Book Description: Venice. Aldus I Manutius, December 1497., 1497. Folio. Later vellum with title ('Dicion. Graeca Latin') written in an Italian hand on the spine, remains of ties. Small woodcut initial on f. O1; text printed in 2 cols. of 42 lines (Index in 3 cols. with 55 lines). 244 lvs, including the last blank. Colophon: a-k8, l10, A-K8, L10, M8, N10, O8, p-r8, s6, t8. Rare first Aldine edition of this celebrated Greek-Latin dictionary, originally composed by Johannes Crastonus (ca. 1420-1498) on the basis of an older dictionary by Constantino Lascaris. Together with Marcus Musurus, Aldus has re-published the first edition of Crastonus's work which had been printed by Bonus Accursius in Milan ca. 1478. A second edition was printed in 1483 by Dionysius Bertholus in Vicenza, the first dictionary with the word Lexicon in its title.In his preface (edited by Renouard, pp. 13-4) Aldus doesn't mention the name of the author Crastonus, reason why Aldus is often considered to be the author. He is, however, only responsible for composing the Latin index at the end. In this index Aldus refers to the number of the leaf and line of the Greek dictionary. It is strange, however, that the leaves are not numbered. In his preface (f. 202v) Aldus gives the advice to start with numbering the leaves: 'nota tibi in extremitate libri arithmeticis numeris singulas chartes' ! And indeed our copy is numbered in a contemporary hand from 1-200. Added are several Greek philological texts:Contents:- f. 1r: Title.- f. 1v: Preface by Aldus: 'Aldus Manutius Romanus studiosis omnibus S.P.D.', concluded by two Greek poems by Scipio Fortiquerre (1466-1515) and Markos Musuros (1470-1517).- f. 2r-171v: Greek-Latin dictionary.- f. 171v-181r: (on the title: Cyrillus, but is:) Johannes Philoponus, Collectio dictionum quae differunt significatu secundum ordinem alphabeti.- f. 181v-198r: Ammonius, Hermias, De differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem. (f. 198v: blank).- f. 199r-201v: Vetus instructio & denominationes praefectorum militum.- f. 201v-202r: Two short philological texts: 'Ta tou e semantika' and 'Ta tou oos semantika'.- f. 202v: Aldus preface for the Latin index. -f. 203r-242v: Latin index.- f. 243r-v: catchwords, quire sequence and imprint: 'Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Manutii, Romani Decembri mense M. IIID. Et in hoc quod in caeteris nostris ab Ill. S. V. concessum nobis'.- f. 244: blank. Very good copy with 16th-century (?) ownership's entry in Latin and Greek charaxcters on the title: 'Ludus La Motte', and some 16th and 17th-century annotations, the latter by Padre Derio (on the first fly-leaf occurs the note 'Revisto per il Padre Derio 1629'.- (Half loose, some worm holes towards the end (partly skilfully repaired)). Renouard, Annales Alde, p. 13, nr. 7 (".belle et très rare"); GW 7814; HC* 6151; BMC V, 558; Goff C-960; Proctor 5561; Pell. 4042; Lefèvre 150; Polain (B) 1202; IDL 1424; IGI 3256; Vouillième (B) 4496; Sack (Freiburg) 1188; Walsch, 15th-cent. printed books Harvard 2655-7; Sheenan, Vaticana C-465; Oates 2180; Rhodes (Oxford Colleges) 637; Lowry, The world of Aldus Manutius, p. 112, 114-5; N. Barker, Aldus Manutius and the development of Greek script & type in the 15th century (with original lvs. from the first Aldine editions of. Crastonus' Dictionarium) (1985); on Crastone: Diz. biogr. degli Italiani 30, pp. 578-80. Bookseller Inventory # 976G6JMFQHCT
Book Description: Venise Alde Manuce 1501, 1501. Couverture rigide. Book Condition: Très bon. 1ère Édition. 2 volumes in-folio de 14 ff.n.ch. de table, 300 ff.n.ch. pour le premier et 336 ff.n.ch. pour le second; demi-velin ancien. Adams, V-147; Renouard, p.30; Aldo Manuzio Tipographo, Ex. Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana, 1994, 50; Roberts & Trent, p. 333-334. Edition originale. On y trouve la première publication des oeuvres de Heron d'Alexandrie, ainsi que les principaux théorèmes d'Archimède. Médecin, humaniste et physicien natif de Plaisance, Georges Valla enseigna à Pavie et à Milan avant de s'installer à Venise en 1481. Il avait réuni une des plus importantes collections de manuscrits grecs parmi lesquel "the oldest Greek manuscript of Archimedes then extant, from which all Renaissance copies ultimately derived" (Drake & Drabkin, 10-11). Ce magnifique ouvrage, le plus grand volume jamais imprimé par Alde, est une vaste encyclopédie des connaissances à la fin du quinzième siècle. Il est divisé en 49 chapitres consacrés à l'arithmétique, la géométrie, la musique, la médecine, l'astrologie, la grammaire, la dialectique, la réthorique, la poésie, l'économie rurale et domestique, le droit et l'art militaire. La partie scientifique est illustrée de figures dans le texte. Bel exemplaire relié en 2 volumes, une mouillure claire dans la marge inférieure du premier volume et charnière fendue sur une dizaine de centimètres au tome I. Ex-libris Michel Chasles. Bookseller Inventory # 1928
Book Description: Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus (Andreas Socer), April- 7 May 1513., 1513. Three parts in two vols. Folio (299x198mm.). Early 19th-century English red grained morocco with blind tooled border and gilt corner-pieces with pointillé design, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With Aldus' printer's device on the three titles and at the end of part 3; titles to each part printed in Greek and Latin; the two dedications in Latin, texts in Greek; capital spaces with printed guide letters; 48-49 lines and headline. Collation: Part 1: ð2-1, a-m8, n4 (197 numbered pp., with the often lacking last blank); part 2: aaa-iii8, kkk10 (162 numbered pp.); part 3: aa-mm8, nn4, AA-DD8, EE4 (197 numbered pp., with the often lacking last blank, pp. 98 -167, (3) pp., with the device on the verso of the last leaf).second leaf of the first bifolium of part 1, being blank except for two lines with instructions for the binder, is lacking as in all copies of this book except for one. Renouard says that this leaf does not belong to the edition: 'je fais mention d'une si mince particularité pour avertir qu'il n'y a aucune imperfection!' Very important editio princeps of most of the Attic orators, the works of Demosthenes being published before. It realy is one of the most important and beautiful books printed on the famous Aldine presses.Contents:Part1: Aeschines (p.3), Lysias (p. 