Book Description: Lienhart Holl, Ulm, Germany, 1482. THE FIRST ATLAS PRINTED IN GERMANY, THE FIRST ATLAS MADE FROM WOODCUT BLOCKS, THE FIRST TO CONTAIN HAND-COLORED MAPS AND THE FIRST MAPPING OF THE WORLD BY A NAMED CARTOGRAPHER Super-Royal folio, with woodcut historiated and Maiblumen initials, ornamental woodcut borderpieces, woodcut diagrams in text. 32 full-sheet woodcut maps, 133 leaves. Rubricated and hand-colored throughout (the initials carefully colored in orange and green pigments and several color washes; rubricated with capital strokes and paragraph marks, and several missing initials supplied; yellow washes on text headings; the maps carefully colored in indigo, carmine, and green pigments, with additional color washes). A few early annotations. Seventeenth-century Italian gold-toothed vellum, with small tooled insignia of Cardinal Altieri, the future Pope Clement X Provenance: Pietro dal Verme (17th-century inscription) - Pope Clement X (Emilio Lorenzo Card. Altieri, died 1676); Prof. Victor Goldschmidt of Heidelberg (stamp); Robert L.B. Tobin References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 37; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), n. 10; R. V. Tooley, Maps and Map-makers (New York, reprint 1990), 24. The text of Claudius Ptolemy’s Cosmographia was translated into Latin from the original Greek by Jacobus Angelus and was first published, in Renaissance times, at Vicenza (1475), Bologna (1477) and Rome (1478). The sumptuous edition published at Ulm in 1482, however, far surpassed all earlier efforts and remains one of the most important publications in the history of cartography. This is the first redaction of the Geography to be printed outside of Italy, the earliest atlas printed in Germany, the first to depart from the classical prototype to reflect post-antique discoveries, the first to be illustrated with woodcuts rather than engravings, and the first to contain hand-colored maps, the design and execution of which were ascribed to a named cartographer. The Ulm edition, moreover, was the first to depart from the classical prototype by expanding the atlas to reflect post-antique discoveries about the size and shape of the earth. To the canonical twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps were added five "modern maps" of Spain, France, Italy, the Holy Land and northern Europe. The world map is of particular interest as it is the first to be signed, by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, and the first to be based on Ptolemy's second projection, in which both parallels and meridians are shown curved to convey the sphericity of the earth. Schnitzer, furthermore, updated the Ptolemaic world picture by incorporating improvements that were probably based on a manuscript of the 1470s by Nicolaus Germanus. One notable addition is a rudimentary depiction of Scandinavia to the north, within an extension of the map's top border. The world map, moreover, embodies what is perhaps the most readily apparent feature of the Ulm Ptolemy: its beauty. Bookseller Inventory # 000422
Book Description: Johannes Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1662. THE MOST IMPORTANT DUTCH ATLAS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 11 folio volumes, first complete edition, Latin text, 9 engraved frontispieces, 11 printed titles with hand-colored vignettes (most heightened with gold), 13 divisional half-titles and 594 engraved maps, plans, views and plates, most double-page, colored throughout in a contemporary hand, including fully colored frontispiece (heightened with gold). Original vellum gilt covers with contemporary manuscript shelf marks, most volumes with original fabric ties, gilt edges References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 149; Philip D. Burden, The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 (Rickmansworth, 1996), 474. This splendid, sweeping atlas represents the eleven-volume first edition of Johannes Blaeu's celebrated cartographic masterpiece, the Atlas Maior, published in Amsterdam in 1662. With different volumes devoted to specific parts of the world, Blaeu lavished meticulous attention on every corner of the globe. No other atlas ever published was as costly, or had such an exalted place in society. The Atlas Maior was such a symbol of status that it became the traditional state gift presented by the Dutch government, its prestige owing to the remarkable standards of production involved. In terms of the quality of engraving, beauty of ornament, coloring, typography and paper, the atlas has no equal, and the maps were on the forefront of geographical knowledge and discovery. One especially significant volume is the Atlas Sinensis, devoted to China and the Far East. Compiled by the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini, it represents the first atlas of China produced in the western world. The atlas of America, too, occupies a singular place in the history of cartography, for its twenty-three maps helped to shape contemporary conceptions regarding the geography of the New World more than almost any other source. Included in that volume is a general map of the continent, famed for its side panels that contain costumed figures and city views, as well as a distinguished series of regional maps. The map of Virginia was the first version of John Smith's map of the area surrounding Chesapeake Bay to be published in continental Europe. The scope of the Atlas Maior as a whole was unprecedented, as was the lavishness of its decoration, which encompasses elaborate cartouches, often with costumed figures and the flora and fauna of the region described, decorative swags, garlands of fruit and coats of arms, all enlivened with rich color. The Blaeu family firm was founded by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638; ) in 1596. He was eventually joined by his sons, Cornelius (1616-1648) and Joan (1596-1673). The firm became the most productive cartographic establishment in the Netherlands until it was destroyed by fire in 1672. The elder Blaeu initiated the great series of atlases that culminated in the Atlas Maior, in which Joan Blaeu incorporated much of the geographical knowledge bequeathed him by his father. This breathtaking atlas represents the zenith of the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. Bookseller Inventory # 000457
