [et] tortura: ac de relaxatio[n]e carceratorum domini Pauli Grillandi Castilionei: vltima hac impressione summa cura castigat[u]s: additis vbilibet su[m]maris: prepositoq[ue] perutili reptorio

speciales sente[n]tias aptissime continente. Lyon. 1536. Small 8 vo. [16] leaves cxxviij leaves. Bound in old vellum. Tear to upper corner of title with minor loss to border, a few leaves reinforced at inner margin, some soiling and browning.) € 2200,Grillandus was a papal judge in the witch trials that took place around Rome. The title of the book literally translates as "Treatise on heretics and witches …" and is probably the most influential work on witchcraft published before the middle of the sixteenth century. Because it was so frequently quoted, it continued to be an influence on later

demonologists. The text covers a wide area: demonology, pacts with the devil, possession, the witches sabbat, transvection, maleficia (evil spells), the use of poppets or dolls, and potions. He also emphasized the intense

pleasure of diabolic intercourse of woman with the devil: "maxima cum voluptate." It is said that the cool prose of

his catalogue of horrors makes the thing as vivid as it is gruesome. The titles of the chapters speak for themselves: Hereticis, Sortilegiis, De Penis' Omnifariam Coitus, De Questionibus Tortura.

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FIRST EDITION OF GREEK LEXICON PUBLISHED IN A GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY.

42. Hesychius of Alexandria. Dictionarium. Hagenau: Thomas Ansheim, Dec, 1521. Folio, half vellum, with marble boardsl. 19th C binding, clean copy. Text in double column in Greek, partly rubricated in red and yellow. [1] 1-776 [1]. € 2500,The first Greek book printed at Hagenau. Accordingly the work is of great value to the student of Greek dialects and in the restoration of obscure texts generally: in the case of author's such as Aeschylus and Theocritus who often used unusual words it is more or less essential. It is also valuable in the deciphering of inscriptions and it often

presents a correct reading where this has been replaced in the Greek literary text by an easier synonym. Hesychius' explanation of many epithets and phrases has also revealed important information about the religious and social life of ancient Greece which would otherwise be lost. According to the author his lexicon is based on that of

Diogeniarius, itself an extract from an earlier work of Pamphilus and he also employed in its compilation similar

works by Aristarchus, Apian, Heliodorus and others. The printer's emblem by Hans Baldung Grien is called "one of his best works" .

SAMMELBAND. ON HERESY WITH TWO 15TH CENTURY VELLUM LEAVES ON MARTYRDOM

43. Irenaeus von Lyon. Opus eruditissimum divi Irenaei episcopi ... in quinque libros digestum, in quibus mire retegit & confutat ueterum haereseon impias ac portentosas opinions. FROBEN 1548, 338

pages plus index, bound with Divi Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis Et martyris opera Basileae : Hervagius, 1540. 527 pages plus index. Both texts edited by Erasmus. € 1250,Irenaeus' best-known book, Adversus Haereses or Against Heresies (c. 180), is a detailed attack on Gnosticism, which was then a serious threat to the Church, and especially on the system of the Gnostic Valentinus.

Cyprian (c. 200 – September 14, 258)[ was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. This his book on martyrdom.

It seems appropriate that the flyleaves contain two vellum leaves, with lives of the saints. Contemporary full leather binding with original clasp, given the date of the binding 1557 and two initials H.H.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK PLATE

44. Juvenal-Persius. [Satyrae]. Venice: Aldus and Andreae Torresani, August 1501 (but ca 1515). Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri mense Augusto MDI). 76 pages. Bound With...CATULLUS. C. Valerii Catulli Veronensis liber I. Alb. Tibvlli Eqvitis Romani Libri IIII, Sex. Basil : Henricus Petrus, 1530. [8], 192 2 vols. in 1, 8vo.,16 x Blindstamped calf over wooden boards, rubbed with loss to spine.

Front cover detached. Provenance: The Pomer-Kloss-Soaper copy; sold at the celebrated auction of Dr. Kloss (1835), then in 1927 in the ABPC for $13.00 (incorrectly listed as 'Powers-Kloss-Soaper') € 3000,The value of this book lies in the unusual early bookplate of Hector Pomer, in-situ, 145 x 87 mm with full borders; a fine impression. The bookplate does not appear in Strauss (Albrecht Durer Woodcuts and Wood Blocks. NY, 1980), but bears strong resemblance to the other known large bookplate with the Coat of Arms of Hector Pomer

attributed now to Sebald Beham, but formerly attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Hector Pomer (1495-1541) was ordained priest in 1520, and became provost of the church of St. Laurence at Nuremberg. The four corners

escutcheons are interpreted as those of his father, Hector Tomer (d.1499) (the arms), his paternal grandmother,

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Brigitta Kummel (two cocks), his mother, Anna Schmiedmaier (three roses), and his maternal grandmother, a Bergmeute (geese) [See: BM Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts, Vol 1.]

SAMMELBAND WITH THE MACROBIUS WORLDMAP.

45. Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius. In somnium Scipionis Libri duo: et septem eiusdem libri Saturnaliorum Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1521. [5 leaves]. ICXLVI. Printers mark on Verso Bound in: Auli Gellii noctium atticarum libri undeviginti : cum gratia et privilegio imperiali ad sexennium. Printed in Strassburg 1517. Aedibus Ioannis Knoblouchi, Mense

Mario. Anno M.D.XVII. Ductu Matthiæ Shurerij. [10] 106 pages [26]. Folio. The entire work has scattered needle like wormholes throughout, although not affecting the important Macrobius map. Bound in: M. Fabii Quintiliani Oratoriarum institutionum lib. XII. una cum Declamationibus eiudem argutissimis, ad

horrendæ vetustatis exemplar repositis, diligenterque impressis. Coloniæ in ædibus Eucharii Cervicorni & Heronis Fuchs. Anno virginei partus. M.D.XII. mense martio. (1521). [6] I-CLIX. € 5500,Macrobius wrote his Expositio In Somnium Scipionis ex Cicerone [Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Cicero] in

the early fifth century, Macrobius transmitted to future generations some part of classical science when the original works were lost. The value of this work lies in the Macrobius world map. The phantom of Terra Australis, an

unknown south-land, haunted the minds and maps of cosmographers for more than two millennia. It was felt that

an undiscovered southern continent had to exist because the known land masses of the southern hemisphere were not sufficient to balance those of the northern half of the globe. The notion of such balance is enshrined in the

Macrobian world map, first envisioned in the 5th century and presented here in the version from 1521. Te polar

extremities are declared frozen (frigida). The southern continent, is called temperata antipodum nobis incognita (“the temperate zone of the Antipodes which is unknown to us”). In the North you can see the mythical Island of Thule also spelled Thula, Thila, or Thyïlea.

Please note that this version is not comparable to the latter maps much reduced in size! Attic Nights is, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today. The

Institutio Oratoria (English: Institutes of Oratory) is a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by Roman rhetorician Quintilian. It was published around year 95 CE. The work deals also with the foundational education and development of the orator himself.

DUELLING AND FENCING.

46. Marozzo, A. Opera nova. Venice, M. Sessa Erben, 1568 (Colophon 1567). Quarto. With woodcut title and 83 (55) full page woodcut, a greatly enlarged edition. Lightly browned, somewhat spotted in places, light water staining to a few leaves. [4] 131 pages. This is one of two editions that where published the same year. € 4950,Marozzo is generally looked upon as the first writer of note on the art of fencing. It would be perhaps wiser to

consider him as the > greatest teacher of the old school, the rough and undisciplined swordsmanship of which depended as much on dash and violence and sudden inspiration as on carefully cultivated skill. Marozzo was a

Bolognese, but he kept his school in Venice. His reputation was very great, to judge from the numerous editions of his works, five of which were published between 1536 and 1615." (Castle). After an introduction how to handle the sword, Marozzo explains how it can be combined with a shield, a dagger, a cape... he then proceeds with some remarks on "fast" weapons such as the lance, and ends with a philosophical approach to the subject.

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AN EARLY TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE STATUES OF ROME.

47. Mauro, Lucio. Le antichità della città di Roma, brevissimamente raccolte da chiunque hà scritto, ò antico, ò modern. Venezia Ziletti 1562. Without the last printers mark. € 750,As the title states, the 1562 edition is „in questa quarta impressione ricorretta“. It contains additional pages, ones

which are missing from the 1556 edition, where several collections are not reported Ulisse Aldrovandi's Delle statue

antiche is unquestionably the most important source for the collection of ancient statuary in Rome in the first half of the sixteenth century. It is also an early and important work on statuary and sculpture in general, a topic treated by relatively few treatises. Aldrovandi’s work has been fundamental for documenting the sculpture gardens and

collections of antiquities that existed in Rome around 1550, for reconstructing the contents and the appearance of single collections, and for establishing the provenance and tracing the history of single statues. In the edition of

1562, “questa quarta impressione ricorretta“, as Ziletti prints on the title page, the pages which obviously had been

inadvertently omitted in first edition were added. The visitor to Rome begins his itinerary in the papal gardens of the Vatican, whence he proceeds to other, mainly private collections; in addition to statues, portrait heads, and busts. The work is rare at auction and not available in the trade.

THE FIRST PRINTED MEDIEVAL WORLDMAP EVER!

48. Mer des Histoires. Le premier volume de la mer des histoires & Auquel & le second ensuyuãt. Est contenu tant du vieil testament que du nouueau toutes les Hystoires / Actes et Faictz dignes de

memoire / puis la creation du Monde. [LES ANGELIERS ] 1543. Large folio, [12] I-CCLVIII/[4], I-CCIV. A

very pleasing clean copy. A few small tears in some of the pages. The world map is in perfect condition (40 cm x 32.5 cm) The Holy Land map is slightly trimmed on the left and the right side € 15.000,This is an illustrated historical encyclopaedia in Latin and one of the earliest printed universal chronicles. The

Rudimentum Novitiorum as the work is called in Latin, was first printed in Lübeck by Lucas Brandis as his most

ambitious work. It runs to 475 pages, richly illustrated with more than 150 woodcuts. The account starts with the creation of the world and ends with the year 1473, with the usual subdivision into the six aetates. It presents a synopsis of Christ's ancestors, of Jewish high priests, judges and Biblical rulers and of Roman Emperors It was

printed in French, in 1491 and is considered one of the most extensively illustrated French incunables. La Mer des

histoires ( A sea of stories) This Rudimentum combines secular and ecclesiastical history, ancient history and pagan mythology; twenty-nine Aesop's Fables are incorporated into the "Fifth Age". The French translation contains

additional material on the kings of France and is accompanied by a martyrology by Usardus. In the Latin edition the world map is identical, only much bigger in size, making it more valuable. The 1475 edition sold for over 1 million dollars in 2013. This French edition was printed in 1543. It contains, the world map and the map of the Holy land. Numerous woodcut illustrations in text, one full-page, one of the crucifixion 3/4-page, many full-page woodcut genealogical tables. The maps

The world map in this book, is the FIRST printed world map EVER! Asia is at the top, Europe and Africa below the

diameter where Asia ends. Paradise is located in the far east, with the four rivers issuing forth from the Garden of Eden and flowing through the lands of the earth. The Holy Land is in the centre of the map with the Pillars of Hercules at the bottom.