86), Alcidamas, Anthisthenes and Damades.Part 2: Andocides (p.3), Isaeus (p. 32), Dinarchus (p. 81), Antiphon (p.99), Lycurgus (p. 132), Gorgias (p. 151), Lesbonax (p. 155), Herodes (p. 160).Part 3: Isocrates (p. 3), Alcidamas, Contra dicendi magistros (p. 98 (it.)), Gorgias, De ladibus Helenae (p. 102 (it.)), Aristides, De laudibus Athenarum (p. 104 (it.)), Aristides, De laudibus urbis Romae (p. 154 (it.)). There are two important dedicatory letters by Aldus Manitius: the letter to Francesco Fasolo, dated 6.5.1513 in part 1 (f. p1v-a1r; Aldo Manuzio editore LXXV), and the letter to Giovanni Battista Egnazio, dated April 1513 in part 3 (f. aa1v; Aldo Manuzio editore LXXVI). Splendid copy of this beautiful book rarely found in this condition. Provenance: British Museum Library (duplicate sale 1814; Charles P. Burney; Charles Bloomfield (on his death in 1857 his heirs returned the volume to Charles Burney. - (Very occasional slight browning; leaves of quire ff extended at lower margin). Renouard, p. 60-62; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books 99; Aldo Manuzio tipografo (1494-1515), 114, with plates of the three titles; Ahmanson-Murphy 95/1-4; Hoffman 3, p.167; Aldo Manuzio editore, LXXV and LXXVI. Bookseller Inventory # 17097
Book Description: classici - Aldo, Venezia, 1502. In-folio (316x204 mm), [123] c., manca l’ultima bianca, carattere greco, solo la lettera dedicatoria di Aldo a Daniele Renier in corsivo. Legatura inglese del XVIII secolo in pelle di vitello, i piatti inquadrati da dulplice cornice, la più esterna delle quali presenta una filettatura dorata, con impressioni a secco, dorso a sei nervi riccamente decorato in oro con titolo e dati tipografici, tagli marmorizzati. Bellissimo esemplare molto fresco e ad ampi margini, una macchia nel margine esterno di cinque carte, qualche piccolo restauro alla legatura. Editio princeps della Guerra del Peloponneso di Tucidide (ca. 465 - ca.400 a. C.). Aldo Manuzio la dedica al patrizio veneziano Daniele Reiner « profondo conoscitore della lingua greca e ebraica, al quale Aldo deve molti dei manoscritti utilizzati per le sue edizioni. Nella dedicatoria rende merito di tale generosità tanto più apprezzabile se messa a confronto con l’atteggiamento di coloro che, poco inclini a divulgare e a condividere gli strumenti del sapere, sono definiti da Aldo bibliotaphoi; per Aldo l’attività di editore e tipografo è sentita come un’autentica missione: tutto ciò che è degno di essere letto dovrà essere stampato e divulgato. Al termine della dedicatoria Aldo annuncia che avrebbe volentieri pubblicato insieme al testo di Tucidide, i Paralipomeni di Senofonte e di Gemisto Pletone: ha rinviato tale impresa ad altro momento non disponendo neppure di tre esemplari, numero minimo per poter collazionare un testo, e come ci riferisce, mentre scriveva la dedicatoria erat sub incute Herodotus & sophocles cum commentarijs.» (Aldo Manuzio tipografo, Firenze 1994, p. 102). Tucidide è il più grande storico dell’antichità; la sua opera rappresenta la prima narrazione di storia contemporanea che sia giunta sino a noi dal passato. Tucidide si mise a scrivere subito, non appena furono avvertiti i primi sintomi della guerra imminente nella consapevolezza della straordinaria importanza di quegli eventi e nella convinzione che la sua opera, superati i confini della contemporaneità, potesse divenire patrimonio importante per le generazioni future. La storia è infatti secondo Tucidide un processo dovuto esclusivamente all’interagire delle forze umane, senza alcuno spazio per interventi divini o trascendenti, e come tale è destinata a ripetersi. A Tucidide dobbiamo un approccio storiografico moderno basato sull’accertamento rigoroso dei fatti e su una instancabile, quasi maniacale ricerca della verità condotta sottoponendo tutte le fonti a una stringente verifica critica. La sua fortuna fu assai vasta: apprezzato, studiato, letto, preso a modello fin dall’antichità – Aldo nella lettera dedicatoria ricorda, traendo la notizia da Luciano, che Demostene per renderselo più familiare lo trascrisse di suo pugno ben otto volte – il testo di Tucidide ha continuato a esercitare la propria autorità fino ad oggi. Renouard 33/4; Dionisotti-Orlandi XXXVII; Adams T622. Bookseller Inventory # 002
Book Description: Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499., 1499. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Nineteenth century richly gilt and black-stamped calf, g.e. (266; 138) lvs. Editio princeps of two collections of letters of the most important Greek authors, philosophers, politicians and scientists, like Plato, Demostenes, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Democrites, Heraclites, Diogenes, Euripides, etc. The editor of this important collection, republished at Geneva, in 1606, was the famous Greek humanist and archbishop Marcus Musurus (1470-1517), who contributed greatly to the success of the Greek editions by Aldus Manutius. The work is beautifully produced, and printed in a fine Greek type. All initials are left blank, with printed guide-letters. Good copy, with the bookplates of Johannes Fefri de Legnano, E.M.M. Rodocanachi, G.J. Arvanitidi, and one with the monogram R.E.P.- (Binding sl. rubbed). Renouard I, p. 24-25; Goff E 64; Hain-Copinger 6659; Klebs 379.1; Pellechet 4613; Polain 1416; Oates 2186; Proctor 5569; BMC V 560; GW 9367; IDL 1723. Bookseller Inventory # 4831
Book Description: Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, 1525., 1525. EDITIO PRINCEPS. Five vols. Folio [iv], 24, 180 (i.e., 181), 108; 491, [1] (paginated); [iv], 106, 155, [1]; [iv], 113, [1], 74, 3 (i.e., 6), 55 (i.e., 57), [1]; [iv], 163, [1], 327 (i.e., 346), 6 ff. Titles with woodcut printer's device (Volume II with historiated chapter initials). Early calf over wooden boards, rebacked, new endpapers, covers with unobtrusive scattered wormholes; interiors with faint soiling, occasional damp stains, and a few minor repairs, heavier dampstains on upper and lower blank fore-edges of Volume I with heavy worming on last few leaves, which are frayed at the lower fore-edge (though no text affected). Generally a superb, tall and wide margin copy. From the library of Charles Delorme, with his contemporary ownership inscription in Volumes I, III, IV, & V, and with his small neat Greek annotations throughout. Nineteenth century English ownership inscription to title of Volume II, with annotations in the same hand as well as that of a Dr. Du Pasquier. All five volumes with a matching armorial ownership stamp (initials "S.G.") to titles.