Book Description: De Bry, Theodore; Johann Theodore & Johann Israel. Frankfurt, 1590-1624 & 1599-1628, 1590. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eleven volumes of the Great Voyages in Latin, and nine volumes of the Small Voyages in Latin; various sizes & paginations, with engraved plates and maps. A set of volumes from the collections of John Jay Paul, Herschel V. Jones, and the Rosenbach Company. Uniformily and individually bound by Pratt, in full, dark green morocco leather, with raised bands on the spines, and gilt titles ( except part VII of the Great Voyages which is 1/2 morocco); together, 21 volumes. This is a remarkably fine and almost complete set of the Great and Small Latin Voyages of De Bry, in extremely fine condition and rich in uncut edges, genuine blank leaves and brilliant impressions of the plates. The set contains many parts and issues of the greatest rarity. Great Voyages (America): Part I. Hariot's Virginia: First edition, first issue, 1590. II. Le Moyne's Florida: First edition, 1591. III. Stadius's Brazil: First edition, first issue, 1592. IV. Benzoni's History of the New World: First edition, first issue, 1594. V. Benzoni's History continued: First edition, first issue (with rare second title-page), 1595. VI. Benzoni's History concluded: Second edition, first issue, 1617. VII. Schmidel's Brazil and Paraguay: First edition, 1599. VIII. Voyages of Drake, Hawkins, Cavendish and Raleigh: First edition, early issue, 1599. IX. Acosta's History of the New World, De Weert's and Van Noort's voyages: First edition, early issue, 1602. X. Vespucci's two voyages, Hamor's Virginia and Smith's New England: Sole edition, second issue, 1619. XII Herrera's West Indies and other works: Sole edition, 1624. Missing Parts: XI, XIII, XIV (Elenchus). Small Voyages (East Indies): I. Pigafetta's Congo: First edition, rare reissue of 1623. II. Linschoten's voyages: First edition, 1599. III. Linschoten, Houtman and De Veer's East Indies: First edition, first issue, 1601. VI. Guinea: Sole edition, first issue, 1604. VII. Spilbergen and Balby's voyages: Sole edition, first issue, 1606. VIII. Voyages of van Neck, Bree, Claesz, van Warwijck and Hagen: Sole edition, first issue, 1607. IX. Verhoeff's Voyage: First edition, second issue, 1612. XI. Vespucci's third and fourth voyages, Coverte's travels and other works: Sole edition, 1619. XII. Later English and Dutch voyages: Sole edition, 1628. (Excessively rare: one of the rarest parts in the whole series of De Bry.) Missing parts: IV, V, X. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-937039868
Book Description: John Norton and John Bill, London, 1606. The Theatre of the Whole World. 2 parts in 1 volume, Folio (460 x 300mm). 2 hand-colored engraved titles, arms of James I, epitaph, portrait, small globe on final verso, and 157 (of 161) hand-colored double-page engraved maps, some heightened in gold, the 'life' of Orterlius here bound after the dedication. (Without 4 maps, Koeman nos 19, 71, 152, 154; losses affecting image to title and dedication, some wear and marginal restorations to preliminary leaves and upper outer corners of first 10 maps, occasional minor spots or areas of abrasion, repaired tear along fold of map 157, repaired loss at edge of final verso.) Late 17th-century English panelled black goatskin, tooled in gilt and blind, both covers with triple border enclosing owner's name, cornerpieces incorporating acorn tools, further ornament with urns and flowerheads, 19th-century metal padlock and catch (rebacked, upper board detached, wear to spine and extremities, abrasions to upper cover). Provenance: Elizabeth Cairnes (d. 1731; binding), wife of Sir Alexander Cairnes - thence by descent, through her granddaughter, wife of the 1st Lord Rossmore, to the 7th Lord Rossmore. The rare English edition of Ortelius's Theatrum, with a distinguished provenance. With its 161 maps and further five engraved plates, the English Theatrum was 'the tallest volume printed in England up to that date. also the largest collection of intaglio prints in a single book yet published in England' (Skelton). The English version was based on the Latin edition of Ortelius's atlas, published by Vrients in 1603. According to Skelton and Van der Krogt, before sending the plates from Antwerp to England, the versos were erased, the English text then being printed at the Eliot's Court Press by Bradwood. The likely translator of the text from Latin into English is William Bedwell (1561-1632). Bookseller Inventory # 12-4-10
Book Description: Basel Ex officina Ioannis Oporini 1543, 1543. The Most Important Book in the History of Anatomy VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis libri septem. Basle, [colophon:] Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543. Folio (15 5/8 x 10 6/8 inches; 397 x 277 mm.).[xii], 659, (actually 663), [1, errata], [36] pp., with a fine woodcut title, woodcut portrait of the author, two double page-size woodcuts (within pagination and folded; one printed on both sides). Old vellum with burgundy morocco lettering label. While most copies do not contain the ?Charta parvas? leaf (another m3), which was comprised of eight anatomical woodcut figures that were meant to be cut out and pasted on the human figure on folding m3, this copy has five of the eight figures. These five figures have been cut out and mounted on the appropriate places on the human figure and have been colored in a contemporary hand. Leaf P4 with old paper repair at bottom edge, Q4 with short tear at upper margin, R1 & S1 with a few small brown spots, signatures c & d with a small stain to lower blank margin, e4 with a spot in the text, paper repairs to the versos of both folding plates (one of which is printed on both sides), bit of marginal worming to f, g & q, old marginal repairs to last signature (Mm). Some contemporary owner?s marks on the head of the title page and in the title panel and to the last leaf. Bottom and top part of title page remargined (not affecting any text) and next two leaves with outer margins strengthened. Some worming to lower gutter of last eight leaves and last three leaves with an ink stain across the middle of the index (covering up the text somewhat on the first five page and eating into the text on the last page). Overall, a very attractive and sound copy of this keystone book for any serious medical library. 'The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustration, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titan's school. No other work of the sixteenth century equals it. It was translated, reissued, copied and plagiarized over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century' (PMM). 'Published when the author was only 29 years old, the Fabrica revolutionized not only the science of anatomy but how it was taught. Throughout his encyclopedic work on the structure and workings of the human body, Vesalius provided a fuller and more detailed description of the human body than any of his predecessors, correcting errors in the traditional anatomical teachings of Galen. Even more epochal than his criticism of Galen and other medieval authorities was Vesalius' assertion that the dissection of cadavers must be performed by the physician himself' (Garrison-Morton). Adams V603 (without the Charta parvas); Barchas Collection 2081 (without the Charta parvas); Durling 4577; Cushing, A Bio-Bibliography VI.A.-1 (pp. 79-88, Cushing's own copy without the Charta parvas); Dibner 122; Garrison-Morton 375; Heirs of Hippocrates 281 (lacking the portrait); Horblit 98; PMM 71; Roberts and Tomlinson pp. 125-165 (the eight woodcuts cut out and pasted onto the folded sheet); Sparrow, Milestones of Science 192; Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science 710; Wellcome 6560. HBS 58164. Bookseller Inventory # 58164