The map seems to focus on the large continental divisions rather than on the exact geographical relationship

between places. Thus the cartographer wanted the readers to know that Alexandria was in Africa, Persia was in Asia, and Venice belonged to Europe, rather than to give the precise location of each place. The placement of countries

within their respective division of the world often seems to be based on other factors than distance and direction.

Thus Rome is placed near the centre of Europe, and Carthage occupies the similar position of honour in Africa. The

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inclusion of places from Biblical history, classical times, and mythology emphasize that the function of the map was not to provide a picture of the world as it was in 1475 but to present an interesting view of the world with some

essential things that a beginning student should know about it. This is why the book is called in Latin, a Handbook for beginners.

The 1475 map of the Holy Land however is regarded as the first modern printed map of Palestine because it is not

derived from a classical source (Ptolemy), nor is it in the circular schematic format characteristic of medieval maps.

It does retains two attributes of earlier maps: it is "oriented" with east at the top, and Jerusalem is at the centre. The geographic information is taken largely from a now lost manuscript map made two centuries earlier by a Dominican pilgrim, Burchard of Mt. Sion. In this bird's-eye view, topographic features are portrayed with reasonable accuracy, and cities and regions are depicted as stylized hills.

APOCALYPSE NOW!

49. Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Revelationesque necnon res mirandas preteritas presentes & futuras aperte demonstrat] Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Reuelationesq[ue] necnon res mirandas preteritas presentes & futuras: aperte demonstrat : ... In duas partes presens liber distinguetur. Paris, Guillaume Bossozel for Girault, around 1531]

CX, XXXIII Bl. ; 8vo. Text in Latin & French. Bound in 19th century pastiche Gothic binding by Gruel.

€ 3950,The Mirabilis liber (Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque, necnon res mirandas, preteritas, presentes et

futuras, aperte demonstrat...) is an anonymous and formerly very popular compilation of predictions by various

Christian saints and divines that was published in France in 1522 (though purportedly published in Rome in 1524, probably because it was the date of an important and long-anticipated planetary alignment) and reprinted several

times thereafter. It is not to be confused with the almost contemporary Liber mirabilis. As the above indicates, the

book—whose only known complete translation (by Edouard Bricon) was published in French in 1831—had two parts, the first in Latin and the second, shorter, in French. It contained prophecies of fire, plague, famine, floods,

earthquakes, droughts, comets, brutal occupations and bloody oppressions. The Church would collapse, the Pope be forced to flee Rome. Such predictions made it extremely popular at the time of the French Revolution, when crowds besieged the French Bibliothèque Nationale to see it. Indeed, many nineteenth-century catalogues

suggested that it had predicted the Revolution itself. But above all the book predicted a supposedly imminent Arab invasion of Europe, the advent of the Antichrist and the subsequent End of the World. The Mirabilis liber seems to have served as a major source for the prophecies of Nostradamus, and was placed on the Lisbon version of the Church's Index of Forbidden Books in 1581.

A SAMMELBAND OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC OF LEGENDARY RARITY

50. [Music] Orlando Lassus & others) Small oblong (15 x 10 c) Contemporary brown vellum binding (worn). € 17.500,The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque

period, from about 1570 until around 1650. Le Roy and his cousin Robert Ballard (ca. 1525-1588 ] founded the

printing firm "Le Roy & Ballard", and they where awarded the title of "imprimeur du Roi en musique". This office, which was renewed by successive monarchs, gave the company legal protection against competitors and

commercially valuable prestige. Royal patronage was a major factor in the company's success since it ensured

both a ready supply of new music from the court musicians and a market for its publications. Over the following two decades other rival companies dropped out of the market and from the 1570s onwards Le Roy & Ballard enjoyed a virtual monopoly in music publishing.

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without exaggeration, all of legendary rarity Late 16th c. editions of vocal music like this are almost always found as incomplete sets. If a contemporary singer or collector assembled a sammelband from nine editions (each

comprising four part-books for cantus, altus, tenor & bassus) as here, then instead of binding the nine editions separately, he split the editions and bound all the vocal parts separately in four separate volumes, one for each singer. It is therefore almost impossible to find a complete set of parts today; even the André Meyer collection

Sothebys sold, originally bought shortly after the Second World War, contained scarcely any complete sets. A later

Sammelband of 3 tenor parts of Lassus only (all in later edition ad here, 1596,1599, 1596) sold in Paris in the André Meyer sale (16/10/2012) for 25.950€. That copy had 140 pages total, we got 290 pages in total, with some works not in any public collection or even no copy known.

1. Tenor Airs et villanelles mis en musique à 4. 5. & 6. Parties, par Pierre Bonnet. Paris, Par A. Le Roy, & R. Ballard, 1588. 52 leaves. Newbery library, Lesure no. 270

2. Tenor. Premier livre d'airs tant françois, italien, qu'espagnol, reduitz en musique, à 4. & 5. parties : par M. G.

Tessier. A Paris : par Adrian le Roy, & Robert Ballard, M.D.LXXXV. 40 leaves. This edition only in private collection, of the 1582 edition, two copies, BL and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Lesure no. 271

3. Tenor. Airs mis en musique à quatre parties par Iean Planson Parisien. Paris : A. Le Roy & R. Ballard, 1588, 40 pages. Only know through private collections. Lesure no. 301

4. Tenor. Airs mis en musique à quatre parties. Premier liure / par Fabrice Marin Caietain sur les poësies de P. de Ronsard, & autres excelens poëtes A Paris : Par Adrian le Roy & Robert Ballard M. D. L X X VIII. [1578] 39 leaves, page 26 with slight loss, page 33 missing! Tenor. British library

5. Title missing, Le Blanc Airs de plusieurs musiciens. {3} Tenor Paris, Adrian Le Roy et Robert Ballard, 1582, 40 pages London (UK), British Library K 2 b 7 (2) Paris (Fr), Bibliothèque nationale de France MUS. Rés. 24

6. Tenor. Chansonnettes mesurees. de Ian-Antoine de Baif mises en musique a quatre parties par Iacques Mauduit Parisien. 1588, 24 pages Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève Vm 223 Rés. Private collection,

7. Tenor. Vinctcinquieme livre d'airs et de chansons à quatre parties. D'Orlande de Lassus et Cl. Le Jeune Adrien Le Roy : Robert Ballard, 1585. REFERENCES: Lesure no. 275 LIBRARY COPIES: Private collections. 24 pages.

8. Tenor. Vingtquatrieme livre d'airs et chansons à quatre parties. D'Orlande de Lassus et Cl. Le JeuneParis : Adrien Le Roy : Robert Ballard, 1585. Paris (Fr), Bibliothèque nationale de France Rothschild 983. 16 pages

9. CANTIQVES DV Sr. DE MAISON- || fleur mis en Musique à 4. parties || Par le S. Antonio Condomirio. || Grec de nation. || A PARIS, || M. D. LXXXII. | no known copies, 15 leaves, last leaf missing.

A LANDMARK BOOK ON RENAISSANCE NUMISMATICS.

51. Pois, Antoine Le (1525-1578). Discours sur les medalles et graveures antiques, principalement Romaines. Paris: Mamert Patisson at the premises of Robert Estienne, 1579. Quarto. 20th-century quarter calf preserving early paper-covered boards. Estienne's engraved device on title, engraved

portrait on title verso, four full-page woodcut illustrations, the image of Priapus uncensored but with a modesty flap bound-in, 20 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations (Without the final blank, title

repaired in the margins with small loss to the frame of the portrait, faint damp stain throughout, short worm-track in the bottom margin of a few gatherings.) € 1500,FIRST EDITION OF The work is witness to the importance given then to coins in the study of history. Le Pois is cited

in Alden and Landis, European Americana, because he records here the discovery in Brazil of an ancient coin, which cast doubt on the anteriority of Columbus's discovery of America. The fine illustrations include the four statuettes

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found at Soisson; that of Priapus, which is often defaced or torn, is here uncensored. Martin Folkes (1690-1754) was a distinguished antiquarian and numismatist, whose extensive library was sold over the course of 40 days. Adams L-522; The H. P. Kraus copy made 4,000 $ in 2003. No other complete copy in the trade.

EARLY LAW.

52. [Sammelband on law] Printed in Ingolstadt, Alexander und Samuel Weyssenhorn, 1567, 1566 and 1567. A. Dienstbarkheiten, Stattlicher und Bawrischer Erbaigen. [18] leaves 128 pages. B. De iure emphyteutico. Baurecht die man sonst nendt Erbrecht. 27 leaves, last leaf blank. III. De iure et

privilegiis dotium. Recht und Freyhaiten der Heuratguter. [6] leaves, 42 pages. Folio. Bound in a 15th century vellum antiphon leaf. € 1250,Third German publication. The main part consist of building regulations. The other parts deal with inheritance and marriage law. Martin Pegius (1508? -1592). was a professor in Roman Law and counsellor to the Bishop of

Salzburg. He published important legal works that where reprinted several times, stretching all the way to the first half of the XVIII century. Pegius was also know for translating parts of the codex of Justinian.

TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES IN GREEK.

53. Sophokles. Tragoediae . Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis & cum Latinis I. Camerarii. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidem, seorsum excusa, simul prodeunt. Geneva, H. Estienne, 1568. Quarto [4], (461), pages; 242 pages. Modern vellum binding with marble boards. € 990,First Estienne edition. "The Greek text is followed by the commentary of Joachim Camerarius, and his Latin version of Ajax and Electra. In his preface Henri Estienne states that his forthcoming Greek 'Thesaurus' will cite the text of

Sophocles after the page-reference of the present edition. He has again employed his peculiar system of diacritical notations"

La Gierusalemme liberata. Commentary by S. Gentili and G. Guastavini.