~ FIRST EDITION IN GREEK of the celebrated works of Galen by Aldus Manutius, the greatest publishing enterprise of the Aldine house and a monument to the greatest physician of all antiquity (second edition only of Volume II). This nearly unobtainable edition, one of the scarcest of the Aldine press, rarely occurs quite complete. Aldus, in his letter to the Prince of Carpi (printed in the third volume of his Aristotle), announced his plan to publish "all the commentators on Hippocrates, Galen, and the other physicians . . . and that if his life is spared, he will use every effort ‘never to allow scholars to want for good books of literature and science'" (see Osler). Unfortunately, Aldus was never able to fulfill his promise, and this great work was completed by his father-in-law, Andrea d'Asola, ten years after Aldus' death. This authoritative treatise was accomplished through the collaboration of a most distinguished group of medical scholars who edited and collated the manuscripts brought together by Aldus. Included were Giovanni Batista Oppozzoni (ca. 1485-ca. 1532), John Clement (ca. 1495-1572), Edward Wotton (1492-1555), William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), Thomas Lupset (1495-1572), Thomas Linacre (ca. 1460-1524), and George Agricola (1495-1555). "The significance of the first printing of a classical author cannot be overestimated, especially a prolific one like Aristotle or Galen, whose works were not to be found in a single or even a few manuscripts, but whose corpus had to be assembled from as many manuscripts as the printer could find . . . In the case of Galen, the numerous editions and translations of his works that were published later in the sixteenth century were based on the Aldine Greek text." In terms of ancient Greek medicine, Galen stands second only to Hippocrates in importance. "His writings dominated Byzantine, Arabic, and medieval medicine for over a millenium, being superseded in anatomy only with Vesalius, in physiology with Harvey, and in pathology with Boerhaave" (G&M, 27). He unified and systematized Greek anatomical and medical knowledge, and his influence was immense throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. While his beliefs in the four elements were erroneous, his work as an anatomist and a surgeon were of paramount importance, making numerous new discoveries and confirming many others. Amongst his most important discoveries is the definitive establishment that the brain is the organ of thought, and of the platysma myoides muscle. This copy belonged to Charles Delorme (1584-1678), a member of the famous French family of physicians who through some generations were physicians to the kings. Bookseller Inventory # 11483
Book Description: Venice, In aedib, Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, January 1513., 1513. Sm.8vo. Full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt title, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CHAMBOLLE-DURU). With Aldus' woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title, with the legend "AL" and "DUS" on either side. (16), 373, (1, 2 blank) pp. Editio princeps (Brunet: "très recherchée") of Pindarus' poetry together with the "Hymns" of Callimachus, Dionysius's "De Situ Orbis", and the poem "Alexandra" by Lycophron. The preface by Aldus to Andrea Navagero is of great interest. After giving a survey of the war that ravaged Italy and had caused Aldus to suspend his printing activities, Aldus discusses the work he has already done for literature and reflects on his future plans. We also learn from it that he is already active as a printer for twenty years, so he must have started around 1493. The edition princeps of Pindarus is one of the most beautiful and important works produced by Aldus Manuzio the Elder. The book is printed in a fine Greek type, slightly larger than Aldus usually choose for his small pocket editions, with 26 lines to a page, and with the headings printed in capitals, as are the titles inbetween. The pages are numbered on rectos only, skipping a number so counting pages, not leaves. The collation is - unusual as well - given in numbers. Small guide-letters are printed in the in initial spaces. It was also a very good text-edition. The present and the edition of 1515 with the scholia was used for almost all subsequent Pindarus-editions. Our copy is furthermore most elegantly bound in gilt red morocco. Fine copy. Renouard 64, 9; Adams P 1218; STC Italian 520; Ahmanson-Murphy Coll. 108 (lacks last blank); Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre 105. Bookseller Inventory # 22308
Book Description: Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1498. Bound in 2 volumes, Chancery folio (292 x 195 mm.), 452 leaves, 38 lines and headline, Roman and Greek letter, 2-, 3- and 9-line initial spaces with printed guides, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, a few early manuscript notes in margins, 2 small wormholes in lower margin of first 2 leaves repaired, staining in fore margins of last few leaves, occasional other light browning, spine of volume 2 slightly wormed. First edition. Angelo Ambrogini, "Poliziano" (1454-1494), was tutor to the sons of Lorenzo de Medici, before being appointed by Lorenzo to the chair of Greek and Latin eloquence at the Studio. He was one of the first native Italians to rival the Greek refugees in their own language, and his works include a series of Greek epigrams which demonstrate his great mastery of the language. He was an equally fine poet in the vernacular and also wrote much about correcting and explaining texts and was much admired by Aldo for his philological skills. His works included the Miscellanea and Sylvae, both studies of the more obstruse areas of Greek and Latin literature. This edition was edited by the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti, who continued the task, begun by Poliziano himself before his death, of preparing his letters for publication. Aldo omitted from his edition Poliziano's history of the Pazzi conspiracy, which was not printed until 1553 (by Episcopius at Basel). The second edition of the following year is less complete. On H8 recto there are five words printed in Hebrew, THE FIRST USE BY ALDO OF HEBREW TYPE. BMC records a variant setting of the title page. BMC V, 559. Goff P-886. HC 13218. Renouard, p.17: >. Cat. Laurenziana 27. Bookseller Inventory # 0000790