Book Description: Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 17 April, 1470. Printed on vellum; a copy from the collection of the famous manuscript and book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)., 1470. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Size of binding: 12 in. x 17 in. x 2 1/2 in. 137 leaves (of 138; lacking the final blank leaf, as does the British Museum copy); average page size: 11 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. Printed in red and black, in double columns, the text of the Decretals being surrounded by an average of seventy lines of the Andreae commentary. The type is that originally cut for the Latin Bible of 1462; the type used for the commentary was cut for the Durandus of 1459, the first small text type ever cut. The rubrics are printed in red. With a fine, large, hand-written initial B in blue on the first page, and throughout the volume the capitals and paragraph marks are painted alternately in red and blue. At the end appears the colophon printed in red and beneath it the famous double-shield device of Fust and Schoeffer. Bound in full, English red morocco leather with six raised bands on the spine, with compartments richly gilt with floral tooling, and Latin titling, gilt-lettered in two compartments: VI. Liber Decretalium Cum Glossa. Magunt. 1470. The covers show similar borders of gilt lacework, with a large, diamond-shaped design, formed of various tools, in the center of the panels of the front and back covers, the cover edges and leather turn-ins also show gilt floral tooling. An unsigned, but very high quality, Eighteenth-Century binding, with marbled endpapers, and watermarked paper flyleaves bound in. Engraved, heraldic bookplate of Mark Cephas Tutet, on the front, marbled paste-down. A name has been clipped out of the upper right corner of the first added flyleaf. A magnificent copy of a great collection of Canon Law from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872; who was described as a "vello-maniac", because of his passion for collecting vellum manscripts, and books and documents printed on vellum). Printed on vellum, one of only four copies recorded in America (in the 1940 Stillwell Second Census). Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1235-1303), was one of the foremost jurisconsults of his age; his official collection of Decretals was an addition to the five books of Gregory IX. The binding shows light wear to spine ends, outer hinges, some early abrasions to the outer covers. A few of the lower right corners of the vellum pages show early repairs with vellum, a few naturally occurring holes in the vellum margins, small, early repairs, a tear to the right-hand margin of the final vellum leaf, very light watering to some upper margins of the leaves, age-related dusting to the first and final leaf, and to some upper margins or corners. Provenance: Mark Cephas Tutet; Sir Thomas Phillipps; Rosenbach/Fleming. A monument of Fifteenth-Century typography. Hain: 3587; (HCR: 3587); Pelluchet: 2731; Procter: 90; BMC I 26 (IC 144); GW 4850; Brunet: Vol. 1; p. 1099; Stillwell (Second Census): B871; p. 106 (records four copies). Weight: 12 1/2 lbs. (Shipping is extra on this item). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-979938216
Book Description: Christopher Plantin, Antwerp, 1591. THE FIRST MODERN WORLD ATLAS [colophon reads 1592] 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio, Latin text, with engraved title, portrait and 160 maps on 108 double-page mapsheets; Parergon with 23 maps and 1 view on 24 double-page mapsheets. Contemporary hand-coloring throughout. Contemporary calf gilt binding Provenance: Polaschek bookplate References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), nos. 135, 136; Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World (London, 1983), nos. 122, 153, 158; Philip D. Burden, The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 (Rickmansworth, 1996), 51-2, 65-6, 79-81. As Rodney Shirley noted in his magisterial study of world maps, the publication in 1570 of Abraham Ortelius's atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum , ushered in an era when "pre-eminence in map publishing was transferred from Italy to the Netherlands, leading to over a hundred years of Dutch supremacy in all facets of cartographical production." Ortelius was a true pioneer in map publishing, and his innovations brought momentous changes to the world views of contemporary Europeans. Little is known about his training and early career, but his true accomplishment, was the publication of the Theatrum. To compile the atlas, he drew upon his many contacts in the growing network of European cartographers to secure the best existing maps. He then had them re-engraved by the talented Flemish artist Frans Hogenberg (1535-90) such that all conformed to a standard format and graphic style, appended scholarly text to their versos, and published them as a uniform edition. The result was an atlas that was truly without precedent. Previously, collections of maps had been assembled into book form, but none conformed to the modern definition of the geographical world atlas. These earlier volumes fell into two categories. The first comprised map books made to order according to the desires and needs of an individual client ("composite atlases," sometimes called "Lafreri atlases"), and no two were alike. In contrast to Ortelius's atlas, few of these books included explanatory text, and they contained a motley assortment of maps by different makers that showed little or no uniformity. The second category consisted of editions of Ptolemy's Geography, which were more keyed to revising the text of the ancient geographer than to providing a comprehensive, up-to-date cartographic world picture. In the Theatrum, Ortelius also took the step--quite rare in the sixteenth century, when plagiarism was rampant--of crediting the original authors of the maps included (in a section entitled "Catalogus auctorum"). Between the first appearance of the Theatrum in 1570 and its final edition in 1612, it was printed in thirty-one editions and seven different languages-- a remarkable figure for the time. This Latin edition of 1592 was vastly expanded from the first edition of two decades before and includes the appendix of historical maps known as the "Parergon" that represents Ortelius's most personal contribution to the volume. Bookseller Inventory # 000439