54. Tasso, Torquato (1544-95). La Gierusalemme liberata. Commentary by S. Gentili and G. Guastavini. Genoa: Girolamo Bertoli, 1590. 3 parts in one volume.4to., (240 x 175mm). Complete: 11 [1]; 225 [1 blank]; 71 [1]; 40 [8] pp; Title within an engraved border with a portrait of Tasso and inset etching of harbor view. 20 full-page engraved illustrations after Bernardo Castello by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci (11 are engraved by Giacomo Franco, and 9 by Annibale Caracci), woodcut

cartouches, initials and head- and tailpiece. Internally, some general foxing as always, light lower

marginal damp stain affecting some leaves. Contemporary vellum with some spoiling; monogrammed SBS green morocco bookplate to from paste-down. Adams T-243; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 494. € 2950,FIRST ILLUSTRATED edition of this famous text and considered one of the finest illustrated books of the period, a

project that combined the talents of painter Bernardo Castllo with the skills of Annibale Caracci who cut the plates. It includes the Guastavini’s commentary (third B 3--6), sometimes missing likely as the result of an original binding/collation error at printing. Brunet notes as well that in many copies, the illustration to Canto IV and Canto V, " is an imperfection which greatly dimities the value of the book"; in this much rare copy both separate plates are

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present. Nicola Francesco Haym as early as the late 17th century calls the edition with both plates "si rara, ch'è difficile il invenirla".

A CELEBRATED POEM ON FALCONRY.

55. Thou, Jaques-Auguste de. Hieracosophiou, sive de re accipitraria libri III. Paris, Robert Etienne for Mamert Patisson, 1587. 8vo. 126 pp., final blank f. With printer's device on title page. Half vellum (c. 1900) with marbled boards and giltstamped spine title. Edges sprinkled in red. € 3950,Third edition of the famous "Hieracosophion", the second to contain the third book. - "Celebrated poem on

falconry" (Schwerdt), written in Latin hexameters by Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), a distinguished and

highly erudite French nobleman. "His poem was reprinted by N. Rigault in 'Rei Accipitrariae Scriptores' in 1612 and also translated into Italian [...]

He was in his twenties when he composed the elegant verses on hawking, which were probably inspired by the experience he gained of this noble sport during his sojourns at foreign courts" (ibid.). On p. 7, we find "an

important note on the various kinds of hawks used for Falconry, with the Latin and French names for them" (Harting). -. Cf. Brunet V, 840 (first ed. 1584). Not in Renouard or Schreiber. No other copy in the trade.

ORIGINS OF MELANCHOLY

56. [Vittori, Benedetto] Consilia medicinalia ad varia morborum genera ; Consilia medicinalia ad varia morborum genera Benedicti Victorij. 1556 Impressum: Ziletti Venetiis ; 314 Bl. [2] Contemporary vellum binding. 8vo. € 795,Benedetto Vittori, 1481-1561. Medical doctor, professor in medicine and philosophy Vittori at Padua and later

Bologna. He was chiefly interested in the theoretical and philosophical aspects of science and did not publish a large number of medical works. This book was written during his life. Vettori occupied himself extensively with the

origins of Melancholy. However, they were very popular and were reprinted numerous times, although they are now

extremely rare and hard to find' (Eimas)It made neary 600 GBP in 2001 at Sothebys, there are no copies in the trade. Durling 4663; Eimas 188 (note)

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AN EXCITING RARE WORLD MAP.

57. Bongars, Jacques. Orientalium expeditionum historia. Gesta Dei per Francos, sive Orientalium expeditionum, et regni Francorum Hierosolimitani historia [...]. Hanau, typis Wechelianis, apud heredes Joan. Aubry, 1611. Folio [56], 621, (1), 625-1207, (1) pages. Bound with: Sanudo, Marino. Liber

secretorum fidelium crucis super Terrae Sanctae recuperatione et conservatione [...] Orientalis historiae tomus secundus. Ibid., 1611. [12], 361 pages (a double-page-sized folding plate numbered as 283f.). Contemporary vellum with gilt stamped spine title. € 12500,Only edition of this early, important source book for the history of the crusades and the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its vassal states. The much-sought maps, usually found in the second part, are here bound after the preliminary

matter of pt. 1. With double-page circular world-map centered on Jerusalem with the Mediterranean relatively well

defined. - Shirley 276 & plate 217, p. 300; A rare Portolan map of the World, the earliest surviving printed evidence of Pietro Vesconte's World map created circa 1311, generally considered to be one of the earliest surviving

examples of a modern map of the World. 2. Double-page engr. "map of the Holy Land oriented to the east, divided among the Tribes on both sides of the Jordan... the source for all the 'modern' maps of Palestine published in the printed editions of Ptolemy's atlases. The original map was, however, first published in print in this edition" 3.

Double-page engr. map of the Eastern mediterranean oriented to the south with Cyprus, pictured as centre of the

eastern half with 14 names of places. - Not in Stylianou and Bank of Cyprus. 4-5. Sketch plans of ancient Jerusalem & Acre, 2 full-page engravings. A copy in modern half vellum (severely browned, with some worming) commanded 13,000 Euros at Reiss's spring auction in 2009.

A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND WITH MERCATOR WORLD MAP (1632)

58. Bunting, Hendrick. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae: dat is: Het Reys boeck der heyligher Schrift. ... Laurents z, Boeck-verkooper op t'Water in't Schrijf-boeck, 1635. Three volumes in one. 8vo Contemporary vellum binding. € 1500,Early edition in Dutch of the famous travel book on the Holy Land. Rare on the market with the maps, that are

usually sold separate. Illustrated with 6 folding woodcut maps and plans. . World map (Typus Orbis Terrarum by

Mercator), 2. The Holy Land with sea monsters, 3. Mediterranean (with the Persian Gulf) 4. Jerusalem 5. Egypt and Sinai with the red sea 6. Travels of St Paul.

SAMMELBAND OF FOUR TRACTS.

59.. A. Doni, Giovanni Battista . Delle Lodi della Cristianissima Maria, Regina di Francia e di Nauarra. Orazione funerale. Florence 1643, 21 pages. Doni (c. 1593 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist who

made an extensive study of ancient music. On returning to Florence in 1622, he entered the service of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, and went with him to Rome where Barberini became Dean of the College

of Cardinals, afterwards accompanying the cardinal to Paris, Madrid, and back to Rome. After the death of his brother, he returned to Florence around 1640, where he married and settled down as professor at the university. € 450,Bound with B. Delle Lodi Del Gran Dvca Di Toscana, Cosimo Secondo : Orazione ... Recitata pubblicamente ... nella Accademia degli Alterati il di` xiij. di Febbraio 1621. In Firenze Appresso Igivnti [1] 47 leaves by Cerchi, Vieri Referenced by: Bruni & Evans. Italian 17th cent. books in Cambridge libraries, 1347. Bound with C. Giovanni 28

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MOLLINELLI. Orazione...recitata nell'essequie fatte a...Francesco de Medici. Ibid., 1587. Woodcut device on title,

woodcut emblem of the Compagnia di San Niccolo on last page. Funeral oration. 14 pages Rare. In the UK one copy only. Bound with D. Francesco Rinuccini: Delle lodi di Luigi xiii, il giusto, rè di Francia, e di Navarra, orazione. Firenze, Stamperia di SAS alla Condetta 1645. 19 pages. All four tracts bound in a simple cardboard binding.

DID THE BIBLE FORETELL THE COMING OF MOHAMMED?

60. Frischmuth, Johann (praes.) / Baumann, Andreas (resp.). Exercitium academicum, ad locae quaedam scriptuae illustranda, [...] quibus Turcarum Persarumque

doctores Muhammedem veri nominis, et a Deo promissum, fuisse prophetam probare satagunt.Jena, Samuel Krebs' Wwe., 1685. 4to. (24) pp. Numerous passages interspersed in Arabic and Hebrew characters. Papered spine. First edition. € 1950,Philosophical dissertation by the German theologian, linguist and oriental scholar Johann Frischmuth (1619-87)

about various passages in the Christian Bible that foretold the coming of Muhammed. The Arabic word "Muhammad" is an expression which means "The honorable one" or "The glorified one" or "The admirable". The Prophet

Muhammad was the first in the Middle East to be named "Muhammad". Jesus in the Greek Bible used the Greek

word "Periklytos" which means the admirable or glorified one. He called that predicted human prophet "Periklytos". This word corresponds exactly to the Arabic word "Muhammad" which also means the "admired one" or "glorified one." In other words, "Periklytos" is "Muhammad" in Greek and so it argued the Bible foretold the coming of Mohammed. Several copies in German institutions but only one in the US and one in the UK. VD 17, 3:009831S.

17TH CENTURY FEMINISM.

61. Guillaume, Jacquette. Les Dames illustres ou par bonnes & fortes raisons, il se prouve, que le sexe feminin surpasse en toute sorte de genres le sexe masculin. Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1665. 12mo, [4], 443 pages. Contemporary French mottled calf. € 750,A radical book which argues for women's moral and intellectual superiority over men. Guillaume's tract, which is dedicated to Mademoiselle d'Alencon, is written in a mixture of prose and verse, and considers various

characteristics of and distinctions between the two sexes, including female fidelity (contrasted with masculine

infidelity); the greater cruelty of men than of women, and the vices which accompany that cruelty, in contrast to the humanity and douceur of women. Exemplars identified for their virtues include Christine de Pisan, Judith, Joan of

Arc, and other historical figures. See an Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, Volume 1(Katharina M. Wilson). Page 502. World catalogue lists aroud10 copies in institutions, no copy in the trade. Last copy at auction sold for 450$ $ at Swann in 1989

AN ARMORIAL BINDING FOR LISELOTTE VON DER PFALZ.

62. LUBIN, [A.]. L'office de la semaine sainte, selon le messel & breviaire romain et pour les Ames Devotes du Diocese de Paris. Herissant, 1692. (12), 851, (1). 8vo.

Unrecorded edition of this prayerbook, with different title. Other editions by Lubin are known. Not in worldcataloque, not in KVK, not in BNF,

In a stunning contemporary, armorial binding, full calf with raised bands, gilt coat of arms of Princess Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria (1652-1722), Princess Palatine, Duchess of Orléans on both sides, with gilded monograms & fleur de lis on all corners. Edges gilt.

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€ 695,Liselotte von der Pfalz (* 27. Mai 1652 in Heidelberg; † 8. Dezember 1722 in Saint-Cloud bei Paris), war Herzogin

von Orléans und Schwägerin von König Ludwig XIV. von Frankreich. Literarische und historische Bedeutung erlangte sie u. a. durch ihren Briefwechsel, der durch seine teils sehr unverblümten Schilderungen des französischen Hoflebens von besonderem kulturgeschichtlichen Wert ist.