Book Description: Venice, Aldo & Andrea Torresani, November 1522. 1522, 1522. Sm. 4to., 326 leaves including the blank leaf R4, italic letter, Aldine anchor on title and verso of last leaf; a tall copy (214 by 130 mm.) in English 19th century dark green morocco gilt, with the Aldine anchor on covers; gilt edges; with the bookplate of Conte Leonardo Vitetti. First Aldine edition, embodying a new text, and the first containing the three added Novelle (not by Boccaccio) at end.In the prefatory letter addressed to Roberto Magio, the printer Andrea Torresani – Aldus’ father-in-law – says that the text was prepared and corrected by Aldus himself. "Gran tempo ha . che la presente opera alla sua vera & sana lettione ridotta è da Aldo mio cognato, & c.". If this is true it is the only vernacular text that Aldus edited. Perhaps, Martin Davies suggests, Torresani means he just gathered the material, which he might then have given to say a Bembo or Navagero to edit. Renouard says that the edition served as textual basis for the Giunta edition of 1527, noting "Dans la Bibliothèque Médicis, à Florence, on en conserve l’exemplaire que les Junte ont en 1527 donné pour copie à leurs compositeurs".This is the copy listed in the Quaritch Aldine catalogue of 1929, formerly in the library of the Earl of Powis. Bookseller Inventory # C929
Book Description: letteratura - Aldo novembre 1522, Venezia, 1522. In-4° (220x135 mm), [70] c. le carte 39 e 40 bianche, carattere corsivo, ancora aldina al frontespizio e al verso dell’ultima carta. Legatura settecentesca in marocchino rosso, i piatti inquadrati da una duplice cornice di dentelles dorate, al centro grande stemma di Marco Foscarini con putti alati a sorreggere la corona, dorso a 5 nervi riccamente ornato in oro con titolo su tassello, tagli dorati. Provenienza: Marco Foscarini, marchese Gerolamo d’Adda (ex libris), Charles Fairfax Murray (ex libris). Ottimo esemplare impreziosito da una superba legatura, molto marginoso, la parte superiore del frontespizio è stata rimarginata, qualche lievissima fioritura. Prima edizione di quest’opera di evidente impronta ciceroniana, in cui Pietro Alcionio (Venezia 1487 - Roma 1527) immagina un dialogo avvenuto nel 1512 fra il cardinale Giovanni de’ Medici, futuro Leone X, allora legato pontificio a Firenze (da cui il titolo dell’opera), Giulio de’Medici anch’egli divenuto in seguito pontefice col nome di Clemente VII e Lorenzo de’ Medici. L’opera, dedicata all’arcivescovo di Capua, Nicola Schönberg, allora esiliato a Firenze, sviluppa mediante una serie di esempi tratti specialmente dall’antichità classica il tema dell’esilio e della sua opportunità, oltre ad affrontare un più ampio discorso sulla grandezza d’animo necessaria per far fronte alle avversità della fortuna. Circa vent’anni dopo la morte, Pietro Alcionio fu, a causa di quest’opera, al centro di una violenta accusa di plagio che, alimentata soprattutto dalla disistima che ancora circondava il suo nome, ebbe a durare per quasi due secoli. Prima Paolo Giovio nei suoi Elogia veris clarorum virorum del 1546 e poi Paolo Manuzio nel Commentarium in Ciceronis Epistolas ad Atticum del 1547, accusarono Alcionio di aver modellato il suo De exilio sul De gloria di Cicerone – oggi perduto – che sarebbe stato poi distrutto proprio al fine di tutelarsi da una possibile accusa di plagio. Paolo Manuzio è molto preciso al riguardo: " Bernardo Giustiniani nell’Indice de’suoi libri registra Cicerone De gloria. Avendo questi lasciata per legato tutta la sua Biblioteca a un Monastero di Monache, questo libro, cercato poscia con gran diligenza, non si poté mai rinvenire. Tutti ebbero per fermo, che Pietro Alcionio (a cui, essendo egli loro Medico, permettevano le Monache di ricercare la loro Biblioteca) l’avesse scaltramente involato. E certamente nella sua Operetta dell’Esilio alcune cose si incontrano, che sembrano non già dell’Alcionio ma di qualche più valente Scrittore". (Paolo Manuzio, op. cit. L. XV Epist. XXVII). Solo all’inizio del XVIII secolo l’accusa di plagio verrà abbandonata: prima J.B. Mencke e poi Apostolo Zeno sono concordi nel respingere l’accusa; lo stesso Tiraboschi che nella Storia della letteratura italiana dedica ampio spazio alla ricostruzione dell’intera vicenda, è assolutamente reciso nell’escludere il plagio ricordando che, se effettivamente un personaggio di grande cultura come il Giustiniani avesse posseduto un codice del De gloria, avrebbe senz’altro provveduto a farlo stampare sapendo quanto l’opera fosse rara. Inoltre tutta la vicenda del plagio, nata quando l’Alcionio era già morto da vent’anni, sembra al Tiraboschi oltremodo pretestuosa e basata soprattutto su inimicizie personali Renouard 95, 6; Adams A 633. Bookseller Inventory # 027
Book Description: Venice, In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June 1527., 1527. Folio. Early 18th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with double gilt fillets on sides, gilt inner borders, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on title, of Aldus' dolphin around an anchor with the legend "AL" and "DUS" on either side, and variant device on verso of last blank, of similar dolphin and anchor-device, but with the legend "ALDUS" and the initials "M.R." on either side. 119, (1 blank) lvs. Second Aldus-edition of Ulpian's comments on the speeches of Demostenes, together with Harpocration's "Lexicon of the Ten Orators", first published in a slightly smaller size by Aldus in 1503. Here with a short preface by Francesco d'Asola. The book is beautifully printed in a small Greek type with 54 lines to a page and a heading of a few words printed in the same type. Fine large paper copy in red morocco.- (Spine professionally restored). Renouard 104, 4; Adams H 69; STC Italian 704; Palau 106; Ahmanson-Murphy Coll. 245; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre 222. Bookseller Inventory # 15697