Book Description: (North Netherlands, almost certainly Hattem, ca. 1420-30)., 1420. Folio. Later brown calf with modern blind stamping in the style of the fifteenth century (310 x 215 mm). Written in a neat gothic textura in black ink in one hand, rubricated, incipits and chapter headings in red and blue, large floral initial at the beginning, with full border decoration. 159 lvs.: 20 quires with catchwords visible, justification 201 x 137 mm., written in two columns of 35 lines. The text includes one volume of what must have once been a six- or seven-volume set, of which the other vols. have not survived, according to Prof. Marrow who is completing the Corpus of Dutch Manuscripts and who was kind enough to verify this finding. Text: Proverbs of Salomon (ff. 1-17v); Ecclesiastes (17v-23v); Song of Salomon (24r-26v); Wisdom of Salomon (26v-38v); Jesus Sirach (38v-71v), Job (71v-92r); Tobias (92r-99v); Judith (99v-108v); Esther (109v-119r), Maccabees I-II (109v-158v), f. 159 blank. These texts are accompanied by the Stegmüller prologues 457, 462, 468, 26, 344, 357, 332, 335, 343, 551.Our codex has a really dazzling provenance, including William Morris, H.P. Kraus, P.Ludwig and the Getty Museum: 1) written in the important House of the Brothers of the Common Life at Hulsbergen near Hattem, St. Hieronymusberg, which was founded in 1407. Early copies of the Vulgate are localized in Hattem and the revision of the Vulgate for which the Windesheim Congregation is famous, is also sometimes localized there. Localization of the present manuscript in Hattem has been confirmed by Prof. Marrow (Princeton University) on the basis of comparison with a two-volume Bible in Liège (Bibl. Univ., Mss. 189, 222, which is securely localized and dated 1429) As a consequence Prof. Marrow proposes the earlier date (1420-30) for the present Bible, instead of the date in the middle of the fifteenth century given by Von Euw & Plotzek; (2) William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, with his ex-libris on the inside pastedown; (3) Richard Bennett, whom purchased most of Morris's manuscripts en bloc in 1897; his sale London, Sotheby's, 1898, no. 172), to Sladen; (4) Judge Granger Sale (London, 17 December 1919, nr. 736) to G.D. Smith (his sale, New York, 28 April 1921, VI, nr. 208). (5) Mrs. Milton E. Getz, Beverly Hills, Calif. (De Ricci, Census, I, p. 12, nr. 4); her sale Cat. Manuscripts and Early Printed books, Perke-Bernet, New York, 10-11 November 1964, lot 49; (6) H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 111, 1965, nr. 39 (for $ 2.800); (7) P. Ludwig, Aachen, Ms. I 12 (A. von Euw & J.M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Samml. Ludwig (Cologne, Schnutgen Museum, 1979), I, pp. 112-6; (8) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif., Getty Ms Ludwig I, 12 (de-accessioned).Apart from this provenance, its high quality decoration and script, and its excellent condition, the importance of the present manuscript lies mainly in its text. The North Netherlands with its 'Devotio Moderna', like Bohemia and England, participated in early reform movements, leading eventually to the Reformation, that entailed translations and revisions of the Bible itself. The scholarly monks and brothers of the Congregation of Windesheim eventually arrived at a complete Bible, 'our Bible' which included corrected Hebrew expressions, punctuated and emended for monasteries and houses in the entire chapter (see Greitemann for some of the textual variants of the Octateuch). In this respect any manuscript from Hattem must be taken very seriously in terms of the Dutch interest in the text of the Bible, since the brothers in Hattem wrote about 10 copies. Two related copies of the Vulgate revision produced in Hattem are found today in Zutphen, GA, Ms. 4-5, dated 1434. The fact that these manuscripts just postdate our version underscores the importance of our copy, which would constitute an important contribution to the study of the Dutch Bible revision of the Congregation of Windesheim. The interest of the present Bible, along with that attributed to Thomas a Kempis, is that both were produced in. Bookseller Inventory # 7C6GA8AVORWI
Book Description: Antwerp, 1612. Folio (428 x 300mm). Latin text edition, engraved allegorical title, with engraved arms of Philip IV of Spain on verso, engraved epitaph to Ortelius and engraved portrait, 128 double-page engraved maps in contemporary hand color, without the Parergon or Nomenclator, panelled calf gilt, title-page restored at outer edge, evidence of library stamp, introductory text with worming at inner margins, maps 1 & 2 (World and Europe) with repaired tears at lower folds, maps 12 & 14 (Vrients of England and Wales and Boazio of Ireland) missing lower borders, 2 rust holes on map 28 & 29 (Isle de Franceand Touraine), map 40, 85, 92 (Vrients maps of the Low Countries, Venice and Ferrari) shaved at 2 edges, map 69 (Moravia) repaired at upper corner, map 119 (China) stained, a few small marginal repairs, some marginal soiling and occasional discoloration, upper cover scratched. The last Latin edition of the Theatrum, the plates being purchased by Plantin from the widow of Jan Battista Vrients, who in turn had obtained them at the sale of Ortelius's stock in 1600. Koeman III, Ort 41. Bookseller Inventory # 12-4-9