ARMORIAL BINDING, ECONOMIC HISTORY

63. [Lyon] Privilèges des foires de Lyon octroyez par les rois très chrétiens, aux marchands françois et estrangers y négocians sous les dits privilèges ou résidens en la dite ville. Lyon : Guillaume Barbier,

1649. xvi, [8], 398, [8] p. About the fairs of Lyon. Beautiful full calf binding, with the armorial of Lyon and gilded spine with raised bands, with suns. € 750,One copy in Germany (Leipzig)

RARE MEDICAL TREATISE

64. Moller, Daniel,Horst, Gregor. Disputationum Medicarum Decima Octava, De Venaesectione, Quam In Illustri Witeberga Praeside Gregorio Horstio ... Respondendo defendere conabitur, Daniel Mollerus, Lub. Saxo. Ad diem V. Aprilis

Wittenberg Wittebergae Typis Meisnerianis 1607. € 200,4 leaves. Rare medical treatise, VD17 3:016146P five copies in Germany.

RARE TREATISE ON GEORGIAN MUSIC, ONLY 4 COPIES WORLDWIDE KNOWN.

65. MONSERRATE, A. DE. Arte breve, y compendiosa, de las dificultades que se ofrecen en la musica pratica del canto llano (..).

Valencia, Pedro Patricio Mey, 1614. With woodcut title-vignette (depicting the Virgin of Monserrat) and noted music of Gregorian chants. 124 pages.

Small 4to., late 19th-/ early 20th-century vellum, gilt ribbed spine with 2 red morocco letterpieces. € 6500,Exceedingly rare manual for the study of (the history of) Gregorian chants. No auction records. We located four

copies worldwide BnF Paris, Biblioteca Nacional – Madrid, National library Barcelona, British library, London. No copy in Germany

Andres de Monserrate served for the church of St Martin in Valencia where he wrote a plainsong discourse entitled "Arte breve, y compendiosa de las dificultades que se ofrecen en la musica practica del canto llano". This is one of the only theoretical works on music from Spain published during the seventeenth century. He was unsympathetic

toward the amateur musician who knew nothing concerning the strong and traditional foundations of the musical

arts. Monserrate's own treatise paid great homage to previous authorities. The work was divided into two portions: fundamentals and examples. Historically his work became important in Spanish musical theory as it was often

quoted by later theorists. The corpus of the work contained the usual categories of notation, accidentals, cadences, modes and solmization" Some light foxing but else good.

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A HANDSOME EMBROIDERED BINDING.

66. Nuns of little Gidding. The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments : and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. :London : Printed by Robert Barker, and by the

assignees of John Bill, 1642 ... 32 mo.. Some wear to spine, hinges tender; small corner loss to tite pae of Common Prayer. € 6495,Bound with... The Holy Bible: London, By Robert Barker and by the assignes of John Bill, 1641... Bound with... The

Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meter by Tho. Sternhold, John Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others ... With apt notes to sing them withall, etc. London : By G. M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1642.

A most attractive specimen, housed in a turn-of-the-century morocco silk lined case, front cover of box detached. Beautifully embroidered and well-preserved binding in a floral design with silver braids arranged in curved stalks.

As early as 1899, Cyril J. Davenport in his English Embroidered bookbindings, questioned whether the famous Nuns of Little Gidding, were skilled enough to make embroidered bookbindings. This is reaffirmed by modern

scholarship in Howard Nixon and Mirjam Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England (1992), p.54, "In

the early part of this century one of the most persistent myths in booksellers' versions of bookbinding history was

that all English embroidered bindings of the first half of the seventeenth century were the work of the Little Gidding community.

Nevertheless, the designs of several known floral embroidered bindings of the same period are so similar in

execution and technique, that if not by Nicholas Ferrar's establishment at Little Gidding, they were likely executed by the same unknown workshop(s). Comparison of the present example may be made with the Embroidered Binding (1636) Special Collection F-f.8 at the University of Glasgow Library.

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST 666

67. Potter, Francis. An Interpretation of the Number 666. Woodcut numerological text diagrams in text; engraved illustration of altar on page 175. [18], 214, last blank page not present. Front cover reattached. Full calf 19th century binding. € 950,First edition of a treatise on the Number of the Beast, applying considerable ingenuity in finding ways to associate the square root of 666 with the Roman Catholic Church. Auction records at 1500 to 2000 $

ASTROLOGY & NUMEROLOGY.

68. Roussat, Richard. Livre d'Arcandam Occult Livre d'Arcandam docteur et astrologue, traitant des prédictions d'astrologie. Lyon. Printed by Pierre Rigaud. Lyon 1610. 8vo. 282 p [3]. Modern pastiche

binding. 1-166 on the signs of the Zodiac 166, 167-169 on numerology 170-282 plus one table and two fly leaves with sun signs. Upper margins closely cut but no loss of text. € 1095,Richard Roussat was a contemporary of Nostradamus but has remained up to know an obscure physician and

astrologer. (approx. 1490-1550) None of Roussat’s works are discussed in Thorndike’s monumental history of

magic and experimental science. Each of the work’s twelve major divisions is devoted to a sign of the zodiac and headed with an appropriate woodcut vignette. It was translated in the 17th century, and became to judge by the

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great number of editions that appeared a bestseller. The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant book of the famous doctor, and expert astrologian; Arcandam, or, Alcandrin: To find the fatal destiny, constellation,

complexion, & natural inclination of every man & child by his birth [sic]. With an addition of physiognomy, very

pleasant to read. Rare, there only one other 16th century edition in the trade. World catalogue list one copy only in LYON.

69. Stella, Jacques – Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella. Les jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance. Paris, 1657. First rare edition. Perhaps first state, the plates are not only numbered as usual but numbered with in combination with letters. 38 original plates (out of 50), plus engraved frontispiece (laid down on paper). Original binding but rebacked in the 19th century. € 2500,– Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636–1697) was a French engraver, in 1657 she was granted exclusive rights by the king to publish prints after Stella's designs. In the same year she issued “Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance” (The

Games and Pleasures of Childhood), produced for and dedicated to children. Still the unnatural attitudes of the children's bodies are indicative of the contemporary conception of children as miniature adults.

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A BOOK IMPORTANT TO THE HISTORY OF THE ANTI VACCINATION MOVEMENTS.

70. Allen, M.J.: Abregé de toute la medecine pratique : Où les sentimens des plus habiles médecins sur la nature des maladies, de leurs causes, & des remedes qui leurs conviennent, confirmées par des

observations, avec quelques augmentations dans la deuxiéme edition de cet ouvrage, A Paris : Chez Huart l'aîné, 1728. 12 mo. 3 volumes. Frontispiece in volume I, € 550,Contemporary bindings with raised bands. Notes Translated by Jean Devaux. Other names Devaux, Jean, 1649-

1729. Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. John Allen, (c1660 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books. This work claims to be entirely practical, and not to deal with the new views and

hypotheses which abounded in the medicine of the time, but makes no pretensions to originality. It gives, under the

head of each disease, the opinions of various authors, ancient and modern. Of importance is a note dated Augustus 1817 on the verso side of the title page, in French the following.

Have there not been voices from the depths of our provinces, and weak they are not, that oppose the practice of vaccination? It is, if one has to believe them, a diabolical invention because the small ....... ? [probably the name of a disease] comes to us from God, and one can not rise against the dispositions of providence, which, in her unfathomable ways often sends us diseases for our greater good. Does the vaccine not prevent physical deformities, does it not increase the fragile beauties that ignite the Passions, which unleash storms in the hearts and brings disarray to whole families? Besides, the scourge from which it has freed us weakens eyesight and for some people it is a great misfortune that we can see thus clearly.

THE OLDEST TIBETAN GRAMMAR PRINTED IN A WESTERN LANGUAGE.

71. Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum. Rome, 1773. 8vo. XVI – 138 pages. Modern vellum binding over Marble Boards. Folding table facing p.106, [Cordier 2929; Lust 1069]. € 550,-

The oldest Tibetan Grammar compiled in a western language, using the oldest Tibetan letters cut in the west

RARE BROADSIDES THAT CERTAIN COINS ARE NO LONGER OF VALUE.

72. [Broadsides] Es hat Ein Hoch-Löbl. Rath dieser Stadt, unsere Herren, abermahlen, mit äusserstem Befrembden und Mißfallen, erfahren müssen, und lieget auch an sich selbst allbereit genugsam am

Tag: welchermassen von eigennützigen, gewinnsüchtigen Personen, sowohl Christen als Juden, die im Münz-Wesen vorlängst heilsamlich gemachte Reichs-Constitutiones, …

Decretum in Senatu, den 4. Januar. An. 1736. Et Renovatum den 5. Iunii, An. 1737 Es hat Ein HochLöbl. Rath dieser Stadt, unsere Herren, abermahlen, mit äusserstem Befrembden und Mißfallen, erfahren müssen [Nürnberg] ; [1737] € 175,-

BROADSIDES NOT IN KVK

73. [Broadsides] Wir Maria Theresia, von Gottes Gnaden Romische Kaiserinn, Wittib, Koniginn zu Hungarn ….Entbieten allen und jeden, besonders aber den herrschaften und unterthanem in NiederOesterreich …. Gegen das Patent wegen Zertheiling und verbesserung der Gemein Waidem.

Wien den 24 Monatstag März im siebenzehen hundert siebenzigsten, Unserer Reiche im dreytzigsten

Jahre." Rare announcement, the one from 29 march seems common, I did not find this one. 4 leaves + one table dated 1769. Folio. Not in KVK. € 250,-

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74. [Broadside] on the prices of veal (rindfleisch) Herzogthums Karnthen etc … Klagenfurt 1717. Not in KVK, 1716. € 250,-

UNRECOREDED BROADSIDE ON EPILEPSY

75. [Broadside] Gebrauch der Medicin vvieder die fallende Kranckheit. Von diesen drei drey Pulverkens nimb eins in abgehender Mond… etc 17 lines. 20 x 16 cm. No date, no place. 18th century ? Not in worldcatalogue, KVK, BSB, not in Library Medicine, not in Wellcome.

€ 450,-

FIRST PICTURE BOOK FOR CHILDERN.

76. Comenius, Johann Amos. Orbis Sensualium Picti Pars Prima. Hoc est Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura . Der sichtbaren Welt Erster Theil (u. Anderer Theil). Das ist: Aller vornehmsten Welt-Dinge, und menschlichen Handlungen Abbildung und

Benahmung. Noribergae, In Bibliopolio Joh. Andr. Endt (Nürnberg, Endter, Johann Andreas; Erben) 1756-1769., [11] 315 p, [53], 449 p, [28]. In Latin & German. € 850,Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures) written by Czech educator Comenius and first published in 1658

is something of a children's encyclopaedia and is generally considered to be to be the first picture book intended for children. The work was to be used in schools and is illustrated with numerous woodcuts and gives encyclopedic

information on more than 150 different topics. The work became widely popular and was soon translated into many different languages. All edition of this book are rare.