Book Description: Venice, Aldus & Asolanus 1513., 1513. 8vo. (8), 99 lvs., (1) leaf, 152 lvs. With Aldus' device on title and last leaf verso. Contemporary gilt-stamped vellum (darkened, soiled, rubbed [the gilding as well] later rebound and with later end-papers. First edition of the complete works; first Aldus edition. Very rare. The decoration of the cover is in contemporary Venetian style and shows an outer border with a tightly linked together, almost snail-shaped pattern, very similar to that found in Greek art. Within there is a floral centre-piece, and the corners of the border contain corner fleurons. This edition contains firstly the songs and epigrams of Ercole, followed by the writings of his father Tito Vespasiano. Both belonged to the circle of Ferrareser Humanists and were intensively influenced by the Estonian. Tito (1425-1505) gave himself the added name Vespasiano as allusion to the roman emperor about 1460. An early - probably 16th century - owner , named Daniel Finus, wrote on title verso a six line poem in praise of both Strozzi, on leaf A8 verso a longer one in praise of Aldus Manutius. Slightly browned throughout (a few lvs. more intensively), lower corners finger-stained. In places damp-stained or water-marked, the lower margin of 2 lvs. with paper defect. Renouard / Ald. I, 98; Adams S 1956; BMSTC (Italian Books) 650. Bookseller Inventory # 526
Book Description: classici - incunabolo, Venezia, 1480. In-folio (294x202 mm), [223] c. manca l’ultima bianca. Collazione: az8; &8; A8; B-E8. (a1r bianca, a1v dedica di Calderini a Gian Francesco Gonzaga, a2r dedica a Lorenzo de’Medici, a3r vita di Marziale, a3v epistola di Plinio a Cornelio Prisco, a4r testo, E2v colophon, E3r lettera di Calderini a Corelio, E5v registrum, E6 bianca). Colophon: M. Valerii Martialis Opus: Impressum Venetiis. Anno M.CCCC.LXXX. feliciter explicit. Carattere romano (testo 115R, commento 78R); carattere greco (78GK), testo inquadrato dal commento su 63 linee. Legatura inglese della fine del XVIII sec. in vitello nocciola, dorso a cinque nervi riccamente decorato in oro, tassello in marocchino bordeaux, tagli rossi. Bell’esemplare, una lieve gora e qualche piccola macchia, qualche forellino di tarlo nelle prime e ultime carte, note di mano cinquecentesca nella prima parte del volume. Alcune abrasioni ai piatti e alle cerniere, il dorso della legatura è stato rifatto. Prima edizione degli Epigrammi con il commento di Domizio Calderini in precedenza già stampato, senza il testo di Marziale (Roma e Venezia 1474). Il Calderini (Torri del Benaco 1446 - Roma 1478) è una delle figure più interessanti dell’umanesimo romano; veronese di nascita e di formazione, giunse assai giovane a Roma attratto dall’ambiente dell’Accademia romana e dai circoli di studiosi che si raccoglievano intorno a Bessarione. Entrato in famigliarità con quest’ultimo ne divenne segretario, nel 1470 ottenne la cattedra di retorica presso lo Studio romano, dove ebbe tra i suoi allievi il giovane Aldo Manuzio («vel puer Romae, cum audirem Domitium, intelligebam», dedica a Giovanni Pontano nello Stazio del 1502) e l’anno seguente entrò a far parte della segreteria apostolica. Morì, probabilmente di peste, nel 1478. Nella sua attività filologica, strettamente correlata all’insegnamento, Calderini concentrò l’attenzione su un gruppo omogeneo di autori latini: Marziale, Giovenale, Plinio, Stazio cosa che gli consentì una ricostruzione abbastanza precisa dell’ambiente storico e culturale della latinità argentea. Attingendo a nuove fonti sia greche che latine – grazie alla famigliarità con il cardinale Bessarione aveva infatti accesso alla sua biblioteca ricchissima di codici – cercò di sostituire il metodo combinatorio, fondato sulla comparazione delle testimonianze di una pluralità di fonti, all’esegesi medioevale e alla parafrasi dei commentatori tradizionali. La giovane età, la brama di fama e successo lo condussero spesso nei suoi commenti ad uno sfoggio eccessivo di erudizione affastellando, nelle note ai testi, una moltitudine sovrabbondante di notizie e informazioni. Proprio il suo commento a Marziale lo fece entrare in polemica con Nicolò Perotti che contemporaneamente a Calderini stava preparando insieme a Pomponio Leto un’edizione del poeta latino. Insofferente alle critiche del rivale, minacciò di pubblicare, in breve volgere di tempo, gli oltre duecento errori in cui il suo oppositore era incorso nel commento e nella traduzione di Polibio. Di questa polemica rimane traccia nel commento calderiniano a Marziale che contiene una Defensio cum recriminatione in calumniatorem commentariorum Martialis in cui l’umanista veronese si difende dalle accuse del Perotti. Nulla sappiamo di questo stampatore, identificato proprio in riferimento all’edizione di Marziale, che nel 1480 pubblicò tre soli libri – le Epistole ad familiares di Cicerone con il commento di Ubertino da Crescentino, il Marziale e le Saturae di Persio con il commento di Bartolomeo Ronzio – accomunati dal fatto di essere tutti e tre prime edizioni dei testi commentati. Dal punto di vista tipografico possiamo notare che la combinazione dei due caratteri romani usati per il testo e il commento rappresenta una assoluta novità; ciò rende ancor più problematica l’identificazione dello stampatore per il quale sono stati proposti i nomi di Andrea de Paltasichis (Proctor) e, forse più coerentemente, quello di Nicola Girardengo. IGI 6222; Bookseller Inventory # 021
Book Description: Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1495. First Edition. I wrote the titel in Greek also, but there seems to be a technical problem, so it can not be displayed. Theocriti Eclogæ triginta. Genus Theocriti et de inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiæ paræneticæ distichi. Sententiæ septem Sapientum. De Invidia Theognidis . Sententiæ elegiacæ. Sententiæ monostichi . ex variis poetis. Aurea Carmina Pythagoræ. Phocylidæ Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllæ erythrææ de Christo Jesu domino nro. Differetia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Ejusdem scutum Herculis. Ejusdem georgicon libri duo. [Edited by A. P. Manutius.] Gr. Few MS. notes. [ Greek ] Published: Venetiis : Characteribus ac studio Aldi Manucii Romani, 1495. The first work is the edition princeps of a collection of Greek Poetry and celebrated because of its splendid typography. It collects the works of Theocritus, Theogonia of Hesiod, the works of Bione, Mosco, Theognide of Megara, Dionisio Cato and other poets Sadly the last part of this work is lacking. with 42 leaves is not present, Leaves OG (6) are present but misbound, after ZZ. Main author: Pollux, Julius, of Naucratis. Title details: [Iouliou Polideukous Onomastikon] = : Iulii Pollucis Vocabularium. Published: Florenti[a]e : Apud Bernardum Iuntam, mense Nouembri 1520. Folio Text in Greek with dedication in Latin. Title romanized from the Greek. Edited by Antonio Francino. [8] leaves, 342 [i.e. 352] columns., [1] leaf ; fol. The Onomastikon is a kind of encyclopaedia, It is divided into ten books each of which is preceded by a brief dedicatory letter to the emperor Comodus: The first concerns the gods, worship, time, navigation, war, the army, riding, agriculture and bees, the second refers to the human body and its organs and members, and the third considers travel, wealth and poverty, athletes and competitions, the fourth virtues, vices, knowledge and its forms, grammar, oratory, poetry, music astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, measures and medicine; the fifth hunting, dogs and animals; the sixth foods, beverages, banquets, the seventh crafts, clothing, metal objects and craft activities; the eighth the legal and administrative matters; the ninth city and its parts, coins, and the tenth is dedicated to the tools typical of business and craft. Condition Folio, Size of the pages 30.7 cm x 19.5 cm, beautifully bound in a manuscript leaf of the 15th century. Stamp on fly leaf Ex Bibliotheca Heldiana, repeated on the verso of leave AA 1, with two others, stadtbibliothek Breslau, and other one on top of it Bib Magoal ? Stamp repeated on title-page of the second work. Very faint waterstain through the upper margin of the fitst work, growing a bit stronger in the second work. Nothing offensive, the only thing that is clear visibile is a wormhole in the margin of column 320 onwards. In the last two leaves it is realy a tunnel. Affecting a few initials on the last leaf. Bookseller Inventory # a.3
Book Description: Philippus Pincius (Pintius), Venice, 1493. First Venice Edition, Third Ed. Overall. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. In Good antiquarian condition, in one quarter speckled Sheep, over thick oak boards, six raised bands, remains of leather tang held to back board by two small iron pins; new spine preserving about 95% of the original leather, with the pastedowns renewed; forty-four lines, in Latin and Greek, in single columns, in Pincius' Press Type 3, with the Greek set in Proctor's unassigned Greco Stroke face (preceding the Greek Aristotle of Aldus Manutius by two full years); capital spaces with printed guide letters, rubricated throughout with large initials, divided in red and blue (the blue pigments now somewhat darkened and glazed in places; the red a bit thin and faded, but still charming and wholly presentable); a few instances of smaller capitals, painted in red or blue; Title Leaf printed in red and black; textblock remargined at bottom outer edges at a very early date, now and again costing a few letters of the commentaries of Giovanni Andrea, but never affecting readability; a few scattered marginal wormholes; several brief instances of exceedingly scholarly marginalia, in a strong but tiny fifteenth century hand. Overall a handsomely rubricated copy in a well restored contemporary binding. Bookseller Inventory # 000076
Book Description: Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus, 1542., 1542. 8vo. Extraordinary well preserved contemporary blind tooled pigskin binding; rolls with square and oval portraits and panels with passion scenes and saints on both covers; floral motives are stamped in the central spaces of the covers and in the four compartments of the spine; in the middle of the front cover, between two paragraph signs, the initials 'E' and 'K' are stamped and decorated with black ink. Some woodcut initials. 3 fly-leaves, 494, (40) pp. and 3 fly-leaves. This rare Antwerp edition of the Letters by Plinius Secundus is virtually a reprint of the edition by Johannes Sichardt published in 1530 by Andreas Cratander at Basel. Sichardt (ca. 1499-1552) was since 1527 professor in Rhetoric in Basel. His dedicatory letter to Georgius Ilsungus (ca. 1510-1580), dated Augsburg, March 1530, is reprinted here also. Although the editio princeps of these famous letters was printed at Venice in 1471, all later editions, including the 1530 edition at Basel, are based on the Aldus edition of 1508 which added many new letters. Also the dedicatory letter by Aldus Manutius to Aloisius Mocenicus, a Venetian senator who had brought some manuscripts of the letters from France to Venice, is re-printed in our present edition.Writing in the first century AD, the younger Pliny (ca. 61-112 AD) was in a position to provide essential information for historians of a poorly documented period: the reigns of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In his letters he comments elegantly on social, domestic, juridical and political events. His remarks on the early Christians are well-known and are very important. Nine books of his personal letters - 247 in all - survive, as well as his official correspondence with the emperor Trajan, posthumously published and later added as the tenth book. These official letters are a major source for understanding Roman provincial government.Of his speeches delivered during his successful senatorial career only the one of thanks to Trajan for his consulship in AD 100 survives and is known as the Panegyricus Traiano Augusto dictus, and is added on p. 321-405 of our edition.Also included are:On p. 405-448: SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS, De viris illustribus liber. Suetonius (c. 69- c. 130 AD) was a contemporary of Pliny the younger and is refered to in the letters of Pliny through whose patronage Suetonius had a military cereer in Britain and Bithynia. His De viris illustribus, a now incomplete set of biographies of Roman men of letters is arranged in categories: poets, orators, historians, philosophers. On p. 449-468 follow the categories grammarians and rhetoricians, published separately.On p. 468-494: JULIUS OBSEQUENS, Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus. Obsequens, the tabulator of Roman prodigies most plausibly lived in the 4th or early 5th century AD. His collection, based on the historical works of Livy, covers prodigies from 249 to 12 BC and is extant for 190-12 BC.Further are added on 40 unnumbered pages:p. (1)-(8): Latina interpretatio dictionum & sententiarum Graecarum quae hoc in volumine habentur.p. (9)-(17): Index of the letters and famous men, grammarians and rhetoricians.p. (18)-(36): Index rerum memorabilium, & propriorum nominum.p. (37)-(39): Johannes Maria CATANAEUS, C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita: the life of Pliny by the Italian humanist Cataneo (living in the second half of the 15th century), originally published in the edition of the letters of Pliny at Milano, 1506. Very good copy in an interesting binding - Ownership's entry on the title: 'sum Wolfgangi Joechlinger Anno 1610 (?)'. Machiels 990; Belg. Typ. 4018. Bookseller Inventory # 17030