Book Description: 1250. SUPERBE MANUSCRIT CAPETIEN DE L'ÉCOLE DE PARIS, COMPLET ET DE PARFAITE FRAICHEUR, CALLIGRAPHIÉ ET ENLUMINÉ AVEC UNE EXQUISE FINESSE VERS 1250. In-8, de 728 feuillets, complets. Très fine écriture gothique à l'encre noire sur double colonne de 46 lignes à la page. Justification : 107 x 70 mm. Veau brun estampé à froid sur ais de bois, chaque plat entièrement orné d'une grande plaque à froid ornée de motifs de feuilles de vigne et d'animaux chimériques encadrant l'inscription : ""Livinus Stuvaert me ligavit in gaudavo"". RELIURE DU XVè SIÈCLE RÉALISÉE PAR LIVINUS STUVAERT A GAND. 168 x 113 mm. SUPERBE EXEMPLE DES PETITES BIBLES VULGATE PRODUITES À PARIS AU XIIIè SIÈCLE. DÉCORATION. Chef-d'oeuvre de l'atelier Mathurin, actif à Paris de 1240 à 1255, il se distingue de la production recensée de l'artiste par le nombre élevé d'enluminures. OR CELUI-CI EN POSSÈDE 82 D'UNE GRANDE BEAUTÉ ET D'UNE ÉTONNANTE FRAICHEUR. LA DÉCORATION DU MANUSCRIT COMPREND : - 82 initiales historiées enluminées, - 66 grandes initiales enluminées, - plus de 1 000 capitales rubriquées. Chef-d'oeuvre de l'atelier Mathurin qui travaillait essentiellement pour le rois Saint-Louis, sa cour et la haute bourgeoisie, ce manuscrit se distingue des 20 autres bibles répertoriées par R. Branner par la richesse de ses enluminures (82 au lieu de 3 ou 4), leur diversité, leur taille, leur fraîcheur et l'extraordinaire finesse du parchemin parfois transparent. LE MANUSCRIT EST REVÊTU D'UNE SUPERBE RELIURE AU DÉCOR ESTAMPÉ À FROID, SIGNÉE DE LIVINUS STUVAERT. LES RELIURES DE STUVAERT SONT TRÈS RARES. Un chef-d'oeuvre de l'enluminure capétienne réalisée lors de la première croisade de Saint-Louis.-". Bookseller Inventory # 122
Book Description: Franciscus Raphelengius for Lucas Jansenius Aurigarius, Leyden, 1586. First Edition in Latin. THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED MARITIME ATLAS 2 parts in one. Engraved title, second title within woodcut border, 2 full-page engraved charts by Joannes van Deutecum with Latin letterpress on verso. 36 page text from the first part and the first map of Europe bound at end of the second part. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title along spine Provenance: indecipherable ownership signature at foot of first title; with typed offering from H.P. Kraus laid in. References: Lloyd Arnold Brown, The World Encompassed, exh. cat. (Baltimore, 1952), n. 182. Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer's original Dutch version, Spieghel der Zeevaert, was published between 1584 and 1585 and the great demand for the work necessitated its translation, first into Latin, by Martin Everaerts of Bruges, followed by editions in English, German and French. The publication of the Spieghel opened a new era in the history of the sea-chart, for it was the first systematic collection of navigational charts bound together in book form. Waghenaer, a native of Enkhuizen on the Zuider Zee, was an experienced seaman and pilot. His magnificently produced charts embodied the latest contemporary knowledge of navigation and position-finding, setting a standard that was followed by others for the next century and more. Waghenaer's atlas contained forty-four charts of European waters, extending from the eastern Baltic Sea to the Strait of Gibraltar. The charts were the first to show soundings, measured in fathoms, and the first to employ a range of conventional signs to represent anchorages, landmarks, rocks and shoal water. The coastal charts also included detailed sailing instructions for each region and profile-views of coastlines. Many of these features that Waghenaer introduced came to be seen as fundamental characteristics of marine cartography. Waghenaer also did not hesitate to compose his charts with an eye to their aesthetic appeal, and they are extremely picturesque, with elaborate cartouches, ships in full sail and sea monsters. The imagery is distinctive and immediately recognizable. More generally, the Spieghel came to be adopted so thoroughly by sailors that an Anglicization of Waghenaer's name-- "Waggoner"-- became the standard term used to denote any volume of sea charts. The excellence of this atlas was such that all other published charts of the coasts of Europe were based on it for at least a century. Bookseller Inventory # 000046
Book Description: Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 7 September 1470. Issue b. Printed on vellum (163 leaves of the Second Volume). The Perckheimer-Earl of Arundel-Duke of Norfolk-Royal Society of London copy., 1470. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Size of binding: 12 1/4 in. x 18 in. x 2 1/2 in. (thick). 163 leaves of the 210 leaves of the Second Volume, beginning with Distinctione 7, (with some breaks in sequence noted), with the blank verso present, and the colophon leaf with the double-shield printer's mark. Printed on vellum, with red rubric headings; colophon and Fust-Schoeffer double-shield device, also printed in red; in double columns, in 56 lines; type 5:118G. A finely drawn initial letter P, in light blue on the first page, with several gold initials present, and many, various sized, hand-painted initial letters in red, light blue, light green; other rubrications, paragraph headings added in red or blue. Rebacked with a maroon morocco leather spine, with gilt bands, and gilt-lettered titling: S. HIERONYMI EPISTOLAE MAGUNTIAE PETRUS SCHOEFFER PRINTED ON VELLUM 1470; with the earlier, dark brown, polished leather-covered boards, preserved, with gilt-tooled corners, and double-line borders around the cover margins, edges and inner leather turn-ins. All edges gilt; marbled paper endpapers. The lower margin of the first printed vellum leaf bears the Latin stamp of The Royal Society of London, which is repeated in reverse on the second paper flyleaf, which also bears an early bibliographical citation in ink. A stain on the front of the third printed leaf, a few small natural imperfections, or repairs to the vellum margins, light, age-related dusting to the front of the first page, the colophon page, some upper corners or margins. This is issue b. Vellum copies are considered as much rarer than the paper copies. Overall, a clean, and handsomely printed book. Provenance: Perckheimer/Pirckheimer; The Earl of Arundel; The Duke of Norfolk; The Royal Society of London; Rosenbach/Fleming. Hain: 8553*-8554; Proctor: 91-92; Polain 1947; BMC I 27 (IC 150); Stillwell: Second Census (1940); H152, p. 244. Goff: H-165. Weight: 13 lbs. Postage is extra on this item. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-979938225