THE BEST GERMAN PRIVATE-LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF THE ENLIGHTMENT

77. Francke, Johann Michael; Bünau, Heinrich von. Catalogue Bibliothecae Bvnavianae Tomi ... Volvmen ... / [Johann Michael Francke]

Auctores antiquos sacros et profanos, opera varia, scriptores historiae litterariae, philologos,

epistolographos, rhetores et poetas. Vol. I. . - Lipsiae : Fritsch, 1750. - [28} Bl., 1-1000 pages. Vol II. .- Lipsiae : Fritsch, 1751. – 1000 – 1784 pages.

BÜNAU, Graf Heinrich von (1697-1762) -- Johann Michael FRANCKE (1717-75). Catalogus Bibliothecae

Bunavianae. Leipzig: Bernard Christoph Breitkopf for the widow of Caspar Fritsch, 1750-56. Quarto (25 cm, two volumes. Printed in double columns. Engraved and woodcut vignettes. (Some browning.)

Contemporary German full calf bindings, gold-tooled spines (rebacked) VERY RARE, no copies on Abebooks, last complete set sold for $7200 at Christies. € 1250,Two volumes of the best German private-library catalogue of the Enlightment. Bünau, a Saxon statesman who was created an Imperial Count by Charles VII, formed his vast library of upwards of forty-thousand volumes to aid his studies in German history; his Teutsche Kayser- und Reichs-Historie (1728-43) may be considered one of the

foundation stones of modern German historiography. The great art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann was

Count Bünau's librarian from 1748 to 1754 and is likely to have had a hand in the cataloguing. After Bünau's death Francke became librarian of the Electoral Library in Dresden, which had purchased the Bibliotheca Bunaviana en-

bloc in 1762. Although the catalogue remained unfinished, it is a model of its kind. Ebert called it an "unsurpassed masterpiece" and Bogeng "the best catalogue of a German 18th-century private library."

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It takes a prominent place in the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, not least on account of the long and

important section of bibliography and catalogues in vol. 1 (PRESENT HERE) Breslauer and Folter 104; Taylor p. 234.

Eulogie on the mathematican Euler with a complete bibliography of his works.

78. Fuss ,Nicolas. Eloge de Monsieur Leonard Euler, lu a l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences ... 23 Octobre 1783, avec une liste complete des ouvrages de M. Euler. St. Petersburg, 1783, [2], 124 pages. First edition, and rare St Petersbourg imprint (in the US, one copy only, Harvard, two in UK). € 1750,Written by Nicolas Fuss (29 January 1755 – 4 January 1826), a Swiss mathematician, living most of his life in Russia and a mathematical assistant to Leonhard Euler. The books gives a complete bibliography of the published works and articles of Euler. 19th century cardboard binding.

A MASTERPIECE OF FRENCH ROCOCO BOOK ILLUSTRATION.

79. La Fontaine, Jean de. Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam: [i.e., Paris: David jeune], 1762. 2 volumes. 8 vo., 170 x 120 mm. 80 plates by Eisen engraved by Aliament, Barquoy, Choffard,

Delafosse, Filipart, Lemire, Leveau, de Longueil; additionally, 4 vignettes and 53 culs-de-lampe by

Choffard with the additional 7 rejected plates. Full red morocco gilt by Morrell in a neoclassical style,

inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Vol 1. spine expertly relaid. Vol. 2 with very minor splitting to upper hinge.

€ 4450,A splendid copy of one of the masterpieces of 18th century book. Illustration in its first and rarest state, First state with plates 'découvertes' and before letters. Complete with the additional plates inserted by Chafford and with Le Cas de conscience, Le Diable de Papefiguière, Les Lunettes, Le Rossignol et Richard Minutolo in the decouvertes

state. While the Le Cas de conscience and Le Diable de Papefiguière are more commonly encountered découvertes the other plates in that first and more unabashedly erotic state are extremely rare.

The work was described by the Goncourt brothers as "one of the handsomest disbursements of witty and sensual

money of Louis XV 's reign" Thankfully, it was money well spent: the designs of celebrated genre painter Charles

Eisen (1720-1778) have secured its place as an acknowledged masterpiece of French rococo book illustration. At Christies, Importants livres anciens, livres d'artistes et manuscrits, 25 June 2009 Paris Lot 66. A first State Copy

with the very rare decouvertes plates but without the additional rejected plates like in our copy: made $38,219.

80. [SAMMELBAND] von 4 seltene volksbucher and one other. € 550,1. Schöne anmuthige Historien von Marggraf Walthern : darinnen dessen Leben und Wandel und was sich mit ihm

zugetragen, dem günstigen Leser kürzlich vor Augen gestellet wird ; Aufs neue mit schönen Figuren gezieret und verbessert / [Francesco Petrarca]

64 pages. Woodcuts throughout Geschätztes Erscheinungsjahr nach dem Katalog der SBB-PK Berlin. Möglicherweise

auch erst im 18. Jh. Erschienen. VD17 1:659568C

2. Martens oder: Wie Wohl man sich bey der Ehrlichkeit befindet, Bayreuth 1797 In der Lubeckischen hofbuchandlung. 16 pages. Not in VD 18 or KVK.

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3. Einweihumgs - Rede und Seegens - Worte : bei Eröffnung des Barmherzigkeits - Stifts, Lessungs Denkmal zu

Camenz. Am 3. Januar 1826 / gesprochen von Johann Gottfried Bönisch ; und Lehmann. One copy in Gorlitz. Title page repaired. 15 pages.

4. Die drei Schwestern eine Geschichte von vielen Abendtheuern und Bezauberungen, auch deren Lösung durch

Reinald genannt das Wunderkind. End of 18th or 19th century. One copy in the Universitätsbibliothek München, but this copy does not mention printing place and has 47 pages. 48 pages, Leipzig/Tauber. Woodcuts throughout,

5. Kaiser Octavianus, das ist: eine schöne und anmuthige Geschichte. Titel page missing, Early 19th century Woodcuts throughout. 188 pages

ILLUSTRATED FRENCH EDITION OF GULLIVERS TRAVELS.

81. Swift, Jonathan. Voyages de Gulliver. Seconde edition. Old calf gilt. Swift, Jonathan. Translated by abbe Desfontaines. Published by A Milendo: Chez les Freres Pigmeos.

Avec Privilege de l Empereur de Lilliput, [Fictitious imprint] 1727. 16mo. Contemporary calf. i-vi, viiixxxix, (xl-lxiv), blank leaf, 1-277, (278) blank; (i-viii), 1-325, (326) blank. € 500,The first edition of the first French translation is A La Haye: Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1727. The translator is unknown. This is the second edition printed in the same year and one that is considerably more rare. With four engraved plates.

82. Traité sur les toiles peintes, dans lequel on voit la maniere dont on les fabrique aux Indes, & en Europe ... / par M. Q**. 8vo. Amsterdam 1760. 109, [1] last leaf in facsimile. Title page laid down. € 400,A rare treatise on textile printing. Mainly printing on cotton, one copy of the original edition in Germany only, in the UK, only one copy in the British Library and one in the library in Scotland.

UNKNOWN VARIANT EDITION OF A GERMAN COURTESY BOOK

83. [Wächtler, Johann Christian] Commodes Manual, Oder Hand-Buch : Darinnen zu finden I. Eine compendieuse Methode ...; II. Ein vollkömmliches Dictionaire ... III. Die vornehmsten Heydnischen

Nomina ... IV. Le Secretaire d'Amour ... V. Allerhand mündliche Complimenten ... / von Johann Christian Wächtlern

Wächtler, Johann Christian. Fünffte und vermehrte Edition. Leipzig : Lanckischens Erben, 1714. [8] 430, 111. Contemporary annotations on last leaf. Contemporary vellum, spine damaged. € 395,-

Anstandsliteratur ist eine Sammelbezeichnung für Werke, die sich mit gesellschaftlichen Umgangsformen befassen wie z. B. Benimmbuch, Netiquette. Variant edition, not identical with the online digital copy, compare for xample decoration on page 430. Not identical with VD18 10943897

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ARABIC BOOK PUBLICATION

84. Hartmann, Martin. The Arabic Press of Egypt. London, Luzac & Co. (by E. J. Brill at Leyden), 1899.(4), 94 pp. 1 bl. f., 29, (1) pp. of adverts. Original red cloth with giltstamped title to spine. €850 First and only edition of this indispensable, oft-quoted study of early Egyptian journalism and book-publication. When published, the book was hailed by the conservatively British Oriental Institute as "valuable as work of

reference, and as showing the intellectual activity of all those people who fall under British influence" (Asiatic

Quarterly Review). The Silesian-born Arabist and Islamic scholar Martin Hartmann (1851-1918) pioneered Islamic studies as an independent discipline. While his scholarly work spans Islam from its beginnings to the present and from China to West Africa, it was contemporary Islam, widely neglected by the German universities, that was his

main focus of interest. "Hartmann was one of the first to collect Arabic folk songs, published on the Arabic press, pointed out the role of Islam in China and provided extensive reports on the happenings within the Ottoman

Empire. Crucially, he introduced the sociological method to German Islamic scholarship" (cf. NDB VII, 745f.). "A learned critical list of Arabic publication"(Athenaeum). - Original untrimmed top edge; very slight bumping to

extremeties. A contemporary scholar's handwritten underlinings and notes (some in shorthand) throughout. Not to be found on the internet.

A PHOTOALBUM ON THE RUSSIAN NAVY OF THE UTMOST RARITY.

85. Geiser, Jean. Navires de Guerre de la Marine Imperiale Russe. Algiers, Geiser, [1896].

Oblong folio. 36 original photo prints (vintage), 3 of which tinted blue, showing a total of 37 ships as well as a naval manoeuvre on deck. Calligraphically hand-captioned and signed by the photographer throughout. Publisher's half calf binding with gilt stamped cover title. € 4950,Photographer Jean Geiser, who worked in Algiers was at the end of the 19th century a minor celebrity. He was

rewarded in all exhibitions in 1856, 1878, 1893, 1900, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam. Being the offical photographer of her Majesty the Empress of Russia Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), he took many family pictures of the Imperial

Family. No other copy worldwide known. It presents the entire imperial Russian Fleet in the Mediterranean engaging in the naval blockade of Crete in the wake of the 1896 Cretan riots, the Hamidian massacres and the war with Ottoman empire. Possibly a privately printed presentation album to the Russian Empress.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN: INSCRIBED COPY

86. EINSTEIN, Albert. The World as I See It. New York: Friede, 1934. 8vo., original gray cloth, original dust jacket in the yellow (presumed first) variant, mild toning to pastedowns. INSCRIBED on flyleaf "To Mr. Burnshaw. Albert Einstein, Princeton, May 1935." € 8500,Signed copies, especially in the hypnotic original Covici Friede dust jacket are especially rare in commerce. Please note this is the original first edition, not the second less desirable one published in 1949. As one of the most quoted men in history, Einstein's personal philosophy have captured the public's imagination as much as his

scientific achievement and this work reveals his thoughts on many subjects- from his pacifism to the Jewish Question - to a general audience for the first time.