Book Description: Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1528. 1528, 1528. 32mo. (92 x 69 mm.), ff. [128], Greek text, printed in red and black throughout; some light staining at beginning and end; later vellum. Aldus Manutius printed the first Greek Book of Hours at Venice in 1497/8. He issued it in a miniature 16o. format, the smallest he employed, outside the normal run of production. Some 16 years later the German printer Thomas Anselm followed his example north of the Alps with a Greek Book of Hours printed in similar format (Tübingen 1514). This is another, boldly printed in red and black, with added prayers.Aldus may have printed his Greek Book of Hours with half an eye to the Eastern Mediterranean market but there is no doubt that he also had a pedagogic purpose. "Politian himself said he had learned Greek by studying a bilingual Bible, and the familiarity of the liturgical content to Latin speakers lent itself to use in these books as simple readers for beginners" (Martin Davies, Aldus Manutius, British Library 1995).Contemporary signature at foot of title, a Hellenization of the Dutch name Suiskens. We cannot place him but he was evidently a careful reader and in a series of marginal notes, draws attention to an extraordinary confusion in the printing house. The book is a 16mo. in eights where two gatherings are printed on a single sheet of paper and then cut apart for folding. Here the second forme to be printed of gatherings I and K was placed on the press the wrong way around, so that each leaf of gathering I carries text from gathering I on the recto and gathering K on the verso, and vice versa. The text is, of course, complete, but the reader has to jump from the recto of one leaf in one gathering to the verso of another in the other. We have not discovered whether other copies replicate this printer’s error. Bookseller Inventory # C1251
Book Description: Aldus [Andrea Torresano], Venice: 1516., 1516. Folio. 300 x 204mm. A-Y8. Complete. 175,[1]ff=352pp. [last text leaf with incorrect foliation.] Contemp. vellum over boards, small cracks in vellum, rear upper turn-in slightly sprung; old ownership inscriptions of "Michaelis Berii Marosticensis Theologi Collegiati Latavini, et Pub. Professoris comtus libris," followed by "Nunc Egani," and then by the stamp of "G.R.S. Meade, Theosophical Head Quarters.Regent's Park" on f.f.e.p., inner front hinge opened, inner margin dampstain affecting a few leaves, occ. notes and underlines, minor marginal worming to last three leaves,contempoaray notes on rear free endpaper; a fine large copy with very slight foxing and crisp paper. Large Aldine devices on t.p. and verso of last leaf. Second Aldine Edition. Ficino's edition of these important neo-Platonic texts was first published in 1497 by Aldus. This the "superior" second edition which includes new materials including Ficino's influential De vita libris tres." Ficino (1433-1499) son of the physician to Cosimo d'Medici, dedicated himself to the study of Plato and neo-Platonic thought. His translations of the whole of Plato and Plotinus into Latin were key elements in the Renaissance rebirth of Platonic thought. His interest in Porphyry, Proclus, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, and the Hermetic corpus were likewise the basis for occult investigations into neo-Platonism. "He took over and reinterpreted Plato's theory of love.and combined it with ancient theories of friendship that were known to him primarily through Aristotle and Cicero; he also tried to identify it with the Christian love (charitas) praised by St. Paul. He even added some touches from the tradition of medieval courtly love as it was known to him through Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and other early Tuscan poets. This doctrine of love, which exercised a tremendous influence during the sixteenth century." [Ency.of Philosophy.] "From 1490 to 1530, one great intellectual and publisher dominates the scence. Aldus Manutius, who settlede at Venice in 1494, produced during the next twenty years a series of editiones princeps for virtually all the classics Greek authors." [Camb. Hist. of Reniassance Philosophy.] EDIT 16 on-line cnc 37529 (& 53385). Adams I1. Renouard 77:8. Ahmanson-Murphy 131. Kallendorf/Wells 135. BM STC (Ital.) 338. Marshall II,151. Hoffmann II,389. Casanatense 627. Caillet 5489. Lamoen 32. Cornell, Witchcraft,311. Kristeller, Ficinianum, n2. "Editio superioris." Coumont I1.2. Bookseller Inventory # 17909
Book Description: (à la fin:) (Lyon), in officina Nicolai Wolf Lutriensis, 1499., 1499. in-folio. 84ff. Plein vélin moderne genre ancien. Première Edition Séparée, très rare, de ce recueil de lettres compilé par le célèbre humaniste florentin Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), et édité par Josse Bade pour Anton Koberger. Il fut imprimé à Lyon par Nicolas Wolff, imprimeur allemand qui exerça dans cette ville de 1498 à 1500. Ces lettres pleines de détails intéressants sur l'histoire de la fin du XVe siècle contiennent la correspondance des plus grands humanistes italiens de cette époque, comme Pic de la Mirandole, Aldo Manuzio, Lorenzo de Medici, Filippo Beroaldo, etc., avec les réponses de Poliziano. L'ouvrage fut réimprimé à de nombreuses reprises au cours du 16e siècle. "Angelo Poliziano est bien l'une des figures les plus représentatives et en même temps les plus originales du Quattrocento italien, et plus spécifiquement florentin. ( ) Il offre de manière exemplaire un des multiples visages de cette Florence déchirée de contradictions: celui du mécénat, d'une élite éprise d'érudition, d'art et de plaisirs sensuels; bientôt viendra Savonarole dont les âpres et austères sermons, les rugueux accents bibliques renoueront avec la tradition médiévale" (Encyclopædia Universalis). Exemplaire bien complet, malgré un large manque de papier réparé dans les marges de la page de titre et de petites réparations au dernier feuillet, avec deux petits trous affectant quelques caractères. Le reste du volume est bien conservé, imprimé sur papier fort avec de grandes marges. Brunet, II, 1023. Goff, E98. Bookseller Inventory # 93928