Book Description: Cornelius Claesz, Amsterdam, 1598. First Latin Edition. Folio (320 x 236 mm). Large etched title-vignette, 31 etched illustrations in the text: 30 half-page (26 showing scenes of Arctic exploration) and 5 maps of the Arctic region (one a full page map of Novaya Zemlya signed by the engraver, Baptista a Doetechum, 1598). (A few leaves with some minor mostly marginal pale staining, some minor creasing.) Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century mottled tree calf gilt, gilt arms of Stuart of Rothesay on sides (endpapers fated 1811); cloth folding case. Provenance: Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), G.C.B. and privy councillor, minister at the Hague (1815-16), ambassador to Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1841-45 (binding); Sir Thomas Phillipps (shelfmark and inscribed "MHC" in pencil on front free endpaper); Philip Robinson (his sale, part I Sotheby's London, 23 June 1988, lot 284; Frank S. Streeter (his sale, Christies New York, 17 April 2007, lot 513. The very fine Baron Stuart de Rothesay-Sir Thomas Phillipps copy of this major work of Arctic exploration describing the three Barentsz voyages in search of a northeast passage to the far east. First Edition in Latin. In the latter part of the 16th-century the English and the Dutch attempted to discover a northeastern trading route to the Far East by sea. After several failed attempts the English gave up, never reaching further than to Novaya Zemlya. De Veer's account describes the three voyages undertaken by Willem Barentsz (ca 1550-1597) in the form of an illustrated diary. On the first two of these expeditions Barentsz was accompanied by Jan Huyghens van Linschoten, famed for his voyage to the East. The first voyage of 1594 sailed the length of Novaya Zemlya and then via Vaygach to the Kara Sea. Believing they had found the Northeast Passage, the Dutch set out on a second expedition the following year with ships loaded heavily with trading goods intended for the Chinese, but this trip was thwarted by frozen waters. The third voyage of 1596-97, which takes up most of De Deer's account, is one of the most important in the history of Polar exploration. After the discovery of Bear Island and Spitsbergen, Barentsz sailed to Novaya Zemlya, eventually rounding the Northern cape. The ship was crushed in ice, and the expedition members were forced to make the first recorded overwintering this far north, surviving in a hut constructed of driftwood. Barentsz died on his third voyage, but the surviving members (including De Veer, who had also participated in the second voyage) managed to reach Kola Peninsula where they found three Dutch ships which assisted in their return to the Netherlands. The illustrations depict the many hardships, including the construction of the camp on the ice, numerous encounters with polar bears, and many other scenes of the expeditions. De Veer's important account was first published in 1598 in Dutch, with this Latin and the French editions appearing in the same year. Adams V-316; Alden & Landis 598/113; JCB (3) I:369; Tiele 1130 (Memoire bibliographique sur les journaux des navigateurs nierlandais, Amsterdam: Muller, 1867. Bookseller Inventory # 4-6-13
Book Description: , , 1556@., 1556. 2 leaves. Folio, disbound in half red morocco slipcase. Six small wormholes in each leaf, affecting 1-2 letters on each but not the signature of Bernal D?az. Among the most elusive autographs in the world is that of Bernal D?az, a companion of Cortes in the conquest of the Aztecs and author of the worldÐfamous @Historia verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espa?a. There are no records of his autograph ever having been offered at auction in England or the United States. Such famous collectors as Heber, Phillipps, Harmsworth and Sang never owned an example of his handwriting; such famous dealers as Rosenbach, Fleming, Kraus, Maggs Bros. and Quaritch never offered a Bernal D?az letter or document; and such famous libraries as the Library of Congress, the John Carter Brown, Harvard, Yale, the Bancroft, the Rosenbach Foundation, the Newberry, Texas and New York Public do not count his signature among their treasures. The present document is an act of the Cabildo (town council) of Santiago de Guatemala, of which Bernal D?az was a member for several yearsÑan honor bestowed on him as a conqueror and early settler of the region. The Cabildo acknowledges receipt of a royal decree, reads it verbatim into its minutes, and formally agrees to comply. The King writes that he is informed that the position of notary public and "del numero" in Santiago is vacant, because Juan Nu?ez de Soria, the royal appointee, "is gone to our kingdoms of Peru." On the advice of the Royal Audiencia (the High Court), the King appoints Juan de Rojas to replace Nu?ez de Soria. @. Bookseller Inventory # 21187
Book Description: [Northern Italy or France mid-13th century], 1300. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. A FINE 13TH-CENTURY PORTABLE BIBLE IN A RENAISSANCE BINDING. 180 x 120 mm. 405 leaves, fine, thin vellum. Without the Interpretation of Hebrew Names sometimes found in Bibles of this format. Two columns of 53 lines written in a small gothic bookhand. Running-titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue, 49 initials painted in blue, green, burgundy, ochre, and white. 37 large illuminated initials in the same colors, often depicting birds, flowers, and dragons. The second leaf of Genesis includes a fine single panel full page illustration showing God on each of the days of creation, the entire panel resting on a man sitting on a dragon. Binding: a Renaissance binding, probably Venetian: 16th-century leather, richly decorated with green silk and dark green morocco onlays, extensive gold tooling and arabesque decoration, some minor loss, gilt-decorated doublures of citron morocco, arabesque cutouts revealing blue silk. Binding a bit worn, some minor cropping and creasing. An attractive Renaissance survival of great character. A FINE 13TH-CENTURY BIBLE. The portable Bible of the 13th century represents one of the most important developments in the history of medieval bookmaking and the dissemination of knowledge. Before the 13th century, Bibles were cumbersome objects written on enormous sheets of parchment and bound in heavy boards, often in several volumes. Then in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the Bible was transformed into something much like the object we know today. Leaf sizes were greatly reduced, and the text was put into a single volume unburdened of the Gloss, the editorial matter often found in earlier Bibles. The order of books, formerly variable, was standardized, and the text was divided into the numbered chapters we still use today. Running-titles allowed the reader to navigate the volume quickly, and color and decoration made visual sense of the closely-packed text. This is a lovely example of this epoch-making Bible in an important Renaissance. The rise of the University of Paris created demand for this newly standardized, inexpensive, and portable Bible, now commonly called "The Paris Bible." The 13th-century rise of the Franciscan and Dominican friars (who required an easily carried, readily available, and searchable Bible for their peregrinations) helped spread it throughout Europe (de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible, pp. 131-139). A SPLENDID RELIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Complete medieval manuscript Bibles are increasingly scarce, and this example in a handsome early binding is the finest manuscript Bible we have ever offered. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-977364838