MARCO POLO, LIMITED EDITION. ONE OUT OF TEN.

87. Lydis, Mariette. Marco Polo Le livre de Marco Polo, Gentilhomme Vénitien 1271-1295 Les Cent Une, 1932. Quarto 9 delicately hand coloured etchings. Two of them are signed by the artist. 10 copies where printed, this is no 2. To Monsieur Kretch. unsewn in original wraps and uncut € 1000,Mariette, Comtesse Govone, lived an extraordinary life of adventure and sexual intrigue. She was born Marietta Ronsperger in Vienna in 1887. She married Jean Lydis in 1922, but left him for the Italian writer Massimo

Bontempelli, who took her to Paris. In 1928 Mariette Lydis married the art publisher Comte Giuseppi Govone. Lydis had a great artistic success in 30s Paris, starting with a solo show at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune, after which she became a member and a juror at the Salon d’Automne. Mariette Lydis fled the Nazis invasion of France with her

lover Erica Marx, taking refuge in the sleepy Cotswold town of Winchcombe, before making a perilous voyage to

Buenos Aires. Lydis was also close to the aviator Amelia Earhart. Mariette Lydis lived in Argentina for the rest of her

life. Her style was influenced by that of the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita, whom she knew in Montmartre. There is always an edge of ambiguous sexuality and danger in the art of Mariette Lydis, well-represented in our prints, hand-coloured drypoints for Verlaine’s Parallelement and etchings and aquatints illustrating the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Her work is in many major museums and collections worldwide.

RARE ALBUM OF ORLOV PAINTINGS WITH A PREFACE BY TOLSTOY.

88. Russkie muzhiki. Kartiny khudozhnika N. Orlova, s predisloviem Lʹva Nikolaevicha Tolstogo Spb. [Sanktpeterburg] : R. Golike i A. Vilʹborg, 1909. Folio, 8 (introduction), with 9 full-page plates

comprising black and white photographic reproductions of paintings mounted on thick paper with

printed descriptions beneath; photographic portrait of Tolstoy mounted on title-page within a coloured border of cascading leaves, text within ornamental border; original paper boards, with mounted full colour illustration of a peasant scene by the artist Stefan Kolesnikov. € 495,First and only edition of this album of nine black and white reproductions of folk-art paintings by the peasant artist Nikolai Orlov, prefaced by an 8-page introduction by Tolstoy. In Leo Tolstoy’s personal library there was an album of reproductions of Orlov’s works “Russian Peasants,” published in St. Petersburg in 1909. This edition contains Tolstoy’s introduction, in which the writer confessed: “It is a wonderful thing to publish an album of Orlov’s

paintings. Orlov is my favourite artist, and is my favourite artist because the subject of his paintings is my favourite

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subject. This subject is the Russian people, the real Russian peasants...” Tolstoy kept photo reproductions of the

following seven of Orlov’s works in his study at Yasnaya Polyana: “After Work,” “For Christ’s Sake,” “The Settlers,”

“After Service,” “The Dying Woman,” “The Tavern Keeper,” and “Monopoly.” According to his family members, Tolstoy used to say: “Every time I walk through my study I stop in front of Orlov’s works. What a talent! Both an artistic talent and a heightened comprehension.”

SCARCE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT JOURNAL

89. Zarnitza. All published journals 1925-127. Issue -1-18 Stapled illustrated wrappers by Robert Van Rosen. Quarto. Published : New York, N.Y. : Gruppa "Zarnit︠

s︡ a", 1925-1927.

€ 495,Wrappers illustrated by Robert E. Van Rosen (1900 or 1904-1966), the Russian-American artist and designer, who also edited the "Art" section of the journal. Born in Kiev, Van Rosen worked as an illustrator and cartoonist in his youth, before immigrating to the US in 1923. Van Rosen remains little known among scholars of the Russian emigration and Russian-American art. One copy of a single issue in the trade available.

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION CONSTANTINOPLE

90. Andreossy, Antoine François. Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace, pendant les années 1812,

1813 et 1814, et pendant l'année 1826, avec un atlas composé de six planches gravées, et de quatre

paysages lithographiés. Paris, Théophile Barrois & Benj. Duprat, J. S. Merlin, 1828. 8vo. (4), XLIV, 525, (1) pp. Contemp. half calf with gilt stamped spine title. With the folio atlas: 6 engr. maps and plans and 4 lithographic views. Contemp. half calf over marbled boards, with original printed wrapper cover on upper cover. € 3950,Andreossy, a participant in the French Expedition to Egypt, was French ambassador to the Porte between 1811 and 1814. Some of the plates show, aquaducts, waterways and fountains in Constantinople, a particular interest of the

author's. The Atlas and text volume are rarely found together. Last complete copy at auction was in 2002, Sothebys where it made 4182 GBP. Currently no copy in the trade to be found.

100 ENGRAVINGS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

91. Baratta, Antonio. Costantinopoli effigiata e descritta con una notizia su le celebri sette Chiese dell’Asia Minore, ed altri siti osservabili del Levante. Opera. nella quale sulla fede di nozioni

personalmente attinte in Oriente e di esatti recentissimi ragguagli si porge un preciso e compiuto

quadro della capitale dell’Impero Ottomano, della religione, governo ed usanze de’ suoi abitanti, e generalmente delle innovazioni politiche colà di recente introdotte. 3 Folio volumes. 813 pages. 1840-1842 Torino € 895,-

THIS IS AN ITALIAN ADAPTATION with additional plates, of the Beauties of Bosporus and Travels in Asia Minor by

Walsh. It is an exceptional nice set, with 100 steel engravings, without any foxing, depicting Constantinople and the various parts of the Ottoman Empire. Please note I offer the complete set of three bindings in their original state.

ON THE TURKISH WARS IN EUROPE

92. Birken, Sigmund von. Der vermehrte Donau-Strand: mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen, angelegenen Königreichen, Provintzen, Herrschafften und Städten ... vom Ursprung bis zum Ausflusse; in Dreyfacher Land-Mappe vorgestellet; auch samt kurtzer Verfassung einer Hungar- und

Türckis.Chronik, und des Anno 1663. und 1664. geführten Türken-Krieges. Jacob von Sandrart /

Kupferstecher und Kunsthändler in Nurnberg, 1684. [1] gef. Bl., [4] Bl., 231 S., 55 engravings. 8vo. € 2250,– The engravings depict cities on the way to the Ottoman capital: Ulm, Augsburg, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Passau, Linz,

Wien, Pressburg, Tokay, Temeswar, Belgrad, Adrianopel, and Constantinopel. We have not found a copy in any library

containing more than 50 engravings. Half of the Vienna panorama is however missing in our copy. Contemporary calf (rubbed). Auction record Bassenge € 2088 (50 engravings, 2010).

FIRST LOGBOOK FROM THE COAST OF INDIA; FROM GOA TO DIU.

93. Castro, Dom João de. Primeiro Roteiro da Costa da India; desde Goa até Dio: Narrandoa a Viagem que fez o Vice-Rei D. Garcia de Noronha em Soccorro desta ultima Cidade, 1538-1539 por DomJoão de Castro, Governador e Vice-rei, que depois foi, da India. Segundo MS. Autographo.

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION Porto, Typographia Commercial Portuense, 1843. Large 8vo (text) and oblong folio (maps, 509 x 327 mm). XLIV, XII, 284 pp. With frontispiece, 2 folding facsimile manuscripts, and 1 tipped-in portrait of

João de Costa with fascimile signature. Bound in contemporary boards with gilt title to spine, original

brown card wrappers bound within.(With:) Roteiro de Goa a Dio. Mappas. Ibid., 1843. Letterpress t. p.

and 15lithogr. maps in half calf album with claret marbled boards; original printed wrapper cover bound within.

€ 4750,Scarce, and rarely seen at auction, first complete edition of Castro's exploration of theGoan coast, here with the

usually missing atlas volume. Dom João de Castro (1500-48) was a naval officer and later Viceroy of Portuguese

India. In 1538 he embarked on his first voyage to India, arriving at Goa and immediately proceeding to the defense of Diu. Castro was responsible for the overthrow of Mahmud, King of Gujarat whose interests threatened Portuguese control of the Goan coast. Castro died in Goa in 1548 and was initially buried there, but his remains were later exhumed and transferred to Portugal.

A wide-margined copy from the library of Portuguese statesman Antonio Capucho with his engraved bookplate to

pastedown. - Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, DC5. Azevedo-Samodães 680 ("rara"). Palha 2333 ("ouvrage peu commun et estimé"). Avila Perez 1559 ("valioso e muito estimado, raro").

A LARGE PAPER COPY OF ONE OF THE FINEST WORK ON CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE LEVANT.

94. Bruyn, Cornelis de. Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, De Eylanden Scio, Rhodus,

Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio, &c. Mitsgaders de voornaamste Steden van Aegypten, Syrien En Palestina.

Delft, H. van Krooneveld, 1698. Folio. Large paper copy, A normal copy is 34 cm x 22cm, this one 40.5 cm x 26 cm. . [11] 398 [8] Large paper copies were sold at a higher price for top end Complete copy with all 122 plates in its original vellum binding with the often missing map. 18 (very) large folding

panoramic views, 28 folding plates and 56 full-plates, numerous half-plates text-illustrations. End of

spine repaired with old vellum. Binding stained, a few stains here and there, but a very fresh and crisp copy.

€ 6500,Cornelis de Bruyn, the Dutch painter and traveller, travelled between 1678 and 1685 in the Levant. Unlike other

travellers who relied on hearsay, the drawings for these engravings where made on the spot. De Bruyn was primarily a landscape artist and this manifests itself in the several fine panoramas which include Smyrna, Constantinople (3),

Rhodes, Tyre, The piramides of Gizeh, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Palmyra, Alexandria, Antalya, and others. De Bruyn's costume plates are mostly of the different types of Greek and Turkish head-dresses.