Book Description: Hieronymo Soncino, (In fine:) In Pesaro, 1507. In 8° (170x100). Carte non num. 196. Piena pelle coeva con ricchi fregi a rotella e riquadri a secco ai piatti ed al dorso, fermagli ben conservati, dorso a tre nervi.Seconda edizione (la prima 1494) di questo poema-trattato sull'arte della guerra. L'opera è assai importante dal punto di vista tipografico, in quanto fu il primo(Fumagalli cita un'atra opera come prima) o il secondo libro stampato a Pesaro dal celebre tipografo itinerante Soncino nella propria officina. I caratteri furono intagliati da Francesco Griffo che fu collaboratore di Aldo Manuzio, per il quale inventò e fuse i caratteri in corsivo. L'opera infatti è stampata ad imitazione degli Enchiridion aldini. Cornazzano (1429-1484) celebre umanista piacentino, fu a servizio del famoso cavaliere di ventura Bartolomeo Colleoni, per cui la suddetta opera si basa soprattutto sull' esperienza pratica. E' un poema che tesse le lodi dell'arte militare suddiviso in nove libri; nel secondo libro tratta della cavalleria, del modo di dirigere i cavalli, di come averne cura anche nell'infermità con vari rimedi, dei territori di allevamento. Nei libri successivi troviamo in rassegna numerosi consigli: dai tipi di armature degli eserciti ai corretti modi di agire in battaglia; come seguire il proprio capitano durante gli spostamenti, regole da osservare nei confronti degli eserciti vinti, del rispetto che si deve portare a templi religiosi incontrati in battaglia ed infine di come si debba trionfare dopo aver conseguito la vittoria. Ottimo esemplare, presenta minimi aloni al margine sup. per poche carte all'inizio del tomo. Affascinante legatura d'epoca con lievi spellature agli spigoli ed alle cerniere. € 7.000. Bookseller Inventory # 4482
Book Description: Paris, Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), 1514, November 13, preface dated 1 December 1514., 1514. Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), Folio. Half blind stamped 16th-century pigskin over the original wooden boards, with two clasps, spine in compartments with title written in ink: 'Plutarchus 35', title also in 16th-century hand on the wood of the front board. Title in splendid Renaissance woodcut border, with coat of arms left blank in the lower borderpiece (Renouard, Encadrement no. 1); in the middle the printer's device of Jodocus Badius Ascensus with the heading 'prelum Ascensianum' printed in red (Renouard, marque 3, ill. vol. 1, p. 43), lettering of the title, as well as certain elements in the border printed in red. Many beautiful woodcut initials in the text. (22), 393, (1 blank) lvs. Very rare first Latin edition of Plutarch's Vitae paralellae (Lives) by the famous Parisian printer and publisher Josse Badius Ascensius. After the Strassbourg edition of 1470-71 this is the first and by far the most influentian Latin edition outside Italy, printed three years before the Greek edition princeps. Much better, as is stated on the title, than the edition by Pylades Brixianus (=Johannes Franciscus Buccardus, † 1506), printed in Brescia in 1499.Plutarch's popularity and importance rest primarily on these 'Parallel Lives' - composed ca. 100-120 AD -, which were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. The lives are presented in pairs, for example: Theseus-Romulus, Demosthenes-Cicero, Alexander the Great-Caesar, etc. There are 22 pairs, and four single biographies of Aratus, Artaxerxes, and the Roman emperors Otho and Galba. By exhibiting noble deeds and characters, they were also to provide patterns of good behavior and moral and ethical values. Plutarch's later influence has been profound, but his reputation faded in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, only to be re-introduced in Renaissance Italy by Byzantine scholars in the 15th century. Italian humanists had already translated Plutarch's work into Latin before 1509 when the Greek editio princeps of the Moralia, the other great work by Plutarch, was published by Aldus Manutius at Venice. The Greek editio princeps of the Vitae appeared at Florence in 1517 and they were printed in 1519 by Aldus. Especially through its translations into Latin - of which this 1514 edition by Badius is undoubtedly the most important - as well as in the vernacular - the famous French translation by Jacques Amyot in 1559, and the English by Sir Thomas North in 1579 - the Lives could gain an enormous impact on Western civilisation by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montagne, Corneille, Racine, Rousseau and Schiller heavily drew upon the Lives. This was certainly also the case with Shakespeare for whom the Lives were the main source for his Roman history plays. Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Timon of Athens, all come, often literally, from the Lives. They have functioned also to a great extent as a model for later rulers like the French king Henry IV, Frederik II of Prussia and even Napoleon. The book is printed in a fine Roman type. Very good copy, with ownerships's entry of Albertus Trechsel (?) in ink on verso front cover, and the bookplate of Ludovicus Romanus IVD on verso of first flyleaf.- (Some contemporary 16th century scholarly annotations, esp. on lvs. 120-126v: the 'Live of Cato'). Renouard, Josse Badius Ascensius, III, p. 175-8 (4 copies, one of which in the Bibl. Arsenal); NUC lists 3 copies, one of which in the Folger Shakespeare Library); not in STC French, and Adams; no copy in the British Library; no copy in BNF. Bookseller Inventory # 14749
Book Description: Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1501. Vellum. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION 1501 Small 8vo. 192 leaves; very discreet spots to title, faint marginal waterstains towards final leaves; neat contemporary marginal notes in Latin. Early vellum with morocco label. A neat and pleasing copy of this extremely scarce Aldine pocket classic, one of the first 4 editions which Aldus publis
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