Book Description: J. Charlewood, London, 1588. First Edition in English. Two parts in one volume. Folio (390 by 280 mm). Two engraved titles by , the first by Theodore de Bry after Jan van Deutecom. Engraved arms of the dedicatee Christopher Hatton. 43 double-paged engraved charts only, by Jodocus Hondius, Theodor de Bry, Augustine Ryther and Johannes Rutlinger (of 45 - lacks maps 3 and 7 in the second part), 3 engraved illustrations of instruments, the instrument uranicall without a volvelle. (Title reinserted on a new guard, small restored hole to engraved arms, occasional margin restored or strengthened, minor staining on upper corners of early leaves, margins of the chart of Europe slightly shaved, clean tear near centre-fold of the chart of Aberdeen). Recased in modern calf with the old calf covers laid down (heavily rubbed). Provenance: Michael Champe (inscription in an contemporary hand on title 'Solde to Michael Champre [Master] of the Eagle of Londonof burthen of 220 tonnes 6th day of May 1592 for 23s 4d. Per John Harries for Richard Young Custe'); Trinity House (armorial bookplate). An interesting copy of the first edition in English of Waghenaer's Spieghel, with a contemporary English ownership inscription. This, the first nautical atlas to be published in England, was compiled by Anthony Ashley, clerk of the Privy Council, apparently ordered by Sir Christopher Hatton, the Lord Chancellor. A copy of the Latin edition Spieghel of 1586 had been shown to the Privy council by Lord Charles Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral, and the need for a quick translation of the work was seen as paramount for the defence of England as the Spanish threatened to invade. This copy is particularly interesting; the titles and the text are in Wardington A states [cf Wardington article, Map Collector pp.32-25), but the fact that the chart of the North Brittany coast is printed upside down, and that many of the charts in the second part appear to have been hastily printed, either miscentred on the page or over or under inked, suggests that it may well have been assembled from rejected strikes in the early 1590's for Michael Champe. The distribution of the Mariners Mirrour is very interesting because, although it was purportedly published in October, 1588, it is likely that gatherings of maps were already entrusted to favorite captains before the Armada. The completed copies of this 'secret' atlas were undoubtedly only distributed to preffered officials and captains. This copy was sold through the agency of John Harries, who worked for Trinity House at Deptford Strand. Koeman V Wag 13; STC 24931; NMM 3 184. Bookseller Inventory # 000045
Book Description: Paris, Martin Crantz, Ulrich Gering and Michael Friburger, (ca. 1476)., 1476. Folio. 18th century light brown calf, gilt fillets along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with two red labels with gilt lettering: 'Legenda sanctorum' and 'Parisiis absque anno', gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. Rubricated throughout with the capitals painted alternately in red and blue, the first initial in gold against a blue and red background, heightened with white interlace, with penwork extending into the right margin. Printed in two columns, 45 lines to a page. Type: 114SG. Collation: (a)-(m)10 (n)12 (o)-(z) (A)-(F)10. (292) lvs, complete with the first and last blank. One of the early incunable editions of the famous Legenda aurea, written and composed between 1260 and 1267 by Jacopo de Varazze - better known as Jacob de Voragine - in the Dominican monastery at Genua. Certainly it is the most popular and highly influential compilation of Saints' lives from the Middle Ages: at least 91 Latin, and 7 Italian, 5 English, 20 French, 2 German and 33 Dutch editions have been printed before the year 1500. The Legenda aurea contain ca. 160 lives of saints and 20 treatises on the principal feasts of the church. As there are a number of undated early editions, it is difficult to say which edition is the first, but probably the Zainer edition printed in Augsburg in 1468-70 can be considered as such.is the splendid and rare second Paris edition of the Legenda printed by the well-known combination of the three printers Martin Crantz from Strasbourg, Ulrich Gering from Constance and Michael Friburger from Colmar - all three being members of the intellectual set at the Sorbonne at Paris - who had started producing books with the financial backing of Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin in the later part of 1470, establishing the very first press on French soil. After three years they moved their printing house, named 'Le soleil d'or', or 'In sole aureo', to the Rue Saint Jacques. On the first of September in 1475 their first edition of the Legenda aurea was published. The present undated edition appears to be the later one and is generally considered to be printed in the course of 1476.Contents:f. 1: blank. 2r: Prologus: Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum; quas compilavit frater Iacobus Ianuensis natione, de ordine fratrum predicatorum; [U]NIVERSUM tempus. 2v-3v: Contents. 3v-281 r: (col. 2) Incipiunt legende sanctorum. Et primo de tempore renovationis agitur quod est adventus domini. 281v-282v: blank. 283r-291r: Tabula super legendas sanctorum incipit. 291r: Colophon: Tabula continens fere omnia notabilia legende auree desinit feliciter. Pulchre transcripta parisius per Martinum chrancz, Undalricum gering, et Michaelem friburger impressorie artis magistros. 292: blank Very beautiful copy of this extremely rare early 'Legenda aurea' edition printed by the first printers active in France; with wide margins and complete with the mostly lacking first and last blanks.- (Some occ. insignificant soiling). Cop. 6394; Oates 2876; Polain 6455 (only 4 copies, the copy in the Bibl. Nat. at Paris is incomplete); Claudin I, p. 79 (with plates of the first and last pages on p. 80-81); Hist. de l'édition franç. I, p. 166; not in NUC or Goff; cf. BMC VIII, p. 7 (1475 ed.: 294 lvs., 2 cols., and 45 lines). Bookseller Inventory # 17058