All panoramas in fine condition. not creased, or torn (like often), only the panorama of Izmir is printed with smaller margins.

THE PANAMA CANAL, SIGNED COPY

95. Bunau Varilla, P. Accompagné de vues, cartes, plans et d'un atlas a part. -- Plans annexes. Paris 1892. Quarto. 2 volume. Text + Atlas. 176 p. (and errata list) plus Atlas with two maps. Original

wrappers, stained, and grubby. With GARELLA (Napoleon): Projet d'un canal de jonction de l'ocean

Pacifique et de l'ocean atlantique a travers l'isthme de Panama. Paris, Carilian-Goeury, Paris 1845. Original printed wrappers. 233 p. unopened. € 650,-

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION Signed copy! By Bunau Varilla To Monsieur Gournay. With the election of the more supportive President Theodore Roosevelt, canal planning resumed in the United States. Bunau-Varilla vociferously promoted construction of the

canal. With aid from the New Panama Canal Company's New York attorney, William Nelson Cromwell, he persuaded

the government to select Panama as the canal site, as opposed to the popular alternative, Nicaragua. Bunau-Varilla

convinced the U.S. Senate to appropriate $40 million to the New Panama Canal Company. The funds were contingent on negotiating a treaty with Colombia to provide land for the canal in its territory of Panama.

The second book contains the result of the work of research and calculations for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Panama, through the Saint-Simonian engineer Felix-Garella Napoleon (1809-1858). Nicely illustrated with 2 large folding maps showing the profiles and track proposed for the junction of the two oceans through the piercing of the Isthmus of Panama.

96. CHANTREAU. Voyage Philosophique Politique et Litteraire, Fait en Russie Pendant les Annees 1788 et 1789... VOL I & II. PARIS 1794. 3 engravings plus a map. Full calf bindings. A fine set. € 300,-

A study from Russian society, religious views, their scientific progress.

97. [Catalogue of the Oriental Museum.] Great Globe, Leicester square.

London. Goulbourn. 1857, 60 [1] . 18 cm. Original printed wrappers, given the Title in Turkish as well. 30 pages plus one leaf of advertisements, back cover gone. € 400,Wyld's Great Globe (also known as Wyld's Globe or Wyld's Monster Globe) was a kind of Madam Tussaud, an attraction situated in London's Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862, constructed by James Wyld (1812–1887), a

distinguished mapmaker and former Member of Parliament. The Oriental Museum illustrated life in Turkey, Armenia, and Albania, with life-like models of the interiors of palaces, harems, bazaars, offices of State, and courts of justice, with priests, soldiers, and janissaries.

This brochure is exceedingly rare. One copy only in the British museum, mentioning a later (1860). The British Museum copy only mentions 60 pages.

98. [China & Vietnam] Auszüge aus Originalbriefen, geschrieben in französischer Sprache, von den apostolischen Vikarien und Missionarien in China, Tunkin, Cochinchina etc. über den Zustand jener Missionen / [Septimius Costanzi] Wien : Schmidt, 1811

[3] 202 p. [3], (2 engravings), 200 p. (3 engravings, of which one folding), [3], 278 p. [3] two maps.

Translation of Costanzi's "Estratto delle lettere originali scritte in idioma francese dai vicarj apostolici, e missionarj della Cina, Tunkino, Cochinchina &c. sullo stato di quelle missioni" (1806). "Mission von den vereinigten Staaten in Nordamerika": € 395,Rare, no complete copies in the trade. One copy in Germany of all three parts found in KVK. (Hamburg)

TRAVELS THROUGH SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

99. DALRYMPLE, W.. Voyage en Espagne et en Portugal. Dans l’année 1774. Avec une Relation de

l’expedition des Espagnols contre les Algeriens en 1775. Paris. 1783. 8vo. 257 pages. Splendid copy. € 295,With folding map and one costume print.

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION A RARE BOOK OF TURKISH AND ARABIC INTEREST. 1654

100. du Loir. Les Voyage du Sieur du Loir ensemble de ce qui se passa la mort du seu Sultan Mourat dans le Serrail, les ceremonies de ses funerailles; & celles de l' avenement l' Empire de Sultan Hibraim

son frere, qui luy succeda, avec la relation Du siege de Babylone fait en 1639 par Sultan Mourat. Quarto. Francois Clouzier. Paris 1654 [8] 358 [12] and one errata leaf. A near pristine copy in a period style binding. First edition. € 4950,Loir sailed from Marseilles in 1639 and successively visited Malta, Smyrna and the coasts of Asia Minor. In June 1640, he arrived in Constantinople and resided at the French ambassador Jean de La Hague, where he remained until March 1641. During this stay, he attended the ceremonies of the advent of Sultan Ibrahim I (1640- 1648). His narrative

consists of ten letters written from Constantinople, in which he described the mosques, gardens, serail, women's baths, and but also the brothels.

The originality of this correspondence lies also in the transliteration of the verses Qur'an (5 letter) and the music source of a Turkish song. The eight letter consists of Ottoman text and its French translation of the conquest of

Baghdad (letter 8) while the eight letter gives us a bilingual translation from Ottoman into French of the several titles of the Sultan and the other dignitaries of the court.

There are no copies in the trade and the work is rare at auction.

67 FINE HANDCOLORED PLATES ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

101. Ferrario, Giulio. Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milige, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes... Europe Ier vol. IIIme partie. Milan 1827. Folio. 462 p. € 7500,67 hand-coloured engraved plates, 462 pages. Marble boards, with gold tooled spine with raised bands. Untrimmed. This is part 3 of the first volume on Europe, containing plates depicting the costume of the Ottoman empire.

According to Brunet this immense work was published in 143 parts simultaneously in French and Italian between

1816 and 1834. This section devoted to the Ottoman Empire, and its capital Constantinople is the work of the Abbe Carlo Magnetti. The engravings include not only many costumes, but also buildings, objects of religious and of

everyday use, monuments, historical scenes and much more. The Topkapi palace, the Eyup cemetery the Bosporus

and the Blue Mosque. The plates are printed on wove paper and bear the publisher's drystamp. The colouring is truly superb throughout. The Atabey copy which made nearly 9000 GBP in the year 2002, speaks of 69 plates, but this must be a typo. According to the index there should 67.

A SEMINAL WORK ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

102. GURLITT, Cornelius. Die baukunst Konstantinopels. Berlin (Wasmuth) 1912 Two elephant folio, 112 pp. detailed critical text on the architectural history of Constantinople under Greek, Byzantine, and

Turkish domination, ext. notes incl. bibliographic material, indices, 224 text illus. (some in colour), 205 plates (2 in colour) showing photographs, measured drawings, ground plans, etc. Folio. Contents loose

as issued in original boards portfolios, spines repaired with tape. Some plates evenly browned (as usual) Few plates a bit frayed. € 12.500,A RARE AND IMPORTANT SURVEY OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. A panoramic and comprehensive

overview of many centuries of architectural evolution in Istanbul. This extensive scope covers the major mosques of

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depict interior and exterior views, architectural details, street scenes, plans and elevations. This is a very scare book,

and virtually impossible to obtain. Last copy at Sothebys sold for 13.150 Pound in 2002! There is one other ex-library copy available in the trade that has library stamps on every plate.

PROFUSELLY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH OVER 500 WOODCUTS.

103. Höniger von Königshoven, Nicolaus. Erste Theil Hoffhaltung des Türckhischen Keysers und Othomanischen Reichs beschreibung. Ander Theil der Türkischen Historien. Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri: 1578. Folio. Two parts in one, each with separate title page [3 out of 4 index leave.] 1-cccliii, [4] cclxxviij. Last leaf with printers mark missing. Attractive 16th binding. € 2500,The main text derives from Geuffroy’s Estat de la court du grand Turc, first published in 1542; the other works

include Bessarion’s and Pius II’s exhortations against the Turks, Breydenbach on the Armenians and Aventinus’s

panegyric on Charles V. This edition also contains reports on events up to 1595, amongst which are descriptions of the Battle of Lepanto (1571), the wars over Cyprus, the Turkish attacks on Malta (1590) and the rout of King Sebastian in Africa (1578). The second work deals almost exclusively with the reign of Sultan Suleyman, the magnificent. Including plans, maps, of Vienna, Cairo and Constantinople. Atabey 492 (1573); Gôllner 1621.

AN ENCYCLOPADIA ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

104. Knolles, Richard. The generall historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that nation to the rising of the Ottoman familie [...]. Together with the lives and conquests of the Ottoman kings and

emperours. [London], Adam Islip, 1638. Folio. (10), 1500, (20), 31, (33) pp. Original half vellum over wooden boards. Gilt embossed red label to spine. All edges red. € 2950,First published in 1603, this edition continues the history up to 1636. "Knolles spent twelve years on the completion of his great history, which is based on the works of such authorities as Busbecq, Giovio, Georgievitz, Barletius etc.

MALTA & THE TURKS

105. La Malteide, poema: Composto a grado del serenissimo Don Ranuccio Farnese. Venedig, Zaltieri, 1596. Quarto. [8] 125 pages. Modern half vellum binding with marble boards. € 1500,First edition, issue with colophon on Q5v. Rare first edition. An poetic account of the siege of Malta by the Ottoman Empire in 1565. The poem itself is a narrative of the events leading up to, during, and shortly after the Ottoman

invasion of the island of Malta which at the time was in control of the Knights of Malta. The poem was created by the Italian poet Giovanni Fratta a number of years after the siege and is made up of twenty-five chapters of rhyming

Italian poetry. Though certainly a biased work this poem does tell a dramatic version of the events of the siege and is a fine example of Italian poetry of the sixteenth century. Last copy at auction made €1160 in 2006.

AN EXTREMELY RARE ATLAS ABOUT A FAILED PROJECT TO CONNECT THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE RED SEA. 1802

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION

106. LE PÈRE, JACQUES-MARIE. Égypte. Atlas annexé au mémoire sur la communication de la mer Rouge à la Méditerranée A splendid & large atlas, in contemporary marble papers and pristine condition. published in 1802 (Predating Description de L’Egypt) with the text volume. With five maps, 52 cm x 35 cm € 7950,A very rare printing (we have found no trace of another copy). In 1798 Napoleon directed Jacques-Marie Le Père

(1763-1841), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, and his two brothers, Gratien (also an engineer) and JeanBaptiste (an architect), all members of the scientific expedition, to report on the feasibility of building a canal

between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Le Père presented his report to Napoleon on 6 December 1800, and his principal recommendation was a wide maritime canal with locks (a miscalculation had made one sea higher than the

other between Peluze and Suez). The Atlas was printed by Marcel at the Imprimerie impériale in this imposing format in 1802.