Book Description: Paris, pour Jehan Longis, 1556. 1556, 1556. Small 4to., ff. [10], 123, [1]; title a little dusty and some signs of ageing, but a very good unwashed copy in English nineteenth-century morocco. First edition in French, translated by François Gruget. There was only one printing, but three variant imprints are recorded, giving the bookseller as Jehan Longis (as here), Vincent Sertenas (as, for example, in the Grenville copy, British Library), or Estienne Groulleau (as, for example, in Cambridge University Library).From its inception Marco Polo?s book enjoyed an extensive readership throughout Europe (over 130 manuscripts in several languages still survive), but it was the coming of Humanism, with all of Humanism?s fascination with geography and the ancient geographers, which powerfully enhanced its vitality.It first appeared in print in 1477, in German, followed by a Latin edition in 1483/4, an Italian in 1496, Portuguese in 1502 and Spanish in 1503. An English edition appeared in 1579. The relationship of these various editions to each other and to the principal manuscripts is best seen in the table printed by Cordier/Yule, Book of Ser Marco Polo II p. 552.Adams P1791; Atkinson 111; BM French p. 360; Cordier, Japonica 18, Sinica 1978; Cordier/Yule, Book of Ser Marco Polo II pp. 553, 568; Watanabe 087. Bookseller Inventory # C1169
Book Description: Venice, Aldine Press, May 1526. 1526, 1526. Folio, ff. [6], 233, [1], the Aldine device on title and verso of last leaf, Greek type; title with some very slight marginal dustsoiling; eighteenth-century French mottled calf, gilt spine, brown morocco label. A FINE AND FRESH COPY OF THE EDITIO PRINCEPS of the Hippocratic corpus, a collection of texts assembled in the third century B.C., including the Hippocratic Oath and many of the foundation texts of western medicine, traditionally attributed to the legendary physician and teacher Hippocrates of Cos. 'It is uncertain which of them, if any, are directly connected with the historical physician Hippocrates of Cos, who flourished in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. Through the writings attributed to him Hippocrates is credited with developing the first system of empirical medicine based on clinical experience, and the Hippocratic Oath has long been regarded as expressing the fundamental ethical and moral standards of the medical profession' (Grolier, Medicine p. 3). The text was edited by Francesco Torresani, using a fifteenth-century manuscript now in Paris (BNF MS gr. 2141), with corrections provided by a second manuscript which belonged to Cardinal Bessarion (Venice, Bibliotheca Marciana MS gr. 269). This edition, comprising 59 works, includes some that were not included in the Latin translation by Marco Fabio Calvo published the previous year in Rome. 'The Aldine Greek edition of Hippocrates marked a significant advance over Calvus's Latin translation. As Franciscus Asulanus [Francesco Torresani] pointed out in his notice to the reader, it repaired a considerable number of accidental omissions and one long repetition that Calvus . made because he followed only one manuscript. Moreover, by presenting the original text, it laid the necessary foundation for all further philological and medical study of the corpus' (ibid).Adams H563; Durling 2316; Grolier, Medicine 1B; Stillwell 405 (with a detailed listing of contents) and 656; Norman 1077; Osler 142; Wellcome 3173. Bookseller Inventory # S435
Book Description: Venice Aldine Press 1526., 1526. Folio, (6), 233, (1) ff., the Aldine device on title and verso of last leaf, Greek type. Bound in eighteenth-century French mottled calf, gilt spine, brown morocco label. Title with some very slight marginal dustsoiling, else excellent. A fine and fresh copy of the editio princeps of the Hippocratic corpus, a collection of texts assembled in the third century B.C., including the Hippocratic Oath and many of the foundation texts of western medicine, traditionally attributed to the legendary physician and teacher Hippocrates of Cos. "It is uncertain which of them, if any, are directly connected with the historical physician Hippocrates of Cos, who flourished in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. Through the writings attributed to him Hippocrates is credited with developing the first system of empirical medicine based on clinical experience, and the Hippocratic Oath has long been regarded as expressing the fundamental ethical and moral standards of the medical profession" (Grolier, Medicine p. 3). The text was edited by Francesco Torresani, using a fifteenth-century manuscript now in Paris (BNF MS gr. 2141), with corrections provided by a second manuscript which belonged to Cardinal Bessarion (Venice, Bibliotheca Marciana MS gr. 269). This edition, comprising 59 works, includes some that were not included in the Latin translation by Marco Fabio Calvo published the previous year in Rome. "The Aldine Greek edition of Hippocrates marked a significant advance over Calvus’s Latin translation. As Franciscus Asulanus [Francesco Torresani] pointed out in his notice to the reader, it repaired a considerable number of accidental omissions and one long repetition that Calvus. made because he followed only one manuscript. Moreover, by presenting the original text, it laid the necessary foundation for all further philological and medical study of the corpus" (ibid).* Adams H-563; Durling 2316; Grolier, Medicine 1B; Stillwell 405 (with a detailed listing of contents) and 656; Norman 1077; Osler 142; Wellcome 3173. Bookseller Inventory # 3111
Book Description: Paris, Claude Sonnius & Denys Bechet, 1643., 1643. Second edition by François Ranchin. 7 parts in 6 vols. Folio (357x270mm.). Uniformly bound in contemporary brown calf; sides with double gilt fillets; spine gilt in compartments, with dark brown labels lettered in gold; red painted edges. Titles printed in red and black, all with large engraving (137x193mm.) by Johannes Picard showing a big globe with a group of astronomers and geographers on the left and rulers of the different parts of the world on the right, under a sky by day with clouds and the sun (left) and by night with the moon and the stars (right). A large full-page portrait of Pierre Davity engraved by Joh. Picard and dated 1637 in vol. 1. With 13 double-page maps - partly extremely rare - engraved by Melchior Tavernier, four of which after the maps by Petrus Bertius, dated 1639 (5), 1640 (5) or 1641 (1). Many head- and tail-pieces and interesting woodcut initials. Vol. 1, Le monde: (30), 358, (20) pp.; vol. 2 (=part 1), Asia: (8), 872, (20) pp.; vol. 3 (=part 2), Africa: (8), 621, (15) pp.; vol. 3 (=part 3), America: (4), 189, (7) pp.; vol. 4 (=part 4,1), Europe: (8), 895, (22) pp.; vol. 5 (=part 4,2), Europe: (12), 460, (40) pp.; vol. 6 (=part 4,3), Europe: (8), 1051, (49) pp.Second enlarged edition by François Ranchin of this important description of the world by Pierre d'Avity (or: Davity; 1573-1640), seigneur de Montmartin, gentilhomme ord
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