The text was printed in 1803. The text volume found with this atlas, is an extract from the same text published. Book 05 (1809), Volume I - Etat Moderne. 21-192 pages.

Over twenty years later, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who read the text of the Mémoire in 1832, was to realise the dream of uniting the two seas with a canal without locks (it was not until 1830 that it was understood that there was no

difference in the sea level between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, one of the errors made by Le Pere – “une erreur de dix metres” as Solé calls it). See Robert Solé. Les Savants de Bonaparte (Paris: Seuil, 1998).

THE ATLAS WITH THE ORIGINALTEXT VOLUME, sold for 40.000 GBP Sotheby's London, Wednesday 7 May 2003. This atlas dated in 1802 is only found in five libraries in France and one in Cairo. Thus the Atlas volume is exceedingly rare.

EARLY & RARE WORK ON THE OTTOMAN COURT.

107. Ramberti: COSE DE TURCHI. Nel primosi descriue il uiaggio da Venetia a Costantinopoli: Nel secondo, la Porta, cive la corte de Soltan Soleymano: Nel terzo il modo del reggere il stato & imperio suo. Venice 1541. Small 8vo.

37 pages [1] Colophon on last leaf. Modern vellum binding. € 1695,Ramberti was the secretary of the Venetian envoy in Istanbul in 1533/1534. He describes the Ottoman court, the

appearance of Sultan Suleiman and his relation with the grand vizier Ibrahim Pasa. The 1541 edition of Ramberti's

text (offered here) allowed the map maker Gastaldi an indirect access to Ottoman sources on Anatolian geography.

The account of his contemporary Giovio, Paolo is common, this work is rare. No auction records exist and it was not part of the famous Atabey collection.

HANDCOLORED MAP WITH THE FIRST DEPICTION OF VIETNAM.

108. Rhodes, Alexandre de. Histoire du royaume de Tunquin, et des grands progrez que la prédication de l'Évangile y a faits en la conversion des infidelles. Depuis l'année 1627 jusques à l'année 1646.

Composée en latin par le R. P. Alexandre de Rhodes,... et traduite en français par le R. P. Henry Albi,... Lyon 1651. Quarto [16] 326 p. Utilitarian modern binding. € 2450,Alexandre de Rhodes was born in Avignon, France. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Rome on 24 April 1612 to dedicate his life to missionary work. He arrived in Indochina about 1619. A Jesuit mission had been

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VOYAGES & EXPLORATION established in Hanoi in 1615; Rhodes arrived there in 1620. He spent ten years in and around the Court at Hanoi. While he was in Vietnam, he wrote the first Vietnamese Catechism and he published the first Portuguese-Latin-

Vietnamese dictionary. Rhodes returned to Rome by 1649 and pleaded for increased funding for Catholic missions to Vietnam. After returning to Rome Rhodes convinced the pope (1658) to send two French missionaries to be bishops

who would represent for the Catholic Church in Vietnam: Tonkin (the North) and Cochinchine (the South). And, also in this time, the Foreign Mission of Paris was established.

The map in contemporary hand colouring is of special importance since it was one the first depiction of Vietnam. The map oriented with the north to the right, "Regnu Annam" shows the extent of seventeenth-century Vietnam, then

divided between two rival dynasties, one in the north and the other in central Vietnam. To the west, are the highlands occupied by "Rumoi" (upland minority groups). The limited Western knowledge of the interior is illustrated by the

large region labelled "Solitudo." Bibliographical information: Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, T.

I, col. 136 - T. VI, col. 1718-1719, 1 et 4 ; Lowendahl - Von der Borg, Sino-Western Relations..., disclosed in western printed books, 1777-1877, 100 (Ed. italienne).

MAGNIFICET PICTORIAL CLOTH BINDING, RARE WORK ON CONSTANTINOPLE.

109. Spry, William. Life on the Bosphorus. Doings in the City of the Sultan, Turkey, Past and Present Including Chronicles of the Caliphs from Mahomet to Abdul Hamid II. Quarto. [10] 330 pages. € 1495,A rare title, profusely illustrated, in an extremely pretty pictorial cloth binding, stamped in gold, with the Blue Mosque and the Tugra of the Sultan. Not in Atabey or Blackmer. No copy in the trade. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.

ATHENS & CONSTANTINOPLE.

110. Wheler, George. Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant. Amsterdam/Antwerp. 1689. 8 vo. Contemporary full calf bindings with raised bands. VOL I: 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 map of Greece, 40 engravings, one table. 8 plates of coins. VOL II: 31 engravings, 3 fold out plates with inscriptions, one plate with inscriptions. Complete. Beautiful copy. € 695,This is one of the most important accounts of travels in the Levant, and the first description of Athens “which was systematic, detailed and trustworthy" (Blackmer). The first Volume has also gives an extensive description of

Constantinople with engravings of the Sultan Ahmet mosque and the monuments of the Hippodrome. Please not that this later French edition carries more plates then the previous ones.

RARE MONOGRAPH ON THE PALACE OF DIOCLETIAN IN SPLIT.

111. Zeiller, Jacques. Hébrard, Ernest. Spalato, Le palais de Dioclétien. Préface de Ch. Diehl. Paris : Librairie générale de l'architecture et des arts décoratifs 1912. Large folio. 2 p., viii, 232 p out of 234

(one errata leave missing), XVII loose-leaf plates. One coloured. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some tears to the plates. € 1950,A splendid monograph on the palace of Diocletian in Split, meanwhile an UNESCO World Heritage Monument. Very rare. No copies in the trade. I found in the US one copy in the Metropolitan, one copy at Harvard.

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MAPS, PHOTOGRAPH & PRINTS

112. Callow, William. 1812-1908). Bad Ischl/Ischel [!], Austria". Aquarell. Sorgfältig ausgeführtes Aquarell, das den bekannten österreichischen Kurort, einst

Sommerresidenz der kaiserlichen Familie in einer sehr hübschen Darstellung um 1850 darstellt. -

Provenienz: I) Mrs Callow's Collection. II) Mehrfach ausgestellt bei Walker's Galleries, London, April 1927 (vgl. "Walker's Quarterly, April 1927, S. 46). € 2500,William Callow (* 28. Juli 1812 in Greenwich, Februar 1908 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England) war ein englischer Landschaftsmaler, Graveur und Aquarellist des 19. Jahrhunderts.

LARGE WALL MAP OF EUROPE

113. Carte Genérale Et Itinéraire De L'Europe : Divisée En Tous Ses États D'Après Le Congrès

De Vienne & autres traités postérieurs : [dedicated] Charles de Schwarzenberg. 1821. A very large, detailed, and impressive engraved wall map, linen mounted, dissected, coloured in

outline, extending when unfolded to a single sheet 173 x 140cm composed of 60 sections, in its contemporary chemise. € 395,Following the Napoleonic Wars and the re-drawing of boundaries at the Congress of Vienna there was a great

demand for up to date maps. On this map Greece is still part of the Ottoman Empire. This is 1821 reissue of the 1818 map, that is considerably more scare then the 1818 map.

LARGE WALL MAP OF EUROPE, AFTER NAPOLEON DEFEAT

114. Carte politique, routière et statistique de l'Europe d'après les derniers traités / dressée par H. Brué...1816. Large wall map, lined mounted, dissected, coloured in outline, extending when unfolded to a single sheet 125 x 110 cm. In a contemporary chemise with leather spine label. € 395,-

A RARE 19TH CENTURY CHINESE ATLAS.

115. [CHINESE ATLAS] Xylographic printing 55 MAPS On double leaves, oriental style, depicting the Region of CANTON. 28 x 18 cm Woodblock printing. Around 1850/1860 € 1950,19th century Chinese atlases are rare on the market.

FAMOUS 16th CENTURY BIRD EYE VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

116. [Constantinople] PANORAMA FROM SEBASTIAN MUNSTER. Fine detailed woodcut bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the usual perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to the

right and the asia side below. Seemingly, all the buildings are shown, including the Topkapi Palace, the Hagia Sophia and the Hippodrome.

From the French edition. Around 1550. 39 cm x 32.5 cm € 495,-

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MAPS, PHOTOGRAPH & PRINTS

117. [ Constantinople] SEBAH & JOAILLIER: PANORAMA DE CONSTANTINOPLE PRIS DE LA TOUR DE GALATA. 1890. Landscape folio (313 × 372 mm).

Original red leather-backed morocco-grained cloth, title gilt to the front board. With the Tughra of the sultan and text in Arabic, surrounded with Star and Crescent. In pristine condition!

€ 3500,10 albumen prints mounted on card panels and joined with linen tape, leporello-style to form a panorama. length of panorama when extended 3290 mm. Superb panoramic view of the city taken from the Galata Tower. Bahattin Öztuncay, B: Photographers of Constantinople. Vol I, page 281.

118. [Eau de Cologne]. Advertisment of eau de Cologne in German, French, English and Dutch. With a depiction of the shop. 40 x 23 cm € 295,Johann Maria Farina, oldest distiller, purveyor to Several Courts to Cologne Rheinstrasse 23

No date. Around 1850!? In the Leipziger zeitung of 1857 there is an announcement mentioning a move from the Rheinstrasse 23 to the Markt 12. So it must be published before that time. Probably from one of the counterfeit houses. Although the text claims “ My Eau de Cologne by the simplest proof will maintain its genuineness and excellency.”

RARE MAP OF WAR GAMES AROUND STUTTGART

119. [Stuttgart] Übersichtskarte der Gegend der Kriegsübungen 1853. Stuttgart & surroundings. Not in KVK. 60 x 50 cm. Rare! € 250,-

90 UNIQUE WATERCOLOURS BY A FAMOUS COSTUME DESIGNER.

120. Vallet, Louis Costume designs, French illustrator (1856-after 1932). Costume designs for the stage. [Probably Paris], c. 1887. 90 watercolour plates, mostly signed. Contemporary marbled half calf

with title to richly gilt stamped spine. Folio (284 x 320 mm). Charming ensemble of watercolour plates showing fine costume designs for Parisian history plays of the 1880s, many with the artist's notes on

how the various costumes are to be executed. Includes 33 plates for Simone Arnaud's orientalist piece "Les Fils de Jahel"; 12 for "Much Ado About Nothing"; 12 for "Vercingétorix"; and another 33 plates for various history plays. - Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Occasional cardboard chipping, but well-preserved altogether. € 2500 Louis Vallet is known for his polished illustrations for "Charivari", "La Vie Parisienne", "Paris Illustré",

etc.; the Musée Béziers has two of his watercolours. His work for the stage is hitherto undocumented. Cf. Thieme/Becker XXXIV, 82.

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